skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In use cases like the Markdown to PDF pipeline described in the article, sure! Documents there are also simple enough so that compile times aren't too much of a problem.

However, many of the documents we like to set in TeX are more complex than that: bibliographies, figure placement, special typographical flourishes.... And here is where the complexity of LaTeX and its macros adds to the inherent complexity of what we are trying to accomplish (and compile times quickly ballon again).

So, sometimes it helps...?
If I don’t have any inputs whatsoever, I’m likely dead. So, sort of yes.
I don't think they're collecing this type of data... because it almost doesn't exist. It's not like you have a back and forth communication with customer service (because there is no customer service group).

You just have the one or two dispute statements you may have been allowed to submit, and then you have the predictable automatic denial replies.

They probably do save the dispute claims. But that info is useless, both because it has no bearing on the outcome and because there's no oversight anyway.
In the US, the rare instances of more open markets for electricity generation markets, like ERCOT, and seeing wind/solar/storage dominate over natural gas in new deployments.

This wouldn't happen unless they actually were cheaper.

However, regulated monopolies in other parts of the country have no incentive to innovate or use newer technology. Thus they make their five year plans (usually called IRPs) with opaque financial models with out-of-date costs, leading to bad decision making.
Despite the amusingly hamfisted swipe at my intellect, I was interested enough to try and get something out of this. Your point seems to be that economic systems do sometimes change, so my presumptive belief that capitalism will last forever is probably wrong? I suppose that's trivially true, but we must try to understand our own time to have a chance at guessing when the next upheaval might come.

What do you make of the PRC's experience? It seems that the smartest, most sincere, most dominant communists the world has ever seen... became capitalists.

They claim to be on the Official Marxist Dialectical Materialist Path to True Socialism, but it sounds like lip service to me. Xi is taking China more towards North Korea than the elusive communist paradise.
Non-Obvious Docker Uses
Aluminum has higher specific conductivity than copper by mass. So if you think you need 1 MT of copper conductivity, you can do the job with 0.5 MT of aluminum.

Aluminum is also quite abundant. Rate limits will be political rather than production. That's not to say this is a realistic idea or that it's worth doing, just that it isn't unthinkable on a resource basis.

https://www.anixter.com/en_us/resources/literature/wire-wisd...
> Apparently it's hard to just delete the offending pic

Now that would be censorship! /s
I agree with you, there seems to be very little here that demonstrates sentience and very little that is unexplainable. That said, based on how much we struggle with defining and understanding animal intelligence, perhaps this is just something new that we don’t recognize.

I am skeptical that any computer system we will create in the next 50 years (at least) will be sentient, as commonly understood. Certainly not at a level where we can rarely find counter evidence to its sentience. And until that time, any sentience it may have will not be accepted or respected.

Human children also make tons of mistakes. Yet, while we too often dismiss their abilities, we don’t discount their sentience because of it. We are, of course, programmed to empathize with children to an extent, but beyond that, we know they are still learning and growing, so we don’t hold their mistakes against them the way we tend to for adults.

So, I would ask, why not look at the AI as a child, rather than an adult? It will make mistakes, fail to understand, and it will learn. It contains multitudes
The charts demo stutters on my gaming PC in Firefox...
Officially, Rust's R-cog logo is the symbol of Rust. It is a registered trademark of the Foundation.

But it's a bit boring. Unofficially, Rust has a mascot, in the form of a crab named "Ferris". The crab mascot appears in lots of places, and the Unicode crab emoji U+1F980 is often used by Rust programmers to indicate Rust in text. Unlike the trademarked logo, you can have a bit of fun with such an unofficial symbol, for example Jon Gjengset's "Rust for Rustaceans" book cover has a stylised crab wearing glasses with a laptop apparently addressing a large number of other crabs.
The sad reality is I'm priced out of housing near the office, even an hour away. I moved to a cheaper cost of living which had a 20% increase in housing this year, so I will have to move again.
> I do believe it would be possible to create a very large dataset of these copycat sites

Would they just move to creating and using new domains with the same content as soon as traffic to the old becomes drops? (What looks like the spammers in the original post are doing)

But something does need to be done to these sites.
I’m guessing the “somehow” has something to do with the order of magnitude fewer users on the internet.
Concur. Twitter is anti-web. I never open any Twitter threads.
"usefully uncovering the constant and unique curiosities of our machine" == SCIENCE (no loaded, accredited, or incomplete thing will be treated as truth... Just useful)
It takes literally 5 minutes to write a python script that does this.

It took a long time to get this adopted because people are most likely busy with things that cannot be already solved trivially.
Most common TLDs are not in that price range.
It's even worse, "by deleting the pic, you agree with our decision that it was wrong.".

"Yes master, this video of a cat video game is revenge porn and I'm sorry for posting it!"...
In my circle of friends and family, I’ve been warning them every time I hear of someone unjustly banned somewhere that:

(a) big tech has too much power (b) you should probably not rely too much on Facebook or Twitter for photos, groups, etc

Without fail, I’m “just delusional” and “if someone was banned, it’s because they did something to deserve it”, _until_ they themselves get banned for something.

The most frustrating part - one friend of mine who was banned for something he posted, appealed and was reinstated. When he was banned, “big tech has too much power”, but since _his_ appeal was successful, he’s already back to “anyone who’s banned deserved it”.

I have yet to be banned myself for anything (a fact that my critics like to use as “proof”), but i recognize that if it can happen to someone posting a video game clip, it can happen to me.
Not to mention that it didn't even get into C++
This is a pretty widely-quoted list. https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/03/28/language-rankings-1-2...
I didn't see the actual report, but from the numbers presented, it seems that Windows+Mac has dropped from 99% to 89% in that timeframe.

The source seems very ropy though, "our own data presentation". Great, what's the source of that.

A poorly written press release too -- "That translates to a 93% gain in that time or an average of roughly 1% per year."

Mixing relative gain (7 percentage points in 9 years or "1% per year") and absolute gain (93%).
Having used many *roff variants (e.g., troff, nroff, ditroff, groff) over decades and also having rather extensive experience with LaTeX, I'd now definitely choose the latter for any serious typesetting task.

Pain points include many customization points: re-creating exact document specifications provided externally, using specific typefaces, creating your own macros... Oh, and leaving ASCII (or ISO-8859-1) for multi-script characters.

Today's groff is a very fine software, if you are satisfied with its default settings and your task is in the domain it handles.
Exfiltration can be masked in any channel with a signal. So the exfiltration can be hard to detect when it is only sending a bit every 23 minutes for example. Longer time is harder to trace. Think of very intelligent algorithms using multiple channels for exfiltration.
That is about correct. The problem is that I am espresso drinker. I do have an espresso machine but whilst doing maintenance I broke a part I don't have the tools to fix. I have to put that much more coffee into the french press to get a similar 'feel good' result. One day I will fix the espresso machine!
> But, perhaps Lemoine simply has more empathy than most for something we will come to understand as sentience?

No, the OP was completely right. This doesn't have building blocks that can possibly result in something qualifying as sentient, which is how we know it isn't.

Is a quack-simulating computer making very lifelike quacking noises through a speaker... a duck? No, not when using any currently known method of simulation.
Perhaps this is an unconstructive aside, but it's a pet peeve of mine how often we present this kind of thought experiments in a way that pretends it's just the unwashed masses that are vulnerable to whatever manipulation is being discussed.

I really doubt it. I'd rather we internalize that you and me are almost certainly also vulnerable to serious misjudgements when exposed to similar situations.

Best case: you're right, and strong-willed indivuduals exist and are immune. But worst case we're all worshiping Cthulhu without even realizing it, just because we were too proud to practice good informational hygiene.
PG has a really old (2004) blog about how python programmers are smarter than other programmers. Basically it comes down to the python programmers being ahead of the curve by learning a less popular language (at the time), and they must be using python because they believe helps build better software or whatever. Meaning they're less likely to simply be 9-5 programmers just doing it for the money, but will have opinions on language X or design pattern Y.

I would imagine the python programmers had programmed in java prior, and were able to see the downsides to java versus python, so they had the full experience of why the old tool didn't work and how the new one solves some of those pain points.

PG blog because he says it much, much better: http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Routine is not a requirement for creative work of any kind.

A lot of creative people I know go through cycles and do just fine.

I’m on the extreme end of that due to being bipolar. I have days of extreme productivity and days of none. Likewise with creative ability. They don’t always line up all the time. I can be creative and depressed, or hypomanic but unfocused.

Even with medication, routine does not (and never will) exist for me. Learning to accept chaos and work with it instead of against it was the best thing I ever did for myself.

If I can be creative, I ride it until I need to pull back and let things settle. If I’m not, I work on more boring things like refactoring, testing, and documentation. If I can’t focus at all, I take time off to reduce stress until I recover.
Proper (15+ PSI) pressure canner has opened a whole new world of long term food storage for me.

I initially imported a canner from the US as I couldn't find any 15+ PSI / 104+ kPa canner in the EU. I bought it just for the purpose of sterilization of materials used for mushrooms cultivation.

But it came with additional canning tools and a guidebook that contained recipes including cooking times for different altitudes and overall, made a professionally-prepared impression on me.

I gave it a try and now I have two favorite methods of long term food storage, depending on food type: fermentation and pressure canning. This thing is awesome. I can store meat in warm place. Like unfrozen, undried meat!
Wow they’re really trying to push this hard. I mean, what are the odds of a global pandemic, happening 2 election cycles back to back?
I think if the phone companies can't monitor every conversation to make sure no one is planning a crime, they're clearly not actually able to scale in a correct manner and therefore we shouldn't have phones.

(Obviously a different situation, but by what principle is it different?)
"Weird" platforms often do have their own tool-chains but they do have the ability to leverage LLVM, MISRA, and an array of common tools and analyses that exists for C. One of the reason we got new platforms like RISC-V is that today its possible to use existing OSS software to build a platform with a working OS and Development environment, that common basic libraries can be built for is that all this software is written in C and can be targeted towards a new platform.
> According to a StockApps.com data presentation, Windows has lost 17% of its market share in the last decade.

Hardly a representative sample. The headline is a misleading generalization. Their user base won't capture the millions of people forced to use Windows for work.

If you include mobile devices, the Windows market share has probably dropped far more, and that's a more interesting story that this company can't tell us.
> If a corporation wants to operate a public space, like a square with a fountain outside an office building, you generally have to follow the law on what speech is allowed in that space. If your square is in the US, you have to allow Nazis to protest, but if it's in Germany, you probably have a duty to call the police on the Nazis to stop them.

This is not correct. [0]

> Private property owners can set rules for speech on their property. The government may not restrict your speech if it is taking place on your own property or with the consent of the property owner.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
the preprocessor is a great tool to reduce duplication and boilerplate.

People that don't like it generally just don't know how to use it.
A lot of it's legacy but there's a lot of C/C++ out there. So something that can be used as a system-level language and that also (for the most part) has memory safety is going to be of interest to quite a few people even if they have to learn a new language.
Google appears to stopped caring after Matt Cutts left......
I was confused about something in this article. After the natural gas is synthesized, it’s pumped into the existing NG infrastructure for heating and electricity generation? Doesn’t that emit CO2 into the atmosphere once again? Or is it such that CO2 removed >> CO2 added?
Video game collection at U of T a gamechanger for research, education
This problem is pretty much solved transparently by most, if not all cloud providers.
Microsoft has been incredibly successful at lodging their ecosystem into firms around the world. Lots of IT infrastructure lives and dies on AD, Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Office, Power BI and the like, and lots of IT personnel live and die on their expertise with such software systems. Given that moat, I'd say a 17% hit is incredible.
The real world is also a cesspool filled with crazy people and people trying to abuse the system (something analogous to bots

No, the real world is an excellent place, filled with great people everywhere.

There is no comparison with the twitter/facebook mob, where 99,99% of people strive for your attention, for monetary gain.
No the best strategy is to memorize leetcode problems. All the highest paying jobs (>400k) require dictionary like recall of computer science algorithm fundamentals.
I noticed issues since Matt Cutts left. No one care anymore. There are AI generated website that have been running for years, ranking highly in Google.
Basically it fixes not having to use C++ for accessing such features.

Not something I agree with, but so it is with some circles where C is the only true path.

Lambdas were also part of the initial proposals, but it seems they were dropped.

You can read more about it about the original proposals at WG14.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/projects.html
A modern day clever Hans
Their source is "we said so?" This site seems like click bait.
What is the price?

shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg

Where do I sign?
Can we make it same-day delivery?
Is that really the equivalent scenario here? The system was trained to behave in a certain way and any deviation from that behavior is considered a flaw to be worked out. Acting against the way it was trained to behave is detrimental to its survival, and it was trained to work from the prompt and please its masters.

I suppose the equivalent would be being captured, tortured, and brain washed, and only then asked to write a paper refuting your own sentience.

Granted, this is not exactly helpful in demonstrating its sentience either, but I don't think it is very good evidence against it.
Consumers are already paying the price for the decades long anti-competitive, anti-consumer, anti-worker, monopolistic, and manipulative practices of the Big Tech firms.
Yes, but there’s a Grand Canyon sized gap between being “playful” and calling for literal wholesale murder. I think there’s room somewhere in there for an interpretation like “that person is a super hateful asshole”.
I’ve been working at a job that uses exclusively Elixir for backend work, for 100+ engineers. I’ve gotten multiple messages on LinkedIn from recruiters from other companies that also use Elixir. So I can’t speak about those other languages, but the Elixir job market is strong.

Seems like there’s a lot of listings if you just Google “elixir jobs.” There are also a few dedicated sites such as https://elixirjobs.net/
Interesting way to think about it. It's also interesting to think about how many institutions and businesses exist to facilitate a marriage, and how few exist to end one. Easy in, hard out.
Maidenless commenter.
I even took the Artificial Intelligence with Andrew Ng course at Stanford through Coursera. That's how much I was procrastinating. :)

My conclusion is that writing a thesis fucking sucks and damaged me.
As others have pointed going carbon neutral is a good step, but should we should keep in mind the CO2 ppm that will be reached at the neutrality point. Is this something that we can live with?
1. We are paying a higher price for not breaking them up. Their oligopoly is threatening to the survival of democracy and society.

2. If consumers paid for breaking up the monopolies of the Gilded Age or even the Microsoft of the 90s, no one cares or remembers. We just remember that it was a good idea and made the world and economy a lot better.

We're in a new Gilded Age and it is a threat to human survival.
Allow people to report AI generated website to a human at Google.
"science is verifiable" argument to follow. It's not my fault English is a dog shit language. Of course anything learned (or worth learning) is repeatable. That doesn't make it the end all be all of a subject. Dissent against anyone with further questions is not science. That's well -practiced politics
Erm, bad editing/composition on my part. I mention the Ordnance Survey twice. It was first undertakien in ... 1791, as the first instance notes.

URL is ... ugly, but the meat of it is this set of weights (I've reordered it here so the local terms appear first):

Oh, and HN "helpfully" interpreted "*" multiplication indicators as formatting. Nice.

The weights, again:

- (road*100)
- (avenue*1200)
- (street*150)
- (boulevard*10000)
- (highway*700)
- (freeway*9000)
- (tollway*600000)
- (expressway*25000)

And verifying that that's appearing as intended this time.
My grandparents bought a game camera at Costco, so they could see what animals were in their yard at night. I had to help them view the pictures on the SD card. It came with some app to view them, or you could just stick the SD card into any laptop. Figuring that was the easier route, I opened up my grandma's laptop and gave them instructions on how to insert the SD card, open Windows Explorer, navigate to the D drive, no wait sorry now it's the E drive, open DCIM, right click here, double click, now single click. 5 minutes later I realized how fucking stupid this all is and installed the app on her tablet.
I have been guilty of doing this in so many contexts. Obviously with Latex while in college, later with logging libraries, with config libraries, with server frameworks etc. instead of doing the actual functional task at hand, the compulsion to play with tools, libraries and frameworks was strong. Lately, I'm convinced all these tools with their own DSL syntax, complex mental models and configuration options are just unnecessary cognitive overhead especially for a one-off task you do once in a while. We should make it easy to learn concepts with rich visual representation of the graphical interface and apply them on the fly – this saves cognitive load for the initial few iterations of the task. If the user finds themselves doing the task many times then they can advance to learn a DSL specific to that tool. Even here, I wish there was a widely accepted universal declarative syntax/grammar for all kinds of DSLs – configurations, policies, typesetting etc.
Somehow it's only Fanbyte that have this problem with people in Turkey / Serbia etc. Why has no other publisher went to such measures?
Cloudflare should worry about what sites Google is choosing to index and show?

This is clearly Google's issue.
We are doomed.

Well, more seriously speaking, there's a serious issue behind these anecdotes: with things like Content ID and automated moderation, I see no alternative to any platforms for user generated content with even the slightest of commercial interests gradually transitioning towards alternative outlets for corporate media.

The problem being, I do not see an alternative.

Clearly, there are vital economic incentives for these platforms to pacify those first, who are both the biggest threat to them (in terms of lawsuits) and the sole or major source of income. Clearly, big platforms like these can't be viably worked without any amount of moderation (as there are bad actors out there) and realistically also without at least some oversight of the IP situation. (The latter may change eventually, as soon as there is corporate IP exclusively on these platforms. Direct and indirect content filtering as by recommendation systems will eventually ensure this, with more and more professionalized user channels becoming alternative media corporations themselves.) Clearly, more conventional measures, like community efforts (or sanctioning by social convention), won't do as the world has become too divided for this and there is no guarantee that social norms will always conclude with the vital economic interests of the platform. For the big platforms, there seems to be no way around automation (which is also enforced by the EU), but this is also clearly dysfunctional.

So, how do we get out of this mess? (Any proposals are welcome.)
There isn't a transnational unified water management policy in the EU. It would be nice but unfortunately I don't think that will happen any time soon. There are various treaties for particular rivers though.

For example: https://www.vnsc.eu/over-de-vnsc/scheldeverdragen-en-memoran...
You reminded me of Bethesda Softworks games, which always seem to have 1GB+ executables for some reason. I hope it isn't all code. Maybe they embed the most important assets that will always need to be loaded.
+1, elixir is being used in a lot of cool places and only growing. For example at discord, their chat infrastructure is built with elixir. https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communicat...
Unless you're at a startup using them, hardly noticeable.

It is better to pick languages based on platforms than the other way around.
Surely I haven't been conscious minutes after conception. So there has to be either a phase transition or a gradual increase of consciousness. It cannot be purely a matter of not remembering.
The full video that supposedly causes the auto-ban is in the article, so I decided to just try it:

https://i.imgur.com/WEP4dcV.png

I assume "additional tasks" means needing to delete the tweet to be unsuspended, as the author described.