skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Mesdames et Messieurs" is inclusive. You've heard that for as long as you can remember.

Oh so french was already "inclusive" then? LOL.

> The median "." for example "marié.e" is also inclusive

I don't care about "inclusivity", it's weasel word for intersectionalists. The "median ." isn't french language, it's unreadable when literred everywhere.

"l'écriture inclusive" is a canonical exemple of cultural vandalisme (and newspeak, absolutely nothing inclusive about that language, but intersectionality is first and foremost a war on language).
that's why JS/TS is to easy to hate: it's got a lot of surface area.
I guess I should be wiser than contradicting LeCun on a public forum, but his math doesn't really work out. It only works if there is a unique correct answer to any question, in which case e=1/dict_size which is clearly false - even humans can just put "Let me think..." in front of anything else and get logically "the same" answer; after how many such filler words do you deem it "wrong"? Even taking colloquial speech aside, in Math, there is apparently a book that collects 367 different proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem; that tree of correct answers is certainly quite complicated. You can't approximate it with a fixed probability and take the exponential - the number of possibly correct next tokens varies very strongly depending on the previous string.

LLMs and autoregression are very good at avoiding the 99.999[...]% of the strings that are simple gibberish. If you were to generate a string made of 20 random tokens from GPT2 tokenizer, you would get something like:

"automakersGrand carries liberties Occupations ongoingOULDessing heartbeat Pillar intrigued Trotskymediatelyearable founding examinations lavAg redesign folds"

and of course any half decent language model does much better than that. If the "paths to truth" were as unlikely as LeCun puts it there would be no hope.

A non-autoregressive model would certainly be "better" because it would be faster, which is where language models started from (BERT & co.), it just doesn't seem to work as well... similarly to how a human sometimes needs to write something down and only realizes the correct answer to a complicated question on the go.

If anything, we'd need to allow LLMs to realize mistakes and correct themselves out of them, i.e. making the generation non-linear. If you ask GPT4 something complicated (like math) it's not rare at all that it logically contradicts itself in their answers. I would be surprised if, somewhere deep in the model, it doesn't "realize" this, but it can't fix it, so it falls back to what humans do at an exam or interview that started badly: try to bullshit their way out of the thing, sweeping the inconsistency under the carpet, unless you explicitly point it to them (and often even after that, both GPT4 and humans).

P.S. Mathematician rant: who on Earth calls a probability "e"??
A tiny library for coding with large language models
https://srush-minichain.hf.space/
Porn company makes millions, shaming porn consumers into settling lawsuits
It's categorized as a "Children's Game" on Board Game Geek [1]. BGA is probably just using the same categories.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/624/quoridor
> even if you own a car really.

True.

I am lucky enough to live in a european city with very decent public transport, so for the 2 times a year I actually need a car or a transporter I just rent it. I don't need to think about my car, where it is parked, what it needs in terms of maintenance, etc. I see this as a value that easily outweighs the benefits of having a car.

But that choice is easier if you live somewhere where you can both get everywhere using subways, busses, light trains and hop on a night train and wake up in the capital of a different country. I guess you have to experience this before you realize that a life without car is truly possible, when you shape your world in the right way.
Excellent. Good luck!
Well, maybe he was an asshole, but in his defence articles are much less optional in French than in English, thus you don't expect it standalone. It basically becomes one word in your consciousness. A bit like if someone asks you for "ater". And when you finally understand, you feel really stupid, because yes ultimately it was just missing a useless article, but it just didn't click.
Research looks into how smart speakers could be used to detect domestic violence
> I agree, top-down linguistive prescriptivism is good when it means not catering to marginalised people

"marginalised" according to whom? The only thing that is marginalizing people trying to learn french here is text with .é.ée or so everywhere. That definitely excludes french language learners from reading french.

Anyway, that debate is over, back to intersectionalists attempting at another wave of newpseak nonsense.
How to deploy Strapi to a Digital Ocean droplet using Bitbucket pipelines
Germany Ends Electric Vehicle Subsidies Abruptly in Latest Blow to Tesla
> How do you trademark the exact shape of a Lego brick?

..and the hundreds of differently shaped bricks that come with it.
English famously has relatively complex verb conjugation. What we don't have are cases (only a few words decline). German has cases for example, but much simpler verb conjugation.
The first time I went to US, I was pretty confident in my English but natives didn't understand me. I could repeat the same, grammatically correct sentence 3 times and they still wouldn't get it.

Then I realized that in English (especially American English) you have to accentuate the right syllabus or they won't understand you. Say you're going to "mounTAIN view" instead of "MOUNtain view" and they have no idea what place you're talking about.
This reminds me of Hanna Arendt's 'Lying in Politics'

https://archive.is/tzY2v

"It is this fragility that makes deception so very easy up to a point, and so tempting. It never comes into a conflict with reason, because things could indeed have been as the liar maintains they were. Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear. He has prepared his story for public consumption with a careful eye to making it credible, whereas reality has the disconcerting habit of confronting us with the unexpected, for which we were not prepared."

As the saying goes, "All models are wrong, but some are useful".
I would like to add: "For different people for different reasons".
It is called taking your cake and eating it too, in terms of productivity, IDE tooling and library ecosystem, for the same reasons ML frameworks use Python with bindings to C++ libraries, instead of being 100% written in C++.
Soaring in general seems like a ripe opportunity for automation.

If someone makes software that can seek out and make use of lift (using various information sources), it could pave the way for very low-energy drones.

EDIT: Interesting.... seems there is something already that handles the "circling and staying in thermals" part.

https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/soaring.html

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08215 "ArduSoar: an Open-Source Thermalling Controller for Resource-Constrained Autopilots"
>> Your personal goal of "peace" is lower priority, and we (the world) may be willing to discuss it after the aforementioned higher-priority goal is achieved.

How gracious of you. Where did you (the world) had that meeting where you decided which goals are more important?

>> But I see no reason to reward terror-bombing of palestinian civilians, especially while the terror-bombing of palestinian civilians is still ongoing.

But indiscriminate bombing of Israeli cities is reasonable and kidnapping, raping, mutilating, torturing of Israeli civilians is fine? The moment Israel stops before Hamas is destroyed all that will immediately resume.

>> In order to answer your question, I'm first asking clarifying questions which you yourself are dodging. Your dodging of clarifying questions, combined with your history of short, combative posts, illustrates that you aren't interested in clarity, or an answer, or even honest discussion, but rather just to argue. Well, you can continue arguing with yourself, frothing with rage at the fact that the world rejects israel's shallow excuses for terror-bombing palestinian civilians and executing israeli civilian hostages found in gaza. I'll no longer be a party to your bad faith attacks and arguments.

Nice ad hominem and straw man building.
That movie ... seems messed up (but was a success, so more is coming). And the only other thing coming out I am aware of, is a Meme, leading to Winnie the Pooh being banned in china.
> annoyingly fake

a small correction here: ANNOYINGLY FAKE
tl;dr

Since September 2017, Strike 3 has filed more than 12,440 lawsuits in federal courts alleging that defendants infringed its copyrights by downloading its movies via BitTorrent.

These cases almost identical, varying largely by the identity of the defendant.

Also, they don't ever seem to reach trial. Typically, they are settled for what lawyers say are cash payments in the four or five figures or are dismissed outright.

That points to the question of whether Strike 3 is really serious about using the courts to fight online pirating of its product, or is merely exploiting a revenue stream.
> There’s no evidence that today’s human is cognitively more capable than their human ancestors. It’s a conflation of technology and transference of knowledge with intelligence.

That was their point. See here:

> We are extremely similar genetically to our ancestors of 100k years ago. The big difference is cultural inheritance. We come up with ideas and objects and pass them down.
Hmm. Even with WebGPU enabled in Firefox I get shader compilation errors and nothing on screen. Oh well.
I'm not surprised. I'm from Quebec. I am more comfortable speaking English with anyone than I am speaking French around French people. They just can't get over the accent, like I'm some sort of curiosity at the zoo. There are so many YouTube videos of French people mocking us. It's not curiosity but a distinctly French superiority complex.

My friends who learned French had similar struggles in France versus elsewhere.
You'd ideally need to understand the Leidenfrost effect.

And no, you don't want to set it to the max, that's a common mistake.
> which helps

Especially if you’re a corrupt politician, child abuser etc. it’s really helpful for that sort of people. Not so much for everyone else, but why would that ever be an issue?
WebGL[1] is a different spec to WebGPU.[2]

[1] https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/
I disagree with your caveat, it's a little wasteful (because it might only last a couple of years) but if you only have a nonstick frying pan you will be just fine. In fact it's better than overthinking it so much that you end up ordering another 20 takeaway meals instead of just cooking in what you have.
This is from Shopify from back in September (so not this RC release but still useful):

https://railsatscale.com/2023-09-18-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-runs-sho...
If you hang out on HN long enough, it's easy to fool yourself into thinking that you need VCs to fund your startup and there's no way your business will survive without it.

Very important to remember that when you go into fundraising mode, you are dedicating a bunch of time to doing this, and that the time you will spend doing it is time you will not spend building your product or focusing on your customers.

200k is pre-seed level. When I raised a 500k pre-seed for my latest startup, I explicitly avoided VCs (too much effort), went only to angels. Pitching to them taught me what I should focus on, and when I understood the potential of what I was building (and saw the enthusiasm to go with it), I cut the fundraise short at 100k: No more time to waste, I had to build.

Also worth mentioning that constraints are good. Having too much cash to build your MVP is like having no deadline. A fire under your ass (in the form of bootstrapping) can force you to be creative and focus on immediate revenue.
My aunt and uncle are ornithologists. They observe feral cats as often the number one threat to native species populations in some areas, and have been instrumental in efforts to remove feral cats from Gran Canaria and other islands.

https://brb.sprep.org/sites/default/files/2023-05/A_Review_o...
Here in Denmark criminal records becomes inaccessible to non-government actors 2-5 years after sentence served, depending on the severity of the crime, and 10 years for the government/public sector. In theory it's never wiped and keeps being accessible to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, so it may still affect your ability to get a security clearance.

There is the caveat though that names are allowed to be published in some cases of more severe crime, so in cases like murder an employer might still be able to find out about it with a google search.
Fusion-based computing FTW!
Didn't it all start with what France accuses Wagner to be doing?

Invasion of Ukraine happened maybe 50 years later than "evil plottrrs in movies" so only the former could cause the latter but not vice versa.
Some products embed a special base to make them compatible.
Smart EMF Shield Curtain for Windows and Balconies
First time install on a window, and after one night accumulating electricity thrown to my bedroom window, the measured value on the two entry capacitors is (2x) ~25mV !
More information about this open EMF project for better safety and better health can be found on the GitHub repository.
> There's not much mainstream demand for Sum 41 anymore.

Perhaps not for Sum 41. But how about Beatles? Elvis? Michael Jackson? Metallica?

I don't know if people will still be listening to Swift and Eilish in 50 years from now, but something tells me that Beatles, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, Sinatra, will echo for eons..
Lebanon has been firing into Israel for many years (including many civilian deaths and attack drones). UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) is ineffective in enforcing UN resolutions 425 and 426. Israel has made many, many complaints to the UN on the topic.

The problem is people seem to think UN has any meaning, it doesn't, it's just a hugh waste of money.
Also “Doin’ doin’” seems to be increasingly filling this role

For anyone interested, the Australian criminal/entertainer Spanian is an excellent look into contemporary “eshay” culture

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecAIXPb5KTJz5BFnUzlTaA
I think that rather than use this source as a way to highlight issues with a strict interpretation of the 4th-power law, you should have commented how your source says you should not use a strict interpretation of the 4th-power law.

For example, it highlights how the damage also depends on the road construction, with highways and major arterials built to a higher standard.

As a general rule, a fully-loaded 123 passenger bus is running on an arterial, not a residential street like someone driving their Hummer EV home does, so you can't compare the road damage simply by axle weight.

Your source even highlights how "it is possible for fewer, heavier buses to damage pavement less than more, lighter buses."

That's all part of larger cost/benefit analysis, like how building for a longer service life for the bus means using heavier parts, which increases the weight, or how running fewer, larger buses reduces emissions per passenger-mile.

The owner of the Hummer EV does a different cost/benefit analysis, with some of the costs born by the government and thus shared across the taxpayers. Without extra fees for heavier vehicle owners, they end up paying the same as light vehicle owners despite the higher negative impacts of their heavy vehicles.
I'm actually pretty fine with this, because they are pretty open about one point:

> We will exercise discretion when applying this rule. If you believe that your use-case for cryptocurrency or blockchain is not plagued by these social problems, you may ask for permission to host it on SourceHut, or appeal its removal, by contacting support.

First of all, it says that you can talk with a real human about this, second they are very open it.

When contrasted with a certain forge owned by Microsoft, which reaps my source code w/o my consent & regardless of its license to train a model which do not approve, Source Hut's stance is much more acceptable.

I'm fine with companies having opinions, and I love it when they're open about them instead of being faceless and do unpredictable things to benefit themselves.

And lastly, nobody forces you to work with a company you don't agree with. I don't work with GitHub anymore, and you're not preferring SourceHut. That's OK.
This is true in every touristic place, not just in France. Many people will get annoyed by tourists who don't even try to say "hello" or "thank you" in the country they're visiting. And they don't even make a majority but you'll more easily remember the one bad experience you had than all the good one.

However I don't think that it's common for French people to critized foreigner's French. On the contrary, they're very supportive of people trying to speak their language.

I'm sure you can find some people who would critize foreigners' bad French but probably not more than any other country.
Yes Parisians are dicks to other French people too - including Parisians.

It's not about Parisians ignoring foreigners because they don't speak the language, it's about Parisians ignoring people.
Recently stumbled on Uratsakidogi

https://youtu.be/QcyEZOLn1rw?si=ZFYJzR600IuY9qD5
If cars weren’t so ubiquitous otherwise in society, it would probably require several months of training to be licensed to drive a car in the workplace. And then you wouldn’t be allowed to drive faster than 15 mph except in special fenced in areas.
This is parody right? This has nothing to do with tesla
The vulnerabilities work by tricking the Bluetooth host state-machine into pairing with a fake keyboard without user-confirmation.
Ah, right, misread the table. I think the latency would be more relevant in this case.

Re Intel atomics, yes being fully fenced by default is annoying, but it kind of falls out of TSO: it would be strange if an RMW were to be more relaxed than normal stores, so, like all stores, it has to wait for prior stores to be flushed out from the store buffer before continuing, which is high latency. Normally the latency is not observable for stores, but an RMW necessarily cannot execute the load ahead of the store.

I haven't really found much documentation on them, but it is possible the far atomics might end up having these relaxed semantics (and I suspect most of the time they won't be implemented as actual far atomics). Do you have any more info on them than what's on the Intel docs?
I've recently left a job because of bad product management. The big issue I find is that often PMs are too far away from the product and spending all their time politicking and thinking about "strategy", so they have no idea how much work a particular feature is. I was leading a technical team in my last job working on industrial software, and I'd regularly have a PM come to me and tell me that there's been a contract signed for a new customer, and we have X piece of bespoke work as part of that contract due by usually ~1 month in the future. So you start asking questions, what does X mean, how do you want to resolve this problem, etc. etc. etc. and most of the time, the PM can't answer those questions, so you're stuck. And the deadline gets closer and closer, and then the customer isn't happy when it inevitably gets missed, and the pressure comes down on you as an engineer to make things work, and people get burnt out.

My view is that PMs should sit super super close to the team. There should never be a case where the software team is more knowledgeable about the product function than the PM, but in practice this is often the case.
> Where do you live?

The Netherlands

> When I was still living in the city we could talk outside at a slightly raised voice when walking or biking.

True for most parts of the city I live in too, but that's mostly because in most parts of the city there's either no cars or very slow cars or only one car within hearing distance at a time. As soon as you're walking along a busy road where the speed limit is 50km/h it starts getting loud.

It's quite possible there's some cultural influence here too. Dutch people don't tend to speak especially loudly when compared to e.g. Americans.
So newspapers will be afraid to report on things like that even when it clearly is in the in interest of the society for them to do that?

Criminal records don’t exist just to punish people and penalize them for the rest of their lives but also to inform other what those people are capable of. Expungement should only be possible for non-serious crimes and/or on a case by case basis
Indeed, games are one of the few areas where native mobile apps shine, and besides it isn't as if every single application needs to send notifications.

Plenty of CRUD stuff is quite doable as plain mobile Websites, specially those where the only difference between the mobile Website and the "native" app, is using the Web widget control instead of the browser.
According to a developer on the project, they were contracted by GitHub.[1] I would suspect that includes the ability to use some trademark properties.

1. https://github.com/remotion-dev/github-unwrapped-2022/issues...
"the possibilities are relatively open for varied application."

They are actually very limited, because a GPU does not work, like many cpus in parallel (how I initially assumed).

So you will be limited and restricted in everything you do, making every step painful.

The trick is to find the parts that can be offloaded to the GPU - and come calculated back at the right time.

Games are usually performance critical - and communicating between the GPU and CPU can induce lots of lags as the coordination is tricky and not really under your control.
Some background: in 2009 the debt brake [0] was enacted, limiting the budget deficit to 0.35% of the GDP. The current government tried to circumvent it (most economists seem to see the law as stupid, but that might well be my bubble), our constitutional court ruled the circumvention illegal, and now they had scramble and see how to make the budget work under those new constraints.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_brake_(Germany)
Unless you have a souped up engine/exhaust, most of the sound of a car comes from the tires rolling (at highway speed).
> I don't see how replacing the "it works on my machine" with "it works in this VM" is much better. It is the same problem

I do. I no longer need to pollute my machine with thousands of crappy dev packages that I need only to compile next special snowflake.
I like this. We tend to automatically assume the worst in these big high profile companies.
If you rule out mold and termites issues - used materials aren't bad.
There is absolutely no connection to Tesla.

The Subsidies were ended because parts of the federal 2023 budget were declared unconstitutional by the federal constitutional court and the government had to scrap parts of it.

That included the electric vehicle subsidy for all cars from all manufacturers.
I'll wager that this will hit the Germans harder than Tesla.
Quebec French is very different though. It's like Swiss German and German, the Swiss understand the Germans, but not the other way around.

It's not just the accent, it's the choice of words, the enunciation, everything.
https://archive.is/20231214141249/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
This is not specifically about Tesla. The government really didn’t want to, but there is something similar to the debt ceiling in Germany and they were trying to pass part of the budget by sidestepping this through a covid emergency fund that was repurposed. However the opposition launched a case at the constitutional court and they decided it was unconstitutional. So, now a lot of programs get canceled because there is no funding in the budget.