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Wow, I can't believe a startup would willingly take that risk. Violating US sanctions law is no joke for a US company!

Did you intentionally not tell them you were in Iran and instead just said you wanted to be paid in bitcoin without explanation? I'm extremely curious.
Rust macros still fail short, hence why so many crates need to drag syn for the ride, making even more of a mess of compile times.
> Martin cited a study from May 2018 by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which found 75 percent of the people on the street in Los Angeles County had a home in that same county before they lost it. It also showed that 65 percent of the unsheltered homeless had lived in that county for at least 20 years. Only 13 percent were from out of state.

Source: https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jun/28/dispelling-my...

Everyone knows, in the lyrics of Leonard Cohen -

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Not if you're my wife.

Sometimes I spend several minutes of a conversation trying to figure out which thing she's talking about, because we've already covered like twenty different topics in the last ten minutes and she seems to just switch around at random and with no warning.

Sometimes I get enough context that I can make that swap or stack pop, but many times not.
While that is true, I think you're missing the point. That they are betting way bigger on AI than they ever did on blockchain.
How would you stop a car with a roll of foil?
For what it's worth, I think the lack of comments is due to the highly academic nature of the experiment displayed in TFA.

LLMs are all of the rage now, and the pre-training techniques used for BERT ended up laying the foundation for what became GPT pre-training runs. But I would assume even among HN users, there really are only a small handful of people interacting with this side of the NLP craze on a regular basis.

Compare that with the amount of users who probably have at least dabbled in using a programming language, and suddenly you see why the opinions fly everywhere.

A lot of the practical aspects of training neural nets are still more "I'm doing it this way because Radford et al did it" or "when you picture the problem in three dimensions, this generally seems like it should work" instead of "This was demonstrated to be the best way and I can show you it's the best way from first principles." because quite frankly that's the best MO we have when dealing with the statistical principles guiding billions of matrix multiplies for trillions of different token sequences.
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"Tyranny"? Really?
Abrahamic tradition goes back almost six thousand years. By your metrics, it's more like 1:4...
So edgy that you’re only posting it using a throwaway account. Stop trolling.
First of all nodb isn't meant for really large scale applications.
I will have to do a research on how to it best and simplest way possible. The idea behind nodb is simplicity - you start inserting data in no time. Indexing of what you talk about is currently not possible. I will definitely look into it though and restructure it if necessary. Thanks for elaborating and the feedback, much appreciated. I will post again when I have updates.
Pity that Apple didn't push Dylan.
I don't think that LINQ has support for appicatives or custom operators. Although yes, it can be abused in impressive ways :)
The thread has both. And it backs up the factually one claim as it is an ask for vertical tabs in vscode.
> The most obvious meaning is that the source code is publicly visible

It's not, really.

Words don't live in a vacuum. Their meaning is determined by their actual usage, which is depends on the cultural context, which is itself determined by history.

"Open source" started being used when the Open Source movement started, to mean what the OSD means. Before, the phrase was not used.

You can't rewrite history and you can't decide for everyone the meaning of a word because it's obvious for you the way you decide.

It's not just "that organization". It's the whole computing world. That organization took the Debian Free Software Guidelines, called it the Open Source Definition and called software related to it "open source"... and the whole world picked up this usage. There's nothing you can do about it, history played out like this. The phrase has always had this meaning.

Maybe the meaning of the phrase will change over time, but that hasn't happened yet and I don't see this happening in the next years too.

What you are expressing is not facts. It's wishes and your taste.

Depending on the context, the actual license used is a technicality and you don't want to be this precise. You may need to express the broader concept / context. Open source is recognized more broadly by non-technical people. Try mentioning the MIT or the GPL license instead, you are in for a fun ride.

I don't see the point in actively trying to destroy this usage. Now we could discuss on pushing "free software" vs "open source" but this is another topic. I'm saying all this as a free software proponent. I don't quite like it that the OSI came and cast a shadow on the free software movement and pushed for the "open source" phrase. Open source is good but the values pushed by the free software movement is really what we ought to spread IMO (and FWIW, even Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the open source movement and the writer of the OSD, agrees with me [1]). But again, it is what it is, history has been playing out this way.

About your second paragraph, I mostly agree with you, but precisely open source / free software is what you really need for this. Source-available is a step in the right direction, but even if the company goes defunct, you still have no rights to adapt the code to make it work on future systems unless an explicit clause tells you otherwise. You can decide to do it anyway but you expose yourself to legal risks. So if it's important to you, you should advocate for open source / free software specifically, and not merely source availability. And you need to use the right words the way people understand them for this because the subtleties matter.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01641.html
I love the detail of the `You:` section. I am 35 (almost 36) years ago, still friends with guys from Uni, and UNTIL THIS DAY, I complain about how they didn't deep dive Pthreads and Linux programming in our Operating Systems classes.
To be frank, I'm not afraid of AI, I'm afraid of the exact opposite - natural stupidity.
This story clearly shows that too - "algorithm trained to prioritize scoring points tries to do so at any cost" It's not even emergent behavior, it's badly defined goals...
As someone who ended up homeless despite not fitting the typical profile - and has volunteered hundreds (possibly thousands) of hours in the space - you dramatically overstate the case for involuntary homelessness.

There couldn’t be a more significant difference between the homeless populations in places like SF and in other cities in the US with more sensible policies. There’s massively more people in California who are there because they’re voluntarily opting into a lifestyle where all of their capital expenditures are provided by taxpayers and they don’t have to do anything to maintain them other than to remain homeless. Many of these people may seem insane due to their drug use but their mental issues are a result, not a cause; they’re still rational actors responding to a perverse set of incentives.
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It worked for everyone who got a cut of that $17B
This is absolutely incredible. Definitely one of those 'I will never understand how" black magic levels of impressive.
Of course it is like this. We live in the golden age of cyberwars.

But you as a founder decide whose values of the surrounding society you align your company with.

In an autocratic nation these controls are kind of absolutist in nature, whereas in democracies you have at least some sense of oversight.

Given the mechanics of the game, where you reside your company tells a lot about who you're friends with.

These days on a larger scale there's basically NATO, SCO, UAE, Israel and the African Union as alliances (setting aside (former) British colonies).

Companies have to cooperate with either of those, otherwise they would not be allowed to exist.
I heard it is so bad that foreigners regret their vacation trips to California, particularly San Francisco
When I was growing up in Detroit in the early sixties the top rock station at the time was WXYZ AM and their top DJ was a guy called Lee Alan, nicknamed 'the horn'. Lee and Chuck became best friends, in fact Chuck wrote two of his hit songs in Lee's Cadillac cruising the Motor City.

In 1963 Chuck was in prison over the Mann Act crimes cited in this article. To be paroled he needed a job. So he called his friend and Lee arranged a gig at the Walled Lake casino outside of Detroit.

Lee Allan reminisces about his friend Chuck Berry
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dniS6Tv-gyE

In the mid-sixties our family moved to a little village called Okemos just outside East Lansing. A local group called the Woolies had a top 40 hit with an old Bo Diddley song called who do you love? Fifty years ago the Woolies went to a local club called the Dells to see Chuck Berry. I saw Berry at the same club, just not that particular night.

Chuck used to travel alone picking up local musicians. That night he was not happy with the musicians and asked if anyone in the audience could help out. The boys went to their cars, grabbed their instruments and did such a good job supporting Berry that he offered them more work. The Woolies piano player, a guy named Bob Baldori, played with Chuck until his passing.

https://www.wkar.org/arts-culture/2017-03-19/chuck-berry-rem...
The original goal post was for the original sender to confidentially send a message to the website owners.

> OpenSSL would seem to be the better solution for this. You already have the companies public key from the site certificate and it provides the same confidentiality and integrity since only their private key would be able to decrypt the message.

So a simple form over HTTPS achieves the security researcher -> company part. I agree that it's not sufficient on its own for a confidential two way communication channel, but it can also be achieved over the same technologies. But maybe implementing a messaging platform for the sole purpose of reporting security issues is overkill and could bring its own attack surface.

Having said that, if the problem is the limited PGP infrastructure then I don't see how an ad-hoc protocol that uses the same certificates as the site's HTTPS cert is going to get more adoption. You might as well just put up a messaging dialog at a dedicated security endpoint that is accessible through the browser and let the researcher reuse the same messaging session in some robust way for an effective two-way secure communication channel (login, client certificate).
In a way, the ongoing adoption of hardware memory tagging to get rid of C memory corruption issues feels like Lisp Machine's revenge.
Oh, the Mazda lane assist and lateral collision thing from the side mirrors I found very weird. We rented a MX-30 at one point and were driving on the highway, used the signal to change lanes and mysteriously it decided that there is a car on the other lane (there wasn't) - warning in side mirror, and nudged the wheel and refused to change lanes. It was so weird having the car not allow me to do something because of a "ghost" it saw. Even with our current car, which is not a Mazda, had 2 small incidents in 3 years. One at night while it was raining the front collision warning started beeping, no break though (nothing in front, except rain) and then again, which was a bit dangerous, on the highway on a sunny day, no one in front, somehow I suspect the camera system thought the shadow of an overpass was a car maybe and decided to break all of the sudden (with ACC on), luckily there was no one behind us, but still, was a bit scarry.
That’s what llama.cpp does, including offload to a disk. It allows you to run models as big as any combination of your VRAM, RAM or disk. But in the end, if it doesn’t fit into GPU VRAM, it will be slow.

For example Guanaco-33B generates ~10 token per second running fully from VRAM of my 3090, the ~1 token/second running from DDR4 RAM of my Ryzen. I would imagine it would do like a token per minute from NVM SSD.
Should specify Nvidia GPU. AMD is notoriously absent from all this ML progress.
How is giving people money unconditionally not treating them as “humans with potential and aspirations”?

I’m not entirely sure what your point is. Are you saying that adding more rules and conditions and whatnot is better?

I don’t have a well-formed opinion here myself, just that most people arguing for treating benefit recipients humanely argue for fewer rules, not more. So I’d like to understand your point better.
> Not sure how you’d get out though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery... , also known as "Skyhook" and pretty well demonstrated in "The Dark Knight".
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Perhaps it was intended as part of the satire. A whole new set of trials will be needed, from scratch, to investigate deaths caused by base jumping from cliff tops!
There is a reason most philosophical traditions have been restricted to initiates for most of human history. If you arrive at wisdom without the proper knowledge, you might dismiss it as gibberish. Or worse, misunderstand it and make wrong choices in life.

Kinda like how Maximilian and many other after thought they could turn lead into gold after misreading gnostic texts.
> When iterating over a string in Python (which I hope you agree _is_ useful?)

Not often. There’s almost nothing useful you can correctly do with a sequence of code points.
> There, mine showed as a featureless black flag rather than the flag I set. Presumably because that is the first codepoint of several that make up the flag.

The country flags are each made of two Unicode code points, which Unicode calls Regional Indicator Symbols. There are twenty six, one for each of the Latin capital letters A through Z. These are used to encode a flag by writing the ISO two letter country code from ISO-3166-1 e.g. F + R is France, you get a French flag.

Given your black flag experience, and the fact this is an English language forum, I'd guess maybe you wanted a flag for some entity that isn't a UN member state or some sort of recognised similar entity (e.g. the European flag EU symbolising the continent of Europe) and thus doesn't have an ISO two letter code, such as California or Wales. Those are built from a waving black flag plus their long ISO-3166-2 region code
Giving addicts drug money instead of providing for their needs is the peak of inhumanity.
Also curious about that! A few years ago I was thinking about freelancing (as a developer) for a Swiss company. I heard it is quite hard to do that.

Im still interested in doing work for a swiss company, remote mostly though. Which might make it harder. I am based in NL. Also not strictly a developer, also like product ownership or product management.

Any tips or tricks?
Flux is a refinement type checker for Rust
Half the dysfunction with political efforts to ameliorate homelessness is the toxicity of touching a difficult issue. Homelessness is beyond any one term or individual to solve. Certainly you cannot cure the addictions, disabilities or madness of these unfortunate people overnight. The only solution people would actually like is if the homeless were to disappear.
https://trino.io/docs/current/sql/match-recognize.html
Apparently if someone is hungry and you feed them, or if they are naked and you clothe then it's your own damn fault that people keep showing up.
Interestingly, the number of Unicode codepoints is probably the only measure of a string that is unlikely to ever be relevant to anyone in practice except when it happens to coincide with a different measure.

It can't be used to determine length in bytes (important for storage or network transmission), it can't be used to determine number of displayed characters, it can't be used to safely split a string at some position.

The only reason it has caught on is that it is easy to encode into UTF-8 and UTF-16, and that anything more interesting generally requires a language context and even a font.

I hope that future languages will get rid of this single string abstraction, and instead offer two completely separate types:

- symbol strings, which would only be usable for programming purposes and should probably be limited to ASCII

- text strings, which would be intended for human display purposes, with full Unicode support, and have APIs which answer things like "in the specified Culture, what is the length of human-recognizable characters of this string" or "what is the seventh human-recognizable characters in this string in the specified culture"

There's no reason to pay the conceptual cost of Unicode for representing field names or enums (and yes, I don't believe supporting Unicode identifiers is a good idea for a programming language; and note that I am not a native English speaker, and while I do use an alphabet, ASCII is missing some of the letters&symbols I use in my native Romanian). And there's no reason to settle for the misleading safety of Unicode code points when trying to process human displayable text.
No, I didn't, but it's a silly argument. An option doesn't need need to be good in order to be best, just like a number doesn't need to be positive in order to be the maximum of the set.
I imagine it could generate a lovely list of things one might consider learning.

My skill set is (css,) vanilla front end js and enough php to dumb db queries down the tube into the front end. There is no market for my write once works forever. I'm not interested in learning anything else but it would be wild to see an ordered list of suggestions accounting for marketability and difficulty. No way a puny human like myself can make sense of an n dimensional universe.
> I was amazed when living in SF how many of the homeless are not locals. Not even Californians!

Source?

Because this seems to be banded around in comments without anyone sourcing.

I dropped this actual source [1] in another comment, that measures 13% of unsheltered homeless as coming from out of state for LA.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jun/28/dispelling-my...
On the other hand, $1K a month in SF won't even get you a bed in a shared room. I mean that literally - I just checked apartments.com and there's exactly one listing out of 5,400 right now that's under $1000 and open to non-students.
> The people that don't have kids will really struggle when they get old and infirm with no one to take care of them.

I often hear this, but it sounds like nonsense? Why obsess about what happens when you're old and infirm? It's going to suck regardless.

One of my great aunts had no kids. She had a great life and lived to 95.

As for avoiding struggling, I have a small kid and struggle. If you want to avoid struggle, having kids is a terrible idea.
Let me just quality a bit further: homelessness is a failure of the neoliberal ideology (land free markets/privatization never worked, from the enclosures [1] to modern times, see Georgism for a solution [2]) and further a failure of the metaphysics of meritocracy based in desert-people's belief "by the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground", which simply isn't the case today, and it certainly won't be the case in a few decades when all the jobs will be gone forever, hopefully.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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Mostly impressed that it's not two redundant copies of a source code, but rather one actual code fragment.
> because regular infix mathematics is significantly more readable than Polish notation

I agree but maybe this is simply the result of our math education
Ah, yes, let's follow any UFO wacko then vs the NASA and the results of the SETI project.

Or a chamanic wizard against a surgeon in a hospital. Why not?

At least Peano axioms work.
holy .... even more impressive, it was created 9 years ago!
This ignores the fact that many of the homeless have other problems than just a lack of a roof over their heads. Drug addiction and untreated mental health issues are common (and overlap); domestic violence is another (related) cause for some of the homeless. Many of these issues don't go away by throwing houses at the problem.

Anyhow the main problem with the Idaho idea, beyond the politics/optics: what about getting the homeless into jobs? I don't think Idaho is overflowing with those, and I expect some of the homeless will be better off of employed.
I’m not at all against unconditional cash grants. I work for a non-profit that does just that.

What I am against is a totally unstructured program where they hand cash out knowing that 90% of it goes into an open air drug market that they make no attempt to shut down or control.

I’m not arguing for work requirements or time limits. People who are legitimately struggling will fall through the cracks. But I don’t think it is insane or inhumane to require people to work with supportive assistance and be put on a pathway to supportive housing.
What is the purpose of showing the charts?