skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was (at one point) fairly conversational in French by US standards (was taking 300 level French conversation classes).

Did a fairly long trip in France, using as much French as I could. The speed of native French speakers meant comprehension was hard but manageable, and they seemed (almost intentionally at times), unable to make anything but what I would consider "travel French" work. I was fairly discouraged. I then met an Italian ski instructor who worked in France, and I could understand him quite well, and talked with him at a level (job, hobbies, family, reasons for travel) that I never achieved with a native speaker.

It was one of the most memorable moments of the trip and really gave me a feeling that we're all "citizens of the world" and not quite so divided by culture and lines on a map.
The key point is to expunge these old criminal records so no one could find them. Not the media, not a future employer.
And it's been established for literally decades, which is why it's been so amusing to me to watch the rise and very quick fall of this type of input.

If I recall correctly, there was some instance in the space industry of using some (Javascript-powered) touchscreens in the cockpit. Possibly from SpaceX? I'm sure that's a great idea too.
For sure it's not that simple, but the person I was responding to was at the stage of understanding that they were thinking PyTorch was better than CUDA. I'm trying to communicate to them, not someone with a more detailed understanding (I mean one of the top comments here thinks ML is "just matrix multiplies"...)

Tensorflow had first mover advantage but they also had first mover disadvantage. TF isn't that easy to write nor to debug. PyTorch got to see everything that was wrong with TF and fix it. No doubt Meta has put in lots of amazing effort. It is an incredible piece of software.

I'll also add that PyTorch does a lot of great stuff that people don't use or recognize. There are a lot of good distributional works out there for prob and stats people that give you cuda acceleration. Really a lot of numpy can be replaced with pytorch and its great. But be warned of FMA and other optimization differences.
Great article. Dunno if I'd call myself an Anglophile but I do get a kick out of uniquely British expressions like these.

The interwebs have taught me that Oi can often be followed with "you what, mate?!*

Also interesting and not mentioned among the other languages/"see also" sections - "Oyez!" and "¡Oye!"
I feel bad for you. I'm sorry to hear that. I appreciate your comment. I do have excellent eye sight and am of average height.

I've wondered if flying private would be any different. I don't "NEED" to work for AA.
> An inebriated person on the street has decided to accept that people will see them in a compromising situation.

Not necessarily. At the very least the person may have been drugged against their will - it happens, even if it's not the majority of cases. Then there are many grey situations like addicts who are homeless. Given the possibility, a share of these people would likely choose not to be homeless, not to be addicted, or to be neither.

Taking a photo or a video of a person in a vulnerable situation when they can't protect themselves is abusive and it is not OK, no matter what this person's behaviour was at that time. Your comment comes awfully close to blaming the victims.
Disney has put so much effort into building Mickey Mouse as a brand that I don't mind all the protections they get. Plus, he's more of an icon than a character, so he's more likely to be an already-allowed stand-in for commentary on Disney (a la South Park) than people telling new stories with him.
This hypothesis depends on the predator-prey system not yet having reached equilibrium. Animals are white in the snow because that makes them hard to see, not by coincidence. (Where snow isn't present year-round, the same animal will usually be white in the snow and brown in the summer!) If wolves benefit from being white in the visible spectrum, and their prey starts detecting them by ultraviolet light they reflect, they should respond by turning whatever the analogue of white is in the UV spectrum.

To explain the UV vision of some prey animals as an adaptation to the fact that their predators are otherwise difficult to see, you'd need an additional assumption along these lines:

1. UV vision is a recent development in the prey animal. Eventually the predator will develop UV camouflage, but this just hasn't happened yet.

2. UV camouflage is inherently difficult. (Might be true! This is the generally accepted theory for why insects, reptiles, and birds can be blue, but mammals can't -- mammals are more recent.) This is the same theory as (1), but allowing a longer timescale.

3. Detecting this predator is more important to this prey animal than ambushing this prey animal is to this predator. (For example, maybe reindeer are primarily threatened by polar bears, but polar bears mostly eat seals.)
I believe the solution was given by the great philosopher Pratchett*:

"Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."

- Terry Pratchett

(from Thief of Time - a remarkable book, IMO)

* / Wen the eternally surprised
> About 98% of intelligence-affecting alleles are in non-protein-coding regions. The remaining 2% of variants are in protein-coding regions and are probably not safe to target with current editing tools due to the risk of frameshift mutations.

Non-coding variants may not be safe to modify either.

Genes likely function as partially overlapping sets
with varying effects in different environments. That's why even monogenic disease causing variants have different levels of penetrance, age of onset, etc...

I think we'll need a lot of individual and population level research done in animals and humans before we can safely and effectively modify sets of variants to achieve certain outcome/s.
I am still going to go through the motions and earn my hours, criminal history be damned. I was under .15 at the time, which as I understand it, helps me significantly.

Also looking at helicopter/flight medic but for now I am starting back to school in January to finish my AAS in Cybersecurity followed by BS in CS.
For seriously private events, security confiscate the phone and/or beat the perpetrator until they delete photos.

Talking about the photographers “rights” is an academic exercise. I’m not saying the reality is moral, I’m just explaining the reality as opposed to then ideal.
> "mass surveillance" this is not

How so? I'm imagining they're intending to detain and investigate indiscriminately every woman of child-bearing age in the airport and on flights that recently boarded. That seems to meet the definition to me.
Not possible for any crime that is reported on by media, surely.
> Have planes equipped with remote control that can override pilots in extreme situations.

Given the baseline security of these sorts of systems, this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code
Me too! It's like something from a Philip K. Dick novel.
Right. Expunged to the point where you could say "No I have never-" on a government form without that being considered a lie.

I looked into getting my record cleaned up/sealed with my attorney and it all just sounded very... expensive.
I listened to the original talk. How about making a Kick ass programming language instead of blaming companies with large budgets?
You don’t seem to be bothered by the ramifications of this. Really short sighted thinking.
I’ve been reading about negligence around controls of this process for over 15 years.

If folks don’t know already they should realize that section 702 was only passed after it became public that this surveillance was already happening with questionable legal authority.
Great example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
I can’t believe the reveal that FBI used section 702 to target January 6 participants wasn’t enough to get at least one faction in the House to vote against reauthorizing the bill last week. (I will play any card I can if it gets warrantless spying stopped.)

I guess Big Brother trumps petty partisanship concerns.

NYT had an article a few months ago (I submitted it here) attacking Republicans for turning against the FBI and saying this would put an end to sedition 702. Guess that was them panicking over nothing.
"I don’t have a formal background in biology." Neither do I but I can tell this article is ignorant and ideologically misguided. Pretty much every section is chock full of dumb stuff to object to. but the overall hubris is outstanding. Especially considering he almost certainly used GPT-4 to fill in details about genetics and neuroscience he doesn't actually understand.

I am genuinely amazed that there's an entire "Why hasn’t someone already done this?" section that doesn't mention "nobody has a single clue how a nematode's brain works and that's only 150 neurons, so perhaps we should be more modest about what we can do with a human brain." More generally, the entire argument falls apart completely if you understand that intelligence isn't even understood well-enough to be defined scientifically, let alone manipulated genetically in a specific species...let alone manipulated genetically in a primate...let alone genetically manipulated in the fanciest primate! Why would you write this article without even mentioning simple invertebrates?

I know I am being mean, but this stuff is embarrassingly stupid. It's not just tech, but certain tech/tech-adjacent people think their ideologies around intelligence are the same thing as scientific facts about intelligence.
Drug addicts are not drugged against their will. In fact they are drugged due to their will.

Homeless people may be victims of outside forces and we should support these people unconditionally. Some homeless are victims of their own bad decisions based on wrong beliefs and should be supported too, but let’s stop pretending they are being forced to take drugs.
> Reducing the length of existing copyright terms might be considered an ex post facto law. Those are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution.

No, that is definitely not an ex post facto law. That's not even close to what the ex post facto law clause covers (dealing with punishments for actions that were kosher at the time they took place).

There is an argument that shortening copyrights is prohibited by the takings clause. But I think there is a very good argument that shortening them isn't prohibited by the takings clause (for the same public-private interest balance reason that led to the first amendment arguments in Eldred v. Ashcroft and Golan v. Holder failing).
Or even stronger

#![forbid(unsafe_code)]

Then it can't be `#[allow()]`ed.

There's also things like `cargo gieger` that will tell you how much unsafe code your dependencies have.
Egypt Air flight 990

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
For what it's worth, I'm only an enthusiast but would be surprised to hear either of those are significant issues, unless you're saying that your corrected eyesight is also poor.
A good PM might not be that technically knowledgeable at all.

If they're at least very detail-oriented and can effectively lead sprint planning or whatever the equivalent is at your org, much chaos and indecision can be avoided.

They get bonus points if they're good at shielding dev teams from office politics and committing everyone to a firm schedule free of sloppy requirements or loose due dates.
We’ve had VCs who have literally ran out of money before they could invest, even when w round came together. They end up investing in lots of crappy startups and convincing themselves it’s the best thing since sliced bread. A lot of smaller VC is just about networking your way into the bigger deals and syndicates while you raise money from LPs, rather than sourcing new diamonds in the rough. The startup “orbiters” are just there to show that you’re not a nobody, while you go to different events and try to get into in the same deal as the big boys.
I’m curious how these aspects are not considered discriminatory - eyesight is commonly fixed by glasses and height is fixed by not squeezing every last dollar out of floorspace - which I would compare to wheelchair accessible buildings (acknowledging the latter is typically more restrictive due to scale).

I’m not trying to go woke here, there are disabilities that prevent performing certain tasks such as flying (total blindness or colour blindness) but there are others which are easily worked around.
I really do want to see AMD kick ass. But

1) the user above me thinks ML is just matrix multiplies, which it is far from that.

2) It's more than hardware, and one team has (huge) momentum

3) You can have better tech and not win. It actually happens relatively frequently.

There may be nothing better for the ML space than AMD being a meaningful competitor. It will give all of us better tools. It'll make AMD better and it'll even make Nvidia better, because (healthy) competition is good for everyone. But let's not be naive in thinking it is just hardware and that one example is enough. It's a good sign, but a Tesla driving on the highway in nominal conditions isn't even close to fully self driving. It's still a year away as it's been for a decade.

So I do hope this ages poorly. But I'm not holding my breath because as AMD succeeding is one of the best things for ML, hype is the absolute worst and there's way too fucking much of it. And it it takes 5+ years to age, well I wouldn't say it aged poorly.
Just like the article, the ship of Theseus changes in its constituency but not in its identity. Am I a different person because almost none of my cells at the time of my birth remain in me? Of course not. And the wiki article is the same article.

Whether something can be identified as a specific thing is a matter of social convention. A transformation of something is not a new thing but exactly the former: a transormation, but still that same thing. When does it become something new? Never. For it to be a different ship, it needs to be deconstructed first fully.

But what if you reconstruct it so that it is identical to the former ship? It's still a new ship because identity is defined at the time of construction, independent of relative comparisons. Similar to how your complete identical clone would be a different person.
I recently moved over to StoryGraph. There are a few much better competitors at this point.
Thanks! Yep, there are full docs at https://frogtab.com/help
How can I use this on Windows?
There's a good overview here of the evidence, from a pilot.

https://youtu.be/MhkTo9Rk6_4?si=dOiHmbQi2CGleyc_

The big thing that made me believe it is the captain had the same route on his simulator at home and deleted it.
In this case the state takes a constant amount of space so it is just a matter of allocating a single struct.

With the approach of having the caller allocate you have carefully design the API to make it possible.
> be so large we don't realize we are a part of it

While these are valid and interesting ideas from science fiction, I personally doubt that there's some fundamental property about human life that we haven't noticed yet, like some fundamental connection to other matter.

Simply because there's no evidence that our primitive understanding about what is life, has fundamentally changed in history. I guess a few thousand years ago people understood that we, plants and animals are alive and rocks are not and we still think the same. (nature religions aside)

So if there was no shift in understanding for such a long time, why should we now realize we are part of something a part from an eco system?
Awesome! If there is any problem just post it in GitHub issues. We will also be releasing 2023.4 very soon.
I’m not assuming there’s no agency. I’m saying that they are operating in a compromised state.

As a former addict, you should know well the steep hill to climb to exert any kind of control. My point is that people get stuck in very unfortunate situations, often for reasons more complex than any of us can understand. Addiction is not something to ridicule, and compassion seems the most ideal baseline.

And I appreciate your personal perspective on this, but don’t think it confers much to the appropriateness of recording other people who don’t share your views.
Had a go at translating the first generator into Lil[0]. Not quite as terse as the Perl version, but not terrible:

on b x do list random[extract list value by floor index/2 from x] end
on w do list b["cococacamamadebapabohamolaburatamihopodito"],
b["estsnslldsckregspsstedbsnelengkemsattewsntarshnknd"] end
on l do "\n\n %s %s %s" format w[],b["attoonnoof"],w[] end
sys.seed:sys.now
print["the %s%s" w[] l@range 1+random[9]]

Selecting bigrams is rather awkward, and I have to explicitly seed the random number generator, as it is deterministic by default.

[0] https://beyondloom.com/tools/trylil.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/surveillance-showdown-...

There is still hope for reform.
MAMMA was the nastiest
If its online newspapers then in EU we have the "right to be forgotten" which helps with those articles to be removed from search engines.
Yes. They have every reason to want it. The more raw material isn't covered by copyright, the more they can feed into anything.

And that's not even counting the relevance of organizations like the Internet Archive, which was not nearly as meaningful in 1998.

> The public domain and copyright expiry is one more set of requirements for SV code to have to implement and support. It's way easier if the owner stays for ever, and that there is a single owner

And this makes no sense. Applications are not required to recognize public domain content and make it unrestricted when copyright expires. Having it remain under ownership forever doesn't make anything easier. And, in fact, copyrights having a single, simple owner is just... not the case. So to whatever extent there is a need to keep track of owners, copyright expiration only makes things easier (because if a work is in the public domain, you can no longer screw it up).
> the doctors at Lufthansa’s aeromedical center denied his application on account of his ongoing major depression and medication thereof

>the only solution was to ease off the medication

> With help from his psychiatrist, Lubitz was eventually able to end treatment, and in July 2009 he was declared fully recovered.

> After applying again, the Lufthansa aeromedical center decided to issue him a new medical certificate, but with strings attached: if he ever again suffered from depression, the document said, the certificate would immediately become invalid.

Amazing. They basically got a severely depressed patient off his medication and told him they would ruin his childhood dream of flying should he ever suffer and seek treatment again. And then allowed him to fly a plane.
Now that is the kind of "modern problems require modern solutions" thinking I like to see!

Kudos - excellent examination of implications / change of perspective / viewing from another angle.

The kind of thinking that, more seriously, really can be essential in developing insight(s) etc. ... and, finding (proofs by) contradiction(s) etc.
I don't disagree with you, I've seen the same (a lot) but you can still go to another company that prioritizes quality a little more.

Definitely can take a while to find one though, that much is true.
The famous Germanwings murder-suicide had some of this in play -- the pilot's doctor had given him a letter excusing him from work, due to a probable psychotic episode, but the pilot chose not to share the letter with the airline and the doctor was forbidden by law from sharing it.
I seem to have missed the joke. :/
This is the Early Buddhist position.
That's a very different motivation, though. Any other reason lets you centralize your backup power. And even then, "no major manufacturers".
When the core compiler infrastructure generalizes more of the GPU support bits, it means you can pay less for hardware because the software stack is less coupled with one vendor’s hardware.
Umm, C looks like nice language...

Then maybe that so-so-problematic stringZ are too just bad convention ? Maybe put some intern to try other implementation ? ;)
Isn’t this just asscovering? If someone with a documented mental health condition crashes a plane, blame goes to all parties who know of the pilots status.

If you don’t have that information in the first place it’s ‘tragic’ and ‘unavoidable’.

Maybe it’s time we as a society start understanding risk, because while the information will certainly be ‘in-your-face’ in the event of such an incident, the rate of incidents in total would go down.
> No despot on Earth has managed to stamp it out, unlike countless other languages.

Any evidence of a language being stamped out by a despot?

> You can say things like lingua franca and everyone knows what you’re talking about.

Considering that the phrase is Latin, I am not sure what your point is.

> There aren’t any pronouns that depend on social status.

And many other quirks that are as alien to a native Japanese speaker than this is to you, however.

> It’s got a phonetic alphabet

What? Are we still talking about English here? FFS.

> It’s just a natural choice for commerce and knowledge-sharing.

It’s really not. Like all languages that ended up in similar situation (e.g. French, Arabic, Mandarin, or Latin), it is a combination of good old fashioned imperialism and commercial links.
Suddenly I love Estonia. In North America punishment lasts until on dies.
Some of my favorites: https://youtu.be/JhmdEq3JhoY

> "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking 'bout new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

> "It was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship"

> "Who could have possibly considered an erection in Iraq at this point in history?"

> "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
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That really depends on what does QA entail at these companies. If it's just increasing test coverage and adding integration tests then yes, devs should be doing it.

If it's just clicking UIs all day long then obviously a QA should do it. Or have an UAT environment where a few more enthusiastic customers are willing to test and report bugs.
The internet never forgets though. You'd have quite a job deleting all the old reports in the media.
"When you write about people who actually lived, the question of the right distance – not only in terms of time – is constantly on your mind"

Is it too soon?
In many airplanes, there are legitimate restrictions on how tall you can be as a pilot -- there simply isn't enough room up there for taller pilots to fit.

As for eyesight, I'd imagine it's for the case when the pilot loses/breaks/forgets their glasses. You don't want a pilot who suddenly can't see in midair.
Yes, momentum from a large metal object tends to run over squishy bags of meat, not the other way around.