skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My country uses long scale. I've never seen long scale used in English, so I don't think it's ambiguous.

But! When non-native speakers read news, they are not always completely fluent in English, or even aware the short scale exists. This is true even for journalists. I've seen articles written in a serious newspapers where a journalist confused "billion" and "trillion", because they incorrectly translated English "billion" to my language "bilion". Journalists! A cross-cultural mistake not unlike foots vs meters.

So that's one thing to consider if one wants to avoid miscommunication at all cost. I'm not sure if it is important enough to take into account - after all people should know better.
> and it still reads today!

Exactly my experience. Verbatim is worth the additional cost in my opinion. I mainly do the archival as a hobby... not sure I ever gonna need it :-) However, I'm pretty scared of ransomware these days, so I tried to make my setup as ransomware proof as possible and zfs-auto-snapshot + self burned blurays with the most important data seemed like a good idea :-)
This is an interesting one.
What was the version of tar? Was it gnu tar?
I wonder, how did you create that archive?

I'm asking this because I was trying to reproduce the same situation and everything seems to be working fine:

$ tar -C /tmp/root3 -cvf test.tar .
./
./.config/
./.config/test
./.local/
./var/
./var/db/
./var/db/xbps/

or even like this

$ tar -cvf test2.tar root3/
root3/
root3/.config/
root3/.config/test
root3/.local/
root3/var/
root3/var/db/
root3/var/db/xbps/

No special options were needed. But, if I do it this way, then, there are definitely missing all dot directories:

$ tar -cvf test2.tar root3/*
root3/usr/
root3/usr/bin/
root3/usr/bin/xbps-uunshare

But this problem is not a tar's problem. That's only because "*" mask doesn't match dot files:

$ echo root3/*
root3/usr root3/var

For that purpose, you need to clearly add a dot:

$ echo root3/.*
root3/.config root3/.local

Thus, the solution might be

$ tar -cvf test2.tar root3/.* root3/*
root3/.config/
root3/.config/test
root3/.local/
root3/usr/
root3/usr/bin/

But, I'd rather stick to "-C dir/" option instead of relying on "*" mask in this case.
The day ICJ goes after the political and financial supporters of Hamas and orders Hamas to stop using the people of Palestine as live shields to bear the brunt of the Israeli wrath will be the day when I will agree with the ICJ.
Do you work for rentech?
I wouldn't want to go into specifics, as it's easy to look like I was slinging mud.

But if you have seen the issues that Starliner has had recently, I would echo the statement from there, that valves are hard. Very hard. Everything to do with pressurised systems in space is hard. But the propulsion team worked it through and are now seeing the fruits of the long hours.
Funding tends to be a constraint with larger studies, and it's best to keep studies focused anyway — less confounding variables.

Here, I'll pontificate a bit. For instance, study 1 finds that Ozempic is associated with a reduced risk of X. Study 2 is now funded to see if the association can be experimentally reproduced to establish a causative relationship. Competing institution gets Study 3 funded to test competing drug Mounjaro, reaches same conclusion. Study 4 by another institution finds same conclusion with a drug that acts in an entirely different manner, Buproprion. Study 5 by yet another institution finds similar results with amphetamines. Study 6 is funded on the premise that there's an underlying mechanism that needs to be explored, gets funding to study caloric restriction, gets similar results. Meanwhile, study 2 finds a causative relationship between Ozempic and X, concluding experimentally that Ozempic achieves X by inducing calorie restriction, which concurs with study 6.

I'm oversimplifying. But you see where I'm going with this. Much easier to both control and fund the smaller studies than a giant one, and you develop more knowledge in the process.

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Also, I'm not an academic, so I could be wildly off base. Would appreciate a gut check by someone who actually does this for a living.
Enough of this weasel talk.

It's not the early days.

Not by a country mile.

To quote Cory Doctorow

> I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ”machine learning” field that leads to a general AI any more than I can see a path from continuous improvements in horse-breeding that leads to an internal combustion engine.

You can counter it doesn't necessarily need an AGI here but that doesn't change the fact you can't crank this engine harder and expect it to power an airplane.

And, as always https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
I thought the commenter was talking about Google Search. It sometimes pushes similar sites you don’t want that might generate more ad revenue. Now, they have two products that do this.
> “The amount of renewable energy capacity added to energy systems around the world grew by 50% in 2023

Literally the quote I was responding to, with a source, before you ran off on this tangent, I presume because you can't read.

You've continually failed basic reading comprehension here.
If you're a GCP customer with a TAM, here's how to make them squirm. Ask them what protections GCP has in place, on your account, that would prevent GCP from inadvertently deleting large amounts of resources if GCP makes an administrative error.

They'll point to something that says this specific problem was alleviated (by deprecating the tool that did it, and automating more of the process), and then you can persist: we know you've fixed this problem, then followup: will a human review this large-scale deletion before the resources are deleted?

From what I can tell (I worked for GCP aeons ago, and am an active user of AWS for even longer) GCP's human-based protection measures are close to non-existent, and much less than AWS. Either way, it's definitely worth asking your TAM about this very real risk.
> As a baseline, I support developers using whatever license they would like, and targeting whatever operating systems, indeed, writing whatever code they would like in the process.

> That doesn't make this specific policy a good idea.
> interaction with not yet published mechanic

Ohh? Hmm... I wonder what's coming - exciting!
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But it’s gone. I remember all my old passwords from 2000. But I also remember about 10 years ago changing those everywhere to secure passwords. I even distinctly remember doing this for ICQ despite not using it anymore. But it’s not on my password manager.
> I'm not sure how you're discerning "style" from "wrong".

"Wrong" = "produces incorrect results".

What else?

> or somehow find a way to explain and motivate that code that convinces me that it is a decent solution.

You don't actually know Scheme, do you?
That sounds reasonable. Perhaps they felt that a larger change to process would be riskier overall.
Azure has had a continuous stream of security breaches. I don't trust them either. It's AWS and AWS alone.
Hard to beat the string algorithm for finding shortest paths on a positive weights network (e.g. build the network out of string where topologies match and link lengths are link weights, find the origin and destination nodes/knots of interest, grab the two nodes and pull until taut).

Or the spaghetti approach to finding the largest value from a list of positive values (e.g. cut dry spaghetti noodles to length for each value, bundle them together and tap the bundle on a table, the one visually sticking out the most is the largest valued element).
Dad picking up the phone while I was connected to my ISP via the 14.4kb modulater/demodulator and ruining my chat session. What a monster.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40460353
I worked with the PM who made this happen, Karen Kim. She was able to get things working performantly on Mac but not elsewhere (yet) so this won't show up for Windows or Linux Firefox users (yet.)
No relation except that it's created by the same person tackling the same problem (in a more general way) and sharing many underlying concepts like small world networking. The FAQ covers the main differences: https://freenet.org/faq#faq-3
So what are the downsides to it?

I read bone mass loss and that that’s sort of expected with any weight loss Ozempic or not
No offense but the whole "biohacking" and "quantified self" community is mostly a clown show. It might be a fun hobby but there's little or no reliable evidence that any of that stuff actually leads to improved outcomes in terms of lifespan or healthspan or performance or whatever. Any business built around that community might get a few early adopters but won't cross the chasm to the mainstream market.

And I write this as someone who has personally wasted money on stuff like genetic tests for athletic performance. Interesting, but not actionable.

For common symptoms, conditions, and medications consumers mostly just rely on WebMD or similar sites.
I've been pondering library box and pirate box kind of setups as well as mesh networks. I've never used any of that but the idea of having a separate network bound to a location seems rather interesting (be it in a kind of pokemon go kind of way)

You get a new flavor of privacy, no moaning about copyright, no nonsensical political correctness, much less need for security, people you can do things with irl and possibly very high bandwidth use or cpu intensive applications. It might even have limited time service like say outside office hours.

We use to have a popular forum around here ran by a pub. It became to much work to maintain and the owner wasn't interested enough. It was suppose to be for regular visitors.

If it was only accessible locally and on its own wifi network you set it up once and it would work just fine. Not having access to the darts competition from home is a feature not a drawback.
To modify tags on MP3 files programmatically, I have found the Mutagen library works well in Python.
I used internet so much via dialup my ISP emailed me saying I need to go on a business plan. Surprising for a 15 year old.
I think I'd expect it to block responses containing anything matching the syntax of any ops secret.

A bit like how Github's partner leaked-secret scanning system works (where each company concerned with credential leaks, registers with Github the syntax of the credentials they issue as a regex pattern — and then Github webhooks the relevant company whenever one of their issued credentials makes it into a commit on any public repo, so that they can invalidate that secret before some attacker scrapes it out of the repo and plugs it into their botnet.)

But rather than the credential issuers registering their secret formats with the WAF, instead it'd just be your ops team telling the WAF the general-form regexes for each type of secret your team is actually using in prod. (Which might be a bit hard to determine from an ops team's position, as they may not have too many examples of a given type of secret — but it's usually a safe bet that your secret is just a concatenation of constant string parts with fixed-length baseN-alphabet parts. So in practice it's mostly just a matter of recognizing what N is [and maybe the variant alphabet in use, in the case of e.g. base32.])
> If you can get an extra lambo in your garage, by firing all your factory employees, and move your manufacturing to China, well...what do you think will happen?

I wonder what would happen to a Chinese CEO who pulled a stunt like that? I hear they send the next of kin the bill.
> I could see it being used in a tool for new devs or those who've focused on a JS stack and need some help with SQL

Or they could buy a book like Learning SQL. Or spend a weekend on Youtube.
It depends on the state, but it is common for the jury to vote on the death penalty as well.
If you haven't already checked it out, systemd-nspawn is invaluable if you find yourself needing to use chroot.

Combine it with QEMU's usermode emulation + binfmt-misc and you can run chroots for other architectures, too.
From what I understand, Texas executes possibly/probably/definitely innocent people with regularity.
Had to check this to be sure. Wow, that's pretty Texas.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/texas-slang-crazy-norway/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34622478
What guarantees do you offer with query security if I turn this over to an end user? How do I keep them only accessing their own data?
C FFI and machine code already accomplish this. The reasons you wouldn't use C FFI and machine code are the same reasons you wouldn't use WASI and WASM.
You can't do 2048 bits of addition in one SVE instruction; not portably, at least (and definitely not on any existing hardware). While the maximum SVE register size is 2048 bits, the minimum is 128 bits, and the hardware chooses the supported register size, not the programmer. For portable SVE, your code needs to work for all of those widths, not just the smallest or largest. (of related note is RISC-V RVV, which allows you to group up to 8 registers together, allowing a minimum portable operation width of 128×8 = 1024 bits in a single instruction (and up to 65536×8 = 64KB for hypothetical crazy hardware with max VLEN), but SVE/SVE2 don't have any equivalent)
Sam Altman's under pressure amid questions about OpenAI's commitment to safety
I've talked to some people about it. Various members of the final teams to work on it are out there and occasionally comment.

I think it needs MS VC++, 32-bit, running on Win XP and nothing later, IIRC. But saying that, that should not be hard to obtain these days. The XP activation algorithm has been cracked; it's easy to build a working XP Pro VM now.

I suspect, but do not know, that there's a fair amount of legacy stuff in Symbian that could be junked now. Nobody is really going to care about backwards compatibility and compatibility with 20-year-old phone apps.

It had, what, 4-5 different UI layers available, I think?

* S60 for portrait touchscreen phones with a few physical buttons and a numeric keypad.

* S80 for landscape phones with QWERTY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_80_(software_platform)

* S90 for toushcreen-only phones, derived from Psion EIKON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_90_(software_platform)

* UIQ for portrait touchscreen-only phones.

* MOAP for Japanese phones

Junk all but one, or even them all if necessary, and find something that can bridge it to some kind of modern FOSS toolkit.

Get it building for Raspberry Pi with GCC or LLVM, while 32-bit Arm is still cheap.
Mhmm that sure sounds like whatboutism though. Also, Hamas is literally sanctioned by most of the western hemisphere. I guess the day Israel gets any consequence (and I mean any, even a single official condemnation and sanction) from the west, is the day that I'd agree that the ICJ should focus on the other side.
101211975

Always wished I could get back in, lost my password around 2005.

At least now I can stop wishing I suppose. Boy this make me way more sad than I expected.

Also funny, the kakao new message sound is pretty close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osUbo0HsArM
Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
Honestly, I like the idea behind the feature. Sure, I could (and probably should!) be more proactive with my bookmarks, or otherwise saving content I find interesting.

But the fact is, I don't. If something like this (with negligible enough compute/storage impacts) could be implemented locally, I would probably buy into it. I'm sure it would be "better" with a larger model, but as a jumping-off point for finding something I saw or read about prior, I think a locally available model would suffice.

Trusting Microsoft (or Apple, OpenAI, etc.) with this information for a "better" AI model is not a trade-off I'd personally find acceptable.
I don't really understand your viewpoint - I assume you don't actually work in trading?

Aside from the "theoretical" developments the other comment mentioned, your implication that there is some fixed truth is not reflected in my career.

Anybody who has even a passing familiarity with doing quant research would understand that black scholes and it's descendants are very basic results about basic assumptions. It says if the price is certain types of random walk and also crucially a martingale and Markov - then there is a closed form answer.

First and foremost black scholes is inconsistent with the market it tries to describe (vol smiles anyone??), so anybody claiming it's how you should price options has never been anywhere near trading options in a way that doesn't shit money away.

In reality the assumptions don't hold - log returns aren't gaussian, the process is almost certainly neither Markov or martingale.

The guys doing the very best option pricing are building empirical (so not theoretical) models that adjust for all sorts stuff like temporary correlations that appear between assets, dynamics of how different instruments move together, autocorrelation in market behaviour spikes and patterns of irregular events and hundreds of other things .

I don't know of any firm anywhere that is trading profitably at scale and is using 20 year old or even purely theoretical models.

The entire industry moved away from the theory driven approach about 20 years ago for the simple reason that is inferior in every way to the data driven approach that now dominates
Once celebrated, an inventor's breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters
Any number of database namespacing techniques already present in postgresql can prevent this. Link the user sign-on to a DB user and you’re gold.
I said this yesterday but I'll say it again in case Microsoft is listening: recall could come in handy as long as it has a "start record" and "stop record" button with an indicator like a red light when it is recording. Otherwise I won't use it.
> the way to calculate the price of an Option/Derivative hasn't changed in my understanding for 20/30 years

Not true. Most of the magic happens in estimating the volatility surface, BSM's magic variable. But I've also seen interesting work in expanding the rates components. All this before we get into the drift functions.
The meme started as eating paste, back when that meant wheatpaste (made from flour and water). In that context it's less surprising that kids might try to eat it!

I wonder if there's been a bit of a conflation with the other meme, about sniffing glue, which has also lost much of its context considering that rubber cement and other similar types of glue which contain volatile solvents are also less widely used than they once were.
There are articles every day about how AI is replacing programmers, coding is dead etc, including from the nvidia ceo this week. This kind of thing shows we are not quite there yet. There are lots of folks on twitter etc who rave about how genAI built a full app for them, but in my experience that comes with a huge amount of human trial and error and understanding to know what needs to be tweaked.
What kind of cash comp are you looking for? I assume $100-200k leadership roles at early startups should be pretty trivial for you to land with your experience, but maybe that's a token salary to you?
> Then Sunday=1, Wednesday=4, etc.

That's a helpful encoding because it matches up with numbering that's routinely used in Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, and by Quakers, among many others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#...

These are mostly ultimately because of the Hebrew Bible account in which Sunday is the first day of creation (e.g. Genesis 1:5, 1:8, 1:13, ...).
Your interpretation doesn't seem right. It is certainly permitted to use the word Nakba, and there's no requirement to celebrate anything.
> If something like this (with negligible enough compute/storage impacts) could be implemented locally, I would probably buy into it

It is implemented locally
MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool (2010)
> Id say the industry average for somebody moving to a new firm and trying to replicate what they did at their old firm is about 5%.

Because 95% of experienced candidates in trading were fired or are trying to scam their next employer.

“Oh, yeah, my <insert HFT pipeline or statarb model> can do sharpe <random int 1 to 10> for <random int 10 to 100> million pnl per year. Trust me bro”. Fucking annoying
Not on Mac. Absolutely worth it though
First paragraph:

Mapreduce is a programming model for processing and generating large data sets.4 Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key. We built a system around this programming model in 2003 to simplify construction of the inverted index for handling searches at Google.com. Since then, more than 10,000 distinct programs have been implemented using MapReduce at Google, including algorithms for large-scale graph processing, text processing, machine learning, and statistical machine translation. the Hadoop open source implementation of MapReduce has been used extensively outside of Google by a number of organizations.
A for() loop does the same thing at the cost of like 3 instructions. 4x128b has the flexibility that you don't need 512b wide operations on the same data to keep the ALUs fed. If you have 512b wide operations being split to 4x128b instructions, great, otherwise the massive OoOE window of modern chips can decode the next few loop iterations to keep the ALUs fed, or even pull instructions from a completely different kernel.
You can use floating-point numbers for money (2020)
This was a very long time ago, so I don't remember all details. But yes the download took hours. This was basically the first website I visited when I got internet access (and I would assume most kids did as well). So this predates 28.8 modems. I believe I had a 14.4 modem, was out in the country, and websites were not stable. This is somewhat of a core memory for me, so I do remember some details clearly.

Simply going to Nintendo.com took a very long time. Lots of us regular users started coming online for the first time and likely overloaded their servers. Navigating to the section of the website where it listed audio files to download was a whole endeavor of itself. It took multiple attempts to download that dang jumping sound. I would leave it running during the day and when I came back later, the download would have randomly timed out. And I think at least once my parents picked up one of phones in the house and messed it up. I believe as a kid I quickly learned that the web was faster at night time when less people were online. So after several failed attempts, I started it at night time and woke up to it completed. Not sure if you were online at that time, but I don't think you can simply reduce this to math equation.
This comment is also your opinion, which you think is the only one that matters, and you present as fact.
But "old town road" by Lil Nas and Billy Ray Cyrus gets kicked off the country playlist.
Several innocent people die from being imprisoned every day.

No one cares, because they die in the prison infirmary, but they're just as dead and they were killed because of their conviction, just like they were executed. (No, I'm not talking about folks on death row, although innocents on death row also die in the infirmary.)

Not only do we kill more innocents that way in absolute numbers, it's also greater in percentage numbers. (Death penalty cases get lots of review. We can argue about whether it's enough, but it's far more review than life without parole, not to mention lesser sentences which end up being life.)