skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When one side is an illegitimate government who stole an election, and the other side is millions of people fighting for democracy and freedom, possibly, just possibly, it's time to pick a side. Even if you're a huge amoral profit driven company who's fear of losing 0.1% of your profit precludes you from taking sides... Well, maybe just sit this one out?
Who said Microsoft is getting an "exclusive license"? The OpenAI blog post doesn't. It's licensed to Microsoft now, and presumably to other companies in future (to not do so would be leaving money on the table).
I'm not sure if you're a native French speaker, but most of the names in Asterix & Obelix are puns and worth exploring!

- Panoramix (panorama)
- Abraracourcix (a bras racourcis)
- Bonnemine, Assurancetourix, Agecanonix, etc.
I sometimes need to make basic safety recommendations at work. I include the phrase "small children or animals" where appropriate for exactly that reason. I see people gasp when I get to the animals part all too often.
I wonder if you can speculatively assume there are no line ends in quoted blocks and then try to go fast and then fall back to a slower method if you detect that to be the case.

Sort of like branch prediction where a failed prediction is costly but on average you are right.
Or use a language witn normal ʼimportʼ support.
Yeah, that's the issue with this kind of tools, unfortunately. I myself would like a more functional-oriented approach, but realistically JS/TS is a more stable ecosystem. My go-to choices are JS for small individual projects and TS for larger projects or if a team is involved.
Auction, auction, auction - but not with fees, with salaries.

Set a cap on number of entrants, and then "auction" the slots. Adjust the cap on entrants annually. No showing of specific market need required, or educational background of the applicant. Just criminal background and health checks on the applicant.

The bid is the (gross) pay of the role with a minimum commit of 36 months. Winning bids are paid to the employee (i.e. as regular income) over the first 36 months or until their employment with the sponsor ends, whichever comes first. (The fee paid is de minimis, just what's required for processing.)

Employees who voluntarily quit or are terminated are free to take any other job paying at least what the sponsor's job paid, provided they do so within 3 months. The new employer does not need to bid or sponsor them. If the employee can't find a new role, they have to leave. In any case sponsor then pays the remaining bid/salary to the government over the remainder of the 36 month term.

After 5 years keeping your nose clean and remaining employed making more than the starting pay at entry, get a green card and eligibility to apply for naturalization.

At a stroke this would eliminate the abuses of H1-B - lowball salaries, exploitative conditions - and open a legitimate market for global talent. The sponsor has a strong incentive to vet the applicant and not abuse them, as they are on the hook for 3 years of comp whether or not they retain them.
I've been relatively ok (I have an anxiety disorder), but it's been pretty hard on my son who's on the spectrum. He used to love going to parks and playing, but after a few months of lockdown he is afraid of stepping out anywhere. Anxiety is now up through the roof. He taught himself to read (with basic comprehension) during the lockdown (just before his 3rd birthday) - but that's a good thing and a bad thing (hyperlexia). Considering therapy now for him, which we weren't entirely for earlier since many people in the spectrum have highlighted some important issues.

In short, it's been pretty hard on the family. I decided to go back to my anxiety medication which I hadn't needed for quite some time.
So, as OP said: he profits from people starting their own companies. The pedantic semantic distinction is irrelevant.
It’s just how world works.

Only 2% of people (at best) are leaders/initiators.

And it’s okay.

You’ll hire your colleagues later when you prove yourself.

I don’t think that some community possible, because leaders are usually busy doing their stuff, not chatting.
So, SRS algorithms are such that the more you try to get the optimality, the more the returns diminish because there's significant variability in the human population (bias-variance tradeoff sort of applies). The Ebbinghaus curve itself is a very crude approximation.

See this:

https://languagelearning.stackexchange.com/questions/3757/wh...

(I'm a language learner and an active user of SRS)

The notion of an outdated algorithm corresponding to worse or better results to me is neither here nor there. There's evidence that the repetition interval itself is not the critical factor in retention. Empirically we know there are things that we remember with 0 repetitions (the vivid details of a traumatic event), while other things we struggle to remember even with SRS when there's no emotional connection to what is being memorized.

When you're doing self-hacking, you have to understand you're working on a highly variable, complex adaptive system that defies optimality and exactness. Much of what is known are approximations.
Mint mobile has been a great mvno experience for me. I pay a year at a time and get 8gb a month for a very reasonable price.
Just talk to someone who has been on H1-B. Your ears will ring for days after. He will tell you what he put up with, and then he will tell you what colleagues and friends of his put up with. It's safe to assume that you are poorly informed, just go talk to some people on H1-B.
They're talking about Beatles music not being available on Google Play for the same amount of time.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-beatles-music-idUSKBN0U60...
I have a very powerful Rust transpiler back end that uses semantic programming. My profile has links to the programming engine and the details are put together across many semantically organized issues. The software still needs work and the code generator still needs Rust's lexemes to get to the next stage. The #wg-grammar issue and Discord channel has those plans
Isn't it sad? Running your own software on a computer you own has become this weird thing and there needs to be a specific term for it (side-loading).
thank you for the feedback.

id love to see the this be open sourced.

surely someone is looking to recreate this.

is anyone doing so to your knowledge? current barrier as far as i understand is that it costs an estimated 4.6MM USD in compute to recreate.
Substack would serve as a billing/subscription management platform for him, not discovery.
First sort by one axis, then take the items that are close enough and sort them by another axis, then take the ones that are close enough and do the expensive square root or intersect calculations which are much slower then sorting.
I believe the record in 2015 or so was running Windows 1.01 calc.exe on Windows 10 32bit... Which was first upgraded all the way from Windows 1.01
The graduation criteria has a distinct set of technical and project maturity hurdles that must be cleared:

https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/process/graduation_c...

which includes complying with the Core Infrastructure Initiative requirements:

https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/criteria/0

It does have a marketing aspect, as all Linux Foundation projects do, but it's not pure fluff.
We must take in mind that there are a second species of endangered cetacean still living in Yagtzee River, so videotaping a white animal does not mean necessarily that baiji, or even chinese paddlefish, are alive. Could be CGI or even a plastic bag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_paddlefish

Even today, there are dozens of videos claiming encounters with tasman tigers, that range from CGI to dogs with painted stripes.
100% agreed.

> does Apple really want to go on public record as an enabler of this?

They just did. They are. And I shall treat them as such.
No it's really not irrelevant. The implication of the post to which I was responding was that it was somehow undeserved or indicative of hypocrisy. PG earns his profit from investment and action, not exploitation or being anyone's "boss".
Yeah, it's interesting because they did that here until about 2016 (I think).

Then it reversed and it was (say) 600 for a handset or free handset and 40 more a month for 24m (960 extra total) with the handset free. Same contract either way.

But I think a lot of people just kept getting the 24m contract. I went though it with my lodger and lent him the 600 because I think it takes the piss to do this.

Here in the UK at least there are a bunch of resellers who will give you a sim only contract and use one of the big three networks. So it's easy/affordable at least to just do that. I hope the US has this too...
I think it is great you found something that works for you.

The main point of both your comment + the article (which, I also haven't been able to read yet) is that you need to find what works for you by trying things.

Personally, melotonin only gives me 6 hours of sound sleep (many times I have tried to get more, last night being one of them). But in 6 hours from sleeping almost like clockwork I will be awake- and quite wide awake. It ususally takes another hour to fall back asleep, or sometimes I just decide to be awake.

So personally, moving towards the no-supplement tact is appealing even if it is much harder in artificial environments.
Yes, clearly that is the main purpose. But does that mean any discussion of those alternate interpretations needs to be downmodded to the bottom of the page? I thought this was an interesting perspective.
Define naturally I would argue the opposite. How long do you want to establish human history? Let's say 300k years, for more than 90% of that time the small hunter-gatherer groups were in the opposite extreme from the giant pyramidal institutions of modern day.
How about the loser pays at most as much as they have spent? (Not sure how all this would be accounted for, but...) If you spend a ginormous amount of money you already have the advantage of having better representation, no need to add a fear factor into it. I assume there is some cap on the sum people pay even now though?
I'm not a scientist nor have I studied ecological effects on species, but you're statement is definitely too strong.

Its probably unlikely that all non domesticated animals will die in the soon (next 200yrs) future.
Beyond that it's just beyond unpredictable, because the challenges of that time haven't even been identified yet.
Kinda the reason why I grabbed second of XZ2c when there was good deal out there. Still in unsealed box... Have to wonder when I will swap to that...
Maybe you're interested in SkyDroid (it's decentralized and publishing only takes 10 minutes): http://skydroid.app/
Backshifting is not quadratic :-)

dst = src = ptr;
while(*src != '\0') {
if(src[0] == '"' && src[1] == '"') {
src++;
}
*dst++ = *src++;
}
Still better than the Amiga, where their was no memory protection at all. Basically the entire OS was built on sharing memory between processes through message passing...
Just because someone thinks it’s a waste of money or poor value doesn’t mean they won’t buy it anyway.

I have an iPhone XR and, while there’s nothing about it lacking in daily use, I still have persistent thoughts of it as an older low resolution phone that I should upgrade.
> The real world is all about mutable state. At some point, you need to take the training wheels off.

So the C#, VB, and F# compilers (all huge, "immutable data representations" codebases serving millions of developers worldwide) are training wheels?
I used to buy the latest and greatest, but stopped a few years ago. Now my main priority when buying a phone is price and battery life, and I only replace a phone when I physically break my old one. Currently using a Moto G7 Power and very happy with it.

Of course if a good phone comes out with a physical keyboard, I'd grab it almost instantly.
Free Pascal and Lazarus - the open source alternative to Delphi, is also extremely fast.

A demo that I put up sometime ago of developing a very simple GUI Hello World app from starting a fresh project to running it in less than 42 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsCDqzL3k7k
Yes, we can :) But we require you to provide an S3/GCP bucket where to dump all the data for replay.

We are also working on a functionality where we can replay from your warehouse too.
ok some low-grade tips:

cleanup="true"

later:

if $cleanup; then a ; else b ; fi

or slightly uglier

$cleanup && rm -f mytempfile

I like one-line functions:

die() { echo "$@" 1>&2; exit 1; }
Epic Denied Preliminary Injunction for Fortnite, but Apple Can't Block Unreal
My first thought is "sign me up." My second thought is "Is we actually we?"

Transcending humanity doesn't necessarily mean humanity continues. It just means something does. Sentient ships don't need passengers, either in their hulls or in their heads.

Anyway, this is both a great example of science fiction and a great example of short story writing... These are exactly the intended thoughts.
> The research was commissioned by musicMagpie as figures from its Annual Phone Depreciation Report found mobile phones can lose up to 68 per cent of their original purchase value in the first six months.

It should be noted that musicMagpie sells used phones along with other goods.

I haven't been able to find anything else except more news articles.
> How dare they try and counteract (...)

It seems you misspelled "ingerence" with a lot of words.

Even for the absurdly autistic anti-US enthusiasts among us, no one in their right mind sides with the Chinese regime on anything at all, specially human rights.

If the Chinese regime has you in their crosshairs, which I remind you is right now engaged in a massive ethnic cleansing campaign, you better believe they do not have your best interests in mind at all.
> Is it conceivable that in 100-200 years

Pushing solutions into the future is exactly why we ended up with this mess in the first place.

Similarly, governments right now are competing with each other who declares the most ambitious climate plan to be realised by 2050, instead of doing something right now.
The terms "incubating" and "graduation" have meaning to others, even if you choose to ignore them:

https://www.cncf.io/projects/

CNCF projects have a maturity level of sandbox, incubating, or graduated, which corresponds to the Innovators, Early Adopters, and Early Majority tiers of the Crossing the Chasm diagram. The maturity level is a signal by CNCF as to what sorts of enterprises should be adopting different projects.

> Are there any foundations that don't operate like this?

Presumably. My main experiences are with the Apache Software Foundation, though, which in terms of "incubation" operates similarly to CNCF.

> Are foundations good at all for anything?

The answer is foundation-specific. But in general, foundations allow for pooling of resources and wisdom such as legal services, and allow for consumers to know a lot about a project's governance and status at a glance in a way which is difficult to ascertain for a standalone project on the web or Github or wherever.
I actually don't care about the status/karma aspect of votes.
Negative votes would be more constructive if reasons were given for it (aka feedback).
Positive votes, what is their use even? A "seal of quality" granted by HN users or simply a measure of how interesting a post appears to the HN crowd? It's probably the latter. Hard to make judgments about the general quality of the post by vote counts alone.
At least HN is not like the YouTube trending section where a lot of clickbaity videos appear.
You will encounter titles like:

"I ate nothing for 1 hour and this is what happened"
"I bought $200,000 worth of bananas and now I'm broke (and sad, lost in an island full of monkeys barely scraping by)"
"You won't believe this happened"
"Do this one trick (and waste 10 min of your time)"
"I almost got killed"

I'm sure you even encountered fancier ones, but these are what came off the top of my head.

How to get people hooked on our site long enough and make them watch ads? That's YouTube for you. HN is quite different and thank goodness it is.
The full tweet mentions Dario, too. The full tweet text:

> I have no control & only very limited insight into OpenAI. Confidence in Dario for safety is not high.

Dario is the research director by the way. This tweet says a lot, in my opinion.
That effort is huge because the “other side” accelerating these effects is also huge and and lead by big centralized companies.

I tend to think that if these companies didn’t have as much power they couldn’t have bent the rules in their favor that much.

So, shall we accept there will always be unstoppable big companies, and counter them with other big companies, kaiju movie style ? Or try to break them out and/or counter their effect through more decentralized efforts ?

In the long run the second option seems more viable to me.
Program.cs or equivalent
Thinking of it that way, it becomes clear why you would want to switch to something like Python for more complex workflows.

Bash is brilliantly useful for a lot of things. I’m not bashing it.
Noteapps.info Launch Notes
> No it's really not irrelevant.

It is, you can repeat 1000 times to no avail, but if you want, be my guest.

> The implication of the post to which I was responding was that it was somehow undeserved or indicative of hypocrisy.

In no part of OP post is implied that PG is "undeserved" of his earnings from those companies. If you invest in oil companies or mining companies you absolutely deserve all the money that is legally yours, you are ALSO helping to destroy the environment. There is no contradiction at all.
Banking fraud is on the rise in Kenya
”... a large organization could only avoid slowing down if they avoided tree structure. And since human nature limits the size of group that can work together, the only way I can imagine for larger groups to avoid tree structure would be to have no structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way components of a market economy do.”

Ok, but perhaps not “no” structure. A market has structure...

”That might be worth exploring. I suspect there are already some highly partitionable businesses that lean this way. But I don't know any technology companies that have done it.”

We are exploring this for the Americas region of a global bank, which has us seeking engineers who have worked in autonomous teams but would be interested in helping with this shift within an enterprise — to help ship but also help socialize what it means to have initiative and be an owner.
That's just why they can. But no it's not good enough. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's right.
Odd how every non market alternative is normally one of those human right violating machines and actively collaborates with them -- far more than those in markets do.
>nag Mr. Cook

Not possible. Exception, don't buy apple products.
Assuming we key a and b by y.d and generalizing b to sets, we are reaching the limits of the relational model: there is no good way to represent multiple sets associated with a given key, we need independent tables to do so. Neither cross product nor null padding is a good way to represent the schema {y, a[], b[]}.

y.d | a | b
-------------------
y0 | a0 | b0
y0 | a0 | b1
y0 | a1 | b0
y0 | a1 | b1
y0 | a2 | b0
y0 | a2 | b1

y.d | a | b
-------------------
y0 | a0 | b0
y0 | a1 | b1
y0 | a2 | null
> The best part, however, is that once you’ve got it there, the system really feel like yours.

This is it. There is an up-front cost to configuring your system, but once you have, you know what is there and how it is configured, so if something does go wrong, you know roughly where to look and how to deal with it.

Things that "just work" tend to have more "magic" going on that becomes a big pain when it breaks or doesn't do what you want.

It really depends on how you use your system, for me, Arch is perfect, but for some, it's just going to be an annoyance to set up for little gain over something where it is done for you.
The cool thing about this site is that if you don't like it you don't have to upvote.
I’ve had similar thoughts. SSC did a thought experiment on this. You’ll enjoy this read:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/30/legal-systems-very-dif...

The article title’s a play on David Friedman’s book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30066446 (I haven’t read this but sounds interesting)
> "By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite […]"

> What's fascinating about this rhetorically is that it forces theists to accept a lesser entity as God or to deal with the ramifications of infinity (which leads to a view that looks a lot like atheism).

Or one takes the tack of Aquinas and say that God is not a [bB]eing but rather Being itself; see his work De ente et essentia (On Being an Essence). Paul Tillich is someone more modern who argues the same.

Bp. Roberts Barron gave a good talk "Aquinas and Why the New Atheists are Right":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMex7qk5GU&t=7m
But you are in the minority. Also, what other alternatives do we have? Google, Amazon, Microsoft... all equally bad or worse. I can't think of any big tech company really standing up to authoritarian (or even democratic) governments, can you?
Sales. Mature companies need sales departments.
Betaworks and Betalab unveil their first startups working to ‘fix the internet’
A Virtually Unnoticed Migration
People don’t follow 3 step instructions easily enough. That’s exactly why Apple is so successful.

I wish it weren’t so.
+1 This is why Haskell & co will never be a mainstream language.
The charter only constrains their use of AGI, which they define at the top in a way that excludes all of their current and near-future work.
I guess I’m a glass half full kinda person?

350 species previous thought to be extinct are known to still exist.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/visit-ani...
>common words are perfectly fine as trademarks, as long as commonly associated with a product

Yes exactly and Droid is NOT associated with a Smartphone-OS but Android is.
So Apple is now in charge of deciding whether elections are legitimate?

It's weird how people in this thread are zigzagging between saying Apple has too much corporate power and Apple needs much more.

Does every country in the world really have to be a democracy? Remember how the Arab Spring turned out?
Oof, such an awesome technology whose use is going for something like marketing copy. I'm sure it pays the bills for you, but is kind of gross overall.
A 24-36 month upgrade cycle means people aren't buying the latest smartphone every year. I don't think that the latest smartphone is a good value, and that's why I try to hold on to mine for a few years before buying a new one.
> That being said it probably took me 3-4 evenings to set up an encrypted disk and boot loader correctly,

What was hard about that part? Is it something you have to do by hand?
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Oh spare me. If you went out to write a secure banking website in assembly code you'd come back in 20 years with something even more bloated than we have now. Why? Because the first thing you'd write is a higher-level programming language suited to actually building websites. Then you'd write a web framework on top of that web. Then you'd write a bunch of buggy, insecure crypto code. Et cetera et cetera until you've reinvented a much worse version of the stack we have now.