skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a point to be had that GPT-3 is nowhere near human level in its responses, but is that really the bar to set? It seems extremely high.

This rebuttal asks if a human could continue the slightly nonsensical inputs, and I feel like we certainly could? “... tried to drink with his eyeglasses; his schizophrenia was particularly bad today.” While sharing a spoon with your neighbor is in the realm of what’s possible, it does seem very odd, seeing as there is no prior relationship established to this neighbor. I also wonder what would’ve happened if an actual neighbor had been mentioned before, i.e. a door neighbor. I think any human would then read neighbor as next door neighbor. Would the network pick up on this and specify seat neighbor?
No one can have all the files and BitTorrent works just fine. Though, I don't see why anyone wouldn't want the whole file. What's the point if you can't actually use what you downloaded?
Im not sure how that would work technically speaking if there is just a single seeder and leecher, also don't you become an accomplice for helping?
> For example, open source and copyleft tend to be using different working definitions of "free"

Not really. Both proponents of open source (OSI) and proponents of copyleft (FSF) use mostly interchangeable definitions of 'free'. Both copyleft (GPL) and permissive (e.g. BSD licences) are considered free by both sides.
If ROM space is so valuable, why is ASCII text (which I imagine is relatively large) stored on it?
because we have these things called screws that have worked fine for hundreds of years and greatly enhance the repairability of devices.
Cool! Sounds like a good deal.

Having an understanding manager really helps I guess.

I also have three kids so I know the struggle :)
Oh, I have. It's fantastic.

But if we're going to give unfathomable power to such an AI, it's not much more of a leap to give it the ability to resurrect people from the past and subject them to whatever it desires.

Taking it even one step further and comparing it to the Simulation Hypothesis [1], perhaps we're already there. The machine might be making us live our lives again only at some point to surprise us with some unthinkable horror or delight.

If such a machine arises and is capable of these feats, then we might currently be living in re-simulations of our past lives that have already ended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
I'd trade it for a better chance of personally seeing New Year's eve in 2200.
You may enjoy this book, which it is derived from: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
I understand a lot better now, thanks!
Why shouldn't Socrates and Einstein meet? IIRC they did in Bill and Ted. Having an 'AI dungeon master' entertain fictional scenarios hardly debunks anything.
Ok, we've booted macOS from the title above.
Regardless of what it costs to make at this price or really any I don't see the appeal. I used to get excited about similar projects but with how good my 2 pine phones are already and the pinetab that is getting delivered Thursday I already have functional sleek linux handheld devices with additional inputs/outputs.
For the past several decades Penrose has been a fountain of nothing but frivolous fringe theories. Physicists are like investments: past performance is not indicative of future returns ;P
Can't this already be true? You do not need the entire torrent in order to seed downloads. Clients leeching know which blocks seeders are providing and will download what's available.
Is this similar to Cribl?
I’m definitely more likely to trust open source. Generally the more eyes on it the better, I still think even one vulnerability could potentially be catastrophic though.

That microsoft link looks really interesting, I don’t understand automated theorem proving and crypto enough to see how it would work even with untrusted hardware (although it does say it can be run on any third party system)
^this

I don’t bother with the bag, just keep the cut sides down. When you slice the loaf, start in the middle and work towards the ends. That way, the halves don’t fall over.

The bread remains edible for two days, especially sourdough. (I’m talking about homemade bread here, not the white fluff.)

Slice any remainder before it gets too stiff. Turn a few slices into croutons.

Fry the slices and croutons in olive oil on the following two days.

You also generate crumbs for breading: just use a rolling pin or bottle on the dried bread.

This way, plan on baking twice a week. It’s also possible to make up a batch of dough once a week and freeze half.
I was excited about Pony a few years ago.

But then the company went bust and development slowed down. I checked it out again ~ 1 year ago and both language and ecosystem did not look terribly healthy or active.

What's the current status?

ps: I love the video + synchronized slides side by side. I wish this was more common for talks. There should be resizing functionality though.
> Programs, like people, get old. We can't prevent aging, but we can understand its causes, take steps to limit its effects, temporarily reverse some of the damage it has caused, and prepare for the day when the software is no longer viable.

> A sign that the Software Engineering profession has matured will be that we lose our preoccupation with the first release and focus on the long term health of our products. Researchers and practitioners must change their perception of the problems of software development. Only then will Software Engineering deserve to be called Engineering.

---

According to the article, there are two types of software aging: change or lack thereof.

- Lack of movement: failure of the product's owners to modify it to meet changing needs

- Ignorant surgery: result of the changes that are made

In addition, distinctly from aging, there's accumulation: "the system slow down caused by failure to release allocated memory" or storage, file system filling up, etc.

---

Some of the costs of aging:

- Inability to keep up

- Reduced performance

- Decreasing reliability

Strategies to reduce such costs:

- Design for change

- Documentation

- Reviews

---

How to deal with aged software:

- Retroactive documentation

- Incremental modularization

- "Amputation"

- "Major surgery" - Restructuring
Sounds a bit like freenet: https://freenetproject.org
iPhones Pixels and lazy Android developers
Skeptical that this is a widespread type of attack. Also, probably much easier and lower risk of someone taking down your plates to just threaten you with a knife/taser/lead pipe after you've unlocked your bike and then ride off.
Huh.

hmmm....

You know, I think you've just revealed something about the shallowness of my experience with type systems.
Cool!

I’ve heard about Ferriss book but haven’t read it. Is it good?
"high-performance" could just as easily be interpreted as faster response time as compared to faster clock speed. So in that way they are "faster".
I really don't think that Chester Pierce was an idiot who valued being emotional over being logical.

While there is disagreement over how prevalent they are or what if anything should be done about them, micro-aggressions obviously exist. I find this sort of hostility to the very concept perplexing.
One day many, many years ago when we lived in inland Essex (we're not English) we decided to go to the seaside. Using our road atlas we headed to the blue. We never found the sea just lots of mudflats with no sea in sight. It was my first experience of such a coastline
I am a Daoist like everyone else is a Gravitist. You all believe gravity because you feel it work and it was explained and named to you. You feel Daoism and Buddhism work as well but no one has explained to to you.
If a couple major players adopt a hybrid system then it could perhaps
It has some, they're just not loading for you.
Interestingly, newer version Fitbit devices also sport an SpO2 sensor, but they have dragged their feet on enabling direct readings or the expected sleep apnea detection features.

The delay seems to have come from the worry of the perception that it was being used for "diagnosis" of sleep apnea as that would put them in a different category with the FDA. You can imagine how direct access to the SpO2 sensor was a hot topic during the height of the pandemic of a repository illness. In short, the hardware is there, but corporate conservarivism kept it from being used or even exposed to the user.

I've bought a Withings Smart Scale (at that point they were briefly owned by Nokia). The scale is simple, clean, durable, featureful; the companion health app is one of the cleanest/effective specimins of UI I've seen in a while and has tons of integrations. I expect great things here and hopefully less fear about exposing the hardware readings of highly useful sensors.
The problem is the combination of how updates are (often not) done (in time) + no sandbox.

I also am a strong believer that the future for sane desktop PC's is that every program (except the most fundamental core services) of a desktop OS should be sandbox by default. With basically no permission to access any local files or communicate with any other program/service.

It would need some MAJOR changes, slowly step by step. And I had hoped with snap & flatpack we would be slowly transitioning there. But it doesn't really look that way anymore to be honest.

(PS: And it can be done with reasonable UX experience without requiring the user to configure some magic access rules or anything, but it's tricky to get right and it not be fully backward compatible but often changes just need to go into the GUI toolkit (QT, GTK) so it should be possible.
Infinity Ward disables all 'Warzone' vehicles after game-breaking bug emerges
Wow. Sounds pretty great. I’ve generally thought of startups as quite stressful work places – might not be the case for all of them though?
I don’t get it, trump enables and worships Putin. Isn’t that a problem? The previous administrations of both parties, would have put sanctions and hurt them a little. Atleast they didn’t enable and worship the guy. This is what gives Putin strength and also weakens Europe's resolve at anything strict. Even if the US does nothing, previously it was known that it will always stand on the right side of the issue until now.
I’m so pleased that someone isn’t afraid to reject the WFH kool aid.

Just because certain personality types work better in solitude doesn’t mean it’s one-size-fits-all.

Others are suffering loneliness, marginalisation, are struggling inside their own heads, are stuck in tiny apartments or don’t have access to outdoor space. If you hate the office that badly, you’re probably working at the wrong place.

And yeah, a truly creative collaborative working environment can’t be replicated over video call.
On the first photo, the whole horizontal field of view is about 6mm.
On the second - about 3mm.
And speaking of legged robots, this interesting bot showed-up in the early '80's. I remember it well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX9iRw33OE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHoJ2naN5HI

Again, considering available computing power, sensors, etc., this was nothing short of amazing.
It also adds to my hate for Google Chrome..

"The primary purpose of adding 127.0.0.53 to resolv.conf is for client software that wants to do DNS resolution by itself instead of using NSS -- most notable example is Google Chrome, and third-party software which is statically linked (e. g. Go)."

All this mess just to work around Chrome? That's annoying.
That is a myth although a very funny one.
I just want to say I'm really sorry for everything you're going through. Life sucks overall right now so I can't imagine adding what you and your family are going through. I assume you and your daughter have a good relationship based on the situation but, if not, I'd try to be as vulnerable with each other as you can manage. It'll really help turn you guys into support structures for each other which is really helpful when things are as rough as they are right now.

Good luck to you and your family.
YouTube does NOT auto-accept spammy community contributions
I did not know it broke through the pressure bulkhead, like I said it’s an extreme example.

In the case of this plane design I think you’d see a lot of much smaller cargo shifting incidents, where banking one direction or another caused packages or their contents to shift to one direction. This could cause a more subtle change in center of gravity, that the pilot may counteract at first, but leads to further shifting or an unrelated problem that causes an accident.
At some point, any GA computation bottoms out to scalars. Since you start out with quantities you already know how to give dimensions to, I would expect you can just follow standard dimensionsal analysis.

That isn't to say it's straightforward to implement computationally, or that there isn't interesting structure there.
Site down apparently
Introduction to Embedded Linux Security
For tips on using gdb with the Linux kernel: https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2018/10/24/booting-a-...

I extended our Qemu boot smoke tests to auto enable gdb with one additional flag, and I know use this all the time: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/boot-utils/commit/6c8c52d...
When I was a child, I was in the supermarket with my mother and apparently I was repeating some Polish phrase containing the infinitive “to be”. The Polish equivalent is “być” which sounds like “bitch”. From what I’ve been told, it drew some attention, but the impression I’m left with is that eavesdroppers were more amused than offended. Similarly, my Spanish-speaking classmates in school found it amusing that a common way to refer to one’s aunt is “ciocia” which is pronounced like the Spanish word “chocha”. The same holds for English words like “duper” as in “super duper” which sounds almost like the Polish “dupa” (especially when spoken in non-rhotic English). This extends to brand names (the name of the German lighting manufacturer Osram is a good example: it is the simple future first conjugation of the Polish transitive verb “to shit all over“).

Given how ubiquitous this phenomenon is, and how international UPenn is, I am having trouble comprehending how a professor could be fired for a perfectly banal Chinese expression which many of us have heard many times in American cities with significant Chinese populations.
Because the point of commonsense reasoning (which was the defining purpose of CYC) is that it is common sense that people (and other physical objects) have continuous paths through time.
Would anybody really be surprised?
Oliver Sacks on Storytelling, the Curious Psychology of Writing
It worries me a lot that even if there is a vaccine the US health care system will find ways to rip off people and so hinder widespread use. Every time I go to the doctor I am worried that they will find a way to charge a few thousand extra so I rarely go. I bet a lot of people will not get vaccinated because they may get screwed.
Bash pitfall #1: deciding to use bash
Terminal based Amateur Radio logging in Haskell
Haskell library to maintain a Ham Radio contact log, including getting information from some radios via CAT.
Includes a nice text-only user program.
Site Accessibility Testing Methods and Best Practices
I've done my best to make my site accessible using the WCAG guidelines and some validation tools such as axe, achecker.ca but I feel like I'm lost in a sea of thousands of 'suggestions' but few hard and fast rules to follow to guarantee the widest reach possible.

I don't really know anybody using accessible browsers so it is hard to get real-world knowledge. What is the most popular browesr at this point - is it a full on browser or just a plugin for FireFox (or Chrome). Do they react different between Windows and Mac?

Are there any mobile accessibility options? What about for iPads/tablets?
If you share significant parts of a copyright protected work, you're probably still on the hook. For most things, it's not actually the files that are copyrighted, it's the content encoded in them.

At some point, I suppose things get very fuzzy, e.g. you're just uploading a single second of an album, but I don't know who practically useful that would be.
...and so Star Wars AT-TE idea was born? :D
Might be a stupid question, but you are heating it all the way to toasting temperature, right? (Whether or not it stays there long enough to toast.) Because (at least IME) if you only heat it to room temperature, it definitely will end up soggy.
But real-time systems don’t guarantee faster. I was a real-time engineer for years.
What are you talking about? Everyone is poor and miserable, families arent making rent. My uncle was just dumpster diving to feed his family two months ago.

They're wasting the people's money over at DARPA.
What's your longest paperclips run ? I think I made it almost to 2 months but had to restart my browser...
there is an art and a schmooze to writing grant proposals

you need these because its expensive for tooling and operation.

the professional aspect requires professional equipment to be taken seriously by collegues.

during undergrad work it is a mark of distinctivness to have an in depth understanding of the apparatus and be able to intuitively visualize oppportunities or problems. you should take a look at computational sub-disciplines of bio/biochem. not saying you must do that careerwise but look into it for edification
To me, BitTorrent feels a lot like Blockchain: interesting tech that doesn't seem to be able to find a practical and useful application (proportionate to the attendant hype). Which is not to say that either can't, they just haven't yet. Why?

EDIT: while I don't (yet) consider myself delirious, responses to this comment have illuminated how little I know about the influence and application of BitTorrent. In other words, I retract the above opinion.
Having been a engineering manager before, it would put an extremely bad taste in my mouth if someone waited until the offer stage to ask for a part time role.
> open-mindedness of the left

Did you even read the article? How is cancel culture "open-minded"? I'm legitimately confused and shook at how you could come to that conclusion... It would be really helpful if you could explain it.
I think the point you're missing is that "low performance" realtime applications exist and can often get by with more commodity hardware and careful software, eg. running a RTOS on x86 hardware. But that's usually not a viable option when your latency requirements are measured in clock cycles or nanoseconds rather than microseconds. For that, you need more specialized hardware that can do realtime and high performance.
That strikes me as working great until one person in a group destroys that trust for everyone. It's a tale as old as time.
This is a fantastic game. If you haven't tried it already, don't be put-off by the somewhat slow start.
Collapse is only mysterious to people who never learned thermofield theory, or non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Unfortunately this is also a sizable fraction of all physicists. Thus we have articles like this :/

Basically all the work in getting large scale quantum computers to work lies in these fields. They will continue to grow.
From the perspective of the client would it be a drop in replacement like changing a static library or a from the ground up rework?
In few days you can finish the game
Uploading parts of illegal files is equivalent from a security perspective. It seems like there's no advantage to your proposal.

The Whonix wiki has an incredible amount of information on topics such as this: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Documentation

Basically, it's very hard to protect the security of users when a government seeks to prosecute dissidents. There's a lot to take into account. A simple "we saw an upload from IP address x.y.z.w containing <illegal file>" will be enough to hang whoever it is.

On second thought, I guess it would be a nice addition to let users control which files they're seeding, rather than the whole torrent. I'm just not sure it's enough to get them off the hook in the event of legal troubles.
Not everything said has to be in conflict. I'm guessing you're from Reddit? Welcome. ^_^
There is very rarely a one size fit all solution, I don’t think many advocates of WFH support everyone doing it.

Also comparing Covid wfh with normal wfh is vastly different and incomparable. Many of us are stuck inside, whereas normal work from home you could go to a coworking space, or a coffee shop, are the beach. Being forced inside is totally different.
You could or could not have all files, but you would never upload a whole file to a single user (ie: part of a file is possibly meaningless if you upload random chunks)
Were schools closed? I found wfh was not ideal with kids around, but this wasnt the wfh fault.
At my dj, we still have a fairly good amount of AIX, but not enough to only have to interact with a given AIX system maybe once every few days or so, so the learning curve is slowish. The OS seems much more linuxy than Sun-ny, it would seem??
This is why I loved traveling for work. Each week felt different. Time slowed down compared to a job with the same daily routine.
I don't hate the office, I hate the commute, the food prices, and having to wear pants. Not everyone is you-- some of us really are happier this way!
America's Midrises
Talk about an un-mobile friendly website
It's disingenuous to frame my comment as a "sneer", and censoring (via pushing this comment down, when it was previously the top comment of this thread) mentions of community self-introspection is doing this community a disservice. If it truly is not a bubble, then my post would not have been upvoted to the top comment of the thread. Clearly it was something that people wanted to discuss prior to your intervention. Living within an echo chamber is a bad thing, both for the community and for society in general, and HN should be able to discuss that without your intervention.
>Also they can lead to a poor pattern which is functions/methods that take too many parameters.

Never seen that as a tendency in languages with named params.

I have, however, seen functions / methods in languages without named params that take too many arguments and one has to guess what they are...
Some off the top of my head.

* On Linux file and directory names can be anything except NUL. Because of how much software already assumes they’re UTF-8 you can probably safely assume it too and not run into much trouble. But since bash basically just does some text substitutions and then calls eval you have to be defensive.

* Know how bash parses front and back. Almost all the pitfalls are unexpected consequences of the parser not behaving how you expect.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200124085320/http://mywiki.woo...
>probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal

Cynically I'd assume they'd just use it to add a conspiracy to commit a crime charge to the list since you technically need to coordinate with other people.
I’ve been following Pony for a couple of years, and fear they’ve lost momentum and drive, which doesn’t bode well for the future of the language. My major grief is no support for “locked” (or synchronous) patterns, ie. when actor#A needs to modify actor#B and have the change accessable in the same Actor#A::Behaviour. In my own Actor framework (C++), I’m forced to implement a LockToWorkThread() pattern where I prohibit Actor#B from being scheduled on other work threads while locked. This way 2 Actors can interact from an “atomic” Behaviour() function. However, C++ doesnt protect against sharing pointers so I’m always on eggshells.
Looks like I'll never work at Netflix!
> no working in a filthy neighborhood in downtown SF

One of the things I miss most about the office is that I live in “ a filthy neighborhood in downtown SF” and the office was wonderful. I also miss the commute, which was on one of the tech busses, so I could sit back and take in the scenery.

I am upgrading neigborhoods though, so that’s something.
Why do you believe "the left" is entirely defined by "cancel culture?"