skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to say that commits to your private branches are not part of the permanent record, and that you should therefore be permitted to edit those private branches, then I think you have a stronger case. That does not come up as much in Fossil. Fossil does support private branches, but they are seldom used. The usual case in Fossil is that all check-ins auto-sync up to the parent repo.

This is probably one of my biggest problems with fossil. It is very opinionated about the workflow you use. My typical workflow involves making many commits on a private branch while working on something, many of which won't be able to build or pass tests, and then clean everything up before pushing to a publicly visible branch. This allows me to easily roll back if an approach ends up not working out, or cherry-pick smaller changes to other branches if a change ends up being needed in multiple feature branches in progress at once, etc. With git that sort of workflow is trivial, with fossil, it might be possible, but it doesn't fit with fossil's blessed workflow.

Git on the otherhand is pretty flexible, and can be used for a lot of different workflows, and doesn't push you towards a specific one.
Yes, "do the following experiment" sounds more natural. IMO, "Conduct" conveys precision and is appropriate for more formal writing.
> Since we can design simple systems that follow expectations exactly, why couldn't we design complex systems that also follow expectations? Of course, the design of expectations itself gets fuzzy, making this a failure point, but to the extent that we can define good and evil I see no impediment to align an intelligence to them.

I mean... not to be flippant, but you're essentially saying "As long as we solve these vaguely-defined problems, and also these follow-up problems I just thought of, then I don't see where the problem is".

In practice AI alignment is very much a developing field, and from my perspective it seems unlikely that much progress will be done before dangerously powerful AIs are developed. In other words, there's a decent chance our ability to define powerful AIs will outpace our ability to impart them with "core motivations" legible to us.

(I don't know how well the actual paper covers these arguments; but I suspect nobody else in this comment thread has read it either, so whatever)
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If I was in the airplane getting tossed about like that, I would be scrambling like mad to get out!

Just to embellish and clarify: During my first jump training, one of the things the instructor drilled into us was "You have a parachute. If something goes wrong and you need to save your life, use it!".
If the Morris Worm of '88 is anything to go by, shell scripts cannot be contained either, let alone a superintelligence. We won't need anything approaching general AI to have to deal with electronic parasites, which may ironically "die" or leave bits of code around that another virus could discover and adapt to propagating.

I'd bet we see the first autonomously-evolving botnet in less than 5 years, one or two now that I've mentioned it. As soon as we write something that can reason about the features of a program by scanning a binary without running it, and then adapt components like it's using tools, it will have everything it needs to persist and spread itself.
Unlike all the preview builds this actually crashed on `dotnet run` after upgrading. Luckily a `dotnet clean` fixes it.

Good to finally have an official version!
If you have a synth that can sample you can load a sample and then play with filters and other features to see if it will work or not.

Very rarely do artists just know that something will work out, but the more they do it the better their skills get at recognizing samples that will work or can be turned into interpolations that work.

Not everyone gets to be DJ Shadow (king of sampling).
It's probably a bit of everything. And the fact that nobody wants to go places, especially not doctors offices, during the pandemic. That's basically the same reason I've been putting off a bunch of medical stuff too.
What I find most amazing about those discussions is the passionate vitriol from future job-seekers for arrangements like that. Maybe it’s because they’re imagining it having all of today’s downsides plus taking longer, but it seems like it could so obviously be better yet it’s so loudly shouted down.
Apple doesn't like them. We already have:
XMPP (with E2EE)
Mumble
IRC
Email
Mastodon
etc.
Apple makes it very hard to publish smartphone apps for these.
>How far would you take this?

How much time would it take for a smart, competent and self motivated person to get up to speed on this new but related field? Given that number of hours, is it worth accepting that period of relative 'unproductivity' in order to hire them?

That seems like the right heuristic to answer your question.
How often do you visit a website and not do anything? As in not even move your mouse around or scroll.
We tend to talk about "socialism" in Portugal, but few countries that I know are more neoliberal than Portugal. Almost everything is private or is managed by private companies. Portugal is one of the few countries which exchanges visa for money. Our approach to Uber and Airbnd was until 2019, pretty liberal. I'm not saying that is right or wrong, just that even though the people vote for socialism, what we get in the end is neoliberalism.
Clearly social media is alcohol: normalised everywhere as the means of socialisation.
It's really only to protect the launch window. Most games will be discounted later on to the point where they're more or less affordable to everyone. But if someone pirates on release they'll never be inclined to buy at that lower price later on.
You may create App such as a (kind of)"navigation" app.
But I'm not sure about collection data while screen is locked and password is required. Need to play with it.
Causal Consistency Guarantees – Case Studies
Think of it like this. I enjoy community clean up days. But if I had to do it every week it’d feel like a chore.

Communicating is the same. It’s fun in small doses. But then by the time the evening or weekend rolls around the last thing I want is to talk with more people. Which is sad, because I’d really like to have a non-work, real-world social network.

For sure talking in real life is not an attack (exempting folks with mental disabilities). But it’s something to think about. Especially as remote work makes our work relationships even more superficial.
I guess HN is social media, but I don't think it's the kind of social media the article is talking about. There's no social network involved in HN, no identity or personal branding (outside of dang) and the user-generated content is mostly comments on articles generated outside the site. I'm not arguing that it isn't social media, but then I guess the comments section of a blog is also social media by the same definition, and both of those things seem qualitatively different than, say, Facebook or Twitter. It may just be that the category of 'social media' is too broad to use about different things, some of which are more problematic than others.
> Sorry, but even though we know social media has its downsides, it also has advantages: keeping in touch with friends, socializing, a way to stay up to date with your community, new recipe ideas, exercise ideas, time management ideas, maybe even the occasional envy that someone's success triggers more ambition in you to succeed etc.

Alcohol is useful for helping me sleep but it’s not healthy to use alcohol to help get sleep and there are other, less harmful, ways to achieve the same end.
The article contains some decent advice if you're hiring folks with 10-15 yoe. But if you're hiring someone with 5 yoe as a "Senior", then you'd better only hire them to work on what they have experience with. And the latter is more common than the former IME.

In other words, there's been significant title creep in the last decade and "Senior" no longer means what the author of this post seems to assume (experience with multiple frameworks, languages, orgs, etc).
Palestinians live in an apartheid state so I'd argue very much that this is a human rights issue.

(I know I'll get lots of downvotes for this and I accept that)
C++: 6 More Ways to Refactor new/delete into unique ptr
Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit Is 25 Years Old [pdf]
This is why I setup OpenDNS and started blocking certain sites - including Reddit. Quality of life improvements are real.
Why though? The halting problem is interesting. The fact that there is a proof that it isn't possible for a certain class of inputs, doesn't mean it is impossible for all inputs.

Where is the line? Can we solve it for practical programs? Can we solve it in a non binary manor "Program XYZ halts for inputs UVW, but not for inputs RST"? To me the halting problem proof suggests way more questions than it answers.
Well, that's the thing, it's implied. Maybe that particular person standing right by your car with a metal pipe (or emailing about an unspecific vulnerability with a hint that payment is required to avoid a bad thing) has no intention to escalate to criminal mischief. Maybe! It's still highly exploitative and deserves to be called out, regardless of the circumstances of the actor.
> This is a strange lie you keep posting with your link to 972mag, a biased Palestinian defense magazine.

972mag is a magazine founded by Jewish journalists in Tel Aviv. When an Israeli magazine run by Jews condemns torture of Palestinians and is called a "Palestinian defense magazine", you have to wonder how provincial the thought process that would use that label is. Considering world opinion on the human rights of Palestinans who were tortured by Israel, which includes these journalists, and which includes their political pole within Jewish Israeli society, you have to wonder how isolated the group on the other side of all of this is.
I would personally prefer you to fix the multitude of things that don't work well in Visual Studio and library issues that are continually pushed back as "won't fix" or "upgrade to .Net5/6" as opposed to always racing forwards to the horizon.

Even those of us who are actively migrating applications are stuck with web forms, netfx and dotnet core 2/3 and will be for years, so it would be nice that we felt some love rather than being left behind.

MS are starting to feel like Apple where you only have value if you can keep up.
One potential saving grace is in falling costs of tools from technological advancement but science is a very broad subject where material demands vary greatly. Theoretical physics may have minimal material needs. A citizen scientest might be theoretically able to do something with CRISPR to say, modify e-coli to start producing carbon nanotubes or try to evolve plastic eating bacteria. But not making their own Large Hadron Collider.

One would need a very complete picture to be able to accurately generalize in such an absurdly broad area.
Couldn't agree more about the final sentence. Searching for almost anything (how to guides and recipes are the most obvious examples) returns a SERP of utter rubbish, all clearly designed to farm SEO and clicks. This seems to be what Google wants and desires, because it keeps getting worse.
https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/
You're citing legal cases. Where does it say glyphosate was the cause?
I was a relatively early adopter of Whatsapp and although the banner to pay 1 USD/year was shown to me, I just pressed the "use whatsapp free for a year" button whenever the popup reappeared. I never ended up paying anything to WA.
>> ASP.NET Core in .NET 6.

I've been on .net since 1.1 and .net Core since 1.0 and this statement makes me so confused.

Core lives _inside_ of .net 6? Is there a non-core ASP.NET that also lives inside that framework?

I thought .net 5 was where the legacy 4.x branch and core 3.1 was married in holy matrimony, minus the worst of the legacy garbage.
To each their own. To me it can definitely be enjoyable. Yes, I’m an extrovert (most of the time).
Organic foods, especially ones that have a USDA stamp other rigorous approvals, are upheld to much higher sanitary, chemical-cleanliness, and soil-care standards than conventional crops. The thing about organic pesticides is a red herring. Fresh organic foods raised in good soil are unarguably way better for you than the alternative. There's not even a comparison.
Python 2 should be dead by now. Please, just let it die.
This resonates with me a lot as someone who gave up music and university for programming in my early 20s.

And yet, mediocre content abounds in the media. How should that be explained?
> for other users

So someone just needs access to your account to get snippets from your private code.
Mankind will most likely destroy each other using super-intelligence long before super-intelligence gets any chance to do so by its own volition. We are built on conflict, disagreement, misunderstanding and exploitation - it's part of our societal DNA, no matter how sweet or reasonable we can make ourselves seem on personal level. We have avoided nuclear annihilation by luck on multiple occasions. Nuclear weapons are sticks and stones compared to the power of a runaway super-intelligence in a technological society.

Thinking that super-intelligence is containable is like thinking you can beat AlphaGo in the game of Go. And coming up with reasons why that's no so it's just you being in denial of your eventual mortality, as well as of the eventual extinction of the species. Best that we can hope for is that that extinction will be some form of transmutation to a higher level of evolution.
The Facebook apps and websites are full of bugs, bad code, bad practices.
Microcoding is when the internal control structure of the processor operates in much the same way as the outer machine language program is processed. The microcode is a sequence of instructions stored in a memory (usually ROM, but can be EPROM or RAM), there is a microcode-program-counter, and the "microcontroller" functions by fetching "microcode instructions" one after another from the memory addressed by the microcode-program-counter.

The results of those fetched microcode instructions then control the actual CPU internal hardware elements. And depending on the type of microcode (horizontal or vertical) those microcode instruction's bits either directly control the hardware elements, or get further decoded to then control the hardware elements.

A good 10k foot description is "a mini-cpu controlling the hardware - that mini-cpu controlled by the outside visible machine language instructions"
Yes, exactly that. Though the niches don't fully solve the problem of people being unable to fulfill any in-built need—assuming there is such—to express themselves artistically and be socially rewarded for that, because there still aren't enough "slots" near the tops of these various niches to let even 5% of the total population be fulfilled that way. Probably not even 1%.
I would guess the vast majority of people who need to set a PIN for the CVS app or their banking app or whatever use the same PIN to unlock their phone.
For those interested in dystopian works on this subject I always recommend Super Sad True Love Story[0] by Gary Shteyngart. It's a little closer to the "Her-style" near future that is a lot more mundane.

What if you walked into a bar and everyone was pre-ranked on your phone?

What if news was replaced with streamers, and every friend group had a person who was streaming non-stop?

What if economy and finance stopped being about making capital and instead became about managing debt, at both the micro and macro level?

What do relationships look like in that world?

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Super-Sad-True-Love-Story-ebook/dp/B0...
There does seem to be a rather large "anti-social media" current here on HN and in tech spaces in general. I find it a bit odd how common that sentiment is, since for me it has been relatively easy to tailor social media to my interests in a way that regularly enriches my life.

I use Facebook for finding and registering to IRL events, and Instagram / Tiktok / Twitter almost exclusively for consuming tech, programming, and gaming content. With exes of mine, they seemed to mainly be scrolling through either comedy content or content related to their interests.

I'm sure it's very possible to engage with social media in unhealthy ways, but for the issue of modern life feeling isolated or empty, I wonder if social media has become an easy scapegoat for deeper societal problems. (some possibilities: work that doesn't feel meaningful or rewarding, insufficient leisure time, car-centricity / hostile urban planning)
Intell Creative is looking for an experienced writer researcher to create a white paper on a blockchain-related concept for the music and entertainment industries. Our company specializes in advanced technologies for the music and entertainment industries, such as blockchain, AI, machine learning, and chat bot functions.

The ideal candidate has technical experience as a developer or product manager. Has strong writing and research skills and an understanding of current technologies, platforms, and opensource software, including:
NFT
Blockchain
Crypto
Hyperledger
Smart contracts
Web 3.0

Interested candidates please send a resume and writing samples to partners@intellcreative.ca
Remote work is an option.
Frequent Gunfire: What Was It Like to Be Ernest Hemingway? (2017)
Wooden bird bought for £75 revealed to be Anne Boleyn’s
> Would you hire a senior Android developer to lead your app development who has never written an Android app before?

I assure you a million companies did exactly this ca. 2010. And that was back when it was much more difficult to write one, both devices and the SDK had orders of magnitude more sharp edges and restrictions than they do now.
DRM doesn't work in games, go to a torrent site to see all the failed attempts.

1. It costs money
2. It makes the product worse(slower, less portable,etc...) for your _ paying _ customers.
3. It doesn't work if the game is good.

Just add a copyright note on the corner and make sure to have good distribution.
Welcome to C# 10
Is this article satire?

...described by Ernest Cline in his masterpiece Ready Player One

I stopped reading at that point, as RP1 is turgid 80s-fan-boy scribblings and hardly a 'masterpiece'.

But, maybe I didn't get the joke?
Why is it (not) being a person, relevant to the tasks at hand?
http://web.archive.org/web/20210909203209/https://www.thenat...
flipside of tough - you're demanding a foreign nation compromise its security so that you can feel better. You and your demands are nobody and nothing to a foreign state. So no. tough.
For details on how Intel was fixated on 16-pin chips, see the Oral History of Federico Faggin [1]. He describes how 16-pin packages were a completely silly requirement, but the "God-given 16 pins" was like a religion at Intel. He hated this requirement because it was throwing away performance. When Intel was forced to 18 pins by the 1103 memory chip, it "was like the sky had dropped from heaven" and he had "never seen so many long faces at Intel."

[1] pages 55-56 of http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...
System76 is building a new Linux desktop in Rust
> ”is if you're hearing about the SPF-record beg-bounty phenomenon for the first time in this article”

I don’t know what “gingerly” means, but you are right in this assumption. I only own small side projects sites, but the article felt like a useful warning to me in case I receive such a message some day.

I am more inclined to agree with you than before your reply, your point of view makes sense. I would still call the article more “helpful” than “gross” though.
This is pretty out of touch with academic reality.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so please stop doing this!
imgproxy is the blazing fast and secure image processing tool
Well used, Denuvo is not that bad. It is misuse that cause games to become slow or unplayable. And generally, it only serves to protect the first few months of sales, it is not uncommon to strip out DRM after that.

Indie games often don't need it (and don't do it). AAA games are a different story. Including DRM is a significant expense in a low budget game, these games are usually cheaper, and people are often more sympathetic to small studios. Also, indie games need exposure first, and they get at least that from pirate copies, AAA games rely on advertising for that and run close to market saturation so pirate copies are more of an opportunity cost.
The idea that the people Troy is writing about are exploiting us is a bit rich.
“Don’t have kids”

A little cliche but isn’t this how we get Idiocracy? Assuming we’re not already there.
PipeWire is basically the files pacman installed, and systemd user services.

This command would have been able to remove it:

pacman -Rsn pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa

And this disable it:

systemctl disable --user pipewire pipewire-media-session pipewire-pulse

A common mistake when installing it is forgetting to install pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
Friend, we're still running COBOL.

There are still shops with computers running windows XP, performing various scripted automation or batch tasks.

The idea that some running system will be taken offline just because the language is old is incompatible with a lot of real world needs.
Your 10A argument seems to imply they are not specifically laid out anywhere. That seems likely - at least until the EO defined those those responsibilities and granted them to OSHA.
IMHO Organic food is a fraud by definition. You are still expected to use pesticides, but only the "natural" ones, which are less effective, so you end up applying more poison to a crop than non-organic farmer.

Oh, and farmers are expected to use homeopathy and other quackery on sick animals, at least in the EU.

https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-homeopathy-and-norwegian-vets...
That's right. After grace period it goes into a period called redemption where they can still get it back but it cost like $120.

Source: Used to work at registrar.
.NET 6 seems like a pretty good release with a few cool new features.

But it's funny how the infographic in the post mentions MAUI for desktop development, but the "desktop" keyword in the text is referring to the WinForms github repository. I can't think of a more concise statement about the state of GUI development on .NET. I would really wish for less fragmentation and churn in that space.
This is why using ad blockers is more ethical than not. The sooner we destroy ad-based business models, the sooner we can find a model that works.
If we do live in a simulation, I suspect that's why human intelligence is governed.
$35

(At least that was the "Holy fuck, really? I gonna get one of those" thing for me.)
Rails, Hotwire, CableReady, and StimulusReflex Are BFFs
Ah, then as psyc wrote, serendipitously would be the word.
Maybe the prosecution by an Obama diversity hire that drove him into financial ruin was part of that too.

Of course all these nasty civil rights movements were just emotional impulses that could not control themselves.

Of course there is an unchangeable game subjected to the rules of power and you understand that and we should build a cult of personality around you instead? No thank you.
> So if 10% of those get long covid

Do you have a source for that estimation?

Also, note that in spite Denmark has like 1/4 od the death per million than Sweden, they have like 1/2 of the cases per million (and sadly going up with a higher slope). Do you think that 0.5% of the Denmark population will get long covid?
This may work as long as everyone is in the same timezone.