skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a better choice for the sake of "compatibility".

Given that English is not a major local language outside of Hong Kong, I'd expect there's a very high chance that an English-only speaker might need to interact with a Chinese-only speaker. It could be something like trying to relay their goal to a taxi driver or delivery person, or something as critical as trying to gain the attention of emergency services (I'd assume if you called the equivalent of 999/911 and shouted a location in the phone, even if you couldn't explain further, that would be enough to trigger a response)

Providing the English speaking audience the Pinyin gives them a chance to be understood in that situation. The translated only name is more likely to be unrecognized by the lisstener.

It doesn't seem so bizarre when you go into the Montreal metro and the signs say "Gare Bonaventure" instead of "Bonaventure Station", and that's in a country where English is nominally a supported language.
I have had TSA and CBP ask that I power on my laptop when traveling in the early 2010's.
> Meta isn't being "heroic" or "winning a long fought battle" or whatever analogy you want to use in order to prop them up and make them look better than they are.

The AI race is real and the AI research Meta has done deserves praise, as well as their engineering contributions.

> Do I appreciate the free weights from them? Yes. Did they contribute to a genocide in Myanmar? Also yes.

So does that mean we shouldn't use their technologies? If you are looking for big tech companies that have no skeletons that are also significantly progressing the field of AI, then you're going to be very disappointed.

> Take the weights and move on. They don't deserve the excessive praise. They aren't a rock band. They are an advertising company.

Perhaps it is you that needs to move on, unless you will actually do something about it?
I honestly don't even know what else Jasper et al could even do to stay relevant.
“Incredibly rich people made their environment and those of their rich neighbors better.” Great. But it does nothing for Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in (but still not buy a house in). I guess it’s okay if we keep making everything nicer for the elites and worse for everyone else?

I see the property deeds of the rundown apartments and tenement housing in my neighborhood. They are invariably owned by rich individuals and investment groups from far away in very upper class exclusive areas. I never see these owners do even the slightest gardening, sidewalk improvements, they won’t even fix the basic items of heat, water, building codes that they are legally required to do. Instead, they use their outsized slumlord profits to buy and remodel their own multi-multi-million dollar properties and leave the rest of us to rot.

Forgive me if I’m less than enthusiastic to cheer on the rich improving their neighborhoods and ignoring the rest of us.
>might as well say empty space is a logical impossibility.

Or very improbable.
Array Implementation in Managed Runtimes via Segments (Hermes for JavaScript)
>> Here I sit at my mother’s dining room table, typing on a MacBook Air. Something has changed in my approach to travel, and I’m trying to understand just what it is…

> I just don't get it.

Here I sit far from any WiFi, doing the same on an iPad Pro with the same "real keyboard" backlit magic keyboard with a smaller but just fine touchpad, a charging cord dock port, an inset hinge taking less room on an airline tray table; and of course the 120hz 2732x2048 264ppi touch screen with 1600nits brightness; connected by eSIM to my 4G and 5G carriers of choice but not really caring because I also have 2TB of local SSD built in.

I guess I have a very different approach to travel.

I don't have to be at my mother's dining room table. I don't have to get my Verizon JetPack (I own the top model fast enough to act as backup uplink for a small office in an emergency, but then I'm carrying two things, not one).

I can shed the keyboard and just read my Kindle, or take notes with feel of paper like my Remarkable 2 thanks to having installed the Paperlike™ screen protector while fresh out of the box.

I can present on a second screen, or drag multiple different app windows to a 6K monitor.

I can use it days in a row without having any idea where a power pack is, fast charge it from any 30W USB-C, and slow charge it from, well, anything. Same port works with most any USB-C dock, and any Thunderbolt 3 dock.

Lying in a hotel bed watching Netflix in HDR with speakers is no way to use a laptop. The iPad 12.9 at arm's length -- no awkward keyboard to weigh you down or cramp your style -- is a larger apparent screen size than a 75" TV, and looks better than most of them too.

All the tools most anyone needs are there. Office suite, Affinity suite, VSCode via blink code (same tool for mosh/ssh), Obsidian notes for personal KB, GoodNotes for handwritten ... even Kagi Orion if I need Firefox and Chrome extensions.

Same form factor for travel, same form factor for the boardroom, and more specs than really anyone needs: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/

And nobody's offended when you're using it. Nobody says "no laptops please".

Does everything, goes everywhere, all at once.

. . .

> even when my trip combines business and personal, it's no challenge at all to carry two laptops--my own, and the company's, in the same attache

TL;DR: For business or personal, iPad Pro w/ Magic Keyboard is no challenge at all to carry no laptops, in no attache, with no WiFi. And no inspections from TSA.
Well that or one or more of those are work devices. I’m not going to do all my personal stuff on a work-provided machine so I’ll still bring my iPad along.
Gnome 2 did a good job of taking all the best ideas from Windows and MacOS, then innovating on top. Sun even ran user studies to validate the UI as it was being built.

Then the gnome 3 team intentionally sabotaged it all by intentionally arranging for gnome 3 apps to refuse to coexist with a gnome 2 install.

Sigh.
Thank God, I've played Factorio for more than 1400 hours, and I'm excited about the upcoming expansion! Cheers to the developers!
Don’t forget what happens when they do fail. They get bailed out by the government thanks to all the lobbying they do. The 2008 bank bailouts, PPP loans to business owners. The government will bend over backwards for business owners but god forbid it helps regular people. Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else. And they’ll still brag about how they’re “self made” and call themselves fiscally conservative.
As a lifelong US citizen, the idea that for some reason, other citizens, via the government, should pay for me, or anyone, to not show up to work, doesn’t make any sense to me. How do other countries rationalize this idea?
Thanks for pointing this out. I toggled some Obsidian Publish settings and scrolling has improved; still not perfect, page doesn't scroll if your pointer is in the the TOC column.
One fourth of the entire Earths economy is not pretty tiny
Do-it-all devices tend to not really satisfy in anything. I got a Lenovo Yoga that was meant to be “convertible” between laptop and tablet and I never really did use it anywhere near as much as the technically much less powerful iPad Air I bought after.
lol: e.g. Scoring: A form of Newton's method used in statistics to solve maximum likelihood equations numerically.
You are correct that it would just be another kind of labor regulation, but the us is institutionally biased in favor of employers and against labor protections and it’s always been an uphill battle to enact them here. When they are enacted they are furthermore frequently rolled back or effectively neutered by lobbyist interventions in later congresses.

You can speculate and theorize about the reasons why, but the US is almost uniquely hostile to worker protections and benefits among developed countries.
Capitalism naturally tends towards monopoly. The idea that it breeds competition is a nice fairy tale, but doesn’t reflect reality.
Foldable iPhone Plus could probably narrow it down to two but I've also seen people go with ipad mini + apple watch + airpods where the duties of the phone split between the iPad/watch.
AI raises complicated questions about authorship
Wow. Most comments in this thread get it completely wrong. The article is about simplicity of implementation not simplicity of features.

Given two different implementations of software, that gives users the exact same features, you will often find that one implementation is simpler than the other. Using less libraries, a simpler build system, less code etc. That’s the kind of simplicity we should strive for. Not software with less features.
I don’t know about anyone else but my expectations are not for my iPad to be suitable for serious development work or whatever. I want to read books and magazines, surf the Web, and watch videos. And for that it’s arguably better than a laptop. At least I find myself using it for those things much more.
Don’t expect the corporate owned media to ever do any actual investigative work on why workers in the US have been getting shafted for the past 50+ years. It’s just a mouthpiece for corporate interests and government propaganda.
Since I don't post on Reddit anymore, I feel as if I have nowhere else to post this.

I used to be a near-lifelong T-Mobile US customer. My family started on T-Mobile via Omnipoint in NYC.

When we moved to Houston two and a half years ago, the coverage here was absolutely garbage. Trying to find signal anywhere was a pain, and cellular often didn't work in our house.

So we switched to AT&T, and I deleted my account with TMUS thinking that I wouldn't look back.

I was wrong.

After yet another string of bad service and slow 5G, I decided to give T-Mobile another try. It is leaps and bounds better. It's almost as if I'm using another carrier. 5G especially.

I never had working 5G before and largely thought it to be a gimmick, until I started using T-Mobile 5G Ultra Capacity. At one place, I had bandwidth over cell that was as fast as my gigabit Wi-Fi mesh at home. Insane speeds.

And it wasn't limited that one spot. I got a T-Mobile prepaid SIM while we were on a road trip to compare coverage. TMUS trounced over AT&T in just about every market. It was a night and day difference.

Between this, T-Mobile Tuesdays, Netflix and Apple TV+ on them (including Premium), an extremely seamless onboarding process (which surprised me, given that TMUS's IT has gotten a fair share of criticism), why anyone would bother with AT&T in most cases.
It really is good. Surprisingly it seems to answer instruct-like prompts well! I’ve been using it with Ollama (https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama) with prompts like:

ollama run phind-codellama "write c code to reverse a linked list"

To run this on an m1 Mac or similar machine, you'll need around 32GB of memory for the 4-bit quantized version since it's a 34B parameter model and is quite big (20GB).
And so what?

That's also exactly the case with most safety systems.
Lovely to see, but be prepared to have a plan in place for dealing with it in case it’s at risk if becoming kindling.

Having combustable matter within several feet of a building is one of the major risk factors when it comes to fire propagation through settlements, as demonstrated by the most recent firestorm in the news.
Remote VSCode over SSH crashes EC2 instance
> Do you still have to use a sideways-facing underground belt to take items from one side of a belt, blocking the other side?

Unless you have multiple items on both sides of that belt, you can use the filtering feature they built into splitters a long time ago.

> Are there yet any pleasant ways to overlap belts?

What does overlap mean? If you're trying to get multiple belts of throughput in a space that only fits one normal belt, I would not call that an "odd limitation".
Oftentimes being able to run whatever you want makes it harder to provide a cohesive, consistent experience that’s pleasant to use. Look at X vs. Mac or even Windows to see what I mean. The inconsistency of that experience has imo been a major factor holding back desktop Linux (notably, locked-down Linux-derived environments seem to do fine).
Math wiki pages are so bad. Would it kill them to use concrete examples? Why does it have to be written so that only mathematicians can understand it? It’s actually not that complicated once you know what they’re talking about, but the entry does nothing to explain it to a layman.
Its discussed in a recent Planet Money podcast

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho...
I've also implemented GDPR. Of course it's complex, it's a continent wide law, how could it not be complicated?

But I still think that "don't track your users without their informed consent" is a good summary of the intention of the law.

And I would also say that's it's only really complex to implement if you were already tracking your users and now you need to change everything. If you weren't doing that, you'd probably find it remarkably easy to implement.
How is this making anything "worse for everyone else?"

What are you doing to make "Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in" better?
Hmm, but I feel like Jax/Pytorch interop is only getting better. Tensorflow abstraction has already firmly lost.
Except it is.

"Tissue is the issue"

I have yet to see any of my radiologists differentiate a lung nodule that was actually a metastasis from the colon (which can easily miss on PET ) from primary adenocarcinoma/small cell/etc. Neither a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor from an adenocarcinoma based on a CT or PET.

I have (and often) see my patients incidentally discover masses on imaging. Perfect example- a pancreatic mass on imaging. Next stop is an anxiety filled few weeks while they wait for their biopsy to be scheduled. You then have an additional radiation exposure as these are CT guided. You hope the radiologist doesn't poke a hole in a nearby vessel, induce pancreatitis just by doing the biopsy itself, nor develop a subsequent infection related to the procedure. They then wait an additional week for pathology to result, often only to see normal pancreatic cells indicating this is a cyst.

All of this is often the result of looking for a seemingly innocent diagnosis. Eg an ultrasound to reassure your patient that their abdominal pain is not their gallbladder.

I had a similar event earlier today with a cervical lymph node seen on an ultrasound.
Thyroid nodules, renal masses, lung nodules. How long do you have?
It's important to realize this 100 mile zone only covers entering a public transport vessel (bus, train), and immigration checkpoints (only along N/S border). Within 25 miles, they can enter private property without a warrant (excepting dwellings). So it's a lot more limited in scope than it first seems.

Source: "Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) 100-Mile Rule" - ACLU Washington office.
I imagine that would depend on air quality/pollution. I believe there have been studies on running vs exposure to better and worse environments.
I recently discovered this tool called gummy search as it allows you to do market research

https://gummysearch.com/
Don’t feel bad. The wiki page is very poorly written like pretty much all the math pages.
Brazil is also a huge place. The European Union is also a huge place.
The open research tradition has been open for many defining technology, most companies continued releasing for free even when it became clear this tech would be transformative (I think it was obvious by GPT-2).
I wonder if this is related to Roman Concrete?

https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-cas...
The only time I've hit this is when implementing algorithms that assume constant time access and modification (a lot of algorithms assume this, and can't be swapped for index based maps easily)

This occurred somewhat recently when implementing stable topological sort. I ended up swapping List out for a Vector (Aja is library I used). I received a 100x performance improvement from it.

That's really the only time I've truly hit a List performance roadblock in 7+ years of Elixir.
MS-DOS 6.22 (excluding any typos as I rewrote it, I only did a proof of concept with a few words but it seemed to work).

@echo off
mkdir c:\t
echo prompt echo %1 $g C:\t\%1 >> c:\temp.bat
command /c temp.bat %1 > c:\h.bat
del c:\temp.bat

type words.txt | find /V "a" | find /V "s" | find /V "d" | find /V "f" | find /V "g" | find /V "h" | find /V "j" | find /V "k" | find /V "l" | find /V "z" | find /V "x" | find /V "c" | find /V "v" | find /V "b" | find /V "n" | find /V "m" > c:\words2.txt

echo > h.bas DIM word as STRING
echo >> h.bas OPEN "C:\words2.txt" for INPUT as #1
echo >> h.bas DO WHILE NOT EOF(1)
echo >> h.bas INPUT #1, word
echo >> h.bas CMD$ = "C:\h.bat " + word
echo >> h.bas SHELL CMD$
echo >> h.bas LOOP
echo >> h.bas CLOSE #1
echo >> h.bas SYSTEM

qbasic /RUN c:\h.bas

dir /OS /B c:\t

@del c:\t\*
@rmdir c:\t
@del c:\words2.txt
@del c:\h.bat
@del c:\h.bas

You can play with MS-DOS 6.22 in a virtual-machine-in-browser here[1]. That VM comes with Vim (non-standard) so use Vim or Edit to create a word list and save as c:\words.txt. Then yype all this code into a batch file using `edit run.bat` and then run it with `run %1`. MS-DOS 6.22 came with QBASIC so I think that's allowed; I tried to avoid it but wasn't able to. NB. DOS is way less capable than Windows cmd prompt so there's no `for /f` or anything. "Dir /OS /B" sorts files by size and that view will leave the largest files on screen as the answer. The files will be one per word, containing the word so the size in bytes is the word length and the filename is the word to see it in the file listing. The words will be echoed into the files by a helper batch file containing `echo %1 > %1`. Building the helper batch file is hard because echo cannot echo > into a file. The qwerty filtering is a chain of `find /V "a"` for excluding each of the other rows cough. I then couldn't loop over the file lines without QBASIC.

[1] https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=msdos

If you never used MS-DOS classic, try "edit test.txt" and see how it has a nice TUI, where Alt+F brings up the File menu, the brightly coloured letters are the hotkeys, so Alt+F, X will quit. Shift+Down will select a line, Shift+Delete to cut and Shift+Insert to paste. Ctrl+left/right arrows to jump forward/back a word, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to select a word. 29 years later those keyboard patterns still work in this FireFox editor, in current notepad, WordPad and Word, and in my muscle memory. Escape tends to exit back out of popups and menus. Quit and try "help date" and see the TUI help, where the green angle brackets are hyperlinks and can be TAB'ed between, Enter to activate and Escape back. F1 is still the help key, only it actually showed offline help back then instead of doing a Bing search for 'get help in notepad'. Quit and run QBasic, see how F5 runs the code.

[2] by Geoff Cutter: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.msdos.batch/c/Ozg2C-ANCqI

[3] Phil Robyn's QBASIC loop sample https://groups.google.com/g/alt.msdos.batch/c/44NbdZJ2-p4/m/...
> "Distilling complex bias issues (e.g., disparities in performance across intersectional subgroups or instances of stereotype reinforcement) to a small number of metrics without losing important nuance is extremely challenging. Another challenge is balancing the interplay between fairness metrics and other product metrics (e.g., user satisfaction, accuracy, latency), which are often phrased as conflicting despite being compatible. It is common for researchers to describe their work as optimizing an "accuracy-fairness" tradeoff when in reality widespread user satisfaction is aligned with meeting fairness and inclusion objectives."

Very well articulated. Can't agree with this enough.
The article is about behavioral advertising, which was not feasible with old media technologies.

The problem isn’t the ads. The problem is the ad targeting.
As a native english speaker, I interpret it literally, "On the day no government employees... ...minimum wage becomes a living wage".
Another thing with numeric maps is how insert would work. Swapping elements is trivial, but inserting a new one would require rewriting every subsequent entry.
I f*** hate it when tech companies try to play the role of moral authorities. Just because some journalist tries to score easy click points talking about porn.
Of course it does it does - people intentionally try to make contracts to provide flexibility around various labor laws and of course the government then tries to reclassify the employment relationship as falling under their purview.
I want to see what business models people come up with without ads sucking up all the oxygen in the room. We tried ad supported content, it was bad, let’s roll the dice again and see what we get.
This is a good summary, thank you. There is also the (non-obvious to people from other countries) reality that this is the purview of the individual States, the Federal government doesn’t have much jurisdiction here. However, the interesting fact that no States have bothered to legislate it across the entire spectrum of their very diverse politics suggests a more fundamental American view that you allude to.

American PTO is insanely diverse in my experience, it varies wildly from one company to the next. You have to ask about it when you join a new company. What I think isn’t obvious, because it is not legislated, is that the variance is really high. Some companies have policies that are extremely generous even by European standards and some are extremely stingy. And then you have random things like summer hours (4 day weeks from May to September), shutting down for a couple weeks around Christmas (fully paid and separate from PTO), etc. It’s all over the map.
Does the EU set time off limits or is it up to the member states?
How Tiered Compilation Works in OpenJDK
I linked in another comment, I use "enable1.txt" which is here on Peter Norvig's site: https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt

It's 170k English words, no placenames or people's names or anything like that, but does have some that I question how valid they are.
Ah! You're right. I wonder if vagrant is enough to mitigate these concerns.
Because Platonism is true and math is a telescope that lets us glimpse at the world of ideals.
Their population is set to drop about 500,000,000 by 2100, and they have scared away investors with the imprisonments. Also, destroying your own tech sector in the name of ideology means they aren’t super interested in the people.
> Can you name any production-quality / daily-driver linux distros that have used the same network config, init, logging, etc for the last 5 years, let alone the last 3 decades (like the BSDs have)?

Are you not so subtly referring to the systemd fiasco? That was about, if not over 10 years ago. I also don't think it matters. Change is not a bad thing, and that change is not as hectic or constant as you seem to imply.

If you really want a Linux distro that hasn't changed at all in the past 30 years, Slackware might be your bets bet, but I don't think that 'having not changed in the past 30 years' really makes sense as a metric.

Personally, I'm a fan of Alpine and Void Linux, and I also run NetBSD. FreeBSD seems too 'messy' as someone that likes minimalism, and OpenBSD's security focus is misplaced IMO.
Having worked in many graphics roles for 20 years, I have never heard of a professional wanting to use an iPad for their work, yet this thread is full of people claiming the iPad is some artist dream tool. It is not even close to true.