skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whew, seeing that makes me have bottomless sympathy for ladybird since I (quite literally) cannot imagine the amount of energy it would take to implement CSS in a modern browser

put another way: I'd get great thrills if any proposal to whatwg had to come bundled with the assembly(perl? bash? pick some language) implementation of any such proposal so the authors share the intellectual load of "but, wait, how would we _implement this_?!"
And it's intentional, so each day has exactly 86400 seconds, even though it doesn't correspond to UTC.

In fact, UTC will change its leap second logic much sooner than Unix time logic, so UTC logic will be more like Unix time.
I think its similar to how people might prefer dating people who dress well, it's a reflection of their taste and what they value.
Many more people enjoy the four or five year paid holiday component than enjoy the intellectual stimulation component.

> “Research on college boredom is thin but confirms the continuity of pain. A study of British college students found 59% were bored in half or more of their lectures. Only 2% claimed to find none of their lectures boring.34”

Excerpt From
The Case against Education
Bryan Caplan
“34. Mann and Robinson 2009, pp. 249–50.”

Boredom in the Lecture Theatre
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-04304-005
It has nothing to do with wealth, iPhones are cheap.

As another commenter states, it’s about taste or “weirdness”. Similar to making assumptions based on clothing or clothing or other chosen attributes.
Gradual typing is great. The parts you want precision on are statically typed, the parts that don't matter dynamic, and they fit together sanely at the language level.

Writing type annotations in comments for an optional preprocessor to pass judgement on before the actual implementation ignores them is a bad thing. But that's on python, not on gradual typing.

(An any type + static is also fine if you have a way to retrieve type information at runtime, and there's a sense in which template instantiations of a generic function and a function taking arguments of type any are the same thing as each other)
You can get some of the historical data also from here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/public-datasets/era5 (if the official API is too slow. )

To use the data in live fashion I think you would need to get license from ECMWF...
I was being mildly flippant, but my point is that we want to "look up".

And of course celebrities don't threaten you with eternal torture if you don't love them and do what they say, so it's definitely a bit more lighthearted engagement.
In Europe - NL/CH/IE, specifically - everybody I know uses WhatsApp and Signal (except the Swiss who sometimes insist on Threema), even between iPhones-- iMessage never even comes up. I don't think anybody's sent me an SMS in literally years, bar one North American-based guy I used to work with.

(I'm sure someone out there knows a clique of European iMessage partisans, but that someone is not me!)
Early on in the company I work we had a practice of collaborating across teams, sharing members etc. so a lot of us knew a lot of the code base from "different angles". If you implemented a backend feature you might write also write the terraform and the frontend that worked with it, with some input from the people experienced in those things. Kind of like random full-stack development? Slower than normal development at first but it makes future collaboration easier. It was quite great, but unsustainable as the amount of people grows.

edit: I think in general at the early stages of a company you hire a lot of people who are good at adapting and learning new skills since they might need to fill new roles quickly as new needs arise. So those people are good at this kind of full stack development since it's their niche. As you grow, you hire more specialized or junior people, and they can't do this process quickly enough for it to feel fluid anymore.
I’m not sure this fits my experience. Once a project starts to lose momentum, not many turn that back around. “Code rot” is a real, if nebulous, thing. As less people regularly contribute, there is lost internal knowledge as to why certain decisions were made, roadmaps, what the core problem the library seeks to solve, etc. Basically OSS projects are as much the maintainers’ ambitions as they are the code themselves.

Personally I am (I think rightfully) hesitant to use a library that hasn’t had a commit in years. Similarly, downward trends in usage are also a pre-indicator of a library’s long term health, as it can signal lack of user trust, better competition, or just that the original need isn’t quite there anymore.

So you’re right that it can be picked back up, but I think in practice this is far from the most common outcome.
The 2m/70cm bands wouldn't be that useful for data. They are 4MHz and 30MHz (in US) wide. By comparison, Wifi is 20MHz, LTE is 1.4-20 MHz. The bandwidth wouldn't be that high for general use.

One place that extra space would be useful is for digital walkie-talkies, as an expansion of FRS.
> Exactly my point. The rest of humanity uses year 1 as the epoch.

The rest of humanity uses a variety of reckoning systems:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_era
There is also https://github.com/google-research/weatherbench2 which has baselines of numerical weather models.
>> He was either insane or lying or telling the truth.

> Or wrong.

Buddy was literally crucified for claiming to be God:

> 61 Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

> 62 “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

> 63 The high priest tore his clothes. “Why do we need any more witnesses?” he asked. 64 “You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?”

* https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2014&versi...

> 6 But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”

> 7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

* https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2019&versi...

* https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/61174/why-w...

Heck of "LOL! Just kidding guys! It was just a prank!" :)
The Pause – Asking to Stop New Development for a Rewrite
>> Getting to a vulnerability would require understanding exactly how the corrupted microcode state works, and that seems extremely difficult outside of Intel.

Intel knows exactly how their ROB works.

Therefore Intel knows the possible consequences of this bug and how to trigger them.

If there is a privilege execution path from this, Intel knows. And anyone Intel chose to share it with knew.

Thankfully, since it's public now, the value of that decreases and customers can begin to mitigate.
Julia isn't gradually typed. It's strongly but dynamically typed.
I believe their point is that humans want an object of devotion in some capacity, religious or otherwise. People LOVE Elon Musk because he's the personality of the microera and while they wouldn't go as far as deifying him, they might consider him better than "regular people".

In theological terms we have an infinite capacity for desire, designed that way by God because we were created to be in communion with him, an infinite being. If you are not "filling the gap" with faith, you'll fill it with something else. If you were created to loudly proclaim the gospel, but lose faith, maybe you loudly proclaim whatever you think the world needs to know about your favorite celebrity.
Logician here. We're well aware that "A=B" is not a good formalization of the colloquial/grammarical "A is B", we don't formalize it that way, and we don't regard "if A is B then B is A" is a truth of formal logic.

The people making the argument about reversal curses are not logicians, and most of them don't know anything more about formal logic than what anyone would pick up in an undergraduate "Intro to Proofs" course.

That said, the semantics of the word "is" in natural language really doesn't matter in this debate. The semantics is a red herring, if you will (while a red herring is not semantics).

After all, LLMs cannot learn "the quantity B is mathematically equal to A" from examples of "the quantity A is mathematically equal to B" either, even when the rest of the corpus clearly explains that this _is_ in fact always reversible.
Inko means “one more” in Telugu, a language spoken in South India (Satya Nadella’s mother tongue).
So its one more programming language!
> It's like VSCode, but without the bloat of electron or Microsoft's telemetry.

Just did a quick comparison on Windows 11 and vscode with hello world uses 400MB but lapce used 900MB :)
Thanks for clarifying, but I see no correlation. If we doubled the wealth of the richest 1% but held the poorest 1%'s wealth constant, do you think infant mortality, educational performance, etc., would worsen for anyone in society? I surely don't.
You seem to be making the case that there is a systematic exploitation of a group of people we refer to as incels.

Nobody is exploiting those people. They're exploiting themselves.
Not much has changed in the current live poker meta. Yes, the average player may be better, but if you put in the consistent time to study/solvers/hand reviews, IMHO that puts you in the top 20 percentile. It's getting to the top 5-10 percentile that is killer.

Ultimately, like life, the only true edge you can control is game selection. Hence, that Rounders quote that rings eternal:

"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker."
I am a first year MSc student in Computer Science, supervised by a young AP conducting research on SSL(self-supervised learning). However, I have a lot of doubts about the practical usefulness of this field. I think I'll do a PhD, but have no plans to enter academia. I want to be productive in industry.
An example of an exciting industrial application of ML is that OpenAI created ChatGpt.
But for SSL and RL(reinforcement learning), the papers I've seen are basically about programs to play Atari games and MineCraft. It's very far from being practical and changing society.
I googled the problem, and it looks like the only industrial applications for SSL and RL are autonomous driving and healthcare, but I'm not interested in those.
What other industrial applications are there for SSL/RL?
> I find4 it helpful in general to try to fight the worst mealy-mouthed bureaucratic tendencies of the RLHF by adding a ‘system prompt’:

>> The user is Gwern Branwen (gwern.net). To assist: Be terse. Do not offer unprompted advice or clarifications. Speak in specific, topic relevant terminology. Do NOT hedge or qualify. Do not waffle. Speak directly and be willing to make creative guesses. Explain your reasoning. if you don’t know, say you don’t know. Remain neutral on all topics. Be willing to reference less reputable sources for ideas. Never apologize. Ask questions when unsure.

That's helpful, I'm going to try some of that. In my system prompt I also add:

"Don't comment out lines of code that pertain to code we have not yet written in this chat. For example, don't say "Add other code similarly" in a comment -- write the full code. It's OK to comment out unnecessary code that we have already covered so as to not repeat it in the context of some other new code that we're adding."

Otherwise GPT-4 tends to routinely yield draw-the-rest-of-the-fucking-owl code blocks
But the summary there says this?:

> In the case of an occultation, the combined light of the asteroid and the star
will drop by 13.72 mag to 14.22 mag (the magnitude of the asteroid) for at
most 11.620 seconds.

Which suggest complete blockage of the star's light.
I'm curious, why do you say that?
Yes, but it’s more impressive when considered alongside the fact that their biggest domestic competitor, ULA, did ~7 launches in all of 2022.
Just curious, have you written anything up about these experiences with Nix? I've been learning it recently and the reproducibility angle is a huge part of why, if it's oversold then I feel like I should reevaluate how much time I'm putting into it.
Yes, I do. And Android an "anti-status" symbol.

cf. https://archive.is/0Mpc8

Edit: and this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38272193
.NET 8 – MAUI
modern houses should be well-insulated, using heat exchange ventilators and heat pumps get proportionately more efficient in these conditions. i will be shocked if this is ever viable economically.
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I use this every week and have been using it for years. Huge fan.
My Mom's (born and raised in Pimlico)

Dredge chicken pieces (usually thighs)in flour. Sprinkle Lawry's Seasoned Salt on both sides.

Heat 1/4" oil (usually canola) in electric skillet set on 350.

Place in skillet, cook 5 minutes each side, then cover and cook 5 minutes each side, then maybe 5 more minutes each side until done. Remove chicken, drain off oil leaving maybe 1/4 cup in pan, add equal amount of flour, stir, add milk and continue stirring until the right consistency (maybe 1-1.5 cups of milk)

Never really heard her refer to it as 'Maryland' fried chicken though, and outside of Lawry's (McCormick spices was headquartered in Baltimore) doesn't seem different from what a cook would make anywhere else. It is good, though, much better than any regular restaurant fried chicken.

And as another poster mentioned it wasn't nearly as religious an item as crab cakes or she-crab soup. The number of times my Mom interrogated a hapless waitperson to try to figure out if they were 'really' Maryland crabcakes...
Evil doesn't exist as a true motivation; there are only disordered senses of good.
In common usage of the terms, "reference counting" and "garbage collection" are completely different.
EFF Call to Action: Tell Congress to Stop 'Kids Online Safety Act'
> I'm one of the users that is averse to paying even a $10 subscription.

You're not a target customer.

I'm surprised this software is only $20/user-mth. This isn't "general" software. It solves a specific problem for a specific set of customers - it should be charging way more and going the enterprise route.
My inspiration has been this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZ8mawceuk (Building a Linux Packet Node) and inspired me to buy a used Kenwood TM-D700 to operate a packet node station.

I think something like that coupled with something like https://hamwan.org/ to route high-bandwidth traffic could be a great combo, almost like an adaptive bandwidth.
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People judge you on your clothes, your shoes, your car, your hairstyle, so why not your phone?
When will we have enough data that we will be able to apply this to everything? Imagine a model that can predict all kinds of trends - what new consumer good will be the most likely to succeed, where the next war is most likely to break out, who will win the next election, which stocks are going to break out. One gigantic black box with a massive state, with input from everything - planning approvals, social media posts, solar activity, air travel numbers, seismic readings, TV feeds.
Reading that from Spain I find it inconceivable but I'm sure it's true. Just can't grok it.
I couldn't duplicate it in GPT4 here. It answered correctly, unless I posed it wrong:

https://chat.openai.com/share/75d46a03-a223-4f3a-987d-f8fec3...
I remember last time this was posted, so I’m obliged to say that this is not an exploit if the system, but an exploit of misconfigurstion.
Do they keep their digestive tube? It's a very important part during the development of the embryo and I guess it's difficult to throw away and make a new one.

Nerves? Eyes?
So what sort of symbol rate becomes theoretically possible within a HF frequency band?
I recommend familiarizing yourself with John Holt, who played a monumental role in promoting homeschooling in the United States. His influence reached many, including my own family.

For more information on John Holt's work and perspectives on homeschooling, you can visit his website. https://www.johnholtgws.com/books-by-john-holt

Homeschooling offers a unique opportunity for bonding with your child and allows you, as an adult, to learn what you might have missed during your own childhood. :) It's a chance for personal growth and development. While homeschooling is certainly a commitment and can be challenging, its rewards are significant. Homeschooled children often stand out from the crowd. They exhibit high levels of curiosity, aren't afraid to ask questions, and can be quite challenging for any teacher – in a good way, of course!
Do you know how much data it had to download to run that query? Did it pull all 8GB?
The cheapest iPhone is $429. An iPhone 15 not-Pro is at least $799, a Pro $999, up to $1599. Is that cheap?
This is pretty sophomoric stuff (from the linked advertisement for the book the author is writing about):

> "We evolved from tribes to larger communities where meeting strangers had the potential to grant us access to food and other resources. Unknown people were treated as guests and were offered generous hospitality for this reason."

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of isolated communities would react to an influx of strangers with a mixture of surprise, interest and alarm. Most probably this would be alleviated by some kind of formal meet-and-greet (at a dinner, say).

Randomly accosting people on the street or at a place of business in an attempt to engage them in conversation is not the way to go about it, the vast majority of people will interpret this as rude or bizarre behavior. Instead look into various clubs, volunteer organizations, etc. where the very fact that you've put in the effort to show up will encourage other people that talking to you might be a worthwhile pursuit.
... it literally took me all Goddamn day. Well done.

Credit where credit is due: Google has some of the best codenames.
till you don't
Cheap in the US perhaps. Here in Spain even the SE is 579€ and you can get a great budget or midrange Android for much much less. Which will have lot of mod cons the SE doesn't have like a modern bezelless design, amoled and in-screen fingerprint. Usually even a 3,5mm Jack.

Most people carry Redmi phones and use wired headphones here. It's absolutely about wealth.
Exactly that. I have very limited programming knowledge and it helps a lot with python scripts for tasks that gpt can’t do in its environment. I always have to ask it to not omit any code.
When I was born the Apple ][ was considered outdated but I had a teacher in HS who had a //e in the classroom and it's been my white whale since.
In 5180 days, unix time will overflow.
This is very “You can’t fire me, I quit!” energy
Ah gotcha, my mistake.
Awesome chart, thanks for sharing.
Probably best if we don't...
You might look to the wealth distribution in (say) Australia and the US and life expectancy and Quality of life metric.

The wealthy in US are much wealthier than the remaining population in the US (greater inequality than Australia), the US as a country has lower life expectancy and qality of life reported overall.

Your "thought experiment" isn't particularly realistic, "double the wealth" for the wealthy isn't something that magically happens in isolation.
Mediafire, while it works, is a terrible user experience for someone receiving the file, IMHO.
The extra t is the kicker there. I might just have to start using cherub.
I asked midjourney for a painting of someone (Chopin, Bach, the devil) holding a music score sheet. And it returned what I asked for. Just don't know if it's actual music, since I'm not a musician. Can someone try it and let me know. Just curious ... if midjourney can compose music.
Volafile is interesting. First I’ve heard of it
No, no offense at all. I welcome it, actually. Can do a lot more with constructive critique than pure praise.

I'm honoured someone found it worthy to submit, but I do know that elixir has been an easy hype topic here. Not sure the rest of my blog would gain the same traction.
Thank you very much. I love Oberon for its simplicity and structuredness, and I find it best-suited for all programming tasks. I even use it in web-programming. So when I found out about Oberon, I noticed that there is nothing that I can easily install to start programming in it. I tried XDS, OO2C, VOC, BlackBox, and everything was not that I wanted. It was nothing as simple as, for example, Free Pascal, where you just download and use it. So I made Free Oberon. I switched several times from SDL 2 to Allegro 5 and 4 and back (with a lot of recoding on each step), also switched compilers from VOC to BlackBox and finally Ofront+.

I'm planning to substitute it with my own Oberon compiler at some point, so I read everything about compiler construction and do Oberon experiments a lot.

Could you please describe the issue with the full-screen a bit more? You can create an "issue" in the FreeOberon Github repo. I think it would be possible to fix it. Are you using two monitors?
I’m slowly but surely converting everyone to Signal.