skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of these only cover case changes for the object being counted: cases are pretty common across non-English languages so this is simple enough on its own.

The main difference I see in Breton is the rules for 1-9 follow through for double-digits n1-n9 - I would've suspected this to be true for Irish but I just speak it, don't study it, so confidence in my grammatical knowledge is low.

Irish definitely doesn't have the exceptions for 71-79 & 91-99; this smells like French influence.

The main thing missing from both of these though is modifications to the actual words for numerals: they kind of get away with it by sticking to digits, but I'm not sure if that's always the case in the translated output of i18n libraries referencing this. If they're ever outputting words in place of numerical digits then these are both very incomplete.

Irish then also has an entirely different way of counting persons which isn't included.
Agreed. I think it's also a little easier to understand what's going on when stepping through the code in a debugger.
Pivot and pitch it as a grossness validating algorithm?
No problem, I only became aware of this recently and it seems to offer a lot of bang for the buck.
>Oh wait…every hedge fund bro is already doing this. And most of them aren’t billionaires.

The contra to this is some of them are billionaires, and therefore this strategy is working, but for just a few of them.

>why would any one system ever have a large majority of the compute? Compute will be distributed in a power law.

A power law probability distribution means one system absolutely can have a large majority of the compute. Player 1 gets 80% of the compute, player 2 gets 16% (80% of 20%), and so on. The scaling constant would have to be very weak indeed in order to avoid this fate. In fact, the wealth of those hedge fund billionaires probably fit a power law themselves. But to be fair, that power law does indeed to be (for now) weak enough that we don't have to worry about e.g. Jim Simons being richer than every other hedge fund manager put together. So there's a buried assumption in here that the power law scaling is weak, and that is something purely empirical.

>The smart regulation isn’t capping the FLOPS in training runs. That’s creating a powder keg. If the FLOPS are artificially restricted, and one person breaks the restriction, you could end up with a single dominant system.

The smart regulation is to use something like fine insured bounties [1] to give people a very strong incentive not to break the FLOPS cap, and to heavily financially reward people who turn in other people who are doing so. If such a mechanism didn't exist, then I would agree, the free market would be our next best bet to deharsh the power law.

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/ai-bounties/ - I sketched out the mechanism a few years ago, but sadly it didn't generate much interest online. To be fair the atmosphere was a lot more anti-regulation back then.
That seems a little paranoid, even for a company storing card data for millions of people.
It was the original article which made that claim, not me. However I think that two firms being given a license to operate in one specific city (which they've likely been testing in for a while) is not as enormous as you think it might be.

I think we can say that they're "here" when they're operating fully autonomously in multiple locales and landscapes. Maybe you're in SF so that Waymo/Cruise news means a lot to you, but I'll only say that once these firms are safely navigating narrow, winding streets in old European city centres that I am used to. I suspect if folks in, say, Accra or Tokyo or Montevideo or Islamabad or any number of other cities might feel the same way.
dTrace is Oracle exclusive, as no one else bothered.

Ubuntu has live kernel patching also, but with a different technology. And it's called different.
An author dedicating the work to the public domain, which is the same as giving up their copyright rights, absolutely puts the work into the public domain, regardless of whether the copyright term has expired.

This time from Cornell Law:

> Once that period of time expires, or if the creator failed to comply with any legal formalities required at the time of creation or thereafter, the work enters the public domain - meaning it belongs to everyone, without restriction. The creator may also decide before the expiration of copyright to dedicate the work to the public domain, giving that new creation to the public to use.

https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain

The author cannot 'change their mind' in this case: the rights, once given up, cannot be reinstated.

There is a sharp edge here with collections of public domain works being copyrightable, but that's a separate issue, and does not affect the public domain status of the contituent works.
Is that still lower_bound? Maybe I am misreading the code but it looks like this returns any match, not the earliest match (when there are dupes).

It’s common to have multiple matches even in a unique list if the comparison function is say looking for a certain string prefix to do autocomplete, but we want the earliest in the list.
The History of Electronic Mail
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I recall VB6 having a checkbox for dealing with this bug when you complied.
Switching to an N-way search (for N>2) could help extract the lost parallelism. At the cost of touching more cachelines though, so it is not necessarily a win.
Google is correct. The site was hosting malicious content, the site was public-facing, and Google took steps to protect its users trying to visit a site that was hosting malicious content which is more than anyone else would do. What else could you ask for?

I can go host malware on my site now, get flagged, take it down, tell Google, get my site un-flagged, and re-host the malware. Google can play cat-and-mouse with me at the expense of its users, or just keep the site flagged until enough time has passed and/or if I make enough noise about it. It's not common for a site to intentionally host malware, and especially uncommon for sites to host malware for non-nefarious purposes.
Robotaxis can now operate 24/7 in San Francisco
Another common mistake is strawmanning history.

> assuming that humans will run out of oil in 50 years.

That was never a tenet of peak oil, which still stands - the claim was that at a certain point extraction costs per barrel will climb and continue to climb making fossil fuels increasingly expensive.

The claim was not that oil will run out, the claim was that only the very rich and nation states will be able to afford oil.

Interestingly we may see a demand driven peak oil in the near future before we see the inevitable production constrained peak (as fossil fuels are vast but finite and were never going to last two centuries at the ever increasing demand we put upon them).

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230726-an-experts-guide...
I’m not weighing in on the debate, but there does seem to be a great deal of doubt that Koko was using language in an intelligent way.
Not deliberately? Old key used for the backups was accidentally erased halfway through the story, shredded key was just the last cleartext copy of the new key.
I spent more than a decade building embedded C/C++, never felt the need for any of that. But I was always able to keep things under my control; that is a GCC-based cross-compilation toolchain, my own makefiles do build stuff, and an editor I understand inside and out. When you are forced to use a proprietary IDE/SDK/compiler ball of mud, certainly that's a different story.

I'd say if one has the sort of problems TFA says it addresses, then go for their solution. But if one does not see any problem a priori, then they should go for the simplest thing that could possibly work. One can always reconsider things later; but if one goes for that more sophisticated solution first, and then realize that it was actually not need, they've wasted their time - and perhaps introduced problems that would never had happened without.

Don't be fooled by "modern" anything - too often it introduces new problems while solving old problems. "Stone age" can also mean battle-tested and rock-solid solutions.
I only communicate this consideration to people I am certain of are able to be open for argumentation, despite them probably not sharing the same belief.

In public the only place I have communicated this consideration is right here. Privately I have communicated this consideration with family and close friends. One of these friends has started actively trying to make babies with his girlfriend after we first started discussing this topic. We have discussed it after he started trying. We have a friendly discussion about it, then move on to another topic. I find conversation does not suffer at all. That is, with the people I have carefully chosen to discuss this with. I can imagine conversation would suffer with most people I would strike up a conversation with in let's say a supermarket.
Data validation allows you to define rules that restrict the type, length, and data values that can be entered into an Excel cell. By implementing data validation, you can prevent data entry errors, enforce consistency, and improve the overall quality of your Excel workbooks. Whether you’re building a data entry form, creating templates, or automating data import processes, adding data validation using C# provides a robust and flexible solution.

Syncfusion Excel library (XlsIO) is a C# library that provides a high-level API for creating and editing Excel files. It provides support for adding data validation to your Excel documents.

This blog post will show you how to use the Syncfusion Excel Library to add data validation to an Excel worksheet. We will cover the following data validation contexts:

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Quake 1 (original DOS version only) supported null modem, but Quake 2 didn't -you had to use a null modem with Windows 95 dial-up networking, which was a bit more tricky to setup.
> Within less than a decade we will have systems that output "thoughts" and actions at least dozens of times faster than humans.

We've already had this for decades. You're just describing computers.

If we give these systems unrestricted access to infrastructure/resources, and something bad happens, that's not the system's fault. It's our fault.

I am not a doomer, but based on the current state of AI, I can't say I'm very optimistic that we'll get this right. We actually do know how to solve this problem, but there is so much magical thinking and grift in this space that I don't think our prior experiences matter.
> Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

That's precisely what that extension's doing -for- them when twitter links show up somewhere else.
Resolved now, but an hour of downtime really shows you why you are paying for bigger cloud providers with an SLA and customer support. Honestly I wish we could have turned cloudflare off for the time of the issue vs having our api being down...

Maybe time to consider multiple CDN providers as an abstraction like you consider AWS/GCP as an abstraction.
So we are getting 5% better at detecting cancer every 10 years? Sounds good to me!
My problem with this isn't even that it's a bunch of strung together ideas without a clear narrative or conclusion; enough practice at this combined with actual deep field knowledge results in works like Godel, Escher, Bach.

My problem is that GHotz is a shitty writer, has puddle deep knowledge of anything that isn't iPhone firmware, and watching him play at being a freelance tech journo and produce this kind of hollow pseudo-philosophy that is meant to sound epiphanal but comes across as deeply naïve to anyone with any actual experience in these topics.
I think we’re missing the real “danger”. Trusting and relying on AI too much. Adopting a “good enough” attitude and deploying AI to handle scale while letting many things fall through the cracks.

Much like outsourcing and stripping customer service to the bare minimum. For many products and services it essentially doesn’t exist - it handles the most common cases and is a pain to use. It takes a long time to get a human, if ever. Now take that further and apply it to everything. And not just replacing human labor, but bespoke software (like all software up to this point).
The sibling comment suggests Clojure, and last time I tried I lost all patience after having to deal with setting up Java, lein (it's been quite a while).

If you want the least amount of friction possible, install Racket and run DrRacket. Here's a tutorial: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html and one to make web apps: https://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html

(I don't mean to disparage Clojure, I'm sure it's great, but a newbie needs something easy to get excited about, not having to mess with JDK and setting up Emacs)
Your comment doesn't really help. Nothing there seems to explain the term "FOOM". More searching suggests it doesn't actually stand for anything and shouldn't be capitalised: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom#Noun. (Though ChatGPT seems happy to make up definitions: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/12bisxu/what_d...)
Oracle, SUSE, CIQ Launch Open Enterprise Linux Assoc. Amid Red Hat Controversy
> You may make production use of the Licensed Work, provided such use does not include offering the Licensed Work to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products.

Having your use of something important hinge on this one awkward sentence seems kind of scary. It's unclear to me whether, if you use (say) terraform for production infra, and someday HashiCorp releases a new product competitive with yours or merges with your competitor, your use of TF is then in violation of the license. "Offering the Work" is not defined and seems like it could be interpreted in different ways.
> He didn't really want to buy it and was forced.

Sure. He was completely minding his own business when suddenly, out of nowhere, a judge forced him to buy Twitter for no reason. Poor guy.
it's more complex than that,otherwise Qt has dominated cross platform GUI. it's a maze to navigate Qt's license landmine zone.
I think they made the right trade-off, back in the 90s on hardware that could barely run the game, sticking extra defensive checks to make sure you have not accidentally clipped through the geometry, or simpler ones like making sure you are not running too fast, seems excessive.

They weren't coding for some NASA space probe and they knew it.
Sure they can very well realise that the only, or safest way to win the game is not to play it. It also only takes one rogue ASI to disturb this balance.

As for detection, outcomes that challenge their models could indicate the presence of other ASIs
Showing the next instruction would be helpful.
There's no FW on it as a programable microcontroller would be far too expensive, it's just glue logic die under a black resin blob, optimized to the absolute bare minimum number of transistors, which you can easily reverse engineer as the die shots are now public[1], but it doesn't help you since you can't reprogram it, it's just to learn how it works.

FWIW, your cheapo basic electric toothbrush without any smart features on it, has a 4-bit Swatch microcontroller[2] from the 90's, with 4K ROM, 320 bytes of RAM (flexes-biceps), for driving the motor, blinking the LED and monitoring the battery level, and this is how you write SW for it[3], and the 90's IDE & toolchain still works on Win 11 today, wild.

[1] https://zeptobars.com/en/read/Casio-F-91W-OKI-quartz-watch

[2] https://www.emmicroelectronic.com/product/multi-io/em6607

[3] https://www.emmicroelectronic.com/sites/default/files/produc...
Co-founder of Yandex – Russia's Google clone – denounces war on Ukraine
I’ve done this though experiment myself and is actually one of the issues I have with the concept of a rapidly self reclusive improving system. It would probably not be easy to stay ahead of yourself if the word your operating in changes from hour to hour ?
That's my point. That's what makes it dangerous. You can't limit the performance if you want to compete. And like I said, you can't even really keep humans in the loop.

So eventually you get something like a 200 IQ GPT tightly integrated with SuperAlphaZero (DeepMind) controlling hypersonic drones, missiles, satellite weapons, etc. planning and operating at 50-100 times human thinking speed engaging in autonomous warfare between East and West. No military analyst really knows WTF is happening because the plans and asset movements are so much faster than any human can comprehend.
Ooh, I wonder if it'll support container tabs and containerize...
This is very sad but also not very surprising. It's notoriously hard to sell an 'open core' product (mostly, against yourself OSS) and structure the entire GTM and the org properly for scale. Having built a successful 'open core' company before & judging from the first-hand experience - this looks like an extremely desperate move, indeed. (Btw, we never changed the license, but discussed it often, ofc.) It's also all very disruptive, destructive and hostile to the community - it's 'we aren't open source anymore,' so I'm surprised they are trying to convince people otherwise (gaslighting, eh?) I'd expect the 'open core' enthusiasm of the past few years to decrease dramatically, and I wouldn't recommend an 'open core' path to anyone who's trying to build an actual big company around their OSS. I remember the time when 'open core' was a taboo word, post-MySQL/Oracle. I was doing the company launch and accidentally told a reporter we were doing [something like] open core - that didn't work nicely :) It's ironic and sad, BSL comes from the very same folks who basically invented 'open core', then spoiled it forever. It's been also always thought-provoking to me, too, those folks never build more - or differently - after MySQL.
I have ubiquity APs and a USG but the camera are so expensive. I'll have to stick with my Chinese crapware and a DNS blocker for the meantime.
I have a morbid fondness for the fella, because he reminds me of how I sounded a few years back when I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out where all this stuff was going to go, while also being too drunk and too lonely to get any serious research done. I don't think I'd enjoy meeting him in person much, though. I get annoyed by loud personalities like that.
The team behind FiveM and RedM are now part of Rockstar Games
Is Britain as Poor as Mississippi?
Laptop vs. Desktop
Always test with real values even passwords
[2008](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/the-hanson-yudkowsky-ai-foom-d...)
It's been an onomatopoeic word from the sound a big fire starting makes for a long time. It seems to have come into use for AI over a decade ago: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/ai-go-foomhtml, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foom
It uses the libjq C library directly, integrating with it using Cython https://github.com/doloopwhile/pyjq/blob/master/_pyjq.pyx

jq.py is an alternative package which uses the same technique: https://github.com/mwilliamson/jq.py/blob/master/jq.pyx
My neighbors and I have regularly scheduled pizza nights with the pizza oven we all built together.

It is a regular occurrence on the neighbor text thread for someone to say they are getting a settlers of Catan or ticket to ride game going. I played euchre with my neighbors last week (though admittedly it isn’t regularly scheduled).

My son plays chess with his grandfather and cousins weekly via the internet and my parents have a weekly pinochle game the same way.

I’m a member of a disc golf league that plays weekly and there is a bowling league three nights a week near me. Some friends have a weekly d&d game.

I’m having trouble thinking how any of this is different than it used to be other than some of it is available to people who are far away from each other via the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Canaanite_alphabet
How do you know OP cares about the environment? Because they criticize others?

I have no doubt we could examine OP’s life and find plenty of “wasteful” use of energy but no doubt OP would say “that’s different”. It’s always “the other guy” in these cases.

Add on top it’s a lazy comment that adds nothing to the conversation.
yes. a great blog post instead of an overstretched novel-lookalike that is meant to please the SEO gods
I went the same way as... honestly, my IT burnout kicked in. I went from an overly complex setup down to... well, a Ruckus AP running as an Unleashed gateway directly hooked to a FiOS ONT, its second port feeding a QNAP.

That's it, the entire network. Just enough storage to enjoy some media, the QNAP runs HomeAssistant (literally just to bridge some stuff to HomeKit) and Tailscale, and that's all I really need.
And not a single mention of the noise level in this room. Those rack servers get insanely loud.

I had a single SuperMicro in the basement one summer and it had to go after a month or so. You could hear it everywhere.
It's frustrating that the post does not provide any solution for some of the problems like declinations and gender. I internationalised a couple of applications, and it's incredible how i18n frameworks are still so limited in linguistic aspects that are so important for so many languages.

Finnish, for example works with a ton of suffixes, and you end up having to rewrite the copy (to non natural structures) to fit interpolation and declinations. Portuguese genders almost every subject in a phrase construction.

The web is killing (or creating artificial versions) of many languages because the lack of tooling...
Its always so fascinating to see source code from console games of the 5th generation when most started using C vs assembly. The ratio of lines of code to "game" for something like this or Mario 64 just seems so incredibly high.
"He quit halfway his 3 month intership to fix twitter search, but he seems confident that he can build general purpose robotic ai"

No, just no.
I like how this opinion piece was not ponderous but straight to the point, regardless of my opinion on the point. People don’t write clearly like this anymore.
Remarkable in similar situation, Irish + Polish learnt because of wife and extended family. Found when it comes i18n with the present codebase, I have inherited, it needs a lot of work, but it was immensely helpful to have two backgrounds in particular tricky languages, relative to English.

In quickly scoping out what needs to be worked, and where the inherited setup clearly falls short. Don't think knowing a great deal about other languages is necessary though for the same effect, just enough to smell something might be a bit trickier, like know say the case system in X language shows up in different ways, verb + pronoun order is not predefined.
ELI5: Why can't we buy cars the way we buy furniture?
Just want to say I love Pulumi and think using actual code (rather than HCL config files) is the ideal realisation of the infra-as-code vision.

Pulumi being open source while Terraform is now proprietary cements that.
SmartCookieWeb preview. Pretty sure it's the only browser that supports it on Android. I have bypasspaywalls clean set up on it.
The original article suggested an explosion of fears around the mid-2010s that our current AI tech was just one "FOOM" away from taking over the world. The fact that there have been a steady stream of sci-fi film and television programmes stretching back to the 80s does not support this.
Using fiction and media as metaphor is a sign of how mediated our existences are and, with the cooperative reality show that is social media, will only become moreso.
Build and train something to the point that it can read books, watch lectures and gain new knowledge by itself. When it has never heard about calculus and you give some calculus books and lectures to it and after that it can solve calculus problems, declare victory.