skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to be old to experience this problem. This was my take on
techno-clutter from a few months back:

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/techno-clutter-farnell...

A more funny story:

Back in school, when we were about 17 years old, another kid told me
that his Great Uncle had died, and caused him much stress. He'd never
met this distant relative, so I enquired, why was he worried? Great
Uncle Ben-Ali had named my school-friend, who he'd heard about only
through a grandparent but "taken a shine to", as the sole heir and
benefactor of his estate - 5 acres of harsh scrub land about 200 miles
into the mountains of Morocco containing a shack and two donkeys. He'd
received a letter, which was very specific that he was now responsible
for the welfare of the donkeys.

Today, this would probably be the start of a great scam, but this was
in the 1980s before people "had internet". Many people would have just
ignored the whole situation, but my friend, true to his conscience,
enlisted Arabic translators and sent letters back and forth to North
Morocco for months. Eventually the fate of the donkeys was secured.
It was agreed that Ben-Ali's neighbour, whose land they had already
wandered on to, would have the donkeys, and the shack would go back to
the village/local-government.
If you can’t pay competitively for competent people, then complain that nobody wants to work for you, I think the real problem is that your business is unviable since you can’t cover the costs to operate it
Unfortunately standard.

If you want to effect change you will need to understand what the board consider “business value” - things like return for investors (roi to private equity, share holders, etc.), executive salaries, topline/bottomline ratios, etc. etc.. it’s unlikely to be customer satisfaction, especially if they’ve hit status quo/plateaued Once you understand management’s incentives you can work out how to motivate them to change, focused on those incentives, working backwards from them and pairing them up to your own goals.

‘The First 90 Days’ is a great book that provides tools on how to do the information gathering effectively.
YouTube Tarot Official
Dall-E, AlphaGo/Chess is serious progress. Hyperfuturistic even.
In evaluating stocks, I always view a well-written analysis that is signed by a person who has obviously put some honest work into it, and I know, from my own research TO BE OBVIOUSLY WRONG, as an extremely bullish indicator for that stock. Put more simply, if a smart person gives one or more COMPLETELY WRONG reasons for avoiding a stock, buy it. Treat this article in a similar vein.
Moreover, I remember articles in the 80s, with an almost identical analysis about how Windows PC’s, which were by then ubiquitous, also lead to zero productivity growth. What happens is that the new technology is extremely productive to a group of experts, who aren’t particularly interested in disseminating their proprietary advantages. Eventually, “regular programmers” are tasked with writing similar applications, the good ones of which spread like wildfire.
You wrote four paragraphs assuming your parent comment urged authors to pass fiction for facts. There are tons of stylistic choices (using names like Bob and Alice, etc.) that make it clear when something is meant as an illustrative example. Let's not cancel the metaphor.

That aside, I'd be very concerned if someone took everything they read as truth unless declared otherwise. I think the overwhelmingly common behavior is to explicitly mark a real story, not the opposite.
What would be the added value of that app compared to already existing options? Where I live (Switzerland) there are already several nation-wide websites where you can publish ads for things you want to sell or give away. And it is absolutely free. Furthermore, as already mentioned in the thread, many charities can clean up a home if needed.
A normal VHS encodes about 100 million scan lines over 2 hours. 20 bytes per scan line sounds feasible, since there's somewhere around 200-300 'pixels' of luma available in each scan line.
I feel I have seen something like this in GTK-land.

I don't mean X11, maybe I'm thinking of the way to GTK-ify bash scripts.
> TensorFlow code can directly run on GPU. SymForce cannot.

I think this is just a matter of tweaking the code generator, and not a hard limitation of Symforce.
As I am not good with words, I am just gonna take this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492953

Specifically what I wanted to express, is that, for me, the turtles all the way down is what I understand as simplicity.

And yeah, simplicity alone can't be used as a value judgement.
VALO Hotel and Work
A new kind of hybrid hotel startup in Helsinki, Finland.
Unfortunately the issue of race is right underneath the surface in Australia. Morrison knew very well what forces he was playing with and luckily he overplayed his hand.
So Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocquevill, touring the US at a time (1831) when Women, Black people, Jews, White men without property etc. were regularly unable to vote concludes that the big issue of concern is that the democratic majority might pass laws affecting a minority? That seems almost perverse.

Yes, but what if we freed the hostages and then they all went out and kidnapped someone? Then we (we being the previous kidnappers) would be no better off! Probably best not to rush into this new fangled democracy thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in...

He's literally and openly writing a book on how with his guidance a democracy can run a society as 'well' as an aristocracy does.
Why Voice Assistants Need to Understand Accents
I hail from a long line of hoarders - it so happens that the three previous generations all experienced war and associated loss of all possessions.

I know what to do with the mass-produced stuff like furniture, souvenirs and electronics, but I'm going to have a hard time parting with with things my parents made themselves.

Myself, I include the cost of space occupied by each item I'm considering buying. With the real estate prices being what they are it's a great way to limit the amount of new stuff pouring in.
The exact spelling of correct use of concepts differs from in the example code, but dwelling on it distracts from the valuable point.

It is not correct to say that C++ concepts are duck-typed. They can be used in a sort of duck-typed way, if you choose to. But it is not the normal way to use them. And, using them only as far as Rust's built-in checking can go wastes most of their expressive power, which is unavailable to Rust coders.
Here's something similar, created from the same dataset (ERA5):

https://climate-explorer.oikolab.com - I created this to show how temperature has changed for any arbitrary location of interest. Working on adding CMIP6 projection too.
That was Carbide IIRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide.c%2B%2B

You could always tell who was using it in the office because their laptop fans would be at full blast.
The only big one I can think of is GitHub, whose new API is GraphQL.
> I'm not sure what you mean by language hints.

Because of the han unification, you can tell the font renderer which language context you're in and want things to be rendered. MSWord shows you the language in the status bar at the bottom, which is not only used for spell checking.
In html, you can add the lang attribute to a tag to tell the browser what language the contained glyphs belong to.

> do you actually believe they would have the fonts with traditional glyphs in them installed and used at all? What for?

Because ever since Vista, these come pre-installed regardless of your locale.

> Do you seriously think CCP officials have a fleet of Macs to check document appearance in case they are leaked and/or scan documents for "enemy" Unicode points?

I don't believe anything in particular, just adding technical context. The documents could also have been leaked through Taiwan or Hong Kong and then mangled there resulting in this.
Ask HN: Would FPGAs be relevant for AGI?
I think the ability to modify code while it's running and ability to "rearrange" hardware would be useful for something that can modify itself.

However I have not worked with FPGAs yet so I wonder if I'm grossly overestimating their intent.
I think I understand your feeling. The thing that makes me most empathetic with my family and friends is visiting them at their house and witnessing their struggling with stuff. It looks like a physical equivalent to the emotions and feelings in which we often find ourselves entrapped.

A light dose of psychedelics does wonders for me in this regard. I’ll suddenly look at my place and see as if for the first time that thing that’s been laying around for weeks. “Oh, I put it there because I was anxious for this and that. Of course that’s not its place. Let’s move it where it belongs.” I love my mostly empty house, there’s so much space to move around and breathe.
Modern SQL: A lot has changed since SQL 92
Surprised they don’t handle App-Billing like Shopify does from a first look at the docs. Is this on the roadmap so that devs can directly charge for their app?
You can still do that, but maybe not publish your method.
Too bad it's not low profile switches. There aren't enough of those.
I’m non-US and am sadly desensitised. When things like this appear in the news, I think “What is ‘new’ about this?” Of course, if I actually pay attention it is heartbreaking, but I suppose not paying (much) attention a self-defence mechanism on my part not to let the long-term decisions of a frankly weird group of people break my heart.
This is all fundamentally driven by the Red Queen effect. If you focus on quality living, somebody else will just sprint a bit harder and destroy you.
Throughout my career I always relied on recruiters in two ways.

1. They help me find jobs.
2. ASK them what technology frameworks they are being asked for.

Number 2 has been more beneficial than number 1, it has allowed me to have insight into what is a valuable framework to learn next.

Take time to befriend and talk to recruiters, it is a two way street with many of them.
> It's hard to understand what the tweet is suggesting unless you read the entire thread

You linked to one tweet, which directly started talking about the traditional vs simplified characters. I don't see how there is much context missing.
This is kind of what Copilot does for github, with AI in between to search for appropriate code. Perhaps SE could be added to their input data.
I can't say I haven't been tempted in that direction. How's the tuning stability? Does it track v/octave well across a wide frequency range?
Yes, they are, but the issue is it’s so intertwined between the people in EA funds and their supported charities its hard to not be skeptical.
Leftover paint exposed to temperature extremes is unlikely to last longer than a year or two.
It is clear you do not understand the concepts feature in C++, so cannot meaningfully compare it to anything in Rust.

It is no sin not to understand something, unless you go on to pontificate about it.
> Which does make me wonder where all the good tools go.

Now I'm imagining tool companies sending people around to garage sales and estate sales to buy up good used tools to landfill them so that they can sell not so good new tools.
Typesetting seems fine to me? What's the issue? Wouldn't mind the lines being shorter but it's to be expected from a textbook.
> I have a set of strongly held opinions about certain things that may or may not be considered socially acceptable and when people I actually know that I care about are experiencing particularly bad consequences as a result of secondary or tertiery effects that "derive from" from views (in the sense of legislation being passed that is in line with the views that I hold, or anything adjacent from this) as such, I sometimes loosen up - isn't this pretty reasonable, natural given that we empathize with people we know more than people we don't know?

I'd say that it is natural to empathize more with people we know. I'd also say that it is totally unreasonable to ignore what is happening to other people when forming ones opinion on something. Maybe it is normal but I can not understand why you would think that it is in any way reasonable.
And that's how you get auctions where all the bidders are personal friends of the judical officer.
An Overview of Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism (2021)
Recently I opened a Full HD video in a web browser, connected my laptop to a TV using an HDMI cable, moved the browser window over to the TV screen, and watched the video. And it just worked, with sound and all. I didn't have to download or configure anything, neither on the computer nor on the TV. That would have been utterly unbelievable 20 years ago, bordering on magic (especially the no-download/no-configuration part).
You could try this, also Frida-based: https://github.com/SySS-Research/hallucinate
My student loan payments will probably be around $1200 a month after I graduate and a studio apartment in my pretty small city is $900 without utilities. I could probably survive on a $35k salary but I'd have to switch to income based repayment on my loans which would suck because I'd like to eventually be able to buy a house
Computer Built in Conway's Game of Life
Ashes: WebGL2.0 3D Engine – RayTracing
The lesson is that one should at least make an attempt to make websites usable.
I think you maybe overstate it, but I agree Paxos is nicer than Raft. The papers in which we outlines it are awful though.

Raft is more understandable, because they wrote a paper that was easy to understand. You are much better off reading Heidi Howard to understand Paxos, than Lamport.
> These things are so frequent I wonder if American people are just desensitised to this senseless and abominable violence.

There has been roughly one school shooting per week somewhere in the US in 2022 so far. Yes, most Americans are at this point desensitized. That's why I don't think there can be a shooting big enough to want gun restrictions en-masse. School shootings like these don't do it; Mass shootings like the recent Buffalo one, or the Vegas shooting a few years back, don't do it.
Just used Deno for a blog[0] and am using Deno for another project. It’s great.

[0]: https://github.com/neuenet/blog
It takes two to tango. If you want to get paid, become someone who's useful.

This attitude where employees sit like bags of potatoes waiting for knowledge to permeate their brains via osmosis is awful.
Compiling the NetBSD Kernel as a Benchmark
I think you need to disable SIP to get a Frida based approach to work on MacOS

And while not MacOS this eBPF based approach is interesting https://mobile.twitter.com/quarkslab/status/1527726910997815...
You only wish it was 10x.
Oh, I had tons of them. When my parents decided to move out of their house, I had a blast going through the stuff and remembering things. Still, except for my LEGO bricks, everything went into the trash.

I do not have the space to keep a lot of stuff.
imagine not using an ad blocker
As someone who is building a cloud-based dev environment solution, to be honest, I am really thrilled to see tech giants making such big splashes.

It is impossible to ignore the trend that the software we develop is getting more and more complex. It will take longer and longer for an engineer to set up the local dev environment until it is almost impossible for a new hired engineer to do so. More importantly, once you reach a complexity scale, even the most high-end macbook pro cannot run the software we develop locally anymore.

At Nimbus, we are simply following and accelerating that trend with our cloud-based dev environment solution. I deeply believe that within 3-5 years, it will be a more common to develop on a cloud-based dev environment than on our laptops.
So if revenues are increasing for companies that trade in the cheapest consumer goods, and personal savings rates are increasing, wouldn't that more likely indicate a widening gap?
Saunas filled with stuff like warehouses arouse unpleasant feelings in me, and sometimes actually offend :D

I guess I'm a sensitive Finn :)
Do FPGAs support any rearranging while working?
Why not having relatively easy hardware (close to Turing Machine) and omnipotent software part? Take in mind that when your AGI starts to enslaving humanity, it will need lots of hardware for the sake of scaling and exotic hardware might be a problem from that point of view.
OMG that is so ... I don't even know. Is it over-engineering to use a static 16-entry perfect hash of file name extensions to filter out the five supported languages?

It's at least somewhat obscure, in the sense that adding support for another language becomes quite involved.

It would be interesting to micro-bench this code against something more naïve that just strcmp()s the extension against a list of known strings, or something.
Oh, I definitely try to help, although it is very very important to be respectful.

One friend showed me a bag with a heap of kiwi fruit fluff they had collected a decade ago. Nothing to see here.

One friend had too many tables, so I thought it might help them to grok the absurdity of that if I gave them a bunch more tables (tables which someone else was discarding): that didn’t work because they now have tables stacked up on one another. Nice enough tables, but I feel bad. Also it is very likely I will help them move . . .

I am semi-retired, but I still need to take care I am not wasting my time.

The free trailer load to the dump is fun mental jujutsu because dumping stuff isn’t cheap: someone who just can’t pass up a bargain trying to choose stuff to throw out for free! Needs a believable reason why it is “free” e.g. neighbour already paid me, or work is paying for it.

I haven’t done the book one exactly, but I have done similar.
Turn Mouse Events into Art
> Because this statement uses "exists" on the property, it does not rule out the existence of a y which works for most properties P that we'd care about. It only rules out one that works for all properties.

Translated: there exists a computational model weaker than TM but strong enough to implement programs we care about.

Unfortunately, we don't know such computational model and we know empirically surprisingly many problems require a TM (ie. surprisingly many languages are accidentally Turing complete)
Money is fungible. A dollar spent on a nuke is a dollar not available to spend on building out renewables.

Germany wisely chose to build out renewables, in preference to spending those dollars propping up those ramshackle old nukes.
Without a doubt, C programmers have different styles. And there's disagreement about what to do when an expression gets too long.

However, almost no C programmer would stack and hang their closing curly braces the way Lisp programmers do with closing parens. And for the few exceptions you'll find, they're almost certainly Lisp programmers making a point about not doing what the Romans do when they're in Rome.

> In short, there is almost nothing arbitrary about the way I'm formatting anything.

Heh, I didn't mean it as an attack on you. I meant it how the rest of us perceive it. Forgive me :-)

I guess it's only natural that you should defend your own style. I'm just curious if maybe part of the reason Lisp is so objectionable to most programmers is because that style is so different from block structured languages.

Many people here seem to like Python. So they think this is fine:

def doit(n):
for i in range(n):
print(i)

Many fewer people seem to like Lisp. So maybe this is less likeable for some reason:

(def (doit n)
(for i in (range n)
(print i)))

Ok, so is this more likeable?

(def (doit n)
(for i in (range n)
(print i)
)
)

Just curious.

> Even if I wanted to experiment with four space indents in Lisp, the editor I use wouldn't support it.

That's pretty circular though... Lisp programmers expect a certain indentation, so editors provide it.
I have not expected such a foundations for just a logo.
At Nimbus, our solution for individuals will be released very soon. I am happy to get you on a free trial even before the release if you are interested.
> This incentivizes writing code in Assembly, and prevented me from writing code in Java.

Go and Rust can compile for Linux on s390x (64-bit zArch). Support for the proprietary zOS platform might be more of a challenge.
Twitter (used to?) recommend accounts to follow (I remember Obama, Shakira, WaPo, and I'm sure NYT) when you sign up with a new account, and those accounts probably have highly inflated number of followers with extremely low engagement (new users don't always stock around).
Real salary decreases happen in life, too.

That's actually the reality for most people.
It's a good point that aliasing issues may show up as different warnings, like maybe-uninitialized in the example. Those warnings are often not obvious at all.
We are doing useful things with them. The price of manufactured goods has plummeted, driven largely by automation and control. Maybe we don't really see that because first world cost of living has largely risen to match, driven mostly by housing and energy costs and healthcare. But in the less developed world, people can afford a lot more manufactured goods than they could 30 years ago. Which is at least partly because in absolute terms, those goods cost very little.

Sure, a TV 30 years ago was still "just" a rectangular screen, but if you lived in rural Slovenia, you still probably couldn't afford one. Now, it's probably still expensive to you to get a basic flat panel TV, but it's not as wildly unaffordable as it was - adjusting for inflation, TVs are 10x cheaper today then 1985. And this doesn't only go for electronics, loads of things cost less and are more available. The only things that might not be are things like raw materials and energy where supply, demand and other factors keep prices high over time.

For example aluminium was $0.60/lb in the 80s, now it's $1.40. This is actually a slight drop in price after inflation ($0.60 then is $1.61) but certainly not as cheap as you'd expect if the only factors were production efficiency.

Of course a lot of micros do end up in complete junk. Which is sad for a lot of reasons, not only the environmental costs but also the wasted human effort of designing the disposable Bluetooth-enabled dog toothbrush in the first place.
Don't read what's written the way it suits you in order to come out as a better person, also commenting on someone's business with literally 0 facts means only that you're posting from an image you created in which you're good and me - evil.

Competent people are worth every penny and then some. We're all talking about incompetent ones who throw a huge shadow over the competent ones.

I think you're aware of that but you still posted what you posted. Thank you for the compassion and understanding. Guilty before trial, that's the way we do it, right? :)
Fact Check-The World Economic Forum does not have a police force
The good quality large-scale ones like AVO are wonderful to use.
Here comes another post to promote "own nothing" era.
There are lots of real-world cases where type-based alias analysis produces not just better, but even just "decent" code. Example:

void add_all(float **x, float **y, int m, int n) {
for (int i = 0; i < m; i++)
for (int j = 0; i < n; i++)
x[i][j] += y[i][j];
}

without TBAA cannot be optimized to

void add_all(float **x, float **y, int m, int n) {
for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) {
float *xi = x[i], *yi = y[i];
for (int j = 0; i < n; i++)
xi[j] += yi[j];
}

Or for overflow, "x[i] = 0;" cannot be compiled to "movl [x+RAX*4], 0" if i is an "unsigned int".
Thank you for posting this.

Where, please where, should I be learning Lisp? I'm getting deeper and deeper into Org mode and with that the whole Emacs train.
Let's not act like if the democrats started the ball rolling on inflatable. That was all trump with him pressuring the fed to keep interest rates low and this tax cuts.

You get to say roe v Wade repeal is ok because you're a guy so women's rights be damned. It doesn't ever affect you.
Edging Toward Japan: Is this how you say 'I love you' in Japanese?