skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you be once and win you then can roll the money into lower return legitimate enterprises and sail off into the sunset.

I'd wager that most businesses that start as a single person doing something (be it investing money or detailing cars) start as off the books, under the table, zero regard for regulatory compliance type businesses. It's only when they've made enough on that initial investment outside the rules that they turn around and incur the cost of compliance.
I'd be interested to hear more about this, as someone potentially in a similar position. What kinds of problems did you come up against where you felt your math skills were a limiting factor? What branches of math did you focus on learning?
the most unintentionally meta essay ever written
At the high school level especially?

I just asked it to write an essay on the Battle of Agincourt. Perfectly serviceable prose that looks accurate to me. I'm sure I could flesh it out using some follow-on questions. What were the causes? Describe the reign of Henry V. Describe the English tactics and why they won. Etc.

Add a few convincing references to any of the doubtless many books on the subject for sale on Amazon and I could have a perfectly adequate high school or maybe even low-level college essay in an hour tops.

(And I did run some random sentences through Google looking for exact matches and didn't find them.)

The Battle of Agincourt was a significant event in English and French history, as it was a major victory for the English army against the French during the Hundred Years' War. The battle took place on October 25, 1415, near the town of Agincourt in northern France.

The English army, led by King Henry V, was vastly outnumbered by the French forces, which were estimated to be around 30,000 soldiers compared to the English army of just 6,000. Despite the odds, the English were able to emerge victorious thanks to their superior tactics and weaponry.

The English army was composed of mostly longbowmen, who were able to shoot arrows with great accuracy and power. The French, on the other hand, relied heavily on heavily-armored knights, who were less effective in the muddy and wet conditions of the battlefield. The English were also able to take advantage of the narrow front of the battlefield, which allowed them to focus their firepower and overwhelm the French forces.

The battle lasted for several hours and was marked by intense hand-to-hand combat. In the end, the English emerged victorious, with the French suffering heavy casualties. The English lost only a few hundred soldiers, while the French lost thousands.

The victory at Agincourt was a major turning point in the Hundred Years' War, as it weakened the French army and boosted English morale. It also cemented King Henry V's reputation as a great military leader and helped to solidify English control over parts of France.

The Battle of Agincourt is still remembered today as a key event in English and French history, and it continues to be celebrated in popular culture, such as in Shakespeare's play "Henry V." Overall, it was a significant military victory for the English and a crucial moment in the history of the Hundred Years' War.
Exo-legal? Maybe extra-legal? As in outside the law.

(Exo-legal punishment sounds like something from the 40K universe :) )
Dave Cutler is, seemingly, a good example of this. If you have not read it, I recommend the book Show Stopper! by G. Pascal Zachary, about the development of Microsoft Windows NT under his leadership.
That was the point of isolation, to control the spread of the virus to not impact our hospitals. Vaccinations were first meant to eradicate, then when that didn’t happen it was to reduce transmission, then when that didn’t work it was to reduce the symptoms (which still doesn’t work).
Interesting project.
It says it is inspired by obsidian (and roam).
It is also keen on "end-user Programming", so the org-mode (and org-roam) comparison is inevitable on HN (20 emacs occurences in this thread and counting...)

So, what is special?

It is polish (=creator [4]). does that count? [0]

Seriously. For one thing, I spotted the "item" and "data" as queryable data sources [1]. if this is real "block level querying" (in that freeform page format), it could be indeed a missing link between obsidian and roam/logseq [0]. It is still early days though.

[0] Outside English-speaking/Western-Europe, Siuyan [2] is another local open source KB gem that successfully bridged this (blocks + freeform) gap with a very fast dev cycle. Being Chinese, It is not popular... wait.. what about logseq [3] ? (obsidian too? no.)

[1] https://silverbullet.md/%F0%9F%94%8C_Directive/Query

[2] https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan#-features

[3] https://twitter.com/tiensonqin

[4] https://twitter.com/zef/
Hmm, in that case it seems like the package manager should stage the new update and wait for the process to end before doing the update.

But I suppose linux is generally geared towards servers, where that isn't an issue.
> Describe information retrieval in the style of Josef Stalin

Information retrieval is a vital process in the success of our great nation. It allows us to quickly and efficiently access the information we need to make important decisions and advance our cause. Without information retrieval, we would be lost and unable to compete with the capitalist pigs. It is a crucial tool in our struggle to create a socialist utopia. We must ensure that all of our comrades are trained in the proper use of information retrieval, so that we can continue to grow and thrive as a nation. The success of our revolution depends on it. Long live socialism!

(Yes I'm procrastinating studying for my exam. How could you tell?)
You might be onto something. As a passionate advocate in emerging Fintech, I have been invested in N26 and Revolut for 5 years.
Well you could easily use the first 4 bits to indicate how many bytes the length is + 1.

c0 (0b0000) -> length is 0xc = 12
1341 (0b0001) -> length is 0x134 = 69,940
239a42 (0b0010) -> length is 0x239a42 = 145,828

deadbeaf239a47 (0b0111) -> length is 0xdeadbeaf239a4 = 3917404957718948.

This gets you a 7-byte = 56bit number, minimal overhead for smaller strings.

Maybe reserve 0x1111 for future use.

Maybe the other endian makes more sense here, and maybe 0 should mean zero-length.

It's probably not very performant compared to other solutions, but you can just shift 4 bits, and you're done

I'm curious how many strings are allocated at a particular point in time (across everything, kernel, os, apps, etc)
96 GiB of memory. Hope this is a sign that nested virtualization will be enabled.
"PWAs" are a dozen different standards. And everyone selects a different subset of them to call "the one true PWA".

Apple has supported the absolute vast majority of them since forever. And they have literally nothing to do with doing anything in WASM.
Texting is 30, which means most adults don't remember life before it
An interview with ChatGPT about itself
Expanding vertically? Nope. The storage part of the warehouse is typically 4 levels with ten foot ceilings. They have always been under these space constraints and have absolutely already optimized for space vertically.

You could build a taller warehouse, but there's a standard height and there are, I believe, often building code things to prevent taller towers like that. And again, if it was reasonable to do it already, they'd have gone taller already.
I recommend Logseq very much as well, though it's worth noting that it differs from Obsidian in that it's outlining-centered.

For me that was actually the reason I switched to it - I usually take notes in the form of deeply nested lists, which isn't as ergonomic in normal note-taking tools (the Obsidian plugins for it are not enough).
The 'life-changing' electric suit
An overview of the paper by the author: https://theconversation.com/people-think-they-should-talk-le...
I’ve encountered significant evidence of the opposite being true in my experience
As an org-mode/Emacs users I smile finding people keeping reinventing the wheel. It's not a sore critics to the SB devs of course but a general observation.

The classic so-called Greenspun's tenth rule [1] it's not just about Lisp but general: classic systems built with the concept of "the OS is the SOLE and UNIQUE fully-integrated end-users application in the desktop" is the rule to follow.

Sure, sometimes peoples have issues understand how such systems can work, so trained in modern ones, but just think about something you buy on-line:

- you get some mails (order confirmation, payment, shipping, ...)

- you get one or more bank transactions

- you might have some notes on some new assets, like a note about how to use the device, periodic maintenance, ...

ALL such "digital things" are separate data on separate apps but for you they are "just a set of things". Why having them separated then? Why you can't just collect/search them in a single UI? In org-mode/Emacs we can achieve something like that, in classic systems it was a normal desktop computing task.

That's what we lost in decades of commercially-driven development, even in FLOSS land...

[1]
#+begin_quote
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
#+end_quote

-- Philip Greenspun ~1993
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I still don't see the bias? In this case it's clearly that the left has had far more saying in what's allowed on social media than the right, so if you have any integrity you'd stand on the side of the right to create some equality/justice. TDS is a real thing, I was subject to that myself for years. I still think he's a narcissistic shitbag but a lot of stuff was just completely overblown. See, now I'm being Trump apologetic as well even though I've been clearly left-leaning for most of my life.
Explain why Stable Diffusion/GPT3 do miracles, and Siri can’t understand a thing
I want to say that bettercap is at the core of the pwnagotchi

pwnagotchi.ai
As with the high vote totals for Firefox-related links, the presence of a link on an ancient* text editor at #1 on HN (as I write) reveals that HN voters are a bit ... old school. These tools' relative importance has declined over the last 15 years.

* (I am a graybeard who used Emacs daily for a long time)
If the official API requires jumping through hoops, then use the API that Twitter's web interface uses. Run it in Selenium if you have to. No approval for that besides creating an account.
Have you tried describing the algorithm?

https://imgur.com/a/7da1vFj

I used 'z' instead of 'a' to avoid any possible issues with the article 'a'. I think I messed up the assignment of z[l] at z[r] being after its updated, not sure.

But it created the input format, described it and the program ran the first time once i fixed the indents (code formatting is broken for some reason). If I run against the input at the contest page I get NO NO NO NO YES.
Here you go.

https://sgp.fas.org/jud/snowden/complaint.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/641
I'm a counterpoint to this.

Outstanding IC wanting to get into management for job security / ageism. Turned out to be a bad manager too focused on team and unable to effectively manage up and sideways.

I'm now a consultant. Ageism is suddenly on my side in consulting. Coding until I die.
Very very different from China of course. Just to add an important distinction to your point. Emperor Xi is not in any way comparable to Rishi and the UK may be getting close to having a majority of their citizens foreign born at this point. Apples and oranges would greatly understate the dissimilarity.
Now imagine trying to do the same thing as an IC :(
US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber
Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust
i think there's an unconscious impulse to try to seem either servile or mysterious in conversations where you want to be liked or seem interesting. so it makes sense that people assume reticence to speak is a better tactic than talking a lot.
NPCs are humans too.

And honestly, screw the term NPC, all of us have various degrees of standard and quirkiness. The latter is not automatically good.
Well I personally know one of those people whose name GPT took the liberty of attributing to a made-up work. It's a mild example, but really puts into perspective the concerns about relying on this garbage for any important thing. What happens when I ask it "give me a list of pedophiles"?

Or less dramatically: what happens when it attributes mistaken results or offensive quotes to a real person, damaging his/her reputation?
Really small strings have a fixed-size length field in any variable-size encoding of the length. They're small, so they fit into whatever the smallest possible length field is.

What do you gain in handling short strings from an inability to handle long ones?
Same for music recommendations. I've told ChatGPT some of my taste and asked for some song recommendations.

It replied with some songs from actual artists that I like, perfectly describing how the song's tone was, why I'd like it, how the vocals fitted the tone, and the release date of the song.

Great... the only problem was those songs didn't exist.
I had a polestar v60, sir, and that thing is no Polestar.
> the service we were building was a fairly straightforward CRUD app. The expected load on this service was going to be on the order no more than a few queries per second, max, through the lifetime of this particular system. The service was a frontend to a fairly elaborate data-processing pipeline that could take many hours to run, so the service itself was not expected to be a performance bottleneck. There was no particular concern that a conventional language like Python would have any trouble delivering good performance.

Yeah, that's not the kind of thing you use low level stuff for. Ruby on Rails or Node or Elixir, or whatever Java thing is going to let you iterate faster than a lower level language.
Paleontologists Identify New Species of Herbivorous Dinosaur
A dwarf, flat-headed dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago was discovered in Transylvania.
This has essentially been done for the government already, and still these numbers are treated as sensitive.
You could say the same about child abuse. That doesn’t make it not disgusting or unimportant. If you have to hide the things you are doing to children from the parents, you’re doing a bad thing.
It’s even worse tham that. Many letters can easily be confused for different letters, hence the reason for phonetic alphabets. I had one company who had an external system known as OAS, and some manager who maybe should have known about OAS, but had never worked with it decided to create an acronym OIS. Luckily the two systems were rarely talked about in the same context, but it still took me lots of mental effort to know which of the 2 systems various individuals were talking about in meetings when either were mentioned.
Most people who threatened to quit Twitter for Mastodon haven't left
I’ve always loved this blog and definitely have found many useful tools from it. So glad it’s back. And it’s even on Mastodon now(?)!
> a majority of people

so minorities should be abused?
Ironically I'd find more value in "Windows XP in a browser" than in a custom OS. if it has filesystem access and can handle most of the underlying API. Reason being that I run Linux, so if I need to run a Windows program (which I occasionally do: I'm into video game music, and a lot of the tooling stack for manipulating files is dinky Windows programs developed by Some Guy in 2013 and never really maintained), I have the following choices:

- dualboot (not doing that again, Windows 10 loved to eat my bootloader over and over and would get stuck in update loops)

- wine, which requires a lot of configuration and has weird bugs, but is really good for more heavyweight apps (foobar2000 is still king)

- virtualization, which also requires a lot of configuration. need to perform a full OS install, etc. I haven't found a way to easily spin up a virtualized windows box (I run Manjaro = Arch, let me know if you have an easy way. A while back I gave it a couple hours and couldn't figure it out, so I gave up.).

A Windows-in-browser that runs "well enough" and can access my local filesystem would let me just run the damn app, do the thing I want to do, and then call it a day. Of course, I'm sure there's lots of details I haven't thought through here. But it feels like a potentially legitimate use case.
Two bits of advice I'd add, from 30 years in the industry:

* A colleague once said to me, a few years back, "become an expert in one thing", even if it's a small thing.

* "My superpower is reading the manual"
you say old school, i say “prefers battle-hardened tools”

it is kind of amusing to use an editor every day that is significantly older than me, i have to admit.
Wounded officers sue Sig Sauer, say gun goes off by itself
> It is easier to leak memory

I'm not convinced about this at all. I've had far more issues with memory leaks in JavaScript programs than I have with Rust. The only way you're really likely to leak memory in Rust is creating cycles of Rc and Arc types. But I don't think any of my programs have even contained Rc, and only trivial usages of Arc for global resources, which I absolutely wouldn't want to point to each other. JavaScript will let you create the same problem without making it obvious with type signatures. And while you might be lucky and have the GC sort out your mess, it doesn't always manage to.
One thing you have to consider is how context plays a very important role in your job. AI does not have the context of your job/codebase and therefore can only do very small tasks that have probably already been done before (e.g. "Write a function that reverses a string" - which can be found in a few seconds by Googling).

You have nothing to worry about until we're able to feed entire codebases into an AI and have them generate features or fix bugs, and even then, having the context of what the task is on a human level requires even more advanced computing. We're just not there yet.
Japanese cars were cheap shit till they took over the world. Korean tv/devices were shit till they took over the world. Same is going to happen with China made stuff.
Absolutely agree. I've wasted hours trying to deduce the data types being passed around in Python when this takes milliseconds in other languages. My steadfast rule: if a team is using Python, I don't join that team.
I mean, certainly there are plenty of things people want to comment on without writing a blog post on it. This discussion, for example. We're discussing this with relatively quickly written comments, not as blog posts that we spend a great deal of time on, put away for a day, come back to edit, etc.

It's also the case that time is limited, and there are some topics we don't want to spend much time on. It's common to see people argue that if you don't spend as much time on the topic as them, then your opinions on it aren't as worthy, but I can't really agree with that. It's very often used as a way to defend poor beliefs against obvious criticisms. You see it a lot with conspiracy theories. "You can't dismiss this unless you've read all of the writings on it!" But only true believers are going to subject themselves to dozens of books on a crank theory.
> The easiest way to identify a Chinese seller is by the name (it will be in all caps)

Is this the reason why so many Amazon brands are six letters long and all caps?
Zim is a classic software, limited but usable, it's good if you do not use Emacs, so in that case I recommend it.

Tiddly Wiki might be less hard to use with

- Timini (https://ibnishak.github.io/Timimi/ + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/timimi/ or https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timimi/mnggafnmmhd...) or

- TiddlyD (https://github.com/bachmeil/tiddlyd)

- Twkwk (https://github.com/steinuil/twkwk)

And probably many others alike. Essentially they are local daemons who serve a local TittdlyWiki taking care of file saving, attachments etc. The interesting part of TiddlyWiki is IMO it's full-fledged transclusion support but it's far more mechanic than Zim.

Org-mode/org-roam/* in Emacs do MUCH more and are MUCH more reliable in time-based notes terms (lifetime of notes) but demand much more effort...
That doesn't stop the companies churning out these models to pretend otherwise x)
Yes. I had it tweak a story with notes like “make it sadder” or “no the woman lives in Paris” and it would adjust remarkably well.
The irony of the witty. The cleverest of quips.
To be more sure of yourself by standing above the rest.
For the clever themselves may just find it was the loudest whom made the news that day.

What a breathe
Omm
Headline: Left.

Text: Deleted account.

These are different.
Don’t make me laugh. Have you seen how many people have been banned from Twitter in the last week because they criticized its manchild-in-chief?
I mean, Rust is the cool new language though.
In fairness, most readers in the 1920s of Kipling's books would have been much more familiar with the swastika as a widely-used symobol in India than the logo of a small extreme right-wing party in Germany.

Relevant quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

> Many older editions of Rudyard Kipling's books have a swastika printed on the cover, associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower, reflecting the influence of Indian culture. Kipling's use of the swastika was based on the Indian sun symbol conferring good luck and the Sanskrit word meaning "fortunate" or "well-being". He used the swastika symbol in both right and left-facing forms, and it was in general use by others at the time
The Rise of WriterBot
I do not get your question: org-mode offer various ZK-alike implementation like zetteldesk on top of org-roam, in mere storage terms a zettel is a heading, real links between them allow to travel between notes. You can capture them in a timeline...
The US wages for such a person probably costs more than like five of them combined and would never recoup their costs vs automated translations.

The font thing is just their default Chinese font with its Roman glyphs that are designed to look proportional to Chinese characters, not appeal to Western sensibilities.

They already took over the most successful American retail business by selling cheap crap without needing to deal with marketing. American companies that do all that come and go while the Chinese presence keeps growing and winning. Maybe it's us who have our product strategy wrong. Marketing might make sense when you're targeting a certain audience with disposable income, but probably most buyers on Amazon are just looking for the cheapest reasonable crap and don't overthink it...

Really the onus here should be on Amazon. Opening their catalog to third party sellers was inevitably going to destroy the user experience. Did Bezos care? No, they get paid by both sides this way. Everyone else started copying this model too, from Walmart to Bed Bath and Beyond.

The days of quality manufacturing and customer loyalty are long gone. It's all been replaced by cheap whitelabeled or unbranded crap sold via a shotgun approach to hordes of unthinking buyers. It makes the middleman more money that way now that they can easily scale it up to reach millions. SEO and fake reviews replaced quality driven word of mouth.