skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to deal with a million accounts, you can. There's nothing stopping you from registering accounts for every service you use even if this takes off and everyone else moves on to federated services.

I apologise for any confusion; I wasn't contending that ForgeFed would prevent me from using individual accounts, I was contending the statement

> What happened is that it massively sucks.

IMO, it doesn't. It sucks, but not massively so!

Maintaining individual accounts across, maybe, six or seven providers[1], does indeed suck, but not massively so, and not enough to go to the trouble of maintaining my own instance within a federated system.

[1] I will probably never have anywhere close to a million individual accounts at code-hosting providers, even if it were federated. There will also never be more than a handful of providers where 99.9% of everyone goes.

As we've seen again, and again, and again ... any distributed system (like cryptocurrency exchanges, federated social networking, etc) slowly consolidates into three, maybe four places that get almost all the traffic/users.

It becomes centralised.

Is there any reason you think that this time, with ForgeFed, it will be different?

Federated systems are a technical solution to a social problem, which is why it always fails - i.e. results in centralisation eventually. If you have any examples where the result truly is normally distributed amongst all the instances I'd really like to see that.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/traders-wary-of-a...
https://archive.is/iyKeN
It actually is circular as written, especially the part where they claim that the source has a history of bad arguments. As there's no evidence they evaluated the argument at all, we can assume this history is also based on reasoning of the form "it's bad just because" this this boils down to "it's bad just because, just like everything else they say".

Also, you're being too generous to assume there's an unstated justification for why it's is a bad argument. Pretty obvious that there isn't, they just assume anything said by the authors must be bad because tribes.
> The premise of ForgeFed is that you'd have one account but that one account would not need to be under the control of a corporation, you could have a private instance that you used interact with all open source software projects.

Yes, but maintaining my own private instance sucks more than remembering a handful of account credentials.
> but why then not just add this feature to C

It would most likely need to 'break' C in a way that it wouldn't be recognisable as C anymore or at least break compatibility with existing C code (e.g. removing pointers, or at least pointer arithmetics, and the way pointers and arrays interact).
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Russian sentenced to six years in prison for online posts about Ukraine war
> Well, because they and judges are the ones empowered by the government monopoly on violence to judge the law and then have it be enforced, thats why.

... by the US government on US territory, i think. They have no business defining "otherwise objectionable" elsewhere.
This YT video from 2019 seems like a good explainer.

It does attract some good DJ's though, I mean a $3-8m 70KW moving sound system/dance floor seems pretty awesome, aka the Mayan Warrior.

https://youtu.be/QRbC3GPW1HI?t=1290
Why would you want to quit?
In news just in:

Burning Man: Police investigating death during heavy rain

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66700006

An investigation has been launched into the death of a person during torrential rain at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada.

No further details have been given about the circumstances of their death.

In a statement on Saturday, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said it is "currently investigating a death which occurred during this rain event", and that the person's family had been notified.
Duck typing?
But the principle in question isn't specific to any one industry, so how is that a relevant distinction?
Why?

Are you implying that it’s less intensive to collect used plastics from consumers and ship that to burning stations to generate energy vs. pumping natural gas and shipping it in pipelines?

The problem with any plastic recycling/burning plan is always the energy needed to collect, sort and divert it.

We should focus on the lowest-energy way to keep it out of the ocean, which for the most part (outside of island nations) is burying it somewhere in modern well maintained landfills.
That's current situation in UK, and way less in Japan.
Vision Pro perhaps, but companies like Lenovo are already working on VR glasses you plug into a laptop or portable console (the Lenovo Legion had marketing materials leaked that showed them).

The Vision Pro concept is hardly new, of course, and there are already various window managers that will work with existing VR headsets. All someone needs to do is bring out a portable PC with the right form factor. I imagine taking the controllers and the touch screen off a Steam Deck would make for something you could quite comfortably wear, though you'd want a better battery/power plug design than what Apple has in mind.
I like https://www.seense.com/the_clock/ as it has calendar items, and multiple timezones
Implementing something like Shazam that works in a quiet room with perfect source might be "straight forward" and "just need a really fast key-value table" but the thing where Shazam shines is doing all of that with very quiet audio, bad quality, noisy background and all kinds of other non-lab conditions.

I think you are underselling the engineering effort a bit there, I'm sure the engineers working on it for years have a reason for still being there.
Russian anti-war activists are probably the most surveilled people in the world.

>Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. How does Putin’s regime seem to know their every move?

https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat...

This seems in stark contrast with Ukrainian social media that is full of criticism of Ukrainian authorities from everything from their conscription practices to corruption.
It's not illegal if you can convince the government to use force on your behalf.

You don't even have to use force. Just erecting entry barriers is good enough. This is why business cartels can form even without using force (not even indirectly). Cartels are considered illegal conspiracies against the public. If unions didn't have protected rights in law, then they'd just be considered labour cartels and also rendered illegal.
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1015/
Pattern reproduction is very close to speech in my opinion. Formal grammars even have it in the name and approaches like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118 show that LLMs are indeed very fit for that purpose.

I think I have to walk that claim about math back and try to phrase what I meant differently:
LLMs have a hard time with problems that don't translate well into the text space, i.e. abstract problems. Math used to be one of those because early tokenizers were designed just with text in mind and LLMs weren't good enough to overcome those limitations.
OpenAI put in a lot of effort into their tokenizers to make GPT3.5 and GPT4 better at math specifically.

The second paper you linked is very interesting and I think it supports my original assertion of text space and latent space being close. The first graph shows GPT3.5 doing much better at pattern reproduction and language tasks while humans still hold an advantage in the more abstract tasks like story analogies. Higher order relations being a key thing that's measured maybe makes this task a bit too perfect for arguing my case, but it does show that humans have an advantage in more abstract situations.

I think any problem that can be viewed as being mostly a form of translation is a good one for LLMs and if you can express a problem as that, you can get better results.

To get back to the main point: latent space and text space, or feature space in general, being close is what I believe causes all of this. Happy to hear counterexamples.
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People in the late 80's and early 90's became paranoid about child safety, even as society was getting safer for children, because of largely made-up paranoia like child predators lurking in neighborhoods.

Many places these days are so paranoid that people will call police if children are out playing in a neighborhood unattended. Totally unlike the 80's. Others are trying (and sometimes succeeding) to pass laws specifically clarifying that it's legal to let kids roam neighborhoods. I don't know who I'm following on Twitter who mentioned this, but some place just passed such a law. There's been a "rewilding" movement for some time now, and people like Haidt are emphasizing how terrible it is for psychosocial development for kids not to be out with other kids socializing without direct parental oversight.
apple and blackberry taste nice with custard.
I tend to agree. I'm using this in a personal project and when I go back to debug issues with the curried functions I find I am not as smart as I thought I was.
Well I need to step in on this. It isn't like oh hey multi-generational... it is more complicated.

People born without the effects of gravity will not develop the same. No form of alternative medicine will fix that.

Traveling through space means that piece of society needs to be consistent with maintenance and non stop. Humans are disorganized and function independently. Small groups function together. Humans are messy and keeping that space clean will be nearly impossible.

You would need a way to grow food and handle waste. Not even the best submarines have figured this out. Even with the ISS we have to send food up and take trash back.

We are not net zero enough to even make such a project possible.
> the rarity of floating Wayland WMs is odd

I imagine most Linux users will be on either KDE or GNOME+Mutter. People who don't use that are likely to be into low-spec desktop environments (XFCE and such) or niche solutions (i3 and friends).

There are niche stack window managers (labwc/Liri shell/Wayfire) but they don't have quite the cult following tiling WMs do.
That is correct.

I was being rather cavalier in my use of the term SOC.

The M1/M2 have the CPU/GPU/RAM as part of the package.

The SSDs are just soldered on

Not my area at all :-)

Now it's time to insert my usual whinge about having to pay AU$900 for a 2TB SSD drive upgrade!
Depends what you'll be doing with it I guess? My 2022 M2 Macbook Air is great for most things but takes 40s to complete the same test suite that my 2020 5950x finishes in 10s.
If only we already had a solid material that contained that carbon in a way the kept it out of the atmosphere.

Maybe a polymer of some sort.

Oh wait that’s just “never burnt plastic”.

Sorry for the snark. I just am always amazed at how badly otherwise smart people want to burn trash when we have the space to just bury it. Like the phrase “garbage in garbage out” applies to fire too…
Ostriches Are So Horny for Humans It Interferes with Their Mating
This is great! Thank you for making it!

Any chance of someone being able to run their own instance?

I noticed a GitHub link, but no repos inside...
I know this is a joke, but it would be interesting to see an actual project built with this, just for curiosity.
I was a swimmer in my childhood/youth and changed to triathlon later and thus have some datapoints still pretty much anecdotal. Basically since swimming was my best discipline, I was always put in the A lane after some time tryouts. Arriving in a new club this meant displace some other ALaner and they were not that happy usually, so i cannot see this BLane pattern.
That video was enough for me to lose all interest in this channel. Misrepresenting basic maths with something obtuse that is obviously false pushes people away from the discipline.
I did not even remember I had this application on my system
The dataset contains both the latest wheel (precompiled) and the latest source dist for each package, so .so files come from the non-python libs.
Ironically, I find their older models with optical receivers a lot more high-tech than the later USB models.
He is definitely lying about this "Mod". Why submit third party assets?
I'd have preferred a `fun` (or `fn, if you insist on 2 characters) instead of the Haskell-esque double colon `::` in function definitions to make parsing them easier. And the semicolon after `case` is irritating for me too.
But `foo := bar` for a type-less `foo: TYPE = bar` is too much parser-friendly syntax and inconsistent with using a double colon `::` for function types and struct definitions. And inconsistent with using just the colon in `foo: TYPE`.

How do nested for-loops work, if `it` names the current iterator?

for particles {
// Inside for loops the "it" object is the iterator for the current object.
particle_left := view_left \* it.particle_size;
}
L1-A

Then you can program in FORTH, which has full Emacs key binding support!

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware/blob/master/for...
If I'm not going somewhere longer than overnight, just these in my pockets:

- Key chain with capsule containing earplugs
- Wallet
- Phone

If I need to bring my laptop for some weird reason, laptop bag containing:

- laptop
- charger
- a few USB cables and adapters
- cheapie pen
- a few sheets of paper

If I need to go somewhere for multiple days, backpack containing above plus:

- 3-4 days of clothing
- small battery pack
- mini toiletries bag
- electric shaver
- umbrella
- raincoat
- hat
- sweater
- light or heavy jacket depending on time of year
- possibly a flashlight depending on where I'm going, but that's rare

That's been good enough for 25 years of on-and-off travel up to 3 weeks, and is also good enough for delivering a truck to the front near Bakhmut. I'd only pack more if I were camping.
Dont get carried away by tech thats offered for "free".

Even if you subtract all the margins corporations (visa/mastercard etc) extract there is a gigantic bill when you make services free for everyone.

Everything is beautiful when google, youtube, fb, twitter offered their stuff for free. But we know the true cost 20 years later.

Sooner or later some one has to foot the bill. In this case a very small pool of indian tax payers.
You're not wrong. Applied ML articles are not worth reading.
Thank you very much Jim for your attention and time, spent to understand what was "wrong" in that report.

Those graphs are one the most misleading thing I have ever encountered.

It is also paradoxical that effort is factored in the final ranking: if some place has good output in spite of low investment, it means that it has "natural" good output (e.g. "inhabitants of X need little policing because they already incline towards honesty"), which means it should - if anything - be ranked higher!!!
Just run a vimulator in emacs.
"For all that he has inspired many a mediocre imitator, the power and legacy of Tolkien, and the high fantasy he invented, cannot be understated."

The correct phrase is "cannot be overstated." I cannot overstate how common the erroneous "understated" variant has become, to the point it now seems likely to replace the original. The problem seems to arise from the trifecta of overstated being less familiar than understated, the difficulty of parsing the meaning of the phrase (which is basically "impossible to exaggerate") and—with apologies to Doug Piranha—litotes.

<End rant>
I think you're viewing this in a very idealistic way and not a way many companies actually operate.

You can me ask "why don't you do X". And the answer is that the culture does not support it. I have work to do, work I've been given because as senior members of the team we are pushed into bigger and more important projects. The less experienced members of the team just have more time to do things.

For me to spend 7 hours a day sitting in a call with someone would mean 7 hours of not delivering work that my manager and project managers expect to be delivered. No person in the business is going to want to spend 7 hours on a call because the culture does not encourage it. This is why I said it is uncomfortable for both parties. Taking hours of someone's time isn't seen as a good thing, it's seen negatively. Of course the person you're helping appreciates it. But the culture makes them feel guilty for asking.

Should that be the case? No. Is that the case? Yes. Am I working toward that not being the case? Yes.

I don't know why you think I'm not trying to change the culture. I've literally listed all the issues and ways to fix it. It's not an overnight switch.
I got one of these for my birthday in 2003, and I'm still using it. The Data Link USB "only" has a battery life of about a year. The 3-year life Data Link would be the older model, that optically received data from a PC by watching light pulses from a CRT.

I don't know why he's complaining about the Windows 98/XP PIM software. It worked fine, and it's open source <https://sourceforge.net/p/datalinkusb/code/HEAD/tree/USBPIM/>. It does not work on Windows 10 and later, however. I looked into it years ago, and it seemed related to the GUI code (I think it used MFC?) and not anything involving watch access. Probably fairly easy for someone familiar with Windows dev to fix, especially with the source. Edit: Wait, I misread. He was complaining about the SDK wizard, not the PIM. Yeah, the wizard wasn't great. Also, it was slow since every file assembled had several megabytes of headers included.

Having C code running on the watch is nuts. The builtin ROM software was written in a high-level assembler (probably for size/CPU/power consumption reasons), and the user SDK was a regular assembler (I got the impression that back then Epson wasn't giving away the better development software, so the best that could be included for free with the SDK was the regular assembler.) The OS's overlay system and semi-adhoc calling convention isn't C friendly. Often, values were passed in whatever registers were convenient for the callee, with macros to help hide this when possible. EEPROM access functions took parameters from global RAM variables.

The SDK documentation was great. 10/10. You could not reasonably ask for more. It had many examples, every single header file used by Timex, which documented every single function and variable (even ones internal to the builtin software), and PDFs describing every bit of data going in and out of the watch, from the communication protocol to the file formats used by every builtin app. The OS used by the watch is impressively clean and easy to use for a one-off 8-bit system.

Most development for the watch was shared on a Yahoo Group, which is down now, but there are backups somewhere. I manually saved a bunch, and I know that people there backed up the messages and uploaded them to... I don't remember exactly where, I'd have to look it up. I remember running across a post there from the EEVBlog guy when looking through old posts. He was asking about making a fitness tracking app.

It took me a long time to get around to writing anything for it, but I wrote several programs for it around 2013-2015ish. A timer, calender, expense tracker, and a viewer for the user tracking data (stuff like how many times you've pressed a button, entered an app, or had an alarm go off). The SDK had a single DOS program as part of the build process (it was something to feed the linker some addresses), so I had to rewrite a 32-bit version to get the SDK to work on 64-bit Windows 7. I think I later found someone else already did that on the Yahoo Group.
Or load Deldo into Emacs and insert the plug!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
Yeah, but the accounting for it would run the 100 years, presumably.
My Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster
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I don’t think it’s that bad. It’s not ideal for sure, but it’s good enough to get things done. I’ve definitely seen worse, the Avaya call center configuration tool comes to mind.

Also this comment feels a bit rude to the author of Calibre - I’ve been using it for many years and it’s very helpful - I don’t think there’s any other book catalog software with similar feature set. If you feel that the ux/ui is bad - consider helping to improve it, it’s an open source software.
> It was published in 1954, at a time when literary modernism was dominant and pervading the academy. Modernist writers were obsessed with interiority, broke with prior literary convention, and traded in irony, ambiguity and convoluted psychology.

I don't understand what is being said here. I assume I'm supposed to already be familiar with those literary criticism concepts.
I mean I think if you compare to, say, VSCode, writing any amount of [Emacs] Lisp to customise anything at all is "hard". I like it! It means I can customise more or less whatever I like, but it's a different universe.
So, when a program fails it's oath... and it must be punished... I strongly suggest it be sent to purgatory (not deleted), for redemption is always possible.

This would make it possible for a programmer to redeem themselves.

Of course, you could probably do a git difference... but that's not as thematically consistent.
List of Government Space Agencies
If the license is missing, it is a violation of the license and there is legal recourse. Just like if someone did the same thing manually.
Oh for sure, I agree, and I've blindly imported reams of elisp dependencies myself!
Already does between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand with ISO 20022 compliant cross border fast payments.
I am not sure whether my interpretation of REPL driven development is the same, but in VSCode I use "Python Interactive Window" a lot. I can run lines, .py files and cells (lines of code split by "#%%") in an interactive Python shell, and run simple statement directly in the same shell for inspection and debugging. This sounds like a similar featureset as elpy, but of course the exact workflow of elpy in emacs could still be preferable to you and many others.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py
I agree with you, it does feel like the article is coming from a very defensive place that seems like an emotional response rather than a logical argument built up from facts. But, the SVs elites "god-complex" that the author refers to is very real. Regulation and policies must be set up to actively keep them from gaining another monopoly.