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Am I the only one that thinks that the direction of React is wrong?
By default it will summarise the context, but you can give it arbitrary queries, and it will respond with references to the source. It's handy if you've developed a healthy distrust.

More platforms would be a bit of a drain. Just one lonely dev on this. Multiple LLMs was indulgent and distracting enough.

Next? There's tonnes you could do, but finding something that won't leave you with a massive bill, and or offend people's sense of privacy is a bit tricky. For the latter it was "designed" so you explicitly select what text to give the AI. This can get annoying, so there's auto selection commands to select up to a model's context limit.

- Relax on the beach

- Non contiguous contexts - even "simply" expanding your selection from the viewport and down can be quite complicated due to things like fixed headers - it's hard to find a single selection that spans all the on-screen elements

- Replacing the window.prompt box

- Follow up chats to the original query

- Fine tune models for the text zoom so it works much faster (without needing a lot of hidden "thoughts" ) and more accurately

Tough?

The line mapping was much more annoying to work out than you'd probably imagine
I do not like to disparage competitors, but the issue is that deadlinkchecker.com has far too many false positives and issues that I try hard to avoid or workaround in Bernard.

For example, it marks a URL that's a form action destination (https://bernard.app/demo) as a 404. I technically should return 405 on GET, but it is a false positive nonetheless, because never affects any user.

My suggestion is to try both and see what works better for your website.
> yet we slap sky-high tariffs on them to protect Volkswagen shareholders.

Well, 10% tariffs, which isn't exactly prohibitive.
A good challenge; no idea why you are being downvoted*. I am using SageMath for plotting complicated algebraic objects, and I am sure I can combine its output with TikZ for nice illustrations of pairings and other EC constructions. I just need to find the time, but it should be time well-spent.

*In fact... every comment in this thread seems to be getting downvotes? wth?
I really love my $niche_tech_doodad. That doesn't mean everyone is going to like it.

It isn't enough to say that current customers love it, but how many potential customers will
I'm scared to google these words. Could you translate them from Medical to English for the rest of us?
Makes me think about Michael Levin et. al, working on understanding bioelectromechanics.... Fascinating stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6GIzNM0aM
AFAIK it is not about fame, but about his consumption of certain substances. He had (has?) a serious drug problem.
> QR Code does have the advantage that it's easier to read by imaging software than UPC-A or EAN-13, due to the targeting patterns in the corners. That could increase the speed of scanning items.

The UPC and EAN symbols have huge targeting patterns, the entire symbol is effectively a targeting pattern. That single dimension massive redundancy makes finding and aligning them very easy. When you have a 2D code you need robust dedicated targeting patterns, but locating thick parallel lines in an image is easier. The massive price paid is information density, not read speed.
In the 90s there were CMOS imager barcode scanners built on now antiquated embedded PowerPC that could scan most linear barcodes in milliseconds.

But this "interview", yeah it's shite. QR codes are "barcodes" in the meaning that is important here: extremely cheap, conspicuous, accurate machine readable labels. The barcode isn't being replaced at all in this regard.
Bucardo is an asynchronous PostgreSQL replication system
Yes. Yet it is diamond-hard sci-fi.
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After being frustrated with tracking all the jobs I've applied to in Excel.
I decided to build a tool to centralize it all in one place.
https://archive.is/zJVwY
Of course, it's only a small piece of the puzzle, but I do wonder what kind of existing organism would roughly match it by complexity, at least in terms of problem solving capacity.

A bunch of cells likely have more than a few GB of data between them, but most of it is just instructions on how to fold proteins to replicate themselves. Is that intelligent behavior or just mindlessly executing a script, albeit in DNA form? I would lean towards the latter.

I suppose it's hard to compare biological intelligent systems directly since they all have to process all available sensory info in a timely manner, not just very narrow text input. Once there are more LMMs trained on vision, sound, and kinematic data it should get far easier to draw comparisons.

> but if every basketball player turned into Spaghetti-os and started screaming you'd still hear the sounds and see the O's

Unless of course someone had set up a Somebody else's problem field generator around them :)
No error message on our end, everything works fine
>It is entirely possible that a change in policy will result in all of them hanging within a month.

It seems to me you dont have the faintest clue how the Indian justice system works, I'm not even sure you're aware that India does have law and order like a civilized democracy. It has major problems within it, but it's not entirely nonexistent.

About the second point, I'd just add again, that public opinion matters.
Yeah but the judges are human and are typically different humans at each event with different opinions and abilities to notice subtlties. There is no one standard human judge to abuse but with AI there is a single standard.
Plants are also known to be hostile to other plants. For example, leaves of walnut trees contain natural herbicides that stop other trees from growing and become competition. This is just another example of such behavior.
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>The problem isn’t organized religion, it’s that we live in a time, perhaps unprecedented in history, when the world is generally rotten

I'm a Christian. One belief that I hold to is that all of creation is broken and needs to be fixed - and can only be fixed by the Creator God. Until that happens, we will continue to see people do bad things
Appears to be a 16 way branching trie which completely misses both advantages of tree structures over hashes:

1/ This tree is mutable, insert doesn't give you a new tree via path copying

2/ union/intersection style operations can be sublinear. None of the batch operations are implemented
They use the words "lack of explicit guidance", so maybe more of an unspecced-bug rather than a spec bug - but it's the same thing at the end of the day.
I am no specialist -- and although I understand and agree with the impossibility being referred to -- somehow it seems to me that AI models are "kind of" getting "closer" to this "golden decompression data file". Although AI models are not that huge, from a tiny human input (the "compressed data") they manage to "decompress" to data of mind-blowing quality, highly detailed and in amazing variety, while staying extremely coherent. These results are "inexact", sure (being exact is the aforementioned impossibility), but to the human perception they seem "perfect", which is good enough (for movies and other arts).
At first glance I thought it's one of those machines that get fitted to run a CNC mill or something for decades. But no this is engagement vandalism, so sad.
I think you are talking about this line in the article:

> So, why didn’t he omit the racist quip about “Orientals”?

This is specifically in reference to a quote from Orwell at the top of the article:

> > coolies I had hit with my fist in moments of rage (nearly everyone does these things in the East, at any rate occasionally: Orientals can be very provoking)

The author of this article is primarily objecting not to the use of the word "Orientals" but to the defense that it's ok to beat them because everyone does it and they are annoying.

I think what the author is asking is: if he has had such a change of heart, why not simply omit this excuse? Why still provide justification that it is ok for a white person to beat a colonial subject because their cultural norms are different and annoying to the white person?
Formal sports like artistic gymnastics and figure skating are doomed to degenerate into rigid attempts to maximize points. That's why we have disciplines like freestyle skating, where people can be creative. Unfortunately, there's less money in that.
Physically, or economically?
I think there is a clear distinction between early Peterson, the Canadian psych professor who took exception to a law that impinged on his free speech rights, and the wealthy media juggernaught he has become. His early appearances were nuanced and interesting - a liberal professor fighting the excesses of the left, and coincidentally reintroducing Carl Jung to a wide audience!

He changed, of course. He started saying nice things about Trump a lot, which is difficult to understand, especially when considered in light of his seemingly wise statements about ego and narcisism. I think it was at this point Peterson became more of a symbol than a man, not a liberal fighting left-wing dogmatism but an actual Man of the Right. Money and fame were at the root of this transition, I believe, as well as a reaction against the extreme vitriol of the left. When it comes to political celebrity, the pragmatic truth is that you've got to be on one side or the other - nuance be damned. (I liked him early on but have long since stopped paying attention.)

This piece, by the way, reads like one of a thousand left-wing hit pieces against him, and not particularly well written (In particular the statement "It does help if you are male and Caucasian" sort of gives it away with the performative self-loathing). This piece focuses on Vagueness - but vagueness is part and parcel of the psychological movement - Jung himself was rather vague, and so is most philosophy. To hold Peterson to a non-vagueness standard when his source material is also vague is unfair. If you reject psychology and philosophy, that's fair, but don't pretend like Peterson was somehow introducing vagueness that wasn't there.
Easy to critique the man, but the author's political angle gets in the way of his own ability to reckon with why JP is popular: he unabashedly speaks core truths we know in a time filled with half-truths and an attack on binary meaning.

What is fascinating is how his detractors are annoyed with how simple, old advice can ring true but are missing that no one with such digital reach is saying these "12 Rules for Life" out loud any more.

I don't agree with Peterson's angles always but his ability to contend verbally with the pompous, blithe elites who have never been so disconnected from the middle class values is like a glass of cold water for his followers, or so I imagine.
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
The NBA and NFL already have their own versions of VAR, with all the complaints and problems that the football version has.
Plants compete with each other for sunlight, space, and nutrients. Poisoning the competition is just another strategy to get an edge.
People will buy sim cards or accounts and automate spam voting.
Are cavities 'contagious'? Tooth-decay yeast can pass from moms to babies
>Multilocus sequence typing of Candida albicans oral isolates reveals high genetic relatedness of mother-child dyads in early life

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Abstract

Candida albicans is a pathogenic fungus recently recognized for its role in severe early childhood caries development (S-ECC). C. albicans oral colonization begins at birth, but the extent of the mother’s involvement in yeast transmission to their children is unclear, therefore, this study used a prospective mother-infant cohort to investigate the maternal contribution of C. albicans oral colonization in early life. Oral samples were collected from 160 mother-child dyads during pregnancy and from birth to two years of life. We used whole-genome sequencing to obtain the genetic information of C. albicans isolates and examined the genetic relatedness of C. albicans between mothers and their children using Multilocus Sequence Typing. Multivariate statistical methods were used to identify factors associated with C. albicans’ acquisition (horizontal and vertical transmissions). Overall, 227 C. albicans oral isolates were obtained from 93 (58.1%) of mother-child pairs. eBURST analysis revealed 16 clonal complexes, and UPGMA analysis identified 6 clades, with clade 1 being the most populated 124 isolates (54.6%). Significantly, 94% of mothers and children with oral C. albicans had highly genetically related strains, highlighting a strong maternal influence on children’s C. albicans acquisition. Although factors such as race, ethnicity, delivery method, and feeding behaviors did not show a significant association with C. albicans vertical transmission, the mother’s oral hygiene status reflected by plaque index (PI) emerged as a significant factor; Mothers with higher dental plaque accumulation (PI >=2) had a significantly increased risk of vertically transmitting C. albicans to their infants [odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of 8.02 (1.21, 53.24), p=0.03]. Furthermore, Black infants and those who attended daycare had an elevated risk of acquiring C. albicans through horizontal transmission (p <0.01). These findings highlight the substantial role of maternal transmission in the oral acquisition of C. albicans during early life. Incorporating screening for maternal fungal oral carriage and implementing oral health education programs during the perinatal stage may prove valuable in preventing fungal transmission in early infancy.
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Anyone else find this an incredibly difficult article to make any sense of? I've read a lot of epidemiological research and I haven't really come across "primiparas" before, why not just call it "first births"? That's what the population genetics papers do. The only technical term in here that I am familiar with is "menarche" (first period/menstrual cycle). The rest just feels like obfuscation to make the authors seem smarter.

The massive Odds Ratios presented further down are suspicious as well - if I saw those kind of effect sizes based on observational data I would be running a lot of sanity checks and models designed to test the stability of my model outputs etc.

I don't think this will be the study to convince me that Evolutionary Psychology is anything more than snake oil.
If people make mistakes watching the event for tens of seconds from multiple cameras with VAR, how could you trust the same decision made without it in a split second.
What's your observations about finetunes - are they really useful for anything practical? :)
What would you reccomend?
Maybe they are, would anything be wrong with that?
Viewers are not impartial. Viewer voting would mean the winning team just becomes whoever has the most fans watching.
There's a target of 9.8 seconds (or whatever) for the 100m sprint, there's a bunch of rules around things like windspeed, but it's still a good measure to find the "fastest man alive" despite being a target.
Nulligravida = not been pregnant

Menarche = first menstrual period
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As another cocktail philosopher.

I think everyone should ponder this, when thinking about how they think, like as if they are the one thinking at all.

"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
It was all TDD back then. TD-Driven design.
TA has nothing to do with Malaria vaccines
It would have been an invalid article had it not included The Sopranos! The Sopranos did have the perfect ending. It's been debated and will continue to be debated till the end of time, and I loved it.

My take: life continues and Tony keeps doing what he's been doing, which fits the entire theme of the show: The more things change, the more things stay exactly the same.
OK, so if I am a condemned person sitting on an Indian death row, who can order my actual execution?

As far as public opinion goes, yes, it matters, but it may not be decisive. Quite a few European countries would probably re-introduce the death penalty if the question was left entirely to the population (via a referendum). I am sort-of glad that they don't go down this road; not even Ukraine sentences Russian war criminals to death.
One of the major flaws of this study from what I can tell is that it is quite literally prone to survivorship bias. By strictly looking at successful first births it's ignoring the flip side which is how many births were aborted for medically necessary reasons and/or how many miscarriages took place.

To me, this seems like they had a given outcome they wanted to prove and then worked backwards from there.
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So they are competing in the luxury segment even though 90% of their sales are not luxury cars?
> > To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements.

> Not true anymore (edit: didn't see the 2014) but the productivity cost of not being able to just "vertical-align: middle;" inside divs for the last 30 years must be billions of dollars.

Even back then (possibly even back in the 90s? I know this existed in the 2000s) we had "VALIGN=MIDDLE" inside table cells.
The guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and also dang many many times.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politic

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

And hn absolutely nukes accounts
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The expensive parts of the infrastructure are not their own, and the expense will scale by number of requests.

Back of the envelope:

The Bing API costs about $0.015 per query at the most cost effective tier. Kagi's highest revenue per query pricing is $5/300 queries = $0.166 / query. That's pretty slim margins, and only made worse by the $10 tier.

Now, they can of course start doing exclusively their own crawling, indexing and ranking and avoid paying some larger search engine for API access. But for that to be cheaper, they need orders of magnitude more scale
owh god. didn't know this is a thing. just switched it to black and white. I hate it, thank you! xD
I think their favourite release date is by far "by the end of next year".
While I agree with the thesis (Peterson is indeed a shallow intellectual), I disagree with the author's position that there are no deep intellectuals left. Without naming names, the reason we don't hear from them is because of the current state of the internet, where communications is so democratized that it is impossible to curate effectively. In short, the noise exceeds the signal, and so we only hear about the demagogues, whose one-note message can be amplified sufficiently to rise above the rest. More nuanced voices offering complex opinions are difficult to distinguish amid the sea of uninformed opinions and criticisms.

The author bemoans that intellectuals have failed the general population by being afraid to dumb down complex messages for general consumption. The only flaw with this theory is that modern life itself is rather complicated, irreducibly so. Simple explanations are often wrong, and since true intellectuals pride themselves on being factual and correct, it would be beneath them to offer such solutions.

What we really have is a society that prides itself on anti-intellectualism and is outright hostile to reasoned discourse. Until society holds itself to a higher standard, we will get the intellectuals we deserve.
I want an ephemeral channel, with an audit trail of accesses. My regular communications channels provide very nearly the opposite -- they're long-lived, and I can't tell how often folk access them. They might also show history on-screen at times that are inconvenient for security, and I don't know what kind of notifications the recipient has set up.

A tool like Bitwarden Send lets me share a link that references a secret, limit the number of times it may be accessed, and validate out of band (using the secure channel you mention) that the single access I saw was indeed the intended recipient. I can -- and do -- confirm receipt and clear the shared value before putting the secret into whatever system it's intended for.

This seems to have similar properties. I still want an E2E channel for passing the links around, but once the exchange has been verified there's no permanent record of the actual value being exchanged in our chat history.
That bites.

At the same time, this is why the concept of "business continuity" exists. If you are running a hobby-level service, it may not be worth the trouble, but for anything where the continued existence of the service truly matters, you should have a plan in place of what to do when (not if) your host blows up and leaves you with nothing. That should include the ability to re-launch the code/database/server/whatever on a new host, and restore the latest data backup to that new host.

I get that planning ahead for such things increases the work to launch a service - but anything short of it means you are not in control of your own destiny.
That strategy is not without flaws either: once you let the public decide you create a system where the incentive is not "who skates better?" but rather "who can play the audience better?". The EuroVision Song Contest, for instance, has a well-known issue where the public often votes for/against a singer not because of their song but rather because of geopolitics [1]. And that's before we discuss organized voting rings.

A related but less clear point is whether it's fair for the skater to be judged by people who have no idea about skating. If my code were to be negatively judged because (say) the person in charge judges the amount of comments rather than their content, I would probably be unhappy about that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest#Politi...
I think the general consensus has always been that teenage girls can't really raise children and aren't in a position to do so, but that they would probably have healthier children than women even 10 years older (though, it appears the difference is only meaningful once a woman hits her late 30s or so, which was also understood).

Of course, the "fantasy" of every teenager would actually be the ideal reality: to allow them to have total sexual freedom, sex as an open, public, and common thing, and have the social support to allow any pregnancies that are as a result of that be carried to term, and have the children raised collectively. But instead people want sexual frustration and long periods of loneliness that result in monogamy in their mid to late 20s--and why? So Mark Zuckerberg can buy a new yacht, or whatever it is he spends all his money on.
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You may want to read on Descartes critiques from last century. Not even your own consciousness is a given.
> There is also zero "evidence", by this extremely restrictive standard of "evidence", for existence of any consciousness aside one's own.

Yes. That is correct.

> This rhetorical strategy thus has a weakness: who or what exactly are you trying to convince?

Ego dissolution/self realiszation takes time. It's my goal in life. But haven't achieved yet. But your comment do point that I should not waste time on engaging in things like this which builds up the ego more.
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Every fan of George Orwell needs to get the Everyman's Library Hardcover edition titled Essays. It is 1400+ pages of almost all of his non-fiction writings.