skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the US, it's in any system that control is sought after by those that seek power. This is why democratising power is so important, regardless of system. Those seeking power will always find methods aligned with the system to do so. In an advanced capitalist society, it's methods like McKinsey, in a kleptocracy, it's whoever is the biggest crime boss.
Microsoft is famed for their backwards combability. How do they achieve this? By hard work and a lot of "if version == x" spread throughout the code? Or is because of their development process or do they plan and design for backwards combability from day one?
I'm a bit lost, even after trying the demo I can't understand why this should be better than, say, Discourse.

Your implementation is probably not based on Ruby - which makes it more interesting - but it's not open source. In terms of features, they don't seem to compare at all as this is really early stage.

The idea behind the project is good, and I think this is the future.
I successfully pushed the company I work for to use internally a Discourse instance to overcome the same issues you faced - and it works. We now have an "internal StackOverflow" and an engaging community. It's not a new concept (see Google's YAQS), but it's a (IMHO) working one that many more companies should adopt as it really increases knowledge sharing and productivity!

Best of luck with your project, I think you're on the right path but you should definitely start comparing this to Discourse and define why should anyone get this - and why must it be SaaS (some big companies are against SaaS for their stuff).
Granted. The claim was only about other-horse collisions.
Watch this team of drones 3D-print a tower
The new technique, inspired by nature, involves multiple drones working together to build from a single blueprint.

Inspired by the way bees or wasps construct large nests, the process has multiple drones work together to build from a single blueprint, with one essentially checking the others’ work as it goes.
You're likely to come across plenty of words you're not familiar with throughout your life if you read enough. It still happens to me with decent regularity at the age of 36. Hardly a reason to immediately assume something is AI-generated.
If there is a bluffer on the table, revealing a burn card is going to be net neutral or negative for them. Then add in the meta game! A mob bosses son won't want to look like they did nothing in a situation like this. They need to show they are not a pushover.
Paying ransoms should be a criminal offense. Even if the victim company would end up bankrupt that would be an acceptable outcome to keep money out of the hands to criminals.
The west hardly cares about soft power. Can you give an example of some soft power that wasn't due to a legal agreement? I came up dry just now thinking of some example that the west has set that the rest of the world has followed purely on the idea of it alone. There's always some sort of formal agreement it seems when it comes to these sorts of things, e.g. forms of government, trade, mutually passed laws like drug scheduling or extradition.
A friend who worked at MS tells me that there's a huge amount of "if version" in their code. Apparently it's at the level where it's a big maintenance headache.
Flipping a pancake in a "random kitchen" would be much more difficult and have many of the same issues as the door problem.

It's hard to point to a single thing that would make "flipping pancakes" intractable, it's sort of the other way around, to usefully flip pancakes in the same way as a person takes a lot of skills chained together.

The "door problem" is a sort of compendium of many real-world skills, identifying the door, understanding its affordances and how to grip / manipulate them, whether to push or pull the door, predicting the trajectory of the door when opened, estimating the mass of the door and applying the right amount of force, understanding if there any springs or pulls on the door and how it must be held to traverse through it. Etc. There are also a ton of things I'm missing that are so fundamental one tends to take them for granted, like knowing your own size and that you can't fit through a tiny doorway.

I think you can ramp towards the "door problem" in difficulty by slowly relaxing constraints. A video linked above (not article) shows "can flip a pancake successfully with a particular pan (you are already holding) and pancake with a fixed camera and visual markers". Ok, now do it in varying lighting conditions. With no visual markers. With different camera views. Different pancakes. Real pancakes (which are not rigid, and sometimes stick to the pan). Different pans. Now you have to pick up the pan. Use a stove. Different stoves. Identify griddle vs pan and use the right flipping technique. Find everything and do it all in a messy kitchen... eventually you're getting to same ballpark as the "door problem".
it’s easy to see there’s still garbage needing to be picked up

I remember in my town the city council suggested that - pay unemployed people to pick up trash.

You know who the biggest opponent was? The union for city workers. It threatened their jobs.

You need to think through all the implications.
Has ANYONE thought of air-gapping email from the rest of the corporate network?

This mania to "integrate everything" is dangerous.

If it's war, elevate your game. (business opportunity?)
>The company scratched plans to use it in Apple’s 2023 models, and the planned rollout was moved to 2024. Eventually, Apple executives realized the company wouldn’t meet that goal either. Apple instead opened negotiations with Qualcomm to continue supplying the modem chips. Apple’s licensing deal with Qualcomm expires in April 2025, though it can be extended for another two years.

Okay, so 2-4 years?
Left wing policies unchecked lead to communism, totalitarianism.

Plenty of unhappiness can be created from left policies. Mass immigration cause job loss and wage reduction. Increasing taxes creates unhappiness. Spending more today than you have creates unhappiness tomorrow.
This wouldn't be a problem if OpenZFS didn't have a dogshit license.
I did enjoy this article and agree with almost everything.

One piece of advice I’ve learned the hard way, however, is if the road map doesn’t make sense, it’s unlikely that making noise is going to make your life better.

I was reminded by this article of the time when my role as a PM was stymied by a lack of clear corporate strategy - I was told to make a road map without the support of any kind of goal or vision, told even that having a strategy would take “11 weeks” (yeah, an oddly specific number). Of course, I pushed back - but the outcome of doing so was very poor for me.

A road map doesn’t need to perfectly align with the very good points in your article, but there is a point at which it’s probably just better to cut and run.
Twitter has plummeted in value.

I know you're mostly correct but let's not distort reality here.

And there's a lot of evidence these business are excelling DESPITE him. Eg people buying Tesla even though they resent the man.
Wait no. I'm thinking the other way around. It was chat could enable notifications for hangouts.google.com. But when it moved to mail.google.com now allowing chat notifications allows mail notifications, which I didn't want.
What do you mean "political purposes"?

It was a temporary Covid program. It was never intended to be permanent, so there were no "political purposes" to ending it.
XML's biggest problem is perfectly demonstrated in Apple's plist files. There's no real way to do lists so 15 ways have been invented ad-hoc.
If you're rich, that is. Meanwhile, unskilled labor can't pay their rent or buy food.
I noticed that Evan O’Dorney’s generals was chaired by Bhargava and this question was asked:

What is Brauer's theorem?
[I had no idea and they moved on]

He clearly should have read Bhargava’s generals, where Andrew Wiles asks Bhargava the same question!
It was not an icebreaker, it was a racist asshole who was absolutely serious - he wasn't going to say some shitty foreign name, and he didn't, all year. As a 5yo? No, he did not protest. It wasn't an isolated incident anyway.
Look, there is no AI safety advancement without AI capability advancement. I think we van learn fuck all about AI safety if we don't try to actually build those AIs, carefully, and play around with them. AI safety is not an actual field of study when you don't have AIs of corresponsing level to study - otherwise there are zero useful results.
Which also show only a few commits, initial commit being dump of the project like this one.

Anyway, I'm not a fan of this style of using Git, but personal projects are ultimately, personal, to each their own.
I've seen the LNU variant — "Last Name Unknown".

In southern India it's common for the last name to simply be the father's name (but I do know one guy whose last name is his mother's name).

Like, my name could be "Foo", my father's name could be "Baz" so the given name field of the passport could be "Foo Baz", and the last name would be blank.

But the visa form for certain countries don't accept that, so they put in "LNU".

Anyway, these days people are more aware, so when applying for passport they specify the given name as "Foo", and the surname as "Baz" (parent's name), even though that's really not the surname.
I would think if it were AI generated it would use common words. You know, like from its training dataset...
Ah, first time at el Reg? Think we’ve all been there.

EDIT: Speaking of AI, yes, it turns out that ChatGPT can do a halfway decent impression of The Register… No uses of the word ‘souk’ though
> a psychologic twin, assistant, advisor, and sparring partner

and snitch.

> It'd need to be only personally accessible and safe/private.

IMO there's very little chance that such a thing won't report or sell every conceivable shred of your existence to governments and corporations.
Good point on pedestrians. Cars can roll down hills, although that's probably infrequent. They can also catch fire.

I'm not even horse-experienced, so my knowledge is mainly from TV.
Both pre- and post-tax sides are inflation-adjusted to 2022 using C-CPI-U.
Philosophy is the study of everything that is not well understood or is difficult to understand, even the study of study itself. A good way to think of it is, "philosophy exists only in the gaps", the gaps in our understanding. What is the nature of matter, can you take clay and keep dividing it in half and in half? When we didn't know the answer, only speculated about it, it was philosophy. Now that we know the answer, it's physics. But unknown answers in physics are still considered philosophy, such as whether or what would it mean if time can run backward.

This implies philosophy and philosophers will disappear once we know everything, which could by some be considered one of the rewards of this quest for truth.

BTW, many institutions today offer the ScD degree, doctor of science; it is generally equivalent to a PhD, though in some places it can be considered "higher"
Too generic to be used as a test. Try changing the comments to include gjdckfkdkxkdkskx34717Q 22371 re-encode and report back
> Not in aerospace, or biomedical maybe, where we are willing to pay the outlandish velocity penalties.

… because we really needed X version of software out yesterday? This incredible “velocity” that you speak of has created monstrous software systems, that are dependency nightmares, and are obtuse even for an expert to navigate across. In the rush to release, release, release, the tech sector has layered on layers of tech debt upon layers of tech debt, all while calling themselves “engineers”… There’s nothing to celebrate in the “velocity” of modern software except for someone hustling a dollar faster than someone else.
https://github.com/sugawarayuuta/benchmark - Performance looks pretty comparable to go-json (https://github.com/goccy/go-json). Faster in some tests, slower in others. Not sure if it'd be worth switching for me. Good work either way. Would be interested to see benchmarks of the latest version.
Steve Jobs: You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future [video]
Tokens consist text both larger and smaller than whole words.
> Those don’t make much sense to me nor do I see a comparison with the segment high performance json library.

There is a column named SegmentJSON in the benchmarks page [1]

[1] https://github.com/sugawarayuuta/benchmark
Snarky (flamewar starting) answer is it improved massively since they made the blocks bigger in 2017.
The same could be said for Linux. This isn't a problem on FreeBSD.
Neat. I always wanted to make a HN bet. I don’t see your contact info in your profile, so please email me some contact at anything@prepend.com and I’ll connect with you in six months to settle.
Probably against china or any threat as well. Turkey houses nuclear weaponry. I'd imagine its globally reaching vs only being in range of Russia, as having some redundancy between launch sites is probably good for your side of world war three.
> Most researchers don't take the LessWrong in-culture talk seriously

Yes but politicians do, for some reason. AI Safety has become a meaningless term, because it is so broad it ranges from "no slurs please" over "diverse skin colors in pictures please" to the completely hypothetical "no extinction plz".
Because academics love to cling to outdated and today factually incorrect terminology, while arrogantly berating the general public when they do the same.

"Actually, it's not called the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis anymore. The preferred term is 'linguistic relativity' now."

... while you keep using titles that have been nonsensical for 200 years. Got it.

Academia is 99% power games. The emperor wears no clothes.
Yes and no. If my 70 year old mother is thrown from a horse, she’s in real trouble, probably worse than most accidents in modern cars.
No, twitter won’t charge a monthly fee; but in one tweet Elons caused N thousand people to start discussing the monetary value of access to twitter, and some million extra to read and think about it, too
I find it curious that the age cut off for that study was under 20 years of age.

Why not 18 or under? That's what we've typically used as the cutoff between childhood and adulthood.

I think I know why.
I probably make one of the most delicious marmelades in human history.
At least that's what my clan claims.
Made from blackberries I collect myself(around 10kg or so per year, takes few hours), Rum, Coffee, cinnamon and vanilla(the real one).Relatively little preserving sugar, so it is not too sweet.
Around a fourth of my output I give away for fun.
From time to time somebody asks me why I don't make a business out of it, some little side hustle in autumn and winter.
I then show them the math and the resulting price.
And if that is not enough, I explain to them how I could turn this into a semi-profitable small-scale business...
This makes them even more grateful for the little gift of mine.

In 2020 I probably grew the most expensive San Marzano tomatoes worldwide.
The amount of work, water and fertilizer I sacrificed for 16kg of the finest dried tomatoes i ever ate is ridiculous.
But then again, family and friends still talk about it.
The only vegetable in my little garden of about 350 square yards I could ever break even, beside the usual suspects of different herbs, were Musquée de Provence pumpkins.
A compost heap and a lot of water is all they need.
But then again I still have a few kilo of them in the freezer from last year and to be honest I can't stand them anymore.
Fed up, so to say.
Women are the victims in this article, but we’re discussing what should be done regarding the topic overall, not just in relation to this article or these victims.

I don’t think anyone proposed banning nudes only for women, or only prohibiting men from making deepnudes. Or even proposing rules only for Spain. This issue affects a really broad population.
I recently started a new project, and just outright didnt want to use yaml to do it. Sadly, im not everyone, and if i plan to release this project, i need to account for that. Whats a guy to do?

Ill tell ya hwhat... I made some simple functions; one to load any yaml/toml/json from file, by just looking at the extension (and providing an override for not normal file extensions). Another to output any data as yaml/toml/json.

I defaulted to using toml for my project, but have provided ways for everyone to be happy, with zero mucking around.

Aaaaaand for the not so subtle promotion, https://pypi.org/project/atckit

Located in the UtilFuncs class.
GPT-4:

"Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt."

Errors are significantly smaller:

"umi-abum" instead of "Šumi-abum"

"Samas" instead of "Shamash"

Some extra spacing errors, which other decoders seem to do too, so I take it's an issue with the encoding instead.

Again, seems to get the names wrong but other words correct. It's not a unique string. Actually, I googled the version given by GPT-4 and it matches one given by Reddit.
What you're suggesting ultimately results in the government forcing private companies to harm their own customers and their own brand image. I get where you're coming from (a plant that gets no water stops growing, after all), but this law would quickly become unbelievably unpopular among victims of identity theft. Companies would likely spend more lobbying to overturn this than they do on the ransomware payments themselves, because the reputational harm they'd suffer would cost orders of magnitude more than the ransomware and lobbying anyway.
What missile sites? There are no strategic missiles in Turkey. The USAF does store some other nuclear weapons there. Sweden is not really an equivalent replacement option.

Do you want Turkey to turn into a Russian ally? Because driving Turkey out of NATO is how you turn Turkey into a Russian ally.
in my opinion for anything internet connected not updating the kernel is a liability

security patches of an LTS kernel are as much updates as moving to a newer kernel version

custom non in-tree drivers are generally an anti-pattern

the kernel interface is quite stable

automated testing tools have come quite a way

===> you should fully update the kernel LTS isn't needed

the only offenders which makes this hard are certain hardware vendors mostly related to phones and IoT which provide proprietary drivers only and also do not update them

even with LTS kernels this has caused ton's of problems over time maybe 6-years LTS being absconded in combination with some legislatures starting to require security updates for devices for 2-5 years *after sold* (i.e > released) this will put enough pressure on to change this for a better approach (weather that are user land drivers, in-tree drivers or better driver support in general)
https://nitter.cz/theshawwn/status/1704559992135717238
"Prelim" also sometimes refers to an exam taken shortly after entering a PhD program to ensure you belong there.

One of the grad schools I attended had both a written "prelim" in year 1 and an oral "qual" in year 2/3. The other just had an oral "general" in year 2.
We use it to sort parquets out of core and then the arrow interface to read into Python and export as geoparquets
Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible? Socialist Calculation Problem Revisited
If you look at Table B-3 of the underlying, you'll see we're really talking about the lowest quintile here.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Which makes sense, as afaik most pandemic-era stimulus was absolute dollars instead of income-relative.

Consequently, you see a huge % impact there as it was given and then withdrawn.
If that's deemed too onerous, can we at least start with term limits for congress?
> Can we have an example of toxic masculinity?

A good example is if you your son is allowed help change the oil but you don't allow your daughter or wife to help because it's "man's work".

Or if you force your son to help because it's expect of him as a man.

But, if little dude is curious/eager and wants to hold the flashlight and maybe turn a wrench, go for it.
Beavers lack the social mechanisms to transmit knowledge across time and space.

So either they are all independently inventing exactly the same solution to the problem... or it's some sort of instinctual compulsion.
For completeness, here are the metrics a full 24 hours after the change: https://imgur.com/a/lbdzFvN
In XML's defense, the attribute-vs-child-element choice is always obvious and straightforward when you're using it as a markup language. It's only when you use it as object notation that it becomes wonky, because there the choice simply doesn't map to any straightforward characteristic of the problem domain. I'm not sure I want to hold XML responsible for not being good at being something it isn't.

And, on that note, I think that if I could pick as single thing that irritates me the most about YAML, it's that it isn't actually a ML.
PhD is a license to teach (i.e. doctor) philosophy. Specifically, in "science" fields, natural philosophy.

Natural philosophy was the original (and i think better) name for science, especially physics. It was understood to be an important subbranch of philosophy.

I think its better name because it elucidates an important epistemological difference: science is a method, not knowledge. I learn science when I learn about experimental design. Im not learning science when I learn about evolution; rather Im learning a theory, very likely to be true, that is almost impossible to put under scrutiny using the scientific method.

The Pythagorean theorem has no science and is 100% true. In fluids, Bernoulli devised experiments to demonstrate to his calculus illiterate colleagues what he had already mathematically proven.

Science is a bad term.
Look at table B-3 of the income report. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
GPT 4 gets it right. I understand that LLMs have some very rough emergent properties, like arbitrary arithmetic (but its often incorrect). I don't really understand how its able to base64 decode values it has never seen though. I'm using unique snippets from my own private source code.
>when it is a data serialization format.

How? It's even worse as a serialization format. Why would you want to serialize into human readable blob anyways?
https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
Often the advanced theorems and concepts make for a simpler and more concise explanation.

I guess the closest equivalent in programming is "implement X without using any external libraries (or perhaps only the standard library)".
Qualcomm patents, I suspect.