skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding high house numbers, I suspect there might be numbering systems that skip most numbers, for example similar to the highly rational one adopted since the Napoleonic period in a large part of Lucca: meters from the beginning of the street, rounded odd on one side and even on the opposite side.
Yes, it works, but there are some issues.

The first one being that the SoC configuration runs in DS-compatibility mode which does not expose all of the available RAM in the DSi, and nds-bootstrap won't properly redirect I/O requests to the external SD card, which means you either need to embed the rootfs in the NDS ROM which won't persist changes, or use a flash cart and run the DLDI build instead.
When forced to use gmail (and I expect most webmail systems) I miss 'bounce' which I have used forever in elm and now mutt.

'bounce' sends the message exactly as received, only changing the destination address, as if the new recipient was BCC'd.
The curvature is quite small but is responsible for orbital motion in the steady state condition. I don't think the parent comment was suggesting that space would "curve into a circle" unless you are implying something else specifically.

All ideal orbits, with no other forces involved, are equivalent to geodesics. However that only applies in true free fall. Actual orbits decay due to tiny non-ideal characteristics which have a cumulative effect or stochastic "butterfly effect"-like characteristic over long periods of time. For example in the ideal case, as soon as a satellite fires maneuvering thrusters, it is not following a geodesic for the time that the rockets are active. After the maneuver is completed, a new steady state condition can be calculated piecewise and then it's following a geodesic again. Another example is the ideal state of a satellite being in a low orbit that decays due to friction with the atmosphere, for which there are good estimates but not exact predictions. Due to the friction, there is a tiny acceleration (which happens to become larger over time) and this makes it follow something that starts close to a geodesic but deviates from it.
Co-author of the article here.

We do support updates for some sources. Deletes not yet. For some sources we do polling which is then dumped on the queues. For other we have listeners that subscribe to changes.

What are the challenges you are facing in supporting this?
And Rust does better??
Many Western manufacturers are being kept afloat by the extreme largesse of the defense, aerospace and medical industries who each have specific, reasonable problems with offshoring.

Were it not for those supply chain constraints, these companies would almost all disappear overnight.

That's a terrifying proposition, as we're in no position to compete with China.

Yeah, China earned a bad rap in many ways, but there are lots of companies there that have figured out how to do excellent business with westerners. See JLCPCB and PCBWay as two examples.
Ah, the way they break out artwork calls explains the weird behaviour I see with my U.K. Netflix account in Portugal - English titles, Portuguese posters, regardless of language preferences.
Elon's Twitter acquisition was exactly to do that but he muffed it.
You cannot control the HTTP version in a webpage with JavaScript... The browser has complete control over selecting an appropriate version.

But since Electron includes nodejs, it should be possible, but probably not that easily.
What about then sucked?
To Schnorr and Beyond
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but are you saying that if the research said conclusively that banning CSAM absolutely leads to an increase in actual sexual assaults against children, it would still be a good idea to ban CSAM?
Exactly this. It feels like folks still haven't figured out that their beloved and highly profitable idevices are made in China.
The laws were also different though. Trickle down economics is a fairly “new” concept (and total failure) and that has certainly fucked the economy up. By cutting taxes to the wealthy (among the many other laws that benefits corporations over individuals, etc) the gap/disparity between the haves and have nots has increased tremendously. A vacuum salesman in the 70s/80s could afford a house, children, etc. I don’t think they were lucky but they also didn’t have the chips stacked against them.
Population density != human flourishing.

>> hence why they won the fight.

More likely, they won because there were always far more of them, and Eurasian trade shifted from the "silk road" to the oceans.

>> those are the only societies with formal, documented anything

You can't be serious.
> You're imagining an act of god that does precisely so much damage that the difference between catastrophic failure and a non-event is this one cracked pipe. That was, please note, detected and fixed before failure.

Take the severe Forsmark incident in 2006 in Sweden. Many of the "defense in depth" layers had been accidentally removed through freak occurrences and upgrades. Thus loss of cooling became almost a certainty. That is why you test and do not accept half fixes to placate the operators profit margin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J...

> And the downside of that risk coming to fruition is a 0-death to near-0-death crisis (which is much better than whatever this precise external shock will cause).

And a at least $200B bill to cleanup the mess in Fukushimas case. Lets remove the Price Anderson Act so they have to pay the true cost for their risk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
>Do not perpetuate the myth that the vaccines slowed the spread.

Oh wow, you're not kidding.
Some engineers find it fun, other might not. Same as everything.

IMO the fun parts are actually prototyping and figuring out the right pattern I want to use for my solution. Once you have done that, scaling and dealing with robustness tends to be a bit less fun.
Here is a link to the order:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/znpnznkjgpl/...
> Embodies the antithesis of most billionaires

Possible selection bias there: we hear about the loud ones, more than the ones secretly giving away money.
Sounds like the same people who use langchain's "Prompt replacement" methods instead of, you know, just use string formatting

https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/model_io/prompts/p...
> Feeney was a proponent of “Giving While Living,” believing he could make more of a difference in causes he cared about while he was alive, rather than setting up a foundation after he died, according to the Atlantic Philanthropies.

> “It’s much more fun to give while you are alive than to give when you are dead.”

Words to live by.
Interesting. But not really the animal horn helmets beloved of the victorians and, as you say, not contemporary with the vikings.
It's very controversial, but I like Go's approach of treating errors as return values - because that is ultimately what they are.

You can have your language hide exceptions from the control flow if you wish, but they are still things that result from function calls that you should deal with. Why not make them front and center?
...On which fraud was also uncovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue
When the occupancy rate is high across the market, purposely withholding units by using higher than market-rate prices across a large enough percentage of the market artificially inflates the prices. "Large enough" doesn't need to be anywhere near a majority of the market to impact the entire market. There's no competitive advantage to using a lower rate, because the unit is likely to get rented either way.

You cannot look at the entire US. You have to look market by market. It's not price fixing across the entire US, but it's absolutely price fixing in particular markets.
Also, cost. And tools.
Actually, some Vector DB's can generate embeddings as well as storing them, Chroma in particular uses SentenceTransformers models.
Why do patients leave against medical advice?
I used to watch a lot of C-SPAN 10 to 15 years ago, back in the Brian Lamb days. One of the reasons I quit was because it turned into the American Enterprise Institute channel.

So as soon as I saw aei.org up to the right of the "700B dollars" I noped right out.
>”debugging certain issues will require immense financial effort…”

In my experience corporate would rather have programmers accommodate the bug, or simply build around it, rather than pay for the dev and QA time required to produce and validate a fix for it.

This gets gnarly because you end up with sections of the codebase that are designed around the bug happening. A while back I volunteered to fix a particularly egregious bug, but my pull request was denied because people were worried that fixing it would open up a can of worms. Leadership said that it would be too much of a burden for QA to regression test and we couldn’t be sure it wouldn’t break other things. I settled for leaving a detailed comment explaining the bug and moved on.
I am building something complex that depends on reasoning. But I would not expect LLMs to be able to reason properly, I mean, most humans cannot. Instead, I am using the LLM for its intuition (which is a kind of understanding), and handle the reasoning with proper logic. Any other way of doing this is quite foolish, and just shows that most people have no clue about logic. In a way, people are not exposing the limits of LLMs, they are exposing their own limits of thinking too simple.
Most hardwired smart switches close or open the circuit either electronically or with relays depending on supported load, so whether or not there is power to the bulbs is entirely dependent on the switch state. So yes, they can always match light state, ignoring the case of a burnt out bulb.

This applies to e.g. Lightwave switches.
idk about that ~ there certainly is a lot of UAP talk in the news. where there is smoke, there is fire
Interesting the article jumps straight from REST to GraphQL and forgets Falcor[0] - Netflix's alternative vision for federated services. For a while it looked like it might be a contender to GraphQL but it never really seemed to take off despite being simpler to adopt.

[0] https://netflix.github.io/falcor/
I used to struggle with USB-A plugs until I made it a point to actually look and pay attention. 99% of all plugs are labeled and logo side faces up. For devices that have a natural orientation (e.g. laptop), it always goes one way. For mating two cables, just look at where the male PCB in one is.

Turns out that plugging in USB-A cables is a skill you can learn in 5 seconds.
I think I have seen it also with LibreOffice.
It'd be nice if the author mentioned the real purpose of assertion statements: *it's meant to catch a programmers' errors (your own, or other people working with your code). Not a users' errors.* From that stems all assert use-cases and all requirements to it.
DNSSEC is around the 4~5% mark in .com and .net.
Generating Oxygen on Mars: The Triumph of NASA's Moxie
Generating the embeddings is by far the slowest part of that, but it’s embarrassingly parallel so if you have $ it can be done that quick.

When I worked for Dubai airport, I was tasked with building a vector similarity search that was highly optimised for query speed, in the end I ended up holding the vectors in memory (in a numpy array) and using scipy to do cosine similarity, I could get about 1.2 million vectors per second per core after tweaking and optimising, again this is embarrassingly parallel so if you have more vectors, chunk it to fit your hardware and you should get more or less linear scale with that per core.

If you want a hand writing this let me know.

(Also there’s a lot of caveats here, for example they did not need to update the vectors, it was an extremely read-heavy usage pattern)
Iain McGilchrist touches on music perception in The Master and His Emissary, as far as it concerns the main thesis of the book (which is primarily about our two sub-minds—brain hemispheres—and their different modes of attending to the world).
Thing Explainer: The Book
This still happens on my Windows 11 machines (the tooltip stays there unless you move the mouse over the same icon again), but only to a small number of applications. Makes me wonder if they are using a different set of API to set up their tray icons.
It's www.courtlistener.com
A thing about language is that nobody controls it, not even Microsoft, if everyone calls it the System Tray as they have done for 30 years, it is the System Tray.
https://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/xwoaf_rebuild.html Check this out, it's a single-floppy linux that includes X11 (!) and a bunch of utilities
and from that - all the reasons to use it. A properly placed assertion statement is the only thing that stays between you and a misery of weeks-long debugging sessions.
> this is just a spectacular way of blowing up production.

If your devs and QA team (you do have QA and not just rely on automated tests I hope) don't trigger this assert *before* deployed to production then there's something seriously wrong with your development workflow.

After all, the code after that assert also assumes that the (now invalid) assumption that was checked by the assert is true. Without the assert telling you exactly what is wrong and where, you'd have a much bigger problem: some piece of code that now runs under wrong assumptions, and which may or may not cause much harder to diagnose problems further down the road.

Think of asserts as trip-wires, they are most useful at the entry of a function and prevent an error from propagating (because the earlier an error condition is caught, the easier it is to diagnose).
It’s meant to block “adult content” but it seems to count things to do with hacking as adult content with no obvious way to report a false positive

See https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/02/considered-18/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248250)
i also have two profiles. i noticed that for me links open in the profile that was started last. in my case i always want them to open in the default profile, so i have to make sure to start the other profile first, and default second.

this may not be easy to fix.

the problem here is how the url opener selects the process.

at that point it can't even know which process has the last active window. it would have to connect to both processes and request that information instead of just sending the url to the most recent process in the list. and then each process would have to return when it was last active to be able to choose which one of these was active more recently. this may not be possible without some more elaborate book-keeping of timestamps when a window gets activated.

this increases the complexity of the url opening feature in a non-trivial way.

it may not even be desirable to handle this in firefox only.

what if you run chromium and firefox? now you want a generic url opener that sends the url to the last active browser.

what we really want here is to have a generic way to send an url to an open window.
If this means I'll be able to cast to my array of Sonos devices, good. I love Sonos but that's a glaring omission.

It feels like they're stuck in the past (plus their devices still don't support RSTP).
Where can I get it?
Obviously you build the castle around the stone

Once you use it to crush all enemies, you rebuild the castle around the new position of the stone
OCaml is used by Jane Street but no one else in this space (certainly no major player). Jane Street are a successful and respectable company but no giant, by any standard. If anything, I'd say their fame for using OCaml is greater than their fame as a trading firm.

The benchmark would need to be Java or C++, which are the mainstay of the industry.
How does it make sense? Can you put it into words? Because that does not make sense to me.
Could new law of physics support the idea we're living in a computer simulation?
Really curious why you'd make this distinction?

> web2 company

Are web3 companies less fraudulent?
Top Ruby on Rails Design Patterns for Speed and Performance
> Full BASIC has suitable facilities for those who are unacquainted with the peculiar knowledge about computers.

sometimes if wonder if an idea like this is somehow related to the intuitive and rather questionable beliefs that people who don't know a (human) language will understand it better if you shout at them, or that kids learn better if you condescend to them
Everyone here constantly complains about USB-C any time it comes up, but my experience has been that it's fucking awesome that so many of my devices have the same cable type: phone, tablet, laptops, USB battery packs, VR headset, Switch, Deck, various game controllers, various retro game handhelds, portable monitor, antigen COVID-19 detector, car battery starter, all kinds of stuff really.

And now that lightning is going the way of the dodo, soon I'll finally be able to consolidate to basically just the one cable type for trips.
Do you understand all of your own cells?
statistical language usage and information density
Movie Posters with DALL-E 3
Unity is common in small indie studios because, for so many use-cases, it's the only game in town. for most 3D projects, Godot isn't ready yet, so their only option is Unreal. Which is substantially what Unity replaced in the first place.

Give it 5+ years and another screw-up from Unity at the tail-end, and I 100% agree that Unity is sunk for indie devs. But as it is, Unity has a grace period where devs are locked-in and if Unity can demonstrate stability over the next few years, then people will forget it.

And yes, if. Unity's current PR position is in a fully-stocked rope warehouse, but they could navigate out relatively unscathed.
Typical

And of course this is the "quality software" that is charged an arm and a leg for
The Quest for Self-Reproducing Automata
The concept of self-reproducing automata envisioned by John von Neumann in 1948 heralded a paradigm where machines could mimic biological self-reproducing. Alan Turing in 1950 posed a question if machines can think.

Von Neumann never saw his self-reproducing machine come to life, but 75 years later this notion has resurfaced with contemporary advances in machine learning (ML), illuminating a pathway toward realizing von Neumann’s ambitious vision and touching some of Shannon’s questions. A few of last week's research papers suggest a future where machines could attain a level of autonomy and self-organization akin to biological systems.

1. The idea of self-assembly in “Towards Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks through Neural Developmental Programs” underscores the potential for artificial networks to evolve autonomously. This process, inspired by biological neural development, alludes to a future where artificial networks might organically grow and adapt to tasks, possibly lessening the extensive engineering currently needed for effective neural network design.

2. The exploration of Theory-of-Mind (ToM) in Large Language Models (LLMs), as discussed in “How Far Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?”, evaluates LLMs’ potential to pragmatically act upon inferred mental states, a crucial aspect of human intelligence. While unveiling a gap in translating inference into action, it also presents a new evaluative paradigm, potentially directing future research to bridge this divide.

3. The self-improvement narrative discussed in “Self-Taught Optimizer (STOP): Recursively Self-Improving Code Generation” adds a significant layer to this discourse. The idea of self-improving code generation could serve as a scaffold for self-reproducing automata.

4. The paper “Language Models Represent Space and Time” by Max Tegmark sparked discussions across the web on its terms and doubtful conclusions. Gary Marcus digs into why “correlations aren’t causal, semantic models”. However, temporal and spatial capabilities are fundamental for intelligent agents to interact meaningfully with their environment and should be explored as a step toward more sophisticated AI systems.

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What’s the answer? One second user time and one second kernel time? Or something completely different?
Moderation has no ability to affect a coordinated voting campaign.
Python ternary.
That's my point: where do you put the limit? A gun allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. Does that make it a bad gun? I think most of us would agree here: if you are at high risk of shooting yourself in the foot, you should not be given a gun.

Nobody ever says "oh, this laptop is bad, because if you take it in the bath you will probably break it". But for some reason, for professional programmers, we consider it is absolutely unbearable to request that they know their tool.
Data Visualization Made Simple: Insights into Becoming Visual
A friend was just telling me about his plans to do something similar - though not as a deterrent. He wants to survey bees visiting flowers in his garden. I think I'll pass on a link to Technology Man's repo (I love the simple appellation).
I think a long, sturdy spear to penetrate and/or push down the enemy would be equally effective and reusable
It directly addresses it: the single-digit % cash difference in profit-sharing between Unity and Unreal's programs aren't what most people are worried about with Unity's changes.

The bigger issue is that Unity is trying to assert (again) that they can retroactively change your licensing agreement at any time, and for any reason -- and have explicitly said they reserve the right to increase these fees (which, yes, are less than competitors right now) in the future.

> Unreal is even more expensive and requires reporting your revenue to pay for it. How is that a better option than Unity?

With their new changes, Unity also requires reporting your revenue/installs. In terms of the cost difference, the consensus seems to be that people will pay a little more to lock into a predictable license that can't infinitely add unpredictable fees later, even on games for sale that are no longer in development.
The trick is to decouple the concept of 'position' in the text, that is independent of the gap, from 'pointer' into the buffer. If you keep track of line beginnings as positions, you can immediately get the pointers:

ptr = pos if pos<=gapstart else pos + gapsize
I wonder if the JIT model prevents predictable benchmarking/optimization, making long-term robustness difficult? It might also make using MPI difficult. But this is mostly speculation on my part.
The point being that C doesn't really run anywhere.
> Wolfram Research is a strange company. Its CEO livestreams their R&D meetings and is publicly pursuing a theory of everything.

and then:

> Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft’s OpenAI are commoditizing intelligence. Apple is, uh, sitting on Siri.

And his conclusion is:

> That’s why Apple should acquire Wolfram Research.

I find that line of reasoning really weird. The problem is not that Apple hasn't bought its way into innovation the same way Microsoft, Google, or other big techs are used to doing, it's that their hush-hush closed culture tends to squander and kill those innovations.

SRI, Nuance were great and offered state of the art tech at the time Apple launched Siri. But contemporary ML, LLMs etc. heavily relies on a more or less open ecosystem. So does Wolfram Research (even though it's fringe).

(IMHO) Except for money, Apple has nothing to offer to Wolfram.

[Added]

> Apple could afford to make everything open-source.

Apple has a lot of making up to do before they will be trusted and taken seriously moving into open-source direction.

> Apple’s acquisition would probably cause unprecedented hype, and could foster a thriving community.

A bit of hype, for sure. But fostering a thriving community I would not attribute to Apple. Please leave Wolfram Research be, they're good.
The biggest difference I saw because of the Sonos lawsuit was you couldn't change the volume of every device at once.