skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised media companies haven't developed something akin to HDCP for attestation that a display has shown an ad to a user. Once you have private keys in display devices it seems like the obvious next step.
That is how it is presented; I'm aware that you can probably use it without owning any Bitcoin, but again -- even the Twitter guy is touting that being the point of it.
>in a machine-readable format

You're missing the point. The w3w coordinate system is designed to be readable by humans. The massive increasing adoption of this system should be a large hint that it is useful.
Whether or not a collection of facts can be subject to copyright varies across jurisdiction - in the US you can't copyright the phone book, while the EU has a specific concept of database rights. What's critical in the US case is whether there's any creative expression in the collection of facts or whether it's effectively mechanical, and whether the w3w wordlist would be protected under that would seem like an interesting case.
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Any links/sources to these events? More for further reading/curiosity!
The convergence of volatile and non-volatile storage is one of the most exciting upcoming technologies, and always will be.
For the same prompt and same version?

That would be deal breaker if the same prompt gives different results.

Would also make the whole prompt engineering thing pretty useless.
Scala async coroutines build FSMs that are just standard objects. They aren't very commonly used, but the same approach could probably be adapted to C.

Basically the compiler compiles async function to a very simple FSM object where each assignment to a local variable that lives longer than a yield point becomes a member of the FSM object. This is done after the transformation to a simple normal form, at which point the function basically looks like bytecode. The compiler generate a new class for every async coroutines.

The generated FSM classes are statically sized so they could in principle be stack allocated, and their instances can be manipulated like any other JVM object.

At $work we have a system using scala async that has all of these features (arrays of FSMs, serialization, distribution by sending to network etc.) Of course there are complications (file handles for example) and it's easier with a GC.
I have a touchscreen laptop. I love it, but UIs like these would make me love it even more. Having information detail literally at your fingertips sounds amazing.

This seems like such a sensible idea to me, it makes me wonder why it isn’t commonplace yet. I hope it will be!
>turn the country into a role-model for others

you're assuming that they (others) care about this and do not want to hurt you
Pay off your highest interest rate debts first.

Next, I would:

- buy / do things that improve your sleep

- physical therapy (to learn proper way to carry your body)

- gym membership

- hire someone to declutter your home

- go on a non-extravagant trip to a destination that is wildly different than what you're used to

- buy an instrument and take music lessons
I did, to highlight the fact that it does more than you observed.
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India successfully launches its first mission to the Sun
Let me simplify then: modern cities suck. They're soul-crushing, sad places to live in. A lot of that has to do with modern construction and economic philosophy which you so praise.
What a bizarre comment again. Police State? What are you smoking?

Do yourself a favor and check when the last person was choked to death, beaten to death by police over here, how many police shootings we have per capita, how many people have their property taken by police at traffic stops, what our imprisoned population ratio is, and how many policemen and three letter agencies we have to oppress us.

Find us instances where our President or Prime Minister openly fabulate about shooting protesters, cheers about kids with assault rifles doing it for him?

Continue to research if police in Singapore can claim qualified immunity, whether we have a thin blue line here, whether minorities have to fear police in Singapore. Please go on, educate us how we are oppressed and cannot have a good life as a result.

Tell us how the police in Singapore is feared by a large percentage of the population because skin color means potentially getting shot through the windshield. Maybe find some cases of systemic police violence that have gone unpunished in our country? (Did you know public servants, including police get their punishment doubled on conviction because, shockingly, they are held to a higher standard here rather than receiving immunity and protection).

By all means, educate us on the last time a Singapore SWAT team accidentally shot someone in their bed, or in fact a single case of successful murder by Police/Swatting here. Or the last time police leadership covered up for a serial killer or rapist in uniform, we are burning to hear your insights into that.

We actually, by a large margin, like our police force here. Many of them are kids doing their national service.

Oh I get it, these things are not oppression, the Economist has a statistic somewhere that they are the price of freedom.

What is it with people who feel compelled to post “just reminders” that Singapore is definitely not a pure western democracy like Texas or Alberta or Bavaria who have true one party rule on the same population scale on random threads about … checks … the color palette of Singapore?

Is it fragility? The inability to accept that there are places in the world that are comparatively thriving compared to the West?

Further Reading:
https://thekopi.co/2020/06/12/how-did-singapore-avoid-the-po...
Instead of memorizing some set of words, have a proper emergency plan with a named set of locations. Militaries do this all the time.

This basically replaces “okay so this is evacuation point Alfa” with “okay so this is evacuation point carrots-bacon-ovens”

In either case you still must consult an additional source if you need it translated to a coordinate system. And if you mix up “oven” with “ovens” you might end up evacuating to the other side of the planet.
Yep. I was (and to some extent still am) part of a startup that found a better alternative to W3W. Our solution is the geohash phrase, which you can find a discussion of here: https://www.qalocate.com/solutions/geohashphrase/

The only major thing W3W has going for it is a very, very good marketing department.
I have the sad feeling that this article is reinventing what is already well described, in unambiguous and accepted terms. Here I see a reinvention of terms, meanings, notations, which will make it harder for those who will use it through third-party libraries or try to understand it more deeply.
I tried to find anything available by a simple google search.... and couldn't find it.

Therefore, I will get what I had the good fortune to come across also outside the Internet:

[1] Lectures on 3D computer vision. Very rich, detailed, mathematically very accurate. The best one I ever saw on the topic

[2], [3] OpenCV documentation, including camera model and estimation of its position, mutual position of cameras

[4] Some good Standford lectures

[1] https://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/courses/TDV/2022W/lectures/tdv-...

[2] https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d7/d53/tutorial_py_pose.html

[3] https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d1/de0/tutorial_py_feature_homog...

[4] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs231a/course_notes/01-camera...
They both have completely different purposes, despite both being about maths.

3b1b is a channel with the goal to teach math topics in the clearest way possible.

Numberphile is about interviews with mathematicians telling stories which happen to be "in mathematics".

If you want to get a better understanding of a maths topic you're currently studying, 3b1b is the clear winner. If you want to get people to wonder about the diversity of maths topics out there, Numberphile is the better option.

Not to mention the part where it humanizes mathematicians themselves. Instead of thinking of Neil Sloane in the abstract as "the guy who started OEIS", I now have a picture of a nerdy, sweet grandpa who loves to talk about integer sequences.
But the way to maximize your future earnings IS to learn how to invest properly. Your own two hands are only going to generate so much.

So you'd be best off finding a mentor and then using the 200k as your "learning" money.
Off topic, but I'm loving the Mac equivalent, TextEdit.

After trying every kind of fancy task management and note taking system from org-mode to Obsidian to Logseq, I now use a .rtfd (.rtf + images) on iCloud to act as a note-taking system / todo-list. I would have used pen and paper but I need to paste screenshots and URLs.

There's an iOS app called RTF Write for 99c. Now I always have my notes, tasks, and shopping, and above all, it's so simple and quick.
Quite a few experienced developers contributed their opinions on why found agile so problem. Check it out

https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

Agile has fundamental structural problems which, combined with office politics which it can destructively amplify, make it an inevitable nightmare to work in.
In that case I was towing a U-haul trailer, which leads to another thing that probably should exist: trailers with supplemental EV batteries. Not sure if the extra capacity is made up for by the extra weight though.

(For context my car uses maybe ~1.5 - 4.0 times as much power when pulling the various sizes of U-haul cargo trailers)
let's momentarily set aside the irony of reading kahneman and some pop-sci behavioural economics, then smooshing them together in sequence because they are thematically connected by “system 1/system 2”, to ultimately arrive at a point entirely carried by a highly selective reading of the latter text with the opinions of the former

something important to note about this kahneman/tversky system 1/2 stuff is you run the risk of walking away from it thinking that these things have a clear dividing line between them, as far as their fundamental nature and/or their applicability and/or their qualitative goodness/badness (primitive lizard/monkey/whatever vs enlightened patrician).

gerd gigerenzer, for instance, proposes that when we engage in what is popularly considered “rational thought”, we're reaching into a “toolbox” of multiple, individually fast-and-frugal heuristics, piling on more computational effort to solve a problem in more dimensions. additionally, wherever you stand on that theory, his experimental work demonstrates that just as easily as you can contrive a laboratory setting in which those heuristics are fallacious, you can contrive one in which they are beneficial; charitably you can interpret them as well-equipped to deal with uncertainty and incomplete information, and functioning as some sort of encoding of the ultimate likelihood of regression toward the mean

a fast heuristic can tell you the baseball bat costs one dollar or that it's likelier that linda is a bank teller and a feminist, sure, but slow, calculating thought is equally well-equipped to overfit to noise, rationalise an addiction, or send you down a detrimental neurotic spiral

anyway:

* cognition is wacky and quirky and difficult to poke and prod at under a microscope

* the jury is out on what kind of thought is most applicable in a given situation; good luck, buddy

* you should cultivate some degree of taste/discretion as to how hard you want to think about any given thing (one potential benchmark: are you accumulating a mile-long list of read-later bookmarks due to FOMO?)

* my two cents: someone who reads medium articles posted to hacker news is likely in minimal danger of under-employing system 2
Why do you think so? AFAIK there is no legal requirement to scan uploaded files.
It’s a memorable hash, yes. But you can’t reason about anything else using the hash alone, and being slightly off can easily send you to the other side of the planet.
Ironically modules made by Quectel are GPL compliant (https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source) and you can build custom firmwares for them (https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk) to strip out any OTA logic.

Fibocom, on the other hand, not so much.
You're thinking of the great compromise that created the bicameral legislature.

The electoral college was a minor issue that was rubber stamped at the constitutional convention. It was designed to prevent states from increasing their influence by expanding the franchise (remember when the constitution was written only white land owning men could vote). And it was designed for a time when traveling up and down the east coast took weeks instead of hours.

The electoral college has also been distorted by the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 which fixed the size of the house of representatives. As the nation has grown since then, this is caused the inequity created by the electoral college to increase every decade.

At this point the electoral college is outdated, it's served its purpose and it's time to move on. We have an extremely strong national identity, which didn't exist when the Constitution was written. We have lots of migration between the states, why should one persons vote count less simply because of where they live?

America IS a democracy it was an extremely flawed one at its founding and there's been a stead march to improve it ever since.

I believe what you're referring to in your "American is a Republic" statement is the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin. But that quote was an answer to a question and the question was "What kind of government do you give us, a monarch or a Republic?" And Franklin responded " A Republic, if you can keep it". This is a prodemocratic statement not an anti-democratic one.

But at its core, your argument is that the states are the right unit to be protected and catered to rather than the individual/people, and I fundamentally disagree with that.
I only called it out to note that the lack of walkability in the area made this bridge stand out.

As someone who thoroughly enjoyed the piece, this smells like ignoring the obvious answer to the question. The place lacks it. The bridge provides more of it. Mystery solved, no? Need meets provision!

I felt the same way when I read about the Grainger employees complaining about the litter — which is a clue, evidence of people walking there — but you didn't follow that thread.
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"While the sicko was behind bars"
Threw me for a second, but it's the daily mail, of course.

Another day, another thinly veiled attack on the transgender community. Demeaning transgender medical care as if it isn't a massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake, particularly in a place like America.

The oddest part is that one would expect the right should support the rights of inmates to receive trans care and surgery as men will be rendered sterile as a result of either medication or surgery, and I would have thought the claimed grim reality of trans surgery would appeal to those hellbent on maximizing misery and punishment on those in prison.
No. That's just strawmanning a terrible implementation.

Here's another less terrible one: Public certificates of ID issuers are what's stored on-chain. Individual users have their (potentially locally generated) DIDs cross-signed by an issuer. The only data being stored on-chain is issuer certificates (and potentially further signatures and metadata around them) and this makes it possible to run the whole scheme in a more decentralized fashion.
The logical conclusion to that argument is that we should do away with the lot of them.
I think zuck was more annoyed that they did that testfire with the rocket fully stacked, or more specifically that the big PR move he wanted to do failed. This is why you should buy launch insurance though.
I believe that’s the conventional approach in Python, though? It is a duck-typing language, try-except is a legitimate way of seen if an operator works on an object, and objects should do sensible things with operators.

The funny example is that the hasattr built-in just tries to getattr, and then catches the exception to tell if it has the attribute.
Agreed in general, but I'm actually thinking more about having a code interpreter in the loop. AutoGPT might be a step in the right direction. It also might be a step towards the end of human society as we know it. Probably both.
Oddly enough W3W fails to go far enough in the direction of being friendly to humans. Hence all the many criticisms of it as a solution.
Amazing job. I once used this in a public computer and it works well. Thank you!
Yes, same prompt and same version. GPT-4 is especially stochastic, even with temperature=0.
> I'd expect exceptional programmers to do unusually well on most metrics.

...when they're actually hands-on-keyboard writing software. The best programmers I know write as little code as possible.

Product team: Hmm, we need to do a thing that looks very complex and difficult.

Senior dev: I'll start making a project plan and story breakdown.

Very senior dev: That sounds like a special case of a thing we already have. That should take about an hour.

Of course that's a generalization, but I think the trend holds. The most illustrative metric for the best engineers wouldn't be "lines written" but "lines avoided".
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alright. let's talk the number. how much would it cost to kill a sand dweller or amazon swinger? how high is the return of investment to get some oil?
https://archive.is/jakiU
You should check out https://www.qalocate.com/solutions/geohashphrase/
A little late to the party here, but text embeddings (at least the ones used in this blog post) generally aren't very good at "searching by vibes": they more compare by overlapping words or look for similar content to the search query.

However, there is a recent paper that actually does try and do this: "Retrieving Texts based on Abstract Descriptions" (Ravfogel et al., 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12517.

They give many examples of searching by vibes: "an architect designing a building", "a company which is part of another company", "a book that influenced the development of a genre", etc. etc. Their embeddings apparently facilitate this type of search much better. Would be interesting to retry the offline Wikipedia search from the linked post with this new type of embeddings.
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As a consumer does that matter? I understand server grade hardware wants the extra monitoring/diagnostic gizmos, but will the memory be corrected with the same efficiency as DDR4 ECC or is it an entirely neutered implementation?
This. I want cheap M2 size 16+TB SSDs and a nice blade for ZFS
Also mistakes driving a car are more costly. If you miss a turn on a bike, you can stop, walk your bike back, and take it. In a car, if the street is busy, you can’t do that, and who knows where you end up if you take the next exit etc.
i had to force quit firefox to stop playing it, even closing the tab didnt help.
I’m not well versed on the current state of military procurement, but this kind of vaguely resembles the NGAD idea/programme that’s been going on for many years now.

The article is also incredibly light on details.

> How would Replicator work on the battlefield? The initial step might be mobilizing two separate swarms of small, unmanned vehicles. The first group, numbering in the tens of thousands, would be focused on surveillance and reconnaissance, sending back uncountable millions of data bits to form a precise targeting picture. Second, the battlespace would be turned over to hundreds or thousands of vehicles large enough to accommodate payloads of explosives. Working alongside them would be drones carrying out cyberattacks to blind the enemy, effectively “cloaking” our own forces while destroying an enemy’s fighting ability.

Isn’t this already how the US mostly conducts operations, but without the tiny drones part? Take advantage of overwhelming air, intelligence, and logistical superiority to quickly neutralise enemy targets. I believe it’s literally in the latest edition of the released doctrine documents: use the clear superiority of US combined arms to coordinate multi domain operations.

This really feels like a mostly fluff piece without any real substance. I haven’t seen any major evidence of a doctrinal change to smaller drones and platforms; NGAD seems alive and well, leaning in traditional American technological and organisational capacity as a core part of doctrine.
Sounds interesting. I'll have a look.
Yeah -- wow, just wow.
We use it at work to send FSMs over the network for distributing tasks. Admittedly we always do this with continuations that haven't started yet, but there is no technical reason we couldn't serialize the already started ones (although you'd have to make sure you also send the coroutines you are currently awaiting on.)
EDIT: There was a typo in the url: https://www.invisible-computers.com