skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used ```hamming_bitwise(x::Union{UInt, UInt128, BigInt}, y::Union{UInt, UInt128, BigInt}) = count_ones(x ⊻ y)``` to get a fast hamming distance with "binary vectors" encoded as ints.
What book would you recommend to start to best understand the way you described the differences and similarities between the languages? It really is a very nice post and I’d like to thank you for it.
“Culturally enriched” is a common right wing dog whistle even if you didn’t mean it that way
A frame time spike is covered by the overshooting point: it will basically land further down the curve, which means a point converging toward the B target.
I could not imagine a life where my brain was so full of tiny details, even if some were put there deliberately. I find programming so fills my brain sometimes that I forget simple things like "did I take my pills earlier" or bill deadlines, unless I use an app to remind me. Somtimes, I make an elaborate effort to watch myself take a pill, so I can recall it later. The brain is fascinating device we still don' complete understand.
What's the reasoning for the data? Show the reference, table, graph to backup.
"Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket"
Well that was fascinating, depressing, and completely unsurprising.

I don’t think I had heard of this concept before (chatters on OF) but it doesn’t take much imagination to get to that point when you consider DM-ing is apparently a huge perk of subscribing. I also knew that PPV content was a thing in the OF space but never imagined how big of a role it played.

I’m surprised the chatters were so dismissive of AI. Seems like a fairly easy task to train AI on and at worst you’d just want some human review of the generated messages.

I can’t say I’d shed a tear if the class action goes through and kills off this industry (chatters) and weakens to OF industry as a whole. The entire thing seems built on lies and manipulation. Similar to the AI girlfriend/boyfriend tools, just always made me uncomfortable ethically and morally.
probably, but for example a horror movie is successful to the extent that it induces actual fear in people. I don’t see why we can’t or won’t produce thoroughly convincing games that can actually produce those feelings.

As another data point, it is absolutely possible to actually traumatize yourself with a hallucinogenic drug despite the complete absence of “actual danger”.
This is the story that has been pushed more recently, but the boy boy YouTube channel recently covered and interviewed the man [] in which he claims they misconstrued his intention in order to intentionally discredit him, probably under direction from the government he was attempting to criticize.

[] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU
I definitely get your point.

But it's clear that continuing to use Facebook in that manner will only strengthen the isolation effect. Voting with your wallet and going against the machine invariably involves some level of personal sacrifice. For me, sacrificing patronage is incredibly easy to do. There is more to life than commercialization.

My girlfriend says she only uses Facebook to interface with small stores, who use it as a sole point of contact or distribution. Let that sink in for a moment. Breaking this cycle will require hard work.
New 'forever chemical' cleanup strategy discovered
If you use oidc, you can't use Flutter with web or desktop as build targets.
It requires a feature that isn't supported by Flutter on those platforms.
You reuse optimizer and machine code generator of the C compiler, and you're not tied to a single backend like LLVM.
> But those don't increase the number of seconds in the day. Instead, the final second happens twice.

i agree that this is a rather confusing way of putting it
For the last 4 years the answer is Flutter.
Because infrastructure as code is the fashionable mode of operation these days, and we have not yet managed to move beyond considering code as text.

Webmin style solutions were more fashionable in the turn of the century but, outside MS ecosystem, GUIs never got predominant.
The Dutch counterpart of the Duden (Van Dale) says 42,000 words. My take is that they are probably going to be about the same, because the counting methodologies are probably going to be somewhat different (e.g. do you count well-known semantically transparent compounds as separate words or not).

https://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/4308088/gemiddelde-woordenschat...
I now write most of my personal scripts in English and have ChatGPT compile it to whatever programming language. I don't use it for anything too complex but it makes it easier to write things like grabbing data from an API or website, manipulating it and putting it in a database, etc. Honestly so long as I provide enough detail, the code is more likely to work on the first run than something I wrote by hand.
If you actually listen to an interview with him and not reporting about him, you'll see him explain that he identified some scape goats for prosecution the Australian military we're trying to throw under the bus for minor issues or straight up things they didn't do, while letting the real psychos like special forces off the hook entirely.
> If you watch some long form interviews with Elon, you’ll see that he cares a lot about the truth.

You mean the guy who's infamous for lying? The guy who claimed his car was fully self driving more than a decade before it is? The guy who tweeted "funding secured" and facing multiple fraud charges?
A smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal
And Jan Leike, one of the progenitors of RLHF?

What about Geoffrey Hinton? Stuart Russell? Dario Amodei?

Also exceptions to your model?
So it seems to be a regular power struggle? All these guys did shady things and then some of the higher ups want to pick a few scapegoats to clear the record and save their asses? So one of the underlings just blow the whistles but clearly the higher ups still have things under control.

Just purely speculating btw...
How nasty is producing Solar Panels? Have you looked at the etchants used?

I don't think we have a full account of the cost of the chemicals involved in semi-conductor construction.

I know its an inconvenient fact....

We all want to hate nuclear power but have no good storage plans for these new variable green power sources.

Nuclear may take a long time to spin up but it is constant and reliable.

Electrify the economy they say....

They forget wind and solar are part time producers.
>Is there any actual research on this? Surely psychologists must have studied this.

That's not an easy thing to study, not many pedophiles would be willing to participate in studies. Existing research mostly examines just the ones who have offended. There's some research about non-contact offenders though: https://sci-hub.se/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

TLDR

> while some have argued that exposure to child pornography may promote contact sexual offending by validating and reinforcing attitudes surrounding the sexualization of children (Bourke & Hernandez, 2009), others have argued that child pornography acts as a substitute for contact offending, thereby preventing the direct sexual victimization of children (Riegel, 2004). Although plausible, such causative positions are yet to be directly examined or established within the existing empirical literature base, limiting the strength of these arguments.

> Nonetheless, the available evidence does not appear to support the idea of a direct causal relationship between child pornography and contact sexual offending, at least in the short-term. This is consistent with the findings of McCarthy (2010), who reported that the majority of dual offenders in her sample (84%) had committed contact sexual offenses prior to, rather than following, their involvement with child pornography. Furthermore, if child pornography directly promoted contact sexual offending, one would reasonably expect rates of contact sexual offending to have similarly increased over the last two decades (Glasgow, 2010). Fortunately, official crime statistics indicate that this has not been the case (Brennan, 2012; Motivans & Kyckelhahn, 2007; Victoria Police, 2014).

> Taken together, these findings suggest that although some CPOs do go on to commit sexual offenses against children, engaging in child pornography offending does not inevitably lead to the direct sexual victimization of children.
I still don't understand why you need to build a Dyson sphere and then transport the energy to where it's needed when you can build decentralized fusion reactors. What am I missing?
Well that is the question isn't it. And what the article tries to answer, or at least explore.

Suffice to say the 7 candidates in the article do not conclusively have another explanation. Hence their status as Dyson sphere candidates.
Nonetheless the coverage was enough for highly motivated law enforcement agencies to reconstruct almost every step of the paths taken by the Russian assassins, sorry, “sports nutritionists”, when they paid a visit to the UK to nourish a certain enemy of Russia with Novichok.
>I think folks forget how dire Sprint's straits were at the time, and this specific merger truly was the least of all evils.

Exactly. If you map out all the MNOs around the world in each and every country the trend is very clear where they merge to around 3 - 4 MNOs depending on population density. It is both economical and technical decision, I wouldn't even put it in the category of "least of all evils".
You and I definitely have the same moral view of hacking, or "offensive hacking" if blackhat hacking isn't a term today?

I'm always very hesitant to see any top-down changes trying to change public sentiment though, whether by some kind of intervention to change norms or through law. Norms and laws should reflect, rather than coerce, public opinion. If a majority of people would, of their own accord, agree that hitting common API endpoints on servers publicly connected to the internet is too dangerous to be allowed, I guess we could try to draw a line between that and hacking or penetration testing with good intent.

Short of that though, is it really our place to convince people that this is wrong? Sure we can absolutely do a better job of raising awareness of what's going on, but at least to me awareness of the facts should be the extent of it. People can make up their own decisions on whether or not something is okay, or if its bad enough that we need to further empower the government to enforce more laws.
> ... potentially enriched with JS that hides that button and does a POST for you on documentLoad or such.

Don't do this, most bots now actually load JavaScript.
It is dangerously easy to hack the phones
Men's Shirts Button on the Right. Why Do Women's Button on the Left?
Car forums are still alive but yea the shift from thread discussions to comment and/or video discussions really kills a lot of knowledge. It’s great to find old forum posts showing you how to work on your car. It’s tiresome skipping through videos to find what you need to or even searching Reddit.

The big thing about discord is you can chat now with people but the knowledge is not in a good format to come back to later.
Can you build decentralized fusion reactors? This far the most efficient fusion reactor humanity has available to it exists approximately 1 AU away and is rather difficult to relocate.
Listen to his actual words, not the reporting from the media: https://youtu.be/sYt4CxFfQUU?si=MpgD5PcFlB4gLzHj

You'll see the reporting is totally skewed (huge surprise). He identified certain low ranking military members being effectively thrown under the bus for small things, or things it's dubious they even did. While the Australian gov continues to protect the real psychos: special forces and the top brass.
This is the same argument they used in the 90s to ban Mortal Kombat and other violent games. It wasn't a good argument then and it isn't a good argument today.
One aspect that I find problematic with the idea of Dyson spheres is: where will the energy be dissipated? In the civilization's planet's surface? It seems to me that it would create serious energy imbalances and soon climate disruption.
SpaceX is still the only company with reusable rockets. NASA only dreams about it and cant even make a regular rocket launch on time
Yes, you could. But be careful to make sure that there's no more data left after the decoder finishes, because it's possible to append a ZIP file (or acropcalypse) at the end of any other valid image file data, and decoders usually stop at the end of the image and don't parse past its end, so won't complain about extra data.
No, it's a made up moral tale.
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I think only C/C++ have this annoying quirk. C# is the same as D here and multiple variables declared in Go also all have the same type:

var x, y *int // both pointers to int
A linguist could probably come up with a good reference for a comparative work. I mostly had to dig into some of this stuff when working on Dutch and German NLP, but I am by no means a linguist. For Dutch I found this book very helpful:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/syntax-of-dutch/FB5E136...

It also has comparisons to German spread throughout the book. (Full disclosure: former colleague of mine.)

If you can read Dutch, the E-ANS is also a very valuable resource:

https://e-ans.ivdnt.org/topics/pid/ans21lingtopic

E.g., description of topological fields:

https://e-ans.ivdnt.org/topics/pid/ans21010101lingtopic

https://e-ans.ivdnt.org/topics/pid/ans21010102lingtopic
If you can't take a single week off of work during an entire year in order to advance your career, then you're satisfied with your current one.

There is no need to direct negativity toward others for making time to learn. Carmack is in this position today because of such work ethic, not in spite of it.
I can't see mention of Alexander without thinking of the darts commentator Sid Wadell's assessment of Eric Bristow:

When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27!
This may sound harsh but I think some of these researchers have a sort of god complex. Something like "I am so brilliant and what I have created is so powerful that we MUST think about all the horrible things that my brilliant creation can do". Meanwhile what they have created is just a very impressive next token predictor.
Well US is not dependent on anyone for her Energy needs. Unlike China. Its quite vulnerable on that front if a few pipelines blow up ala nord stream.

This is also why the US has such a large presence in the middle east.
>Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd.

Is it?

If we put aside the common notion that "everything on the internet is and should be free-as-in-beer and fuck you if you disagree", is it really that absurd?

Communities more often than not prefer setting up some kind of filtering to weed out certain people, and a paywall is one of those filters.
No idea how it was before, but trying to build an AppX file from scratch in electron and having it approved in the store in still a pain in the ass
Me too, but I had a thing for Nastassia then when I was 18. Later, finding out how she was exploited by Polanski and others, I felt so bad for her. Hollywood is a dark place. I liked Tess, since I had read the Thomas Hardy novel in high school before seeing the film.
I think the (hidden) reasoning is that it is really easy to have speedups with slow interpreters. However, getting speedups in high-performance level programs is quite hard, mainly due to micro-optimisations.

That's where the comparison to Python comes from: getting speedup on slow interpreters is not very _relevant_. Now if your interpreter has the same optimisations as Python (or v8 or JVM), even a small fraction of what you show would be impressive.

Having said this, the work your team did is a really challenging engineering feat (and with lot more potential). But I do not believe the current speedups will hold if the interpreter/compilers have the level of optimisation that exist in other languages. And while you do not claim it, people expect that.
Your number one that you bring up shouldn't be a universal. You're basing everything, it seems, upon LLMS as being knowledge retrieval systems. You are dismissing situations where someone might want more creative output without having to guide the LLM with a more strict prompt.
same here with edge on windows 11
What kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours?
https://archive.ph/dNID5
For starters, the test you mentioned happened in 2013, after making improvements, they successfully redid that test in 2017.

Visiting the ISS does not involve the reentry capability, and being a test flight, on the journey back, they won't be attempting to bring down any cargo they can't afford to lose. They're saying it's preparing to visit the ISS because that literally is the objective of the first test flight. Maybe they've pulled a Boeing and it has too many issues to make it there, but the only way to find out is to actually launch it and attempt to head there and back.

As for carrying crew, that's still far away, they don't have a commercial crew contract from NASA, and are instead working with Blue Origin to provide transportation to their commercial space station. Given Blue's rate of getting things done so far, this is probably going to materialize well into the 2030s, if it materializes at all.
No. Real suffering in the homelab is getting N 20 year old servers and swapping parts between them to get N-M servers that work. I feel like the project will be successful if I get all the drives wiped and I am within site of that although I discovered the wiping was going to be a process of triage: some drives did not spin up, one drive took 14 hours to wipe whereas a normal drive would take about 30 minutes. My collaborator will use the bad drives for target practice for a black powder rifle that shoots round balls.

Noisy fans take the "home" out of the homelab; the machines are 64 bit Intel but top out at 4GB. The latest version of Ubuntu installs fine but the desktop struggles. I think I'm going to install the desktop Ubuntu again just to see if I can watch YouTube with it but the plan now is install the server edition and give it to my collaborator to run an occasional minecraft server, which might free up a (much more powerful) i3 machine to watch videos from my Jellyfin server on the TV downstairs, something the XBOX ONE oddly can't handle. (No patent licenses for codecs if it's a game console?)

At least I dug out the old VGA-supporting monitors out of mothballs so I'll be ready to play around with the RISC-V and eZ80 SBCs I have which are, at the very least, a lot quieter.
Yep, and since C was mostly used as an ISA abstraction, then with a real, good enough, worldwide royalty free ISA and not vendor locked, we can expect much more assembly written libraries and programs.

A side effect is to kiss bye bye significantly to the planned obsolescence of much system software and some computer language syntaxes.
I'm guessing unvested equity is being treated separately from other forms of compensation. Normally, leaving a company loses the individual all rights to unvested options. Here the considetation is that options are retained in exchange for silence.
> and fusion is still a pipe dream

Well, so is building Dyson swarms and spheres. I'd bet that we will figure out fusion first.

> much more IR radiation and there's really no way to hide that.

Maybe you can create a black hole in orbit and radiate into that? I saw somewhere that it might be possible to create a black hole using less hydrogen than what is available on Earth.
As is repeatedly spamming the same pasta
See my comment for a more detailed explanation but the short version is: a Dyson Swarm (preferred term) is merely a cloud of orbitals (ie not a rigid shell; there is no known or even theorized material with the strength to build a shell that large). The orbitals dissipate heat into space. That's what the infrared radiation is that they're looking for.
Has been posted here before also, so adding it for people not aware of it already
- https://areweguiyet.com
Flew on a 737-8 the other day ...
... spent the whole trip wondering if it was the 737 with problems.-

At some point, having the customer be able to choose planes, will become a value proposition in itself ...
How many pages is the spiral book?
I don’t know if others have noticed, but GPT-4o doesn’t have the preachiness and moral smugness that earlier GPT models had.

The earlier ChatGPT models were very quick to call a request unsafe or unethical and refuse to help.

GPT-4o is a breath of fresh air compared to that. If this improvement was a result of people like Leike resigning - then good riddance.
You cannot expect to invade another country, drive away the local population and replace it with colonizers from your homeland, and expect that when the tide turns and your military is driven away, your colonizers will get to keep the homes and businesses that they had illegally taken over. After WWII, German colonizers had to pack their things and return homes and farms in Poland back to their rightful owners. Russians in Crimea are no different. It's insane to expect a different outcome.

And this has nothing to do with ethnic cleansing. The people who choose to move into occupied Crimea, enter and stay in Ukraine illegally.
No argument there. Freight is not designed for comfort or sound.
Glad you agree with me then. It’s not about just buying new trains.
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The New Yorker piece is pretty terrifying and manages to be so while bending over backwards to present both sides of not maybe even suck up to SV a bit. Certainly no one forced Altman to say on the record that Ice Nine in the water glass was what he had planned for anyone who crossed him, and no one forced pg to say, likewise on the record that “Sam’s real talent is becoming powerful” or something to that effect.

Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
Here's my take: large format sheet glass that is safe and durable, has become much more available due to technological change, allowing for construction of buildings with much more sunlight, enabling interior designs which are both a lot more pleasant and let extract more rent. Glass exterior leaves less space for ornament and also makes the ornament less visible and even somewhat of an eyesore.
AI will make all that even worse.
Data staying hidden behind nice UX is VERY bad news.
May be all that will lead to an equivalent of open-source, but for data.
Haven’t read the article but Uber/Lyft have probably saved a lot of lives by filling much of the gap in transit.
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