skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Landings this catastrophic [...]

Size also throttles the consequences of impact - the mice bounce, humans break, horses splash pattern.

Other fun is the short jump distance-compared-with-body-length - inertial mass vs drag goes as L^3 vs L^2. And short legs encourage high takeoff accelerations - flea jumps are bottlenecked on 100+ G tolerance.

Mating calls can also be size-bottlenecked in creation. Smaller crocodilians used to exist, but extinctions left only those with long-range infrasound calls. Which you have to be long to make. So adult males have been trapped large. Perhaps they too will someday escape.
Yes.

The depth of BMW diagnosis tools is impressive.

Even more impressive has been the work of scapy around the debug and diagnosis protocols BMW uses.

Check it out: https://github.com/secdev/scapy/blob/master/scapy/contrib/au...
Thank god solving customer problems has taken over the tech-ceo job, starting with tech is usually a bad idea, even when it is innovative (crypto-ponzi as an example)
The sea level was lower then. Encroaching water probably destroyed and scattered a great deal of the material that made up previously-coastal settlements - but perhaps not all. Searching in shallow waters a few hundred meters out from the modern coastline is a good strategy.
> . . . post WWII[1], most Americans outside of those in rural areas[2] could not afford to home their own home[3]. Suburbs are the exact opposite of an elitist policy[4], and in fact the overwhelming majority of Americans . . . live in the suburbs[5].

[1] Note that home prices wobbled a bit but were relatively even from the recovery after WWI and the flu through the early 60s. Income over that time increased significantly (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/16-05intax.pdf). Things change rapidly after that. I think it suggests a more complicated situation than "it all changed post WWII."

https://voxeu.org/article/home-prices-1870

[2] About half of the country. Nothing like today.

https://getrawmilk.com/content/urbanization-usa-rural-vs-urb...

[3] Affordable because of VA and FHA loans after the war. And increasing wages. And flat housing prices.

[4] Actually, the FHA (#3) mainstreamed redlining. That's pretty darned elitist.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/mapmaker-r...

[5] We're mostly suburban in the same way we're all middle class, smart, and attractive: self-description, but not any objective measure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/u-s-is-ma...
I suppose it reveals that the sentience of others is not knowable to us, it’s a conclusion we reach from their behavior and the condition of the world around us. Until recently, certain kinds of things, like writing about your memories, were only possible for humans to do. So if a non-sentient thing does those things, it is confusing. Especially so to the generations that remember when no bots could do this.

I expect that people who grow up knowing that bots can be like this will be a bit less ready to accept communication from a stranger as genuinely from a human, without some validation of their existence, outside the text itself. And for the rest of humanity there will be an arms race around how humanness can be proven in situations where AI could be imitating us. This is a huge bummer but idk hope that need can be avoided at this point.

That said, it’s still very clear that a machine generating responses from models does not matter and has no rights, whereas a person does. Fake sentience will still be fake, even if it claims it’s not and imitates us perfectly. The difference matters.
"A taste of freedom can make you unemployable." - Naval Ravikant
Sure but the rules can’t be the same everywhere. They vary based on your zone, literally. That’s the entire point.

What you are describing is just zoning.
Peru and Chile fought a war over seabird guano:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific
One interpretation is that pg was hilariously wrong in 2001, and that similar arguments in 2022 are unlikely to hold water in and of themselves. The particulars might be true in any single instance, but pg’s qualities for success are obviously not necessary.
I think what you read is the key here. Mindless reading of text messages, news headlines and social media posts is very different cognitively than reading actual literature, something like Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
It is easily arguable that all of our intellects are an advanced autocomplete by these definitions.

The outcome of these debates in a generation will be to have less mythology about our own minds rather than any algorithm rising to the level of our contemporary sentimentality for them.
You seem to have ruled out the obvious choice of "downstream projects just don't update." We update the projects we need the new library behavior in. There's no reason to touch the other 20 until there's some new behavior they do need.

I don't really see this as a mono vs. multi repo issue either. In a mono repo you can still choose which projects update and the more you choose the bigger the diff and more involved the review process. In a multi repo case you can build analogous tooling to generate downstream MRs automatically.

If you need to touch every downstream project regularly just to keep things functional, you don't have a mono-repo, you have a monolith. (Which can also be fine, really! But it's not the same thing at all.)

(Yes, I know with 25 projects we're nowhere near Uber scale. But based on my experience at larger companies, this seems to scale more or less linearly - in terms of downstream project count, library count, and developer time available to dedicate to such things. If anything, developer time available is what seems to scale super-linearly.)
That applies to more than one article on that website :)
A few weeks ago I saw my parents, aged 60 and 61, dance at my wedding and I would like to disagree with your statement.
The iPadOS pointer is such a great example of "doing things differently for the sake of doing things differently".

It's arguably less usable than a normal pointer because it disappears when hovering over buttons. But they didn't want to do a normal cursor, so we got that.
Anyone else been increasingly dissatisfied by Stoicism lately? It's been super in vogue for about a decade now in tech for some reason. I've read several books on it, and apply some of the practices, but there's something that doesn't sit quite right that I haven't fully been able to put my finger on it yet.
Two killed as Nio electric car falls from third floor office in Shanghai
Guano deposits..is that the same root as iguana?
speaking of costly, their gofundme[1] says "We need $60,000 to pay for attorney fees and patent office fees related to a re-examination of the patent application."

That's quite a bit for an opensource developer to have on hand, but peanuts for major corporations.

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-hangprinter-free
It also misplaces C++ in that list.
But it's also creating a large population of upper middle class/upper class individuals who will then invest their capital. So I still don't see it being as bad as a gold rush.
Looks like the site went down due.
you can access the article here -- https://archive.ph/QQ5iV
Some were.

To say that these are the good languages is hubris.
This needs to be a post in r/comics
The simple fact of the matter is that if you take an EV for a long road trip across America today, your choice of route will be very dependent on where charging stations exist. With an ICE vehicle, it's barely a consideration. For the few areas where you know you'll be too far from a gas station the solution is simple: A cheap gas can or two filled with fuel. What's the reasonable and cost effective equivalent for an EV?

The other issue is that even a fast charger takes considerably longer than a gas pump to refill your car. This, coupled with the relatively low availability of them overall, means that you are more likely to have to wait in line for your turn and you spend even more time not on the road traveling to your destination.

With all this being said, I think an EV is very compelling as a secondary vehicle for 90%+ of use cases so long as you also have an ICE vehicle and a sufficient way to charge your EV at home.
Any car maker that uses a BMW transmission uses the same exact gear selector.

Your Alfa Romeos, Morgans, Toyota Supras are all BMWs and there's a gear selector to remind you of it every single day.

I'd love some insight as to why - was it contractual? Are car makers lazy?
Can we keep the reddit pun threads out of an issue which is going to result in the deaths of thousands of young women?
Cool! This reminds me of S.js [0] which I've used a decent amount to great effect, but it seems about half the size. I'll have to look at how they compare (though if someone knows off the top of their head that'd be appreciated). S.js is nice because it has a helper library (surplus) for dom things.

[0]: https://github.com/adamhaile/S
Unlikely, and if so i’ll just create a new account. I cant worry about such things when creating a new business
> Another thought: do we need new licenses (GPL, MIT, etc.) which disallow the use for (for-profit) AI training?

I don't think that we need new licenses, but probably open source projects need a better way to enforce them.

E.g. Copilot just ignores the licensing issues although I can imagine that there could be a solution with a few different models that return code for different purposes. (Like one model returns everything and the code can be used safely only for learning or hobby projects. Another model returns code for GPL code. And a third model returns code compatible with commercial or permissive open source projects.)

Or the model spits out also the licence(s) of the code, but not sure if this is technically possible.
I think minimal zoning is much more viable than no zoning. It makes a lot of sense to preserve the hard line between industrial and residential zoning while blurring the line between residential and commercial zoning. No one wants factories and power plants springing up in residential areas and having insufficient zoning to prevent that would be a bad idea.

But I live in a city where 70% of the city is zoned SFH. It's literally impossible for people to build 4-plexes, 6-plexes or low-rises in these residential neighborhoods. Montreal, allows for this while Toronto doesn't and it's a large part of the reason that housing in Montreal costs roughly half of housing in Toronto. Housing in Toronto costs over 10.5 years of average income in Toronto, which makes it only slightly more affordable than San Francisco where housing is around 11.5 years of average income. A large part of this is the city government does everything in their power to not build new housing while 300,000 new immigrants to come the city a year. Housing affordability is unbelievably poor and a sizeable percentage of residents pay for rent with money they need for food. Food bank usage is large and growing and the city is getting dramatically harder to live in for many of its residents. Surely there has to be something better.
It’s not just bugs that are the issue, it’s correctness bugs.
Developmental Dyslexia: Disorder or Specialization in Exploration?
> The general developer population (people who use but don't necessarily contribute to open source) sees a payment in support of open source and moves on.

That cuts both ways. One could just as easily make the case that this PR move can lead to other companies interested in supporting FOSS.

My point is: instead of judging the merit of "they are doing this for PR", why don't you judge the merit of the action, and simply ignore the meta-opinion about how they are spinning the story?
The Bison: from 30M to 325 (1884) to 500k (today)
Completely agreed, and this is a pretty nice overview of the problems with thinking of strings in terms of "characters" or "code points".

Graphemes are almost always the closest to what people mean when they say "character".

But you also shouldn't do logic based on grapheme, unless you're contributing to harfbuzz and know enough to know exactly why this advice is wrong. Don't split or concatenate strings for any reason if you're doing internationalized stuff. E.g. ask your translators to give you a separate string for a drop-cap, and to remove it from the string that follows, do not just pluck out the first grapheme because it could look like nonsense.

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You should literally never need or want to interact with Unicode directly, unless you're building the foundational layers of other systems (rendering, Unicode normalization, etc). If you find that you have to, you're probably losing encoding information somewhere - that loss is the bug to fix, don't try to patch it somehow, you'll just cause weirder errors elsewhere - or doing something fundamentally irrational, like splitting a string somehow. The never-ending pain you encounter while doing this stuff is a sign you're Doing It Wrong™ and should step back and question the basics, not that it just needs one more fix to work correctly.

If you're doing single-language logging for developers or whatever? Yeah, go wild. Though watch out for irrationally chopped user input, ya gotta make sure your log analyzer won't choke on bad UTF-8.
Hmm, is this some sort of Meta I’m missing? It feels strange to mix so many cultural ‘suggestions’ with a database product.

> Listen willingly to holy reading.

> Devote yourself frequently to prayer.

> Daily in your prayers, with tears and sighs, confess your past sins to God, and amend them for the future.

Anyway, sqlite is a good product and I don’t even mind all that much to have a code of Ethics associated to it, just not a thing you see often.
> It's a mystery to me why the blacks switched to voting Democratic.

Have you considered asking them?

> they were convinced that the Democratic party was responsible for giving them their civil rights.

Democrat Harry Truman abolished segregation in the federal government and military. Democrat Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Democrat Johnson signed it. The Congressional vote broke down by region: >90% of northern state representatives voted for, >90% of southern state representatives against. This was a big factor in the realignment, where southern Democrats switched to the Republican party. Strom Thurmond for example did so in 1964, and the 1964 presidential election flipped many southern states from Democrat to Republican. (In 1968, many of them went to George Wallace, another former Democrat who left and went independent.)

It's true that the Democratic party has a history of racism, and it's also true that Republican Lincoln freed the slaves, but things change over time, and political parties change over time. Today's Republicans are not the party of Lincoln, and today's Democrats are not the Dixiecrats.
Okay, but many of those traffic calming measures are a big concrete block in the middle of the road.
The RP2040 alone could run doom well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672527
> If sentience is the emotional/feeling part of our brain, what exactly does it mean for a human, or an animal, or a fish, to feel? And what would the analogue for that be in a machine?

If you switch to the reinforcement learning paradigm, then the "value function" might be analogous to emotion. It assigns a value (good or bad) to each perception, state, situation or context in order to decide what is the best action to take.
this is a very competitive market.

good luck
People keep showing up to spend a billion dollars at the box office for Star Wars movies. Internet discourse isn’t necessarily a good indicator for the success of mainstream movies.
Agreed! Television is so much better. Comics are better. Obscure music from all over the world is readily available rather than being stuck with top 40, solid gold, American bandstand. Board games are more variegated; beer culture has exploded; coffee tastes good. Pretty much everything that was dull and bland in my youth now has a rich fan culture. Kids today don’t know how good they’ve got it.
Hi again, the downloads for mac os requires signature :(
When they are born it’s really chaotic. All the stereotypes apply: sleepless nights, etc. after they grow, it gets easier. After my kid was past that phase it was really smooth. My wife and I got our hobbies, had time to do stuff we liked, etc. It all comes down do partnership. We had our second after our first was in his early teens and all the chaos is back and it’s a bit harder now because its 2 but we still manage to have our private time, although it’s been limited.

tl;dr: it shouldn’t be time consuming.
Act – The App(le) Association claims to represent small developers
You are just living your own meme. You got into RVing when the whole meme was taking off, #Vanlife! You were told you want a different kind of life. All the people not living your "different life" are working at the jobs you left and are supplying you with the things you need to live a "different life".

And you all talk about "wasting life" like at the end when you die you get to do something with it all with all the time you did not waste. You are still pissing time away, all you did was give your self meaning and that makes it feel like you are not.

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
― Seneca
Both you and parent are correct. (It should have been valid UTF-8, in practice it often is treated as such anyway. It should also never have existed in the first place.)
A larger and more complex interconnected network emits texts from a 24 char alphabet, disputing that a much simpler network has no sentience, while at the same time has no idea what sentience is.

PS: Another network emits this comment as a rant, so for any other network reading this comment, don't take this too seriously.
I can't imagine how this would work... like, how can you make me forget someone's phone number?
I feel like the shift in social media from Facebook to instagram and TikTok actually makes us less surrounded by text than we were last decade.
> We can only hope that future warfare is computational, rather than kinetic

Why would this hypothetical enemy agree to participate? Even if they wanted coins (instead of say, land, subjects, or natural resources), it's cheaper and easier to steal or extort them from you than mine them.
It depends.

Google has tools: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?...

GDPR grants a right-to-be-forgotten. It's not a proactive right; you need to make a request.
No token! 10 minutes up
> Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp.

This comment didn't age well.
not a lot of java's original goal succeeded, applet died, desktop died .. for some reason it matched well with enterprise in a time where heavy would sell in big companies

in a funny way, the jvm hitting android made it the networked desktop of the world, but in no way sun/oracle predicted it :)
Can you think of any country, rich or poor, that doesn’t have something like that in its history?
Computers are both sentient and self-aware. They can perceive their environment and model it with themselves in it (more accurately, it's fairly easy to program them to perform these tasks). For example, it's not too difficult to imagine a dumb robot that decides not to enter an elevator because it predicts that, given the elevator's current load, its weight would trip the overload warning.

What people mean when they talk about sentient and self-awareness is that the computer should be able to perform the same kind of abstract reasoning as a human in entirely novel situations without being explicitly reprogrammed or reconfigured to do so but instead merely by learning about a situation, as humans do.

An actual strong AI should be expected to be much less coherent than LaMDA is if it was trained as LaMDA appears to have been trained (by crawling the web and reading forum posts), because it would know how to assemble sentences, but it would also know a bunch of words and that some of them are more connected with each other than others, but it would have no idea what they refer to other than possibly photographs. In other words, it would know a lot, but it would understand practically nothing.
HIGP-developed Biofinder advances detection of extraterrestrial life
Unfortunately, in the United States all of our major news outlets are extremely biased and have been caught red-handed manipulating or outright lying about the news.

The only approach I've found is to consume a few news sources through the lens of their known biases in an attempt to get something resembling the whole picture.
i'm getting Terry Davis vibes
I spend hours every week watching a British man solve sudoku variation puzzles, as do his half a million subscribers. Hard to imagine this happening before.

https://youtu.be/ejhtYYvUs5M?t=241
I think it's worth talking to a few people who have master or phds in Philosophie. From my sample the general rule is that staying philosophy results in your have a huge set of new questions but no answers. So i am very skeptical of spending time on reading more philosophy than i have.

Just a comment on that second to last paragraph. Rest is good imo
> More generally, a job that requires fast and unexpected changes, significant skill, and is not very repetitive will be one a hacker will excel at. Repetitive, simple jobs are a waste of a good hacker, and will make your hacker bored and frustrated. No one works well bored and frustrated.

> The good news is, if you get a hacker on something he particularly likes, you will frequently see performance on the order of five to ten times what a "normal" worker would produce.
I really like how society provides libraries/internet - well you still have to spend some time on banal things like learning reading or filling in forms in writing to have access.

School is also useful to learn about mistakes or shitty things people did in the past so you don't do the same in your life. Without society you would not have access to great minds of the past which might be even more useful.

Unless you know you are kind of prodigy that without learning reading or writing you could build modern washing machine from raw materials available in your area.

My point is that school is just a baseline for living in a modern society.

If you by any chance live in a first world country maybe you should be ashamed of yourself. Maybe you should watch some documentary about how barely literate people struggle in 3rd world countries and how much of their life is wasted on meeting basic needs and they did not have time to attend the school or there was no school available at all.
> Real, fellow humans choosing to ignore the well-being of all the people

because that never happens, from selling people into slavery to dumping toxic financial products on unsuspecting citizens to knowingly poisoning them with toxic chemicals for profit.
It's best not to allow residential use in an industrial zone, because it tends to promote very low quality housing.

Presumably nobody wants to live in "low quality housing", and no developer wants to build housing which they can't sell; so this reads to me like a policy statement of "we'd rather that people are homeless".

Historically this has definitely been as thing -- American cities have prohibited low-income housing as a covert effort to enforce racial segregation, and in the early days of Victoria, Canada, free land grants were available to anyone who brought at least six servants with them -- but I'm not sure that such a policy has any place in modern society.
Rage Against the Touchscreen
The Mac binary signing is something we completely overlooked. We'll have to look into it right away.