skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is indefinite cold war really our highest aspiration?

It's literally brought about the longest period of peace between major world powers, in basically the entire history of civilization.

> I'm trying to suggest that human beings engage in all sorts of destructive behaviors, including warfare, because of the way we think about the world. We compartmentalize violence, pollution, etc, advocate for the security of our nation-state at the expense of others, and ignore the "externalities", i.e. the simple fact that everything is connected. This tendency perpetuates the very cycles of conflict that most people feel like we could do without.

At the end of the day human conflict is rooted in simple physics and biology. We compete for a limited set of resources. Even if everyone had every resource they wanted, they'd still compete for sexual partners. You're not going to fix biology or physics. If you have an issue with this, I'd suggest filing a complaint with God.

Literally no movement to ignore these very real constraints has ever been met with success. Some have shown promise on very small scales, but these usually end up petering out due to lack of new converts, or descend into madness upon scale. Can you point to anything that substantiates your point?

> And yet somehow it's easier to see that you've gone too far east and to go west instead, or vice versa. But for non-trivial matters it seems people want a fixed action pattern to which to cling ("never use force" or "be ready to shoot first") and get confused by comments such as mine which aren't advocating any fixed strategy because the fixed strategies are what got us in this mess.

What is your comment? No one can choose on behalf of others. You can only choose on behalf of yourself. Hence the issue.
There are many birds which are blue, but none of them have blue pigments [1]. It's a light-scattering effect.

[1] https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2016/05/09/the...
I think a big part of it is that we have so many more cattle than the earth could naturally support, and the number is only increasing as the world gets more developed. As it stands, even without any other sources of carbon emissions cattle would be enough to cause significant climate change on their own. [0]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/food-emissions-carbon-budget
The insanity is that it can take 10-15 minutes to place an order (in person) with an equally long wait after! No other coffee place is like this!

Any other “fast food” business would be driven out of existence with such service, not to mention the absurdity of the pricing.

Ordering and getting a cheeseburger is significantly faster than a Starbucks coffee!
Someone told me that chefs use blue bandaids, because there is no blue food.
or was it ... the white jade bush?
So can I pay you, so you set me as a top candidate for any CFO job?

Or we pay you to even be in the results?
In fact Thomas didn't believe that cruises, private jets, holidays etc constituted gifts.

Which is why his disclosure of them was non-existent.
>> I see no difference

The law does:

"accepting a bribe as a federal official is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, while accepting an illegal gratuity as a federal official is punishable by up to only 2 years. If the Government were correct that §666 also covered gratuities, Congress would have inexplicably authorized punishing gratuities to state and local officials five times more severely than gratuities to federal officials—10 years for state and local officials compared to 2 years for federal officials. The Government cannot explain why Congress would have created such substantial sentencing disparities."
The US Government has been doing deficit spending and the national debt continues to grow at an alarming pace. To fix this, we can raise revenue and/or reduce spending. The easiest thing is to just improve enforcement of the existing tax laws (which are already agreed upon) via increasing the resources available to the IRS
Data Breach at Evolve Bank
You announced it on the FediVerse, where it has already been boosted almost 700 times as I write this 4 hours later, and it spread to Reddit within 2 hours of that, as you know because you replied to the Reddit post. There is definitely going to be an initial spike of activity, given those. (-:
How would they hear and see what the world is like? They won't have access to telecom equipment.
Jump 'n' Run Jazz Jackrabbit ported for the web
Original repo: https://github.com/AlisterT/openjazz

My fork: https://github.com/midzer/openjazz/tree/emscripten
There are all sorts of other forms of indirect (and at times direct) bribery practiced in the US. You wouldn’t get anyone competent to “serve the public” if their official salaries were their entire compensation. So your options are either incompetence or corruption, or, at times, both. The reason you’re not directly exposed to this is you aren’t making any requests of them. Eg for elected officials 100% of the time I write to them I receive a canned response that shows nobody has even read what I wrote. I strongly suspect this would work very differently if I made large campaign contributions
"do a web search to validate what you've told me"
Ah yes, the Backrooms of UX hell.

With the right procedural generation and some decent flavor, that could be genuinely horrifying!
It's quite telling that they are showcasing a quite badly working AI feature that no one really asked for.

And yet pricing controls that people actually want? Oh 6 to 12 months maybe
On the old internet, there was a rule, which was, "if you let users create dicks and swastikas, they're going to create dicks and swastikas".
Used something very similar many times in my past without knowing it is formalised as a pattern.

For example, one application of this was a long migration project where a large collection of files (some petabytes of data) was to be migrated from an on-prem NAS to cloud filesystem. The files on NAS were managed with additional asset management solution which stored metadata in a PostgreSQL (actual filenames, etc.)

The application I wrote was composed of a series of small tools. One tool would contact all of the sources of information and create a file with a series of commands (copy file from location A to location B, create a folder, set metadata on a file, etc.)

Other tools could take that large file and run operations on it. Split it into smaller pieces, prioritise specific folders, filter out modified files by date, calculate fingerprints from actual file data for deduplication, etc. These tools would just operate on this common file format without actually doing any operations on files.

And finally tool that could be instantiated somewhere and execute a plan.

I designed it all this way as it was much more resilient process. I could have many different processes running at the same times and I had a common format (a file with a collection of directives) as a way to communicate between all these different tools.
Best take here. I like the BCG selling related services call out. Always question the motives of the author. There is a clear conflict of interest, which ties into the survey results. The validity of the survey and methodology should also be scrutinized.
Another nice benefit of doing it this way is that it allows the two sets of documentation to follow different formats and levels of detail. Which can ultimately be less total effort than trying to engineer a functional multitool.
I came here to say basically the same thing. To me, this reads like an example of the Command pattern, which is one of my favorite, most-used patterns.

The idea of taking some chunk of imperative behavior and reifying it into an object that can perform that behavior is very powerful:

* It allows you to attach other metadata to the object so that code can ask questions about it: "Do you perform IO?" "Can you be reverted?" It lets surrounding code introspect over operations in useful ways.

* It allows you to separate the code that creates the command from the code that performs it (what this blog post is about). This can nicely decouple "strategy"-type code from "execution harness" type code. Both of those are often fairly complex in their own right, so a pattern that lets you build a nice abstraction layer between them can be very helpful.

* It allows the command object to support multiple related operations. The most common example, which I deeply love, is implementing undo. A Command object for some UI operation can also support a separate method to undo the same operation. Your undo stack is then just a list of these Command objects.
Seems like yall non Spanish intelligent gents just got trolled.... thid guy literally said in the end of the video " at the very moment, Tesla is not seeing me". #getwrecked yall like to jump at slightest hint of BS.
Here’s a good answer from SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/56476/why-are-so... (spoiler: we don’t know). But the second answer speculates that blue light was the most available to the ancestors of current plants (due to properties of Earth’s atmosphere) so they evolved to absorb it.

Related question is why plants are green: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/450/why-do-plant...
Confused by these numbers:

Software engineers
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We have analyzed 84 candidates and found 31 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 1 minute ago and took 30 seconds to complete.
Bit confused on how this group got access to the rabbit codebase, as this sounds closer to backend code and not jadx'ing the APK.

Are there any details on that?
Not sure how realistic this actually is.

NK prides itself on keeping its citizens as isolated as possible from the outside world.

If stationed in the Ukraine then they’re going to pick up an awful amount of information that will shake their worldview and I’d have thought making their reintegration back to the motherland exceptionally problematical at best.

Even the Russians will happily have fun with their NK “chums” shattering everything they’ve been taught - because, why not?
With keyboard there are also the shortcuts:
1-4 to emit the different materials
a/r to attract repel from mouse
x/c to rotate a bit
Interesting collection, but this statement gave me pause:

"there was nothing out here but millions of buffalo and some scattered Indians"
More housing only slows the rate of housing inflation. Making housing affordable means raising wages or subsidizing rent so that worker rental costs 1/3 of their wages.

"Affordable" housing is not a magic number; it's a ratio as defined by financial "experts." It's usually one-third of your net or gross income, depending on the advisor you talk to.
Next you're going to complain that all the pixels of an image are too close to each other and there should be some grille patterns separating them.
> none of them are actually blue

The article is just trying to be controversial or something; they are actually blue. Structure colors are no less real than pigment colors. It's not an optical illusion or some glitch in human perception, bounce white light off a bluejay and pass it through a prism, a strong blue line will be apparent. That blue light really is there, therefore they really are blue.

This notion that only colors coming from pigments are true colors is completely arbitrary nonsense.
PaddleOCR seemed to be a good library for locating and translating text. I've been puzzling over how to translate something like a simple letter form into a LLM translatable format.

I think the serious problem is most of these LLMs are already built on-top of garbage so you're already the GI and just trying to match that as best you can.
I was going to say...as long as you're happy with, say, the current state of Windows, you should have no problem with whatever user-hostile changes their cloud offerings make over time.
Word gets around awfully fast. Genies can’t be rebottled.

It’ll just take word of mouth at first. Never underestimate the ability for the message to spread fast.
The last year has really intensified how often I see this question here or on reddit or otherwhere in my online travels.

You're describing MLOps.

Why would you want to make this transition if you're not keen on the underlying math? Why not include DevOps or SRE if you're interested in code-based pipelines, deployments, and scaling? How are you going to get into things like drift detection without understanding the math?

(...hoping for an answer that isn't shouted by Rod Tidwell at Jerry Maguire -- but genuinely curious why I'm seeing this so much and trying not to make a cynical assumption :) )
I guess I had a bit of a harsh reaction yeah, sorry about that. I came back here and found the site down. It seems to be back up now though and you're right that it doesn't really matter anyway.

I still do think that at least some people would prefer even their silly site not being spammed with scripted requests.
Why not change font zoom for old.reddit.com domain?

In chrome and firefox: Settings accessibility text size.
If anything, what he was holding up the contract agreement that tesla does make initial cybertruck owners agree to, of not selling their cybertruck within the first year of ownership, otherwise face a possible penalty of $50,000.00, this man can't seem to read numbers right unfortunately but is good at trolling yall. Cheers.
That sounds like a feature.
The same reason succeeding with outsourced development is so dang hard: it's a monkey's paw.
But it does discuss it, it says "No".

OP would have been more prudent, if that was the real question, to say "Provides no evidence". It's OK for an article to focus on one thing, in this case, hotel pricing.
If Anthropic truly cared about AI safety, then they wouldn't put customers in states of uncertainty about monopolistic legal terms buried amidst verbose documents commanding customers to enforce Anthropic legal terms for them AFTER they leak harmful information.

Not only is Anthropic anti-open-source, they're also anti-open-output.

Saying "Hey, try our product! It can do everything!" while ALSO saying, "Sorry, you're not allowed to use our general intelligence product to compete with general intelligence..." just evidences no upper IQ bound on Dunning-Kruger
> I don't think anyone is arguing in favour of bribes for either local or federal officers

Not here, but six Supreme Court Justices have done exactly that.
Even the most massive hacks or breaches or cyber attacks barely put a dent into any reasonable business. One or two news cycles and a management rotation, that's it. Okta? Target? Equifax? Capital One? Uber? Even Solarwinds for crying out loud.

Everyone does enough to not be accused of gross negligence, but really I have not seen anyone pay more than lip service. And I don't blame them. No matter how much this hurts to say as a security professional.
Agreed with all your pain points. I push Google Slides pretty close to its limits for my talks, and it's got its quirks and limitations, but other presentation software I've looked at doesn't have the same flexibility in terms of drawing, shadowing, adding borders to arbitrary objects, etc. So I'm very excited to see this problem approached from a vector-illustration perspective.
I think it's way more necessary to note Microsoft's aggressive use of market leader to stifle competition in previously unrelated industries, than to theoretically award anything to this founder in our court of opinion.
I think a LLM could be successful if it wasn't just textually aware, but also spatially. Like, we know these things just chew through forum posts like this one. Knowing where the user name ones, the body of text, submit button, etc, might be foundational in actual problem in, problem out.
The linked post—<https://set.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/2019/08/20/why-is-the-...>—is much better about answering the question, rather than listing some examples.

Basically:

- Blue is rare in plants since it means leaving high energy behind.

- Many animals are a color because of there food, and see above.

- Thus, any blue is trickier, and usually done via scattering and mixing rather than a pigment. "The only exception in nature is the obrina olivewing butterfly, which is the only known animal to produce a true blue pigment."
As an engineer for well over a decade, I've never once touched PowerPoint or any Microsoft productivity suite, so I don't think it's as black and white as you say.

Google slides have been the bread and butter of all the engineering presentations I've seen and been a part of. And that's too many to even try to count.

I think this depends on what the C-suite was sold more than anything. I've never worked in a "Microsoft shop".

Let designers use their own thing. There's no harm.
For future reference, you can get a tax return transcript from the IRS online, for free.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

If whoever you were dealing with was refusing to accept a transcript, perhaps it would be good to name and shame them.
To be honest, I would lean toward making small projects for that goal, but that might be my bias. Taking things from zero to one is a much different endeavor than fixing stuff or adding features in an existing project, though the benefit of the latter is that you get to see how other people are handling certain problems and interact with those patterns while trying to do whatever you're doing in the context of them. The skills will transfer either way, but the design of a feature can be a lot different from the design of a standalone application
Very common for me to write shell scripts that generate shell scripts to run.

Instead of creating gnuplot scripts to loaded, sometimes a good sequence of
echo "set terminal png 800,600; plot..." | gnuplot > my.png

or a very long imagemagick drawing command or a simple svg generated then converted to png then assembled (thank montage), can do the job.

The whole advantage of generating intermediate shell scripts, is to replay one part specifically to debug a small part of a script pipeline.
Mutated bone stem cells lead to osteogenesis imperfecta
The “friendlier” nation-building stuff, from being invited to help (as in the original example) to installing new states in countries we’ve conquered (you see now why the quotes on “friendlier”).

Less so the coups. Usually with those we just want some degree of fealty or alignment. Dictators are easier to predict and control in that way, and one fuck of a lot cheaper to install than a functioning democracy.
> The fundamental unit of democracy is the polity, not the individual. Democracy is neutral as to religion

The implication being, each of us must govern our life by whatever "the polity" decides — sounds pretty authoritarian.

> mullahs of secular humanism

Sounds like a victimhood complex: "We religious people are being persecuted, because we have voting control of the government in [some polity] but we're not being allowed to use that control to force everyone else in that polity to live by our (untestable) metaphysical beliefs — it's not fair!"

But more importantly: There are no "mullahs of secular humanism" who insist on telling everyone else how they must live. I'd wager that no secular humanist has ever told a man that he must marry another man, or (modulo the CCP's former one-child policy) a woman that she must abort her pregnancy.

On the contrary, it's the (soi-disant) "Christian" versions of mullahs who insist variously that no one can marry anyone of the same sex — or use IVF or birth control — or get divorced for no fault — etc. — on the ground that each of those things is (supposedly) against God's law as they perceive it.

They're the ones who insist on forcing a pregnant woman to carry her embryo or fetus to term on the ground that supposedly it's just as "human" in God's eyes as a born baby — according to their religion.

So let's not talk about mullahs of secular humanism — the mullahs are on the other side of that debate.
The us cattle inventory is like 80 million or so head, and the peak wild bison population was estimated to be between 30-60 million, so its more, but not a crazy amount more.
bcdofsteua perhaps.
It's ironic, for a job whose only qualification is to be wise, he sure as fuck seems dumb.
> Only working policy is a free market, competition and full deregulation.

This just hands control from an elected government over to whomever has the most money.
Rolling and Wheels in the Natural World
More like 90+%. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc....

Fuel is by far the largest use of oil. Things like plastics and other oil products are a rounding error compared to that.
It's 90 million in USA, that's not disinformation that's a fact, and what I'm underscoring by pointing to the 60 million wild bison population in the mid 1800s in USA is that there hasn't been a significant change in global non-human mammal biomass.

Eurasia alone had 200+ million wooly mammoths during the ice age (note that wooly mammoths have 10x more mass than cows), and there were hundred of millions more megafauna with similar digestive systems for tens of millions of years.

At no point in the last 50 million years did any number of those species trigger large scale climate change. It probably would have been welcome in the midst of the ice age, to be honest.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-Number-of-Wool...
UnrealScript has (had?) built-in syntactic support for state machines.

I think Jonathan Blow had some ideas for language support for ECS in Jai, or at least support for structure-of-array stuff. I'm not sure if it panned out.

My experience with both of those patterns is that each implementation tends to have enough unique requirements that it's hard for a language to find a sweet spot where built-in syntax can cover enough real-world use cases.

For example, off the top of my head, with state machines I've had questions like:

* Can states be defined dynamically or are they all known at compile time?

* Likewise, is the set of possible transitions fixed (and declarative) or freely specified at runtime?

* Does every instance of a given state machine always have the same set of states or do some vary?

* Can you attach arbitrary data to states? Arbitrary behavior?

* Can you attach arbitrary data to state transitions? Arbitrary behavior?

* Is the predicate logic for determining when to perform a state transition declarative and built-in, or can arbitrary imperative code cause a state transition?

* Are transitions synchronous? Asynchronous? Either?

* Can outside code observe when transitions occur in some way?

* Is the current state publicly accessible or encapsulated?

* Are states first-class objects? Are transitions?

I've tried just to build a reusable FSM library and even that wasn't very successful because there's just so much variance in each implementation.
i bet this nickel language is awesome and versatile, but that their own employees have hidden bash and python hacky scripts that generate what amounts to 90s-Oracle-consultant-xml levels of verbosity for simple config files just so you can have a test db for ci builds in the end.
Animations are essential for presenting mathematical concepts visually to help more of the audience follow along. Also, rendering LaTeX. Google Slides makes you use other tools and only clunkily lets you insert them into your presentation.
Ticom DF-114 Cryptanalytic Device – A Theory of Operation, Computer Simulation
The way I think about it is, when Rob Pike says "Concurrency is not parallelism", I really rewrite it as "All concurrency is parallelism, but not all parallelism is concurrency." If you just think of concurrency as an instance of parallelism, you start to realize there are many ways to achieve concurrency, and thread-safe queues are one of the better ways to do it.

Individual CPU cores are parallel because they are executing multiple instructions simultaneously (even though they are from the same instruction stream).