skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boxlang is from Ortus, a stable consultancy that's pretty much been the go-to for tools in the CFML space for 15+ years. I'm not sure that I like the idea of using Boxlang instead of Lucee, but I have 100% confidence in Ortus (I know the founder and principal engineer, Luis Majano, and they aren't going anywhere).

I used to run the Houston Adobe ColdFusion Users Group, which was sanctioned by and supported by Adobe. I have first-hand insight into their support of the language. While they continue to make money off of licenses, I can say with complete confidence that they aren't "behind it" in the way that many companies are. I'd feel more confident with the open source Lucee, a project with 16+ years of history.

I can't argue with switching to another language however, for ecosystem and access to resources. (I chose Ruby over 10 years ago after building my career on CFML)
You’ve seen Greater Houston, now meet Greatest Houston
The novel referred to in this article is "The Maniac" by Benjamin Labatut.

(Article is paywalled)
My mistake, I thought I saw the quote only on the first paragraph. Tangentially, this is why using > is generally better for long quoting sections.
Map of Tennis Court Density in Europe
I have mentioned this elsewhere as well, no kind of planning saves one from bad economic policy. Post Deng China has a very very good record of bringing prosperity (and China still central planning).
At this point, Boeing should just embrace it and release this as their new corporate jingle. The sound of the future!

(Wooden hammer on a steel bucket!)
On the contrary, the article's use of the word is what is pointless.

At no point, besides the title, does the article make mention of anarchy or chaos. Rather, the article pretty clearly states that the famine is a result of a civil war between the government and a paramilitary group that was previously given weapons by the government.

Liberal politicians (and less commonly journalists) like to latch onto the words anarchy and chaos to fear monger and dramatize, but often the so-called anarchy and chaos they call out is a direct result of their own ruthless attempts to keep order.
> When Googling I immediately see alternative sources, which makes it simpler to see if it is a solitary opinion or at least a repeated one

If you are the type of person to consider alternative sources, I don't think you are the type of person to be unable to take what ChatGPT says with a grain of salt. As I understand the harm is feared to be around people who would take everything as 100% truth without questioning.

If I use ChatGPT to learn about a new topic I don't have domain knowledge on, there's many different pieces of learnings I get, and if something seems off I can verify with Google.

But ChatGPT if I don't understand some concept, I can still ask it to immediately ELI5 this, combining with 3 other conditions, that I could never search in Google.

Say I need to buy some product, and I tell ChatGPT that I'm looking for a combination of A, B, C and D. ChatGPT based on that will offer me what might match me the best. It's a beginning point for me to understand those products. In Google I wouldn't be able to get such a personalised recommendation. I won't buy the product without first confirming about the product in Google myself and YouTube videos reviewing the product.

So overall yeah, same as your last few paragraphs.

If I was to look for a car with very good acceleration and ask ChatGPT to according to conditions A, B, C give me 10 best matching cars with highest acceleration and then roughly predict what their accelerations are, I wouldn't expect the acceleration prediction to be factual, and it may depend a lot, but like you said yourself, it's an amazing starting point.

In fact this is how I very frequently start nowadays with buying a product. I'll ask ChatGPT to provide me with a table of products matching my criteria and assigning a rating in different categories in the columns. It's just about determining the order of where I would start to look into.

To me the fact that we are able to do things like that is just so amazing.

I do the same things with my health issues. I ask it to give a list od potential diagnoses, probabilities and reasoning. It doesn't mean I will fully trust it, but it is amazing place to start from if the issue is not doctor worthy or it takes too much time to get an appointment.

It also helps me to prepare for the appointment. In many cases ChatGPT is accurate and I am able to research it before so I will be able to understand the doctor bettet and waste less of their time.
Everything we know about LLMs doing Arithmetic
> I think a good project-based way to learn about linear algebra is to build a 3d scene rasterizer from scratch. Once you get nested transforms and projection matrices figured out, you are probably going to have a much deeper sense for what these things actually are than someone walking out of a typical college cours

I don't think this is the best way to learn about linear algebra. It's still mystifying.
I use that too, but I think I'll use linkpreview in future simply because the results are less cluttered.
Brazil GDP per capita: 8,917.67 USD (2022)

I don't see this working as a deterrent
The same thing applies to computer science. Try figuring out even the basics, like merge or quick sort, using pseudocode in a traditional algorithms book. It's an extremely difficult and time consuming nightmare. But watch a video of how merge or quick sort works, then you gain geniune understanding within minutes.
Walt Disney worked in founder mode. That was partly enabled by his brother running the purely “business” end that would have taken up much of his time. So Walt was able to get involved all the way down to the smallest details.

The downside is that when he died he left an organization that relied on that strong founder making things work.

Bob Iger is a delegator that handles the business, he doesn’t get deeply involved in the creative direction, he needs good creative leadership to report to him.
I know of a company that migrated from Coldfusion to Lucee due to Adobe. They acquired another company that was using CFML for their product. Years later Adobe asks for $m in license fees as apparently the previous licenses were null and void as soon as the company was purchased. That seems pretty bonkers to me. Software and "licensing" really does take the piss sometimes.
"By the time I’d learned that Brendan Eich, author of JavaScript, is an anti-vaxxer and was a supporter of a campaign to have same-sex marriage nixed in California, I wasn’t surprised."

How unnecessary, in my view, to taint the article with politics.
> iterate on their ideas

I don’t think it’s clear that LLMs can have/express novel ideas.

I would argue an LLM by definition cannot generate _novel_ ideas.
Yes, my family is Bangladeshi and my parents live ten minutes away. We are over there multiple times a week with our kids and usually sleep over on Fridays. Similar story with my Bangladeshi relatives in Australia and Canada. We have a critical mass in Toronto and Sydney and everyone lives nearby (several families in the same apartment complex or the same subdivision) and are constantly visiting each other. We moved to America when I was six, and I grew up without family nearby, and I still mourn the loss of that connection.
You do need to take some care when docking, however.
Restricted-calorie society finds better living through less eating (2006)
Ffunction-sections and fdata-sections would need at a minimum to be used to strip dead code. But even with LTO it’s highly unlikely this could be trimmed unless all format strings are parsed at compile time because the compiler wouldn’t know that the code wouldn’t be asked to format a floating point number at some point. There could be other subtle things that hide it from the compiler as dead code.

The surest bet would be a compile time feature flag to disable floating point formatting support which it does have.

Still, that’s 8kib of string formatting library code without floating point and a bunch of other optimizations which is really heavy in a microcontroller context
This book is geared to prepare you for functional analysis in a fast pace. It won’t take you so far in applied math, engineering or ML. Considering this, not sure the title is “right”.

You can still find books that use the same approach and covers more.
I’m always confused by these comments.

iPad Pros have a very capable (and expensive) keyboard which doubles as a great stand. BLE keyboards and mice can be paired with an iPad. Wired keyboards also work.
Do you realise you are commenting in the context of a massive famine and millions of lives lost? All the countries in Africa and almost any non developed country will gladly take post Mao Chinese leadership and there current status quo over their current lives.

Human rights don't come before people have a certain dignity to live. Trying to preach human rights to a starving population is just .....
It amazes me, that people try to move in circles around the best know facts and only reliably reproducible aspect of psychology: human intelligence.

There is a strong connection between achievements in Mathematics and IQ, ever since:

https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0,5&qsp=2&q=i...

No need to ignore it, but also no reason to not inspire people to try Maths for themselves. Everybody has its level of interest.
Please change the text input to not autocorrect words.

Great tool!
[Off-topic]

I'm getting an eerie sense of Deja Vu.

I remember reading this exact thread (exact question, exact replies) a few days ago.

But right now it says this question was posted just 6 hours ago (right now the time is 2:35 pm 1st September UTC).

Either I'm going crazy or there's a bug with the time here.

@dang please tell me that I'm not going crazy, or at least that it's just a simple glitch in the matrix.
Quite possible in many cases as some sellers monitor well known places for links and raise their prices as soon as there's interest, but it doesn't seem the case here as I still see the same prices.
Have you clicked to the actual board? Asking because many prices aren't unrelated to the photo returned by a search and point to either a much cheaper product sold either bundled or alone (a programming cable for example) or a more pricey complete kit. This is what misled me to the €10 initial price because I saw the main board while if memory serves the actual product was a smaller accessory card.
By the way, I still see it around €30 plus 3 to 10 shipping on Ebay from several sellers in China. not publishing links for the above reasons.
The basic premise of the ping-based drive, taking advantage of ephemeral media i.e. transmission time of a packet, was the idea behind clacks (https://github.com/AlexanderParker/clacks). I got excited to see someone else had a similar idea and explored it.

My approach was more as a p2p system of mutual random packet bouncing rather than using ICMP ping.

Edit to add: I simulated a network of peers and rendered some videos of a single message propagating through the network: https://github.com/AlexanderParker/clacks-tests/blob/main/pr...

Recovering your file in this way would take some time... "Eventually" you'll get it back...
Conway's Law: the only unbreakable law
As if this wasn't a problem in communism with its horrendous gigantic state owned companies with millions of employees that always completed the plan to 120% and yet couldn't ever provide a stable supply of basic necessities.
I used to have this book and loved it. Kid me could never have built this. Adult me couldn't either, but the idea that somebody could was pretty extraordinary.
any sort of electronic glitch would almost certainly be screetchy.

Think about the fullness of the waveform to make a sonar ping like that (like in a synth or something). Really weird!
A common western rebuke to countries that had communist revolutions were that the revolutionary leader stayed in power for decades until their death. Joseph Stalin. Mao Zedong. Fidel Castro's power passed to his brother five years before he died, so he does not fit the cookie cutter mode fully.

Another rebuke is how the communist party filled a religious or even feudal void to some extent - Lenin's tomb in Red Square being a perfect example. I can assure you that though the Politburo felt that was a needed measure, they did feel a bit silly and embarrassed about having to do it.

Why was all of this felt necessary within the Politburo? The answer is simple, in fact the answer is somewhat answered in this essay, if parallels are allowed for. Before the revolution, all revolutionaries were true believers who faced prison, exile and death fighting against impossible odds for years and decades. Those who join the party after the success of the revolution are always feared to be the parallel of the middle manager MBA managing up. A Gorbachev, a Yeltsin. The cadre around Deng Xiaoping who reversed his purge from the party and then put him in power.

A very different circumstance, but in many ways analogous.
In "Me" by Thomas T. Thomas, novel thinking came from introducing random retrieval of memories in the entity. With vector search, this might include singleton outliers added to the prompt.
I think the game of SEO works in the favor of advertisers naturally.

Google doesn’t need to downrank small sites, it just happens.

Maybe it’s just semantics
> If China had had a similar political system to Taiwan, its people's standard of living would be much better.

This is just absurd. Taiwan's entire economy is TSMC + some small things. Copying political systems doesn't get you per capita standard of living.

Yes Mao's China did stupid things but post Mao China has done well economically atleast. They had an enviable job of bringing so many people out of extreme poverty and have done well.
Indeed cars, airplanes, boats, all have “grounds” that are not “earthed” in any way.

Fun tidbit, old English cars (and the original Ford Model A!) used to tie positive DC to the frame rail as a “ground” or “common” instead of the negative DC. They are referred to as positive ground cars (and tractors!)

https://www.restore-an-old-car.com/positive-ground-cars.html
Popular topics sometimes get reposted, with the "submitted" dates reset to reflect that. You aren't going crazy.
I took it as the environmental initiatives were more agricultural related and not related to forcing the CEOs to use all forms of environmentally friendly forms of everything to operate. It’s not feasible to be good at environmental everything
I just glanced through LADR. I am not sure whether this is the best way to approach LA for a beginner.

I still find Elementary Linear Algebra by Howard Anton more approachable for a beginner. There is a reasion it is in 11th Edition.
the thread was boosted, which makes it appear as if it and the old comments were posted more recently than it actually was. search "second-chance pool" to find comments from dang explaining it in more detail.
Professional managers will absolutely run a company at 20% optimization while founders might get to 80%.

But if the founder gets hit by a bus it's going to drop to 2% or die. Professional management is like a lot of software tools, you can build a better framework yourself that is better suited to your usecase but no one else knows how to use it or can learn in a reasonable amount of time.

This isn't saying management is always the right route. A founder can lead for 30+ years, but they could also quit or get hit by a bus tomorrow so its not always irrational for shareholders to pick the "less efficient" option here
On the anecdote subject, I use debit cards 60% of the time and cash 40% of the time. I am continually trying to use cash more to keep payment processors out of my commerce habits (or at least via that angle).

That said I think everything below the quarter is useless and just adds a ton to cash handling difficulty and expense. It'd be sad to see them go as they were/are staples of currency in the US, but functionally their purpose is so seemingly useless.
Isn't that the MCAS warning? /s
What 100 Years of Research Says about Ability Grouping and Acceleration [pdf] (2016)
Does not appear to handle open graph correctly. For example, it displayed pixelated favicons resized to fit their containers, rather than the `og:image` in the head tag.
Canada does indeed have free speech (expression) in its constitution.

There are limits to speech, but that is true in every country, including the USA (if you dont believe me, try yelling "i have a bomb" in an american airport and see what happens next)
It has been sold out since years, and the Pine folks said most probably will never make another batch (they complain that it was their worst selling device ever, and they don't want to make any more before full software support).

I tried to get one since years for fun. The only one that I found that was also shipped to my place was in China, and the seller asked for $1000 (+shipping) for it. I passed. And slowly giving up on buying one.

(Also, with it's RPi3-ish SoC it is not really a laptop replacement)
> and China still central planning

Every country has some central planning, China doesn't have much more central planning today than your average European country. Or do you believe some CCP central planner decided to put in scantily clad anime girls in games from China?

China today is very capitalist, they lack democracy, not capitalism.
This shouldn't be the standard for anybody. It's insanely wasteful and polluting. We should call out this guy and anybody else doing it. Absolutely ridiculous, it would be far cheaper and better for the environment to pay for relocation and arguably C-suites don't even need the help. Don't want to move? Then you're the wrong person for the job.
> paying attention to what is happening is undervalued.

Heavily agree. But paying attention to what is happening _in nature_.

Pay little attention to what is happening in symbolia.

I got rid of my cell phone 2.5 years ago after my daughter kept saying "no phone dadda". Forces me to pay attention to nature and real world every moment I'm not at my computer. Huge life improvement in every way.
pubmed centrals? politico-media complexes?
When talking about Disney, I also think it's worth tossing Michael Eisner into the mix as a comparison point for a non-founder who operated in something really close to the "Founder Mode" that the article describes. He got involved in creative decisions, and - speaking to the article's mentioning of micromanagement - famously said that 'micromanagement is underrated.' His style seems close, at least, to the style the article mentions.

It's funny, because a lot of people think about a small number of bad decisions during his tenure (the amount spent on EuroDisney, souring the Pixar relationship) but I actually think Eisner's run at Disney is one of the best non-founder stints at a large company in modern American business.
NASA doesn't trust them to get said crew back. That's pretty damning. Instead of 8 days, they will stay up there for 8 months.
I’d say HBR reading leaders often lead an existing company that they weren’t the founders of. Or maybe it’s not a founder led company anymore.

Founders have to lead themselves and other while going from 0 to 1.

I’m not sure what you are saying is accurate.

Even if Paul was rewriting a topic… more than one writer writes about a topic for their readers, no?

The MBA form of management using people as process .. is increasingly less applicable and in need of updating .. where software increasingly can push papers and connect people and processes.

We don’t see this much in management consulting or MBAs very much. Maybe there’s a benefit to leaving how the world was.
Nowhere near as significant of a presence.

There are Russian/Wagner troops present and most likely a USSOF detachment as well, but the actual enablement, training, and impetus is driven by regional states now.

The era of "superpower" is over, and there are multiple proxy wars now like this (Syrian Civil War, Yemeni Civil War, Ethiopian Civil War, Myanmar Civil War, Libyan Civil War, etc)
https://archive.is/n7NKM
Adaptive Contouring in Fragment Shaders
An electron falling (electrostatically) toward a proton will reach the speed of light at some point. This is of course the same distance where inside it would need an escape velocity greater than c. So that's an event horizon due to a different force.

Some claim matter falling into a black hole never really does from the point of view of an outside observer. I've seen weird sounding descriptions like it "spreads out over the surface". What if electron orbitals are some kind of equivalent to that?

When I ask these (admittedly naive) questions, physicists will usually say something like "oh you have to treat that with quantum mechanics". But why? Isn't trying to resolve it using more conventional means (including concepts from relativity) a good idea? I feel like it's not right to reject one approach simply because nobody has figured out how to make it work while another does. That's different from showing that it can't work. Or have such approaches somehow been categorically proven inviable?
Assuming Starbucks wasn't already enshittified is a wild take.
"Nothing is risked by ChatGPT when it is prompted and generates text."

This is just not true. Too much BS and it risks getting shut down.
I couldn't reproduce in a Firefox fork in "troubleshoot" (safe) mode. Did reproduce in normal mode. It seemed to be somewhat mitigated by manually disabling extensions but then I couldn't pinpoint a config state to reliably reproduce it. Issue seems to return to some degree after clearing cache for the site. I didn't have time to finish doing this comprehensively but I think it isn't a clientside problem anyway. I'm not familiar with this SVG/Lottie animation but it seems that choppy/jerky/stuttering SVG animation with clip-path in Firefox is a known issue with a variety of workarounds floating around on SO, etc.

Mostly boring/useless but issue repro 1m38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2erRvTeC3s
I think there is an interesting question in: should more founders be public market CEOs leading their vision? That is a super interesting question imo. We had a lot of discussion about this at DigitalOcean pre ipo, it's the main reason I left, and after I left the CEO was still my best friend and after a lot of conversation, he didn't feel like public market exec sounded that interesting either, the whole founding leadership team switched over. I'm not sure about the other guys, but a couple of us basically said "we're founders not public market execs" and bowed out. I say kudos to Brian, Jeff Lawson, Matthew Prince etc for doing both, because I've heard that the job in the public markets can get brutal.

https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stock-screener/founder-led-com...
No such plans in Russia. No plans to deploy 5G either tho
(Citra, Panda3DS, Vita3K, touchHLE, and unidbg and more ) use dynamic for ARM CPU Emulation but Dolphin/cemu use same concept to emulate PowerPC Chips too

PS4 emulators use different approach tho
Oh! Okay! That's reassuring, thanks!
I have also seen the color eink tablets, and the colors are so dull that you at first glance can take it for grayscale. Even so, I think colors would be very good to have for work and functional purposes, only to distinguish between colors. Certainly not for enjoying them.
I get the impression that Amtrak is itself a tourist attraction, as opposed to a practical means of transportation.
We got a new expression it seems. Used to have "drive-by shooting", now we're gonna have "drive-by witnessing" :)
Is this an open source project? I would like to try this, especially after reading about all the little ux touches, but I wasn’t able to find any links.
See the second paragraph of the comment to which you replied:

If you're going to use the iPad with a keyboard, why not just use a laptop?

I suppose the use case here is iOS game developers who don't want to use their MacBooks, but iPad+keyboard doesn't seem like a fun way to write complex software to me.