skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post they are responding to:

>>> When looking at frescoes I like to ask, why did the homeowner (r whomever made these decisions) choose these images/themes for this context?

>> They were topics considered more appropriate for a social setting.

IS their answer:

Then adds:

>>> That they were really about rape and kidnapping was probably not seen as notable;

It's an interesting aspect of the story to pick out. Of all the parts this is what the poster chose. It's surfacing only the worst parts of the narrative.

>>> they are just familiar furnishings of a culture founded and maintained on armed compulsion.

Are they? Is the the sum total of the output of the Roman Empire. Or is just this a very modern politics take on the worst parts of history?

> Nobody but the gods have any freedom, and the gods are bored children.

Wow, nobody had freedom? The gods in Rome and Greece didn't have narrative, parable and moral tales too?

Were having a conversation about history, having an opinion is one thing. This reads like it's a modern culture war tweet... "looking for offense and negativity" seems fairly accurate. Really it's a modern, narrow, reductionist point of view that only takes on the most negative of perspectives to get attention and send some social signals.
Lookup the World Taekwondo Federation, recently shortened to World Taekwondo. I pity the poor soul who had to explain the need to elders of the sport, many of which did not speak english.
Not a lattice expert, so add salt to taste, but it looks like LWE in general (incluring RLWE)

But the current attack essentially wants q > n^2, so even if it is confirmed, not all LWE schemes are dead. There will certainly be people who tweak the params in response and carry on.

However, attacks only get better. And for people in FHE who are squeezed between performance problems and dangerously thin security parameters, it is a bad day if confirmed. There's no credible practical alternative to LWE for FHE...
More:

https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/why...
Doctor, lawyer, and athlete are "jock" professions, while software engineering is very much a "nerd" profession. These words represent status and general level of attractiveness and therefore access to attention and sex.

Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and professional athletes all experience social reward and/or social contexts to their work. Software engineering is interfacing with an unthinking, unfeeling machine for many hours a day.

Furthermore, the whole point of the vast majority of software engineering is to sell loot boxes to kids to increase shareholder wealth for a pittance of the wealth created (or something not too different from that for at least 60% of companies). How many mainstream software companies are contributing to building a society that you yourself would like to live in?

To put it bluntly, many bad parents abandoned their kids to the internet where they found solace. Software engineering is a natural extension of spending too much time using the internet and becoming curious how it works.

Poor mental health is a function of unmet needs... not feeling attractive, not feeling like you are contributing to the world or society at large, not getting laid, not feeling loved, not feeling worthy of love. All of these represent unmet needs, and I think software engineers struggle with these things more than a significant number of other professions because they are frequently intrinsic to why people become software engineers in the first place, machines don't care how socially inept you are, patients, clients, and judges do.
This article sings the same song as Yanis Varoufakis. The whole tech market is now past capitalism, and now into techno-feudalism. Users are serfs to large tech-lords who capture labour for their own purposes while giving back as little as possible. I'm sure good hearted European lords sometimes reflected on how little they provided to their serfs that directly helped them daily.
This has been known for some time now - the health benefits alone of decarbonization would pay for the cost: https://www.who.int/news/item/05-12-2018-health-benefits-far...
I ran into this before! https://medium.com/@cyounkins/encrypted-dns-ntp-deadlock-9e3...
elites == upper class, for those not from the US... Of course that being the reason test scores are considered primary in other countries and not the US. American universities have a need to recruit upper class students for various purposes including keeping the influence of the upper class on government, media, etc going.
'Most influential', TFA's actual words, is not 'greatest'. Everyone ends up reading something of Yud's at some point, which is more than can be said of the people who would probably qualify more. That's more or less the entire thesis of TFA.
> train a LLM a closed set of curated knowledge

Google has one of these already, with an LLM that was trained on nothing but weather data and so can only give weather-data-prediction responses.

The 'knowing it doesn't know things' part is much harder to get reliable, though.
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This reminds me of the scene in Schindler's List where the SS officer asks the enslaved factory worker to show him how fast he can assemble a particular component. The terrified worker races to assemble it in record time, anxious to please and impress the nazi -- who responds to the effect of: "if you can make them that fast, why is your daily quota so low?"
That explanation is not held up by the article or the research cited in the article.
https://archive.ph/Zfrxs
Only Stalwart supports JMAP, which imo is the future of mail/calendar/contacts client-server communication.

https://jmap.io/
What key-combination produces M-/?
Yeah, that is fair, its better than nothing. But he could have also done the thing that every other good journalist does and ask both sides for comment instead of speculating for 1000 words.
Tell me you work for a monopolist without telling me you work for a monopolist. It's all a nice effort to alleviate yourself of blame by casting this as something "we've" done.
Mirrored Kanban Board (2015)
CH works just fine for cleaning up rows: Delete with mutations sync=1, or use optimize with deduplicate by, or use aggregate trees and optimize final, or query aggregate tables with final=1.

Numerous ways to achieve removal of old/stale rows.
They're the same thing (besides how they're customarily served). What the parent is getting at is the linguistic aspect: most cultures which imported tea by land over the Silk Road, like India and Turkey, call it something that sounds like "cha". Cultures which imported it by sea, like most of Europe, call it something that sounds like "te".
I know HN is not the most tactful place all of the time, but that second question strikes me as unusually cruel to pose to the parent of a recently deceased son.
I remember the original reason for composition over inheritance to be very specific to Java: you can only inherit one class, but compose your class from multiple interfaces, each of which can have default implemented methods.

In python you've got polymorphism, mixins etc, so the reason for this suggestion doesn't really apply.

Django heavily uses inheritance for the controllers for example - and it works very well.
I should definitely look more into Ada.
Indeed. When the conversation goes for example in the direction of: 'i am right, you are wrong', it is best to categorize as noise not begging a reaction.
Author's GitHub repo: https://github.com/dkgaraujo/OpenSourcedMacroModels

Table 5 list the "Most common programming languages for macroeconomic models" in descending order: Matlab (or GNU Octave), EViews, Portable TROLL, Julia, SAS, EUCAM, GAP, and GAMS. The last 5 are tied with one model each.
Underscore has usability drawbacks.
Is't ok if I point out you made a typo.
Everyone's thinking academic secrets but have they engaged in activism in any way shape or form?

Being able to take activists and discredit them is an amazing ability. I would not at all be surprised if the xz compression backdoor was an attempt by a certain government to gain the ability to discredit anyone that is against them in anyway.
RingLWE security reduces to LWE via a relatively simple reduction (see https://www.jeremykun.com/2022/12/28/estimating-the-security...).
> pro piracy.

As I see it, it's not about promoting copyright violation, it's about people with misaligned (relatively to mine) interests pushing for control over Internet. I'm of a firm belief that it's never a good idea - too risky, no matter how good the presented cause is.

> Should film distribution be free

Others opinion may vary, but it's not about getting free entertainment - it's about paying fair price for a convenient service. Steam had clearly demonstrated that in presence of a decent marketplace, people come and pay. The same was confirmed by Netflix and Hulu in their early days.

However, while streaming platforms used to be okay-ish in their early days (in select first world regions), they got seriously enshittified to the extent people are starting to say "naaah, enough of this crap" and dust off the eyepatches. It's not about not paying (mind you, a decent setup also costs money and/or effort) - it's about getting value for your money. And that value is diminishing to the extent torrenting becomes more appealing.

In other words, media distribution industry had fucked up (again), and they (again) want to shift the blame on child-eating drug-dealing evil pirates.

> A flood of ai generated junk is about to hit us all

Sorry, but how is this is a problem? Serious question. There is a shitload of human-made movies and books that I won't bother to watch/read anyway - and I don't see how it matters how big this pile is as long as we're not getting close to some boundary where we must pick priorities (I don't think we are).

> Maybe you feel that way because you can already retire off your Silicon Valley total comp?

Hah, I'd wish! Hope other folks are doing better in this regard, of course.
Exciting work! Congrats! Hope to see a side-by-side comparison for LLM agent systems to see more clearly the advantages and limitation that GoEX offers.
“Dubbed the MateBook X Pro, the new PC will run on the HarmonyOS and use the Pangu Large Language Model developed by Huawei.”

The most interesting thing is that they are abandoning windows - hopefully they will also abandon Intel at one point.
Honest answer: it's where my friend group's group chat lives. I miss a lot of conversation if I'm not in it. To be fair, I've blocked 235k+ Blue accounts so my experience is actually a lot better than most users.
That's like complaining about artificial, non-organic flight being a fantasy before the wright brothers.

Nope.

Before the Wright brothers, we knew it was scientifically possible to suspend objects heaver than air in an air current. For example, kites and balloons.

The only examples we have of "intelligence" are organic in nature.

Since we have no examples to the contrary; for all we know, "life" and "intelligence" could be somehow inter-related. And we don't currently fully understand or know how to engineer either one.

Yet people have "faith" --- just like the alchemists. "Believe" what you want --- but it's not science.
The urge to a social-media-pedantry-dunk aside, did the title confuse you? Do you think your title or TFA's title gets the point of the article across clearly to a wider audience?
We started out with the Motorola HC11, I'm guessing because someone used it a lot on the past and no one wants to redo all the course material. We used a simulator called "Wookie".

Despite being somewhat obscure, it has the advantage that it is easy to understand while also being real. We had a board where you could hook into the address and data busses, since the memory and busses were external. Also, it has a simple bus, as opposed to an ARM chip with AHB, APB, etc, and no pipelining.
I really agree with this.

There was a company that I worked at 10ish years ago with a SaaS built around Drupal. They had one monolithic css file that was 25000 lines. It was a nightmare. When I took over the front-end rebuild, went through it line by tedious line and broke it out into discrete components.

I think about that from time to time when building logic or other functionality. I'd much rather have a self-contained bit of code than a big thing that is so intertwined I'm terrified to touch anything.
That one line was the part that stood out to me the most as well, but:

If you zoom in sufficiently at x = 0, f(x) = sin(x) looks indistinguishable from f(x) = x, whereas g(x) = cos(x) looks indistinguishable from g(x) = 1.

(also, sin(x) is negative approaching 0 from the left and positive approaching 0 from the right)
And cost-efficiency, if I'm using an LLM as an Siri-like assistant on my phone, most of the tasks I'll want it to do won't be that complicated and it would be a waste to send them to some SOTA LLM in the cloud, which I'll have to pay for by a monthly subscription or on a per-token basis.
This is already happening. I know someone who's making an adult game in Twine for fun, and they use AI images for just about everything because they're not an artist. They say while there's inconsistencies, it gives them more freedom to depict what they want without the high cost of hiring an artist for near-photo realistic digital painting. From what they've told me, they're not alone in jumping on the idea and there's a wave of Twine porn games using AI images. And some even go so far as to mix in real people with AI generated depictions of them to fill in the gaps for the desired content.

Most people would disregard such things because they're just "stupid games for perverts" and not think about the impact, but if such things get normalized in adult gaming it's bound to spread out from there. Normalization is normalization no matter where it starts from, after all. A major concern of mine is that somebody creates images for such a game, and the images and content are based on a real person that the game's creator personally knows. If the game gets traction, that person's privacy would essentially be gone, and their sense of identity would be shattered because they aren't a public figure. There have already been instances of teenagers using AI image generators to create fakes of fellow students in order to blackmail them or just enjoy for themselves.
A normal network runs at 10Gbps or 1.25GiB/s.

200MiB/s is too slow by a factor of 7. Though obviously some people have optimised it.
> Plus, the huge variability between Samsung/Google/Moto/Huawei etc makes it triply hard for a single exploit to be successful.

That variability is a double-edged sword. Manufacturer-added Android bundleware is notorious for being shoddily built and could easily represent added points of ingress.

Which is why I wish it were practical to replace OEM Android versions with GrapheneOS/CalyxOS or similar on the latest devices, similar to how a cutting edge PC can run one’s choice of Linux. As long as more secure or at least more standardized Android distributions can only run on devices with some age on them, their popularity will be limited even among the technically inclined.
I have often observed that Java is great because it solves organizational problems. Strong and static types, interfaces and most of all, javadoc, were miraculous for conveying intent to integrators and maintainers. Even seemingly insignificant things like a naming convention for packages was extremely useful. A lot of the features trumpeted in Java when it was new, like abstract classes or checked exceptions, were adopted religiously at first but fell out of favor a long time ago. Interfaces and interface inheritance is extremely useful.
>Small phones are also about “thumbability”, that is, the ability to be used one-handed with the thumb being able to comfortably reach across the screen. The foldables are of zero help there.

Foldables have the external screen for "thumbability". And the large internal display for contant consumption and multitasking. Therefore best compromise.
The easy fix is underscores.
Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection
$ dig -t AAAA gitlab.com.
gitlab.com. 300 IN AAAA 2606:4700:90:0:f22e:fbec:5bed:a9b9

It's not that I excuse them, and doubly so now that they're owned by Microsoft (which for sure supports IPv6 on their control plane), but I'm just saying they're not the only game in town
Also, the reason so many companies turn to ads isn't because they like ads, or don't know about all the problems that stem from having your customers not be your users. It's because users still prefer to pay with anything but money. Not all, but the vast majority. This creates inevitable incentives.

eg Don't like google? Fastmail will happily sell you an account today, and Kagi is a great substitution for the vast majority of my search needs. Go reread the recent post on here with people whining that Kagi charges though.
The WinterJS JavaScript Runtime Is Asking for Your Attention
Every few decades we should choose a random block anywhere in the world, pay all of the inhabitants a very fair compensation for them to leave all of their worldly possessions exactly as they lie, board up the entire block, then dump a preserving material onto the block. Millenia from now it can be excavated by the world for a snapshot into that time and place.
Major systems and big companies like Google are already mid-transition to PQC. So it is alarming.
This link[1] takes you to the paper.

From "external influences":
We explore three main potential sources of positive external health effects from recessions suggested
by prior literature: reductions in the spread of infectious disease (Adda 2016), increases in the
quality of healthcare (Stevens et al. 2015), and reductions in pollution (Chay and Greenstone 2003;
Heutel and Ruhm 2016). We find little support for a role for the first two classes of external effects,
but evidence consistent with a quantitatively important role for recession-induced reductions in air
pollution in explaining about 40 percent of the recession-induced mortality declines.

They don't cover lower driving (fewer accidents), health care tied to employment (under reported health incidents), or work place accidents (deaths due to statistical risk in higher risk jobs like construction, mining, etc.)

So no, not a particularly insightful study in my opinion.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2024/program/paper/TEE9A8Q...
Now we have almost the opposite in a lot of situations - software feels like it's holding hardware that's faster than ever back. See the comparison of Windows 2000 vs. Windows 11
Isogenies vindicated? :)
How does this compare to regular dictionary compression?
Nobody had a gun at their head.
Except nobody but groq has such type of machines, and the economics of cloud AI is very hard to make it works in practice. Offloading the capital cost (which is the hardest kind of cost to swallow for a company) to customers is very compelling business-wise.
Not sure what you mean by the is. Indiana, Illinois both have higher population densities than Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri. (Although I bet Chicago distorts Illinois' population). Only Iowa's is lower and not by much.

There are tons of small towns in these states with a few hundred in population that used to support some industrial center that has since been sent overseas or a farming economy that required more people. They also often have crippling poverty, high drug use rates, and low standards of living. Indiana literally had an HIV outbreak a few years ago. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27468059/

I don't want to compare levels of misery, but these states aren't much better off.
I don't know about German law, I was talking about Poland. In Poland, the employer cannot refuse to give you a day off (even if your request it on the very day), four times a year.
Part of me really wants to believe this is a joke.

But given how often toddlers are "taken care of" by planting them in front of youtube :|
ASCAP and other licensing groups are a reasonable deal for music. Individual record companies screw artists which is why they do better on their own label. Unfortunately other licensing groups are trying to make legal music purchasing harder and more complicated by fracturing music inventory available through certain services by requiring separate licensing agreements. By all means, artists should choose the deal that is best for them but I sure don't think a fractured marketplace is the way to go like the video industry has. Netflix was great when everyone was willing to license their content on reasonable terms. A dozen different streaming subscriptions is not worth it.
I am taking umbrage at your claim that adultery is a "victimless" crime.

However, definitely not death penalty worthy, even if anything ever was!
A couple million (<10M), I don't have a better number available right now. Not all (or even most) of those need cancelling rows thankfully.
Very clever to write an article that is the very thing that it criticizes, the entryway into a certain "marketing funnel."

What I got out is this: "Good information is scarce and strong research skills are therefore increasingly valuable. Guess what, we (my consulting firm) specialize in giving just the kind of actionable advice you need."

Appropriate for the author's image to be of the ourobouros.

More charitably though, it's fine for the market to offer solutions to this problem, as long as it's not conflated with the space for "serious leisure" that mere curious nerds subsist on in all ages.

Leisure is by definition an end in itself. It just happens that without it people and societies alike cease to function well. What can we do to expand the space for serious but aimless thinking in this age?
Thanks for the fascinating response.
That's true, but there are a lot of places where ids live, but where I can't add `user-select: all`. For example, in terminal (logs), Studio3t (db client) etc.
I agree with your concern, but the problem is that Harvard will have to choose somehow, and most other ways of choosing are even more biased toward rich parents: some high school kids are writing conference papers and starting a venture, just imagine what kind of social background would make these kids even consider such an opportunity.

I don't know if there's any good answer.
I prefer keeping the javascript surface area minimal. I can definitely see this as a footgun that newer programmers will use to mess up JS codebases with spaghetti of weird effects linked together
Q: What's special about the format of UUIDs compared to, say, an equivalent entropy 128-bit number? For many use cases, the hyphens appear to be utterly irrelevant.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3855...
Or.. you can not have your bots crawl other people’s property without permission.
> TypeScript made it quite obvious what’s possible only with simple type checking.

Typescript's type system is anything but simple.
> the biggest predictor of academic success is wealth

Perhaps the better way to think of wealth is as a proxy for intelligent, conscientious parents who care about educating their children. That is, the same qualities that make someone more likely to become wealthy are also qualities that promote academic success, not that wealth causes academic success.

> properly fund all public schools

Some of the worst-performing public schools in the nation are funded quite well, and the US nears the top per-student spending around the world[0], well above the OECD average. There is no amount of funding that can supplant parents who value education and a culture that values education.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
I wouldn't worry about microsoft delivering quality in anyway.
Since the coins have the same ratio of value to weight, you don't need to sort them before weighing them. Still pointless though!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

The American hegemony is well into the 'bread and circuses' phase of its decline.