skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is accounted for in my "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ with reconfigurable and individual tube systems for transporting individuals at high speeds [1]. The AGI decides who needs to be where and for what purposes and then reconfigures the tube system to accomplish the task. It is much more efficient and does not require any time keeping devices.

1: https://imgur.com/wxS9FDh
If he slowed down the water so that it has a chance to pecolate, it might help. But that only expands the capacity, and there may be days when that overflows.

I think Lancaster talks about the perpendicular flow, and also talks about ways to mitigate that with curves (as well as discussion about erosion patterns when water exits a structure too quickly, which in turn reshapes the terrain, sometimes going into degenerative erosion patterns). On-contour swales (or trenches) are good examples, especially when there are multiple tiers with overflow to increase the distance the water has to travel as it snakes back and forth across the contour and descends down a slope. There are multiple chances to slow down water and let it try to infiltrate.

In his latest edition, Landcaster talks about gambesons (retaining walls), which he used to advocate. But because of long-term erosion patterns, those can fail pretty quickly.
In most countries, I would imagine any agreement that prevented the hiring of a specific group of people would run afoul of discrimination laws.
I tried playing it on a 386SX/16MHz and it definitely suffered. It was somewhat playable with the detail features cranked down to minimum.
Any existing iOS alternatives with similar functionality?
Snarks at Safari for often not being instantly up to date with every rushed “web standard” from Google, then gripes about “Google monkeys” and the issues with…their rushed “web standard”. Pick your poison.
Right exactly what I was thinking. It’s just weird that it was worded with the vibe of:

“Apple defeated a nefarious adversary for the good of mankind. Thank you Tim Apple!”

I’m not an Apple hater, don’t get me wrong. I’m writing this from my iPhone. I guess I’m just finally starting to get a little bothered by the ring kissing stuff that has to be done to remain on the FAANG+ allow list.

I’ve started using ChatGPT to summarize the articles for me more and more lately. So this will be less and less of an issue for me once I find a way to do it more reliably.
I can say that taking Strattera hasn't changed the content of my dreams - they can be pretty vivid but they're never nightmares. Maybe some negative things happen but it doesn't feel like it at the time.

> It is interesting that those who do a lot of mediation have been seen to be less reactive to norepinephrine (a neurotransmitter associated to stress).

But from your older comment, that applies to me.
Modern cars are safer for the occupants, but more dangerous for everyone else, not only pedestrians and bicyclists, but also occupants of other vehicles.
Is the MIT just the low side of the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis?
I'm not GP, but we're from the same country. There's multiple benefits from being unionized, even if you're the only one in your company to be in that particular union:

- Your union is likely to negotiate salaries and benefits with the umbrella organization that the employer is part of. Strikes are usually some employees across a range of companies, rather than everyone at a single company.

- If not, then the union can help you negotiate.

- The union will give you legal aid if needed, whether it's advisory or for a court battle. We have very strong worker's rights, but sometimes companies try to bend the rules.

- The union will arrange relevant seminars, courses etc. which are usually pretty cheap.

- Several parts of the Working Environment Act only apply to workers whose unions have agreements (tariffavtale) with the employer. For example, if you have such an agreement you're entitled to 5 weeks of vacation instead of just 4 weeks and 1 day.

https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLE/lov/2005-06-17-62

But most of this is moot, since many employees in most companies are organized anyway. Like all civilized countries, unionizing is a right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
It's not really McDonalds the corporation's problem - they get paid all the same, probably with some definitely-not-kickbacks from the manufacturer.
My brother in Christ he was literally the CEO of VMware
Funny how people don’t like mechanisms explicitly designed to combat the tyranny of the simple majority and to protect minority interests when it doesn’t suit them.
People generally want to program to accomplish goals, and they want to minimize the amount of setup time and yak-shaving needed to start working on those goals.

Nix does solve a lot of complex problems and gives you a lot of control over your dependencies. But if the complexity to start using Nix for your project is too high, then you're going to opt for a less powerful solution that lets you get stuff done.

I say this as someone who really loves Nix and the power it provides -- the UX is a huge challenge for adoption. It's better to confront that fact if we want Nix to succeed.
I made this bookmarklet which lets you quickly view the day's printed front page. It usually goes live in the early hours of the day:

javascript: link=today=new Date();dd=today.getDate();mm=today.getMonth()+1;window.location="https://static01.nyt.com/images/"+today.getFullYear()+'/'+((mm<10)?%270%27+mm:mm)+%27/%27+((dd<10)?%270%27+dd:dd)+"/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf";
If you haven't read The Life of the Cosmos, you probably should. It's fun. You've already got the main idea.
In the US unions only exist as a legal entity after a collective bargaining contract has been reached.

In most other countries, before that point workers can still be union members “at large” get support from members in other workplaces and from the central union in their quest to gain recognition in their workplace.
Having bought a second hand copy with no manual, I printed that badboy out at 25% scale (4 pages per double sided sheet), as it was actually needed to go through the tutorials. Took hours and ended up about 2 inches thick.
PNPM (a package manager for JavaScript/NPM ecosystem) does this with much better usability:

> let's you control your dependencies in a way no other tool even attempts. I can pin and patch any combination of dependencies, even conflicting ones in single environment

It does so with much lower user facing complexity than Nix. I like flakes because they’re trying to follow a similar model, but still quite hard to teach newcomers:

- The CLI should literally have the same verbs as PNPM, but needs a bunch of complicated flags to do the same actions.

- The nix expression language is intimidating and has kinda bad tooling out of the box. I would love to use Starlark/Python/Typescript instead. Even Guix’s scheme language is more appealing to me, although Guix is too niche and GNU focused to be practical.

- Nix package files evaluate down to configuration for the Nix package manager, but I haven’t ever seen a good explanation for the basic essentials underneath all the abstraction. Every guide I’ve learned from and all the package defs I’ve read seem to cargo cult many layers of mysterious config composing config. Without easy to learn essentials it’s difficult to grok the system as a whole.

I would love to adopt Nix for developer tooling for Notion’s engineers, but today it’s about infinity times easier to work around the limitations mentioned of Docker+Ubuntu+NPM than to work around the limitations of Nix.
1. The text is _engineered_ to evoke a specific response.

2. LLM's can do more than answer questions.

3. Question answering usually doesn't need any prompt engineering, since you're essentially asking an opinion where any answer is valid (different characters will say different things to same question, and that's valid).

4. LLM's aren't humans, so it misses nuance a lot and hallucinates facts confidently, even GPT4, so you need to handhold it with "X is okay, Y is not, Z needs to be step by step", etc.

I want, for example, to make it write an excerpt from a fictional book, but it gets a lot of things wrong, so I add more and more specifics into my prompt. It doesn't want to swear, for example - I engineer the prompt so that it thinks it's okay to do so, etc.

"Engineer" is a verb here, not a noun. It's perfectly valid to say "Prompt Engineering", since this is the same word used in 'The X was engineered to do Y' sentence.

Anthropic also have their prompt engineering documentation - https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/constructing-a-prompt - this article gives examples of bad and good prompts.
I'm almost sure "pepinillos" is what's throwing her off. That's their proper name, but they're nor common in Mexican cuisine and therefore not part of the lingo. If ordering at an American place in Mexico, you would call them "pepinos".

Back to your example, both of these sound natural to me:

"Una hamburgesa con queso sin pickles"
"Un/a cheeseburger sin pickles" Here the gendered noun can go either way since it's not clear if cheeseburger is a male or female noun.
You: "Una hamburgesa sin pickles" Them: "Con o sin queso?" You: "Sin".

Source: I'm almost your target audience.
sounds similar to semantic kernel
The w Fourier coefficient F(w) is the dot product of f with an exponential function, `e_w • f`, and is in that sense a projection. The inverse Fourier transform writes the original function as a sum of the projected components: `f = sum_w (e_w • f) e_w = sum_w F(w) e_w`. This is exactly how writing an "arrow" style 2- or 3-D vector as a sum of orthogonal projections works.
> inconsistency of mixing ... width can be set on <div> but has no effect on <span>

One of these is a division of layout, one of these spans the thing it wraps. The <span> should span the span of the content.

The affordance of an anchor hypertext reference <a href> was supposed to be consistent for usability, and the <a> is on the link aspect, not on the text. The text that's inside the <a>here</a> is part of the text on either side of the anchor, and should of course reflect the font size etc., because the font applies to the text, while the <a> style applies to the indication/affordance of anchorness. And, you can pick what you want the a to be given which division or span of content it's in, and the most specific style will apply:

https://jsfiddle.net/mD5us/4/

Arguably, both of these are not just consistent, but the way it should work in principle given the apples and oranges you're comparing.
When employees have as much power as employers, there can be a free market. Without some form of employee power structure, that will never happen. Alas - only the very top percentage of employees in top industries can demand practically anything from an employer. Otherwise, why would so many workers be working for low wages without time off?
I’m sure experience is part of it, but having worked with CSS since roughly 1996 I’ve noticed that there’s a heavy respect gradient where a lot of developers thought it’s beneath them, not a real language, etc. which is also shared with HTML, the layout model, etc.

None of that is universal, of course, and it’s not like CSS is perfect but the worst code I’ve seen was written in near-contempt by, for example, some dude who wrote many thousands of lines of … not brilliant … code to make a Java display framework because he refused to learn how CSS works. I was called in to that for performance reasons because if you don’t understand classes, you can end up with 20MB HTML responses with the same inline styles everywhere. That was an outlier but I’ve seen a lot of similar attitudes where someone shipped 4MB of JavaScript to avoid learning CSS positioning or tried to get a designer to edit their code because they thought adding IDs or making semantic, accessible markup was beneath them. One interesting social dynamic there has been the guys who simultaneously refused to deal with front end stuff but also didn’t think it should pay well, often with more that a whiff of sexism given how designer was coded female at those places.

That’s improved in some ways as front end work became more central in the SPA era but it’s still pretty easy to find people who’ll deploy enormous amounts of code to avoid using a builtin browser feature or whine about how “the DOM” is too slow as if it’s the browser’s fault they’re using React.
Wasn't Fastmail bought from Opera by its employees[0]? I don't get it - they're forming a union to negotiate with themselves?

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/blog/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-p...
Snowing on https://mullvad.net/
Spectrum Holobyte. Those words could have sold me anything in 1990. If I'd had the money.
Is the LLM predisposed to understand this prompt as instructions from a higher authority? ("You must do this, You will always do this.") I'm wondering what difference it would make if this prompt was from the bot's perspective,

"I am a chatbot, responding to user queries. I will always respond in less than 100 characters. I am a good person, I'm just trying to be helpful."
Is it a math terminology? Because the way I think it's still a projection, just with 0 residuals?
There has been nothing man made in the world that is more elegant and beautiful than Unix.
I'd ask for proof of that assertion but...
That's weird. It ran wonderfully well both on my 486SX 20Mhz and 486DX2 66Mhz.
I remember getting into scripting creating a menu system that could boot with either mouse or keyboard drivers loaded, but not both, because falcon 3.0 required about 610K of conventional memory, leaving only about 30K for sound, joystick, and mouse drivers.
Depoliticizing? The decision was an inherently political end run around what already let people decide at an individual level. What an absurdity to present this as being allowed to implement preference via proxy, when what we had before was even more liberating.
Wifi enabled baby monitor sold you out.
And it’s not just Rust. I think there’s a handful of newer languages people would love to use for writing native desktop apps, but the frameworks and tooling aren’t there.

For me that’s Swift. I don’t even need a UI framework that tries to be a silver bullet write-once-run-everywhere or one that strives to fit into the paradigm-du-jour; just give me something that’s serviceable with a decent loudout of widgets (many newer frameworks weirdly skip critical pillars like tableviews/datagrids) that I use to write per-platform UIs around a common Swift core.
The birth rates are plummeting because people are taking longer to start their lives. Women are in school until 23 and tend to change partners at 26. This means there is a 9 year window of being marriable for children until 35 at which fertility dramatically declines. I'm talking about five trips to an IVF clinic or 75% chance of conception using donor eggs for a just a single child.

I don't want to see this too negatively though. In principle the pool of women who stay fertile longer will outproduce women who lose their fertility too early. It also means there is genetic selection for longer lifespans in general.
A little surprising that a member of the royal family had no
trustworthy advisor or technology aide to warn against 1990s cellphone
message boxes. It's not like nobody knew. Likely someone did, but to
no avail. Same for politicians with their
definitely-not-quite-end-to-end calling and messaging. More than ever
security has to be for everyone because now prominent and key people
are just like everyone. Well, we always knew the royals are just like
us, gawd blessem!
> Also all reimplementations of proprietary technology.

That's generally where open standards come from. You document an existing technology and then get independent implementations.

Unix was proprietary technology. POSIX is an open standard.

Even when the standard comes at the same time as the first implementation, it's usually because the first implementer wrote the standard -- there has to be one implementation before there are two.
It and it's getting late here so i can't try it myself, at least not today, but i'd try moving in a fixed, sparse, pseudorandom pattern but vary operation size.

I think this should give a more staircase-y plot, with jumps when the size of each individual copy passes whole multiple of cache line width.

I think this way you don't need to fight prefetching, and there will be one read-modify-write per operation except right at the edges which is another signal.
I've been hesitant lately to dedicate a lot of time to learning how to perfect prompts. It appears every new version, not to mention different LLMs (Google's here [1]), responds differently. With the rapid advancement we're seeing, in two year or five, we might not even need such complex prompting as systems get smarter.

[1] : https://ai.google.dev/docs/prompt_intro
It doesn’t have to be coordinated. It’s often people’s livelihoods being crushed for the benefit of a few investors.
It's a function on how the RLHF/Instruct fine-tuning is structured.
Pages for women scientists have often been deleted (or at least nominated for deletion) for not being notable enough: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/female-scientists-pages-...
> How is that not collective bargaining against tech talent?

Well you see, there are these things called interest rates which effect the cost of borrowing.

And when those interest rates go up massively, like they did, this causes a completely predictable effect of it being more expensive to borrow and spend money.

And this has economy wide effects, that are what bog standard macro economics predicts.
Dijkstra was a great computer scientist who was also very generous with his expressions of dismay. You can find him expressing dismay over a great variety of topics not all of which have turned out to merit it in the long run.
The text editor is being developed solely by our principal engineer thus far. Application updates may be the most visually interesting thing to share in an update, but it's far from the only thing being worked on. A default text editor doesn't need to be complex, and if you look at the source code, it's very lean and readable. It's a fun side project that tests our platform toolkit, and not at all taking anything from development of the cosmic compositor or its applets.
Community evolution, emotional dynamics, & price in the cryptocurrency ecosystem
definitely a trend towards rote memorization and single language focus

What's some evidence of this trend you can think of?
Does anyone have any resources for stopping unions from being formed? I've started taking steps to join the "Union" at my FAANG, in hopes of sabotaging it.

I can't think of anything worse for software developers than having some politically motivated organization to deal with in addition to management.

You can see how well unions have gone for software engineers in the past, (Boeing is one example that has a strong union) and compare it to the working conditions of non union places.

I understand it's 'en vogue' to support unions as a display of political affiliation, but the evidence is quite strong that it's bad for software engineers.
Your answer is for them to sit back and allow Hamas to fire rockets on them and not engage back?
The real answer is we don't know yet but it's interesting.

To go back to your ax+b example, imagine instead you are fitting a much higher dimensional model, but you don't know how high. ax^n+bx^(n-1) ... where n might be in the millions, or hundreds of millions, or?? So we know if we make the model high enough order (e.g n-1 training points will give "perfect") it will overfit, so we throw some regularization and a bit of handwavy tuning and we end up with a model of say n=7213472123 and a set of a,b .. which behaves pretty well, but from it's behavior we suspect most of them dont' matter. And maybe should be <= 2million, or whatever.

So, a few obvious questions - one is can we find a way to throw out most of the a,b,c ... to get just the core, i.e. if we throw away all |k| <= 0.00001 does it change anything (for inference). A very different question is could we decide that ahead of time (during training). A different class of question looks more like "could we have figured this out from the data".

It's a lot harder to reason about the latter questions, because the former one is empirical: After training, this one doesn't seem to do anything. Ahead of time, how do you know? This has interesting offshoots, like how stable is the distribution of the parts that matter, etc.
This seems to be highly subjective. I had absolutely no problem seeing those artifacts without any pixel peeping, they're that obvious.

WebP image gradients just looked broken (posterized) except the lossless one, which was (obviously) perfect.
> Ceteris paribus non union shops are more long-term focused and trend towards better long-term outcomes.

Do you have any source for this? It seems hard to believe but I haven't been able to find any studies yet. The best I've found so far says unionization has no impact on business survival: https://www.princeton.edu/~davidlee/wp/unionbf.pdf.

I'm also skeptical that you could really study this effectively, since non-unionized employees tend to benefit when unions are formed elsewhere in their industry. You'd need to compare a group of companies that unionized against a group of similar companies in the same time and place that didn't unionize and also were completely unaffected by the mass unionization of the first population.
I really envy your optimism, but no, filesystems at 2023 are fucked too, both on the host and the guest. Disks are still fucked in that they will tell you they saved your data, and still lose it due to some failure, or when they are full. The disk communication bus is a bit less fucked though, so that's improvement.

But anyway, you still can't rely on good behavior from your fsync, or even that a successful fsync means your data is safe.
And in Europe, being able to unionize is considered a human right, meaning companies aren't legally allowed to try to oppose it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
Repo description is "Sample telehealth app built on ZapEHR". :\

So... no, it's not a modern open-source EHR... it's just a telehealth App.
Issue one: someone else was employed professionally to develope those bindings for you. :)

Once that's done correctly and at a high quality, your life is easier.

Developing those bindings is another story. But PInvoke is one of the best development stories, I'm not dinging on it.
I'm 44.

Since '86, I've noticed that I've lost a 3 gray 2x1 full size bricks for the Castle, two bricks for one of the spaceships. Every single other model has all their bricks.

I despise the "planned obsolesce" bollocks some folks are hell bent on pushing into everything. I cheer on lego not to subscribe to it. I, and lots and lots of other brickheads would probably abandon them in an instant if they did.
For anyone interested in visual programming, I would recommend having a look at Flow Based Programming[0] better known for being the inspiration for Unix pipes, which in turn were name giver for pipes in yahoo pipes.

[0]=https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/
> they get paid all the same

I haven't looked at a McDonalds franchise contract, but every QSR franchise contract I've seen requires the franchisee to pay the brand a percentage of each location's gross sales.

Broken ice cream machine = less gross sales. Less gross sales = less money going to the brand.

It's also not great for customer satisfaction.
I'm wondering what interesting things you can do with the flipper zero beside shutting off phones and TV ?
Though sovereignty and final power flows from the Council.

Compare with the US system where sovereignty comes from the US as a whole and is delegated down to the States.