skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you're just saying that the people who run the servers have to run the servers. You don't have to run your own instance - just join one you fancy.

So yes, the difficulty then becomes "is this instance being properly run?" but thats not unique to Mastodon, it also applies to things like Twitter - as we've seen. Just without the option to jump to a better Twitter instance - because there is only one.
My graphics card cried just reading this post.
The solution codes are not available as you can continuously update your solution.
Imagine your average teenage American kid with their new drivers license, and parents old car, before the oil embargo. Most didn't know how things worked, but they were able to use the technology to go anywhere they wanted. I imagine the same would be true of any sufficiently advanced civilization. The kids, and tourists, would be out and about, visiting the universe. That's how I figure they could traverse light years, but still crash, get shot down, etc.

My hunch is that there are a lot of deep and disturbing deliberate and accidental events, programs, etc... that are hidden deep under the covers in the name of "national security", both in the US, and across the world. The truth is going to be much weirder than any of us expect, and simultaneously far more mundane in many cases.

I give it a 50/50 shot at this point. I just want my own personal megawatt box if there is alien tech to be had. You can do a lot of nifty stuff with that much power. Grow food and live anywhere on the planet, with almost no need for inputs from elsewhere once you're up and running.
It's abuse when it's being used to coordinate pirate video streams -- which, when a new user creates a HLS playlist as their very first action, is the most likely possibility.
Shouldn't be too hard, assuming you don't need any validation. There afaik are simd instructions to move bytes around (vpermb maybe?), so that should take care of getting rid of the separators
I think that Stirner would say you're telling a bunch of ghost-stories :)
I think it's the math notation and math problem domain that seems to leak into attempts to broaden the audience. Tersely named, far removed from anything I could reach out and touch.

I could never grok scala, all the examples and learning material used math idioms, metaphors and symbology. So I was always translating and it was very difficult to pick up.

And yes, I fully realize this was my own shortcoming. I should have put eight years into the foundational knowledge. But I wonder if these math metaphors translate to a more broadly shared experience. They should be in theory. Programming is supposed to be a tool to accomplish goals, it shouldn't force users into it's inner world as much as it does. It feels like I need a formula one crew just to drive a car from Seattle to Kansas.
I don’t know. There is weapons grade persuasion and behavioral psychology in some of these games.
I hope soon we can see some proofs of those claims, be it exotic chemical elements or others.
Those internal weapon bays are great for minimizing radar signature but also detract from internal fuel space. Drag is a secondary concern compared to fuel capacity.

AF has public fact sheets on F-15 and F-35 ranges (3400 vs 1200 respectively). It’s trivial google search. The Navy and Marine version have worse ranges because of their mission profile.
Paid mods will work for the big subreddits, but what about all the smaller ones. Will paid mods have the knowledge or passion to run a subreddit for a niche topic? To promote them or keep them interesting?
IP blocks also just don't work on IPv6. Unless you're prepared to block entire by ASN, an adversary can cheaply just buy up a lot of address space and churn through them. It gets even messier when dealing with real ISP networks because some hand out /40s for residential customers whereas others give just a /56.
Here’s a video[0] showcasing a roleplay heavy playing of Delve if you want to get a good feel for how it works. Fantastic tabletop game in my experience. Definitely unique.

[0]:https://youtu.be/egU3-sPmFUw
Similar view of the world and same interests.
> The space seems ready for a model that pays everyone in the pipeline their true micro share of add and subscription revenue of what they contribute. I can't understand why something that does this hasn't taken over this space yet.

Nobody cares about being paid for content when they're all willing to do it for free. When I post on reddit, I'm not doing it for compensation, but for upvotes. Reddit is just another mini-Google.

What we need is a model that is redditesque but not VC funded. Just a small team maintaining something on the lines of old.reddit.com.

And maybe a paid app like Apollo.
The point was to remind the moderators that they aren't the democratic leaders representing the will of users as they framed themselves to be. Some mods are well liked but a great many of them are widely hated and know they would lose elections. Nobody mistakes the King for a democratic leader, even when he threatens the mods with elections. Nobody thinks even for an instant that Spez might let his users vote him out, Spez knows it too. He isn't pretending to be democratic, he's making an overt power play by proposing elections for those under him but not himself.
Yes, that's exactly what happens. Think of a point in an n-dimensional hypercube and the pyramids made by connecting it to the n many opposite faces. These pyramids each have volume 1/n times the hypercube's volume. And in the same way, in n dimensions, any tapering figure has volume given by its height times its base divided by n.
That's odd - I'm sitting looking at the federated timeline and the main problem is the speed at which it is zipping past.
At one consulting gig I had at an airline, I noted that timestamps were everywhere and among the most frequent operations in the system was comparison with current time. The legacy systems spit out date/time in at least 3 different formats, and almost never included the timezone. The TZ had to be determined by looking up the airport's TZ.

When I got there time comparisons were a mess, parsing in multiple places, some comparisons not taking into account the TZ, some add and subtract operations incorrectly code, and other issues.

I tried to make the case that parsing and compare timestamps was a core operation, and the system should have all that functionality polished and packaged up to its own module so programmers could focus on the rest of the system, but was unsuccessful. We were writing in Go, so the language libraries did about 80% of the work, and the less experienced programmers thought it was sufficient.

When I left they were struggling with issues around determining passenger age at the time of flight and getting off-by-one errors around certain cutoff ages.

Time is Hard. https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
Yeah but who does a real life peasant loathe more? A distant never seen monarch or the landlord with their boot on their throat every day?
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It is weird how little information there is about the acquisition. An HN comment from a month ago has links to evidence the acquisition took place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36015157. The title of the official LinkedIn page (https://archive.is/uqBnf) says "Gfycat (acquired by Snap Inc)". It looks like it really happened, just quietly.

There is something funny about Snap buying a company and then setting a timer to delete all the videos. Shame about the data loss.
Give #nostr a try
I was just thinking about how I wanted something like this the other day - like a lot of other PM-type people at my work, quite a bit of my output is "docs and decks", which I have found carry around a strong "work in progress" vibe. Whether you're sharing one out on your screen in a video call or sending it to someone so they can open it themselves, it's impossible to make a piece of work feel like a finished product, it always feels like a workspace.

I'd love to start publishing stuff in the form of static websites or another similar medium, but Word's ability to add annotations to specific runs of text and allow for conversations on them is a must-have.
That is what arbitrary means. The 0 point of Celsius is arbitrarily chosen. For instance, 0 grams means 0 mass. 0 Celsius does not mean 0 energy.
physicists/proper engineers: how useful would the electrical properties of a room temperature superconductor be, say usable as wires and only 10x the cost of aluminium or copper or whatever high tension wires are made out of? the web suggests resistive losses are O(10%), which doesn't seem hugely important in the scheme of things.

or would it be more useful for conductors in some other space? generators/turbines?
While this is a reasonable historical explanation of entropy, and explains that we don't gain net energy from the sun, it still misses the mark on what entropy is now known to be.

Entropy isn't a property of an object, or a system or things in physics. Entropy is a property of our _description_ of systems. More precisely it is a measure of how poorly a given specification of a physical system is, i.e. given description of a systems, typically the pressure / volume / temperature of a gas or whatnot, how many different physical systems correspond to such a description.

In particular, _thermodynamic entropy is Shannon entropy_.

In the case where the description of state specifies a volume of phase space wherein a physical state lies within, then the entropy is the logarithm of the volume of this fragment of phase space. If we take this collection of states and see how they evolve in time, then Liouville’s theorem says the volume of phase space will remain constant.

If we want to build a reliable machine, i.e. an engine, that can operate in any initial state that is bounded by our description, and ends up win a final state bounded by some other description, well, in order for this machine to preform reliably, the volume of the final description needs to be greater than the volume of the description of the initial state. Otherwise, some possible initial states will fail to end up in the desired final state. This is the essence of the second law of thermodynamics.

I want to emphasis this: entropy exists in our heads, not in the world.

E.T. Jaynes illustrated this "5. The Gas Mixing Scenario Revisited" in https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys/jaynes.pdf where two imaginary variants of Argon gas are mixed together. If one engineer is ignorant of the different variants of Argon gas, it is impossible to extract work from the gas, but armed with knowledge of the difference (which must be exploitable otherwise they wouldn't actually be different) work can be extracted.

Knowledge _is_ power.

Taking an extreme example, suppose we have two volumes of gas at different volumes / pressures / temperature. We can compute how much work can be extracted from those gases.

But, suppose someone else knows more than just the volume / pressure / temperature of these gases. This someone happens to know the precise position and velocity of every single molecule of gas (more practically they know the quantum state of the system). This someone now gets to play a the role of Maxwell's demon and separate all the high velocity and low velocity molecules of each chamber, opening and closing a gate using their perfect knowledge of where each particle is at each moment in time. From this they can now extract far more work than the ignorant person.

In both cases the gas was identical. How much useful work one can extract depends on how precise one's knowledge of the state of that gas is.
At least in principle, for a patent to be valid it must be enabling. If other words, someone "of ordinary skill in the field" should be able to read the patent and implement it. If there's not enough information in the patent to be enabling, then a patent court should find it is invalid. Of course the patent system is pretty broken, especially when patent cases are tried by jury, but that's how it is supposed to work.
> luxuriate in their self-perceived social class

Is it much different from Instagram addiction?
If you're using epoch timestamps to represent time you don't have leap second bugs. Each Unix timestamp corresponds to one unique point in time which also has some representation in civil time.

If you're subtracting Unix timestamps to get durations you may have bugs, but those bugs might align better to your user's expectations anyway.
Ah. They hooked up the thermostat to /dev/random.
Nothing really says "bent on controlling thoughts through the control of speech" like having rules on a mastodon server.
You need a basic CRM system, I think? You can probably build a simple enough one in Airtable for your internal users to edit easily, then make a separate related table for external users to submit forms to. Relate the tables by username or email or case ID, whatever you have. You can display all of that inside custom Airtable views (maybe good enough) or use the auto-generated APIs to make your own frontend.

If you want something more ready built, I think Zoho had a cheap CRM. Or maybe you can use a help desk type system like Freshdesk.

I think fundamentally this is more of a frontend and UX concern and not a backend stack question. Any stack can handle a few related tables, but you need something easy enough for your average user. Airtable and Freshdesk are OK out of the box, can be made better with some tweaking, and will probably be better than something you create from scratch with no frontend experience.
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The code in the post doesn't seem to finish the job. For a timestamp like "2023-07-02T15:46:00Z" or the other formats you mentioned, the timestamp fits in a single 32-byte register, so you could write code that deals with the stuff as it is. If you have a mix of timestamps with different numbers of decimals or with different time zones, dealing with those things will take a bit of work compered to the ideal case where you had all "Z" or all "+" or all "-" for the time zones and all the same number of decimals for the fractional seconds.
Teach the secretary how to copy/paste the information, rather than retyping it.
> there's plenty of righteous and undeserving people in Texas who never benefited from the fossil fuel industry, but are having to bear the consequences anyway

That's also going to apply to a lot of people around the world when faced with changing weather patterns and rising sea levels.
Really good point. I feel really lucky making the money I do with the responsibilities I currently have. But posts like this make me feel some amount of FOMO. Responses like yours add good perspective these posts seem to be missing
I think telling people about Clearview, and pointing out that this isn't some fictional potential future maybe technology but something that has been happening for a long time now, is quite effective.
Does Einstein’s model of time care about
entropy. In other words if there are 2 regions, one where entropy is increasing at that time and one where it isn’t as
much, does it affect time?
Sure, but he’s not parsing Unix timestamps. He’s parsing time in the format %Y%m%d%H%M%S, which would have leap seconds on most systems
This can't explain the data shown in the article. It shows US mortality for the richest decile of Americans on par with the poorest decile of Europeans, and far below middle- and upper-income Europeans.
At no point in that article does Disney do the thing asserted.

Other prominent Republicans are similarly opposed to DeSantis’s actions in this case.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3980792-gop-preside...

https://www.thestreet.com/travel/desantis-faces-right-wing-c...
Just because most of the world uses one arbitrary scale doesn't make that scale less arbitrary. Consider this: temperature is a measure of kinetic energy of a substances molecules. Surely, the molecules of something measured at -5C have negative kinetic energy, right? Right???
> Instead of allocating Expr objects willy-nilly on the heap, we’ll pack them into a single, contiguous array. Instead of referring to children via pointers, Exprs will refer to their children using their indices in that array.

This isn't flattening; it's just an alternative heap representation. The shape of the AST hasn't changed. It's been done in many languages before; such as Lisps (packing cons cells and other objects into arrays, using bump allocation, and indices for pointers and such).

Objects being in an array makes them convenient for GC to traverse them in a sweep pass after the marking is done. Marking walks the graph to find the reachable objects; sweep goes trough the flat arrays to clear the GC bits, and indicate unreachable objects for recycling.

I don't think you will easily find a semi-serious Lisp implementation that just mallocs every cons cell individually. You'd have to put them into a global linked list to be able to do the sweep part of GC. Or a global array that just contains pointers. I've seen at least two toy Lisp project someone banged up in one weekend in which cons cells were malloced and leaked; GC was left as a giant TODO.

Global arrays can end up happening anyway, even if cells come from a packed array heap. E.g. if you implement generational GC in a non-copying allocator, one way to round up the baby objects so you can sweep them in a fast GC cycle is to add them into an auxiliary array; that then represents the nursery.
You're putting an awful lot of words in my mouth.
With these driverless cabs, will a person still be behind the wheel ? Or is no one there.

If not, what happens if an accident occurs and the cab keeps on driving due to a software bug ?
That's HIP / ROCm: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/HIP/en/latest/index.html

But it currently only runs on CDNA boards and enterprise-y Linux distros (Ubuntu LTS, Centos, etc.)
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> omits the massively expensive calendar conversion step

Is that not included in what's 6x faster? I agree comparing against strptime is a bit of a gimme and a scalar fixed-format parser would be fairer, but I'm pretty sure it will beat that too.

Edit to reply since rate-limited:

> No mention of calendar in either place. Did you see something in the article or code, or are you just asking us to check?

The (lack so far of) calendar is mentioned in the blog post - "It does not get all the parsing done... We can just use standard C code for the result." - and is very obviously in the GitHub code.

https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...
Has there been a clear decision whether links are covered by the DMCA/copyright law or not? If there has been a clear decision that they're not, counter-notifications could be effective.
I agree with that, except Twitter is one, mastodon is many. For example, my first attempt to use mastodon failed because all the instances wanted an email address and just giving that alone or using temp email was not worth it for me. With twitter, it is one "instance" and I don't have to sample a dozen to figure out which one is right so because it is just one, I setup an email and even a temp burner phone for it in the past. But the risk of having to move to another mastodon is weighty.
The problem with the quarterly profit motive is that it's not voluntary for the US electorate.

If Americans could vote on their preferred time intervals to manage towards, they wouldn't pick quarterly. Quarterly screws the overwhelming majority of people who care about the future.But it's not up for discussion, debate or the political process.

It's similar to US foreign military aid. Nothing anyone says or does will change it. Whoever or whatever controls it is beyond the reach of the political process, at least the part that 99% of people can participate in.

People treat quarterly myopia like an emergent phenomenon, like it's some kind of maximum that the country naturally converged upon. Except there's nothing natural about it, and it only benefits a small number of unaccountable people.
You won't get much speed up using SIMD for such a simple task. You'll be memory bandwidth limited.
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> Yeah, you have an audience primed for buying your product, plus the fairly gullible nature of your audience who tend to believe whatever is posted in the comments, it's ideal for advertisers and they're certainly taking advantage.

This is why I laugh when people say they include site:reddit.com in their web searches for product reviews. You may as well read amazon reviews; what you're seeing is very likely curated by somebody with a commercial interest in the thing.

> But it doesn't look like reddit is benefiting from any of this. Contrast this to facebook, which has managed to squeeze money from advertisers under a somewhat similar setting.

This has always been reddit's biggest problem; it's cheaper and more effective to astroturf or buy moderators than to buy ads from reddit. Companies that buy ads from reddit are chumps, they should be taking over subreddits instead. The rate of return is far superior.
does operator overloading turn c++ and others into the weakly typed language?

does typescript-like type checking (which barks on 1+”1”) with “disallow emit on error” turn javascript into the strongly typed one?
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There's no great answer to this question. It is a bunch of tricks. Fundamentally:

If you're saying FizzBuzz doesn't work, presumably you mean that encoding the n directly doesn't work. Neither does encoding n from 0 to 1 or between -1 and 1 (and don't forget: obviously don't use relu with -1 to 1). It doesn't.

Neural networks can do a LOT of things, but they cannot deal with numbers. And they certainly cannot deal with natural or real numbers. BUT they can deal with certain encodings.

Instead of using the number directly, give one input to the neural network per bit of the number. That will work. Just pass in the last 10 bits of the number.

Or cheat and use transformers. Pass in the last 5 generations and have it construct the next FizzBuzz line. That will work. Because it's possible.

To make the number-based neural network for FizzBuzz "perfect" think about it. The neural network needs to be able to divide by 3 and 5. They can't. You can't fix that. You must make it possible for the neural network to learn the algorithm for dividing by 3 and 5 ... 2, 3 and 5 are relative primes (and actual primes). So "cheat" and pass in numbers in base 15 (by one-hot encoding the number mod 15 for example).

PM me if you'd like to debug whatever network you have together over zoom or Google meets or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot

This may be catastrophically wrong. I only have a master's in machine learning (a European master's degree, meaning I've written several theses on it (didn't pass first time, had to work full time to be able to study), and I was writing captcha crackers using ConvNets in 2002. But I've never been able to convince anyone to hire me to do anything machine learning related.
There is still a large appetite, but people won't use their real names anymore.

And they shouldn't. Part of being a kid is exploring interactions and learning from mistakes. Can you imagine growing up in a society where your account follows you from elementary school and anyone can review it? Even if you are the utmost in social propriety, but have a hobby that you enjoy, someone is going to disapprove of it or your fandom and penalize you accordingly. Post too much? Penalized. Post too little? Penalized.

The world is not a fair or equitable place, and so, we should not design systems that enable bullies.