skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “lots” not really as most companies want accesss to european market.

Plenty of foreign newspapers block the EU from accessing their sites. The EU is not that a big market.
is this a Rails thing? Is there a server component?
If you, like me, would have had to watch people play Candy Crush on the Tube [= the London subway] on the way to work every morning for seven years, you would not ask.

I felt terribly sorry for that loss of GDP and decline in mean global IQ.
You think that's very doable in 72hrs? Can you provide documentation? Do you think that's a reasonable delay to do this thing that's never been done before?
Memory safety, heap integrity and GC correctness i guess. If you ignore facts like C your language will be as safe as C, except it's worse because at least C doesn't silently rearrange your heap in background.
There is an expectation of not dealing with data races from Python code. Apart from being a language where people expect these things to not be an issue it is also the behaviour with thw Gil in place and would be breaking
I just noticed that article has previously known nazca lines, upon a quick google of them, such as 'the astronaut' that we discussed in that thread which isn't new at all, can't find when it was discovered but for example I found a quora where it was discussed online 13 years ago.

Apparently the first ones ever found was by Toribio Mejía Xesspe in 1926 or 1927, then shared in a conference in 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toribio_Mejía_Xesspe
https://www.history.com/topics/south-america/nazca-lines
It will happen in one of the later releases. They might not be ready for widespread testing from people who are not willing to build from source, yet.
Fwiw I'm in the UK. We have 20% VAT. I hang dry everything though, mayb that does make a difference.
because it's a separate daemon that listens on UDP. But it looks like at least it's not enabled in your config.
You only need the system package manager to provide the non-Python dependencies of Python packages. I'd expect that those by and large are already packaged in Debian and elsewhere, perhaps with some exceptions among smalltime C (or Rust) projects that only exist to accelerate Python packages.

> Also, do you place to force everyone to use chroot or containers to replace their virtual env systems to have variations on deps? Or maybe everybody should use nix?

Nix is a good fit for this, but so is Guix and probably Spack. With a sane implementation of PEP-725 (which I mention and describe in another comment on this post), users could freely choose whatever package manager they like to supply non-Python deps.
You'd be surprised at how good the small hands in Shenzhen are at recovering all the tedious chips while being paid pennies.

Generally, if we could do what Shenzhen could do in the West, we could. But we cannot compete, as they have various advantages (physical, economical).
Ah, you are right, i misread.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240928091654/https://www.washi...
Workers are free to work or free to starve.

-- Karl Marx
It's relatively common for publications to lazily only reference an action that resulted in a legal outcome, rather than the justification provided for the outcome.

For instance, Bob imprisoned for car bomb rather than Bob imprisoned after judgement rules deaths unlawfully resulted from Bob's malicious car bombing.
Had Bob's car bomb been on a film set and no one hurt, Bob would hopefully be fine.

If you read coverage with this in mind, then what matters is more a case of how likely an action is to be unlawful and thus how lazy the publication is being.

If someone blows up a car, we'd assume it was unlawful. If a company stores passwords unlawfully we'd assume it was unlawful and hopefully for good reason...

From GDPR: "personal data breach’ means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed"

A typical security policy for securing passwords is to never store them in plaintext.

It would be a rare situation for the storage to not be accessible (what would be the point of storing it).

Thus it would seem fair to assume that in most cases plain text storage of passwords would be a breach of security (internal controls breach) would implicitly also be a breach of personal data (legal definition) as it would at the very least be accidentally accessible to staff, contractors or third parties (whoever hosts the storage).

So, it will likely fit the definition of a breach.

But, it still needs to escalate to a point where it would be recognised as serious enough to warrant action (like reporting to data subjects or regulators).

There are situations where storing passwords in plaintext may not warrant reporting or fines, such as if upon realising the breach it was evident that nobody had accessed the data and it was destructed before harm could be realised; but I doubt anyone would ever know about these situations happening in companies so it's fair to assume they wouldn't reach major news sites.
I've only read the abstract. One thing I would like to read about is, if the phenomenon is real what's the mechanism for it. Is it that people on screen have the tendency to change tab to look at memes every other paragraph? Is it that they associate screens with entertainment, and even without acting on it the brain gets too lazy? Or what?
Is English a “creole Language”?
Is saying “like” a lot a bad thing? Actually, no.
I've noticed that this stretches farther than America.

For example big name retailers in the Caribbean like Massy seem to be mostly or partially owned by Save-a-lot .. but I haven't had the time to investigate this yet.
It's becoming more common for journals to have policies which require that raw data be made available. Here's some background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAIR_data

One of the purposes of a site on which I work (https://fairsharing.org) is to assist researchers in finding places where they might upload their data (usually to comply with publishers' requirements).
Because with what you are asking WPEngine, that will be the result. Other hosts will follow to not be taken hostage by your opinions. So if WPEngine creates another repository for their customers and the very popular plugins they acquired, how do you plan on reconciling their solution with WordPress'? What happens once there's several Extend stores? What happens to authors who need to push plugins to all stores? What happens if I'm hosted on wp.com (and I am paying whatever tier allows me to install plugins) who doesn't use WPEngine's plugins repository and I want an updated ACF?
I think the biggest fallacy in this type of thinking is that it projects all AI progress into a single quantity of “intelligence” and then proceeds to extrapolate that singular quantity into some imagined absurd level of “superintelligence”.

In reality, AI progress and capabilities are not so reducible to singular quantities. For example, it’s not clear that we will ever get rid of the model’s tendencies to just produce garbage or nonsense sometimes. It’s entirely possible that we remain stuck at more incremental improvements now, and I think the bogeyman of “superintelligence” needs to be much more clearly defined rather than by extrapolation of some imagined quantity. Or maybe we reach a somewhat human-like level, but not this imagined “extra” level of superintelligence.

Basically the argument is something to the effect of “big will become bigger and bigger, and then it will become like SUPER big and destroy us all”.
Well, at the business that I work for, I convinced everyone to have an anti-AI 100% free policy, although that wasn't too hard because no one there was ever enthusiastic about AI. Plus, we don't publish generic SEO stuff but real gear testing, real experience, so AI goes against that.
I would say 1984 is rather more subtle than portrayed here.

For instance, the masses are kept at bay by scaring them with perpetual wars on the one hand and by keeping them distracted with machine-generation filthy "literature" (we only reached the level of technical sophistication to do that courtesy GPT/Llama last year). That part is more similar to what the post portrays as the "Huxley" view, perhaps.

The appendix of 1984 ("Newspeak") is a masterpiece on its own, redefining English words like "freedom" so that they can only mean "free from lice", with the notion of freedom forgotten.
Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence from the Decline of Vultures
Kids Should Be Blindfolded and Dropped in the Woods at Night
I never saw him as patronizing and disrespectful. That is unless you put artist and celebrity on a pedestal where you think the common rabble shouldn't be asking certain questions.

If he were to come up to me and asked me all of these really interesting questions that he really shouldn't know to ask I would be flattered I would be like how the hell does this guy know all this about me... But I've always wanted to be asked...
Are you trying to get in a "good school district" ? Is that really that strongly correlated to kids outcome in life .

kids grow up and fight for a house in good school district :).

I feel like having kids is root of all evil. Ppl justify all sorts of things (like wars and bidding for houses) and say that they are doing those things for sake of their kids.
Housing is also part of the young->old/retiree wealth transfer.
I probably encounter this like 5 times a year, your statement is wrong.
To be clear, they are absolutely being fined for storing passwords in plaintext.

They chose not to mitigate the fine by following proper procedure.
I believe WP Core and plugins should not be viewed separately in terms of security. Plugins are omnipresent. Integrating security measures across both could create a more robust system overall.
This is also factually incorrect https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gdp?continent=euro...
I agree it's a good argument.

My point is that the argument "the underlying activity is already illegal so the things that make it possible shouldn't be ", is stupid. It comes from a place of ideology. The ideology of "let's organize everything as they should be, not how they are". So I presented a similar arguments (with guns) which I hoped everyone here would see is a good one. And you did, so task successful! :-)
This is a joke that's actually built into Python. The __future__ module is where you can import/enable features that will become the default in future versions. The point it makes by giving "SyntaxError: Not a chance" is that Python will never add braces.

And IMO for good reason. It makes the code so much cleaner and it's not like it particularly takes effort to indent your code correctly, especially since any moderately competent editor will basically do it for you. Tbh I actually find it much less effort than typing braces.
Because the assumption is that the people leading/owning these businesses want to earn more money, so if people had the power to earn more money, they would.

Also, ISPs earn profit margins that are multiples more than grocery retail businesses:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CHTR/charter-commu...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CMCSA/comcast/prof...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/T/at-t/profit-marg...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VZ/verizon/profit-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TMUS/t-mobile-us/p...

ATT and Lumen have terrible management wasting money on bad investments, so their profit margins are variable and not so hot. But competent businesses like Verizon/Comcast/Charter can easily milk their wired customers who only have 1 option for ISP.
I am seriously not trolling, I’m just not sure how EMH is even controversial.

I also don’t get what I’m omitting. If you have an arbitrage opportunity, EMH means that this opportunity will disappear over time because the information that the opportunity exists spreads around and the opportunity is used up. That’s why EMH would mean that you can’t make infinite free money by arbitrating the differences. That’s what I meant and I still stand by it.

> So what I'm reading is that your position is "EMH can only be falsified if someone finds infinite free money"

Basically yes, and I’m not expecting EMH to be disproven because it’s pretty obvious.

What else would contradict the pretty basic claims of EMH?
This is messed up at another level. Never thought there would be so much anger and abuse in this space. Matt Mullenweg needs to be removed or something else needs to change for the community to survive.
Most of us use Python, just not for stuff which needs to be fast.

Not sure, what you mean by thread-safe language, but one of the nice things about Java is that it made (safe) multi-threading comparatively easy.
Saying Goodbye to Firebug (2017)
I see. Thanks for the clarification. If enough large companies are able to merge then we will end up in a situation where regionally there is too little competition. This is what has happened with producers of food products. A few companies control too high a percentage of the products. I think this naturally leads to cartel pricing.
> The intended point of a trademark is essentially to prevent scams.

This is why I think that companies should lose their trademarks in case of scandals, e.g. privacy infringements or security breaches. This is a much better punishment than fines which are often just a slap on the wrist. And to the consumer, a scandal often feels similar to being scammed.

A trademark is a symbol of trust. And companies who are not trustworthy should not be able to use it.
Let me preface this by saying I have no source to prove what I’m about to say, but Guido van Rossum aimed to create a programming language that feels more like a natural language without being just a toy language.
He envisioned a real programming language that could be used by non-programmers, and for this to work it couldn’t contain the usual footguns.

One could argue that he succeeded, considering how many members of the scientific community, who don’t primarily see themselves as programmers, use Python.
I think ChatGPT is just bad at whatever domain you have expertise in.

Talk to it about something you don't know about, and you'll think it's really good technology ;)
> It would be a major hassle to do so since it would mean keeping around major parts of the code for *all old versions of PostgreSQL.*

WTF?

It was only implied to be able to do migration between major versions, not all of them (which doesn't make any sense).

I don't expect PostgreSQL changing that significantly between major version the upgrade would be such a huge hassle…

TBH PostgreSQL seem to be the only tool/software that has such a bonkers upgrade path between major versions…
It looks like Wegmans, my favorite grocery store, isn't included in their data at all?

I searched for at least 2 counties I know have one and it wasn't included in their results.

That seems like a pretty big over sight given their presence in 9 states and almost 200 locations.

They did have the Pittsburgh based Giant Eagle but lacked many of the smaller chains in the area like Sparkle Markets: https://www.sparklemarkets.com/

Very cool project though. Wonder if there's any chance they'll open source their data.
While I appreciate ever more realistic water bodies, the part that game makers really struggle with is where the water encounters an obstacle.

I did not see any mention of this in the description. Conceivably though, this is not a huge conceptual leap right? A game maker would simply need to add logic to impact the frequencies near objects, no?
Why not just use C and C++ at that point? People use Python because they don't want to manage data races or re-implement a hash table.
That is a repetition of the argument other commenters have made. A car is better than a human in a single dimension. It is hard, though, to be better in multiple dimensions simultaneously, because humans effectively are highly optimised general purpose machines. Silicon devices have a hard time competing with biological devices, and no amount of ”AI“ will change that.
Do you know if Cubic or Tfl continues the development for contactless system?

The problem is I found it very slow. Compared to most East Asia / Japan contactless system. Where in 95% of cases complete the whole transition in less than 100ms.
Off topic - folks in the know, besides Paxos/Raft what are some of the other most complex algorithm in computer sciences that are widely used or are a bedrock?
The housing crisis is global. What are other countries doing about it?
Wegmans is the best. They do show it in their home - Rochester, NY area.
https://archive.ph/2024.09.28-082657/https://www.wsj.com/tec...
I found this part funny:

> Also, I really didn't want yet another thing with [...] code to debug (there comes a time in every programmer's life when they can't face debugging yet another thing that should be simple and just work)

... when two paragraphs later comes the code to generate a SVG :)
Wegmans is probably too regional for the point they are trying to make. We used to be the Hudson news of central Pennsylvania and it was exciting watching Wegmans move into our region. They were as great partner.
>…having kids is the root of all evil.

Quite a take there. Kids are also the source of all joy and happiness, depending on how you look at it.
Where are you getting this from? It's not correct. You can absolutely have multiple browser windows open with different pages in them and put them all around you
Speaking of the iPhone, I just ugpraded to the 16 Pro because I want to try out the new Apple Intelligence features.

As soon as I saw integrated voice+text LLM demos, my first thought was that this was precisely the technology needed to make assistants like Siri not total garbage.

Sure, Apple's version 1.0 will have a lot of rough edges, but they'll be smoothed out.

In a few versions it'll be like something out of Star Trek.

"Computer, schedule an appointment with my Doctor. No, not that one, the other one... yeah... for the foot thing. Any time tomorrow. Oh thanks, I forgot about that, make that for 2pm."

Try that with Siri now.

In a few years, this will be how you talk to your phone.

Or... maybe next month. We're about to find out.
So it shows an electronic form of Gell-Mann Amnesia?:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
This app is the best productivity app I have come across and it makes my life so much less stressful. I don't constantly have to think about what I need to do next or what did I forget to do.
99% of the time is spent on matrix matrix or matrix vector calculation. Activation functions, softmax, RoPE, etc basically cost nothing in comparison.

Most NPUs are programmable, because the bottleneck is data SRAM and memory bandwidth instead of instruction SRAM.

For classic matrix matrix multiplication, the SRAM bottleneck is the number of matrix outputs you can store in SRAM. N rows and M columns get you N X M accumulator outputs. The calculation of the dot product can be split into separate steps without losing the N X M scaling, so the SRAM consumed by the row and column vectors is insignificant in the limit.

For the MLP layers in the unbatched case, the bottleneck lies in the memory bandwidth needed to load the model parameters. The problem is therefore how fast your DDR, GDDR, HBM memory and your NoC/system bus lets you transfer data to the NPU.

Having a programmable processor that controls the matrix multiplication function unit costs you silicon area for the instruction SRAM. For matrix vector multiplication, the memory bottleneck is so big, it doesn't matter what architecture you are using, even CPUs are fast enough. There is no demand for getting rid of the not very costly instruction SRAM.

"but what about the area taken up by the processor itself?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Nice joke

Wait..., you were serious? The area taken up by an in order VLIW/TTA processor is so insignificant I jammed it in-between the routing gap of two SRAM blocks. Sure, the matrix multiplication unit might take up some space, bit decoding instructions is such an insignificant cost that anyone opposing programmability must have completely different goals and priorities than LLMs or machine learning.
I don’t think Apple was too late at all. In all the hype, nobody asks “how does this help $family_member in their day to day”.

I’ve used generative AI to help with writing documents and code. I think it’s fun for creating and modifying images. As someone with no creative talent, Photoshop has been quite fun to use.

But frankly, AI is completely useless in almost every way I see it implemented. I cannot see my grandparents, my mom, or my brother use it for anything practical. Everyone’s rushing to flesh out an investor slide deck without taking a moment to think: “but how can this actually be used in someone’s day-to-day”

I’ve enjoyed Apple’s extremely conservative approach so far — they’ve kept it mostly practical.

For example, let’s take the photos app. Just being able to search for “(dogs name) lake” and having images of my dog near a lake is day-to-day useful.

Another example is their introduction of writing tools to proofread blocks of text. My parents already use Spellcheck and Grammar check, this feels like the next step up.

Compare this to Samsung who took the SV Venture-Fund-appeal-style route and blasted “AI” everywhere they can call a function or put a button. Or Microsoft, who’s Copilot story is focused on imprinting keys on keyboards without answering “how does this help the end user”

This hype around AI is gaudy. Nearly every implementation feels cheap, half-baked, and obnoxious. If Apple’s skepticism of implementing AI so far is “late”, late is not a bad thing at all as an end user.

(All that said, Genmoji looks incredibly stupid and I’m wondering what they were thinking with this…)
Oh my - this is great!

Does it mention what the density of the mesh is, or is it a flat plane with no displacement?

Also, I wonder if there's a way to optimise the foam particles in some way. It does seem very wasteful to generate them across the whole plane, when most are culled. I wonder if the particle emission / creation could be linked to foam density?
Democrats or Republicans.

With only two choices for everything the country is set up for polarization.
The computer executing part is the one that's both necessary and sufficient. The human reading part is neither. It's nice, important, and long-term indispensable - exactly the kind of thing economic pressures fight against.
Used in the movie Wall Street to justify insider trading too:

Bud: Lou, I got a sure thing. Anacott Steel.

Lou: No such thing, except death and taxes. Not a good company any more. No fundamentals. What's goin' on, Bud? You know something? Remember, there are no short cuts, son. Quick-buck artists come and go with every bull market. The steady players make it through the bear markets. You're a part of something here, Bud. The money you make for people creates science and research jobs. Don't sell that out.

Bud: You're right, but you gotta get to the big time first, then you can do good things.

Lou: You can't get a little bit pregnant, son.

Bud: Lou, trust me. lt's a winner. Buy it.