skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brainfuck is one of my favourite languages. Not that I _write_ any code in it, mind you, but there's a bunch of code out there written for it (thank you, you crazy people), and it's so tiny and so simple that you can write an interpreter for it in an hour or two.

Because the syntax is so minimal, there's little point for a naive interpreter to include a parser and you can write it directly as a bytecode interpreter (and my experience has been that most beginners will do exactly that on their first attempt).

However, if you _do_ decide to write a (really basic) parser for it, you can easily end up with a tree walking interpreter instead, and, from there, it's only a tiny jump to start manipulating the AST. E.g. the simplest change you can make is to do away with the separate Increment and Decrement instructions, and replace them with a generic Add instruction, so + and - get parsed as Add 1 and Add -1 respectively. Then you can replace runs of mixed - and + characters as one single Add instruction (--+-+++ becomes Add 1, for example). If you add a Set instruction, the [-] sequence can be translated to Set 0. Likewise, [.>] can become printf(ptr) instead of a loop of putchar(*ptr).

Put all of this together, and it turns out that BF is perfect to introduce people to interpreters, and to demistify the whole "writing a language" thing.
I have friends and family living in Portland who got a close-up view of the BLM/Antifa activity there. People were afraid to go downtown. Women were afraid to go alone to the market or out for a walk. I know some people who were never interested in guns before who signed up for gun-safety classes and went shopping for a pistol for home defense. The violence, destruction, and fear were very real and had a lasting effect on how they view living in Portland. So, I have strong feelings about the ideologically motivated posts denying that the violence ever happened.
I like how I can somewhat understand the MechEs at work when talking about vibration responses if I just imagine everything as a complex RC circuit.
Yeah better docs would be useful, and IDE integration (vscode extension?) for syntax highlighting and build.fix creation would be useful.

If I get an idea this might be useful for, will definitely consider using.

What have been your main use cases? or targets?
I can hardly think of a more certain way to get matchheads to explode. The guy's lucky he only lost a hand.
JS for browsing is not needed at all and often it's a mistake. It may be ocassionally useful, but it's the least important thing.

(The fact that someone can process data and express self in many ways, even with JS
- if he can't do it proper by other means - makes that mistake: that the others shall be forced to access data only the limited way some JS allow - but he could mind that the procesing in between may be not needed at all or disturbing and that there are many other ways to access data which dont't block each other or force as expecting JS does.)
I’m sorry but this is a bunch of crock and honestly sounds like just a lot more speculation adding nothing to the conversation.
It would be an okay provocative title if the criticism was well-founded (which can certainly be done for Python), but most of the article is rather poor.
Newer iphones have some incredible thickness in their circuit boards. They will place components in wells on a board and then glue it to another so you end up with a double thick board.
Based on the other projects on the site, it looks the author is a licensed amateur radio operator.

You are correct that in the US, most personal/unlicensed (Part 95) radio services explicitly prohibit phone patch via FCC rule 95.349 [1]

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D...
Fair enough, however the Fermi Paradox and the consequently postulated Great Filter are a thing precisely because the evidence of this competition should be present but is not.

> The local group is bigger than the galaxy.

You are certainly correct, I misremembered the terms. Substitute for the local regions of our galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion-Cygnus_Arm
Well, this is just awesome.
Why is it an ignorant question? The nicer ones let you use JTAG etc connections, and debug to console using ITM or RTT. (STM, nRF etc) Others allow debugging via serial.
Sure it was that? NG is terrifyingly unstable, harsh words can set it off. I couldn't conceive of it being bottled without a stabilising agent added. At least he only lost his hand :/
> I don't think it's healthy let alone desirable to discourage pointed questions from kids.

Reframing a question isn't tiptoeing around it: "that's a Wrong Question" is the start of an answer. Though, probably the kind of answer you'd give someone able to read The Ask and the Answer and realise it's about fascism.

Answering with a "Why don't they? What's keeping them from doing so?"-type reframe is the better approach for people not used to making such leaps on their own: you're teaching them to do this reframing, and to question premises.

(Wrong Question = question from an invalid premise)
It is a form compression that loses some much of the uniqueness which gives it the high ratio.
If the concept is a little hard to grasp consider an AI model like a finite state machine, but it stores affinity and weights of the data's relationship to each other too.

In GPT this is words and phrases, e.g. "Frodo Baggins" high affinity, "Frodo Superman" will be negligible. Now consider all words that may link to those words - potentially billions of words (or phrases), but (probably/hopefully) none replicated. The phrases are out of specific context because they cover _all contexts_ in the training data.
When you speak to GPT it randomises these words in response to you, typically choosing the words/phrases with the highest affinity, to the words you prompted, this almost gives it the appearance of emergent AI, because it is crossing different concepts (texts) in it's answers.

Stable Diffusion works similarly but with colours (words), and patterns/styles (phrases). Now if you ask for a green field in the style of Van Gogh, it could compare Van Gogh's work to a backdrop from Windows XP. You could argue depending on the degree of those things it gives you you are violating copyrights, however that narrow view doesn't take into account that although you've specifically asked for Van Gogh and that's where it concentrates, it's also pulling in work from potentially hundreds of other lower affinity sources. It's this dilution which means you'll never see an untainted original source image.

So in essence, it's the user who is breaching the copyright by specifying concentration on specific terms in the prompt, not the model. The model is simply a set of patterns, and the user is making those patterns breach copyright which IMHO is no different to the user copying a painting with a brush.

The brush isn't the thing you sue.
The Eurozone's Unique Inflation Crisis
There’s this 4DX theater nearby, that has moving seats. The experience is quite fun, but let me tell you, I wish those seats had seatbelts. Not because I’m going flying, but it vibrates enough to keep me slipping out of my seat.
Tbh I don’t think you understood the goal of this post. The idea, to me, is to remind the reader of how precious life is, and to be mindful of how you’re spending it. Whether you think about it or try to ignore it, time is ticking by at the same speed. I’m only 25 but I’ve wasted way too much time on Reddit, YouTube, and even HN, in my opinion.

> As with all things, moderation.

Sure, but in my anecdotal experience the vast majority of people are spending more time on YouTube than what their own values would permit. And also anecdotally, people who experience more existential dread seem to be those who realize they aren’t living their life quite the way they’d like to.
I agree, it’s silly. I personally hate, _HATE_ Acqua Di Gio but I cannot imagine involving the police in any capacity to deal with someone that wears it.
Talk about websites I shouldn't have had access to when I was young.

Porn, drugs, and bombs. A great time to be alive.
CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code
That's extremely not how it works. If there's only one training example it's not going to remember anything like actual visual details of it.
The Model Is the Message
Yeah, it’s best for a grammar to somehow avoid the typedef problem, where “x * y” might become a declaration if x turns out to be a type. Maybe “id : type = value” doesn’t always do that?
A nice visual version of this memento mori is Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks":

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

After reading this, I used this nice online PDF generator to print out my personalized life calendar, and kept it in my home office with a pen nearby, checking off the passing weeks occasionally (every month or so).

https://www.ekn.io/calendar/

Spending some time to check off the first ~2k weeks -- checking a little box for each week of my life thus far -- was quite an emotional thing, actually.
What is the pay structure for the attorneys bringing this lawsuit? My guess is they will get about 40 percent of any monetary awards.
There are plenty of flying objects more energy efficient than quadcopters. Quadcopters are actually very inefficient. They brute force flying using thrust and with enough thrust anything will fly.

The big advantage they have is maneuverability and mechanical simplicity. Quadcopters can move in any direction and can hover in place. Quadcopters do not need control surfaces or variable pitch props. All they need is 4 motors with 4 basic props and everything is done electronically in software.
Are you referring to this: "What kinds of experiments are likely to work well? Given current capabilities, games with complex instructions are not presently likely to work well, but with more advanced LLMs on the horizon, this is likely to change. I should also note that research questions like what is “the effect of x on y” are likely to work much better than questions like “what is the level of x?.” Consider that in my Kahneman et al. (1986) example, I can create AI “socialists” who are not too keen on the price system generally. If I polled them about who they want for president, there is no reason to think it would generalize to the population at large. But if my research question was “what is the effect of the size of the price increase on moral judgments” I might get be able to make progress. That being said, it might be possible to create agents
with the correct “weights” to get not just qualitative results but also quantitatively accurate results. I did not try, but one could imagine choosing population shares for the Charness and Rabin (2002) “types” to match moments with reality, then using that population for other scenarios." --- To clarify, this about what research questions are likely to work well here, not what questions posed to LLMs will work well.
Fractional bits makes perfect sense. Do you know how arithmetic coders work?
The lens of cost / benefit is no way to live, and is a sure road to misery. Scrooge.
I think it's more of the stoic "memento mori" intention. Make sure your time is well spent.
Could you explain the picture?
Depends how deep your well is. Sometimes around here, the water table is closer to the ground than your basement floor is…
Oh no I've already been sucked in to brainfuck by writing an optimizer that compresses instructions using loops.

Example "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++." to

"++[>+++++++++++++++++++++++++<-]>."

34 instructions vs 51. But this might pull me in deeper
It’s funny, I also found this inspiring and thoughtful but for almost the exact opposite reason. I never feel overwhelmed (not that I’d like to), and feel like I’m letting life pass by while I do meaningless crap. I don’t want to work for the sake of work, I want to do great work because of the enjoyment it brings me to learn cool things and work on complex systems. I don’t want to waste more time on Reddit, I want to spend that time on a hobby, or exercise, or learning something.
I'm in the middle of the book, it's very inspirational. This websites great, thanks!
One thing people seem to be ignoring is that this research is useful because it creates a controlled environment in which to explore the variable affecting crop yields, even if the stated application has very limited practical value. Also keep in mind that many technologies take a considerable amount of time to develop before they are of any value at scale.

Take something that I presume most people on this forum are intimately familiar with: computers. It is not too difficult to find people mocking historical figure for claiming the world only needed a handful of computers, yet those claims made sense in a historical context: early computation devices were mechanical, electromechanical, or tube based. They were huge, slow, and seen of little value outside of performing a calculations in very specific domains. Even science fiction authors of the era had a difficult time imagining them as anything but hulking machines that may have controlled everything, yet were only accessible to a few. Attitudes may have shifted when transistors entered the picture, and shifted even further when integrated circuits were developed, yet it wasn't until the mid-70's until people started imagining what we have today. Even so, they were a novelty to most people until the mid-90's. We are talking about half a century in going from something that we would recognize as a computer until they were adopted by society as a whole. And that is ignoring the fact that people have been trying to develop calculating machines for centuries.

Research is good, even if the vast majority of it ends up leading to dead-ends, simply because we don't have sufficient imagination to determine what will be useful in the future.
> I'm skeptical of any solution to homelessness that entails just putting them in a cubicle, "no strings", and declaring them no longer homeless. Yes it can be a useful mechanism, but there's more work to do beyond that,

For many people, there is, and they're capable of doing that work themselves once they're relieved from other pressures (like day-to-day survival). We all probably know someone that isn't enough for, but why not start with the lowest-cost interventions?

> maybe that's the actual hard part - holding down a job, and getting one that pays enough to make rent.

That's a hard thing for anyone – though within most people's ability. (Ignoring, for the moment, the question of whether people should be obliged to in order to continue living.) Having a place to live makes both getting and holding a job much easier.
> I don't see how these ridiculous occult rituals mitigate risk.

They don't, but they make the hiring manager feel like it does. It calms the lizard part of the brain.
> Shoot first, talk later.

That's been the pattern; ban @elonjet, come up with a policy that justifies it after.
Software testing, and why I'm unhappy about it
I should have specified the OP has legal rights to the song and the end user listening was under the same granted/implied license as a program doing the web harvesting, my bad.
I find flywheels : capacitors :: springs : inductors to be the better analogy. Then you have force : current :: velocity : voltage, which I find works better than the alternative because forces, like currents, sum to zero at nodes; whereas velocities, like voltages, are equal at nodes.

(Dampers are still resistors in this model, though you must consider resistance to be how "loose" the damper is, rather than how "tight" it is.)
Nah, this is the actual truth. You can feel free not to believe me, but I have more complete information about this situation than anyone else you'll ever talk to.
I can see this being practical for a Mars colony, but only in other places if there is a large supply of low-cost energy and limited agricultural space, plus limitations on food imports. Perhaps Iceland, using geothermal energy would be a good place to try a large model installation?
So, is any sort of creation that relies upon copyrighted or patented works copyright infringement? Is any academic research or art that references brands or other creations illegal? This is such a clear case of fair use that it could be a textbook example.
What's with the Date-Picker widget on the first screen? Is it supposed to do something or anything at all?

I'm using Brave on Android.
I was trying to head off a response of why the advice to get out and do something out of one's groove is impossible. Myself, I would include "family, economic, and social conditions" within the general category of "depression", rather than reserving that label for "purely chemical" problems.

Internal and external factors tend to pile up and reinforce one another, and if someone is at a point where those external factors are contributing to not being able to try changing patterns of behavior, that would be seem to be indicative of a problem that should be acknowledged.

It feels like I'm coming from a place that is the dual of your comment - even though everyone could theoretically benefit from therapy, people are not going to seek it out and add even more complexity to their lives unless they feel they need to - especially with the care-denying medical bureaucracy that permeates the US and apparently Canada. Acknowledging a problem is a first step to addressing it with an appropriate tool rather than normalization and coping band aids.
With very small changes, that describes me and my friends doing the exact same thing in our dorm in our youth. Wouldn't be OSU would it?
I recently watched the first few minutes of the first episode and was a bit surprised with Links behavior. I appreciate that the show was a product of its time, but the bad behavior of the game’s protagonist was appalling. Less than 4 minutes in And he’s an unrepentant peeping Tom.
It’s not the depth. It’s the rate of draw vs replenish.
This is the first post about which I have received threatening messages. If you know some hothead who would send such messages via guerrillamail.com, or have experienced something similar, you can contact me via info in my profile. He seemed particularly concerned about pointing out that police departments have a problem being infiltrated by brownshirt gangs.
Having kids saved me. You can’t procrastinate on raising kids. There are no sick days. I’ve never been more active in my life. Today I spent an hour running around avoiding lava at a playground. Before kids I’d of spent all that time and a lot more playing World of Warcraft, I believe.
VToonify: Controllable high-resolution portrait video style transfer
The latest Electroboom video is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMT1sn1bKRY
As the author of multiple books, I can draw a clear line between promotion and sales.

Call it slimy, call it spammy, but no one else (including your publisher) is going to do that work for you.
Orpheus will rate appropriate XLD and whipper logs as 100% fwiw

Also I could be wrong, but don't most trackers still accept rips that they consider inferior, but then they could be trumped by someone else that made an EAC rip?
At least one of the actual trains is in the collection of the NYC Transit Museum (a decommissioned subway station near Borough Hall in Brooklyn), and at least intermittently on display on the tracks downstairs.
W. Richard Stevens
So is your mental image of Joe Biden, unless you know him personally.
how exactly does it get around not using the official API? it scrapes?
The inflation in Software Engineering titles
Neither the foam or the shuttle wing detonated. It's about testing volatility, not doing damage.
I'm just giving this a try and with xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland (their fork of the wlr portal) I get perfect screensharing in Google Meet using pure Wayland.

That alone is interesting enough to get me to look at switching..
Which side is the right-hand side? To me, the vibrant mouse on the left looks much younger.

Do cameras and screens often end up reversing images due to base assumption mismatch / confusion?
Never thought of doing "optimizations" (like a compiler) in a BF interpreter, but that's genius!
TAB electronics books
Like many other things (including, originally, copy-paste), you were supposed to use your desktop environment's support for this over to-be-specified D-Bus API
If you want academic discourse about truth, become a philosopher. Activism and power are just as real as trees and language models. Discussing them is discussing the world.

Your concern about motivated reasoning is a valid one – but motivated reasoning is different to persuasive language. If anything, persuasive language highlights the places you should be looking for motivated reasoning (but it also makes it harder to spot, for some people; I don't recommend using persuasive language in your own papers).
I don't think you can claim a loss when the reduction in revenue is due to a reserve. But I'm not a tax lawyer, circumstances may vary, yadda yadda.

Accrual of Reserves for Estimated Expenses

Although reserves for contingent liabilities are often set up in business practice, amounts credited to reserves are generally not deductible for income tax purposes because the fact of liability is not fixed ( Portland Copper & Tank Works, Inc., CA-1, 65-2 ustc ¶9687). For example, advance deductions have been denied for additions to a reserve for expected cash discounts on outstanding receivables, amounts credited by a manufacturer to a reserve for possible future warranty service, and additions to a reserve covering estimated liability of a carrier for tort claims. However, to the extent that the Code specifically provides for a deduction for a reserve for estimated expenses, the economic performance rules ( ¶1540) do not apply ( Code Sec. 461(h)(5)).

https://answerconnect.cch.com/contents-document/mtg012e61a34...
And everyone who uses this argument fails to account for the fact that grifters are a symptom of the problem and only enabled by the loss of trust in the first place
It’s to determine your approximate age and remaining lifespan in weeks.
You're supposed to pick when you were born, which allows you to "scroll on".

But also on Android -- am I missing something or am I supposed to scroll backwards month by month to 1989?
> I'd rather have a guaranteed benefit

Well, that's fine, if that's what works for you; I hope you continue to have that option for years to come.

> relying on psychological dark patterns to trick gullible employees.

That's a little harsh, don't you think? I've just explained why unlimited PTO actually is the policy I prefer, the one which suits my needs - but you seem to be dismissing the possibility that people like me could exist.

I'm not surprised that you see the PTO benefit primarily in terms of its cash value, if you managed to accumulate three months of unused vacation; presumably you don't take many breaks. For my part, I generally find lack of time to be a more pressing obstacle to the things I want in life than lack of money, so I don't care whether PTO has any cash value at all; what I want is flexibility.

> Furthermore, try taking 2+ months of vacation in a year and see how quickly you're called to have a meeting with the Bobs.

I suppose it would depend on the conversations I had with my manager before making those plans.

I did once take a solid month off, to go tour Morocco. It was a great experience. It wasn't actually company policy to offer that much time off, but I worked it out with my boss, and it was fine.
It arguably says rather than planning, iterate with a goal in mind.
And Eric often appears with Curios Marc on YouTube if i remember it right.
Great channel for all things Apollo and analog black magic.
https://m.youtube.com/@CuriousMarc
Amazon vs. Google vs. China: Quantum Computing Will Blow Your Mind