skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice is limited to the languages that LLMs already know really well. Fwiw, here is GPT's self-rating out of 10:

Python: 9, Prolog: 7, Datalog: 6, Mercury: 6, Curry: 5, Drools: 4

This is not even the full set of what the LLM might like to use. It may also like pyDatalog, SymPy, Haskell, Clingo ASP, ECLiPSe CLP, etc.
The CIA only gets involved if you attempt to bring a Magic 8 Ball in your carry-on.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
I've lived in Taiwan for a while, not nearly as long as you have in Japan, but long enough that I have a couple observations I'd be interested in your take in, about "old hats" such as yourself.

The first is that the folks that immigrated decades ago tend to hold on to the perception they had upon arrival to the country, and the various impressions, for the rest of their lives there, and these impressions inform all future observations they have about the country. For example in Taiwan a lot of older American immigrants will talk about things like crime or the police as if it was still the KMT era when Taiwan was basically a different country, and their thoughts are really strange to hear when considering modern taiwanese police (who are basically teddy bears) or crime rates (extremely low).

The second is that, having spend decades in the country to which they immigrated, which is probably longer than they lived in their origin country, they seem to view everything that strikes them as odd, inefficient, or bad, as unique to their new home country. In this case such as your perception of Japan as being lead top-down by bureaucrats, when that description to me applies to basically every liberal democracy on earth. Thus:

> The government regularly launches initiatives, sets goals, and promotes catch phrases that are supposed to lead to greater progress and prosperity. But, because the initiators and funders are often only tenuously connected to the complex and dynamic reality, the projects become rigid and wasteful, and eventually wither and die, more often than not.

imo, this is true for most government-led initiatives in nearly every country on earth. Not that I'm arguing against government-lead initiatives because they do result in sometimes incredible things like train infrastructure, spaceships, the internet, medical breakthroughs etc, but for the most part it seems politicians make big pitches to get elected and then just maintain status quo.

Obviously Japan has some uniquely bureaucratic things about the culture as a whole (lol faxes), but on the other hand this doesn't seem to be an obstacle considering they have some of the safest pedestrian-friendly streets in the world, some of the best public transit, an excellent healthcare system, low crime rates, low homelessness, low unemployment, etc. On the ground they're doing much better than many countries.

What do you think? You probably know much more about such things given your time in Japan as well as the fact that you work at a university.
A long time ago I had the Fritz engine from chessbase. It had a sparring feature where if you maintained good play it would give up a tactical puzzle in the middle of the game. It could either warn you or not. If you didn't play solidly enough, you would just lose.

As far as I can tell, they got rid of this feature. It was the only computer opponent that felt real. Like it made a human mistake when put under pressure, rather than just playing like a computer and randomly deciding to play stupid.
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Anecdotally, I'm a near daily user and have noticed the platform has significantly more latency, a massive uptick in spam as well as strange / intermittent bugs.
California Coolers
MySQL does have ON UPDATE for its DATETIME, though; something that Postgres inexplicably still lacks.
> “[Testers] know exactly what our protocols are. They can create and devise and conceal items that … not even the best terrorists would be able to do,” Pistole told lawmakers at a House hearing.

It seems reasonable to tailor your defense to the threats you're realistically likely to face.
Check out https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog https://www.scryer.pl/

If you are close to Vienna Nov 7th and 8th there is a community meeting https://www.digitalaustria.gv.at/eng/insights/Digital-Austri...
For 2 years as a student, I carried a 4" gravity knife through a lot of airport security terminals. It was completely by accident and when I realized it was in my backpack, I was surprised.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/warm-standby.html#SY... mentions quorum-based synchronous replication, which sounds encouraging.
You.com is pretty great too. It has greatly reduced my need for Google.
What on earth does MNEA mean?
It's not the same unwritten social contract: in Rust even the unsafe code has the same stricter type signatures as the safe code, so there is a formal way to judge which part of the program is at fault when the contract is broken. You might say the contract is now written. :-)

In C, the type system does not express things like pointer validity, so you have to consider the system as a whole every time something goes wrong. In Rust, because the type system is sound, you can consider each part of the program in isolation, and know that the type system will prevent their composition from introducing any memory safety problems.

This has major implications in the other direction as well: soundness means that unsafe code can be given a type signature that prevents its clients from using it incorrectly. This means the set of things the compiler can verify can be extended by libraries.

The actual practice of writing memory-safe C vs memory-safe Rust is qualitatively different.
Single-line (that is, five dealt cards) video poker can be played with 1-5 coins. However, there is a disproportionate payout for a royal flush (A-K-Q-J-10, all suited) with five coins played. There are no video poker games you can play with less than five coins that are anything near breakeven payout.

Every video poker game in Nevada is required to be truly random. And every game has the payout for every possible poker hand shown on the game. A bit of math allows you to calculate both the correct strategy for any five cards dealt (which you memorize, just like proper blackjack strategy), but it also tells you the theoretical return of the game with perfect play.

As an example, 9/6 Jacks or Better (a game that pays nine coins for each coin played for a full house and six coins for each coin played for a flush) has a theoretical payout of 99.54% with perfect play. This puts it in the range of blackjack. And, like blackjack, you will eventually go broke because it's still not over 100%.

Unlike blackjack, you can't count cards. But what you can do is seek out returns in other ways. In the 1990s and 2000s, some casinos would compete on cashback comps. Add 0.33% or 0.5% cashback to the game I just described, and you're close to (or barely over) 100% payback. Find a game with a baseline payout of over 100% (full-pay Deuces Wild is 100.76, as a [rare] example), and you're deeper into the profitability zone.

Small returns unless you're playing higher denomination returns with a giant bankroll. Most people who do this make it a bit of a lifestyle -- pushing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars through the machine gets you noticed by the casino, leading to free rooms, free meals, invitations to parties, etc.

Others look (or looked -- it's rarer now) for poorly planned promotions where a scarce hand pays off grandly and changes the math. Most of the life-changing wins in this space came from those sorts of situations.
A bipartisan bill to protect our freedoms. This is the America I know and love.
I'm guessing that you're a French Islamophobe, since you keep trying to make this conversation about European immigration. But it's not. And you're not taking the conversation on a tangent, you're trying to change the topic of the conversation to something that no one else is talking about.
I guess it depends on how comfortable you are with what the speaker is saying. If you are not sure you agree or you want to think about something else, then it's normal to look away.
Isn’t the argument that by checking for NULL you can now safely crash/panic instead of going into undefined behavior and being a potential security hazard?
They’re not wrong. If you’ve ever spent meaningful time administering both, you’ll know that Postgres takes far more hands-on work to keep it going.

To be clear, I like both. Postgres has a lot more features, and is far more extensible. But there’s no getting around the fact that its MVCC implementation means that at scale, you have to worry about things that simply do not exist for MySQL: vacuuming, txid wraparound, etc.
dang that's a good war story.
> Couples who navigate growth together often develop stronger, more resilient partnerships.

Nowhere in that wisdom did the word “first” appear.

If at “first” you don’t succeed, keep looking for that partner who, by character, and suitability to you, who will “ navigate growth together”.

——

I feel like there is a stay-with-your-first crowd that has a lot of wisdom to share, but logically needs to recognize that commitment to an unworkable situation isn’t really what they are trying to promote.

Props to those that find that person, who will co-invest, can be co-patient, co-flexible, co-loyal, co-appreciative, co-vision the first time.

But those things are just as great, and important to find, regardless of the ordinal.

—

I think I have that! Number 3. Wish me luck for the future, but 8 years in I am very and honored happy now.
LMAO. No, they absolutely do not. Tbat is not a prerequisite of financing vehicles. Not remotely. It is absolutely hilarious you think they do.
Musk steers X disputes to conservative Texas courts in service terms update
That depends on who replaces him. Do you have a better idea?
Yes, a weak work ethic takes years to rectify. I had a very bad weak work ethic because of health issues when I was a kid and only in my 30s did I finally fix it.
this is insane... one malicious page visit and person "had to scramble to secure logins" (I assume this means "change passwords?")

What were they running, Windows XP with 2-year old chrome browser?
Wouldn’t the value be lower if podcasts end up the way product review blogs have? Endless spam that causes people to append “Reddit” to their searches in hopes of finding something human generated.
> I really don't understand the obsession with the idea that I must somehow be interested in something just because somebody else said it. I

That's not the point I'm making. The point I'm making is Twitter has been too ubiquitous and important for you to have never clicked a submission at this site or a link to it somewhere, and not just accidentally.
I think a better alternative is the concept of the minimum viable habit from James Clear's Atomic Habits.

SOFA gets one thing right which is it reduces the pressure and the expectations. But it doesn't seem like an approach to life which results in anything permanent. This post literally says "nothing is permanent, nothing lasts" which is a nihilistic and self-defeating view of life - perhaps technically true but not useful. Contrast with "play long term games" which is the idea that good things compound over years and even decades and this compounding is how you can lead a truly extraordinary life.

So with Clear's concept of minimum viable habits the focus is on building something permanent (the habit) but the expectations are removed, which makes it feel easy. If you want to be a runner, you start by setting an alarm and putting on your running shoes every day. That's it, once the shoes are on, you declare victory and you may take them right back off again and go on with your day, running is strictly optional (and even discouraged at the start).

After doing this for a while it's going to be second nature. It will become an unconscious habit to put on those shoes at the same time every day, and it will also feel a little ridiculous that you're not even stepping out the door. It will then feel completely natural to take the next step and walk outside and enjoy the fresh air as part of the habit. Once you're doing that regularly, it's almost inevitable that you'll start taking a small walk or something and one day boom you've made it a jog. Three years later if it's really what you want you've become a serious runner and practicing for your first marathon.

It really works in my experience (it got me going to the gym, improved my work productivity and improved my diet). The key is your perspective: you want to build an extensive new, permanent habit that will improve your life for many years to come. But this is hard to do so you're layering on one easy piece at a time, removing the friction.

It doesn't require manning up and being superhuman. Just the desire for the change, some patience and the willingness to take the first step.
Funnily enough neon does not offer an easy way to upgrade database compared to other managed database hosting.
As I commented when this came up yesterday, there are older (and better!) examples of a sharing economy.

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook published 1936–1966 for African-Americans to have safe road trips during the Jim Crow era. Some of the information was voluntarily collected by U.S postal workers who gathered the information while on their routes.

I say 'better' because paid couriers existed long before DHL. What DHL did (according to this account) was find a way to replace them with cheaper workers and not have to share the profits but instead use those profits to defend legal challenges against their business model.
It's interesting now to see more and more programming languages using an underscore as the thousands separator to allow for easier reading without trying to get into a mess of commas or full-stops as separators.
Taxes on groceries are incredibly regressive. The lottery is quite regressive.

Taxes on airplane flights can never be more than slightly regressive because the bottom 50% very rarely fly anywhere. A tax on what is fundamentally a luxury service would have to try really hard to be even a little bit regressive.
Thanks for the thought-provoking comments and questions! I'm away from my computer right now—in a coffee shop at Ueno Station in Tokyo, in fact. I'll reply again at length tonight or tomorrow.
Would you similarly say that Russian Roulette is the same game whether the revolver has two chambers or ten thousand?
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Well, 86% of the 14 people they tested this on, anyway.
Remembering Ward Christensen – Co-Creator of the Bulletin Board System
Also Rust is far from the only language that gives you escape-hatches out of the safety sandbox where you can make a mess if you're reckless. Java, Python, Go, C#... (heck, C# also has an `unsafe` keyword) but hardly anyone would argue those languages have the same safety issues that C has.
You don’t anymore. There is something called Telex release that allows the carrier to release the cargo with an electronic copy of the bill of lading.
US is way more immigration friendly than those countries and more accessible

Current problem is due to US processing asylum claims internally. Make them apply in home country or first neighbor.

This policy has been a huge magnet for immigrants, and created problems for Mexico since everyone now tries to come through the southern border

What used to be Mexicans only has turned into Mexicans + the rest of the world

So before you had to contend with security with 1 neighboring ally, you could share info with, but now you get people from who knows where
Isn't that a pretty good return? Multiply by 100: this is the equivalent of $3,000/hour on $1.2M of capital!
It went badly, but we need an open source winamp!

Please re-open it.
the easy explanation is that the cost of a breach is externalized, so decision makers gain benefit from savings in not investing in security.

Look at the crowdstrike failure as a recent example, but there's plenty more in the past.
Mathias Wandel discovers non-standard use for RP2040 io-processors
pretty much how I always assumed AI-powered tools'd work.
still, mind blowing to see in action
Seems whenever there's talk about improvement in education and schooling, and demands for yet more funds, everyone very carefully avoids the topic of what's actually important in education.

Instead it's always about superficial matters like this.

No, what's actually important is, for student X, 20 years from now, are they living a better life than they would otherwise have, as a result of the education services they received.

If you just paid attention to that metric, and rebuked every single other thing, the price, speed, and quality of all education would rapidly improve every single year.

That'd start first and foremost with what people are being taught, followed by a bunch of other important levers, and right at the bottom of the list would be the physical design of the school.

Sector suffers from an epidemic of bikeshedding.
3 sounds like the best option - especially if many of the merchants agree to sell to the same lawyer, maybe it will end up owning the company and reform it
Why do you think that the LLM cannot translate the problem into a program? Granted, it has been said that the Curry or Mercury languages may be better than Prolog at times with their functional logic programming features. Ultimately it's best if the LLM has the freedom to decide what's best to use for the problem from what it knows.
* transactional DDL

* comprehensive transaction model using different modes

* PostGIS and lots of other great extensions

* supports most of the current SQL standard and is clear on interpretation of edge-cases in the documentation

* support for writing stored procedures in any major programming language

* many useful functions regarding dates, sets, ranges, json, xml, ...

* custom datatypes

* extremely thought-out and standardized approach to development: if a feature is included it generally works well in interaction with everything else

* syntax, semantics and performance are all very predictable

* great documentation

Regarding MySQL / MariaDB: MySQL optimized for performance first. Until 2010 the standard-storage-engine MyISAM didn't even support transactions.

PostgreSQL always focused on correctness and stability and then made sure everything performed.
You should not be indexing 768 characters in any circumstance I can imagine. Go ahead and try it. Spin up two tables, fill them with a few million rows, and slap and index on them. Give one a reasonable prefix limit, and let the other go wild. Make sure you ANALYZE each, then run queries in a loop and check the times.

Spoiler: I literally did this a couple of days ago. The index size bloat means that any possible savings you might have gained from collisions are obliterated from page fetches. I tested with a measly 128 characters vs. a prefix of 16, and that was enough for the average query time to be equal, with the smaller index winning for the minimum.
I think it is better than R/Matlab/.... combined.
This is a short bill.

It disallows the TSA from using facial recognition and requires that the TSA disposes of all facial recognition biometric information, including images and videos, obtained through facial recognition, no later than 90 days of the enactment of the act. Congressional acts prior to the enactment of the act are invalidated with regards to TSAs authorization of facial recognition use, and the TSA can use facial recognition only if authorized in future congressional acts. In section 4, it modifies law to exclude facial recognition for pilot licenses, those deemed threats to air security, and prevents the TSA from using the $20mm DARPA defense research grant for researching facial recognition means of defense. Additionally in section 5 it prevents the TSA from using facial recognition in implemented pilot programs, it prevents the TSA from cooperating with airport operators on the use of facial recognition, and prevents the TSA from issuing guidance to identify airport employees & law enforcement via facial recognition.

Cynic criticism:

1) The invalidation of former Congress acts with regards to TSA authorization of facial recognition use seems too polemic; would this pass as is?

2) Airport operators can still use facial recognition.

3) It does not define biometrics; nor what disposing means, and this may render this part ineffective, especially if derivatives of these data are not considered biometrics.

Overall what I'm reading this bill as, is that the government does not want the TSA to directly participate in this type of surveillance, but I think it leaves open the possibility of contractors to do so. It is still a good bill in my opinion.
I’ll propose that ALL Rust projects that do useful work depend on unsafe code.

If one claims otherwise, I say they have no understanding of Rust. But also, if one helds that against Rust's value promise, I, again, say that they have no understanding of Rust.
> he's talking about open source as a vehicle for developing personal wealth.

He made his point poorly, but ultimately it's about OSS projects making more money and not running on people's generosity until they get burnt out because they have to do the OSS work and their real job to pay the bills. That it's a single maintainer or a group of people that get rich is irrelevant, to the real issue and only got brough up because Matt was trying to be insulting, which as I said, was wrong.

> If at this point you think Matt is motivated by anything other than greed, you haven't been reading enough of what he's writing.

I think this is an instance of, in some aspects and theoretically, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Constrained and minimized trust in programmer diligence is better than unconstrained and omnipresent trust in the same.
Discussion (406 points, 1 day ago, 326 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41861056
I searched lore.kernel.org and couldn't find any postings that propose using this in the kernel. I'd encourage you to share a proposal, otherwise the "kernel team" will never be interested, because they'll never hear of it.
It was the censored radio edit version in north america though
I'm sure it's not literally no one but I bet the percent of additions that have explicit checks for overflow is for all practical purposes indistinguishable from 0.
A Response to Paul Graham's "How to Make Wealth" (2012)
Link to the actual paper: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-53285-001.pdf?auth_tok...
That still only has one primary: you can't just start pointing writes at the upgraded standbys. Synchronous replication (besides having its own downsides) just shortens the time needed for the replicas to catch up. You still need to perform a cutover.
One of the researchers involved (I think) also maintains a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems Museum": https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/...

As the OP article mentions much (most? all?) of the software developed in the project was freely released (under an MIT-like license? https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... ) and it seems to be available for download (in source form) from here: https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/...
most of it would only run on the prototype computer they wrote, but some of it was ported to Unix.
So have I, and I would still be very tempted to take the 9 months severance.

Don't fool around with tyrants:

With something like this going down, I'd wonder if my employer will even be around in 9 months. I'd also worry that my employer could "go for broke" and just close its doors on me, leaving me with nothing.

So, yeah, I'd have to really love my job to stay.