skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why the article give so many of it to Xi. I doubt things will go much different if you swap Xi with someone else.

Mao and Deng are IMO different. For Mao, he is the starter of this saga. For Deng, he's a visionary, and the decision he made was largely against the common trend in the party.

But for Xi, he is just a continuation of the tradition, it's how the ancient civilization views governing, which can be summed up with the traditional Chinese family relationship: the parents are always right, and the children must obey. In this arrogant and dangerously outdated analogy, the leaders are the "parents" (for example, as in "父母官", or "Official like a dad or mom"), and people are the children. Parents always wants the best for their childs, right? (And how can parent be abusive to their child?)

You would probably understand a lot of what China did based on that analogy. If you view yourself as a parent, then many of your people's demand suddenly look like pointless tamper tantrum.

> In the darker scenario, China faces “Japanification”

China is an autocracy. Unlike in a democracy (Japan) where it's leaders are expected to leave the office to someone else, an autocrat can and usually do use all the means necessary to protect their power. That includes just become a sellout for a foreign nation, or worse. If the current trend of decoupling from the wealthy nations continued and China's systems remained unupgraded, "Japanification" could as well be the ceiling of the whole spectrum of possibilities.

That's why I think China's leadership will face some serious real tests in the future years much more critical than just simple stagnation.
China's population declined by about 0.2% compared to its peak, pretty irrelevant for GDP so far.
YES I love Bulma CSS I am so glad to see this. Thank you contributor(s)!
Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction? I can't see how it would matter to any other person how you specifically choose to sync your bookmarks.
RIP Akira Toriyama. I wonder if the 1.0 announcement was related to his passing.
Show HN: Recess – Open-source Platform for Connecting Personal Websites
What field ? They aren't curing cancer, serves 0 purpose to advance the "field".
It sounds like basically all of the issues amount to “it was too far away to be convenient.”
Cwerg started off as a "Covid side project" with no pericular goal other than seeing how far you can push something that is simple enough be maintained by a single person. Oberon was an inspiration and I'd like to make Cwerg self hosted and maybe work on an OS written in it some day.

In term of features, Cwerg is roughly in the same space as Odin, Zig, Hare, etc.
(see https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-...)
But I am much more willing to sacrifice compatibility for simplicity, e.g.
no shared libs, no varargs, no linking with non-Cwerg code etc.

I also feel that compilation speed has not received as much attention in the compiler space as it deserves. Go-lang was one of the first to highlight this recently.
What to use for personal server setup automation?
I'd like to automate setting up Linux VMs with some minimal stuff like installing some packages, copying my dotfiles and updating some configuration like ssh and firewall.

I know Ansible is used a lot for this kind of things, but is there anything simpler out there for the kind of minimal setup I am looking to automate? I see Ansible is not getting much love, not sure why, but that makes me think folks here may be using different tools at least for personal projects.

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts
It's not at all. Source: ex-Tennessean.
I experimented with geospatial Hilbert Curves as a Postgres extension [0] for PostGIS using the S2 [1] spherical geometry library. S2 uses a scale free cell coverage pattern that is numbered using six interlocking space filling Hilbert Curves [2]. This approach is similar to what is used in this article. S2 doesn't use hexagons but a different cell structure but the idea is generally the same.

By having both high level (cell) and low level (cell id) geometries it was a very powerful library which allowed projection from the hilbert space into a Postgres spatial index (spgist) including various trees, like noted in this article. It appears to be still quite active in development.

[0] https://github.com/michelp/pgs2

[1] https://s2geometry.io/

[2] https://s2geometry.io/devguide/s2cell_hierarchy
There is a distinction between virtual machines and system containers. Those system containers are like "software VMs". Lightweight, and in the vast majority of cases they cover your needs compared to VMs.

With Incus you get the biggest range of images, https://images.linuxcontainers.org/

Most Incus system container images are also available as VM images.

There is friendly support at https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/
I use it everyday
Are there any other major international airports in the world that have the equivalent setup of Hongkong? For other readers: There is a fast-but-not-high-speed direct train from city centre to the airport. At the city terminal, there are tiny airline checkin booths where you can leave your bags. Magically, they are transported to the airport.
A very common piece of advice is to include keywords in your resume in exactly the way they are typed in the advertisement. This is because of places that use ATS systems to filter down the "best" candidates based on how closely their skill set matches the requirements. For example, if the requirement says "Must have proficiency in the Python scientific computing ecosystem, including TensorFlow and Scikit-Learn," if you subscribe to the keyword methodology, you'd make sure to sprinkle in the exact phrase "Python scientific computing ecosystem" on the off chance that some non-domain-expert in HR copied and pasted into their ATS.

I can see how someone would take that advice and include exact phrases in their cover letter in an attempt to get through the filters.
Arlanda is my favorite major-city airport. I'm not as well-traveled as many, but I've been to dozens and it's my favorite. I've transited between Stockholm, Norrtalje, and the airport in bus, tax, and train, with each being the easiest experience I've had with that respective form of transit.
This quote has stuck with me:

> Paul Tillich wrote that all institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic. Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual. Institutions, he warned, to extend their lives when confronted with collapse, will swiftly betray the stances that ostensibly define them. Only individual men and women have the strength to hold fast to virtue when faced with the threat of death. And decaying institutions, including the church, when consumed by fear, swiftly push those endowed with this moral courage and radicalism from their ranks, rendering themselves obsolete.

https://libquotes.com/chris-hedges/quote/lbh3k8n
Jesus. I just read the Wright Amendment article and it’s absolutely disgusting the level of regulatory capture and corporate cronyism enmeshed in our government in this country. There is no reason the federal government should be involving itself in these petty airline disputes, and certainly shouldn’t be helping maintain monopolies for reasons as bad as “American Airlines is the largest employer in North Texas”.
My knowledge derives from personal experience, but if you want digestible evidence you can go read the books: “Click Here to Kill Everybody” by well known cryptographer Bruce Schneier or “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends” by the lead cybersecurity reporter of the New York Times, Nicole Perlroth.
RDS can be quite expensive. I wrote a bit on this here https://medium.com/p/6c4fff5a8644
Because the assertion was that the OP's experience with sending MMS media in excess of the supposed 200k limitation must have been because they were sending to an iPhone. In order for that to happen, the sending phone would have to know the receiving phone was an iPhone so that it could enable "send bigger pictures to iPhones over MMS" mode. They can't retroactively change the media size once they've sent the message, so either somehow Apple is determining the receiver capabilities over MMS before sending the message, or the 200k limit isn't real / is a carrier imposed limit.
Whatever gave you the idea it's libertarian?
Dogs' brain activity shows they recognize the names of objects
The issue for Seatac is that it's on a relatively small piece of land and can't really expand. They would definitely just go that route if they could.
Of the 4 listed, I would say the primary objective is identifying a trend in the data to know whether the data is moving in a specific direction—increasing or decreasing in value.

I already added linear regression marks that draws linear regression lines with confidence bands[1] to my Observable plots but they do not give me a “value” so I need to manually look at the graphs and read the red line.

[1] https://observablehq.com/plot/marks/linear-regression
And you get from that "believing absent evidence"?

I get from that that faith is where your confidence in the logical conclusions of your belief gives you impetus to turn your hope into action.

Faith isn't to do with why you believe, its to do with what you do with that belief, and the separate question of why you believe of course involves evidence.
Yes, we are working on integrated debugging technology (what our customers mostly do these days is just run a conventional debugger inside the simulation, but that doesn't quite use our full power).

You're correct that tiny things like modifying the binary under test or attaching a debugger can change determinism and result in the bug slipping away. That's why... it's a good thing we've already built autonomous bug-searching technology? Since a deterministic hypervisor is also a hypervisor, we can generally rewind and do the intrusive debugging action at the "last possible moment", when it's least likely to cause the bug to disappear. Then if it still does, we simply fuzz onwards from that point and re-find the bug. This usually goes pretty quickly because we're in a timeline that's "close" to it, and we can use clues from the original repro to guide the fuzzing.
So they are expensive because they have a high price tag
Italy...isn't that the country where geologists are sentenced to long jail terms if they fail to predict an earthquake? Never mind that Italy's geology is extremely complex, and nobody on earth is actually capable of reliable earthquake prediction.
some amount of IRS drift should be ~predictable, an anticipated deviation from GPS could be used as a measure of trust for GPS
>Take this idea to the extreme are we going to not show anything ... that we don't want to advocate for as a society?

It's already absurd. News sites and police are not releasing photos and detailed descriptions of suspects because it would "purpetuate racist stereotypes".
The very first line in the readme, the title, is linked there.

I'd say we should judge the entire project by this awful UX and stay far away from it.
That doesn't mean that there is no evidence for the faith they are advocating.
It's nice to see so many people still understanding the benefits of plain text email.

I wish thunderbird's "simple HTML" view option was closer to plain text: one locally selected font, non-obscured links, while still rendering images inline...
One option would be to have people check in, drop off their luggage, and even go through security in some convenient location in the city center and then take a high-speed train "inside security" to the gate. (Maybe you could even have trains to two different fields.)
Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'
Where have you been reading about China's "fall", apart from maybe Peter Zeihan? (who is a sensationalist on everything)

I have been reading about China's structural problems which might in the long term lead to slower growth / stagnation, and that seems to fit reality well.
Because of the earned income tax credit. It’s involved and stupid how much welfare is done through that program.

Plus congress wants the poor idiots who vote republican to feel like taxes are a punishment otherwise how will they whip up their base.
To be clear, I think #2 is much more likely.
That would be really cool and a fitting level of meta if the Picotron could be used to develop PICO-8 games. I guess you could bolt a PICO-8 onto the side of the Picotron like one of those 90s console devkits.
I wonder if you're taking a particularly narrow definition of what faith is.

I don't think it's possible to operate without faith, regardless of belief in god. You are not going to get out and check every bridge you drive across. You're going to trust that they are not going to fall, and that is a type of faith.

The same can be said for the vast majority of human experience. Living requires us to constantly act with incomplete knowledge. I'm not sure that complete knowledge is even possible.
Ahh, thank you, I did install the preview generator but missed the initial run, thanks!
Your understanding of our approach is pretty much correct. As for interesting coverage metrics... stay tuned! We're going to write about this a lot in the future!
I think you're being willfully argumentative.

ORD is critical not only to travel and commercial interests in the region and nationally, but also to military and national interests globally. I'm not even going to sit here and try to explain to you the geographically strategic nature of Chicago's location to the US because you clearly aren't here to listen to reason. I'll just say that you asserting that suburbanites don't like ORD is not even close to a good enough reason for the rest of us to abrogate the societal contract with military and commercial sense.

If you are displeased with the nature of Chicago's suburbs, perhaps you'd be more comfortable in another metro area? ORD is not going anywhere, but you can go elsewhere if it pleases you to do so.
Are you thinking of Boeing Field? Paine is a tiny little luxury airport with 4 gates.
Just out of curiosity: does anyone know why so many of the sponsors listed on bulma.io are casinos and betting sites?
Part of it is people not recognizing "San Diego greenspace" because it's mostly brownspace. San Diego is built on a huge sprawling system of canyons, many of which are parks and have trails, but they're brown and ignored.

https://www.alltrails.com/lists/san-diego-canyons

If San Diego was as wet as some European cities, those would all be amazingly green.
Looking over the Readme, this sounds a lot like Zig. What languages have you taken the most inspiration from?
It’s kind of funny that the article calls the field of computational complexity “arcane”, considering it is at the forefront of everything we know about the limits of computing.

That said, I haven’t understood the intense, long term focus on worst-case case and average-case analysis within the field. In fact, when I first heard of big-O notation many years ago, it took me an embarrassingly long time before I realized this referred to the asymptotic performance of an algorithm on the worst-case instances of a problem. I remember thinking “Why on earth would you care about that? You can derive pathological examples to just about anything.”

Even the term “average-case” is misleading. We’re not talking about “average” in the sense of a typical instance of a problem class one might encounter in the course of daily life. This instead refers to the expectation value of the algorithm’s (asymptotic) performance over all problem instances within a formal language. Sure, the non-colloquial usage of the term “average” here is obvious to mathematicians, but I don’t think someone outside the field is likely aware that we see drastically better performance of heuristic algorithms on real-world instances of NP-hard problems than one would expect based upon a naive review of the research from computational complexity theory.

This performance gap between theory and practice is due to the fact that the problems we encounter in daily life have such a huge amount of mathematical substructure to them, and I would be very surprised if a provably optimal average-case algorithm ever realistically corresponds to the mean performance of an algorithm optimally tailored to the distribution of problem instances we encounter in real world data.

Consider matrix factorization. There are techniques that speed this up considerably if the matrix is known to be positive semidefinite, sparse, low-rank, and so on. Who knows how much undiscovered substructure is lurking in the set of real-world problem instances we lump together under “matrix factorization”.

The subfield of computational complexity theory that moves beyond overall complexity analysis I believe is called BWCA, “Beyond Worst-Case Analysis” (but someone correct me if that’s not right).

For mathematical objects like neural networks, where the specific problem instances have an absolutely massive amount of hidden substructure within them, I think we will have to use approaches like BWCA going forward to learn more about the nature of e.g., transformers.

My view is that we should focus less on the absolute limits of a particular architecture (woohoo, it’s Turing complete and a universal function approximator like everything else) and drill down more into studying the limits of the interplay between model architecture and the intrinsic hidden substructure of the data that the model is trained on.
Not all scientists are researchers and not all researchers are scientists, these people where both. So there's nothing wrong with calling them researchers.
What advantages would a classifier AI offer vs the authors method of using a formula to subset these data?
Sorry, I meant the information that is inferred (from scratch on every token) from the entire context, and is then reduced to that single token. Every time a token is generated, the LLM looks at the entire context, does some processing (and critically, this step generates new data that is inferred from the context) and then the result of all that processing is reduced to a single token.

My conjecture is that the LLM "knows" some things that it does not put into words. I don't know what it is, but it seems wasteful to drop the entire state on every token. I even suspect that there is something like a "single logic step" of some conclusions from the context. Though I may be committing the fallacy of thinking in symbolic terms of something that is ultimately statistical.
In this article, we’ll be primarily focusing on relational databases, and the critical role that they play in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Is there a reason for that? Can it handle more?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/introducing-neural-pr...

DirectML is a low-level API that provides a common abstraction layer for hardware vendors to expose their machine learning accelerators. DirectML works with any DirectX 12-compatible device including GPUs and now NPUs. Support for Intel Core Ultra processors with Intel AI Boost was developed in close collaboration with Intel.
this is quite secure but not against thermorectal cryptoanalysis though
Thanks :) Zapier is great, but we think LLMs can make automation way easier than it currently is; I personally end up automating a lot more stuff when there's a good chance it can take ~30 seconds (+/- some tweaking ofc).
This section contains a list of features that are unlikely to be added to the Cwerg backend:

https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg?tab=readme-ov-file#inten...

If you can live without them, it can be a replacement for LLVM.
I want to know more about the White Sea Canal/Lake Onega patch and the spot in West Papua
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One economic problem is that the express train to or from the airport
(if there is one) is that a roundtrip ticket can quickly cost more than
the roundtrip airfare these days.

That is yet another barrier for disadvantaged people.

When the airport is closer to the city they are often included in the
normal public transit system and thus a lot more affordable.
That would be the holy grail, but there are innumerable hurdles to cross first.

They seem to have had success with making a bladder:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45470799

But a bladder is just a tube. Cultivating and growing a multilayered higher functioning organ like a kidney or a heart is a lot harder.

I do hope they can pull it off though, especially if they can reset the genetic clocks on the new organs.

I imagine there are trillions of dollars on the line as well. Organs are big money and necessary for life but there's also the plastic surgery aspect.

For instance, new skin.

I could see 25-50 years from now being able to go to the doctors and drop off a few skin cells and then coming back 3 months later, shucking your old skin and getting the new skin put on, floating in a star wars bacta tank for a week or so while the nerve integrate and the sutures heal, and then coming out looking like a teenager again.

But not just for old people but for burn victims, too.

Of course, while you're at it, get your new heart / lungs / kidneys / knees / eyes / hair follicles / breast & genital upgrades / remove all of the excess fat from your body / upgrade muscles / get a new set of adult teeth installed / get any bone level deformities handled...

The wealthy could go into these retreats for a few months and come out as basically a brand new human if they had the cash or credit.
People of course give up on trying to grok complex programs like version control all the time, git included. (where "giving up" means just using the UI and trying to derive meaning from the results with the minimal goal of achieving one task at a time). But in my experience, fewer people give up on understanding git internals than comparably complex program internals. I.e. the second layer of understanding is more accessible in git than in other software, where people often don't even start trying to understand the second layer, much less make real progress with that understanding.

Edit: Sorry if I am talking past any of your points - I'm not familiar with the XKCD comic you referenced.
> Haneda is vastly more convenient.

Many (millions) would disagree. After the opening of the Keisei Skyliner[1], a very fast train from north Tokyo to Narita, from Shinjuku station (west side, busiest train station in the world), it is the same time to either Haneda ("Tokyo Int'l") or Narita.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyliner
> The US in general is very densely built up.

This is the opposite of reality. The US is sprawly and low density.

Of course, that's exactly the problem: sprawling over more space means that it's harder to get to open space for an airport.
> you can quickly spin it…

It’s really hard for me to see how any theology—or any text—could be any less ambiguous than any other.

E.g. quantum mechanics is arguably the least ambiguous theory ever devised, because it gives results of the most specific agreement with experiment. But nevertheless has an ever-increasing number of interpretations, none of which can be ruled out—to all appearances hopelessly ambiguous to what it actually means.

When it comes decisions you have to make, either individually or as a society, even the most verbose and specific moral codes suddenly seem to be ambiguous. Some examples:

1. Are we morally obliged to either support or oppose Obamacare?

2. Is a 50% tax rate moral or immoral? What is the exact tax rate which is “most moral”?

3. Is it Moral to support a president who boinked an intern? Or a president who payed hush money to hookers?

4. Should it be illegal to smoke? Or sell fruit-flavored vapes?

5. How old should somebody be before they are allowed to (fill in the blank here…vote, have sex, drive a car, drink, drop out of school?)

We certainly look to our cultural polestars—-religion, tradition, precident—to help us out with these sorts of questions, but by no means does any of them give us any definitive answers.
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