skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a false equivalence. Those same groups have the same rights today as others, and can push for change within the bounds of our law. In the past they couldn’t vote, but that’s not the case now. Likewise people protesting Israel-Palestine or Trump or whatever have ways to share ideas, influence, vote, and legally protest. If they aren’t getting what they want, it is because their ideas are unpopular and they need to accept that. They aren’t entitled to an audience and aren’t entitled to breaking the law just because they didn’t get their way.
I strongly encourage you to use a word other than "weak" in this sort of context. "Susceptible" will do. Ditto for "strong". "Resistant" might suffice.

Plenty of people died of COVID19 who were by no measure "weak" (other than susceptibility to COVID19) and your language suggests that viruses act upon some sort of generically less well-adapted genotype. Viruses kill people who are more susceptible to the effects of the virus (which may also differ from person to person). Those people may have previously been judged "strong".

"Weak" and "strong" are incredibly poorly chosen words to use in discussing susceptibility to disease.
I beg to differ. What are initial conditions if not some additional constraints?
You know sand and wind erode as well, right?
Once you correct the LLM, it will continue to provide the corrected answer until some time later, when it will again make the same mistake. At least, this has been my experience. If you are using LLM to pull answers programmatically and rely on their accuracy, here is what worked for the structured or numeric answers, such as numbers, JSON, etc.

1) Send the same prompt twice, including "Can you double check?" in the second prompt to force GPT to verify the answer.
2) If both answers are the same, you got the correct answer.
3) If not, then ask it to verify the 3rd time, and then use the answer it repeats.

Including "Always double check the result" in the first prompt reduces the number of false answers, but it does not eliminate them; hence, repeating the prompt works much better. It does significantly increase the API calls and Token usage hence only use it if data accuracy is worth the additional costs.
sadly this blog post is n=1
Which, like, someone should sue Tesla for violating the CFAA when they do that. If you bought the car and you own it, Tesla remoting in and changing things on your car is a CFAA violation.
I welcome even quieter electric, but the two stroke engine on most blowers (particularly the pack blowers) is the real problem and they are EVERYWHERE. Every day from sun up to sun down from March until December my neighborhood has a nearly constant drone and reeks of two stroke gas. It has gotten so much worse over the past 7 years I’ve lived here, and sharply worse since pandemic. I dunno if it’s attributed to more affordable pack models becoming more popular with homeowners or increased usage of landscapers, but it has become an extreme nuisance.

I have a handheld electric to help with a couple of hard to reach spots. While it’s not as quiet as I wish, you can’t (well, least I can’t, from my testing) really hear it after about 75 to 100 feet. The surrounding neighbors’ blowers can be heard over a quarter mile away when I’m walking around the block.

It has ruined enjoying time out in the backyard, especially during the fall which is my favorite season.
I'm not sure you understand how power dynamics work, what 'optional' means in a setting where authorities have complete control over your life. Kind of like it's 'optional' to comply with extortion so I guess it should be allowed.

Read this ruling regarding an inmate that was regularly feed expired/bug infested food, as well as injured due to the facilities, the process the inmate had to go through, and the outcome being that the court took no action. There system is designed to stonewall/paralyze inmates while giving the appearance of being a just system:

https://casetext.com/case/jones-v-shinn-6

Edit: Also note this case is around a Federal Detention Center, a place for people that have not yet been convicted or sentenced, not even a prison. This is the 'easy part' of the process for people given the presumption of innocence.
That's sort of my point though. It's easy to be "horrified" by things in the abstract. But then you actually visit Bogota, Colombia or Buenos Aires, Argentina and go through these neighborhoods and realize they're actually really nice despite being different to what you're used to.
No, you escape from living like plant
It’s good that the process was thorough but your still left with a process that’s somewhat arbitrary because someone has to decide for you.

I think this is one of those situations where there will never be a good solution. Especially for mental health related issues.

I’m glad to hear it worked out for you though in the end.
The Nazis modeled their laws on Jim Crow, that’s well-known. What’s this about nerve gas tho?
Yes, 13k may be a perfectly fine price for the issue.

But that means a Tesla does not have as low a cost of ownership as people originally thought. It doesn't need oil changes, but now you have to deal with a low resale value and high insurance costs. The savings on fuel and mechanical maintenance may be lost to that.
gettext/PO is just as deficient at modern plural forms support as ResX, out of the box. The only format that I'm aware of that is specifically built to include it as first-class is Mozilla's Fluent. The same workarounds generally apply to ResX as to PO: create a number of separate strings and do a bit of math up front to choose the right one, or use a formatter on top of PO/ResX that supports something like ICU MessageFormat.

I found an attempt at doing Fluent in .NET: https://github.com/blushingpenguin/Fluent.Net/

I also found at least one library for supporting ICU MessageFormat in .NET: https://github.com/jeffijoe/messageformat.net
DOJ Advances Marijuana Rescheduling Plan
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that sounds like a replacement for X11/Wayland, not for the terminal.

and this of course sounds fine and nice, until you need to interop with other machines / OS-es - in which case you open vt and ssh to whatever location. Or you want your application to be callable by other machine (or via ssh or from script or cron...) - in which case you eschew all the draw commands and do good old print. And now we are back to where Unix is.
These guys did nothing wrong.i was pretty happy when this happened. It's funny seeing the guys running MEV bots all butthurt when someone out smarts them. But it's scary that the DOJ is siding with them.
Lucasfilm and Autodesk are teaming up to launch a droid-design contest
In celebration of the newest Star Wars droid, Pip, featured in the upcoming series The Acolyte, Lucasfilm and Autodesk, a global leader in technology and software for Design and Make industries, are teaming up to launch a limited-time droid-design contest*. Fans can go to autodesk.com/droid to submit their own designs for a chance to win special grand prizes including a trip to and guided tour of the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco, California, or The Walt Disney Studios Lot in Burbank, California and more

Adam Savage video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwQ-ssVd0ic
Nice, but perhaps a little pricy for small startups. That's actually one of the things I didn't emphasize perhaps. Not only is the gettext/.po eco system big, there's also a lot of free or relatively low cost services available.
Obviously plants can't consent to being killed, what a meaningless argument.
I wouldnt expect this from the API, because each token is the same revenue for OAI. With chatGPT however, you pay a flat rate, so every incremental usage of it is a net-negative for them.
Anecdotally 4o has been working much better for coding for me, building things right the first time with less prodding. It may be a small shift in performance but it crosses a threshold where it's now useful enough and fast enough to be different from turbo.
> Building new walls doesn’t automatically imply tearing old ones down.

But often in this space they seem to want to do that anyway. I can only imagine that they are attempting to force people to adopt their pet project. There's literally no reason a pair of sequences can't be specified that allows clients to query support for advanced terminal mode and get a response. After the client and the terminal have agreed on advanced mode, switch to a byte stream/command blocks/whatever which allow rich text, graphics, sound, access to UI devices, etc. Whan you're done you've recreated X11, but they can do whatever they like I guess.

There's no need to fuck up terminfo along the way though.
Aspect oriented programming.
Interesting, I've seen people using tesla drive motors in electric conversions, so maybe that's easier if they're controlled by some 3rd party hardware, because you're just fighting the motor not the whole car as a system.
On the obedience front I’m inclined to disagree, if you tell a 19yo private to go scale a wall and clear a house you don’t get a lot of questions, if you tell a senior NCO to do that, you get all sorts of questions (most very pertinent) and may likely get told to sod off unless you have good answers!
Specifically, in San Francisco and parts of Europe, the cost of electricity is high enough, or approaching it, that it's not actually cheaper to pay for electricity instead of gasoline.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.70/kWh vs $5/gallon of gas, someone else can go deeper into the math.
When clicking on a .org domain, the website redirects me to a .org.uk domain on Namecheap.
Have you tried p5js?
Yes, I understand that completely. I wasn't saying emojis were flawed, I'm saying that I dislike them because they frequently cause misunderstandings. Sometimes serious misunderstandings.

I limit mine to the very basic ones that everyone understands. Smiley, Laughing, and Sad Face. I use the thumbs-up to quickly say "OK", too, but only with my friends.
We’re talking about frigging A-bombs, I think the phrase “sack up” is apropos here. Oh well, we lucked out in this case at least…
If you have the DHCP argument link handy I’d love to have a sensible chuckle reading it.
The site is also simply wrong:

> The UN now claims that in total 24,686 people were confirmed killed,

The correct statement is that “The UN now claims that 24,686 people who have been confirmed killed and fully identified. There are over 10,000 confirmed victims who are confirmed dead, but not yet fully identified, and then there are around 10,000 more missing and presumed dead under the rubble, in undiscovered mass graves, etc. Bringing the total number of dead closer to 50,000.

This site is willfully misleading, and is actively lying by only counting identified victims and claiming that is the total number of victims.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll...
Building libraries for LLM inference in pure modern Java
Really: Policy language for infra that doesn't suck
Correct me if my understanding is wrong, but there are no crypto transactions involved with arbitrage in the common case. Arbitrage is concerned with the relative price of two assets, for example BTC/USD. There is no bitcoin transferred from exchange A to exchange B, simply the trade of USD to BTC on exchange A and BTC to USD on exchange B.
In 1800, there were 1B humans, 1950 is 2.5, 1990 is 5.0B, and we are now at 8.0B.

I think we forget how many more people there are now compared to just 100 years ago. At -5000, there is an estimated 5M people. There's more than 1000x more people now. Per capita carbon footprint would be quite wild to leave any kind of mark on the planet with a total human population that is smaller than a single modern day mid sized city.

(Data is from worldometers.info/world-population)
The OP didn't say "per year". You added that one gratuitously.
> As always, immutability comes with a performance penalty: Mutating values is generally faster than creating new ones.

I get what they're saying, but I'm not sure I agree with it. Mutating one specific value is faster than making a copy and then altering that. Knowing that a value can't be mutated and using that to optimize the rest of the system can be faster yet. I think it's more likely the case that allowing mutability comes with a performance penalty.
That's a separate option. The option above head tracking in those settings allows for adding your facial expressions (smiling, blinking etc) as shortcuts for clicks.
genman is saying that critical evaluation of Israel’s automated targeting AI system (used for selecting bombing targets without human verification) is equivalent to supporting Hitler.

Their logic is that Palestinians represent a credible existential threat to Jewish people internationally in the same way that Hitler’s military did, so that criticism of IDF bombing campaigns is equivalent to Naziism, and Palestinian resistance is identified as genocide against Israel.
Just skimmed this but it immediately gives up on meshes :( i actually met with a startup, backflip.ai, that is doing mesh generation and their results are very impressive. But it’s a commercial thing
>The size of the cached internal state of the network processing the book is much larger than the size of the book

It's funny that sometimes people consider LLMs as compression engines. While a lot of information gets lost in each direction (through the neural net)
Evolutionary pressure doesn't factor into this. Imagine the virus doing a random walk over a bell curve of virulence. On average an outlier is going to mutate into a not outlier.

SARS-1 was an outlier, very deadly. SARS-2 s probably not an outlier.

That said I think a virus can evolve to the point where it's arguably a different virus in which case the median virulence can change.
I'm uncomfortable with the tax dollars of hard working people being used to defend the likes of those who use robots with million dollar wallets to rake up the low hanging fruit of digital arbitrage on an entirely unregulated network.

They wanted the rewards that came with this risk. Now that they got hustled, they cry foul, and the DOJ is going to spend huge amounts of money litigating their case?

Perhaps it is in and of itself just a new form of "front-running justice" or "administrative arbitrage." What wonderful new things our digital world has brought us.
There is one property about UTF-8 that distinguishes it from opaque byte strings of unknown encoding: its codepoints are self-delimiting, so you can naively locate instances of a substring (and delete them, replace them, split on them, etc.) without worrying that you've grabbed something else with the same bytes as the substring.

Constrast with UTF-16, where a substring might match the bytes at an odd index in the original string, corresponding to totally different characters.

Identifying a substring is valid in every human language I know of, as long as the substring itself is semantically meaningful (e.g., it doesn't end in part of a grapheme cluster; though if you want to avoid breaking up words, you may also want a \b-like mechanism). So it does seem to refute the author's notion that you can do nothing with knowledge only of the encoding.
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it won't because drones can go higher than 1 km
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D3 is low level for doing what it does. Visualizing data.

It’s hard to think of a lower level abstraction for that purpose.
I think the usage of emojis is very comparable to reading an alethiometer, in that the symbols have many completely unrelated meanings, and the reader has to use their context and combination in order to understand the message. Also apparently only children can read them and understand them intuitively, whereas an adult has to build up an encyclopedic knowledge base to read on the same level.
Install Lutris from flatpak.
Yet FF also wanted to capture user search data. I feel that ff is also not the best option.
You do simulations in a lab, you go to the library for information. Google search was supposed to be the web’s library, where you go looking for what other users have produced. Now, it’s a simulation lab, where the input is imprecise, the process unknowable, and the result unreliable. That’s a children’s playground.
horrible junk domains suggested, many including 0s instead of letter 0 etc
thanks but no thanks, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341396

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31177542
The fun part is that the actual uuencode format has the file mode in octal after the word begin. Somebody at microsoft decided this was optional and that begin with two spaces and then the filename should also be the start of a uuencoded section. Of course also without checking if there was any content that was actually encode in that format.
Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it
Life after Death: in another world, at another scale
> That's what the hypothesis u/tiffanyh EXPLICITLY says

No it isn't. The Sphinx water erosion idea says that the Sphinx is too old to have been built by the Egyptians, not that the Egyptians were incapable of building things like the Sphinx. The claimed evidence is apparent water erosion on the Sphinx and climate records, not the complexity of the Sphinx.

> They already brought up the fairly discredited hypothesis that humans couldn't have built Stonehenge

They didn't say humans couldn't build the Stonehenge, they claimed that nobody knows how it was done. They can clarify if they wish but I take this to be a rebuttal of your argument that "alternate" theories about ancient megaliths are obviously rooted in racism; Stonehenge is the subject of such interest despite being European. It's not motivated by some sort of racist desire to show that Britons are racially inferior people who can't stack some stones, it's just a legitimately interesting thing to wonder about.
But the location of the camera doesn't matter. You only need to figure out very roughly at which latitude you are to know by how much to compensate for earth rotation. And you can do that with the sensors that you're already using to do the stabilisation. That was my point... no need for GPS.
Hate to tell you this but Mozilla is also going to drink the AI kool aid soon judging by their plans for Firefox in recent months.

They're also planning shopping ads. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1858644
https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18du4qs/firefox_a...
rcst 3467/tcp RCST
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It is calling Israel "the so-called Jewish state" and 'Israel' what effectively means a claim that Jewish people do not have right for the state on their ancestors land and genocide against them (like genocide on 7th October, or earlier intifadas) is somehow justified.
> I use the thumbs-up to quickly say "OK", too, but only with my friends.

Depending on the age of your friends and the context, that could be causing misunderstandings too. "Thumbs-up emoji" can be read as a very passive-aggressive response outside of a work setting!

The important thing though is that words also cause confusion; emoji aren't uniquely ambiguous. Ideal communication is multi-modal; emoji are very often used to clarify the meaning of text.
Yes, I think that including the datum is the way to do, and the datum to be included should be mapped according to the tectonic plate being mapped. The program can then include the table of conversions between them, in order to plot the data on the map correctly (e.g. in case it includes multiple tectonic plates, or to convert between GPS and map coordinates, etc; this conversion might require also knowing the correct time). If you are plotting on a map then you can either use the same datum if it is known to be the same one for the entire map (e.g. because it is a single tectonic plate being mapped and using that plate's datum), or you can convert to the proper datum if necessary. When you are mapping only one tectonic plate then you will not have to worry about the conversion because it will use that plate's datum and then it will already be correct.

This is true with text as well; the character encoding can be stored with it. You can then select a suitable font if you have it, or otherwise use conversion for fallback if necessary. (In some cases, e.g. between UTF-8 and UTF-16 and UTF-32, this can be done losslessly, because they are all encodings of the same character set (this can also work if converting to a superset, e.g. ASCII to Unicode or JIS to TRON). Other times, that isn't ideal and doesn't work very well; like the example given above about maps with multiple tectonic plates, you can have text with multiple languages, too. And, again, the conversion can involve other stuff too (time in the case of WGS84, but in the case of character encodings (especially Unicode) it is much more complicated).)

And then, another comment mentions "3PM (time zone)". Even in that case, converting time zones will require knowing the date as well (and in some cases it might be ambiguous); "3PM" is not good enough.

In all of these cases, improved documentation is helpful because it can sometimes avoid these kind of problems. If the documentation makes it clear what map coordinates to use and what character encodings to use, then it can be helpful.
This is 100% on the government failing to regulate monopolies. This is 100% on Microsoft antitrust action over the browser war being allowed to degenerate into farce. This is 100% on people defending arrangements like this by guilt-tripping consumers: instead of Mozilla's relationship with Google being corrupt, it's actually the entire rest of the world that is corrupt.

If Firefox can't survive without Google, then at least they won't be able to beard for Google's monopoly.
I am deeply interested in this point of view of yours so I will be hijacking your reply to ask another question: is "better than asking a few random people on the street" the bar we should be setting?

As far as mathematical thinking goes this doesn't seem an interesting metric at all. Do you believe that optimizing for this metric will indeed lead to reliable mathematical thinking?

I am of the idea that LLMs are not suited to maths, but since I'm not an expert of the field I'm always looking for counterarguments. Of course we can always wait another couple of years and the question will be resolved.
the pip fiasco?