skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hehe, where I live in germany, there are regulary demonstrations and clashes between nazis, antifa and police. And I used to find it entertaining, to cycle around those areas, as a sort of a demo tourist (while keeping some distance). So I can say, most of it is just show (of force) and it is indeed all about intimitation (from police as well as protestors).

So yes, suddenly being trapped inside and facing riot police can be scary. That's by design.

But when you know the details, you can say quite easily, if there is any real danger of violence, or not. Usually it isn't.

But violence can sometimes erupt spontaneously though, so be aware (and fast) if you are close. Also, if you are good with words and kettled in, usually you can convince the police that you are just a tourist passing through (don't ask those, who face the heat, go to the quiet corners and ask someone in charge who does not look stressed out, the low ranks won't let you through, if they have the order to block everyone and their superiors are watching, so rather ask those a little bit higher up, but not too high, or find someone who is not being watched)
There's an obvious (and probably very tight) correlation between what scores students search for, and what scores they actually got. The fact that they're selling that data to advertisers indicates it has practical meaning, and it's hard to see what other value that data could provide.
that might be because the post they responded to was also talking about elemental strontium:

> While natural strontium (which is mostly the isotope strontium-88) is stable, the synthetic strontium-90 is
This would be a sea change in Virginia politics, which are dominated by Dominion Energy, the local regulated utility.

I've always felt it that it was wrong for a regulated utility to have so much influence in the Commonwealth. If I'm reading the article correctly, at least now their profits will reduce to the extent they are directly lobbying or donating, providing some counterpressure on their outsized influence.
What do you define "Big Gov" as for this discussion? Just federal, or also state, city, county...? (I'm assuming we're talking about the US, since the context of this discussion is the College Board)

What activities is government monitoring using commercially-available data?
The notion of 'thinking in words' reminds me of how LLMs work, but it certainly isn't me.
There are records on Steam of how long you've played.

Just download the game and play it now. There's a tutorial.
> "Joe, what's a Makefile?" "Well..."

"It's this thing you might need for a different C++ project. For this project, one source file is enough"

IOW, for someone who wants to write a tiny program, and wants to do it in C++, a Makefile is pointless.
A net-zero building next to a six-lane road next to a ten-lane highway. I'm not sure if the lighting in that building is the right thing to focus on.
hey I have wanted to write a post like this for ages but of course I never got around to it, and now I can just link people to this one instead!

My only suggestions are:

- Coining (? at least I think you did) the new term "Embedding machine" I think loses some clarity versus using "vectorizer", or other existing terminology.

- I know that researchers were surprised by how well word embeddings work, but I think you could have built a bit more intuition here instead of just saying "black box" (but maybe article would have gotten too long) - maybe using some of the intuitions from word2vec, even though that is dated now, the idea that 'similar tokens appear in similar contexts' is useful I think.
> Over a couple of generations, the pidgin evolves into a full language

What I read is that children born into a pidgin speaking society will turn it into a full (creole) language, because that's how people work.
Without written language, no record can exist of the spoken language. Since spoken language significantly predates written language, we’ll never know when the former originated.

It’s just practical to say they’re all equally old to avoid any cultural egotism that inevitably creeps in.
The taskbar is typically managed as part of the desktop environment. This term doesn’t refer only to the folder represented as empty space behind the windows.
I mean they're clearly vital to China, but private industry receives tons of subsidies in the U.S. too, 'defense' contractors, fossil fuels, farming... It's a pretty normal thing for a government to do regarding sectors it considers important. Obviously that buys them influence, in China and in the US alike.
FB is getting scores that the user enters, and CB is just passing them along without verifying them.

You pay CB when you want them to give your scores to others and attest for their accuracy.
Human nature: the best way to convince someone that there is something valuable here is to put up a sign that says “nothing valuable here—go away!”
I suppose they put the second "M" on that, but in terms of MORPGs, even graphical ones like Everquest were latecomers when compared to the thriving world of MUDs that sprung up, starting in the late 80s or before.

In fact, I worked on server code for TinyMUCK, and Jonathan Blow was a prominent player in those days, going by the name of Stinglai. Stinglai actually helped create the first TinyMUCK-based worm in the Forth language.

We had added this nifty feature where, in addition to static strings as fields such as descriptions, you could run a program instead. So it was like "#!/bin/bash" in a shell script; we called it "@#" because you just entered "@#xxx" where xxx was the database ID of the program you wished to call. So it was really flexible and programmers enjoyed generating dynamic strings instead of the static ones from before.

Of course we had no authentication or permissions system to protect players from one another. Every program ran under the credentials of the user who called it. Now by putting this in descriptions, a player could unwittingly call a program just by looking at something or someone.

Needless to say, this was ripe for abuse and immediately turned into a pernicious worm, where anyone who looked at anyone else became infected with the same "@#" description which was designed only to propogate itself through setting of descriptions. If I remember correctly, it only propogated among players, and not objects or rooms, because it needed to be actively called by someone "look"ing at a description.

I can't remember if, when or how we settled on a solution for that, but it sure was a wakeup call.
I'm doing a hammer driven well point right now, been pounding for 3 weeks nearly everyday. I get about 1 inch per day exhausting myself. I'm maybe 9 feet down, no water yet. I am getting a lot stonger and it gets eaier everyday. Probably have 20+ hours into this stupid thing already :(

Well point is NOT easy.
But you can often buy cheaper than renting with the caveat of getting a cheaper brand. For most DIY I find the cheaper ones good enough, as long as you get
some online wisdom first to avoid the occasional turds being sold. Example:
chainsaw, drill, jet wash, pruning equipment etc.
You will never convince me that this article's nothing more than an elaborate prank by an old dude to get someone to take an absolutely sick ass pic.

[Higashiyama demonstrating between-the-legs viewing]
So does this sync all the machine state to the cloud? I thought they mostly used local storage.
Solar Orbiter observes jets of material escaping the sun
Didn’t Minix support running without a MMU? And there seems to be an option to disable MMU support in Linux too. Obviously you lose on memory protection… but does that make these setups “not Unix”?
There was a time before cliffs, and the game was fine. IIRC cliffs were also meant to give the explosive tree at least some non-warfare utility. They can be cool in the beginning, while later on they’re a chore in my experience.
I don’t think True Names is in any way cyberpunk. No mirrorshades vibe at all, which is part of its charm.
Secret to whom? Were they supposed to file permits with the US after we cut them off?
Author's writeup about the project: https://medium.com/@iamarunbrahma/fine-tuning-of-falcon-7b-l...
Have you tried helminth therapy (assuming it's applicable)?
> most mathematicians have never been exposed to it

I'm not sure what graduate math programs don't have Algebraic Topology. It's pretty fundamental.
OP, could you clarify? I don't understand what you're asking, though I can probably point you to the right place once I do.
Space Exploration is by definition grindy since it aims to expand the base game. If I need to make one new set of space science there’s literally 5 new intermediate products I have to produce just to get that science. Those things aren’t used anywhere else in the game. Just for producing that science. That bothers me.
Especially a community that is already self-reliant to a large extent. Preppers are doing the IT equivalent of making untested backups. The backups may work, but since you didn't test it they might not work.

Amish are testing their resilience daily.
You say that as though it's easy. I've yet to find an explanation that's shorter than a book.
Thank you

Build community not bunkers

Only one has the ability to last and be sustainable
Proving my point at the absurdity of this all... No service should be that complicated to shut down that such extreme measures should be required.
Yes, just as much as airlines are an arm of the US government:

> U.S. airlines avoided broad bankruptcies and cuts with the record $74 billion in government Covid-19 aid (https://skift.com/2021/07/29/federal-aid-saved-u-s-airlines-...)

Or the US semiconductor industry
> Most of the money is going into industry and supporting industry investments. Of the $52.7 billion in subsidies, the bulk of that will end up going to private companies. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nearly-53-billion...)

Of course there's more examples for almost any country.

I'm not debating your conclusion. I think it is spot on. I am calling out the tone though as if this was not the norm for all the mega corps/mega industries.
Musk has pocketed $5bn and that excludes "government contracts".

It would be fair to say they are really just an arm of the government right ?
Everyone? I wasn’t sure. I doubt a fresh-outta-CSS-bootcamp person would either.

It’s ‘standardized’ within its niche. Niches can have shorthands, but breaking into mainstream seems a bit lofty considering the ambiguity from the outside (I’ve never used regularly) as well as how much & how far you can get with CSS without a library (not saying there’s not obvious places for libraries).

You could be more clear by writing margin-bottom-5, but then you reinvented CSS. And using shorthands for singular properties feels like reinvented CSS—especially since the name implies you can’t even refactor mb-5 { margin-bottom: 6α }. If you can’t use it to refactor, what’s its point?
Guessing the 3D shape from its shadows
A lot of organizations just slather up their sites with all kinds of trackers and have absolutely no idea what they are sharing and with whom.

It's an absolute dumpster fire that can only be fixed with legislation as the web is just not designed to prevent tracking in any way. There is far too much security "surface area" for a workable technical solution without re-engineering the entire ecosystem.

That legislation is of course unlikely because political parties, think tanks, governments, and propagandists all want to gather as much information as possible for their own purposes.

Literally every single financial, political, and social incentive points toward maximization of surveillance everywhere. I feel like it's pretty hopeless without something very bad happening and causing a huge grassroots movement that can't easily be ignored.
Not to say you’re wrong, but “TSMC seeks $15 billion in US subsidies for Arizona chip plant”[1] and the fact they may get a sizeable share of the EU’s $46 billion subsidy pot [2], suggests that this is just the sort of money that governments are willing to spend to secure access to one of the 21st century’s most critical resources.

If anything, given China will not have access to ASML’s latest tech and will need to develop much of the tech itself, the $30 billion seems a bit low for a whole “network” of fabs.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-seeks-15b-subsidies-want...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-feeling-good-about-p...
Mining is destructive whatever you mine. The worst kind of mining is open-pit mining, which isn't the most common method for uranium, so in average uranium mining is probably less destructive than most mining operations.
"Unintentional lie" overlaps with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deception.
This is also sharing PII of minors, no?
Another major stumbling block for train signals once you get the basics down is segment length. Signals indicate whether the next segment is occupied, not whether any given train will fit in there (and potentially block a segment or intersection behind it.)

I frequently set up tracks with segments as large as my longest train, but then end up having to add an intersection here or there, breaking up segments into smaller sizes. This is the root of most of my train woes (aside from LTN issues, which are a whole other issue!)
Perception is reality - Mother Nature is the arbiter, and you lose.
If you want to dig into some code:

The Elixir 'Getting started'[0] guide has you building a concurrent, distributed KV store using nothing but the basics of OTP (effectively the std of BEAM).

0. https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
No, they didn't, they responded to the question they thought they were being asked. The form fields on their college search page weren't even in their working memory at the time.

This is a case of the College Board negligently failing to recognize these fields as sensitive data, not a case of them outright lying. Still bad, obviously, but stupid rather than nefarious.
You can also finish it in less than 20h, which is a benefit for some :)
Dropbox blames crypto miners and resellers for ending its unlimited storage plan
A less enigmatic explanation, for other citizens who do it a lot, mostly when they more than 14 months old: https://adailydoseofmom.com/baby-bending-over-looking-throug...
No but it is endemic to how we think about compilers up to now, and especially when the rust compiler arch was massively developed, more than 10 years ago.

I recommend a watch of this for a recent take on trying to change how we think of these. It is an open research field

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI198eFghJk
It doesn't. It says that once you've built a proper community, you've built "the grid." You're not living "off grid." That's like the whole point of the article. You're never going to make it on your own. Like it or not, we're all in this together. And it's pretty clearly aimed at the folks that don't think they need anybody else to make it.
> In Florida, NextEra Energy’s Florida Power & Light spent millions of dollars on political consultants who engineered a scheme to siphon votes to third-party “ghost candidates” who were recruited to appear on the ballot for competitive state Senate seats without actually running, according to reporting by the Orlando Sentinel. The utility-backed effort targeted legislators who were trying to hold the utility accountable, the Sentinel reported.

What.The.HELL!?

I'm sooo tired of the criminaling. Just be decent people. How hard is that?!
I have started to plan some earth mounds. I keep walking over the same ground contemplating the optimal setting. Once I figured that out it occurred to me that it would be fun to make them 3 sizes small, medium, and large.

The idea has evolved to the point where I'm now estimating quantity of stones and relative size based on seating capacity of the mound.

I won't it even get in to site the entrances towards the east...

My point, I think is that a simple tweaks to earth mound can evolve a complex language by using similar shaped river stones at different scales.

The final result of the first phase will 7 mounds of 3 sizes and one large elevated platform. I realized doing planing the easiest way to communicate my idea to landscapers was to find a stone of each size to use a reference. I could then describe how many of which type go where. before covering with earth.

Once they are done we start to mark celestial events with special stones from far away places to mark the significance...
> they didn't use Distributed Elixir at all, just plain old Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis and GRPC

There must be a good rationale for that decision. Do you know what it is?
18TB(raw) LTO-9 tapes go for US$ 105:

* https://tapeandmedia.com/lto-ultrium-9-tapes/

If your data is compressible then you can of course store more. The drives themselves use Streaming Lossless Data Compression, but of course you can send them things like gzip, JPEG, MPEG files which are already compressed; SLDC:

* https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-3...

LTO-10 is supposed to have 36TB raw and is estimated for perhaps 2024.
It's not cultural egotism to say for example, that Hebrew is older than English. Being old doesn't confer extra prestige on a language.

The problem is in deciding whether a language spoken 1000 years ago is still the same language as today. I'm not enough of a linguist to know the correct answer to this.
Surely a packager would be working off of the actual releases not a random git archive?

And if they can’t wait for official releases, they’d be working off of the git repo?
Tuple creation and destructuring does not require parentheses in Python.

w = 0, # w == (0,)
(x) = (0,) # x == (0,)
y, = 0, # y == 0
(z,) = (0,) # z == 0

Though in Rust, parentheses are required for tuple creation and destructuring.
> Umm, what's the controversy here?

Did you see Godzilla ? /s
At least it’s something. The alternative today in the US is nothing. It’s easy for us to discuss the morality of this when we have a cushy wage and cushy benefits. A lot of Americans cannot afford the deductible or even have insurance. While the obvious “least dangerous” and most moral solution is universal healthcare but that’s not happening anytime soon for anyone younger than 65. There’s little push back probably because most people here understand this. Something while dangerous is better than nothing.
It was changed.

old: https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/compassinfield.pn...
An IP Attorney’s Reading of the LLaMA and ChatGPT Class Action Lawsuits
I'm happy to see that the project is still active. LuaJIT is really something special.

I'm also glad that they're using rolling releases, as I felt "bad" for using something named LuaJIT 2.1 beta3 in a project since the target was ARM64.
There is a DC long distance line from the Dalles, Oregon to LA that has been around since the early 70's. Its been upgraded a few times, and now runs 3GW of power over it. its very distinctive from the other lines nearby, since it only has 2 wires:

The grounding loops are very impressive. 6 mile loop of buried cable at either end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
I thought that was clear all along. This is all just a scheme for YC to get access to the deal flow for your next great idea.
What you're probably thinking of is the statistic that a pound of plutonium oxide would cause cancer in 2 million people.

A more detailed look into the matter shows that even that is very likely overblown: http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/answers/llnl.html

You simply couldn't possibly spread it enough with enough density to be both inhalable and common enough to measurably increase cancer risk.

While I agree that just putting it in the ground is the superior solution, my point is that fears of putting nuclear material on modern American rockets are very exaggerated.
A-bingo. Yes, so many of our best technologies were inspired by natural information processes.

Aspirin comes from isolating the biologically active chemical, Salicylic acid, in willow tree bark.

Disc laser technology and nano
-texture paints comes from reverse engineering the moth eye.

The more processed a food is - that is, the more informatic noise it contains, the less signal, the worse it is, nutrition wise. Also from a quantum history moralistic perspective, less dependency = less inputs = better.

Foods that are closer to death or have undergone a death process are largely toxic to the body in terms of biological debt on the inflammatory (cancer, autoimmune, stenosis of vessels, etc) axis.

Fruits, nuts, seeds, eggs, and cheese are closer to birth and if eaten relatively whole/unprocessed, will be absorbed with low impedence/resistance.

The human body is a biochemical engine. It is versatile and can accept bunker fuel, ie. oily processed garbage. But it'd rather have a high protein high fat diet consisting of foods that haven't been dressed up, or gone through chemically dangerous dying process.

Animals can be carnivores and take the route they wish. If we want to live longer, we have to actually understand what food energy is. Because most of our energy comes from oxygen. When we lose fat, 99% is breathed out. Just like a naturally aspirated car engine.
What about the CHIPS act and its $52 billion in subsidies and tax benefits? Is Intel just another arm of US government now? And EU will do the same. I believe it's understandable that every political block wants to be independent in such important technologies.
The statements are only odd to those who understand how things actually work.
I love Factorio and have >1000 hours in the game. Two things I would love to see:

- Steam cloud sync fixed for large save files. Right now, you'll eventually reach a point where you can't save your game to the cloud anymore.

- More interesting aliens and strategies for dealing with them. After awhile, the aliens start to feel like a repetitive grind. They always behave predictably and the solution to them is pretty much always the same.
> Then it's the search engine which makes/keeps and publishes the association between actress names and their images, and publishing that association would be illegal. In other words, the search engine should not make an inference, this image looks like a specific actress => this image is of this actress.

Assuring that is technically difficult, error prone, and likely to interfere with legitimate functions of the search engine (assuming you think that search-by-face has any legitimate functions).

One of the signs of being on the wrong track in policy is that you find yourself having to go after more and more people and forbid more and more things.

> Look at where the reputation risk comes from

This. Is. Not. About. Reputation.

Not for major celebrities. Not in any way, shape, or form.

If you posted a deepfake of some major actress that was any more pornographic than some casual wardrobe malfunction, put her name on it, and claimed it was real, still effectively nobody would believe it was real (unless she had actually made it, in which case she or her publicists would make really sure that was known). Unless she was really unusually dumb, she would know that effectively nobody believed it was real. And yet she might very well feel harmed by it.

And for that matter she might be actually seen in a different light by people who were 100 percent certain it wasn't her and she had nothing to do with it.

Claiming it's a deepfake of "her character" doesn't change the fact that it is equally a deepfake of her. It's an image. There is nothing interesting about it other than its appearance. And it appears to be her just as much as it appears to be the character.

It's true that reputation risk comes into it for "normal" people, but everybody knows that there are going to be tons of fakes of celebrities.