skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can isolate it in this way or that way, but you cannot entirely prevent interaction with the outside world.

The mere fact of some interaction happening does not automatically let you answer the question whether you're in a simulation or not. The whole point of simulations where you can inspect them from the outside is some kind of interaction, but it doesn't mean that an entity inside the simulation is able to determine what's going on outside. Just that the simulation is observable makes it not isolated in the sense that you're using, so yes, you're right, but at the same time it's not very relevant to what I was talking about. A simulated Game of Life field isn't isolated either.
Is hard to replicate the physical instant access you get at an office and simulate it well in digital form. in the physical office space you cannot ignore someone while maintaining plausible deniability like if you were remote. You likely will be responded if you are face to face physically. I’m not sure if replicating that remotely is too intrusive for people to handle(forcing a camera to be on when requested).

You can always ignore people from remote till you are good and ready
Not to mention all of the students who end up dropping out or having to take Masters instead of PhDs because their theses built on the fraud fail.

Just like we should place failed results (when due to wrong science, not bad skills) on an equal level with successful results, we should place failed thesis projects on equal level with successful thesis projects as having added to the general knowledge (again, when the failed projects demonstrate a falsified theory, not when they fail due to mistakes or inability on the part of the student).
That's an awesome feature. I think one of the worst possible outcomes of machine translation is something that ends up being accidentally offensive, and this is a smart way to mitigate that.
I suspect that wealth creation peaked generations ago, and now the richest generation is dying.

Also could be that tax "avoidance" is at an all-time high is a contributing factor.
Yep. The organization is as duct-taped as the machines they build and it’s kinda mad.
Another con is it only works on Silicon Macs.
What does that mean? It can partially run some trivial macOS apps? The amount of effort just to get basic programs working seems like a ton of effort, for a end project that is just buggy implement of a moving target.

Unlike Windows, MacOS has no problem ignoring backward compatibility. So Wine works be rewriting older APIs and Microsoft always works on backward compatibility, MacOS does not do that. It just works or it doesn't.
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Just an FYI, Privacy won't help you out if something gets charged fraudulently to a card.

Had a place triple charge me, place ignored all CS attempts from me. Privacy refused to help basically saying all three must have been valid and "they have policies with banks" that meant they "couldn't chargeback".
Lead singer of the Irish tradpunk band The Pogues. One hell of a writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan
I haven't looked at the 186, but maybe if I have time. From a quick look, it looks like the core is similar to the 8086 so the circuitry improvements can't be too major. It would be interesting to compare the microcode. And of course the 186 has the programmable interrupt controller, timers, and DMA. I'm not sure what analog circuitry you're referring to, other than the clock generator which isn't much more than inverters.
Yeah this opinion sucks dude. Have some respect.
The cipher is for any email spam crawlers, not hiding my identity. Pretty common practice on this site.
You (probably) don't need DateTime
see the next answer.

Common sense tells you they grow more than 64% of their own food. And any imports would mainly come from other Asian countries or North America, not across the Panama Canal and 6,000 miles of ocean,

Do you want to place a bet on this?
Agree on desktop, not so much on mobile
If this had been enacted, there would never have been any scientific progress. Should tell you something
I wish they documented the sanitization logic beyond that it's optimized for JWTs -- there are so many other session token formats and naming conventions that I would have to test this tool for each site captured instead of making a blanket recommendation to use it.
There isn't a lot of good evidence behind this popular conception.

If anything, the evidence is that it isn't true, see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Any apparent causality of age of acquisition seems to be a proxy of hours of exposure. It may well be that it is easier for young people to rack up a lot of exposure to a second language, but not much evidence that age plays much of a factor for people of different ages who had the same degree of exposure.
I think you may assume that wind strength are correlated over Sweden-sized areas in China as well, and that sunset will surprise no one and can accommodated by normal planning.
> billions of dollars' worth of safety measures.

This is of the order of fractions of pennies when we compare to fossil fuel subsidies. Fossil fuels to the tune of $7 trillion/year[1] and cause 10 million deaths/year.

Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

> large crew of skilled people

If we stop subsidizing fossil fuels, then the energy markets will be fair, nuclear will win (or at least a major play along with solar and wind) and there will be a ton of skilled workforce. We didn't have a skilled javascript workforce 2 decades ago, now we have millions.

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022
You have to make trade-off in software development. Fooocus trades on the best picture rather than the most beautiful interface, and also simplicity in its use. I think it is a good trade-off given the technology is improving at breaking-neck speed.

Look, DiffusionBee is still maintained but still no SDXL support.

Anyone who bet that the technology is done and it is time to focus on the UI is making the wrong bet.
The CEO of a large company will certainly have in-person face time with their senior leadership team (among many others including customers). Their office may also very well not be in the same location as that of many of their first or second level reports.
That gas field isnt going to pay for even a small fraction of the cost of the war. It doesnt make any sense as a cause.

The most plausible reason for the war is still the publicly stated reason: preventing NATO expansion to Ukraine.
Day 1 part 2 was harder than is common for the first day.
I ended up using parser combinators (attoparsec for Haskell), which morally feels like the "right" way to do this (so you don't have to manually keep track of how much you've read or somehow abuse regex lookaheads), but I don't know the library well and it took me some time to implement it correctly.
In and ICE you have the transmission - just put different gear ratios in the transmission if you need to get a different output speed.

I think this could have worked with an ICE, but there is no real point: the CV joint is simple and the advantages to this don't apply when you have a single large power source.
I honestly respect people more if I learn they drive a Toyota. I'm neutral on all other brands except for BMW, which lowers my opinion of a person.
We had a product called Sococo some years ago, that showed active team members. You could 'knock on their door' and know whether they were ignoring you or not.

So it's possible, with the right interface.
Space does not imply low(er)-density, void does.
It's Codey, text generation model from Vertex AI family.
Currently, it's Codey for Code Chat
Russia has plenty of oil & gas in their existing territory. If anything, Putin wants to prevent Ukraine from becoming the supplier to Europe

Most experts see the reasoning as Putin wants a sphere of influence, and since no one is volunteering besides Belarus, he decided to do it by force. It's more Make Russia Great Again (like the times of czars, not soviet union)
That reads like something out of a tabloid in the checkout aisle of a grocery store.

It links to a website called “celebritynetworth”, which just based on the URL, has no credibility.
People who are labeled as experts and who talk the loudest in society aren’t always capable of independent critical thought, so a lot of what they say is useless.

Nothing is stopping you from independently investigating a subject. You don’t need to know about phylogenetic trees and be a bio wizard to understand how neurons work and learning how neurons work would take you a day or two max. Pick a narrow but not too narrow scope, research it and make your own conclusions. I don’t know why anyone would ever blindly follow “experts” other than sheer laziness
Just build a sunroof at that point, since it will only work during the day.
> Some tech guy in SF playing the banjo, what?

Hey, Fiddleford McGucket started like that!
It’s really hard to compare because to exploit the Apple hardware to the fullest you have to rearchitect your code to run on Metal. That has been done for ~0% of the game code out there. So real world comparisons are rare.
Because it's depressing.
Sure, that is really nice now, but what if you want to switch companies. At some point you will want to have a permanent home and not have to either move or accept a long commute to get a new job.
> A knife manufacturer ships sharp blades despite the possibility that a chef might cut themselves with it.

This is usually said about necessary but dangerous or easily abusable features, like the use of raw pointers, C++ templates, or global mutable state.

I would say that adding potentially confusing syntactic sugar to a programming language is more like adding a feature to a Swiss army knife that is redundant and makes it unnecessarily more complex to use.
There are a good amount in there, but it's definitely not a comprehensive list. There isn't a good database available for plotting this info, so I had to do a lot on my own. I tried leveraging ChatGPT as described in the readme but that only gets one so far.

That being said, I could definitely crowd source work on this and have an upload function for those that want to contribute!
Your comment seems to imply LGBTQIA+ is just a Twitter trend, versus people's lived experience and lifelong identity. This is as unnecessarily judgment as small identities claiming that straight people must self-identify cis.

There is no moral superiority to deny or force label other people's identities. You're an attack helicopter? Great, roger dodger, let's go get coffee Seahawk.

No one is seriously asking for litter boxes in school bathrooms or helicopter refueling stations.
Would it pain you to spell out which of the facts are wrong?
The BBC can if you click on that link...

Shane MacGowan: Pogues singer dies aged 65

(I don't know why the submission title doesn't coincide with the page title though.)
A good approach might be to start with how top notch, ultra-experienced human translators handle corrections for real-time scenarios, for example, the expert translators that do the ear monitors at the United Nations. I've worked with a few such real-time translators when preparing keynote speeches and they seem to have rigorous processes that appeared quite deep. Probably a ton of domain expertise to be captured there.

That said, I suspect that real-time language translation is always going to be somewhat imperfect due to its nature. Non-real-time translation of literature is still a subjective art form even at the very high-end of human expertise.
Still are…
Well, can't be the most secretive given how everyone knows that they are "secretive". I'd ascribe them more to being private.

The secretive are the ones that we don't even know exist (i.e. a google search would give very little), let alone that they are billionaires.
It's the difference between someone having $2k and $1 million dollars.
NATO is not a threat, just an excuse

Both sides know that to be the truth. NATO would never start a war, the rules prevent article 5 from being usable should a member decide to start one on their own

edit, I see parent edited their "NATO threat" comment to be "prevent NATO expansion", the JM thesis is utterly wrong, these countries are choosing to be part of a defense alliance, it is not forced on them

The threat Ukraine poses to Russian leaders is a demonstration that a better life is possible without an authoritarian at the helm

> publicly stated reason

Putin wrote an essay in July 2021. That is the foundation, and most plausible publicly stated reason, to understand why they decided to invade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Rus...
It's easy to underestimate his erudition and intelligence, probably because of his always seemed to impaired by booze.

Decades ago I was on a train in Ireland and he was sitting at the table opposite to him. Like most on the train carriage, I recognised him but left him alone. Eventually someone walking through the carriage saw him and approached to quickly express his admiration/gratitude for his music and asked if he minded that he had a question about the lyrics of one of his songs. He seemed genuinely happy to engage in a conversation.

I listened, of course, and for the next 30 minutes or so, was treated to a whirlwind but fascinating tour of his ideas covering politics, philosophy, history as well as literature. He was extremely well-read. I wish I could remember the details. Maybe this transcript - https://thequietus.com/articles/09277-mark-e-smith-nick-cave... - captures the tone of the conversation.
Look at the the old rich families that own retailers (Aldi and Lidl) or car makers (Porsche and BMW) or equipment manufacturers (Liebherr). And the new online millionaires. They all look like school pupils compared to old riches.

Wealth creation is a modern carrot. The wealth creation barely works in old economies with established power networks.
But again, this is just a statistical argument, not actual damages. For a tort case, you generally need to show real damages. For a criminal case, I don't think a statistical argument would sway a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that academic fraud caused specific deaths. There's a reason why the burden of proof in our court systems is structured the way it is.

Besides, you don't even know that the unfunded research would have resulted in increased life expectancy because the research was never conducted. You're trying to prove a counter-factual where you don't have data. Additionally, there are probably far too many confounding factors in health science to make a strong statistical claim against a single action as you're insinuating.
That's not really comparable. Southeast Asia was an area of high population density engaged in a series of real and very deeply motivated civil wars. Vietnam (Cambodia too) was tearing itself apart entirely separate from the fact that global superpowers decided to use the nation as a proxy war.

This is a dispute over an almost empty tract of land motivated by local politics in its neighbors (and potentially also over oil wealth, something that is new to Guyana in the last few years). Most likely nothing happens, but if it does the only larger power that's going to care much is Brazil. The US is more than capable of defending the relevant oil rights whether or not Guyana controls its western jungle.
> You're forgetting the additional eye-poke joys [...]

Oh, no... I didn't "forget" as much as "permanently blocked it out of my memory to maintain some shred of sanity" :)

> It _is_ flexible for people wanting to be able to create types/taxonomies within the GUI, if you ignore the chaos behind the scenes. It also has good support for returning said content via JSON if you choose to do so, but if you're doing that, just define your own back-end and avoid the suffering.

Ultimately this is what convinced us to move to a headless CMS (which I hadn't heard of at the time, and I had to do some research and prototyping to understand it). But through our internal user (editor) studies, we learned that content organization, ease of editing (good WYSIWYGs), relationships, speed, and most of all UI clarity were really important. I built the same prototype in like 20 different CMSes, excluded the ones that didn't meet some baseline criteria, and had the editors and stakeholders try my demos for like 5-8 of the finalists, ranking each one by the ease of several tasks (rich text formatting, linking to related content, restoring a past revision, sharing a preview draft, etc.). Drupal was pretty much dead last in most of the categories (and this was the newer version, 9 I think). I had my own favorites but I let the editors decide, and the headless systems won by a large margin.

Any good CMS these days will have rich taxonomies -- that's arguably the defining characteristic of a proper CMS (as opposed to a blog engine, say). Where they differentiate is in the editor experience (ease of use, ease of drafts, ease of previews, ease of admin, ease of relationships, etc.) and/or the developer experience (response shapes, GraphQL mutability or not, API and SDK documentation and support). But for teams that have a mix of devs and editors, any of those would typically be better for both sides than a bespoke database.

For the editors, a vendor-supported (or polished open-source) CMS means a nicer editing experience than fighting with some tiny team's internal WYSIWYG field tied to a Postgres/MySQL field, with the corresponding bugs and quirks that's never prioritized by the (typically) backend developers and DB admins who care more about schema purity and such.

And for the developers, well, it frees them from having to worry about that and focus on the frontends, mobile apps, whatever, and also gives them the freedom to use whatever stack they want (be it Jamstack, .NET, HTMX, whatever). The content just come in as JSON and the rest is entirely up to them.

I feel like Drupal tries to occupy that space where it tries to do all of the above (and it CAN, to be fair), but it's not great (or even GOOD) at any of it. It's just a mishmash of sub-par experiences where nobody is happy, except maybe management (because they can worry about just one piece of software at one vendor like Acquia/Pantheon).

Even if your constraints are PHP and self-hosting/commodity virtual hosting, I think Wordpress + ACF is a way cleaner experience for the majority of sites...
Or maybe this one:

> Holcombe and Williams [25] found mixed results. They found that for cities with population less than 500,000, higher population density was associated with lower per capita expenditures on highways and sewers, but this relationship did not hold for larger cities. Further, per capita expenditures on services, such as police, increased with density for cities with population above 500,000, and there was no relationship for smaller cities. Their general conclusion was that for cities larger than 50,000, per capita expenditures are not associated with density. Further research by Holcombe and Williams [26] found no relationship between sprawl and highway expenditures and, actually, a positive relationship between population density and highway expenditures.

...

> Fewer studies have shown reductions in costs for water, sewer, or sold waste, though this may be expected. Some costs have also been shown to increase with density, such as housing and community development or police.

My own research (will publish on Github once I validate it) finds similar results. Municipalities peak in efficiency around 100-200k people.

> If you want actual urban-to-suburban comparisons there's the case studies done by urban3 who map fine-grained expenditure and tax income

Woohoo. Yet another propaganda outlet. Note that it tracks _tax_ _income_, which is misleading. It's skewed towards Downtowns, simply because that's where companies are registered and pay taxes. But people who _work_ there don't typically live nearby.

In fact, if you look at total _personal_ income taxes per zip code collected in the US, it's not even close. Suburbs are paying for most of the US.
unsprung weight is what every engineer who looks at a hub motor will think. The less of that the better. Engineers would love to move the brakes off the wheel (there are safety reasons not to, but it would make the car handle notably better if you did)
China already has country spanning HVDC and UHVDC to bring hydro and coal to the cities in other regions that need it.
Good point. I feel people who use the phrase "virtue signal" are usually signaling something themselves. "Well, I think all XYZ people are bums, and I bet everyone secretly agrees with me and just doesn't have the guts to say it!"

I've never heard anyone decry "vice signalling" and surely humans do that at least as much.
Which country did Victoria Nuland visit recently?

Can the USA afford to supply weapons to another war until they finally pull the plug on Ukraine?
> I'd say if no one can afford to

Because sometimes they can afford to build on your prior results, and advance the state of the art. Factoring in all of the malfeasance, what's the trade off between not publishing due to inability/unwillingness to replicate, and publishing bad results? We should know this tradeoff before significantly changing the status quo.

> or knows how to replicate the thing you did.

Agree completely.
On Three here, service was up early this afternoon as I took and made a few calls, but noticed a short while ago that I had “no service”.
Fine, let's just do it on those that scale. Not all science is done in high-end, expensive labs, and this type of control will help the young researchers who are publishing their first works to gain more credibility and develop healthy habits.

Sadly, as long as the tyranny of publishing exists, the other researchers will always prefer working on their own things than replicating someone else's not yet published experiment.
> As others have said, part 2 of today's was really difficult.

I suspect it was purpose-built to foil ChatGPT. I solved it on my own first and then went back and tried to help GPT4 write a solution. Even after carefully walking it through a strategy, discussing edge cases, and having it outline a solution in pseudocode, it still failed completely to translate our conversation into working code. (It didn't even work for non-tricky input.) It did anticipate the edge cases though, so that's something.

Did anyone have any better luck with ChatGPT? I wonder if LLM-resistant puzzles and generally greater difficulty (at least for the second star) will be a theme this year.
Have to build it yourself on Mac, and we all know how "fun" building Python projects is
HDR in older phones would have only merged/blended the images resulting in ghosting (the reflections would have shown the woman as having more than two arms) or blurring because they weren't using AI to select and cut out parts of the original image to swap in parts from other images.

The "other photos" weren't older pictures pulled from her photo library, but were the photos taken in quick succession using different exposures. Those are still "other images of the same person" even if they are only temporarily stored in memory, but using them for exposure adjustment isn't a problem. Any old HDR capable phone would have done that. The problem is AI detecting people and deleting them to paste in "better" versions from those other photos. HDR is additive, not destructive.