skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first heard of this scheme the big question I had was "where are you going to find the room to plant them?" and it seems like that's still a big problem they're struggling with.

> But many 2BT projects are planting on private land — and in places like Southern Ontario, there’s not enough of that land to go around, experts told The House.

I heard them discussing this issue on the radio and they went on to describe in more depth how they were giving farmers tax breaks to plant forests.

Canada is a big country, but the reality is that all the space is already being used. Either it's used by agriculture to export food all around the world, for cities (we have a housing crisis), or it's already forest.

And logging companies that chop down trees were already obligated to replant the forest, well before this 2B trees promise.

So we're left with replacing farming and pasture land with forest. There's not a lot of good opportunities for that.
Iceland and Ireland went from being poor to wealthy and stable, both as small democracies, and during the 20th century.
> Why would it be terrified? It doesn't have an amygdala.

because your intellect would grasp the immense heaviness to realize you're mortal, that your ego will end.
Vacuum Tube computer beat human computer in 1950s (p211)
> the turing machine doesn't care about that. It's also just writing 1's and 0's as per a turing machine.

But a Turing machine does not have to be restricted to just printing out zeros and ones. It can be any finite set of symbols. For example, he Soviets built a computer which used base 3--its symbol set was {-1, 0, 1}. It didn't have bits which could just store "1" or "0", it had trits which could store "-1", "0", or "1".

And why the soviets built such a computer is germane to Kolmogorov complexity just because you can make shorter strings in base 3 than you can in base 2. The choice of symbol set absolutely impacts the length of strings and programs, and therefore impacts the Kolmogorov complexity of strings relative to the computer.

With this in mind, please consider three Turing Machines: A, B, and C

The symbols A prints out on its tape are {"A", "B", "C"}

The symbols B prints out on its tape are {"0", "1"}

The symbols C prints out on its tape are {"0", "1", "A", "B", "C"}

Now consider two strings: "1000001" and "A". Turing machine B could print out "1000001". Turing machine A could print out "A".

You might be tempted to equate "1000001" and "A". But consider the same two strings printed out by machine C:

"1000001" and "A"

Clearly, these are different strings. If C printed out "A", it did not print out "1000001", and vice versa.

> Kolmogorov complexity explicitly includes any dictionary you use in it's calculation.

Sure, but on a binary turing machine, like Machine B above, that dictionary is not going to be matching between binary strings and, say Roman letters. Its going to be mapping from one binary string to another binary string.

Using Machine C, you certainly could write a program which inputed "1000001" and output "A". But you absolutely, positively, cannot write such a program in either machines A or B. Machine A cannot print the string "1000001". And B cannot print the string "A".

Different strings, different things.
Extremely based and uniquely insightful comment. CTO is basically a bullshit job. At small companies it’s just an eng manager or lead eng. At BigCo’s it’s just some guy they pay a lot and trot out for occasional keynotes.
It's crazy how popular authoritarian demagogues have gotten around the world. His campaign, mannerism, and treatment of media and opposition can be a cut and paste of a bunch of different politicians of the world.

At the end of the day though, I really hope it all works out.
I must have misread "plop that kind of library" as "plop that kind of binary" about five times. My bad.
The US became absurdly wealthy during the 20th century. Canada did well too. Poland, Czechia, Estonia and a few other recently independent democracies are thriving as well.
I have heard of this structure also referred to as a PLA - programmable logic array, and I think a ULA is specifically for a PLA that is embedded in the empty space of a bigger design (so that in case something is broken, a debug is one mask, not a full respin).

I am not sure that Wikipedia is out-of-date enough to have the precise terminology, but I also may be wrong.
That's kind of the point. It's feature detection code. If the code cleanly compiles, the feature is assumed supported, otherwise, it's assumed not present/functional. This pretty common with autotools. The gotcha here is this innocuous period is not supposed to be syntactically valid. It's meant to be subtle and always disable the feature.
where are you getting your curriculum from?
Because nobody’s really paying attention.

“LGTM!”
>But at the end of the day, the vast majority of people just don't seek to actively harm others. Everything humans do relies on that assumption, and always has.

Wholeheartedly agree. Fundamentally, we all assume that people are operating with good will and establish trust with that as the foundation (granted to varying degrees depending on the culture, some are more trusting or skeptical than others).

It's also why building trust takes ages and destroying it only takes seconds, and why violations of trust at all are almost always scathing to our very soul.

We certainly can account for bad actors, and depending on what's at stake (eg: hijacking airliners) we do forego assuming good will. But taking that too far is a very uncomfortable world to live in, because it's counter to something very fundamental for humans and life.
the fact that noodles cost 10x as it does in Canada? cost of labor and minimum wages
This is common in synthetic test software
How much of immigration in Berlin is just a matter of filing forms versus some convoluted system such as North America?
>> The interesting one to watch out for is how often democracies form with the support of an existing democracy - I only have a loose understanding of the history but France seemed to have an outsized role in the US becoming what it is today.

I'm not sure that you could say that France was a democracy in the late 18th century (1770's, 1780's) - the critical time for the creation of the US and its form of government.
My furthest computer magazine reading is Byte. Never read anything about computer (other than ibm manual) that old. But other than the electronic one, you do seem to have old story about these vacuum tube one even then; well, other than ww2 etc.
I think I heard this pitched by Neil Diamond 15 years ago. He had an f body or similar old big body car from the early 80 retrofitted with a rotary engine charging the battery… I’m so glad to hear this finally making production.
You don't believe the argument you've made here, and have spent years making the opposite argument vis a vis incorporation. If you were right, I'd get to take your guns away.
Novo piggybacked on a ton of research especially with metformin done in the US. Let's not be delusional that Denmark is a bastion of cutting edge biological research
I find it difficult to understand certain math and science papers/articles due to ambiguous use of language.

For example "all previous tokens can be passed to the current token." That seems like a poorly constructed sentence. A token is not a function and it's not an algorithm either... How can you pass tokens to a token? This type of ambiguous language in academic papers makes it hard to read... Maybe the phrase 'every token has an association with every other previously encountered token' would be better? Or every token is used to compute the token vector for each token... I don't know, all I can do is guess the meaning of the word 'passed'. They want us to infer and fill in the gaps with our own assumptions. It assumes that we are primed to think in a certain highly constrained way...

For some reason a lot of academia around AI is littered with such imprecise language. They choose to use niche concepts and repurposed wording that their own small community invented rather using words and ideas that are more widely understood but which would convey the same information.

Rational people who aren't directly involved in those fields who generally resist jumping to conclusions will struggle to understand what is meant because a lot of those words and ideas have different interpretations in their own fields.

I studied machine learning at university and wrote ANNs from scratch and trained them and even I find the language and concepts around LLMs too ambiguous. I'd rather just ask ChatGPT.

One thing that bothers me is that the community has moved away from relating concepts to neurons, interconnections, input layers, hidden layers and output layers. Instead, they jump straight into vectors and matrices... Pretending as though there is only one way to map those calculations to neurons and weights. But in fact, this abstraction has many possible interpretations. You could have fully connected layers or partially connected layers... Maybe you need a transformer only in front of the input layer or between every layer... So many possibilities.

The entire article means little if considered in isolation outside of the context of current configurations of various popular frameworks and tools.
Alas, the part you're describing as great is written in past tense.
Re: France and the United States, you have the timeline mixed up a bit. France & the French intellectuals of course played a large role in the American revolution, but it was America that became a democracy first. Lafayette, one of the key players in the French Revolution, served under Washington and lead troops in the US before coming back to France and playing a key role in the founding of the First Republic.
Light and Infrared Radiation (2018)
perhaps most of the research would not be incentivized in a socialist society? it's not like the talent doesn't exist elsewhere, but US embrace of capitalism is a factor in the research development research.
More than existing chatbots? Curious what anecdotes you have, whether it be on the customer-side or the service-side.
“Today’s universities are as corrupt as the medieval Catholic Church,” Thiel said in the release. “The Reformation is underway.”

I get Thiel dislikes the university system. But the idea of giving students 100k instead of a four-year education is wrongheaded. Most kids by a long shot need the structure of a university to accomplish their educational and by extension their life's goals. It's true a few exceptional kids can and probably should skip a university education but they are very few. It's probably best to have them pursue their goals under their initiative rather than entice them with $100k. My concern is that they will lose the chance to learn valuable skills in school. We know that most businesses will fail. Just because you get 100k does not mean you'll succeed. To me, it makes better sense for students to finish their education and then pursue their world changing ideas.
One DAY not one tree!! Newcomers tree planting day! Let's also give a tax break to non-new comers who join that government tree planting day, 1% per year if you participate in 10 days? Dream big my fellow canuck, dream big! :)
That’s not an explanation about exactly how intention was derived.

I suppose I’m asking for the chain of events that led to the conclusion. I see lots of technical hot takes for how something could work, with no validation it does, nor intent behind it.

I’d like to understand what steps we know were taken and how that presents itself.
I want modules the same size as the portable computer that slide onto the front and the back of it. There should be no limit in the number of modules one can slide on either side.

On the screen side you can slide a lid, game controls, a qwerty keyboard that folds open or slides downwards, a set of speakers or an extra screen.

The batteries slide onto the back or the front. As many as I want to bring. The phone it self (since it doesn't work without its main battery) doesn't have to be entirely flat, it may have some bumps to accommodate bulky components. The back of the battery should be flat but the other side should of course have space for the bumps.

The batteries should also fit on the front side so that the weight is part of the keyboard.

Making phones as thin as possible is not self evident, I want to chose how much battery life I'm going to bring. Batteries just get old, the advertised and bench-marked time is for new devices. Charging not an interesting activity to me. The extra weight is not an issue. Actually, that it is so light and flimsy is annoying at times.

The attachments can have data or even whole computers in them. Publish a standard. In stead of apps you could buy physical attachments that you can swap. TB's of game assets, your entire music and movie library. All of your videos and photos. A pirate box seems fun or some other server. Have other phones connect to your wifi hotspot and play lan games without involvement of the mothership.

edit: Ideas are cheap, and with ideas I mean your ideas :P
Some alternatives to these items:
I like bandizip for zip needs

MPC-BE for video/audio

XnViewMP

Firefox for PDFs

MS office web (no need to install anything)

Windows 10+ includes clipboard history

PowerToys does have a file search, not sure how it compares to Everything
Generally yes, but ripping all conditions out of SECURITY.md should at least raise an eyebrow?
Perhaps holepunching of a certain offsite JS-based app in your browser is the problem there. InfoSec know this all too well.

Things like JS-based portscanning, file-less malware in JS datastore, …
Yes, but remember companies often outsource everything. Our company stores all data on office 365. So Microsoft already has everything we care about.

And trusting the network is an old security model in this day and age (think Google beyondcorp). Trust should be on the endpoint not the network.
Pantum is exactly such a company, I cannot comment on the quality of the printers as I still went with a refurbished Brother.
She’s a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Foundation’s Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; one of the most celebrated writers in American literature. I understand that you may not personally like the book of hers you read, but to suggest that people read her just because they’re required to is absurd.
Sure, and I love going out in the evenings like I said. But it’s just weird to me that people want to just stay home all day and only go out in the evening every weekday.
Not me. Maybe someone is using an editor with a . key mapped to something. It's in a pretty convenient place.

:wq!
I think drunk driving being an oil that keeps society lubricated cannot and should not be understated.

Yes, drunk driving kills people and that's unacceptable. On the other hand, people going out to eat and drink with family, friends, and co-workers after work helps keep society functioning, and the police respect this reality because they don't arrest clearly-drunk patrons coming out of restaurants to drive back home.
The idea is that you bet before the sequence is known. Nowadays we would say it is the distribution (or the process producing the random sequences) that can be truly random or not, and we recognize that saying "sequence [...] is random" is incoherent, same as the joke of the random int set to 4 with a comment in the source code that it was chosen by fair dice roll.

If you know everything about the process and still can't beat chance at predicting it, that's the quality we are after. In this definition "random" just means unpredictable, which is another way to explain why it can only be a meaningful distinction when you don't yet know the result.
As someone who was looking for that git repo, thank you :)
> I've never met someone who's been concerned with deferring deallocation.

Realtime audio processing (instruments and effects), where malloc/free can never be called on the realtime audio thread. Deallocations have to be deferred.

If it matters for realtime audio, I cannot imagine that it would not matter for twitch games as well.

In non-GC languages the audio thread can be kept running even when changing audio plugins, as long as allocations and deallocations are not performed on the audio thread.

Realtime audio synthesis is possible in .net; but no memory allocations can occur anywhere in the entire realtime audio process. It is possible to write allocation-free message queues between a UI process and a realtime process. If allocations do occur in the realtime audio process, the realtime thread has to be suspended at some point in order to grab object references on the stack of the realtime thread -- a process that can take 2ms or more in .net GCs (which is more than enough to case audio dropouts).[1]
Just like the entire world
Thanks, I'll try to check it out. Full article here: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12914

At a quick skim, I'm not sure this contradicts what I'm saying. Yes, large trees that are getting larger are excellent carbon sinks. On the other hand, there aren't many such large trees, and they tend to outcompete other growth.

From the article: Second, our findings are similarly compatible with the well-known age-related decline in productivity at the scale of even-aged forest stands. ... We highlight the fact that increasing individual tree growth rate does not automatically result in increasing stand productivity because tree mortality can drive orders-of-magnitude reductions in population density. That is, even though the large trees in older, even-aged stands may be growing more rapidly, such stands have fewer trees. Tree population dynamics, especially mortality, can thus be a significant contributor to declining productivity at the scale of the forest stand.

My point is contained within "the well-known age-related decline in productivity at the scale of even-aged forest stands" that they refer to. That said, I agree that this point is not universally true and depends on a lot of local factors.
That’s insane. Hybrid only works if everyone else is doing it on the team.
A thought exercise I read once blew my mind.

Imagine a spaceship lands that has the most advanced technology that is constructed from abundant molecules, self powered off the planets resources, renews, repairs, and can adapt itself according to the environment's elements. and multiples at no-loss while passes learnings forward to other manifestations of the technology. the door of the spaceship opens, and lo and behold the technology is biological life as we see today.
These technologies are already using green energy.

Let me guess, it's not green enough for you?

Imagine if climate change advocates understood the fate of the Earth's climate is determined overwhelmingly by poor people in countries that don't care to be lectured by wealthy Western elites because they're poor. This hardware has a real possibility of enabling breakthroughs across all sectors of the world economy, and those poor people benefit the most from those advances. And since the activists refuse to grapple with this problem, I'm starting to be convinced they're just sociopathic maniacs or deeply racist lunatics.
The thought of seeing anyone they deem below them rising to their status makes them seethe.
Oof same, I'm always going back to the docs for these
> The interesting one to watch out for is how often democracies form with the support of an existing democracy

The more interesting one is how often a democracy can survive against democratic superpower wishes. I.e, during the cold war era, the US helped taking down more democratic governments than the USSR itself. That is a bit of ironic remark. People tend to forget that the US didn't like democracies outside its sphere of influence in the last century.

I am sure this legacy gets blind eye when people usually talk about democracy and why many people doesn't like it. The scars are still alive til this day (Iran is the prime example here).
Alright, you be you. Sounds like you’ve not worked in hard engineering firms, so we operate in different bubbles.
Nobody was watching. Plain and simple.

If you have commit access to it, and nobody is there to see, nothing stops you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia_during_the_Fasc...

All governments are basically mafioso. Consider the existence of national security laws of every government. These are a kind of legal Omertà.
I’d like to know what we mortals – those that run Ubuntu LTS on VMs, for instance — need to do, if anything.
I got curious, so:

~/t [main L|…1]$ gcc test.c
~/t [main L|…1]$ vi test.c
~/t [main L| 1…1]$ git diff
diff --git a/test.c b/test.c
index 33c14ce..dc93007 100644
--- a/test.c
+++ b/test.c
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
int main() {
- return 0;
+ return 0;
}
~/t [main L| 1…1]$ gcc test.c
test.c:2:5: error: expected expression
<U+0008>return 0;
^
1 error generated.

So, yes, this could have been made to look exactly like a meaningless whitespace change.
i’ve been using irfanview since i was in grade 4? and it’s one of the first things i install on every laptop i’ve owned ever since.
Hmm... possibly a literal survivorship bias at work here? :)
that's not what it says in the article. it actually says "information from all previous tokens can be passed to the current token".

that statement is meaningfully different from "all previous tokens can be passed to the current token". and both really makes sense if you understand attention mechanisms.
It’s a really competitive job market right now and you’ll be competing with people with graduate degrees.
xzploit
Don’t think “puff piece” is the phrase you’re after here. Also, the novelty of the information might be relative to the source/reader?
Incredibly esoteric functions, the hallmark of Mathematica!
> Are discounts then customers pilfering the pockets of the workers? Combo deals?

No. That's marketing. Marketing is a strategy used to help turn a profit. Giving away that profit to shareholders makes absolutely no contribution to the ability of a business to turn a profit. Those aren't remotely close to similar.
Ah, I understand. Do you need GUI for that router stuff can’t just use SSH? What about xtightvnc with novnc web fronted?
Harold Tobin – Investigating Sources of the Next Cascadia Earthquake [video]
They aim for 3 today but if they can't accomplish it today, they will definitely do it in the near future. It's impressive any way you see it.

They are still on schedule to do 3 as of now, 8 pm Pacific time.
ROC is a democracy today (although it was a one party state with the KMT for a long time), do you mean the PRC or am I misunderstanding your comment?
Ok there's a larger question here about the bazaar software development method.

How can we ensure say, that Microsoft doesn't pay someone to throw a wrench in libre office development or Adobe to sabotage Gimp?

There's lots of deception strategies for bad faith actors and given the paucity of people who actually do the work, it's really really hard to be picky.

Especially with the complexity of library dependencies. Defect-at-a-distance may actually be a common strategy and this is the first that was caught
I had a different problem: my college professor was not helpful at all. When I visited him during his open office hours he just said, "Did you take notes? Study your notes!" He was about to retire that year, so that might be why but it was a garbage experience.
I don’t understand how writing documentation or attending meetings is “trivial”. Writing good documentation is a skill and is essential to effectively disseminate information throughout an organization. Meetings, if managed effectively, fosters collaboration and helps ensure everyone is on the same page. While you may love coding, as I do, we’re getting paid to solve problems and deliver business value. Communication is a critical element that ensures business value is delivered.
…Dan…brown…
The US became absurdly wealthy during the 19th century as well, particularly after the Civil War.