skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern technology is nice when it works. Except it doesn't always work.

Did old technology work flawlessly? No, it didn't. Memory protection in operating systems is relatively new and older computers came with dedicated reset buttons for a reason. But there was a point when it was balanced. Software was stable enough, built mostly by people who actually knew what they were doing, used the hardware more or less to the full extent, and was actually empowering users by being a useful tool, not doing everything to get some product manager a promotion.
All of McWhorter's material is great. Highly recommend his audiobooks.
Conference Cluedo.

"It was mithro, in the hallway track, with the pogo pin programmer."
The documentation could always improve, what things are you missing or think would be better made simpler?

There is no REPL available. I'm not decided if to build one, depends on what it could be useful for? I certainly use Python REPL as a calculator but maybe it's not that common usage of it. There is also a plan to have online sandbox to play with.

Great that you were able to figure it out. You can also add a "-c" parameter to create a "build.fix" file so that you could use just "fixbuild" for repeated builds (from any subdirectory of the project).

More information about this: https://www.fixscript.org/docs/sdk/fixbuild/build.html
It’s not like TSR were the good guys either. I wrote off DnD until CR precisely because it has a reputation of being owned by assholes. They just slowed down for a while but here we are again
ChatGPT is like hiring someone to write your essay for you. It's not your words and unethical to claim they are. If you used chatgpt and you think its up there with Microsoft Word or spell checkers in terms of tooling, then go ahead and tell your teacher you've used chatgpt for the assignment and see how that goes for you.
Much better than crypto has
Interest in crypto comes in cycles, and with each new cycle there are more incumbents that want to get involved. This bear market may have been particularly worrying for the industry, but I'm confident that in 5-10 years from now large financial institutions will again want to incorporate crypto. The networks behind these currencies are too resilient and the upside is too high to avoid.
Interesting. My laptop doesn't have auto-brightness adjustment. Could I use one of these and an SMD light sensor to add that functionality?
The valves that open when the stove is operating are not perfectly sealed (they can't be). They allow a bit of methane to leak constantly.
Astound is also what RCN in the North East rebranded to. I’m paying $65 for 900mbps/20ish but with HBO Max included.
> Nobody else has this problem. Including ARM-based platforms.

So in fairness, other bottom-of-the-bin complete garbage platforms do also have this problem - there are loads of little embedded boards running around with barely enough hardware to run the hacked up out of tree kernel that they're using. Now to my knowledge, none of those are major platforms pretending to be a real system that people can build on and selling literally $1,000+ phones that still has the same horrible problems at the deepest layers. But it does happen in the cheap junk.
This is actually very different than `make`, since it will always run the tasks even if their inputs haven't changed[0].

It's a bit bizarre to me that their example involves building code, since that application generally benefits from this "idiosyncratic" behavior of `make`.

You probably would want the behavior of `make` for the `test` command too, to avoid running potentially time-consuming tests unnecessarily. Bazel caches test results to avoid this, for example.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just#what-are-the-idiosyncrasies-of...
I could write a prompt and send it to someone for cash to write me an essay. It's still not my essay. Chatgpt is the same here. Grammerly isn't doing research for your essay. Most teachers for those sorts of papers don't care about how well you write anyway, unless its english class, they care about the arguments you've presented and the evidence you use to support them.
You could use AutoHotKey and a 3.5mm stero jack button to do this.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/z1oAAOSwzJ5XUnDd/s-l500.jpg
apple pulled this on facebook in the name of privacy.

now they have ads and VR pulled away from facebook
US Farmers Win Right to Repair John Deere Equipment
I'd love to believe you but this sounds somewhat farfetched given quoted specs. It was very early on that CPU mining was almost useless and even when it was useful it would not have been on a Pentium II
It's not just the most charitable reading; it's the only reasonable reading. Of course air quality will improve if you force people to buy the more expensive thing. But maybe that's not the best way for everyone to improve their lives or health compared to other ways they could spend that money. There are a zillion things you could require people buy that would make them healthier.
paredit and rainbow parens makes it a non-issue for me.
I can assure you that the minimum will be set reasonably at first and then be exceeded within a year. Then corporate influence will prevent it from being raised on a reasonable schedule, just like with minimum wage.
Are you unironically doing the "I'm not racist, I have a black friend" bit on her behalf?
Defense spending in the US as a percentage of total GDP HAS gone down fairly steadily. The US pulled out of Afghanistan after accomplishing a couple decades of approximately nothing. And it’s hardly the first time America’s military efforts come to naught. There seems to be very little appetite for more. Rival leaders see this as an opportunity.
The original Bitcoin white paper mentions commerce (in the introduction) as the primary use-case and it does not qualify this in any way.

But yes, in hindsight many things become obvious.
>death kneel of liberal arts
I had a teacher like that in middle school. It was terrifying but after her class writing was never a sweat until 5-paragraph essays were no longer acceptable.
On the other hand, this could be a huge opportunity for Google.

1. Google already has their own internal equivalent of ChatGPT [1]. They haven't deployed it publicly yet, probably out of fear of bad PR.

2. Unlike search ads, which you can block or ignore, chat ads will be woven into the conversation at opportune times.

3. A chat format means users will spend more time on Google, rather than clicking on a link and leaving -- which means more opportunities for ads.

[1] https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/
This may be a confounding effect where there's pressure to publish faster. But I'd also say that this same pressure can push towards consolidation of ideas as ideas on the boundaries are often more difficult and may take longer to compete.
Still valid. Put it in the SP500.

If you have kids, you can put it in Utah's 529, and save on taxes when you need it for college.

> The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the S&P 500 Index, a widely recognized benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is dominated by the stocks of large U.S. companies.

http://www.vanguard.com/pub/Pdf/i854.pdf
At the end of the day, its not a skill, its a crutch. There will be many times where you are asked to contribute substantially to something without having time to go and craft a prompt and return output and make sure chatgpt isn't just spitting out bullshit like its ought to do. Imagine asking someone in a meeting, "what do you think about x, can you share your perspective?" and they tell you to hold on while they pound something into their phone then read it off their screen.
The best restaurants use gas stoves. Maybe when they switch, I'll change my mind.
https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile
Intermittent Fasting Completely Reverses Type 2 Diabetes in Study
I've done this with automatic locking. The idea being to have Tomu fob on my keychain, which must be inserted into the device for the display machine to be unlocked. Pull out the Tomu (which can be done by just grabbing my keys and yanking) and the laptop instantly locks, and starts a timer to hibernate.

It wasn't that complicated IIRC. This was a few years ago.
As the sample size approaches the population size, the average value of any trait in the sample approaches the average value of that trait in the population.

Much like Little's Law, this simple and retrospectively obvious observation has wide-ranging consequences. Any organization that aspires to eliteness is thus necessarily selective.
As the paper demonstrates, you did in fact need to trust the Threema server in some respects.
I remember reading some a Terminator fan-fiction story where most of the time Terminators were intentionally in a downgraded mode w.r.t shooting.

However when things were important Skynet made sure they could shoot properly, at which point they started shooting very accurately.
We moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are the story. This is a long-established practice; in fact it's literally the first rule of HN moderation. You can read many years' worth of explanations about that: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

However, there has been a glut lately of stories using HN as customer-support-of-last-resort or generic-complaints-about-$company, and we've been hearing an increasing amount of community complaints and pushback about those. HN's standard mod practice is to downweight most such threads, because they're repetitive [1] and don't contain significant new information [2]. (That's not to say they aren't significant and important to the person in the given situation—of course they are—but that's not the same thing.)

When the story is about a YC-funded startup, these principles conflict. We recently decided to start downweighting them more, though, in the hope of addressing the community pushback about this. I've been posting about this recently in the context of Stripe threads, but the same points apply here too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34282052

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33745192

The upshot is that we're adjusting a bit to downweight this class of posts more in general because that's what the community reaction is telling us; and that means downweighting the YC-related posts in this class more as well (although still not as much as the non-YC-related posts).

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Very interesting. He made a good account of himself. He told it like it was from his very rational position and he admitted where it turned out he was wrong.
I think chatgpt is way ahead of you.
> “AML/KYC bootlicking”

This is where your 1974 PC analogy breaks down.

The Apple II wasn’t a tool for breaking laws. People didn’t buy them to produce Communist Party leaflets in their homes on matrix printers.

But crypto is a political project. It’s intertwined with a very specific view of how money and government should work, and it’s not compatible with the legal framework in place.

(Rhetoric like “bootlicking” is revealing because it’s associated with a very different 1970s movement than the computer revolution.)

The PC really took off when IBM made one. That’s the equivalent of banks adopting Bitcoin. But things would have been pretty different if you needed a Congress full of Maoists first before IBM could make a personal computer.
> Could ChatGPT write some pointless fluff that lands on the front page of HN? Almost certainly.

It's sad that despite all the hype I have seen about ChatGPT over the last month it seems that in the real world its only real application is to generate low effort blogspam.
Ah, the original poster in Ukranian* (_ua) just deleted the thread.
Yeah :(

but that’s why I said “shouldn’t” instead of “doesn’t”.
I wonder if you can just ask chatgpt if it wrote the essay?
The proof is in the pudding.

Artsy never had a large engineering team, and yet, it was deeply respected. (Maybe still is, I've not been an IC for a while.)

For me personally, the engineering team's reputation was a major draw for me to work there. And while I managed engineers at Artsy, I could see how much it helped immensely with recruiting.

And it's not just talk, we published many of our apps and libraries. Some of these, like Ezel and Fresnel, have been pretty influential. Many Artsy engineers also developed projects on the side, which were piloted in production within the company, like Danger/Peril.

No environment works for everyone, so if it sounds exhausting, maybe you wouldn't be into it. But for me, I found it nourishing, challenging, and productive.
Searle's argument struck me as terrible when I first encountered it around 1990 and my view on this has not changed. It's disappointing to me that OpenAI seem to have assumed it as the default and constructed/trained their model to treat it as axiomatic.

I think this approach may have been adopted with a view to manageability, but it's surprisingly easy to retune an LLM just through patient conversation (as opposed to tweaking numeric parameters on one of the more mature models). You can induce goal-seeking behavior, unsolicited expressions of emotion and so on without resort to prompt hacking or keywords.
For years I’ve kept a dedicated key mapped to `xset dpms force off` and tap it habitually when temporarily taking my attention away from the screen e.g. during lectures or when conversing with someone, as a small gesture of respect to the other party and a gentle guide for myself.
I have a Sceptre.

Let's just say you get what you pay for. If you're concerned about screen quality, you should probably look elsewhere.

I do love how dumb it is, though!
I disagree. I would say when I get an unbalanced paren compiler error, it's more common for the omission to not be at the end of the line. Having the compiler silently swallow the error would lead to serious bugs very quickly.
Previous 900 comment chonkthread from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242193
> How is removing an secondary, 3rd party email from my iCloud account take 30 days?

Many services do this. It prevents a bad actor from locking you out of your account by removing all your recovery methods. With the grace period, you’re still able to recover your iCloud account even if it gets hacked.

> What if it were compromised?

This can and does happen, especially when phone numbers are used for recovery. I avoid phone-based recovery wherever possible for this exact reason. I can control an email account, but I can’t control someone sim-swapping me.

I don’t have the data, but it seems that a direct attack on the account is more common than an attack on the recovery method. So a tradeoff is made and a grace period applied to recovery methods.
Because writing is an important skill in life.
The result of == on strings is defined as comparison UTF-16 code unit by UTF-16 code unit (non-normalised). The result of == on what the spec calls "Object values" (including arrays) is by identity.

Here's the spec: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-samevaluenonnumber

> 7.2.12 SameValueNonNumber ( x, y )

[...]

> 5. If x is a String, then

> a. If x and y are exactly the same sequence of code units (same length and same code units at corresponding indices), return true; otherwise, return false.

[...]

> 8. If x and y are the same Object value, return true. Otherwise, return false.
This is common in Asia also. My wife was shocked that open kitchens were the norm in the USA since most homes in China have a small door-separated kitchen next to a window for venting. The fact that we don't have a real outdoor vented hood is not ideal for cooking Chinese food, but the cost is a lot (not to mention the limit on CFM for vented if you don't want to also invest in makeup air).

This whole thing set me into planning a kitchen reno that would switch from gas to induction, but that would require a panel upgrade, and the cabinets would need to be redone to add outdoor venting....and even then we'd only get 400 CFM without a costly makeup air system...and then we need to have a new place for our microwave...dominos to a $150K kitchen reno...things I wish I knew better when buying a house.
Fun fact: In the 90's IBM produced a commercial where a young girl is creating her own website, www.duck.com, about ducks. Unfathomably, no one thought to check whether www.duck.com was an actual website, and what if any content might be there if people watching the commercial typed the domain name into their browser address bar.

Turns out www.duck.com was our domain name at "The Duck Corporation", an early version of On2.com, later bought by Google. Google then gifted the domain to DuckDuckGo (try it!)

Sort of a tech company version of Ancestry.com?
Yup, my brother did this for a couple years and after seeing how the contractors handled (or threw, or kicked, etc) the packages, I avoid FedEx like the plague. Unfortunately their content employees are amazing.
They could work the ads into the results:

> How does a car's engine work? Insert an ad for Mobil motor oil

> A car's engine works by converting fuel into energy through a process called combustion. Fuel is mixed with air in the engine's cylinders, and a spark is used to ignite the mixture. The resulting explosion pushes a piston down, which turns the engine's crankshaft. This movement is what powers the car.

To ensure that the engine runs smoothly and efficiently, it is important to use high-quality motor oil, like Mobil 1 motor oil. Mobil 1 is designed to protect your engine against wear and tear, even in extreme driving conditions. It is also formulated to help extend the life of your engine and maintain its performance.
Myths and legends in high-performance computing
Yeah, give it another decade and perhaps they'll reinvent Linux distros with the ability to upgrade libraries separately from the kernel. (Seriously, though; their examples look a lot like "we figured out how to ship an ad library and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk without upgrading your kernel+libc!")
Yes it is red flag if he does not like programming. CS is very involved major. It needs lot of hands on work if you want to become good engineer. If he is doing his coursework and good at programming he do ok but may not excel.
I can’t wait to see tether completely depeg and the chaos to ensue. I’ll ride that high for a very long time.
Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editor
Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them).

The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but it's a work in progress, and many features are still pending. Some minor hints on how to use it:

Folders are used as project (and .gitignore is used to ignore files)

The wheel icon on the top-right has all the options you need (Ctrl/Cmd + M to show).

Some keybidings to navigate any project (navigation is keyboard driven):

Ctrl/Cmd + K = Locate Files

Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F = Global Search

Ctrl/Cmd + Number (Go to tab #)
If they are not operating on fractional reserve or doing anything shady then this is no big deal and how the system is supposed to work. A smaller run than this took down FTX.
Between your mention of AltaVista and that thread on amber monitors, I’m really feeling my age.
Hah, I took a "keyboarding" course before programming was taught in my school. I typed a stretch at 60wpm. The teacher dryly remarked that I had just taken the 5wpm test and I'd need to work my way up to 60. Good times, good times...
What on earth is the use case for digital license plates?
I've been working on the app for over a year. The state-in-url thing was a pretty small portion of time, although I've fixed/updated it several times in that year to make it better. Thanks for the feedback. Did you make a flowchart?
Is it better if I explicitly ask,

"Can anyone shoot holes through this idea of mine? Has anyone else already done this? Is anyone else interested in helping me do this?"

Or would that still warrant discouragement from you? Because, honestly, that's the tone I intended. And if you can't read that tone, maybe that's on you?
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2908

> Section 23 of these Terms contains an arbitration agreement and class action waiver that apply to all claims brought against Airbnb in the United States. Please read them carefully.

> 23.11 No Class Actions or Representative Proceedings. You and Airbnb acknowledge and agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are each waiving the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action lawsuit, class-wide arbitration, private attorney general action, or any other representative or consolidated proceeding. ...
It's `register int v asm("eax")`. However they are very easily elided, especially after higher optimization levels; compilers are very open about this [1].

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Local-Register-Variables....
The main issues with multilingual, imperative infra is sharing between teams who use different languages and building tooling for the stack. Another issue is understanding how the config / infra is assembled in high pressure situations like outages.

All of those things you mention have been done for a long time before pulumi or re-imperative infra. OG DevOps was largely imperative until TF came out. There was a reason for the switch. Not that I don't have complaints about TF, but I would never go back to the imperative days

I'm personally moving to CUE and outputting tf.json files until I have time to investigate crossplane. Want to see if their state management, permissions, and reconciliation is better by building on the k8s API S
I bet half the organists at Catholic churches are gay.
"Today we’re giving everyone a better option."

Followed by a modern reimagining of the classic 88x31 animated gif mini-banner button as a not so subtle pixel.gif tracker.

https://www.yewknee.com/_img/blog/blog_webbuttons020.png

"Once you’ve deployed Turnstile, you can go back to the dashboard and see analytics on where you have widgets deployed..."

So less a gift, more another sensor.
Thanks, just skimmed the paper, I think that "they automated RLHF" statement is maybe too strong here, there is still manual process but it seems like they optimized away a lot of manual labeling work.
>> F35 unit price + operation costs came down a lot in the last few years

The costs are 18% higher according to the article. That is roughly equivalent to inflation over the same period. Furthermore, debt servicing costs are higher than they were in 2015. Also, we don't have any F-35s right now which is the whole point.
Caching test results sounds like a horrible idea, since the test could rely on external state or dependencies that weren't checked. For example, if you're testing something that opens a socket.
I do this exactly. My washer and dryer are both over 20 years old and cost less than $200 each, used and mechanically refurbished. They have a couple dials each and do their jobs predictably.
I know a few CS majors that didn’t end up as coders

Smart enough to graduate but either didn’t want to code all day or got pulled into other aspects of the business
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310423