skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Little kids learn language and fully developed world models on a tiny amount of data compared to the massive hoards we shovel into our training systems.

They don’t learn language in isolation. I doubt a human brain in a jar that was feed only literature would learn very well, if at all.
If these individuals were in the US I would bet dollars to donuts Rumble would have banned them if asked by a US law enforcement or regulatory agency rather than cut off access to the US.
Perhaps sufficient dread amounts to worship. I'm reminded of Roko's basilisk, which seems to have genuinely disturbed some people who considered the idea, just as a philosophical proposition. Pascal's wager is perhaps applicable to the situation, too.
As I was reading this, I was mentally preparing my reply to call BS on your story, as no instructor would do this on your first lesson.

Glad to see the twist at the end - great story!
The real problem is the missing middle. Reasonable quality at a reasonable price. Its gone for most things now.
a free and open internet.
The frequentist ranting was concentrated around a century ago +/- one lifetime, and they called the enemy "inverse probability" (when being polite).
> It's not like PL/I didn't allow for similar flaws, so "Worse is better" is neither here nor there.

PL/I is one of the reasons that Multics was not plagued by buffer overflows:

"The net result is that a PL/I programmer would have to work very hard to program a buffer overflow error, while a C programmer has to work very hard to avoid programming a buffer overflow error." [1]

[1] P. Karger, R. Schell, "Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation"
Yes, the 2nd edition (silver cover) is the best. The 'meat' in the 2nd edition, at least it seemed to me more practical stuff. The 'bad circuits' alone is awesome.

OTOH, the "X Chapters" of the 3rd edition is one of those analog-guru secret handshake books where The Masters take the Apprentice deep into the bowels of kick-butt analog engineering. Where simplification are eschewed for the Real Answers. https://x.artofelectronics.net/
> it's also how foreign real-estate investments work in the Philippines

Strange - here in Lapu-Lapu, a too-nasty salesperson has convinced me (a foreigner) to enter a contract to buy a not-yet-built condo unit. I just pay a certain amount every month using my bank account, they get the money, and on an agreed-upon date, the unit will be mine. I can go at any time and watch how the construction work proceeds. So far, their proposed date looks like a reasonable expectation of when the unit will be ready.

In other words, it's the same process as in my former home country.
Cities have plenty of problems, but by and large they are not a particular danger to children.

I generally feel significantly safer in cities with relatively walkable sidewalks, relatively narrow streets, and lots of pedestrian/bike traffic than I do in typical American suburbs full of strip malls and 6-lane roads. The latter are in my opinion horrendous places to raise children.
Maybe instead of shouting at each other, and deliberately string up everyone, people should all calm down?

I know it hard to feel calm when things like are happening, and everyone wants to blame someone else, but there’s a whole lot of shared responsibility in what’s happening right now.

I care about what’s happening to folk in Palestine a lot, but I also care about the Jews in Israel and what happens to them.

Those are not mutually exclusive things…
> The phrase, which in Arabic isn’t “from the river to the sea” but rather translates to “from the water to the water”

Full chant is:

من الميه للميه – فلسطين عربيه

(Min al-mayya lil-mayya, Filasteen Arrabiya)

"From the Water to the Water, Palestine is Arab."
They’ll have explicit knowledge (what the takeoff speed is and where the speed dial is), but probably lack tacit knowledge (what that speed feels like, or what ground effect feels like). Acquiring a PPL in the fewest hours isn’t necessarily the best metric if it means they’re finding shortcuts with their explicit knowledge.
this is a paid thing but doesn't tell you upfront :(
I read the article, looked at the images and ready the comments. I have no idea what any of this is about. These all seem perfectly normal to me.

I wonder if some people are more (or less) sensitive to such things. I absolutely would need a side by side to understand what's even being discussed.
I'm impressed with the pricing of $19 early access / $39 final version.

I'm used to high-value books for professionals either being completely free,[1] or starting at $100. [2][3] It seems like a good compromise at that price.

[1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html

[2] https://www.refactoringui.com/#get-refactoring-ui

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262048434
It's a natural right because you have exclusive access to your vocal cords. If someone has hooked up your vocal cords to some sort of control device without your consent, then that's a criminal act. What recourse do those who want to suppress speech have other than illegal violence or further speech?
Ah yes, the brofounders.

To be a _good_ founder you should also be capable of starting a tractor dealership in Iowa or taking over an accounting firm in Dallas. You have leadership, entrepreneurship, and decision making skills.

Silicon Valley has enough tide to lift all boats that mediocre people like you describe can still have a chance at success and being heralded as mold breaking visionaries.
The Renaissance changed beauty standards
In my climate the problem is air being too dry inside during winter.

Outside air is normal humidity 50-80% RH at -10C. Inside it will be 20% and way too dry.

Ventilation, heat recovery and moisture recovery would be ideal.

During summer we rarely cook with and AC and windows are open most of the time.
It can be solved by putting in an absolute date. I still don't understand what kind of problem relative dates solved.
Brands are obviously differentiated. But not by their software tweaks. That was my point.
Nurses don't have proprietary information about the human body at
large, but they have proprietary knowledge of the hospitals computer and administrative systems. If you think you own your employees, it's easy to see why they'd want nurses to be subject to non-competes as well.
To expand on this - I went into my first AI class in college thinking it'd be amazing. I left with a very bland taste, having solved n-queens a bunch of different ways and written genetic algorithms to "evolve" images.

I read Kurzweil before this. I had thought we were decades away from digital immortality. Taking the AI course and algorithm analysis was quite disappointing. Reality set in. Things are harder than we hand wave away.

I then started taking bio, read papers on neuroscientists decoding visual signals from mammalian LGN, and went deep down the biology rabbit hole. That only further convinced me that Kurzweil was wishfully wrong. Here are systems more complex than anything previously described to me in my entire life.

But now we're confronted with a pace of innovation that is frankly quite humbling. Things I had written off no longer seem impossible.

I'm intensely excited for the future.
> they got ¾ of the way through February, got bored, and decided to do something else for a month and come back later.

I'm often the same way. After Presidents Day (US) I want to skip ahead to spring.
Privacy is a right. Why do I need random people scrutinizing everything I do?
I’ve never lived in SF proper but, while visiting, twin peaks always seemed like it would feel isolating to live in. Is it possible to walk anywhere from there (in a “daily convenience” kind of way, not an “urban hiking” kind of way).
Not really. They are basing it on extrapolation of our understanding of humans, not some abstract "non-living systems"; specifically, our present understanding is that as people age (past say forty or so) their chance of dying steadily rises and their chance of producing offspring falls. While this may be overcome with new technology (the same thing that borked the Club of Rome's forecasts), absent any change in the basic facts of human biology the population collapse is inevitable.

(For similar reasons, countries that have favored having sons over daughters are in an even worse bind; excess males simply don't increase your rate of child production).
I assume that quote is probably talking more about the society itself; the people in it and how they treat/trash their city and each other, and less about the specific objects in the public space.
Yep, just this year they announced a whole lot of money for quantum networking, and I'm sure the rest of quantum computing gets even more.
Oh yeah. CA, TX are toast.
Ranked choice isn’t that complicated, but anyway, Australia has a reverse poll tax (they fine you for not showing up, but you can turn in a blank ballot for free).

Apparently <crude drawing of penis> is a perennially competitive write in candidate.

It still seems better than the US system (especially vs. here in California, where we have a one party system, and primaries are often uncontestable).
Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Tree Lecture – Dancing Cells (2023) [video]
> The distribution of your point estimate (frequentist) vs. the estimated distribution (bayesian)

Ideally one should use the whole posterior distribution of your model parameters which is not the case for point estimates.

>So far I've never seen

Because people are lazy.

Bayesian works great if you have great knowledge in your field and you can fine tune everything. Frequentist stats just works and easily interpretable but easy to make mistakes esp. when starting out.
> There's absolutely no way I'm doing that to my family.

Do what?
Oct 23 is old :)
Same in the US, but then one product does it per oz, and the other one per lbs.

Or when I lived in Belgium it was per 100ml, or per liter, or per 100 grams which aren't necessarily the same.
Democracies are more than what is popular at the moment. In the US we have a constitution which lays out and defines how the government runs, what people's rights are, etc. There are also less formalized but important norms like the peaceful transfer of power between elected officials. Moderates disagree with each other but ultimately respect and steward these core elements.

People who seek office with the intention of doing unconstitutional things are extremists. People who want civil war are extremists.
Show HN: Hacking the commit contribution grid on github.com
Hi HN.

This repository enables you to write short words in the front of your github profile. It's quite simple, it uses dated commits instead of x/y coordinates, allowing you to draw on the commit attribution as though it was a grid.

Nothing more than a quick holiday hack, hope you enjoy.

Feel free to see it in action here: https://github.com/Ascendzor
Reporting from India here. No DST ever. I still know what DST is and how it works, but I've never had to change clocks due to DST.
I got early access a few months back, felt like it was 50% furry content.

Not that I have any problems with furries, each to their own - rather it's just seemingly pretty niche for a newcomer to get flooded with posts about - perhaps that really was all the content there was.
At least in NY (and probably true of state/local politics in general) this is not necessarily true. These third parties often will choose a D or R that align with their policy goals. It helps candidates in that their name is on the ballot more (either multiple rows or listing the parties that they are the nominee of)
> Nor will I ever move to SF, no matter how lucrative the offer.

You have never lived there, if I understand correctly. Why wouldn't you move there? Is there some experience you have with it? Housing prices? Internet rumors?
"this simple Perl script"
It’s pretty sad that so many candidates should obviously be disqualified for sedition these days, and also that the law isn’t being enforced against them.
I’ve wondered the same about flying drones. I ruined a drone once so then I spent a lot of time trying to learn on the DRS app but it feels almost impossible. Is that a realistic simulator?
Perhaps you should think about Jews who are in Israel who are not involved with ethnic cleansing? Do you think the Palestinians will make a distinction or would even have a way of knowing who was in support of such policies?
HRW has a reputation for being biased against Israel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Wa... . Regardless of whether that's true, it could explain why pro-Israel folks wouldn't want to engage with them.
"While initially the work will be converting from classical to optoelectronic hardware for matching current operations, such as MIT's work this year,"

I'm pretty sure you're talking about mean Dirk Englund's photonic matrix multiplication. Also, you should do better at explaining what you mean, because if I wasn't already very familiar with this I would have no clue what you're talking about.
Men in their prime working age are leaving the labor force [video]
Kids get full motion video,
sound, smell, taste, and touch, not to mention to other less known senses. How that compares to all digitized human knowledge
literature, I don't know, but given that we don't have a wide standard for eg smell, I'd hesitate to call their datasets tiny.
I know we all like big numbers but

>said to have read speeds of up to 100 MB a second and write speeds of up to 90 MB a second

is useless to say, especially when write caches exist. I only care about minimum speeds, short of in depth analysis. The card is V30, which guarantees 30MB/s write.
You’re missing the key point expressed as exchanging theological conflict for political conflict through nationalism. Humans are a predator species and that doesn’t change.

To wit: “ Hume and his acolytes had not counted on the translation of superstition and intolerance from religion into politics. Just as soon as people stopped being willing to kill and die for their religion, they started killing and dying for their country.”
I’m so disappointed about this.
Read comments on videos, something is not adding up.

Shorter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDokADZfvwc

60 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brw-jN9b-Sg
"We are aware that a limited number of Blazer EV owners have experienced some software quality issues" - standard PR BS claiming it is limited when you have multiple testers of the vehicle having issues.
Then you're not talking to enough people and watching too much mainstream media, which gets off on the lawless hellhole angle because it gets them views and thus ad dollars.
My preference is 100 characters. I find it usually takes up half the screen, allowing split screen editing (on modern screen sizes).

But while on the subject, I can't help bringing up the QEMU coding style[0]:

> Some people like to tile their 24” screens with a 6x4 matrix of 80x24 xterms and use vi in all of them. The best way to punish them is to let them keep doing it.

[0]: https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/devel/style.html#line-wi...
I'm not a researcher here, but I'm pretty sure Bayesian neural networks are realizable with quantum computers, which is a substantial "quantum advantage".
> TTL doesn’t say anything about eviction among objects that are still live, no?

TTL IS eviction policy. You just store a timestamp along the value. When you access it, you check the timestamp and if it is stale, you delete it and return not found error(or whatever not found should return). And you have a simple bg worker that scans the cache periodically and deletes these stale entries to free up the memory.

This is the basis for all caches. You can add cost on top of this as yet another eviction policy but that only adds another worker to scan the cache for items to purge and you have to store the cost along with the entry so you are increasing the each entry by at least 4 bytes, if we're talking uint32. Not to mention that for this eviction policy, you need sorted cache because you need to know where the cut off for cost is.

Walking the entire cache to purge expired TTL entries is one thing, but keeping ordered cache is a whole another thing.
PPL/IFR here. I had a really hard time using MSFS for the first time, mostly because the trim felt so wrong!

In primary training we’re continually taught to pitch and then use trim to remove tension, but with consumer sim gear this isn’t possible. Maddening!
Without a global government or geopolitically stable world, there's no way to unwind it. All countries have different resources and needs and views, so nobody will disarm. Only MAD.

I'd like to double down on my previous statement: if cryptography becomes impossible due to some fundamental property of the universe, then there's nothing to be done. We're where we are today because of a fluke, and that's it. Once the dam bursts, it's over.

Maybe that happens, maybe that doesn't. Maybe there's something else we can base our secrets on.
I think you both have fallen for the bullshit marketing of storage manufacturers who want you to think you're getting 16 terabits of capacity. You're not. You get 16,000,000,000,000 bits.
Porsche Taycan recalled over high-voltage battery fire concerns, faulty cables
"peacefully"

House to house, Arab mobs went, bursting into every room looking for hiding Jews. Religious books and scrolls were burned or torn to shreds. The defenseless Jews were variously beheaded, castrated, their breasts and fingers sliced off, and in some cases their eyes plucked from their sockets. Infant or adult, man or woman—it mattered not.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/134601
Apple says you are supposed to set a second PIN under screen time to prevent Account Changes.
I didn't say anything about bay area homelessness, in fact the comment you're responding to was specifically about NYC, which I mentioned I lived in for 4 years. Also, no offense, but I'm willing to bet you haven't spent much time in Florida, if at all. Culturally, about half of my social circle is made up of Venezuelan refugees, all of whom love living here.
2019: The rent is too high, SF is a bubble.

2023: The rent isn’t going up, SF is dying.

What if, maybe, SF actually has found a period of relative price stability as a very expensive place but no longer the most expensive place.

Seems like a totally reasonable situation to me.

(Bias warning: I rented in SF for 7+ years, just bought in SF, so my normal is SF normal)
> the jews lived peacefully in Palestine for centuries alongside christians and muslims before colonization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1517_Hebron_attacks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Ottoman...

There were periods of peace, but they were also second class citizens and occasionally the victims of massacres.
Supporting standard SMTP and IMAP lets you access the whole universe of mail servers, from Yahoo to Zoho to MXRoute.
There are a few distributed databases available now: PostgreSQL -> CockroachDB, MySQL -> TiDB or Vitess/Planetscale, DynamoDB -> ScyllaDB, so it sounds sensible to start with any of these, maybe even the hosted versions, then move to self hosted when necessary.
Does this apply to people who are weightlifting too though?
I've been using BlackHole on MacOS for the last few days. So far it's been great!
> But a new artist collective…

so it’s all ostensibly for the sake of art. and money, obviously money.

doesn’t sound like much of a cult. just a typical grift. well, ok, maybe a bit like a cult.
Oops, I mean tibibits.
New York's system is unique, though there are some other states where cross-endorsement is possible.
Not really. Maybe if you live in the bottom half right above the Castro district it's doable (but steep), but definitely not in the top half and definitely not if you're elderly or have any disability. I usually walked down and took an uber back up, back when the VCs were subsidizing the rides.

As awful as it is that's the trade off: if you can't conveniently walk up the hill, criminals and homeless people usually won't bother either.
Their methodology seems really flawed. They cherry picked a thousand instances of wrongly removed content, but how many posts do you think there are about the conflict on Facebook and Instagram? Tens of millions? They have no way of knowing how representative that sample is.
> it's a proprietary format. If Adobe goes bankrupt or obscure tomorrow, pdf will go out of use as a failed technology.

It's an ISO standard with a very large ecosystem outside Adobe. Many users and businesses I know don't use Adobe at all.
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IRB type completion comes as a result of a chain of events which starts from the incredible work done by Kevin Newton (et al) to write a new canonical Ruby parser called Prism in C99 with no dependencies [1].

With Prism, you can then create tool suites like syntax_tree [2], which then leads Prettier formatters [3], a new Ruby LSP [4], which unlocks a new Ruby LSP VS Code extension [5], not to mention a laundry list of other gems like Rubocop and of course Ruby itself that will benefit from a faster and more maintainable Ruby parser.

It's a beautiful illustration of the power of questioning conventions, going back to first principles to uncover better solutions to previously solved problems, whose new solutions create new capabilities which unlocks the ability to solve new problems.

[1]: https://github.com/ruby/prism
[2]: https://github.com/ruby-syntax-tree/syntax_tree
[3]: https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby
[4]: https://github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp
[5]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shopify....
I don't think this should be an issue... At least in the US, only law enforcement is authorized to use blue lights and they don't use them in this way. If you see lights that might be blue solidly lit around all edges of the car, it's self driving. If you see a flashing light that might be blue, it's police. If you see a solid light that might be blue, and is only on one side, or only in the middle, it's most likely police, but might be self driving with a lot of broken lights.
As a parent, the described schedules seem impractical. It would be possible to hold the 8-10pm schedule in my early twenties, and truth be told I did for bursts of time. But this doesn't sound tractable at a mass scale, when do kids get taken care of?
Well what do you want him to say? I think the interview is fine, what's wrong with talking about his feelings?

You call it "virtue signaling", usually that refers to signaling your support for a cause but not actually putting effort in to support the cause.

I don't think he did any signaling. He did what he could do, he put in a lot of effort to make a video about a wrong that he observed.

I don't see any reason to call it marketing, most of the claims in his video are verifiable.
No, the lender or the servicing company will regularly request the P&L and check up on business. Paying out of pocket does not mean the debt covenants are satisfied.
Possibly one of the most evil books ever written
Does the rent ever go down though? Landlords only raise it. I don't remember this ever happening. So I'd say some housing prices indeed never fall.