skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is honestly a pretty niche concern. Even most religions that strictly forbid eating pork make an exception if a human’s life is at stake.

Your best bet would probably be in advocating for the pigs to be engineered to prevent cortical development, ensuring they don’t become anything beyond twitching, unconscious organ bags. In many ways I think people would find this more disturbing, though.
It's interesting how diametrically opposed this is to my recent explorations ... and yet, this is far better than most if only because it points out some of the decisions that would be bad (or at least could be done differently) in production.

I've ranted extensively [1] about how badly interpreters (among adjacent topics) are often taught, because so often decisions are just abruptly made without explanation of the reasoning (or, often, even that a decision is being made!).

One thing I just added was that there are (at least) 6 "arities" (which really should not be called that) of bytecode/IR:

* stack output, stack input, stack input - though often a few instructions do take arguments (push, jump)

* accumulator output/input, 1 explicit input (usually a local variable or constant)

* belt output, belt input, 1 explicit input. The first argument is always the output of the previous instruction; the explicit argument (if not a constant) specifies the output of some previous instruction. Backwards jumps will require storing many variables to a prior part of the belt, but this is simple and useful for mini expression evaluators.

* explicit output/input, explicit input - common for machine code

* explicit output, explicit input, explicit input - common for machine code

* implicit output, explicit input, explicit input - an easy way to save space for SSA (though you can also use it with mutability), though there's weirdness for phis.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/o11c/6b08643335388bbab0228db763f9921...
Hmm. I wonder if this is the distinction between people who prefer old Minecraft and new Minecraft.

How do you feel about modern Minecraft?
I think its still quite relavent. There are still people who enjoy more diy OS. Now a days they use arch or something. That doesn't make them any better or worse than anyone else. Some people enjoy tinkering with their OS, other people just want something that Just Works(tm) and there is nothing wrong with that.

Threre is an implicit supperiority in the text which is just as cringey now as it was at the time, but i think its still a good analogy about different preferences and relationships different people have to their computers.
Sigh.

Zuckerberg wrote this as a shot against OpenAI. It’s a volley against the competition that sets them up for the fights to come. It’s a glorified shitpost and people are criticizing it for not quite being precise about open source.

It was never meant to be. Open source is not his audience.

Put yourself in his shoes. He’s drying up OpenAIs moat. There is no vision of an open future. It’s either a profit motive or an attempt to stop competitors in some way from gaining the upper hand. It’s business. If OpenAI gets their way through legal means you can expect Zuckerberg’s legal team to start filing lawsuits or bribing politicians to enact change. That’s what this game is about.

His post sets the framing that his team can use going forward to wage war against OpenAI and others. When he gets in front of congress he can point to this and say he’s fighting the good fight.

Congress will ask “well, what does open source mean in this case?” and he’s welcome to define it for them however he pleases as long as it gives them an agreeable answer, regardless of what you may think the definition is.

You are so affixed on open source because you’re allowing yourself to be nerd-sniped over a superficial detail that you’ve missed the forest for the trees. This is a titan company that has learned the mistakes of Microsoft’s monopoly hearings in the 90s, has seen and has caused the downfall of MySpace and knows the cost of not acquiring or fighting competitors.

Stop posting for a moment and think.
The first generation or two of Vipers were very raw & unrefined, with ~400 horsepower, no stability control, no anti-lock brakes, minimal safety features, cheap & janky looking interiors, etc. It sounds great to me (aside from the lack of a/c & nice ergonomic interior), but it would be extremely easy to have a bad time if you're an average driver.

I'm not sure about the analogy though, they might have been thinking of later Viper versions where the complaints would be more about cost, gas mileage, or general impracticality for daily use.
What point? You haven't even made a point, let alone demonstrated it.

You say you "think" you've made your point. Remember when you said:

> When you say "think", I'm curious what you mean.

Strange that you suddenly know what that word means.
You’re just being taken advantage of. At every step and every service level they are fleecing you, because they can. Think the non-warranty option saves you money? It may on the margin but your easily parted money subsidizes those that do get the warranty. And they still get screwed for the profit. You can’t win in a rigged system
I genuinely do not think Crowdstrike will suffer any long term consequences because they deliver what matters to their real customers, the CISOs of the world.

If one company has an embarrassing breach, it can make or break things at a critical moment. When every company has an embarrassing outage at the same time, Crowdstrike customers' stock will be just fine.

Crowdstrike stock dropped after July but the share price is still a hundred dollars higher than it was a year ago. It's going to recover. There will be no negative long term consequences for them.
You need to break down the lignin without damaging the cellulose. Boiling and mashing doesnt do this very well, you still get bundles of fibres sticking together, you really need them all to separate. The bonds holding lignins together are slightly different between grasses and wood. For grasses sodium carbonate or hydroxide dissolves the lignin pretty well (i havnt tried but you could probably get away with wood ash and some salt for this, to provide sodium and high ph), and allows you to make some pretty nice paper. This as far as i know includes things like papyrus, sugarcane etc. Wood is different, you need sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfate to dissolve the lignin. This contributes to the smell of the paper making process where wood is used. I dont think the ancients knew about the use of sulfates, so their papers were mostly made of grasses or leather (vellum).
> I was leaving this temp gig I showed this solution to some guy in accounting, whose life was basically opening these dropdowns all day long.

Lol, that is such a tragic story that must happen millions of times across the world today. At a previous job, one department was spending 3-4 hours a day manually copying & pasting customer contacts from emails into their CRM. This was in an org with tens of developers, but nothing was done about it for years until my manager happened to catch wind of it and asked me to take a look in my spare time. I wrote an integration in a few hours and those ~40 lines of code have probably saved thousands of hours and dollars by now.

As programmers, we're allergic to manual repetition, but so much of the world runs on that...

> As per PS, have you ever tried to really personalize PS UI to your liking?

When I was young, I used to spend hours doing that, iterating on PS UI configurations, testing them, rearranging and retesting... these days I'm just too old and curmudgeonly to do anything about it except whine, lol. But you're right, I should probably just bite the bullet and do that once and sync it to my account.
Most of my neighbors are considered disabled by the Social Security Administration and they all get at least $943 a month from the Administration -- even the ones who never had a paying job -- and when they get old enough (66 years and a few month in one recent case) they no longer have to prove that they are still disabled to continue to receive the income.

For what you write to be true, the Administration would have to have a rule that if you apply for disability income when you are of working age, you get enough to survive for life even if you paid nothing into the system (through FICA), but if you apply past the retirement age and you didn't pay into the system, you get basically nothing. I suppose that could be true (and I'm not going to search the web to try to find out) but it seems unlikely.

If you have a very strong work ethic, but have piss-poor ability to get paid a decent income and never applied for Social Security disability income, you've almost certainly worked some and consequently paid some amount into the system. When you get to retirement age, my strong guess (although I don't have personal knowledge) is that the SSI program kicks in such that the combination of your month Social Security retirement check and the SSI check adds up to $943 if you are single (plus $20 because the first $20 per month of non-SSI income is not counted) just like the millions of chronic schizophrenics that went on SSI in their 20s who never paid any FICA.

But if someone replies saying that they personally know an American with no other sources of income and no savings who has applied, but gets less than $943 a month from Social Security, I'll believe them.

ADDED. If you apply for disability or retirement benefits, the Administration automatically assesses whether you qualify for SSI benefits: one application suffices for both programs.
We can’t rely on any estimates for p(the plane crashes), therefore everyone should get in a plane.
South Africa Rejects Copyright Lobby Critique, Defends Broad Fair Use Exceptions
The classic retirement plan was to have a bunch of kids, raise them right, and one of them would take you in your later years. The other half of that bargain was that you’d help take care of the grand kids, teach them, and maybe prepare dinner.

The more kids you had, the more of a buck shot approach it was.
No I got that I asked because wouldn’t embedding generated by fine tuned transformer based LLMs be more context aware? Idk much about the internals so apologies if this was a dumb thing to say
Conditional formatting to indicate magnitude via color?
I've got a hobby OS that runs on real hardware (sometimes, on some hardware). Mostly it's just patience and debugging effort to get things going. qemu defaults to doing some things quickly instead of accurately, so it's easy to do things wrong as an OS and if you don't test regularly, you can end up with a lot of breakage.

I don't have a boot manager, my OS is multiboot compatible, so I can boot with qemu's multiboot support or PXElinux, or grub or whatever. IMHO, with the multiboot standard, there's no need to write a boot loader if you want to build an OS, and no need to write an OS if you want to build a boot loader.

Looks like this OS has a good selection of storage drivers, so should be good to go there.
If you are able to "just do it" by putting your mind to it, I'd say you didn't have a problem to begin with.

If you can literally walk away from a habit of heavy drinking and stop forever, were you actually an alcoholic or did you just drink too much?
The workings of our bodies are just the xkcd "holding spacebar makes the computer overheat" on a giant scale.
> Sure, Apple’s there selling popular laptops, but you could buy a different laptop or a different phone.

> But the liberation didn’t last long. If you deploy software, you probably pay rent to AWS.

There's no Azure? GCP? Hetzner? Digital Ocean?

> You pay exorbitant rents to cloud providers for their computing power because your own computer isn’t in the right place to be a decent server.

You do that because you don't know what port-forwarding is (vast majority of software people do not), or you don't have the place or infra in your dwelling to stash a laptop server running 24/7 without interruption.
LLVM IR is a bit too low-level, so a lot of optimizations aren't really possible anymore, particularly around allocation and logical purity.
Not quite true in regard to border closures. It certainly became much more difficult to move around or out of Occupied Europe, but significant numbers of people managed to do so (via for example Portugal, Turkey and Vichy Africa).
If you're going to write conditional probabilities with big parentheses don't forget to make the \vert big as well. You can use \middle if you want to automatically match \left and \right.

Also conditional probabilities aren't really the right tool when all you want is to set a parameter, but it works I guess.
Has any CEO known a failure of this magnitude?
Eli Lilly's "triple G" aka retatrutide also in play.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
As for American investment, how many know that AMSL is derived from US research development funds?

https://www.generalist.com/briefing/asml?t&utm_source=perple...
The free software people have a long, glorious and surprisingly effective record with their tradition "what if we define freedom, advocate for it and then check if the license enables it" approach.

Big corporations are not going to bring freedom into the conversation. They aren't that interested in it. Someone has to.
Turns out being surrounded by two massive oceans and friendly and much weaker nations is a great advantage,

An advantage that hasn't been put ti much use because once could make a strong point that things have been stagnant for 60 years.
While this was a pretty fascinating video, the description could be reduced to "CTO recommends that competitors shouldn't try to complete with their product" and so I really feel like the claims need to come with a large grain of salt.
I dislike the auth changes as well, but it hasn’t had any impact on server hosting in my experience. It’s still just as easy as getting the right JVM and running the jar. The only thing new is the EULA you have to accept on first launch
Completely agree. I understand that this is becoming more common in London. This is still a harsh practice.
What’s below: all derived by US research development:

The approximately $300 billion Dutch technology firm is the sole manufacturer of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, $200 million contraptions considered by some to be “the most complicated in the world.” These irreplicable marvels of engineering are the result of decades of trial and error, scientific breakthroughs, byzantine supply chains, and billions of dollars. They are irreplicable and, as such, insanely valuable. Without ASML’s EUV technology, it would be impossible to manufacture the world’s most powerful silicon chips – the kinds powering the current artificial intelligence boom. In short, the trajectory of our computational advancement is concentrated in the hands of a provider with a 100% monopoly on a particular kind of magic.
It is absolutely possible to code terribly for 50 years and get away with it. Experience is no proof of anything.
What’s wrong with recognizing being fat/obese is unhealthy?

Well, if someone is at the point where they think they can’t actually fix the problem, and can’t deal with it - and it’s a real problem - they’ll tend to lash out, gaslight people, project it onto others, etc.

Which, since they refuse to actually address the problem, means that behavior/problem is also not likely to change.

So eventually, society either gives up, or doubles down.
IMO, it’s also a variant of crabs-in-bucket.

How dare they get healthier/fitter/etc. without putting in all the work I did!
Know Your Enemy: Worms at War (2000)
Are Superstar Employees Worth It?
I've got a polyend and it's my favorite piece of gear in the last 10 years
It sounds like your copies were printed with less stable ink. I commend his commitment to preserving his photos but if they're stored in the right conditions, there's no need to remove them every few months to dry them out. If anything, exposing them to a few hours of sunlight repeatedly will only cause the colors to fade faster.
The browser can take very long to layout and draw a page with a huge number of DOM elements.

Hardware starts to mask a lot of these issues, but even a table with 1000 to 10,000 rows will already cause issues. And table layout is very optimized (for this reason, there are plenty of CSS gotchas around tables). So a 10,000 row plain HTML table still is rendered relatively fast, but not practical for an interactive UI.

But for "snappy" UI and more involved CSS + many nested DOM elements, you'll need to start to consider viewport virtualization a lot earlier.

This is independent of JS UI frameworks though.

HTML+CSS rendering is an expensive, blocking operation. CSS even requires multiple passes for rendering nowadays AFAIK. Of course this is optimized to hell by browsers too.

But you still need "viewport virtualization" in markup+CSS, or switch to canvas rendering, which does away with the markup and CSS entirely.
You would think the government would start being afraid of what the Russian (or any other adversarial foreign government) could do to the IT infrastructure in a war if it's this fragile though.
Music used to be treated like a science… the pythagoreans, for instance, conducted the first hypothesis driven scientific experiment on a musical question (whether whole number ratios affected chords with bronze chimes). Descartes’ first book was all about music theory.
Elder care jobs exist alongside starbucks jobs today. People pay for starbucks which lets them hire more employees. Governments have to pay for elder care by taxing starbucks and other companies that make money from voluntary sales. Most elderly will not be able to pay out of pocket for someone to care for them.
I have managarm installed on a partition on my testing ThinkPad. The steps needed to get it set up were creating the partition, copying over the sysroot, and adding an entry to my grub configuration.
He was similarly evil of course. But he was a totally different creature (and came to and held power in ways very different) from that other guy.

That said, one can certainly imagine a NS movement that left the Jews alone and concentrated its wrath the other usual suspects. It might not have achieved quite the fiery intensity, or had quite the degree of hypnotic effect that it had on so many people that it did without the singular choice of a primary "hate object" that it made

Resonating as it did with centuries of psychic undercurrents in regard to the position of the Jewish minority in European society.
Why does it matter how they do it? If diet and exercise work for you, great, you have more willpower than most, and will hopefully be healthier and more successful because of it.

But that strategy doesn't work for millions of people, and I don't know that they deserve to die because of it. If a miracle drug can help them despite their weak will... that sounds awesome?
> I wonder if this is the distinction between people who prefer old Minecraft and new Minecraft.

I'm old. But to be fair, I got into Minecraft by helping my kid set up a server - and then he moved on and it became my server. At least it wasn't a puppy.
You probably also have a residential IP and need to pay some service (Ngrok?) to convert that into a static address that’s useful right?
That's a qualitatively different "tritone substitution" than what the author describes.

author: spice up your jazz by simply replacing one dominant 7th chord with another a tritone away!

Scarlatti: You thought I was aiming toward D-flat? Bitch, I'm surfing in G major! Your puny diatonic expectations cannot contain me.

Put simply-- you can use regular expressions to try out the author's substitutions, but you'll need to build your own parser to try out Scarlatti's.
>> react literally cannot handle the quantities of data

Presented at fact but I’m not sure this is universally correct.

I don’t see why the application that is linked here couldn’t be done in react.
Does Joanie Baez have a blog? Now I'm curious to see if she's ever written (sung?) anything about the symmetries of the icosahedron...
An open-source and free terminal software with AI capability
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cancer, heart attacks, blockages, strokes. These affect half the population over a lifetime ,so this explains how the bottom half contributes so little
> I have never seen them advertise the value line so I assume they’re not that profitable compared to say a QP or a Big Mac.

Per the article, this is a pretty recent thing (4 weeks or so).

I've seen a couple adverts, but I'm back off the gluten so haven't really looked close.

Okay, it's a McDouble or McChicken, small Fries, 4pc nuggets, and a small drink.

Blinks Okay I officially give my local 7-11 some credit because they started a very competitive deal to this.

That said, I'll quip that before COVID, I could probably get all of that under 5$.

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As an aside, I would posit that in the US, Fast Food Restaurants by and large have been falling into this 'death spiral' because they all seem to be hitting this loop:

1. Try to skimp on labor like you did during covid lockdown.

2. Food Service Industry costs are up everywhere, but a bunch of people start realizing that they could get carry-out from a local diner about as quickly as they could wait for an order they place at the kiosks symbolizing the beginning of the franchise wars. Let alone with a modern air fryer, you can make tasty stuff with round tortillas, cheese, and meat in less time.

3. So, People go to the fast food places less or just cook their own stuff.

4. Oh no we have to raise prices or go back to step 1!

Local restaurants (around me, anyway) have been capitalizing on this by providing some combination of more food, better quality food, or better service for the same dollar amount.

It's not just McDonald's, they're just the most 'visible' because the stupidity of Yum! gets amortized with the not-stupid.
We allow things like high fructose corn syrup in greater quantities than the EU. Our wheat has more gluten which is am inflammatory substance. We have dyes that are known carcinogens. We allow higher levels of heavy metals than the EU. We push highly processed foods as the norm. Basically we’ve designed our diets around ease of consumption and profits.
Hosting the Olympics has become financially untenable, economists say
That's a good point; hadn't thought about that. It must look like "cheating" to the people who did it the hard way.

I see the same sort of attitude from people who hate e-bikes: how dare they ride effortlessly up this hill that took me months of training and fitness to conquer!
Is the U.S. in a recession? Roughly 3 in 5 Americans think so, report finds
this is what cursor is for! cursor.dev
I honestly haven't had much time for Minecraft in the last 5+ years, but when I have it's mostly been with old versions and mods I liked back in the old days. I doubt that's because I wouldn't like the modern game so much as that when I turn to Minecraft it's for the nostalgia.
Protecting SSH Servers with Single Packet Authorization (2007)