skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you're right with your concerns.

I added this feature yesterday. Note the default value is "exception". With "nothin" I was thinking in passing some frozen object through a pipeline of unsafe/inherited/bad code, but without polluting the console with warnings or stopping the execution with exceptions.
"Balanced"? There's far more to the world than politically exciting topics. News media is entertainment, it's optimizing for engagement, not producing accurate impressions in the viewer's mind. Following multiple sources of news just means you are being focused on lots of things of questionable relevance and importance.

An example that comes to mind is the various investigative interviews being conducted in the UK about the covid response last year. The news media focuses on gossip rather than the structural issues, institutional biases and lessons. Though even covid itself is probably not the most important issue today, it'll probably be something obscure like the reverse Flynn effect in Europe.
there is a drougth in the center of the US, stronger than other droughts in the last 50 years", without any context. But even this is not objective, because omitting the context of global warming already skews the message.

Why? You can’t explain all the things (even if you’re backed with true data) in one article – that would take a library. A drought by itself doesn’t skew anything, but maybe your intent is more that just that.

The Soviet Union's invasion into Poland in 1939

This is a circular problem. Either do not call it “invasion” or do and so be it. The fact that some monkey punched some other in year 40000 BC has nothing to do with active political contracts. I will not even downvote you on the internet if I find out that our gggps shot at each other in ww1/2, it’s irrelevant now. Most of these people are dead. If you want to remain neutral (nearest to “objective”, which isn’t a thing in case of a physical land), call it a conflict based on historical events and let a reader investigate, discuss and decide who is right and who is wrong, if any, if they ever want that decision. Maybe most people don’t really give a genuine fuck about who is right (if that was a bet, I’d go all in with it).

I would even read political news then. Modern “good boys bad boys” or “oh see you see what you done” stories only make me laugh or facepalm. I’m a reader, not a puppet. No surprise younger people only want tiktok and clothes.
It really depends on your perspective. I know several people who won't touch Macs with a ten foot pole, because they consider the UX to be horrible. And they're not even "power users".
I wouldn't call it a defensive patent just because it kept the trolls at bay, it was a genuine innovation we were actively trying to commercialize. And it wasn't just some random business, it was the inventor himself setting out to build the product he envisioned. Unfortunately he didn't have much of a mind for commercial hardware engineering, but it seems fair that he be the one to have a go at it.
It'd also useful to have an option to generate a full sitemap once, for a fixed fee, sans subscription.
I forgot he existed since moving to Spotify’s walled garden.
I wouldn’t accept any political figure. Farage, Blair, Corbyn, Thatcher, Jeremy Clarkson, Ian McKellen, whoever. If you have to run a campaign then forget it

Anyone who wants to be that figurehead should be disqualified.

I could perhaps accept a completly random figurehead, but then I think of the majority of Brits and realise what an awful idea that would be.
https://github.com/autc04/executor
> Because they didn't have any.

There were no guards to prevent the workers from dropping their tools and leaving. That is a fundamental right.

> I'm criticising the fact that it shouldn't be held as a standard for construction today.

A 100 times increase in distance in 10% of the time with no powered construction equipment cannot be explained as merely paying people half as much and not giving medical insurance (though I'm sure they had medical teams on site to do what they could, but medical practice in those days was a bit frightening to us today). There was no intent to grind up workers blood to use as lubricant, and in fact they did many things along the way to reduce worker deaths and injuries. See my other comment about how they cut down on the use of nitro as it was too dangerous, despite being twice as fast as black powder.
There is space as long as you don’t have unicorn sized delusions of grandeur.
I'm curious, do you take this same stance in meat space? Would you rather not know who your friends are and address them by a changing handle? Would you rather be given a pseudonymous name to use for the duration of your trip to the grocery store? Would you prefer to be delivered a new car every time you need to go somewhere so people can't associate you with a vehicle? Do you really have these anonymity requirements.

The claim is not baseless. There are strong technical reasons why identifying the components in your system is a good thing. and there are practical social reasons.
I'd really love if that could checked statically.

Performance is bad, I mean, all params are deep-copied because I assume frozen then "inplace" is not intended as they could be objects used by other parts of code.
that was my first thought too. I've messed about with their import / export features but found them a bit lacking. so either this means it goes wrong and I get a decent export option developed or it gets better and I stay there but also get a better export option for backups!
Groff+Mom is much smaller than LaTeX but far better than Markdown.
You can still mandate a spec, and if everybody ends up picking SQLite to implement it, so what?
> I'm just wondering where the patents in this pool are coming from, I assume the administrators are not going through the research papers and file new patents on the researchers' behalf?

Your assumption is correct in my experience. Despite the thread starter's somewhat unusual take, it's more of a system based on rewarding inventors with a cut of license fees to incentivize them to submit invention disclosures. Then the school's IP office determines if it wants to pursue a patent on the invention disclosure or not. And open source projects are often part of the grant itself, especially in fields like CS and statistics, so a professor could specifically choose to produce them.

On the other hand though, if a grad student's goal is to take their school project and sell it themselves somehow subsequently, the school might actually own the rights. So this might cause problems at some point with getting funding.
> have realized that the term "bot" is being used in a very nonstandard manner.

For some additional context, Discord bots aren't that far off from IRC bots.

You invite a bot to your server, you give the permissions and channel access you want it to have, and it receives various events over the web gateway such as "Message Received" of which the bot developer can use to build elaborate command systems and various other features.

Prior to the must-be-verified limit of 100 guilds, Discord had a serious issue with scam bots that would mass-message users promising free bitcoin or "insert free thing here", and usually one the "steps" was adding the bot to an additional guild. This resulted in the bot quickly cascading past 100 guilds within a matter of hours before Discord support had even noticed the problem.

Once joined to the additional guild, it would scrape as much of the server content as it could and usually dump it on some sort of "discord user tracker" platform.

On top of preventing joins past 100 guilds, verification is also required for some sensitive capabilities such as querying the entire member list.
The crap apples shouldn't be sold. They should be sent back to the apple distributor and converted to apple pie.
The quality of AI generated text has been greatly improving in recent years. It has become really difficult to distinguish it from the average post on social media.

I guess this means that AI systems can now pass the Turing test.
User agreement updates should come with a 'git diff' option so we can easily see what is changing. Otherwise the user has to read through 2 user agreements to try and find what has changed.
Maybe not in the US? I mean here in Israel app-based grocery delivery to the home has been a thing since 2014. The price has been a constant (30 NIS ~9) and it's provided by all the chains. The difference is the model.

Here, warehouse stores do them - meaning someone doesn't run around the store looking for products. The same person might get 15 boxes of cereal for 15 different orders and put one in each bag - rather than one person pick the entire order. The stores are profitable and tonnes of people do this. Anecdotally 100% of the people I know rely on this, with maybe 10% of those people being in tech.

We also have an entire industry of two grocery chains where people do their own shopping, take full carts (unpaid) to the back and then have the items delivered later, which allows people to take public transit, amongst other things.
FHE is useful for nation-state to groom for certain “patterns”.
> And from what we've seen in Monterey they are continuing to invest heavily in improving it.

lol, no. they're not. Safari specially on mobile is a joke and a bad one at it. Their whole strategy is to pull you into there Appstore and monetize every part of it and keep Webapps at a disadvantage
This subject feels like the mirror subject to the question that was discussed on HN 2 days ago: "Do we live in political echo chambers?"

My response: Who cares? I know what my values are, I know which side I'm on, I know what I fight for.

If you're looking for new philosophies or perspectives, I strongly suggest two things:

1. fiction

2. history

I don't think day-to-day news coverage can ever be written at a level where it might affect your fundamental values; among many other problems, it is typically written in a hurry, with a lack of context, and so it lacks long-term perspective.

In terms of books that have changed my perspective on some subject, here are some important ones I've read over the last year:

Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp...

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes

https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-State-Corruption-Threatens-Se...

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, by Andrew J. Bacevich

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Power-American-Exceptionalism-...

The Emergence of China: From Confucius to the Empire, by E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks

https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-China-Confucius-Ancient-Con...

Azar Nafisi's book is both a true life action story, and it's also an intellectual journey, a consideration of how authoritarianism slowly takes over.

Sarah Chayes book is remarkably ambitious, not only did I suddenly see corruption as a global issue, but she connects it to religious extremism and then reviews the corruption of the Catholic Church in the 1400s and how that lead to Martin Luther and that era's own explosion of religious extremism.

Andrew J. Bacevich's book is a sober look at all the things the USA probably cannot do, even though it has the worlds most powerful military

The Brooks book about China was eye opening for me. I previously knew nothing about the Warring States period, or the intense intellectual debate that occurred over the meaning of the state and the duties of the leader to the people. I wish more Westerners knew this story.

Should I expect this kind of writing from the daily newspaper? Absolutely not. It's ridiculous. It's a category error. That's now what the daily newspaper is for. That's certainly not what the 24 hour news cycle is for.

Sometimes I want actionable news I can use, which is partly a matter of knowing which candidates might have the best chances of advancing my goals. Especially during primary races, day-to-day political news is useful to me when it gives me the information I need to decide who of many candidates I should donate money to.

But when I want new perspectives and philosophies? I turn to books.
Or is it? I mean, it sounded like an app specifically marketed and used for serious organised crime, so as someone who is pro-encryption, pro-privacy, this seems like entirely reasonable police work.
Were they using tires without any tread?
That' s funny, you are posting this exact same message in every RISC-V news I read.

> It is hard to understand how it could have been omitted.

This has not been omitted at all. The spec of the bitmanip extension, which contains the popcount instruction among others, has been around for a long time.

> If it could be evolved to have POPCOUNT

The goal of the HPC group is clearly not to add this type of extension. It focuses on the software and hardware requirements to enable the use of RISC-V for HPC. So it will focus on compilers and libraries used for high performance and possibly some ISA extension like the SIMD one or the crypto acceleration one.

But you'll probably be happy to know that there's actually some movement around the bitmanip extension right now. The spec 1.0 is under review and we can expect a freeze of this extension soon. And this extension is split into 4 sub-extensions that can be taken individually.
By the same logic, did it ever make sense for the browser to provide JS, instead of wasm + well-defined DOM API?

And I think the answer is that, no, it did not. And I suspect that we'll end up in a wasm-first world eventually anyway, just with a lengthy and inconvenient detour. But it's worth remembering that IndexedDB predates wasm by several years.
I find it crazy that Russell is one of a very few people providing analysis of how power works. He’s extremely well informed and has gone away and educated himself. He also never gives out conspiracy theories, all of the things he says are based on experiences, for example being asked to leave Richard Brandson’s island because he suggested people in the British Virgin Islands pay their tax…
Someone who has never had mdma and got the placebo might not be sure of it..?
State of the art using bitcoin today is Strike, which performs payments over the lightning network. It’s largely behind the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador.

I know I’m rare in my beliefs and paranoid understanding of geopolitics. Phones and cellular networks are not technologies to liberate the soul, no, far from it.
“The traceroute hand is stealing your data”
Doesn't Home Depot show the stock levels for each shop on their website?

Just yesterday I wanted something from a Danish equivalent (Silvan). The website said the nearest store to me had 8 in stock, so there's little chance they'll be gone by the time I get there.

Many larger (and some smaller) shops have this.

https://www.silvan.dk/kram-spaendeskiver-rustfri-a2-m6-12-10... (click "Click and Collect" and it shows the stock levels. You can deny location access.)
All non-farm looks like the continuation of existing trends and professional and business services looks lower than existing trends.
Oops, forgot this:

I for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
Not the OP but I had to do this when opening a bank account in Germany.
I don't think this can be answered in general. What counts as a good word processor depends very much on what you're doing with it and on personal preferences. What texts are you writing?

For writing novels in German [1], I'm using Papyrus Author [2], which is superior to Word in most respects. But it's very expensive and they decided to make the English version even more expensive and subscription-based [3]. On the Mac, Scrivener also has a good reputation [4]. But these are tools for writing novels, most of their features are pointless for e.g. office work and technical writing.

Depending on what you do, you could just write in Pandoc markup [5] in a good text editor. As long as you accept the limitations and don't include any fancy LaTeX code with it, it will export your texts to just about any format. However, once you try to do anything beyond the simple markup, it opens a hell of incompatibilities with export backends and loses all of its advantages.

[1] https://talumriel.de
[2] https://www.papyrus.de/
[3] https://www.papyrusauthor.com/
[4] https://www.literatureandlatte.com
[5] https://pandoc.org/
Some do. I bet lots of companies miss out on massive cost savings like this simply because nobody at the company has the skills and access to improve things.

I heard a story - years ago Google hired an engineer who happened to be an expert from a previous life in video codecs. He wasn’t working on YouTube at Google, but out of interest he pulled up the YouTube source code to see what it did. They were just using the defaults for some of the encoding parameters. He tweaked a few of the encoding parameters and in doing so saved Google millions of dollars per year in compute/storage/network traffic. A few hours of his work was probably more beneficial for Google than years spent in his primary role.

And if tuning opportunities like this abound at Google, you know they’re everywhere. It’d be much better if Linux distributions simply shipped kernels which are already compiled with PGO, with a reasonable profile based on normalish use.
Sitting in an industrial area makes for large distances from where people actually live. For fast delivery times, storage needs to be decentralised. Newer delivery services promise "under 10 minutes" as your delivery time, see Gorillas [0] for example. They do so by storing items all over the city and delivering by bike.

https://gorillas.io/en-us
The impact of Sci-Hub on science and the Open Access Movement [audio]
It seems that you are implying that "Modern Monetary Theory" has been adopted, if that's the case, you are totally missing the point.

MMT it's a description (a theory that can be validated) of how the system works, not a recipe. Finally, after unavoidable evidence, people are starting to accept that this is how modern money really works (and have been working for quite a while).

Now, we can have a conversation about what to do with it (I suspect that's a conversation many don't want to have), instead of talking about "public debt" and "borrowing from our grandchildren".

By the way, most MMT economist recommend very different policies of what has been done, what is vindicated here is the "the state creates money and spends it into existence" only limited by inflation part. That doesn't mean that they recommend Quantitative Easing for instance.
An earthquake lasted 32 years, and scientists want to know how
I would suggest the author of the package use, say, this

4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.

to force nixos either to fork completely or become humble again.
Can you put all that in a 13.3 inches chassis, make barely no noise when compiling hundred of thousand LoCs and reach 20 hours battery life on standard use?

Let's compare apples to apples.
How does GPT-3 differ from a gui based no code tool?

I’ve tried to find that out but dunno. Do you have an idea?
The trouble with MMT isn't necessarily so much that it's wrong, it's that it seems to have been latched onto by populist rabble-rousers who tell people that the government could just print enough money to give people all the nice, expansive government programs they'd want without the part where they tax ordinary people to pay for them, and the only reason they haven't already is because politicians are in the pockets of wealthy fat cats.
Instead of a patent company wouldn't these universities be better served to work as sort of early stage VCs. The university acts as a way to train engineers and then in partnership perhaps with their professors they solve real world problems. To market their solutions these engineers partner with the university to use its endowment to fund the startups?

The university of Michigan I think already does this.
I had one of these. It's still considerably behind. Thermal design is terrible, overall build quality is passable and battery autonomy is very bad.
> At the end of the four-day course, each student received a Raspberry Pi 400

So, the number of participants was limited to 5?

I don't know, that sounds a bit problematic. I would have opted for helping students set up a Python environment on their PCs or laptops (and maybe kept the RPi's to students who may not have one; although identifying students in this situation may be tricky)
Is there some technological advancement that has created this most recent low code hype?

I’m certain that there have existed companies who didn’t want to pay programmers for exactly as long as there have existed paid programmers; what’s unique about right now?
Unfortunately, those resources are company-internal. But I'm planning to create a public resource based on my experience of doing those workshops, without falling into the trap mentioned by GP.
I concede nothing. From my original comment, "Also, I have yet to see any concrete data on how much the various vaccines reduce transmission.".

It would be nice if it does, and it is plausible that the vaccines do reduce transmission to some extent, but their primary route of action is to save lives by reducing symptoms.

Apparently demanding something better than the level of "evidence suggests" from your linked article (and even that is new news, which means we had no evidence at all until recently) makes me an idiot and worthy of derision. You are not helping the stereotype.

FWIW - how long do you call a coronavirs "novel", given it's fairly rapid mutation rate? At this point, Covid-19 is practically ancient.

And so far - your "obvious path", at least as it was implemented in the country I live in, is quite likely to cause economic and social ruin.
Other threads on HE compilers:

Microsoft/EVA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193863

Alchemy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265948

Cingulata - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23437737

And a good overview of HE compilers/libraries https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07078.pdf
Six months of being an engineering manager
Thanks for sharing.I found a lot of interesting information here. A really good post, very thankful and hopeful that you will write many more posts like this one.
https://www.myloweslife.life/
I mean, the issue is our tax code isn't taxing wealthy people enough.
That's not the point, the point is people weren't flocking to these jobs as you claimed.

> The Central Pacific hired some Canadian and European civil engineers and surveyors with extensive experience building railroads, but it had a difficult time finding semi-skilled labor. Most Caucasians in California preferred to work in the mines or agriculture. The railroad experimented by hiring local emigrant Chinese as manual laborers, many of whom were escaping the poverty and terrors of the war in the Sze Yup districts in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong province in China

It's like saying Bangladeshi workers flock to hard labour in Qatar because, sure because working in Bangladesh might be worse, not because the terrible conditions of working on infrastructure in Qatar as a Bangladeshi is some kind of standard for labour conditions or rights we should all aspire to.
Storage Foundation is being merged with the Origin Private part of the Filesystem Access API specifically to address feedback from Safari and Firefox teams about too many File APIs on the web, and if they only implement the Origin Private part of the spec there’s no more risk than IndexedDB since it doesn’t interact with the real file system.
Covid-19 impact on Indian microfinance and lending companies