skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So many things we consider worth learning are loosing their value with these advances.

Should you not learn math because of the existence of calculators?
The revolutionary powerful tool for radically upsetting artistic expression will not come from a billion-dollar corporate-funded research consortium and frankly a lot of artists would have a worldview crisis if it did. ;-)
The only allow ~400 people in so far, in order to test the model. They say they will open it to the public later this year. Foundation models are being scrutinised by a large number of critics. The new papers devote half the space to safety, countering biases and energy use or they could face harsh reception.
Or coming from the opposite side: you can say that Go has escape analysis, so that it can detect when variables can safely be allocated on the stack.

The stack is an implementation detail that's purely about optimization.

(I don't know for sure whether it's safe to thing like this in Go. It's safe to think like this in most Lisps, OCaml or Haskell.)
Aren't app store purchases easily tracked, on both the buyer and the merchant side? Which would make any money laundering attempt there easier to prosecute?
Young man, let me be blunt with “replacements for standard tools” and call out this stream fad:

sed (ed) - 1979 (1971)
vscode is always inserting itself between me and the code. bbedit strips away all of the crap and lets me write as i want to write.
> Nowadays I see everyone shitting on super heroes

Who is doing that? IMHO the NY Times film reviewers, for example, overrate the superhero movies more than they do anything else.

> Many critics are just sad elitists because now they must share the cultural zeitgeist with everyone else

Who are you thinking of?

BTW, where did you do reviews?
Well, Go's previous approach to generic sorting was pretty atrocious. Partially for the reason you suggested in your edit.

To give another example: Go's type system couldn't even type an identity function before generics.
The issue for me is it looks like an accidental autocorrect of the word “goatse” which internet users from an earlier pre-Facebook era may find more familiar than the verbifying of what was an acronym that is starting to be used as the original word but in a new adjective way.
To people paying close attention, these results are unsurprising. The author is simply accurately assessing the novelty of the results.

edit: fixed typo
What's the advantage of going with an Angel instead of the YC/VC route?

What kind of startups do you invest in? How much do you typically invest?
Pcmcia Soundblaster Clone Update
I wonder if an ITIN would suffice.
>There are however a lot of use-cases where WASM doesn't cut it.

>Having full environments with a file system and being able to start any Linux binary is very useful.

https://humphd.github.io/browser-shell/

That said, not practical if the OS image needs to be huge.
Probably not, since middle managers don't make company-wide policies. Those kinds of decisions are made at the executive leadership level (CEO and CEO's direct reports). I think that the push to return to the office is more likely related to the huge amount of money that companies have invested in office space, as noted in the article:

> "Before Covid struck, the biggest technology firms committed billions of dollars to erect offices that are marvels of architecture and trophies of financial success. Those gleaming offices, packed with amenities and perks, are a testament to the long-held belief that in-person collaboration is still better for fostering creativity, inspiring innovation and instilling a common sense of purpose."

Some companies, like Facebook, are still expanding their office space. Another article, from yesterday, says:

> Facebook is adding more offices in Manhattan. The Menlo Park, California-based company, now known formally as Meta Platforms Inc., is planning to take roughly 300,000 square feet (28,000 square meters) at 770 Broadway, a property near Astor Place where it already has space, according to people familiar with the matter. With the new lease, Facebook will have nearly the entire building.[1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/facebook-...
Can you explain? A shell isn't supposed to be installing things on it's own... (Assuming you're talking about zsh or bash when you say shell.)
Are you saying this was the bug that was fixed, or that is is a new bug, that's not fixed yet?
>Not conscious or aware in any meaningful way

On what grounds have you determined that GPT-3 has no subjective experiences? More generally, what would need to be the case (with some future AI) for you to say, "ok, yes, this one is definitely conscious" ?
Better debugging in Xcode with LLDB commands
It was faulty in the sense of allowing it to be executed with incorrect human inputs, and in such a manner that there was no recovery process in place for what happened.

Lesson learned is not have any semi-automated script dependent on human input/communication/decisions without also having a recovery plan for the worst-case scenario of said script being run with the wrong input/communication/decisions.

I doubt anyone can claim that for all such potentially dangerous scripts. But something that should be reconsidered for anything like a compliance delete
script, even if the design intent is to specifically bypass the normal soft-delete process for something where it has been specifically decided that it should NOT be restoreable.

Fix in this case would be to make it a two-stage process: first an easily revertible soft-delete, evaluate the impact, and then a hard delete designed to only delete data that has already been soft-deleted. Never hard-delete active, live data directly.
Why do people insist on still using MP3, when better stuff is available? YouTube hasn't used MP3 for years, with good reason.

You can use Opus or AAC, even most car systems should work with one of them.
It will also make eg Haskeller's shudder.

Haskell (and languages with parametric polymorphism in general) can give you lots of guarantees for free when using generic types. Even if at runtime you only ever use your code with one specific type.

See eg https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/09/22/parametricity-money-f...

To give a super simple example: if in Haskell you see a function with type 'a -> a', you know that it can only be the identify function, because it's generic over 'a', so the code can't do anything specific.

In contrast, if you see something like 'float -> float' almost anything can happen (that doesn't involve side-effects). It might be identity, it might be sine, it might be square-roots, etc.
I use pup for this. People who tried both, any difference?

https://github.com/EricChiang/pup
They both say right at the top that it's a vulnerability, and the old title put the breakage front and center. So I don't know what you mean by missing context.
This isn't about returning to work, it's about trying to get staff to give away time and resources in a meaningless commute to an office that no longer has a useful purpose now that remote offices are a thing.
Yeah, even zsh doesn't do this by default
You don't drink that water.
Keep in mind that C++ doesn't provide for parametric polymorphism, one of the more important uses of generics.

Parametric polymorphism gives you guarantees about your program for free. C++'s templates can't do that. In C++ even if the types look generic, your code can make assumptions about the types.

Eg your generic code from some type 'a' to some type 'a' can implement the identify function for most types, but implement cosine when given a float.

In something like Haskell (or Java, I think?) that sneakiness is not possible without clearly telling the user in the type.

See eg https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/09/22/parametricity-money-f...
I was specifically referring to "especially if it's via inspections domestic vehicles don't experience".

But fair point, Commerce Clause also has a less well known international aspect, but court cases have indicated that the states do have some ability to control that trade.
I think it's just that they're tricky when it comes to ownership. People who write code that depends on some type of file or directory ownership for security often don't think about the ways symlinks can be used to bypass their security model.

You can sort of think of a symlink as having 2 owners: the user that owns the symlink itself, and the user who owns the file pointed to by the symlink. One of those owners might be an attacker, so every time you interact with a file, you have to think "this file might be half-owned by an attacker, and half-owned by a victim".
No. That is a fault of rm that it makes it so easy to do something that in 9.99999% of the cases isn’t what the user wants to do.

In fact, recognizing that is precisely why you can’t even do that easily anymore. Setting aside that you probably need to sudo the function, rm prevents you from running the command unless you pass an additional long flag that basically say you really really want to do this.

Programs which expect perfect user input, and allow minor user mistakes to lead to major negative outcomes are faulty programs.
ELIZA and markov chain generators were curiosities without practical application.

DALL-E 2 is useful now. It's easy to imagine it replacing 99designs, Getty Images, and most of the digital art services on fiverr. I can't imagine what is going to happen in the world of print-on-demand tshirts.

And of course porn... what a market.
I tried webp for my photo blog (https://roambyland.com/) but the quality was noticeably worse and I've never gone back. Its not there yet unfortunately.
when did ambrosia leave the scene? i remember emailing them maybe 5-10 years ago asking about all the EV keys i bought. I really enjoyed most of their games, but ev:nova was [at least] 3 games in one.

I remember BBedit, RESedit, and the one i miss the most, graphic converter. It had a folder sorting slideshow mode, and it was, non-hyperbole, the best feature of any image app ever. slideshow shows a picture. You could press Command+number, and the image would be moved from whatever folder the slideshow was in to whatever folder you set up for that number. So if you were a photographer, you would load your images from the camera, and have "keep", "maybe with edits", and "archive" folders set to 1, 2, and 3. It was so fast and so slick. IrFanView is an amazing piece of software, now a little long in the tooth as well, that does many amazing things with directories of images - but it still can't do sorting slideshows.

P.S. Endless sky is pretty cool. there's a few EV clones out there, a couple on steam. Of course Space Pirates and Zombies tried (and the second one even made a huge leap like ev:nova did!), but none of them have the software engineering charm that made EV what it was. Fully extensible, user editable, great sounds (although some of the new ones just wholesale rip off the EV sounds), 6 different ways to play through and get an actual ending, etc.

I always forget the names of the EV clones whenever someone hits the nostalgia button, so i'll just say "before halo, bungie made marathon which was so far ahead of its time that even unreal couldn't touch it until unreal: Tournament.
> Minimalist dependency injection in Python

When an object requires other objects for its work, pass references to those other objects into its __init__ method. That’s it.
IRC was always the source of these files. The uploaders would go on irc and Usenet then use winrar to split them into mail attachments. AOL was just a distribution model to those that didn’t know how to use IRC. But it certainly didn’t come after, it was there long before and during this era.

A lot of the fileserve bots on IRC were hosted on rooted international and .edu boxen.

So essentially we should thank all the inexperienced Linux admins of the early 90s for having so many easy to compromise machines on unmonitored networks and then forgetting about them. ;)

AOL OH accounts with no rate limits on chat sends, were the most fun. You could essentially dos whole rooms offline. calling AOL to get mail rate limits lifted was always fun too, explaining why you needed unlimited sending throughout. It was also interesting how many AOL employees were in on the game too, specially once people started paying for names.

Does anyone know what happened to gosh(utoh) ?
Even if our brains reason based on quirks of quantum mechanics (seems unlikely given the scale at which neurons operate), what stops us from creating non-biological machines that interact with QM in the same way to produce artificial reasoning?
Show HN: A tool to check the meta data of your blog
I agree that the timeline is not really acceptable. I am not sure anything mission critical should be hinged off a ticketing system, though. At best, things should be reported to the ticketing system, but never triggered from it as some sort of source of truth.
A lot of music these days is produced by one or two people with a computer sitting in a room by themselves. I sometimes listen to the Music Introducing programs on BBC Radio, especially BBC Music Introducing in London [1]. The music is submitted to the BBC by the musicians themselves—hundreds of tracks a week, apparently—and the DJs choose the songs to air on the program. Many of the songs, which are in a variety of genres, are created in the artists’ homes—hence the genre “bedroom pop” [2], which has been around for a while but seems to have taken off since COVID.

I’m an older guy with musical tastes formed in the 1970s, but I find a lot of this new independent music stimulating, enjoyable, and very competently made. When there’s a song I particularly like, I’ve sometimes looked up the artist online, and often he or she has had only a few hundred plays on YouTube and a few dozen followers on Instagram. It must be really tough for young musicians trying to make a career out of music now.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p025tszp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo-fi_music
It’s probably not the same kind of worldview crisis but the fact that by massively commodifying unique (and that’s the key word since unique work costs more) business friendly corporate clip art and stock photo type content without needing anyone with artistic talent or skill, it’s going to suck away a lot of the money that would otherwise have gone to artists who otherwise don’t have a great career track as far as “average income” is concerned. Struggling artist is a meme for a reason, and when it’s as easy as “push button… receive art” it’s hard to imagine that not making it even more of a struggle. Which does feel like a somewhat incipient worldview crisis in a more career viability sort of way.
You could drop out after one day. If you drop out fast enough you might qualify for a refund.

I heard of someone who enrolls in a community college every winter, then goes skiing on a student discount, then drops out quickly and gets a refund. Not very ethical...

Sorry, this was completely unrelated to your point.
That's a really nice site and great photography
Well, only you can find out. About yourself. It's also up to you how much time you're willing to sink into this
There’s also eureka to quickly encrypt files https://github.com/mimoo/eureka
For me, "goat" in Internet context always maps to _that_ vintage single-image website. Definitely not something positive, more like traumatizing.
I had the reverse experience, in a way: As a teen I though it was just fair. I thought the fight scenes - the reason we saw the film, of course - were gimmicky, repetitive, and unconvincing, and thought the same of other kung fu films. The rest of the movie was odd and boring. It was heretical and I kept that opinion to myself.

I saw it again in the last few years and while for me the rest of the movie was awful, the fight scenes were mesmerizing. Bruce Lee's physicality, the physical acting, is on a different planet than anything I've seen. Lee could have been a dancer or the original Andy Serkis - not that kung fu actor was a bad career move either.
I'm guessing either the JPG or the WebP didn't have the right color profile embedded, or one of them is missing the color profile. This stuff is still a nightmare right now. Colors are something everyone in the technology stack needs to work on getting right.
I think i even paid for it back in the 90s, when it was legitimate shareware. I don't think i "cracked" it with resedit like so many other things on mac OS 7/8/9.

If you stack up all of my software (not game) purchases, and label them "for Apples" and "for Windows" i think macos wins. And that predates OS X desktop, even. Something about the apple ecosystem made me want to spend money to support it. So i take full credit for apple being [one of] the first trillion dollar companies on earth.
How do we know the latter?
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Sorry, I don't know the plans. I don't work on that team.
But telling a person what they will like is a much more personalized endeavor suited for automated recommendation systems.

Any random person could like objectively bad movies.

But a critic can only recommend things objectively good. That means they can only try to filter out good movies, which are movies you should watch but may not like because your tastes are not objectively universal.
Even after reading the full disclosure link, I'm pretty surprised to learn that a security boundary was intended here. I thought it was common knowledge that git did an uncontrolled search up the filesystem for a .git file, and it would never have occurred to me to run git on a machine where people I don't trust have write access.
Cook is right about the "data industrial complex". I'll leave it to the reader to decide how hypocritical it is for the CEO of Apple to object to monetizing large user data collection operations. Cook's opposition to sideloading is, of course, purely about protecting Apple's revenue.
What's is the spirit of OpenAI? Wasn't this company acquired and is fully closed right now? Petition to renamed it to ClosedAI.
Honestly the fight is lost with instagram and tiktok
A decent proportion of the .JPGs and .GIFs being rendered on sites I visit are actually now .WEBP files with the headers set. So I'm seeing lots of people already making this translation invisibly. You only notice when you try to save the images.
You need a TIN (tax identification number) not SSN. C-corps, LLCs and anything else with a TIN can purchase these bonds directly from the fed.
This makes art more accessible, but in the end the 'art' aspect comes from what the creator is trying to express, in which case as long as humans (or anything else with a creative drive) exist there will be art.

Just like how photography didn't cause the end of paintings, movies/TV didn't cause the end of stage plays and electronic music didn't replace instruments, all this will do (and to an extent has been done by other generative models) is create a new kind of art.
Blame that to the harsh criticism these models get on reception. If you say "picture of a doctor" and the output does not cover all races and genders with equal probability, then it's biased. If you say "John wants to become a *" and it fills in stereotypical male dominated jobs, then it's biased.
I don't think it's true. I can imagine a lot of aspects of systems around me I cannot possibly experience in any way, except maybe them leading to some outcome that I might experience as well. I sometimes do verify this experimentally, but that comes later.
Humans also obtain (some) fresh water through their diet and metabolism.

To explain the latter: when you combine a carbohydrate with oxygen, you mostly get CO2 and H2O.

(No opinion implied on whether humans should drink more water.)
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I mean, that's the whole point of the metaverse, no? To create new markets where transactions go through the middle man that is Facebook. I guess it is sort of surprising that they want to take so much money from creators. 50% is a lot.
I like to take 1 photo a day no matter what, and put it in my digital journal (Day One).

It is really nice to have a ritual where you review your day before bed; and after doing this for 5 years, I have an awesome photo journal.
Sadly this is an ideas that has failed many times in the past, and often run by companies that are outright scams.

Over half the cost in wiring a house with fiber is between the curb and the house.
I wonder how they'll deal with valves?

If you need to close your water main, does it not close all the way? Does it cut the fiber? Both?
Caffeine is a drug that builds a tolerance very quickly. So if you only have it every once in a while, you are going to get more out of any single dose.
This tool checks for the consistency of meta data on a blog, from both the feed (like RSS) and the embed metadata (such as OpenGraph).

I ran the tool on 800+ personal blogs I found; only ~50% passed with some warnings, and none pass without warning. I fixed my blog down to zero warning.
Rayiner, 70% of respondents in the last Oak Park election voted against "defunding" the Oak Park police. Biden carried Oak Park with 90% of our vote. He ran on fully funding the police; his campaign literally rebuked the "defund" movement. This simply isn't a partisan issue; it's a Twitter Elite issue that you elevate to beat up on. Yes, it is exclusively Democratic elites pushing "defund", just like it is exclusively Republicans pushing Catholic Integralism. It would be dishonest of me to claim that Catholic Integralism defines the Republican party.

You have a point with immigration! But you overplay your hand with the defund stuff. Democratic candidates who run on "defund" lose their primary elections everywhere except a tiny number of ultra-blue uncompetitive districts.
You can find many news articles as well that go into this as well

https://www.newsweek.com/woman-covid-symptom-food-taste-awfu...

Shop around for docs that do this because some charge quite a bit while other provide a good price
I'm not impressed at this particular demonstration for just that reason. Does WebP provide a savings against jpeg for these photos?

The important question: how does a WebP encoded screenshot look? if there's a huge field of a single color and some text written on the field, are there visible artifacts all around the text? This is a use case for PNG, and one where people can plainly see why a lossless format exists.
I’ve used BBEdit since, I think, 1997. Paid user since 2000, or so. Even since I retired from writing code regularly, every Cloudflare blog post’s first draft I’ve written started in BBEdit. Real or imagined, can’t stand the typing lag in any other editor I’ve tried to use. Great product!
The context of one is 'someone committed a thing a few weeks ago and it does a thing, according to someone posting to HN'. The context of the other is 'one of the biggest git users on the planet tells you there's git vuln, fix out right now'.
It's a process issue that a script like that is ~commonly used on production data. Processes should be in place where that's essentially impossible to do wrong. "oops I passed the wrong flag" isn't user error, that's system error that it was set up like that.
> I work in marketing. Marketing projects are inherently speculative, you don't know what they will achieve until they're done. Add to this that dev teams at every company have full sprints planned for months. Getting a marketing project done through the dev team is months of exertion and sweat.

Slightly off-topic: you basically just described why spreadsheets were such a huge deal when they were first introduced in the 1980s.
Trello? OpsGenie? Statuspage?