skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, if you have one piece of codebase call gl.enable(gl.BLEND), then either that needs to reset it at the end with gl.disable(gl.BLEND) and you have some vague ambiguous default state that everything enters and leaves. If you don't, then either your code up ahead needs to unset any possible state added while outside and call gl.disable(gl.BLEND) before it renders, or it's dependent on state set from around it.

That latter issue is a real problem, because it makes the frame a lot harder to refactor. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for any new graphics programmer that started on OpenGL is implementing something like a Z-prepass or a shadow map, where you have the same object drawing to two passes, because the GL state machine makes it very easy to accidentally depend on some hidden piece of state you didn't know you were using.

The right answer is to have a state tracker that knows the current state, and some combination of object/pass/material know the state intended to switch to.

And gl.BLEND is the easy case. Things like VAOs and FBOs are dangerous to have bound latently, because of GL's brutal bind-to-modify API design. Bind-to-modify was optionally dropped when EXT_direct_state_access was added, but that never made its way to GLES/WebGL, unfortunately.
Finally the young people with a good sized inheritance/money from parents get a break in life.
I find the theory that the Odyssey has not been composed by Homer (by "Homer" meaning the author of the Iliad), but by some woman belonging to his family, perhaps a daughter, granddaughter or niece, much more plausible than the alternatives.

The Iliad and the Odyssey use very similar artificial poetic languages and vocabularies (though some words appear for the first time in the Odyssey and most of them are words that are expected to be more recent words).

Even so there is a very noticeable difference in style between the two works, and the easiest way to describe this difference is to say that the Iliad seems masculine, while the Odyssey seems feminine, i.e. the former is like an action movie, which spends a lot of time with the description of matters interesting for males, e.g. about efficient ways of killing or maiming your opponents or of gaining glory on the battlefield, while the latter is like a chick flick, where the main interests are about love and romance, stories about powerful independent women, descriptions of various female skills, clothes, food and gardens, and it includes even feminist complaints about the lack of equality between sexes.

It is very unlikely that we will ever know anything certain about the identity of the authors of the Homeric poems, but reading carefully the two texts, especially in original, gives the appearance of two closely related authors, but nevertheless of different sex.
You probably had to be a major national brand.
While I'm open to the idea that breakthroughs can come from unorthodox places, I don't think that Mullis is the best example. My highschool biology teacher had some negative opinions about the guy and claimed that it was an open secret that you do not invite him to speak at events, noble price not withstanding.

So, I looked him up. If anything my biology teacher was being polite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Views_on_HIV/AIDS_...

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2019/...

EDIT: My opinion is that this is a case of a broken clock being right twice a day. The second article talks about his PCR breakthrough. It sounds like he was clever and lucky. But based on what else he seemed to have believed, I really don't think we should take his word on the LSD being the key.
The founding fathers would tell you that this is a feature, not a bug. They really didn't want it to be easy for the federal government to do much. The states were meant to hold most of the power as they were closer to the people.
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It's closer to proper width of the scrollbar than many modern ones :)
I was thinking about little resin sculptures of birds. Not living creatures.

I'm rooting for the birds too, but I'd also like humans to stop putting metal spikes on stuff.
What happened to the migration instructions? Link [0] from earlier post [1] is dead.

[0] https://stalw.art/jmap/migrate/overview/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32894429
This is fun although you'd think it would have just been easier on everyone to just have a number of beeps and the count equals the error code. Requiring a second device on hand just to decode the error beeps sounds more complex than necessary.

I guess the author now has the responsibility of writing a new app to decode the beeps that hopefully can last longer in the app store before it gets too old.
Ukraine has shown that when your airspace and airstrips are contested, the only real answer is limited CAS where you fly in low, drop your load from as far away as possible, then pop flares and head back. A plane that is highly survivable and resistant to MANPADS is going to be superior.

For this, the US has the A-10 which was designed with this exact war in mind. It takes off from a short runway (and it can be a pretty rough runway because the engines are so high), requires more basic maintenance, and is proven to take MANPADS hits then still make it back.
Of course they won't fall. The cost of property is set to extract every extra penny from the working class as possible - either in mortgage rates or rental costs.

The owning class who say "not in my back yard" win regardless, because of the supply problem. And they're the ones both Labour and Tory parties kow-tow to.

Want to solve every problem in the UK? Well that's pretty much impossible after 50 years of mismanagement. But allowing housing and getting rid of other planning obstacles (for say north-south power interconnects) is probably the biggest quickest cheapest thing you could do to improve it. But that would upset land owners.
No.

~35% of the inflation basket in the US is owner's equivalent rent - which is an indirect way of measuring rent: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

In Canada it's ~41%.
ChatGPT got the snail one wrong over and over, not parsing that on the 16th day there will be no night for the snail to fall back down 4 meters:

Let's analyze the snail's progress:

During the day, the snail climbs 5 meters upwards.
During the night, it slides 4 meters downwards.

So, in a day, the snail effectively moves 5 - 4 = 1 meter upwards.

To calculate the number of days required for the snail to reach the top of the well, we need to determine how many 1-meter increments are necessary to cover the remaining distance of 20 meters.

20 meters / 1 meter = 20 days

Therefore, it will take the snail 20 days to reach the top of the well.
life is not an entropy generating process. All processes generate entropy. Life locally reduces entropy (but of course globally generates it, like all other changes).

As for this,

> In the end I come back to where you are, but from a different angle. I don't think we will find life because I don't think it even matters to us, because we won't even be able to recognize or comprehend it if we did see it. It could be everywhere or it could not be there at all and I don't think we could ever hope to tell the difference.

I kind of agree with you. A lot of the 'alien' stories I read about seem to have stories eerily similary to movies and books that preceded it. For example, some on reddit are convinced that aliens want to save us from climate change. The unanswered question is why would aliens care? or nuclear proliferation? Again... that's the plot of a movie.
Similar in some ways, quite different in others. They can both be used to archive/snapshot web content, but they take very different approaches.
Or alternatively Canada is one of the only countries where journalism will be protected and not systematically starved by the tech industry as it is elsewhere.
From what I read, Bitzer (PLATO), Papert/Solomon (LOGO) and Suppes (EPGY and Stanford) were all familiar with each other, thought each had different approaches (and if Mark Guzdial @ GIT is to believed (and he probably should be), different models for education.) I know PLATO received extensive funding from the ARMY early on while Suppe's pre-EPGY projects got more funding from the NSF. My mom's research at MIT was funded by the Air Force, but was adjacent to the LOGO team (not directly part of it.) Having talked extensively with Solomon and slightly with Suppes and Bitzer, I believe their funding sources extensively influenced the direction of their research.

Hofstadter is probably a good adjunct to any discussion re: LOGO. You could easily believe "Hofstadter's Butterfly" is just a random work of modernist art if you didn't know the science behind it. Pretty much the same with a lot of Artemis Papert's turtle art.

I bemoan the loss of fractal composition and turtle graphics as a mainstream educational thread. Both embody clear visual consequences of repeated application of procedural thinking. We used to train kids that certain types of art can be linked to procedural thinking, where the abstractions involved were much more on the mathematical side. Now we just tell them "download this python package and these 3d model assets" where the abstractions are muddied and focused on tools rather than the thing the tool makes. We're lucky if kids walk away understanding 3d cartesian space.

But I digress...
My understanding is that the checklist is really detailed and schools need to do things like measure the size of lips and ears.

It makes taking the SAT look like more fun-- and fairer too.
What's standing in the way of the flying car?
The market has likely grown by a large amount in that time, and a big chunk of that growth will be on platforms that either ban, or strongly tilt the user's choice of browser.

That and the competitors being rich corporations that are happy to pay to convert low-information users probably accounts for most of it.

I've not looked recently but looking at actual user numbers has long told a different story, which no great decline except in relative terms when compared with rivals.
In this case they are
That doesn't mean they can't be cruel, of course. I've seen a bird die on these spikes.
Given that redundancy is considered harmful, you probably want to create a ConsideredHarmful class and then a ConsideredHarmfulFactory to make for a more enterprise-ready structure.

:)
Yeah, I agree that 13 days from the last contact was maybe a bit too fast. But they haven't replied to this day and I reported the vuln two months earlier without response!

P.S. sorry for the american time dates, I don't know what I was thinking lol.
AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers
"add jazz and I want the colors to be bold and vibrant not left and sick"
ok, it works in private mode, so must be one of my plugins - maybe vimium.

Anyway this is definitely cool, but it's a shame you can't use it as a scrollbar.
I imagine they have such prompts and opt outs as minimally required by local regulations, but the problem of consent still exists.

Most users have no idea what cookies or behavioural advertising are and therefore can't give informed consent.

It's a hard problem because policymakers (including Apple) are put into a position of making the decision for large groups of people. However, those policymakers have their own interests.

Through a series of court cases and legislation, it's been decided that copyright and content moderation policies are okay to bury in ToS style documents but large parts of privacy policies aren't.

I don't enjoy this status quo but it's hard to come up with a politically viable alternative.
As an American with family that engages political debate at too many gatherings, can you explain what "no free speech" means in the UK?

I assumed that members of the UK public could always say "_____ the prime minister". There was even a Black Mirror episode involving a pig...
The US trains for this but I'm not sure it's needed domestically. FAA funds local and regional airports - there are plenty of airstrips all over that could accommodate a fighter or a C130.
I do B2B advertising. Without behavioral targeting. It would not be possible.
Not in UK but raise in inflation basically make me go from "can afford modest house" into "can afford a shoebox"

And giving banks more money ain't gonna help squat.
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LLMs and essentially all neural networks can be viewed as learning compression algorithms where the behavior of the compression algorithm is learned and subject to potential constraints beyond mere file reconstruction.

Highly recommend reading Ted Chiang's "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web"[0] to get a better sense of this.

Keeping this fact in your mental model neural networks can also go a long way to demystify them.

0. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
I think there's still cryptocurrency mining that pays better than breakeven. if people are willing to pay for it, doesn't that count as helping them?
Wikipedia is full of references to scholarly sources. Make a bot that follows the references to the sources and incorporates them in the training data, and Bob's your uncle.
Yeah I'd like to see some numbers on that, like startup time.
Not always. A lot of the boats I've been on opt for a bucket instead of a head.
Yes, I think you're right. The teaching methods are probably the biggest cause. I studied Mandarin for a year at Leiden University and the tones were drilled just like you mentioned.

Also, most people who learn Mandarin are aware of the fact that the tones are an essential part of the language. But when it comes to Japanese, there seems to be a divide between people who think that learning pitch accents is essential and people who think their time is better spent on learning other things.

I think a good middle ground is to at least learn about pitch accents until you can recognize them when a Japanese sentence is well articulated. I believe you'll be able to emulate them with enough exposure when you can at least recognize them. The next phase would then be for them to become second nature, but that will probably take many years.

By the way, the following two websites are essential to me when it comes to learning pitch accents:

- https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/eng/phrasing/index

- https://www.kanshudo.com/searchw

The first link generates images that visualize the pitch accents of sentences that you enter. You can then adjust those pitch accent graphs by clicking on individual syllables. It can also generate the (very robotic) audio files of the pronunciations of those sentences. I add those images to the cards in my Anki deck, and reference them after attempting to pronounce the pitch accent of a word or sentence.

The second link is an online dictionary that includes the pitch accents of individual words. I use it mostly when I need to double check the pitch accent of a word.
whether there is high or low interest rates, property is still (and probably always will be) unaffordable to me.

but at least with high interest rates my savings seem to have more value.
It seems obvious to me that there is genuine benefit: otherwise it is a giant scam against the advertisers as well as an invasion of individual privacy, and there would be lobbing from larger commercial entities affected to make the scam illegal if it were one.

Though that there is a benefit to businesses, however small, does not make me inclined to be happy that I am stalked throughout my personal life online by a great many advertising firms, and information about me gleaned from that stalking bought and sold between them, in order for those businesses to experience said benefit.

If it were banned globally, the “but how do I run my business otherwise?” question is a problem for the businesses, not me.

The “most people don't mind, you are just being contrary” argument that I've seen once or twice is bunkum. If that were the case it would not be so often be made such a faf to opt-opt.

One thing where I feel current privacy laws are a little off, is disallowing blocking for people who don't opt in. I've quite happy to be given a choice of “let this list of hundreds of third parties track you, or go away” (in case you haven't guessed, I'll go away) as long as no tracking is initiated between my arrival and going away without opting-in.
Why would they ignore it? If this is cheap for them, it just becomes the price of doing business as an additional tax.
Someone still has to be losing money on that deal or it's not a bad deal. Someone is paying the bonus and giving the executive money to invest

You're also starting from the assumption that the deals are bad. Why is that?
That's slightly harder, but still possible by first rendering the HTML onto a canvas.

Example here: http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/
Hm I’m not sure you’re factoring variable rate mortgages, which most people in the U.K. have. As interest rates rise so do mortgage payments (usually with a 1-2 year delay).
Low interest rates benefits the rich more than the poor thus they can more easily outcompete the poor.
Let's Encrypt issues 35 certs every second
In 2015 I bought a no-name touchscreen e-reader (Boyue T62) and rooted it, so it could run Android apps or display web pages. $112 shipped.

I don't know what that product scene is like these days, but that might make this kind of project more accessible.
The bug status still says Open?
Curious what this is.
I would substantially nuance most of what you say. I really like vim and use it almost exclusively, but it is not necessarily the "only" way, or even necessarily the "best" way to do things. If the vim grammar clicks for you, great, by all means use it. There are people for whom it doesn't click, and that's fine too. I do encourage everyone to try it for a bit.

I also would not say learning vim makes you a better programmer or a better writer. It makes inputting and changing text easier and faster, but that's not what programming or writing is about.

I agree that the vim grammar is nice, but the bigger thing that differentiates editing text in vim versus other editors is its modality. And it is the modality that allows it to have a grammar in the first place. And that grammar does break down in places, just look at every keybind starting with g.

So yes, try vim, because it is pretty great. But if it doesn't work for you, move on to something that does.
What variable rate debt do poor people usually have? You have to be of a certain income level to even get a mortgage in the first place.
Well sure, but those don't have to be a C Corp or an LLC. They could be something else which is restricted to being an investment fund and which isn't allowed to engage in ordinary business activity or own more than e.g. 10% of any given ordinary business.
It's completely an incorrect statement and this has been studied at great lengths any place there is molten lead / lead alloys. At normal atmospheric pressure, lead does not boil until over 1700 degrees C. These people constantly mistake melting point with boiling point. Unless you have very low partial pressures, there is no lead being gassed off when you melt lead at normal liquid lead temperatures.

When people 'smell' something when soldering or pouring molten lead, the are smelling aeromatics that are gassing off the materials, not lead particles suspended in air.

The overwhelming danger, and the reason so many people who did work with lead back in the day have high blood levels of lead, is simple contact via their hands with the materials. This guy was likely picking up lead lines, lead ingots to melt, leaded solder all day and then not washing his hands before eating lunch, or rubbing his eyes, etc.

In rare cases dust with lead particles could have been inhaled but this is even pretty rare unless they were literally belt sanding lead alloy metals in an enclosed space.
I had a NUC for a long time, I liked it because it fit in my bike’s under seat bag, or in the bigger pockets of my cargo pants. More portable than a laptop, I didn’t even need a backpack—assuming I was going somewhere with a keyboard and monitor (or I could ssh from my cellphone, with a fold out keyboard, but that is a pretty cramped experience).

Which is just to say it is a different niche than any desktop.
The big advantage here would be the ability to attribute entire blocks of text back to a specific source and cross domains just by building a database of embeddings. The downside is that these networks are probably not as creative as they're limited to only data that's available. It might work best to use something like this as an expert system for a GPT like agent to refer to when needed.
Private Russian military co's are multiplying– and so are the Kremlin’s problems
> Capitalism is easily the worst thing that has happened to us.

Oh, I don't know about that. Sure capitalism is bad, but some of the worst famines and genocides came out of communist societies.
Since interest rates are usually used to fight inflation, and inflation often is higher than interest rates, no your savings account generally does not have more value.
This is interesting, however, why not first discuss with authors directly to make sure that you're right?
It absolutely is used to reduce payouts. The fact that it limits the potential for very large punitive jury judgments is an argument made by supporters of the texas two step.

It's basically a way of forcing everyone suing you into something akin to a class action, but one where you lose most of the legal rights you would have in a class actions.
I'll never get tired of seeing this oversimplification whenever affirmative action is discussed
All those people who proudly and loudly went to Burning Man were all too happy to become The Man when money became involved.
Generally speaking, I think people have three choices: One is to pay for what you use and have a direct relationship where you have at least a little influence and stake with the company.

Another is to go with community projects where possible. If they are healthy and well-run, you should be in pretty good shape over the long run that they won't act against your interests. Here I'd look to Debian which has a very strong focus on governance and doing the right thing. (As they define "right thing" and it is well spelled out.)

Finally, do what's convenient and cheap with the realization that you will likely have to come up with a Plan B someday. This is sort of like the undertaker and Don Corleone: Someday, and that day may never come, you're going to have to pay a price and you don't know what that price is going to be.
You can substitute the word "substitute" as an ersatz "ersatz".
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What about LLM reasoning ability?

Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654

Transformers solve compositional reasoning tasks by reducing multi-step compositional reasoning into linearized subgraph matching without problem-solving skills. They can solve problems when they have reasoning graphs in the memory.
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California's Death Valley crosses 53° Celsius as blistering heat wave continues
This is the same situation in the US. Demand for housing has outstripped supply, and until we correct the supply situation, all that changing the financialization does is to make housing a better and better investment for entities flush with cash. Housing shouldn't be an investment in that way, but that's a different conversation. We need to be driving supply.
I wonder if it would be possible to make unsolicited advertisement illegal. Something difficult to imagine in the world we live in, but I believe it could be possible:
- no ads in the public space
- magazines and newspapers with 2 versions: with ads (lower price) and without ads (higher price)
- TV and radio: special channels only for ads
- internet: banners are blank and marked as Ad, you can only see them if you click on them.
Wishful thinking?
How does this make sense? Search to find it on the page??