skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It had, and that's precisely because of the lack of anything like the expect() tests described in the OP. It's laborious to reliably scan through a big test diff and identify when it's describing a user-facing change, and people are inevitably going to autopilot through it. If you have a golden file (the standard name in my area for an equivalent mechanism to expect() tests), the reviewer's work is a lot simpler: any non-append-only diff is a breaking change and must be either fixed or communicated broadly before deploying it.
A tired cliché with no relation to reality.
What the heck? You can get an AGPL linker for free, or pay for a non-AGPL one. This type of thing is standard in OS. Selling a product isn't extortion.
> It's unfortunate that you haven't understood any of the problems of writing software or buying on contract despite having it laid out for you.

> In reality people change their minds - especially when they see the software - so there's a lot to be said for building it incrementally and showing it to them.

Doesn't matter - the people paying for the software are not the ones that are going to be using it, so showing it to them is pointless (they just want their bullet points/requirements checked off).

Showing the software to the users is equally pointless, because they don't have the authority to request changes (any change is a bill that has to be approved).

See my other reply to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lelanthran#34381865

> The fact that contracts don't suit this behavior might explain why contracts are such an awful way to get software and why they so often go wrong.

Maybe, but unless you have an alternative that addresses the problems in not having contracts, there's little point in telling other people that they don't understand the problem.
AS someone who watches a lot of YouTube, like the Let's Play content mentioned, I recognise and sympathise with the OP. But I think the problem isn't necessarily YouTube - thats just the drug of choice. It could be Twitch, it could be podcasts, or television, or any other form of entertainment offering a parasocial relationship. One that fill the gaping lonely hole in so many people's lives.
The proper term is, of course, Apps.net.
The Doubt Tax (2017)
Over 75% of life on earth is behind us (4.2bn years). Humanity’s on a track to save life on earth from the complete extinction event coming in 400M to 800m years. Humans are the first (and very likely only) golden ticket our planet has printed to get life off of this rock. We are heading to the stars, and we will bring life with us.

Humans are awesome.
Can you elucidate on how the presentation explains why you choose to work on Saturdays?
Been there - still am. self-control (https://selfcontrolapp.com/) is the nuclear tool in my anti-scrolling arsenal. If you figure out how to get around it please do not tell me - it's the best thing I've found for completely shutting myself out of youtube (and chess websites - bullet chess is a similar drug for me).

Disclosure - I'm full time working on software that arms people with better tools for fighting compulsive digital habits (https://getclearspace.com/) We have a chrome extension and an iPhone app and they're powerful for retraining compulsive habits - but can't honestly recommend them for full blow addiction (yet).

Interestingly, in watching my own behavior, the most effective force for keeping me from wasting my life is knowing that people can see my screen (at the office for example). I'm starting to think that replicating this remotely might be a way to keep my phone usage in check. If I could opt-in to sharing my phone screentime with a pre-set list of friends that might change how I behave - particularly if they were notified if I ever deleted the app that was doing that sharing. I'll be all-in building some version of that for the next few months if you want to be on the beta list for some accountability experiments. https://screentimeaccountability.com/
The problem of course, is that these assertions about genetic determinism are repeatedly shown to be absolute bullshit.

To bring it back to the initial “Women don’t want to code, because they’re genetically repulsed by it” argument, whe know this isn’t true, because it changed in living memory.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-progr...
Pure speculation ahead-

The other day on Hacker News, there was that article about how scientists could not tell GPT-generated paper abstracts from real ones.

Which makes me think- abstracts for scientific papers are high-effort. The corpus of scientific abstracts would understandably have a low count of "garbage" compared to, say, Twitter posts or random blogs.

That's not to say that all scientific abstracts are amazing, just that their goal is to sound intelligent and convincing, while probably 60% of the junk fed into GPT is simply clickbait and junk content padded to fit some publisher's SEO requirements.

In other words, ask GPT to generate an abstract, and I would expect it to be quite good.

Ask it to generate a 5-paragraph essay about Huckleberry Finn, and I would expect it to be the same quality as the corpus- that is to say, high-school English students.

So now that we know these models can learn many one-shot tasks, perhaps some cleanup of the training data is required to advance. Imagine GPT trained ONLY on the library of congress, without the shitty travel blogs or 4chan rants.
"What I do know is that Big Science knows 0 about diet (fat loss in particular) and exercise. "

How do you know this?
An automated driving ban for many things would considerably improve road safety.
See my other comment on here - briefly, ttx or opentype.js should do what you need programmatically or FontForge maybe for a GUI
This may not be correct because OP actually has StoreCycle on their Linkedin but only until Sep 2022. So this may be a new/different venture.
My belief is that ultimately monopolies are unstable.

Google's engine, which it has been specatacularly successful at, is obviously search. More specifically, it's search advertising. Google is a dominant player in display advertising (eg Google Ad Exchange, AdSense) but, at least when I worked there, these amounted to <10% of AdWords' revenue. They were a sideshow.

Chrome, Android, Maps and Youtube are all key parts of this engine. The latter three were acquisitions and that gets to the key point.

At some point a company becomes too large to innovate because no new business can compete, or will be allowed to compete, with the company's core business.

Google missed the social media boat for this very reason. Google+ came way too late. Google spent billions on this failed effort. The real mistake was not buying Twitter. I mean Google ultimately offered a rumored $6 billion for GroupOn at one point. They dodged a bullet on that one when GroupOn rejected the advance. Rumor also had it Google tried to buy Twitter in ~2010 when Twitter was seeking a $3 billion valuation.

Imagine if Google had slapped down $6 billion to buy Twitter. How much better off would they be?

There is a ton of process to do anything at Google. This matches my experience. And that's an issue but it's not the main issue.
>But then when a few yahoos walked around the capital taking selfies for an hour

I suggest you read the reports that detail what all they did as it was a bit more than that.
I already gave up after the jounopurge (well, I returned for one final poorly-received joke after mentioning prehistoric elephant-like things became thoughtcrime), but if I hadn’t left for ethical reasons, I’d be gone now; I’ve been using Tweetbot for about a decade and find the official web and mobile client borderline unusable.
What about alternating between using the stationary bicycle and sitting (working)? Both done seated, so I wonder...
> But then when a few yahoos walked around the capital taking selfies for an hour

Is this really what you remember from that day? I remember being glued to the TV for hours because it was obviously a Dangerous Fucking Situation. Cops who were there gave testimony, with tears in their eyes, that it was one of the most difficult days of their lives. Honestly, this comment feels like borderline brainwashing — a manufactured memory. (Or else gaslighting.)

As for “but BLM,” one might forgive (without condoning) the occasional bursts of violence among countless peaceful protests given that the country just witnessed a blatant extrajudicial execution on the streets of a nominally first world city. (Even putting aside reports that the police and embedded rabble-rousers were often the instigators.)
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Really? My understanding was that the Samurai were a distinct warrior class with a specific social standing either earned or inherited, not just anyone who could buy a sword.

I'm not saying he's not a samurai, just that "holds a sword" does not a samurai make.
My perspective is that “protecting this planet’s life” is just more human narcissism (this isn’t a jab at you, it’s a very common mindset).

Short of total sterilization, mass extinction events seem to be really good at creating space for new forms of life to develop. In a way, preventing them in the name of the non-human life here is just picking the incumbent over whatever comes next. How would we feel if aliens stopped the mass extinction events that led to our existence? I’m not sure there’s solid argument for why one is more deserving of existence than the other.

I think why this slightly rubs me the wrong way is it feels like an excuse to make us feel good. Non-human life seems by and large indifferent to its long-term fate on this planet. Let’s not pretend we do anything significant for non-human life that isn’t to our direct benefit.

Just my perspective. Not trying to say “no, you’re wrong!” Just, “I disagree.” I’m going to guess there’s an entire named branch of philosophy that explores this.
Acknowledging the average differences between the sexes is neither colonialism nor sexism. But this on itself only tells you that there are some physical differences in size and muscular weight, and a couple months of the reproductive cycle where women will be physically impaired because of advanced pregnancy; it doesn't account for anything more.

Now, assuming that those minimum physical differences have an impact on social behaviour is sexist, because it fails to recognize the social reinforcement mechanisms that influence those decisions, from the structural separation of professional disciplines (i.e. the hard vs soft sciences divide, which dissipates when using multidisciplinary teams) to the social inertia of lower salaries of caretaking professions traditionally assigned to women.

BTW, assuming that these observations are produced from irrational anti-scientifism is the kind of blind spot of traditionalists that I was referring above.
> Over 75% of life on earth is behind us (4.2bn years)

What do you mean by this? Are you predicting that life on earth can only last for another 1.4 billion years? What extinction event is so certain in the next 400m-800m years?
This whole thread is old. He already split the Mac version into a separate commercial product.
I love this comment. We're a walking disaster and a literally hot mess, but you're right that we're probably the best chance at preserving life overall.

> We are heading to the stars, and we will bring life with us.

Another way to think about it: we'll be Earth's best, most successful, furthest-flung seeds.
Sure, but Apple evidently doesn't view that use case as central to macOS' purpose, and the likely reason for that is that enterprises show little interest in running macOS as a general purpose server operating system. People are not running their web apps or game servers or storage networks or transcoders or scientific supercomputers or Kubernetes clusters or videogame lobbies on macOS servers.

This isn't new, and Apple has rolled with it; they gave up making server hardware more than 10 years ago. They finally completely EOL'd the software package they called 'macOS server' like a year or two ago.

Compare all the macOS changes from a 2 year period to the equivalent changelogs to the Linux kernel. It's very clear that macOS is neither widely used as a server operating system nor developed as one.

If macOS were widely deployed as a general-purpose server operating system, Apple would have implemented some kind of container support years ago.

This isn't the only server-centric area in which macOS lags compared to other operating systems. APFS' featureset is anemic for such a recent filesystem with a copy-on-write design.

The core use case of containers is central neither to existing macOS usage nor to Apple's vision for macOS. If there's a question here, it has to be why that is so, not the fact that it is.
Hardware story is great, value is good vs competitors, but their story around their software engineering keeps exemplifying poor security and customer notification practices, which isn't great for a security product.
It is unusual for the products of compilers and linkers to be infected by the original license. See: gcc.
Turns out Leviathan, far from being of one mind, is confused and lazy.
The issue is that MinMinGuard hasn't received an update in a while and has ceased functioning for me on Android 12.
I think it's incredibly misguided and crass to plug websites and apps in a discussion about people sharing struggles with addiction to websites and apps.
Why would there be a falsifiable hypothesis in it? Do you think that's a criterion for something being a scientific paper or something? If it ain't Popper, it ain't proper?

LLMs dramatically lower the bar for generating semi-plausible bullshit and it's highly likely that this will cause problems in the not-so-distant future. This is already happening. Ask any teacher anywhere. Students are cheating like crazy, letting chatGPT write their essays and answer their assignments without actually engaging with the material they're supposed to grok. News sites are pumping out LLM-generated articles and the ease of doing so means they have an edge over those who demand scrutiny and expertise in their reporting—it's not unlikely that we're going to be drowning in this type of content.

LLMs aren't perfect. RLHF is far from perfect. Language models will keep making subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes and dealing with this aspect of them is going to be a real challenge.

Personally, I think everyone should learn how to use this new technology. Adapting to it is the only thing that makes sense. The paper in question raised valid concerns about the nature of (current) LLMs and I see no reason why it should age poorly.
Hi, I work on N-body orbit determination software for asteroid detection and planetary defense (for example, https://github.com/moeyensj/thor). Ask me anything.

You're right that orbit determination is unstable over long runs, and very sensitive to initial conditions. But the good news is that the solar system is big. Most trajectories do not intersect with the earth's location. So perturbing an orbit that we think has a small chance of hitting us tends to be safe.

Also, of course, after deflection, any object is going to be monitored really closely for a long time.
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We are the final stage of a Von-Neumann probe. We are supposed to be identifying potential habitable planets, or what will be by the time our launched packages of biologics arrives.
Humans are really good at causing mass extinctions - just look at how we've literally decimated the planet's biodiversity since the dawn of man!

That's a lot of new space for new lifeforms to specialize in.
> These machine dont think

And submarines don't swim.
Attempting to draw any kind of conclusions about the real world and human behaviour from a chatbot. Can't decide if this is hilarious or disturbing.
Wait what you "received" a slow vehicle? Why?
> This is something some have a hard time understanding, but some of us prefer a non-modal editor and like having simpler key chords instead of key sequences.

I'll second this.

I literally grew up on VI - my dad installed it with UNIX tools on the family 486 running MS-DOS. Then I dedicated a week to learning Emacs around the turn of the century, and I've never looked back.

To be sure, I still whip out vim for quick editing of remote server config files and it's my editor in mutt. But there's just so much power in emacs - I'm reminded of Vivek Halder's "Levels of Emacs Proficiency"[0], and the fact I do most everything in Emacs these days (I live in org-mode, play music in EMMS, run git through EGG, etc, etc). It's hard to think of anything with this level of consistency of keybindings, nor something that does so many things I need to do.

[0] - https://www.vivekhaldar.com/articles/the-levels-of-emacs-pro...
Low THD PWM audio amp, DIY friendly
I'm both an IT and audio geek, does HN likes audio geekery? I'm not affiliated with the company behind this website BTW..
Less than 1.4Bn. AFAIK the carbon cycle grinds to a halt in 400M-800M years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I ordered this book from a local bookstore in 1984 because I heard about it in a book or a movie I saw, but I can’t remember which since it was so long ago.

Four months later I got a call from the store telling me it came in and quoting me an exorbitant price to pick it up. I never did, and I’m sure they didn’t have any difficulty selling it off the shelf.

Coincidentally, just a short while later, I got a phone call from an Army recruiter asking me if I was interested in JROTC. I think I was put on some kind of watchlist for ordering the book.
Life would continue on earth after an asteroid (see: history). The impact would only wipe out the most fragile species, such as humans.

The same holds for nuclear war: life would continue as it always has, species with poor nuclear hardening would be selected against.

The true extraterrestrialism absolutists ought to encourage nuclear winter and asteroid impacts; the life that makes it out the other end will be much better suited for space’s low light low nutrient high radiation environment.

(/s…?)
The increased output of the growing sun will (ironically) sequester all the co2 due to weathering processes of certain rocks. Then there will be no plants. It won't take long after that.
Pedantically, yes, lossy compression is not 100 percent reversible. Practically, the usefulness of compression is that it does return the original content with as little loss as possible… so lossy compression is mostly reversible.

All of my other points remain unchanged by this pedantry.
Would also be awesome if there was deterministically only a single solution, though that may be hard to create.
Yeah but television doesn't give you the choice that YT provides. If it's 2am and all available tv programs are shit, you go to bed. With YT, there is always a decent video a search away.

(This obviously changed with streaming sites - but that's tv turning into YT rather than traditional broadcasting)
Oh, I was solo in a jet trainer in a restricted (for me) area, so I just sliced off to the outside of the cloud with a big smile on my face.
> the universe you're stating a preference for is one in which it's much more difficult to get a payment processor at all

Isn't this the world we live in? A bank will ask you these questions when you open an account with them, why can't Stripe? Because growth?

Edit: Also, much harder? Filling out a questionnaire a human looks at, then takes a cursory glance of where you're registered, what you're registered for and what your website looks like? That doesn't sound like much work for the upsides.

This smells like the classic "There's nothing we could do, dude!", when a company can't be bothered to do due diligence, then dumps all the externalities of that on someone else. Stripe could do this, they just don't, as it makes more money, ruining (possibly legitimate/legal) businesses in the process.
Emma Freire is a senior writer for World magazine. She is a former Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies. She also previously worked at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Dutch multinational bank.

Mercatus Center = Koch Brothers

The World ,"Sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth" operates out of a PO Box in Asheville, NC.
I don't recall seeing a single developer tool where the output was anything other than fully under the copyright of the author of the input files (or fully liberally licensed in the case of additional code objects).
there's a whole extra knight in today's puzzle

edit: i meant if you (r13: ebbx naq xavtug ba oynpx'f xvat'f ovfubc naq xavtug cbfvgvbaf) you only need to use two of the three provided
“I can still quit tomorrow though.”
Fun. Basically, it decides that (due to UB) it can simply not materialize the argument and carry on.

On Darwin/x86_64, this actually means that it prints out bits from an "uninitialized" register, specifically %rsi in this case, since that's where the second argument should be (even for variadic functions).

Certainly a jarring failure mode! However, if updating your compiler causes you to run into this, you already have a bug in your code (one that clang -- arguably not forcefully enough -- already warns you of).
I have fond memories using Qt on Symbian. Thank you for your work.
People on HN like to make things up about the field of economics, and then complain as a group about those things they just made up.
You stared real numbers are not representable, but specified “on computers”. Is there some medium they can be represented upon? Math papers is my only guess - but I read those on computers :)
While I've been using Unix/Linux shells for seemingly ever, remotely at first with telnet, then with SSH, I have a fairly consumer point of view towards the entire stack: I know their components well enough to be able to use them in my every day work, and to debug them with the few problems I encounter. The nitty-gritty doesn't concern me, and I frankly don't care much. I rather learn other stuff in more depth. That said, I do muchly appreciate that I can afford this point of view, because everything's stable and user friendly enough that I don't have to care.

Disclosure: I'm not an SRE
that's easy, just do it exactly like capitalism but replace all the bad parts
You are Reading the Name of this Esolang[1] is my favorite of the Brainfuck derivative esolangs.

It consists of "0" and "1" characters which map to Brainfuck symbols via a Huffman encoding as well as brackets which wrap a subprogram which are reduced to "1" if the subprogram halts and "0" if the subprogram loops forever. This means that the problem of deciding whether a given string is a valid You are Reading the Name of this Esolang program is undecidable.

[1]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/You_are_Reading_the_Name_of_this_E...
I can draw Biden, yes, but SD can only draw Biden by deriving it's output from the images on which it was trained. This is a simple tautology, because SD cannot draw Biden without having been trained on that data.

SD both creates derivative works and also sometimes creates pixel level copies from portions of the trained data.
Oh, for all my love of Linux, I really hate that bit of shitty UI. Then don't show a transfer bar at all.
Expecting a Netflix serie/movie to come up.
That’s not as shocking as you’d think. While FB may not know you well, we don’t either. :)
Are these tools opensourced?
What do you do on the internet?

The best way to not do X is to do Y instead. Find another activity that you enjoy and spend your time there instead.
Problem is that most of the time the signs are wrong.