skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interspecies communication is a massively underrated field.

We've bridged human cultures in the past, which is easier because humans do similar (ish) things, we can use sight, touch, smell, etc to establish common ground.

We can communicate simple things with pets, though in my experience they learn from body language and intonation, understanding grammar and language feels like a step further.

What's the common ground with whales?

Like how eskimos have 100 words for snow, whales could have thousands of phrases for water, currents, temperature, storms. Fish, migration of different species. A language of relative position needed for pack hunting. They might tell stories about El Niño, earthquakes, tsunamis.

If they have social structure we may share ideas of relationships, friendship, giving (food), owing, sharing, helping, etc.

We might be able to correlate their speech with weather patterns and animal sightings. We could probably start a two way communication, I wonder if us or them would have better forecasts for sea conditions. They could act as a network of hundreds of thousands of sensors.

Sperm whales travel so far, that even without maps they might know the shape of the continents.

Very excited for the future.
I think the love for this algorithm feels similar to my love for Raycasting. You get a 3D game on barely any hardware with no trigonometry. Like… how?! It makes complete sense once I implemented it, but it still feels like wizardry.
There is a random matrix theory derived diagnostic of training that relies on the spectral density of the correlation matrix of the weights. Each layer's spectral density is fit to a truncated power law, and deemed properly trained if the power law exponent alpha is just above two.

https://jmlr.org/beta/papers/v22/20-410.html
The advice goes, Fall in love with the problem. Well, sometimes you fall for a problem that isn’t programming.
Exactly.

What’s the outcome of this inevitability:

New-age “programmer” designs a beautiful algorithm with long reaching implications.

They provide a machine learning tool the design spec, and it “programs it”, but the program fails.

The student is ignorant of programming, and blindly faithful in the machine learning tool, so the student assumes their design spec must be flawed, but is unable to find a flaw, and so abandons it.

Turns out the machine learning tool hallucinated an off by one error that could have been identified had the student learned to program.
A naive question: I see that they are using mathjax for the displaying mathematics content. But what are they using to create the interactive diagrams?
I'm absolutely not an authority in these matters, and any corrections are welcome and appreciated.)

From what I've read, "green" hydrogen made from electrolysis with energy from non-carbon-emitting sources extremely energy intensive, as is compressing it for transport. Transport is also expensive. To my knowledge, there aren't any pipelines in Western Canada that could transport it, so I guess it's trucks and train cars. But maybe there's potential there because hydrogen wouldn't need to be the backbone of the grid, it would just need to pick up the (substantial?) slack when renewables weren't producing.
Incus on Flatcar is what I mean. This seems to be the PR you're talking about[1]. I'll keep an eye on it, thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/flatcar/scripts/pull/1655
The point is it isn't exclusively that. Nor is that kind of gatekeeping an essential part of music, in fact it is not admired in any way.
Ah I felt like I just stepped back in time. Dang that was vivid!
Converting more of these five acres we're on to a combination of native meadow and more-diverse forest (not just Douglas-fir), and increasing the variety of habitat by leaving some felled trees, brush piles, and digging out an ephemeral pond or two. Ideally we get it so no part of the yard needs to be mowed, and the greenery around the house can be managed by hand (for fire break and preventing water damage). The hope that some of these trees could live another five to eight hundred years is part of my motivation.
I fully agree that this problem also exists in C/C++. I was comparing it to the likes of Go or Rust.
I'm imagining the pit mining to retrieve the volume of large stones needed to keep up with concrete consumption.
So allow sshd to start in a failed mode and then restart it?
From what I understand that 100 words for snow thing isn't really true, it's just that the language uses compound words like german, so it's just that an adjective + noun is rolled into one word (e.g. powder snow would also be pulverschnee in german, but it's really just the word for powder and snow without the space)
This is already happening; Ørsted cancelled its two US Eastern seaboard windfarms in the US, saying that the cost of WE power needs to rise considerably for WE to become feasible again.

As for "nuclear being effectively dead"; the story you yourself posted in this thread says this:

quote: "By contrast, Russia, which now dominates the international market for new reactors, has 53 under construction, planned, or proposed within its own borders and another 50 in 19 countries. China is constructing, planning, or proposing to build 220 new domestic reactors, and 20 of its models are being built or are under consideration in 12 other countries."

And thats not even considering the agreement on tripling nuclear capacity before 2050, adopted by 20 nations at the COP28.

Can we stop with the ultra partisan claims, please?
As far as I am aware, Java is the only major programming language (other than JavaScript, which is also the only worse major language) that was not organically adopted by programmers.

JavaScript was forced on the world by being the language of the browser, but Java was foisted on the world by Sun Microsystems in a massive marketing campaign.

And then Java was bought by the kind of person who isn't a programmer but needs to make some kind of sensible choice at some company, along with the kind of person who needs to teach freshman programming according to the latest fad.

Don't forget the millions Sun spent literally ADVERTISING Java.

For 2-3 years (2003-4?) every other tech-related book that was published had something to do with Java. I remember going into a Barnes and Noble once, back in that era, and walking down an aisle that felt like it was 30 feet long and four shelves high of just Java books. It was all marketing.

After a decade people suddenly woke up and realized "oh, Java sucks".

Then the smart kids moved on, but the rest of the world is now stuck with Java, and there will always be those kinds of people around who aren't programmers but who need to make what they think is some kind of sensible choice.

Of course, the Java community has also realized what a pile of ** Java was, so now they've added all sorts of lambdas and better syntax and whatnot, but it's band-aids on top of a fundamental misconception, which is that object-oriented programming is the best way to model software engineering problems.
This brings up a classic distinction between a "Software Engineer" and a "Programmer". Without getting into a diatribe about semantics: my industry selects for people with software engineering skills. The ability to simply write code is not as valuable as the ability to problem solve, make thoughtful trade offs with known constraints, and design effective high quality solutions.

Now readers may understand "Programmers" to also have these qualities. Fine. I'm not going to argue.

But the same arbitrary distinction need not be applied between "real" engineers and programmers. Many real engineering are programmers.
Depends on what the person wants to make. Having a passion project will make it much more likely that they stick with it.

I would likely choose from Python, JS/TS, and Go
I’m not sure it is the Chinese tech companies that produced prosperity. It is due to their low cost manufacturing base for the last thirty years and consequent rapid urbanization. If anything, their tech companies have been largely laggards on the world stage with most being simple derivatives of western brands capitalizing on their large population base and barrier to foreign entry. They don’t have a very good track record of being issued patents outside their jurisdiction either.
That typically comes in the form of a national security letter.
True, we seem to have a pretty similar perspective after all.

My concern is an ecological one within science, and your argument addresses the frontier of scientific methods.

I am sure both are compatible. One interesting question is what instruments are suitable to reduce negative externalities from bad actors. Pre-registration works, but is limited to few fields where the stakes are high. We will probably similarly see a staggered approach with more restrictive methods in some fields and less restrictive ones in others.

That said, there remain many problems to think about: E.g. what happens to meta-analyses if the majority of findings comes from the same mechanism? Will humans be able to resist the pull of easy AI suggestions and instead think hard where they should? Are there sensible mechanisms for enforcing transparency? Will these trends bring us back to a world in which trust was only based on prestige of known names?

Interesting times, certainly.
I bought a 32 inch 4k screen from them in 2016. Lot of dead pixels. Replacement had more. Second replacement had a bit less but still a few. Left a bad review, Asus contacted me, they sent me a replacement directly telling me it would be perfect. That screen was worst of the previous 3, lot of uneven backlight and tons of dead pixels. I kept the third once and shipped back their « replacement ». I’m still using it, but the menu is slow and it take forever to wake up. I haven’t bought anything from Asus since.
I think I may have misunderstood what your original comment was referring to. Were you saying that one doesn’t need a parser to make a working interpreter? I want to make sure that I understand the context of your comments because looking at the post you linked where you did this in C# you show you are using a recursive descent parser. It was when I saw the parser that I realized I could be way off base on what I was thinking you were talking about.
We'd do it without its "help" and give it the results which it would then recombine and hallucinate.
I am generally stuck with 32" 4k screens because there's nothing more appealing at the moment.

I might switch to 41.5 oled (like Philips 42m2n8900 — it uses the same panel as C2 but is an actual monitor and has better anti-glare coating, or so I hope) or 42.5" ips/va (and already would have if there was 8k option and it was possible to drive that with eg. mobile radeon 780m), but mostly because I've got some eyesight issues that might work against my desire for crystal clear text and many windows side-by-side.

To prepare for that, I've already replaced my electric height-adjustable desk top with a custom 45" deep one, so now I just need to splurge on the monitor (but I've been holding hope something higher res would come out soon).

My main drivers are being able to fit a lot of windows simultaneously (Emacs, two email clients [yes, business requires outlook], couple of messengers, calendar and a terminal) + keep text nice and smooth, ideally even with subpixel rendering ("ClearType" for MS folks) off (that's why I'd like 8k).
A good reminder that macros give you super powers!

I don't know a lot of elixir, so I can't say if this is a great idea for inclusion into the standard or not, but it's undeniable that giving macro-based access to the AST adds a lot of expressivity and flexibility.
Not the person you've responded to, but I found this: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/future-audiences/citation...
If you were running a company, how would you justify spending developer time on such an optimization versus, say, implementing features that actually make money?
It's one of those moments in tech like when the internet was coming and it was obvious it was going to change most business.

Now it's AI. You can take almost any human problem and pitch for AI to make it better, even if you are only using an API to ChatGPT. Or even if the AI doesn't work just now, there's a good chance it will in a year or two.
I know & trust the founders of signal personally.

Every time I've used telegram it smacks of a data collection tool for an Eastern Bloc nation.

I'll stick with what I know, thanks.

Edit: Also the article linked is just a hit piece on the current signal leadership by a guy promoting a book about "the radical left". This is just reinforcing my tendency to say "fuck telegram".
> Do you believe that the Russians are bloodthirsty and looking for war no matter what?

You don't need to ask. Putin issued a letter in 2021 demanding NATO accept that Eastern Europe moves back into Russian sphere of influence. Including Baltic countries, my country - Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania, etc. Over 100 million people in total sold to a dictatorship just like that. Against our will, of course, but you prefer not to look too closely into that, right? All the understanding for Iranian and Russian government, no empathy for the countries sold to them :)

This is what Russia will do if you let them. Not because Russians are bloodthirsty, but because Russia is a totalitarian imperialist state that can do it without consequences for the ruling elite.

The cheapest and least bloody way to stop it is to stop it now in Ukraine. If we don't - we will have to stop it in Ukraine the 3rd time Russia invades. Or the 4th, if it takes 4 times. Or when Russia goes for Baltic states. It won't get better until we stop it.
Follow-up to my sibling comment as it’s too late to edit:

I don’t really have much exposure to in-the-wild usage of the term, but I’m pretty sure you’re correct about the meaning, and once I thought about it a bit more and the weird way the word is used and how it’s glued together, I came up with the following:

I have no way to verify this, but my folk etymology of nerd sniping is a type of snipe hunt targeted at nerds specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt
A Dell U4021QW 40" 5K2K ultrawide I recently bought gently-used, which replaced the very similar (but lower-resolution) U3818DW I had bought gently-used in 2017.

Why? Two main reasons:

* My M1 Mac, which I can't imagine replacing just yet, only supports one external monitor, but has no problem driving a 40" 5K2K behemoth. I might as well have one of those.

* The built-in Thunderbolt KVM features of the U4021QW and the other Dell ultrawides in this series are just fantastic. M1 Macbook connected by Thunderbolt, Windows desktop connected by DisplayPort, Linux NUC connected by HDMI, all sharing a webcam and other peripherals, works flawlessly with great cable management.

The new 120hz U4025QW looks great, but is still rather pricy. Hopefully in 5 years I'll upgrade to a hypothetical OLED 120hz version of this monitor.
The transformer lead time issue is to some extent FUD. The lead times are large because there is enough financial incentive in having transformers last for 40 years that they on the extreme end of the spectrum of possible engineering and manufacturing (of transformers).

If there were a national/international massacre of transformers (also, mostly FUD*) there would be an almost overnight response of making dead-simple, dead-easily made transformers and grids would begin being resupplied within weeks. Remember, we could mass manufacture transformers over a 100 years ago.

Of course such a long outage may well be a civilizational disaster, but it wouldn't be years of lead time for replacement.

* Transmission providers have begun monitoring transformers for DC flows on the neutral conductor, which is what damages them in a GMD condition. Once detected, they can drop affected transformers (causing an outage), and even dispatch line workers to physically disconnect if need be.
If Wikimedia Foundation didn't get paid for basing this project on an aggressively embrace&extend browser, they should look into whether they're leaving money on the table, since projects like this help extinguish the browser's competition.
>How reductionist and incurious

And yet, not incorrect.
Why is this absurd socialist article here?
Isn't the privacy tint the meat of laundering? After passing through a couple shells, KYC at that point just knows who made a bunch of income, but not how. What's the rest of the story?
Curious -- how do we get information about the thickness/shape of the galactic plane from observations within the plane?
A Dell monitor monitor I have had maybe 15 years. Its whites are brownish but I dare not try to adjust it because last time it refused to work until I did something I know not what. Why I stick with it is a mystery. Maybe I need to go shopping.
Not at all.

Facebook...people posting their personal info online for everyone to see?

AirBnb...couch-surfing in strangers houses? (One r*** and that idea is dead )

Netflix mailing DVDs to your house?
We'll just fine tune our existing models with data scraped from the whale internet. Surely that will work.
Average price of arable land in the EU in 2022 was a shade over 10,000 euros/hectare.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

At this price, the cost of land is quite small compared to the cost of a PV field on that land.
Inaccessible Rail: Why is the smallest flightless bird called that?
For anyone wanting a short piece of fiction about human-animal communication development, I enjoyed this one (or part one of one) from Lars Doucet: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/we-trade-with-ants-a-short-s...
> Either one of these is expensive or one of these is cheap.

I'm unable to downvote this insane take so you get an angry reply instead.

This is the dumbest thing I've read today^1. Charging someone to use knowledge and understanding is insane. Here let me teach you how to do this, now if you ever do anything like this, fuck you pay me? What?!

Both charges are insane. The thread group could sell hardware implementations, or software libraries, that's an ethical way to fund Apple does sell access to it's platform. The extra fees for IP, what essentially is just understanding and know how is so stupid. And society would benefit greatly if everyone stopped pretending like thought crimes were convictable.

^1: which sounds meaningful until account that I've been up for 30m max
I heard that ssh is kinda of an unnecessary step, since wireguard is already encrypted by default. Even legacy rsh should work fine in that setup. But I'm still not convinced, having double encryption is not a real performance problem in the real world. And I prefer it, just to be safe
If I could use my Android screen with a dedicated keyboard, that might be a compromise. A keyboard is maybe a week's worth of work, all-in (PCB design, installing firmware, etc). I'm not sure how much software work it would be to make it happy with an emulator -- probably much more.

I really wish the HP48 software were released as open-source. It'd be a huge good will gesture right now. Right now, this whole ecosystem is quasilegal. iHP48 is one DMCA takedown notice from ceasing to exist. With that uncertainty, it's not a place I want to devote my time.

In 2024, I'd really like to have crisp fonts, more than 4 items in my stack, and ideally, touch for the menus, and simple upgrades like that. I think that would, practically, require source code rather than just emulation.
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I created a list of Interactive Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Statistics websites (https://p.migdal.pl/interactive-machine-learning-list/), which includes Immersive Linear Algebra, among other things.

For a broader range of subjects, there is a list of Explorables (https://explorabl.es/).
Probably also worth contacting Gamers Nexus (as per the video), as they seemed to indicate they'll be following up the complaints to make a subsequent video.

So, probably a decent time to see if they'll add yours to their list. :)
For the amount Canada recently spent on the expanding the Trans-Mountain Pipeline ($30 billion) we could probably build a nice nuclear plant.
Don't do what @BillGates push, sterilized mosquitoes. (sorry Bill)
Rather accommodate and breed dragonflies instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx2im0ceCc
One party is a multinational megacorp with billions of dollars and the other party is a worker. Whether the worker does a "wrong" or a "right" or is even exceptional at doing "right"s, their behavior will never invite more favor from the megacorp, as evidenced by the many layoffs at many megacorps over the last 4 years.
There's a practical limit on how far you can ship power. Some while ago I tried to model what it would take to maintain continuous power worldwide with just looking at day/night. Nope, couldn't be done even if your cells were free. Just the wires became impossible--I was looking at the best wires to date and that still translated into a number of nines (I forget how many) on the loss percentage--and some mechanical bottlenecks were you simply didn't have enough land to run the wires.

The higher you run the voltage the more corona loss, the higher you run the current the more resistance loss. And there's a limit to how close you can put the wires to each other before they interfere. The band of land required for the massive power bus is gargantuan.
Your ignorance of the content doesn't rule out it's existence
I try not to get excited on a Sunday.
I think the maintainer needs to update the OpenSSL package and remove all the networking features....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320166

To soon?

(Note I run Debian all over the place, and am generally happy with it.)
> Canada plus all of Europe is only 1 in 10 people.

A bit less actually. But you cannot dismiss a technology that works for 10% of people. And we still weight more than this in terms of CO2.

> Global problems need global solutions

No, global problems need custom solutions suited to all the different situations. Thinking there exist one technology to rule them all that will solve the problem everywhere is not helpful to anyone.

> That's why every prediction has solar accelerating past nuclear deployment and heading for multiples of nuclear output.

This isn't a race! Stop thinking of technologies as if it was sport teams.
Where is the Science of Culture school?
DMARC only requires one of SPF or DKIM to pass. DKIM passing and SPF failing won't deter DMARC; the message will land in the inbox.
You do not need a load barrier to observe stores from other cores. You need the load barrier so your own core does not reorder loads otherwise you could see wacky loads even if the stores are totally ordered.

As a example, suppose we have totally ordered stores, but loads can be reordered freely. Suppose X is 0 and Y is 0, then we store X to 1 then store Y to 1. Therefore, Y can only be 1 after X is 1. But, if you can load out of order, then you can load Y prior to the store, then load X after the store and see Y is 0 and X is 1 even though the store ordering guarantees Y is 1 only after X is 1.
Have you looked at Scala? I like it on the language level but it can be more complex than Java.
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