skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there's a subset of designers and architects who feel that they are uniquely enlightened and brilliant, and their job is to dictate to poor benighted proles how they should live their lives, rather than serve and empower human beings who have their own dignity and agency.

Witness modernist architecture: "you shall all live and work in soulless concrete boxes, because I the brilliant architect have decreed that ornament is superfluous, and I can shape you into Properly Thinking People by manipulating your environment."
When you have unit vectors, cosine similarity and euclidean distance always result in identical rankings, even when those unit vectors are assigned at random and have no semantic structure at all. That's because the euclidean distance |a - b|² = ⟨a - b, a - b⟩ = ⟨a, a⟩ - 2⟨a, b⟩ + ⟨b, b⟩ = |a|² - 2|a||b|cos ɸ + |b|² for unit vectors with |a| = |b| = 1 only depends on the cosine of the angle ɸ between the two vectors.
“Lift and shift” is a term for when you move to “the cloud” but really just replace your physical servers with clones in cloud VMs. It’s a relatively cheap (in terms of effort) way to get on “the cloud” but gains you basically zero of the benefits. The term’s in wide use, talk to anyone involved with cloud-anything and they’ll be familiar with it.

I’m not sure what else needs to be translated? Nothing, I think?
> 700k Palestinians leaving in 1948, there was no historical order to evict anyone from outside the future Israeli borders, fact is they fled either from fear or through encouragement

What weasel way to say killing and displacing the Palestinian to steal their land

On top of that, regardless of whatever history, it’s something that is happening right now. Everyday settlers are forcing Palestinians out of their homes, farms and land in the West Bank

Or are you saying Palestinians in the West Bank are also just “fleeing either from fear or through encouragement”?
> What happened in this case is that for some unknown reason the lead contamination was major rather than minor.

Lead salts taste sweet. I'm with the FDA; I doubt this is inadvertent contamination from machinery. This looks to me like deliberate adulteration.

Also: those sachets are made from metallized plastic, and cannot be recycled. They are pure pollution, and should be banned.
> Is lower air pressure part of why the cold doesn't cut through you as much out west?

Could be, yes. The lower air pressure means less heat transfer out of your body, as you say.
Thank you for sharing!

It looks like the Scala project found allowing protected[this] fields as an escape hatch for variance to be unsound:

https://github.com/scala/bug/issues/7093

Going to have to chew on that and what it means for the same feature in Sorbet…

Thanks again for bringing this up!
> as a production distribution solution? definitely not

If you’re talking about distributing Rust projects, sure it’s fine. Generally though, if you’re orchestrating a bunch of other things outside the rust software itself, I’d turn to just.

npm is still mainly used in JavaScript and Typescript scenarios, so I think you’re kinda splitting hairs if you’re suggesting it’s a general purpose tool.
Support is still mediocre (mainly because of safari)
There are many text editors but only one standard.
Are you sure? A trivial search on Google scholar suggests scientists have identified specific genes that may be responsible for risky behavior. (A very cursory look seems to implicate genes that alter dopamine pathways, which, to a layperson, would make sense since dopamine is heavily involved with motivation.)
It looks like your GPU memory is barely enough to fit video stream from your eyes.
>Every point on that curve that doesn't touch an original data point is by definition novel. The very algorithm itself is literally 99.999% completely generating solutions that don't exist.

That may be the case, conceding your chosen use of language. The minutia doesn't matter if it can't demonstrate novel high level creativity for novel problems.

Acknowledging the importance of its actual capabilities, but also acknowledging that we are arguing over one: applied abstract thinking. If it can't output what is requested, then there is a lie somehwere in the description of its processing IF it is held to be capable.

>When I query chatGPT I look for intelligence, when you query it you look for flaws.

I disagree with your binary frame. One can't acknowledge its ability and where it falls short?

>What will happen is this. I will present to you a prompt and the result which I believe verifies the status of chatGPT as an AI capable of solving novel problems

This is an irrelevant prediction that seeks to straw man this conversation, because you haven't done this.

Keep in mind that my argument rests in creative language analysis. Not in its ability to process math, biological systems logic, nor anything parallel.

> We can attempt to pre empt this. I can allow you to come up with a prompt to produce something novel but what will happen is that you will choose a prompt biased towards your argument and I will choose a prompt clearly biased towards mine and we will each have excuses for why the other is invalid

Do you understand that trying to predict a conversation as a form of argument and an attempt at an IQ display (respectfullly) is boorish and boils down to fallacy?

>But you are unaware of this.

Nevermind. You are faking intellgience as a fig leaf for being arrogant and insulting as a substitute for conversation.

>You will never believe ai can produce novel things. Nothing anyone can say will ever convince you at this moment. What may convince you is over a span of 10 years as ai improves your opinion slowly flips the same way a scientologist slowly comes to terms that he is in a cult.

This is how you speak about a piece of software, to another human being, and I'm the one who is acting like they are in a cult?

>my intense meta-analysis

You think that you have presented "intense meta-analysis"?

My recommendation to you, toward improving your writing and thinking, is to pare down the number of words that you use toward the goal of distilling the actual information that you present. Here, it isn't much. Its an accusation of bias, religious thinking, and insults. Combined with sparse comments on the tech and a barely decipherable fully hypothetical thought experiment without a clear stream of logic. There was nothing intense nor meta about it, aside from the intensity of the word count.

>am I blind or are you?

I'm having a flashback to middle school writing assignments.
Last, no one called anyone "blind" except for you.
I think you misunderstood the attack. The idea behind the attack is that the attacker would create what is effectively a honey pot website, which writer.com customers want to use as a source for some reason (maybe you're providing a bog-standard currency conversion website or something).

Once that happens, the next time the LLM actually tries to use that website (via an HTTP request), the page it requests has a hidden prompt injection at the bottom (which the LLM sees because it is reading text/html directly, but the user does not because CSS or w/e is being applied).

The prompt injection then causes the LLM to make an additional HTTP request, this time sending a header that contains the customers private document data.

It's not a zero-day, but it is certainly a very real attack vector that should be addressed.
Nice! Is there hope that V8 will also support proper tail calls in JavaScript?

Update: The ticket for v8 to support JavaScript tail call optimization remains open but hasn’t been updated in a couple years. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4698
For those who didn't make it to the end, it's worth noting that there's a fair bit of tongue in cheek in there.

> We believe MIT deserves further investigation, and, with the festive season upon us, we intend to follow up with observational field studies and an experimental study—males and females, with and without alcohol—in a semi-naturalistic Christmas party setting.
Yep, another bad copy paste from the previous section. Thanks! Will fix in a bit.
Firefox, for nearly the whole time it existed. Never seen a reason to change.
If your point was "Twitter has been adding new features despite their engineering cuts", that is incorrect. Community notes and video streaming were all added before the Musk acquisition. The only engineering changes I can think of since the acquisition have been semi-disasters in my opinion:

1. Paying for blue checks. Which for me just means that blue checks are the hallmark of the lowest quality comments and posts now.

2. Renaming from Twitter to X. This one highlights how Twitter is basically unable to even do this correctly without a proper engineering team. Normally you'd implement this so that navigating to twitter.com would redirect to x.com, but Twitter had to do the opposite because changing the primary domain name likely would have touched a ton of underlying assumptions throughout the code, and Twitter was no longer equipped to be able to handle a change of that magnitude.
The difference between being able to send unlimited messages for free, and having to get a new phone every hundred or so texts is pretty large. Free vs 1 dollar per spam text.
April 1st.
Lift and shift is a cloud migration strategy which involves moving your applications to the cloud with little to no modification. For example, you have an application running on a server in your data-centre, you then deploy a VM in the cloud with a similar spec and install the application.

It's usually done to avoid the engineering cost of making the services more cloud native. What tends to happen a lot is that after a considerable portion of the migration is completed, the cost of the lift-and-shift effort start to overtake the savings, and the projected costs, dwarf the future savings.

I suspect this is what happened with Linkedin.
Editor loyalty is more than tribalism. The more/better you know your editor, the quicker you can make some complex edits of the type that editor enables. Of course some editors are more limiting than others, so you can master notepad in an a short time - though it probably isn't worth the bother even though it can insert the date/time into your document (as I just discovered while writing this), the limited functions means if you need that feature you should already be using a different editor that provides other features it doesn't.

However be careful. Editors do offer different features. Some things really are easier/better in a different editor, thus even after you settled on an editor you should - every few years - take a look around to see if maybe something else is enough better in some way as to be worth learning in depth. While sometimes it seems like the wrong choice will get the other tribe to kill you (or condemn you to hell for eternity), I'm not aware of that ever happening - generally you can remain friends with other people after switching.
Any move to any cloud is going to depend on the environment you're coming from. I've been in on decisions not to use X, Y, Z ... doesn't mean there was anything wrong with them, we just weren't ready for that yet or had different priorities or the ever present weird deal-breaker issue / requirement.
You would also need to turn pretty much all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, military men with a 30+ year track record of loyalty to the nation(and not an individual).

Otherwise, feel free to occupy a few buildings in DC for a couple of days, but don't cry when you're forcibly evicted by the Army and hanged for treason.
"Consistency - This one doesn't really belong on ACID as a property of databases, as it is a property of the application."
Damn, that is not good on so many levels.

First of all, ACID are not properties of a database, they are properties of database transaction. Article kind of says it, but I feel it is phased ambiguous.
Consistency is the property of a database transaction which can be easily illustrated by foreign keys.

AUTHORS
| author_id | name |
| 1 | Mary |
| 2 | John |

ARTICLES
| article_id | author_id | title |
| 11 | 2 | About small animals |
| 12 | 1 | About big machines |

Now ARTICLES cannot have author_id non existent in AUTHORS. If a tuple is inserted in ARTICLES, then author_id should reference a valid tuple from AUTHORS.
If a tuple is deleted from AUTHORS, then all ARTICLES tuples referencing said AUTHORS tuple should be deleted too; or deleting from AUTHORS should be rejected.
That is consistency and that is a property of a database transaction. Transaction must fail if one tries to insert an article with author_id equal 5. At the end of transaction article 11 must be deleted if author 2 was deleted.

Now real life databases are much more complex, but idea is basically the same.

Also, consistency is between tuples. Not having "31-February-2001" as a date is integrity, not consistency.
That sounds like a superpower.
Here's a timestamped link to the rant:

[1] http://overcast.fm/+2tVlX5FNg/1:12:12
querky – autogenerate Python functions and types for your SQL queries
If I'm reading the paper right, they're just doing a bad job of explaining measuring a qubit by phase kickback. And for some reason they're talking about batteries?

When they say "indefinite causal order" what they mean is they do this:

if C: do A
do B
if not C: do A

So C determines if A happens before or after B. Personally I would never describe that as "indefinite causal order". There's a very definite order. First you do "A if C" then you do "B" then you do "A if not C". Using fancy words to describe the effects of an `if` statement doesn't change that it's an `if` statement...

A key thing to understand here is kickback[1][2]. Something you get used to very quickly when learning quantum computing is that anytime you see "if C: do A" you need to understand how this might change C. The underlying issue is that in quantum mechanics all interactions are two way streets. For an "if" statement you want the condition to determine the action, without the action affecting the condition. But your building blocks fundamentally don't allow this. So any actual implementation of "if C: do A" will have what's called kickback, where an operation is applied to C depending on A.

Anyways, they do this series of instructions where C appears as a condition. Then they measure C. Due to kickback, this is revealing information about the state of the battery. Sometimes it collapses to being charged. That's the paper.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_phase_estimation_algor...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjdngeGXWEg&t=100
It's not a single hypothesis. If you want me to write an essay on hacker news on all the behavioral differences between males and females - it's tough luck :) If you have counter-arguments - post them so I can refute them. Cheers.
I am illusioned right now.

Are these special objects? Which figures in the article are thoe being displayed in?

To me, each example basically "works" if you pretend its not a mirror corner but just a solid mirror at an angle. I'm guessing this is not the intent though?
Poe's law strikes again! That risk is real, but a student who isn't open enough to express that they read this to their professor and classmates, and that they read it seriously, is likely to have problems in other fields as well.
It's not an article, but I found The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to
Digital Signal Processing book to be very comprehensive. There are a couple of chapters on applications, but not much code.

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
Gonna frame this comment so I can point to it in the year it happens next decade.
That is correct. Though all that metadata is replicated
The Weight-Loss Drug Revolution
Nice to see an article that does't use words like "disaster" (though the word "timebomb" does occur up front.

> Countries like South Korea, Japan and China, however, have shied away from mass immigration to solve their working age population issues.

As Herb Stein famously said, "if it can’t go on forever it will stop". In fact, South Korea embraced foreign brides many years ago, at least by farmers who are particularly low status in the marriage market.
> sed and vi both have roots in ed

A joke I used to tell people is "don't know how to quit vi? Just type Q to enter Ex mode, then you can exit vi just like how you would exit ed."
At this point, speaking English is an advantage for other economies because it’s the language that Americans speak.
there is a paper on arxiv.org which may shed some light: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.12466.pdf
There is no such thing as "lift and shift". It is something Azure account reps like to say to make it sound like moving is easy. It sounds like you're picking up some boxes from one side of the room and moving them to the other. When in reality you're rewriting your infra code mostly from scratch.

When we were acquired by MSFT we had the same project. We had to move from AWS to Azure. I made them all stop saying "lift and shift" because in reality it is "throw away all of your provisioning code and rewrite it using Azure primitives which don't work the same way as AWS ones".

It is more akin to writing an iOS app to work on Android.
ELI40YO Engineer
Would you be able to go beyond the abstract notion of a lighthouse (basic geometric shape, white with red stripes, etc) and without a reference know where to paint shadows, how to dither them, how to achieve some "weathering effects", marks left by the water, etc?

My guess is that kind of "untrained intuitions" about drawing require two preconditions:

1. Having seen lighthouses or buildings and paid attention to how rust/marks/decay and the interplay of light and shadow looks like.

2. Being able to visualize this when drawing.

Otherwise, how can the drawing (without a photo reference) be anything but idealized and abstract?
Such people working on such important things are truly dangerous.
> you are not a better writer / programmer / person because of what editor you use

somebody uses Emacs...

But seriously, the tribalism over which is better is ridiculous, but a good writer/programmer/person chooses their tools intentionally, and makes their tools work for them instead of against them. My choice of editor doesn't make me better than you, but it makes me better than a version of me using sub par tools that I have to fight to make work. It's about reaching flow state and being able to do work, and make work happen. If forced to cut down a tree in 5 minutes, the learned lumberjack will spend 3 sharpening their axe.
It's been a while I tried it but I really like that the UI doesn't "cheat" with internal apis.

Sure the UI is horrendous, I'm not going to defend it but you can open the web inspector, see what it's doing and use the exact same apis in your code. I can't say that for AWS.
China's well into the authoritarian phase, but I think they also have an even more unique issue driving their success. Just 60 years ago you also had tens of millions of Chinese literally starving to death in the Great Leap Forward. Since then they've become the largest (PPP) economy, and continue to grow rapidly with widespread visible quality of life improvements. That's going to drive a tremendous amount of good will. The problem is that while they still have plenty of room to grow, it's completely and absolutely unsustainable. And what happens once it does eventually end?
Quite a few mastodon instances have done this in reverse already -- this is hardly a pathology specific to big companies (however odious I found Google's action to be).
Evolution doesn't look into the future.

In the past, groups with women that were more risk averse would do better on average when the group was decimated and needed to repopulate.

Groups with women that took too many risks didn't survive.

So, now we have more risk aware women.

Risk taking for men didn't have that of an impact and might even have proven beneficial (e.g., Genghis Kahn, etc.)

Just my assumption...
I agree that there were violent people, but they were a minority and belonged to opportunistic political factions (black blocks). It's these guys who torched small businesses, not the demonstrators. They were young, mobile, and well-trained for urban warfare, which caused many to wonder who trained them and where.

These guys were probably 1/100 of the total number of gilets jaunes.

In contrast, the average gilet jaune were middle-aged people, often women, who feared falling into poverty. Most were unable to run quickly, even for their life.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement_des_Gilets_jaunes#Pr...
(sorry it's in French)

BTW my understanding of the WP paragraph that you point out is that most of this violence, injuries, and trauma was done by police, not by these people.
I assume they don’t have infinite capacity either. So even without rights conflicts, if they can only ramp up say 10 sets at a time, and they’re working on eight for a new campaign, they’re going to be pickier about the final two.

Lego may sell a hundred different sets at the same time, but if they run out of one they aren’t going to get more tomorrow. It’s on a manufacturing schedule. They may have all of the yellow 1x6 bricks you could ever need, but they still have to fire up the part picker, the bag sealers, and order new boxes and booklets from the printers. Plus there’s that weird part that is only in three current sets, they have to make more of them, and the first gap in the schedule is next Thursday.
For those needing chromium, there's also Kiwi Browser, which is mostly a chromium fork with extensions re-enabled on mobile.

I wish I could switch to FF, but I still need PWA support + rich media notifications for a web based music player I wrote.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...
It seems that you are having some sort of an existential crisis. What's the point of doing anything if you're going to die? Why work or develop or anything?

If we are all just dust in the wind why not just have the best life you can. For me that includes sharing my life with my children and watching them grow and discover the magical universe we happen to be in.
>they make decisions with this knowledge in mind

I read it as an artifact of natural selection and natural selection does not work "with this knowledge in mind".
i call and raise. what if thoughts were the rational representation of emotions?
> The US FDA does NOT compromise on testing in India and China.

Counterpoint: https://web.archive.org/web/20130815013650/http://features.b...

They compromise quite a bit, considering a multi-billion dollar company was found, many years down the line, to be completely fraudulent.
For me it's the horrible layout. For God's sake, stop making narrow columns of text. Having the text take up most of my monitor is much more pleasant to read.
Necromancer's Dos Navigator – a nice text-mode file manager written in Pascal
Necromancer's Dos Navigator [NDN] is a clone of the famous "Norton Commander". It uses an easy to use and learn text-mode interface, is highly customizable, and has a lot of features.

Features:
Long File Names Support
Multi-windowed interface
Comprehensive File Manager
43 types of archives+images supported
Powerful customizable editor with 3 code pages support and syntax highlight
Hex-editor with code pages support
Huge strings support
Regular expressions
Spreadsheet communications
Fully 32/64 bit version
Multi-configuration
Very often updates
Linux port
KolibriOS & MenuetOS port
Also OS/2 & HaikuOS port
Built-in flat assembler
and more...
Fascinating, thank you for sharing!

More about this Python feature in the docs:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#private-vari...
I'm still waiting for The Last of Us Part I for PC to get out of Beta.
Aws doesn't have resource groups because AWS regions are purly independant and tries to maintain that as a tenet.

Since azure resource groups has resources that spans regions, azure violates this tenet or maybe it's just not a tenet for them.
Vera Molnar, Pioneer of Computer Art, Dies at 99
> MORE. Don't Stop!

Easy to say when you're thousands of kilometers away and not being one of the thousands of children and women getting killed.