skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Legal age of drinking is arbitrary and people accept it.

Do they? I thought it was ignored everywhere.
However these are legal educated immigrants. The doors to these kinds of immigrants to the US are increasingly closed.
In the end language fails to actually convey the real information, but one’s own discovery can be guided.

To understand a mathematical proof I follow the reasoning but the internal model I build looks different from what is presented.
Author here, not sure why this is posted today as this project is from 2015, but feel free check out our latest WebGL project if you liked Keep Out: https://equinox.space

EDIT: thanks for all the great feedback!
>But any other language than C or C++ (sadly, _way_ less than "any other") solves that by using a complicated and bug infested build system(s) and package manager(s) or a combination of both.

Which would go away if C++ had a working package manager, that worked in the same way every other language did, was written once only and about as bug free as the compiler. This would also allow you to ship the source code for the library with a simple file that list the dependencies you need.

I guess my final issue boils down to this: CMake does too much and too little. It is too hard to get it reliably pull down the libraries I want to use and it can do too much as part of the build to the point that it becomes too complicated.

Do one thing, and do it well.
It's what you choose. I assume OP chose maximum option with all the "I want these ads" toggles checked.
Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres
Tragicomic is used often in Swedish (Tragikomiskt). There is a nuance difference between tragicomic and bittersweet. Bittersweet is when you daughter moves out to her own place,it's sad that your kid grew up but also great, it's bittersweet but not tragicomic. Tragicomic is when something is so screwed up that the only thing you can do is laugh at it.
Metric Learning with Linear Methods
Is that "value" real though if nobody will actually pay for it at that "value"? The only thing that is real about that "value" is the property taxes assessed. Also, if you're not actively trying to sell the house, the "value" is meaningless. Unless you're trying to get some sort of loan against the equity, it's just a number on a paper like most of modern finance
The NextJS on is a real burn
Do you have that opinion with more antisemitism?

Do Jews win more Nobels because of our control over Norwegians?
That article was written by an LLM, it just keeps repeating the same stuff with different wording.

And it does so badly.
"Just Learn To Read" adds nothing to the sentence that precedes it. The point was already made correctly and well. You should avoid when possible starting a comment you want to actually be read with an insult or ending it with a snap. It degrades the quality of the conversation.
As a European, it's baffling to me that your friend group wouldn't simply switch to a messaging app with good group chat support. WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger (FB) - these are all great alternatives that are extremely popular, and all have more features than iMessage.

For example, in Scandinavia the current marker leader on all platforms is Facebook Messenger, despite this also being one of the only markets where iOS is the dominant platform compared to Android. Further south on the continent, WhatsApp is the undisputed leader.

People have all of these apps, and it's my impression that using iMessage exclusively is extremely rare. Cross-platform support is a feature that impacts which app people use, and they are perfectly free to use a different messaging app.
Only the right wing DailyMail could dream up a headline like that.

Secret tory war mongers.

They love the war stories to keep the tory voting elderly readers happy.

The word Tory means Outlaw or Robber.

Not a lot has changed since 1896.
Perhaps there's a way to do advertising the old school way. Contact a company directly and make the ad yourself. No need for a warped AI middleman.
It's a normal cycle. However, climate change means that the effects tend to be more severe than they were 35 years ago.
Mise: a polyglot tool version manager
From the best to worst places for solar PV in the continental US is only a factor of 2 difference. People have really bad intuitions about this, possibly not accounting for the impact of heat.
Is it just me that never even wants to get to the problems that asdf attempts to solve?

That example in the article of managing multiple python 2.7 versions sounds like a horror story.
Chances to find common language with CorpIT going higher if you will bring not just "Linux laptop" request, but request + ready to be used and proven to work tooling for good MDM, integrated into common system; way of limiting privileges (i.e. no local admin), Full Disk Encryption with TPM and other basic things.
is_ready is an alternative to this.

I built it for many reasons:
- Most docker images do not contain netcat so you would have to download one of them in any case.
- In the case of is_ready, you won't have to write this script yourself.
- Repositories like this had a lot of traffic so I supposed that engineers need a similar tool but this repository requires wget and netcat as dependencies. For this reason, I built my own without any dependencies.
https://github.com/eficode/wait-for
"I don't have unique content, and/or my content is unoriginal. Or, my content is low quality."

I experienced it myself when I tried adding Google AdSense to https://techinterviewexp.site.

Google folks don't even see what the site is about.
> You are either rich or a homeowner because clearly you don't know the circumstances of being priced out of the market.

That feels like a reach from me simply answering a market dynamics question you asked. Chill maybe?
El Niño, La Niña, same story, to take your money from your pocket.
A three month old account with a Zuck | Musk nom de guerre will always have edgelord opinions with more <X> .. just not a life.
I'm Not Having Kids (and That's Okay)
Wouldn't the D-Wave kinda-but-not-really quantum computer that came out a decade ago be ideal for AI? Annealing sounds like exactly the kind of problem that needs to be solved for ML training?
You might have meant it in jest, but it's an actual thing to consider. I want to get the F out, but have things tying me down at the moment. Why? Because I am not respected by my government, and it will not change any time soon. I no longer agree with what the government represents--I haven't agreed for a really long time now--so it's no longer something I feel good about living in. The problem is I don't have a good solution yet on where to land when I do move
> this does make nixos a lot less attractive

Why should they care? You try to make yourself sound like some kind of important user they should cater to, which is absurd. They don't want you to use it for military stuff, so it's not a big gotcha that someone with "decision making power" (wow!) doesn't want to use it.

Like, most FOSS projects just gets abuse and entitlement from their users, but actually little value from their users. You would be no different, and frankly sound entitled just from the get-go.
"This paper follows a recent trend of marketing excellent theoretical work as LLMs being capable of secretly plotting behind your back, when the realistic implication is backdoor risk".

Many top computer scientists consider loss of control risks to be a possibility that we need to take seriously.

So the question then becomes, is there a way to apply science to gain greater clarity on the possibility of these claims? And this is very tricky, since we're trying to evaluate claims not about models that currently exist, but about future models.

And I guess what people have realised recently is that, even if we can't directly run an experiment to determine the validity of the core claim of concern, we can run experiments on auxiliary claims in order to better inform discussions. For example, the best way to show that a future model could have a capability is to demonstrate that a current model possesses that capability.

I'm guessing you'd like to see more scientific evidence before you want to take possibilities like deceptive alignment seriously. I think that's reasonable. However, work like this is how we gather that evidence.

Obviously, each individual result doesn't provide much evidence on its own, but the accumulation of results has helped to provide more strategic clarity over time.
To add to your point: sometimes people point to the videos catching cops abusing their power and say “it’s just a few bad apples.” They’ve been saying it for decades. It turns out that is correct as the full saying is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. Police departments don’t get rid of the bad apples, the bunch is spoiled and rotten. So far gone that the few good cops who join and speak up are railroaded out. Look at the Los Angeles CA police where there are different gangs within the police department.
Betteridge's law not withstanding, for the first time in human history, things like loneliness have become the subject of scientific inquiry. This has happened over the last ~50ish years, if that.

As Feynman says, figuring out which of our theories are true, and which of our ideas are subject to the illusion of explanatory depth is important. Especially when it comes to things we think we know, like interpersonal relationships and our own psychology.

True, the social sciences are quite young compared to other scientific fields. But already we have estimates for distinguishing what impacts between and within person variation in loneliness. At the moment, most of this work is done at a very general level; the work tries to characterize various populations of people.

However, one of the newer / more cutting-edge methods of studying things like loneliness involves pinging them multiple times a day to see how their emotional state is changing over time. (So called Ecological Momentary Assessments if you are curious.) Some researchers are using such designs to try and figure out / model what makes an individual tick.

Clinical psychology, anecdotal folk wisdom, research psychology, and potentially even Neuroscience will eventually converge. In my opinion, one semi-unique challenge is that the set of skills that makes one a good researcher and one a good people person are not highly correlated. This doesn't matter for Chemistry (etc.), but I think it matters more for the social sciences.
> A dockerfile solves that, my system is a carbon copy of the prod environment.

Yeah, that can definitely not be beat, if at all probably only due to comfort.

> Not tried pipenv

I've been meaning to put a tutorial out there with my workflow since forever, if I had it I'd point you to it.

I recommend you give it a try if you get the chance, you might like it.
The real tragedy here is that modern good practice with solar farms is to let grass (or similar) grow underneath them beceause the transpiration of water cools the panels and increases the output of electricity. So the solar developers have shot themselves in the foot by clearing the land.
Oh, please don't get me wrong, I hate CMake and Autotools (I'm not sure which is worse). And both Vcpkg and Conan have their own problems.
Regarding zero dependencies, I meant that it is a static binary and does not need any external tools to be installed. For example, some alternatives require netcat to be installed.
> OpenBao yet, but I presume that it's the same situation there

no, they removed a lot of things, espeically on the storage side.
These topics should not be spoken by engineers whether they be Norwegian or Jewish. Norwegians and Jews both good. Engineers dangerous.

edit to add summary: develop engineers at home. it's not difficult. just do homework. import best scientific minds to win the long game.
Last year a friend and I made a website about the Nurburgring. It provided basic info for first time visitors that we were missing on our first visit. My friend spent a lot of time creating a UI with a custom map for displaying locations and routes. I wrote a bunch of content that was thoroughly researched.

At a certain point we ended up being invited by one of the largest rental companies to see whether we could work together. They invited us because the content was incredibly useful for their visitors and they preferred our calendar over the official one for ease of use.

So clearly, our site was adding value for the target audience we had in mind. We were also consistently getting visitors through different search engines that were looking for the info we provided. The number of visitors was growing consistently and pretty much all the feedback we got was positive.

In March, Google rolled out a new algo which all but completely removed us from search results. Out visitors dropped about 80% and growth has disappeared. What was a fun project that we spent many hours on is now a waste of computing resources.

I hate that Google gatekeeps the internet.
this makes me itchy, pulling the whole internet without looking into your development machine sounds like a very bad idea. It's the equivalent of an IDE's "do you trust this project" but on steroids.
Why when i try to click that link it links me to tags.news.com.ua ? My dns filters are blocking it.
Plans and Pricing --->

and expected to pay for this absolutely useless thing

No thanks

Use free openstreetmaps
Repeated layoffs: how to tell your other employees that you hate them and want them to leave also.

These damn investors and MBB consultants put a bug in managements' ear that costs must be cut everywhere while mindlessly sabotaging core profit centers and essential infrastructure in myriad indirect ways.
Wow this is kinda elegant. An improvement I can think of is putting it on your PATH so you can just invoke “commands” directly each time?
Interesting project, I was not familiar with that. Thanks for letting me know :)
If you can give up regexp greediness sed+column can do it:

sed -rn 's/^([^:]+):.*[ ]##[ ](.+)/\1:\2/p' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | column -ts: -l2 | sort
> I mean, in some senses we don't even know why water is wet.

That's something that made me go "wait, what?" But then after waiting, and thinking about it, it is just a question that I've never even considered. It's one of those things where I really wished I had better understanding of chemistry.
Apple: Privacy requirement for app submissions starts May 1
I think your comment is rude, and naive in that it misses the point. The investment here is small relative the the marketing budget, which tells us something about their priorities.
I remember a previous incident where a paranoid admin was comparing the logs of his Cisco firewall with a Linux firewall. He noticed they diverged whenever he called Cisco support. He worked out that the Cisco firewall had essentially a back door in it with features that orgs like the NSA would want, and Cisco support were using for “their own convenience”. Feature like hiding from logs, disabling activity LEDs, pattern matching with Regexes, and compressed and encrypted data smuggled out over other protocols in “dead space” and the like.

I can’t quite find the specifics, but I remember that the “patch” just changed the password on the back door, but left it in place.
Interesting idea for a feature request. I would love to read a GitHub issue with your specific case so I can start investigating and think about how to solve a problem like this.
Greetings fellow developers,

A whirlwind tour that sheds light on the design of web frameworks that emerged in all language communities (Servlets, WSGI or Rack), reflecting the need to standardize around a portable interface abstracting HTTP.

This is a hands-on post via a take on Ring, the standard framework in Clojure. I went to great length documenting the experience of living and breathing at the REPL.
Are Step-by-Step Checklists Better Than YT Videos?
Are step-by-step checklists actually better and timesaving for programmers , rather than long youtube videos and chatgpt ?.
For example , hosting on aws , is it better to ask chatgpt , watch a yt video (or multiple videos) or have a checklist that's validated by 100+ people.
Oooor hear me out, you can just be respectful of people and you wouldn't be excluded.
They provide curation to the ad buyers. Basically the marketplace is broken for both sides.
Bless her heart. I hope she gets early seating like my mom regardless of the airline's "Y2K" error.
> It seems your Javascript is turned off. Maybe you'd prefer the RSS feed?

Ruined indeed.
> tragicomic - of, relating to, or resembling tragicomedy

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I hate it when i see such useless explanations
A nice fantastical theory but kind of easy to poke holes in when Google and Facebook are recent trillion $ behemoths who's employees out-earned the capital of physical companies like US Steel and the spectrum of perpetually declining ATT.
Yes this is an old project that we did back in 2015, but thank you for the broken link report, I just fixed it. Also, thanks for your feedback (which I agree with!) but we currently have no plans to update it.
Why couldnt they be “sudsidized” by G to uphold monopoly? If they bring in clients that otherwise are not going there? they simply cost more
You have to dig a hole to bury and it’s expensive to do that, for large enough holes.
Thank you for the bug report, I just fixed it.
Plumbing. It’ll be regulated down it’s no better then a text processor. Remember the US innovates. The UK stagnates. EU regulates and China Replicates.
Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022)
This is a fun way to imagine how it might go:

https://youtu.be/ZMQbHMgK2rw?si=4KQPxc1yAyWzeatO
You should expect such a small country outlier given how this sort of thing is distributed.

India's unicorns are concentrated in a few cities, which house a relatively small portion of India's population.
Assume this is doable, but who would legislate that? US congress that is already bought and paid for by the very same companies?
It’s a bad habit to read too much into a single job posting.

(oh, I remember now, it’s the account traumatized by odata)
Detect when humans are lying.
This year's El Niño storms were as bad as those in the early 90's. Back then, I recall a storm where most fences were blown down and the dining room window pane glass flexed and bowed in visibly, I thought it would eventually break.

We're poised to experience a repeat of last year and supposedly a La Niña next year.
Given an algorithm that takes 100 iterations, ask the computer to perform it in ten iterations. It gives you a nonsense answer. Tell it to do it in 100 steps and it might just be able to do it. What this tells us is that context size appears to be a limiting factor as models get bigger and bigger.
If you’re ever feeling adventurous, I would suggest trying out Debian with XFCE instead of Xubuntu. I recently migrated and even though the installation isn’t as pretty, I find both the installation and the distribution itself to be much more stable and lightweight without sacrificing any important functionality.
Hardly suprising given this is a National Geographic article specifically targeted to teenagers that looks to have been written at any time in the past 20 years.

There's nothing current or new here, just basic high school level ENSO material.
Why this over Poetry?

asdf handles tools, not really packages. So asdf would install Python and not Python packages.
I feel like the problem is trying to turn human experience into a metric. Probably the better approach would be to have a well staffed QA team.
Looks like 4.3 but I don't think it matters - awk vs gawk/nawk might be significant though, gawk 5.2 on the machine I ran this on.

The match with substr is interesting. It's more complicated than setting the field separator to something like :|#+ but should mean : in the help text works. For something one only writes and debugs once, probably better to do the complicated thing that always works.

gawk will write the groups to an array, that's possibly more legible (and slower? should be slower than the leading non-capture //)

@gawk 'match($$0, /^([a-zA-Z_*.-]+):.*## (.*)$$/, arr) {printf " %-30s %s\n", arr[1], arr[2]}' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort
Also only free for non-commercial use since it’s “extended” support, but it’s relatively affordable if you’re in a pinch and must buy it.
Do you just blatantly lie thinking no one will click on your links or are you just absolutely ignorant and have no understanding how to read company financials? Here’s the net income on statista : https://www.statista.com/statistics/244990/spotifys-revenue-...

They’ve lost 532 million in their most recent year, the lowest they’ve lost is 32 million. They’ve not had a single profitable year in their entire public history and it seems to only be getting worse for them. I just cursorily follow the stock market and the second you told me Spotify is profitable all the red flags in my head blew up, glad that you confirmed my bias, they are even worse than I thought.

Then you talk about Spotify user metrics, either you are willfully ignorant with no understanding of how to read metrics or you’re just hoping I won’t respond? The obvious metric that you need to judge Spotify by is market share, which Spotify has been on a slow decline on since at least 2019 where they went from 34% to 31% according to tech crunch. The internet is growing, their MAU, revenue etc will all grow, most internet companies can boast that. I literally don’t need to shift my narrative, I know Spotify pays artists poorly, Apple Music does too, any system that pays by stream count is a winner takes all that benefits the biggest artists in my view, Tidal does a much better job.

Probably the fact that I actually know what I’m talking about, and am not falling for your ignorant citations and stats, might be a crack in your world view, you might have been under the comfortable delusion that everyone who doesn’t agree with you has not done the research and is not smart when it turns out that you are actually incredibly ignorant in your research. In fact if you take this as a learning lesson for your life and maybe probe further you will find that for most complex issues, at the highest levels everyone deeply understands the facts, but still can turn out with radically different interpretations of them, consensus on anything other than pure math is hard to achieve. I reckon you’ll be stuck in Plato’s cave forever though, I heard it’s quite comfortable down there.
Is the rest of your circle in the same position as you are? Usually the problem is being the one retired while the rest of your friends still have to work
Explain how words do that?
You can do whatever you want and I can criticize you for it. Most of people who I’ve seen that don’t have children, when they get old have an emptiness inside them and not much to look for. When they’re younger they think they’re gonna be okay, but we usually don’t know if we feel the same way a few minutes from now, how can you say no I won’t feel that way 30-40 years from now? I hope the writer of this article be happy and fulfilled but I still don’t understand for myself any of their points. Shrugs
Edit: Also, you can have a business and travel the world and still raise a child, as people have done since beginning of history, its not either or I feel like. It would even make it more fun some might say.
What your evaluating is not what you think it is. You're evaluating the models ability to execute multiple complex steps (think about all of the steps it takes for your second example) not so much if it is capable of doing those things. If you broke it down into 2-3 different prompts it could do all of those things easy.
> If you are about to cross a border:

I suggest something different. Do not take any phone you use for accessing anything remotely important. Carry no phone, or carry a burner phone. If you do this regularly, just have a dedicated phone for international travel with nothing except tourist basics on it (uber,etc).
I think its note worthy that humans actually fail this test... We have to go dormant for 8 hours every day.
completely uninvestable.