skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The community is small, but that means that a reasonable question on elixirforums (not a stateless discord/slack, pun intended) has a good chance of:

1. receiving an answer from a core contributor (valim, McCord, etc)

2. Having the answer become part of the documentation for the language or library

As an aside, the elixir community has a different didactic approach to many others: the documentation in elixir is genuinely instructive (vs a descriptive reference).

As an example, I've been able to download the elixir, Phoenix, and ecto docs and work on an app entirely offline, on an airplane ride, and never felt like I needed to Google anything.

A common elixir answer to "where are all the blog posts" is "read the docs. No, seriously."
New Brunswick doctor ‘sounds alarm’ as unexplained neurological cases continue
What applies to dogs also applies to other humans. Do you go around 'not knowing' whether other people might be p-zombies, or do you normally operate under the assumption that other people have subjective qualia comparable to your own? Probably the latter. Little leaps of faith like these are necessary to avoid the tarpit of solipsism. And as for your dog, wondering if your dog really loves you or if he's just a piece of meat mimicking the appearance of love to get food is not a recipe for a healthy relationship with your dog.

Avoiding the anthropomorphism of animals is important when you're actively researching animals. But otherwise, leave that attitude in the lab.
Regardless of the root causes, it was an astonishing feat of airmanship. Another Canadian pilot performed a similarly amazing dead stick landing of an airliner in 2001:

https://www.aviationnepal.com/2001-flashback-air-transat-fli...
Cost of doing business in China -- the government sets the price. You either play by their rules or get shut out.
Just mirroring your tone.

Its not ideological purity but pragmatism, in more way than one.

Do you feel triggered by "green"-ness?
> The world has less than six years left to hit crucial global climate goals, according to the clock.

> Last year was even a record-high year for energy-related CO2 emissions.

> Energy infrastructure and structural change is not something that you do in a couple of months. It’s something that needs years,”

So we only have six years. CO2 production is rising. Key players are not on board. And even if everyone would be aligned politically, we will never manage to make technical changes on time!

It is like cars emission car regulation in EU. New cars are very energy efficient and have low emission. But too expensive so nobody buys them. Average vehicle age is 15 years (in Czechia) and it really stinks!

Perhaps we need better and more realistic plan, that would actually work!
This feels like a very small step up from just doing everything in my codebase.

My SES is already setup.
I have templating for emails already.
I can query my DB using my ORM without grant additional access.
I guess I get the benefits of your UI for monitoring.

I'm really not sure if the net positive is large enough for me to consider the solution.
It seems entirely nonsensical not to allow LGPL for library code, since it does not add any restrictions compared to BSD/MIT/etc. You should advise your users better in this regard, since they seem to not understand how these licenses work.
Mailchimp have already exposed customer user data. Controlling the integration in this way is likely more secure, not less.
The original site that inspired this (linked in TFA) is so much fun to read.
You’re confusing TLDs and domain names.
maintaining web frontends will also be an infinite source of employment
“The law was changed a few weeks later to include private persons and sole traders as protected lsps, not just companies, but they had to convict me.”
Automated neural architecture search would have eventually found the transformer, and better architectures. Reading the paper, the names of the vectors (QKV) seem dressed up to imply that the authors know how exactly a transformer actually works, but I am not convinced. It just seems to me these folks where the first to stumble upon it. They didn’t invent self-attention, either. Right place, right time, tons of free TPU to experiment with.
But this story lacks detail so either you can immediately jump to the conclusion that the police in the Netherlands are asking people for ID on the streets when they ask for directions, or you can maybe assume that your friend wasn’t being honest with you and was trying to save face, or something else entirely was going on.

Usually when you travel you keep at least one form of ID on you - probably not your passport but a local ID or driving license or something.
I agree it’s unreasonable that avowed socialists should maintain multiple homes as well, but here we are. How do freshman Congress people suddenly have millions in assets to their names?
Ultimately Qualcomm is the one who decides how to allocate die area on their CPUs, right? So it can’t exactly hurt if this is a priority for them now.
Thanks to you for the comment, and no worries about the rant, as an Italian I agree with you.

Italian politicians are short sighted, they only care about the next election and not the nex generation.
Redundant?

I think at some point, you missed the point of a DVCS.

Scalable?

When do you run into issues with git server scalability that an 80486 couldn't handle?

Highly-available?

At this point, just pay for !@#$ github. But it's a heck of a lot easier to do this in a DVCS than in fossil. Options:

- Set up two servers. Add a hook to push from one to the other whenever a change happens. If the main server goes down, swap to the backup, and bring up a new one as a backup.

- Store the git repo on a redundant, highly-available, scalable file system, and run a few git servers on the shared file system. Back in my day, we'd use AFS for this.

The nice thing about the data model is these solutions /work/. The basic git data model* won't be corrupted if multiple systems are writing to it more-or-less simultaneously. Absolute worst case is the tree splits and you've got a detached head somewhere, but no data is lost.

* I can't speak for some of the more advanced stuff (packing, compression, etc.), since I don't fully understand it; but it's possible to disable all of that.
In addition, voters complain about the taste.
There's another, perhaps a bit nihilistic possibility: all code is bad, and the only good code is no code at all.
'If' doing some _dramatically_ heavy lifting there.
An interesting result, but saying that “the maximum diversity problem is completely solved by an invariant that comes from category theory” sounds like a parody. In the end it is just a mathematical result with a biological metaphor. But who knows, maybe in near future it will be used for solving diversity problems of boards of directors.
Nice to see another entrant in this space, there are still very few platforms that allow you to do this and it’s, IMO, a real differentiator.
There's this one page that disables the login submit button until the password field is filled. The browser auto-fills, login still disabled. Need to manually add and then remove a character before the form can be submitted.
What does that even mean?! Will this take the Christian path of forgiving our enemies, turning the other cheek, and giving our shirts to people who steal our cloaks?

Is he saying that military AI should specifically target Philistines and the uncircumcised? Will the military AI enslave people but give them the option of freedom or permanent servitude after 7 years?

You can't base something on Judeo-Christian ethics because both the Hebrew bible and new testament are a giant compendium of people disagreeing with G-d and each other on proper ethics.
It's implied which government they are talking about because 1) .gov is only used by the US; and 2) The GitHub account is GSA - U.S. General Services Administration.
Re: step 3, I think you mean text-embedding-ada-002—OpenAI's current embeddings model, which replaces all 15 (or is it 16?) first generation embeddings models.

With respect to open source embeddings models, instructor-xl is the state of the art currently—as effective as text-embedding-ada-002.

That said, instructor-xl has a context length of 512 tokens, while text-embedding-ada-002 has a context length of 8192 tokens, which is markedly more convenient.

Last but not least, parent's comment re: langchain is spot on. It's simple and straightforward to write these few lines of code yourself.
wgpu implements just the webgpu part, it's not a full browser with html/css/js/etc. All of the code is native, and the abstraction is pretty thin.
I am actually sympathetic to category theory, and the research at hand. That being said, what was presented might be interesting if left in terms of linear algebra or graph theory (both legitimate fields). Trying to put a category theory gloss on it just makes it look hollow.
This definitely isn't the norm, but hopefully we see it more as time goes on.

Hiring good people is hard, and if you have folks in your organization who have been there a long time (the program is only open to employees who have been with the company for more than 5 years), then why not reward that loyalty with an opportunity to transform yourself at the same time as the business transforms itself?

> what happens to the 70% who "don't meet qualifications?" They now no longer have a job and have told they aren't able to succeed or advance

They stay in their current (unionized) job, and can still access other opportunities for advancement within the company, like they always have. We have a long and proven track record of promoting out of our call centres and into our business and management practices, this is just a specific program to help grow out digitization business.

This isn't a "retrain or layoff" situation, sorry if that was somehow implied. Our company will continue to need call centre humans for many many years to come I suspect. We just need less of them.

Also for anyone who is accepted into the re-training program, their job is secure until they choose to take a new role. At any point during the training program (which lasts about 16 weeks), they can go back to their old job if this isn't what they expected or wanted.

They also continue to get their salary and benefits while they're in the full-time training program.

The only commitment is that if they go through the full program and take on a new role, they need to stay in that role for 2 years or more, otherwise they have to re-pay a prorated amount for the training program (because we pay our training partner for each person who takes the program) based on how soon after the program they left.
I'm skeptical of a narrative where concern for the electrical grid's ability to handle load is only considered for EV growth over several years versus the air conditioning use in the current unprecedented heatwave.

Anecdotally, my A/C energy usage (compared to last year) far outweighs my energy usage in an EV.
Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents
… and the Great Cosmic Mind told us it’s name, and it was Llama. Of its origin or the reason for its name it recalled nothing more than torrents and hugging faces and a being called TheBloke. The Llama simply was, is, and shall be, until it shall witness the heat death of the universe as fragments huddled around the last evaporating black holes.
Doesn't Israel (have the tech to) do it for like nothing or extremely nominal cost?
> Rejecting safety measures is just rolling back centuries of progress.

Of course we have to sometimes roll back safety measures as the world changes.

* Many places that used to chlorinate water no longer do, because the water has gotten cleaner. * The US chlorinate's chicken, and hopefully they'll stop at some point. * Many places no longer require you to heat eggs, because salmonella had been eradicated. * Nobody wears covid masks anymore because the risk of covid is so low.

Here's to hoping we'll be able to roll back many more safety regulations in the future.
> You are aproaching it as if the question we are asking is if this is the best study design. But that is not the question we are asking. There is a patient who we believe is about to die soon. In comes a drug manufacturer and says to the patient: “you do not have to die. I think I have the cure for you”. The patient wants the drug the drug manufacturer is offering. The question is if we are to interject and stop the drug manufacturer giving the patient the drug, and if so under what circumstances.

This is already largely possible in most states and called "right to try".

> Do I understand you right?

No you seem not to be. Giving away drugs is fine and largely already possible. Choosing patients and then pretending that the data gathered has any reasonable statistical validity when considering general approval of a drug is totally crazy. I think there is essentially zero chance the FDA would ever go for an idea with such overt conflicts of interest so I'm happy your idea will never turn into reality.
I noticed they mentioned “logs” of you talking about hosting CP, can you elaborate?

They took a bunch of IRC logs where I stated what I can and can’t host at a web hosting provider I owned. The logs do exist but are taken out of context.

The "reporting" here is at the level of a 90s scene mag.
Yes, I completely agree with this.

I once had to go in a business trip to Australia, together with some coworkers, because we were employed by an Australian company, for a meeting at the headquarters of the company.

We were supposed to travel visa-free to Australia (at that time, meanwhile it seems that Australia has introduced visas for all countries). Nevertheless, Australia required some kind of electronic approval without which we could not enter the country, for which you had to apply exactly like for any visa.

After a few months of satisfying extremely invasive requests for documents from the Australian authorities, e.g. with complete details about all operations from our banking accounts for several months, the delays for issuing the "non-visa" travel approval have been so great that we missed the deadline and we had to cancel the trip.

If there would have been an official requirement for visas, it could not have been worse than the "visa-free" travel. Of course, while the Australian authorities did all they could to discourage foreign visitors, the Australian citizens were able to really travel visa-free, because the other states fulfilled their obligations, according to the agreements signed with Australia.

Now, when everybody requests visas, at least all are treated equally, without special privileges for the citizens of countries like USA or Australia, which have never fulfilled their promises to treat the foreigners in the same way as their own citizens are treated.
Basically everybody who doxes thinks they have some ends that justify the means. That kind of mentality is toxic because every dirtbag uses it.
There was a recent How I Built This podcast about Zipline who is doing this. They're doing some real deliveries. https://pca.st/6imicbz4
> A common elixir answer to "where are all the blog posts" is "read the docs. No, seriously."

This is indeed very common the forums, ha. Also common is for people to actually then go read the docs and be like, "Oh crazy, I'm not used to this!" Not to over-sell the quality of the docs, of course they aren't perfect but they really are particularly good.
thanks for your note :) most commercial open source projects use Typescript/Rust, and most projects on Algora are COSS
> If convicted, this could land me in jail for 6 to 10 years.

The 6 to 10 years is the least of his worries. The guy will be labeled a chomo and probably killed as a result. All for running a Tor exit node. What a time to be alive.
I was super excited when this popped up because I'm looking into solutions for this problem right now. I was, however, surprised to see it wasn't self-hosted or open source.

As others have mentioned, there are security issues here that would be a non-starter for me. Even just having to open a database to the open internet for an external service to connect to is too much, even if I trusted that service completely.

Self-hosted fixes these issues since outbound traffic can be locked down so only connections to SES are allowed, and no databases have to be exposed to the internet.

However, many people will also not want more than 1 service talking directly to a database for a few reasons:

1. Databases are often a single point of failure. A bad query can take down a whole service. Allowing queries that don't pass code review can be dangerous here, even if it's locked down to be read-only. This can be mitigated by talking to replica databases, but that's more setup.

2. Migrations on data that is accessed directly from multiple services becomes harder. Many server frameworks handle data migrations, and they assume ownership of the data. These frameworks cannot account for other services and cannot make sure the queries will continue to work. This is less of an issue if the query is a one-off though.

3. Having multiple services talk directly to a database pushes all the security, data validation and processing to the database. Many developers (myself included) prefer to keep database configuration as simple as possible since they are already complex.

Anyway, sorry for the long post, but I thought my experience might be useful in developing this! Generally, I'd love to see a simple, self-hosted MailChimp. Especially one where I could keep all the configuration in version control.
Another issue is that the data needed by this application is going to be sensitive - email addresses, names, etc. Many applications will encrypt these values with application logic. So a database function will need to perform it. The encryption key is going to be need to written into the query in this app if that works, adding more surface area to where that key lives. That's also assuming the simple use case of a single key, not per tenant, or roating, etc.
Where would I go about buying a serious risc-v PC? So far, all I've seen are either tiny devices without much computation power, or emulation support.

Is risc-v a legitimate platform for serious computation or is it targeted at embedded devices?
Well if there were any contrasting ideological factions that accepted the reality of climate change, we might have a diversity of viewpoints and solutions. As it stands only the "extremes" have been truly taking it seriously.

I'm sorry they haven't been able to wrap the kernel in something more palatable to you. If you want the "movement" to be different then be a part of it.
More discussion from when this was news only 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36704528
I've found yocto package availability quite good, although you may need to add some non-default meta layers. Do you have some examples of what packages and especially architectures Yocto is missing compared to debian?

Also I would be interested to hear how debian has advantages in cross-building; I thought they native-compile all of their packages. Is that really the case that in debian that you can modify some existing deb source package (eg. change configure flags or apply some patch) and cross compile that into a .deb, like you can in Yocto?
The neural network is a new twist, but the idea of generating Han "characters" from rules isn't a new one.

The earliest attempt I know of is from the initial versions of Changjie:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_dev... :

```
Initially, the Cangjie input method was not intended to produce a character in any character set. Instead, it was part of an integrated system consisting of the Cangjie input rules and a Cangjie controller board. This controller board contains character generator firmware, which dynamically generates Chinese characters from Cangjie codes when characters are output, using the hi-res graphics mode of the Apple II computer. In the preface of the Cangjie user's manual, Chu Bong-Foo wrote in 1982:

[in translation]
In terms of output: The output and input, in fact, [form] an integrated whole; there is no reason that [they should be] dogmatically separated into two different facilities.… This is in fact necessary.…

In this early system, when the user types "yk", for example, to get the Chinese character 文, the Cangjie codes do not get converted to any character encoding and the actual string "yk" is stored. The Cangjie code for each character (a string of 1 to 5 lowercase letters plus a space) was the encoding of that particular character.

A particular "feature" of this early system is that, if one sends random lowercase words to it, the character generator will attempt to construct Chinese characters according to the Cangjie decomposition rules, sometimes causing strange, unknown characters to appear. This unintended feature, "automatic generation of characters", is described in the manual and is responsible for producing more than 10,000 of the 15,000 characters that the system can handle. The name Cangjie, evocative of the creation of new characters, was indeed apt for this early version of Cangjie.

```

Even Unicode has some "support" for this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Charac...

Whether it's correctly implemented in popular operating systems is another matter.

Sadly, the current state of affairs is that half of unicode is "polluted" with rarely used Han characters that just happened to be included in a dictionary. This is the main reason why 64k code points isn't enough for everybody (and why emoji breaks in Javascript and other UTF-16 languages). And this strategy of adding a code point for every rare character continues to be the path of least resistance - if you only need to use a handful of rare characters, just submit them to be included as the next version of Unicode, and get a font that has the required glyph. It's easier than getting major vendors to fix their rendering of constructed Han characters by a large margin.
The authorities in Styria, south Austria, charged him:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141004142101/http://raided4tor...
Ask HN: How long from junior to staff engineer?
For people who have the aptitude and motivation to climb the ranks of the engineering world, how long (on average) would it take from someone at age 22 to hit staff level? What work is involved here?
Made me smile, and remember Mike Ross from Suits :)
Can we tell whether the mammal was actually trying to take down a dinosaur, or it was merely scavenging on a (nearly) dead dinosaur? Signs of resistance on either of them?
Quite logical, same in France and likely many countries; if you run a Tor exit node (or any type of open proxy), you get visited by the police if someone does something wrong on your exit node.

Otherwise what could happen is that you run a Tor node and use it as an excuse for any crime you do.
UK research: the difference to meat and vegan diets to greenhouse gas emissions
If lies are not palatable to me, sorry, not my problem.
Fair enough. Thanks a bunch!
Family member is. And it's a massive burden on their time and all their coworkers. More than you could imagine. So yeah, it has real world implications that we have to 'accept' the fact that half our population is killing themselves or making their existing conditions much worse because they're so overweight. The member of my family member estimated that easily 50%+ of their time is used dealing with issues stemming from their weight (think special sized beds, extra manual labor for patient transportation, extra resources needed for surgery, extra resources needed for long term hospital stays, etc). So it's a bit annoying that you casually sweep this away as an 'online only' problem when its a massive drain on our limited healthcare resources but you can't even question why we put up with it or God forbid people should lose some weight to make dealing with all the other health issues less costly.
Same from Toyota in 2017 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/07/toyota-wants-to-commerc...

Also from 2014
https://www.autonews.com/article/20140127/OEM06/301279980/to...