skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that non-power-of-2 bytes means it's impossible to use mere bitwise operations when computing bit indices. Instead, you have to use integer division (ick!).

There are probably lots of similar problems; this is just one that I thought of while writing recent code.
Why can't you just submerge the sprinkler in water and reverse the flow?
I don't think so. Rust solve a class of security issue, but that class is 2/3 of all security issues! That's overwhelmingly more secure.

And it's not like it has no effect on the final third either. The stronger type system and ownership system make non-memory related bugs less likely too.

Your comment makes it sound as if you have a better solution. But Rust is the best one we know so far, so this kind of naysaying does more harm than good.
nice project, but the model that was being studied is really just a toy-model (both in size and training data). as such, this model can indeed be approximated by simpler models (I would suspect even n-gram LMs), but it might not be representative of how the larger LMs work.
> I think it’s [degrowth] in some sense utopian. But believing that capitalism will prosper in the decades to come is utopian too, because we will have more natural disasters, inflation, wars — and these will all accelerate with the climate crisis. So it’s naive to think that our way of life will somehow continue.

He admits several times that this isn't a concrete solution and that the global south will continue to grow but the point remains that we can't really continue what we're doing.

*Edited to mark the quote
I searched instead for "size byte bits", third result has the answer. It seems like the engine gives equal weight to all words in the search, so "are", "in" and "a" throw it off.
Yeah, you really know where your data is. I have fond memories of saving documents to a floppy, walking to the library to print only to find an empty floppy disk. Going back home, formatting it, saving again, doublechecking in a friends drive, still there. Going back to library, empty floppy. Going back home, floppy disk still empty. Had this happening several times with different floppies. Friends had the same problem. Write-lock didn't help a thing. It was less than 50% chance it would actually work. But it did work now and then.
It sounds like you're making a distinction between the plot and the theme.

I'd argue the plot is entirely about Godel's incompleteness theorem. It's not just "mentioned in passing", the entire book is centered around a series of increasingly complex explanations that culminate in explaining the actual theorem itself.

But just like a good novel is way, way more than just the plot, GEB is way more than just the Godel incompleteness theorem.

Personally I didn't really find any other thesis or theme that compelling. However, I absolutely loved the clever ways in which he illustrated each concept. Others may have appreciated other aspects of it, and that's great too. Many people can enjoy the book for different reasons.
Less energy would be used by creating straws that are both convenient and good for the environment, like agave fiber straws.

Solutions can benefit all parties in any context (and the best ones do), but environmental protection is unique because the solution must benefit all parties. This is because, while some will sacrifice for the sake of the world, some will not. Convenience compels the lazy to change. No amount of coercion, or threat of force will change that.
Haha, yeah, I was thinking air-quotes when I typed it.
> the safety concerns

I know a lot of people worry about gas, my grandmother wouldn't have it in the house. But is there any solid evidence that it is as dangerous as people think it is? I have been cooking with gas for all my adult life and I'm 68 with no problems whatsoever. And until I left the UK in 1986 we used gas fired central heating and hot water, again with no problems. I don't know anyone personally who has ever had a safety problem with a gas installation.
After 742 pages and even after having written the paragraphs above, I still struggle with a simple answer to the question: “What is this book about?” The best I can come up with is that GEB equips you with mental models to contemplate philosophy.

No thanks. I'm not reading a book that even its fans can't adequately explain.
Given that single use plastic bags are rather difficult to get recycled in so many metro areas (I remember reading a single digit percentage of it is even recyclable) it’s not clear if it going into the trash instead of recycling is not a huge impact. But increased use of single use plastics is certainly not desirable IMO similar to fossil fuels unless they’re compostable or similar types that at least can break down cleanly.
Piracy has evolved too; You only need to look at how automated piracy can become; whether its the end of the people buying access to plex, or the automation offered by users of the Servarr stacks /Sonarr/Radarr etc

Netflix invgestment in UX has lead to theUX being valued around piracy, rather than just downloading files from some website.
Configuration languages are an interface to the API presented by the software you are using. There can be a hard boundary between the two — a C codebase for a web server and the XML-like file that configured it — or there can be an imperceptible transition between the two where the configuration is just another module in the code base.

As one of the authors working in a 2000+ module Python codebase, nothing gives me greater pleasure than to drive one part of the codebase by creating another module. Nothing gives me greater sadness than to be forced to interact with something through a YAML config file, command line flags, or launching GitLab pipelines. All three of those boundaries interrupt the powerful electromagnetic force fields that pervade the system: type checking, linting, and symbol finding (IDE integration). In time, I vow to destroy every last one of these non-code boundaries. Another unwanted-boundary demon on the exorcism list is polyrepos.

There once was a time when the world worked like this but instead of Python it was C. It wasn’t as rich as the dynamic world we have today — I’m certain I don’t want to go back to configuring my softest by recompiling it — but it did have a lot of the advantages of working in one language environment across all the things.
> But only one map from Minutes -> Seconds.

Actually, time is difficult. Really difficult.

Some minutes on the real world clock do not have 60 seconds.
I dont think its "crazy".

There has been little issue for most people having photos of themselves online on social media.

If people want a photo of you they will find one.
In this case, I think the stupidity is also sufficient to confiscate the vehicle in some jurisdictions.
They finally escalated my enquiry on the executive level and acknowledged that they obliged to investigate. They also provided me with my rights, e.g. if i'm not satisfied with how they handle things that I can bring it up with the Australian Financial Compliants Authority. Seems to be region specific but I assume similar things are in place for other regions.
There was an old theory you needed to be holding today's newspaper or mention current events to at least show that a media was not prepared earlier but this advice is out the window given enough dedication from the adversary.
For those of us who enjoyed the book, that'd be removing the best part.

For me this was one of those books that was more about the journey than the destination.

2001: A Space Odyssey could easily be trimmed to 25 minutes or less if all you care about is the plot. But should it?
Lockdown mode is a feature of Linux that's automatically enabled if it detects some circumstances. IIRC, it's a requirement for getting your stuff signed to allow you to do secure boot (without loading a manual secure boot key, of course). I would say it's enabled on most first-time Linux users' computers.

As for Wayland, I learned the hard way that modern distributions have removed the Wayland block on Nvidia drivers, and many will go Wayland-first after install. It's easy to switch back, but only if you know what X11 and Wayland even are in the first place. Of course distros have to try to push people to Wayland, because Red Hat and desktop environments are moving towards Wayland-only for new releases in a couple of years, but that's not without its unfortunate consequences.

In a few years, Wayland has gone from "doesn't even start" to "usable with a whole bunch of quirks and issues", I'm sure it'll work fine when the time comes to abandon X.org. But for now, the defaults are a bit weird. In practice, distros can pick between "some weird issues on Nvidia hardware" and "extremely limited touchpad gesture support" and it's tough to make a choice there.
Salmonella are endemic to chicken. E. Coli have also been found in reusable bags. Fungus and yeasts are also a problem.

You don't want these on your salad greens, fruits, or vegetables.

Reusing the bags without washing risks exposure to pathogens.

https://polymerinnovationblog.com/reusable-grocery-bags-may-...
A walk through with what the data at each point looks like is actually pretty useful.
You got lucky. My father went to a&e recently with breathing problems due to some non COVID respiratory virus. He was struggling to breathe. They had zero free beds and he stayed overnight on the chairs waiting to be admitted. Eventually they found him a recliner.

And then of course you have the constant strikes and inability to even see a doctor at all unless you win the game of phone lottery.

The NHS may have a simple user interface, but it doesn't actually work when you need it so that's not very helpful. And the idea this is a Tory problem is propaganda. The NHS budget only ever goes higher yet service gets worse. Dumping ever more money into this third world system is never going to work.
I do respectfully disagree with you.

The bump model allows chaos wherein you, the reader, must critically evaluate everything with no preconceived notions or pre-filtering. This is how you question, re-evaluate, and sharpen your knowledge through productive debates. There are diamonds and gems in "flat", bump-structured fora, that do not exist in other group-think, mass-consensus-based sites.

Why does the average quality of information matter? You are making a trade-off for convenience. It is indeed convenient to accept common group-think. If you are critical enough to recognize low quality posts on bump model sites, why are you concerned with low quality posts? Read on to the next post.

Insert the meme here of Cypher stating that he doesn't even see the code anymore, but the remixed version of "I don't even see the shitposts and shills anymore."

>I'd like to see an example of a successful popular forum that implements such in reality.

You know what they are, but I will elect to avoid an instaban by posting them here.
Every culture has things like this.

"You'll have to pop in next time you're in the area!" does NOT mean "turn up at my house unannounced". Even if it sounds like it.

Or "How are you going?" is not a prompt to actually tell them how you're going.
s/address space/link-map namespace/

See `dlmopen(3)`. Admittedly, multiple link-map namespaces are weird to use.
This description is not even wrong. It's random misunderstandings combined.

There's a list of autism symptoms used diagnostically. The list above is nowhere even close. Neither High IQ is used as a diagnostic of autism (and you can have autism and low IQ), nor ADHD (hell, until recently it was the opposite: doctors used to believe you can't have both ADHD and autism), nor bipolar disorder (at best a comorbidity).

I'll give you "eye sensitivity" (sensory sensitivity), which is one of the diagnostic symptoms.

As for loneliness, that is a second order effect under certain social circumstances, not a psysiological result of autism. Might as well consider bullying a symptom.
Car theft is through the roof in New Orleans.
They call themselves the Kia Boyz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbTrLyqL_nw
> Open source keeps your options open. Does not mean it will be necessarily free or effortless, but you'll have options.

You still have to be able to exercise those options. If you can't, you might as well not have them at all for all the good it will do you, and in the mean time you still have to deal with the fact that your stuff doesn't work now.

Also for what it's worth, you said you frame the argument in the form of:

OSS Advocate: "Do you want your software to change grind puppies into baby food?"

User: "They wouldn't do that"

<Spoiler: They do>

User: <shocked pikachu>

OSS Advocate: "Have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior RMS?"

But, just because you have options to mitigate the end result doesn't mean that OSS software also won't change to the "grind puppies into baby food" model. That's what the user cares about and OSS does nothing to address that because OSS on its own isn't concerned at all with the the features of the software, just how the software is distributed.

Edit:

And having finally read the linked article in full, I feel like the author is talking about a similar thing. The option to recompile from source to implement the features you want is useless to the user if the user doesn't have the ability or time. And it makes the software less valuable to the user relative to a proprietary version that does have options that they can exercise. Open source is and always has been a developer facing feature in reality and it just so happens that some times (and especially early on) developers were also users. But most users aren't developers anymore and even developers aren't necessarily developers with the skill sets necessary to modify your application anymore. If the goal is to give the USER the freedom to modify the software, then open source on its own might not be enough, or even sufficiently better than the offerings from closed source vendors.
And how is that working out?

In recent months dozens of shops got multi-million dollar fines from the EPA for "deleting " diesel emission equipment. Now it's unheard of in the US.

It works.
(Jan 31) - before launch day.
That's true, I haven't counted all the times the mechanic or doctor did their job well.

I just tend to remember the times where they didn't do their job well. For example, my daughter had a rash, the doctor says to just put moisturizer on it. Doesn't seem to help so I research it for a few hours on google and conclude it's shingles. The doctor scoffs at my suggestion saying my daughter is way too young to have shingles and says to just continue with the moisturizer. We take her to a second doctor who confirms it's shingles.

So yes, I would admit my anecdotes are probably a form of survivorship bias and I'm letting a few incompetent doctors and mechanics taint the ability of their peers.
It's even harder to compete when you don't have the content users want while charging more than ever.
There were some massive bribery scandals in the late 70s where pretty much entire governments were coopted by US corporates that these laws arose in response to.
It's obviously not a habit for you, and that's fine. My point is that it's not physically difficult to do. It's just something you need to remember to do. This is what I mean by the next generation just being habituated to the process.

There are plenty of these types of "chores" we accept because they are something we see as worthwhile. Wearing a seat belt, brushing our teeth, stepping outside to smoke a cigarette, putting on headphones to use our phone on the bus, not using a phone in a theater, etc., etc., etc.

When this is normalize, nobody will notice, but the 20 years of transition will be slightly annoying, but my point is that, during that 20 years... we're not even materially changing our behavior. The stores have paper or slightly denser plastic bags for you.

The thing that drives me crazy about this whole debate is how trivial it is. It's effectively the least possible change we can make to substantially change the culture, and very same people seem to claim that it's both (1) not enough change to matter, and (2) so much change that it's harming environmentalism as a cause.

The entire point of doing it this way is behavioral economics. If you make it slightly annoying, most people will eventually change their behavior. The fact that so many people hate such a small change so much is exactly why I point out that the people who care so much about a slight behavioral change don't actually care about environmentalism, is that most folks haven't even begun to gauge the level of cultural change we need to actually fight climate change. If you think being asked to generally keep a grocery bag in your car is too much to ask, just wait until you're "incentivized" to take an ebike to the grocery store... If that's something you can't stomach even if it destroys the climate, then you don't care about the climate.
Those people are best dealt with by calm force. Or controlled aggression if that suits you better. Random violence is just stupid and wrong.
> There’s no smooth gradient between data format and Turing complete programming language.

S-expressions beg to differ.
If not being able to carry a carton of eggs in your hands a serious concern of yours, I think there are other issues at play...
One of my proudest parenting moments: my 9 yo was crying around noon, I was trying to comfort him and he slapped me in the face with anger.
“Are you slapping me because you’re hungry?”
“Yeah”
“You want a banana?”
“Yeah”
Is this parody? Twitter is in no way “thriving”. It’s bleeding users, advertisers, and revenue has tanked.
> Let's be clear: highly performant, reliable, cross platform, native feature-ful software was always an option; and often a relatively easy one to exercise.

Okay. Got it. You have no idea what you're talking about. I challenge you to name these "relatively easy" cross-platform libraries and apps with feature parity.

No, seriously. List these UI libraries that seamlessly integrate with the target OS.
excellent! I'm tired of search engines that optimize for natural language queries because the inevitable trade-off is that they become useless at keyword/exact queries.
Part of it is a Tory problem - when they changed how the funding gets distributed, so that overall bigger fund is divided now into smaller pieces that still have to cover the same population, but without the scaling benefits that previous allocation provided.

It's visible in other systems too, where for example you end up with local government politicians fighting for "prestige" or even perceived need to have a specific kind of hospital in their area, but they don't have a way to bring enough patients to support it, so you get a system too fragmented to sustain despite spending more and more money.
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There are containers which are based on Gentoo and optimized for x86-64-v2 and x86-64-v3.
https://github.com/rahilarious/gentoo-containers
Noticed the same in myself and my numerate, STEM minded colleagues. There’s some research that suggests understanding how to spot and reason through why something is logical fallacy acts as an inoculant against fake news[1].

It’s a recent category of analysis but subsequent studies suggest it’s real.[2]

Knowing how the sausage is made lends to awareness this stuff isn’t divine mandate. Disabuses people of pseudo religious belief in politically contrived economics, etc. If you consider religion is not the content of a holy book but a state of belief in socialized babbles essentialness to existence, American Civic Life looks a whole lot like a religion.

[1] https://theconversation.com/inoculation-theory-using-misinfo...

[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6254
Assuming APX[1] actually becomes a thing, that will be an even more significant feature level.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Advanced_Performance_Ext...
The post is long and complicated and I haven't read most of it, so whether it's actually any good I shan't try to decide. But the above seems like a very weird argument.

Sure, the code is doing what it's doing. But trying to understand it at that level of abstraction seems ... not at all promising.

Consider a question about psychology. Say: "What are people doing when they decide what to buy in a shop?".

If someone writes an article about this, drawing on some (necessarily simplified) model of human thinking and decision-making, and some experimental evidence about how people's purchasing decisions change in response to changes in price, different lighting conditions, mood, etc., ... would you say "You can just apply the laws of physics and see what the people are doing. They're not doing something more or less than that."?

I mean, it would be true. People, so far as we know, do in fact obey the laws of physics. You could, in principle, predict what someone will buy in a given situation by modelling their body and surroundings at the level of atoms or thereabouts (quantum physics is a thing, of course, but it seems likely that a basically-classical model could be good enough for this purpose). When we make decisions, we are obeying the laws of physics and not doing some other thing.

But this answer is completely useless for actually understanding what we do. If you're wondering "what would happen if the price were ten cents higher?" you've got no way to answer it other than running the whole simulation again. Maybe running thousands of versions of it since other factors could affect the results. If you're wondering "does the lighting make a difference, and what level of lighting in the shop will lead to people spending least or most?" then you've got no way to answer it other than running simulations with many different lighting conditions.

Whereas if you have a higher-level, less precise model that says things like "people mostly prefer to spend less" and "people try to predict quality on the basis of price, so sometimes they will spend more if it seems like they're getting something better that way" and "people like to feel that they're getting a bargain" and so on, you may be able to make predictions without running an impossibly detailed person-simulation zillions of times. You may be able to give general advice to someone with a spending problem who'd like to spend more wisely, or to a shopkeeper who wants to encourage their customers to spend more.

Similarly with language models and similar systems. Sure, you can find out what it does in some very specific situation by just running the code. But what if you have some broader question than that? Then simply knowing what the code does may not help you at all, because what the code does is gazillions of copies of "multiply these numbers together and add them".

Again, I make no claim about whether the particular thing linked here offers much real insight. But it makes zero sense, so far as I can see, to dismiss it on the grounds that all you need to do is read the code.
Missing it. The modern pants aren’t that accommodating for the right blood flow and temperature, especially when sitting for prolonged time. Giving the established effect of the temperature on the sperm quality and count, I'd venture a guess that it may be among the reasons for the global sperm count decline which seems to parallel with the office jobs (sitting) proliferation and the decrease of the blue collar (standing/walking) jobs.
I don’t know what language you speak, but GEB it’s been translated into multiple languages during the years.

I read it in Italian as a teen, the Italian edition is beautiful, and incredibly well translated (the book includes many puns and language tricks.)