skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, on the surface sure. But I think the point is that there are gangs vying for supremacy in regions, but they don't control the ground, government organizations do. They're pawns in the games of people more powerful, and those people hold high positions of trust in those societies. The idea of an enemy that is really just a tool ensures that they can use violence with impunity and that it will go on indefinitely.

I think they're probably right. It's just a different way to frame what we see in front of us that makes the picture less murky. "Powerful drug cartels with sleazy politicians in their pocket" is not very different from "powerful politicians and military leaders controlling supply networks and militias", except it changes where the power truly lies. And if the problem never goes away no matter which trafficker you kill, because the people in government "taking the bribes" are still there, which one is closer to reality?

The traffickers like the reverence they get with the prevailing narrative. They like the flashy culture, the sense of power even unanswerable to governments, and the fear such apparent power instils. It's a narrative that's beneficial to them, even if they know the truth of the organizational structure, and I doubt many but those higher on the food chain do, they're likely to lean into it.
DIY GC is definitely harder in WebAssembly than on most targets due to, among other problems, the lack of stack-walking
Fun post but SoundHound has done this pretty much flawlessly for 10 years. It's also built-in in Google Search and on all Android phones. In that context "Shazam for Singing" is an unfortunate title since it implies nothing like that exist and that Shazam is SOTA, when it's the other way around.

No idea how Shazam can be so far behind and still be synonymous with song identification in everyday speech.
Perhaps I should have made it clearer in the article, but the English Wikipedia is not really short of editors. There was an era of decline from 2007 to 2014, though much of that was a side effect of edit filters that rejected certain edits that were highly likely to be vandalism. But the 2015 rally in editing numbers has turned into a sort of plateau - editing from 2015 to 2023 has consistently been above the 2014 minima. This is looking at "time between edits" How long it takes for each ten million edits.
Some are, although they are relativily hard to exploit, as they require some JavaScript pattern that somehow will make the interpreter, or generated JIT code, have a sequence of machine code instructions that somehow trigger them.

So much more hard to exploit than a typical native code application, however it is still possible when all ingredients are available, including skillful hacking skills.
Yes, all of Google's (and Facebook and everyone else) controls regarding history and tracking of various things is for the user's benefit to keep them activated, because if you disable or delete them, you are the only one who loses access to that juicy data.

Whenever I delete an object in cloud storage, I simply whisper, "now accessible to everyone but me..."

It's a nice deception, telling you that you have control over all this tracking and history, tricking you into deleting it, and completely losing control.

I will say this, though: if you frequently open your phone or apps in front of other people and may have embarrassing stuff pop up, perhaps it's good to disable it. I found myself hiding my screen from a neighbor this week; not a good feel.
I think it makes it less likely I am a pro-Trump partisan, no?
> arxiv.org has had the best exposure it's likely to get in years. The more that publish there, the fewer who publish behind firewalls

We're talking about condensed matter physics here, arxiv needs zero exposure in this field. It is extremely common to publish on arxiv first and only then begin the process of submitting the same manuscript to be published (and peer reviewed) in a journal.

And while there are still some authors that skip over publishing pre-prints at all, there's no serious arxiv competitor if you do decide to publish pre-prints. It is a de-facto monopoly in this field.
I'm still building a low code system with an easy to use component marketplace where you can edit components within the low code tool. Still a work in progress: https://github.com/yazz/yazz
if I need to get back some client documents 95% success rate is abysmal and unacceptable, even 99% is NOK for most use cases

Parchives [1] solved this problem a long time ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
It’s still important to disambiguate the curious optimists from swindlers and fraud scientists. There’s nothing wrong with asking “what if?”.

Shaming laypeople and the media for not being scientifically literate enough to navigate quickly-releasing literature on quantum mechanics isn’t good for science either. It stifles curiosity, and this kind of take is what hinders people from taking an interest in science in the first place. What’s important is that as new information comes in, those same laypeople are willing to take in that new information, which is exactly what happened.

Science isn’t perfect and in this case, the process worked exactly as designed.
> When Knuth's 1984 The TeXbook needed an example of blackboard bold for the index, he produced ℝ using the letters I and R with a negative space between; in 1988 Robert Messer extended this to a full set of "poor person's blackboard bold" macros, overtyping each capital letter with carefully placed I characters or vertical lines.

> Not all mathematical authors were satisfied with such workarounds.
If I'm seeing correctly, they did tidy it up and resubmit it - where it was then removed (I don't quite understand why - perhaps because they didn't reply to the talk saying so?).
Well it's not just semantics. Defining an organizational structure more clearly enables you to target more effectively for victory. Witg the situation getting worse and no victory in sight, maybe looking at it from a different angle can help people see a clearer path to that victory, or at least see that victory is not an option.
Which stack/frameworks in Go would you recommend to achieve a somewhat close developing experience? AFAIK the default library doesn't have much and there are no huge frameworks like Spring.
Thank you, I appreciate your comment. The main goal here was to impress my kids with my own engineering skills :)
US/AU $ works out my price at $92. Plus postage. But, encouraging!
That was my gut reaction too, but presumably unless it becomes regulated, at least some competitors to OpenAI won't respect any robots.txt and thus any open content might be training data.
This should be expected if:
* the teams in India are all in the office on the same 3 days with a decent turnout, not just 3 random days of each individual's choosing and some that do and some that don't.
* the US teams haven't done much to meaningfully go remote other than using Zoom more. When I say "meaningfully go remote" I mean investing in things like daily explicit social time, moving towards a more async, written way of communicating (to avoid endless meetings), thinking about how decisions are made instead of just defaulting to meetings, that sort of stuff.

If neither of those things are true (i.e. your teams in India don't come in on the same days or come in sporadically, and your US teams have put in lots of effort to go remote with deliberateness) then I can't explain things.
One can only hope…
If you have large gzip files to decompress, I can recommend igzip[1] for fastest single-core decompression or my pet project rapidgzip[2] for effective multi-core decompression, both have simple CLI tools.
For using accelerators (QAT, I assume, because the article is about this) from the CLI, then QATzip[3] comes with a command line tool qatzip which can be used as described in the project ReadMe. I didn't test it, though, as I have no QAT-enabled device.

[1] https://github.com/intel/isa-l/tree/master/igzip
[2] https://github.com/mxmlnkn/rapidgzip
[3] https://github.com/intel/QATzip#test-qatzip
Are you suggesting that lz4 is unethical?
Apologies, I may have misunderstood you to extend it to deidentified data.

There are easier non-REB exceptions to consent that can facilitate deidentification and subsequent use that are commonly used:

PHIPA sets out a limited set of acceptable uses of personal health information without consent, including, for example, the following purposes:

• planning or delivering programs or services

• risk management, error management or activities to improve or maintain the quality of care or any related program or service

• educating agents to provide health care
spdk seems like an environmental unfriendly decision given the 100% cpu [0] that the user-space polling requires. For me a no go. Did you consider alternatives?

[0] https://spdk.io/doc/spdk_top.html
This is similar to Knuth's reasoning for P=NP. Essentially there might be algorithms for these problems that are simply so complex that we might never know them.
Maybe we read different articles? I thought the context was how it was hard to do GC in WASM currently, which is why we don't have many language choices. With that context, C# running on top of WASM seems pretty relevant?
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

I'm a person that struggles with boundary-setting and have spent numerous years in relationships that have left me as less-than I was before. Imagine people-pleasing to an absolute fault, and being more of a chameleon that adapts to avoid conflicts. This has led to problems of identity, and deriving my sense of worth through others which isn't healthy.

Fortunately, I do not have the same problems professionally and part of my people-pleasing skills have been put to good use there.

However, history continued and continues to repeat itself to this day. I'm more than half-way into this book and am not only seeing patterns from my childhood, my relationships with my parents, and my early relationships (platonic & romantic)

It's been eye-opening, and I consider it my first step in breaking this trend.
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month
How to get started documenting stories from your life
Yes, the industry first, because it is easy during a turnaround (refineries are stopped for maintenance every 5 years) to adapt the burners etc. to run on a different mix.

What the FDP is doing/promoting with the stupid run your gas burner at home on H2 in 10 years and get money now is something totally different and from my personal point of view as someone working in oil & gas completely stupid. We should not use gas (be it H2, CH4, whatever) for heat. And I say that knowing that it is bad for my salary. But I have kids and they need a future...
Well you didn't suggest anything useful to the discussion then, just bragged a bit about your un-scaleable and un-useable personal situation which had a slight condescending aspect.

Absolutely nobody here argues renewables shouldn't be invested in, same for minimizing footprint, that's not even up to discussion. Its like saying in a topic about russian war on Ukraine that people should stop being nasty and be nice to each other, because I am nice to people around me. Feels nice but useless.

This alone doesn't solve anything we discuss today nor tomorrow, nor next year nor next decade. That's when imperfect practical solutions I mentioned need to be used, despite people like you on high horse telling everybody how bad it is and how they use something better.

I hope this explains my reaction enough.
The docs for this aren't great - leaked api keys, code doesn't run, etc...
My feeling is that GOFAI had a real problem with representing uncertainty, and handling contradiction. So, we tried to approach it theoretically, with fuzzy logic and probability and so on. But the theoretical research on uncertainty didn't reach any clear conclusion.

Meanwhile, the neural nets (and ML) researchers just trucked on, with more compute power, and pretty much ignored any theoretical issues with uncertainty. And surprisingly, with lots of amazing results.

But now they hit the same wall, we don't actually understand how to do reasoning with uncertainty correctly. LLMs seem to solve this by "just mimic reasoning that humans do". Except because we lack a good theory of reasoning, it can't tell when mimicking is bad and when it's good, unless there is a lot of specific examples. So in the most egregious cases, we get hallucinations but have no clue how to avoid them.
Learn how to set the time zone on Forlinx OK-MX9352 Single Board Computer using NTP synchronization and file system modification.
ATMO you shouldn't have to maintain knowledge of what kind of crawler bot exist and having to maintain deny list. It should be the opposite, only expressedly allowed content should be crawled by mainaining allow lists.
Within Google, there used to be significant usage of tape storage until there was some major data loss incident on HDDs and they had to actually read the tapes and someone did the math and realized it would take between weeks and months to read out all the data that they needed.
I'm ignorant about C development and its practices, but installing development dependencies using the distro's package manager has always seemed very wrong to me.

Doing it inside a container solves the portability problem, but you're still using a Linux distribution's package manager to get the dependencies of your project, which makes no sense to me at a fundamental level, even if it "works" in practice.

Is vendoring the only somewhat sane way of doing dependency management in C?
The Marion County Record rushed to publish a newspaper after the police raid
We are a late by random 100000000 years since the point of as early as we could, which is a pretty big error.
Man, I remember Kipkay... I actually discovered him on Metacafe (no longer a thing). My teenage mind was blown away by how someone could know so much about electronics/gadgets so I emailed him asking what his background is.

I don't quite remember his exact reply but it was something a long the lines of "I'm just a regular dude who's interested in this stuff".
The problem isn't if "this is normal" -- it's the assumptions and poor communication. Never assume anything. Should have been upfront about the situation.

How do you know rent was free? What if he decides to charge you retrospectively (regardless of the raise)?
Github's backup on Svalbard also uses some kind of film, and it's supposed to last 500 to 1000 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_World_Archive
Yes! Tune in next week, when we blame the website for this!
Let's assume that happens. How do I hedge against it? Is there a convenient way to mirror the bits of the web that are open now? Perhaps a mirror of archive/WayBack machine that could be viewed locally similar to Wikipedia dumps?
They started with games with RL libraries like gym, so probably they may try to optimize their llms with simulated agents. Or they are planning for a great marketing strategy with improved algorithms
It isn't more common because most folks don't need it it. I touch my digital watches twice per year and that is more than enough to keep them close enough. Of my two digital watches, one is 1 minute fast and the other is 45 seconds fast. They will both be fine until this fall when we change time again.
Man who mistakenly received entire town's Covid-19 relief money vanishes
Really? Seems like it's not so different conceptually to search engines. They also make money by indexing "training data" of a sort. But the open web trundles on regardless, because the search engines found ways to cut the content producers in on it. I see no reason why that can't be the case here too, with AI companies training their models to act more like search engines when data comes from certain sources - i.e. they'll point you in the right direction but not directly answer you. That will suck for the AI users, but, for many questions the right answer will be available in open or bulk licensable training sets anyway. For example you can get legal access to nearly all books by doing deals with publishers, as Google Books has demonstrated, you can get access to map data by generating it yourself or doing deals with digital map companies etc.
Yikes! My bad.
You should grab a textbook about NP-completeness like Garey and Johnson. It's actually quite easy to understand and you can follow along some proofs for NP-completeness even if you don't have experience with that. NP-hard will follow.
I can't remember the last time I saw a python script that didn't require some pip install. Yesterday I was asked to create a small docker image containing a python script to be used by AWS Lambda. The official AWS container for Python Lambda is over 600mb.

I've also had a hell of a time in the past trying to build small python docker images. If you really know what you're doing (and for a novice, that takes a lot of reading) you can usually halve the size of most official containers.

Like, how do I create a python venv that also contains the python runtime (not a symbolic link), and libpython, and how do I pip install something that has no wheels, and wtf are wheels. And now I realize that I absolutely need a pip repo to store the wheels I've built, or my pipelines will run for an hour every time. So I have to figure out how to add my repo to pip. And now, can I statically compile my wheels to make them easier to install in a generic container, without having to find libthis and libthat? Finally, how do I copy '/app' into a clean busybox container and activate the venv to run the app. If you do all of that you can have small (ish) containers and fast pipelines (except for the first run that build wheels and runs a script to upload recently built wheels to your repo so you never have to build them again). Phew. What a lot of work.

And remember, none of this is "Learning to program in Python", but if you're learning to program in Python from scratch nowadays, all of that stuff becomes extremely important. And the range of different tools is confusing. "Are we still using pip? What about venv? Wtf is poetry?"

Or I could simply spend all of that time learning enough Go so I can produce a single binary that can be dropped into a 'FROM scratch' container. Or, as is the case most of the time, I can use alpine Linux and `apk install bash jq curl` and do an astonishing amount of stuff, albeit in nasty bash.
Some rich folks definitely see a market they can grow
> I don't think IPs are banned outright, but they lose the right to edit without an account.

By default, blocking an IP or IP range prevents users from those IPs from making edits, with or without an account, or creating accounts. Similarly, if an account is blocked, any IPs they've edited from recently get blocked as well.

All of these functions can be customized on a per-block basis; blocks on shared IP ranges are usually configured to allow account creation and logged-in edits.
The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of Feminine in Man.

A Jungian dissection of the tale of a man that transforms into a donkey, and his journey of self discovery and redemption.

It gave me a whole new way of reading books (a "superpower" of sorts, lol).

Going back and reading stories I used to write as a child/teenager, I can now read between the lines and study my subconscious in ways I wasn't able to before.

Really helped with my own journey of self-discovery. Most impactful book I've read, by far.
Does Apple have an interest in Bluetooth always being on? Is this meant to ensure that Airtags work well (even if the phone's owner does not use one)?
I disagree, Caddy works great in Docker. See https://caddyserver.com/docs/running#docker-compose, and CDP is a project that autoconfigures Caddy from labels https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy. Regarding plugins, it's super simple to write a Dockerfile to add plugins, we ship a builder image variant that can be used to compile in any plugins you want.
Sure, but I thought that a successfully implemented CG'd language running on WASM would have been something worth noting.
And now C# 12 is introducing something similar via interceptors, however its quite clunky versus somethig like PostSharp.
Anyone using Deno in production?
I became interested in nutrition recently, so I've read Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes[1] and How Not To Die by Michael Greger[2].

I'm currently reading The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita[3].

In my mind, the nutrition books could be shorter so it might not be the best use of your time. But the 2nd one contains chapter for each common disorder so you could check the ones that (might) apply to you. The Dictator's Handbook is very interesting and it got me interested in politics more. I'll read Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson and The Invention of Power, another book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.

[1]: https://www.worldcat.org/title/607975714

[2]: https://www.worldcat.org/title/992788433

[3]: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1262964702
I used to run one for years in that time frame (actually earlier). Basically it was a bunch of warez in hidden directories which was nice because I also wanted photoshop.

I found it funny. I'd go in and be like "oh look, I've been looking for that software. Thanks hackers!"
Traveling salesmen is even solved to optimality (no heuristics) for pretty large instances with integer programming techniques.

Also SAT is pretty much a solved problem. With algorithms like CDCL.

This really surprised me. I also left my first complexity theory course believing that NP-hard = "not solvable in practice“
The Dawn of Everything, by Graeber and Wengrow.

Refutes most of the claims made by Harari in Sapiens, and shows everything you though you knew about prehistory is plain wrong. It's a great book, very well written and well informed.

Made me think that humanity's history isn't an arrow pointing in the direction of progress; we make experiments. Our current way of life is not the "best so far", it's but one arrangement among many other possible configurations. The alternative between this and going back to living in caves is a false choice.
The “Skeleton Squad” is now targeting NPM
I find it easier to exclude all .* from the rsync I do to synchronize documents/data etc, and exclusively manage the dotfiles through another program, homeshick, where instead of making exclusions, I make explicit inclusions. The config files I care about are far, far fewer in numbers than the random crap programs spew in dot folders.

I like the XDG specs, but even programs that pretend to follow it don't follow it. CMUS, a music player, moved into ~/.config.. moved everything, including files that belong to .cache and .local/state. Google Chrome has 999 mb worth of files in its .config folder on my computer.
The truth of the matter is that XDG only managed to encourage developers to move their files away from the root of $HOME but they didn't manage to make people respect a proper hierarchy of files.
> You could have replaced either scenarios with a single NextJS or SvelteKit solution.

But then I would be using only JS. I want a backend to be something else so that I don't go insane.
> So we are probably just one of the first.

We don't really have any way to know that. Considering that there may be as many stars in the sky as grains of sand on Earth, there are many many unknowns.

For another example we don't know for sure if our universe is the only one and it's entirely possible that everything that could ever happen plays out in real time across and infinite number of universes. We don't have any way to physically measure that possibility yet. We only have mathematical theories.

Similar to how Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model, maybe our universe is not even the center of existence?

It is humbling to imagine.
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