skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't actually that true for Japan and most of South East Asia. It's only the greater China region, Vietnam and Korea where Confucianism was a big thing.
I mean it's a perfectly fine hill to die on, but I think "memoization for n=0 arguments" is cromulent. Or even "memoization for n=1 argument, which only has one possible value" (like a unit enum in Rust). I could see both positions being justifiable tbqh.
>> He oversaw the downfall of the freest of wins in world politics anywhere.

BJP under Modi-Shah lost 8 states, 218 by-elections in last two years [1]

Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh are the two states where the BJP has lost to Congress in the last six months. The BJP lost deposits in 38.4% of the seats it contested in Southern Karnataka. [2] [3]

Modi was the face of election campaign and spent whole centre government money and machinery to campaign. Modi speaks a script written by someone else by using a teleprompter and has never given an open & live unscripted press conference in last 8 years ([4] [5] [6]). By your logic, are you trying to say Modi is also incompetent?

>> The exact line you quoted, literally ends with an "if at all" in brackets right after.

Got it. So you are hoping some day China will transition to democracy AFTER industrialization had been achieved, and you think India might need to convert to an authoritarian state in order to successfully escaped poverty? Is my understanding correct?

Also, you haven's still answered my 2 questions:

1. How is "The ban on crop burning (main cause of Delhi's pollution) was central to the farm bill."?

2. What do you mean about this: "We do not vote for Presidents in India. The president was selected by the ruling party"?

[1] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/bjp-under-modi-sha...

[2] https://time.com/6280139/india-modi-bjp-congress-karnataka-e...

[3] https://www.thehindu.com/data/data-how-significant-is-bjps-d...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/india-election-modi/at-his-f...

[5] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/rti-pmo-pm-narendra-mo...

[6] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/why-hasnt-pm-mod...
I was dead on the street at 15 after being hit by a car (my fault). A good Samaritan stopped, administered CPR and resuscitated me. Forty six years later and I never got to thank him. I only know his first name (Mark).

CPR is a good thing and hopefully this article will not make people think twice before administering it.
blocking a request is fine, the request is stopped, the client gets an error

my point is that a middlebox that receives a GET request with a body may drop the body from the request and still forward the request onwards, without the body

these are categorically different outcomes
Obviously yes. If you don't agree with a law and there is close to no chance of getting caught then why follow it?
this is literally the goal of 20 year old AJAX patterns. progressively enhanced html with javascript on top. absolutely a solvable problem. perhaps wikipedia could look into using Astro or SvelteKit.
> I am working with people that don't understand even the basics (such as a survey with 49 responses means that the margin of error is over 10%

I don't understand this, if the population if just 49 people then the margin of error is zero. So intuitively the bigger the population the bigger the bound for the margin of error.
Remember, Android doesn't only run on mobile phones and managed addresses are just one part of DHCPv6.

You seem to be completely ignoring the other aspects of DHCPv6. Your response comes off as extremely hostile towards others who may have different requirements than yours. Please consider that there could be other use cases beyond what you've been exposed to in the past.
The "Easy ASP" [0] tutorial from Potassco can walk you through some examples, if you'd like.

The playlist is aimed at a general scientific/business audience, the presenter suggests that a lot of natural and business systems can be described in this manner. The presenter also mentions how a Clingo program was used, without modification, to optimize radio frequency band allocation.

Here's a repository [1] of ASP programs in clingo. Under problem classes, I see mostly: game AIs, graph problems, various puzzles, so on.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DBaibuDD9O4I05DiQfi...

[1] https://asparagus.cs.uni-potsdam.de/
i won't eat bugs, i won't live in a pod, and i won't sit to pee
Because arresting people requires evidence and due process, which is work.
Wikipedia say:

> an optimization technique used primarily to speed up computer programs by storing the results of expensive function calls and returning the cached result when the same inputs occur again

"the same" could be none, default, or null, I think.
Government and wasting taxpayer funds…name a better duo.

Before you come at me, I’m not anti-government.
Moving material from A to B has gotta be one of the most easy to automate things in a car factory.
Not a C++ developer but nodiscard is gross in my opinion. I've seen codebases littered with it for no good reason. Why should you care if the caller uses the return value or not?
Right. Doing nothing has a near zero recovery rate for cardiac arrest.

Any intervention needs to be judged against the real alternatives and not some imaginary ideal case.
I've seen some awesome demos of exactly this, ingesting priors and all of that.
I worked for many of those and... it is more complicated.

When you are a small team, it is easy to create a performant site because you work in a tight circle with shared conventions, rules, etc. and it is always the same people that work on the project.

When you are a large organization (think Facebook blog), there will be hundreds of engineers/designers/copywriters/... that are exposed to the codebase over the course of many years. Each will need to make a 'quick change' that over time compounds into the monstrosities that you are referring to.

The best you can do is add automated processes into CI/CD that prevent shipping anything that does not meet certain criteria. This might hold for a while... but as soon something borks the shipping velocity and some higher-up starts asking for names, those checks will be removed "temporarily" to unblock what that's burning.

As an engineer who takes pride in developing accessible and performant software, this killed the drive/joy for me of working for large orgs.
It's no longer proprietary. As of last year the standard is open and anyone can adopt it without paying Tesla a dime.[1] Of course car manufacturers will have to negotiate access to Tesla's charging network, but that's also true of Electrify America. Considering the advantages of Tesla's connector (much more compact, much more popular than CCS in the US), I hope it wins. Now that Ford[2] and Aptera[3] are adopting it, I think it will.

1. https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...

2. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023...

3. https://aptera.us/tesla-charging/
Banning doesn't take care of the problem completely unless there is a mechanism to take stubble away from the farmers. If there is no mechanism, people will burn it to get rid.
You need to read finite and infinite games. The book addresses this exactly.
Apple? Verticaly integrated? Tell that Foxxconn, they'd like to hear their contracts got cancelled.

Ford, like the first one, tried vertical integration. You can google how his rubber plantations worked out. Vertical integration stopped being a thing in the 70s, and for good reasons.
> Searle supposes that he is in a closed room and has a book with an English version of the computer program, along with sufficient papers, pencils, erasers, and filing cabinets. Searle could receive Chinese characters through a slot in the door, process them according to the program's instructions, and produce Chinese characters as output, without understanding any of the content of the Chinese writing.

This is an interesting and valuable thought experiment!

> The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot have a "mind", "understanding", or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave.

This doesn't seem to follow from it. For example what if they made artificial pieces of brain made from computer chips and replaced my brain with it bit by bit like a brain of Theseus. This is how your brain already works to some degree, the atoms in your brain aren't the original ones. I don't see how they say this replaced brain cannot have a 'mind' or 'understanding'.
Cars aren't generally used as personal weapons. Their size, cost, and the difficulty deploying them rapidly (think of how long it takes to accelerate from stop compared to drawing a gun) makes them a poor fit for that roll.
Most, if not all (can't think of one), research datasets have enough problems where once you reach a certain threshold your model will start to overfit despite no divergence between training and test data. But this is hard to explain to many as they only understand overfitting as divergence. But maybe worse, is that it is status quo to tune hyper-parameters on test data results[0] (instead of validation), which causes information leakage and helps support overfitting. But damned if you do, damned if you don't. And don't get me started on generative models where there aren't even test datasets[1].

[0] I blame the status quo of lazy reviewers and rejecting works based on benchmarks as well as being uninformed.

[1] I'll admit this is a sore spot right now as a reviewer took my paper's discussions about the limitations of FID and asked why I didn't present a new metric.
Wikipedia lets you specify the license. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#/media/File:Tux.svg has three permission details, including Creative Commons CC0 1.0.
I have backed everything with sources in my posts? Can you point out if anything is not correct? Or do you have a general issue when something is said against ruling party?

If you really care about reputation of India, how about advising someone in BJP to prevent this type of things from happening at first place?
Author here.

The reason I tend to think it's a software bug is that it seems that the system to dispatch deliveries is automated. The subcontractors get their orders from some kind of computerized system, it seems. That system seems to systematically fail to specify when they are to carry items indoors/upstairs. Whether that's due to negligence or intentional malfeasance, don't know.

What I do know from experience is that there are numerous bugs on their website, besides the "unknown error" problem I've listed. It just seems like really shittily built software... So I would tend to think there's an issue with really poor software engineering practices at that company.
As someone who actually lives in Japan for over a decade, you are wrong about the idea that the filal piety in East Asia comes from China. It is common but incorrect of many Chinese to overstate their impact on East Asia, but in reality the Chinese have had little impact on Japan and most of South East Asia (except for Vietnam) until recent immigration of Chinese in the last century.
Honestly it's kind of useful as a customized warning to callers. Callers can still ignore it by, for example (void)funcall_with_nodiscard(args). But they have to explicitly declare the intent to ignore the result. That seems like an all-around fair construct.
> Is there something better than just screen-shotting your terminal window and making PNGs or GIFs for stuff like this?

There is and it's been on my TODO list forever. In fact, the article you just read (congrats on getting through my narrative devices) was written /while tackling that/.

https://asciinema.org does it for "moving pictures", it shouldn't be too hard to do it for stills.
Really? Did you read that somewhere?
What's your answer?

Mine is almost none. Oven, microwave, dishwasher, wristwatch, drones, 3d printer, soldering iron, wrist gyro with LEDs, oscilloscope, thermostat, router, smart light bulbs, game controller, headphones, microphone, power brick for laptop etc.
For sure among the hardest problems in software engineering are versioning dependencies, and managing dependencies. At least those are the two I find the most aggravating. It seems like almost nobody can get it right even though component-based software engineering, SoA, etc. I think are generally extremely good ideas. The execution is pretty crummy pretty much everywhere.

With all that said, my sense is that hardware engineering has its own heap of Sisyphean problems and complexities. I definitely would not go back to working on hardware engineering problems like I did super early in my career (a mix of embedded firmware, device drivers, PCB design, and web development). I shudder at the thought of ever working with anything Verilog/VHDL, Xilinx, or SPICE ever again, or debugging PCB designs on the bench top in the lab with an oscilloscope and a logic probe. At least in school I ran more than a few bodge wires to patch a mistake in a PCB design iteration. Maybe in some sense, it's a blessing that those linear systems theory abstractions fall apart utterly in RF engineering problems, and one has to contend with the fact that all circuits radiate. At least circuits that still contain the magic smoke.
It doesn't seem that crazy. Working from a simpler analogy first -- if an alien can read 95% of written English, but completely mischaracterizes the remaining 5%, would a reasonable scientist conclude that they can't read at all and are just guessing randomly? No, and it would indeed be unreasonable to conclude that there's no way to write differently so that the alien performs substantially better.

We know some more about LLMs than we do aliens. The LLM is a neural network whose parameters have been optimized to reduce the total size of its errors, as measured against an enormous set of empirical data.

We have to add to your analogy then, that it's somehow known the alien speaks English on their own planet remarkably well. They are still not perfectly correct, but when they have to describe something on that planet, in English, they can do it better than they generally can given the same task on Earth.

It would again be totally unscientific to conclude that because of this, there is no way the alien can talk about earthly objects or ideas. The impulse of the mere engineer, to just hack around and find out, is a scientific one.
I'm very happy with my system: I have ~/tmp/ with subdirs `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `6months`, `2years`. Files in each of these get removed by a cronjob x time after they were created/modified (i.e. after an hour; a day; etc).

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/find ~/tmp/hour/ -mindepth 1 -mmin +60 -cmin +60 -delete
0 * * * * /usr/bin/find ~/tmp/day/ -mindepth 1 -mmin +1440 -cmin +1440 -delete
# etc

Files in ~/Downloads/ are deleted in the same way, after 2 hours.
If I download something that I want to keep "forever", I move it to where it belongs. Anything that is not "forever" goes into one of the ~/tmp/ subdirs (with a useful filename so I can trivially find it when I need it).
You get into the habit of moving things out of ~/Downloads/ very quickly, and it's not very painful: downloaded things can almost always be re-downloaded if you forgot to move them.

I used to have another (crude) cronjob to warn me before deleting files:

0 21 * * * (/usr/bin/find /Users/me/tmp/week/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +5 -ctime +5; /usr/bin/find /Users/me/tmp/month/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +28 -ctime +28; /usr/bin/find /Users/me/tmp/6months/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +183 -ctime +183) | /usr/bin/sed 's/^.Users.me.tmp.//g' | /usr/bin/mail -E -s "will delete some ~/tmp files soon" me@domain

... but I found it unnecessary. In practice, I just take some margin in deciding where to put things. If I think I'll need it for max a week, I'll put it in tmp/month to be on the safe side, etc. And worst case, I can just retrieve it from my backups.

I can't recommend a system like this enough. It feels like "inbox zero" for your filesystem; very liberating.
> 1: What I wanted to be addressed above all was why Canada went so much further than any other country in N. America in response to COVID, and what purpose did it serve when it's biggest trading partner (The US) was also starting to pressure it from it's border restrictions?

Some of it might be due to the current administration's "double allegiances" to China. [0] [1]. Notice Beijing too is set on it's "0 Covid Strategy". Canada was notorious for having delayed vaccination the Trudeau administration funneled 44 million dollars [2] and months [3] of taxpayer funded research work to CCP controlled CanSino, with little to show for.

> most French I've encountered see their dialect as uncouth

What? We have an office in Montreal with French-Canadians, French and Swiss employees and I've never heard of such thing.

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/9658738/trudeau-foundation-china-...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65054559

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/7302194/canada-coronavirus-vaccin...

[3] https://ipolitics.ca/2021/03/12/a-waste-of-a-lot-of-time-res...
One of the strangest ironies of my career is that the smartest developers often write the worst code. Their perfect memories enable them to effortlessly work with infinite layers of abstraction and write the most clever solutions imaginable to any problem.
Yes, sorry I wasn't expressing myself very clearly. I agree if the goal is to impose a uniform (per-unit) cost to users, you should avoid widely-optimized hash functions.

But even if you pick a novel function that doesn't have special-purpose hardware, spammers can still optimize their setups to lower the effective unit cost below what a legitimate user faces, by doing normal miner activities (picking hardware, scaling up, moving to where electricity is cheap, etc.).

Since your goal is to maximally discriminate between legitimate and spam use cases, you'd want spammers to face at least the same per-unit cost as legitimate users.

What's one way you can do that? Well, how about charging actual currency, whether Bitcoin or fiat? Money has the useful property of having the same nominal value for everyone, and not being amenable to further optimization.

In short, forcing users to actually run PoW themselves doesn't really make economic sense. Even if you're avoiding existing hash functions, it's mostly worse than just charging money because spammers have better ability to optimize against it.

And if charging money doesn't work, switching to local PoW is unlikely to be better.
Brain MRI's (in all their forms) are a whole different species than all other MRI's, due to variability and softness of structures, differences in condition presentation/time-frame, and and the high incidence of brain MRI's in the elderly (the brain can shrink precipitously after 60).

Also, neurologists are quite specialized (e.g., stroke vs. MS vs. acute encephalopathy vs. optic neuritis). In the majority of cases, the specialist neurologist is better at reading the MRI of their target conditions than the general radiologist. This is handled by the neurologist phoning the radiologist and guiding them to re-work their findings.

The vast majority of AI in software is in radiology. Decades ago radiology was among the first practice groups to fall under private equity patterns because of the cost of the machines. In some cases, specific radiology groups develop protectable expertise around some protocols (i.e., how to get the machine to give better data), but long machine lifecycle creates opportunities for technical one-upmanship.

Knowing that the labeling quality is variable and the images are not entirely comparable, you realize the bulk of AI-radiology may be built on shifting sands, and amounts to workflow optimization.

Worse, the effort could go into addressing what really plagues all providers: the unusability of their EHR's. But that's not particularly monetizable relative to critical diagnostics, and harder than production AI for MRI.
This actually had some good focus on Indonesia and SEA in general, which was a pleasant surprise
A lot of companies release press kits for proper usage of their logos without necessarily transferring the IP. I imagine in a lot of cases (including Wikipedia) it falls under fair use -- ultimately the logo is still trademarked.
_If_ we can make them generate a lot less noise and be a lot safer (both not that unrealistic), I would think more places to land them would rapidly pop up.

Also, but that’s in the really long term, if we could do air traffic control for millions of machines without creating congestion, I would expect city centers to sprawl out a lot. Why impress your clients with an office on the 50th floor of a skyscraper in Manhattan if you also can put it on a hillside overlooking some national forest, unreachable by car, but only 20 minutes flying away?
Hmm, what kind(s) of logging were you unable to get without paying for Enterprise?
Forces your coworkers to check return codes
if you know about/suspect it you report it.

how do you know with 100% certainty/due process that this is indeed the case and it's not just your ML algorithm going crazy?

people can also pay with physical money if they desire to do so.
The healthiest option is peeing on trees. There's something deeply satisfying about giving back to nature. Dogs know this, if we would listen.
Cray XMP/1 System Programmer Reference Manual (1987) [pdf]
Let's be nice to the lucky 10000 who get to learn what a cache miss is today.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Aren't these complex as any other piece of software that is looking to provide value to users?

I've been developing software solutions for several years and the fact that a computer can do cool stuff, automate processes, be more accurate... always need users who know and want to use it. So my takeway is that with AI solutions the human part also needs to be considered.
Rational system is anything that follows a mathematically formal process. This server where we post our messages is a rational system, as well as any deterministic software. It's not a high bar to achieve.

There may be limits to rationality (both for being incomplete to describe the world and for generating results that can't be demonstrated within themselves), but being rational by itself is nothing more than the capability to apply formal logic, i.e the capability to generate a sequence of sentences derived from the previous steps and a limited number of rules of inference.
As AI goes that isn't too bad. See LION = evoLved sIgn mOmeNtum, which I have to assume is parody.
> I was wondering what the author was smoking with the "ringtone & notifications" complaint. I don't remember seeing an Android phone that did not have separate volume slider for each.

This is why I included a screenshot of the volume sliders my Google Pixel displays. Samsung doesn't use stock android OS, and some Samsung users tend to assume every android phone works the same.
You guys may be right. I really honestly never ever thought it that way.

No hill to die on (and I enjoyed TFA!) that said ^ ^
you can also use it natively in non-browser applications.

just the other day i've used it in a CLI application (which authenticated against web, but without real browser): https://github.com/Yubico/python-fido2
Indeed. Recently I grudgingly went to a ticketmaster concert. Shit you not, it was like boarding an international flight. It’s not possible to buy a top performer ticket anonymously any longer, and you are required to present ID and have a smartphone.

Who the hell asked for this? I didn’t. It will be my last tm concert, that’s for sure.
The poster was noting there is historic precedent for parties to charge punitive fees to the point it’s defacto banned for things they don’t like. It would be challenging to stop without mandating some explicit formula too, which can be gamed.
Is there still a point talking to the registrar then? How common is it for a domain to exist with the registrar but have no SOA record?
This is not at all true: the Tokugawas heavily patronized neo-Confucianism.