skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the copula is multifunctional

Exercise: try stating this without the copula.

But no, "is/are" is not multifunctional in the same way that "from" is. If I say "she came from school" it is clear that we're talking about relative motion today or in the recent past from one nearby location to another. If I say "her family came from Japan" it is clear I'm talking about ancestry and/or a long ago emigration, but also spatially oriented. If I say "the party is from 3pm to 5pm" then I am using "from" to indicate a temporal rather than a spatial motion. But it still conveys the same basic meaning in all these cases, as the origin point of a motion or interval, and it is not usually the case that a single usage of the word could be confused for more than one meaning.

The IS-A vs HAS-A relationship is entirely different. It is the difference between existential quantification (some aspect of this thing resembles/has an X) and universal quantification (the entirety of this thing is fully captured by the meaning of X). Rigorously analyzed these are very different claims. In a strongly typed language they couldn't be substituted for each other.

To make this concrete, if I say "he is bad" then it is unclear whether I am saying that person is an intrinsically bad man, or if I am just commenting that the thing that he is doing right now is not morally justified.

This may seem like splitting hairs, but that's rather the point. It's at the edge of what we are comfortable thinking about in everyday life. But how much of that is because the language that we use--English--doesn't have these distinctions built into its very foundation? If we were native speakers of a E-Prime, maybe this distinction would be obvious and trivial. And maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't let politicians and con men off the hook so easily for equivocating language.
Vivaldi does this out of the box
The company behind this is called Things.inc and they're a VC backed startup. https://twitter.com/ThingsByThings
Yup. One man's "overuse" and "source of mistakes" is another man's way to draw attention towards a region in the latent^H^H^H^H^H^H idea space.

This is useful and often good enough, because a) the rest of what's been said and situational context will help home in on more specific associations (and if not, one can always ask for clarification), and b) we often don't need to resolve specific ideas - "my friend is a samurai" may just be an invitation for the other person to reply "oh, fun, speaking of more ancient cultures, have you read about ...", and then continue jumping around big clusters of associations, without ever properly resolving any.
Someone did some research on if they could have survived... doesn't seem likely https://www.science.org/content/article/hardy-water-bears-su...
> It basically boils down to "stop whining and leave".

I think you missed a branch in your case statement.

GP comment stated:

> either try to change the way things are done or quit and find a place that suits you better.

To my reading, "do this thing about it, or do this other thing about it " doesn't resolve down to "quit whining".

To merely "quit whining" implies sullen, passive, acquiescence.

Whereas the person you replied to framed it as a choice between two paths, neither of which involved passive acceptance.
Talking of rarely need, most 105-key boards have numeric pads that are dust covered. TKL layouts are the future and they have an additional fn modifier, maybe there's room here to add another purpose to it.
> My email is in my profile.

OK, I’ll email you if you want to continue this discussion elsewhere.

> https://champollion.hosting.nyu.edu

Looks interesting… where should I start reading?

> If I am correct in this assessment, then the next logical step from a conlang/auxlang perspective is: can we build a direct, unambiguous spoken grammar for this universal semantics framework? If so, then we will have achieved what Lojban failed to even attempt: unambiguous meaning.

Personally, I’m not sure if ‘unambiguous meaning’ is possible or even desirable. Even if formal semantics allows us to achieve complete unambiguity when it comes to grammatical categories (quantifiers, temporal and spatial setting, etc.), I think it would be exceedingly difficult to make every single lexeme completely unambiguous. And even if this were achieved, I’m not sure if such a language would even be usable by humans. Still, it would be an interesting experiment!
“Darmok” is Internet favorite, about a species which language is exclusively in analogy that the translator could not be set up, and they decide to kidnap Picard to establish vocabulary over a campfire.

There were couple episodes in Voyager in which aliens deem humans interesting but lesser, and tries to experiment or study on crews. One that I remember ended up in a ship self destruction, in another the doctor leaving his copy. As to why they didn’t simply ask Borg for a zipped archive, I don’t know.

The Dominion commanders throughout DS9 must have made similar remarks, and so should Cardassians have. Q would outright say so in spite, corrupted Data might. Maybe combination of those? Or maybe I’m just a suboptimal Trekkie :p
They do have search in video but the launch was kinda miffed

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-tests-text-sear...
the internet is not going to accept bigger packets just because someone wants to add vpn-encapsulation (additional data). you either account for the overhead (mssfix) or your payload gets fragmented and performance goes to shit, deal with it 8)
Disclaimer: I haven't actually watched his videos, I only read his Wikipedia page and heard people discussing him.

I think young guys and boys are just so sick of the monoculture pushed on them by both traditional media and social media, that demonizes standard masculinity (think of that infamous Gilette ad), that some of them ended up embracing a caricature/shock jockey. Because he pisses off the modern day equivalent of evangelists, he's edgy and transgressive. Also he says he admits he's playing up/being comedic, which makes people OK with his more exaggerated quotes.

It helps that he looks the part too, being a former UFC fighter. Looks matter a lot. No one would know his name if he looked like your typical software developer.
Don't pick sticks. Pick sides. Sides of a box. Every time you pick a direction with a stick, also set up two hyperplanes spaced appart. Effectively trying to build a hypercube.

Once you have 1000 directions chosen (i.e. 2000 sides) you will have fully enclosed a volume. You probably won't have a perfect cube, but this trick works as long as the set of vectors you picked 'are in general position' which has probability 1.
Well it's definitely a curse for anyone that wants their embeddings/vectors to be meaningful outside of the most nearest of neighbors.
You can also check out how the car does in specific tests. So, if you want to ignore risk to pedestrians, you can.
It's an orange field of strange little holes in the ground. Some people would simply walk past and not wonder. Others, The Curious, would be compelled to stop and peer down one.

"Oh, a rabbit hole. I wonder where it leads?"
2D volume is area.
Spoiler alert: 'Mint rubbing' in Romanian means 'thumb twiddling' in English, or in other words, wasting time to look busy for the management, a national sport perfected in comunist times and adapted to modern in-office work environments.
Just because somebody says something doesn't mean it's the only way. It's just an opinion, no matter who said it.
Ah the good old element.innerHTML = xss_vector_here
A hyper cube with sidelength 1 has a 'volume' of 1.
Then you sorta just define 'volume' (or the proper term 'hypervolume' based on how many hyper cubes you can fit. If the fit isn't perfect, half the size of your cubes, and try again. Whatever limit this system approaches is the true volume. (Edge cases are fractals, and they are already complicated in 3 dimensions)

Edit: each dimension has the same unit length, by definition of that dimension. At least, in 'flat' space.
Distance is just done by Pythagoras. This is actually meaningful because Distance is unique in being preserved by rotations. And rotations are special because they form a subgroup of all linear transformations.

Hence the choice to use Pythagoras for Distance is not arbitrary, it is very natural. Because rotations are very natural.
Not sure, but it's backed by a16z: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/a16z-backed-rooms-xyz-lets...
Isn't the reason we want/need this central accountability precisely the fact that everything software related is an extension of some web based software now a days? It's funny because we preach 'modularity' yet we keep building on this amorphous borg and then we get bitten by its complexity. Not to mention the enterprise drive to streamline everything and destroy silos.

Modularity requires redundancy, it's inefficiency that buys us resilience. But forcefully erasing emergent social boundaries on one side and forcing overtly complex structures for the sake of some ill define ideal on software architecture (OOP! microservices!) just nets us the worse of both worlds.
If a drug is under a patent, the generic form still pays royalties to the patent holder, so of course it's still expensive.
I think going from the difference in environment in learning first words to the meaning of those words being fundamentally different for everyone is a non sequitur.

Specifically when not defining the ambigous concept „meaning“ and without sketching the assumed mechanism by which they are learned and turned into language.
Funnily enough, my question got a downvote. Maybe @dang could help here?
What’s a “hacking culture”?
If you've seen what people try to do with their houses in Animal Crossing: yes, they do.
Still way to slow (coldstart, throughput and general latency), I was referring to the latest version which has still a convoluted, nonsense stack. I'd stay away from Prisma, there's enough info online.
Move country, it costs about a tenth of that in the UK.

One month supply us about £135 which is about $170 at todays rate.
Perhaps chronic illness is more prevalent now because in previous times you would have just died from those conditions. Anyway, if you're living 20 years longer on average than your grandparents, it stands to reason that your health is better for at least some of those years, since you're not dead.
>Now, I'm in my 40s and I'm like "Done with work; I think I'll go for a walk and then take a nap."

I'm in my early thirties and never had any side projects. After busting my ass coding like hell for 6 years in university and after 8 hours of coding at work per day, I was always seeking to do non-coding activities in my free time: trying out new hobbies, going for a walk, having drinks with friends and going dancing, dating, witching a movie, jerking off, cooking, reading, hiking, SLEEPING! etc.

This hurt my chances of getting into flashy well paying VC funded agile scale-ups where every applicant was a 20-something with a huge GitHub portfolio, but, and I hope I don't offend anyone, life is too short to spend my free time doing things I don't enjoy, just to look good in front of $COMPANY, that will lay you off the next day if 'line goes down', so I narrow my job search at companies where coding is done for the paycheck, not for the lifestyle.

I do spend my free time sometimes tinkering with various linux distros and DEs, and sometimes reverse engineering, but moistly working on hardware projects to build to increase my comfort around the house like a tap-water to air apartment AC cooling unit for the summer. I've always been a hands-on kind of tinkerer, with physical things, not with code, since I can't touch it.
Sam Altman, the AI executive with an eye on the risks
A ‘Canadian Armageddon’ Sets Parts of Western Canada on Fire
Next step is to prettify subtitles into sentences using one of LLMs.
>The fact that people still don't understand it can be put down to the disinformation put out by the fossi fuel lobby since the early 1980s, I suppose.

Framing everything as truth vs disinformation is not a healthy way to foster debate. I am genuinely interested in understanding the mechanisms here. Don't call me a propaganda dupe because I don't fully grasp some concept or another.
Google doesn't necessarily have to do anything special for YouTube, though. Google could "just" index YouTube videos as if they were any other web pages, in a standard way. It would then be YouTube's job, to make the data inside those video pages legible to Google's indexer. Where Google could enable this, by pushing for web standards to increase machine-legibility of video in HTML — e.g. standardized ARIA-accessible captions sources for the <video> element, etc.

If they got it set up such that in theory any web spider could come along and index a YouTube video — then there would be no anti-trust reason that Google couldn't just directly ingest the subtitle files off their own servers; it'd just be a bandwidth-saving optimization over the scraping process that they could otherwise do.
Hitler’s Antarctic base: the myth and the reality (2007) [pdf]
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Pop-science is peddling expertise as newspaper copy.
And by the way, someone having been wrong in 1970's is relevant for you to the droughts and floods of 2023, how?
Demo showing the library in action: https://afewthingz.com/swap-library/email/

PS: some music I made if you want a musical background:) https://afewthingz.com/since
Pasta, rice, and fruit have huge amounts of simple sugars.
Here is a screenshot from my Webstorm IDE. The Playgrond is less useful, even when I had a demo it showed a thousand completely useless completions in addition to the two string constants and I'm not editing in there but in the IDE anyway so that is what matters.

https://imgur.com/a/fntl6GX

It also works when the type is defined in another file/module.

Playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?noUnusedLocals=true&noUn...

I don't know where exactly the suggestions come from, if it's the language service or something else. Why would that matter? The only point I care about is that those suggestions are made, making those useless-for-type-checks union components still useful. I found WebStorm to show them even after I unchecked the TS language service in the settings. So what?
You need to distinguish between physics and mathematics. The explainer is about math. Here, 2D absolutely has volume (i.e. area). Also, higher dimensionality spaces are the same: each dimension uses the same units, therefore r is always the same. Thinking in "time" dimension doesn't help here imho.
This is due to how PHP and Sentry for PHP works. It sends out the data after every request to Sentry backend via HTTP. Depending on your network path to their servers, I have seen this take 10-100ms. This is different on how other APMs work for PHP, for example Tideways that I work on, or DataDog/NewRelic/Blackfire. They have a local agent running that accepts the data over socket/tcpip before sending it to the backend for processing.

The workaround in case of Sentry is to deploy the Sentry Relay in your network and send all data there.
Not sure what language you speak, but in German umlauts can always be replaced with an ‚e‘ suffix.
Having written codebases in German, I’ve never seen anybody actually use special chars in a var names! (probably a carryover from the pre-UTF-8 dark ages)
Sailing is about tying knots around things. In 4D you can still tie a rope around a 2d plane, like we tie ropes around sticks.

I presume you can similarly tie knots in 'planes' with perhaps an even richer set of 'knots'.
Borosilicate glass does let UV-B pass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borosilicate_glass

Quite a bit more expensive, though. And even better would be pure SiO2, fused quartz/silica.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_quartz
Thanks - this is useful indeed but it is sort of a hobbled view - I don't have access to the extensions I have installed in the side view. E.g. the main view shows the page in dark mode via dark reader but the side view doesn't have access to the extension so it has white background which is very jarring (better than nothing though). I wish they allowed a full-on split - almost like having two browser windows (with a common menu/bookmarks bar that acts upon the "active" pane).
Even Apple will have a hard time making the metaverse cool
That's why you should use a venv, even in a vm or a container.

This eliminates a whole category of problems and normalize all your setups. Otherwise, you have no ideas what variant you are going to get.
None of what the ceo posted was corporate platitude. This sort of post actively lowers the quality of HN comments.
Airlines (and many other industries like hospitality) have been charging dynamic pricing based on customer segmentation for a very long time.

I guess we draw the line of indignation when segmenting customers by OS/device.

/s
With the continual feature additions in the 2.4.x series, I dare say the project fell into a versioning slump like Linux had in the 2.6.x series. Rather than being a fixed set, instead it was continually evolving, and Apache's "2.4" prefix on version numbers is effectively just as meaningless at this point.

It could probably replicate Linux's solution to this and stop fixing "major" version numbers. Make the next release 3.0, then 3.1, and so forth. And every so often, bump that first part so it's not on "3." forever either.
Why would a $1k/month drug increase costs more compared to the status quo of expensive bariatric surgeries and complicated heart failure/joint issues/osteoarthritis/sleep apnea etc. cases that arise from obesity? Massively reducing obesity rates seems like a good thing from the POV of an insurer.
All the time while reading this thread I could not remember an issue like that from the time I used Vim/NeoVim. Perhaps it somehow did not affect me? At least in Emacs that works exactly like it should.
Sail boats almost always have combustion engines as back-ups and for maneuvering in and out of ports.
He is trying to motivate people and give them hope, and he is trying to direct people to a path that is more profitable than just making art and hoping for the best. I think those are good goals, and I think his advice is worthwhile.

It sounds like you disagree with his advice. How would you motivate people to persevere instead? What advice would you give people so that they make enough money to live on?
Lovely. It reminds me of a website I used to go to in the early 2000, when I was a kid. It was called L'Escale, ans as a member you had your very own room on a pirate ship, and you could choose your pet from three possibilities, a monkey, a parrot and a cat iirc. It was extremely simple but back then it was amazing to me.

Later I was a member of a 3D universe (created in 1998, mind you), a French speaking "fork" (not really but it's complicated) of ActiveWorlds. It was called Le Village 3D, and as a (paying) member, you had your own lot in the village, a perfectly square area that was yours and on which only you could build (typically a house but not necessarily).

I can totally see the appeal of having your own little cosy space. This is not what it is apparently, but it made me think of it. Here you can create as many rooms as you want, and that's why it's not as beautiful as what I was experiencing back then. It is scarcity I'm missing. Creating an account was complicated. Losing your account was a catastrophe. I cherished what I had.
> natural language programming via LLMs

I wonder how far can this concept itself go. One of the hardest part of software engineering is figuring out what to build and translating that to code. Humans are not particularly good at describing what they want, nor writing code. If human involved is reduced in both, how will software engineering change?
What actually happens is that each vector grabs a fraction of each other vector and adds it to itself (simplification omitting some transforms along the way). Equating this with the concept of a hash function does not make sense in my opinion but some authors do it anyway.

It's differentiable because how much of a fraction to grab is the result of a simple dot product followed by a softmax.
Lol. I mean, who here doesn't realize that this is a straight up chatGPT response? Not even edited in any way.

You know what would be great to add to HN?
A chatGPT response below each comment. So nobody else finds the need to do this.
That's not actually true. When MacArthur tried to get rid of the use of Chinese characters in Japanese writing during the post-WW2 occupation, he backed off when it was embarrassingly pointed out that Japan had a higher literacy rate than the US, despite having less of an investment in state schools at the time. Studies have shown that it does not take more time or effort for a child to learn to read and write Chinese or Japanese (assuming those are their native spoken languages) than for an American student to learn to read/write English. It may defy what you think you know as common sense, but it is a replicable observation.

The reason for this is that nobody except little children actually read by sounding out individual letters of words. That would be too much for the human mind to process in real time. You learn to read by recognizing particular clusters of lines on a paper or screen as having semantic meaning, and your brain translates that directly. The imlpiactoin is the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. (Did you read that OK?)

So essentially, you and a Chinese person both put in the same amount of effort to learn the same number of squiggly lines on paper as having semantic meaning, and memorizing a mapping of squiggles to words. It's just that in English the pronunciation is emphasized in the writing, whereas in Chinese it is mainly the meaning of the word that is focused on. But given that in this age most of our communication is through text which may never even be read aloud, it does make one wonder if the Chinese had the right idea all along.

But if so, rather than use a 3000 year old writing system with a lot of inherited historical baggage, why not start afresh? Keep the same basic concept (digital pictures in squares representing atomistic units of meaning, aligned in sequential order according to a grammar), but allow the pictures to make full benefit of today's digital display and font rendering technology. The logical end result of this is, I believe, emoji. Or something very close to it / evolved from it.

To get an idea of what I mean, you might want to check out Xu Bing's "Book from the Ground", which is a very readable book written in emoji, or something close to it. You can read about his work here:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emojis-comics-novel-futu...
got a standard car rental at the airport recently, and thrifty/dollar/hertz had lots of model 3's on the lot.

Wow, that car is a real nightmare for a slightly tired person coming off the plane and getting in a rental car.

window fogged up. (you know where this is going, right?) couldn't figure out how to turn on front defroster, even as passenger hunting through the menus.

radio came on (no streaming - need "premium connectivity" for that). Couldn't figure out how to mute or turn down volume - it blares on while looking for the defog.

how do you turn on hazards?

got out of the car, eveything of value is in the trunk and -- how do you lock the doors?

ok, figured out how to lock doors and passenger gets out ... and the door locking was quietly canceled. ugh.

really, truly - telsa needs to backpedal and make a couple critical controls physical instead of touchscreen.

on another subject, compared to the model S, the model 3 seems to be missing the flyover style navigation hints. Trying to figure out which way to turn on tight streets from the map is horrible. Did they not pay garmin?