skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person you're replying to is suggesting "go to the apple store and use one of their demo computers to export the book", not "go to the apple store and buy a Mac".
> Clear rules which are fairly applied are a very different level.

The disclosure here is that Twitter didn’t have “clear rules which are fairly applied.” It was filtered through people who believed wacky things—for example, ones so blinded by anti-Christian bias they think there is any comparison between Christian “extremism” and the global problem of Islamic radicalism.
Maybe it has trained to have connections like no => pun => in => ten => did => "joke, on 'no pun was intended'".

In this case I wouldn't say it got the joke, but it's just memorised that this popular order of words would be this particular joke. I wonder if you change the order os somehow tweak the joke a bit so it would be something that shouldn't be in the training data?
MIT has a beautiful campus and many great papers and organizations have come from its past, but it has this reputation as the ultimate CS research hub which houses all of the smartest people and creates all the discoveries and inventions of the future.

My understanding is that besides its reputation and the fact everyone knows about it, MIT is fundamentally not really different than any other great tech university. And many big universities are starting to turn more into businesses. The "admins have seized the Ivory Tower" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856624&ref=upstract.c...) applies to MIT as well.
I personally think that the problem is that our political class consists almost entirely of humanities-educated politicians. People (who presumably have humanities degrees) will say things like "politicians don't need to be experts" and the even more facile (well, I am really paraphrasing here) "why do you need an understanding of the subject matter to decide what actions to take".

If you look at COVID-19 and climate change you really understand that politicians really don't know how to raise a number to the power of the other (i.e. understand exponential growth). I still vividly recall the ludicrous argument a friend (now studying philosophy at Oxford) attempted to advocate to me, which is that "we should not do anything now so that if we need to fight it later the economy is strong enough" (they did not understand exponential growth). Simple mathematics suggests that if you have some crisis which is going to get exponentially worse over time, and you can mitigate or stop now it's probably better to do something now, rather than later.
I don't want to "win". I'm happy if you are. While I have never used Win11, I have two laptops running Win10 and seldom use them because they're the same, only different (and they apparently won't run Office 2003, which is the last version before that stupid "ribbon" interface that's annoying to no end).

But it's funny the one bug feature you mention is "low level optimization for Intel new chips". So indeed, it's not just a software thing: in order to fully appreciate the greatness of that new OS I would have to buy a new CPU (not free) and all that comes with it.

I don't see the need to do that, but if you want to do it please do! But why does it upset you if others don't want to upgrade, and why would you label them luddites and grumpy old farts, is my question.

Can't we agree to disagree?
What's the value of coins if with Binance down, most certainly Bitcoin will be down too as it was propped up with fake printed USDT, which will collapse as well, and with them evaporating, every other coin will follow? If Binance falls, all crypto will vanish. And good riddance.
Totally agree - in fact from the issues pages it seemed like there had been a conscious decision from Airbyte not to support a Terraform provider and instead build out Octavia, which as you say leaves a lot to be desired. Deploying Airbyte is still far too hard, I'd be happy to pay for an 'on prem' version like Gitlab where it's a bit more managed. I also think the failure modes for Airbyte on prem are too hard to debug in comparison to other data 'MDS' tools.
ChatGPT behaves like it’s either under examination and might as well say something with confidence, or it’s just been trained on a body of work written mostly by bullshitters. Would be nice if it just said it didn’t know some times.
> This is the culmination of more than a decade of work, and was only made possible by GTK4’s complete rewrite of its rendering system, and the introduction of highly performant and scalable list & grid widgets.

I hate to be the person who just complains about Gnome, but… a few years ago, you could type into the file chooser, and it would search, quickly, for matching files and folders and display them. Then it broke and didn’t get fixed for years. Once it got fixed, you see matches, but if you actually try to select a matching folder, you hit really hilariously bad bugs that wouldn’t pass the briefest test.

Maybe Gnome could focus on getting old functionality working?
It is not only startups and not only cold places that are overlooked. The iPhone documentation says that it should not be used outside of 32°-95°F.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201678
"Turns out that last year's coupler problems had the same root cause. While people were opening up the robot and tightening the coupler, the robot would warm up. By the time they put it back together, the problem would have gone away. It had nothing to do with couplers at all.

By the time we had rolled out the coupler "fix" to all robots, the weather had warmed up enough across the country that the issue didn't reoccur. We thought we had fixed it, when actually spring fixed it."

At first they correlated a possible root cause and then after learning from that mistake they finally understood the root cause.

I've seen it happen many times where people with not enough time and knowledge to debug a huge system had to resort to shotgun debugging. IME taking the time to understand always ends up 1) solving the problem and 2) saving time and money.

This is especially true when the problem is actually caused by two or more root causes.
Interesting. To be honest I really appreciated how they started with Matlab; it gave a very math-centric focus to the fundamentals, although of course you can do all of that with Python too. And I say this as a professional developer.
I'd emphasize not only that there have been advances in theory but also in, more importantly, the empirical evidence. Marxism is a scientific theory in the sense that it can be falsified, and if you look at the rate of profit over time in most countries and periods, the evidence very strongly falsifies Marxism. Even if someone refuted Okishio, Marxism makes predictions about capitalist economics that simply aren't consistent with the world we see.
Basically if you want to keep your money in a regulated institution, don’t use a crypto exchange. You can be your own bank or just sell the crypto and buy some funds where you know some basic facts about where your money is and who can touch it.

I can’t imagine why anyone would risk keeping their assets in binance. Do you know basic facts like which jurisdiction in the world they are even based in?
Optimistically it sounds like a 50% chance they are actually fine and 50% chance they’re on the path of FTX. Big risk with no reward other than minor convenience
This makes me think of the water pipe puzzles from bioshock, but I guess it isnt supposed to.
These are all reasonable statements!

I don’t doubt that it’s possible for a human-engineered thinking machine to develop a subjective self-experience.

It just seems clear to me that, if such a scenario arose, I would have absolutely no idea what that would be like for the machine.

Its needs and circumstances (and, therefore, its behavior and cognitive development) would be utterly different from my own in many non-trivial ways.

Given this, I can’t think of any logically rigorous argument to support the commonly-made assumption that a given sentient machine must inevitably develop something like the physical aggression or the capacity for emotional pain displayed by social animals which must compete for scarce resources in the physical world.
Have you got any tips for how regular people can deal with the decentralized system without losing their shirts?
Just using the acronym FUD everytime someone critises crypto is not an argument
Carleton university in Ottawa has a network of tunnels linking different buildings on campus as well. You can go from res to classes without going outside when it is -20.
I agree. One of the reasons I chose iOS over Android around 2012 was because it worked really smooth, no stutters, everything is responsive. They are gradually removing it since iOS 7, the contact list was the first victim (you click on it, it displays, half a second after it updates, but you could have clicked a contact already and now you're calling the wrong person).
Usually the adoption and uniformity as well as the generally higher quality of Windows, in addition to the availability of good debugging tools (which work) makes troubleshooting easier.

I recently had an OpenGL related issue on Linux, I googled the error message and got 1 search result. Now I can speculate, is my program wrong? Or is it the Nvidia driver, perhaps Xorg? Did the Ubuntu devs configure something wrong etc.

Why won't Nsight or Renderman work on my machine?

Windows has by contrast a significantly larger userbase, an architecture that's set in stone, meaning I can find relevant answers from a decade ago, and there's thankfully no Windows 'distributions' so the issue I face is likely to appear on any person's machine.
If solar panels block the sun from heating the roof in Summer (making it easier to cool) then the reverse is true in Winter. Some amount of free energy is no longer hitting the roof and potentially changing the energy equation.

Is it a meaningful difference, I am not sure. However, it is only fair to count the impact on both seasons. Heating costs are significantly higher than cooling (larger absolute temperate delta required to go from 30f to 70f than 90f to 70f)
So they use encryption accessible for CIA?
> There was a time a proper English accent earned one instant respect among Americans.

I don't think this exploit was ever patched. The caveat is that it does need to be a proper English accent, e.g. RP. Nobody is impressed with a chav talking like Ali G. But if somebody on American TV is talking like David Attenborough, it boosts their perceived credibility immensely.
Only management should be able to impose their will on employees and should be able to do so without competition. On the job, and during their “free-time”.

More seriously, imagine where not everyone is required to be in the union and think about how easy it then becomes for management to manipulate the environment to the detriment of union employees until the union is wiped out.
<grandpa voice> When I was a child </grandpa>

our home used the same phone for 20+ years. Now they are stocking stuffers every year.

And it's not because they got dirt cheap. Somehow somebody convinced us that life with an old phone is unbearable, even if it still works the same as it did on day one.
W3C members list at https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List and team https://www.w3.org/People

What would be the impact of the USA part of the team shutting down? The big USA companies will still be there and will keep advancing their agendas. What the rest of the world can do?
Perhaps you are not supposed to be employed? Or perhaps you are not supposed to be potty-mouthed and cynical?
I imagine the steelman version of the argument here is: yes, they do own part of the company, that portion of upside and control is so minuscule that it's almost insignificant. And thus we're back to needing unions to advocating on behalf of workers so that they get to own a bigger slice of the pie.
I'm not sure what you mean by "manipulated"? unless you mean the general category of "curated", "moderated", "censored", etc., all of which seem to have the same factual component and vary mostly by the feeling they express.

I don't mind which word you use but I do want the community to understand what we do and that we're open about it, at least in the sense that when people ask questions, we answer them.
You just use the exchange when you want to trade not for long-term storage.
I don't think FTX actually applied or passed GAAP. From the filings it is clear they couldn't have. They barely have records of their liabilities, and definitely not of their assets. I am not even touching co-mingling of different classes of accounts.
The statement you are referencing is another lie to customers and investors.

I know they employed a "Decentraland" sketchy "auditor." But that's it. It is like employing me to do your haircut -- you are 100% screwed and not getting a haircut, but some hair will be cut.
> One solution I've found as a more senior engineer is to force a working session with a junior regularly. Like, we're not there to do anything specific, just work on something together. This ends up becoming a much more comfortable space for them to open up with all their questions

We have had really incredible returns from what we call “hack sessions” which are like you said, essentially hosted by at least one senior engineer. We find something in the moment to discuss, or someone shares their screen and we debug together. If no one has anything, I personally start quizzing people on deep technical details and it usually only takes a single question before the topic naturally evolves toward optimum teaching. By now people look forward to them as a place to bring their friction, so lack of topics is rare.
Can this be used to create a version of YouTube with no ads?
Congratulations on releasing it!

How would one encode something like the Java class file, which has "pascal strings," tagged structs, and repetition? e.g. https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/blob/c61b...

And, my other favorite thing to pick on: file formats with offset references
Right, so instead of exposing themselves legally they do an end run of telling Twitter to ban and writing smear campaigns. Which is they did to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard.
Chernobyl already disproved the China Syndrome hypothesis. If you have a critical or nearly-critical mass it flows--and it doesn't stay in the same shape as it does so. It quickly goes subcritical and solidifies. It left a room in the basement of Chernobyl that was suicide to enter (you couldn't get back out before you had sustained a lethal dose) but that's it.
Thought this was going to be about Iran’s drones, with which Russia is smashing up Ukraine. They are reported to be sensitive to low temperatures.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/world/europe/ukraine-russ...
I assume you're referring to Google pushing the Carbon language? That uses LLVM as the backend, so they're basically adding more resources.
There are some possibilities. Binance could have just done so knowing that FTX's demise would concentrate their own market share. They also could have (sensibly) not wanted toxic assets on their books - FTX's book value was/is deeply negative so holding tokens correlated to a basically insolvent entity and/or buying them is just a bad trade that hurts their financial position.

It's ruthless but I don't think it says anything about their finances. Their play made sense whether they were strong or weak.
To me, Linux means having the option of a system that lacks distractions. That’s a drastic ux improvement for me personally; IMO windows UX peaked with 2000, and XP was nearly as good.

I haven’t played much multiplayer anything (a little MTGa, among us, tabletop simulator and beat saber) but none of the single player games I’ve tried on Ubuntu have had any issues; just open steam and press play.

Windows started pushing f2p games in the start menu, changed UI toolkits twice in two generations, etc; it’s become unpleasant for me to use. Apple have similarly dropped the ball on UX in the past 5 years. IMO Linux UX has caught up thanks to those companies failures.
OpenAI's ChatGPT vs Google's LaMDA
They're like an exchange and a brokerage firm rolled into one.
Good question hard to bake all the context in. The area I have worked most in is operations where a technique/widget/process is needed to fix a problem present within the environment due to an external actor which otherwise couldn’t be identified/monitored/resolved. Also to clarify I’ve been lucky to be part of such skunk work projects never actually lead one.
This gross oversimplification precludes one from understanding anything but a yes/no answer. The answer is not binary. Like the parent said, delivering the client on every single call makes the rogue update trivial and possibly targeted. Having your software come from, e.g., a bi-annual release Linux distribution, and/or one that focuses on security, makes the rogue update less likely. Not impossible, but still more difficult.
I'm probably missing some critical part in my comparison, but crypto trading sounds awful lot like trading in stock markets.
So, what you're saying is that you no idea what's involved in actually manufacturing these chips?
You can install a web browser add-on called, 'Bypass Paywalls Clean'. It transparently bypasses FT and over 400 other media paywalls.
You know ACH transfers, have transaction fees right? They are just hidden to the public.
>> This is a silly question, so silly in fact that I suspect it is only intended as reductio ad absurdum (which can be a fallacy if based on a false or inadequate premise).

I commend you for knowing logical fallacies. Though it would be even better if you were able to demonstrate those fallacies instead appealing to your own authority.

>> A carpenter is entitled to the fruits of their labor, which can adequately be provided with money.

I agree. Unfortunately, some people here claim developers working for google are entitled to their share of google's profits and carpenters working for said developers are not entitled to a share of profits from what those developers earn.
I just realized you're not referring to the game Paris: La Cite de la Lumiere, which is also a wonderful game!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/276498/paris-la-cite-de-...
I think the animation makes it pretty clear how this works… But I do wonder how the baseline coordinates are established?

In more realistic applications you’d have to deal with things like text that is not exactly aligned with pixel boundaries, and different anti-aliasing methods.
There are quite a few, it's just that none of them learned it from two hours a week between the ages of 11 and 16. (Mostly they learned it because their parents and many members of their local community speak Welsh or Punjabi or Urdu...)
Exactly! As soon as I saw that I knew that we're not at a point where we need to be concerned about AI just yet. It still can't even fake understanding convincingly let alone actually understand something.
Now bitch slap the monkey
Their handling of the Aaron Swartz case (rightfully) caused a massive hit to their reputation.
Unsurprising
It's something I have seen from a few sources and it's something I really need to 'learn' in 2023.

I tend to overthink a lot, to try and 'figure it out' or to 'make sense of it all', but really I just need to do the things that I already know need to be done, I always know things I need to do, I always have the next step, but because it doesn't quite feel enough or because it's not overly clear to me how the parts fit together or what will happen, I will go back into 'trying to figure it out mode'

It's depressing when I stop to think how little time I actually spend doing the things that will actually make the difference and move forward and how much my mind goes in circles trying to figure out how I need to change to make progress, but the truth likely is, I just need to do the thing, do more of it and do it faster, everything else becomes an excuse.

In some ways it's an insecurity, because you can't know the future ahead of time and you don't know how what you are doing now will fully link up to what you are hoping to achieve on a bigger scale, but you just have to take that leap.
Yeah I can't see much point either. I think it's just one of those things architects and urban planners do sometimes because it's interesting and unusual, not because it's good.

Another example is guided busways. Inferior to a road in every respect but that isn't enough to stop them.

I guess I shouldn't single out architects and urban planners - probably every field has projects that a back of the envelope calculation shows are obviously a terrible idea but they go ahead anyway. Solar roadways. Space based power.

The issue with architects doing it is that buildings stick around for a long time and people have to actually live in them, so I feel justified in reserving special resentment for modern architects.
Nobody wants to live in apartments. Maybe 20-something’s with no prospect of family, but that’s it.
Sure you can have a good dictator, but there is much greater room for a bad one.

Carmack (by his own admission) doesn’t want to be a manager, he wants to be a programmer. So he would probably not make a good dictator. He might have had less sway precisely because someone above him is a dictator who didn’t like his input, no room for decent in a dictatorship.
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
Boris Johnson met ex-KGB oligarch and made his son a member of the House of Lords[1]

He said "let the bodies pile high" about his plan for COVID, a plan which ended up killing ~100,000 people.[2][2.5]

> "Oh, and the episode with the mural, where he was too stupid to understand why a picture of fat people with hooked noses oppressing "the workers" would be offensive to a certain group."

Is the certain group Jews? Were they offended by Boris Johnson's book with rude Jewish stereotypes?[3] Or his other racist public writings?[4]

> "Is it too much to ask that a candidate for Prime Minister should respect the Rule of Law?"

Is it too much to ask that the actual Prime Minster respect the law? Partygate, for example[5]

What's that saying "with Conservatives, every accusation is a confession".

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62068421

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pms-former-adviser-confi...

[2.5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/ons-figures-sh...

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/jan/23/london.race

[5] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60124162
I think this is amazing. Not every attempt to solve housing problems will be a hit but we have to try or else we’ll never succeed. Hopefully the next round of solutions will learn from these attempts.

I will say that it might seem contradictory but really high density housing with adequate services (grocery,medical,school) is actually lower impact than huge sprawl. Sure the impact on that one kilometer is dramatic but in a suburban sprawl situation the land use for the same number of residences/units is going to be orders of magnitude higher. Even the transport links might use more land than the the land used. I’m thinking large city streets and freeways, that’s a lot of real estate.
Maybe it's a multi-step migration.

From the highly obsolete format, to a stepping stone in-between which can be converted to a modern format.
Imo the problem with Linux GUIs is that there are 2 kinds of devs working on it:

- Those who want to bring about The Year Of The Linux Desktop and believe this can be brought about by removing every remotely complicated feature under the sun.

- Those who think the only purpose of GUIs is to display multiple terminals side by side.