skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let it be known, despite his lack of public activity and consistent refusal to interviews, Bellard is very kind.

I emailed him curious about attempts in browser development, replied within two days! Maybe that’s common than I think, I don’t email outside of work often.
“Server for everyone”

::proceeds to require It guy level setup::
What does that mean though? How smart is the average person? Can dumb people not understand their best interests? How are we defining dumb-- would a village elder that's illiterate but has a lifetime of survival skills be considered smart or dumb? How about a brilliant academic that can't take care of their selves? The point I'm getting at is there are a lot of different types of intelligence. Calling people stupid is just a simplistic way to find an easy reason group to blame.
Dumping Tuya Firmware
Well yeah.. Makes sense. Even at the most basic level, smarter people tend to realize that limiting speech is not just morally and ethically wrong, but a Pandora's box.
But I’d also like others to do what they can to help society.
> I'd also add, maybe controversially, that anyone using "AI" to make some kind of basic prediction (say for personalization, demand planning, medical decisions, really most tabular data) is not going to have a business that lives or dies based on AI.

Unfortunately this rules out the vast majority of business use-cases. ML use-cases on structured data vastly outnumber those of vision/nlp/RL.

Also you seem to be restricting the term "AI" to Neural network-type techniques.
Unfortunately, Slide is abandoned by the author. He replied to an issue on github saying basically that he has no time to maintain it and that and that the code is a mess and needs to he completely rewritten from scratch so he doesn't recommend anyone else bother. Slowly but surely the bugs are mounting. There's so e new-fangked thing that's leaving blue boxes everywhere and videos are breaking again. And I think he also mentioned that the Play Store won't let him push small bug fixes without making another large change that he has no time to work on so it's defacto dead in the water now and will never be updated.

I've been trying Infinity from time to time which others have mentioned as the new OSS client, but it seems less textual than Slide. Sline also has great navigation that is immediately missed elsewhere.

(At least the Android version, dunno about the iOS)
If you never tell anyone it was AI that generated it, it's yours.
Another misleading statement is that most books sell a thousand or fewer copies. This makes no delineation between fiction, which is generally intended for a large, broad audience, compared to non-fiction, which is more specific and more books are published as non fiction. Technical, reference books are expected to sell far fewer copies compared to teen fiction.
I don't think that's why, on my Arch Linux box they're just shell scripts that pass the -E/-F argument to regular Grep.

$ cat /usr/bin/egrep
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -E "$@"

$ cat /usr/bin/fgrep
#!/bin/sh
exec grep -F "$@"
If things will proceed as they are, they'll wipe civilization. Russia can't afford to lose, it'll cease to exist. And if the alternative is to cease to exist, they'll kill everything in the Earth as well. Putin said recently: "Why do we need a world, if there's no Russia in this world".

I really hope that Russia will capture Ukraine. I don't support this war, but that would be the best outcome in current circumstances. Alternative is far worse.
As long as the Chinese government controls/censors scripts, they won't move beyond Chinese borders much.

In fact, there is more control in this regard lately.

Hong Kong had a nice international movie market, especially for action flicks, but that's dead now.
Various alternatives to the Big Bang have fatal problems. If you tell me your alternative, I'll explain where it goes wrong.
"Text doesn't seem markedly different from a JSON API?"

Json would be terrible as a primitive.

I was imagining something more like erlang, which is very OS-like. The types are very permissive/fleixble, and there's lots of ways to transform and manipulate results or feed it into something else without feeling code-heavy. It still feels comfortable to do ad-hoc stuff. The advantage is that in erlang you usually don't worry about basic stuff like record and field separators.

"Perhaps "worse is better" more often when you are composing several programs/apps to make one system?"

That's probably true as you zoom out. But even basic utilities in posix within the same system require a bunch of parsing. Imagine if a function call in a programming language required an intermediate text format. That's how unix feels sometimes.
Inside Macintosh, volumes 1-6.
It's definitely not complete, if it were basically the whole lower half of the island would be highlighted.
It's not a strange fact, it's another way of saying that the leadership of Jackson is so incompetent that they can't even fix something that takes just 24 hours to repair once competent people arrive onsite.

From you news you might imagine they had some huge disaster that would take weeks to fix, but actually it's pure incompetence.
C++, despite RAII, is still manual memory management IMO
Halton County Railway Museum
That's pretty common to see. I immediately thought of several examples like Great Scott who I don't watch anymore.
Fun fact. Zoho copied Zoto’s first logo design.
Hey there ya go!
Things like this are what swarms of ground and air drones can do for infantry. Vastly increase the terrain and danger awareness in places like jungles, forests and other areas resistant to air and satellite surveillance.

Hm, now that I think about it, this might be a fundamental technology to undermine the effectiveness of guerilla forces in forests and especially urban areas. Modern armies hate those because it eliminates so much of their technological advantage and it's back to boots on ground vs boots on ground.

But if you can systematically sweep areas with disposable drones? Look out. And the thing is, you can remotely operate the drones 24/7 for constant scanning, so even if really good hiding holes are created, they can outlast the soldiers hiding in the holes.
Well, assuming that there is or has been intelligent life somewhere in this galaxy, then the most likely sighting would be some kind of probe, I think.
It doesn’t have to be either or. Provide a toggle for the user to choose their preference.
Basically I did a 1&2 combo. I run a small anti-bot service for a few friends sites and started redirecting a particularly aggressive scraper to the claim URL.
I often share links to HN instead of the referred link. Many times the comments are as interesting as the content. This applies to sharing Twitter or Reddit links, too, albeit with a lower S/N ratio.
I get what you are saying and all but.. wouldn't that kind of make him an expert on this if anything? Bias aside at least.
Almost the entire job of the military is to move materiel around the world and install it in a matter of days.
It's difficult. 99.9% of AI claims are bull. Lots of people get fooled by AI claims. If you are technical, then you can see through the bull, but if you are not, it's unlikely.

Here's some telltales though. Are they saying AI, or ML. If AI, why AI and not ML? Is it just because it sounds cooler? Then run.

Here's my personal observation, which a lot of people in the AI space will contest: there are some fantastic applications of AI/ML, but they require deep domain knowledge/insight/expertise. Ask yourself if the person pitching you the job has some very deep domain knowledge? If so, why is he pitching the job as an AI opportunity, and not an XYZ opportunity. To give you an example: Boom Supersonic. Most likely they use plenty of ML. But they'll never try to hire someone as an ML company, but as an aviation company.

So, here's a way to see through the fog: ask them if they'd be in the same business if AI were not a thing. AI should be just a force multiplier, AI by itself can't produce shit. If they hesitate answering the question, just run.
Beware; the calculator code isn't standard Scheme; it is written in Gambit Scheme, which underlies the LambdaNative project.

The ##flonum? is a "Primitive Procedure", see here:

https://gambitscheme.org/latest/manual/#Primitive-Procedures

which has no place in an application program like this; it's hard to imagine why the author of the calculator didn't just use Gambit's flonum? function. (In standard Scheme, the inexact? function would be used.)

The code is using Gambit-specific functions with a fl prefix like fl+, fl/ and fl, which provide floating-point-specific arithmetic functions. Standard Scheme doesn't do that; it just has +, / and for all numbers and mixtures of numbers.

It looks like the author of the code has a naive view of floating-point; he or she seems to be under the impression that if you multiply a number by 1E10, then add 0.5, take the floor and divide by 1E10, that it will thereby truncated to 10 digits after the decimal after which there are reliably zeros, such that number->string will never produce more than 10 digits after the decimal. That would be true in a decimal-based floating-point representation, not in a binary one.

So that whole expression (number->string (fl/ (flfloor (fl+ (fl* (flo n) 1.0e10) 0.5)) 1.0e10)) is doing something dodgy that should be done in an entirely different way.
The answer is yes, now quit guessing so accurately
You said "So that's called "hidden variable theory". We've done tests that show it's not true". But that claim is not true — hidden variable theory hasn’t been shown to be false, but local hidden variable theories have been.

In your latest comment, you say that "The whole point is to show that something non-local is happening". I'm not sure what thing's "whole point" you're referring to, but I suspect in the context of our conversation you're talking about the "whole point" of the implications of violations of Bell's inequality. But in that case, it's also not true that the point is that "something non-local is happening". There are QM interpretations that are entirely local, and compatible with the observed violations of Bell's inequality.

I found this paper to be a helpful breakdown of how the matter might be resolved, with some views embracing locality, and some rejecting it (some parts of the paper went over my head): https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06413
How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?
Sure, but don’t click the publish button. There is already so much noise out there that we shouldn’t actively drown out people who actually do know something.
I also came here to mention this video. Watching the solution emerge line-by-line is a profound experience, and highly revelatory towards the kind of iterative problem-solving workflow possible in the Iversonian languages.

In the same vein, John Scholes' collection of APL code in the Dfns workspace[0] is positively wonderful to read through. I think it's probably one of the finest repositories of annotated code ever assembled.

[0]: http://dfns.dyalog.com/
The Little Things: My?radical? opinions about unit tests
The state government of Mississippi, probably one of the worst in the developed world, has been known to impede Jackson from receiving block grants it is eligible for. A massive scandal is coming to a head where a whistleblower allegedly discovered that 70 million dollars of federal welfare funds where diverted to the ex-governors slush fund which he used to enrich allies such as Brett Favre. In a state that consistently finishes last along any dimension important to measure.
> The main issue is that water system maintenance in the US is funded by the locality

Isn't that a good argument that it should be run by the state government instead?

Local government in the US has so much power, compared to many other countries. It makes you wonder if that's a mistake, and if greater centralisation would produce better outcomes.
I suspect if they are adding it that they have some reason to believe people, at least their customers, prefer it that way
And you know that because you read it on Wikipedia?
So, in a theoretical world that doesn't exist, where every website does extra engineering to defer a disclosure until later, it's less of a burden. (But still a burden at that later point.)

Can you point out a few prominent sites using your preferred approach, so I'm sure what you mean?

In our actual world, the disclosure/opt-in requirement is a major burden, because essentially all of the practicioner/implementers, and the specialist firms now powering disclosure popups, have decided their best way to comply is the first-load pop-up mess we've got now. (That's likely because: there's immense value in being able to track sessions-of-use, for adjusting design, even before any commerce or specific-identity info is disclosed. And that value flows not just to the websites: it helps adjust content/UI for the users, as well.)

Given the actual, observed state-of-the-world, for years now, it would make more sense for the singlular governing entity that created the problem – the EU – to fix this, rather than the millions of diverse websites worldwide.

At the very least, the EU could waive the opt-in requirements for any browser which offers some baseline of user-controlled cookie-blocking – which the ~half-dozen relevant browser engines could easily add. That'd be a far more rational, low total compliance cost, high user-agency solution.

Competition & user self-help had practically wiped annoying modal popups from the web. Then the EU's clumsy, oblivious regulators brought them back.
Expanding on that a bit:

Many suburban towns rely on growth for a large portion of their revenue. When growth eventually slows they no longer have enough money coming in to the meet their maintenance costs. Strong Towns calls this the “Growth Ponzi Scheme”:

- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-pon...

- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growt...
I'm struggling to decide whether or not this is sarcasm, because...

>Not so fast there buddy.

... I feel the urge to tell you the same.

>The reason for climbing corporate ladders is to enrich your own life and give you more wealth, which can make your life far more comfortable and gain you respect and recognition amongst peers when it is most valuable: while you are alive.

It sounds like "respect and recognition amongst peers" is more important to you (which is fine btw, no judgement) than it is to OP, but most of your post seems to suggest that that's where OP should be placing their importance. In point of fact, it sounds like they have already determined what is important to them, have worked to achieve it and are happy with where they're at.

>If you are not careful, you could just end up as a wage slave contributing to the rise of someone else’s awesome life.

... so? I don't mean to speak for OP with the comment I'm about to make, but for me, I don't care. As long as I can pay my bills, and then have enough money for my creative and extracurricular endeavors, then I'm perfectly happy. I don't care if that means that my position somewhere on the career ladder means that someone else is having a more "awesome" life than me somewhere else, because they're truly not. Their life is theirs, mine is mine, and I'm happy with mine. Hell, I'd even call mine "awesome".

>And then you can experience the pain of being forgotten when it hurts the most: while you are still alive. You won’t have to wait till the heat death of the universe to finally be forgotten, people can just stop giving a shit about you right now. Keep climbing.

But see for me (and maybe OP? who knows?), I don't care about being recognized by my professional peers. I care about my family, my friends, and the people involved in my creative (non-work) pursuits. And those are people who I know will never give a shit where I've climbed on a corporate ladder.
I think those data points work together with the "let's think this through for a bit" approach of the article. Particularly, note that the stats that you quoted in your comment are for a 52-week period and include everything that could be considered a "book." I think it's quite logical that 2007's Farmer's Almanac would sell less than 12 copies in the last year, or some vanity-published, typo-laden sci-fi novel of the type my family would sometimes get for me for Christmas (because if it's sold by the Amazon dot Com then it can't be that bad, right?).
The Flint water case was due to the _State_ government's interventions, not the local government. The former Republican governor is right now facing criminal charges for his role in the crisis. https://www.wsaz.com/2021/01/12/michigan-plans-to-charge-ex-...
> We can and should influence our elected officials through legal maneuvers

Ideally people should realize that voting for the other party will send the strongest signal to elected officials.
Modulating Brain Function with Microbiota
That is a completely inaccurate view of both Flint and Jackson, both of which experienced issues due to incompetence, not lack of money.

Everyone everywhere could use more money, but in both cities the fault was at the central pumping station, and was not due to a lack of money.

Jackson wants $1 bil to replace every pipe in their city - that might be nice to do, but it's not what caused the failure.
McLean's comments are spot-on, if you read them carefully. She describes herself as a "numbers gal" and she is.

Limiting it to the top publishers immediately leaves out lots of books. But OK, these are major players who are putting their own resources on the line for some books, so that's a valid slice.

For that 14.7% that sold under 12 copies: as a self-published author, I have to say, "Why not my book instead of that crap?"

The problem, of course, is that they didn't expect it to sell that few copies when they printed it. They didn't say, "Hey, this one looks like 10 copies or so. Let's go with it!"
(2) You can become more self-aware and stop caring so much about what other people think about you.

I am tired of this advice. People who are successful get all the right people to care about them. This does matter.
Python has a number of similar, static, compiled languages that are embeddable in Python code (notably Cython and taichi).
> Tackling ever growing complexity requires going outside of the defined process and finding exciting solutions.

Nope. Not at all. Experienced professionals, who focus on solving problems for customers, want boring solutions that has worked many times before with zero unknowns.

Because it makes it highly likely that they will deliver solid solutions that will work now and the next 50 years. They understand that the key to success is managing complexity and minimising risk.

And no things are not getting more complex. I have been programming for 40+ years and it is so much easier to develop software today. When I learned to program there was no internet, no Google, no Stack overflow etc. Just books.

And let me finally add that the knowledge you need to manage any level of software complexity has been known and practiced for many years by good developers. Most developers already know how to do it in theory. They just don’t do it in practice.
I've got a quote (some would say a cliché?) for most situations, including this one:

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-Howard Thurman

If people "come alive" by helping society, then that's great. But "helping society" can be defined in many ways, big and small. If someone's definition of "helping society" is being a street busker and lifting someone's spirit with their music, who am I to judge?
Explore quantum computational advantage with Xanadu’s Borealis device on Braket
And the type checker is a single 45k line file! https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/compil...
I would think it would be worse to renew for ten years as an individual. I'm not sure how I would even set a reminder for myself that I am confident would alert me appropriately in ten years
I've never seen C code as clear and well documented as tcl. E.g. https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/blob/main/generic/tclUtil.c, though more examples in that project are not hard to find.
I think maybe they only think it works well because the iOS crash reporter won't even keep your forms filled out if you switch back to the other app to check on the error and have only 2GB of RAM. Each app has to persist its state when backgrounded and they didn't even bother for the crash reporter/feedback app.
The misconception you have here is that the cost of the housing is driven by how "high tier" it is. It's not, it's driven by land costs. That's why even a fairly old plain apartment in SF is still very expensive to rent, and houses that are completely ordinary in Silicon Valley are millions to buy. As an example, would you consider this $1.5M house "high tier"? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/879-San-Ardo-Way-Mountain...

There's not really a way to make low cost housing beyond either high supply, or subsidization.
Make that two people!

It took me a long time to learn that the process is what making art is about.
You’re not wrong. I have to assume that someone is able to access & read my email if I’m not hosting it myself in my own home on my own hardware. Trade offs…
> most executives are just cargo culting based on what their predecessors did.

It's underappreciated the extent to which the average business is simply mirroring the practices which were common previously. The golden ticket outside of digital for the last ~50 years in American business has been cost cutting. This meant squeezing employees, making larger businesses with theoretically better economies of scale, and increased outsourcing.
i just read through the hunting regulations for alaska this season, and there seem to be some changes. there used to be a lower limit [.30] to centerfire rifle calibre. it seems that has been removed, and you cant use rimfire [.22] calibres except in special hunt of caribou crossing a river.

it seems [.223] would be a legal calibre for large game this year but id go larger.

[edit] i just went a little further on:

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.firearms

the concern is that a well placed shot as in staying in an 8" group at 200 yards is good enough to take large game.

a big bore rifle of such recoil that you cant place a shot is more likely to end in a wounded animal chase, than an accurate smaller bore of lower recoil that you can manage.
Some of the best reporting on this issue is at http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/p/jackson-water-crisis.html

The site was instrumental in uncovering the EPA reporting that the city tried to hide for more than a year and has direct sources involved in the operation of the plant.
Imho it's more relevant than ever, with the influx of cheap offshore remote developers
Idk if this would be better or worse, but there should be a "find on page" js API. Like how the history api is used for SPA's.
Agreed. If you only know this from someone else's observation, you should link the observation.
Rust the language isn't causing a problem, but certain members of the Rust community (cited elsewhere in this thread) don't seem to be "letting Zig exist" as Andrew Kelley puts it. One can only be bullied so many times before hitting back.
I am a developer. Give me a VM I have root access to and walk away. That’s all I need from you.
Bilal_io's point on driving phone sales is spot on.

To add to that, phones have no OS downgrade process, so even if as an app provide you decide you won't support the latest OS, every new phone bought from now will still come with it, and the user can't do anything about that.

A LTS would require to also get read of the version up rachetting.
Pogo was (still is?) a famous kids channel in India. There was a lot of comments back then that it was taken from them. Zoho is a $1B without copyright issues on their logo. So it doesn't matter anyway.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POGO-logo.svg