skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly think it has more to do with culture. I've never been to the US so this might be completely wrong, but my observations from talking to people and just observing:

- if you move to the US and have a name made up of non-ASCII chars you are more likely to either drop them/substitute them with ascii chars, or use the Anglicized version of your name if it exists, or adopt an English name. And then it's kinda easy to legally change or your name. Or screw it, it's kinda easy to just show up and tell them you're Johnny Awesome and then you're Johnny Awesome.

- if you move to Germany, you can't legally change your name at all without good reason, every document ever, no matter how informal (especially at school) will probably have your full name, maybe hopefully just "First Last" and not all 7 of them, everyone of authority will refuse to call you Johnny Awesome if your name is actually Johnathan Jean-Pierre Awesome-Livingston, and so on, oh and they will also fail to not butcher your name if it's not so easy a 4y old can learn it.

We can't be the only ones leaning more towards #2. And no, I'm not making this up, my go-to example is that I've seen cases where things like officially not calling "Bill Gates" "William Gates" have met resistance. Your name is your name, and I'm still not sure how people in the spotlight are able to be called Dick, I'm not joking.
> Does anyone know the circumstances regarding why?

As someone working at Sentry my running theory of this is that we're not a YC funded startup and the posts are removed for marketing. Removal in this sense is that the post is still there, but it's pushed down in rankings artificially to be removed from the first two pages.

//EDIT: the explanation given last year was that it "wasn't interesting": https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1716947994338021885
Nice 8 sided cube!
Your point about morality reminds me of Stephen Fry's attitude (which I share)

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/01/stephen-fry-...

>In his imaginary conversation with God, Fry says he would tell him: “How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It’s not right.

>“It’s utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?”

>Pressed by Byrne over how he would react if he was locked outside the pearly gates, Fry says: “I would say: ‘bone cancer in children? What’s that about?’

>“Because the God who created this universe, if it was created by God, is quite clearly a maniac, utter maniac. Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of god would do that?”
Cash prizes are not a good way of funding most things. If you can't afford to spend time on something that will most likely fail, a cash prize won't change that.

Also, if the cash prize is what motivates people, they'll be less willing to cooperate and share progress.
A bus is already slower than my car because of the need to stop to let others on. Plus a bus is much less likely to take a direct route to where I want to be thus requiring me to go someplace I don't want to go just to transfer to a different bus to get there. Finally when I drive i often am on faster roads that a bus wouldn't be on because there is nobody else to pick up (unless I transferred to an express bus)

Most people, throughout history have had a fixed time budget to get to work. They move if the trip takes more than half an hour. They will not take jobs (or will move) if it is farther away. We see this across civilizations, from hunter gathers following herds to modern people. There are exceptions but they are exceptions.
I rent a small office (room, really) in a coworking site 5 mins away from home. It’s deductible for me, best decision in last year. That, and the Steam Deck for reasons listed above…
Applies relies more on open source than most other businesses. Ensuring its sustainability is essential. Such a case can be made
They were already in the process of overhauling the systems, which will allow diacritics, and expected it will be finished in 2020 (I don't know if they met that target).
From my understanding, embedding models are just one layer of a modern LLM that do the similarity part as described in the post. The translation of representing content as a part of a common vocabulary in a vector. My understanding is that embedding models can be fine tuned in isolation to relate a vocabulary entries to each other, so fine tuning a whole LLM is not required, and the required compute resources would be far smaller.
> I always stick to US English language when using software

Of course, the computer's native language is English - anything else would be silly. This may be a generational meme: young people have French language environments - even most of the computing professionals... But I keep my habit of mixed locales with metric measurements, English-language UI, mixed ISO 8601 and French dates. God bless UTF-8 though !
How different is this from Temporal?
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In Greece there are different male/female variants of the same surname, so it would be normal for a married couple to have slightly different surnames.

e.g Papadopoulou vs Papadopoulos.

Then there are the cases where a Greek wife takes the male surname form to co-exist more easily in other countries where it is expected for a husband/wife surname to match (or if different, be more considerably different).
Quite the contrary, in my opinion. Microsoft kept going with XBOX despite of years of criticism, especially during the early cablegate days. Kinect was a feature only enjoyed by a niche audience, no disrespect intended. Despite being an avid gamer, I never even once considered buying Kinect.
Over 50 years.
In certain situations like cross word puzzle it wasnt usual to use "umlaut" but instead to write oe, ue and ae. In Swiss German people dont use ß.
So transcription was always a thing to know.
Egypt isn't getting the same crticism because:

a) they never occupied Gaza to begin with

b) they have yet to bomb Gaza

Egypt gets the same criticism when it comes to the embargoe so.

But you know who is stopping Egypt from annexing (interesting choice of words, by the way) Gaza? Israel. And you actually have not the slightest idea what apartheid is and how it works.
Reread my above comment. The effective result of Apple's action is forcing people to buy next phone.
I assure that billions of users can't. Even if they have ASCII letters printed on their key board, which is not a given, they will be unable to find that 'f' anywhere, just like you won't find most lower case Cyrillic letters on a Russian keyboard.

And even if they know how to type in all 52 letters, it's absolutely not a given that they are able to transliterate from their native script to the English alphabet.

"Everyone, everywhere" does not have a "Latin" alphabet as the basis.
It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks
Sorry, but does it say somewhere which model is which besides the S performance being the worst?
Your intuition here is right on; in fact, the reason why we like embeddings in the first place is that they address this problem! When we have some sparse high-dimensional vector representation of a bunch of content, we often find that we are devoting an entire dimension to very little information, so it would be convenient if we could approximate each of those vectors in fewer, denser dimensions without losing too much information. If all that we are interested in is how much the vectors align (i.e. correlate) with one another, embedding methods are one of the best ways to construct those lower-dimensional vectors, in the sense that we are guaranteed to find a solution up to whatever amount of approximation error we are willing to tolerate.

An added benefit is that if we're smart about how we construct the lower-dimensional space, we often find that it generalizes to unseen data better than if we'd used the high-dimensional representation, because a lot of the variation we're throwing away is specific to how we constructed the input data.

A really cool thing about embeddings is that we've known how to do this for a really long time --- for example, a landmark paper [1] on this exact problem was published in the 1930s!

[1] Eckart, C. and G. Young (1936), "The approximation of one matrix by another of lower rank." Psychometrika 1, p. 211-218. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02288367
I found the book "the glucose revolution" to be super helpful with respect to diet for keeping myself sharp with constant energy levels.

The idea is to prevent glucose spikes.

if you prevent them your body will do much better. It will release less insulin and that means less damage and less food converted to fat.

And spikes are followed by a crash, which is when energy plummets, attention wanders and cravings kick in.

found this ppt with some of the ideas summarized (not by author):

https://www.believebig.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Glucos...

examples:
- eat foods in order: first fiber, then proteins/fats, last carbs

- walk 10 minutes after eating

...
Aren't you being overly optimistic about the engineering disciplines' ability to compute things? How does engineering work: do you sit down with a spec (say, "create a wing that can lift a passenger plane"), and then run some formulas, and end up with a wing? Or do you propose a wing, based on past experience (rough shape and size), and _then_ bring in computation to make sure it provides the correct amount of lift, iterating through designs as you go?

Because I think it's really the last one. There is no formula to design a bridge: you design the bridge, and then use formulas and lookup tables to validate it is strong enough. Same for pretty much anything else produced by any engineering discipline.

So in that sense, engineering and programming aren't all that far apart: both start from past experience, and use various validation methods after a design has been proposed, iterating through designs to reach an optimal state. Software engineering, being a younger discipline, is still working on validation methods, and many practitioners find they simply have no budget to apply them (nor any life-or-death constraints that force them to). That's ok though. If you design a new can opener you aren't going through all the processes that apply to an airliner either.
Submitted by the author of the linked article. If I was sufficiently cynical I'd suspect that it was to publicise their two-post blog.
I have to wonder what our own HN user gumby thinks of this one.

As for the author, you really can pinpoint their age pretty well. Born around 1960.
Are the Situations in Ukraine and Israel Similar?
*because httpx exists
Like many distinctive parts of the Gospels, the Judas betrayal is included in the story because it lends credence to the idea that Jesus is fulfilling the Hebrew Messianic prophecies from David et al.
Also lower case and most typography, including spaces.
CSAM and Chat Control is some of the scariest ideas EU is pushing.

What shocks me the most is how little people react over this.
That's 1.11^120 dollars! Or even 1.0161^784 dollars! On the other hands, it's only 12.2378^5 dollars... which looks arguably a bit less impressive.
You can use pydantic models to define schemas, validate data (we also load instances of the models natively): https://dlthub.com/docs/general-usage/resource#define-a-sche...

We have a PR (https://github.com/dlt-hub/dlt/pull/594) that is about to merge that makes the above highly configurable, between evolution and hard stopping:
- you will be able to totally freeze schema and reject bad rows
- or accept the data for existing columns but not new columns
- or accept some fields based on rules'
Depends. Giving $1m to free open source is “bad” but hiring 4 engineers and have them write core code and then open source that is good. Microsoft basically does this (more than 4 of course)
Seeing how both the RNG and the HTTP request are under the flawless namespace, this is going to require you to write 'std::flawless' instead of giving you access to the entire Rust ecosystem. A harness would solve most issues, but I wonder how much of the functionality you can map.

So far, this looks more like a scripting runtime which uses Rust.
FCC robocall enforcement does little to stop illegal calls, Senate hears
Very nice.

Not really related, while looking at the network requests I saw that all GET are returning the sql query needed to generate the results. Is this the sign of specific sql-rest technology?

Also impressed that all of those metrics seems to be running with a Postgres of some sort.

Edit: it's a mysql https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight/blob/dfbf7ff4709cfe26d...
only 74 years left before MAME 1.0 releases with the current versioning
Come on, think. The addition of solar allowed Germany to phase out something. They chose to phase out nuclear rather than the dirtiest form of coal. Do you think that was the wise choice?
Google Bard have had Internet access for a long time.
none of this is relevant. so what he has to take 2 extra steps to access the wealth? it's still there, and it's not like he has to sit down and do it himself
The Positional Encoding (2019)
I can't read Greek. I think it reasonable to demand that transcribed Greek names are ok in my hypothetical restaurant, but not reasonable to demand alfa omega to be ok, for your dinner reservation. You don't have to support any script.

It is not a technical issue but a social one.
As I understood family names are very old in China. So who chose the family name and "invented" a character?
They should upsell the openai credits like everyone else lol...
"Conduct an investigation and punish the responsible in case of criminal negligence" is very different from "shit happens, so what if somebody died, Waymo's marketing decided that total collective happiness increased anyways".

Manslaugher is not the place to apply software startup disruption ideas.
I think that was the point of the person you're replying to. Either Jesus performed actual miracles, but then the Judas story doesn't make sense; or Jesus was an ordinary mortal, but then Christianity doesn't make sense.

I have heard a story that Judas didn't actually betray Jesus willingly. It had to happen this way and Judas just played his role. Makes the story more tragic and less black and white.
For the second time in as many days, I find myself saying on HN: your argument only makes sense if you reduce all societal logic to economic logic. What a way to live.
On the other side of this it seems that every single airline disallows hyphens in last names and always either replaces it with a space, or removes the hyphen to have the last name all one word.
Then go ahead and suggest any credible way to combat the modern epidemic of child abuse instead of being like the rest of the thread making excuses for it. Your vocal sheltered armchair maximalism on this topic is not a moral option if you agree to equivalent compromises in all other areas of your life. Either suggest an alternative measure in this case, or show an example and fight against those other compromises (that limit your freedom and privacy) first. After all, many of them only concern yourself and your family rather than countless innocent victims who cannot stand up for themselves.

If techies don't suggest any good alternative measure to prevent abuse then someone else will do it in a worse way and then welcome to panopticon. There's no black and white where tech touches human factor so learn to compromise.
About to say, why are they complaining about the lawyer being good at their job and possibly saving them (or their heirs) massive headaches and legal fees down the road?
Thanks for recommending Neo Store. Just installed and it looks and feels much better.
Testosterone is lower in fathers, so it makes a lot of sense to presume that fathers are less aggressive.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fatherhood-decreases...
Common mistake when doing practical trigonometry is to compute square roots when that's not necessary:

def cosine_similarity(a, b):

dot_product = sum(x \* y for x, y in zip(a, b))

magnitude_a = sum(x \* x for x in a) \* 0.5 # <- no need for \*0.5

magnitude_b = sum(x \* x for x in b) \* 0.5 # <- no need for \*0.5

return dot_product / (magnitude_a \* magnitude_b)

If you compare your cosines, you might as well compare their squares and avoid costly root computation.

Similarly, in elliptic curve crypto certain expensive operations, such as inversion (x^-1 mod n) are delayed as much as possible down the computation pipeline or even avoided completely when you need to compare two points instead of computing their canonical values.
So every person needs to be able to read every single script? Cyrillic? Greek? All the variants of CJK characters' reading in people's names? Practically ASCII is enough for information interchange and I say this as someone from a country that doesn't use Latin script. By all means record "name as spelled by person in native script" as a completely freeform string, but in practise we also need "name as spelled using ASCII so everyone can read it".
someone ELSE
My insurance covers me driving any road in the US. I can't drive in Mexico but if it is a legal road in the US I can drive it any time. They assume i'm mostly driving near my house, but I can drive elsewhere.
> speak and hear the basic Latin alphabet.

The Latin alphabet does not have a single pronunciation. And the vowels are ambiguous across the most common languages so you can't even make an argument that they are intelligible.

You've really lost the plot on this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cognition
In the real world reacting effectively is less about reflexes and more about situational awareness, anticipating what might happen, and reacting not just quickly but properly when something sudden does occur.
I thought Foursquare already provided this service /s
What are they using to compress tiles? Could they get even smaller with AVIF? Or AVIF+SVG overlaid for text?
I live in China. According to my bank, my full name is LASTNAMEFIRSTNAMEMIDDLENAME. All caps, no spaces.

When it comes to the amount of ass-pain this can cause, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Sometimes it's funny though. At hospitals, there's an automated system that announces the next person by name (GDPR? Privacy? What's that?). For non-Chinese names, it reads the name letter by letter. So now everyone in earshot knows there's a foreigner around somewhere.
Monday.com decision to make their own database will provide us with more flexibility..Now we can tweak the applications as we like, surely hope so ? Work will be smoother and to our needs. Shows they've got their users' backs with all the constant adaptation and unique requirements so many of us have. Good on Monday keeping up with the times.
a) Egypt used to own Gaza (they lost it in a war they started, along with a big chunk of Sinai, which was later returned in a peace deal)

b) Gaza doesn't shoot rockets into Egypt regularly, so of course they don't bomb them

c) I've never seen it

d) Last I heard, Israel tried to get Egypt to take Gaza back. How is Israel preventing Egypt from taking them?

I do know what apartheid is: it's what happened in South Africa, when two groups of people lived in the very same place (i.e., in the same towns and cities) and were treated differently by the state. It's just like how Black people were treated in the US during the Jim Crow era. What's happening with Gaza is nothing like this.
You should try UMAP
No, but times were different back then, weren't they? Chernobyl, Fukushima and all of that?
remove them from the road

What if that was you? Or is everyone on HN a "good driver"? I am terrible driver. I am so easily distracted by construction sites or nice nature.
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.2 beta 3
Abs has been mandatory in the us since 2012, and was very common long before that (my base model truck from 1999 has it) we can consider cars without abs statistical noise by now.
The author is talking about a cross-platform interface standardised by POSIX, it's not really the same thing as the details of one particular implementation. It isn't about how, but why
> One important point is that the judas goat doesn't know they're a judas goat

They likely don’t grasp the causality but I guess after 4-5 trips like this they know it’s not going to be an afternoon stroll for anyone other than themselves.

Makes me think of someone who actually benefits from a MLM scheme and gets to interact with others who don’t. In a way also an influencer, but of a different kind than the social media one.
> If smaller companies like Tarsnap can do it, then what stops others?

Shareholders. Tarsnap enjoys the benefits of being a privately-owned company.
It's not just kids. When I'm out on the street (in my slightly dodgy neighborhood) with my kids, people are always nice. Shopkeepers will chat, women will make eye contact and smile.

When it's just me people aren't as open, women will clutch their handbags, get nervous when I suddenly cross the street toward them etc.

Crazy.
Yeah, the lights in the back of your car can warn of exactly four things:

- The car is going to turn left (one blinking yellow light)
- The car is going to turn right (one blinking yellow light)
- The car is stopping (three solid red lights)
- An unspecified error occurred (two blinking yellow lights).

It's not exactly a high - bandwidth form of communication. Most of the purpose of the lights behind your car is to remind other human drivers of your continued existence. As you point out, some of this deficiency can be made up by not looking at them.

Imagine a world where you could automatically talk over an intercom with the driver in front of you about traffic conditions. I bet you'd find safer, better-informed driving. Self-driving cars make that theoretically easy and humanly pleasant.
Good to know, but this is just an example of the issues OP described; needing yet another workaround instead.
By zerodha team? That kamal nadh has in his repo?
Where do you find these computers with keyboards that do not have the full set of ASCII letters printed on them? ASCII and Latin script are the lingua franca, they're not hard to learn and it's not unreasonable to ask that everyone who wants to use computers learn them.
Isn't that 16? wink
Talking about having no problems, the first problem has been posted (not by me).
Didn't know tarsnap was so successful
You do know that the "standard" keyboard you're referring to is specifically the US keyboard?

It's not even standard for English: there's a UK keyboard that is organised differently and has different characters.
I recognize that it's hard for a public company, but there are plenty of private companies that have plenty of cash and benefit from Open Source.

Aside: I think for a public company it might even work well if ESG stared incorporating Open Source contributions.
What do you mean by "except"? Other than maybe ł, those all look like they're mostly Roman letters to me.

Half of them add the same single line that isn't even attached to the rest of the letter!

That's a world apart from φ and Д.
Industry is fighting tooth and nail to destroy any distinction between the two.

"You'll own nothing and be happy"
Well, it's not so much about 'silly', silly is fine, Musk's names would be silly, it's more about ensuring the kid won't have a guaranteed bad start to life with a crappy name like "hatesjews". On the other hand if you call a kid 'boggle', they might get teased, but might own it and be super cool and love it.

IMO only the names that would be damaging beyond a reasonable doubt should be prohibited.

Also, the nameday idea sounds cool :)
TIL Tarsnap is clearing ≈275K USD net per month.
You're just not being ambitious enough. You have to make it fly high enough they can't hear it. Use a scramjet accelerated from the ground with a railgun and get the thing nearly into orbit, something like that.
Robotic Tattoo Machine Applies Intricate Designs with Little Pain Involved
Now I'm wondering what a Judas Priest is
That is good!