skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the websites I'm aware of have app counterparts now. I suspect he's talking about the ones that didn't start off as apps and allow more detailed profiles, like Match and EHarmony. And yes, they're pretty much dead. Match is somewhat viable but far less active than it was five years ago. EHarmony is extremely expensive and almost completely dead. There are maybe a dozen new sign ups per day in my entire state, and most of the profiles are dead and can't see or send messages because people balked when they saw the price, which isn't shown until you complete the (rather lengthy) personality questionnaire.

On top of all that, they're all slowly changing to the swipe mechanics of Tinder and the like. Personally I hate that model, but apparently it's "won".
a) they want to know if you lie
b) they dig far deeper than criminal background checks. They'll interview your friends and family and if all the stories don't align, you fail
You're right of course. But as an intellectual exercise, it might be interesting to sniff out all of the dogma tied to this particular belief system. Like, there has to be "sins" and a way to transcend and all of that other stuff. Or something.
> What language is this, and how would someone build/load it?

In a Lisa emulator running Lisa Workshop, Apple's UCSD Pascal/Clascal-based development system for the Lisa.

Technically you could potentially port Pascal and/or Object Pascal code to another platform like Delphi, but any low-level or hardware specific code would have to be rewritten.

Fortunately the binary images are available on the internet and you can run them in a Lisa emulator.
This is garbage, but it’s unambiguously different from the current accusation (that if you have Google ads in your website, someone might inject arbitrary JS into your website).
You refer to the Futurist Manifesto: http://bactra.org/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
I recently got to reading the POSIX.1e (MAC & DAC) draft, and the DAC = ACL part is... surprisingly non-terrible. Still awkward and hampered by its existence as barely-visible metadata smeared over the whole system, as all ACLs are, but not at all the hopeless mess I expected coming from NT. (Even that might’ve been salvageable had Microsoft been willing to publish full documentation of all NT object permissions and mechanisms. Except SDDL, there is no world in which SDDL is salvageable.) Couldn’t make heads or tails of the MAC part, though.

The /etc/sudoers solution does have a usability advantage precisely in not being smeared all over the system. Even if “/etc/sudoers” and “usability” are words not often seen inside a single sentence.
I mean I agree, I'd say it's mostly just an issue of too much separation, they put the argument array together in one piece of code and then pass it to another piece of code that executes it with the necessary permissions. They don't pass along a separate array of files (or the location in the arguments where the files start), so the execute code attempts to figure out where they are instead.
And then there are the cases where the diff is a single line, but the commit message over a hundred lines because the change (or more likely its justification) is not obvious.
AOPS: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store
Yep. More than a few times I’ve finished a piece of work, and in writing the commit message explaining the whys and wherefores, realised my solution was actually flawed, or that a better solution was possible, and so thrown the entire thing away and started again. I love writing commit messages.
A kind soul emailed me the full text paper. Apparently the transition from conductive to non-conductive via oxidation is irreversible. So this would be a special coating applied to products to protect them from EMI during supplychain/shipping but not afterwards? Seems niche. But it is cool.
Haaaaaaaaands

— https://xkcd.com/1296/
Everything (deep fears, children, the truth etc.) was used only for the party’s needs!
(I work at Retool.) Ankur is definitely a real engineer (and also a very nice human) who works at Retool! https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-rastogi/
How happy is this new year (for climatetech)?
The first laser device was demonstrated in 1960. By 1961, patents on lasers already indicated applications in communication and meteorology[1]. Subsequent patents included uses for range finding, chemical analysis of gases, drilling, and other uses.

Amateur's were constructing working lasers in their basements within a year or two after the laser was invented.

I grew up reading a monthly column in Scientific American titled The Amateur Scientist which in the 1960's described a number of laser projects that could be constructed by amateurs. 1964[2], 1965[3], 1967[4], 1969[5], 1970[6]. Naturally, projects using lasers were discussed in other books and magazines during this time as well.

To me, Quantum computing seems very different than the history of lasers.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US3353115A/en

[2] Scientific American, THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,
Vol. 211, No. 3 (September 1964), pp. 227-242 (16 pages)

[3] Scientific American, THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,
Vol. 213, No. 6 (December 1965), pp. 106-113 (8 pages)

[4] Scientific American, THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,
Vol. 216, No. 2 (February 1967), pp. 122-134 (13 pages)

[5] Scientific American, THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,
Vol. 220, No. 2 (February 1969), pp. 118-125 (8 pages)

[6] Scientific American, THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,
Vol. 222, No. 2 (February 1970), pp. 116-121 (6 pages)
I actually think this is an excellent question. Because of how utterly worthless a question it is.

“Why aren’t there any pringles references in Star Wars?”

It’s fiction, the author does what they want, and it doesn’t matter beyond supporting the story. It’s not like Orwell was after a “hard world-build”. You get that, right? He was trying to express opinions on the danger of allowing too much power to be centralized with one entity.
> Cars are means and symbols of individual independence and freedom.

A car as a choice is. A car as a requirement for affording a place, or perceived desirable place, to live, isn't, it's part of the tax of dwelling. Further, cars can be seen, and often act, as means to separate one's self from, again perceived, mixing in or exposure to undesirable society. I think car ownership could have been used to good effect in 1984.
It's quite simple: Gather a sufficient amount of iron (4 million times earth's mass will probably do). Bring it all in one place, it will naturally compact. Wait for the resulting supernova - you do want to keep your distance for this step. Lastly collect gold and other heavy elements.
Startups tend to be a "do a rush job so the business won't die, worry about fixing it later" kind of a deal. I don't envy those working on original codebase after the startup is no longer racing its own runway.

I've experienced messages barely better than this in products that were under no immediate threat, and let me tell you this: having to figure out why some changes were made, three years earlier, in a bunch of badly-described commits whose author already left for another job, with no old documentation hinting at the purpose of the changes - this is one of the few things in this job that make me want to shout someone's ear off.
Incinerators in Japan must be above 800C to avoid generating toxic materials like dioxins. https://www.env.go.jp/content/900453393.pdf
>against their own interests.

Wanting an RNG / ping based system is not in everyone's interests. Plenty of people want to be able to just buy a product wherever they feel like and not have to spam refresh at specific time for a chance to get a product. Resellers offer this convince and clearly people are willing to pay for it.

It's either some consumers get a good deal while others get nothing, or all consumers pay a fair price and get it.

This isn't even getting to the higher resale price if resellers are blocked because there is less competition between resellers.
> "With a car, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.
so....
nukie > back to the future ?
well done dick the birthday boy. i know you did all the work here <3
Despite the smells, there are few bodies of water that I’d rather swim in than cold oceans, as far as nasty little germs and whatnot go.
Also old diesel engines are bad for air quality and efficiency
To access Post on my desktop computer, I just any browser to navigate to Post [dot] news. It's just a website. I have stored cookies on one browser I use, and I typically start up that browser with Post as one default tab. I have another browser I use for testing websites that shows me what Post looks like to users who have never logged in.

https://post.news/
Tomography of ultrarelativistic nuclei with polarized photon-gluon collisions
With tech like eBPF dynamic instrumentation is surprisingly easy actually.

Still, always glad to see some innovation in this space.
Are you really being pedantic with slang?
I dont buy into that line of thinking.

You make hay whilst the sunshines.

If you can make money from an App, then do so.

Of course you have to diversify; dont put all your eggs in one basket.

But if there is an opportunity to make money, then go make it.

You can build your name on a high profile popular product, even if the product is short lived.

Businesses and product lines dont generally last forever! :-)
gestures broadly at the mobile app store duopoly
Naturally, this led me to research how does one even become a CA?

* Developing and implementing a robust security infrastructure
* Completing an application process
* Undergoing an audit and validation process
* Obtaining accreditation from a recognized organization
* Maintaining compliance with accreditation requirements.

and then:

* On average, it can take several months to a year or more to complete the process of becoming a CA. This includes the time required for developing and implementing the necessary policies and procedures, completing the application process, undergoing the audit and validation process, and obtaining accreditation.

Wow, throwing away several months to a year of effort. It truly is something that takes time. I guess, a determined adversary will play the long con.
Quantum entanglement just got a whole lot weirder
The auction in question: https://www.hgpauction.com/auctions/114234/twitter/

Doesn't list what things sold for, but you can still view the catalog.

Surprisingly few computers considering the number of employees no longer there. I'll have to keep an eye on HPG for future auctions.
Wikimedia is who you donate to, not Wikipedia. Wikipedia is owned by Wikimedia, and Wikimedia gives money to a lot of shady causes, laundered via the donor advised funds set up by Tides Foundation.

I say laundered because of how donor advised funds work. You donate to Wikimedia, because you hope it goes to running Wikipedia. But that Wikimedia endowment is controlled by Tides Foundation. So you can see the money go in, but not necessarily where it comes out.
Yeah, from a rough calculation, 5 psi would be 4500 lbs (2000 kg) of force across the average human standing up.
Do high school kids need macbook airs?
they are doing a mobile first approach, there is no desktop version.
This is fun.

Would also be cool to generate commit messages while viewing history, it could really do a good job of orienting you. I'm imagining "human commit msg | gpt commit msg" so you can look at both. It's a little simplistic right now, kinda just describes the diff, but GPT-3.2 could rock.
No it doesn't crucially rely on deterministic behavior (you can add some dropout layers if you want).

Transformers does see the past inputs. But it won't really use them, except to "serialize the answer" that it will form on its first time-step : From the random initial context vector, splitting this space in regions it will generate two "numbers" as features, and multiply them as features and from this feature vector containing the answer it will just serialize it. At no times will the network ever factorize anything.

As an exercise you can probably manually specify the weights that will do exactly the task I describe, by considering each feature as an individual bit, and specifying layers weights such like they behave as multiplier logical circuit (with or-gates, and-gates and not-gates ...).

(Therefore the architecture can at least express the solution even though the network will probably have a really hard time reaching it)

Alternatively, a transformer is capable of over-fitting exactly a dataset : so if you give it a dataset ab,a,b it is perfectly capable of memorizing it exactly so it will be able to produce the task you want, even though it will not have understood anything.

Alternatively, if you want for the network to implicitly discover chain of thought reasoning then you will have to train the transformer to produce ????????ab,a,b this is a much harder task to learn because the gradient has to flow across various time-steps and through discrete sampling (instead of just trying to predict from imitation using known previous character). This is a Reinforcement Learning problem, that has to deal with credit assignment and long time horizon. You can use decision transformer. Or use other larger LLM that has access to the task description to help sample intelligent ???????, and train standard transformer on this sampled inputs, define a reward model, and build datasets of increasing rewards.

Even in these reinforcement learning, you can reach the optimal state without having to "plan". You can learn optimal controller that plan implicitly by just solving for the Bellman equation. This controller are living in the present and not anticipating the future outcomes, but you can also build controller like Model Predictive Control, that at each time-step make a plan, project it and solve for the best next move, but it's much more computationally expensive.
On the plus(?) side, there will be plenty of remaining fertilizers in stock to grow food to feed the now much smaller population for a good while.
Was this a problem on the older HFS+ file system too, or just APFS? HFS+ has a B-tree catalog and super-fast searchfs().
It's also possible to make burgers out of buckwheat. It has an interesting and unique taste.
The QuickDraw source code has been available for some time:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285569>

Submitted several times to HN since then. Most recently:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16519132>
It's supposed to be a gateway product that will eventually entice hardcore meat eaters to first try fake meat

I agree, but I don't think it's a gateway. They want to replace all those beef burgers with Impossible meat burgers. However things like Impossible meat, while very impressive, cost more than the real thing and don't taste right. It's the uncanny valley of meat.

The best vegan food is stuff you couldn't do with meat at all. Just look at Indian or Thai/Vietnamese cuisine.

That's my point. There's plenty of good meat free or meat reduced food. But we're not running campaigns to encourage less meat consumption or promoting the cuisines of other cultures. Instead they created a company to make and sell hyper realistic fake meat. If you were really concerned about your meat consumption and it's impact on the environment, you'd just eat less meat. It's 100% actionable without these companies and tastes better.
How about practical commercial applications of this research, like a Sims 4 Expansion Pack?
Whataboutism, bothsideism. Same thing?
I think there is fundamental design mistake when EDITOR string being badly escaped causing this bug

It has one job

* read file as priviledged user
* copy it to temporary file
* run editor as unpriviledged user
* copy the changed file back

The fact lack of escaping somehow makes sudoedit try to edit file passed in EDITOR variable is extremely shoddy coding.
Show HN: Create a Spotify playlist from your Instagram stories
A tool I created because I often feel nostalgia of moments in life when I listen to music I used for my Instagram stories.
Sad times. The third-party clients have always been _the_ way to access Twitter. One of my early favorites was Twinkle, made by Tapulous. It was pretty awesome, and even included searching for tweets from nearby users! This was pretty revolutionary and seriously fun in 2008. It helped us organized some Vancouver "tweetups" in 2008 and 2009.

(Of course most recently I had settled on TweetBot, which was an amazing iOS Twitter client)

Some stuff about Twinkle, since I didn't see anyone else talking about it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080718210738/http://tapulous.c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSB2MT01BQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4u-E5qmxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_hxXOYIqrQ
There is a specific passage in the book where he says a person looking forward from the early 20th century would have expected to own a car (and instead they get the Airstrip One of 1984). So I don't think 1 is correct
Yeah, this is annoying to me personally because the client I use now doesn't work, but the writing has been on the wall for aaaaaages. The client I use was pulled from the store in 2018 because they hit their token limit.
I think a good solution is to have both a wiki and a blog. They serve different needs.

Wiki is for maintaining information that can later be updated. New pages can start very short, or maybe just a list of links; you will expand them later, or maybe not.

Blog is where you write something when you have a coherent message, and then the article becomes read-only, a part of history.

In the past I would have added "forum" as a third category, but these days it is probably better to use an existing platform. You need to go where other people are, unless you want to become a full-time moderator of your own forum.

What else is there? Sometimes you want to make an interactive application. Or maybe upload some photos (but you could also do that in a blog or on a wiki).

An alternative approach would be to only install a wiki, and implement the blog on it, e.g. using pages like "2023-01-20" for blog articles.
Everything I learned from surviving a nuclear impact I learned from Indiana Jones 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4Vhkmb4Lw
I have found ways to almost always write and talk with gender neutral pronouns, without sounding too weird. After working with colleagues that use gender neutral pronouns, I find myself being careful not to assume any gender specific pronouns, which means in most cases just not using them.
Generally it's based on the feature / ticket in JIRA or whatever software you use. If the ticket is causing a commit with +8,298, -1,943, then we'd go back and break up the ticket itself into smaller tickets and then ask the coder to assign the changes to each ticket. There is no way we'd merge changes with such large file addition/deletions.
A more standardized format is:

Bug: #12345

if you want to merely reference a specific bug/issue, or

Closes: #12345

if this commit fixes the bug/closes the issue.

See https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/CommitMessageConventio...
Correct. I guess the lines are blurry for those that let Trump live rent free in their brain. Everything is Trump, even when it isn't. The PsyOp really worked.
> Its credibility is very important to its continued power and to our avoiding constitutional crises

This is the point of contention. It's a modern concept, when some folks of a particular political leaning didn't get their way. Suddenly, practically overnight, SCOTUS is a politically motivated organization that must keep up with popular opinions or risk "losing power". Otherwise, they're branded as evil-doers and worse...

This is simply not how our government works (thankfully).

If it did, people would have ignored Congress and the Office of the President long ago... and we would no longer have a functioning federal government, or a country for the matter.

The idea that the Judicial Branch is beholden to popular opinion and must maintain "credibility" is something that happens to unstable governments in far away parts of the world. This is not how our system works, again... thankfully.

Just because the judicial branch moves slowly and doesn't play petty politics does not mean they are not effective. Credibility has literally nothing to do with this system - it was designed that way on purpose.
Wow, rhymes so strongly with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw, where white phosphorous was the cause of jaw deformities in matchstick workers.
As much as I disgusted by Western propaganda and hypocrisy, I must say that most of them died in 2014 and 2015. Following Zelensky's election about a dozen or two civilians died on both sides per year in the Eastern Ukraine and mostly because of old mines. Killing thousand times more people is hardly a solution.
No? I think you're mixing up the fact that they were supposed to release this almost half a decade ago and so random blogs conjectured that it was lost.
If a book says it, it must be true! and therefor newsworthy.
Totally. Or use X for everyone. No overloading of common words well understood to be something completely different.
Maybe if my other offer was from the Wagner Group
It’s bad in Canada too, where they don’t even use dates of birth, so small children end up caught on a no-fly-list:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/no-fly-child-redress-1...
Acid of any kind will likely do that.
For what it’s worth, 100% agree with you. I’m sorry for what’s happened to this dev - must be gutting - but why on earth should their customers be the ones to bear the loss of not getting to use what they paid for?
I don't disagree with you in principle, but this take ignores the boots-on-the-ground reality for trans and nonbinary people.

Trans and nonbinary people are using this as a shibboleth to determine whether they can feel safe around you. You are not someone who wishes nonbinary or trans people harm, but unfortunately, there is a large segment of the population that does. The act of using someone's preferred pronouns is an act of saying "you are safe with me, I do not wish you harm." This is not a default or automatic assumption they can make, as it likely is for you.

Many trans and nonbinary people, through no fault of their own, have PTSD from how they've been treated by others. Even those that have not experienced hatred or violence directly are no doubt aware of the statistics.[0] You're correct that, in many cases, this is a mental health problem. It's an accommodation for a colleague or friend that needs your help, for now.

I have trans relatives and colleagues, and several I knew before they came out / transitioned. They've been understanding and patient when I have made mistakes, just as any normal person would be. It's not about hating people - in either direction. It's about treating people with kindness and respect and reminding those who are scared that you are on their side.

[0] https://time.com/3999348/transgender-murders-2015/
Very interesting, also because here in Australia our second largest Telco suffered a data breach late last year through an unsecured API. Which was I believe our largest data breach in history.

Managed to steal very similar information, but also included drivers license numbers and some people's passport numbers. Interestingly, for a while there was a post that allowed us to query the suspected API once authentication with our own accounts, which pulled down our drivers license numbers.

It's prompted a major investigation into identity legislation and data security. Our government bodies started allowing people to change their driver's license online. Furthermore the breached Telco started providing free credit monitoring services.

I wonder if the success from that hack has prompted attackers to pay more attention to unsecured API's. Not that it wouldn't have been a topic before.
Actually, the Coincheck hack was what triggered most of it.

Please show me HN hyping either, through...
Abstract Algebra: A Student-Friendly Approach by Dos Reis

Paperback layout feels like a workbook, not overwhelming-- beginner friendly
> I don't respect people's pronoun preferences because that would be creating reasons to hate people

This has got to be peak hacker news