skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am torn between supporting all languages (which easily leaks into supporting emojis) versus just using the 90~ Latin characters as the lingua franca.

I don't want to support emoji either (and, I don't want emoji on my computer), although in some cases, if it is really necessary to be supported, they could be implemented just as text characters instead of as colourful emoji, anyways.

For many purposes (e.g. computer codes) ASCII is good enough (and actually even can be better since it avoids the security problems of using Unicode). (Sometimes, character sets other than ASCII can be used, e.g. APL character set for APL programming.)

> Look, I would love to be able to read/write Sanskrit, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese etc

I also would, but Unicode is bad enough that I would use other ways of doing such a thing when possible (even writing my own programs, etc). (If a program insists on Unicode, I might just use ASCII only anyways, or write my own program)

Not everyone necessarily need to see the same thing (if it is a text, rather than pictures of the text), although, the suitable character sets for that language which can be in use (and with fix pitch if necessary, etc), to auto select a suitable fonts for your computer by the reader's preference.

So, I prefer to support all languages (where applicable; sometimes it isn't), without using Unicode.
If you had negative networth you came out ahead
1-3 hour Timezone difference is nothing
I understand that, which is why I said "Ignore LLM issues with character counting for this example". It was a quick example, please see my other comment with a better example.
i don't think loans are the problem. quality of education can be measured in different ways. the key thing for me is that by not having everyone pay for their own education, there is no incentive to let them pass just to get their money. quality of education can be raised without risking funds because students drop out.

funding of the schools can be made dependent on the taxes that the students pay once they are working. it's a long feedback loop, but i think it could be the right incentive.
They don’t take cash and in theory you can pay by card but it doesn’t work.
> There isn't any real value to putting money into a 401k if you don't think the infrastructure to support it will be there when you get to your 60s.

I thought that way when I was young too...then I learned how funds-matching and compound interest works.

Always save for retirement. You don't get a second chance to do it.
How does a search engine control this? Did it extract it? Does it search some recipe database instead? I'm confused how using Kagi netted this as this seemed to just be a defect from SEO. Is it just that Kagi doesn't promote pages like that so you end up getting the ones that don't have it?
Well,this is extremely clever and simple. I tried that out from vterm in 29.1 and it crashed emacs...
Understanding the Total Cost of OpenAI
>If that were the case there wouldn't be a push to return to the office

You're missing the inherent power dynamics of owners versus employees

The C suites at the top down to middle (mangle) management want RTO because their goals align with real estate value and tax incentives

Mangelement want it because acting as vague wardens for a bunch of people tied to desks for no reason means their jobs have meaning
What does pretty good handle mean to you? We obviously know some things - we have various models that are predictive. We seem decent at figuring out if I do X, then Y will happen with some frequency. And thats the sort of thing that will sell a drug like hot cakes.

We don't seem good at knowing that it doesn't also cause Z, A, B, C, etc, and by the time you figure any of that out, the checks have already been cashed and spent.

I don't think lay folks being able to regurgitate some terminology says much. Lay folks could tell you that birds flap their wings long before we had controlled manned flight.
I use MLC Chat to run Llama 7b. Not incredibly useful, but it is fun to experiment with.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937
I always assumed that book to be rather short since it just needs to be a number of sandwiches eaten.

100 books/year. That's an impressive feat regardless the number of pages. Are these downloaded ebooks or physical printed copies of books?
For the internet archives, this was the correct interpretation. Apologies for the original ambiguity. Also, I believe the creators of Nim where active in D language forum conversations, and I had the impression the Nim authors where very well inspired from D's design.
> What's hurt Chromebook's reputation is people buying discounted/value priced 4Gb ones, struggling with performance and concluding it's a terrible platform.

Doesn't help that they are made by a company that is now more icky than Microsoft and deservedly so IMO.
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The atherton (aka rich asshole den) nimby lawsuit was settled back in 2016. Then it’s mostly your standard California mismanagement and cost overrun s until ultimate excuse - covid came along
Additional ̶A̶S̶C̶I̶I̶ Unicode fun:

https://github.com/dysfunc/ascii-emoji

https://asciimoji.com/
Clearly the Chinese construction companies that got the contracts won, but to the extent that the loans aren't paid back its money from Chinese taxpayers going to the people who own those companies. Japan had a big problem with this sort of corruption when they organized their foreign aid this way, which is why they no longer do.
Another thing I noticed is that homebrew python was noticeably slower on M2 comparing to the pyenv one. I imagine homebrew compiles it with too generic flags to support wide range of macs.
First, congrats on the launch!

Why did you end up going with a SaaS model? 30 Euros or $31.50 USD is pretty expensive for something like a status site. You'd have a lot less to manage day to day and be able to focus more on innovating the product if you just sold the software, imo.

Why the focus on synthetic monitoring? As a SRE, I actively eschew synthetic monitoring. It's highly error prone and doesn't actually indicate regional availability. I'd like a status site that I could push a certain internally derived SLA for a given service to and the status site reflects the average over time of that windowed SLA.

SLA's are intended to incur customer refunds when they're violated if they're meaningful. If your synthetic monitoring shows an SLA of 4 nines but it was actually closer to 4.8 or 4.9 then you could be on the hook for causing your customers a good bit of legal pain. Just something to think about in this space.

Other status sites don't build external SLAs off of internal metrics because the process of deriving internal metrics that align with external outcomes is sufficiently difficult. Instead, they calculate an SLA based off of posted statuses over a period of time eg: Degraded, Down, Up. Supporting both modes could be a boon to potential customers.

Overall looks like a great start; good luck on your venture!
And then if the standards body doesn’t accept their solution because low end Android manufacturers don’t want to spend an extra 20 cents on a build of materials?

That’s why PC OEMs didn’t support FireWire before USB 3 came out except for Sony and Dell on some of their high end offerings.

If you don’t like Apple’s offerings you are free to choose Android/Windows
Google might cache further up the chain, which could help
I have been using PlantUML a lot. For me the effort of drawing a diagram in an external tool and then exporting it seems like such a waste compared to adding source code that compiles into the diagram I need.

As a nice bonus, GPT-4 is pretty good at generating valid PlantUML. I have given descriptions of the diagram I want and gotten results that have gone into docs unchanged.
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There was a PR to libgit2 long ago to show what some of it might look like in Rust; I cannot find the link right now. Would be interesting for sure.
People have become anti-Windows recently?

I don’t think there ever was a time when hackers liked this product.

1.0? Useless.

2.0? Ugly.

3.0? Weak compared to OS/2.

NT 3.5? Too slow.

95? Too crashy.

NT 4.0? Too fat.

98? Too much IE.

XP? Too popular.

Vista? Everything wrong.

7? Too little change.

8? Too much change.

10? Too much cloud.

11? Too recent; I can’t remember
> You don't seem to understand what a conditional is; you'd have a hard time doing math or formal CS.

Ad hominems are against TOS.

Answering the question is irrelevant if it’s the wrong question to begin with. And for the wrong circumstances (ie if this is a family vacation) can be counter-productive. It’s far more productive to zoom out, ask why the author is asking for advice to study react on vacation, and address that instead. Consider this as you advance your career past recent college grad / swe1 :)
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I wouldn't expect results manipulated as such to be "extremely obvious" to your average person.
It's still much easier to gauge work in person. Like if a person complains about a difficult problem 5 times in a row in daily, it makes a big difference if I glance over and see them in the IDE/terminal/stackoverflow, discussing with colleagues, drawing on the whiteboard, cursing or even sitting in the chair, apparently in deep thought. In remote, all you see is their online status (maybe).
Not all connections are created equal. Even some big providers clearly have iffy peering agreements upstream that’ll manifest as terrible performance if you have a widely-geographically-distributed bandwidth-heavy load.
> So what?

A very large number of Chinese citizens will lose their savings to these ponzi-esque construction schemes. Vast waves of defaults may take the banks with them. In Albania something similar caused mass civil unrest.
The process for determining whether a driver is willing to transport a pet is asinine. Just add something to the app so the passenger can indicate that they have a pet, whether it is in a carrier, its approximate size, etc. and let the driver decide whether to take the job.

These services are already borderline questionable given all of the problems and the increased prices now that they aren't trying to put taxis out of business. The moment one must deal with someone at the company to beg for a refund or deal with any of the other problems the equation becomes pretty one-sided.
Your claims about "vast majority of Ukrainian males" and "enslaved" and "would not choose to fight" that should somehow result from double-digit women leaving the country are completely unsubstantiated. You are just making up stuff that you would like to believe.

The reality is that the war has united the nation and given purpose of being to many, to stand up to tyranny and be brave. As they say in the states: Live free or die.

What I find shameful is that someone in a cushy place far from war is telling millions to give up, let them be killed, raped and enslaved by maffia barbars so you would feel just a tiny bit better about yourself.
> I actually really hate how HN strips them.

Oh. So that's why HN discussion always looks sane. They strip the pollution.
That seems like a truncation + display issue though, not a normalization issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37e8c1/malicious_tex...

In fact, I don't know that there's any reason to believe normalization happens at all in the process of executing this.
I am close to people who have experiences similar to your (as recently as 2018). It's true that they are making it work, but it'll be another ten years before their debt is paid off. Furthermore, they all graduated on time, they are all in well-paid engineering disciplines, and they are all relatively free of other situations that cause large financial burden (heath crises, disasters, family drug issues, etc). For any of them, I'm not sure it'd be going smoothy if any of things had gone differently.

Put another way: when everything goes right, you can just barely pay for private college yourself. As soon as anything goes awry, all bets are off.
Let's get real, white collar tech work is nothing like battles. Even outages are not that dramatic.
You can.

def foobar(things: list[tuple[int, Floob | None]]) -> dict[int, int]):

Possible since 3.11 I think, maybe even 3.10.
Yes, however people who willingly violate laws are more reckless. Insurance is heavily regulated and the rates are set by actuarial data. In other words, insurance companies can only charge high rates for speeders if they can prove their past payouts were higher for speeders than non speeders.

Also the 20mph policy is about reducing the risk of pedestrian death, not accident rates.
They are based in EU actually)))
Afaik the ru part is a 'subsidiary', at least on paper
This is a much older phenomenon, called railway town, and it is so frequent that it has its own Wikipedia page [1]. At smaller scale this also happens in cities where new underground lines are built. It's a well-established way of paying for public transport. See [2] for a discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_town

[2] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2017/09/07/meme-weeding-l...
PC in general basically stands for Patch City.

It's a hellish development environment even for Western PC-only studios. WHICH PC game has been free of bugs in recent times anyway?

While on the other hand pretty much every PS5 game has been basically flawless on release day.
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> Other defenders of the Red Khmers

Are you talking about the entire Western block where in the 80 when western powers brought support to the milicia in order to piss off the Soviet Union-backed Vietnam, or what?
I don't know. I just got hired on somewhere using this criteria, and I leave behind a remote-only position that I excelled in for the past four years. And I excelled in several more remote-only positions before that one.

I don't have a degree or any certifications either, due to the same disability that prevents me from going into an office.

It is an employers' market and the employers that create arbitrary barriers of entry for talent will find themselves recruiting from a pool of desperate talent, which may be by design because desperate talent also costs less.

However, I'm not desperate and the managers that hire me find out why that is pretty quickly.
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Tom Hanks Warns Fans to Beware of Dental Plan Ad Featuring an AI Version of Him
How about neutral value padding at the other end?

I am having trouble visualizing this.
The Great Zelle Pool Scam
That's what you should be saying, because that's what the article is claiming. If you're arguing they would rewrite queries less obviously, that's a much weaker claim than what the author is making.

I'm sure the average person would notice if their query for "children's clothing" was converted to "NIKOLAI-brand kidswear". Have you ever seen your query converted to such a narrow query targeting a specific brand like the article alleges? Surely you would notice that you're only getting NIKOLAI-brand kidswear results?
Seems like you're going to twist it around to "West is Best" chauvinism no matter what.

Elden Ring

Demon's Souls

Death Stranding

Resident Evil 4

Final Fantasy 7

Street Fighter 6

Final Fantasy 16

Armored Core 6...

Every major PS5 game in the last couple years, was virtually flawless on release day.

And of course Nintendo is still scoring hits with almost everything.

Meanwhile on Reddit everyone is crying about the PC versions, of even PC-only games!

Starfield has been a bug ridden joke, typical of Bethesda, one of the flagship Western studios, still unable to improve their janky physics and cringey NPCs.

Diablo 4 gave me the only crashes I have ever seen on the PS5.

Harry Potter, Redfall, Immortals of Aveum... overhyped flops. Baldur's Gate 3 has been the only saving grace from the Western gaming industry that I can think of.
Right which I took to mean it must be legal since they do it now.
Lots of people, physicists included, have criticized the funding allocation for high energy physics... that wasn't what we were talking about. Ironically, a lot of that criticism points out that clever astrophysical studies can be done more cheaply, including studies that work towards constraining what we loosely call dark matter.

No offense, but you seem to be changing the subject (former experimental physicist or no).
It's mostly audiobooks, I have some ePubs that don't have audiobooks anywhere, such as many Japanese light novel fan (or official) translations into English for example. I can get through them as I can understand audio faster than I can read text, as I play back at 3 to 5x speed.
What's the difference between daemon and server-mode?
I just really, really hope the Arch people manage to roll out Python 3.12 faster then they needed for 3.11 _
Is the chart in the blog wrong? Because it looks like investments for Belt & Road have collapsed, which would be odd if it had been a success rather than a failure.
Naturally occurring lakes of algae tasting like wheat and similar sugar content, and metabolized by fermentation from micro organism.
> That’s what I adore about truly open source projects such as Python, but also Linux or Rust, for example. They’re not polished products of faceless corporations

Most corporation products are absolutely horrible comparing to Python, the polished ones you know of are few exceptions. I've seen a few internal programming languages and anything publicly known is ... at least usable.
To me, the work varying hours is part of the problem; if the remote work is expected to replace in office work, then similar hours have to be worked, in which case people need to be available throughout the work day.

To head off negative reaction to this, I'm not saying that remote should always be similar hours, I mean remote work positions that otherwise would have been in office before the pandemic, if that makes sense.

I just look at this situation and to me it looks like people are like, ohh noo, remote work isn't as good as in office work, well, yeah, you haven't even tried to make it anything like "in office work but thru a camera," you've almost allowed your domestic employees and contractors to work as if everyone's in different teams in different timezones, with all of the problems that come with that...
Definitely in terms of "how is it possible that this building is not falling over". I remember first seeing 432 Park and immediately checking online to understand how it was physically possible to build. I'm still a bit skeptical. With increasingly frequent extreme climate events, I wonder how resilient the building will be.
SBF’s Defense Will Be Tough
I see, active listening + relating it to my knowledge on my end, lmk if I compressed too much:

you're curious if there's noticably worse performance if the Q is at the end of content rather than before

No, there's a good paper on this somewhere with the Claude 100K, tldr it's sort of bow-shaped, beginning and end had equally high rates but middle would suffer
What is this shadow being cast upon?
One such project is RWKV[1]. On the open source leaderboard it lived in the middle of the board for a while, so it really is a legit approach, it's just not hot.

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It’s an issue on its way out because unless you’re from a hyper local part of the same part of the country you can’t even tell what caste someone is. If you let it lie as is the issue will not make it past the first generation immigrants let alone the second. If you codify it legally it’s going to drag on forever.
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> When the training data is essentially "all written text I can get my hands on", can't say you've made much in the way of conscious choice here.

Oh yes, that's a conscious choice. And not one which gets you a decent LM, incidentally.

> If the objective function is so vague that it allows you to complete any task

The loss function is not vague at all, and it certainly doesn't allow you to complete any task (it's more impressive that it allows you to compete any tasks at all, frankly).

> I'm consciously designing you to do whatever you want!

The point is that you aren't, and that "designing to do whatever it wants" is nonsense because by default it wants everything equally much / doesn't want anything at all (those are the same thing).
It's a less complicated version of multiprocessing because you don't have to deal with multiple processes and all the complexity that that entails.

It's basically web workers / isolates for Python.