skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again for the very informative reply.

> You may still argue that Unicode algorithms are designed for the human text encoded in strings. That's a very nuanced argument, because one can also argue that they are the best effort approximation of human text operations for strings, in which case they are not the human text operations themselves. For example many languages have a case conversion operation over strings,

That is ... very nuanced indeed. Case folding does look to be difficult issue in it's own right, but it's not something I do a lot and besides even 20 years ago it was deferred to a library function (str.lower() or whatever the language provides).

The issue the original article correctly says every app trips over is neither nuanced, nor uncommon. It's boring stuff like handling backspace or left arrow cursor movement - stuff programmer have to do all the time, and that is difficult to put in a library. As a consequence they get it wrong over and over again. Unicode representing a grapheme with a single code point would fix that.

As you say I'm not sure there is a simple change you could make to Unicode that renders case folding or the other problems you describe easy. To me that's a strong hint it's not the right place to address those problems.
> You're dangerously close to an admission that "the iPhone crowd" wants the logo as a status symbol

That's all it is in the US and has been for a long time.

Android was superior for the longest time. I was shocked when I used a friend's iphone and saw they couldn't create folders to organize apps, didn't have widgets, etc.

People in the US just want to be in the club, which is where the ridiculous 'green bubble' snobbery comes from.
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definitely the intimacy. i do not discuss much about literature, but i am sure what i read influence how i see the world.
Guess we're happy to have reclaimed "hacker" around here. In the
South-West of England, we're all mostly pirates too :)
I think "literally carry every division they have" is incorrect; on a margins basis, Ads are significantly more performant than AWS, although AWS wins on volume of profits and still has great margins.

Beyond that, I don't think this kind of analysis is meaningful because it fails to account for second order effects. For example, even if retail is breakeven on a net basis, it still subsidizes a gigantic fleet of machines used to power retail from which AWS came from. Negotiating in bulk to build data centers with a significantly larger internal customers leads to better unit economics for the AWS side of the build out even if retail is break even on a first order basis or even has losses. The same argument can be made for ads as well. Amazon is great at monetizing infrastructure /because/ they can sell not just significant volumes of the end product, but and the infrastructure used to deliver it.

I think you could make the same argument for Google, which is that technically, they should be able to use the second order effects of assets they've needed to put together to run search and ads to sell better infrastructure. Theoretically, this should mean that GCP is king, but it doesn't. I'm not sure there's an obvious answer to this question, or even a great clue behind first mover advantage AWS had in cloud.
Arbitrary number predicted at a timeframe far enough out that he’ll have retired by the time it gets proven/disproven
I've seen roles from mid 100s to mid 200s, all remote, for 5 YoE or so. Where are you looking and what roles are you looking for?
So erowid recruiter?
libc would be a pretty good place to drop a memory-safe replacement, honestly.
It's loud, but the tech gave me ear pro. And it's fucking boring in there.
This option always seems funny to me. If I didn't trust the AES-NI instruction, why I would I trust the XOR instruction?
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Why just Erowid and not the Psychonaut Wiki?
Sure, but there are two sides to every story, and a proper discussion would require giving the other side a chance to respond and the community a chance to ask questions, etc. - that's what I mean by "hashing out". That sort of community "hearing" (if you like) is the only device an internet forum has for assessing such things—not that it always works—but the Who Is Hiring threads are not the place for it.

(I don't mean to imply that what you posted is wrong or misleading, just that we have no way to know.)
> they also have a substantially lower recidivism rate compared to the US.

How sure are you of that? It's easy to get lost in the weeds, but looking at similar timelines and similar definitions of what constitutes recidivism, the US compares favorably to Sweden [0].

Worth noting is that the data is very noisy. You'd expect that recidivism would be monotonically increasing with years post-conviction, but it varies quite a bit year by year so this is not what the statistics show. This noise also makes it pretty easy to cherry pick numbers to suit your argument.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/recidivis...
Can somebody explain to me the difference between this „short lived experience“ and the actual ongoing decades long operations of tire based metro/subway systems?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro
Additionally writing security rules in JavaScript just feels wrong. And alienates users who simply want to mount USB drives without root.
A finite resource fairly allocated to all? Which civilization are we talking about again? Certainly not humans.

Also a billion or trillion or infinite ants can’t outsmart a single human. So unless some hard cap is enforced (how?) then mini AIs will probably not do anything
C99 to C23 is not obvious to …

Not in our lifetime I know, but we sort of understand why we have year 2000 problem. It seems as human, we know what that missing years are or “reverse numbering” is ok.
Really depends on your lens here. You calling it "slacking" implies that you see this as purposefully avoiding work. A more optimistic lens suggests that it is mental burnout and general loss of productivity.

Either way, no one is expecting 100% productivity. Or at least, they shouldn't. The question is more on a long range than week by week. Does an employee with a 4 day work week require less days off? Will the motivated ones spend more time on growth with added free time? Will retention increase? These are less opaque factors that should be considered, even if modern corporate culture doesn't value them.
The time to shop for emergency services is obviously before you need them. typically though some kind of insurance.

Maybe that is not legally possible where you are, but there is nothing inherent about emergency services resulting in extortionate pricing.
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Yeah their children...and we thought ours.
I had it. It's been fine. You would hope that this would be a reasonable alternative for people freaked out about mRNA but I'd bet they don't care for it either. Late 2022 is also way too late for approval as most people I know felt COVID was well and truly 'finished' by that point. My country did not drag its feet approving this vaccine nearly as much.
Copyright still applies if you’re copying elements of the story, it’s just harder to detect and less obvious in court.

The value of names to copyright holders is simply how distinct they are. John Smith isn’t particularly unusual but if you name a bounty hunter Boba Fett it’s hard to argue originality. Complete originality isn’t required as long as you’re safely inside a fair use exception, but overwhelming originality is required.

So it’s generally safer for a character to talk about their favorite parts of Star Wars than have your stories plot be a group of rebels trying to destroy a planet killing doomsday weapon guarded by a sword wielding space wizards.
I’d be interested in a comparison with Eigen for Linear Algebra workflows. I would love to perform eigen analysis or svd on large matrices using CUDA.
Does removing ERMS actually make life easier? I thought it was the "do the simple thing" option, and an emulator could just turn it into a memcpy on the emulator's side.
You can power spaceships with nukes via the Orion drive. Still the highest known to work thrust/ISP ration we have right now.
They aren't that different, all told. There is a reason IEDs are a huge safety concern. I'm failing to see how that wouldn't be worse with nuclear power sources.

Or am I mistaken and you could make it so that IEDs from nuclear energy couldn't be done?
The fact that they haven't rewritten glibc's string parsing wouldn't make their criticism wrong.

If all of glibc had been written in assembly for every single target triplet, one wouldn't be wrong to point out that there was no benefit to doing that instead of writing it in C, and that it probably took more work and was more error-prone, even if they weren't willing to help port said code to C.

Just the same, they could have written this in C++.

Much of LLVM's libc is written in C++ with exposed C bindings (or all, I haven't checked 100%). For example, their libc stdio implementation is completely in C++.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/libc/src/stdi...

You could say the same thing about Rust and Relibc, but it seems much less likely that a C project would incorporate Rust than that it would incorporate C++.
I was under the impression that only fools trust NIST after DUAL_EC_whatsit.

Is that not the case?
Can You Run It? LLM Version
> half the downward force means you're probably much more likely to accidentally knock it over.

Yes, but it would also be significantly easier to catch before it hits the floor, right?
I’ve had several and almost always fall asleep. It’s always dark in the room and you’re laying down.
Why are we defending an opportunist scumbag politician that gave a standing ovation to a Nazi? Embrace nazis maybe doesn’t immediately make you a nazi but you are probably a scumbag perhaps only nazi adjacent but scumbag none the less.
A CEOs compensation is mostly stock so that doesn't make any sense. But even if that weren't true, the idea that shareholders don't care about long term prospects or don't mind when the company tanks because they have other investments is one of the most outlandish financial takes I have ever heard.
IDK. My neighbor is pretty good hitting clay pigeons.
Yes, politically he is a libertarian.

Bitcoin, Ron Paul, etc.
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Looking anywhere I can at this point. Been unemployed with the rest of the industry for a while. Looking for intermediate to senior positions. Can do senior level work but tend not to go for them. I haven't seen salaries six figure plus in several months unless it's some ML guru rockstar ninja job posting.
The HN algorithm hasn't changed recently. Who knows what else may have changed, but not that!
Implemented correctly, I agree the difference in security margin may not be too important. Otherwise, Serpent is more resistant to timing attacks. Weaknesses in implementation are as important as weaknesses in design.

Regardless, the comparison wasn't intended to argue for a meaningful difference in security margin, but to show that that the winner of the competition, well, wins (in adoption).
If you’re seriously willing to pay money for this, send me an email — I’m considering implementing this in my pgmigrate tool but not sure if it’s worth the development time. I have all the groundwork done, probably achievable in about 10 hours of concerted effort.
10 years ago, I started a language meetup. Over the years, it grew to as much as 50 people and eventually people moved away, lost interest, etc. I met most of my friends and my wife from this group.

Many of my friends even met their spouses from this group (4 weddings, I think). Meetup was the best place to meet people outside of work. It was always difficult for me to make new friends as I got older, but the site made it much easier.

It's sad to see what it's become. I don't know anyone using it anymore. covid did kill a lot of meetups though. My friend group still hasn't been the same. We all still haven't met together in the same room/space since Covid started.
I cannot be convinced that's a common thing.

Here's my pro-hallucinogen argument: if you have persistent, treatment resistant anxiety, there is nothing even close to a heroic dose of your favorite hallucinogen to kill your ego and let you see through the bullshit in your life. You'll have a pretty bad time during the trip, but the clarity it provides is life changing.
Point being the American form is the issue in Florida. Warmer winters means more time spent at 20–25°C, increasing the overall disease burden.
> With the caveat that drug offenses include manufacturing, trafficking, and sales

With the caveat to your caveat that "sales" in the US tends to include anything above 1 or 2 doses. I'm no bartender, but I'll still buy beer by the twelve pack.
They will get a reputation bonus.
In that case I'm glad you hadn't! Reposts of good things are just fine after a year or so. There's no reproach encoded in those "Related" lists. They're only there for curious readers who like to look at past discussions.

Plus it's good for newer cohorts of HN users to get acquainted with the perennials and classics: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Here's the whole story about it https://signalscv.com/2023/08/solar-panel-dispute-likely-to-...
Luma labs integrates gaussian splatting for real-time interactive 3D scenes
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Under the hood, the backend/core game logic is built with Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, and the frontend/UI is in TypeScript and React. In-game, you write code in Rhai, a scripting language tightly integrated with Rust. I chose this architecture for a few reasons: it offers good performance for compiling and running user code, has important sandboxing/safety guarantees like preventing infinite loops, and means the entire game can run in-browser without the need for any servers (aside from just serving static files). Keeping costs low was really important since the game is 100% free and I would like to keep it that way. Check it out and let me know what you think! I'll be checking back here periodically to answer any questions.

The full source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/albrow/elara.
In terms of communication channels being spammed: I am actually hopeful for this because it will just create enormous incentives for us to rethink our communication channels to be much more selective. For example, moving email to be a pull-based system from people I'm actually interested in hearing from rather than an open door with less-than-perfect spam filters. Or making telephone numbers something that have to be mutually exchanged to allow access.
I just went the other way and re subscribed. It "just works" compared to my plex solution. If it was just me, fine - but don't want my wife dealing with nonsense after dealing w the kids all day.
Ai will be owned by the richest people in the world. Maybe their children will only work 3.5 days a week. Unless we can solve that problem everyone else will get screwed.
> If you look at other countries that have a much higher emphasis on reformation, and less of an emphasis on "punishment", they have a measurably lower recidivism rate.

I have trouble finding good evidence for this. Easy enough to find cherry picked numbers when someone is trying to make a point, but what I see is that the data on recidivism is pretty noisy and subject to a number of parameters that can make it hard to compare across jurisdictions.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/recidivis...
It's about a conflict of mutually opposed interests.

You and I exist as citizens of our respective nations. We have wants and needs, and we engage with politics (hopefully by voting) to pursue those wants and needs.

So long as we are part of the majority, it is likely our wants and needs will be more or less met.

When we are no longer in the majority, our needs and wants are less likely to be met.

When politicians import (or allow to be imported) a new demographic into the voter base, who bring with them new collections of wants and needs, that activity harms our bargaining position as politicians are no longer beholden to our interests.

In America, in an era where special treatment and incentives and punishments are being awarded on the basis of ethnicity(which cannot be changed or altered), this maters even more.

We exist in a zero-sum system of relative power.
This is nice, but trivial to accomplish with the “faker” library available for most major programming languages - almost all reasonable web test frameworks will allow you to just make this json locally with the generated values, often with almost the exact same/extremely similar template syntax shown here.
michelin, apocryphally
I imagine the email was intended as a shaming tactic.
Garbage in garbage out still applies (I tested with some shaky phone video and the results were a mess) but when done right this looks incredibly promising for future VR, film and gaming applications.
Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?
It seems likely that things with no possible way to make decent profit out of them wouldn't have much research interest in them. Of course it doesn't mean that any such thing is useful, but it definitely makes effects of something unclear and difficult to actually prove or disprove.
The migra maintainer has abandoned it for greener pastures. If you’re interested in sponsoring an alternative, send me an email. My pgmigrate tool has all the groundwork necessary to make this possible but I have held off implementing this because I am not personally interested in using it.
Or make people more robust & harder/impossible to kill. That would solve so many problems once and for all!
Where in the world are you that you get to choose your emergency services provider? Certainly not the USA.
Intel Altera Experiment Ending as PSG Goes Standalone En Route to IPO
2.0.0... Which means they are breaking backward compatibility too.
Economic violence gets dumb kids hooked on meth. Warning: this is what Scientologists actually believe.
From what I heard they weren't all that good at hiding the sketchiness when you got anywhere close. Even the outside investors saw the unprofessionalism and decided that yes playing LoL in the middle of meeting is actually a positive and bad accounting was not a disqualifier.

Thinking about it it's crazy to me that the simple fact of avoiding being headquartered in the US to evade financial regulations is not enough to be treated as a highly suspect enterprise and being restricted from advertising to US consumers on TV.
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Tech stack can be seen here
Why can’t you keep the calling interfaces of functions as close to the Py libraries as possible, simplifying the transition for everyone? Will that really destroy the performance increase? Common calling interfaces make everything much simpler. Even in this simple example, the calls differ significantly.
Anxiety disorders are highly correlated with serious HPPD. I'm afraid to say that I'm not sure this is responsible advice, given the possible risk.

It would nice to get more data about HPPD to understand its prevalence and risk factors.

[edit] I would agree that hallucinogens might be a good mind medicine, but they should be likened to medications or surgeries when it comes to risk.
> > have collectively proposed launching more than half a million satellites

Global proposed in orbit active constellation sizes are large and we've barely started with what is planned:

At the forefront among companies that plan to put up satellite swarms is Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Around 2000 satellites in its Starlink program are currently in orbit, with the full system envisioned to have around 40 000. When SpaceX and others have put 65 000 satellites in orbit, “one out of every 15 points of light you see in the night sky will be a moving satellite,” says Samantha Lawler, who studies the Kuiper belt at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. OneWeb has launched 358 of a planned constellation of 6372 satellites—down from earlier plans for 48 000. Amazon’s Project Kuiper is preparing to launch 7774 satellites. Other planned constellations include ones from China, with 12 992 satellites; Rwanda, with more than 327 000; and the Canadian company Kepler Communications, which has launched a few satellites and plans to create—or sell spots in—a constellation of 115 000.

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/75/4/25/2842796/Ba...

> any reasonable mobile phone can track that many spacecraft.

That's not the issue - they're still there disrupting visible and non visible imaging.

> A lot more people like broadband coverage

Ah, yes, the Joe sixpack argument for littering the world, pissing on gardens, and painting adverts on the walls of the grand canyon.

> in remote areas

I'm 60 and I've lived and worked in remote areas my entire life as, indeed, have the people that live and value remote areas - paper maps work fine, tourists need GPS, trad. radios work for communications, somehow humanity has survived for more than the last 30 post WWW years no matter what the mobile phone addicted think.

> even if a single life is saved because someone could connect to ask for help, it's a worthy sacrifice.

Don't need starlink for that though, do we?

We have ePIRBs, we have sat phones, if someone can't survive outside a city without bring the city with them, perhaps they shouldn't leave the city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL44EAyz8Qc
Better than writing them in the sudoers language, whose definitions are annotated...
And these were installed on public land which reflected the heat onto onto people's homes.

Maybe you should get hired by a solar panels law firm and go to bat against nimbys in a court of law.
Morality has always depended on circumstances. When life gets hard, ideals held about morality or ethics tend get looser and looser until they fly right out the window.
Anyone in my life with HPPD got it as the result of using psychedelics a lot.
That’s far from my experience. It sounds like you’re dealing with a horrible job / company here.
I grew up in an area with plenty of wind turbines, what's wrong with them? I never put much thought into them, they certainly weren't a burden to live near.
1x slower would be 2x as slow, I think, is how people are interpreting it.

I think they are correct but it is easy enough to misinterpret that it is not a good way to phrase things.