skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this, especially e-mail or calling.

In retrospect, my urge to post and share something on social media is just an urge to satiate my ego and be noticed. I think the reality is that most people don't really care about the majority of what someone else has to say, so making something personal and intentional is your best bet (and a great litmus test for whether or not future communication on a given topic will be worthwhile).

Edit: typo.
A better example might be country flags. When the political situation changes or the flag is redesigned, how should Unicode and the various fonts handle this? Presumably text written in the past shouldn't change for viewers in the future.

Unicode mixes abstract concepts and concrete representations together on a number of levels. It seems like a legitimately difficult problem to me though. An 'a' character might be written differently but remains fundamentally the same thing since ancient times. Meanwhile the spelling and meaning of words shifts over time. So how are you supposed to handle pictograms that can change simultaneously in both commonly accepted representation and fundamental meaning?

It's also ... weird ... that a TTY bell has a dedicated not-glyph in a writing system, isn't it? Colors are (appropriately, imo) handled via escape codes. I certainly don't want support for HTML flashing text to be added to Unicode! I do appreciate the historical context that led to the current situation though.
Very interesting talk. I am currently trying to teach my daughters some python, as a means of filling summer vacation time. Also writing down some notes while preparing the lessons: https://github.com/MoserMichael/pythoncourse . I will try and make them read the python statements aloud, lets see if it works... Not sure about the tests mentioned, I somehow dislike this type of multiple choice questions, don't know how to do something like that.
So it seems the Byzantines preferred to mutilate when most other civilizations preferred to mutilate-execute. In nearly all cases political mutilation was only carried out for High Treason, a crime nearly every civilization throughout history has punished with its most gruesome torture-executions. E.g. William Wallace was "hanged, drawn, and quartered" which included having his penis cut off and burned while he watched, then his bowels cut out of his belly and burned while he watched....
https://www.dcode.fr/caesar-cipher
This is like the only time I read the title, didn't read the article yet gave an upvote.
Yes: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/05/gan-video-conferenc...
What do you mean long-term? In the short and medium term (5y), humans being in the loop is highly likely to be valuable, as you seem to agree with. Long term is very difficult to predict. AGI changes everything instantly.

If you’re saying “it seems like people just want humans to be valuable, and the human race’s thinking seems very anthropocentric”, I definitely agree. It’s hard to separate a person’s inherent need to be important from dispassionate analysis in general.
Depends. Anecdotal evidence: Most "normal user" software handles it fine. (Chrome and Apple Mail on my Mac, Android apps, etc.)

With terminal apps I use as a developer, it's more of a crapshoot. curl and SSH work fine. I've seen others that don't.

Notably, Node.js's socket libraries can't fall back to IPv4 at all, even after the v6 connection times out. Node's DNS library actually overrides the default system behavior to prefer v4 over v6, probably for this reason. (This can be changed globally within a particular program, or on a per-lookup basis, but preferring v6 will allegedly become the default in an upcoming release.)

I've unfortunately had much experience with this due to major bugs in Comcast's modems.
The pictures and graphs are embedded in an html table for reasons I don't understand.
Where should the line be?

For creating a vaccine which solves a global pandemic I think the rewards should be pretty steep. 60 billion is peanuts on the global scale. Millions of lives have been saved.
The killer app of cryptocurrency is tax evasion
The so-called "blue hydrogen" is made from natural gas.
Looks pretty similar to https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs
My first instinct is to wonder why not giving them credit, but maybe you’d never heard of it before…
How do you know it’s more likely? What do you know about these people?
The authorities aren't doing the scanning. You will be made to agree in the fine print to let Apple do it when iCloud sync is enabled. If they run across evidence of a crime then c'est la vie.
The iOS software stack? Because the way I heard it, the M1 Macs are noticeably faster than other Macs at these tasks.
what is Vic Gundotra doing these days? I loved his Google I/O presentations .
> WE BROKE THE ~RESISTANCE~ SUPPORT!
Yes that's what I'm saying. Specific example: Project Dragonfly effectively forced Google to leave the Chinese market out of domestic pressure. Chinese companies are significantly more apt at navigating Chinese regulatory environment than foreign companies, whose models are hardly compatible with it. It's incentivized Chinese firms to built an entirely parallel ecosystem.
Interesting. I picked the T series [0], as that would be what I would purchase, and it comes with Ubuntu 18.04. I thought they had made a big announcement where they were working with Fedora to get Fedora shipping as their Linux option at the tail end of last year?

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...
Same with open source. The more open source exists, the easier it is to make more useful open source, which increases the surface area of profitable development, which fuels more open source.

1000 programmers is more than 1000x as valuable to the world as 1 programmer. A million may be more than 1000x as valuable as 1000.
I largely agree, but I think Arduino is (largely) good because it removed complexity, and not necessarily on the coding side.

E.g. pretty sure you can still just write C for a specific chip with Arduino. I've dropped back to reading an input register directly, either because `digitalRead`/`digitalWrite` is slow, or I want to read multiple inputs in parallel. So maybe here, the layers can be a hindrance, sometimes (but it's certainly more complex).

I also remember the development experience before Arduino. Proprietary compilers/toolchains, awkward programmers and ISPs, and expensive eval boards or the xtal being weird on breadboard. To think AVR chips were some of the easiest to get into. I'll take a Mini/Micro/Teensy + Arduino any day for casual projects, despite some of the extra layers.
Why? that's not much more than 1TB, easily available in various storage formats for a very low price. What's the issue with the size?
Should have started with Hello world first. Introducing newbies to variables to do a Fibonacci sequence is very hard for them.

Nice use of the vMac emulator.
Nintendo Orders ROM Site to ‘Destroy’ All Its Games, or Else
So much of software engineering is mechanical. Those parts could definitely be automated. To some extent, software engineering is the process of constantly automating things. Each function, in a way, automates
I think that pre-installed Linux also means that company is going to provide some customer support, be it BIOS fixes or maybe addressing a driver issue after an OS update.

Without such support it was common to simply get “an unsupported OS” reply, which will necessarily limit how popular product is with non-tech people.
>are there any other major advantages of Cap’n Proto

There's a list at https://capnproto.org/ under "other advantages".
> Not sure why you think my name is Jonathan

Pretty sure that is a reference to the book by Richard Bach.
I too thought of elderly parents, who currently use dumb phones, using the number pad to send SMS (rarely) and text-to-speach to receive them. The interface is awful, but they would have a worse experience with an Android device or iPhone. Their first (and maybe only) complaint about the Light Phone is the screen seems rather small for aging eyes. They won't be getting one, because it won't work with the network in our region, but maybe something like this in the future.
They pulled harder on the bootstraps!
Need to post description of convo series with customer support to make reasonable judgment.
How does it compare to Codec2?
Twitter Backpedals on Design Changes After Complaints of Headaches, Eye Strain
I remember that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238

I agree, neural networks are exactly the type of system that works well "most of the time" but then can fail unexpectedly in odd and subtle ways.
It's not that hard to say anyway. You read it as "quad a".
On paper I agree. However it does have a couple of problems:

- It has yet to escape the ZeroVer versioning scheme and produce a “stable” API.

- Maturity for languages other than C++ can be a bit spotty.

- The RPC protocol is cool, but apparently most of it was never implemented. The C++ implementation only implements “level 1.”

Cap’n Proto is undeniably cooler than Protobuf, although in practice I worry primarily about maturity and support.
Staying Afloat: The Urban Response to Sea Level Rise
Personally for me the issue is not the size but the transfer (think streaming, service migration, etc.)
Step 1 is to be inside a building, anything to keep from getting your flesh burned off by the heat flash. Even if the wall doesn't survive the overpressure/blast wave, it gave you a bit of time to get to the next steps.

Next, get away from any openings where the blast will shove the walls, or glass towards you. Don't go look out the window, get low, and behind something heavy and unlikely to roll over, or in a ditch.

Once the big loud pressure wave is past, get away from the fallout. If you're downwind, just get under cover, and try to seal out the crap falling from the sky. If you can, get as much water as possible before the fallout contaminates it, into bottles, or at least under some form of cover.

If you make it past the first month, and the famine before people figure out how to grow enough food to keep everyone alive, well done!

If you have kids, now is a good time to squirrel away some potassium iodide for them to take in the first month after the big boom. It might be slightly toxic, but it'll keep their thyroid from uptaking iodine 131. They'll be glad 10 years later, should they make it.

Now is also the time to read up, and make sure all the things I just typed out off the top of my head actually work and make sense. Read survivors accounts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Read the 1950s/60s civil defense literature. Extrapolate for the modern age, and more fragile infrastructure.

Personally, I'm too old for that shit, I'm only going to do my best to keep the kid alive.
I was just trying to illustrate the ephemeral nature of identity to other primal minds.

But yes the desire to 'leave behind a trace' is not nihilist.

No living human can be completely nihilist. The subconscious mind is still primal.

That's why I think nihilism is a great ideology because it balances out primal beliefs that we naturally have as a result of being derived from evolutionary processes.
Even a linear growth is fine. By 2030 there will be pretty much 100% adoption at this pace. There may even be a tipping point when places like India are so stretched for v4 addresses and v6 is so widespread where local sites go v6 only which triggers a much faster adoption rate on the consumer side.
Pls post an intro here, instead of just dumping a link and scooting away
In my view, a social criteria needs to have the following criteria:

- anyone can make a post (video, text, image, etc), either to an individual (instant messaging) or to a group (public or selected people)

- people can reply to other people's posts

- communities form automatically from the above two interactions
Even in mathematics, a field which is much more amenable to graphical representation, textual descriptions still dominate textbooks and graphics are only used to help illustrate certain concepts with simplified problems.

Part of the problem there is dimensionality, a 2D surface can only show a projection of a problem in 2D space. The highest level of dimensionality that most humans can reason about when projected onto 2D space is 3D. There are workarounds for this, such as show multiple different dimensions projected onto 2D space side-by-side, but there are limits to the effectiveness of this and the amount of screen available.

A graph can easily show you that a ball thrown in the air will follow a parabolic path, but can it a single graph also incorporate factors such as ball diameter, wind direction, initial velocity, gravity, and atmospheric density? A creative graph maker might be able to capture some of these elements together, but not all. A program must capture them all together.

Most programs have an extremely high degree of dimensionality, so they are innately poorly suited to generalised description with graphical approaches.

The most we can ever really hope for is visual domain specific languages that restrict the dimensionality of manageable levels.
The Multiple SQLite Problem
Syntactic sugar it into natural language, I just wanted grouping, braces to coerce precedence with "and", "or" & "not".

I even said so at the time! (Back when we naively believed Google wanted feedback)
Same here, but the last time I played Descent it was with a full Thrustmaster setup including throttle, pedals and CrystalEyes 3D shutter glasses on a 19" monitor... Good times... lots of headaches.. but good times.
It's not very portable. I can't keep it on my phone without a 1TB micro SD, and I could theoretically carry an SSD but thats not really portable as it requires internal connection. And if it's an external drive with a USB connection then it's probably much larger than my phone.

It's certainly able to be kept and it's not a particularly unwieldly amount of data for the average power user, but if I ever had to bring my music somewhere (and I mean all of it) I'd be screwed. Plus that data would take hours to copy if ever needed. I spent just an hour today dding a 64GB SD card.

I just keep my favorite albums and discographies in 320 MP3 as I know there is almost no music player on earth that will fail to play it. Then I keep that in a micro SD in my wallet, for that emergency in which you desperately need some Pink Floyd.
I plan on abandoning this experiment as soon as I have the time and interest.

In my comment above I mentioned this was a spare laptop, my primary laptop which ran debian abruptly failed pressing this thing into regular daily use, so I used the Arch install I originally put on it for an egpu experiment.
Which “professionals” do not use desktop operating systems?
It's nothing critical but some ISPs use multiple layers of hacks to work IPv4 and certain types of networking become very unreliable over it. Things like long running connections will be dropped because the ISP routers do not maintain the NAT mapping forever.

For github pages its probably not going to make a huge difference but for things like SSH or file transfers it could be an issue. For things like video game servers or home servers you just flat out can not work them on v4 if your ISP uses CG-NAT.
Motivated reasoning, much?
You're comparing a 15 g "fun size" snickers or a 42 g kit kat to 100 and 165 g of fruit. And non-water mass is a strange calculation to make - we don't live in a freeze-dried society. Snickers and kit do have higher fat percentages than fruit, what's your point?

Wean off sweets with less sweet things, which do have other nutritionally redemptive qualities.
> You can’t automate the creation of software because the requirements are not known.

It seems like the entire article is based on this sentiment. I read the article but I'm not sure what the point it's trying to make is.

Even in this thread everyone appears to have a different idea of what automation is in the first place, and the author is basically suggesting that we will never have something close to the level of a sentient AI identifying requirements to produce a piece of code with no human involvement...?

I'm not well-versed in AI, and I'm not sure anyone on this planet is qualified to make a claim that we will never get even "close" to that point, but it seems reasonable that most of the things listed can be reduced to simple data and automated with well defined functions that transform them along the way:

* Specific tasks and activities
* Captures different data
* Can see or not see certain data
* Security — What can and can’t specific users do
* Different goals
* Individual responsibilities
* Processes
* Reports and visuals of data to decide
I just have a syncthing folder shared between my VPS, my home server, my desktop, laptop, and phone; it syncs it continuously so a download once syncs it everywhere else. It's basically set it and forget it.
Strong concur. If anything this data collection, once you see the issues, inflames my own suspicions the vaccine is now far less effective, be it through time or evolution. 5% breakthrough hospitalized with data spotty, out of date, with underestimation by vaxed whom died with Covid not being counted 50% of the time. Vaccines work, even this one did originally, but as of this generally months old data, it's showing to be less effective.
Similar story; was tested in Grade 5. Question: Did anyone else in your family have it? My mother and grandfather did. I had a very weird, one might have said traumatic childhood (kidnapped; lived in truck; orphanage; bizarre family) so I can also so vividly remember these painful times. I thus got really into horror (made a feature film; wrote a book) for catharsis. Each detail in my work - from what I wore, the art in the room, the people I met - writing it out helped soothe? maybe is the word, the images. I also did years of therapy. The hardest part for me has been accepting that others cannot do this. I spent the first half of my life getting enraged at how careless everyone is. Further, raised in the 80s in traditional gender roles aka housekeeper/cleaner, I am tyrannized by disorder/mess/everything where it should be. I now realize that needing lists and forgetting each detail of a special event isn't cruel/selfishness. I am ashamed of how cruel I was to partners due to my solipsism. How has this effected your relationships? I can't say I'm grateful but more I respect what it is and how it can be useful and not detrimental to my relationships and all of our struggle to survive.
If lambda turns out to be a real problem, the "anti-maskers" will give in willingly. The most common premise they cite is that this is not actually a dangerous pandemic. If that changes, then their take will change.
> while the coalition behind the Opus Codec chose to create a name collision around 2012.

They intentionally "chose" to create a collision? Or they picked a good name and inadvertently created a collision?
https://fullstackopen.com/en/
is one of the best resources I have found. It makes you do some work yourself, but just enough. Teaches you React, Node, Other up-to-date stuff. It doesn't lead to tutorial hell and is free!
The 'cap' in Cap'n Proto is for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security -- Cap'n Proto isn't actually an RPC system, it's a capabilities framework. You can work with results without actually having the results, e.g. before the results exist.
You can't express this feeling better than this. Oh! what a relief that someone could state the problem.
> signals don't make sense for many of the things they're used for

Wut? They're literally the only way to do non-cooperative preemption in userspace. (You can't do that on Windows without a custom kernel driver BTW.)

Meanwhile, if you don't need non-cooperative preemption then don't use fucking signals. Use POSIX shared memory and a pthread mutex. Or use sockets. Whatever.

It isn't the fault of POSIX when someone chooses the wrong tool for the job. That's like complaining that the local hardware store does things wrong because you went and bought a jackhammer when what you really needed was a sledgehammer.
@dang what is going on with this comment section?
With how much difficulty?
Not to be confused with Optus, a major Australian telco, which I did.
Really bad reasoning.
A chain fails with one weak link. A chain doesn't succeed because of one strong link, they all have to be strong. There's nothing remotely like symmetry.
> Not "the opposite". Exactly as I said: a lot of people would end up paying more, for no health benefit.

No, what happens is this money eventually flows back in terms of lower healthcare costs overall.

> That is merely your own opinion, but you seem to think that this is a fact. If you are so sure, I'm sure you have some good sources for that? I mean, the first study you linked actually doesn't speak in your favor.

It actually did. Unfortunately, you can only lead a horse to water.

> So this term is used simply for surplus calories. Sure, sugars can be surplus calories, but if I eat 2500kcal of protein in a day and my body only burns 2000kcal, then 500 of these are excess calories. But I could have left out 500 of any of these 2500kcal to avoid excess calories. So my point still stands.

I'm glad we agree sugar can be considered surplus calories. The point is when we are trying to reduce people's overall number of calories from their diet we could eliminate any calories, but we should try and eliminate the ones that don't provide any benefit and in fact have negative consequences first.
Zomato, Swiggy delivery workers speak up against unfair practices
It's not a syntactic sugar problem. Most people don't think like that.
It's an option in Matt Millers link here: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdm/status/1401929147937607687
Metal straw == a great way to puncture your throat
Well I'm claiming that most future ones will not. There's no reason that smartphone/tablet style OSs couldn't accomodate video editor, graphic designers, writers, salespeople, real estate brokers, etc in the future. And the demand exists, so I'm betting that that'll be our actual future.

But they cannot in principle accomodate software developers.
I think a good model for software complexity is the crossing number from graph theory. [1] If a problem remains possible to describe using a planar graph then you must consider at most four components simultaneously (as a K4 is the maximal connected graph with a planar embedding).

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_number_(graph_theor...
Now any and all posts I try to make are getting auto [dead]. I tried to make an account to stick with without throwaways and the comments are getting autoflagged.
Related: FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition (https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...)
A lot of time would be saved and promotions earned if we just did the dumb simple thing up front. Later on when everything is on fire someone can migrate to the robust complicated version and get a nice performance review out of it, win-win.
codegen, optimizations, ast transformations
> I ask because "boiling a human child alive for pleasure" seems to be safely chosen to be something that everyone in all places ought to be able to agree is wrong but there have been other chosen Xs at other times in our own culture that have changed and are now no longer considered "morally wrong". This would seem to indicate that the X is subjective.

There were other times when thunder was thought to be caused by Thor. What bearing does that have on the fact that thunder is actually caused by lightning which is generated from electrostatic buildup? It doesn't mean that natural facts are subjective does it?

Moral beliefs are not moral facts, just like beliefs about natural phenomena are not natural facts.
Copilot is simply a poor application of it. Searching the internet for a stack exchange answer is a rudimentary example of pairing an AI with a human. Modern chess GMs use stockfish to study positions. Maybe a future version of that will be more similar to stockfish for code you're writing or problems you're debugging.