skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Thank you Dang. The community, and more specifically 'comment SNR' in Hacker News is really fantastically high, and you deserve a lot of praise for that. I also very much like the fact that the website is basically html 1 and loads very quickly. I'm not interested in the business / startup scene at all, but the sheer breadth of expertise and community in all areas of life is very much something to celebrate.
The name of the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, means Monday as well iirc.
The CAPTCHA that makes me sweat all the time: traffic lights. Are they including the poles, or only the housing of the lights?
We can do introspection, as the other commenter said, but the more basic part is that we can follow an iterated strategy, which GPT-3 is incapable of- it must predict the next letter in a strictly bounded operation. That's why it makes sense to think of it as a "babbler"; it is incapable of not saying the first thing that comes to mind.

However, when you give GPT-3 the opportunity to iterate on a strategy, by asking it to follow each step of the strategy sequentially, you can see its behavior become much more similar to basic human thought.
My first comment... Dang is awesome
Is it so hard to comprehend that maybe living in a nice Austrian village can be better without a golden egg-laying goose that is a huge nuisance? Not everyone is an entrepreneur who wants to make sacrifices in the holy name of $$$.
I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
Omnisec the second Swiss company that sold manipulated encryption devices
Not with SQPOLL. You can eliminate all syscalls with SQPOLL.
This kinda reminds me of MIT Blackjack Team
not trying to stir up a shitstorm, but since this article mentions IQ tests - "what's a nickel?"...

Check out the history (1971) of Larry P. and California's use of IQ testing in schools.

> As a group, African Americans across the country scored lower on IQ tests. The lawsuit alleged that was because the tests were biased toward Eurocentric culture. Questions like, ”Who wrote Romeo and Juliet,” they argued, didn’t assess a student’s innate capacity to learn. It tested knowledge that some – and not others — had acquired at home or school.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11781032/a-landmark-lawsuit-aimed-...

and from Radiolab:

> What is the color of rubies?

> Kaufman argued “Uh that question is clearly biased.” I mean, the correct answer on the test is rubies are red but A...

> If your family has more money, you were more likely to know what was a ruby was

> And B, Kaufman says, Ruby was a popular name in the Black community. So certain kids might think the question was referring to people, not gems.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-pro...

and in general, further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_and_public_policy...

edit: add year to Larry P.
What a wonderfully dogmatic comment that completely misses the point of io_uring.
> consciousness (prerequisite for thinking)

I don't know if this is correct, and I doubt it.
"Currently" being emphasized I guess you are thinking about COVID and social distanciation?

Nonetheless, it’s quite common to read comments about talk in the office as a focus annoyance, flow interruption, etc. I guess any form of notification is.
> The German translation for that kind of ‘light‘ (as in ‘light beer‘) would be ‘leicht‘

It can be used that way, but it's not the only meaning: Leicht und stark also refer to a beer's gravity[1] instead of its alcohol content per se. A Starkbier in particular is a beer with 16° on the Plato scale[2] (which does go along with more alcohol, so in a way this distinction is splitting hairs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(alcoholic_beverage)

[2] http://8degreesplato.com/2017/05/31/so-what-is-degrees-plato...
This ignores an important point that this is a game of elimination and contrasts.

For example in that taxi captcha, there are 4 pictures of trees and 5 pictures of vehicles.
1 vehicle is not identifiable, 1 is an utility van in the distance, and the remaining 3 are yellow cars.
These yellow cars have phone numbers on the sides and signs on the roof (where visible).

My bet is that the 3 yellow cars are taxis.

(And as it happens yellow actually seems to be the most common colour for taxis throughout the world where taxis have a specific colour.)

It usually works out fine. On rare occasions it's tricky but then it's possible to request another captcha.

I think people are trying too hard to find problems. I find hard to believe the comments that blow this out of proportion.
This reminds of the story of Google firing all its managers, only to then have problems like engineers craving for feedback, avoiding boring work or being unable to resolve friction by themselves.

It seems clear to me that most people (even the most brilliant engineers apparently) still need something as a reference, they can't just be let on their own.

But that reference doesn't need to be a single manager. We could start to think of the team as the manager. The team can perfectly give feedback, handle friction, distribute boring work and so on. We already have plenty of stupid daily standups, team meetings, weekly all-hnds meetings and so on,
so it wouldn't really be hard to have a team daily standup where problems can be brought up to everyone and solved cooperatively.
Before they used a half-baked C library that interfaces via Text-based RPC to GPG directly (which has already seen some CVEs). I'd take the gpg.js implementation over that any day.
Or even just a normal car in the UK (and I assume many other countries)
We have strong reason to suspect that GPT-3 has at least some model of what words mean, from experiments people have done where they asked it to use words in novel contexts and ascribe properties to them, which GPT-3 is surprisingly good at.
It's not "the internet" though, it's a specific few private companies which are specifically providing information.
I am not sure what to make of this argument. We adopted English, the language from the British. The standard colonial oppression arguments already start from why use a foreign Language.

They used zebra crossing (even though there are no Zebras in the UK either, I think), so we used it. Now the new argument is that the cultural imperialism of the US is forcing us to change the term again. Sure, the term "cross-walk" sort of makes more sense than zebra crossing, but not enough that you don't need it defined for you the first time you encounter it. So, it is not such a precise and great term, as you almost say, that one can ignore the cultural imperialism argument.

Both arguments (colonialism and cultural imperialism) are distinct and can be treated separately.
Aside from the fact that XTC can be and frequently is MDMA mixed with something else, the form in which it comes (in case of XTC usually a pill) can be very different. In my experience when people explicitly call it MDMA it can be all sorts of things, from crystals to (as the author notes) "MDMA water".
I'm old enough to remember when reCAPTCHA was first introduced to help with deciphering text from OCR'd books. At that time, it didn't feel so bad answering those, as we were using our intelligence to genuinely help preserve our cultural history.

It then switched to being numbers on buildings and street signs, and it immediately felt worse - we were now doing a job for Google, and an annoying one. Mechanical Turk from Amazon was invented to do this kind of chore.

It's now creating training datasets for whatever else Google wants them to - it appears to mostly be for self-driving cars now, to identify landmarks and road signs.

It's definitely not on autopilot, and it's definitely a real problem.
Thanks everybody. So, it boils down to the size. This makes sense. I can imagine Apple discontinuing the 10" iPad Pro in the future.

I'm an iPad Pro 2nd gen owner myself, and I love the device. But I bought it 2nd hand and I could have picked an Air instead with no regrets.

> my co-workers and family iPads have all failed, broken, or become obsolete several times since then.

I suppose they were older devices, though, weren't they? the latest ipadOS seems to support most (all?) ipads from 2014 onwards.
Thank you! I know my English quite well, but I always thought "smokestack" was some process chemistry thing, and not the US word for "chimney".
VAX/VMS was written in BLISS, it only adopted C after UNIX started to widespread and they needed to cater to competition and their own in-house UNIX implementation, learn history properly.

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

The even the popular JVM is written in a mix of Java and C++, with plans to port most of the stuff to Java, now that GraalVM has been productised, https://openjdk.java.net/projects/metropolis/

Speaking of which, there are at least two well known version of the JVM written in Java, GraalVM and JikesRVM. Better learn the Java eco-system.

UNIX was written in Assembly for the PDP-7, C only came into play when they ported it to the PDP-11 and UNIX V6 was the first release where most of the code was finally written in C.

IBM i, z/OS or Unisys ClearPath in 2020, have completly different hardware than when they appeared in 1988, 1967 and 1961 respectively, yet PL/S, PL/X and NEWP are still heavily used on them. Looks like portable code to me.

Mac OS, you know the predecessor for macOS, was written in Object Pascal, even though eventually Apple added support for C and C++, which than made C++ with PowerPlant the way to code on the Mac, not C.

BeOS, Symbian were written in C++, not C.

Outside of the kernel space, Windows and OS/2 always favoured C++ and nowadays Windows 10 is a mix of .NET, .NET Native (on UWP) and C++ (kernel supports C++ code since Windows Vista).

NeXT used Objective-C in the kernel, that's right, NeXT drivers were written in Objective-C. Only the BSD/Mach stuff used C.

macOS replaced the Objective-C driver framework with IO Kit, based on Embedded C++ again not C. Nowadays with userspace drivers the C++ framework is called DriverKit in homage to the original Objective-C NeXT framework.

Arduino and ARM mbed are written in C++, not C.

Android uses C only for the Linux kernel, everything else is a mix of Java and C++, and since Project Treble you can even write drivers in Java, just like in Android Things allowed to since version 1.0.

Safe Ada is used alongside C++ on the GenodeOS research project.

Inferno, the last iteration of the hacker beloved Plan 9, uses C on the kernel and the complete userspace makes use of Limbo.

F-Secure, you might have heard of them, has their own bare metal Go implementation for writing firmware and is used in production via the Armory products.

IBM used PL.8 to write a LLVM like compiler toolchain and OS during their RISC research and only pivoted to Aix, because that was what the market wanted RISC for.

Contrary to the cargo cult that Multics was a failure, the OS continued without wihtout Bell Labs and was even assessed to be more secure by DOJ thanks to its use of PL/I instead of C.

There is so much to the world of operating systems than the tunnel vision of UNIX and C.
... what does not work ? provided that you have your ninja and clang binaries in your path, `cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++.exe` works fine here
There's a captcha for fire hydrants which we don't have in the UK either
Thanks for the info, TIL something new.

Cheers!
Pedestrian crossing in Australia
Not exactly Rust's, lots of languages have something similar...
I can’t be the only one offended by the unpaid labor involved in CAPTCHAs (training self-driving AIs or whatever).

Sometimes an annoying CAPTCHA has literally prevented me from giving money to a site when I was going to buy something but instead ended up just closing it in frustration.

I wish Apple would offer a way for sites and services to verify that a client is indeed human via Touch ID/Face ID.
Considering I spend almost all my time between various development tools and almost exclusively use wiki for documentation, I'll probably fare terribly by these metrics. Few days per year spent in Visio being the only saving grace.
> MY superiors

The key is that this works with your superiors. But as a general statement, obviously not.
Indexing completly destroys a CPU. Thats why they are pushing shared indices now
This won't help the lack of async I/O in those languages that do not support the concept as a whole. If it can't handle epoll, it certainly won't handle io_uring.
About your old PC, first try to run a memcheck to ensure the RAM is fine.

Then just take it apart and clean everything, add new thermal paste, etc. I did that for my mid-2000s Athlon64 X2 (took apart everything, including removing the GPU heatsinks, etc to clean them) and it works like charm. Now i also need to find a GTX280 or equivalent GPU to fix the PC i bought after the Athlon64 X2 :-P.
The point (at least for me) is that it will never lift off. Only a few people will ever use it. Good.

Also, as I think they point out in an FAQ, you know that when you go to a Gemini site it will behave in a certain way. When you go to an http site, you don’t know if it will be HTML 1.0 style or if it won’t even render without masses of js. There’s no boundary between simple sites and tracking-filled garbage. In Gemini you know you’re clicking an http link and you accept the risks before doing so; or you can stay in your safe Gemini zone instead.
Anything you do on google is training their AI for free. Do you think they're offering you free email out of the kindness of their hearts?
It's both. They say they have relevant trademarks registered in Australia (where this guy is).
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by monitor?
This. The M1 achieves its remarkable performance through some good engineering and the extension of the SOC concept to include system memory and storage. The same reason that Qualcom could not match the A series processors. I do think the GPU team deserve a hearty pat on the back though!
You seem to know what you want to do, so good luck to you.
Well then you develop seperate tools for separate threat models. Covering all possible threat models is impossible and supporting many of them is a heavy maintenance burden that can easily lead to the standard user having their threat model compromised due to the added complexity.
A lot of NIC manufactures provide either some hooks into something like DPDK or simple LD_PRELOADable libraries that offload the network syscalls (socket, poll, recv, etc.) into a library that talks to the NIC directly using mmap'd IO I presume.
It's fluffy and bordering on self-indulgence. There aren't useful practical takeaways, because that kind of "listening" turns out to be hard and is very audience/customer dependent.

You also need to have a talent for it, and very probably a specific personality type - which often tends to assume that everyone else has the same personality type.

To be fair, most personality types do that - and they're always wrong, which is one reason good UX is so hard.
I figured this out by myself through experience during school/college (I think others have experienced it too) - good to see that validated.
double_as_int64 as defined in the linked source code does take care of the sign so that double_as_int64(x) == -double_as_int64(-x). This is also important for the negative zero case.
Install it on a machine in your network, it doesn’t have to be the same one HA is on.

Once I had seen how you add a client (correct word?) to the VPN via the ssh QR code thing, my mind was a little blown and I very much felt I was in the future.

Then you use the app on phone or laptop to connect to your home lan.

It all runs in Docker, and a mini warning - the internal networking of the WG install was a little finicky for this first timer.
If companies only listened to the CTO of the infra supplier they use: 'Everything breaks all the time, design your infra with that in mind'

AWS has multiple regions, and within a region multiple availability zones.
If you are as big as roomba, you should simply have your api's running in more than one region. Then, if us-east-1 goes down (which happens from time to time) your users will not notice (ok, the geeks will because latencies will change)

So yeah, while the underlying problem was an outage of a region of AWS, it's not AWS that failed in this case. People should simply design their applications like AWS is telling them.
Interview with Bryan Clayton about his marketplace startup GreenPal
I get about 5k unique visitors from my websites, additional 20k visitors from a community project I'm in. We see about 30 - 40% eSNI Adoption.
The parent comment has a point, I opened the homepage and searched for the word "data", 0 results found. Perhaps adding something along the lines of "Stay in control of your data with ..." would be a selling point?
There are multiple other ones with the roof sign visible which have exactly the same look from the windows down. So its pretty easy to conclude that this one is a taxi too since it looks like the other taxis.

And if you get it wrong you simply move on to the next question.
10 Things to keep in mind in early days of your product or startup
1. Do not go for subjective type questions in user surveys

2. Do not rely on data collected from immediate contacts

3. Do not build Facebook or Dropbox in a year

4. Do not go wide open looking for users

5. Do not invest in advertising

6. Do not raise funds

7. Do not overplan

8. Do not sweat

9. Do not hire

10. Do It!

Want to add something from your experience?
That's just a US thing, and if you aren't familiar with that, then you won't recognise it as a taxi.

Here in the UK, taxis are normally just normal cars with vinyl stickers on the side. I think many people would associate the sign on the top with being a driving instructor's car
I'm not American and I often see captchas that ask about "cars" or "trucks". And they use similar images. I sometimes don't pass through those. My question is, when I see a truck and I'm being asked to select all cars, should I select the truck or not? For me a truck is a car. Is it not one?
In Norway, we've got a place called Hell; you pass through it on the way from the town of Trondheim to its airport.

A friend of mine was born in a place called Time on the southwest coast, and quips after just about every flight that he was born in Time and had to go through Hell to get wherever he's at.

Oh, and as a special treat for the Germans reading this - a former colleague's last name was Ficken. He did not enjoy checking into hotels in Germany.
Brilliant. Also Sigur Rós and Richard Feynman.
Not sure this is an improvement.

The Fuggers were famous - perhaps even infamous - bankers.
This. Many PRs that introduce CMake tend to be massive rats nests of configuration slurry that could be summed up in a tenth of the LOC.
Maybe it isn't wrong after all. Two uncountable infinities are equal!
It's not just measuring your answers, it's also judging your mouse movements to determine if they're human-like
I sign all mail.
I use encryption for some conversations.
Swindon ("Pig Hill", a large town of about 180,000 people in Southwest England) is just one of many places named after pigs- why wouldn't you name your village after its main agricultural product?

My personal favourite is the small Devon village of Toller Porcorum, which has historically also been called "Swines Toller" and "Hog Toller".
that's probably the type of stuff it wants to figure out by throwing it at us
Meta: what is the time between the same URLs being considered unique posts on HN now? I think it was 24 hours back in the old days, but seems to be somewhat less now as the post's author submitted it only 9 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25224627 :-)
Meanwhile in Switzerland:

"ProtonMail is the world's largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists. We are open source and protected by Swiss privacy law".

Such news kind of errodes this neutrality/trust thing...
The author seems to think that not spending time optimizing for slower hardware when the hardware keeps getting faster is somehow not thoughtful or creative.

We're thoughtfully and creatively optimizing for the world that exists now (i.e. one where hardware keeps getting faster). When hardware stops getting any faster, we'll thoughtfully and creatively optimize for that then.
I've just switched to Postbox. It is a polished version of T-bird. And works with Enigmail to integrate with gpg.
In Czech republic there is a town called "Horní Police". I saw memes with it, but I dont't find it funny because in Czech it actually means just "Upper Shelf". (But I understand what does it mean for english speaking ppl.)

But what I found more fascinating is that there is bus line number 666 going from Debki to Hel in Poland (Debki sounds bit like "depky" which is diminutive for depressions in Czech).
PJDL is a communication protocol I work on since 2010 that uses a single wire to connect up to 255 devices and can even operate using the human body as a conductor, here is the video of its operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWlhKD5lz5w
I think it's important to notice that the point is not to keep how to make the cheese secret.
The recipe for the cheese is actually encoded in the law, and you can download it freely ( https://www.parmigianoreggiano.com/it/consorzio-disciplinare..., in italian).
During lockdown I was trying to make a regional cheese, and the law was the best recipe I could find, with extremely detailed steps.

I think they are trying to discourage the usage of "something style" naming, as consumers associate the "something" with the knock off.
I saw it a lot in recent years in the UK, even knowledgeable people end up buying "parmesan style" cheese and refer to it as parmesan, when the taste is not the same.

To protect the name in general, they might be going after every instance of the "style" usage, even if in this case it's clear there is no intention to trick, and probably no commercial incentive.
That’s PHP’s wheelhouse.

If you don’t want to just use some shared hosting, grab any server and use the package manager to install Apache + PHP.

Drop HTML in the web root.

Whatever part of the page is supposed to be dynamic, you can literally just start throwing code in the middle of the HTML, mixing it all together freely.

It won’t be beautiful, but you can go from nothing to this in like 30 minutes or an hour.
> I would have no problems identifying a minibus either. They typically have writing / phone number on the side and something on the roof.

What if the writing accompanying the phone number says "Schlüsselservice Maier"? Some kind of ... shuttle service? Is that a taxi? (It's actually a locksmith.)

Of course these kinds of situations don't really happen for English speakers. I don't think I've ever seen non-English text in a CAPTCHA... Instead you get a picture of some Californian street with palm trees or something. (I assume those streets are in California. Maybe they're actually in Jakarta or elsewhere, in which case I'm sorry for being presumptive.)