skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article writes: “Apotropaic graves of this sort date back to the Early Middle Ages and have also appeared in Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Romania.” So even the 17th-century phenomenon is but a late attestation of a practice found already in the medieval era.

It is curious that you claim that such practices could only be a result of de-Christianization. In the Balkans, fears of vampires, incubi, and succubi have always co-existed happily with a Christianity that deeply permeated all levels of society.
Indeed, unfortunately with the John Smiths of this world there will be false positive matches. What we could do is add that they need to be from the same town/postcode, but then that is quite an unreliable attribute too.

Similarly, there are a lot of false negatives where we know two records should match, but we could not because that would require a rule that would create more false positives.

In the end, it was the best we could do with the public view of the data. If we were working with the data Companies House actually holds itself, it would of course be much better.
> So... a billion year old civ is going to have very fundamental abilities which are completely beyond our comprehension.

Maybe not. There's no evidence that species can continually adapt and evolve to higher levels of intelligence. Humans are already hitting limits for how much we can think, figure out, etc.

But by that same token, maybe so. Humans aren't exactly the cream of the crop when it comes to higher critical thinking and emotional intelligence.

Is there any biological research that takes a look at a single or sequence of species maintaining civilizations lasting x amount of years?
I think the positive take here is "an unusually swift resolution of a high-profile puzzle".

So it sounds like the leak was in fact a positive and that overall rewarding people with nobel prizes is detrimental to science.

edit: it's OK to make mistakes. If science focused on EXPERIMENTING instead of trying to be the arbiter of truth on how the world is, we'd progress much farther. Maybe there is a reason why it seems physics has been stuck for the past 50+ years... maybe it is a shift in culture, driven social media, the fear of being wrong, of being shamed by the collective, of using the improper labels, etc. that is holding everyone back.
I logged them as issues for you, good luck! As a test engineer it's great to see more test tooling around generative AI :)
Marijuana says yes and yes.
Or just maybe civilizations advanced enough for Kardyshev level 2 engineering feel no need for exponential expansion. Fermi paradox is essentially Malthusianism extended to outer space.
I'd like to second this. Bonus points if a magnet were included so that the sample could be "levitated" over it. This is definitely a kind of novelty gift suitable for science-y and geeky friends.
I think it only appears "polluted" if you keep listing with "ls -A" all the time. If you don't list hidden files, you don't have a real problem.

Besides, if you think that's polluted, then pushing it off to ~/.config and ~/.local/share is just sweeping it under the rug.
fwiw we bought a boiler, designed in 2015 and it says it can burn gas up to 20% hydrogen.

Here in NL the electricity prices are negative ~5% of the time this year so a lot of opportunity for making some cheap hydrogen
Bools are ints, but I'd say that makes Python weakly typed (ish - it's a spectrum obviously). Are you just using "weak typing" to mean "implicit type coercion"?
I'd agree - and I'm not sure it's even possible to have a language with every feature.

Languages are about telling computers[1] what to do - at the right level of abstraction for the task in hand.

As far as I can see ( as an outsider ) is the trick in language design, is not the programmer ergonomics per se - but creating a set of abstractions ( expressed as language features ) that can then be converted into machine code in a way that's some best combination of reliable, safe and fast.

[1] Not directly, but indirectly via compilers or interpreters.
you and everyone else, unfortunately. gonna be brutal out there and take exceptional entrepreneurship to be the actual end to end platform that wins
I loved The Creative Act: A Way of Being. The book is organized into short chapters, each about a certain part of the creative process or perspective of the author.

While I don't agree with everything shared, the crisp and clear way it's written allows for great reflection and inspiration.

I've described it to friends as a work book for artists and creatives. Every chapter simmering for days and helping to refine the creative process.
Yes, humans operate similarly. We gain knowledge through learning and assimilation of experiences. But there is a cost associated with each new input, in one form or another. You can read and reproduce the NYT articles or their content and build based on what you have learned. But aside from piracy, you have to somehow pay a cost associated with access (ads, subscriptions etc). The LLM does not do so in an equal way.
They mention the coin placed in mouths - but as far as I know, this has nothing to do with protection against vampires. It's to pay Charon to cross the river :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol
Never said you did. I was just explaining that you aren't "using someone else's padding and margin classes".
I am working on an application designed to keep runners motivated: https://www.frenzyrun.com

The main features include:

- Capture the flag: Every week, a virtual flag is planted randomly in various cities. Capture these flags to collect virtual coins, encouraging you to discover new areas.

- Virtual medals: Earn medals by running iconic distances. These medals will boost your experience.

- Groups: Compare your performance with that of your co-workers, friends, and family members.

There's still a lot of work to be done, bugs to fix, and features to enhance. However, it has already helped some of my friends and me to stay motivated.

If you are a runner or want to be one, which other feature can help you to stay motivated ?
You're proposing that they separate their more sympathetic more traditional activities into a separate entity than their more contentious activities, so that the latter entity is engaged in only the more contentious activities. Is it not clear why that makes the latter entity less sympathetic and more likely to lose? Even the act of doing it would imply that they expect to lose.
Given how critical this is I suspect your body is better at it then you are...

I'd say "Drink when you are thirsty".
That would work for 3 months, then they would start running into edge cases and issues that need fixing, patching or developing a new feature. So either providers start bringing in knowledge in terms of developers, or sign some kind of contract with Ubicloud to get those developments as needed.
Visibility as a concept is one I also disagree with :) I lump it together with the "OOP" classification in my original comment. I agree with you in this regard. The messages an object is able to respond to should not be restricted because of where it comes from.
A bit less DIY but similar functionally is the kit Shades of Coffee sells that also adds PID to the Gaggia classic.
If you're just after the functionality of a cheap espresso machine with PID that takes a lot less effort.
Completely incorrect, the practices were in general not very present in middle-aged Poland compared to the Western Europe. The reason for emerging anti-vampiric practices in the 17th and the 18th centuries were epidemics and folktales from Balkans, and it had nothing to do with de-christianisation which never happened (Poland has been and is predominantly Christian with rate of catholic church members being >90% even today).
(Root Cause Analysis)
> Why do we need to treat these things the same way we treat humans?

Because it would be absurd for it to be legal to do X, but illegal to do so with an efficient tool. Especially when the activity X in question is "learning".
cool. thanks for answering!
Can I ask why?

I don't think there is much scientific evidence it is safe to do and the last people I would want engaging in geo engineering would be a VC funded startup.
By the way.. Planternetes (Kubernetes v1.28.0) for illumos, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
That means having to code the dispatch manually that OO languages do automatically. It’s kind of the point of OO languages to not have to do that manually, and to have the subtype-specific functions be explicitly associated with each other, and not just implicitly by how they are used.
I’ve lived in NY and have visited Montreal a bunch of times, including one unfortunate trip in January. The average high in January in NYC is almost 40 degrees, and it’s 25 degrees in Montreal. It is objectively much colder!

I think you are overestimating how much climate change will affect the food and water supply in North America. There will be huge problems but the apocalyptic idea you seem to have is more of a pop culture notion than a scientific one.
>Polygamy is a more natural state for civilized human societies than we think it is

I really don't think it is, but I also disagree with using the word "natural" in a way to argue its merit.
I think all that attention to an individual will permanently sit on the Lord's backlog.
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy - Julian Baggini [1]

The author does an amazing job presenting the different views about the world and some important differences between cultures. If you are like me and haven't interacted that much with other schools of thoughts outside of the Western world, but are interested in learning more about them, you'll enjoy the introductions to Indian thinking as well as Chinese, Islam and some African philosophies. Also, he does a good job of highlighting some of the limitations of each, including Western thought.

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42068288
As long as people can't smoke and legally drive with the car the next day, it's useless for most
Ya right. Like any one in their right mind wants to have 10 wives to deal with. Dont get confuse hooking up with marriage.

I think Esther Perel has written the best stuff on modern relationships. Read her.
Well, I am a very strong proponent of keeping the hierarchy open in all possible cases; the object should be the one that defines the behavior in all cases, and an object's behavior shouldn't be restricted just because it comes from outside of the object or within. Therefore I agree with your point here.
This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. You want the government to decide what you can and cannot put into your body?
Thanks for sharing, I've not come across this kata before. Seems like it'll be a fun one.
Another good use case of IOT
I've seen all of these at one point or another and a lot of the time they're circumstance dependent because of nuts decisions the company has made that put people under stress.

In particular, I've seen people (and been that person myself) who gets really negative because impossible deadlines get set by non-technical people with no bearing for the reality of the situation on the ground. I've also seen a lot of people give up on arguing with those non-technical people about scope and time, say "OK", roll their eyes, and know they'll miss the deadline before it even starts.
No one gets high from second hand smoke outside.
Well, as my sibling comment says, you have just re-implemented dynamic dispatch in object programming ;). As a response to your edit, note that dynamic dispatch and immutability are not mutually exclusive; an object can have immutable state and can still have its behavior extended by creating an adapter object, for example.
If you're allowing for some error probability, then the answer is trivially yes. For example, the NP-Complete problem of "does this graph have a clique of size sqrt(n)" is trivial over G(n, 1/2) random graphs, because the answer is No with overwhelming probability (something decaying exponentially in n or n^2). So you don't have to read the input before responding.

If you're referring to Las Vegas style (always correct) algorithms, then I don't think something along those lines can work. Reading a constant number t bits from a G(n,p) random graph yields each possible event with the constant probability (1/2)^t. So the expected running time is still at least some (small) constant times that of the failure case, which is still exponential.

Are you perhaps thinking of the average case problem Planted Clique, where the task is to distinguish between a "clean" random graph G(n, 1/2) and a "planted" one where we force some random set of, say, k=n^(1/3) vertices to induce a clique? While distinguishing a graph with a k-clique from one without one is NP-hard on general graphs, you can show that G(n, 1/2) graphs virtually never contain cliques as large as 3 log n, and hence brute force searching all 3 log n sized subsets of vertices for cliques (in subexponential time n^(3 log n)) will almost always lead you to the correct answer. And once you find a clique of size 3 log n, expanding it to n^(1/3) can be done quickly using a greedy algorithm.
On top of that, Earth itself had the potential for intelligent life long before humans came around. But instead of evolving some overgrown monkeys, it evolved some overgrown birds who were too selfish and shortsighted to work together and develop a space program and watch out for large asteroids. They were mostly wiped out because of this, and it took 65 million years for another selfish and shortsighted group of animals to evolve and become dominant. Unlike the last ones, they developed a space program, but it's not really enough to handle threatening asteroids yet, but they're busy destroying themselves and their environment in other ways, so it may be moot. It might take Earth 3 tries to finally evolve a sentient species that becomes a spacefaring civilization.
I am creating a documentation management software, with emphasis on a diagramming and system building - similar to Draw.io [1] but with better support on PDFs/Files, text/markdown/Latex, web links, and Search.

It is a desktop application and self-hosted, which will allow to sync with your work laptop and mobile devices without the need for 3rd party server. Many online solutions for knowledge management did not make me happy (e.g. Notion[2], Miro[3], Evernote[4]) as they all lacked either diagram building or were online only.
There is also an Obsidian[5] for it is too complicated and it's unbelievable that a user has to go through hours of tutorials on youtube to understand how to use PKM software. Hence I created my easy but powerful tool for keeping all the knowledge/documentation in one place.

The desktop app was build using Kotlin Multiplatform (JVM app) with Compose UI framework

You can view(and comment!) the app screenshots here [6]:
There are also mockups with more features, so ignore weird UI at first.

[1]: https://www.drawio.com
[2]: https://www.notion.so
[3]: https://miro.com
[4]: https://evernote.com
[5]: https://obsidian.md

[6: App screenshots]: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lOIfGaXKbymw7fQXjwBh...
I don't know who is was - but somebody once said code is typically written once and read many times.

ie what matters is not the number of characters you have to type, but how easy the resulting code is to understand.

And here there are two factors - the verbosity and the conceptual load.

I think the mistake some language geeks forget is the importance of the conceptual load- the language surface area/complexity - and they tend to focus on brevity at the expense of conceptual complexity.
> The correlation between people who are willing to grind leetcode and who turn out to be good engineers is high enough that it's worth it for them to keep as a tool to sort the massive pile of applicants they get.

One "subtlety" this misses is that leetcode-style trivia tests only work for those who are willing _and able_ to grind leetcode etc.

There are many who have the aptitude and experience but have e.g. children, or interests outside of programming which means they do not have the required free time to spend rehearsing for this kind of interview.
Orthogonal means they are independent principles that can be combined freely and don’t contradict each other.
> I'm not convinced that is any better.

I manage $HOME, this is meant for valuable personal documents. I manage them manually. You as a software distributor better are not gonna clash with what I am doing there with your shitty engineering.

If you insist on making a mess of your $HOME, XDG allows for that. You can set all your XDG variables to $HOME. And even without doing so, you can create symlinks to make your $HOME like you want. That is an unfair advantage you get with XDG adherence.

XDG gives you as the user more control. If you don´t adhere to XDG, you take that control away from the user.
TSMC built in AZ with the expectation that they would be able to leverage the existing engineers. The problem is that they built on the opposite side of Phoenix from all the other semiconductor plants. To commute from one side of Phoenix to the other is well over 1.5 hours during rush hour. Now, all the engineering talent has houses and families over in Chandler/Gilbert, with 3% interest rates, and would either need to sell their houses and buy a new one at 7% on the other side of town, or commute 3 hours a day. Intel has one of the largest semiconductor plants in Chandler, with some of their lowest defect rates, but for some reason TSMC thinks the AZ workers don’t have the skills or work ethic. Sure, you’re going to find engineers on performance plans willing to leave Intel, Samsung, Microchip, etc, but they’re not going to be the cream of the crop.
I was there :-)
Look up how XDG_RUNTIME_DIR gets set. Its a pam_systemd(8) thing and thus specific to GNU/Linux. So if you approach the non-glibc or *BSD folks with "please follow the XDG spec", you will likely not receive a nice answer.
Photocopiers are for personal use, training an AI is not. If you photocopy 10,000 copies of copyrighted text and starting distributing it you will get sued.

It would be different if I trained my own AI, for my personal use.
For anyone in the Iberian peninsula, I've had some luck using UK's radio on mine.
Be mindful to try it at night, and if the meteorological conditions allow.

Hope there were more stations...
everyone has bad days/things they regret. i'm not sure this is a relevant discussion to the content, and personal anecdotes can be very damaging to a person's reputation - i've met her in person and she is delightful, but neither of us are here to judge people so lets stick to the content?
Unrelated: Is that number of authors common? I don't look at many research papers but in my limited viewing, that seems to be a huge number of authors?
>It is meant for persistent user configuration, possibly generated by the app - the type you might want to back up. You are not supposed to understand or be able to read every file in there, just be able to know the usage.

I understand your point, but there is a lot more going on than just "configuration that isn't human readable" unfortunately.

> (Google stuffs shader caches in there it seems?)

They also stuff web storage.

And despite their misuses of .config they also still pollute the root $HOME by creating $HOME/.pki. Deleting the folder and restarting Chrome will always create this thing.
I was thinking tweets about her or CCP oppression in general, not necessarily from her. There is plenty of proof out there showing that Musk has his fingers on the scales. Citations can be provided upon request.
Did this change the way you behave around food or is it just something interesting to marginally inform eating decisions? I'm sure it's still an interesting book either way, but I'm looking for an actionable book regarding food at the moment and wanted to see if this could be it.
Art & Fear - Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - David Bayles & Ted Orland.

A tremendous read, about our human nature and creativity. An analysis on our limits, what talent is, and the common fears. A very freeing experience.
The tech industry has sufficient money and influence for lobbying to push this one through. The media industry did the DMCA adjustments to copyright reasonably fast, and tech industry is even more powerful and wealthy.
The other Psmith books are a growing up progression to that one. Psmith was his adopted daughter's fav so he stopped while young and beautiful like she did. Mike and Psmith is a proper YA school story which was where Wodehouse started. Psmith in the city something of a sequel. Psmith Journalists the nearest Wodehouse ever got to literature with a social point to make, definitely worth the read. Leave it to Psmith is, imho his masterpiece and the best written novel I've read. Sadly the last we hear of Psmith.

All should be out of copyright by now.
Learning about the supply chain for vital components like integrated circuits from mine to purification to processing to manufacture was so interesting.

I now understand how the "west" is even able to keep China out of the loop (for now) on the highest level of tech. Fascinating read.
I agree. The user did only 3 comments in months and each time it a link to their tool. A wrong answer would've been ok-ish but it looks too much like promotion or even spam.
Not that I know the details of medieval vampire lore, but doesn't it sort of follow that if the deceased has crossed to far side of Styx they'd be much less eligible for walking/flying/crawling/whatever around as one of the restless dead?

It seems like the practice could well share inheritance with ancient Greece, but I'd be surprised if the motivating mythology would be quite the same. Wonder what the story was in ancient Poland..
> it is really problem dependent as is throughput. Recall and latency numbers reported in benchmarks are typically on very well curated and structured datasets and average across all queries

This is correct. :) Don't worry, I know enough to not trust any published benchmarks on this topic... (I'm also not your target market. I wrote my first "vector DB" in 2001 for music recognition.)

I still think it's crucial to include just a few more facts though, because otherwise the statement is meaningless.

Consider:

A. "we can find an approximate NN match, euclidean, D=768, N=70000000, under 100ms on a modern laptop"

vs

B. "we can find an approximate NN match, euclidean, D=2, N=70000000, under 100ms on a modern laptop"

vs

C. "we can find an approximate NN match, euclidean, D=768, N=70000000, under 100ms on 1000x modern laptops"

Notice how B and C aren't impressive, they're trivially beatable. :)
You can try doing it on clear nights, and outdoors, manually. It works most of the time for me if I'm back on my home country.
In my opinion WebAssembly and all the in-browser applications are a waste of power. Please do a small experiment: make a 30 minutes video call on your laptop using both: natively compiled skype and google meet. In my case meet drains almost 2x amount of power and after an hour-lasting meeting I have no battery left, but on one-hour meeting on skype I still have 56% of battery.

It's because you cannot have native performance on something that is still the virtual machine.

Another reservation I have is global migrate-to-the-cloud trend, where I can see heavy-CPU programs like adobe photoshop moving to in-browser, while I feel much more comfortable using natively compiled applications. It's just faster and gives working smoothness feeling. Also when I have a locally installed photoshop or lightroom, nobody requires any money from me. I can have a dedicated laptop for my photos processing, and nobody will take it from me, because I didn't pay for the next month. However this is another story of making people dependant on subcriptions in all cases of our lives...