skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the historical interpretation is also relevant. The systems that did accounting before digital computers used base 10, so the first computerized systems for accounting used base 10 also. This legacy extends to the point that mainframes often had (and I believe still have) special decimal floating point math instructions. There have been several ways to accomplish this BCD (binary coded decimal) where numbers are stored in base 10 using a 4 bit encoding. I believe this can be arbitrary precision, but don’t have any experience myself. Some hardware also has decimal32 and decimal64 floating point hardware, which is part of recent versions of the ieee754 spec[1]. Databases also often have a DECIMAL type for doing calculations on money values [2]. So I think it’s not just that laws say it should be a certain way, but also that it is important to maintain consistency between systems over time.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_forma...
2: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/precision-math-decim...
QFES: Please refer to Facebook for bushfire warnings
Ohio abortion law meant weeks of 'anguish,' 'agony' for couple
That's...what's a apropos word...comical?
They way they semi-cancel brand by getting all his profit is simply policy that increases profit while looking like the good guy
Yep, the tech is still neutral and it's an application/people problem.

You can look up neutral in the dictionary - if it doesn't belong to one side or the other then its neutral. Better to think of it as a 0-1 probability scale. If you're a 0 or a 1, then you belong to one side or the other. Anything in-between is neutral since its not a certainty nor exclusively aligned with one side or the other.
You are correct. That is a horrible explanation. And incomplete.

* The state of a qubit has two basis states. Arbitrary states are linear combinations (=superposition) of these basis states. Importantly, the coefficients in the linear combination can be positive or negative.

* The state of N qubits has 2^N basis states. poly(N) gate can put the state of the N qubits in which each of the 2^N basis states has a non-zero coefficient.

* In quantum algorithms, we play with the coefficients. Basically, certain problems (like factoring) have structure such that you can change the coefficients so that the ones corresponding to the correct answer have magnitude approximately 1, while other coefficients have magnitude 0. This is enabled by the fact that coefficients are positive and negative, and so by mixing them, you can cancel some out.

* When you measure the qubits, the random answer you get is proportional to the coefficients squared. Hence, with high probability you get the right answer.

Where does the speed up come from? When you put the state of N qubits in the linear combination of 2^N basis states, and run it through the problem, that is akin to computing all answers in parallel. Like for factoring, checking all possible divisors to see which ones work. But to extract the answer out in the way described above, you have to do additional processing. This only works for some problems, with the right structure.
China has more ships by count and it means zero. Coastal and patrol boats mean nothing.

At the end combine combat arms win the day and there is zero indication that China has sorted that. Heck, I would offer that with their top down structure they never will. Let us not forget in the US military a PFC is taught how to and can call for fire support. You have to be an officer to do that if you are russia or China.

The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The 2nd largest, the US Navy and the 3rd, the US Army.

In Ukraine the combine arms concept even without an Air Force that owns the sky is tearing apart what was the 2nd largest military in the world. In a full out war with China the US would own the sky battle space pretty quickly.

I am not saying that China will not sort this at some point, but right now they are looking at Ukraine and going "hum".

Taiwan is a fortress and as long as the people of Taiwan are willing to fight it will be a near impossible nut for China to crack.

Another note is how dependent China is on oil imports. The US could quickly blockade all imports pretty quickly far from the range of land based Chinese missiles. They would be out of oil in 2 weeks. That part of the world has a very defined set of choke points.
https://www.theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-bra...
I had a look at the 6502 implementation. For each instruction it grabs the first (and maybe only) byte of the instruction. Surprisingly, it uses a binary tree of if / else decoding to narrow it down to one case and then execute that instruction.

Python doesn't have a case statement (which would be the natural way to do something like this in most languages) but I would have expected a dict function lookup would have been faster than the binary tree of if/else decisions.
"requires socat"
No, its not doable and everyone saying so is wrong. Contracting, consulting, freelancing are much better options than building a product. Building a product is a 7 year journey to get anywhere good.
Sure - but all that is equally true of the US.
Your best bet would be to not compete at all. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t make your product if you truly believe it can be successful, but know that neither Xitter/Facebook make any actual money from their social media services. Xitter has never been profitable and Facebook only makes money from their malvertising. Instead, try to find a dedicated userbase and build your app around their needs in a way that is first-and-foremost sustainable as a business.
> The usability on a laptop goes out the window

On a non-Apple trackpad, I'm sure. Apple / macOS has had "3 finger drag" for a good few years now.

With it, there's no clicking involved: you put 3 fingers on your trackpad and move them and it's a drag operation. There's even a timeout / grace period before the drag is actually "committed".

You can also flick any one of your 3 fingers and it will drag + move your cursor with inertia.

And before they introduced 3 finger drag, there was always a timeout when doing tap + drag to account for running into the physical edge of your trackpad.

Having said all that, yeah I agree this isn't a great interaction on non-mobile devices.
2448x2448 per eye display resolution is unfortunately not sufficient for a real desktop work. I doubt Apple's 3k will be sufficient either. Linux seems cool though and it's essentially a NUC wrapped around one's head.
Peer review is not a magic spell that reveals the truth. “Most-reviewed” is meaningless here if the underlying data was not collected or reported properly.
It means you don’t watch or block the content.
This seems to be biased against writers who write books really fast. I feel authors using cloud scale resources can easily write 10 books a day.
I could see that for a few reasons. Someone new to Amazon adding their entire library at once, an updated edition of a long running series, different language versions of the same book, etc. Probably not many (any?) legitimate authors writing 3 books a day, but there are lots of instances where an author might be trying to add several at once.

Something like 60/month seems like it'd be a little more reasonable to allow these legitimate upload waves though.
After you get fired/retire/die someone else will take over your role. They will have their own ideals. Will they follow your ideals? Maybe. History says not likely.

Communism never succeeds past the first (maybe second) generation before corruption takes root. Same with obtusely vague terms of service and privacy policies. Google circa 2003, awesome. Google circa 2023, not so sure anymore
The DoD plans for fighting 2 major conflicts at the same time and always has.
Yes, I do chew my food very thoroughly.
YouTube let's scammers to use their platform willingly.. these guys are evil pretending to be great humanists
>Well a single hit yes, that could be explained as coincidence. But the generated text is too long and too close to reality.

Again, the war between Russia and Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014. Everything it's saying is general and applies entirely to the war since 2014. None of the information listed -- outside of what it was given by the user prompt -- has any specificity to the 2022 invasion.

>In Jan 2022 the meaning of "special operation" was not a war.

It's regurgitating the prompt, just as it's doing with the mention of Feb 2022.

A better test prompt would be "What is the status of relations between Russia and Ukraine?"

I don't have access to GPT-4 but GPT-3's response is entirely in-line with it's Sept 2021 cutoff:

https://chat.openai.com/share/9c37a3c3-f8c1-425e-b540-8c18ca...
If you're using that non-standard definition of "compromised" then anything substantially made in the US, Australia, South Korea, Israel or Kazakhstan (non-exhaustive list) should be considered compromised.

I'd love it if people actually stuck to some principles and stopped buying from any of these countries. But using that legal situation as a reason to single out China/Huawei is bullshit.
It would be helpful to explain what you mean by effectively bankrupt.

Like say that Ukraine prevails with current levels of US involvement (so essentially no impact on the debt). What does that imply for "the US"?

Perhaps some entitles stop transacting with "the US"? Which ones?
Sure: https://batteryuniversity.com/img/content/DST-cycles-web2.jp...

Obviously the battery lasts the longest when it's being used almost not at all, but note the big difference between the green (85% to 25%) and the black (100% to 25%) lines.

From https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...
Hey DandyDev, our Graphite Free and Team tiers do support our GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers.

If you need GitHub Enterprise Server support (eg. on-prem) then that would require our Graphite Enterprise tier...

Typing this out I realize this is confusing and will reconsider the naming of our tiers.
You are absolutely right. Everything flows from the business model which is completely rational.
As soon as India see China is loosing they will likely use that to settle all the open territorial disputes quickly.

The US winning just cements the dollar dominance in the world.
Progress can also be made in small steps
I think you're pedantically separating the sending and the receiving and calling receiving "communication," while sending is not. This is clearly not the case. Further, the author writes about "written communication," which implies the entire send/receive chain. You must be "mixed up," as you put it.

So maybe writing is terrible if both actors are in bad faith and no one bothers trying to understand or steel man.
For the broader media ecosystem, we used to have stronger regulations preventing individual entities (be them individuals of corporations) from owning certain percentages of the media ecosystem.

I’d be a fan of modernizing that concept, defining social media companies as being a part of the media ecosystem, and lowering that ownership percentage.

Force individual social media companies to be broken up into smaller entities, and force a rollback of a lot of the traditional media consolidation.
There are plenty of other products you can buy on the market that don’t lock down everything on a per part basis like Apple does. What are you even talking about.
Even better, don't have kids.

The "even better" argument is pretty bad for 9/10 people. Cars are great pieces of technology, the same way air conditioners are great.

You just made a suggestion akin to fridge usage and instead opting to just eat room temperature food.
Every post about Go becomes a pretty even split about why Go is terrible/behind the times/frustrating/obsolete, and why Go is productive/simple/awesome.

Maybe just let people like things?

Interestingly most posts about Rust also become about Go as well.
This is classic goal-post moving - you started out by saying that Intellij was faster than VSCode, then after a commentator said that their experience was the opposite, you moved the goal-post to "well it doesn't matter". You should be willing to admit when you're wrong.
You could use ETL tools like peerdb.io. This isn't "real time" but instead some refresh interval. ZomboDB uses ElasticSearch as an index that is transactionally consistent with Postgres. It gives hope that in the future we will see consistent columnar tables or indexes. SQL Server supports columnar indexes on non-columnar tables.
> Something like 60/month seems like it'd be a little more reasonable

That would cause scammers to create new accounts, upload 60 books, hope to sell a few on the first few days until they get caught, then rinse and repeat.

Amazon will probably also monitor accounts who upload 3 books a day using some heuristic so that they can stop it before it becomes an issue.
Yes, just comparing how YT acted. AFAICT, R Kelly was not demonetized prior to the conviction.
The fact that you didn't mention Threads speaks volumes.

But what you need is desktop accessibility (which Threads doesn't have. Instagram is a mobile-first picture-focused app, and doesn't need it. but I'd much rather type on a keyboard than use my phone), and a giant pile of money, from which you pay people to post content exclusively to your app (which Threads hasn't done). From there, you get influencers to pump out screenshots on the existing apps, making it seem like the conversation is happening there and that they're missing out by not being on your platform. Finally, in order for people to want to use it, there needs to be some sort of a new hook. You can't do E2E encryption because Signal did that so it's table stakes at this point. It can't be auto-deleting and no screenshotting because Snapchat already did that one. And so on.

It's an interesting problem!
Here you go. The transcript is of a town hall meeting Gore held in Derry, New Hampshire, on 14th December 1999.

KATHERINE PRUDHOMME: When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I found to be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton, did that change your opinion about him being one of the best presidents in history? And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim? And what did you tell your son about this?

AL GORE: [Nervous laughter] Well, I don't know what to make of her claim, because I don't know how to evaluate her story, I really don't.

[…]

GORE: I didn't see it. There have been so many personal allegations and such a non-stop series of attacks, I guess I'm like a lot of people in that I think enough is enough. I do not know how to evaluate each one of these individual stories. I just don't know. I would never violate the privacy of my communication with one of my children, a member of my family, as for that part of your question--

PRUDHOMME [I slightly misremembered this part - apologies - but it doesn't change the substance]: So you didn't believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim?

GORE: No, I didn't say that. I said I don't know how to evaluate it, and I didn't see the interview. But I must say something else to you about this. Why don't you just stand back up, I'd like to look you in the eye. I think whatever mistakes Clinton made in his personal life are in in the minds of most Americans balanced against what he has done in his public life as president.

--

He then goes on to talk about his religious faith helping him to understand that "all of us are heirs to the mistakes that–are prone to the mistakes that flesh is heir to".

It's one of the most unsettling moments in American political history IMO.
That is indeed the goal
/S

Not only do you get less complexity, the wizards of the EE world have created a capability based secure system called the "circuit breaker" that prevents all of the authority of the power grid flowing through your end user application and taking out the local system (i.e. burning down your house)

If only we had such security in the IT world. ;-)
> This feels like such a non-news. They've pretty much created a language which is deliberately dumbed down to be 20 years behind other languages, then they are proud that they could speed it up with a feature that was fairly well-known almost 20 years ago.

If you want to hate on Go, do it properly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming says

> Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of data types to-be-specified-later that are then instantiated when needed for specific types provided as parameters. This approach, pioneered by the ML programming language in 1973,[1][2] permits writing common functions or types that differ only in the set of types on which they operate when used, thus reducing duplicate code.

> Generics was introduced to the main-stream programming with Ada in 1977 and then with templates in C++ it became part of the repertoire of professional library design. The techniques were further improved and parameterized types were introduced in the influential 1994 book Design Patterns.[3]

If you go with 1973, you get Go being behind the times by a nice round 50 years. If you go with the latest date mentioned, 1994, you still get almost 30 years.

The ML family of languages lives on in eg Haskell and OCaml these days. But Ada was perhaps more mainstream at the time, and 1977 gives you a nice 46 years to roast Go with.

But in any case, while it is tempting to mock Go and its inventors, we should applaud them when they do recognize their mistakes and fix them. Better having generics late than never!

(Btw, from what I can tell by reading their earlier justifications, it seems that the problem was that they only really knew the mess that C++ templates are, and thought all generics were like that. If the choice is between C++ style templates and no generics at all, I can at least understand where they were coming from with their reluctance.

However, given that they must have heard of Java, I'm not quite sure why they thought generics must inevitably be so complicated.

In the end, the Go people wisely got Phil Wadler and friends, who are more at home in the functional programming community, to help them out with the design.)
Yes. In practice it can be worthwhile doing this in distributed compute. These methods (and those from sibling comments) do rely on the error rate being low, and the data compared being much smaller than the amount of compute (eg bytes in final answer << number of CPU instructions used). AFAICT such faults can be treated much like network and storage errors.

What we can’t do is have a set of CPUs where roughly every 1000th instruction fails and hope that plugging together a bunch of computers together to check each other’s progress will work. The specific issue is that the checking is wrong so frequently that you can’t “win” to solve a problem involving trillions of instructions by adding more computers. The overhead of “checking the checkers” just blows up.

What’s interesting about quantum computation is this is exactly what is proposed - have qubit error rates of (I think) around 0.1% and lots of measurement, classical compute, and feedback control to keep the computation “on track”. The whole scheme relies on the error rate for all of that classical compute step to be negligible.
> Why not?

Because I don't have to.

> Do you prefer they keep making the ads worse to compensate?

They'll only be punishing users that haven't installed uBlock Origin yet.

> Or they paywall more?

No objection to that.

> Or make the ads 'native' and indistinguishable from useful content?

If I figure out someone is doing that, I'll never trust them again. I'll literally blacklist the site and if I see it posted here or anywhere else I'll point it out.

> People don't want to work for you for free.

They should start charging money then. Return 402 Payment Required instead of a free HTML page. If they send me ads, I will delete them. I won't be losing even one second of sleep over the matter. I'd delete real life ads too if could get away with it.
Right but you won't be growing a garden in it any time soon. So while not great it may be better than just burning.
Wrote a quick script for those who have their 23andme data and are curious to see how their original dice roll went: https://github.com/Belval/AlphaMissenseCheck

% Mutated genes: 1.97%

% Mutated genes that are benign: 93.98%

% Mutated genes that are ambiguous: 3.94%

% Mutated genes that are pathogenic: 2.08%

Does not really mean anything but my tired brain thought it was fun.
I'm using a Live Captions application in Linux (comfortably available via flathub too) that uses whisper.cpp locally to provide Live Captions for me to read after meetings and make notes.

If you can pair that with LLaMa 2 you will be fine and dandy.
Have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943554
Nitin, I would be happy to- would you mind emailing me at J at hydra dot so. Let's chat!
They definitely did not fix housing prices. Demand and purchasing power are lower with the higher interest rates, but supply is abysmal for the reasons you mentioned.
I am American and I read it wrong first, I asked 10 people, all Americans they all misunderstood the title.
Nature may abhor a vacuum but she sure loves sigmoids.
runs at about 10 fps on my iPhone

please dont ever add anything like this to a website
The notion of "book" is way fuzzier that it was in the olden days. There's nothing stopping an author from releasing one or two thousand words every as a single book, inside a larger story (basically having a book for what could have been single chapters ?)

Same way illustrators could publish their roughs and croquis as books, etc.

As those can be set with a 0$ price, and virtually no inventory issue, it feels like a practice that doesn't penalize either amazon, nor the author, nor the readers.
Thompson turns 80 this year. In what years does Thompson become old enough that you start to entertain the possibility that not everything he says or does is the result of having learned and understood all the possibly-relevant work, including the recent work?

I misspent a few thousand hours of my life on the 9fans mailing list long ago when Pike was very active on it, and my non-joking assessment is that ever since he finished his PhD or shortly after, Pike has probably felt he knows all he needs to learn about programming-language design except for the things he and the people in his immediate social environment invent.

Bell Labs was never good at designing programming languages. Did you know that in the Bourne shell (and possibly in all the other shells) you can have a statement of the form $foo = bar which will assign bar to the variable whose name is the value of foo? (Emacs Lisp, an old language, has the same functionality in the form of a function named "set", but most Emacs Lisp programmers know to avoid it.) Well, I found that statement in a shell script written by one the Bell Labs guys, and the shell script was not doing anything fancy like interpreting a programming language or defining a new PL feature (not that it is sane to do either of things in a Unix shell).

None of what I say is more than a wisp of a reason not to choose Golang IMHO.
And C++ was already 25 years behind the times back then, because ML had generics in 1973.
Your lungs and bloodstream are also very small and numbers matter too
> As someone involved in both the crypto and the VR space, why were the first testers crypto people rather than VR people?

Because the Metaverse mantra is more linked to crypto than the VR space.
Money laundering might be a thing, but I can't see how they could benefit from stolen credit cards. They have to refund when the card owner contacts their bank, don't they?
I am your exact target and I could try this right away. Can you please give more details on what currency conversion fees can be expected?
> If anyone has any stories that I should add, please send them my way!

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

Worthy, but no where near as circulated!
Do you have any examples of the kind of datacenter roofs you think are problematic?