skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That suspicion is healthy. You don't know the technology being used, per your own admission.

Ah, if only I had a dollar for every project turned into a mess because some engineering manager (who probably coded in COBOL last) thought they knew what they were talking about and pushed down some crappy choice
Compilers and compiler writers don't rely on informal reasoning when deciding whether an optimization is valid
Why is it not a security concern to more companies that Microsoft is watching and recording all their meetings? I guess it is like selling on Amazon: You are fine until when Amazon wants to capitalize on your data or your entire business.
Show HN: Terminal with autocomplete suggestion built with Tauri
Terminal built with Tauri (Rust+Svelte).

I got this idea of creating a terminal that is more user friendly having autocomplete suggestions. I couldn’t create a suggestions engine that would work for all commands. But I defined a structure (a state machine in src/cli/library/library.ts) that can be used to determine the next suggestions. The good part with this approach is that it is possible to have custom script based suggestions. For example if we write in the terminal “git checkout” and after we press Space, a dropdown will appear with all available branches. The bad part is that it will take some time to add more supported commands in this “library”.

Another feature is that in the bottom bar of the terminal we can have custom script based information. In .manter.json we can define a script that will generate this information. The script will be executed each time the prompt appears.

On the front-end are used web technologies which offer a flexibility to add any feature and style that we want.

Link to opensource project: https://github.com/iondodon/manter
Well There's Your Problem has an episode on the incident as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34rdxDgpaaA
The description says it's GPT3
So, equality vs. equity all over again? That's hardly an insight.

Also, some of these classifications make little sense. "Muslims" and "evangelicals", for instance, is just a matter of generic vs. specific.
If you can avoid floating point division and search for what squares into the number you're looking at, it may converge more quickly per computer cycle.

Heron's method does converge quickly per algorithm cycle, though.

I haven't tried both, but you could definitely do your binary search with only multiplication and bit shifts.

Ok, now I'm looking up number of cycles for division, which is a lot less than I remember. How much has this changed in the last 20 years? any?

Ugh, now I have to try both out tonight. Thanks everyone.
Lmao at the risk of the road collapsing to middle earth, you won’t be allowed out, that’s self endangerment
I feel so too. It would have been more insightful to highlight where the bias actually shows up, i.e. what sentences and adjectives produce the highest and lowest divergence for specific groups.
I'm getting closer to this day by day too
By that logic we should remove bytes.Clone, strings.Split, bytes.Equal, strings.TrimLeftFunc, etc. from the standard library.
>You're going to be very confused when liberals become anti-trans

What makes you say this?
> If it wasn't clear, I was disagreeing that "punishment as vengeance" is the primary motive for punitive justice, while pointing out some grounds typically used to justify it (deterrence mainly). I think reducing punitive justice to vengeance is largely a strawman.

I did not say it was the primary motive for punitive justice. I said using punishments for vengeance would be unreasonable. And vengeance clearly is a motive in a lot of punishment, or the pushback against treating prisoners nicer or shortening sentences where the evidence shows both works just fine would focus on the evidence rather than the emotions relating to whether prisoners deserve to be treated a certain way.

> Furthermore, I'll just note that Fankfurt refuted the principle of alternate possibilities decades ago, so I don't find this particular quality you ascribe to free will meaningful.

I'm not remotely compelled by the notion that Frankfurts arguments against PAP makes any difference whatsoever here, because the point is that a strict determinism makes the very concept of moral responsibility meaningless, in that if one accepts determinism then no entity had any ability to deliver another outcome, and the person holding the gun had no more control over the outcome than the gun or the bullet.

What then makes the person and not the gun or bullet, or any other entity that was a part of the cause and effect chain more morally responsible?

Moral responsibility to me rests with a minimum the possibility of choice as a starting point, and I reject that there's any evidence to suggest such a possibility exists.

Finding someone responsible in the abstract sense and for the sake of considering whether a deterrent or rehabilitation is necessary for the sake of wider society is fine, with the caveat that many entities and events can have a causal responsibility of various degrees and if we genuinely care about this we'd more often look past the individual that is the proximate sentient cause and to e.g. addressing underlying contributing societal conditions. This, to me, is another piece of evidence that the concern is often vengeance rather than deterrence.

Seeking to assign a moral responsibility for the sake of blame or vengeance, on the other hand, would to me in itself be immoral. Doesn't mean I'm immune to assigning responsibility - we're wired to do so and the illusion of free will is strong and it's hard to see past it.
Btw, doing long division in your head (during sex) is a good way to increase endurance…
Yeah, exactly. It’s like saying, “What’s wrong with having a bus-sized nuclear-powered garbage cannon aimed at my head? I already have to take out my trash once a week.”
> Does anyone have any help or tips here?

Yes. when you go to sleep don't put any pressure on yourself that you need to sleep X number of hrs or whatever. Just go to bed on regular schedule and be thankful for the amount of sleep you get, actual amount is irrelevant.
As a senior dev theoretically on track for principal, I'm finding coding occupies maybe 10% of my time over a full year. The rest is largely in "leadership" meetings where we argue over details about goal language and trying to figure out how to blame project failures on "dependencies".

Not really what I went into this field for. I miss my halcyon days being a low rank engineer churning out project tasks, but I do get the need for technical people to be providing the right guidance to help herd the cats in management.
This, along with the Gimli Glider, are my favorite wikipedia pages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
I mean that is already how AI works now. Adversarial models are mainstream.
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Not naturally no, according to Wikipedia. Plenty of other marmots though (like Murmeltiere in the European Alps), although I don't think those can predict the seasons.
The businesses that try to fire all their good writers and hire low wage replacements to man AI will find that they sink millions of dollars into cliche stories riddled with minor inconsistencies that get panned by serious viewers.
That might work for the latest effects and personality driven drivel like the Fast movies or stuff for kids, but not for anything serious.

There still needs to be someone excellent with executive power and enough time available to do the job properly taking responsibility for the final script. AI is currently only up to working as a junior/assistant writer.
Did you see changes in approach to same set of problems during the time?
In other words: California has promised to disenfranchise its own voters even more than is already the case. I can already see this backfiring spectacularly with a solidly-blue state like California being on the hook to put its electors toward a Republican popular vote winner.
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25 years in.. you are at this tipping point where those 18 month position look suspect and people will expect 5 years. Not having a personal project means you might have know how to code the modern wat.. having a popular project changes this. No one visits your website if they do only to see the design.
Have you actually written a C parser? I will grant that C++ is incredibly hard, but C is relatively straightforward. Types are not at all difficult to parse in C, and the pre-processor isn't all that complex either when you have the spec in front of you. If you think it's hard, you probably didn't have the right documentation. I picked up the book "The Annotated ANSI C Standard" by Herbert Schildt sometime back in ~1993, and it made writing a recursive descent parser almost trivial. That book made C syntax actually make sense in a way that the K&R book and other introductory C books didn't.
> how are you going to know about the grand themes unless someone tells you about it?

For that matter, St. John’s students self-select to be the kind of students who would appreciate being guided to discover the major themes. Most other students need to be told them and then think themes are pretentious puffery because they lack the life experience to recognize or appreciate them.
"Most people" don't matter here. The girl who bags your shopping doesn't need to know what UNIX® is for C to take over the world, but the guy who wrote Commander Keen (and who will go on to write Doom and Quake) does.

For example in Spring 1991, with Linux still just some C code Linus Torvalds was thinking of naming Freax if he got it working, JANET, the organisation providing network access to the UK's universities (via X.25 of course) decides to launch JIPS, an experimental IP network.

JIPS was huge. Why was JIPS huge? Because unlike X.25 you could just download BSD source spin up a Unix with TCP/IP and run everything you could think of or write your own software, you don't need anybody's permission - there's some guy at CERN who has written a "Web browser" which sounds pretty interesting for instance. By the time Torvalds writes his Linux 0.0.1 announcement email, JIPS is the dominant use of JANET and X.25 is on its way to deprecation.

It was all bundled together with this free software I got, 100% legit. It seems to work pretty good, and unless you've got funding from somewhere to use something different I think we should use C / IP / Unix.
Can we use blockchain technology to certify that a content is made by humans, is it possible, can someone enlighten me on the limitations ?
Seizing the means of computation – Interview with Cory Doctorow
How popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies
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Yeah 99% of people that complain about other peoples child. If you actually turn around and tell them you'll sign over the adoption to them and you just need the countersignature, they would shit bricks. They want all the veto rights with none of the personal responsibility -- the essence of entitlement.
> That's the saddest thing I've read this morning, assuming it is accurate. For every great staff member at school, I've met at least one other than was barely able to function in adult society. I don't know which direction the causal effect is going, but there's a correlation between working all day with young children and being able to relate to other adults.

maybe i'm confused. are you saying it's sad that staff members at an elementary school aren't for punishing false reports to cps? i don't know what's sad about that. if reports are anonymous, how could you punish a false reporter? and how could you prove the report was intentionally false? seems like you'd catch a tiny portion of malicious reporters that for whatever reson left undeniable evidence of that intention to falsely report, and to do that the reporting would have to no longer be anonymous, which would stop a lot of people from reporting.
You, sir, have identified a bug. Just pushed an update to fix this.

If you look at the past 3 years, they have all been "early spring": https://groundhog-day.com/predictions

So the logic that was there didn't actually work properly, but I never noticed it before.
This is true, but the first amendment should also prevent the government from pressuring said companies to censor speech as well. This would be the government using it's power and coercion to violate people's 1st amendment rights via a third party. Think "hiring someone to murder someone is still murder for the person hiring," or a police soliciting a trespass.

The recent "Twitter files" showed that the government is/was working directly with Twitter and probably all the media companies to censor speech. The government, on multiple occasions, provided specific tweets and people to censor and Twitter complied. I believe they had weekly meetings to do just that.
To expand just a bit more, the map is very blurry. Nation states tap into some real and old sentiments, but are not just a translation of those to a modern political language. They are their own new political projects, with a shape that is a result of historical happenstance and personal ambitions of specific people. It is surprisingly malleable – depending on what common enemies appear, what leaders and writers become popular, etc.
But with none of the elegance of Erlang/Beam.
i don't know if it's just because we've become numb to these events, but they just don't get the reaction from something esoteric like someone irradiating the local stores causing people to get sick invisibly. then again, maybe i'm giving the new "scary" too much credit. overall, we didn't take covid seriously. i could see people having radiation parties of groups of people convinced it's not real.
Have you watched Old Enough yet?

https://www.netflix.com/title/81506279
> If you do think there's any kind of organized left-wing group of any sort in America

I’m neither American, nor was talking about “left wing” American cabals that control the world.

I’m not sure why this has to be a singular group. It’s a tale as old as time, rich vs poor. One can clearly observe multiple not-necessarily-colluding but powerful groups globally and locally, who all aim to control and subjugate the rest of us.

This makes no sense to be a semantic debate where you grind an axe that “there is not just one illuminati” and act like that means something impressive.
As explained, this isn’t what they’re doing at all. They’re putting their own patches in, not withholding upstream patches.

If all they did was patch upstream, you’d have to wait longer for the fix. I don’t see how that solution is unambiguously better.
Whats wrong with warning? Its not like all people on HN should be forced to read all wiki articles about all horrible thing that happens with people.
Nobody else seems to do this outside of the US and Canada.
I'm confused what you were disagreeing with me about then tbh. Sure you can argue a monitor doesn't rise to that level but clearly we agree that there is some line here, even if we don't agree on where it is.
same difference
Yeah, I do think we’ve overstepped on what we expect police to do for us. It might also correlate with the seemingly endless stories of police overstep and abuse.
EA is a parody of a company. I will try to avoid them at all costs.

Most of the time is spent updating Origin or EA and the game.
I just rebuilt one my ceph nodes with Rocky 9. Seems they are pretty closely tracking RHEL. I think Alma is a little quicker with patches, but both are fast.
Yes, the high profile examples can get fixed.

But the second tier ones don't. There isn't so much money to be made from fixing them, nor is there the public pressure. So they languish..indefinitely.
> Freshman Reading: Homer - Illyad, Odyssey ... ok! if you read the Odyssey in your own native language (not greek), you probably will enjoy it, but how are you going to know about the grand themes unless someone tells you about it?

Isn't there a class instruction, supplementary reading, and discussion component for these books? I assume so.

But I think a lot of people — even freshmen! — could just read these books and get something from them anyway.
Some Nvidia GPUs draw more than 3x the power of a MacMini. The recommended PSU is 10x (500W to 50W)
Something gotta give
Absolutely. The concept of a "sanity check" is so valuable. Thinking about what the answer should "look like", ignoring the precise value, always makes me much more confident in a precise value I've computed. It's the kind of thinking makes math so much more useful in the "real world" too.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127586
Sadly not even enough. Formerly well-managed countries have revolutions and get into wars.
Yes, but AI was supposed to improve things, not make the gap wider https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
Leaving aside the parts of this argument not worth dealing with (that is, most of them), you make the fundamental carbrain error. How do you think interstates, suburban development, and countless square miles of public roads and public parking came to be? The answer (and it's an extremely easy one to find because it's less than a hundred years old) is massive amounts of public investment. There's no universe in which virtuously libertarian (TM) private money would have done the same thing. So while the midwit impulse is to bifurcate "statism" and "car culture" and call one a "left wing talking point", they are at the very least not exclusive. There's mutual causation, of course, but I have no desire to open that chapter under this comment.
That's a huge insight to take away. Nevertheless, we still have climate-denier groundhogs consistently predicting winter and being wrong about it (cough Phil cough).

Hopefully, this site helps shine a light on these unscientific groundhogs.
It is not.

To clarify, this mixes proprietary code with GPL code from id software. Valve has spoken out about the engine used [1] before and has barred it from being used for mods on Steam.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160701071741/http://www.moddb.c...
Similarly, Beavis and Butthead has never had a release that mirrors the broadcast because of the music videos.
This isn’t a simple thing to answer as it’s specific to any given project. If something is millions of lines of code, will anyone ever fund a full rewrite that could take years? In that case finding areas to plug-in Rust is probably the better strategy. See the Linux kernel and drivers being able to be in Rust.

On the other hand, if something is only a few thousand lines of code, a rewrite wouldn’t take much time and might be worth it.
It's slightly different.

Programming languages are for the most part deterministic tools that programmers generally understand and can debug. For this audience, the interpreter or compiler is not a "black box" that we only interact with by giving it inputs and seeing what it does.

Although some prompt engineers may have detailed understanding of the AI model and its training corpus, to most people using this kind of AI today the model is a black box, and it's up to them to try things.

Sure, that happens in programming too, but rarely at the level of a programming language, and much more likely at the level of a complex system of poorly documented and buggy interacting parts, such as a long-standing piece of computing infrastructure that has been iterated upon for decades, and now contains a mish-mash of components, many of which were added by people no longer around to explain how they work.
> Never understood why more didn't just go with Fedora back then.

For me at least: back then Fedora didn't have a supported non-terminal way to upgrade to a newer major version. (Whereas now upgrading Fedora is more polished and simpler than Ubuntu.)
I grew up in the former Eastern bloc (Poland) in a small town and we had this sort of free-range parenting there. When I was around 9 or 10 I would spend my whole days playing outside with the other kids from the neighborhood, especially in the summer. Sort of like the "Bullerbyn children" in Astrid Lindgren's book. Sometimes one of us was sent on an errand (like to a local shop) and others went along to keep company. There were 5 of us hanging out regularly and most of us lived in two working parent households except one who had a SAH mother and another who was raised by a working single mother. So I don't think the lack of SAH moms is a factor here. Also, my parents are not religious and there definitely was no faith-based community. My parents actually didn't know that well the parents of other kids, we kids just met each other somehow in the area or were introduced by other kids that we knew. I think it was rather a combination of living in a safe neighborhood - suburb with low traffic (even now Poland has less cars per capita than US https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle...) and people being just less paranoid back then. Also, the societal expectations towards children have shifted in the recent years, now people often try to micromanage their children's time and provide them with too many after-school activities so kids don't have time to just hang around.
Other tidbits I recall from what my Dad told me years ago. He repaired VCRs for a while.

The beta machines would phase shift the signal 180˚ every other frame when writing, and they use that for noise cancellation. VHS did four frames at 90˚ each, because of patents.

The read heads were on a spinning drum. Beta machines had an L loading system that would grab the tape and wrap it almost all the way around the drum with the read heads, exposing more tape at once to the reading mechanism. VHS had an M loading system that grabbed the tape on either side and pulled it up, covering maybe half of the drum, because of patents.

And supposedly VHS won out because Sony was begging a lot of money for patent licensing. But tape capacity was probably a factor, too.
Anecdotally I know a lot of people who work full time in the US and make well under 30k a year.