skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is written by statisticians, not programmers. They'd write the same garbage in Python

I guess I should take offense as a statistician. But its a fairly common complaint. The reality is, most of us statisticians are trying to compute a result. Like once. Or sometimes twice. For a paper. Or a task. If someone comes to me with a time series and asks me to test it for stationarity, or find the p lags to make it MA(p) stationary, they aren't asking me to write a program. The goal is not reproducibility. The goal is a fast answer. I've used R at trading desks & financial institutions - the goal has seldom been "run the same program again, but with this new input". If that was the case, I would write a function & stick it in a nice library with documentation. But these aren't tech firms. We aren't shipping software. The goal is to compute something fast so you can get on with life & make the trade, or draft the next paragraph in your paper, or... Like if they give me a set of bespoke mortgages with some hairy constraints & ask me to compute the value at risk, there is not much point in building some VaR function. Because its a once in a while thing. Next time it will involve a different set of args & they'd be different constraints & so forth. So just write some 10 line script & get the number & move on. Yeah, sometimes I would stash the script in some repo & write a 1-line comment on how it works - but its kinda pointless, it doesn't get much play/reuse. We aren't programmers in that sense, we are just trying to solve problems.

My kid knocked on my office door yesterday. He's in some AoPs course where they use generating functions to count stuff. So he had a problem about the number of ways to add three odd numbers to make 1001. He had worked out the algebra & gotten some number, but before he hits Submit, he wants to doublecheck with me because wrong answers have a penalty. Now, I don't have the time to go back to school and learn what is a generating function. And I don't want to write lots of for loops & if statements & fight with syntax errors & so forth. So my 1-liner in R

dim(subset(expand.grid(a=seq(1,1001,2), b=seq(1,1001,2), c=seq(1,1001,2)), a+b+c==1001))

tells me there are 125250 ways. He says he got the same number with generating functions. Boom done! So that's what R is for. Quick & easy.
Why did you do this thing 2 weeks ago?

vs

Why didn’t you do this thing 2 weeks ago that you were under no legal obligation to do?

Seems like a significant and valid distinction even if what they communicate to the intended audience is largely the same.

“Largely the same” because in the second case it would be possible that forgetting, or some other obstacle to resigning occurred.
The most obvious reason why is that by crime you mean reported crime, and by reported crime you mean reported crime reported to the FBI.

(E.G., https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/15/see-if-police-...)
The way I think of it is, LLMs are sold as HAL but really they're a better MegaHAL: https://github.com/kranzky/megahal

For that reason I don't think LLM, alone, will be capable of human-equivalent intelligence.
I thought it might have been Square Kilometer Array interference but that's to the north of those spots.
In Canada we’re trying that and now we have major media dependant on a government paycheque and specifically depending on a certain political party because the other wants to get rid of it. Now you should evaluate our freedom of press and potential bias.
Right now the high-end fabrication competition is TMSC, Samsung, and Intel. All three are supported by nations. The idea that we should just let the freemarket handle the issue doesn't feel grounded in practicality.
It’s pretty common. They’re far from the first ones to have started that practice, which began in the 2000s. The concept of the battery management system (BMS) killing the pack for safety reasons came with modern BMS chips that can do state of health (SoH) measuring, along with state of charge (SoC) measuring.
Interesting. I ask because I have a suspicion that Quantum theories seem more fundamental than General relativity, because treating geometry within a quantum framework seems very hard and "non-natural", or implausible (e.g. when considering superposition of spacetimes!). While if somehow gravity is a quantum effect (within a simpler space-time framework), that seems much more plausible... but Kaluza-Klein captured my interest in the other direction. Although I'm still thinking the quantum framework is appears to be the correct one, even though the assumptions of GR are very strong (so something like the equivalence principle or some other notable principle needs to break).
Because as a society we progress at the pace our weakest progress.

We don't say China moved ahead because the rich got richer, but because it lifted hundred of millions from poverty.

And if anything, a poor social net tends to create more dangers, not less.

When people have no roof, no jobs, no help, they will turn into criminals. Hell if I need to eat, or worse, I need to feed my family, I could not care less about becoming a criminal too. Zero.

I've seen the dystopia of private neighborhoods with gates and security, the ghettos, the crumbling neighborhoods, endless tents anywhere you look in many major US cities.

We don't want this in Europe.

I'd rather pay more taxes that help the weakest, not just taxes to punish them and send them to jail. A society with more desperate people makes my life worse, not better just because I can find a more isolated/secure prison where I can avoid looking at them.
I understand you are trying to use the woke activist tactic of insinuating that it’s racist to oppose woke communist redistribution and indoctrination schemes.

That’s not an argument and not an inquiry. Eg what you could ask is

“What makes you confident DEI is Marxist?”

It institutes DEI commissars (in Russian: a soviet) in every company like Stalin did to redistribute outcomes through equity from Marxist oppressor categories to oppressed categories while aggressively destroying dissent.
ive always used SumatraPDF because its super fast and free
It is. That said, I know a bunch of people who use it to buy ADHD medication, who can't otherwise afford to get a prescription in a timely manner. And I don't even know that many people! I suppose there's many downsides to enabling crime, but there's some silver lining.
It is not a hard problem to solve and was/is being solved all around the world. If a developer is building not 60 homes but 6000 homes then they can be tasked to build a school, a few kindergartens, a fire station, cafes, grocery shop, a few bus stops and plenty of individual and communal parking spaces.

Going from single family homes to quadplexes does not solve the problem, build taller!
They might have anticipated receiving a more restrictive gag order when they originally put the canary in place.

I wonder if the NSA should have a team that just goes around organisations that have warrant canaries and sends them baseless confidential messages, just enough to trigger the canary. The fact that they don't do this suggests they don't think canaries are much use.
The discontinuities at the used care sale prices graph seems like an arbitrage opportunity on depreciation. Buy right after a round number, sell right before another, pay less on dep.
How does that linked Wikipedia page not contain any cities in China, which in my experience are more dense than just about anywhere else in the world?
Many of those places were Christian or Zoroastrian or whatnot way before early Muslim conquests, look it up. And Jews lived there since before year 0
I've been enjoying Budgie for this reason. It feels like a "normal" desktop experience with a taskbar at the bottom, something like a start-menu with the search functionality we're used to, and without anything really trying to be fancy or transparent. It just feels "regular".

The criticism some people have of Budgie is that it feels like a customized version of GNOME rather than its own thing - but that's what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for something to ditch the good parts of GNOME. I'm looking for something that will just give me a regular desktop where things feel like what macOS or Windows have been offering for a couple decades.
I am surprised that the OP does not include perl5 in their table.

In raku (aka perl6) Regexes were reinvented by Larry Wall (the creator of perl which made perlRE the de facto regex standard)

Here's what he does with $:

(https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Start_of_string_and_e...)

* The $ anchor only matches at the end of the string

* The $$ anchor matches at the end of a logical line. That is, before a newline character, or at the end of the string when the last character is not a newline character.
One of many annoyances I have with GNOME, is that they still insist on forcing their slow search crap, instead of doing the sensible thing (that literally everyone else does) and give type-ahead search.
Most UX studies ignore that users want people to leave things the fuck alone and stop breaking their workflows.
We've really been spoiled by modern software competition.

Once upon a time middleware like this would have been "Call Us" with a custom 5 figure license and royalties.

Now it's not even an hour of a single developer's time cost per month and you get complaints.
Thanks! Yes, we experimented with that! I think because of the way that GPT sees images in patches it has a hard time with absolute positioning but that's just a guess.
First it was Facebook, then Twitter. Is Reddit about to become rubbish too?
This looks great! Since they link it all to one's Gmail account, I wonder if they implement saving annotations to these PDFs and have them live on your Drive or elsewhere.

Edit: Also, Chrome now defaults to this extension for rendering any PDFs you load.
I'm glad the parrots are helping researchers understand tablet games.
Good article, thanks for posting.
What is incredible is that this makes the opposite point Gruber thinks he's making.

1. For legalese, the definition of "trader" is incredibly simple.
2. The definition of "trader" is a broad definition. It's up to specific service providers to explain to their users/customers/partners how that translates to their service.

The fact that Apple is willing to not make the minuscule effort to translate what the broader "trader" definition means in the context of the App Store, is evidence of the fact that they have a monopoly and they're not worried about competitors, so they can basically spit on the faces of their app developers just to spite the EU and not worry about any negative impact at all.
Fonts begin as vector graphics, but every single character on your screen isn't rendered as a tiny, individual vector graphic. Text rendering libraries use a lot of optimizations to cache rasterized glyphs because they're reused all over your screen.

It also gets extraordinarily complex when you have to handle text layout, kerning, languages that read in different directions, styles, and all of the other complications that come with font rendering.

TrueType fonts even support a small virtual machine to process tiny code programs related to font rendering. It's an incredibly deep topic.
> why would matter curve spacetime

Perhaps because that's just how matter and spacetime work?

I mean, you could ask the same question just about anything in physics. Why is there such a thing inertia at all, for example? You can try explaining things in terms of other things, but at some point you inevitably have to arrive at "it's just how the universe works".
Car is the path of least resistance, so it will always win out until something better comes along.

Even if I lived in a 15 minute city, I would still want a car for when I want to go somewhere outside of the city.
Working from an office feels like I'm in school again. I am expected to stay at my desk and only leave during designated times like lunch/bathroom breaks.

I think this is why I've rejected this idea for so long. Aside from my own home office/rented space, I haven't worked in an office for 12 years.
A very nice release, especially the new VRR support is awesome.
What you might consider if finding an ebook reader app and using that. I had a similar issue but on Android (for ebooks not in kindle format). I ended up with Librera but there are several. Turns out it's also equally great at academic or work PDFs.
Just so you know: normally it scroll down so that the reference is on top of the page.

But most importantly.. ALT+'left arrow' allows you to go back before you clicked on the citation! It doesn't work all the time, but usually it does after some left arrows ;)

Also, in Android: you can click on the 'scrolling sign' on the right of the pdf and specify the page, or see the link to 'jump back' to before you clicked on a link!

I hope that will help
when was the last time you bought anything with crypto?

like you drove to 7/11, got gasoline, a soda, and some chips, and paid with BTC?

how many people do you know bought a house with BTC? Not a BTC investment that they cashed out into USD, but just BTC?

Snapchat can be used for non-porn; BTC isn't used for anything.
A car driver could easily eat the same amount of food as a walker, the extra calories would be stored as fat. This also ignores upfront CO2 output from assembling and delivering the car and increased CO2 output from maintaining car infrastructure vs. pedestrian infrastructure. Not to mention numerous other externalities.
Irrespective of the OS, I recommend Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/).
The issue is reporting. Where I live about 4 years ago they stopped prosecuting people who steal less than 500$. My friend who is a cop said they eventually stopped arresting them because its unethical to arrest someone for a crime they won't be prosecuted for. Then stores stopped calling the cops. This resulted in more crime but less reported crime for burglary.

The only statics you can really count on is Car thefts and murders. There was a surge in murders in starting in 2020 which has leveled off but it was still high.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...

The same is true for car thefts

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191216/reported-motor-ve...

I think it reliable to say the US experienced a large surge in crime starting in 2020.
Because your change and the formatting change are probably dependent, and between the time you submit the change and the time your PRs are accepted there may be multiple other commits to that file which affected lines that your formatting PR addressed. If changes wait for weeks to be merged (which is actually pretty quick compared to years) you wind up with the formatting change being blocked on needing a rebase. The thing becomes an annoying PITA of merge conflicts and rebases.

So either have code formatting standards to start with which are automatically applied, or else accept PRs that have whitespace fixes and merge them promptly (I can accept splitting up the commits into formatting and non-formatting commits but even that is barrier to entry over people being able to submit changes to your software easily--every bit of fussiness is a tax on the submitter's time and will result in less submissions).
Really? Is this documented somewhere? What is the typical proposal for how they plan to keep the population constant, after creating all that space? I've not heard of this. It's always about how many more millions of people could live here if we rearranged things.

I've never heard of a density advocacy group being opposed to population growth. Density advocacy is practically synonymous with at least acceptance (if not advocacy) of urban population growth. Population growth is in fact like a sacred cow. You must never blame any urban problems on population growth; the cause is always not enough vertical build.

Is there any example of a density anywhere going on record that the metropolis in this local neck of the woods should somehow say no to more people, rather than building more?
It's an idiom meaning an unappealing mixture or a disorderly situation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dog%27s_breakfast
The universe is temporarily occupied by stars.
Unfortunate but understandable. AMD needs to move faster on software support in AI space if they want any of that money.
Another relevant quote:

"This is because they promote a diversity of tree species, life histories and life stages; as well as a wide range of pathways for regeneration."
Removing "don't be evil" was an unforced PR blunder but things like that have only symbolic effect. Nobody would care if they weren't doing actually evil things like putting their DRM in web standards and pretending that Android is open while doing whatever they can to thwart competing services from becoming popular.

Notice how Apple never had a "don't be evil" to begin with. Does that mean they were always evil or that they aren't now?
S3 Compatible Object Storage with Transparent Pricing
S3 is probably storing lion share (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-pi-day-2024-use-your-data-to-power-generative-ai/#:~:text=Because%20Amazon%20S3%20stores%20more,the%20most%20is%20its%20quality.) of global digital foot print, I don't know when was the last time S3 reduced prices even though disks are getting denser and cheaper. I know there are few startups with cheap storage options but still limiting to some extent on egress. Would you consider if there is a new robust S3 compatible object storage system which will operate at transparent pricing (showing that we take only X% on gross profit unlike Amazon or other CSP operating with 80% GPM).
Personally I think framing this as some kind of double-standard regarding copyright or even a copyright-specific issue misses the forest for the trees.

The problem I see is that the generative AI economy hinges on an injustice: the presumption that all art on the internet - no matter the medium, or means or relative notoriety of the artist - shall be candidate training data, and no burden of attribution whatsoever shall be laid upon those who leverage it.

Most graphic artists that I know bemoan copyright. But, it's a tool that the law has given them.

Also: most graphic artists that I know exist under low economic circumstances - some near poverty - relative to most of the people I know who are building the next great wave of technological innovations with generative AI.

I don't see a struggle over copyright. Artists, who exist towards the bottom of the economic ladder as it is, are doing what they can to survive.
Which also let you do strikethrough and similar effects by typing over a line you already typed
An hero
Not sure about elsewhere, but it’s a common expression in the UK.
How does not having ADSB impact air control?
There seems to be an essential confusion between police refusing to investigate low-level theft without bodily harm (non-felony shoplifting, snatch-and-run, hit-and-run without injury) and the resulting (and inaccurate) lower crime rates. While not necessarily true of more serious (high-value or violent crimes) it is entirely possible for actual minor crime rates to rise while reported crime rates decrease.
It is like you say, mostly compiler/toolset/ecosystem, all 3.

While staying in the same ecosystem you can split your application into smaller crates, which many are doing. It's just not that ergonomic.
Why not use LiFePO4? Those should be much more stable.
I have 100% government provided healthcare (aside from dental) and I won't go see a doctor unless I'm literally going to die or want them to pull cancer off my arm. My diet would probably horrify you. Healthy as a horse except for another bit of suspected skin cancer I need to get checked out.
Very helpful (as well as sibling comment by pierat). Thank you both. I will need to do some research with regards to pairing SDRs with local disciplined clock that can tolerate temporary loss of remote (stratum-0,1) time precision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_disciplined_oscillator
But is this going to blow over in a few days? Again?

I can certainly appreciate frustration with the AMD stack, but be blunt, I was not impressed with Hotz's YouTube rant from before.[1] It didn't give the impression of a stable framework, and this doesn't either.

Also (at least from the end user llm inference side of things) ROCm is not nearly as unusable as it used to be. We would certainly be renting MI300s over A100s (or even H100s) if we could get any, and we use a number of different inference backends.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193625
The docs do not say what you're saying. Your phrasing is completely different, and the part where "if ^/$ are in the pattern then the haystack is treated as a single line" is completely made up. As far as I can tell, that's your rationalization for how to make sense of this behavior. But it is not a story supported by the actual regex engine docs. The actual docs say, "^ matches only at the beginning of the string, and $ matches only at the end of the string and immediately before the newline (if any) at the end of the string." The docs do not say, "the string is treated as a single line when ^/$ are used in the pattern." That's your phrasing, not anyone else's. That's your story, not theirs.

I still have not seen anything from you that makes sense of the behavior that `cat$` does not match `cat\n\n`. Like, I realize you've tried to explain it. But your explanation does not make sense. That's because the behavior is strange.

The only actual way to explain the behavior of $ is what the `re` docs say: it either matches at the end of the string or just before a `\n` that appears at the end of the string. That's it.
A single 9 in reliability over 100 hours would be colossally bad for a filesystem. For the average office user, 100 hours is not even a month's worth of daily use.

Even as an anecdote this is completely useless. A couple thousand hours and dozens of mount/unmount cycles would just be a good start.
Either you can cherry-pick non-white candidates among the US population or you can claim that there aren't enough skilled candidates in the US and hire H-1Bs from abroad - you cannot have both. Beggars cannot be choosers.
> build taller

Paris is already among the densest places on earth.

The problem comes from the excessive centralization of practically everything France has, in Paris, leading to an overpopulation of the entire Ile de France region, which drive prices in Paris itself to the roof.
Anyone else having form submission issue? I click "submit" but nothing happens.
100% right. GF is no longer gunning for leading-edge nodes. They've made their niche in mature nodes for low-power chips and emerging memories (FeFETS, MRAM, RRAM, etc). If you want to get leading edge nodes on American soil, Intel is the best bet.
Many countries allow accelerated deprecation of designated equipment.

Here's the IRS's - https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/additional-first-year-depreciat...
There are thousands of items on the agenda in the present day, everything from better open source LLMs to moon-base railway designs, so even if 99% of these turn out to be duds that can’t be budged, there are still sufficiently many remaining to absorb all bonafide super-geniuses on Earth several times over.
the models came out of an academic CS lab...can always fall back to those....
As someone who mostly accesses their Linux desktops via RDP, I’m curious to see how good the new integrated RDP support is (all my `xorgxrdp` setups are tweaked to do sound, accelerated graphics, etc.)
Consider my comment less of statement of objective fact than a rhetorical brush-back pitch in response to the ignorant claim of European irrelevance.

Edit: for this not familiar with Baseball analogies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushback_pitch
I think after your fix the set of valid states in that spot would just include UPTODATE. But this is all very poorly thought out on my part...
Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon
Mostly too slow for a lot of content, not every content is supported, not easy to keep it open at the right page, no comments, not easy to find the right tab, etc.