skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you take away guns from people who are honest and honorable and just want to protect their own by setting stones in legal avenues to acquire them, you create an environment in which only the criminals have guns.
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Not sure whether to feel good or bad about your list because of how intractable those things seem to be, but at this point limiting access to guns is probably even more unlikely so it seems like the focus needs to be on those root causes and not on the guns.
I thought it was an awesome lecture and still quit relevant.
I'm guessing the majority of use-cases limit the number of decimal points that are printed, I wonder if it would be more efficient to multiply by the number of decimals, convert to int, itoa() and insert the decimal point where it belongs...
I love that you can simply type `orb` and get dropped into a Linux vm. Some of the cpu features are super weird (cat /proc/cpuinfo and it is unlike literally any x86 cpu I've seen before), but unless you happen to build stuff that depends on lots of specific cpu features like I do, it works well enough.
well, they are. it's like reading keyboard macros. btw i think you meant to \ your *s
As I mentioned, I agree with censorship when it is legitimate (ethically or morally justified), and I agree with the need for rule-of-law. It is not me that is arguing that censorship is ok when it is legal (and not ok otherwise), but Twitter/Musk.

In this particular case, I do not have enough information to state with certainty whether I think this particular case is legitimate or not, but it does seem to be lawful (which is the criterion that is seemingly important for Twitter/Musk).

I have no particular preference with regards to whether Musk chooses to be consistent or not: that's his decision and he/Twitter is the one that has to endure the consequences of his actions (not me). Since I am not a Twitter user, it does not affect me either way, and I don't see how it will significantly affect Brazilian's capacity to freely communicate (note: there are plenty of other private communication platforms that do comply with Brazilian law... Telegram, Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, etc.).

On the other hand, I do think it is hypocritical to claim to be a "defender of free speech", and then both engage in non-state-mandated censorship AND comply with state-mandated censorship (as long as it suits him or Twitter). It's a laughable claim. That was my only point.
Well he didn't win a Nobel Prize in Python best practices, that's for sure.
They both remove the need for screwball operator precedence, but the lisp s-expression do it by putting everything in parentheses(or perhaps everything in function notation is the better way to put it) and RPN does it by making the stack an integral part of the mental model needed to understand it.
Hard disagree. Yacc has unnecessary footguns, in particular the fallout from using LALR(1), but more modern parser generators like bison provide LR(1) and IELR(1). Hand-rolled recursive descent parsers as well as parser combinators can easily obscure implicit resolution of grammar ambiguities. A good LR(1) parser generator enables a level of grammar consistency that is very difficult to achieve otherwise.
How can NFT Ticketing disrupt the ticketing industry?
This looks so cool! And I love the feel of basic server rendered pages!
> If the (GR+QM) firewall hypothesis is correct (a big if)

A big if indeed, but if that hypothesis is correct, then the GR solution that applies is no longer the standard black hole solution. The "firewall" is not vacuum--more precisely, it does not have a vanishing stress-energy tensor. Which means "the intuition one builds from a pure GR understanding" for the "firewall" case will need to be a pure GR understanding of a different solution from the standard BH, and of course such an understanding can be perfectly correct.

In other words, if you're going to talk about a "firewall" solution, then saying "well, GR doesn't model that correctly because it's not a standard GR black hole" is simply wrong. GR can model lots of other things besides standard (vacuum solution) black holes. You just have to use the correct GR model for the actual stress-energy tensor that is present. Of course statements about a standard vacuum black hole will not be correct for a different non-vacuum solution; but that is not contradicting anything I said, because the post I was responding to was assuming a standard vacuum black hole, and my statement was correct for that case.

The real question is whether such a "firewall" model, with a nonzero stress-energy tensor, would even have an event horizon. As far as I know nobody has actually answered that question; the treatments I have seen have simply assumed that there is one without taking into account the fact that the "firewall" stress-energy tensor is non-vanishing. If there is an event horizon in such a model, then my statement would still be correct for that model, since my statement was based on general properties of event horizons.
I see. Well, I claim my pet rock can think. What do you mean it doesn't have brain cells, what kind of argument is that?
I'd have guessed that goods from Sri Lanka got to Rome via the Red Sea?

My recollection of an "Empire" podcast episode I listened to recently (warmly recommended!) is that as much as half of all Rome's tax was raised at Egyptian ports on goods coming up the Red Sea.
Nice one. Now do "qualia"
Gradients, spectrums, distributions; oh my
Political posts on X could harm academics' credibility
This is great, and a step in the right direction. I wish tree-sitter had an official higher level API that allowed processing and pattern matching for use cases other than those required for text editors.

I’m currently using tree-sitter at work to build AST-based tools, as performance is amazing, even with huge codebases, but I’m finding it slightly frustrating to have to manually write recursive descent processors keyed by strings, with no compile time guarantees on the structure of the grammar.

This is compounded by the fact that grammars themselves don’t really follow any standard structure, some have named fields (presumably the ones created after GitHub contributed this feature), while others require hierarchical pattern matching.

I wish there existed a tool to consume a grammar and output a rust ADT that we can simply match on. This would at least save me from redundant error handling. I’d build one myself, but I’m that good at rust yet.
I think idea boils down to know enough of your companies and subordinates' work and working to smell any bullshit they try to peddle. If founder does that, it trickles down as all under them will have to know enough about things below them to keep up.

In Joel Spolsky's blog about his Excel review by Bill Gates. Gates knew enough about Excel/123 and company to make sure if the person knows what he is talking about. Same can be said for 6-page memo culture of Amazon.
> If it's financially feasible it would be a good long-term investment.

Point is it might not be. It's 32 billion. Who has that $$$? It's not the only thing that requires an investment.
No stress. Definitely less than most people I have met who spend their life doing this kind of over architected nonsense. But he, if you say it's easy (it is definitely not though; and it does go spectacularly wrong even at big companies where no one knows why, because complex) then do whatever: I am guessing your income depends on complexity for clients/your employer/devops gigs while mine depends on things being simple and never (again; it's been 30 years) breaking. Things don't go bad: there is enough 'bounce' here, we just refuse to spend money or time there as we do not need it. I rather work on features than stuff that should be invisible in the first place.
I've been on Spacehey since 2021 and it's remarkable how fun and cozy the place has stayed over the years.
Indeed, horse drawn station wagons were developed to carry luggage and cargo to train stations.
"Access and storage are necessary to keep the records, transcripts, and meeting minutes of the calls."

Doesn't answer the question of who has access and what the RBAC model is.

"This information will be used to train your personal digital avatar only with your consent."

There's an awfully large amount of trust contained within that statement.
Can you cite the deterministic part? And I don't think fixing your seeds count as making a model not statistical, though yes deterministic.

It's also still statistical if it gives you the same answer 99999/100000 times. You can definitely tune these things to be much more certain about certain problems but it tends to decrease capabilities in others.

I also don't like the term "black box." While they aren't transparent they aren't completely opaque either. A big reason I didn't like the term is that I feel it also encourages people to not research this more. While we don't completely know what's going on I see no reason we can't. Is there some proof they their calculations are an unbreakable encryption or is it just a hard problem. I'm pretty sure it's the latter, and I think it's good to differentiate "we're dumb" from "indeterminate"
Transformers are amazing pattern matchers and terrible use of GPUs for reasoning, which is mostly search + execution of highly non-linear programs (lambda calculus).

I love seeing Victor Taelin experimenting with parallizing these programs (with HVM and other experiments with proof languages), but it's sometimes a bit sad how much time researchers take in making papers about existing things instead of trying to improve the state-of-the art in something that's most probably missing from the current models.
I have heard (hearsay, mind you, I don't have solid fact or figures) that having a gun for protection tends to cause more problems than it solves. Not sure if it's an actually quantifiable position, but I am sure it won't sway anyone who's firmly on one side of the argument.
I was asking, given that it’s unlikely that guns are going to be further controlled, what hope is there for stemming gun violence. Maybe you’re saying gun violence goes down the more the honorable are armed? It’s a genuine question. Not sure you were attempting to answer that particular question.

Like I said, loaded topic. Trying to avoid charged language so please take my words as sincere.
It sometimes seems to me that news organizations are suffering from self-inflicted injuries. They would be much healthier financially with aggregation.
we are primed for a little autoritarianism during the breeding phase, vurnerable and longing for stability, we are backed into a corner and willing to cut them to see this through. little on the egoistic side, but the whole "immortality by more of me " project always had that aspect. and it is a narrow road that is sanity here, between society collapsing inwards and outwards, often not walked and not even honestly talked about by those attacking the conservative guardians of that process.
There was a time when accountants (or their more fashionable variant MBAs) were not in charge. Because it has happened it can, and likely will, happen again. Most of what we are experiencing is a hang over from the rise of the 1980s management consultant and the resulting private equity culture. It’s an emergent reality and isn’t structural.
Learn to create your own URL shortener with JavaScript and back end principals
Is the Pi connected to the network with a static IP? Getting a fresh one from DHCP can, in this context, take quite a bit of time and energy.
Same. I exercised through my worst bout of depression and still ended up in the hospital.
postfix notation only needs a stack of numbers, it's shallower, and it does one operation per token. zuse's z3 didn't have much memory or complex control logic

when you have said

* + 3 4 - 5

(assuming dyadic operators) you have a stack containing an operator, a computed result, another operator, and an entered operand. when you complete the expression with

6

the computation of the result, -1, should trigger the lurking multiplication. the machine's sequencing is state-dependent

by contrast, in

3 4 + 5 6 - *

there are never more than three things on the stack in this expression, operators are never on the stack, and no input ever triggers more than one operation. from a user interface perspective, the user also gets faster feedback

i just wrote a command-line postfix calculator in c on my cellphone touchscreen in 20 minutes. it's 31 lines of code. i think that to do that so simply with prefix you have to do it right to left, effectively making it postfix
If you said 1-4, I would not have replied - that is an appropriate bound for how many traditional nuclear plants it takes to provide 1.7GW

2 to 3 is accurate for Canada, where the last nuclear plant to connect to the grid was 31 years ago. For the US, the range is 1.25 to 3.5 (four reactors in the last 30 years). For China, the range is 1.05 to 8 (56 reactors built in the last 30 years, but the 200 and 300 MW reactors are kind of special, so 1.05 to 4 is a reasonable range). For France, 1.15 to 2.0 (five reactors in the last 30 years).
That may be it, but I'd be interested in exactly what definition of "generative AI" Procreate would commit to.

If the definition is anything that generates new art automatically, then features like generative fill would be included. If it's only AI that was "founded on theft", then they have a lot more scope for future features but have perhaps lost control of the narrative and might have users rebelling if they add AI features, after all there are multiple ways in which these features can be problematic, not just the use of training data.
Not Everything Is Physics
You are wrong: this was not a reasonable post.
Vampires and Arithmomania
No MFA?
Please try out my Docker shell container - https://github.com/jrz/container-shell which works great with orbstack
I love how there is absolutely no mention that it is mac-only (or even what versions of mac are supported), even on the download page.
More recent document

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/extern...
> The only solution is landfill.

Why would it? The only thing needed to get rid of plastic is destroying it's key advantage over other materials (price) either by force or will.

I am very convinced that science will bring us a better material e.g. by looking at nature if we are "forced" to do so, this can be through market force, e.g. oil becoming just too expensive. I'm thinking long term here.

Landfill is the only solution that is guaranteed to fail. We're living on a quasi-infinite planet with a population that is to this date increasing. It will be easier to get new resources onto the planet than it is to get them away from the planet and stuff piling up indefinitely is clearly infeasable.
Been using netcup for 2 months now, their dashboard/webapp is ultra garbage, but I have no problems around hardware I am getting and boy, it's worth the price.
No, that's only Ise Shrine, which is famously rebuilt every 20 years using what's basically a blue/green deployment: build new exact copy next to active site, switch over, tear down the old one, repeat.

The reason there are few really old buildings in Japan is that earthquakes and WW2 destroyed almost all of them. That said, Kyoto and Nara do have numerous 300+ year old buildings like Todaiji, which also remains the world's largest wooden structure.
Discord always had a unique way of making me feel old

I avoided it because when when a ding occurred there is no indication which channel had just donged, just left me confused as to what was happening
None for Australia? There is elections in 2 weeks.
Ah, I see, so they've basically found a nice way to express the easy stuff (finding the constraints) but the devil's in the optimisation, of course.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Coincidentally, I'm doing a project with Arnold's book on CM at the moment, so that all makes perfect sense to me.
The logic goes the other way. The claim that is extraordinary is that a rock with electricity has consciousness. Nothing else we've built has shown evidence of consciousness and there's good explanations for the results we see without needing consciousness.

Sure, it's still debatable for us humans (the term isn't well defined) but that doesn't change the direction of required proof.
Is data center electricity usage making electricity cheaper or more expensive for the domestic user? Or neither
No, overqualified. At least in comparison to their pay.
Taxes on a 1m house is 11k a year versus 3.5k a year if you don’t move.

Not saying that isn’t significant but there is likely other more costly considerations.
First of all, this is a really dumb point. If it is so easy to find good assets, why don't you buy those, take the loan against those like the reddit post suggests, then buy even more assets with those money, take another loan, and just keep doing that to generate infinite amount of money? The only reason stopping you is admitting that every asset carries a risk.

But whether it's on you or not is beyond the point. Being taxed on top of a loss is not a good thing.

Also there are plenty of reasons not to sell a depreciating asset. For example, CEO willing to maintain control over company, or simply not wanting to send bad signals to the public by selling their shares (because that would depreciate the asset even more).

A better argument would be to adjust basis for inflation instead of resetting it.
DC was massive in museums in the 90s. I think there are still remnant uses today - stuff like schema is a good reason for thinking about on-page metadata and dc was a part of that.

I was involved with a gov / lottery funded series of projects called “New Opportunities Fund” [0] which mandated DC markup. The exciting idea for us at the time was that we’d be able to create simple cross-site searchable assets. So we (I was at The Science Museum at the time) could create our project with 30k museum records in it, the NHM could make theirs and then ultimately someone could make a “portal” (ah, the 90s phrases are flooding back…) where users could search across all the NOF funded sites.

To the best of my knowledge the portal part was never made - we all did the dc bit but nothing global emerged from NOF.

There is (to this day) a conversation about how to allow this sort of interop across museum data. On the one side are SemWeb types, on the other lightweight microformat types. I’m massively over simplifying - but this is sort of how it goes.

I’ve always been fairly much in the latter camp. DC and microformats are incredibly crude - when you say an object has a “date” for example it clearly needs qualifying. Date it was made? Found? Used? Bought? Etc… - BUT to me it’s better to have this crude description than the alternative which is some kind of deeply complex (and thus never to be agreed / implemented across tens/hundreds/thousands of museums) sort of “perfect” standard.

Of course nowadays much of this is made irrelevant by good search, and the way the majority of people search the web. A general audience doesn’t actually want to search for all paintings made by x artist on y date - and when they do they’re content (for good or bad) to settle with Google results. And I guess AI will help. Maybe.

There are still a lot of data interop projects in museums and cultural heritage - stuff like the Museums Data Service [1] is brand new, TANC [2] has been going a while - and many more out there.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/new-opportunitie... [1] https://museumdata.uk/ [2] https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/
You still increase death risk of your children simple by sitting them in car. Car accidents are leading cause of death of children in wealth countries.
If nearly everyone suddenly became selfless saints who never defend themselves, because they know that evil cannot extinguish evil, then the few remaining predators, who enjoy invoking fear in others, would turn this selfless society into hell. It seems to me this paradox cannot be resolved other than by separating the good part of humanity from the evil one, which isn't possible while there's a sizeable grey area in between - the undecided ones.
Is ultra sound that little monitor they/you look at while the needle thing is in your arm to apply the nerve block? That process a bit unnerving no pun intended. I thought maybe since my arm had been tweaked by being in a full arm cast for a month even with the screen they weren’t going to find it.
Several of my kid’s teachers started teaching when they had children so anecdotally it checks out.
Quite literally no. the whole argument is they were well overqualified. A women teacher of today is qualified with high likelihood a genius women of today is working in a field that suits her genius. A genius women of that time could rarely work elsewhere.
When the expression is interpreted, not compiled, postfix has the advantage that you only need to memorize the yet unused operands.

With prefix, you have to memorize also the yet not executed operations and for each operation you need to memorize how many operands have already been provided for it, in order to execute the operation as soon as its last operand has been provided.

So for a compiled language it does not matter much whether an expression is written with prefix notation or with postfix notation, but for an interpreted language the latter is more efficient.
Home page has a lot of red flags

(Does every comment need a "report comment" hyperlink? I like how HN does it, timestamps are permalinks, permalinked page has additional options to flag and favorite.)

(edit: timestamps are permalinks, at least)

(Edit edit omg people customize their profile markup like it's 2006 again)
People (incl. Japanese who have a overtly rosy picture of Europe) underestimate how important Tokugawa's Sakoku was for the survival of all this.

Indeed, by the time Europe had f*ed up all of Asia in the mid-1800s and reached Japan again, Japan had very high levels of literacy which was perfect for selectively taking of high-culture/industrial-technology of Europe.
Mesopotamia in particular is so strange. It feels like we don't understand them. Not nearly as well as many other ancient peoples are understood. Their religion was obviously terribly complicated but so little of it makes sense to the modern person. All of the references in their literature are self-references, but since like 99% of everything is lost (even though Mesopotamia is probably the most well-documented ancient civilization) most it makes little sense, even to the experts, for lack of context. (The way that cuneiform tablets fragment heightens that effect.)

The result is sort of paradoxical. We know more about certain aspects of Mesopotamian life 4000 years ago - particularly their economy and their own internal history - than we know about some much more recent societies. But many Assyriologists I imagine would sacrifice a great deal of barley records for a single chapter from Mesopotamia that's more like either Lucretius or Herodotus, for example, with some insight into how they understood things like metaphysics or politics.
Mock DynamoDB-style query and scan behavior with local JSON data
O Rly?
By that definition the LLM literally does not see anything. LLMs predict tokens. That's it.
The typed-session is now available！
The typed-session is available now. I wrote some articles on how to use typed-session.
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/typed-session

https://github.com/sdzx-1/How-to-use-typed-session/blob/main...

Typed session are used to ensure desirable properties in concurrent and distributed systems, i.e. absence of communication errors or deadlocks, and protocol conformance.

Here are some gifs:
https://github.com/sdzx-1/How-to-use-typed-session/raw/main/...
https://github.com/sdzx-1/How-to-use-typed-session/raw/main/...
https://github.com/sdzx-1/How-to-use-typed-session/raw/main/...
An then everyone pretends it is so much better than other governments.
Japanese temples are rebuilt every 20-30 years, so steady business.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295957