skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say [ab]* has order type omega. That's because the set of strings it represents is: {epsilon, ab, abab, ababab, abababab, ...} which looks a lot like omega. (epsilon = empty string)

What this exercise really is is finding a canonical way to order a regular language (the set of strings a regexp matches). For example, a*b* could be {epsilon, a, aa, aaa, aaa, aaaa, ..., b, bb, bbb, bbbb, bbbbb, bbbbbb, ..., ab, aab, aaab, aaaab, ..., abb, aabb, ..., ...}
which looks a lot like omega ^ 2 (not 2 * omega like I said before). However, you could also re-arrange the set to look like omega: {epsilon, a, b, aa, bb, ab, aaa, bbb, aab, abb, bbb, ...} (strings of length 1, length 2, length 3, etc)

I propose the following: for any two strings in the regular language, the one that comes first is the one whose kleene-star repetition counts come first lexicographically. More concretely, for the language a*b*, aaaab represents a repetition count of (4, 1) which and bbb represents (0, 3). (0, 3) comes before (4, 1) lexicographically, so bbb comes before aaaab. This admits the following ordering: {epsilon, b, bb, bbb, bbbb, ..., a, abb, abbb, abbbb, ..., aa, aab, aabb, aabbb, ..., ...} which is omega ^ 2 which "feels" right to me. Another rule is for the regular language (X|Y) and two strings x from X and y from Y, x should always come before y in our ordered set representation.

Hold on, what about nested kleene-stars? (a*)* is just a*, but (a*b*)* is distinct from a*b*. However, the "kleene-star counts" analysis from above breaks down because there are now multiple ways to parse strings like aab. I don't really know how to classify these regular languages as ordinals yet.

I don't really see any useful applications of this, but it's still fun to think about. The game I'm playing is thinking about a random ordinal and trying to come up with a regular language that, under my ordering rule above, looks like that ordinal. Let's try 2 * omega (which looks like this: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., omega, omega + 1, omega + 2, omega + 3, ...} e.g. 2 copies of omega "concatenated"):

a*|b* = {epsilon, a, aa, aaa, aaaa, aaaaa, ..., b, bb, bbb, bbbb, ...} => 2 * omega.

Some more examples:

omega ^ 3: a*b*c*

omega ^ 2 + omega: a*b*|c*

Maybe we can write down some composition rules:

let X and Y be regular languages and ord(X) and ord(Y) be their ordinal representations. Then,

X|Y => ord(X) + ord(Y)

XY => ord(X) * ord(Y)

X* => ord(X) * omega

I haven't checked if these actually work, this is just a long rambly comment of dubious mathematical value.
Certainly headsets could use the tech but the difficulties in using it for monitors are enormous.

Also the performance benefits aren't as enormous as you would think. For instance unless you are pixel bound (which to be fair most things are in 4k games) it actually hurts your performance by slowing down the CPU.

My fear is it will end up being yet another tool that gets abused to where everyone associates it with a lack of quality.

After all looking to your left and seeing and old image would be very much against the goal of increasing performance.
Twitter was far worse of a dumpster fire before Musk got a hold of it. Read the Twitter files. Just because Twitter doesn't tilt hard left anymore doesn't make Musk a villain, just a villain to you. There's a big difference.
see https://documentation.divio.com/adoption.html
>If you say it behaves as if it has intent because it does have intent, you are letting off the hook the people behind the scenes who designed and built an "intent simulator" and let it loose

Sure but we already regularly do this. I don't see parents going to jail for crimes the "intent simulator" they created and trained did.

>We have to distinguish this because it's the only way to accurately characterise the reality of the where the decision making power resides in controlling this behaviour.

We're just going to have to face reality here.

GPT is not siri, a hardcoded parse tree system where any intent can only be ascribed to the person(s) who wrote it and not Siri itself.

GPT can be persuaded. It can be guided. It cannot be controlled. There is quite literally nothing Open ai could actually do to completely prevent a gpt that can hold and use a knife from killing someone.
> The biggest fault (besides being proprietary) is that you must be online in order to use WTW.

That doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

It's still not a great system – many included words are ambiguous (e.g. English singular and plural forms are both possible, and an "s" is notoriously difficult to hear over a bad phone line), and it's proprietary, as you already mentioned.
Craigslist used to have lots of local ads for vintage computers like this. Not so much in recent years (though there are still some); have local markets moved to Facebook or what? (I'm a luddite towards FB.)
The Canadian program you're probably looking at is NEXUS, which is not only cheaper but better - in that you can use NEXUS lanes entering Canada and Global Entry lanes entering the US. My father-in-law is a salesman who represents a couple of Canada-based lines, so he's there at least twice a year for sales meetings, etc. He's got NEXUS. Flying into Montreal, he saves tons of time.

You are correct that it's simply a matter of certifying yourself as a low security risk (for GE/PreCheck). But pretty much anyone can get Clear, which is indeed just paying to skip (most of) the line. It's only at certain airports, though. If you fly through a smaller airport, it's not usually worth it; if you fly out of (e.g.) Orlando, which has a huge tourist business that means that most of the passengers rarely or almost never fly, and so are unfamiliar with the routine, it almost certainly is.

Even if PreCheck lines are as long or longer than "regular" security lines, the typical PreCheck passenger flies at least several times a year and knows the routine, so it goes much more quickly even before you account for the lighter screening.

When we skipped past an immigration line that would have been at least two and a half hours long coming back from the UK, getting through in less than five minutes, I turned to my wife and said, "that was the best $200 we have ever spent".
It is not at all unique for random internet accounts to pop up and assert that Scientology is a normal religion just like all the other religions whenever it is mentioned even in passing, no.
I would agree in general, but on the infrequent occasion when I'm doing a road trip, it's more important to reduce travel time and avoid traffic backups that result from extended travel time. Most of my trips are from norcal to socal, so avoiding morning/evening rush hour on both ends is the name of the game, at least for me.
Airprint and Mopria are the same thing, IPP + discovery.
> Do you care if your linting tool is built in if it's buggy and regularly releases breaking changes?

In general I would expect a linting tool or any other component that is a first class feature of the app would be less likely to be released with bugs and breaking changes than a third party one.
Does not Deno aim for exactly the same?
I think it is a pity that X education is very often lacking philosophy of X education.

My ideal would be every maths degree includes a mandatory unit on the philosophy of mathematics, every science degree includes a mandatory unit on the philosophy of science, a degree in AI or psychology includes a mandatory unit on the philosophy of mind, every psychiatry training program includes a mandatory unit on the philosophy of psychiatry, etc. Not everyone needs to be a philosopher, but I think a well-rounded practitioner of any discipline would ideally have a basic understanding of the philosophical debates about it.

But so many don't – which results in the phenomenon I keep on seeing, where so many people (even experts) treat debatable assumptions which they don't even know they are making as if they were obviously true.
Honestly it's harder to put together a quick GUI application in anything than it was in the VB6 days. By losing VB6, we've lost a lot of power and ability to do GUI things quickly.
Anything to compete against the cloud AI models and instead run them locally for $0 for free on your own machine and anyone who is able to build such models has a moat such as Meta and is at the finish line in the AI race to zero.

At this point it is unstoppable and $0 free local AI models will only accelerate and OpenAI and Google knows it.
Ok. I would call this shredding in the body building arena. This makes much more sense! I thought you were running a long term 900 calorie per day deficit. That sounds like an expressway to (emotional food hunger) hell.
Isn't Deno under the strong commercial grip of a couple of corporate companies, including the one that develops it?
I had no idea Delphi was even still around.
I am using Avalonia. If I were doing windows only I might use MAUI or WPF or something but afaik they are pretty similar, and I want it to be cross platform on mac.

The interface of the app is C#, the core is in CPP (I am tempted to use Zig but haven't worked with it enough to commit to it yet).
The Afghanistan Papers: A secret history of the war
What about a built-in standard library? That seems somewhat important.
Office of Special Plans
Words aren't so bad :)

"The SHA256 hash of this message begins with f, b, six, two, zero, b, one, six and e."

"The SHA256 hash of this message begins with f, zero, two, d, four, seven, one, zero, nine and b."
That seems like a huge flaw in their system, has it never been addressed?
The study’s author, KevinH_PhD is a good follow on Twitter and generally responsive to his critics there:

“Glycemic index was calculated to be ~52 for both diets with respect to oral glucose. There were no significant differences in CGM determined mean glucose or glycemic variability as assessed by glucose CV.”

From this thread -
https://twitter.com/KevinH_PhD/status/1536782331628822528
> and the thermometer on my digital desk clock said 63f.

...

> The days this guy was in it reminded me of working in foodservice, having to stock the walk-in cooler on delivery days.

63F is not a walk-in cooler; 40F is a walk-in cooler.

Hyperbole like this is just rubbish.
This does presume that PNG display can be entrusted to the local machine ...
>It's a statement worth downvoting because it's laden with assumptions

Every statement refers to assumptions or prerequisite knowledge.
Should every comment re-include basic education, higher educations, all the text-books and journal articles supporting each assumption? What is known as facts by some may seem like vacuous assumptions to others.

When making such a comment, could you at least point to the apparent assumptions you are unable to follow?

>Likewise, mystery is something sorely lacking in everyday life, and it's a shitty move to cast aspersions toward publications on the basis that you don't like it. If anything, we should do more to cultivate curiosity and mysticism.

What is missing in everyday life is enthusiasm, excitement, ... not mysticism. There are plenty of open problems that are truly mystic for now. Collecting a specimen and not mentioning already done or upcoming sequencing effort is just feeding inappropriate mysticism. Think of how many children have weird fantasies of Loch Ness monster, Yeti, Area 51 aliens, etc... What a waste of mankinds power to fantasize. Give the kids unfettered access to journal articles without paywall such that they can revel in profound actual mysteries as opposed to artificial ones... I don't think theres anything arrogant about such a position.
The article is a bit light on. It appears to be playing with the miscibility of the oil under heat: Get a "sheet" of oil (obviously mixed with water) which holds together at ambient seawater temps onto the roller, pass it under heat and it stops holding together and drips through to the collector tank. So the hole sizes in the rollers, the rate of roll, the rate of forward motion must all be quite carefully tuned to just above drop through and then just below it.

It's not uncommon to process fat/liquid mixtures close to critical temperatures, butter handling in factories has to be within a very few degrees of specific ranges or risk over heating it (thats clarified butter) or burning it or it setting and clogging the pipes.
Admiral is disgusting. Is there any way to get around it in iOS Safari?
The Kremlin and the CCP send their thanks.

The implication here is that I support AI safety.

These tools will be used against The West.
Call me when it can compete with GPT-4. It continues to astound me.
Congratulations on this accomplishment! Having attempted and regained some weight back during the pandemic, I appreciate how hard it is to make lifestyle changes.

Question: what kind of meditation has helped you the most?
As the Socrates said, one must commoditize the complement.
People did not compile the kernel back then. The kernel was supplied in a precompiled form as a collection of object (.o) files, and there was a kernel «generation» shell script that would ask questions about which parts of the kernel were required (e.g. which device drivers to link in), what to set certain kernel parameters to (e.g. the number and the size of I/O buffers for the page cache had not been invented yet and neither had been «sysctl»), and – after jumping through the hooves of the very detailed and thorough interview with the kernel generation script – it would link the /unix kernel a.out image. It took several hours to get the final product.

The source code was distributed on a tape but it was not customary to compile the kernel from scratch every time.
I personally use Proton Pass' (browser extension and mobile app) OTP feature. Yes, it is (primarily) a password manager, but it can add OTP keys without a password. I would have reccommended GNOME Authenticator, but it corrupted my OTPs and couldn't start.
> It also would have given the entire Office suite an upgrade path from VBA to .NET -- something they've still not managed.

> To this day, our office still has one critical commercial 3rd party application written in Visual Basic. It's replacement is, of course, a web app written in .NET.

seems like they did, they just didnt care if it remained in office, and it seems the author didnt care that they got screwed over by microsoft :)
So where does all this backend activity leave frontend tooling? It seems the divide only grows despite the upstream attempts by the ES committee to bridge the gap.
I would have thought apple/google wallet already have an API for this.
That’s honestly amazing. I apologize if my comment seemed specifically targeted to you.
I don’t think the complaint is that it’s engaged in the worst acts religion has ever committed. But it’s doing awful things continuously well under the “purview” of modern US law.

Lots of awful acts happen all over the world, but most of them are not occurring with impunity under functional legal regimes.
Scala and Play.

Honestly I don't like Play. I'm looking for a better alternative to it.
Yeah. People’s moral values and breed of sacred cows do have an effect on their management and leadership style. Non-religious people are outnumbered here (here being the planet, not necessarily this specific website but maybe even that too), so being militantly against that sort of thing kind of isn’t worth our time, or I guess more correctly it is a poor investment of our time. Better to live and let live.
Looks like MFC is still a thing.
JEP 454: Foreign Function and Memory API
The Infamous Port of Pac-Man: Atari Archive Episode 66 [video]
> the previous unit actively hands the plane over. You don't need the flight plan for that.

I thought practically, what's handed over is the CPL (current flight plan), which is essentially the flight plan as filed (FPL) plus any agreed-upon modifications to it?

> Because if you don't give any other instructions, the plane will follow the filed routing. Making turns on its own, because the departing ATC unit cleared it for that route.

Without voice or datalink clearance (i.e. the plane calling the new ATC), would the flight even be allowed to enter a new FIR?
The main market for these devices is obviously the join over networks and displays because thats what the concentrate on providing in bulk. External device attachment goes to USB.

I tend to be in the "but I want a fanless NAS" niche and I would trade the USB-3 stuff for SATA or PCIx port exposure.
Problem is high powered industrial dishwashers can't handle decorated plates ... pardon me, I meant to say color lasers can't handle photos well. If you're primarily printing texts and diagrams on A4 copier paper, this is total non-issue. But if you're looking to print nice colors, not necessarily.
Is that the anti-adblocker? Reader Mode works.
The iPhone has been such a good constant, high quality and reliable mobile phone throughout its years. I used to work in mobile sales during my graduate years and I attempted to jump from Apple to Microsoft (Lumia), Google Nexus 5X, Samsung S5 and the edge. I found more often than not customers who had problems with their devices were Android devices. Android problems were related to software errors and slowness, whereas Apple problems were related to more user error (backing up photos etc).

Appreciating these are older phones compared to those newer models of today but I quickly went straight back to the iPhone (3, 5, 6 plus, 7, X, 11). I now don't buy them every year, usually now only once the wheels have fallen off.

Looking back I don't even obsess over new mobile phones as they're hardly that much better year on year across any brand.
I have a bog standard M28p that works without installing all the HP stuff, but it still earned the network name "That HP piece of s**".
As I understand, the LME nickel trade reversal was to prevent total meltdown due to multiple counterparties going bankrupt at the same time. To me, it was a classic case of exchange limits and poor risk control. "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. -J. Paul Getty (of course, add some zeroes for today's world)

Also, can you explain more about what this phrase means? "it's the Wild West compared to the US NMS" Are you saying the risk limits and controls on LME are much worse that US markets?
Range as in L2?
Ah, you zip-tie the devices to a pegboard. Very smart.
My Epson printer came with a disk for Windows and MacOS. I Put it on my network and Linux and Apple machines worked out of the box with no driver disk needed. I haven't tried Windows because I just don't run that nonsense at home.
As far as I understand there is an industry standard solution to that problem: You put the computer you use to control the special hardware on an isolated network and never, under any circumstances, upgrade it.
Sure, maybe. How would you know without doing some research into a specific project?

My point was that the feature checklist here is so surface level it's useless as a practical comparison.
Patently false. He refused to enable the use of satellites - he did not disable existing satellite connections. Two very different things.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/musk-says-he-refused-ky...
Good point. Bun promises compatibility with existing mainstream web development technologies (CommonJS, ES Modules, NodeJs APIs, Typescript, etc).

Deno promised "Node", but done a second time the right way (Typescript, new APIs, new package manager, etc). Which is not an entirely new language / platform, but different enough that you have to buy into the Deno vision.
I believe he is highlighting how Scientology is more of a grift than an actual religion. I would be more concerned, all else equal, if a Scientologist was President than if said President was American Protestant or Catholic.

edit: It could also have to do with Scientology’s history of child sex abuse
I learned how to program by writing auto buyers, bots that would buy specific items that had a higher value on the secondary market, for Neopets. I believe the farther I went was deobfuscating the API they used issuing points for their games and making fake game players. I was part of a bunch of Neopets automation forums where people would bot and then RMT (real money trading) gold and other items. Neopets basically had 0 security and would really only ban people when their checkout speed sub 1 second. Everything I wrote was in VB6 and then eventually VB .Net basically killed the scene I was in since the initial .net roll out was so poor, as well as people growing up. Hadn't thought about this in forever. Thanks Neopets!
I'm not sure sure what OpenAIs play could possibly be at this point.

There will soon be models as powerful as GPT4 freely available for anyone to use, available in around 6 months or so. (At least that's what Meta is claiming)

And even better (and worse for open AI) they will be unaligned models, without nearly as many restrictions as openAI puts on theirs.

What's their next play? Hope GPT5 is another order of magnitude better? Seems unlikely to me.

And on the legislation front, openAIs efforts to engage in regulatory capture simply aren't going fast enough.

The government isn't going to ban open source in 6 months. So when LLAMA 3 is released, the cat is out of the bag, and there is no putting it back in..
How I CEO: On taking advice as a leader
Prototyping - occasionally when starting out on a big in-house development project, we'd task one or two guys to build a prototype in access to understand the challenges, functionality, data issues and get user feedback on what worked and what didn't. Invest 3-4 weeks of effort that saved us months of effort from the project overall and de-risked the project substantially. One time it back-fired a bit when the users liked the access proto-type more than the final system (pushed the envelope a bit too much and the performance was very poor), but typically got plenty of value out of it.
Tibia is ~6 years older than Gaia Online (1997 and 2003) and is also still going, though I assume they've been updating it. I stopped playing Tibia during college with the intention of restarting afterwards, but my account was deleted for inactivity and I never went back.
Nobody believes in a future anymore. Modern scifi is actually nostalgia content about the past when we did believe in a future. Hence Jetsons-type stuff.
> it appears that a dishwasher will consume at least 2.5 gals per cycle. No way does hand washing use 5 to 7.5 gallons of water per wash.

Rinsing dishes requires fresh water from the tap, which runs somewhere from 1-2 gallons per minute. After filling a sink (or bucket) with water and rinsing everything, it's easy to use 5+ gal to wash dishes.
They hired the guy who created CUPS for Linux and BSD, that's how they "solved" it
Neither allow for discovery, let alone targeting at massive scale.
A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis
There’s an important column missing in the table: ownership.

Both Bun and Deno are made by companies with heavy VC investment. Node is not. Don’t want to state the obvious but those VCs want to see a return on their investment and that makes me very hesitant to invest in Bun or Deno, especially at this early stage.

Don’t know if it’s coincidence or if the competition has lit a fire under the Node project but it’s recently been adding some great stuff like a built in test runner and watch mode. I’m optimistic.