skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time is just as important as location for many use-cases:

> Machines called synchro-phasors are used to manage and regulate energy being added to the overall grid from all sources, including conventional power plants, wind farms, and solar panel arrays. It is critical to add new energy in a way that assures it is compatible with the existing energy flow. The synchro-phasor ensures the new power is added within one degree of top dead center of the 60 Hz energy carrier. For new energy to be successfully integrated, all synchro phasors need to be time correlated with each other within 1.0 µsec and correlated to UTC.

> This critical level of control requires all ATSC 3.0 clocks to be correlated to UTC. Overall, 200 ns accuracy satisfies requirements for all CI industries, if traceable to UTC.

And may cell systems get their time from GPS, and if they don't have local high-precision clocks they could start drifting from UTC.
It's an example of countercurrent heat exchange, basically exchanging heat between outgoing and incoming air with very high efficiency.

When breathing in, the air is gradually heated by the nasal passages. The temperature in the nasal passages increases along the channel, so at all points there's a small temperature drop, minimizing production of entropy.

When breathing out, the air is cooled in the same way. Again, there's a small temperature drop (now of the opposite sign) along the channel, again minimizing entropy production.

Moisture is also conserved here in a similar way.

Countercurrent heat exchange is also used in biology to minimize heat loss in extremities. The arteries of your arm, and the deep vein returning blood there, are wrapped around each other to transfer heat. In some vertebrates elaborate artery/vein structures have evolved to make this more effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_mirabile

Countercurrent exchange is a fundamental engineering concept I feel more people should know about.
Hmm, maybe suboptimal for publishing. That said most publications i read have no code but beautifully rendered equations. I find these more efficient at getting the point across than code… but i guess mileage vary
Seems strange to try to provide context to a story about Erdogan but mostly talk about NATO and Turkey as a nation. If you want to try to provide context, please do so, but try to keep it related to the topic at least.
Ask HN: What are the ways to short a housing market?
There are signs that the china's housing markets is popping. I want to put money where my mouth is. What are the ways to short their housing market without direct access to the chinese market?
"You Just Don't Understand" by Deborah Tannen.

The author discusses that often when conflict in communication arises between men/women, it resembles the same tensions in cross-cultural communication.

The author discusses that some communication styles are competitive (with a heavy lens around status and confrontation), other styles are cooperative (with a heavy emphasis on belonging, relatedness, similarities).

The author discusses example of such conflicts. -- One example was, when someone's complaining about a problem, a competitive-oriented mindset typically tries suggest a solution, whereas a related-orient mindset typically shows empathy. Crossing the wires: suggesting a solution might come across an uncaring, and expressing empathy might come across as unhelpful.
Your adversary is not questioning, only building.
maybe its open source and some of us can rehost it?
That's actually not true, we have American states that are 99% white and are a good test, they compare favorably to European states with the same demographics crime wise. (look at the north east)

Why isn't West Virginia, a dirt poor state that's almost fully white, a crime ridden state?
I have not, and I grant that at a point in time (1950s, 1960s) they were the camera for photojournalism and other field photography.

I was speaking of Leica today, I am sure they are still very nice cameras but professionals don't use them anymore. They are strictly for showing off that you paid a lot of money for your camera.
it just loaded for me after 1 failed attempt
If every package in the Settings list counts as an "app" (including many, many system services), then maybe.
Yes, a perfectly clear sky. It is a common perceptual illusion. I think it's interesting not that it's wrong, but that children are consistently wrong in the same way.
They use their own TPUs like described in this paper [0]. They talk about 4096-chip supercomputers so this should give you an idea about what we are talking here. The paper is pretty fascinating stuff. They are using optical interconnects for example, which sounded like science fiction a few years ago.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01433.pdf
Sure, but these oddities put a whole new twist to the arguments that social media algorithms primarily optimize "engagement".
Science is being suffocated by fake research, and it’s getting worse
I just implemented a trading system in Elixir with backend + JS free frontend and I have to admit that this was the most pleasant experience for a long time.

I think pattern matching and the pipe operator combined with the let it crash approach work very well in practice. There are amazing libraries for Erlang/Elixir including database client, dataframes, JWT, http, AMQP client and many more. I haven't had a single library that was not working out of the box the way we wanted.

The code is pretty easy to follow and we can onboard a new engineer with ease. The usual ration for our codebase comparing to Python is 1:10 in favour of Elixir. The engineers on the team have 10+ years Python experience and only used Elixir for toy project before.
Yeah, sure. We have the same kind of guy in Belarus. Google "Belarus election 2020" - this is what possible for Turkey.
The key point is that the temperature varies across the nose tissues. Close to the outside, it's low; farther in, it's high.
GNU Shepherd 0.10.0 Released
Dystopia in the making.
I feel like if you go that route you should at least get something with a bigger nicer screen.
Rust is just iron oxide, which in small quantities is a relatively benign substance. And probably there's more rust coming from old farming equipment than from the (likely high quality, because they are built for expensive solar panels) steel structures here.

The solar cells themselve are mostly made out of silicon, which also isn't a dangerous substance.

I don't think this is an issue.
He's not that guy pal...
My mistake, I usually assume someone openly proposing illegal immigration, rather than safe legal immigration, as a solution is joking.
Cuba’s sugar industry has been ground into dust
I found trn a very bad tool.

There was no way for example to do what the back button in a browser does without instituting a search through an unbounded number of messages and IIRC finicky use of the arrow keys during the search while consulting the "tree view" in the upper right corner of the screen. Doing the analog of the back button was easy only when the current message is a reply to the message you want to get back to.

Trn was optimized for the speed at which the user could consume (textual) information, but worse than the web at allowing the user to hone in on the one or two pieces of information (text) that the user most wants to know (even assuming a hypothetical world in which search engines do not exist).

Most people find learning new things and new points of view to be pleasurable (and the fast the new things and new points of view are consumed, the greater the pleasure), and I am no exception, but my experience has been that using the internet to chase that pleasure for its own sake does more harm than good. Trn was better at producing the pleasure than the web was because information could be kept coming at a higher rate than by using the web for the same amount of mental effort.

For example, when a person is done reading a web page there is some mental effort in deciding which page to go to next, e.g., which link to click. Yes, trn has keystrokes that say, "I'm done with this message, show me the next one" and "I'm done with this subtree, show me the next one", but I found it tempting to keep hitting the space bar, which yielded an experience in me of being constantly presented with new information ("stimuli") without having to make any decision or do any significant mental work, much like watching TV yields.

I am going to guess that unlike me, you do not worry about adverse effects from your spending time on the internet taking in a constant stream of information rapidly presented; am I correct about that?
You know what a book is and can reason about it. As a human you can provide answers that go beyond the knowledge you have ingested.

For example, if you ask ChatGPT if books can be fluorescent it says no. However, as an adult you know someone somewhere has made a book with fluorescent images, as it is a cool thing. You are combining knowledge from two different fields (books + fluorescence) and establishing the likelihood of someone being able to combine them.
+1 for Software Tools by Kernighan and Plauger. It was eye-opening for me because it really made me understand the unix philosophy of composing programs out of smaller programs.
How is helping someone with a solution “status and confrontation”?
> anthropomorphizing the fictional ‘ai’ to tell it it’s nature - it relies on the LLM’s world model to then also anthropomorphize a fictional ai assistant that obeys those instructions

There's a lot of information compressed into those models, in a similar way to how it is stored in the human brain. Is it so hard to believe that an LLM's pattern recognition is the same as a human, minus all the "embodied" elements?

(Passage of time, agency in the world, memory of itself)
The ccp pays visits to relatives who still reside in China - and sometimes those abroad - for behaviors of people who’ve emigrated out of China. Tiktok gives them easy insight on whose relatives need a visit.

Second, it’s easy to find secrets on important people or politicians through their online habits - it’s pretty easy to see how that can be used for influence.
> Sometimes people jot down pseudo-code on paper. If that pseudo-code runs directly on their computers, it's best, isn't it?

I think this turns people away from Ruby (and is what Ruby people love about Ruby). I'm not a fan of Go, but people say they enjoy writing Go, which looks very different from Ruby.
Nice obeservation, cargo doc is Rust's header files. When developing a library in Rust, I usually use cargo doc to "see the crate from the user's perspective".
The first LLM doesn’t have to be thought of unconstrained and freeform like ChatGPT is. There’s obviously a risk involved, and there are going to be false positives that may have to be propagated to the end user, but a lot can be done with a filter, especially when the LLM integration is modular and well-defined.

Take the second example here. [0] This is non-trivial in an information extraction task, and yet it works in a general way just as well as it works on anything else that’s public right now.

There’s a lot that can be done that I don’t see being discussed, even beyond detection. Coercing generation to a format, and then processing that format with a static state machine, employing allow lists for connections, actions, and what not. Autonomy cannot be let loose without trust and trust is built and maintained.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35924976
Not an interesting question at all, IMO. The government is not required to protect you or make you whole, if you invest in an enterprise that the government later decides to prohibit, or makes illegal, or decides to regulate in some other manner.

I mean, think that through for a second: if the government had to compensate everyone for the negative impact of legislation, it would be almost impossible to pass laws. If my town says I can't burn tires in my back yard, do they need to pay me to shut down my tire-burning operation? What if I don't even have a tire-burning operation, but I could have started one, except now I'm prohibited from doing so... did they impair the value of my property by prohibiting a potential use? What about all the other things I could have done with my property, absent any pesky zoning restrictions, Clean Water Act rules, or just centuries of common law precedent? Do they have to pay me for the impairment of each of them, each time a law is passed that eliminates a hypothetical option?

No, of course not, because that would paralyze government and be ridiculous.

The government has no responsibility to make anyone whole if they decide someone's business model is counter to the public good and make it illegal. It's on my investors to take into account the risk of legislation that might impact the business and factor that into their investment decisions and subsequent valuation of the business. If they do that poorly, or fail to recognize a legal risk, that's on them.

This is literally why sovereign immunity is a thing.
I'm saying I don't think we have a good test for consciousness, but then what do you want to do when someone tries to claim that an AI is conscious and no one can prove it one way or the other?
“Pettier” whether a typo or not is hilarious and apt. And I’m not even being insulting. I love how petty it is. :)
Exactly, see Google's first homepages: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/google-search
You’re right that if your goal is to write English-like code, then clarity may suffer. The same is true if your goal is to write consistent strict mechanical code. The only goal I think that makes sense, is to go for clear code based on shared context with your team. That said, I don’t see how the rails doctrine inhibits one’s ability to write clear code.
> The first steam engines were also written off as being less powerful than a horse.

Which steam engine do you mean and do you have a citation for this comment? The first industrial steam engines were based on the Newcomen design and were used to pump water out of mines. Their big drawback was efficiency, not power. They were only economical in coal mines, which had fuel immediately available at near zero cost.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine
That's really cool. I got the first three pretty quickly but I'm struggling with level 4.
You can enable Vim's persistent undo by setting undofile and undodir options, that way undo works across restarts, no need to keep file open. Another cool feature is Vim's internal undo tree, which allows you to access changes that you undo-ed and then overwrote.
Sorry, I actually don't know much about them.
You just don’t understand (seriously).
I like JuliaMono.

The main reason is I find the Unicode support much better. With Fira Code, some Unicode characters have varying widths even though it's supposed to be monospaced, making it sometimes look like a proportional font. JuliaMono doesn't seem to have this issue.

Example with Fira Code: https://i.imgur.com/YqlzgTE.png

Example with JuliaMono: https://i.imgur.com/41aHGVM.png

https://www.programmingfonts.org has a nice list, but besides JuliaMono only one other font on the list retains proper monospacing for less frequently used Unicode characters. You can test this by pasting the example below:

⋈ : naturaljoin
⋉ : leftsemijoin
⋊ : rightsemijoin
⟕ : rightouterjoin
⟖ : leftouterjoin
⟗ : fullouterjoin
> When you can target specific demographics

> control what they see

> People are literally being programmed [...] by the specific triggers

I hate marketing/PR as much as the next person, but have become part of daily life. How do we get rid of it? Outlaw the practice of trying to influence people by marketing?

Edit: Rereading your comment I realize you're talking about something else, but I guess the same applies nonetheless.
After fostering an active relationship with federal and intelligence agencies, I highly doubt Twitter, even post buyout, would slight a ""citizen"" journalism outlet funded by them.
Yeah, outside of driving to Vegas from LA, I haven't journeyed too far off the strip. I did see mountain goats at Zzyzx once.
If the number of teams developing on your monolith continue to grow, both you and parent will eventually come to the realization that there’s not a good fix for this in Rails. You’ll re-write your monolith into something that scales much better with organizational growth.
I give up. I'm curious, you are clearly not.

Why does everyone seem to disagree with you?

Does the fact that the copper coil get hot instead of the battery itself have any influence?

Do you have empirical data?

Etc. Etc. Just some examples, from the top of my mind...
Elixir and Explorer using the Rust implementation of Polars under the hood is practically the same as Python and the Polars Python bindings. The rest of the programming language makes a difference though. Python rejected a large portion of CS research and rejected to do a proper implementation for many things like pattern matching or lambda functions. I am pretty sure they had sound reasons to do this.
For me there was always problem with pnpm cache working together with vite when doing pnpm link, and yarn link works perfectly, so even though pnpm is much faster, I went back to yarn.
Really? Even when soldiers rose up and overthrew him, he still clung to power. If even a bloody coup couldn't do it, what chance does an election have?
Yes, exactly that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I see tremendous potential for high stress training with a clam voice instructing the soldier on what he should have seen, what is going on, and what to do.

I am hesitant to use this system against an adversary because it can be hacked.
Yes in large tech outside of FAANG. But that is only half the story. A lot of decision-making often falls on vice presidents, presidents, or heads assigned to subsidiaries or projects. They job hop a lot, more often than every 7 years in my experience.

Phil Harrison is a known FAANG example, but in smaller companies, there are tons of Harrisons. Stephen Elop is a FAANG-adjacent example, having been the CEO of Nokia in its downfall and now job-hopping quite a lot.

As a completely unrelated side-note, I love this quote from Elop's Wikipedia page:

> In his first speech at a Telstra conference in September 2016, Elop cited Nokia as an example of a "great" company that can self-assess and "transform" when necessary, referencing its success as a networks equipment supplier. He said that Telstra was also needing a necessary transformation to become more of a technology company. Elop was dismissed from Telstra as part of its restructuring on 31 July 2018.
A few that stick in my brain from 20 years ago:

Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser

The classic Hennessy and Patterson: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

Gray & Reuter: Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques

I also think the Gang of Four book always was and still is a tremendously useful read.

& SICP, natch.
Kind find the latest version of this but gaming is far from small market. People tend to seriously underestimate the size of the PC gaming market.

https://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2021/08/2021-...
I dunno, it’s pretty clearly madlibs. But at least when you ask GPT-4 to write a new Sir Mix-a-Lot song, it doesn’t spit out “Baby Got Back” verbatim like GPT-3.5.
> I don’t know why but I find this troubling.

You used the word anthropomorphize twice so I am guessing you don't like building systems whose entire premise rest on anthropomorphization. Sounds like a reasonable gut reaction to me.

I think another way to think of all of this is: LLM's are just pattern matchers and completers. What the training does is just to slowly etch a pattern into the LLM that it will then complete when it later sees it in the wild. The pattern can be anything.

If you have a pattern matcher and completer and you want it to perform the role of configurable chatbot. What kind of patterns would choose for this? My guess is that the whole system/assistant paradigm was chosen because it is extraordinarily easy to understand for humans. The LLM doesn't care what the pattern is, it will complete whatever pattern you give it.

> And part of what I find troubling is how casually people (prompters and users) are willing to go along with the ‘you are a chatbot’ fiction.

That is precisely why it was chosen :)
Ah but now supplemented with a push to legalize child labor in the US.
Is there a JSON formatter out there that can be configured specifically for numeric arrays ? I'm specifically looking for something that formats 1D arrays in one line and 2D as one line per row.

fracturedJSON gets close but not exactly what I want.
I enjoy working for IBM, I’ve been there my whole (relatively short) career and it’s been a great mix of interesting work, opportunity to advance my career, mentorship, and work life balance.

It’s a big company and every team is different so YMMV.
Forest of the Gods from Lithuanian writer Balys Sruoga. It’s cruel book how bandits treat intellectuals in concentration camp. Written in funny style hiding really bad details from reader. It is very eye-opening what one could expect from fellow human being under unfortunate circumstances.
The engineering culture at Apple is quite peculiar, and in my opinion, a bad fit for creating standards, especially programming languages.

I hated Objective-C when I had to deal with it, basically writing a wrapper around it for cross-platform compatibility of the framework I was using at the time (C++/OpenGL).

I spent a few hours looking at Swift and it seems simply worse in all dimensions that I am interested in.

Apple would benefit greatly by adopting standards instead of trying to push their own. Darwin was built on Unix/BSD foundations, it was a good move.
“Apropos nothing” added by yourself. Look - it doesn’t matter how the law is interpreted in the US because we’re not discussing the US here and the US is totally irrelevant to this discussion.

This AI act, together with the CRA, are written by the people who, vast majority of them, never worked with software. Yet, they intend to regulate software. This will go wrong.
Uh the FBI arrested people, evidence will come out in trials. What’s the point of your comment?
Why is this news worthy? Shouldn’t the opposite be news worthy? if he promises he won’t transfer power peacefully? Or if he tries to not transfer power after the election?
They may be referring to a telephone version of the story that excel was originally compiled to p-code for compactness.
Because that is what the book is about. Specifically, about the history of the Islamic Center of Munich, regularly attended by Mahmoud Abouhalima, the 1993 WTC bomber, and Al Qaeda co-founder and bin Laden mentor Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. I don't know what you are trying to imply. As suggested previously, read the book.
Not to mention that Rails was the language-de-jour for most bootcamps between 2012 and 2017 or so. The problem was running into developers who only knew Rails, not finding ones that didn’t know it at all.
It's just always surprising when companies think that legality and morality are the same thing. Either they didn't expect to get caught, or they see nothing wrong with it, that latter being worse.

The majority of companies that gets punished by consumers these days seem to me to be those who think that just because something is legal, then it's without consequences.
So can other people get paid for discovering and informing them of the same vulnerabilities?

What % of the payment would you like to disclose them to me?
The average user sees the OS and the hardware it came on as one and the same thing - I do not believe that can be changed.
If you’re an adult watching TikTok 8-10 hours a day that’s on you to fix. When I was at my “peak”, I was watching 2-3 hours a day and that felt like a lot.

If a kid is watching TikTok 8-10 hours a day, that’s on the parents to fix.

This is like the hot dog man meme. “Who’s responsible for this?” Ultimately you are in control of your eyeballs and your time. Stop watching!

Or not. TikTok is awesome. Watch it 8-10 hours a day if you want.