skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know enough about Rust development, but definitely agree that it's a good sign to see a culture that pays attention to potential future issues early in development. On the other hand, if an approach leads to constant tear-downs early on, it opens up the risk of runaway refactoring before you have a playable demo.

I feel like "Crunch" is sort of baked into a certain business model anyway, and the type of management that relies on it would probably find other ways of creating aggressive and unachievable last minute goals.
> I hope government wakes up to how screwed up and dangerous Amazon’s model really is.

What does government have to do with this?
You can get around all of this by being a "mindful consumer" - if you don't like how products are, don't use them. It's like a weak version of being Amish. Buy old better stuff - it's cheaper and better for the environment anyway. Bad trends will generally fade away (looking forward to seeing all physical buttons on an EV one day!). In the meantime, why not just buy an old game system with cartridges. (My kids like ecco the dolphin on the original genesis! I drive an old toyota with no screen! I still buy CDs and I enjoy listening to actual albums!)
Some games indeed take the approach you suggest. It's just that D&D has convinced its fan base that you need lots of names, details and complications.
That was intense!
This is generally false. Amazon has lost money in North America every quarter this year as part of a pandemic hangover (they over invested in warehouses). Prior to Q4 2021, their North American segment was profitable.
JSX in Lisp is "hello world"-level code. It's trivial enough that it hardly deserves a name/acronym.

This is more like multitarget document compiler. Or (a subset of) the output side of Pandoc.
> By leaving it to the market with such a pithy attitude, we divest collective responsibility and instead assign it to some mystical process.

I think of it the other way around. If you do not vote with your wallet/feet, then you are avoiding taking responsibility for your personal decisions. The act of purchasing something creates a very small signal, but a signal all the same. It's not unlike civic duty and how a single vote is virtually meaningless but in aggregate is powerful.
These days with over half of households paying zero income tax, if you have a job at all and aren’t on welfare or disability, you are at least “middle class.” And working class at the same time
Eating and reading with Katherine Mansfield
UPS in the UK is absolutely atrocious. The drivers are not motivated to deliver at all and there must be some externality that means no downside to failed attempts. I'd say 50% of my packages go to a crappy convenient store a mile away from home which is a huge hassle to get to and has surly staff who are very displeased to see you and make the absolute least effort. Makes UPS in the US look absolutely gold plated. I assume they must send their flunkies from Atlanta to the overseas regions if they're too incompetent to work in the US system but it's really appalling. My childhood rural UPS drivers were absolutely lovely but the UK makes me despise this carrier nearly as much as Hermes/Evri
I actually do exactly this in some of my personal projects. don't need the eval, store $1 in a variable and shift $@. and you might also want to check that $1 is a function defined in the script, lest the task runner execute some other arbitrary command
But nobody uses it because it isn't as good as gmail. Before Gmail, it was a lot more common to use your ISP's email. And given the current monopoly power of ISPs I'm pretty doubtful that any such bundling would be in users' best interests.
Also a potential security hole, as it would be converting text+metadata into executable code in a Turing-complete language.
Red on black Toshiba was probably a monochrome plasma display.
> The Glory Hole was a part of what she wanted to share

The author of this has to be pulling out leg
Not a web frontend developer, but added it to bookmarks because it's so awesome and enjoyable
It is one extra step, pouring water. I don't think you even read my post.
Army taking up too much of the budget for future wars, but even if freed up, question is is it realistic medium/long term for US to build and sustain military large enough to deter peerish power like PRC with more streamlined acquisition and PPP advantage that is rapidly closing gap. All while fulfilling security commitments. There's also eventual near term concern of CONUS defense considering PRC pursuing long range strikes that's going to curtail US ability to overwhelming focus on expeditionary missions.
> they are trying to destroy competition by the service equivalent of illegal dumping, using their AWS profits to eliminate competition by taking a loss on every single other part of their business.

That kind of subsidy of the average American would be very nice of Amazon. Alas, it's highly unlikely. See https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2017/Hendersonpreda...
A useful tool to throw together real quick: something that takes `hexdump -C` (or Go's `hex.Dump`, or whatever) and converts it back to binary.
> It is certainly possible for AI models to generate text that appears to be self-referential or self-reflexive. However, it is also possible to trace the source of AI-generated text by examining the specific patterns and characteristics of the text. For example, you can analyze the language and style used in the text, as well as the context in which it was generated, to determine whether it was likely produced by a specific AI model or not. In addition, you can also examine the metadata associated with the text, such as the date and time it was created, to help identify its source.

ChatGPT wrote that. But I'll say that this is a lot easier said than done. This will always be an increasingly difficult cat and mouse game.
Yeah, I think it depends on whether you consider it a prediction if the recession occurs during the inversion (Harvey's thesis, IIRC, considers it a prediction if a recession occurs within 1-4 quarters after the inversion, regardless of whether the inversion is maintained into the recession itself. Plus, I think his approach was less predictive prior to the 1976+ time period, though that might have been a data noise artifact.)

If you accept Harvey's definition, then the major misses were the minor 10-2 inversion in the summer of 1998 (which prompted a quick round of Fed cuts that may have avoided a mild recession); the persistent inversion of 2000, which correctly predicted an economic slowdown but not a recession (in the US, anyway); the February 2006 inversion, which was in response to Fed attempts to cool down the housing market, which bit us a few years later; and the summer 2019 inversion, which I think was a true miss, though COVID pretty much upended any "normal" economic cycle, so it's possible that absent pandemic-era stimulus we might have had a mild recession. (Src: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=YAvs and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=YAvv)

As you say, it's an imperfect metric by any light, even though I buy into the less-strict traditional prediction model, so take it a bit more seriously when the lights start flashing. Regardless, for what my opinion's worth (which ain't much), I think this is looking more like '98 at best and '01 at worst, at least as long as the Fed doesn't overshoot and slam us into the tarmac.
Just runs fine on windows, too, which most people seem to miss. Bash is not always available, make even less so.
The fuel economy is miserable. Especially if you mod it (heavier). Otherwise they have few flaws for what they are. Toyota has other SUVs if you don’t want body on frame and all that implies. Not to mention 4WD is all controlled physically in some models still, which is nice. It still has a tech package for off roading, but they are simple beasts.
Why is that a solution? If people don't want to work for UPS at the conditions and wages that the market can bear, they can move jobs.

It's good for people to be able to enjoy cheap shipping.
Can GPT pass the bar exam?
I saw the story from yesterday on GPT taking the MBE and thought it was interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307843

However, over half of the bar exam is an essay-form test, which is where GPT seems to have made the most advancement, so I thought it would be interesting to give it an actual essay questions and judge its response.
Many to most consumer ranges will allow flow of gas without flame. Just turn the knob quickly past the “light/spark” position.
The author of the software has some other interesting projects on his poersonal website: www.durlej.net/v/

I'd be interested to know if anyone is using this OS, and for what use case.

Amazing bit of work!
I have distinct memories of being a student in Ottawa and having to take the bus out to some industrial area by the airport to pick up a package once. It was the complete antithesis of customer service and convenience.
It wouldn't work for everything, but you can cut that time by preemptively reacting to conditions. Say you're going around a blind corner, you can start slowing just because your visibility is lower and you don't know what's over there. Or you can see cars who intend to move over several lanes at once and kamikaze into the lane ahead of you and slow down because you know that all the people in front of you are likely to brake due to this.

There are quite a few scenarios where I spot trouble before it happens and have an effectively negative reaction time with respect to whatever is causing people ahead of me to brake.
If we go back to the fear of AIs supplanting humans, Accelerando style, and the desire to keep humans relevant. Then assume that we accept the premise that humans-augmented-by-AI work is an acceptable outcome for that future, in an attempt to keep humans relevant.

Then is it a problem if a human slightly modified an AI's work? Isn't that the desirable outcome? And if the work itself is so useless that it would be worthy of a zero grade, then perhaps another way of measuring usefulness should be used.

In a way, I feel like we can't impose old-world grading techniques to new-world content synthesis technologies.
I also love just, but I try to restrict my usage to projects that don't have larger communities or user populations, as the getting it installed aspect is nowhere near universal as make. my favorite is mixing scripting languages and shell in the same file, albeit its got some rope.. but its productive and intuitive. https://github.com/kapilt/aws-sdk-api-changes/blob/master/ju...
Ask HN: Low tech Git alternatives for non-software folks?
I am the software engineer on a team of mostly hardware engineers who need to write automation code to aid their jobs. The industry I am in skews older, so my team is generally unfamiliar with coding, and if they are, aren’t up to date on best practices, as it is not their primary job.

Our manager has a software background and has decided on Git and GitHub as the systems of record for code version control. I have held many training sessions on these tools over my tenure (6mo), and many people caught on and can execute the procedures I established to record their changes. However, 2 of them do not seem to be able to learn it and I am spending my day before lunch cleaning up their commits, as they work at a frenetic pace (nights, weekends, holidays) and will seemingly type any command that makes their git errors go away (liberal use of rebase skips, force pushes, etc.)

The problem is not necessarily how they use Git, it’s that they’re actually quite productive while creating externalities for me, who was hired to write infrastructure code. I am considering to stop using Git altogether (or perhaps create a firewall for these two), but what system could replace it? The “low tech” the better. Ideally, there would be no extra software to learn.
I have these, they control really well with knobs: https://www.gaggenau.com.au/products-list/cooktops/200-serie...
I’m an outsider to os Dev and have never read posix standards or similar but I’m curious if an entirely different operating system would achieve benefits worth the cost of incompatibility. Things like the concept of treating everything as a binary stream (shell output, data transfers etc) seem like a design choice with roots in early computing which doesn’t lend well to complex and secure systems.

An example is that if we move to shells where everything is an object with a toString method for stdout, we would avoid many bash bugs in piped commands or shell scripts. I’m sure many concepts such as file io etc could achieve different but worthwhile benefits if reengineered from a modern perspective, even tcp/ip has its warts (but I’ll acknowledge we will never get away from tcp/ ip).

Am I just a clueless outsider?
What does that have to do with the killer not taking any responsibility, accusing other people of lacking humanity and saying to a victim that she was just "at the wrong place at the wrong time" with 0 other admission of guilt? I get that we could maybe, maybe stretch the argument that he had a rough upbringing (though dropping out of school isn't that extreme) to "explain" the circumstances of the crime... but not that he was basically still seemingly remorseless after having decades in death row to reflect on his acts.
I visited it in June 1964 as a high school senior. I don't remember much because there was this girl in our class that commanded all my attention at the time. I struck out on the girl and missed the garden.
Yeah! Exactly. Imagine trying to fight a layered airborne force with airborne refueling, a fleet of aircraft carriers, AWACS, "missile trucks", agile manned stealthy fighters, and drones.

Most of this is possible today and the rest is close.

The cost is obviously insane, and that's part of the appeal for the US. For the moment they own the skies in a comprehensive way that nobody else can even remotely afford to challenge. Look at the US's dominance in Desert Storm, and consider that the gap has probably widened since then.

I'm neither endorsing this nor criticizing it by the way. The US does this while a lot of its citizens don't even have healthcare, for example. The ethical issues are infinite!
Not if they need to run as root
Yeah, I tried it out with the MEE[1] it did not come close to a "50%" equivalent there.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320270
How does it compare to Alpine Linux in size?
> The bank analogy also doesn't match. A closer analogy would be if your bank must use their competitor's installations and infrastructure, and risk bankruptcy whenever the competitor thinks they don't want to lend them their installations anymore.

No it isn't? The license is just the contractual agreement. Like, I'm not sure if the second bank to offer overnight repurchase agreements literally copied the first one's contract and just changed their name, but they certainly could've, and that's been normal practice with some newer financial products.

> Using your direct competitor's license, fully under their control, is closer to handing them the keys to your company for no obvious benefit, right?

No, not at all? How is it "under their control"? They can publish a new version of it but that has nothing to do with you unless you want it to.
You mean like the movie Escape Room?
but the ability to have more than 4-5 buttons is a huge benefit

It is? For whom? A few years ago, I upgraded from a 2007 Hyundai Elantra to a 2019 Subaru Legacy. The new car is better in many ways (most notably, having all wheel drive) but the HVAC situation is an absolute regression. In the old Elantra, I have physical knobs. No, not physical buttons that send digital inputs, actual physical mechanical knobs connected directly to the HVAC mechanisms. I miss those knobs every time I have to take my eyes off the road and enter some kind of complicated input to get outside air blowing. In the old car, it was a matter of turning on the fan and making sure the toggle was set to outside air, rather than internal recirculation. In the new car, you have to turn the system on with the on/off button, set the temperature to "low" by twisting the temperature control until the temperature display reads "LO", adjust the fan speed with a +/- button, and then finally get the air blowing where you want by repeatedly pressing the button with the seat icon until the air is blowing at your face (rather than at your feet).

The crazy thing is, as bad as all that is, Subaru is one of the better automakers in this regard. They have the HVAC controls broken out into their own separate module on the dashboard, with its own display for the temperature, fan speed, vents, etc. And all the controls have physical buttons, so I can at least feel where the controls are, even if I can no longer determine their current state by feel. Other automakers, like Toyota, Honda and Ford consolidate everything into a single 8" display with capacitive controls. Oh you want to adjust the fan speed while also being able to see the Android Auto UI? Too bad, screw you.

Cars have improved in a lot of subtle ways, I'll admit. All-wheel drive has gone from being a relatively high-end option to being far more ubiquitous. For all its warts, I genuinely do appreciate the fact that Android Auto allows me to have a decent GPS and mapping solution built into my car. But if you gave me a way to bring the HVAC controls from my old car into my new car, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Our main project is an asynchronous wafer scale integration, a 1000 core asynchronous processors with 300 Megabyte of asynchronous SRAM (300 Kilobyte per core) and a huge Morphle Logic, our ‘asynchronous’ gate array.
A $600 supercomputer running Squeak Smalltalk and a GUI.

The second is a $5 10 core processor with 6 Megabyte memory for IoT, gigabit ethernet and Morphle Logic to compress video streams Squeak Smalltalk over ethernet. Much faster than a Raspberry PI 4 with a 4K camera, but not $100 but just $5 total cost.

> though more as a spectator than a participant in recent years,

That is a pity, I was hoping you would be a grad student or similar that could do a Masters or PhD thesis writing our software for the asynchronous manycore processor and the ‘asynchronous’ gate array.
Maybe you can help me locate another student who would do his masters with us?
Any volunteer would be helpful, it's just that we don't pay any salaries. But we do hand out samples......

I had a lecture on a larger version of this, a million core wafer scale integration running Smalltalk: https://vimeo.com/731037615
Yep. It was literally a PS1 inside the PS2. It was used for PS1 back-compatibility in the early models.

It had its own memory space, and exclusive access to all of the non-GPU I/O. CDROM, audio, controllers, USB, memory cards.

You could program it directly if you wanted to get serious. But, for basic operation, there were convenient EE libraries that forward most APIs over DMA to the IOO.
If people were routinely laid off right before vesting cliffs, employees would just start devaluing any equity behind such a cliff.

In general, how is an employee or prospective employee supposed to tell which companies are going to be loyal ahead of time? Private companies can choose to be loyal out of a sense of good will, just like employees can, but unless both parties have some credible reason to trust the other, it's just self-defeating to do so because then you're just volunteering to end up on the rough end of a cooperate/defect outcome.
This is almost comical revisionism. It's been weird to watch this narrative take its shape throughout the years though.
- extreme longevity of a career (if that appeals to you) or retire early (if that appeals to you)

- ability to help people and even work directly with/in international communities to promote global health (eg, doctors without borders)

- dictate your schedule including working minimal hours

- answer a calling (life is more than money)

- ability to work in any area of the country or world (every city needs a doctor)

- solid job security and pay for your entire life

- respect / social status (people want to have a doctor as their friend / spouse)

- ability to develop and maintain social skills (ie, be more "broad") which are exercised as a physician significantly more than (in my experience) as a software engineer

- have months of vacation every year without any consequences

- life time of growth and learning
I disagree, especially mario 3 .. it was and still is brilliant. Also there are shortcuts to skip levels. Most games had codes to avoid redoing level you finished.

I don't find modern games better, they bore me and I'm not sure they have better intrinsic value (I can't stand CoD or similar games, never played pubg or recent ones though)

> children are easy to entertain.

And they're still the same, I've seen kids play with a switch and they were goofying around not understanding a single thing just like we did in the 80s. Except on a TFLOPS class portable device.
UPS is the only one that does a decent job delivering to my house. The tracking is always accurate, and they leave it on the porch. If it's raining they cover it. They're the best.

FedEx always drives on my neighbors lawn(we don't have curbs) and leaves stuff on the lawn uncovered

Amazon will say the package is delivered before it is, and they ignore my requests to leave it on the porch more than half of the time.

USPS has broken 3 trashcan lids in the last 4 years, and insists on giving me junk mail.
I mean you can't sue if you get fired so what's the difference?
>> Respectfully disagree here. Systems have been complex for decades. Who knows when the last time was a single person understood everything about their computer (with respect to both hardware and software)

Apple II/IIe/IIc. Nibble Magazine published the complete disassembly of the firmware at the time -- which was kind of a big deal. Apple chose not to sue them for violating copyright (which they could have if they chose).

Here's the Apple IIc schematic:

https://archive.org/details/Schematic_Diagram_of_the_Apple_I...

The hardware wasn't super special either. It was a 6502 with 74x series logic gates. The hardest part would have been the floppy drive controller. But even that seems conquerable by today's standards.

It's worth while comparing this to the Commodore computers at the time which had special chips. The 64 had the sid chip. The Amiga 500 had even more special chips.

Further that was part of the Jobs/Wozniak philosophical discussion. Woz thought computers should be hackable. Jobs thought it should be a walled garden. In the end, Jobs won, but left me behind as a customer.

A part of me wishes the RiscV computers would catch on -- even if they are slower. It would then be much simpler to understand a computer.
Oddly enough, I was the opposite case. By my reckoning, I was the first student at my small liberal arts college to submit a word processed paper. It was before most of the professors had started using word processing themselves. The ability to bypass a lot of the mechanical effort of writing a paper made the process easy for me, and doing it a lot probably made me a better (or at least quicker) writer. For instance it also improved my handwritten "blue book" exams.

Writing was easier than studying for me.

For this reason, outside of my math & science majors, I chose exclusively courses where the grade was based on written work.

But likewise, I wasn't in college to get an empty credential. I already had a marketable skill -- programming. Learning was fun, but I was also conscious of the fact that I didn't want to waste my parents' money.

The writing has affected my career: My work involves not necessarily writing papers, but certainly communicating ideas and knowledge to other people, including non-specialists.