skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>lauded translator of the Odyssey

For comparison, here is the opening snippet of the Odyssey done by several translators:

Richmond Lattimore (1967):

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven
far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel.
Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of,
many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea,
struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.
Even so he could not save his companions, hard though
he strove to; they were destroyed by their own wild recklessness,
fools, who devoured the oxen of Helios, the Sun God,
and he took away the day of their homecoming. From some point
here, goddess, daughter of Zeus, speak, and begin our story.

Robert Fagles (1996):

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds,
many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea,
fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.
But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove —
the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,
the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun
and the Sungod wiped from sight the day of their return.
Launch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus,
start from where you will —sing for our time too.

Emily Wilson (2017):

Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god
kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.

Peter Green (2018):

The man, Muse—tell me about that resourceful man, who wandered
far and wide, when he’d sacked Troy’s sacred citadel:
many men’s townships he saw, and learned their ways of thinking,
many the griefs he suffered at heart on the open sea,
battling for his own life and his comrades’ homecoming. Yet
no way could he save his comrades, much though he longed to—
it was through their own blind recklessness that they perished,
the fools, for they slaughtered the cattle of Hēlios the sun god
and ate them: for that he took from them their day of returning.
Tell us this tale, goddess, child of Zeus; start anywhere in it!
I think your takeaway is wrong. It isn't the government doing naughty secret things but the government doing so with support from a plurality of the people. The patriot act is a non-partisan issue that gets renewed every administration. Snowden and Assange should be locked up accroding to a majority of americans.

Your takeaway should be that a democracy would always reflect the will of the people with or without any law because that is what the rulers must do to continue to get elected.

You worry about privacy and laws, they worry about answering for even a relatively small terrorist attack.

The people gave away their freedoms out of fear.
Thank you! I think I have it now. This helped a lot.

I ended up thinking about it in terms of boxes -- if I have n choose r (what this means is undefined for now) boxes that all contain r things chosen from n, and choose one box, I now have to choose an ordering for the items in the box. There are r! options for this step.

This procedure gives the number of r-permutations of n objects, which is equal to n!/(n-r)!

Dividing through by r! gives the desired result. It also gives me an understanding of why dividing by r! on the right still gives an integer result
Octopolis and Octlantis
I work for a company that has HQ (though not engineering/product) in the Southeast. So lot of calls with fairly mild educated/urban southern accents. Not something anyone really notices. You get into rural southern accents, especially things like Cajun dialects, and it becomes more pronounced.
I was born in Southeast Asia, lived in China for a while, everyone I've met views it as some kind of karmic justice. It's the idea you get from school (we were living peacefully, then we got attacked and they did all these brutal crimes) and from our grandparents.

I've only seen the contrarian opinion coming from westerners. Perhaps because there's barely any media from Hollywood about the pacific theater, and if there was (eg. HBO's The Pacific), it does not show the horrors of it.

If one is more interested in an objective take on history, especially those using the argument that the Japanese were already "defeated" before the bombs came, then the book Downfall by Richard B Frank is a good book to start with for those who hold a firm anti-nuke stance.
I tend to agree. There is no true self.

However, does this claim not fly in the face of "identifying as" a particular gender, race, tribe, etc?

And what of opinions formed on the basis of incomplete and/or insufficient information?
Your test is consistent with condition A. Its prevalence in the general population is B/1000 people. We can do a follow-up test that involves B, C, D, will cost $E and in cases like yours confirm condition A in F% of cases. Or we can wait and see; we'll redo the test in G time out if you present with other signs and symptoms H, I, J. Other possible causes for the test result are K, L, M. How could you like to proceed?
The Sun article mentions the council having the ability to make some sort of preservation order? Ostensibly this is to protect historic properties, but it seems like an overreach to apply that to a mural painted without the property owner's consent.

I can't otherwise explain how the property owners are being held responsible for damage done to the mural.
I enjoyed the book but it read like something by a well researched outsider, not someone with first hand game dev experience. E.g, references to 3.25" disks.
The US also has strong don't paint other people's houses laws. If what you say is true, I could graffiti your front door and sue you if you tried to fix it. I don't think that's at all how the law works for us.
Intel CPU Die Topology
Ok so seems even less relevant? Or could you possibly spell out the point you're trying to make here?
Aha, got it. Thanks for the explanation.

So, the request content/body can have "non-sql-like" queries? can it be GraphQL? or even plain English? - of course, assuming that the server knows how to resolve the query.
I still don't get the difference.

If someone steals your secrets you're screwed. No matter what kind of secrets that are. That's clear.

But if you keep your secrets in a HSM (TPM, SmartCard, …) and only use them to derive session keys directly on the secure device there is absolutely no difference which concrete tech you're using (given that secure cryptography is in place).

mTLS is a great approach, no question. But I just don't see how it's more secure than any other public key crypto.
It lets them hire the types of people excited by Ocaml.
Nah, if you bulldoze the trees, you get fire-based shrubs in however many years and those aren't necessarily better.

Also, California cities don't even have the money to bulldoze the trees in an N-mile radius around them. California did log the entire Sierra Nevadas a hundred years ago, yes but those trees were valuable and there actually weren't as many of them (due to the fire ecology). A hundred years of fire suppression forestry and logging have turned the Sierras into a giant thicket - filled with small trees and shrubs with no market value, not easy to remove and ready to explode.
I live in the US and have run into both kinds of doctor. If you end up with one that does nothing and only refers you to specialists, it's worth trying other doctors. There are definitely nerdy doctors that know a lot more and are more willing to get their hands dirty.

Ultimately, even the nerd doctors will send you to a specialist if you need it.

I like my current doctor a lot. He runs his own independent practice and is just generally really cool.
This is also taught, by some degree, in Steven Skiena's book.

That is a great book, too.
Ask the Chinese, Koreans, and other countries that were brutalized by Imperial Japan and you will find that they mostly do not have a problem with it.

The handwringing tends to be more of a white westerner thing.
So, I wonder. Can I persist my malware(red team) in a dev drive? Maybe that's the first thing a win11 infection routine should do, set up a dev drive via powershell and avoid scanning.
I hate to throw shade on this, but look at theorem 2.1, proving by induction that x*n - 1 is divisible by x-1. The concluding sentence I believe mistakenly refers to the left hand term, when they intend to refer to the right hand term.

"But the left term is divisible by x - 1 by the induction hypothesis, and the right term is just x-1.".

I would spend many hours staring at that sentence wondering why I "just" did not understand, cycling through a whole range of feelings, years later to find out that there was likely a typographical error.

Additionally, many textbooks like this give a complicated expression and rather than reduce it mathematically, they expect the reader just to do this in their head and come to the conclusion that it is true.

Such things may seem like trivialities, and perhaps I am not the smartest math person around, but not paying attention to these subtle points can lead to deep frustration for the reader.
The lost origins of asymmetric crypto – Project C-43
Right from https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x:

“Context aware conversations with your copilot. If you're stuck solving a problem, ask GitHub Copilot to explain a piece of code. Bump into an error? Have GitHub Copilot fix it. It’ll even generate unit tests so you can get back to building what’s next.”

This is almost a Homer Simpson running for garbage commissioner level of over-promising. I think Copilot is an incredible tool, what’s possible right now is amazing and it can save time and offer value. But the degree to which it doesn’t just fail but completely misdirects is at serious odds with the breathless marketing.
Ask it to be more concise in its answers if possible. This saves a ton of tokens. You can also include instructions to flatly refuse tasks like writing short stories, but this might also make it less fun for your users.
Or just contact some of the businesses and offer a classic banner ad on the site.

If done right, it won't even be adblocked (because you can do it with no tracking at all).

Depending on the size of the city, and the queries, you should have a good idea where to look. If not, check the local church bulletins, the local softball/school fields, and anywhere else you find local business advertisements.
Ok, but that doesn't seem to apply to "normal" graffiti does it? People remove them all the time, even when they are quite good or interesting.
$10,000 is way too high. For any given covered event the deductible is the amount of money you're on the hook for.

What I'm saying is that for anything major you're likely already going to be out of pocket for thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars in costs that your insurance company won't cover in addition to the deductible. Maybe you have ten grand to piss away on a deductible. Do you have twenty? Thirty?

Living in a house with smoke damage while it gets repaired is significantly more harmful to your quality of life (especially if you're WFH) than driving a car with accident damage.
Idempotency and safety is about how to send POST requests, rather than how to handle them.

You can't pre-fetch a POST request, or re-try after a timeout. Because you have to consider that the POST request could have unintended consequences if sent too many times.
people are nuts about southern accents: i had a manager (not my manager but one of his peers) actively mocking me for having a southern accent after finding i’d grown up in the south.

weird thing, though, my accent (since everyone has one) matches the area i live perfectly, which isn’t much of a surprise since my parents grew up here before moving to the south.
Of course! The proof is in the read receipt! I said it in the email and my landlord agreed that it happened when he clicked on the email! It’s metadata that can’t be faked
The token limit is 100% an artificial limitation. When ChatGPT first released last november I took the opportunity to try pasting 3k-line codebases into it to get it to walk me through them and it worked perfectly fine, putting that same code in the OpenAI tokenizer tells me it's ~33k tokens, way above the limits today. The reason they do this is because every token takes up ~1mb of video memory and that adds up real quick. If you had infinite video memory there would be no "fundamental limit" to how long a LLM can output.

OpenAI then has two limits on inputs. The first artificial one ensures that people don't get overzealous inputing too much, otherwise they'll hit the second hard limit of how much vram their cards have. To the LLM itself there is no difference between characters from the chatbot and human, the only hard limiter is the total number of tokens. I tried this out by inputing a 4k-token string into ChatGPT as many times as I could and it failed on the 20th input, meaning that the hard limit is >80k tokens. Converting this to vram gives us >80gb which is the exact amount of ram the Nvidia a100 card has.
There will be local businesses with fairly aggressive marketing. Tons of billboards, on buses, local newspaper, etc. Should be easy to find because they're the ones advertising everywhere.

Call them up one by one and say "hey I run [project] that everyone has been using lately, would you be interested in having your business name listed as a sponsor? It'll be shown on 1/4 page loads which is currently 5000 times a day. $500/month".

You'll know in like an hour if there's any advertising potential.
now this is smart television producing!
Sounds like Shipt
Unrelated to the article: has google ever used their smart speaker spy tech to covertly place us citizens into an undisclosed matchmaking algorithm using location derived, e.g. from voice recognition from those smart speakers? Is that legal?
We hear advice that startup founders should prefer big, ambitious goals.

How can humanity live without wars. That's the biggest and the most important goal probably. I wish someone succeded in solving it.

Next science or tech breakthrough can result in even more powerful weapon (biological or whatever) than nuclear. And it can be more accessible.
>I'd guess there's a lot more variation in British accents, despite being such a tiny landmass.

That was the whole point of Pygmalion of course.
> , been churning out glorified war films

Should I never ever pay for a Hollywood film?
Can't they make Banksy take care of it, with lawyers if necessary?
This article references The Sun[1] which references The Times[0], which is probably what the URL should be. The artwork has already been removed (last Monday, May 22nd), it's not clear where the £200,000 estimate comes from since the move has already happened (wall rebuild, transport to buyer perhaps?). There is even a photo of their house exposed to the elements in the original.

[0]: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/homeowners-spend-200-000-...
[1]: https://www.the-sun.com/news/8193316/huge-bansky-mural-plast...
IMO: HAMs will likely be more helpful than these will. This is more of the result of professional confusion/processes etc.
> I think last time I used Takeout, it preferred to issue things in .tar.gz archives

What is the intersection of people who decided to use Google takeout but are incapable of figuring out how to extract a tarball?
They should have a protective case installed (similar to those in museums) and then sell the property. That can’t possibly be as much as $250k. Then have someone clean it periodically.

There are probably ways to profit off of it without selling though.
Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan (NUIT): Exploiting Speaker to Attack Microphone [pdf]
A sizeable fraction of the atmospheric carbon only gets sequestered by geological processes that take thousands of years. Comparing it to the basically nonexistent artificial sequestration is not very helpful.
Regardless of popular opinion, can this ever be justified as a moral act?

The common justification that I have read is that the bombings shortened what would have otherwise been a protracted defeat, potentially saving many more lives than were taken. A Utilitarian argument. However, if we were to take a Kantian point of view, the bombed civilians were used as an “ends” to achieve victory. Or more simply, an immoral act can never be justified, whatever the outcome.

So which is right? I enjoyed a recent Star Trek episode that examined the Utilitarian philosophy taken to an extreme (spoilers follow). In it an advanced utopian society is powered by the suffering of one child, chosen before birth. The joy and happiness of millions, at the expense of one innocent. Utilitarian philosophy (and modern economic theory), would call this an obviously acceptable trade-off, but Kant would argue that it is immoral as a person can never be used as an ends.

In the real world, we saw this argument play out in regards to whether the torture of terrorists was acceptable if it meant the extraction of information that would save lives.

Personally, I am of the Kantian view point, and I think the nuclear bombing of the two Japanese cities can never, and should never, be justified as moral acts.
If you have a task that requires something suggested by "__exact__", then a full LLM is probably not the answer anyway. Try distilling step by step, especially if the goal to to generate a DSL or some restricted language. It can be helpful to have a different set of tokens available to the model for decoding, such that the only possible outcome is something like 'ATTCGGTCCCGGG' given some question to predict a DNA sequence.
I don’t think I implied that all lawyers are like this?
https://archive.is/A1IGF
When ChatGPT first released last november I took the opportunity to try pasting 3k-line codebases into it to get it to walk me through them and it worked perfectly fine

Are these private codebases, or open source ones? If public, would you mind sharing a link to the ChatGPT session(s)?
I figure they can usually tell where you grew up by looking at your resume, so it doesn't really matter. To be fair, Black people have been fighting this battle a lot longer than white people that get out of the South; if you sound "too black" people low ball you and make sure you have zero visibility to customers or management. It's interesting that the article never mentions code-switching.
If you know a O(n^4) algorithm for SAT, I'm sure a couple of people would be interested in your paper.
There is one book which is fairly recently published, and it is not known much.

The book is Jay Wengrow's A Common Sense Guide to Data Structure and Algorithm [0].

It is published by Pragmatic Programmers.

I have found it to be the greatest algorithm book for self-learners.

It actually teaches you in what scenarios you might use which data structures and so on. Very highly recommend. What algorithms stand for and when you'd use one over another. Has nice code snippets, exercises that makes the learning whole.

Another great algo book is DPV. This is math-heavy, but this book has a soul.

Among the famous and ubiquitous ones, I like Steven Skiena.

[0]: https://pragprog.com/titles/jwdsal2/a-common-sense-guide-to-...
You are right. Sorry, I lied. I thought I had read something about it, but I must not have because I can’t find it my self. Perhaps I was thinking about Operation Paperclip, but more likely I might have read an unreliable claim on social media and not checked if it was true.
Revenge - especially in the form of massive civilian murder - is not justice.

"If one is more interested in an objective take on history,"

There is no such thing.
I have not been listening to them in the past but stumbled upon this episode "Multicast and the Markets" and I feel this has a lot of stuff about hardware and network than the software. Highly recommend to check it out.

https://signalsandthreads.com/multicast-and-the-markets/
What make people happy are not experience per se, but the validation they get by posting them on instagram.
It’s the same thing: in the 50s people uses to buy a new car or a new refrigerator to impress the neighbor and today they post their travel to Machu Picchu or Dubai to impress their followers
It's not common to sue for anything really. Most people don't ever sue anyway, but a small amount of people sue a lot, backed up by the armies of attorneys that advertise on daytime tv and bill boards. My wife works in liability defense and it is common that most plaintiffs have been involved in other lawsuits. Car wrecks, slip and fall, wrongful terminations, plaintiffs will often have 2 or 3 ongoing cases. They are all generally bullshit but will settle out for between 20-40k after a year or two of depositions and back and forth.

One interesting thing though is that pain and suffering is typically calculated at 2x medical costs. So those crazy high bills work in your favor when you are suing someone.
Is this universal?

In previous annual checkups with my primary care doctor, I have mentioned symptoms as varied as:

- recent depression

- trouble breathing

- irregular heartbeat

several of which resulted in follow-up appointments / lab work, but all of which were still covered 100% as annual checkups.
I wonder if the Council would have had the same thoughts if it'd been a Chuy?
It's absolutely awesome for implementing any kind of faceted search inside of a web application. Generating reports, finding resources, and of course social media do this sort of operation all the time. Gql makes it way cleaner and more efficient than GET this, parse it, POST a query, GET more things.

If you aren't in those spaces it probably seems unnecessary.
I managed to log into the mail account I had when I set up gmail.

Their AI arbitrarily decided that still wasn't good enough and that was the end of the gmail account I had since I was 13 (yes, I got one of the early invites.) I'm absolutely never doing anything important on a Google service ever again. It doesn't matter if you set stuff like that up.
I’m glad they got around to putting ads in the OS first /s
If you look at basic zergling vs zealot combat in SC1 vs SC2 you'll see what I'm saying. In SC2 they almost move like liquid and they don't form accidental choke points. The fight is over much faster and simply rewards the beefier army.

https://youtu.be/xPC8aIl7nek
https://youtu.be/mLr1co1f5-c

For example in Warcraft 3, which is much smaller scale with 10 - 20 units per player at any time, players constantly look for ways to block each other. While the fight is happening you might sneak a unit around just to block their path when they escape. This wouldn't be possible if the pathfinding was better at steering.

https://youtu.be/2GCpjpIuSII

In terms of terrain maybe land/sea/air in Red Alert 2?

The more tactical RTS like Company of Heroes and Dawn of War 2 use the terrain a lot, but in small scale ways like moving from cover to cover and building to building. The terrain is very complex there.

The new Dune Spice Wars only has desert but it has some interesting ideas about movement. It's a much slower RTS and has been described as real time 4X.
I consider myself a person who really loves and appreciates film, but I could not parse Stalker. It’s clearly dense with meaning and subtext, but I think I had too much going on in my head when I was watching it to appreciate what was going on.
<darkside>Or charge even more for product placement in your project's prompts.</darkside>
Nope, definitely not. Seems like a side-effect of that Github Action. Haven't seen it before. I manually re-rotated and then purged the cloudflare cache. So I think they should be normal again. Thank you for the ping!