skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, I meant to draw the Windows distinction due to VS Enterprise, since I doubt very seriously VSE runs elsewhere (I'm aware of 2022 for Mac but it doesn't cite its "feature level"). Since I'm not a .NET-er, nor a VS-er, I can't say how smart their top-tier IDE is with their in-house language in order to have an apples-to-apples bake-off
It is deeper, of course it's turing-complete, and I do applaud how easy it is just to get started, and make something, which is absolutely the key to getting kids interested and keeping them so.

But I take huge issue with some of the 'deliberate' limitations. No function returns? No way to share code blocks? These are some of the fundamentals of code.

In my experience these limitations present a big barrier to kids who want to just get some things done, and teaches a very hacky style to those who are willing to learn the complex workarounds to overcome the barriers. Ultimately it leads to the majority being 'confined' to doing typical simple scratch projects, and a small 'elite' who go beyond. Possibly the opposite of what was intended.
>> And those who cultivate those plots outside of these walls face pressures to conform to the whims of the businesses in hopes that the pathways remain open. Otherwise, they might toil away in silence, rarely seeing visitors like they one day used to.

I feel like this paragraph sums up the root of the issue. IF your main concern is "I want lots of people to like my work, and by extension like me, and by extension validate my existence" then naturally we gravitate (literally a force of gravity) towards single common places.

Since most people most definitely fall into this camp, common platforms win. If no-ones gonna read my post on Google+, why on earth would I share my profound ideas there? If the worth of my product is based on the number of followers and likes then it's logical to go to the place where those metrics are amplified.

The nostalgia for the "good old days" is ultimately rooted in golden memories (sometimes, admittedly, delusional) of when we felt noticed, and valued, and cared for. For many of us that is "before adulthood" for some definition of "adult".

Put another way, there are a LOT more high-school football stars than NFL stars.

Of course the web of our youth -hasn't gone away- . You are as free as ever to build a blog, write your thoughts, as you ever were. In fact it's easier than it ever was. But how will people like it? Friend you? Follow you?
I believe they were MPEG-1 instead of the MPEG-2 used in DVDs.

I seem to remember reading that they were far more popular in Asia. There were add-ons for the PlayStation and the Saturn to be able to play them.

The only time I ever remember seeing them were on a spinning bargain rack thing at the front of CompUSA in the mid to late 90s with things I had never heard of on them. I don’t remember what, maybe foreign movies or something.
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Superfest. Unbreakable glass, 70s forerunner of Gorilla Glass [video]
Depending on what you mean by "weighted sample", that's either trivially true (the network is of course a function of its training data and nothing else) or trivially false (the network generalizes over the training data and has not memorized it). It is not a good intuition pump for why an LLM can hold up one end of a conversation, or follow novel instructions - it is not reading from a script, nor regurgitating chopped up pieces of text like a Markov chain. It is doing something very clever in a way that is not obvious.

>It has a relationship with reality insofar as one exists within the training data

This is true of anything that learns.
It’s just astounding to me that people can pay $x00,000 to spend 4-10 years on a single discipline, and still not have the minimal required proof of competence to get a job.

And how are these big tech firms spending $billions on recruiting and interview time, as if the education credential is worthless, but still preferring to use it as a first-line filter?
> but these blood clot deaths with negative COVID tests were not unique to the AstraZeneca vaccine

I think Johnson and Johnson's covid vaccine (also an adenovirus vaccine) was also associated with blood clots, but do you have any evidence of clots with the mRNA vaccines? I recall reports of Myocarditis in younger men that got little value from the mRNA vaccines, but this is the first I've heard of blood clots.
That was far pre-digital. It was killed by VHS & Beta.
No Apple doesn't use their own data centres for iCloud, AppleTV etc.

The advantage of GCP, AWS etc isn't the servers it's the global network.
That’s how I saw Hook!
Ok, you win. Germans are infallible and there have never been issues with tap water.

> Here privatization begins at the location where the water pipe enters the building.

As far as I am aware, the same is true in Flint. I do not understand the distinction you are drawing.

Additionally, your Wikipedia link is obviously not an exhaustive list of "water crises" nor does it offer any insight into whether lead in tap water has been an issue in Europe.

From an initial search, here's evidence to the contrary. Ctrl+F "Germany": https://www.zerowater.eu/zerowater-knowledge-center/lead-in-...
or HN could have an AI-bot to summarize the article at the top of the comments.
On the other hand, I also occasionally run across social media accounts showing condos available for purchase, not lease, in some more affordable wards of Tokyo and I seriously question if I should uproot my life here in the Bay Area, find a job in Japan, and then buy there. The cost difference for buying just seems so much better.

Of course that drastically over-simplifies the realities of moving to Japan and won't work for everyone but just a thought process I go through every so often.
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Rust has rand in a separate crate which felt weird at first but makes sense for reasons like this thread.
I don’t mean this rudely, but the common factor there is you.

Could it just be you don’t enjoy this style of writing?
Leopards Eating Peoples Faces Party is a reference to the commonality of people to vote for some group to have power over others, in this case to take away their privacy via technological means, and then be surprised when that power is inevitably used against them.

Has nothing to do with Republicans. I have a problem with most power at a fundamental level. I largely side with the animals who I think should be armed to bring balance back to the world.

Might want to slow your dismissal of who exactly disagrees with you.
> but the canine patients lived a median of 139 days, compared with a median survival of 30–60 days typical for dogs with the condition

so you might get an improvement in overall survival but not a cure for GBM
Brief anger may impair blood vessel function
No it's not. Judging people is extremely important in order to enforce social conformity and norms. It's how we as social animals maintain civilization.
> only solely owned foreign company in China

I find it highly unlikely this is true, will try to think of a counter example in a bit (cargill)

Also tesla is public?
How have I never seen that OpenScad Graph Editor!!!!

I work a lot with openscad for projects with my 3d printer and it’s been a real pain adapting some things I find to save any time, because the language is a bit odd and using libraries came really obfuscate what’s going on…

Thank you so much for sharing it!
Nah - it was a real thing (and I like vaccines and science) with a risk running at about 2 issues in every 100,000 Asta-Z innoculations with symptoms cropping up within 42 days or so.

(With the bulk of issues being non fatal)

"hundreds of thousands" didn't die though, in all of Australia there was just one person that "probably maybe" died due to TTS (IIRC).

It was first spotted in the European adverse side affect database and written about early on.

More (on TTS and A-Z in AU): https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/advice-...
Could you do this in zero-G, too? This seems like a lot simpler than trying to have a section of a space station rotate and maintain seals around it.
What are some paid VPNs with residential IP addresses? I've always wondered why they don't just mask them as looking like ones anyway.
Geological evidence shows that the earth’s crust was molten until 3.8Gya. This corresponds with the ending of the late heavy bombardment on the moon, which Apollo samples dated. It’s hard to imagine life persisting in or around a magma ocean.
It's not. It's why you're not living in a hut, or worse.
Had Xi continued the One China, Two Systems policy of Deng and not overtly suppressed Hong Kong there would have been a good chance of a peaceful reunification with Taiwan. After the CCP’s crackdown of Hong Kong and their treatment of Uyghurs I don’t think Taiwan will ever willingly unify with China.

Xi has been antagonistic toward the Philippines, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and others. Doesn’t seem like a long term sustainable policy.
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> I think it's clear from this example that the LLM has 0 ability to reason.

It's not a 0 or 1. You are oversimplifying it. Obviously neural networks can learn to generalize patterns of reasoning inferred from their training data. We know that they are not using explicitly defined formal systems of reasoning, and they have some limitations compared to those systems. Anyone who seriously studied neural networks or machine learning understands this.

By the same logic, practically every human on Earth has "0 ability to reason" as their biological neural network will get confused and make mistakes.
Exactly, there was and is no mystery. It’s right there in the EU’s insert.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/vaxzevria-...
Judging from your name you guys are exactly up my alley. What kind of comp are we looking at?

Do I need to post hog as part of the interview process?
I was under the impression that graph neural nets already trained learnable functions on graph edges rather than nodes, albeit typically on a fully connected graph. Is there any comparison to just a basic GNN here?
I agree that most (privileged) people behave selfishly. You don't have to look far to see that. That doesn't make it good.

Which is why advice to be explicitly selfish is jarring. We don't need advice yo do that, we excel at it naturally.

There are however great rewards to be had from being unselfish. We can see that around us too. Being at least aware of our proclivities is the first step in discovering the benefits of countering them.
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No, most are smaller rocks and generally decelerate to terminal velocity in the upper atmosphere. It’s the big ones that have too much momentum and penetrate further at speed, causing them to go boom.

The underlying reason is that momentum scales with volume but air resistance scales with surface area.
I pound this a lot here, but open source investment is a security and military matter to the state. Relying on unfunded overworked and frankly exploited programmers for major aspects of security infrastructure is madness.

The US has a billion or ten to spare for this. Billion. With a B. This is an investment that is not just defense, it is an investment in the general economy.

The NSA budget is (maybe) 3.6 billion dollars. A general secure computing base for the American economy is worth at least 3x that.
> completely derailing their career path, halting all research

That's a real odd way to characterize a person's death.
We're exploring ways to bridge that gap, as it's a real problem that needs addressing. Thanks for sharing your experience, I really appreciate it!
Yup. Rivos said basically "Please don't interpret our willingness to look at your data, once you provide it, as supporting your claims"
Parallels to the Google Gemini duck demo.

"Gemini 'duck' demo was not done in realtime or with voice":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582
Will we ever put men on the moon (again)? It’s been 52 years
I didn't know about datalog before reading this! I became kind of smitten with prolog in college but never found an opportunity to use it.

Now that I'm a gamedev, if there's a permissively licensed C/C++ or a DLL, or something in .net land that would let me store facts and rules and run some queries, I could put it to work.

If anyone that reads this has cooked with deductive databases / theorem proving / logic programming languages things I'd love to hear your guidepost opinions.
If people are naturally selfish and they’re giving you advice to not be selfish, why aren’t they taking their own advice? And why should you take theirs?

It’s like a burglar telling you it’s a good idea to leave your doors unlocked.
Read the sentence again, more slowly this time.
The Music of Chance is one of my favorite books and is such an underappreciated book. Pick it up if you get a chance.

Anyway it's sad to see him go. Rest in peace.
Are these roles open to candidates oustide the US?
This one we'll be implementing soon :)
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Bitwarden starts using the OS password manager service, and it's breaking
Sure. But it's now easy to move on to the next bigger thing. A kid, club or school, can onboard with Scratch, and any laptop can also run python et al. By the time a kid notices all the cool stuff that seems possible and that they could achieve total world domination, they are in a decent situation to pick another language: python, javascript, whatever. And they can do that on their own - they don't even need the school anymore.
New anodized aluminum shafts are used with Ewellix linear bearings for much improved sliding, rotation provided by inserting the linear bearings into radial bearings (this is the tricky part!).

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They need a second Cultural Revolution to figure things out.
It has a license now fwiw.

It's a pretty basic "free for non-commercial use, contact us for commercial use" license.

And the Inria rasterizer is not proprietary either. It's non-commercial open source with the option to purchase a commercial license.

These are perfectly reasonable tech stacks for research projects to build off of. If you have an issue with the license, implement it yourself based on the papers (which all outline the necessary details to do so).
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A forest is an acyclic graph. A tree is a connected forest.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00120...

Deaths: 1 579 for the AstraZeneca vaccine;.

The EMA notes that no causal link has been confirmed: ‘The fact that someone has had a medical issue or died after vaccination does not necessarily mean that this was caused by the vaccine.

Even though this is the EU, your 'hundreds of thousands died' is not true in any way and is a lie.

You were told it is not an mRNA vaccine which you are ignoring.

"okay, you might get it, but you won't spread it"

This ignores the evolution of the virus itself into variants which changed the efficacy of the vaccines based off of previous variants.

What you're saying here is classic anti-vax stuff. "I'm just skeptical, I don't trust medicine now" while offering up totally false information.

Never mind that vaccines rapidly stopped covid from flooding hospitals killing people and giving them long term problems. Now it's not a problem and the only thing that slowed down progress was people spreading misinformation and lies.
I'm honestly shocked you're skeptical about this
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Wow, that is prophetic.
How would Mastodon know that the HTML page lacks any metadata in <head> without actually requesting the HTML page?
No there hasn’t been any (successful) abiogenesis experiments yet.
I was talking about Mars, not Earth. Mars is a lot smaller and cools faster.
I had to try two antidepressants before one worked right, and it works amazingly. My anxiety is just gone. I went off it for a few years cause I was doing so well, and ending up having a breakdown, went back on it, all good again...
The absence of that safeguard in Go is a feature. It's used when the error isn't that critical and the program can merrily continue with the default value.

Of course, this is also scarily non-explicit.
Most Intricate Video Feedback Yet:Hypnotic Interplay Between Color and Luminance
Can someone explain the relationship between implementing WITH (…) AS X … and integer linear programs?

I wish this post had more examples of concrete non-tree queries. Is cross-joining a CTE to itself realistic?

Imo this discussion seems to assume multiple references of a CTE contain many of the same rows with different transforms which are later joined.. what’s an actual example of this? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it

Usually CTEs are shorthand for doing a few joins. And when you reference them multiple times, it’s almost always with different rows in the CTE table. AKA little-no reuse potential. Postgres WITH AS NOT MATERIALIZED of course
>But being a rocket scientist during a war isn't a war crime either.

How familiar are you with jus ad bellum and jus en bello?

Most legal scholars conclude German use of force against the UK was a violation of jus ad bellum and the indiscriminate nature of V-1 and V-2 rockets including their use against civilians was a violation of jus en bello.

The Nuremberg Trials were primarily focused on prosecuting individuals who were deemed to bear the greatest responsibility for the atrocities committed during World War II and the Holocaust.

Many legal scholars of international law and use of armed force agree WvB was should have been tried for the deaths of thousands of forced workers and civilians. His value to the US government definitely saved him, but for that he’d at least have been tried.
It’s still odd to characterize a person’s death in terms of someone else’s career progression. Probably because it’s uncommon to see a death characterized by it’s second order effects. Usually it’s the family or friends and it’s more personal. OP didn’t say anything wrong though.
A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016)
~$15-$20 for a 12oz to get it fresh from a local roaster in the SFBA.
There is at least one "large scale gaussian splatting" type paper that did splatting for a few city blocks and they used data from across the day to build the final model such that you could set the time of day and the model would roughly reflect lighting at that time.
"Sugar cane waste converted into concrete-beating Sugarcrete"
https://newatlas.com/environment/sugar-cane-waste-sugarcrete... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290854

Perhaps Sugarcrete operations could help to preserve and support native and classic varieties of sugarcane.

FWIU, with apple trees, you must have at least two different species to succeed.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935713 :

> Add'l notes on CEB, Algae, Sargassum, Hempcrete in the 2024 International and US Residential Building Code, and

> The Liberator
> offshoring to contend with

They’ve been saying that for at least 20 years.
To whatever extent a cancer vaccine turns out to be effective, those people will be free to continue dying of cancer at a higher rate than the rest of the population. It's not contagious like covid. If they want to hold a grudge about chaotic messaging and policy in the early fog of war of a novel global public health crisis forever, then cool for them.
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Just about everything in Japan is cheaper than in the US (esp. LA), sometimes dramatically so. It's not really that Japan is that cheap; the problem is that the US is just horrifically expensive these days, and Americans haven't quite figured that out yet.
"Music of chance" I'd say, it's a good ride, easy to read, also showcases a lot of his qualities and has a place in my mind forever.

Edit: "Moon palace" is similar in a way. I think those two left the biggest impression in me. They both are probably not the critique's favorites, but perfect as an intro I think.

"Mr Vertigo" was my intro and I think it was a good one as well.

"In the Country of Last Things" is also great, but a bit short for the story arc iirc.

I read the New York trilogy relatively late but these are arguably his most well-received books and I enjoyed them a lot as well.

The other books I mentioned he wrote later, if I'm not misremembering.
If any treatment can extend the life of a patient up to 3 times (as was in the canines), that's significant. Some treatments only have a response efficacy of a few months, but you add a few of these together in sequence, and you build a year.
Excel

I just went through the tutorials for a first time in about a decade (the Make Your First Pivot Table template on the home screen) and was really surprised at how they used slides with buttons (insert > shape, then right click and link to a cell reference) jumping to the next worksheet, reminded me of hypercard

from a market adoption standpoint, nothing else in this thread has much traction in allowing non-programmers at large to do compututation with their computer.
> What is the difference between building out a stack trace yourself by handling errors manually, and just using exceptions?

You cannot force your dependencies to hand you a stack trace with every error. But in languages that use exceptions a stack trace can be provided for "free" -- not free in runtime cost, but certainly free in development cost.
I'm a bit more optimistic. The article specifically mentions that it is too soon to look at efficacy. There could have been a lot going on with these dogs that shortened their lives that was unrelated to the GBM. Optimizing the treatment for dosing, timing, etc and applying it sooner are likely to greatly improve its efficacy.
For Lego bricks, is it an option to do Mindstorms?