skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really interesting perspective. Yes, your reasoning seems sound. I'm in the States - I would have assumed that the UK would be a much trickier place to invest in real estate than here.

It definitely seems to be a world-wide trend for people to stop planning long term futures and start betting on whatever crypto or other bubble seems hottest.

Having tripled in value I assume you're happy with your mutual funds; but that's not where you're going as a long-term strategy? And if not, why?
Thank you for your reply.

The thing is that Muslims don't follow Whabisim. They follow the Qur'an and the authentic teachings of the prophet.

Sufis in Arabia were worshiping saints and graves. Basically completely off the rails and contradictory to the Quran. Abdl-al-Wahabb called for people to return back to Islam through the Qur'an and authentic teachings of the prophet. The people who opposed this called him a Whabi.

The proper doctorine of Islam is the Qur'an and the authentic teachings of the prophet. Going beyond this is man made corruption of the religion.

An analogy would be that the the equation for general relativity is e=mc² . Suppose over time this was distorted to e=abc³ . If I come and correct people to return to Einstein's papers and understanding of relativity, I haven't create a new interpretation of phsyics. If people realise this and go back to the original equation, physicists are following Einstein, not myself.

Muslims do not care about the term or person Whabi because it is irrelevant to practicing Islam.

Muslims who like to diligently practice Islam from the Qur'an and the prophet are Muslims, not Whabbi.
> It’d be weird to consider my hard drive full of scientific papers that I collected for fun, capital

Semiconductor plants are some of the most capital-intensive investments available though. To make chips cheap is, ironically, ruinously expensive. And the infrastructure of the internet isn't cheap either. Without those, it is actually pretty hard to see how that knowledge could be stored and replicated safely across time. Oral transmission is highly unreliable, really only hard disks and cables have sufficiently low marginal cost and high bitrate.

So I note that your hard drive of scientific papers was likely impossible in the 1950s and required some extremely substantial capital investments to make possible. Up until recently it was probably unrealistic for you to have that much knowledge on hand.

Even in the magic example, there is an open question of how to rebuild the semiconductor factory. Nobody actually knows, all the info had to be recorded. It isn't possible to take on most modern engineering projects without a lot of technological aids like pens, paper, hard disk and microprocessors.

It is easy to overlook just how fragile humans are, from an economic perspective a human without capital is more or less useless.
Slightly off topic, but I recently started Kickboxing, and I finally have the impression that I start to understand the connection between martial arts/combat sports and spirituality as it is emphasized in e.g. Bruce Lee's movies. There is a strange wisdom operating in channeling rage to make a technique more effective while respecting (or even caring for) your opponent/partner. I tried Aikido in the past, in search for this kind of wisdom, even selecting a club of a mostly "spiritual" tradition, and did not find it in the few trainings I did - but started seeing it after one session of heavy bag training. There is something about training for actual fight (which I now aim for, at my own surprise) that shifts one view of oneself and others in surprisingly useful ways. I can only recommend trying this kind of sports, if one is interested but puzzled at the strange dialogues in Kung Fu movies.
> and since Stalin didn't look to move westwards,

Pardon my French, but WTF are you talking about? Stalin took half of Europe.

It confounds me how people think WW2 ended with a success when millions were killed or enslaved as a result of the "victory".
More like I'm faced with realities when other people see magic. When the WiFi signal is spotty, the reality of the situation forces me to understand at least the basics of how it works and how the signal is getting blocked. When my database is acting slow, I can't just say "well the moon is half so..." I have to instrument and figure out what's happening and fix it. That at least pulls away a lot of the mystery.
I, for one, appreciate you candour, even though your story portrays you in a less than positive light, and this girl now probably tells everyone she meets that you are weird. Well done. A less punctilious man might have just smiled and made polite conversation.
Analyzing JVM Energy Consumption for JDK 17: An Empirical Study
This is too insignificant for a “take”. It doesn’t change anything substantial for me or most existing Twitter users.
Sure, they're trying to. We're supposed to have a say in laws that get passed and who is passing them though. I was only pushing back on the idea that we need new amendments to carve out our rights when we shiuld be able to simply block laws we disagree with and replace the people trying to trample on our rights.

With regards to privacy specifically, we could go a long way with the existing rights protecting us from illegal search and seizure. That should really cover any overstepping by the government and police, leaving only the need to limit what private companies can and can't do (though this should be done with laws and not amendments).
A transformer can only memorize, it doesn't learn to do.

For what that concerns us here: LLMs will never learn to fact-check anything. They'll blindly regurgitate the facts they have been "taught", but never consider or evaluate "the paper cited for this fact on wikipedia is a bunch of bullshit".

Any attempt to use them to produce "facts" is ultimately just folly, in the same way Google's attempt to do so with it's search engine index is.
Strongly reminds me of the X11 logo (one of my favourite designs).
Amazing. Also, they haven't changed the favicon. I'd have thought you'd do that at the same time you change the logo.
Twitter Is Now X
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
Does this affect the potential for trademarking the logo?
I'm surprised that almost every single comment on here is negative toward the author not wanting to take psychedelics. Do you all think everyone should take psychedelics? Is there any good reason not to?

I've done psychedelics and other drugs and am not saying people shouldn't do drugs (like the author) but there are many good reasons not to do drugs. Among them is the idea that you don't necessarily need substances to reach understanding and achieve creativity. Drugs kick down doors that can be opened in many other ways.
For the same reason why 90s directors would lie about miniatures being CGI.
I am the first one who started using Firefox as soon as I had any notion of anything and haven't used windows for 15+ years (Linux+Mac now), but it's also true that when a new Internet Explorer was released I (and all) web devs were relieved because soon most people would be using it, and the web compatibility was good with those (pity you if you had to support older IE though). They even went ahead and invented some features of the modern web. Would they be faster with more competition? Undoubtedly. But the hate from webdevs was mostly from the trailing users still stuck in IE, not for whenever a new release was launched, that was a good event.

Note: I don't dispute they were slow, anti-competitive, etc., just that now from a tech point of view IE seems garbage, but that's a false believe and when a new IE launched it was decently competent.
x.com is not a bad domain tbh
You can also access x.com when using the Unicode Character https://xn--971h.com (𝕏.com)
Edit button, separating for you and following, blue checks, 140+ character tweets, unlimited video, algorithm adjustments, live video streaming on the way.

At least be intellectually honest. Please. I know you hate Elon, but at least consider the actual facts. (This is more change than twitter did for 15 years before Elon)
> Hell, a new word in Polish was coined for them, "zodiakara".

Sounds like a sub-genre of madka
They can certainly trademark it for their uses though, and that's the more important protection for a logo.
Embedding business logic/application code in a database is a very different development model than using database as a relatively transparent record store.

I am not against having business logic in database, there are very legitimate uses for that. However, few things must be noted.

First, code is idempotent: you compile, package, deploy code, then nuke it all out and replace with different version, be it older or newer. Swapping application binaries/images/containers is the gold standard in deployment. Databases are... Perpetual. Rolling back DDLs without rolling back data can be a very complex exercise.

Second, there is no automatic separation of interface and implementation in databases. Database engine will not automatically enforce constraints embedded in stored procedures. Which means extra care must be taken and additional processes must be implemented to control access, otherwise you risk corrupting data.

Embedding application code in database breaks separation boundary, which changes project management. Now you have database development and deployment much more closely tied to application code development and deployment. Without huge care in project management this effectively inhibits any non-linear development flows.
The character is used by another famous piece of software for what, 40 years?

https://x.org/wiki/
> Many conversations about “free” social services ignore real capital and human cost of the proposal

Many compalins ignore the costs of missing these services.

We have 'free' firefighters because entire cities used to burn to the ground. That's very expensive to rebuild.

We have 'free' sanitation becauae The Black Death did more economic damage than both world wars combined.

We have free school education because having a population that can't read and write is economically ruinous. And politically ruinous - illiterate people can vote, join cults, maybe they support the inquisition and burning witches at the stake. We've been thought that.

No-one i ever met believes we should go back to the times where majority couldn't read and write becauae parents could not afford school. Some just believe that education stops at an arbitrary age.
This is for math.

In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in this series exist in the basic multilingual plane—because R is very commonly used, but A is not. You can find ℝ in the basic multilingual plane at U+211D.

I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It’s just there to complete the alphabet. There are many other ranges like this used for writing mathematical formulas, like the range of bold letters, fraktur, script, etc.
> I'd point out that anybody that has been exposed to massive projects understands one of the prime unspoken reasons, you cannot spend a massive proportion of GDP on a military project and not expect to see it used.

The Soviet Union - and 8 other countries, to a lesser extent - also poured great resources into their atomic project, and then found the restraint not to use it in anger.
It wasn't a necessity. If Russia/Soviet Union was trying to delay the German invasion then they shouldn't have trained German troops and sent natural resources for it's war machine.
so it can't be copyrighted.
I don't know, putting 13 billion debt on Twitter and cutting ad revenue down to half seems pretty stupid too.
The latest version of fontawesome isn't open source. Fork awesome is an open source fork https://forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome/
Absolutely.

They can probably trade mark it for social media (unless someone already has), but are highly unlikely to be able to trademark it broadly, which clearly is the intention.
Unsympathetic take. Lots of people can use help. Just because you're on welfare doesn't necessarily mean your financial position is any worse (especially as a dependant).

I'm not from the US, but here in the UK when I when went to college and university the state would give students several thousand pounds a year for their parents being unemployed. My dad was a postman who used to do delivery driving on the weekend for extra cash for my family. We were poor, although I was deemed "wealthy" enough to be given no help because my dad made around £30,000.

The end result of this was that I basically the poorest person I knew from 16-21 because my friends either had unemployed parents so were given thousands of pounds to spend on laptops and things to help them get through university, or had rich parents who could buy stuff for them.

Because my dad was a postman I ended up having to work two jobs while at university and had to go into my overdraft almost every month.

Looking back now I am grateful for that hellish 5 years since I actually gained a lot of professional experience in tech during that time, but it came at the cost of severe depression and physical exhaustion. I cannot explain how difficult this period of time was for me. It shaped who I am today but I wished daily that my dad was unemployed so I didn't have to go through it.
In theory NULL (or any such sentinel value, such as the infamous NaN is floatin-point arithmetic) makes sense because there are partially defined functions. Division being the most famous example, but most basic operations on lists share that property too.

The problem is the way it's handled in many programming languages, where it can blend so easily with legitimate value and blow the whole program off at execution time.

It's a practical problem, not a theoretical one.

And it's not the same as union types. The division of two numbers always returns a number, and nothing else, it's just that, for some values, it's not defined.
In college a Christian friend readily gave "evidence" of predictions in the bible as reason why he believes that religion. I think a lot of religious people do think there are clear predictions. I wish I remembered his examples (which I found uninteresting at the time) — I think one was a prediction of an invasion of Tyre?
https://biobidet.com/products/essential-bidet-attachment

Any attachment or seat that doesn’t require hot water or electricity. They are cheap, simple to install, operate, clean easily and last a long time.

The only problem is, they can be cold in the winter depending on water source. I do not mind and actually find it refreshing.
In any given OS that has the capability to update microcode -- it should be an easy-to-find and easy-to-set option for the end user...

Your computer, your preference... whatever that may be...

Also, somewhat related -- has anyone heard of microcode updates for RISC-V CPU's?

To date, I have not...

(...but then again, I'm not at the cutting edge of RISC-V development in Silicon Valley...)
You can "tolerate" aliens? Alien life has a very high chance of existing - according to many scientists, more likely than it not existing. Alien intelligence less so, but still quite likely to exist.

I find your take on people who believe in Astrology condescending. I know intelligent and accomplished people who believe in Astrology. The explanation is very simple: they simply didn't think it through and keep checking Astrology predictions because they find them entertaining.
That logic appears to be flawed though and involves a fair amount of hand-waving.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13752

> Feser’s formalization of this argument appears around page 35. It has 49 premises. I shit you not. Most of them are uncontroversial on some interpretation of the words he employs (that doesn’t mean they are credible on his chosen interpretation of those words, but I’ll charitably ignore that here), except one, Premise 41, where his whole argument breaks down and bites the dust: “the forms or patterns manifest in all the things [the substrate] causes…can exist either in the concrete way in which they exist in individual particular things, or in the abstract way in which they exist in the thoughts of an intellect.” This is a false dichotomy, otherwise known as a bifurcation fallacy. It’s simply not true that those are the only two options. And BTW, this Premise, is the same key premise (hereafter always hidden) in all five of his arguments. We can thus refute all of them, by simply refuting this single premise (more on that later).
actually british govt stopped publishing COVID infection/fatality data based on vaccination status because of risk of misintepretation :) ie a lot of folks that were vaccinated were getting [re-]infected and so on. i could dig the sources for you but i suppose we dont care anymore.

the fact is people feel physically, spiritually and scientifically abused by the handlers of the pandemic. and they cant talk about it cos they still get downvoted or truncated out of discourse. so they are taking a different route to calm themselves down.
> Without the 1st Amendment, where would be today?

Lots of countries don't have a constitutionally guaranteed right to say harmful things or carry a sidearm, so I'm going to say, just based on other cultural-similarities, it'd probably be a lot like the UK or Canada...

> Many people on this site are not fans of the 2nd Amendment, but I think they would have to acknowledge that, without it, the situation of the armed citizenry today, while not really comparable to that of colonial times, would be much shabbier than it is

erm, no, I don't think I do. It sounds a lot like you're saying you think things are "much shabbier" in the UK or Canada than in the USA, but friend this just isn't true.
It is very well known that Down Under the roof is down and the floor is up. Thus, the pictures are not hung to the wall: they are anchored to it!
`brctl status` will return sync status data without requiring Finder. It isn't pretty, but it's usable via stdout and whatever tooling you'd want to use.
It has been used in mathematics for decades, if not centuries, before that.
𝕏 (U+1D54F) decomposes[0] to X (U+0058) meaning that if you search for 𝕏 your search string will likely be automatically converted to the equivalent X.

Of course, while a search engine could conceivably index and search the entire Unicode codespace internet wide, such a task would likely be somewhat unrealistic and provide only limited upside.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
> The latest few hires we’ve been told to just ask basic questions and not do any coding stuff.

Oh this is one that would definitely get me in trouble. I'd rather just not hire someone than make a bad hire, and I expect I'd be pretty ticked off myself if management was telling my team to dumb down our interview process and make it easy for most anyone to fill the seat
> There's no reason for NULL to not equal NULL

Only if you consider NULL to be an exact value, to have one meaning i.e. does not exist. In the mathematical set theory upon which relational database theory was built this is not the case.

NULL really represents “unknown” not just the subset that is “unknowable”/“does not exist” as which point not all NULLs are equal as they may represent entirely different things that you currently don't know - this is why NULL=<anything> == NULL (including NULL=NULL == NULL) and NULL≠<anything> == NULL.
Its art, to each their own. Its also a Tarantino film so its entirely his interpretation and lens of film into what he wanted to produce. I've watched a few interviews with him about that film and others and he is very meticulous about the content down to certain words in lines, no ad-libbing type of meticulous. I like some of his work and some of it I don't.

I certainly hope young people understand not to think of portrayals of real people in works of art+semi-fiction aren't a good representation to bench anything on.
>Or simply that they'd dropped the ball in other departments and had to redeploy resources to a profit centre?

You aren't entirely wrong; Microsoft tripped over themselves trying to get XP's successor out of development hell.

It was five years from Windows XP to Windows Vista, compared to one to two years between Windows releases up to XP. And then as we all know, Windows Vista completely flopped because it was too advanced for its time.

It took eight years from Windows XP to Windows 7 until Microsoft finally had a new Windows release that people would come out and buy. In a way, they really were too busy elsewhere to care about IE.
I found that much more useful and convincing:

http://www.loujost.com/Statistics%20and%20Physics/Diversity%...
Those people don't care one bit about how open their blue ray happens to be, even though Sony has based it on Linux and hardly contributed the changes to upstream, as means to reduce costs.
Well, of course I don't have performance numbers or anything.

In general, the RISC-V Vector Unit has very much been designed to make those workloads faster. Many new AI/ML companies are using RISC-V and Vectors but usually with some of their own non-standard stuff.

Esperanto has Vectors with TPU. TensTorrent has done a lot of work on software to use their chip as a dataflow engine. And so on and so on.

So essentially, Nvida is making a huge amount of money and all those companies will want a piece of it.

I would say RISC-V Vector is a better design then x86 SIMD.

RISC-V is also not done, there are efforts to standardize things like matrix and other things used for AI/ML workloads.
It really sucks to have a faster clock rate than those around you.
Flag burning is a great example in fact: the outrage simply never reaches the levels it is with holy text burnings. Not to stone-the-tourists, burn-the-embassy levels of outrage: possibly (speculating here) because flag burning does not assault one's identity in a way similar to demonstrating the futility of one's beliefs.

If we get to the punishments, things were clearly handed swiftly in the Old Testament. The Biblical concept of Hell as we know it (the place of eternal punishment) didn't emerge until the New Testament as it was in a way redundant.

And come on, we know holy texts are full of things which are clearly wrong, in exactly the same way astrology is. The temptation to gloss over them as ornamental bits is huge, but to believers they are doctrinal.
Siggraph retrospective on its 50th year
Musk is trying to create a WeChat clone. He’s just using Twitter as a kind of starting point. A WeChat clone seems ripe for antitrust laws though, but what do I know?
Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios
Yeah I'm with you, this can be done, but again, I'm wracking my brain for an example tool that does this without being frustrating sometimes. Even just rebase itself, which is much simpler than what I'm talking about here, has footguns.

But I think this thread has convinced me that someone could almost certainly make better tools for this stuff, and now I'm just wondering why they haven't.
Quite certain. The fact that you’d call them imaginary is simply … mistaken, to put it lightly.

I recommend asking some actual women how they feel about it. Feel free to link them to this subthread. But since you’re certain they’re imaginary, I imagine you’ve already done so and found it to be true, right?

This kind of attitude has no place in our industry, and it’ll be lovely when the social tides shift just a little bit more to filter it out. Imagine looking a black engineer straight in the eye and saying that it’s good they learned the lesson that people treat you differently based on your skin color, as if it’s a favor to them that we taught them that.
How did you measure this?