skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people, who do not normally pay attention to this kind of issue, are shocked when they learn the extent of the knuckle-draggers' abuse. It is worthwhile noting that in 2023, in the US alone, no less than 566 anti-trans bills have been proposed in 49 states.

This goes far beyond hate speech, actively criminalizing the existence of trans people.
Extracting function to separate fine in react would be equally easy . You just extract and import it.

It is just that above example is so short and readable, that you don't have to bother.
Check out devshell[1], especially paired with flake-parts and direnv. When a user cds into a flake directory, drenv's "use flake" makes the terminal show all devshell commands in a nice menu

[1]: https://flake.parts/options/devshell.html
Schizophrenia is a strange illness. We've had two successes (by some metrics) in psychiatric treatments because the science aimed at schizophrenia but hit something else: lithium and electroshock.
I was coming here to say something similar. I couldn't wrap my head around the performative work nap that is prevalent in East Asia at first. "Just go home earlier, get a good night's sleep, you won't need to nap at work", but then it's not really about sleep.
“Learning from Failure” – Lessons by Fred Wilson
I'd like to hear more?
This lo-fi trend makes easier to build an alternative to Instagram and Youtube. Using modern compression techniques, low resolution and framerate requirements make bandwidth a non issue. And low user count helps too.
Performative work is still very important work. It’s that which keeps those who actually matter happy, entertained, and feeling safe, secure, and comfortable. Dance monkey dance.
The point is that much of that should be unnecessary to sustain the service because hosting costs are significantly (presumably 100x) cheaper.
”especially when we didnt know if it would be applicable to anything in their future career.”

Wow, you made architectural decisions based partly on optimizing the employees career development? Kudos! I’m not sure how common actually investing intentionally in engineers careers is?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Is it also true that users with certain karma count or special permissions have more significant - and potentially lasting - downvoting weight that impacts to the downvoted party's long term reputation?
How the fuck is that comparable ?

They are currently 30 people still detained in Guantanomo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine... 780 people in total have been detained in Guantanamo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_cam...

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps has seen between 1 and 3 millions of people.

> Up to 1.8 million (2020 Zenz estimate)[2]

> 1 million – 3 million over a period of several years (2019 Schriver estimate)[3][4]

I am not even American.
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Has anyone else had Garnter emails start spamming them? Somehow they got my email address about a week ago and now I get one+ email a day.

Their unsubscribe process is ridiculous (illegal?). First you have to re-enter your email address (it should be included in the unsubscribe link in the email, right?) then you have to _solve a captcha_ just to hit submit on your unsubscribe request. Finally, for me at least, this goes to a "page loading" gif which never actually loads (there may be some ad-blocking stuff interfering with requests or something, I still have to check, but GOD DAMN).

I don't know the rules about unsubscribing from lists you never subscribed to, but they seemingly make it impossible to actually unsubscribe unless you are very determined. Yes, I can redirect to spam pretty easily, but I hate this shit.
it uses high school math for examples which is great because most readers will already be familiar with the problems

you can apply the techniques anywhere though - I think the book is much more philosophy than math
Fine, it's not like we can only choose one of the two. Even if you don't like Sam Harris, it's still true that Glenn Greenwald is just "that guy that Snowden picked".
I assume asking for "quantifiable fields" is akin to requesting "return the data in JSON format", yes?

How do you do the tagging bits, though?
Any JVM language should work. We've built modules with Clojure.

We're keeping it closed-source for now.
Any attempted invasion would have nukes used on the invasion craft. Not pretty.
Capitalism can be implemented through many different complementary political frameworks/regimes, and doesn't exist outside a political system that can enforce it. Just like communism.
Good explanation.

There will be companies who prefer to self host and those who don’t, and having an option of paid support or cloud hosted can go a long way especially when the open source project can set itself up as a first class plugin in the Microsoft cloud.

Many of not most companies are already on Microsoft and it ensures a good amount of support for open source so they don’t have to separate features into different tiers.

One of the more interesting open source setups was a product that was licensed both as open spruce and commercial, and the customer (often government or education) would have a policy of commercial only or open source only and they could support it both ways.
Yes, it's 100% written in Java.
I have also not read the book, so I will not make any assumptions about it.

My understanding is that throughout history, most households had at least two people working/earning (many homes were farms). Then we get some television shows in the 50s-70s that show how well the upper middle class lived. Now in 2023 we have people thinking that everyone in the past lived as well.
Too old-fashioned. Too passive. Too half-assed.

1.) Make any private or commercial car going over 80mph illegal. No exceptions except law enforcement and emergency services, no grandfathering in, no aftermarket upgrades.

2.) Enforce lower limits by geofencing and active beacons, to be strictly observed by mandatory driver assistance systems. Issue immediate death penalty for circumvention by automated rocket launchers at the next possible free spot.

3.) Also limit the maximal acceleration, no matter if ICE supercar or EV, don't want to have unnecessesary microplastics by needlessly burnt rubber, aren't we?

4.) Do the same for acoustics.

5.) Enjoy.

6.) Move all opposers by force to live in the fenced reservations of the race tracks.
> Performative work includes “spending a lot of time in meetings where ‘teams present achievements’ rather than making decisions or addressing issues,” said Derek Laney, Slack’s “technology evangelist” for Asia-Pacific.

This...does not feel performative to me?
> We'd kill for 4.5% growth

The Fed estimate for Q3 is 5% (annualized). Q1 was 2.1%, and Q2 2.4%. So, a YoY of 3% or so is not inconceivable.

Not quite 4.5% but for instance, if the US GDP would continue growing on average at 1%, while China grew at 5%, China would still need 30 years to even reach 50% of the US's GDP per capita.
> As far as I can tell you won't be able to use the approach proposed here to create a character matching your above description unless every element of it is encoded in the guiding grammar (including the possibility for the character to have middle ages-relevant weapons, and the anthropomorphic vegetables).

You wouldn't need to, that's the point here. You let the LLM work on generating semantically valid responses and use a tool like this to restrict it to syntactically correct ones.

Here's an example jsonschema (a bit handwritten so maybe some errors but it should be clear enough). Let the LLM deal with coming up with a name and backstory that work, making sure the description and type of the weapon make sense (gpt4 suggested a close range carrot dagger for example), and let this work as your type structure.

{
"type": "object",
"title": "character",
"properties": {
"backstory": {
"type": "string"
},
"weapons": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": {
"type": "string"
},
"weapon_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["ranged", "close", "magic"]
},
"range": {
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 150
},
"damage": {
"type": "number"
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"description",
"range",
"damage"
]
}
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"backstory",
"weapons",
"name"
]
}

> Then what? What do you mean by "random string"?

Nonsense. Like "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" the famous sentence that's grammatically correct but utter nonsense.

> Plus, if you already have the grammar that can cover the anthropomorphic vegetable world it's only a bit more work to use it to parse such natural language requests, anyway.

I really do not think this is the case. Parsing and understanding arbitrary requests about something like this?
The next generation of developer productivity
There was a whole lot of community window dressing going on. I still wonder if they weren't trying to ship maintenance of the open source code off onto the community thinking that if all that worked appeared (or thinking that it was actually going on--believing their own bullshit about how involved the community was) that they could just leach that work.

There's probably some manager at Hashi right now trying to argue that they should offload TF maintenance entirely onto the community and they should pivot to hosting services and consulting and making money off of all that free work.
That's why my pops loved Huey Lewis and the News
Query Time Constrained Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing: after they've tried everything else." — Winston Churchill
Microsoft Saved Apple and Accidentally Revolutionized Personal Computing
I actually worked on that at a corporate job. We got daily horoscope from a FTP server, many months aheads. All static ad spots were tarot readers, premium phone numbers and other astrology related services (scams in IMHO).

There was an oracle feature where you can ask yes/no questions with over 1000 submissions per day, all from "should I leave my boyfriend" to "should I kill myself". The list of manually refused/tuned words was long, kind of crazy to think people would base real-life decision on effectively a random answer (random plus some hashing of normalized input).

There was also a compatibility checker where you provide two first names. Also an algorithm with some normalizing and fine-tuning. I think it returned a score from 1 to 100.

I switched departments as soon as possible.
> I cared for my community so you have 100 people against you.

Sounds pointlessly idealist to me. If you’re allowed to just assume large scale cooperative society then any system of governance is fine.

> while in current system I would be probably get legally murdered by such entity.

“X has problems therefore not X is better”
I'm wondering whether "waging a war to get out of an economic depression" is just a falsehood repeated many times.

If it is generally feasible to use war as a way to fix an economy, why can't nations just declare war on an imagined enemy (eg. shoot nukes at Mars or send stormtroopers to the Moon)?

Arguably the space race was just doing that, but it didn't seem to fix the economy of the Soviet Union.

In the case of WWII, it seems to me, as a layman, the post-war dominance of the US came from the fact that the US didn't engage in the war until the very end, and economies of other developed nations were simply decimated by the war and recovered less quickly than the US.

Maybe war can boost GDP numbers in the short term, but it's quite obvious that from history, at least if you lose a war, it's going to set back your economy, and in no way going to make it better.
I think that ship set sail when we decided to offshore everything. Now China has all the manufacturing and all we’re doing is limiting our own access to it. Sure we can set up factories and buy stuff, but I imagine we could be better off if we worked more closely with their government on the right initiatives.

I think we’re here telling ourselves we’re the best while they are just passing us by. Big military sure but how many PhD’s do we produce and how much debt do those students have?
I have had similar issues with the Azure GPT-3.5, it would respond fast sometimes, and just hang for minutes other times, not even a 429. Just blocked randomly.
Good points. The New Yorker made somewhat the same points on Alger Horatio say in context of ragged dick. Horatio never dealt with racism or class hierarchies. And his villans are simplistic. There was no murder or rape. And it was implied that fraudsters (as one example) knew they were doing wrong almost as if they had internalized morals but ultimately never followed them. So again no serious engagement of human nature. Moreover dick was helped by a Christian rich person --- to the good in intent and result--- but it leaves a lot left unexplored too.

In this way lord of the flies is another take worth reading
All data on Rama is replicated automatically with a configurable "replication factor". Data written to Rama is not made visible until it's successfully replicated. The documentation we're releasing next week includes a page going into detail in how this works.
> I don't feel it's fair to brand "web components" as a technology that was in direct competition with React. I think the nuance matters.

Nuance doesn't matter to most proponents of web components. When they were introduced, for the first few years they were explicitly marketed as platform-native solution that makes frameworks obsolete.

Now the rhetoric seems more nuanced, but it's the same. It's only been upgraded to "build with lit".

> IMO it'd only be a bias take if web components were branded as having no issues whatsoever, or that they are the most optimal solution for everything

Mostly they are billed like that. And any voices criticizing them are either ignored or blocked.
Actually took them longer than that even.

They had to invent the computer first, and before that they had to create a universe capable of sustaining both life and computers.
A few things related to this incident...
- The US allows landing clearance to be granted on occupied runways. It also allows landing clearance to planes who aren't next-to-land. This invites this sort of problem and, IIRC, isn't normal (or allowed?) in the EU.

- This particular ATC seems to be overloaded/distracted. She spend a lot of time providing adjusted altitudes to a waiting plane, while leave the SWA jet lined-up without clearance to take-off and a line of other planes on approach (two of which she had issued landing clearance).

Is this happening more often, or are recent events a random fluke? I don't know.
I think the plan was for the Southwest to be given take off clearance quickly before the private jet arrived, but the controller got distracted by a route amendment for another flight that came in and they got their priorities wrong. In the US it's not uncommon for a 'Cleared to Land' to be given while something is then lining up and waiting for immediate Take Off clearance.

In the EU / Canada this isn't allowed (landing clearance is only given if the runway is completely clear), but then the US pushes a lot more aircraft through its busy airspace this way. San Diego is a busy airport with just a single runway (due to the geography) near a couple of military bases and has a steep approach over the city - if there had been some ground fog like there often is at KSAN then this could have ended very differently.

Also, you can see in the video that due to the steep approach, the SWA was at the beginning of the runway, but the jet on approach would have landed further down, as the landing is offset there. This still would have be been dangerous but not a definite case of collision.
Code is just an analog for life and its duality.

Its all those things and none of those things.

Code is code. Humans are the ones with the obsession of abstracting and categorizing things to make ourselves feel better. In reality, none of those things actually exist
Just so you know, "I don't care about cookies" was sold to Avast last year:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/avast_buys_i_dont_car...

There is a fork called "I still don't care about cookies" which is probably worth switching to unless you trust Avast:

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
This is a philosophical viewpoint but in some sense all of them are lucky.

Louis de Branges claimed for years to have a proof of Riemann Hypothesis. No one really agreed with his conclusion. He is certainly a first rate mathematician and had he came up with a proof that others accepted he’d be lauded as a great mathematician.

Abhyankar claimed that no one has ever really understood Hironaka’s resolution of singularities paper. Hironaka is a Field’s Medalist and Abhyankar a great mathematician in his own right. He was never able to find a simpler proof for resolution of singularities. If he had gotten lucky then he would have.

The point is, that luck plays a role in terms of whether or not the right idea pops into your head. How many brilliant people labored over problems that simply have no solution and thus aren’t considered one of the greats? Newton wrote more about alchemy than math or physics. He’s not considered a great chemist. One thing the greats have in common is spending a great deal of time thinking about problems. That increases the probability of coming up with a brilliant insight.

Of course, it is not all luck. You do have to have good intuition. Here’s a quote by Chaitin:

Gödel's incompleteness theorem tells us that within mathematics there are statements that are unknowable, or undecidable. Omega tells us that there are in fact infinitely many such statements: whether any one of the infinitely many bits of Omega is a 0 or a 1 is something we cannot deduce from any mathematical theory. More precisely, any maths theory enables us to determine at most finitely many bits of Omega.

In some sense we get a survivorship bias when talking about the greats. They happened to work on a problem that was solvable. I suggest there are many more equally brilliant people who didn’t get lucky and thus are unknown.
I think it may also be missing a step 0, which is "Identify that there exists a problem". I find that this is often an entirely distinct step from Step 1, which is it's own hill to climb.

I'm in CS research (with most of my work being applied to biological problems), so I'm a few steps removed from pure math, but I can completely related to this. It's why I find writing grants so difficult -- because they generally require you to identify and describe the problem and propose some potential solutions. But that's like 90% of the work for the whole thing!
Nobody literally yells in on a text forum, no.
The reason there isn't a delay the second click is because the redirect is cached locally in your browser.

Your humble anonymous tipster would appreciate if you do a little legwork.
> helped with something that is primarily an American thing

To be clear though, a huge amount of the key players were foreign scientists or foreign educated, such as Oppenheimer himself. We need to keep this in mind because although the U.S. helped pull all this together, we couldn't have done it without the foreign help we received. This is important in today's climate that gets more and more nationalistic by the day. Germany effectively gave the allies the win because they pushed out good people. The U.S. must keep this in mind.
3 - What is wrong with that exactly? You make it like he ran a scam.

Him playing the middle man happens all the time. Nothing illegal about that.
Let’s be honest, dev ops can be more than 10% when there’s no consistent way to tie in every open source project into an environment.

SSO helps, but it can still be work to roll out.
Someone should poll WFH employees.
They have very little experience in that and, what's more important, their armed forces exist mostly to keep their own population in line, as evidenced with the events at Tiananmen square.
It has been done for some fairly large projects, eg openssl managed to swith to Apache for 3.0. It is a lot of work.
We implemented federation fully exactly as you described.
While the Nomad stack is a direct competitor to k8s, Consul and Vault are both heavily used alongside k8s. In fact, Consul had features that were only for k8s the last time I checked
> btw "any other particle" doesn't fall out of EM fields.

I very obviously meant that XYZ-particle states fall out of mode expansions of the XYZ-field, not that all particles are EM quanta.

> what i said is not backwards unless you use the inverse understanding of "exist". and how can photons exist without interaction?

Exactly the same way any other field configuration can? The state space of the free EM field simply is the photon Fock space.

The state space of an interacting 4D EM field is unknown and may well not exist, hence the need for perturbative approaches and renormalization - in which particle states again emerge as terms in the perturbation series.
I'm excited to see the docs for Rama. But I am also a little scared of the comment " I came to suspect a new programming paradigm was needed" from Nathan.

It's not so much that I think the comment is wrong or anything, but rather that it seems so similar to what I have heard in the past from power-lisp (or Clojure in this case) super-smart engineers.

I feel like we have reached a point in software development where "better" paradigms don't necessarily gain much adoption. But if Rama wins in the marketplace, that will be interesting. And I am quite excited to see what a smart tech leader and good team have been able to grind out given a years-long timeframe in this programming platform space . . .
This article mentioned building an app "that people love," but didn't specifically mention one critical factor customers use in evaluating software: usability and design. Get subject matter expertise on your team before building the user-facing parts of your product. Engineering teams know that they're not good at marketing or sales, but don't usually realize how much winging-it with design scares away users.
China generally feels as though it was 'left out' of the modernization of politics that occurred in the mid-20th Century (and they have a point).

For example, [0] The 1958 Convention on the High Seas set the rules around Maritime borders that most countries follow to this day.

At the time, the PRC was not a member of the UN, the ROC (i.e. Taiwan) was [1].

As a result, a current controversy is China's claim to large parts of the South China Sea [2]

Lots of issues like this emerge, since China sees itself as a ascendent world power who was unfairly excluded from decision making during the most critical parts of recent history.

The problem China is facing in pushing this narrative, to be frank, is that they don't exactly play nice with neighbors and potential allies, so the US happily comes in and allies itself with countries skeptical of China.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_United_Nations

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line
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People go with big cities usually.
Some people like Nevada but most will still say Vegas. People say they are from Philadelphia rather than the state. Chicago is used more often. Buffalo over New York. New Jersey, Rhode Island seem to be used more than a city. Boston over the state but in Cambridge they use the city and state. Texas is more common than Austin unless you are in the states. Florida could go both ways and be more regional South Beach, Miami, Ft Lauderdale vs from Florida.

Interesting topic. In Europe it seems by country. From France vs from Paris
So now, Chrome itself will overlay a webpage with a popup. The final nail in the coffin for free content websites.
Every greenfield OSS project should join Mastodon
It's also really bad contract law.
That could be true and still not be good-money-for-the-work-and-stress.