skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an interview with Noam Chomsky, intellectual and professor at MIT, where he said that he can't prove it but he suspects students at the elite universities are no smarter than the ones at public universities. They're simply more obedient. There's plenty of bright folks that refuse to jump through the hoops necessary to get accepted at the elite schools.
Well you can just redefine the meaning of arbitrary words, but the result is that nobody understands your attempts at communication.

I personally prefer to be effective at communication, so I don't just use words to mean something different than what everyone else thinks.
I'll be cool thanks for your offer. I slept on the couches in a lobby of a swish hotel last night then got on a train at 7am. Hotels here are super expensive so I'm just going to wing it until I can get a room share next week or try and reschedule my flight out of here without it costing a small fortune.
Seamlessly recombining text in novel ways is going to look a whole lot like coming up with original and creative ideas. How can we tell the difference?

I’m reminded of techniques for generating ideas from randomness like Tarot cards and the Oblique Strategies card deck. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
> Or if you're in a bigger company with 400 employees and 60 developers. Those 60 DD licenses will cost you $3,600 a year but your payroll for 60 developers will be like 15 to 25 million dollars.

1/4-1/2 million payroll expense per developer?

That's 2-4× median salary for developers, per BLS.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
Worth noting glacambre (the Firenvim creator) is one of the primary Tridactyl contributors. And the two integrate too, IIRC.
I'm happy you're doing better.

I'm spending this Christmas alone, and boy, oh boy, do I hope others aren't going through the same.
Fingerprint scanners maybe, and of course graphics drivers nonsense but webcams? I haven’t ever a webcam issue in 10+ years on any distro.

Nowadays so much is just some USB device that even on laptops so much ends up working out of the box
Being able to aggregate and understand nuance is what's supposed to make ChatGPT an improvement over logic programming with axioms and rules from the 80s and 90s. If you have to enumerate every single subject, object, and predicate, and how they exist in the world, then we've burned hundreds of millions of dollars of compute power to recreate Prolog
What a wonderful though! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you too.
The word ‘leaver’ reminded me of lever.co (the applicant tracking system). Perhaps there is a need for a business that specializes in dealing with the possessions and effects of departing employees?
I think you get what you look after. If you don't feel you want to try to push the boundaries of computing and instead prefer working with people then there are way more opportunities there, you don't even have to be good as long as you can connect clients to databases people will pay you. However to me that isn't why I got into programming, that sort of job isn't anything like the jobs I've had, and it is a bit sad to see people in those jobs drowning out most other opinions about programming.

Conversely if you love algorithms and are sufficiently good at them then you can spend your entire career with that and never ever talk to non-technical people. Some people here thinks those jobs basically don't exist, but they do exist and are really important and well paid. And once you start working there you can just continue forever since there are so few who have experience working with those. Like, maybe Google asks algorithm questions since they want more people to improve their algorithms? I know they had low hanging fruit everywhere, they just lacked people who were competent enough at algorithms to solve them, their hiring bar is way too low to solve their hard problems. But they can't really raise it either, there aren't enough people that could pass them then.
Agreed, here is a good introduction with many examples: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
My favorite is when the codebase is so deeply buried in macros and headers that send you on a wild goose chase to find any actual code that it becomes much easier to just dump the binary in ida/binja. The source code can lie but at least the compiled binary directly does what it says
I should note, that OpenWatcom 2.0[1] is far better for supporting more recent C and C++ code, modern hosts and tooling, but still able to compile into 16 bit code. It is also actively maintained. Instead of MASM I recommend JWasm[2] + Jwlink[3]. Back in time I did a fork[4] of JWasm that has cleaner build system (CMake).

[1] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2

[2] https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/JWasm

[3] https://github.com/JWasm/JWlink

[4] https://github.com/JWasm/JWasm
This was moving. I read it aloud to my family. You’re a blessing, and I appreciate your generosity and kindness.

I genuinely enjoy this community!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays all!
This reminds me of something I want: a centralized password manager where

* The entire file is encrypted,

* Using OPAQUE,

* On a FOSS local native client

* That integrates with a FOSS browser extension that pulls the information only from the local copy.

* And the only thing the server does is store the file and user account information.

How hard could it be? (Well, outside of getting the cryptography right.)

Looking at this incident and the behavior of LastPass, it seems it's impossible. Or it's too inconvenient for users.
Does monetisation just refer to money tiktok pays them? Or do these 'influencers' get most of their money through separate contracts with companies that are based on view count or something? That seems surprisingly meager to get a few bucks for millions of views.
How are you defining right and good? A person works 60+ hours a week for a couple of decades to select and buy a house in the suburbs and suddenly someone can throw up a duplex or triplex next door? And this is good? Proto-klan? That’s simply ignorant virtue signaling.
“Fun disabled by administrator” (2015)
Really? I haven't had a single query rejected.
Many iconic American Christmas songs were authored by Jews.

Like "It's the most wonderful time of the year", what a banger song.

Welcome to America, where everyone gets along just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZTS4cL4Euo
> Only because they're idiots.

Even if we ignore the "heard bad advice" versus "idiot" issue, that's still untrue because there are other reasons besides what's best for the machine.

Maybe they aren't in the car, and they're warming it up to be comfortable.

Maybe there is ice on the car they need to melt.
I was surprised to find that my startup's contract dev kept working on the 23rd and even 24th. If he's pinging me with questions and sending me new versions to test, I'm going to answer and test stuff out! It's not mission-critical though (it's an manifest v3 transition, which Google has given a reprieve on), so we'll take a few days before getting back to it.

The good thing about testing browser extensions is that you can do much of it while just surfing the web! Cheers to everyone else who are clocking in during the holidays!
https://www.qireader.com/
A modern PWA RSS Reader
On my car (2013 mini) the range prediction is actually a more accurate indicator of how much fuel is in the tank than the (separate) fuel tank meter. Not sure why, you’d think they’d use the same input data for both, but it’s true.
https://fixthecourt.com/2022/12/recent-times-justice-failed-... shows that failure to recuse is a distinctly republican nominated justice problem. My politics lean left, but so do the facts in this case.
Happy Solsthelion Everyone
The Solstice was December 21st, Perihelion is January 4th, and between them they neatly cover the usual holiday period.

So here's wishing everyone a Happy Solsthelion !!
Sure, but disregarding behaviours and telling someone that they’re imagining an issue is gaslighting..
What happens if you add time? You flip it over and wait five minutes?
Elon Musk’s unpredictable Twitter habits have Tesla investors worried
I don't recall the last time I read something with excessive use of brackets/parentheses. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Way to take a nice sentimental quote about books you enjoyed earlier in life and misinterpret it in the worst way possible.
Military/Spy fanfiction with just enough receipts (ie. yes there really is partisan activity in Russia) to keep it out of the John Clancy bookshelf. Even if it's true I absolutely love how everyone of these special forces veterans goes straight to endangering their former colleagues just for 5 minutes of fame. I wonder what they would say if they were still active.
What are you asking it for?

I’ve literally had it write smutty fanfic for me. I made it write neil degrasse tyson’s voiceover for a documentary about cunnilingus.

Playing with this thing has made me feel the maturity of a 13 year old and it’s right there with me.
I think recombining text in novel ways can be original and creative if you understand the concepts behind the words. which is what ChatGPT is doing.
Yes, TestFlight is the main problem now, because there are still bugs blocking the publication in the AppStore.

As I wrote above, this site is a draft.

Mobile application for where users can create games and apps on mobile devices. For this, a programming language was created.

For example, in a war or other extreme conditions, when there is no electricity, this is critical.

Now it's only iOS, and then there will be Android, Web and Desktop.

There are other meanings here, for this I made a separate topic with details. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181251

A part of the project is open source and I want to open the whole project, but for this I need more knowledge and suggestions.

Those who buy the paid version will receive coins with which they can buy assets for their applications. Details on this are yet to be expanded.

Yes, this is a social network for developers and a marketplace for selling apps.

This is also a web3 system where people can trade coins on an exchange, I would like to get a stable coin for which people can sell their assets and exchange for Ethereum. Here is an example of a web3 wallet mobile app created using this application and programming language. It was the world's first mobile 3D crypto wallet. https://twitter.com/Web3Wallet/status/1506964780346716165

Thanks, I know Rust lang :)
Better link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=462221
My wife came here to the northern US from the south, and the relative unwillingness of strangers to speak here rubs her all sorts of wrong ways. She's cut off from her old friends, and cut off from making new friends, and socializing with friends is as essential to her existence as corn grits (also in short supply here).

There is one exception: Older women seem to enjoy having someone to talk to, so she's befriended a few in the neighborhood. Nevertheless we are considering a move.
I've found that if you use the API rather than their website you get through all of that stuff.
These numbers are from /dev/urandom or perhaps /dev/null, or maybe they hired white-glove movers and car transporters and flew first class to their destination or something. I moved Chicago to Seattle for like $2-3k all-in (counting plane tickets) in 2017, leaving only couches and beds behind (just wasn't worth bothering to move the cheap Ikea-grade stuff I had). Seattle-Vancouver in 2018 and, a year later, back, were each ~$1-2k all-in by U-Haul and elbow grease, discarding almost nothing either direction.

Moving isn't cheap, but on even relatively junior tech salaries, provided some savings or access to credit, it's truly not a life-altering event the way $40k would be.
If you type "uname" at a NixOS prompt, what does it say?
While the headline is a reasonable point of view objectively (I didn't read the article because of paywall), given we know his past beef with WashPo, this feels like fairly obviously dirt being flung by the old anti-Tesla crowd.
Honestly a somewhat sophisticated pattern that you write down somewhere is probably pretty secure. Outside of a very targeted attack.
The official bit warden self host runs something like 13 docker containers. Good luck securing that as a normal person
LOL. They did much better job parking Falcon 9
Probably because of kids, right? (Currently experiencing this).
It very much is. If you live in the USA, please be thankful that you have freedom of expression and a culture that values such rights. This is not the norm in many parts of the world.
Related:

Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper’s Ferry site (Idaho, USA) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111182 - Dec 2022 (10 comments)
> There are an awful lot of suburbs in the Bay Area that would be massively improved in character by replacing a handful of mansions with refugee camps.

Not even refugees would want to live near refugee camps
Merry Christmas y'all. HN has done a lot for me over time, though I mostly lurk. I hope everyone here has a great holiday and a happy new year.

I'm not literally alone on Christmas, but as I've gotten older and moved away, the family I used to spend the holidays with is either across the country or passed on. If you're not to that stage yet, please do your future self a favor and spend a little longer talking to your family. Take an extra photo, or ask them about some family history (and maybe record it). I really wish I had done that.

Stay warm!
The attack vector I'm worried about is a website I use improperly storing passwords (plaintext, etc) and having a leak. To protect against this I use a unique password per website. I cannot possibly remember a unique, secure password for every website I use.

So, I use a password manager.
Job security through obscurity.
Since that directly links to the "Student Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy", that’s also "fun"

> All undergraduate student groups and residences may host only alcohol-free parties or events during Admit Weekend.

> Beer, wine and packaged pre-mixed alcoholic beverages (e.g. wine coolers, pre-mixed cocktail or seltzer drinks under 20% alcohol by volume, etc.) are the only alcoholic beverages that can be present at on-campus undergraduate student parties

> Shots of hard alcohol are prohibited at all parties.

> Games and activities that promote high-risk drinking or rapid alcohol consumption are not allowed on campus.

> While California has legalized certain recreational cannabis usage among persons aged 21 years or older, cannabis still remains illegal under federal law. […] For the avoidance of doubt, the possession, use, storage, delivery, cultivation, distribution and sale of cannabis in any form is prohibited on all Stanford University property, including university-owned and leased buildings, housing and parking lots. Cannabis is also not permitted at university events or while conducting university business.
> Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques; use it! Due to the sheer volume of source code contaminated by this idiom nothing can kill a maintenance engineer faster than a well planned Hungarian Notation attack. The following tips will help you corrupt the original intent of Hungarian Notation:

I can't stop laughing.
Escaping the Algorithms
I don't like the Googlers' trend of "make the policy message sound like a fact of life, rather than blaming the people who set the policy".
Argon2 can be used as KDF, not just as a password hash in an authentication database.
A good rule is two maybe even three duplications is ok. After that, probably tome to refactor at least a little. Often this rule of thumb saves some efforts.
>It makes it really hard for me to figure out what ChatGPT is actually capable of, because the unreasonable restrictions never even let me give it a shot.

My understanding is that the end goal of ChatGPT is to perform corporate oriented tasks. More intelligent chat bots, maybe have AI avatars do seminars, that sort of thing.

The most important thing it needs to be capable of is keeping it's future customers out of bad press.
Please don't let cost be a barrier. I'd much rather know you have a place to stay. There are plenty of resources here to make sure you're not on the streets on an ostensble vacation. You have my contact info. Be safe!
I have middlemarch on my shelf right now. It arrived a week or two ago after I learned a writer I like considers it one of his favourite books. I will probably get to it after Delillos underworld, didions play it like it lays, and knolls favourite sister
About your second paragraph. Can you clarify? It's a little vague. If you're in doubt of either anthropogenic climate change or the seriousness with which we should take it, I'd appreciate your sharing the sound reasoning underpinning your perspective.

Or have I misunderstood, and you're simply expressing sanguine resignation to the inevitability of extinction events, on planetary timescales?
The other day the "wordle" was "lunar". I had "*nar", and I was struggling to remember any 5 letter words that end in "nar". I eventually got the wordle in 4 tries, but for fun I asked ChatGPT to give me a list of 5-letter words that end in the letters "nar".

It failed spectacularly at this trivial task. No matter how many different ways I asked, it consistently gave me lots of words that did not end in, or sometimes even contain the letters n,a,r , and it gave me words that were more than 5 characters.
Lying for sales, page views, etc? I guess I could have made it more clear.
Well my issue is that I have used CMake quite a lot, with generators, in non-trivial projects (both open source and proprietary), and I have always been fine with autotools, cmake and meson.

I don't try to have cmake do too much, e.g. I don't run the generation (or python scripts or custom functions) from cmake, because it quickly becomes a mess and running the steps manually / in a script is usually easy.

I haven't seen a project yet where the cmake config is not a mess (because let's be honest, most CMakeLists out there are pretty bad) and where this is clearly a limitation of cmake (and not of meson).

Happy to get an actual open source example where that's clearly the case, though.
WSJ article with same title: https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanford-tree-mascot-suspended-...

https://archive.ph/1hPrX
> Gave everyone the week off between Christmas and New Years.

Do you mean additional to their PTO? That's nice, many people feel obliged to take it off for family even if they'd rather do something else with a whole week off and see family on weekends and such.
Thank you! Have a Merry Christmas.
What strikes me about this is that the area he's driving has to be the easiest area to drive within like 20 miles. I'd like to see what happens if someone tries FSD say, around Powder House Square rotary in Somerville in the evening rush hour on a November night with rain pouring down. But I wouldn't like to be in the vehicle in question.
Is that the temp where the car is? (garage?)
My first job out of college, my boss and I took over some code that was written by two genius PhDs (one math, one physics - we were working in finance.)

I noticed a variable (long word starting with z) used in a lot of places. Turns out it was the German word for "counter".

It was my first hint that most of the backend codebase was written as a competition between the two of them to seem the smartest.

On the front-end, I remember opening some many thousand line long file trying to figure it out. I scrolled pages and pages to the top of the file looking for a comment. I found one. The comment:

/* What is this shit? */

Written by someone who tried to help those guys.
Good on you :)
One problem is that these techniques - as I have seen them applied - are terrible at analyzing multimodal distributions. They will fail to capture small detractors until they pile up into a feeling of the software being user-hostile, because until then the engagement is not dropping, even though its foundations are eroding.
> just another weekend for me

except a solstice just happened!

(sol invictus ftw, in the northern hemisphere)

Is it coincidental that cultures and associated religions seem curiously to align holidays around now? is it maybe related to the physical reality of the earth's orbit and inclination of axis?
You would hope, but I've been working in customer/technical support in the crypto industry since early 2017. People are not remotely as careful as you would expect (and hope for) them to be.
I would give 1Password the advantage if for no other reason than they've been at it longer, and thus have seen more crazy stuff. I believe Bitwarden claims to have multiple security audits, so I do believe they take it seriously, but (and this part is just my opinion) they execute so much other stuff so poorly that alone lowers my trust in them. For clarity, 1Password also has multiple security audits, and have done a very good job of publishing the specifications for their formats, which further contributes to my trust in their execution

Bitwarden's previous(?) on-premises deployment script was a raging tire fire, which I openly admit is not exactly a _security_ issue, but it further lowers my lack of faith in them

With all that said, I think both Bitwarden and 1Password are miles and miles ahead of LastPass, so one will for sure be better off just picking one and trying it out. It seems to be a reversible decision, if you wanted to switch again
As a CS major, I've run into this problem many times when I'm trying to help my non-CS friends with their programming assignments... they learn "this function does this" not "use this function to do this" and run into problems when their assignments test them on their knowledge of when and how to use those concepts.
Cool! Sorry, it's been 10 years since I last paid attention to them, so I have no idea where those communities have migrated to.
Or maybe, the person enjoys their car a lot more than they value a night at a hotel. Perhaps the extra value at a hotel versus sleeping in a Tesla is not worth the extra $200 per night. Someone wanting to save a few thousand dollars on a hotel is NOT the same thing as "financial concern". It's just a preference that is lot different than yours.

Many people with money spend huge amounts on some things but can be penny-pinchers in other areas.
I agree, but openbsd is actually the opposite of a minimal system, I can do more, out of the box, with an openbsd system than any linux distro I have tried, and yet openbsd feels minimal, openbsd manages to make a very rich system in ~ 1GB, a linux distro takes ~5gb and does less and windows takes ~20gb and I have no idea how it can use so much space and do so little.
Some might even say it's not her, but the tiktok algorithm that deserves the blame. It's not like she marketed the video to everyone else in order to get more views. She just made it.
It's a fun read, but it is pretty much impossible unless you're running a one-man show, with zero oversight or checks at place.

Code like that should set off alarms very fast, and any code review should catch it early on.
Thank you cool dude. What's funny is that this trip was a treat to myself because I came in to some money this year, but I've been poor my whole adult life and now spending it frivolously even for a room for the night almost causes me visceral pain. Thanks for your support and offer to help. "it'll be right" as they say out here in Oz.
Yes, kind of a forced vacation week. I think people come back in Jan feeling less burned out… vs having to sneak some random work days in on Dec 28th or whatever.
I suspect Insomnia or God Is A DJ was probably the first Faithless track I heard, but it was hearing the Reverence album that turned me into a die hard fan of Faithless and Maxi. I practically had it on repeat for months. I saw them live sometime in the early 2000s and it was amazing.

He just had a voice that I could listen to forever.

> "Pay heed to the Grand Oral Disseminator."
https://archive.ph/AqwnN