skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI self-programming systems are the bottleneck gateway to the technological singularity. The main issues are communicating with humans to get feedback and solving the right problems.

Once this becomes more easily doable, it will likely displace most generic, low-skilled software engineers within a few years. Then there will be other markets such as AI-assisted coding, which is all the rage right now, the trick is making them actually useful.
For the avoidance of doubt, it's not a bug that -c counts bytes, not characters.

There's a separate option for counting characters: -m

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/w...
He mentioned in a recent stream that he dislikes the complexity of the XLA instruction set used by JAX. So it's less the user-facing API, and more the inner workings of the library.
For a moment I thought you outed yourself as German, because a sentence like: “Komisch, ich hatte ein Interview mit ihnen letzte Woche.” works just fine. But we German’s have no sense of humor so I’ve heard. Also an explanation.
Polarizers
have you gotten physical therapy for it? I was in the same boat and doing much better after a lot of PT.
also the state of the art got slowly most of lisp features.. Nowadays it is not rare anymore metaprogramming in the form of macros, introspection or compiler extensions.

With lisp is still trivial to make a metacircular editor and bootstrap another language, also to create DSLs, but the industry is not appreciating such things anymore as standarization and tool homogeinity seems to be nowadys much better valued.
Ask HN: How are small and medium IT companies doing?
After reading about stripe and twitter layoffs, and other large tech companies stopping recruitment, i started wondering about small and medium companies, software houses etc. How are they doing? Do they also stop recruiting and are preparing to lay off some people? Can you share your insight?
Back? They weren't populated until the British brought them there and were never a Mauritian property. Futhermore the only people who lived there were there as employees of the Chagos Agalega Company. From 1838 onwards. It's like getting a job on an oil rig and demanding you get to keep the rig. The fog of pseudo history written in terms of marxist terminology descends on our civilisation determined to rewrite reality

https://www.uniset.ca/naty/2003EWHC2222.htm
But the problem is, permissions are actually a representation of business processes snd communication structures. They are rarely user <-> role <-> permissions (I wish they were!).

Thats true.

For us this was about coupling authorization with an authentication system so that developers could have both with a single product.
We're not always aware of optical illusions.

Not even dynamic ones.

Magicians will tell you they're fooling you, but con artists can use many of the same patterns and you only find out too late.
This scared me because I hurt my back really bad a few years ago in an accident, and now I get occasional back issues like you describe, but never this bad:

> I threw out my back while putting underwear on one morning

I laughed at the ridiculousness of this when I first read it but now I’m horrified after reading the rest. I hope you’re doing okay, and I hope for my sake I never experience that.
> Thats two examples but there are countless others. Plus a lot of folks go to Stripe as their first FANG+_job. They might not be able to step into another FANG+ role and could have to take a massive pay cut in their next roll.

Oh, the woes of dropping from 98th income percentile to 95th...
Will this be the 6th rumour about firings, printed as fact, without any comment from twitter or musk, and then disproven?
> Big Four "UN*X command output -> data" converters

What do you mean?
To me it always seemed wrong OS vendors support and encourage hundreds of "locales" instead of pushing the international standards like this into wider adoption. So far there even is no international locale option and, except on Windows, no easy way to tweak your locale.

Living in the EU I still use the US locale for apps and libs to work the default way, except on Windows (where this has always been easy) I have always been manually tweaking it to use the metric system and the ISO date and time format. The only annoyance in this case is printing apps defaulting to Letter rather than A4 paper, using national locales causes much more annoyances.
> USA has a 1% tax on buybacks

It goes into effect at the end of 2022 [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenthal/2022/08/16/new-...
What are memory and CPU costs of using this in web pages? For example, when a page with 100 images loads, won't decompressing hashes into 100 canvases take lot of resources and block the page or entire system for several seconds?

The placeholders are blurred and I assume that creating blurred images is pretty expensive and takes O(N^2*M) where N is size of the image and M is number of points.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to use blocky placeholders that take only O(N^2) time to paint?
My point is that it wasn't just the segregationists who were looking down.
> infinite malleability is not that helpful in actually building shipping software

Infinite malleability is bad in a team, great alone. I have projects in Common Lisp that are backing more traditional websites (contact form backend with a lot of integration and customization built in, google sheets, email etc.). No one's ever seen the code. No one even knows it runs Lisp. But it's there and working, for years on end, and it takes me very little time to make any occasional changes.

That said, it's a lot of custom code and syntax I built, so somebody new would have to learn it if they collaborated with me. And they would obviously have to know Common Lisp in the first place.

Lisp is great for hacking alone, but I think a company might be more efficient just hiring a couple mediocre Java devs and calling it a day.
Not sure why I would want to use this instead of progressive image decoding with a (CSS?) blur filter. Instead of a blurred image suddenly flashing to a fully loaded image, the user would see the image quality gradually improve as it loads over the network.

Then again, progressive JPEG or FLIF is not supported that well anywhere, so I guess this could be the best thing right now because it seems to just require HTML5 canvas.
Dividends are taxed twice, as corporate income then as personal income to whoever they are granted to (at least to Americans, other countries have different tax rules).

A buy back is only taxed as personal income when granted to the employee.
No, they very specifically wrote:

> When the cops don’t show up to take a report it doesn’t show up in crime report statistics.

This is accurate. You appear to be arguing that the reporting is commensurate with actual crime. You haven't provided any evidence of that.
Don't think so. People often can't get treatments that they need because insurance won't cover it.
That's BS. Had a seller screwing me over who "sold" me a VR headset.

He gave me a UPS tracking number which belonged to a package that was delivered to another city, another person, was part 1 of a 3 package delivery and weighted 28kg, pretty heavy weight headset. The only match was the zip code everything else had nothing to do with me.

So I complained to Paypal, gave them all the data that showed that the tracking number wasn't from the right package and still PayPal let the seller keep the money.
If you live in the US, you could use Privacy for this (privacy.com). Not only do they allow you to create a separate card for each merchant, pause/unpause/close/set spend limits and so on, but their support is so nice that half the time they'll just give you credit instead of making you bother with a proper chargeback. And you can do that over email.

Works even with merchants that don't support PayPal. Everyone supports good old card numbers.
except that if you don't use a rb tree, you will have a hard time meeting the performance requirements
> In fact (gasp) I couldn't see many massive wins over my go-to Python.

Everything is expression already makes Lisp beyond what Python can ever reach, unless it sacrifices backwards compatibility.
AVS GCC-Port API
Current status of the attempt at getting AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio - a Winamp Plugin) to compile with GCC and make it cross platform.
4K at 32-inch isn't enough, which is why Apple uses 5K for 27-inch screens. It's not just about the pixel size, but using integer scaling and getting reasonably-sized display elements.

Personally, I find the 8K ultra-wide announced via the Samsung partnership more exciting; that's exactly what I've been waiting for.
Ages ago (2013/2014?), when I was on tinder, I remember going through some generations of their algorithm. With their algorithm becoming increasingly hostile as the generations passed.

Gen N - whenever someone liked YOU, Tinder would immediately bring this person to the front of your like queue. This meant that if you hadn't used the app for say, in a day, then the first X persons presented would be people who liked you and you would get a bunch of matches.

Gen N+1 - Gen N was changed, such that maybe you'd get one match if you consistently liked the first 20 or so people in your queue. However, people who liked _you_ were not filtered out by the setting on your distance filter. So, you could set this filter to distance 1 KM, and basically get a list of matches to the forefront again.

Gen N+2 - the above hack was fixed, such that these likes would be filtered out as well (bastards). And then it felt like their algorithm became more and more hostile, post-poning presentation of people who liked you more and more. Basically, they really started to gamify the system, so that you would need to get these "power" boosts to get any matches at all apparently? I quit not long after this filter-hack was "fixed", so not sure what happened then.
EGR and DPF on diesels are just trash and will be for the foreseeable future barring some yet unknown development in materials science. DEF, while another obnoxious consumable is pretty problem free by comparison
Since it is from Dorsey it's probably on blockchain (at least in his fantasies).
The Financial Ombudsman Service is one of the few UK organizations that is anyway effective. If only all other regulatory authorities were half as good?

One problem I have found with some UK eCommerce sites though is that their payment gateways are often broken with Brave/Chrome and the paypal payment option is an easy way of bypassing this issue.
I have a business account that now has a whole series of notification boxes, some empty, one saying the account is permanently closed, and one saying I need to update KYC to restore the account.

Filling in the KYC sometimes restores it, but then it gets locked again because the KYC changes account details, which triggers the KYC process and reverts the changes.
The money used for the buyback makes the company worth less, so it should be neutral if the share price was accurate. It never is of course.
For client, WinSCP, and more.
Yes. Still the same for me. Been more than 1 hour.
I would say, keep writing things with it on the side. Maybe it will click like it does for many. For me syntax in other languages is noisy and annoying, but I cannot write lisp full time. I am building my own (as you do) just to be able to code some outside my regular work.

Also; I would forget about macros generally. In my opinion they should be used in very rare cases where other solutions are not pretty enough or really do not work for the usecase and these are rare in my experience.
Gambit scheme also just works. That's what I use on FreeBSD, MacOS (m1 and x86-64), Ubuntu and Raspbian. Had a version running under plan9 as well but that was a long time ago.
Don't think that was implied. Seems to be agreeing with you.
No, it's how things happen in big corps. You lose access to everything. Any follow up is done via external communication, because you're not an employee anymore. You can't send emails as an employee or access old correspondence.

There was an announcement posted somewhere else that the Twitter employees got: either you get an internal email that you're staying, or an external/private one that you're gone.
It’s definitely a common thing in publicly traded tech. Those stock grants have to come from somewhere, and simply creating new stock dilutes everyone shares. Though I’m not sure how often it happens.
> females

Callin 'em "women" would be a step in the right direction re: dating.
Plenty of hobby clubs build wooden boats for fun as a group, why not railcars!
This is true, you have to very persistent with the chargeback route, sometimes only a threat of legal action against the bank will move things forward.
Have I missed the post from Mr. Musk where he mentioned this recently?
A few things that no longer stop me:

* My personal website is truly personal. I'm no longer using it as an online resume. There's no branding, no curation. I share recipes, car repair tips, and the occasional essay.

* I don't care about traffic. I don't even measure it anymore. It's no longer about clicks and likes. I'm pleasantly surprised when someone mentions the content on my website.

* I keep my writing short and sweet. It forces me to have clearer ideas, and to stay focused. It also means that I can finish a post before caffeine wears off.

* I treat my personal website as a garden. It's meant to be imperfect, a constant work in progress.
Not really, distributions do not check every piece of code that is packaged and distributed.
I just meant that centralising distribution does not make thing specifically safe neither. Some form of audit over flathub would be nice though, but I personally much prefer projects open to community contributions.
Just now heading home from getting the pins out of the finger I broke last month, and can confirm!

Local in armpit to numb while arm (hee hee, floppy arm) < Injury that broke finger joint < Spinal for c-section (aside from taking several times to hit the right spot) < Local for single finger (multiple shots, and the last did not hurt any less than the first!)
If we're going to guess, I'm going with Roosevelt van Buren.
how would one do that from within the EU? Is it still sending a certified letter to Omaha?
Interestingly, the date-me doc linked in the title [1] has apparently been taken down for ToS violations.

1. https://twitter.com/ch402/status/1564631228166201345?s=20&t=...
Note that this is the British Indian Ocean Territory, perhaps best known in these parts for having the .io cctld.
Laughable at best. Based on global impact alone, Google is ORDERS of magnitude larger than Apple, and thusly should be valued more.

Crazy that most investors put such high stake in margins on physical goods as opposed to margins on intangible, "free" data. Google collects basically everything we do and then sells it. They get that for free, so they should have INSANE profit margins.

Too bad advertising is such a small business /s
> it should be illegal, as it was until 1982

While stock buybacks were catalyzed by "the adoption of SEC Rule 10b-18 in 1982," prior to which "companies avoided repurchasing shares because of the risks of violating the anti-manipulative provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934," stock buybacks were commonplace going back to before the War [1].

[1] https://www.cfainstitute.org/-/media/documents/book/rf-lit-r... page 7
I think a lot of the evangelism happened before Python and other languages both picked up steam and integrated some of the powerful ideas, e.g first class functions / closures or a powerful object system, so the chasm is now much narrower.

I’ve read a few pieces by prominent lispers who moved on to Python for similar reasons, along with wider adoption with a bigger ecosystem.

So you’re not wrong in thinking that. But I do believe there are a few things beyond macros that Lisp makes fantastically trivial that wouldn’t be so in other languages. It just doesn’t seem as magical anymore since we’ve raised the baseline for what is possible, for what to expect from a language. That is due in part to the influence of Lisp itself - lambda the ultimate own goal.
Looks like closer to 15%.
This story has pushed me over the line, finally triggering me to close my PayPal account. I can't describe the sum total of stimuli that brought me here, it's a gestalt, a gut feeling.

Thanks. I feel lighter.
Handling crisis better than big companies. Issuing bonuses for productive employees.
But it need not. Having those shares owned by a company that you own part of has the same financial effect.
My impression was that in the US, any surname can be used as a first name. Wasn't there even someone with Mackenzie as first name? Plenty of Harrisons, Taylors and other names that really don't sound like a first name.
you've been banned from EVERY major subreddit on all of those topics

and you were just "politely noting" things?

I struggle to believe you. Especially the one about noting economic causes of war...
Artists - just like inventors etc - should be compensated for their work, but in my humble opinion not in what has become now essentially perpetuity.

So, an artist eeking out a living on something they worked hard on and released a month ago or two years ago gets sympathy from me. An artist who released a thing 20 years ago and still wants to eek out a living off that, such an artist doesn't really have my sympathy. The great-grandchildren who want to get paid for something an ancestor released 120 years ago[0]? Hell no, go do something yourself to make money.

If you're Lars Ulrich in 2000 and sue Napster over songs you released 10-20 years ago, while sitting on a net worth of maybe around 100-200M USD (now 350M), then my sympathy is with the pirates.

This doesn't touch the issue of how a lot of artists are not making much money, not because of pirates but because of predatory music labels and publishing houses.

It also ignores the problems with the "lost sales" theory. A lot of the pirates would have never paid for stuff they downloaded in the first place. And a lot of pirates started paying after pirating some stuff. E.g. I remember discovering a lot of artists from songs I illegally copied on LAN parties back in the day[1], usually artists too small to be on a lot of rotation on radio and MTV (yes, MTV used to have music, crazy) which I probably would have never known about otherwise. And I gave lots of money to these artists, buying their CDs, going to their concerts when possible, and so on. In the same vein, I discovered artists on whatcd and similar pirate places later on.

And doesn't touch on the "please take my money" issue... There are a lot of things that are out of print, etc, that you cannot pay for. E.g. large companies holding licenses to content may even take works out of print deliberately in tax avoiding schemes - I am not a Hollywood accountant, but from my limited understanding they can declare a loss when doing so which is worth a lot more in tax reduction than keeping a title in print.

And it also doesn't even touch humanity's need to preserve important cultural artifacts for the future.

[0] Remember, up to artists death + 70 years copyright term. While this exact scenario has probably not happened yet, as these rules are too new, you get a glimpse of what will happen in the future when you look about all the legal fighting still happening over Sherlock Holmes - a figure and body of worked created mostly before copyright law even existed.

[1] Yes, I am old. If you have no idea what a LAN party is, it's basically a bunch of people actually meeting in some venue with their computers, wire everything together into a temporary LAN, to play games and swap files, which back in the day really was the only sane way to do mulitplayer and filesharing stuff as internet speeds were so limited, and internet was usually very expensive, often still paying by the minute.
But you are missing the point that even a robot could code 90% of the boilerplate and leave it to someone with domain knowledge to check it through and possibly tweak a few bits.
What a joke, standing anywhere else other than the spot where this guy has found to lodge his head it's been clear that the people most enamored with pontificating on Twitter and checkmarks are journalists. The only reason Twitter has been so overrun and to some extent captured by journos is that before they were aware of its existence people had started to rely on it for news and reporting over the existing media outlets. As soon as they got wind of that they flooded in to mine it for red meat stories or easy topics they could latch onto. Now it's practically the de facto source for most reporting.

This guy is trying to spin it as the very bad, no good tech bros are really jealous because journos get free checkmarks with their laptops when they get hired? That tech execs are angry at the media for doing so much hard hitting, in depth Journalism about the tech sector? Does this guy think we were all born in 2017 and don't remember the Obama Twitter years when the media and tech were side by side in the big 'ol government circle jerk?

I guess the media have found their new Trump, his name is Elon and he's elected himself president of their little clubhouse so they've gotta try real hard to make it seem like they're the resistance fighting against the evil dark lord, cause everyone loves Star Wars. That's what the kids are into these days, right?

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I apologize for the snark but goddamn it's just revolting how fucking whiny they are right now. Twitter isn't real life ffs just do your job and write about real things that people care about, not shitty internet drama.
For feature extraction check out tsfel:

https://github.com/fraunhoferportugal/tsfel
> the markets declined and he sued to get out of a contract nobody forced him to sign.

Small correction: he wrote an open "I declare" letter to Twitter 'canceling' the deal: Twitter got to Delaware court first (within days of his letter), and it took Musk's lawyers 2 weeks to file.
LuaRT 1.1: open-source Windows programming framework for Lua
LuaRT contains a Windows-optimized runtime library for Lua, with integrated development tools.
This project aims to facilitate Lua programming by better integrating Lua with Windows operating systems.

Main features :
- One-click installer (made with LuaRT)
- Latest Lua 5.4.4 VM, with a powerful runtime that does not rely on any other libraries
- Create desktop/console applications for x86/x64 platforms
- A number of built-in modules are available, including GUI, networking, compression, encryption, etc.
- Object-oriented programming with multilevel inheritance, mixins, constructors, destructors, properties...
- Provides an easy script to executable compiler with embedded content and seamless access from your Lua scripts

LuaRT 1.1 main changes :
- Contains now all PUC Lua modules, including os, io and utf8.
- Updated LuaRT C API to define new GUI widgets
- New compression module with gzip/gunzip and ZIP archives management
- Various bugfixes, improvements and new examples
Good luck - on subway after getting the pins out of my finger. Extremely local anesthesia hurt WAY more than getting my whole arm numbed when they put the pins in.

Feel free to swear a lot.
> stock grants have to come from somewhere, and simply creating new stock dilutes everyone shares

This is how it works. It's why companies report an earnings per share on a fully-diluted basis.