skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't our intuitive notion of "causes" come, in the end, from human-scale objects and agency?

Something happened because some being willed it. That's how pre-scientific people thought of everything. The "something" might be the god of wind or the sea, but it's never just "probability."
They were a wall: monsters couldn't occupy the same tile as a chest. Of course there was no such thing as pathfinding, monsters just made a beeline for you and got hung up on the first obstacle.
Zx: A tool for writing better scritps
Only if they knew the number I guess and could ping it and look what transmitter answered. After multiple pings you could probably narrow it down a lot from all the other transmitters. But then again, if they know your number there might just be some Google or Apple API responding with a GPS reading. E.g. Google stores most peoples position anyway in their Maps SaaS.

But with this every shady US authority can map each phone number to a location. I assume that the cell phone reports its number to a tower or at least some unique id?

I really hope "Linux phones" starts to become practical so we can opt-out of all these shenanigans. And I am not even on a Washington shit list.
> New research by Mastercard across 16 countries in North America and Europe revealed that 59% of people who identity as nonbinary say they feel unsafe while shopping

We should do what we can to make life easier for everyone, but we should stop encouraging and accommodating this “everything makes me feel unsafe” attitude. It harms everyone when we redefine safety to include awkwardness or very minor psychological discomfort.
Of course. And if machines become conscious (I don’t think we should ever build something like this even if we can), I’d be the first to advocate that we give them moral consideration.

Right now though, we should put humans, and animals for that matter, before anything else.
We aren't trying to prevent China from having <x> number of CUDA cores but we are trying to prevent an outcome with a fuzzy guess at what hardware specifications would prevent the outcome.

Continuing the traffic analogy: The goal is to prevent accidents. To do this you enact speed limits and then someone causes an accident while obeying the speed limit.

The goal is to not strengthen China's military. To do this you enact limits on GPU tensor cores and then China uses these to improve their military.

I think the solution might be to err on the side of extreme caution. I'd export only what is necessary for inference but retain the hardware to train models while also releasing free "Made in America" models to the world.
I think you should be more specific than "mobile". It looks fine on mobile for me. I'm using Firefox.
Welcome to the default mailman archive template

It’s sorta like a “theme” without the styles, or just the HTML part of a “framework”
>When Asher DiGiuseppe tried to make a purchase at his local Toronto liquor store, the clerk looked at him with suspicion and questioned his card, which was still printed with the name he had used before transitioning.

>[...] New research by Mastercard across 16 countries in North America and Europe revealed that 59% of people who identity as nonbinary say they feel unsafe while shopping, and 57% say they think it’s important that companies and organizations address them in a way that respects their identity.

Is this a serious issue? I don't think anyone ever checked the name on my credit card. Even when I was carded at a liquor store, they'd only check my government id, not the credit card itself. Also for online payments I don't think the "cardholder name" field is even checked, so you can put whatever you want. Therefore I'm not sure what the point of this is, other than trying to score some PR points.
Right but a lot of the reporting in the US isn't done to serve business interests. There is something else at play here.

Litigation and defamation is probably one aspect of the control.
Yep. This is a product in desperate need of a "Showcase" page showing off why it's valuable.
"Put your kids on the blockchain", as in setting them up with a wallet from early on so that it can be accessed later?
Oh. This one is easy.

ChatGPT a commercial software product that generates wealth for its owners, so allowing commercial products to steal and promote others' content on their own is an agreed-upon violation of rights.

Let's look at an example: Google doesn't get to index and show New York Times content directly in its search results.

If you think of ChatGPT more like Google maybe that will help you keep it straight.
I don’t really understand the appeal of this. Is it just to flash your cash by telling people you’ve paid for it while you’re still alive?
Is this statement just a feeling, or is this coming from a source?

I would bet that lots of very smart people have looked at the problem and thought it was viable if they’re moving forward. Also, the people in Iceland are very adept at geothermal (but maybe not this type).
YouTube is particularly janky on Firefox on Windows. For example the full screen transition on Firefox uses a fade to / from black screen animation to hide the sluggishness. You have to disable this in about:config to see the behind the scenes jankiness.

Edge and Chrome (on windows) are slower than Chromium / Firefox on Linux for me but still faster than Firefox on Windows.

On Linux Chrome is faster than Firefox, but barely. IPython notebooks render seamlessly when scrolled in Chrome but the rendering is laggy in Firefox.

Machine spec: AMD 5800X Ryzen, 64GB RAM, 1TB Samsung Evo NVME SSD, NVIDIA 1660 Ti GPU
From a fraud prevention mechanism, credit card name has also been a minor signal when composing any fingerprinting patterns.

Might as well ignore the whole signal, and more now that anonymous and prepaid are gaining share.
Meh, ffx is fundamentally an email client. I think it's not a great fit for an RSS reader. Eg in RSS you may want to browse posts with images and snippets, laid out in cards. Eg more like a social media site. Thunderbird lays everything as a list of emails. I'm sure this works for some but I think it's far too narrow in scope.
Yes how will people ever wrap their heads around it? Those poor stupid users…
I think this has a lot of potential for non-technical knowledge users.

At Google and Microsoft, files are available throughout the ecosystem. If I understand correctly, Nino makes the data within files available throughout the ecosystem. This is a fundamentally different workflow.

Google and Microsoft seem to have disparate teams working on their ecosystem. Their products work in a system, but not as a system. There's little to no integration past surface level connections.
I’ve been checked many many times. If not it would be very easy to commit fraud
If any of the above have relatives in the PRC that could be used as levers to coerce the student into spying for China, then that's reason to be wary.
Obligatory: we have had robot vacuum cleaners in homes for two decades now. They still can't clean floors properly except in the most minimalist houses, let alone clean windows, dust window-sills, water plants, or do any of the myriad other household tasks.
> I'm also not convinced why musl is specifically a selling point

Software does break in strange ways with musl. But the Linux community has come a long way over many years. musl based distributions are much more usable now than they every have been.

The advantage of musl is that it is very clean, easily understandable and has very little legacy cruft. The ability of peer into musl code and actually understand what is going on is very liberating.

Give it a bit more time. clang was very difficult to use at one time on Linux due to various incompatibilities and GNU extensions it did not support. Today clang has caught up and is better in a few respects than gcc e.g. its modular internal architecture based on LLVM.
The hubless electric motorcycle with sci-fi style and a great name
A pet peeve of mine is

> some spicy quote -- author

and when you go look, it is quoting something a character said in a story

an example [0]

> “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

But it is part of a speech in "Man and Superman," by the protagonist, John Tanner.

(although Shaw is known for expressing his views through his character, it's just one I could find)

[0] https://unearnedwisdom.com/the-reasonable-man-adapts-himself...
Sadly missing from the list -- anyone else's favorite keyboard?

Comfort Curve 3000

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Comfort-Curve-Keyboard-Busi...
What does this person do for fun/instead of all of these things? What is their vice?
One of my greatest hopes for near term AI is that individualized medicine and best health practices can be improved.

Take my actual genetic data, observe my current bloodwork, ask a series of informed questions to fill in the blank.

Then cross reference all of the studies and data that meet some basic criteria of efficacy and scientific proof and output, actual recommendations, and or answer questions to specialized symptoms.

it feels like that is something we could reasonably expect to work in our lifetimes, right?

Not asking AI to even do the science yet just help to individualize the current body of work.
Saying we have "too much CO2 in atmosphere" isn't evidence and historically there was much higher levels, and much more life.

And yes, there will be a delay as part of evolutionary process for when plants and wildlife can adapt - for plants that are better adapted or capable of adapting to hotter temperatures-different climate will adjust - so indeed at minimum reducing the pace at minimum can be useful; and deploying technologies to slow down the increase we have arguably bumped up at least a little bit [remember the distance that Earth to the sun we are is the biggest factor of temperatures, and where are we in that 1000s of year cycle at the moment?] will help, but we could also prepare to pollinate and manage new growth areas with plants/life we know can adapt; the US policy makers on the side of believing climate change is a life-or-death urgent consideration want to spend $40+ trillion "fighting" it - so getting simply helping the Earth adapt, which is what we should be doing because it's unknown exactly how much our changing CO2 levels will actually impact things, is a no-brainer to do regardless - to create more life, to maximize it; and I also believe Elon is correct that Earth can sustain another 10x the current human population - however that will require succeeding in battle against industrial complexes and authoritarian wannabes who're involved in regulatory capture.

"Alternative solution: we should stop buying from them so they will not generate that co2."

Absolutely a good strategy to stop rewarding that behaviour, if that's the best course of action to not destabilize the world too much - which may not be a good idea to potentially force the CCP-China's hand into highly aggressive or bad-harmful behaviour.

But do you think the inflationary policy, money borrowing, $34 trillion in debt, and people currently struggling in the US and West in general will be able to handle the massive increase in costs of goods that will happen if that happens?
You brought up great history! Shout out to the first ever (popular) integrated software Lotus 1-2-3/Symphony/Notes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_software)
> create knowledge that wasn't in the original data.

The word is "hallucinate" or "confabulate". The way these models "create" pretend-knowledge is totally useless.
git is a facade and "git add" actually calls "git-add". On Windows this means separate exes, git-add.exe, git-commit.exe, git-update.exe, etc. But all these exes are actually identical. So git is multiple copies of a single program which can do many things!
Not living in north america, there's something i must be missing - who looks at the name on a credit card? who even touches your credit card anymore? in europe and uk you're either contactless or you're given the terminal to enter your card yourself, and I'm 99% certain the "name" that is written on the card never comes up on screen
this looks neat but zero docs
You mean, like Jabber did 10 years ago using 10x less resources?
What’s your objection? That people’s ID and cards shouldn’t contain their name?
If it were only a very minor psychological discomfort, you'd be right. Unfortunately, other clientele in the store may harass you and follow you out of the store.

As someone who has been on the receiving end of incredibly violent threats, being able to not be outed publicly is critical to everyday safety for trans people.
We don't only reason from facts. We also reason from value.

Further, reasoning that rests on facts that does not cite facts still has massive utility. (See people, all day long.)

Citations are useful, but not required.
Yeah the infringement (in this old school model) would be if you then used that image as -- say -- the cover of a book or something. Then, it would be analyzed to see if it's "fair use" (satire, etc) or infringement.

I guess the question with MJ is -- if I make such a Garfield with MJ, show it to my parents etc., put it on the fridge, is that a problem? prob not. i'm not a lawyer but -- that doesn't seem like I'm infringing. but... did MJ infringe by selling me a subscription that gave me that image for pay? (pay that otherwise Garfield's IP owners might've received)
how do they do it for contactless?
Show HN: Train a GPT to write like Shakespeare-from scratch, in one Python file
I've never had the name on my credit card checked since no one has ever handled my credit card outside of me.
But this would just mean the name on the card does NOT match the name on the ID. How does this help with the issue of fraud at all?
set default zoom for browser to 120%, I have mine set to 80% because websites keep increasing font sizes
> You've been posting many dozens of comments about this and basically nothing about anything else for a long time now.

A long time? A few comments in the last week. Do I owe you token comments on other subjects? I am reading, I just haven't seen anything I had anything to say about in the last week. This is the subject I currently am learning about.

For example, on that Ultima thread, I wrote a long comment and then didn't post it because I am too sad and too appalled. I thought fuck this, IDF soldiers brag about bombing schools so kids can't become engineers, and I'm posting some derpy nostalgic anecdote?

So? I don't owe you or anyone comments pretending everything is alright.

What a weird, arbitrary criticism. So now, whenever I say anything about this subject, I'm out? Or is there a quota?

I can only say as vaguely defined and as arbitrarily applied the terms you use are, it's just whatever. I tried my best, I refrained from personal attack and generally posted less than when you talked last to me, that's all I can do, if you want to ban me for not posting enough filler, just do it, it's fine. But when it's justified in this Kafkaesque way -- as "standard" as it may be -- I simply can't follow and can't care.

> if you're relating to what the other person is saying, remaining respectful

How did I not do that here? If someone brings up morality as an argument, and with this issue in general, morality is on the table. It's not a discussion about tabs vs. spaces.
I'm not sure they would be. I limited to "west coast" cities because other cities' issues are sometimes blamed on Republican governors. West coast cities typically aren't.
Poverty is a strong motivation to seek work. The forces working against this which prevent people from finding work are mostly depression and feelings of helplessness. When people hit their rock bottom (which is generally weeks to days before homelessness) they're faced with a choice to either bounce off it and turn their life around, or to die (e.g. the streets.) Many people choose death because the alternative seems too hard for them, they're scared of what it will take and think that trying to turn around will just prolong their suffering so they choose the "easy" way out and give up on life.

UBI might keep people alive but I don't believe it's a path to recovery. It'll keep people suspended right above rock bottom, not working and on drugs and booze, permanently depressed with no future ahead of them. The longer somebody stays like this, the worse off they become mentally and physically. Enabling people like this is very cruel.

More beneficial reform involves removing the friction and barriers to recovery. Make it easier for people to find work that they can cope with and grow with. Make it easier for people to get back into the cycle of fixing their own problems by removing all the bureaucratic roadblocks that make getting back to work seem like a daunting impossibility. Anything that makes it easier to work is good, anything that makes it easier to not work (including UBI) is bad. And its not all about removing bureaucracy; building out better public transit so people feel that it's easy to get themselves to a job is very important. Government initiatives that reduce the availability of used cars or raise the price of new cars (same thing) should also be eliminated. More bike lanes should be built between residential and industrial/commercial areas and ebikes should be permitted on these routes. The penalties of traffic violations should be made progressive so that rich people have to pay however much is enough to make them regret it. Across the board, the stress of transportation should be reduced to make it easier for people to turn their lives around. The stress of finding entry level jobs should be reduced, but not the importance of working because getting people back to work is how you get them on a path of recovery and growth.
Are we talking everyday purchases (eg. buying groceries), or high risk transactions like buying $1000 worth of prepaid cards?
It would be a useful exercise to go back to that film and, with the benefit of hindsight, see where its argument went off the rails. And if one found that film convincing, it would also be useful to see where ones acceptance of the argument went astray.
Blue Origin is a textbook example of big aerospace contractor incompetence inheritance by design. Bezos made them the anti-SpaceX.
>I'd say that most people don't use the massive feature sets, they use the basics.

That's true .. but the problem is that there is a long tail of more advanced features than are needed. That is, for any given advanced feature only a small number of users care about those, but if you aggregate all the 'small number of users' that need some advanced feature, that number can be quite substantial.

>If you remember, at launch Google Sheets were relatively bare-bones, as were Google Docs.

Right, and Google Docs did not make any meaningful traction in the enterprise - and it still has issues outside of education. What Google Docs did do well when they came out was 1) Have great live/collaborative document editing, 2) 100% web-based - so it worked great on Macs, PCs and Linux systems and 3) even though they were feature-poor, they still had a base level of features that was much greater than what Nino has today ..

So Google Docs was able to find a nice niche - I was finishing up University that around that time, and it was great to use that for projects.

Keep in mind, Google Docs was released mid-2000s - it could get away with being feature-poor compared to Office and rely on its 'secret sauce' of being free and 100% web-based. This isn't enough today.
China did this because of terrorism. It was reactionary.

It's not far off from what the US did in Guantanamo.
No matter how fancy your compression, that code with comments stripped will compress to less bytes than the same code with comments.
interesting upsides to a 'pay to send' system that legally counts as delivery

the legal system uses certified mail as a proxy for this and digitally there is nothing better
I like it because there is no nonsense, it is a pretty simple page that gets what it needs from browser standards without external libraries. The simplicity helps make it small and fast.

Even without external libraries there are lots of design choices that could change and perhaps improve the look of the page.
Do you mean MP4? There are many cheap MP4 players or even RPi should be enough, no need for Mac Mini.
Gource: Software Version Control Visualization
i thought the minor discomfort being referred to was that of changing your name and reissuing a new ID card. i can definitely understand how it would get grating to explain the change at every security check
True Name TM.....
Even if it’s .13%, that is by definition “in the top 1.3%”.

Pedantry—the warm refuge of everyone else in the 99.87%!
I think you need to use the API to reproduce. I heard the chat prompt stops gpt4 from some of this behavior.
I mean, a build step is not required to build a website, but I'd say anyone who wants to have more than one HTML page and one stylesheet will probably want some sort of build step sooner rather than later.

Like, if you have two or more pages, you probably want them to share the same header or footer, and unless you want to A) repeat the same markup on each page or B) inject them with a client-side script, you will need some sort of build step. There are more accessible solutions out there, like Hugo.

How else are you going to achieve that? Sure you could use PHP, but I don't see how that is more accessible or maintainable than having a build step.
Looks like the C version is probably more than twice as fast compared to the .NET and JDK versions (which are now close)[1]. Someone needs to do the full modern hardware treatment (for ex. SIMD) to the C version (perhaps even adding some ASM) to see where we land.

[1] https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc
New research by Mastercard across 16 countries in North America and Europe revealed that 59% of people who identity as nonbinary say they feel unsafe while shopping

what about the control group

For Emme Reynolds of Ottawa, credit and debit cards also carry with them a certain amount of stress because they’re just another opportunity in one’s day to be “deadnamed” or misgendered. “It’s wild to see how many times in a day your old name can pop up,” they say. “It’s exhausting to see the name and to be misgendered.”

really? and not hidden fees or card being lost? debit cards should be avoided if possible. no buyer protection
Sounds like a good thing, though I can't help but feel that this is a workaround for the real issue. Because frankly it shouldn't have to be that hard to get the official documentation correct.
> Is this a serious issue?

A bigoted store clerk might decide to apply different standards to trans people, to find a way to kick them out of the store. So yeah, my experience is similar to yours, but I don’t doubt that credit card names could be weaponized against trans people.
Incredibly minor, but I dislike that my Amex card has “Mr Initial LastName” on it, or worse, my full government name rather than the shortened name that I consistently go by everywhere else.

Thankfully my bank card from a UK bank just allows you to print your preferred name on your card.
So Quickwit is primarily a search engine and thus relies on an inverted index.
We also implemented our schemaless columnar storage optimized for object storage.

The inverted index and columnar storage are part of tantivy [0], which is the fastest OSS search library out there (except for the academic project pisa) [1]. We maintain it, and we decided to build the distributed engine on top of it.

[0] tantivy github repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

[1] tantivy bench https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/