skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love these.

A side note: the GOTO paper is misunderstood by modern (non-)readers, much as the writings of Adam smith would horrify most of his contemporary advocates. At the time Dijkstra wrote it, it was common for functions to have multiple entry points as well as multiple exits (as they still do today). In addition, due to the limits of memory, the importance of the not yet named DRY principle was extreme, not for today’s reason (clarity and maintainability) but simply to use less program memory, so people would jump willy-nilly into unrelated blocks of code just to avoid writing stuff out. You can still do these things in assembly (as was common back then) but modern languages make it hard to do.
Does that makes us happier? I believe that’s what matters in the end and having more spare time not always equate to more happiness, surprisingly, if you look at statistics the more developed countries report lower happiness scores. Happiness is a trip, not a destination.
This (presumably) refers to "Good ol' Fashioned AI" aka Symbolic AI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...) . It's a bit of an over-simplification to say it's a bunch of if statements, but it does involve encoding a bunch of rules/symbols by humans (as opposed to learning from data). It's a largely dead paradigm, though aspects of it are still found in various modern approaches (eg task and motion planning, knowledge bases, etc.) often in combination with learning approaches.
>The “code:0xBADDD15C” looks like it could be an arbitrary hexadecimal value, but it’s an example of an error code designed to both uniquely identify and suggest a mnemonic clue to the underlying issue. Apple documents many of these codes, which include 0xc00010ff (cool off), 0xdead10cc (deadlock), and 0xbaadca11 (bad call).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/understandin...

Nice!
"Make 'git checkout' of the top level repo also set the submodules to the contents they should have for that top level commit hash" is probably the main change I'd want. The current setup means that checking out a branch or doing a git bisect gives you an inconsistent source tree, which seems like a really unhelpful behaviour.
What a nice piece of whataboutism. The argument is not that nothing else is polluting and/or wasteful.
Yeah, but I wouldn't care too much about the absolute bottom or short term price. Short term is impossible to predict, but it's also quite pointless to worry about. In the long term, this is a very cheap price.
Two bits of history I learned from the article:

1. The last human to touch the spacecraft was a physicist inspecting two detectors — probably part of the low-energy telescope system (LET).

Although many scientists have worked on the Voyagers over the decades, Cummings can make a unique claim. “I was the last person to touch the spacecraft before they launched,” he says. Cummings was responsible for two detectors designed to measure the flux of electrons and other charged particles when the Voyagers encountered the giant planets. Particles would pass through a small “window” in each detector that consisted of aluminum foil just three microns thick. Cummings worried that technicians working on the spacecraft might have accidentally dented or poked holes in the windows. “So they needed to be inspected right before launch,” he says. “Indeed, I found that one of them was a little bit loose.”

2. Carl Sagan not only commented on the “Pale Blue Dot” but also persuaded NASA to take the photograph in the first place.

Sagan urged NASA officials to have Voyager 1 transmit one last series of images. So, on Valentine's Day in 1990, the probe aimed its cameras back toward the inner solar system and took 60 final shots. The most haunting of them all, made famous by Sagan as the “Pale Blue Dot,” captured Earth from a distance of 3.8 billion miles. It remains the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken. Veiled by wan sunlight that reflected off the camera's optics, Earth is barely visible in the image. It doesn't occupy even a full pixel.

Sagan, who died in 1996, “worked really hard to convince NASA that it was worth looking back at ourselves,” Spilker says, “and seeing just how tiny that pale blue dot was.”
I had the exact same problem!

Which features did you find annoying specifically? I want this to be "the original article page, but more readable and customisable", not a separate reader mode. I'm curious where that failed for you.
Can wines from bad vintages be good investments?
Because magnetic fields interact with electrically charged, or electrically conductive things too. Strong enough magnetic fields will induce eddy currents in your brain and make you taste metal (don't have a reference handy; this is a known symptom of certain high-field MRI's and there's probably an HN thread about it). Turn up the field a few orders of magnitude, and the Ohmic heating from induced currents will vaporize you.

Magnetars are so far beyond merely "vaporized", there's no adequate language for "deforms and tears apart the electron orbitals of your constituent atoms"; I guess "melt" is close enough for pop science! Basically, you're no longer "matter" in the conventional sense of the word -- you're no longer made of (recognizable) atoms.
I used UUCP on a Kaypro 10 CP/M machine in the early 90s to access email at a local ISP. It took some doing to get set up, but worked really well.
Can't be him even with a time machine, ASCII is missing 4 letters of his language.
Can you explain in more detail how it sounds like Maxwell's Demon? There's nothing that sounds like it sorts the air particles, so I don't see the connection.
Disagree that FB is a net negative, but it doesn't really matter since FB came over a decade later. I doubt MSFT antitrust would have had any predictable effect on anything that far in the future. Amazon came just two years later and GOOG 3-4.
Maybe, i was watching it on my phone, not sure what i can do as a user other than ask people to record / upload their videos in another format.
Good points, it hopefully will lead to metamaterials that are at least better than currents solutions
> there is only nation that exists for the sole purpose of protecting the inalienable rights of the individual

I didn't know we were talking about France here :D
I really don't think that's true. Everyone in the US has access to smartphones. They may not have large blocks of leisure time, but technology allows the average social media user to be scrolling for over two hours a day. You might not be able to live comfortably on 1 wage, but household responsibilities take much less time due to innovation. Obviously everything isn't rosy, but it's not really like we have less leisure time.
Marketing.
Think how often you read developers who scoff at marketing, right up to the point they try and launch a product and it struggles to gain traction.
Marketing seems sleazy, cheap or simple, when in fact it's none of those things. Value creation is in huge part marketing, because if your users either don't know or don't care about the product, it isn't creating value...

Very much like programming, the only way to learn marketing is by doing it. You can read and Youtube your whole life, but it's only when you decide you're going to put it in practice that you discover that what marketing actually demands is courage. It takes courage to put yourself and your product out there, and it doesn't even matter what that product is. It could be a newsletter, it could be a software project, it could be a side hustle, it could be your twitter account.

You can get started by listening to some of Seth Godin and Jay Abraham, at least to see marketing for what it really is.
Yeah, Bitcoin got ahead of itself a little bit. I thought it's going to $10k when I bought it in 2011, still think so today.

But keep in mind, blockchain, unlike a company, is eternal.
> That's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business.

The NLRB disagrees with you. Look up the James Damore case.
Every decade or so I wonder what's up with that effort.

Doug Lenat left Stanford and moved to Texas to focus on Cyc... and I always wonder when he'll return triumphantly to Silicon Valley with a "100% complete" knowledge base in hand :)
Not entirely OP. If you're using them for industrial purposes, they are very hard. And if you're using them for jewelery, the same logic applies.

So go ahead and get a giant Cubic zirconia or whatever if you want to show that you've got a partner you care about, just don't make people live in literal slavery, shitting into a mesh filter after their shift in the diamond mine so you can show off that three months of salary is in your "work".

The people you'll still want by your side a decade or two later would take that money and get on a flight to Tokyo, not wear it on their hand and then feel a need to tote around a giant purse with a hand cannon in it and live in a house with a literal panic room because they've so thoroughly pillaged society that the barbarians might show up at the gate.
I see iup-go too has a treeview, but it won't compile, complaining about having been compiled with another version of macos.
True, but the comment implied that people would buy 10x more avocados if their fortune tripled ten times and so a 10x price hike was needed to keep avocados in stock. This is not how eating habits work.
Russia Pulls Out All the Stops to Find Fresh Troops
Definitely the most common one in the states. I'm broke, but all this is the same, minus eating at restaurants. You'd have to go to countries where modern appliances aren't ubiquitous for most of these time-savers not to exist.
Public Access Unix History
I think part of the reason they sold insanely expensive Apple Watches is that they wanted to compete with luxury watches. Of course, the functionality is very different; the similarity is that both are methods of conspicuous consumption.

I’m not an Apple Watch fan myself (still clutching my Pebble for dear life), but I can understand why the uber-expensive Apple Watches would appeal to a certain audience.
> Hype: "We need big data systems to handle big data."

I do not get this one. It's incorrect by definition: "Big data refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. "

If you do not need a big data system, then it's not big data.
So you're saying it's not a monetary phenomenon in the countries without QE.

Which means you admit there's a mechanism for inflation without it being a monetary phenomenon. Which means that it's possible that it's not a monetary phenomenon in the US.
Very solid text book +1
Compensation for software developers in the US is mostly bimodal. You either end up in enterprise dev (banks, government, other non tech companies) where you start out at around $60K and then on average max out at the mid $100s - ie the “Dark Matter developers” - or you end up working for a tech company where you start out in the mid 100s and max out at 400K-$500K+.

The “1000s of jobs” are the enterprise dev jobs. And I’m not judging those. That’s what I did all of my career until a couple of years ago.

If we are talking in the context of software engineers being paid “very well”, I don’t consider those to be a substitution
> so basically you're rich beyond your wildest dreams now?

Doubt it. People who've made a thousandfold gain probably think that's the best it is going to do, so they sell.

If you bought into BTC at $1, chances are you never held it all the way up to $20k.
This is one of my favorite reasonably recent Voyager anecdote, from a recent special about the program.

Paraphrasing, the person said "You carry more computing power in your pocket than what we have on Voyager. And by that, I don't mean your smart phone. I mean you car key fob."
While true, all these things are process/methodology issues; they will happen with 'yes-code' development too but possibly show up later if the process of creating is slower than the no/low code software is. I have seen all the things mentioned here in code and in low code environments. Not sure if there is enough data to show it is more in one or the other (yet).
No one is forced to use Facebook. If you believe Facebook is causing harm to people you know, talk to them about it and try to persuade them that they are being harmed.

Personally, I've never felt Facebook was doing me more harm than good, or I would have stopped using it. I have a theory that underlying most calls for regulations is actually disbelief or disapproval in the choices other individuals freely make. The "victims" rarely seem to be the ones calling for the regulations.
> I work risk management for a large UK fund.

Oh, that's ok then, carry on, user 'valdiorn' has spoken and it's ok for funds to invest a significant amount of their holdings into BTC.

Or did you miss the word 'significant'?
Or having built a city on a precarious place that shouldn't have been for human dwelling by any conceivable reason, and yet it is. That people insist on living in these places is a testament to the value of human occupation as such.

(I live in a city that's mostly built on what was the ocean two hundred years ago (sometimes fifty years ago) but won by civil engineering. It's a big empty country otherwise. We're basically below the sea level and maintaining underground infrastructure (electricity, fiber optic, heating gas, what have you) is a constant source of noise -- even the cable company has to have its draining machine vans. But by golly do we want to live here whatever the costs.
Toonstruck definitely felt like old hat at the time when it came out. Adventure games were a dying genre; meanwhile,
the same year we got games like Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, and Command & Conquer.

One of my favorite games from that year was also an adventure game: The Neverhood. It was weird, highly original, and innovative. It was, I felt at the time, a game that could herald a new direction for adventure games. It was puzzle-based but also felt strangely immersive.

Another game that felt groundbreaking was Tomb Raider, even though its puzzles weren't very interesting.
> "Profiling - Your online behavior can be used to serve you specific content or ads. This was particularly important in the 2016 Donald Trump campaign"

No references, I'm afraid I stopped reading there. Sorry.
Because every TV in every space in your office has a mini display port cable hanging out of it for you to plug into?
> people watch Netflix while doing other things or when when they are already tired. I turn on tv or listen podcasts when cooking or cleaning or am doing other boring activities

You don't think this counts as leisure time? Cooking while listening to music or a podcast is much more enjoyable than doing it in silence.
The ability of SHRDLU to follow its user's instructions remains unsurpassed by modern systems.
I think the family tree example would work better upside down, as you can easily state a problem that is obviously more intuitive to solve recursively (depth first search).

Start by defining a node object (a person) which contains a name and a list of their offspring (other nodes).

Find if the given starting node or any of their descendants have a certain first name, or some other property.
> So every business associated with crypto is untrustworthy?

Yes. If it's provenance is unverifiable (it is), and there's no evidence that the money being pumped into it exists (there isn't), then anything even adjacent to it is implicitly exposed to counter-party risk and therefore untrustworthy.

This is without even considering the fact that there's substantial evidence to suggest that most of the money being pumped in does not exist (cough tether cough).

Exchanges make money while the plates are spinning, and they make significantly less in bear markets, none of which guarantees your exit.

If a bank fails it's dissolved and guaranteed deposits get first preference when administrators sift through the wreckage. If a crypto exchange even looks like it might fai.. oops boating accident.

What's hilarious to me is that Saylor still gets asked on live television if he's worried about a margin call. He laughs it off and says something like "oh no, we're not close to that and very liquid" which really means "lol no I'll just say oopsie doopsie some intern lost the key". The people that lent to him are beyond belief stupid.

How are you all still drinking the koolaid?
The slippery slope/edge case arguments. These things seem to be so complex in America. They're not.

Can you loan a rifle to a buddy for a hunting weekend? Yes, as long as your buddy has his gun licence. Otherwise a hard no, as there's no proof your buddy has a damn clue about gun safety. And of course you, a licenced gun owner, can supervise your buddy while he shoots if he doesn't have a licence. Same for teaching your kids to shoot safely.

Can that hunting rifle be an AR-15? No. Military assault rifles are not needed for hunting. You can use a bolt action rifle, or even a low powered semi-auto, .22. If you have special requirements - like hunting feral hogs from a helicopter - then you can apply for a special class of licence that allows you to possess said weapons, and use them for said purpose.

Are there red flag rules? Obviously! Why would you let a disturbed individual have a lethal weapon?

Can people still have their guns? Yes! But they must be stored in a secure gun safe, and some weapons (e.g pistols/concealable weapons), due to the risks they present, must be treated separately. You certainly can't carry your gun on your shoulder into the supermarket.

And so it goes. The solutions to America's gun problem are obvious - from the outside.
Banks obviously have a lot of financial data at their disposal to use how they see fit. But out of curiosity I checked my bank website which falls under this category and there were only 2-3 trackers picked up by my browser and extensions.
I might invest in some backup propane heaters as well (a buddy heater at Walmart is pretty affordable and is safe for indoor use). I feel like in blizzard-like conditions having electricity be your backup plan might not be too wise.
This time line won't happen . By the time we acheive immortallity we would have figured out how to be blissed out of our minds
Exactly. And I have no idea if OP is well educated in what these terms even means, or if they just know what they've seen on TV. But what they are describing in their posts makes me stand by my term. Which doesn't really matter - the point is to get help.
I don't use submodules, but I do use git repositories inside other git repositories, and let IntelliJ manage them both simultaneously as if they were two different projects. Works fine.

I once enabled it as submodule to test. It adds nothing and from that moment any change in the child creates a change in the parent, which for my use case is totally unnecessary (I want both of them to be independent, even if hierarchically one is inside the other).

Submodules are probably a good option to have libraries that you rarely touch, so you can update/modify them as with a maven/gradle project. For most other user cases submodules make more problems that advantages.
Just as we're worried about being a single planet civilization that could be wiped by an asteroid, maybe they'd worry about being a single star system civilization that could be wiped out by a single disaster. So far it seems like life is not everywhere, so there should be many uninhabited planets for the taking.
Mimosas aren’t that good, calling bullshit on this.
Oh, you must be right. I was finally able to find this on Mitsubishi's site:

https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/residential/products/ducte...

And that says it's compatible with some "hyper-heat" outdoor units. So apparently they do offer both.
Pull, merge, rebase, push with local commits is what almost everyone cares about.
I find the space-age to be super fascinating! The Venera program is one favourite, where they managed to put a lander on Venus more than 50 years ago and send back data.

Just imagine the skills and knowledge with the technology at the time, to figure out how to land something safely in an unknown environment. Love it!
China Based TikTok Workers Allegedly Had Access to US User Data
I'm more-less fine now, and compelling issue is resocialization. That's where I'm either forced to act, or remain aloof weirdo.

Never submitted my problems to a psychiatrist because if I said them out loud I would be in mental institution (paranoid schizophrenia).
The title is also very weird, considering that Voyager 1 and 2 have been shutting down instruments since 1990 and 1991, respectively: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/thirty-year-pla...
Anti-Piracy Jobs from £10/Hr to ‘Let’s Talk ££’, There’s No Shortage in the UK
Window units really only exist at all because of buildings that can't accommodate better designs for either practical or legal reasons. There's just no amount of innovation that can make it so that having the intake and the outtake right next to each other without a nearly perfectly sealed box on one side (ie. a fridge or a freezer) is gonna be anything but a big ugly noisy energy gobbler.

If you can't have central, you should have mini-split, and that's where all your problems get solved. If you can't get mini-split because your landlord won't let you drill conduit to outside then you're just kinda stuck and the laws of thermodynamics are your enemy, not a lack of innovation.
The problem with submodules is that they're read-write. Read-only submodules would be completely fine.
I can see how it can differ for everyone. For some people, there's value in just learning about new things and not necessarily "exercising" that skill in a community or making a dent in the culture. Think of it like learning to paint or make music, but not necessarily wanting to impacting the art world or becoming a performer.
Sure, in many cases that's the right thing to do. From the outside, however, major retrofits like that are going to look a lot like the construction that the article is taking about
what kind of ai and crypto projects do you work on? just curious.

i have a similar story.
I sometimes wonder how far is Musk from naming something Voice of the Whirlwind.
I think there's an interesting story to be told in how Winograd started with "pure AI" approaches to language understanding like SHRDLU, gave it up in frustration, and then helped to found the field of human-computer interaction.

In some ways, HCI has much more modest and applied goals than AI. In other ways, HCI has had a much larger impact on many more computer users and developers in recent decades. Stanford's Symbolic Systems program effectively became the training ground for Google product managers and other consumer tech companies with strong UI/UX roles.
Ah yes, let's shift the obligation of being aware onto the people who are traditionally lacking in education. Cool, let the exploitation continue
Cross border activity was much higher pre-euro crisis. Cross-border interbank lending is down 40%. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2130.en.pdf
There also seems to be a bug that eats up free disk space, until restart. I've experienced it on my Intel MBP, which slowly goes from 20+ GB available to zilch. I assumed it was related to swap performance, but my wife is now seeing the same issue on her M1 MBP (on which she doesn't even use all of her 16 GB of physical RAM). On her machine, it eats up nearly 100 GB of space before forcing a restart. Has anyone else had this issue, or figured it out?
> as Bitcoin tends to be cyclical and peaks 2 years after a halving event.

Watch out for cargo culting.
A genetic module in rice protects chloroplasts to enhance thermotolerance
> Not everything that we're paying for is valuable and not everything valuable is being paid for.

Honestly all of these threads could be distilled into this simple point. Way more concise than what I wrote that’s for sure haha.