skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that pages today are waaay too bloated and they use JS to download a bunch of unnecessary crap such as various trackers and "analytics" etc. And with the WebAssembly there is even more tracking the page can do (no thanks!).

When I disable JS globally, I genuinely get faster experience on most of the pages.
That’s a deliberate choice and I suspect that it was driven by their goal of making a better font for low-vision developers.
I suspect is just a bug: the ligature tables were copied from the regular variant, and perhaps no one noticed for some reason. Maybe the assumption was that the renderer would turn of ligature processing in monospace mode at the time, and the reference renderer did that?
Goose from a feather. I use them all the time, it looks a litte prettier, and I can’t think of a single problem they caused me. If i somehow use the wrong symbols my language server, linter, tests, etc would yell
That's fun but how do I type them?
Doesn't everyone? I can't stand not using monospaced fonts when coding
Well, you made only one mistake in these 4 sentences you wrote, which is like a 400% improvement over the average messages I see outside HN, and an infinite improvement on some other people.
People are working on the formal specification of rust. It isn't easy. There are at least three projects, maybe more if we include academia https://github.com/RalfJung/minirust has a summary of efforts in the end of the readme.

the basics of the rust typesystem were proven correct for a restricted rust subset in the rustbelt project.
They are not hard assuming you constrain the problem. LLVM is complex because it's trying to generalise to support a huge number of input languages and a huge number of outputs.

The upside is that it lets you write generic optimisation passes. The downside is complexity.

It's still an open question whether or not that is a good approach in general vs. more specialized code generators and accepting that this means writing specialized optimisation passes.

Your answer to that is likely to vary greatly based on goals and which languages and architectures you care about supporting.
You don't like that movies are made as personal favors? A lot of movies are made that way, seems like a weird reason not to like something so much that you not only avoid it yourself, you're glad others won't see it too.
A lot of Julia folks use the JuliaMono font, which has a minimal set of ligatures: https://juliamono.netlify.app/#contextual_alternates (just above this segment, they mention this very article as something they agree with).

I personally don't like any ligatures, especially when people use them in presentations to public like the article mentions. Confusion between operators is rare, but possible, for eg. when using Catalyst (https://docs.sciml.ai/Catalyst/stable/catalyst_functionality...).

> It seemed to me that the use of Greek letters and symbols is actively encouraged in the Julia documentation.

I don't remember getting that sense from the docs, but I may be wrong. The general convention is that Unicode at the level of user code is fine, and a lot of the community (including me) likes it because it makes it much closer to the actual equations and scientific notation we're working with. For libraries, it's strongly encouraged to have ASCII equivalents for any Unicode operators, keywords, etc. that you expose, and all the major libraries do this. The same is true in base Julia as well, every non-ASCII Unicode name has an ASCII equivalent too.
I hope that there will be more and more of us :-)

Usually when I get empty page I just close the tab and move on. Very rarely the content is so unique and in general worth the hassle anyway. The thing is that you enable JS and it will load bunch of trackers and cookie popups and GDPR popups etc... I just hate that.
Here in the UK at least, the media has encouraged support for action against climate change by lying about exactly this. They've run talking points like "Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions" that only count where the fossil fuels are produced, not even where they're burned let alone the end consumers of the products. Of course, it's not possible to stop only production and not consumption so this misleads readers about the actual consequences of doing so and who's affected, but it worked to convince people that the only reason governments haven't shut down fossil fuel production because they're in the pockets of Big Oil.

At the same time, we've had a cost of living crisis caused by inadequate global fossil fuel production and all the same publications attacking big oil and the government for the fact that people can't afford to consume as much and telling people that drops in the amount they can buy with their income are caused by corporations and the goverment plotting to enrich themselves at the public's expense. In reality, of course, it's a consequence of the global economy not being able to produce as much of the things people want and further cuts to fossil fuel production would makes everyone even poorer.
Why do you end each sentence with exclamations? Your past comments suggest you do this often. It's hard to read, as the reader wonders if it's a joke or sarcasm they haven't figured out, detracting from simply reading your comment.
The solution really depends on what sort of problems you are trying to solve and who your customers are.

There are a fair few low-code solutions out there for reporting and data visualisation that are great for finance and marketing teams for example. e.g. https://metabase.com/ , https://evidence.dev/

For multipurpose SMB workflows and organisational processes, I have used n8n in the recent past and found it was quite good and incredibly easy to maintain. https://n8n.io/engineering-resources/

For enterprise processes I'd go with Camunda (solely based on recommendations and not first hand experience). Although only parts of their platform are OSS https://github.com/camunda

Bear in mind that some of these are not suitable if you want to build something that competes with them while taking their OSS code. But are perfectly fine otherwise.
> Much better than "Darth Vader was your daddy"

That particular twist might seem contrived, especially by today's standards, but Luke had a story arc. He didn't appear in the world as a perfect being. He made many mistakes and earned his redemption and victory.

Similarly, Harry Potter had a story arc. He began completely unskilled and naive. He made many mistakes on his journey to competence.

Both of these examples are the antithesis of the Mary Sue trope. It sounds like you're confirming that Aloy was born a Mary Sue, and didn't have to earn the mantle like any good story arc demands.
How is IPFS used in libgen?
Perlin Noise: The Near Universal Texture
core memory?
Much appreciated, Sun fearing dude, much appreciated.
I think that is very misleading. It depends what you are interested in. There are lots of uses for an analogue scope...including arduino.
There are certainly examples of men embodying the Mary Sue trope. I'm highlighting the recent trend of women in the role.
This is a ridiculous take. You realise Pakistan is collapsing right now because Europe bought all the LNG and it’s super expensive now? I.e if you start taxing energy more or making it less abundant you will collapse societies.

How about France? The Arab springs?

This is not about the elites. Forcing everyone into less consumption will basically lead to revolutions.

The only way out of this is technology. You can’t force people into more expensive food and living conditions. You have to fail forwards.

Unfortunately it seems like most environmentalists prefer complete collapse of society, and depopulation, to technological progress

Edit: and btw, how are you gonna stop China building coal plants? Diplomacy? Seems unlikely to work. Military prevention?
Facebook marketplace
I'd argue this episode rather lends itself as an example how not to do it. The connection is just too cartoonish and random for me to find it funny. Other than that - great episode. I'm a huge Seinfeld fan.
It's fairly common. May indicate Jewish descent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum
A lot of the discussion here is about statutory rights (under the Civil Rights Act), not constitutional rights. But, if we just talk about the latter: under US constitutional law, national origin is a "suspect class" which demands "strict scrutiny" under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment (as developed by the Supreme Court's case law). The other "suspect classes" are race, religion and "alienage" (the state of being a non-US citizen). There are also two "quasi-suspect classes", discrimination on the grounds of which is subject to the weaker "intermediate scrutiny" – sex/gender (which possibly includes sexual orientation/gender identity) and legitimacy of birth. All other discriminatory grounds (age, disability, wealth, politics, criminal record, etc) are only subject to the weakest "rational basis review".

But "strict scrutiny" is not an absolute bar on discrimination, it just means the government has the onus of convincing the Supreme Court that the discrimination is necessary to obtain a "compelling state interest". Even though US immigration law obviously discriminates against non-US people on the basis of national origin and "alienage", the US government has never had any trouble convincing the Supreme Court that immigration law serves a "compelling state interest".

That's a point a lot of people don't get about discrimination law (whether statutory or constitutional) – discrimination per se is not illegal, even on protected grounds. Rather, discrimination is illegal when it lacks a sufficiently compelling justification, with the strength of justification required depending on how strongly protected those grounds are.
Could there be a preprompt saying “when addressed to you, it means the model itself”. But have you tried to give them “I” and see what happens?
FDA spurs conversation about AI, ML, and drug development and manufacturing
You don't even have to go as far as a triangle. There are two sets of the latin alphabet in unicode and two sets of the greek. The normal one and the maths one. And the mu on your keyboard is not the same on a windows machine and a linux machine.

(Alt Gr + m, at least in my language)
Calling people ignorant while giving a barely concealed bitcoin talking point in response to something completely unrelated (you claimed KYC was harder for crypto, but can't explain why it is favored for those looking to avoid it) is not doing your part in a productive conversation.

I would re-evaluate your methods.
Well not all your coworkers will have that especially if you're not a place that does pairing all the time but just as one-offs.
Number of displaced people hits record due to war, climate change
> I feel like you're being sassy with me

I am honestly not. Please don't read too much into my tone, English is not my native language.

It actually wasn't clear why you've mentioned types theory initially, the semantics of "expressive types" confused me a bit, but I upvoted your latter post where you elaborated.
I preferred Vista interface to Windows 7.

Vista SP1 fixed most problems -- but you needed 2GB RAM.
"By any means" yes, we all descended from a common ancestor.
TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning
Simple Text to CID
You shoot medium format because it makes better images, because the "sensor" is bigger than 35mm.

Imagine running 110 film through a hassy, it would look crap, and only capture a tiny window of what you normally do, because the "sensor" is tiny.

That's basically the problem, the sensor size of hobbyist camera modules is tiny, even smaller than 110 film.

They do make medium format digital backs, but they are expensive, even by hasselblad standards.
> Btw., anyone still using monospaced fonts in their editors?

Tell me you've never programmed without telling me you've never programmed… Almost all code editors and IDEs in current use are set with a monospaced font by default, and the overwhelming majority of programmers keep it that way.
Self hosted typically includes building the compiler in the language it compiles. E.g. my Ruby compiler is self hosted except for needing an assembler and linker (and I might get rid of that need too) and a minimal C library.

If you're writing a C++ compiler, self-hosting LLVM might not be a massive additional complexity. For any other language it's not an option if self hosting is one of your goals.
Given that the chemistry of the actors was a huge part of the show's success, it stands to reason that you would drop anyone who everyone didn't gel with.
Just checking ... my current IDE ... not for all parts of the source-code any longer.

I'm not so sure if I want that, maybe I get dumb by it?!
I read it on reddit that Jason didn't enjoy working with Heidi as in his opinion acting chemistry was missing. If I think about it that might actually be true but was probably contributing to why that relationship was so enjoyable to watch.
Reason why I never trust to use any product or service based in that location, from all the way they fund the business (gov usually supports with a catch) to how to maintain the profits, they always succumb to the dark side.
No, more like a human can reason basic laws of science on their own, but a LLM cannot, as far as I know, even when provided with all the data.
Not having heavy industry means less pollution. China has serious environmental issues. Which costs you money in the long run.
> The thing that confuses me is that these are text token prediction algorithms, underneath.

Yes, this is what confuses me too, this bot is just predicting tokens, how is it even able to roleplay and follow instructions?
How’s Rust for desktop application development? Are there frameworks like MFC or ATL or WTL or WinRT? Is COM development or using UWP significantly more difficult in Rust than C++ or C#?
Unfortunately it's even worse if we focus on exclusive. These are the top selling Switch games: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_...). Of the top 10, not a single one is in "Perfect" condition.

Mario Kart: "Okay"

Animal Crossing: "Great"

Super Smash Bros: "Okay"

Breath of the Wild: "Great"

Pokemon Sword and Shield: "Okay"

Super Mario Odyssey: "Great"

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: No support

Super Mario Part: "Okay"

Super Mario Bros U: "Okay"

Ring Fit Adventure: No support
And then pixel-perfect bitmap fonts.
Can this be used to host external services? Is this only for faas that are inaccessible to the outside world? I'm curious if you could use this to build web hook tools specifically.
Reddit welcomes NSFW desktop image uploads ahead of Imgur’s ban
(EDIT: I think my comment above was meant to reply to the parent of the comment I ended up replying to, but too late to edit that one now)

Maybe. Point being that since we don't know what gives rise to consciousness, speaking with any certainty on how we are different to LLMs is pretty meaningless.

We don't even know of any way to tell if we have existence in time, or just an illusion of it provided by a sense of past memories provided by our current context.

As such the constant stream of confident statements about what LLMs can and cannot possibly do based on assumptions about how we are different are getting very tiresome, because they are pure guesswork.
https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty is a great improvement in this area
Yeah, but maybe this exact example, is included in the trainig set?
I love it !
No extra mental process to really know if a brace is a brace of a bracket.
There was me assuming it was about normal form, you know, what everyone else means when they talk about 'normalising' in a database context...

Which even more confusingly almost applies but the opposite way around:

> create denormalized analytics datasets on top of them

A common pattern is to have source data 'warehoused' or whatever you want to call it, and then build your, er, normalised schema on top of that.
Can it(the database) do simple pub/sub without third-party software? :)
Magic in minutes: how to build a ChatGPT plugin with Cloudflare Workers
That will run modern browsers just fine. I have an X201 tablet which is slightly older than that, and I only stopped using it because of a CPU cooling issue. It ran Windows 10 and up-to-date Chrome no problem.
High incarceration rate might cause high crime. Especially since ex-convicts are almost banned from any work. The only thing they can do to sustain themselves is more crime.

US views criminals a people who failed the society, while at these numbers it would be way more reasonable to see them as people failed by the society.
One thing that ext4 has and XFS does not is extremely delayed writes. Ext4 can postpone writes for tens of seconds, essentially minutes.
This has various fun implications for software that cares about durable writes, like databases.
Which brings us back to the point of ligatures which are combining so make a single of what is a double or triple and hence no monospace any longer.

No judgement if that is good or bad or at all. Just a reminder that it ain't monospace any longer.

> Your code is still monospaced in all the ways that matter.

Just it ain't monospace any longer. (reminder)
>"Nice, but somehow it feels like I've heard these songs before. Could that be possible?"

According to the paper[0] "We found that only a tiny fraction of examples was memorized exactly, while for 1% of the examples we could identify an approximate match." FWIW I'm pretty sure I heard a fragment of Kalinka (a folk tune in the public domain) in one of the samples I generated.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11325.pdf
Klaus taught me about forklift safety, and I will never shake hands with danger.
If we simply mark denormalized data as internal representation or an index, then denormalized won’t exist and everyone will be happy.
That brings an interesting question: Would people start torrenting YouTube if it becomes inaccessible without a subscription? YouTube is exploding with high-quality long-form content, maybe pirates will consider those kind of videos worthwhile to torrent? Maybe the creators themselves will consider it worthwhile to host them with their own subscriptions?
I was listening to the 1980s radio station when I realized that 1980s music right now is older than 1950s "oldies" music was when I was a kid - and when I was a kid that stuff seemed ancient - relics of the days of black-and-white television and a segregated South. What seems like yesterday to an older person happened before a younger person was even born.
I didn't know about the Croscore fonts, thanks. They look very similar to the Liberation fonts.
( EDIT: Thanks for the link and +1 for that, it's a case worthy of discussion )

I read you linked and was published by the court in full, as you also read it you'll note there are references to unpublished material

( you wrote:

> I'll omit it, but you can find it quoted in the judgement, and the media appears to have filled in ...

whereas the court noted:

> 3. "Zip up (etc...)" [Offensive words omitted.]

ie: the court left out portions of what was posted. Further:

> 7. the Mercury newspaper reported the applicant's comments in part ...

> 25. some of the words written by the applicant were not published by the Mercury .. Those words will be redacted when these reasons are made available for publication.

)

I agree that on the face of things it appears as thought the judgement has been made exclusively on the fact of the offender commenting on a prior case.

I disagree that this is as simple as "conviction for describing underage sex as Awesome on Facebook".

It is laid out at length that the offender had previously preyed upon the person he made comment about, further that these later comments caused further duress to that same victim, and reference was made to his prior conviction (which carried stringent terms about staying clear of underage girls in general and his prior victim(s?) specificly, associating with others of the same ilk, and avoiding patterns of prior behaviour, etc.)

This is not a case of "some average Australian" making comments about underage sex on the internet - such things happen daily.

This is a specific case of an actual prior offender making public utterances about a former victim after a conviction that included a jail term and behavioural advisories. *

( * I assume on the grounds that similar cases in Western Australia's children court include strong "stay the F. away from your victims" conditions )

I would find this concerning if this was a case that saw a random citizen charged, I don't find it concerning that these specific set of circumstances were bought under consideration and after deliberation a prior offender has been given a message that this kind of behaviour is not okay.

Real life is rarely clear cut and the law constantly has to deal with edge cases.
I just wrote another comment about this. Supposedly Jason didn't feel it with Heidi (Susan) and so the relationship was discontinued at some point. I'd say this specifically might be why the relationship worked so well on screen.

Sometimes what a project like a sitcom or a business needs is rather someone or several members who don't fit in. Because otherwise you start to suffer from creative and intellectual incest.
Every major privacy disaster that does not lead to dramatic repercusions convinces CEO's (and the shareholders that pay their salaries and bonuses) that the "move fast and break things" strategy is the winning strategy.

The result is that that we are no more than five years away (at most) from the surveilance economy getting a terminal stranglehold on society.

You will not be able to buy a car that is not always dialing home, the same way you already cannot buy a mobile that is not always dialing home.

In any case you will not be buying a car. You'll be buying a subscription to a car, renewable annualy under certain (small-print) terms of service.

Cars will not work without some insurance conglomerate receiving all information it wants and trading your behavioral data in opaque insurance markets.

Cars could stop working at any point. A digital roadblock is much cheaper and more comprehensive that a physical roadblock.

Taking public transport was never private (its in the name after all) but this mobility mode too is getting deeply integrated in the surveillance economy: you will only be able to pay for a trip using identifying mobile devices.

The argument is that people "don't care" about the direction things are taking. This is the most evil argument ever advanced.