jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
#2 can be replaced with a 'tree' command

#3 doesn't work for me on Mac OSX with Bash; the ! is interpreted as the last command. Not sure if this works in other shells

#4 is clever, but I would think if you're doing something that complex that you need to recall time and time again you'd make an alias for it.

#8 is clever. I love AWK. But not sure when I'd ever use this.

The rest were pretty bleh to me. Always looking for new shell kung fu but unfortunately this list did nothing for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8562483
Several orders of magnitude more - but they paid the government for forgiveness, a bit like nobles used to buy forgiveness in the middleages :)
For me, I grew progressively more frustrated with (putative) subject matter experts that were anything but. Perhaps the adage "those who can't, teach" could also be stated "those who can't, become journalists".
The article stands in direct contradiction to your supposed summary of it. To wit:

> Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible. And that is because of a deep property of the laws of physics, namely the universality of computation.

> [Turing] concluded that a computer program whose repertoire included all the distinctive attributes of the human brain — feelings, free will, consciousness and all — could be written. This astounding claim split the intellectual world into two camps, one insisting that AGI was none the less impossible, and the other that it was imminent. Both were mistaken.

etc etc etc. He literally spends more than 60% of the (very long) essay arguing against your "summary".

Anyway, a real tl;dr is right at the top of the page: "Expecting to create an AGI without first understanding in detail how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to learn to fly if we build them tall enough." and then the last sentence: "it is plausible that just a single idea stands between us and the breakthrough. But it will have to be one of the best ideas ever."

In other words, AGI is provably possible, but the author believes that we're going about it all wrong (behaviorist-inspired neural nets running on training sets, etc.) and need a philosophical (specifically: epistemological) breakthrough to move forward.
Thank you for refusing to engage. You make the rest of us look so damned good. You disagree, but you won't say why? You say we're wrong, but won't say why? That's a good way to encourage open debate.

BTW: this guy is a journalist for TechCrunch. I only mention it because it explains why he doesn't want to actually debate the topic.
Interesting connection, the article mentions she is an artist and is often unable to draw or read a fearful expression on someone.
Looks to cost about USD 5..10 per m^2 [1]. Not a huge lot, maybe 500..1000 USD for all the walls of a small flat.

There is the problem of also blocking cellular connectivity, though.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/faraday-cage-price.html
Interesting! Networking is what really caught my attention as a young teenager. My personal epiphany moment early on was chatting on an AOL chatroom with someone in Japan when I was 10 and realizing what computers could actually do
News flash: Google has almost completely funded Mozilla since forever.
OK - I've updated it

> ProtonMail which is a good step, but doesn't let you use your own master key without uploading it*, which complicates things if you require the highest level of security.

* It will be stored encrypted with your password though. So they never have access to it. Keeping your certification key off the internet entirely is possibly overkill for most users.
The problem is that providing email server debugging services is very expensive because not many people really understand the whole SMTP stack these days. You can't find anyone who will talk to you at these firms because there's probably only about 20 people in the company who could genuinely help. Additionally the world is filled with people who would like to run a whole email server for a stream of personal mail who would get it wrong and demand debugging services. That's why they spend their time building automated tools.

The problem the article discusses about needing to send lots of mail to qualify for these tools is because the systems don't scale infinitely - data storage still costs these firms money - and botnets mean basically every single IP on the internet will try to abuse your service at some point or another. So tracking deliverability data without any thresholding means tracking it for every connected machine in the world, which is hugely expensive, all to satisfy the tiny minority of people who feel passionately that they should run their own email server. The only possible justification for that would be recruiting related, but they don't have challenges recruiting.
I worked with a lot of K&R C in the early 1990s, getting software to run on newer compilers and Solaris. I actually learned C++ before I learned C. It still looks strange to me. I believe the parameter declaration style comes from ALGOL (please correct me).
Getting Travis Goodspeed involved was Aurelien's idea, not mine. :)

I'm glad what we're trying to do this year makes sense. Shoot me ideas for program committee members! We really want to get some new faces this year.
Even if we accept the partisan hackery you've dropped on us here, the idea that it's not "a problem" is insane. The answer to a lawsuit about something like false advertising is not "freedom of speech".

The limits on the first amendment right for individuals has been thoroughly explored in the last century or so - the recent cases, less so. And I feel that there's value in asking why this sudden change in many years of jurisprudence.

None of the answers I can conceive reflect very well on the legal or regulatory systems.
I have an old phone that teeters under the modern load of pixels and other cruft that most link-y stories get put up on. So yes, I do it as a matter of general necessity when I don't have my desktop and I find it works well for most things just to read the comments sometimes.
Just curious, have you tried using blender at a more or less advanced level? It's like comparing Windows and a Unix system and saying that Unix doesn't have a decent user interface. I mean, once you start using blender extensively, you realize that blender makes your workflow faster than the mainstream CG packages.
It was a good thing until they ruined it after increasing their strangle on the userbase. It would be sad to see the existing big guys get involved in Matrix to make it popular, only to corrupt it and close it off once it's served its purpose.
Where do you put the people who think that we should inflict leap seconds on UTC?
> makes me sad and inclined to quit these platforms

Are you being hyperbolic?

Also, don't forget Sturgeon's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

My guess is that the patina of freshness has rubbed off for you and you're seeing it how it's been the whole time. But now you have a big enough sample size to make a more comprehensive and accurate judgment.
There area lot of JS developers who are considering moving code to Rust for performance, but will start out as naive.
The problem is monopolies don't offer choices either. or limited choices in the case of cartels. There's a little bit of nuance there but not much. I've cut off your choices instead of telling you what to do.
POSIX thread cancellation has existed with defined (though complex) semantics for ages. It's a ginormous ugly mess, but it is an alternative to run-to-completion or custom logic.
Do you want a job in tech or do you want a job doing anything right now?
Thank you, I can definitively say that some of the problems arise from poor programming practices than the language itself. But some languages are better at preventing people from writing bad code - see Rust and Go (impeccable packagement, project structure, memory management, RAII, etc) and Python (strict syntax PEP8/black).
> This emphasis on citations in the measurement of scientific productivity shifted scientist rewards and behavior on the margin toward incremental science

this sounds like the science equivalent of how search engines lead to the creation of content farms. citation scores are to spam science as pagerank is to wikihow?

Imagine going through life with a high-tech spam filter from the future that can filter out wikihow and boring science. Impossible to build, I suspect, but that would be the life.
There have been converastions for years about the slow down in scientific discovery. Often times the explanation is that science is getting more expensive, something i've often felt was a bit of a straw man argument.

Instead pointing at the current incentive structure (that everyone already agrees is broken) makes a lot more sense.

So lets start a conversation about a better incentive structure. What do we want to incentivize? How do we do that? How do we fix science?
I am working on REST API prototyping tool (https://fake.rest)
The goal is to make a quick REST API prototypes for web, IoT, and mobile applications for the testing of ideas.

Any feedback appreciated.
Considering I've seen a Django app loading pages within 100ms (including database queries but with some caching), the 300ms estimate is a little off the mark here.

As with all things, you have to measure it for your own application and find your bottlenecks before drawing conclusions.
I've always puked at how bad GNU logos are (far worse than most other bad open source software logos even), but I think I kind of have a strange soft spot for them now - they are extremely Stallmanesque in their qualities.

Interesting timing with this post, as I just did a redesign of the nginx logo for my own pleasure yesterday[0], and was thinking about doing redesigns of other open source software logos as well. I have started on one for FreeBSD. Any other requests (hoping for software I actually use myself)?

[0] http://dribbble.com/shots/1436258
they don't even check if the email looks right. abc@abc.invalid works..
Symbolics stuff not just worked, it worked remarkably well on the very modest hardware and solved real word problems.

For an example of unimaginable by "modern standards" quality, go ahead and take a look at the Common Lisp documentation produced by Symbolics (the art of writing, "motorcycle maintenance" kind of clarity and conscience) which is buried somewhere inside bitsavers and take a look at the sources of Open Genera 2.0, the whole OS, which was available of dynamic modification and extension by the programmer, which could be found in a torrent search, and then go to the rosettacode website and look at every single page too see what a fucking crap is the language you are using to get shit done in exchange for a paycheck. It is worst in any possible way - verbosity, clumsiness, clutter, cryptic syntax, you name it.

This is actually not interesting notion. Everyone with a bit of brains could visit rosettacode. The interesting questions are why it is so that the world is dominated by Java.

Pages and pages were written about what's wrong with Java and why it is so popular. One sentence summary could go like this "a sandbox for crowds of packers to get shit done, agressively marketed to them via "you don't have to understand" memes by corporations to make big money". It spread like a virus due to bandwagon and peer effects and catchy memes like "write once" or "millions of man hours".

Ok, use it, enjoy yourself, but, please, do not touch so rare and really wonderful things which you unable to comprehend.
It's less than a fortnight short of 1,000 days ago, since people began criticizing Twitter for this behaviour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646979.
> tho I suppose that is a problem that didnt exist until bitcoin became popular.

Sure it did. Cash money. Exact same problems.
When a logo is just color and typography, they're called "wordmarks".
"How do we prevent this from being attempted again?"

"We" won't, bluntly enough. Nor will hyperparanoia do anything about the next stunt. What do you do when a lunatic swallows or rectally inserts some explosives?

The answer is that you accept that there are reasonable measures and unreasonable measures. Use only reasonable measures. Accept that there is a finite risk of someone getting past those measures. Recognize that you're more likely to die while driving to an airport than in flight from all causes, not merely the extreme outlier possibility of someone deliberately trying to kill people on your flight.
I'm not looking for a fight. I'm looking for an explanation. The odds of success as an entrepreneur are low enough without influential investors implicitly blessing those who are notorious for their unique interpretations of right and wrong.
>So what you're saying is, you don't mind causing other people -- your coworkers -- severe distress if their "reasoning" is faulty according to you?

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. Because I'm not causing them stress. They're causing stress to themselves.

>As you can see in the data, "adults" is actually "men" only when "work" is "software".

What data? What are you talking about?

>I think you should consider the possibility that you're contributing to a hostile environment that you simply can't feel because you haven't tried really putting yourself in other people's shoes.

It's not reasonable to expect men to tiptoe around special snowflakes primed by coddled upbringings to take umbrage at every perceived slight.
Everything is optional at some level.

You need to do a cost/benefit analysis, not reject methods that could cause any number of deaths ever.

Because all methods cause some number of deaths in some circumstances.

Numbers need context if you're going to make the right decision.
My point is it became an RC3 only a few days ago. If OP used this a year ago it wasn't an RC, just an unstable spec.
Well spotted. Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I fix this.
It's more about what we are willing to eat than what we grow, diets high in meat require lots of arable land and energy to create.
Nah, you'd probably die from dirty air... or drowning depending on where you land :-)

Everything else can be learned - after all, even dogs get used to Roombas...
Although it's still a bit aimed at beginning programers you might like Udacity's Web Dev course. I thought it was good. Taught by Steve Huffman who built Reddit. Python based.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253
you could also declare bankruptcy as a form of renegotiation or (like a really big company) stop paying all of your bills and wait for your creditors to accept lower offers.

When you gamble you win some and you lose some. Do you have the stomach for it? Maybe this lady in the article is just better at playing hardball.

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If the banks fail to show up in court, fail to file the correct documents, etc etc etc, why should they be treated any better than a normal person who does the same thing?
less is my favorite text editor. It's a pity it doesn't actually edit text.
Entire movies and videogames are premised on such scenarios in western labs.
A very no nonsense guide. I wish I had had this 25 years ago..
> This seems like a weirdly brazen type of falsehood for a major newspaper.

I would like to know what newspapers he is reading that makes this seem brazen or even out of the ordinary.
So much for his style that it makes his podcasts hit or miss (depending on the topic). For some personalities his conversational demagoguery feels nauseating, for others it fits the conversation. In my opinion Sean Carroll (Mindscape) has much more consistent conversational theme that borders on philosophical but still makes it engaging for the listener, where Lex often misses the red thread and rambles in unrelated territory. I don't think his podcasts are bad, just inconsistent, and thinking of how many he manages to do doesn't actually make it that strange. In order to improve Lex needs to curate his ramblings better and learn to read the motivations of his guests.
I don't understand why you are insulting me. I've been nothing but respectful towards others and have posted proof of my claims.

The people being nasty are the others responding to my comments. Am I responsible for them?

Obviously this is a touchy subject for some on here because Sam Altman and many other YC alums love this man.

Does that mean I can't post a critical comment?
Coinbase and al. also do exactly this though: when you buy bitcoin on an exchange, Coinbase gives you an IOU for bitcoin, with zero transaction recorded in the blockchain it's only when you want to actually take these bitcoins out of your Coinbase wallet, to move them to your own bitcoin wallet, that a real bitcoin transaction exist. In the meantime, there can be more bitcoins owned on Coinbase than real bitcoin in existence, exactly like a bank. (And commercial banks have existed is the US long before the Fed, which was relatively late invention (1913) designed to avoid /limit the scope of financial crisis).
If you're underprivileged no test is going to detect your gifts. You're going to be hungry, have poor sleep, possibly abused, all sorts of things that will make you look like you're less capable than you are.
He has always been divorced from reality: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/op-ed-how-i-gave-up-...
I'm a student in one of the AcadeMedia for-profit schools. They have around 30 schools with the same brand name as mine and they keep on buying others. There's over 600 of them. There are of course other brands that they own but this one is focused on technology.

Now let me tell you about my experience. First, this school is very focused on marketing. They keep on doing things that are only for seemingly attracting students. For example, they made a "maker space" with more 3d printers than anyone could ever need. I'm not against 3d printers but who needs 10 when only one is being used at a time. They also failed to mention their shitty secondary basement location on a showing of the school for upcoming students. They literally bought a second location to double the amount of students, and it had air quality issues for two years. No windows except a few ones in the roof. This location still isn't mentioned to students looking at the school. Wonder why.

All of these marketing-focused efforts have real impacts for the students. For example, there isn't any room for a kitchen, so they give us lunch cards. These get loaded with 55kr each day (about $6.5). Then they have agreements with some local restaurants at which we eat. Problem is that normally those restaurants would change maybe $12. As a result very few of them allow us in and we get tiny portions. This is served to growing teens.

Now I have asd and bipolar-2. Don't even get me started on how badly they're able to handle that. Nothing really ever improves. It's all talk. As a result, I'm about to drop out.
// Meaning of speeches and essays characterized as reverse of what anyone who's hear/read them would actually conclude.

I actually want to explain what I meant here and what opened my eyes to this big-time.

Background: I am a dual (EU/US) citizen and care about both a lot. In 2016 I voted for Clinton and had the typical attitude towards Trump that you'd expect from a liberal New Yorker.

In early 2017, Trump was in the news for having said offensive/alienating things to our European allies. I was outraged and worried because this fit the narrative of him selling us out to Russia.

Until I chanced to watch the actual speech - what I heard was affirming and comforting for someone who cares about NATO and totally opposite of how it was presented.

The subsequent 4 years, this pattern repeated over and over - I'd watch the administration consistently make geopolitical moves against Russia and its allies (Iran being the crystalizing example) while the news kept telling me he was Putin's bitch.

I came out of this experience with a complete lack of belief in how things are presented in the media, which is a radical departure from my stance as a literate liberal New Yorker just 4 years prior.
I felt like such a badass plugging in a LED to an Arduino and making it blink. This is a powerful piece of art to me because it is so complex and beautiful at the same time.
I'll bet you five to one that the EA forum terms of use have users sign away the copyright on their posts. So they only had to get a license from EA.
The onewheel folks's prototype inspired a lot of my build, there's quite a bit of tech to keep something like this happy and safe to use, check out their manufacturing line:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/02/onewheel-assembly/
The greatest text games I have played are Curses! and Anchorhead. Both are immersive and vast. Anchorhead is genuinely scary. There are some pointless puzzles and timed puzzles, but overall, truly worth trying out.
I read a story about a guy in Italy, he lost both parents, only his father died in the hospital so his mother was not counted in statistics as having died of coronavirus.
Another strategy: Instead of creating new abstractions willy-nilly (which will probably be "wrong" in some sense you won't discover until much later, when it's too late to drop it), you base your abstractions off something that selects for "correct" low-entropy abstractions, e.g. by stealing ideas from math.
Yeah, like I said I don't know what the current available supply is, which IIUC is the more limiting factor. I also don't know what the current prices are, and I don't know which part of it are production costs and which part is just profiteering.

And even if it's hundreds of masks per worker, I'm sure it won't last through this thing.
> Ask HN: what's a good JS (browser focused) text adventure engine?

Take a look on ISTEAD - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter.[0]

It has JS-based version[1,2] and native versions (SDL-based in pure C) for Android[3,4], Windows and Unix-like platforms (including Linux, macOS/iOS, Maemo/MeeGo, Symbian 9.x, various consoles, etc.).[5]

Text adventures for INSTEAD could include Lua-scripts (text adventure itself & modules) and various media assets (images, sounds, fonts).[6]

There is repo with free games & demos for INSTEAD, which in most cases could be installed directly from INSTEAD clients.[7]

[0] https://github.com/instead-hub

[1] https://github.com/instead-hub/instead-js

[2] http://instead.itch.io/

[3] https://github.com/instead-hub/instead-android-ng

[4] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.emunix.insteadl...

[5] https://github.com/instead-hub/instead/releases

[6] https://instead-hub.github.io/en/#doc

[7] http://instead-games.ru
>>How is it a failed system?

ohh I dont know, the millions upon millions that have died in starvation due to socialism over the many decades that it has been tried

but those where not "real socialism" right....

Pointing to one good that some people can not afford (the reason is largely due to government control not capitalism BTW) does not in any way "prove capitalism failed"

it is true that sometimes with capitalism you will get breadlines, but with socialism sometimes you get bread
To be honest, that's a problem with a lot of in-person workshops and the like as well. There's a lot of type this, type that, run this script, etc. without enough context as to why you're doing these various steps.
Couldn't worse air and more smoking in Wuhan lead to the same numbers? Worse conditions in Wuhan: more people needing hospitalization (young and old) the young recover, and get counted as recovered. Meanwhile in Italy, better air means only the very weak show severe symptoms, are tested, counted as infected, and their prospects are worse.
If you like such unconventional design, take a look here: https://www.peugeot.co.uk/concept-cars/e-legend/
unfortunately this one is only a concept car.
we should, preferably in shut down coal mines where the carbon came from, but that takes time, money and fuel.
It reminds me of the game "Another World"
I think the word is "subpoena"?
Subpony is quite fun though.