skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I partially agree - the core of what you're saying doesn't need Christianity or faith to reinforce. People can find salvation, lifelong happiness and spiritual fulfillment from something as simple as visiting their hometown. There are hundreds of mechanisms to ground people in their communities without using faith as a corollary for commitment. Lions Club, Boy Scouts, food shelter volunteers and firefighters all roughly serve the same purpose in serving the community while enriching the individual.

Without trying to make anyone angry, I legitimately believe religion as a concept is obsolete. My impression is that Christianity is blatantly manmade, and adapted to each society in accordance with how servile the audience is. That's not to say it's an ineffective tool, but propaganda and torture can also be effective tools that we consider irrational and unhealthy under a liberal democracy. I think that any state that respects the individual sovereignty of it's citizens would not turn around and spend their tax-dollars on non-secular investments.
>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America as it is for Nigeria, India and all the rest.

This is very debatable. Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonized. So wasn't Japan.

Places where the institutions of colonization were toppled like Haiti did not fare well, neither did Nepal. This is a Marxist reading of History that imo is way too simple and results in a lot of inconsistencies, but it's in tune with feelings of justice (or revenge if you like Nietzsche).
Making a SOTA Adversarial Attack on LLMs 38x Faster
I'm running it in a container. So I haven't noticed any such issues. Other than having to re-authenticate every few weeks. The container itself is configured to auto restart on failures. But I'll keep an eye on it. Maybe it is failing and I just never noticed it. But I do see that my NAS has the latest images and videos downloaded. So at least as a container, its working as advertised.
> In one experiment, they started with the prompt “Bill Bradley was a” and used the decoding functions for “plays sports” and “attended university” to see if the model knows that Sen. Bradley was a basketball player who attended Princeton.

Why not just change the prompt?

Name, University attended, Sport played
Bill Bradley,
what are your ethical qualms?
They must have a ton of comparative data on releasing new chat apps.
Or simply pay them more without a promotion. That's what bonuses are for.
Nice to see this talked about here and Marc being public about it.

AWS is such a big place that even after a bit of tenure you still got place to look to find interesting technical approaches and when I was introduced to this schema for Lambda storage I was surprised.

As Marc mentions it is such a simple and powerful idea that is definitely not mentioned enough.
That's something we can use to interpret what is mentioned in "The Talent Code" book: https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/0...
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Parents can make things very unpleasant for administrators. Which means they can make things very unpleasant for teachers.

Plus, they (among others) vote for the school board, and may run for school board.
Can you share what update you are referring to ?

I've played with Bark quite extensively a few month ago and I'm on the fence regarding that model: when it works, it's the best, but I found it to be pretty useless for most use-case I want to use TTS for because of the high rate of bad or weird output.

I'm pretty happy with XTTv2 though. It's reliable and output quality is still pretty good.
Not yet open source, but there are plans to open source the stack as mentioned by the article which references this HN post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745
Have 2 kids doing math here, 6 and 7 grades
Do they? In the US, Amazon only actually charges your card once the items ship. Until then it’s just a pre-authorization.
Maybe I am naive. Help me out. My familiar languages are Go, Elixir, Python, Perl, Ruby, and some Javascript. I would have said all of these languages allow for abstractions that reduce lines of code.

What I don't want is abstractions that increase cognitive load.

The case presented in the article requires many mixed types in a list. The longer the list, the more you have to keep in your head. In Go, it is common to use table driven tests and you can get something like:

cases := struct{
wins int
losses int
is_eligible bool
}{
{23, 13, true},
{34, 1, true},
{3, 0, false},
}

Each case is abstracted and minimal. But it is very clear as you read that what each is because there are few items in the list. If it was a dozen properties, like in the post, you visually cannot parse that as fast. When the list of properties gets long, you are now mentally counting "ok, the 9th parameter is a float, oh, hm, the 9th param is showing an int... oh, I forgot the 7th param."

Abstractions should be clear and make understanding easier. With so many parameters, labeling them makes them clear. Abstractions are not just for reducing line count.

Where am I going wrong? What is the better alternative?
Inline with many adjacent comments, I think companies could genuinely do more to offer an incentive to stay for the long haul. What worked for past generations isn't enough in the current age where inflation/cost of living have significantly outpaced wages.

On a nominal basis I would expect to make more money in 10 years by switching companies every few than sticking around at one company for the duration. Beyond that, a lot of companies don't really care about what kind of growth/trajectory you want. It seems most employers are looking to fill a role and could care less about growing/developing your talent in new/existing ways.

Employers will need to really make an effort to understand their employees and connect with their needs/wants for them to stick around for the long haul. Maybe that's a tall ask, but offering a salary/healthcare/retirement is the norm now and isn't necessarily competitive in itself.

Can I really count on my employer to honor my well-being and interests or are they going to string me along until they don't need me? I think it's perfectly fair for employees to do the same, it's a two-way street.
> Nothing to do with Atari ST, the “ST” is the author’s initials

Or STM32, as I initially suspected.
TLS 1.3 deliberately doesn't have RSA kex (key exchange using the RSA public key encryption system) which was obsolete.

All TLS 1.3 key agreements will thus be based on information chosen by both parties, which enables Forward Secrecy.

The people this work is addressing (like big banks) are often part of EDCO (Enterprise Data Center Operators) who tried to get RSA kex put back into TLS 1.3. They failed largely because the IETF isn't a democracy. We aren't a government, we do not believe in Kings, or Presidents, or Voting. We do engineering here, we believe in rough consensus and running code. They also failed because of IETF Best Common Pratice #188, "RFC 7258 : Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack" which says the IETF should design protocols to resist this stuff.
I see what you mean, but to a reader unfamiliar with tauri this makes it sound really bad.

Here's how I use tauri:

Almost everything is native rust in the "backend" process, which is where main is. I don't need any ffi calls to write files, open ports, etc, it's a normal rust program that happens to have a web view.

So I've never had a problem with compiling to wasm, the GUI is TypeScript and the business logic is aot rust

The ipc boundary is annoying. It'll be faster in tauri 2, but in 1 it uses json or something internally, so you couldn't e.g. write a video player that uses a custom rust codec. Getting uncompressed video frames through ipc would kill perf

I'll take a look how dioxus solves this
In this case, write mock data first
What terrible experience did you have? I've been daily driving Debian/Ubuntu on multiple machines for years, and I can't complain.
I have a 9-year and a 10-year stint on my resume. I am not looking for a job, though.
For those who want to "stay a while", Jonathon Bi did a discussion series on Girard's Mimetic Theory:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_xn3B6eWvGsILrh5v5nq...
Last point is interesting. There is also a parallel phenomenon where social media creator is one of the top (actually the top in some surveys) "dream professions" among youth these days, displacing the traditional ones like pro athlete, doctor, lawyer, actor, etc.[1][2]

When I was in high school we were completely gripped by the notion that it was necessary to get into a good university program in order to have a (monetarily) bright future. If that mythology is broken, I can imagine it becomes very hard for the average teenager to give a shit about school at all.

[1] https://today.yougov.com/technology/articles/39997-influence...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/more-children-dream-of-being...
You can choose between using the system's webview as your renderer or an experimental WGPU-based engine that pulls in stylo (the piece of servo shared with Firefox).

We're hoping to move folks to the WGPU renderer in the long term, but it's still pretty raw and many companies using Dioxus are pragmatic enough to know that a webview is a good enough solution for like 90% of apps.
The original Enigma machine had a cryptographic weakness in that it would never encode a letter to itself (e.g. an A would never be encoded to an A). Luckily this seems to have been fixed for the binary enigma machine.
It's because Deimos basically doesn't have a gravity well to overcome. You're just getting alongside it in orbit. It's not really landing at all.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851564
The framing of this essay bothers me, because it suggests that losing great-grandmothers is a bad thing.

But why can't we focus on the enormous positive effect of girls having the option to fully mature into women before bearing their children?

Maybe instead of focusing what we lose with the absence of great-grandmothers, we should focus on what we gain with the decline of girl-mothers.
> I'm not sure why I'm getting down-voted for expressing this personal opinion

Multiple school boards are so concerned about this issue and they are taking this extraordinary step and your opinion is just that "they shouldn't be" and "I don't want my tax dollars going to this". You getting down voted because you don't have a reason to be against this other than "my money".
I think this part of the article has a typo (it is missing (2, 2) and a comma after the tuple in the vector macro assignment)

Say I have a vector of pairs:

let the_data = vec![
(1, 2),
(2, 2)
(2, 3),
(5, 7),
(8, 8)];

I can grab an iterator out of it and do the same pattern matching in a for loop:

for (a, b) in the_data {
println!("({}, {})", a, b);
}

// prints
// (1, 2)
// (2, 3)
// (5, 7)
// (8, 8)
The phrase "auto injector" would have been a much more helpful substitute for "EpiPen" here.

> Selatogrel is a P2Y12 receptor antagonist

So this is basically like chewing on ticag, but faster.[1]

1 = https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get left behind, which keeps in place a stratified society with the goal of enriching all the people in positions of power (read: corruption). That takes time to overcome. This is as true for Latin America as it is for Nigeria, India and all the rest.

The various coups, civil wars, brutal dictatorships and/or hastily implemented radical ideologies aren't really helping former colonies either.
I really, really don't think so. Not in absolute terms. A lot of people got used to life on easy street with remote work and sky-high salaries. I think that has made a lot of software people complacent and picky. If you want a job, any job to put a roof over your head, it's still easier than the national average and the national average is also really, really good. The current data says the unemployment rate for software engineers is just 2.4% which would probably still qualify as a labor shortage.

https://www.comptia.org/newsroom/press-releases/tech-industr...
My dismissing that first paper was to your benefit. It is directly contradicted by the second source you link, which quite clearly points at genetic distinctions and markers in ADHD patients. Meanwhile that first paper argues ADHD may be "unreal" because current diagnostic criteria are ambiguous, redundant and arbitrary; and how we socially build it up.

I have no idea how you reconcile that in your head, but apparently you do. Everyone is entitled to their beliefs and opinions.

> There is no biomarker or imagery that can diagnose the condition successfully.

This, equally, is contradicted by the 2nd paper you link. It seems it's just too expensive (for the time being) to use DNA analysis in ADHD diagnostics.

Anyway, this discussion is no longer productive. These arguments are made, researched, exchanged, and resolved between medical experts. You are at odds with the current consensus of the medical community. It is your right and privilege to have your own well-researched opinion on this topic. However, when you then take this and argue for changes affecting a whole bunch of people across all of society, it becomes my right to call you out for the conflict of your opinion vs. medical consensus. I can see quite clearly why you believe "It is now practically forbidden to criticize anything related with ADHD." You expect people to agree with you, and you argue these things even in the face of people negatively affected by it.

You have two choices here. Study medicine (or pharmacology, or biochemistry), go into this field, and move the consensus. Or consider your belief exactly that: a belief, researched as it may be, that is still likely to be wrong because consensus is against you.

Sure, consensus is sometimes wrong. The way you're going about it is not how you change it, it's how you make an ass of yourself.
That makes no sense to me whatsoever, and not a single Safari or Firefox user I know would consider that a smart decision. I quite literally see zero upside to this unless you are Apple and desperate to kill the last engines fighting against Chrome and undermining their savior-complex.
I'll add on to your point: moving up the IC ladder is often slow because it takes more to both become an expert in a field and to prove it to your leadership. Each step up the IC ladder is harder to actually obtain those skills, and harder to prove that you have obtained those skills to management.

On the flip side, the management ladder is more delivery focused (though not exclusively): are you getting your team to get their work done? It's somewhat easier to demonstrate success on the management side, and because you're leading a team, it's possible (though not necessarily true in most cases) for a manager to get promoted on the strength of their team and not their ability as a manager.
https://archive.is/kIvGf
There's an anime/manga/light novel that's set in this future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimoneta

Basically everyone wears a combination bracelet and choker that works as a futuristic smartphone, but doubles as a "sexually explicit language" censorship device - say the wrong word and you're arrested. Offhand, substitutions I remember from that series include "hose" in place of "penis" and "docking" in place of "sex".

It's mostly a comedy but gets pretty NSFW. Anime has both a censored and uncensored version.
I love this, my dissertation at uni was on the Enigma machine and I built a configurable one in software (Java) and it was fascinating to me that once you matched the spec of the real machine you got matching letter for letter encryption and decryption of real messages. The day my outer acceptance tests started working was amazing! The fact this needs no power is brilliant. Makes it surprising now they didn’t come up with it being a pure mechanical version back then and relied on the electrical current. Would love to try this out in the flesh.
Nations can, and do, punish people for crimes they commit elsewhere on the planet. Nobody can get away with staking land out on the moon and declaring sovereignty, because it's impossible to exist on the moon without a massive support apparatus on earth enabling it. It's easy enough to throw those people in a cell.

And either nations take care of the offenders and form treaties, or it leads to war at the worst.
Yeah, agreed. Being part of the noosphere, being connected to the world: it is amazing. It's epic. Our local experiences often pale in compare.

I have no idea what kind of legal solutions people would propose to forcibly disconnect people from the newly arrived noosphere. Maybe we can show harm but there's lots of things people do to themselves & with their lives that are less than sub-optimal for them. We can scare ourselves into believing the harm is too great here, into being scared enough to rescind our liberty to connect, but rarely do I see an analysis that's honest enough to admit that the underlying problem is that we are connected. You would have to work enormously hard to convince me that reshuffling how we connect is going to not still be so enticing & compelling that the risk and harm goes away.
Ultima has a much higher cultural influence than DnD.

Entire JRPG genre, dark souls, homebrew rpg books are all either directly based or influenced by it
VC Influence in Executive Placement
> Linear functions, equations with only two variables and no exponents, capture the straightforward, straight-line relationship between two variables

Is this definition considering the output to be included in the set of variables? What a strange way to phrase it. Under this definition, I wonder what an equation with one variable is. Is a single constant an equation?
Yes. That is how clinical trials work. I have run many clinical trials. I read the article twice before I submitted it.
Businesses with turnover of less than £85,000 are completely exempt from filing VAT returns. Self-employed people with trading income of less than £30,000 will remain exempt from Making Tax Digital for income tax and can continue to file returns using the web form or a paper form.
"PSA: Yes you can join a Zoom meeting in the browser" - https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/psa-yes-you-can-join-a-zoo...

"Zoom's forced app is irresponsible" - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/zooms-forced-app-is-irrespo...

Shady patterns mean shady company
For everyone asking: in the talk, Lars mentions that they often rely on self-reported anonymous data. But in this case, Google is large enough that teams have developed similar systems and/or literally re-written things, and so this claim comes from analyzing projects before and after these re-writes, so you’re comparing like teams and like projects.

Timestamped: https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012

Some additional context on these two specific claims:

Google found that porting Go to Rust "it takes about the same sized team about the same time to build it, so that's no loss of productivity" and "we do see some benefits from it, we see reduced memory usage [...] and we also see a decreased defect rate over time"

On re-writing C++ into Rust: "in every case, we've seen a decrease by more than 2x in the amount of effort required to both build the services written in Rust, as well as maintain and update those services. [...] C++ is very expensive for us to maintain."
This is pure tragedy right here.

"Addressing Visibility Challenges" is a masterpiece of bloviating
Orwellian sophistry to describe the bare, brute contradiction now at
the heart of "Enterprise"; that we want confidentially but we don't
want confidentiality.

It's encrypted so you don't get visibility. End of. Sort out your
trust models, Sort out your end points. Sort of the principles behind
your endpoints (viz. loyalty, training etc).

The solution: a "five volume" guide to how you can have something and
not have it at the same time. This is an industry openly at war with
itself.
Right now a Galaxy Fold 4. It's pretty great. But I was doing this stuff on an HTC wizard back in 2005.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard

It had a slide-out keyboard which I loved. I would even write code remotely to fix a critical bug, and deploy it, while I was out having lunch with my team. No need to rush back to the office. Granted, I had better eyesight 20 years ago, but now I just use readers, can see the screen just fine.
What evidence is there for this distribution over the whole cortex hypothesis?