skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my mind, it always felt so saddening that adoption of a truly straightforwardly readable notation for numbers never took of. I mean it’s so easy to do. You can start for example with a single syllable per digit, and for example only target CV syllables.

From this there is many possibilities, but for example, let’s consider only a base ten. Starting with vowels order o, i, e, a, u with mnemonic o, i graphically close to 0, 1 and then cyclically continue the reverse order in alphabet (<-a, <-e, <-i, <-o*, |-u). We now only need two consonants for the two series of 5 cardinals in our base ten, let’s say k and n.

So in a quick and dirty ruby implementation that could be something like:

$digits = %w{k n}.product(%w{o i e a u}).map{it.join('')}
def euphonize(number) = number.to_s.split('').map{$digits[it.to_i]}.join('-')
euphonize(1234567890) # => "ki-ke-ka-ku-no-ni-ne-na-nu-ko"

That’s just one simple example of course, there are plenty of other options in the same vein. It’s easy to create "syllabo-digit" sets for larger bases just adding more consonants, go with some CVC or even up to C₀C₁VC₀C₁ if sets for C₀ and C₁ are carefully picked.
SORBS seems to be shutting down, effective immediately(ish)
ASOIAF however portrays a very clearly medieval society -- vassalage (badly used in the story, but obviously meant to be quite feudal), the general tech level with castles (not palaces!) and the language used are all meant to evoke a late medieval feeling. What Rome did with Carthage is pretty immaterial in this context, because no medieval European ruler would have either the inclination or the ability to enact such destruction.

I'd also point out that destroying an entire city is not total war. Brutality in war and targeting civilians isn't enough to be total war in itself, especially if it's limited to exceptional circumstances -- in general, Rome was extremely happy to conquer new populations to increase their ability to extract wealth.
Could you expand a little bit on what the "robust requirements engineering process" was like on that one team?
Presumably this, Unprivileged Name Spaces getting blocked by Ubuntu. Not sure if anyone else is doing it.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged...
What an unnecessarily narrow view. There are options beyond "rules are permanent forever" and "our only choice is to remove all of the rules".

But by all means, tear down all these fences without understanding why they exist. They can just be rebuilt after all, and it's not like wolves will eat all of us and our livestock in the meantime.
> with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq

Good luck with that.

The story of the red tape is that every time somebody does something stupid or malicious, there is some red tape added so that future investors face less trading risk.

Risk == cost

So less red tape needs to be translated to investors facing potentially higher risk on their transactions of various stupid or malicious shit others can pull on them.
Tfa states that the agent was trained for points, and an other user states that some critters are a lot more dangerous during full moons.

Wouldn’t be very surprising if the agent hyper-optimised farming those critters for points. It would not be able to change strategy if the cost/benefit of that farming changed massively, so would now be performing significantly worse.
> systemic issues dealing with extreme weather (winter and summer) are pretty well known

No they aren’t. They’re often repeated, but they aren’t true.

Texas had a catastrophic “grid failure” in 2021. It hasn’t had any actual issues since. There have been no power outages due to “grid failure” since that one event. The past couple winters and summers have seen several situations where the grid operators have issued warnings, but these warnings are completely normal and are part of the process to inform power producers to not go offline, etc. In software terms, it’s basically the equivalent of “it’s going to be a busy day today, try to avoid doing any deployments to prod unless they’re really necessary”.

Just like the train derailments last year, and the airplane issues this year, the media loves to use the fervor around a single bad event to then create big headlines about every similar event.

Back to the software example, imagine if every big shopping holiday there was an CNN headline of “Amazon told its developers they cannot deploy to prod today. Amazon is worried about an outage!!” And because the layperson doesn’t know any better, they fall for it. But in reality, it was business as usual.
I don't really dispute any of the points you made here, though I do wonder how much of that is confounded by the fact that the federal government picks up a lot of the slack that an independent Texas would have to do themselves. The federal government handles the military, subsidizes a lot of education programs, and pays a large percentage of medical costs for the lower-income and elderly; if Texas split off on their own, they of course would be stuck footing the bill themselves.

I'm not saying that they couldn't do it, I'm just curious to how much that actually messes with the numbers, and moreover I haven't really seen any compelling evidence that Texas being part of the USA has held them back.
oh that's cool. I have the original (first version) of the Leap Motion in a box somewhere. Now I want to pull it out and install BTT and see what I can do with it.
Straight up theft . Wow, even Apple's Terms aren't shitty enough to state that (although they'll charge you a fee).
https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/terms/repair/gener...
Hi, I'm one of the people who are library authors in this area.

This article is very specific to Perl, and the way it does so is also subject to question - it does not look efficient.

You will be better off by reading excellent wikipedia page on UTF-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Now, extended grapheme cluster enumeration is much more complex than finding the next non-continuation byte (or counting such), but to perform those correctly you would ultimately end up reading the official spec at unicode.org and perusing reference implementations like ICU (which is painful to read) or from standard library/popular packages for Rust/Java/C#/Swift (the decent ones I'm aware of, do not look at C++).
I mean you are entirely discounting that it also allows engineers to pick their tasks and pace them as they see fit, as well as have input into the creation and prioritization of those tasks.

Everytime I hear an engineer complain about this, I ask them if you wish the PM would just write a PRD full of guesswork tasks and you execute on them unquestioningly.
> an entire paper written on one prompt - is this the state of research these days

Years ago I attended an AI meetup where the organizer would discuss the differences between reductionist and wholistic research.

This is reductionist research.

In this case, reducing the paper to one prompt is to allow for objective comparison of models.

Otherwise, without a reductionist approach, how does one perform such an experiment and ensure that they are comparing apples to apples?
The chaos this would cause would destroy the United States, including Texas. China and Russia dream of this happening.
This is my methodology. Set two PMs on each other and go and do some work that generates ROI.
Isn't it the whole point of failing fast? It seems the industry rebooted back into "any project must be a success" mindset, which we all have been walking away from for the past couple of decades.

Truth is, there are shitty goals, wrecked scoping, high-risk biz hypotheses, managers cheap skating on resource and talent side, and many, many other things that deserve early failure. All these do fail much faster today, provide valuable early feedback and lead to changes.
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Here is how I hear it personally;
When interest rates rise, demand for other assets go down, which would include these mortgage bonds; which means it is now cheaper to buy your mortgage out due to reduced demand.
Essentially your mortgage is now dynamically priced, in terms of extinguishing it; by the market.
If so - sounds brilliant actually.

Especially because this would correctly price the change in time value of money changes - without such a system, people are incentivised to pay as slowly as possible when the interest rate on their loan is lower than the central bank rate.
The article quotes how Nasdaq now have diversity requirements on board members. That's the sort of thing disconnected from business that would push even honest companies away from these larger exchanges.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasdaq-board-diversity-sec-p...
Dont forget Equifax!
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Those ornamented buildings with gargoyles on every duct and non-functional bends and twists at every corner were the latest iterations of art and architecture, and inevitably, the culture, of the earlier centuries when the old noble aristocrats and new capitalist aristocrats ruled the societies and the common man had to 'know his place' and 'leave the governance to his betters'.

That all came crashing down in World War I when those 'betters' threw millions of people into the meat grinder in the trenches, in a war that came to be due to rivalries between the aristocratic strata of countries, practically each of which was run by a royal family that was actually related to all the others participating in the same war, even in opposing sides.

All the mythology and social contracts of the earlier centuries were proven to be horsesh*t within 2-3 years as the common man perished in mud-ridden trenches for the profit of this or that aristocratic elite led by interlinked royal families.

As a result, the post-war years started with an immediate movement to discard all the culture and values of the pre-war world and forget the loss of life: From the flappers who defied women's social conventions to the explosion of non-traditional music like Jazz, and the immediate rejection of pre-war artistic trends in painting.

Architecture got its share from this movement: Those 'beautiful' ornamented, decorated buildings represented the pre-WWI world. They reminded the society of the power that those aristocrats had over the common man, even the intellectuals, and how they were able to send them to their deaths in the millions for profit. The common man could never afford to live in those 'beautiful' buildings anyway - they could see them if they had some time after Sunday mass and were able to take a walk towards the richer neighborhoods instead of returning to their industrial slum where they lived to work for 7/24 except for Sunday mornings.

So nobody looked back. Art, design, architecture, the intellectuals, and the common man ran away from the vestiges of a murderous social contract as fast as they could, and the 'beautiful' ornamented buildings disappeared in favor of buildings that prioritized function.
> Up north in Canada instead of having a single SEC each province has its own securities regulation.

Note that this is because of constitution reasons and areas of responsibility:

* https://www.canada.ca/en/intergovernmental-affairs/services/...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism

Every so often there's talk about consolidating things to a single SEC-like entity, but it has not happened at this point:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_securities_regulation
Do they ever rebuild things? Or just add features ontop of features till the whole thing creaks.
Well, CL is very mature, with sbcl, abcl, ecl, clasp, clisp, lispworks, allegro etc all with different pros and cons, editors and libraries, besides the elegance of scheme, I would have little clue why one would use anything else.
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> It's not acceptable in others (i.e. you cannot just try things and see if they stick).

Why not?

> So if one methodology (Agile) pushes to spend less time on fixed and clear requirements upfront, and this leads to higher failure rates, this is still an issue

That is an incorrect characterization of Agile. Maybe some "agile" companies use it as an excuse to avoid requirements, but that is definitely not part of the process.
I guess I'll have to go with Macaroni and leave the abbreviation to my customers.
Oh, I agree that they'll get better and cheaper (some of the solid-state battery tech is very exciting even!) but I think it's a bit longer off than many think. My perspective in the Midwest US is quite different from the average SV tech bro that makes up a sizeable chunk of this sites userbase.
more like a beached whale. we just don't know if it was intentional or they just drifted this way and oops!
You have not been able to export the raw data from Location History, via Takeout, for about a year (in preparation for this change).

i.e. no GPX files
Microsoft's achilles heel is Bill Gates' fundamentally wrong model of information, as demonstrated in his 1976 letter[1].

I am not sure if it is possible for Microsoft to maintain its large market cap and revenue streams once the population wakes up to the fact that _digital copyright_ has poisoned our society and needs to go.

That being said, I worked at Microsoft, and it is filled with brilliant, hard working, competitive people of high integrity, so if anyone can figure out how to turn that Aircraft Carrier around and succeed in a world with intellectual freedom, it is Microsoft.

When I started at Microsoft, people made fun of me for installing Ubuntu on my machine the first day, and for my love of Git over sd (Microsoft's previous VCS system which stands for "shit dumpster"). The year I left, Microsoft shipped Ubuntu with Windows, and bought GitHub. They've started the turn. I hope they do the right thing, even if it means smaller profits (I'm not sure if it does).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
I support the message about allowing legal speech but this is ridiculous:

> Three actors have the ability to delete a comment: the user who posted it, the social media platform, or the owner of the channel or page, where the comment was made. This report does not have the capability to distinguish between these three scenarios. [..] Therefore, this report treats the three reasons for comment disappearance as a single phenomenon.

There's no connection at all with EU laws if they include the posts I delete myself.
You are right, but their rise is not accidental. The appetite for risky investments, MEME stocks, and companies not vetted by the rigorous S-1 IPO application process has grown.

https://www.villanovalawreview.com/post/1691-spac-to-reality...

"SPACs are not new and have existed for decades, in which they were historically used by small companies that had trouble raising capital on the open market via IPOs. However, in recent years, fueled by the market volatility following the Covid-19 pandemic, SPACs have become more mainstream."

So, yes, while LEGALLY an SPAC could have existed a few years ago, investors never really seriously considered them as a safe investment.
Mighty MacBook Pro, but apple gets the trademark for computers made with Apple chips. lol.

Then try opening a store called Champagne, see what happens.
It's certainly possible that I got lucky to avoid the numerous data loss incidents and my use cases went along the happy path. I gave it up around 2013 due to privacy concerns.
Any great alternative options?

I have used this obsessively for many years, and removing the web version (and requiring device->device transitions) makes my phone a spof for this data I truly like to keep.
That footage is the coolest thing to come out of this so far.
>Please avoid this narrative. I personally never liked the tray or server decorations and I don't use them other platforms. If you talk to other happy GNOME users you'll see they feel the same. It works fine for me, there's no "sabotage."

It is sabotage, most people need to use non GNOME apps, like Slack, Thunderbird that need a Tray.

So the solution is super simple, you do not use non GNOME apps then your brain is not affected by a Tray, you do not use non GNOMe apps then your eyes are not bothered by server side decorations, what GNOME did was to try and force everyone to use the GNOME was and they failled, I no longer follow Linux drama closely so I do not know in how many groups did GNOME users fractured? there were 3-4 new DEs based on GTK.
I assume the AI part is using some model to interpret the stuff on the screen (Maybe even non-text) and used in the search results. That's just a guess. I'm not really that interested in the Recall product, so I have dug into it.
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Among the many logical fallacies already pointed out.

I would like to add one more.

This assumes that Microsofts future IS windows.

I don't believe that has been the case since Satya.

And once you realize that you can see the future is very bright

Regardless of some implementation gaff in a Windows feature.
is dilution even a tort in the eu tho
I don't agree that on time and on budget are the correct measures for determining overall project success or failure. By these standards a multi-year project delivered a single day after the original estimate, or a massively profitable project that went a dollar over the original budget are counted as a failed project. Ideally some actual business outcomes need to be included before determining if a project succeeded or failed.

I think this problem persists for a lot of research and discourse about software project success and failure where we conflate whether we estimated accurately with whether or not the project succeeded or met the needs of the business.
I did. I just hate encountering databases designed by people who take your advice to heart.
> I won against the hard bot :)

Congrats! Although I wish it had given you an even harder time!

> Add a confirmation to the resign button!

Yes, you're right, it is much needed.

> Can you add a permalink to share the game with my friends so they can see the replay?

Yes, that would indeed be very useful. I'll see how I can make it work. And maybe there is a way to have it so that it works also for the iOS and steam versions.

> Permalikt to checkboard may be nice too.

Absolutely. That's on my list. (although bear in mind that the demo only has 2 different boards)

> I used a magical curved path of my far bishop to stop the atack. It was very surprising to be able to save the rock

Nice. Thanks a lot for sharing this one. Those are indeed the great reversal moments, I love those.

> When the bot is hopeless (like a rock and two knight down) it makes too many silly moves.

There are many factors that drive how the bot behaves. There clearly is room for improvement, although that will probably need a rewrite in wasm, and most likely need someone who has more experience at this than me. Although I could only hire someone if it makes financial sense. Something I keep thinking about.

And I'm still going through some of the feedback I received, so expect an update in the week or so.
Elon has demonstrated that you can get high, make a stupid multi-billion dollar company acquisition, and just sack another public company that you control to make yourself whole.

When the “overbearing regulatory regime” represents said company shareholders interests, you move to Texas where the MAGA vision of freedom reigns.
Sun Microsystems used to ship an Ethernet card in some of its workstations called "Big Mac" (a pun on MAC, Medium Access Control). A later Ethernet adapter used in Sun hardware was called the "Happy Meal".
Note that regex is not the re module from the stdlib, it's a separate third party module that exposes the more powerful capabilities of PCRE like grapheme clustering directly.
Nitpick: long-term residents get a personnummer as well, not just citizens.
> I don't think anybody who actually uses LLMs thinks they are general purpose AI.

They are being sold as such. Most people don't know anything about the topic and will buy that marketing. The entire concept of these models is that you can put a whole bunch of data in and eventually some kind of magic will happen and you get AGI out. They would not see the kind of investment that they do if all that was being promised was "really good predictive text". In fact some philosophers argue that sentience is just really good predictive text to try and make the point that these models are AGI.
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Even if this were all true, it points to a fundamental risk of using LLM's for important tasks, which is that it is not at all clear to a user that this prompt would cause a problem. The LLM doesn't say "I'm sorry Dave, I just can't do that", it just complies with it and gets the wrong answer.

You can always make excuses for the LLM afterwards, but software with hidden risks like this would not be considered good or reliable in any other context.
The claim is they aren't syncing it to the cloud at all, so how would they serve it to a web interface?
i find that unlikely
I just played the game and sent ChatGPT (free, I think 3.5) "Alice has 5 sisters and 3 bothers. How many sister's does Alice's bother have?"

The whole thing felt like interacting with your typical support rep who's friendly but otherwise has no common sense and intuition about the thing they're supporting. In other words, it felt like I was interacting with a typical "not so smart but friendly and overconfident" human.

It took me a few back-and-forths, but eventually I convinced ChatGPT that Alice's brother has 6 sisters.
Hm, I think I understand your point, but I still disagree. For three reasons:

First, Tolkien isn't writing another Grimms' fairy tale. His world has sufficient depth to it that we can make valid comparisons to real-world societies. Aragorn and Theoden are not generic fairy tale kings of some unspecified country. We know a lot about the geography, culture, history, and political organisation of their realms. We can see how they raise their armies, how they interact with their vassals, how they see themselves. They are not just "vaguely feudal in feel", they are actual (albeit fictional) examples of feudal rulers in action.

Second, these are not just incidental details that make the story more fun to read, they are highly relevant for the development of the plot. Questions of succession, legitimacy, and loyalty drive the attitudes and actions of Aragorn, Boromir, Faramir, Denethor, Theoden, Eowyn, Eomer, and Imrahil. The values to which these characters hold themselves are, in many ways, typically feudal.

Third, we know that Tolkien spent his life studying these societies, and he himself often talks about where he got his inspiration from. Unfortunately I haven't read his letters myself yet, but I know from other sources that he is often quite explicit about where he drew his ideas from (see e.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influences_on_J._R._R._Tolkien).