skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree you can do whatever you want on your private branch. Unfortunately I think a lot of developers don’t have a solid grasp of what’s possible in private, and more importantly what you should do in private vs. on public branches.
Thanks for your comment. It just occurred to me that I have an inner voice narrating the text when I am reading in English.
This does not happen when I read in my first two languages.

This explains why I read slower when I read in English.
Okay, so my first experiment was to try to think without language. Go ahead, you try it. I can't do it. So a simple conclusion is that language gives rise to what we call thought. However, I do some things - which I do not call thought - without language. There was/is an old IBM programming test of patterns and I can choose the correct pattern even when I cannot think why that is. In "Notes on the Synthesis of Form", Christopher Alexander talks about how we can tell "good art" even when we do not know why. As a painter, I often do not paint well and I know it.N Sometimes I do well, but I cannot tell you why or what.

Next issue: communication. Humans are currently dominate because we collaborate. The idea of communication as "I can tell you the day of the month" is useful. But communication as a way of effectively collaborating is another thing all together.

If we accept collaboration as the thing that gives people survival fitness - which I do - then you can invert the whole thing and focus on how we achieve that. Ants are another species that collaborate well and are successful. But, arguably, ants neither think nor speak. Unless you want to call leaving a pheromone trail "speaking"? And why not? So now we can consider the issue of from another perspective - what constitutes a language? Sapir Whorf says our language affects if not determines what we think. Perhaps we need to look at language not as what we think it is but instead that language is any system that provides collaboration. And then we start going down an interesting rat hole. "Twitter and Teargas" argues that that extwitter does "affords" people ways to do some things but not others.

It is a complex and interesting issue. My take is that language is primarily a tool for collaboration.
Skipping Breakfast Is Associated with Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers (2023)
How about a user’s dead family member, complete with voice.

“I never got the chance to invest, but now you can put my soul to rest…”

Or something similar to the above. How about an ex or prior trusted friend you’ve lost contact with.

The implications of this hack to bring untrusted entities to a trusted entity space is almost unfathomable.
This method seems to lean into the idea of LLM as fancy search engine rather than true intelligence. Isn’t the eventual goal of LLMs or ai that it’s smarter than humans. So I guess my questions are:

Is it plausible that LLM’s get so smart that we can’t understand them. Do we spend like years trying to validate scientific theories confabulated by AI?

In the run up to super-intelligence, it seems like we’ll have to tweak the creativity knobs up, like the whole goal will be to find novel patterns humans don’t find, is there a way to tweak those knobs that get us super genius and not super conspiracy theorist? Is there even a difference? Part of this might depend on whether or not we think we can feed LLM’s “all” the information.

But in fact, assuming that Silicon Valley CEO’s are some of the smartest people in the world, I might argue that confabulation of a possible future is in fact their primary value. Not being allowed to confabulate is incredibly limiting.
Related:

https://archive.goughlui.com/legacy/soundofmodems/index.htm

https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-colle...
This will only save you if you haven't taken a pull right before pushing your changes to the remote branch. I almost always do this:

```
git pull --rebase main
```

And then push the changes with `git push origin HEAD`. Pushing with `--force-with-rebase` won't save me from this.

I usually never rebase a shared branch.
I'd say the vast majority of people don't litter or trash things, but the few that do ruin things for everyone. It only takes a few bad apples (on in this case trashy people) to ruin something for everyone else.

Its like living with 4 roommates, but one of them leaves their shit everywhere. It could make the whole place look unkept for everyone else.

And because we generally don't want to pick up after other peoples shit/mess things may be left trashy for a long time before anything gets cleaned.
> What do they do with the leftovers?

Gather them up into a ball, then flatten them into a new wafer using a rolling pin.
I'm quite confused why I keep seeing posts like this downvoted in this thread. This post is nuanced and probably novel to most readers. Even seems correct to me.
in the survey you linked to, "Social media is the biggest driver of poor mental health, teenagers said in the survey." they're saying it themselves.
> feed a massive bureaucracy that does no productive work

Sometimes inefficient, sure. Sometimes wasteful, sure. But whenever you have a large, complex system with lots of moving parts — such as any human society — you need rules and traffic cops. That's especially true when "the market" — that is, a cult of "everyone for himself" individualism, focused on personal near-term gains — creates incentives for people to lie, cheat and steal: Running red lights, speeding through school zones, dumping toxic wastes into the nearest available stream or river, etc. — fucking things up for everyone else. That way lies failed-state status.

</rant>
Yes. If you have an electrical network that isn't grounded anywhere you can't get a shock from touching only one wire because there wouldn't be any current flow. If you repair electronics you might do that to a single device with an isolating transformer, or if you are a hospital you might do that to the entire building.

But at the scale of a national grid it's basically impossible to ensure that the entire grid is isolated from the ground all the time. Stuff breaks. And if the network is grounded in some far away place but not anywhere near you you get exactly the effect you describe: you have some unknown and potentially large voltage differential towards ground because the literal ground doesn't have the same potential everywhere. So instead you give up and tie one of the potentials to ground, and do that as often as viable.
People drooling over the biggest asshole in tech history really makes me wonder what has gone wrong.
You may not need anything more than HTML [video]
The point "most of actually useful mathematics can be recast into a constructive framework" is a much more reasonable one than your previous one, that Cantor's work was "hot garbage" (even though of course diagonalisation is constructively valid).

That said, few working mathematicians are working in a constructive framework, so almost everywhere modern mathematics is successfully used in practice (e.g
probability theory), it is based on classical methods, no matter whether it could be theoretically proved constructively or not. Classical proofs are often shorter and more elegant.
Julia does all of this correctly (although there are a few 0 cost redundant move instructions presumably for ABI reasons).

julia> f(x) = @fastmath sqrt.(x)

julia > @code_native debuginfo=:none f.(Tuple(rand(Float32, 8)))

vsqrtps ymm0, ymmword ptr [rsi]

mov rbp, rsp

mov rax, rdi

vmovups ymmword ptr [rdi], ymm0

pop rbp

vzeroupper

ret

julia> g() = f((1f0, 2f0, 3f0, 4f0))

julia> @code_native debuginfo=:none g()

.LCPI0_0:

.long 0x3f800000 # float 1

.long 0x3fb504f3 # float 1.41421354

.long 0x3fddb3d7 # float 1.73205078

.long 0x40000000 # float 2

.text

.globl julia_g_600

.p2align 4, 0x90

.type julia_g_600,@function

julia_g_600: # @julia_g_600

# %bb.0: # %top

push rbp

movabs rcx, offset .LCPI0_0

mov rbp, rsp

mov rax, rdi

vmovaps xmm0, xmmword ptr [rcx]

vmovups xmmword ptr [rdi], xmm0

pop rbp

ret
>it purportedly uses date and place of birth, but those hardly have anything to do with me

While astrology is bogus, you'd be surprised how much "date and place of birth" has to do with you.

There are statistics and studies showing higher than chance similar behavior/tendecies in people born in the same months (for things like depression, health outcomes, etc). Could have to do with exposure to sunlight during early days or whatever.

And for place of birth, of course normally (if you're not in some mix-and-match country like the US, or if your parents don't immigrate immediately) this affects inherited genetic constitution, and of course culture, access to resources, diet, and many other factors.
The reason why which charge is named positive and which is named negative does not matter is because in all the equations that relate electric charge with other measurable physical quantities we never have an electric charge alone, but we always have the product of two electric charges.

The value of the product of two electric charges is invariant to the convention chosen for the sign of the electric charge.

Numbers and numeric quantities are actually a real thing that exists in the world. They do not exist only in our minds (and in the minds of many other animals who are also able to count until some small number). And so does the concept of negation, which clearly is a property of the world, independent of humans or animals.

For other physical quantities, the sign of a quantity is not arbitrary, like for the electric charge, because those are used in expressions that are not invariant to sign changes.
Well that makes you related to my wife, who’s part Komi (her father’s first language). But even they're not butthurt about what the Russians did to them - it was a long time ago. And actually, the Soviets made an effort to preserve the language - she had to take classes in school and much of the local signage is in Komi. People there on the river will even greet you in Komi, still.
...while also doing what users want and expect.
Compact Discs are digital.
Bats aren't bugs! [1]

[1] https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/11/03
Is it really impossible for an individual engineer to make decisions that are good for business, and still feel inclined to job-hop?
Fascinating article, but reading it I kept asking myself: Why not promote someone to CEO? Surely any top-level manager already working at the company will do a better a job then someone who's only qualification is working there 18 years ago.
Mainly because of the steam client (which does the same with 32bits support code).

If you don't play "mainstream" video games, you could already run wayland without xwayland (and have a 64bits clean system).
Well, you've been claiming that these advances are "super important" and that set theory is not rigorous, but you have provided no evidence for either claim.
Many people do not think with language: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5486969
If there's a whole industry of them, shouldn't there be lots of competition to buy these companies?
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>do you face this kind of issues often

In my personal experience, no. That doesn't mean it's not a weakness of the language, but in practice you very rarely write a real expression with more than one or two type inferences in it. And when you do, you can just add explicit typing.
Possible and actual Minds: Mapping the Cognition Space (2023) [video]
While I’m sympathetic to the aims of this manifesto, I can’t help but see the paradox of “free hand” being antithetical to html, a format that chose semantic over aesthetic, and legibility over expressiveness.
No, not "right of way", you're correct.

When I have the initiative, I am threatening in such a way that you have to respond (counter or neutralise) to what I'm doing or you will get hit. When you have the initiative, I have to respond. (and, as in chess, the equivalent of pins and forks set up situations in which even when you make a good response I've gained something without losing initiative)

If neither of us threatens the other, neither of us has initiative.

"Right of way" formalises the concept, making it easier to teach, and easier to adjudicate: unlike the subjectivity of initiative, there are clear ways to gain and lose right of way, and an outside umpire can (and does) say who has right of way at each moment.

In theory, they're the same: what one has to do to gain and keep right of way is exactly what one should "by the book" do to gain and keep initiative. In practice, they have a large overlap, but it's possible to make actions that would gain right of way but not effectively seize initiative, and vice versa, it's possible to gain initiative without first taking what would —with a conventional weapon- be right of way, or keep it without first re-acquiring right of way.

Does that make sense?

EDIT: first impressions of the paper:

Cold war? They probably mean "Napoleonic" at the latest.

33 ms video frames are too slow. 40 ms is the "lockout" (time during which hits are counted as simultaneous) in épée, in my experience, this corresponds to about 10cm worth of distance (probably greater for more competitive fencers) and until one learns how to construct a point to set up a clean score, it's astonishingly easy for phrases to end in double hits — 1 frame of the video. And sabre is a faster game than épée.

> The proper use of tactics made up for [Szatmari's] lack of ability in this area, making it difficult to find a very effective way to beat him, so he won the championship at last.

I have heard it claimed that we have much less of a doping problem than other sports, because the sorts of drugs that increase physical ability (speed, endurance) tend to blunt mental capacity (choice and deployment of tactics).

The paper gives one story of Szatmari/Gu; here's a possible other story: (compare with the alien vessel in Blindsight) in the first part of the match, Szatmari explores, sacrificing some points to Gu to (a) take the edge off Gu's energy reserves, (b) learn exactly where Gu's strongest attacks go and how to trigger them, and possibly even (c) feed Gu disinformation about Szatmari's strongest actions; and in the second half of the match, he exploits, more than making up for whatever points he lost to get that information (or, if he did so, perform that shaping). [But note this is a very épée-tinged alternative telling]

Next time I stop by my old club I'll have to ask the fencing masters what they think about the ideas in this paper — it's very much outside the prisms the french tradition uses to analyse bout performance.
I'm facing an engineering problem that amounts to stresses accumulating on the edges of a layered substrate. Are there any references, process notes, books, or industry approaches that you could point me to? High level and/or general are OK.
The video title is more apt: you don't need a framework. If you're building any kind of interactivity or want to style the site past the basic styles, you absolutely need more than HTML.
Being an old timer, I remember a teenager showing me, for the first time, how easy it was to skip to any song I wanted without having to hunt for it, like on a cassette deck. It was mind blowing! Then, purchasing a CD-RW for my desktop machine, it was a game changer. Ripping my own music CDs in MP3 was crazy fun. I could now carry about ten albums on one CD-R disc!

Next thing I know, MP3 players were invented and here we go again! I will say however, today I worry about how I'm gonna easily and cheaply recycle those discs.
"Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy,_Hunger-Free_Kids_Act_...

School meal programs in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_meal_programs_in_the_Un...
Hi - author here.

This is a big question tbh and the lack of a succession plan is a function of many things:

1. This was my dad's baby. He loved the engineering and the science of it and so the idea of retiring from it was difficult for him to conceive. Doing that also requires thinking about one's mortality which I also believe was difficult for him.

2. This was a small market business in a tier 2 city in India. Attracting talent that could take it over was challenging. And myself and my siblings having been born and brought up in the States and being utterly clueless about the engineering/science of the company made us a non-starter.

3. As others have pointed out, he was thinking about succession/exit because he knew it was required for the biz to live on and grow. But life unfortunately had other plans and he was taken away from us unexpectedly.

There are definitely lots of could haves, should haves, would haves, etc I've thought about afterwards, but this was clearly one of those "play the cards you're dealt" kind of situations.

Thanks for reading.
I love that the fix was an optimization allowing the code to keep the simplifying assumption that only one MIDI event ever needs to be buffered... rather than a "cleaner" / "future-proof" design change allowing buffering of more than one MIDI event.
The vite authors are working on a roll up rewrite in rust to solve this. So instead of using farm, I'd just wait.
Can we get an arch package?
I travel a lot for work so use Lyft a lot and I can say the same. Its not every time, but maybe 1 in 10 times I'll get in a car that smells like absolute shit, smoke odor, unclean, etc.

I think theres a stigma against reporting drivers so most people don't, but then that leaves the people who don't care about these policies to continue giving people bad experiences.
> Perhaps we humans should be slowing down and driving more carefully?

Not necessarily. Safety is not the only thing we care about, we also want to spend less time in cars.

20mph motorways would be much safer than current limits or even 50mph, but the loss of QALYs from people sitting in cars would not be worth it.
Pretty sure you can just concatenate the field values together into one giant tensor and call it one field if you want.
Why? Having come from OSGi it’s a godsend. What’s wrong with it and what’s better?
> high tolerance for corruption from the locals

I wonder how much of this is equivalent to small towns in the US passing laws to become speed traps. They get their revenue from out-of-towners passing through as the natural design speed of the highway instead of the posted limit. The difference is that police bribes go directly to the officer's pocket while speeding tickets get sent to the municipal budget, then allocated to the officer's salary.
It would be an analogy if US currently was in the middle of exterminating a nation.
Can’t use the battery if the device is shattered. No case is not an option for my clumsy self.

Turning off my phone at night is not an option. I want to be contactable in case of emergencies.
I don't know how many people got your joke, but that flag actually says unsafe math. The -f prefix signifies a floating point flag.
You should patent the idea, and then sue anyone who independently comes up with it.
... while avoiding their tantrums which will most likely destroy that "clean and simple".
Words are also based on the same intuition, you just verbalize it and restrict yourself to what you have words for instead of all concepts and thoughts.

For example I do math entirely without any words in my process, and I easily got a master in math that way, barely had to study. No problem, you just translate it at the end. Limiting myself to words just makes it harder to think freely.
Author here

1. He died suddenly so would have been a good thing to explore and do with time. It certainly would have made my life easier :)

2. Building a business that is small to medium-sized with no brand recogntion in a tier 2 city in India doesn't afford you access to tier 1 talent. India's talent and talent preferences are incredibly different than the USA.
Just having a huge bikeshedding festival at work after I wrote this sentence into guidelines...

The worst thing is how hard it is to talk about it because all the books - by authors making more money from talking about software than from writing and maintaining code - recommend it, and it's just so SOLID and Hexagonal and looks obviously intuitively correct.
What you are describing is a meme in my country, used to make fun of religious anti-evolution people who claim "evolution is only a theory and not a proven law, thus doesn't exist".

We call gravity "yer çekimi", which literally means "the pull of ground". The meme is "Ya yer çekimi yoksa da gök itimi varsa?" which translates to "What if the gravity doesn't exist but sky-push does?".
Automotive.

It's 2024; the infotainment displays and UI from the major (legacy) Detroit automakers just makes my skin-crawl from the touch-latency, single-digit frame-rates, and overall lack-of-good-taste in design. And yet, we've known for decades that having smooth and fluid (60fps) UI goes a long way to reducing user stress and frustration.

(I stress that I'm not advocating huge touch-screens for everything; but yet it's a sad day when Tesla's demonstrably unsafe touch-screen UX is otherwise oftentimes better overall than the physical-ish buttons/ridges (capacitative touch?!!) from Chevrolet (and I'm still waiting for a volume-knob with detents...).
CSS Tip: An em isn't an "m", but an ex is an "x" (2012)
A Roman beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius is open to the public
Modern now would mean something post "attention is all you need" concept. And I think there's plenty of follow-up papers on this concept. Interesting times ahead
I worked at one of the first wave of web dev shops. And we also made CD-ROMs for our business clients. Line blurred. Because the kinds of CD-ROMs we produced typically had a direcrory of web-linked content on them. Like a website burned into plastic. An index page and lots of HTML and client-side JS, with embedded graphical image files. A good fit for catalogs, info archiving, educational resources or entertainment. Of course we also made live, Internet-exposed websites and web apps too. Server-side logic usually in Perl or C. Fuzzy memories of ColdFusion, and Macromedia Flash. The only web server we liked to use was Apache.

Our most famous client was a little old book publisher named O'Reilly. I forget if either we helped work on their first site, or if we just made some multimedia CD-ROM adaptations of some of their books. We did some work related to Larry Wall's camel book.
Got any you’d recommend?
Indeed! For instance, Wikipedia presents a couple of proofs of the irrationality of √2 (including a geometric one). None of these require knowledge of its digits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_2
That's a different case where one is trying to calculate rsqrt(x) from 1/sqrt(x) whereas the article involves computing sqrt(x) from x*rsqrt(x) and in this case you don't need the divps instruction for sqrt but do need an additional mul instruction for the rsqrt case.