skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the USA has a semi-enclave, which is rather unusual; you have to cross Canada if you want to get from Washington to Alaska by land. Russia has Kaliningrad but that's not quite on the same scale. From a British perspective, though, these distinctions are rather hard to make - Britain has between the largest number of semi-enclaves in the world and none, depending on how you count the many former imperial territories.
> some interrogators reported thinking that ELIZA was “too bad” to be a current AI model, and therefore was more likely to be a human intentionally being uncooperative
Hello, I apologise but this comment is not related to this post, it's related to a comment I posted here which got flagged and I'd like to voice my doubt in a civil manner.

I posted a comment here yesterday saying something along the lines of "I'm getting 403s popups in chineses". There's no negative connotation, no hate speecha and what looks like no violation of the commenting guidelines.

Nevertheless, my comment got one downvote (which I'm fine with, anyone is free to vote however they please), but my comment got flagged. It's the first time this has ever happened to me on hacker news, where a purely informative comment gets flagged and I'm not sure why. My comment was akin to others like "hug of death brought the website down" or simply "the website doesn't work on mobile on a specific browser" and similar.

Once again I apologise for using this comment thread with something unrelated to this article, but I'm baffled by what happened and I'd like to understand the reason my comment got flagged, so I can stop myself from writing such comments in the future.

Is @dang or any mods available to assist with this inquiry?
You can clean up this code by writing a package for generating JSON token by token.

w := jsonx.New(os.Stdout)
w.OpenObject()
w.ObjectKey("commit")
w.Int(0)
w.CloseObject()
That was a great read, thanks! Have been thinking about this for sometime - remember the "filter bubbles" that we used to talk about recommendation engines in walled gardens of social media? Just like that got weaponized to meddle elections, when someone with great resources (think state actors) spots this as an opportunity, could they poison/bias the opinions generated by OpenAI LLM services? It might be easier/profitable to attack X's Grok - it has favored entry points that can be bought, and track record of being useful in previous attacks.
May we live in interesting times!
I'm starting to narrow down the list of people who might be posting on @elonmusk's account too.

We gon' nail this son of a gun.
Yes. Regarding JOSE (JWS/JWE/JWA/JWK/JWT) I consider that point one of the core design differences I have with JOSE as it results in re-encode ballooning. That's separate from the fact that JSON was intended to be human readable and base64 encoding of otherwise human readable payloads robs JSON of this design goal. (If going so far to base64 encode human readable payload, why not take advantage of efficient binary messaging standards instead of using JSON? The whole point of the "bloat" of JSON over binary forms is human readability.)

Not only is JOSE base64 encoded, but many situations have base64 payloads embedded in the JSON, meaning payloads are double encoded, and as far as I'm aware, JOSE headers are always base64 encoded, regardless of the outer (re-)encoding. Each round of base64 encoding adds overhead.

For example, if starting with a 32 byte payload, the first round base64 encodes as 43 bytes, then is inserted into JSON, and then base64 re-encoded as 58 bytes. The starting payload of 32 balloons to nearly twice the size of 58.

For a direct example from one of the RFCs the header `{"alg":"RS256"}` becomes `"eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9"`. That's 15 bytes unencoded, human friendly JSON and 20 bytes as encoded unfriendly base64.

Further, there's a later RFC 7797 that was intended to address the complaints of this, the 'JOSE JSON serialization Unencoded Payload Option', but that too failed to address encode ballooning in the headers. From the RFC:

{ "protected": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsImI2NCI6ZmFsc2UsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il19", "payload": "$.02", "signature": "A5dxf2s96_n5FLueVuW1Z_vh161FwXZC4YLPff6dmDY" }

That encoded header is 58 bytes but when unencoded, {"alg":"HS256","b64":false,"crit":["b64"]}, it is 42 bytes. There's no compelling reason for this design.

The better solution? Just stay as JSON.

I have more to say, but I'll leave it there. You can also check out my presentation on the matter here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bVojfkDs7K9hRwjr8zMW...

Right now a relevant slide is 115, or control-f "ballooning", or I have other text documents up on Github.
Thanks for the correction - I wasn't particularly careful looking at the list on Wikpedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
I created a place to read all the short stories from history; it is hopefully a bit more modern and easier to navigate than Americanliterature.com and Project Gutenberg.
It houses about a thousand short stories (under 20,000 words) that have left copyright, including Lovecraft, Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and others.

I'd love to know how easy or difficult people find it to use.
> A month into its strike, IF Metall is firmly dug in for the long haul. Striking workers are being fully compensated for lost pay.

This idea of striking for ever and getting paid for striking is insanity.

Europe is brutal to businesses.

It's no wonder the economies here stagnate and there is no growth anymore.

This isn't sustainable nor is it good.

We can't treat businesses like they're expendable.

As if one fails, it's ok, the next will grow in its place. These are not sustainable ideas - it causes huge waste and destruction and then oversea's companies (from China, India, etc) grow in their place.

People don't want to start companies in Europe (the numbers are seriously decreasing) because they're hardly profitable anymore (because of taxes) and then its just endless fighting with employees and from above through bureaucracy.

Employees want to get paid without having to contribute in a meaningful way. Governments get elected on the promises of protecting employees.

Governments in Europe treats businesses like they're filthy rich snobs who desired to be punished. Laws are brutal tough. Business auditors and tax auditors are extremely tough and unfair.

This isn't sustainable, nor is it good.
The bill has a section describing interpretations and application. I think the area the news story is referring too is: 'Offence of incitement to violence or hatred against persons on account of their protected characteristics'

The news company reporting the article is from Florida as far as I can see. There are pretty different laws between USA and Ireland. I'd sum the main differences up as you can't just go and say what you want if its not true, or discriminative in most countries in Europe.
I’m a big believer in the right tool, for the right job.

I used C++ for many years, as a primary development language for MacOS apps (MPW and CodeWarrior -mostly CodeWarrior).

I happily switched to Cocoa and ObjC, and it’s been Swift, for many years.

But I also write GUI end-user interface apps.

At the company I worked for, we used C++ to write image processing pipeline engines, and would install the engine in apps for Windows and Mac, which were written in C# or ObjC (my company had not switched to Swift, by the time we left).

Our team consisted of a number of highly experienced (like 30 years of coding, experienced) engineers, and they did a great job with C++.

It can present difficult-to-fix bugs, but that’s because of the type of tool it is.

I think of C++ as an “engine” tool. It’s best used to create “faceless” libraries and SDKs (IMO). In that context, it basically has no peer.
300,000-400,000$ is more possible, Bitcoin halving will happen this May.)
Recent, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498688
You're asking why the people who get to benefit from him buying Twitter with a least 100% markup over its true value would prefer that he sticks to the purchase agreement he personally signed?

Well, let's think about it.

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If the above is not coming through, imagine you have a trusty old Ford Focus. Does the job, needs repairs from time to time, but you're about break even on it. You put money in it and get the same amount of value back. Its market price is about $4,000, because there's some craze about cars at that point in time.

So here comes Elon and says "I'll buy this car for $4,400." You're like "OK, let's sign an agreement". He signs.

Few weeks pass, he's not not sending money, and not calling. More time passes. The market conditions change. Now a car like yours costs $2,200. Elon is trying to say the agreement you signed is not valid, because he missed a giant scratch on the left side of the car, despite you discussed this scratch in detail last time.

You sue him. He pays $4,400 and gets the car, and is so mad, that he drives it into a tree immediately.
FWIW those tripoints in China are mostly very far away from population centers. If Mexico was 10 countries it would still take GP 3 hours to drive to family and not leave the state.
Nitpick, I think you mean exclave
And shameless plug for another alternative, Coze: https://github.com/Cyphrme/Coze
> Sure you keep saying this, but then you are not willing to put in the work to not see ads and save that time.

You are probably misunderstanding something because I do put in that work and I don't have any ads in my life. In spite of G's best efforts to force them on me.
April is amazing. I have used J for over a decade, and I am currently being swept away by uiua, but my old Lispy love teamed up with APL in April is a knockout combo: Do the generic stuff with Lisp and the numerical magic with APL.
Is this tuned to generate nonsense? I can't get it to say anything resembling reality.
Adding the length means another shift+or operation at minimum. I already think this is slower than the technique presented in the article, and this would make it worse.

It's an interesting idea, but I don't see it being practical, even if the size of the table wasn't an issue.
Another meaningless study written for the sake of writing something.
Didn’t even bother to prepare a proper role for GPT-4.

And the whole article can be shortened down to “GPT 3.5 has been conditioned by OpenAI specifically not to present itself as a human.” and it does it with success :)
XML is brittle which makes it hard to work with. One tiny syntax error somewhere and your whole XML pipeline fails.

XSLT is powerful but harder to get right than just reshaping JSON.
The point wasn't for it to be impressive. It's that if you want to keep it simple, you don't need JavaScript.
Wow, I didn’t realise this, I was travelling through a bunch of highly walkable cities (guess where) over the last couple of weeks, I guess I didn’t realise they were dead because I couldn’t see past all the people, shops and businesses, and apartments in the way…
https://archive.is/20231129163044/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
> You have to design everything for failure. Given that, it shouldn't be hard to take servers out of production for patching and updates.

There's a big, big difference, especially at the scale of hundreds of thousands / millions of servers, between designing such that your architecture can suffer 1% of servers being offline and 10% of servers being offline. If you have 1 million servers, even if you could take 1% of them offline at once (i.e. 10,000 servers), if it takes 5 minutes to reboot, you then need to wait 5 minutes * 100 one-percent-buckets = 500 minutes, or 8.3 hours to do a full patch. When you have critical security updates (like Heartbleed) you simply cannot have unpatched servers exposed to the Internet for that much time. And that's not including the amount of time it takes to actually send reboot/patch commands to 10,000 servers.

The larger the bucket, the more likely a bad patch is noticed by the public, and the more likely that an ordinary traffic spike (for which your extra capacity is ordinarily there for) will overwhelm your servers (since your extra capacity is being used to handle patch rollout and rebooting). Sure, you can plan and add even more capacity to compensate, which makes it take even longer to rollout a patch, and now Finance is knocking at your door wondering if you really need all these servers and maybe you could decommission some of them to save money.

It's a fundamentally difficult problem at hyperscaler scale.
This would be cool as a finished production ready pcb with the logic and motor and a solder connection to the led grid.
> Sad to hear that anyone even considers deprecating support for that hardware.

I don’t think anybody has. This appears to have been entirely an accidental regression.
Seems more like an alignment toward humor, sarcasm, etc. It would have been more worthy pedagogically if it would output fine-grained nonsense for nefarious purposes.
It is not hugely different today when you have an error in a template. I had a one line error using a boost multi index container. It produced 1300 lines of errors. You do kind of get used to it.
That was shortly before making verification a paid endeavor, right?
It was so exciting as a young kid being driven on to a train, travelling under the sea, then in 30 minutes being in a different a totally different country - France - with a different language, time zone, currency, etc! It even smelled totally different.

Then continuing the journey around Europe, there were even more currencies and more languages and different cuisines.

Ah the nostalgia!
There's Cake Lisp, which was used by its creator to make an iPhone game for his girlfriend one time.
The explanation I heard for the simplified logo fonts is that they want something that reads well on tiny phone screens.
FastUI: Build web apps in declarative Python code
I would like to see crisps that don't break when you fold them.
You need to (pretent to) be a conformist which is important to work in a team, especially in larger companies. Ability to accept compromise, work in conditions far from ideal, set aside unimportant differences. Being e. g. anti-vaxxer isn't often problem per-se, but it's a sign the person might be difficult to work with in a team setting.

It's similar with e. g. positive discrimination, I think many people silently object, but not being able to filter it out in business context is a bad sign.
Please don't post only a link with no context or commentary. HackerNews reliably downvotes this.
> It's very noticeably in building architecture.

My bad take: Modern architecture ugliness comes from architects using CAD with insufficient proficiency to create complex designs. Result: Mossty cubes and grids, with some advanced users adding fillets.
Since when can ideologies only be passed to one's relatives? Hair color and height I can see, but ideologies are learned, and usually from outside the family unit.
> But we can still judge UK and Germany, that’s okay.

As a Brit that made me chuckle

Totally agree
I have, publicly and less than publicly.

A study would usually fall on the less than publicly end of the axis, since one's answers are anonymized, only read by the researchers themselves - no-one else gives a fuck about them, usually - and even the anonymized datasets hardly ever get published.

It's not difficult to admit "actually, I feel like I should have had kids" to a medical professional. It's even less difficult to admit it on an online form, especially one by an entity you trust - which will perforce be the case - claiming your answers will be anonymous. It's not like the general population cares that much about privacy, after all, and here they would have nothing to lose by admitting regrets about being childfree.
Sweden has a population of 10 million. Only 120 workers are covered. Tesla is not prioritizing resources well by fighting this battle. They should subcontract these jobs like Amazon does, encourage Tesla owners to go to Denmark for service, or simply build cars that require less service.
Cicadas ruin my sesame seeds for my burger king so I'm find with that
What a waste of time. Why wouldn’t they put in a tiny bit of effort to use an uncensored model like a dolphin 2.0 finetune? Not serious work at all.
Well, if I could bottle up my feelings about AI hype, they'd fizz over like a can of coke.
Are these the last apps on the planet that does not have some sort of data mining in their pipeline?
You can also use https://raspi.debian.net/, which is preferable on newer Pis due to the use of arm64 (early Pis had a weird arch which sat between armel and armhf, so either you used armel and things were slow(er), or you rebuilt the packages with the extra float support (as Raspbian did)).
Did you do anything with it?
The design cycle is especially obvious in the case of Airbnb et al.: they all went from having cursive logo fonts to sans-serif.

In other words: the only thing that’s new with the current cycle is that it’s a minimal cycle, making a lot of designs converge. I’m sure we’ll see a larger variety of designs with the next cycle, underlying design philosophy permitting.
Many moons ago, an acquaintance sold his app account ( with apps like battery saver apps etc ) to an Israeli company. As i recall, in that case, the acquisition was for data-harvesting purposes.
Sure, but it's where it is and the juxtaposition of it's apparent isolation despite being within NYC that makes it interesting. It's isolation from infrastructure, too, despite being real streets and (some) real houses. Surprising, at least to me.
I really like:

trio: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

and a couple of trio-compatible libraries that blend with it nicely:

tractor: https://github.com/goodboy/tractor

trio-parallel: https://trio-parallel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
More like cultivate gardens.
I strongly agree. There was so much information left on the wayside, a little bit of location jumping in the beginning.

The images needed flavour/location foot notes.

A deep dive, which flavours combine (surely they could find an ex-industry for this?) To get a rough approx.

There were parts - where they were talking about splitting oils(?if I remember correctly) that I'd have liked more info on.

Long form /short detail. I'll end up researching it myself, which is good for me, but only me.
Allowing an impulsive and dumb person to be the richest man on Earth, and wield power in multiple companies, including some critical for national security like SpaceX... does require a grand conspiracy.

That's millions of people: government officials, investment bankers and countless retail investors conspiring to feed him cash for his endless nonsense.
it also means your home network is slower.

Why should a backup from my laptop to my file server be limited to 1gbps? Has nothing to do with outside connection. Tehre are a lot of use cases for faster home networking irrelevant of network speed to the external world
Sanitized, well formed JSON is generally not horribly URL encoded. It's typically less overhead than base64.

Also, for well formed JSON (not arbitrary JSON), it also works fine in HTTP headers. I think those two situations cover about 90% of use cases.

For example, here is a JSON payload URL encoded. It's not too bad, and much better than base64:

https://cyphr.me/coze#?input={%22pay%22:{%22msg%22:%22Hello%...

The initial payload is 238 bytes, URL encoded that payload is 288 bytes, as base 64 it is 318 bytes. (Here's another tool just for that: https://convert.zamicol.com/#?inAlph=text&in=%257B%2522pay%2...)
Very interesting to see this here. I bought the Nike missile control unit years ago from some guy here in the Netherlands and it still sits in my garage. It has cool mechanical gyroscopes and microwave components. I disassembled most of the electronics modules and made a guitar amplifier from some of the pencil tubes. Sounds great and it's kind of cool I think, making a musical instrument out of a weapon.
It’s been sustainable for Sweden for a century.

Tesla needs to adapt to the Swedish model if they want to do business in Sweden, and otherwise they are free to not do so. This is true for a Swedish company that wants to do business in the US, so why would the opposite be unimaginable?

Tesla is not special. They would do fine, and pass whatever costs this incurs on to the consumers, like literally every company.
In the UK I find Lidl disorganised, dirty, with unfriendly staff. Aldi is usually the opposite

Though Lidl has better bakery items and more loose goods, whereas Aldi prepackages almost everything.
Lidl feels noticeably higher quality to me.
Understand the businesses case.

WASM is a modern Flash replacement. Flash was successful because it solved many technical problems the more primitive web technologies could not. JS can do just about everything now as fast as can be imagined so if WASM is to be successful it must solve a wildly different technology problem.

Bottom line: WASM needs to be a thing people commonly desire for outside the browser. If WASM can do that it will be just as successful inside the browser. If not nobody will care except developers sad about JavaScript, and sufficient adoption will fail because sad about JavaScript is not a qualified business case.
This is so fascinating, when I read about things like this (the common folk unknown who lived a full life full of thoughts and contemplations), I think about myself and how I'm going to be completely unknown to the future too. I wonder if those unknown people from the past were able to self contextualize in the same way and my assumption is yes, there's no reason to assume otherwise.
I don’t get why the subjects of the article need to be anonymous.
One of the largest magnetic storms in history quantified
Sure that’s where we’ll stop
There's been much virtual ink and video play time discussing the phenomenon. Just do a search "why are designs so boring?"

My personal slant pins it on the cult of minimalism. I realized we were effed when Lufthansa went with their incredibly dull and depressing livery. Most people in the planespotting world disliked it (1), while designers were falling over themselves gushing about the elegance, clarity and simplicity of the brand (2). My UX designer even used them as an example to emulate (we disagreed on many things).

Also, designers, like most people, are inherently uncreative. A new trend will start, and people will follow. Just look at how every AI project has been trying to shoehorn "Q" into their names these past couple of weeks. Or how everything "smart" had to have a lower-case "i" in front of the brand for a long while. I'm starting to see the backlash against minimalism more frequently, hopefully it'll hit design schools soon and the next home run brand will move away from extremist minimalism

(1) https://thepointsguy.com/2018/02/lufthansa-new-livery-boring...

(2) https://www.adelahaye.com/blog/2020/2/11/feeling-blue-luftha...
See also what I think is an even more striking set of examples:

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/logos-look-the-same

It's definitely a trend.
No mention of 'R'?
More about Ada and SPARK:

https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/usage_sce...

For example: "SPARK builds on the strengths of Ada to provide even more guarantees statically rather than dynamically."

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For people who want to read more about pointers in Ada:

https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/docs/craft/html/...

http://archive.adaic.com/tools/CKWG/Reference_Counting_Point...

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/acce...

https://www.adacore.com/uploads_gems/03_safe_secure_ada_2005...

https://blog.adacore.com/using-pointers-in-spark

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Memory safety in Ada / SPARK:

https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/Safe-Dynamic-Memo...
Have you uses the app? It hasn't changed since I started driving. It feels like its being left in maintenance mode. I am very happy it hasn't been killed off yet.
WarAgent: LLM-Based Multi-Agent Simulation of World Wars
The same thing for Japanese: https://ichi.moe/