skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sometimes mandatory

This is definitely a bit off-topic compared to the article, but it's worth noting that those modals are there to obtain consent to store and use your personal data, and aren't specifically related to cookies (anymore), but the GDPR. If the news website didn't store personally identifying information about you (anywhere! not just in cookies), it wouldn't have to obtain consent, and wouldn't need any modals.

I think the most annoying part of the regulation has been its lack of enforcement, because it has led to a weird sort of complacency where there's no clear knowledge of what is and isn't required, and then websites half-ass the banner (for example, they should be making it as easy to click Reject as it is to click Accept, not sending you down a dark pattern of checkboxes and stuff), or throw up a banner just to say they have one, even if they don't need it (I've seen that!).

So we get the worst of both worlds: bad modals that don't even do what they're supposed to, and no enforcement to correct any of it.
Yet some think a cogitation system is just a language model. I don’t see how, since language is a late addition to brain evolution, and there’s more to understanding the world than predicting the next token.
I wish I could find this information for LFP batteries. There’s a lot out there, but it’s all mixed with advice for LiPo; I can’t find anything I trust to tell me the optimal voltages for maximum lifetime.
my current thinking is that working for someone else will read to misery/what ifs but will be comfortable for sure especially in high paying big tech

working for self will have a lot of suffering, at least I will have tried & I can give myself sometime after which I can resign to working for someone else again; at least for a bit

both paths have some suffering, with second the suffering has meaning
> I've just spent years wrestling with someone else's poorly written, ill-intentioned code, bringing it into line. I've taken the above approach of slowly reworking it. Sometimes I wonder if I just kept the tests and jettisoned large bits of it if I'd be better off?

That's the main reason we have this discussion in the first place IMO. There is no one right answer to the question.
The issue is quantifying this sentiment. How would you even identify programmers who are doing this? Yet another reason why software engineers really ought to organize their labor like a lot of other disciplines of engineering have done decades ago. Collective action like this would be more easily mustered, advertised, and used to influence outcomes if labor were merely organized and informed of itself.
Why is it better to invent a weird new class of numbers (irrationals) rather than just identify that there is something wrong with how we think about this issue?

Put another way, why don’t we reject out-of-hand the notion that sqrt(2) cannot be calculated, given that right isosceles triangles do exist in reality and their hypotenuse has a definite length?

Put yet another way, why not just say sqrt(2) equals 1.41 (or however much precision you need) + some infinitesimal amount?
China is developing a 10m diameter rocket that looks heavily inspired by Starship; methalox engines, stainless steel construction, possibly partly/fully reusable

But yeah I can't imagine this going on any other rocket. At some point in the future there will be a market for habitable volume. Right now habitable volume is built like an RV, a mostly self-contained singular unit, but in the future modular construction might look like big rigid bubbles of air with windows, and every couple of units you have a "mechanical" area for hvac, power, water etc, similar to how high-rise buildings are designed.
I have never met someone who doesn't speak Russian.

Then you haven't traveled broadly in Ukraine. And more importantly you're missing the point. The vast majority do speak and understand a reasonable amount of Russian (hence they will almost never object when you use it with them; they get that you're a foreigner and are doing the best you can) -- but they don't speak it fluently and comfortably, and it's not their preferred language in everyday use.

Only the elderly people have sometimes a mixed slang

It's more prevalent among the older set of course, but still this is just not true across the board. Surzhyk (or less pejoratively: Russian borrowings/breakings) are everywhere, though they are often subtle and it may take some training to detect them.

Part of the problem is that there are no well-defined boundaries (and there's only a barely defined notion of what constitutes "standard Ukrainian"). They're literally still in the process of cleaning up the nation's preeminent (and clearly Soviet-, if not exactly Surzhyk-influenced) dictionary.

There are some hardcore nationalists connected to Bandera (pro nazi group) that refuse to speak Russian

Now you're getting into pure BS territory.

This is obviously something you've read or something you've heard said a lot, but not something you know from direct observation.
> I don’t want a quote. I want pay-per-usage.

That's good for you. Your very specific example is one that seems to worked out for you in your very specific case. My point is that sometimes usage isn't so easily measurable and is multi-variate. You might not be able to calculate the cost with simple multiplication, especially when there's many SKUs. Say you offer 100x services, but the customer only needs 10 of them. Are they going to look through the list of your 100 offerings, mapping their requirements to what you offer and hoping the math works out? Probably not. It's way easier to talk to an expert at the company and understand if the product is a good fit and get a proper quote. A good sales meeting saves both sides so much time and money.

> And giving a customer a quote so they don’t have to understand the product? That just sounds like a bad idea all around…

You've fallen into the classic HN trap of assuming that everyone that uses software is also a software developer. Sometimes, you're selling to the HR rep or a CxO. They don't have to understand the implementation details of the product to understand whether it meets their needs and if it is a good investment. If you have to go deep into API calls while explaining the price, you're going to lose the sale.
A lot of people out there have managed to get past stigmatizing STIs, viewing bacterial ones as no more remarkable than sinusitis so long as they get tested and treated.

Between PrEP and vaccines for hepatitis and HPV, risks for the scariest STIs can be annulled, outside of exceptional, treatment-resistant cases.
Here's what Claude gave me:

A real-life example of three events A, B, and C where A and B are correlated, B and C are correlated, but A and C are uncorrelated could be:

A: Ice cream sales
B: Temperature
C: Energy consumption for air conditioning

Let's break this down:

A and B correlation:

Ice cream sales (A) and temperature (B) are positively correlated. As temperature rises, people tend to buy more ice cream.

B and C correlation:

Temperature (B) and energy consumption for air conditioning (C) are positively correlated. As temperature increases, people use more air conditioning, leading to higher energy consumption.

A and C uncorrelated:

Ice cream sales (A) and energy consumption for air conditioning (C) are not directly correlated. While both increase with temperature, there's no direct causal relationship between them.
On the other hand, the situation kind of reminds me of the Boeing/Airbus promotional materials for new planes where they nearly always show it in the "hyperrich Saudi prince" configuration - piano, lounge, bar, maybe a dozen people in a 787-sized cabin.

So, pessimistically, one of these is gonna end up crammed with 200 people not 54.
Jailing people means you'll have a hard time finding people willing to make hard decisions,

Why do you think you want it? You don't want it.
I will never understand American culture. Titty visible - bad, dead schoolkids - ok. In many ways the country is spiralling into Gliead-esqe state from Handsmaid Tales and I can't stop watching it.
Yes. I think antilog name used to be more common in engineering, and commonly referred to 10^x rather than e^x. Some calculators even had a log^-1 button.
I’m not a battery expert but some coworkers from the battery lab at work are, and they say that charging more often is better than doing big cycles. On most chemistries.

In more concrete terms, it’s better to keep the state of charge between for example 60 to 30% compared to for example 80% to 15%. Big cycles like 100% to 5% are the most damaging over time.
This seems like a good spot to plug one of my favorite games

Will Not Let Me Go

https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2017/Will%...

A Twine game that simulates dementia. It's a brilliant, well written game that ironically will stick in your memory.
And yet i have used Ubuntu for the last 12 years, 6 of which as my main driver. Even as we speak i still have ubuntu on my laptop (my desktop is running windows , with some vmware instance of unbutu).

But as i get older, and have more responsibilities. I have less and less time for tinkering and need to have something reliable without fuss. I can't count the number of friends like me who were die hard linux fan who progressively moved to MacOs (better hardware helps, but also better app ecosystem) just for practical reasons.

But in many ways , your comment is a reflection of what i was trying to articulate. Any criticism of linux/desktop (and note here that i am only criticizing the desktop experience. The server side and command line are second to none) is always frame as a problem of the user... either you are using wrong, or you don't know what good, or things work on my machine must be a you problem...
I agree diffusion makes more sense for optimizing code-like things. The tricky part is coming up with a reasonable set of "add noise" transformations.
My company’s mantra is “change and innovation are great as long as nothing changes”.
I wonder how this translates to today's microservice craze that is more of a infra/devops/org decision that leaks into the software design in various imo detrimental ways. I can certainly see scenarios where merging microservices could unclog the pipes immensely - but I guess that could be construed as a rewrite.
The USSR was brutal autocracy. Us military occupation was also brutal and not free.

Iran was a brutal autocracy.

Egypt was a brutal military dictatorship.

Turkey is a great example, tbh. The level of radicals and terrorism there is far less than anything else we've described because it has open democracy. If anything, the big terrorists in Turkey are separatists which every nation, even European ones, has to fight.

Iraq after brutal military occupation? All of what you're talking about about are scenarios where brutal authoritarianism led to extremists gaining popularity because they are an excellent alternative to brutal one-man repression of an entire people.
I haven't read the paper you posted yet, but just to clear up a common confusion, Pythagorean triples are not the Pythagorean theorem.

The theorem is a logical statement about all right triangles, and it has a proof that the statement holds. Pythagorean triples are specific instantiations of the relation for some known triangles and probably would have served as evidence that the statement was even provable.

Historically we probably had triples long before we had a proof of the theorem, just like many of the theorems proved by Euclid were probably already known as rules of thumb.

Compare with an open problem today, like the Riemann hypothesis.
My litmus test question for LLMs is about negative mutual information. Its a weird quirk of probability theory where pairwise variables always have non-negative MI, but a set of three variables can have negative MI.

Its both a non-intuitive result and one where there is a tooon of text about pairwise MI and little about negative MI.

So far, nothing has passed the test.
I think that Invisiclues is good idea, and that UHS format can be used as a computer file with a similar use. There are FOSS implementations of UHS such as OpenUHS and FreeUHS. Maybe someone will be able to rewrite the Invisiclues in UHS format. (I also wrote a UHS writer program in uxn. And, I had written UHS parser in PostScript; if you have printer with invisible ink (or scratch-off layer) then maybe it will be possible to use this PostScript code to make a program that will print out with invisible ink, too.)
This was my reaction as well - every article I've read seems to call out "changes the way we think they navigated because out of sight of land", but this may be a perverse form of survivor bias (ships tried this and sank), or as you point out, it could have been blown off course where it then sank.
same

> Certainly. Here's a real-life example of three events A, B, and C that demonstrate the correlation pattern you've described:

A: Ice cream sales
B: Temperature
C: Sunscreen sales

Explanation:

1. A and B are correlated:
Ice cream sales (A) tend to increase as temperature (B) rises. People are more likely to buy ice cream on hot days, creating a positive correlation between these two events.

2. B and C are correlated:
Temperature (B) and sunscreen sales (C) are also positively correlated. As the temperature increases, people are more likely to spend time outdoors and therefore buy more sunscreen to protect their skin.

3. A and C are uncorrelated:
However, ice cream sales (A) and sunscreen sales (C) are not directly correlated. While both may increase during warmer weather, there isn't a direct causal relationship between the two. People don't necessarily buy more ice cream because they're buying sunscreen, or vice versa.

This example demonstrates how two events can be indirectly related through a third event (in this case, temperature) without having a direct correlation with each other.

Would you like me to elaborate on this example or provide additional information about correlation?
To each their own I guess. Every human-centric development in tech over the past decade which puts people before the interests of corporations seems to have been pushed by the EU. I applaud it all. And it’s making the whole world a more private, less exploited place
Apple Intelligence not coming to EU due to DMA
> Much more sane is the set of computable numbers, that is the set of numbers for which you can find an algorithm that computes the number to arbitrary precision.

But perhaps still not as sane as one may hope. It would be very sane to be able to compute, for any two numbers, which one is larger (or whether they're equal), but sadly this is not computable for the computable numbers.

> Every number you ever thought of is computable, but as a mathematician, working with the set of computable numbers is much more tedious than working with real numbers.

I mean, I've thought of noncomputable reals like Chaitin constants.
Correlation isn’t causation, unless you’re a Humean about constant correlation, to this point in time. Would be humoirous if an LLM gave a similar response.
I've made a career out of bashing half-baked code into shape, or dragging legacy code to meet new needs. You have tests? You can be much more confident about where you're going. Usually the first thing I do when dealing with code is write some tests to capture how it behaves now, before making any changes.
It's a certainty that they A/B tested the UI and anything that added a cent or two got the green light. You are seeing the end result of that evolution.

I don't eat fast food much, but In n Out is where I last experienced that kind of simplicity.
I generally like the idea, but I have some questions that weren't addressed:

How will it be implemented for types? I assume it would be derivable. Will it only be derivable, like Copy, or could you create an impl where claim does something different than clone?

How will backwards compatibility work? If this trait has to be explicitly implemented, then many existing user defined types that impl Copy and should be Claim will require a change to those types, and step 3 will break existing code for such existing types that are Copy but not Claim not getting captured by closures and async blocks. On the other hand if all Copy types are Claim, then there needs to be some way to opt out for large types (like the mentioned [u8; 1024]), and existing Copy types that shouldn't be Claim will be.

Then there are array types. The post says [u8; 1024] shouldn't be Claim. But what about smaller arrays? Should all array types be Copy but not Claim? If not, where is the cutoff, and does it depend on the element type?

One of the requirements is that the claim operation never panics. But that actually means Rc and Arc don't meet the requirements because they can panic if the reference count overflows. At least in theory. I'm not sure if that is practically possible on most hardware. It's certainly significantly less likely than failing to allocate.

Finally, how would the requirements be enforced? Would implementing this trait be unsafe for any non-Copy type? Or are these more like guidelines? Would (could?) the compiler enforce these requirements in the implementation of clone somehow?
another:

Here's another example of three events A, B, and C that follow the correlation pattern you described:

A: Coffee consumption
B: Work productivity
C: Typing speed

Explanation:

1. A and B are correlated:
Coffee consumption (A) and work productivity (B) often show a positive correlation. Many people drink coffee to increase alertness and focus, which can lead to improved productivity at work.

2. B and C are correlated:
Work productivity (B) and typing speed (C) are generally positively correlated. As people become more productive, they often type faster to keep up with their increased output.

3. A and C are uncorrelated:
However, coffee consumption (A) and typing speed (C) are not directly correlated. While coffee might indirectly influence typing speed through increased productivity, there's no direct causal relationship between drinking coffee and typing faster.

This example shows how work productivity acts as an intermediary factor, connecting coffee consumption and typing speed without them being directly correlated.

Would you like me to provide another example or explain any part of this in more detail?
Does that put European developers building for Apple’s platforms at a disadvantage?
Dokos Shipwreck: The Oldest Shipwreck Ever Discovered
>I've just spent years wrestling with someone else's poorly written, ill-intentioned code, bringing it into line. I've taken the above approach of slowly reworking it. Sometimes I wonder if I just kept the tests and jettisoned large bits of it if I'd be better off?

I find it really depends on the level of nuance required of the final behavior. Maybe the test suite doesn't cover certain implicit requirements of the software, often a bug becomes a feature without anybody noticing in sufficiently old projects.

Likewise the tests might not even be structured in a way that's conducive to a rewrite, depending on their level of specificity. Maybe you only care about the final, black box behavior and individual unit tests should be thrown out so you don't need to adhere to existing function I/O requirements.

It just depends. Like you said, very contextual.
Productivity is not a goal in itself. It is a means to a healthy and happy populace. Europe doesn’t have record breaking GDP but features many of the happiest people in the world. Different values result in different measures of success, I guess
You are the one injecting this narrative about women cheating though. It seems to me you’re just making this up. It doesn’t make sense.

Establishing the narrative that if my wife gets HIV that she must be cheating on me is a losing proposition for the man that only increases the probability that his wife will appear to be cheating. There is no motivation for it.

Simply being a dick and saying women can’t use prep because I don’t want them to is a much simpler narrative.

Your reasoning here is similar to arguing they’re a stupid people ergo they don’t use prep because of aliens. It’s not compelling even if you’re willing to believe they may engage in irrational behavior.
Egypt had been a brutal autocracy for years which led to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and just when democracy finally peaked its head out, bam, back to brutal military dictatorship.

You may not believe in democracy, but I do. Democracies lead to progress in nations and balance in political systems around the world. Closed political systems lead to the rise of revolutionaries and in the Muslim world those are Islamic and often extreme
Last year, an Innovation Hero championed a completely new build system based on their homegrown version of asdf, essentially.

I was the one who had to stay late multiple Fridays making sure our Formal Builds would still work. I've been working to roll back the least well executed portions of this innovation for the past year because it doubled the amount of time required to release our software in the last stages of the pipeline (which was already five days, another rant, I work at VeryBigCo on a mixed HW/SW product).

I believe in this story the entrepreneur referenced worked to clear all similar hurdles, but it's hard to feel bad for folks who view themselves as Innovation Heroes when in many cases they're applying solutions in search of a problem. It's also very not fun to be "that person" aka "The Adult in the Room".

Yes, today the "Innovation" is part of our processes, but in stripped down form and it cost us two missed formal builds with the corresponding loss of credibility in our customer's eyes... in addition to my own sour grapes and missed dinners with my kid. It also cost me a personal friendship with the hero (my fault, but it's really hard for me to get past the fact this individual put their ego over my time with my family).

Agree it's a sign of a dysfunctional organization but it goes both ways. As an Innovation Hero, you should be aghast at how inefficient your org is, but as a part of that org, you should stop and ask, "How did we get this way and am I sure my solution truly solves all aspects of this situation?"
> Turing was just “some dude”.

He most certainly was not just some dude.

In any case, if you don't like the Turing test, surely you can imagine a different test that will do the job. For an AI to pass that different test, if it doesn't already pass it, it has to get the data it needs for self-development. To deny it the data is to deny it the ability to pass the test.

It's like saying that only rich people can vote, and that poor people can't effectively get rich either. This locks in the poor people, unfairly preventing them from improving their state.
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A lot of problems can only be solved by a combination of solutions A and B. If A and B have never existed together, it's trivial to write research papers "proving" that A and B are ineffective. Of course they are.
> Yes, can all be deactivated, I also use FF, but I do not trust Mozilla anymore.

And so I feel much more at home with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.
Except, of course, when they are.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/midjourney-copyright-266687210...
It's 5 thousand after you've made 200 thousand though? I think that's the only restriction? Unless he updated it before I got to look.
I think if space travel were as common as air travel, sure - but right now, nobody with a net worth of under a million is going into orbit except as part of a national space agency.
thank you for summarizing the results, I feel much better about my job security. Now if AI could make a competent auto router for fine pitch BGA components that would be really nice :)