skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't use phone"

You have already lost the argument. I'm sorry but nobody would care about anything you say because that almost just does not apply to anyone else.

Also the fact that those products have no effects on you has nothing to do with whether a company is important or if their products are significant or helpful to the vast majority of human population.

And to be a bit cynical, it feels the only purpose of this comment is to show that you have a unique lifestyle, not to contribute to the discussion constructively or based on consensus. (Of which there are many on HN)
I think maybe I'm not understanding you correctly...

In most cases for binary formats an integer type will be expected for 99% of cases. Something like `uint(8,a/b)` will only generate an alternates set within the realm of integers, so a rule containing such an expression as this could only match when this particular byte matches a/b, which can only happen when a/b results in an integer from 0 to 255. For all a/b where this isn't true, the rule will not match.

But support for matching float encodings is still needed, such as for `reading = float(32,0~1);`, which would happily match an ieee754 32-bit binary float approximation of 0.3 or 0.8 or anything from 0 to 1 that can be represented in this float format.
I'm working on a project that uses GPT-3 and similar stuff, even before the hype. I think the overhype is really tiring.

Just like with most of these hype cycles there is an actual useful interesting technology, but the hype beasts take it way overboard and present it as if it's the holy grail or whatever. It's not.

That's tiring, and really annoying.

It's incredibly cool technology, it is great at certain use cases, but those use cases are somewhat limited. In case of GPT-3 it's good at generative writing, summarization, information search and extraction, and similar things.

It also has plenty of issues and limitations. Lets just be realistic about it, apply it where it works, and let everything else be. Now it's becoming a joke.

Also, a lot of products I've seen in the space are really really bad and I'm kinda worried AI will get a scam/shitty product connotation.
I use fish also but still default to bash and run fish manually when I log in. Then if I am trying to paste a command and it doesn't work right, I just type exit and run it in bash.
They could have fix the security bugs.
If code depends on a vector having 3 or 4 elements, then yes, a vector with 3 elements is a different type than a vector with 4 elements.

It is actually dependent typing.

Not being able to express types properly is a major issue in c++ and in all other programming languages that do not allow this kind of typing.

The lack of this facility prohibits programmers for declaring their intent properly to the compiler, forcing programmers to keep that information in their head.

To me, it's the no 1 issue that c++ must deal with. It will solve a myriad of problems.
Whatever it is, if you use words' meanings carefully, it won't be "ultimate"...
Do you have an idea that you want to turn into a startup? What is stopping you right now?
Different defaults, RMQ and others also had another way of storing the messages, so the sensible defaults for RMQ are different from the ones for Kafka. Head to head, Kafka does less processing on the messages and that work is left for the consumers, while rabbit does more work on the broker and less on the consumers. Depending on the requirements, one of the two is best suited than the other, but both can do almost the same kind of work.
Anecdote: I started with oh my zsh and moved over to prezto. One thing that immediately struck me with prezto is just how fast it was. The shell boot up was instant, I don't know what oh my zsh was doing but it would take a while before it became interactive.

I didn't care enough to dig deep into the why, but have happily been stuck on prezto for the last few years.
Visualized: The EV Mineral Shortage
I've only really worked at 2 different companies. Both had none of the mentioned protections. One was a windows without real AD, and the other was a MacBook I setup myself. I never even heard of USB protection there like.

I really understand where you are coming from, but that's definitely not the standard I have witnessed so far.
A thousand dollars here and there doesn't get you anywhere. And really, you'd have lots of risk -- if money laundering was the primary application, the police would surely join the fun, and if you're not meeting a cop, there's a good chance you're meeting a robber that knows you'll be arriving with lots of cash.

But the amounts really don't make sense. Organized crime is certainly not running around making $1000 deals all day with different people to somehow launder money by converting it into bitcoin and back ("I found this bitcoin on a sidewalk on the internet and I've exchanged it for cash, so now this cash is legal?").
Urban Dictionary gets it spot on: http://folx.urbanup.com/17008949
Pasting (or dragging) icons into the folder info window is the UI for it.
India has great pre-colonial era architecture.

There is no Indian architecture in the last 100-200 years because of the brutal british colonialism.
This is 2023, and you're misunderstanding the content of what I posted.

What I wrote has nothing to do with "buying bitcoins" at lower than market rates. It's about buying locally inflated / artificially deflated paper currency at world market prices using Bitcoin as the exchange currency.
Well, eventually either the governments will survive, or crypto will. Governments (as nation states) exist longer than crypto, but they have their share of problems as of lately.
The main point of answering to StackOverflow questions is to earn points, points that you can show on your CV :)

"Top StackOverflow expert on XX", so the incentive is still there.

One solution to spam could be to keep the voting system, but not publicly reward users with points (like on HN).
Yes and it is sad because I see people trying to find problems for ChatGPT and say this is the future.. but the industries they are targeting have such a wide variety of concrete problems for a startup to solve.
Have you read the articles? How is this in any way violating privacy?
Absolutely not.

It seems too exciting to me and I am eager to see more AI. It's fascinating stuff.
I recently paid $24 a ticket in DC.

Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, I just h wars that theater is closing.
LocalBitcoins stopped providing the "in-person" model years ago. Also it really wasn't a business for them as people don't need the escrow service for that. They became regulated, implementing all KYC and AML stuff and I guess that drove customers away to other venues. Binance P2P seems to be the most active these days. In-person trading has been replaced with Bitcoin ATM's I would guess.
I bought my first bitcoins using local bitcoins many many years ago, must’ve been around a decade at this point.

A guy showed up to a location with a duffel bag and a handgun. I put some money into a bag and gave him a public key. We sat there for about 20 minutes and chitchatted while we waited for the BTC to arrive in my wallet.

All you kids with your fancy exchanges and dexes these days!
I transitioned from oh-my-zsh to prezto a few years back and really liked it. Equal or better in every way, sometimes much better (speed and customization in particular, prezto is fast and guides you to customize in maintainable ways)
Earlier versions of Mac OS X would install the development tools in /Developer on the hard drive too.
What is "je"?
Not much to tell. We got sick of the city life and wanted a place where we could have our horses close at hand. Ended up moving across the country because of land costs. Bought a hundred or so acres surrounded by national forest, figure I'll never need to worry about neighbors that way. I milk cows in the morning and evening, might figure out how to make a living off that some day, and I am a software engineer working remotely thanks to starlink.
New 3D features of Google Maps
Start a petition for T#.

Merge C# and TypeScript.

I want my C# pattern matching in TypeScript and TypeScript's fluidity in C#.

Simplified initialization in C# without new(). Unless otherwise specified, use a default generic Dictionary<T,U> and infer the types for map initialization like:

var x = { ["a"] = 1 };

Instead of:

var x = new Dictionary<string,int> {...};

Then automatic type mapping and conversion utilities to objects:

record class Rec(string a, int val);

var k = x as (Rec)

(Yes, can already be done with implicit type conversion operators or writing utility classes, but making it more like TypeScript would just make it easier to adopt)
Every company experiences growth differently, but the scaling problems that tech leaders and CEOs face are mostly common and shared. When you face challenges, that means you have found a market fit for your product and are ready to reach a larger customer base. What people need to pay attention to, is that it is important to plan for growth and focus on the customers because the methodology behind scaling engineering teams often needs to be clarified.

This is a good topic for discussion for tech leaders so i’d like to know what you think? Also, since this article talks about the fundamentals of programmatically scaling your engineering team which was relevant to the discussion i thought i’d share it here.
I will cash out some this easter in Berlin and I have done it previously.
How about instead of changing the shell get more out from your existing one.

Starship [0] and fzf [1] will make your life much easier in any shell.

I use fish but they work with bash, zsh and the like.

[0] https://starship.rs/

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
This could be part of the Bitzlato crackdown [0]. Localbitcoins was referenced as one of the top counterparties.

*...Similarly, Bitzlato’s top three sending
counterparties, by total amount of BTC sent between May 2018 and September 2022 were (1) Hydra; (2) Local Bitcoins, a VASP based/incorporated in Finland; and
(3) “TheFiniko.”*

[0] https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/Order_Bitz...
> though you have to admit in basically all situations the employer has more leverage than a single employee

This depends on how happy/able the employee is to leave to find an alternative.

A while ago I was at a trade fair in Germany and happened to see an advert from a jobs website, it read (roughly translated): "Hate your job ... ? It's your own fault!" (ie that you've not yet left the job you claim to hate...)
Chinese State Media Persuades a Global Audience That the China Model Is Superior
Running CAT6 to the twins’ rooms – inside interior wall
I don't think I'd bother treating it unless face detection was at least as good a Picasa was (in 2008?). It astinishes me that this feature isn't available on any photo organiser app on Linux.
> "He took their cash and sold it to people like me - expats, tourists - for BTC, and sent the BTC to his partner in Miami, who changed it out to USD and put it into American bank accounts for them."

And now assume that the cash in Argentina isn't coming out of mattresses but from criminal activities, and the people receiving USD in America are part of the same cartel. A 5% transaction fee on both sides of the Bitcoin trade is just 9.75% for the complete wash cycle — very low for textbook money laundering.
Where do you keep your music?
> But eventually the market forces will do their thing.

After you're necessity for that market equalization is long gone.

We're in a situation where the wealth class can literally wait it out for more than a generation for market conditions they prefer to normalize. The Market is manipulated and owned, and not by us. The tipping point is past, and the majority of society has yet to realize, our only hope at this point probably requires violence and capital destruction, sadly.
Those old 68k machines used a single shared address space for all processes. Now with a per process virtual address space it makes a lot of sense to not require full width pointers, ideally the process should declare how many pointer bits are actually needed and the hardware should mask those before the page table lookup.
Windows 11 boots pitifully slow on both my laptop and desktop with both having PCIe NVMEs. Pathetic enough to where my vintage windows 95 build boots faster than it. I miss windows when it was rather simple and not some steaming pile of spyware and bug riddled piece of junk.
Well most products today need to be adaptive and handle complex states, even if there's a few if sentences in there handling something in an intelligent way that's AI, it's a broad term after all. The problem is that it's also become a marketing buzzword.
I guess defending your country is called "offensive purposes".

Also last time I heard Starlink is restricted to Ukraine's territory. Why then SpaceX is deciding to curb its use for drone is beyond me.
I would be worried about posting a story like this when presumably some of what you are describing was against currency controls in argentina at the time?

Aren't you slightly worried that this message might come back to bite you if you ever get investigated for anything and someone goes through your social media history looking for any evidence of lawbreaking?
I work in the field, so: yes, since about 2015, heh.
Poor countries are more likely to find their transition to clean energy being funded by rich countries paying carbon fees and looking for impactful ways to cut carbon.

Less carbon, more green energy, everyone is happy.

It's insisting that rich people can't offset that leaves both the rich and the poor (both between and within countries) worse off, as in other situations without market pricing to allow trade.
That’s Capitalism. AI is the new growth frontier, so it’s all you are hearing about. Seems like LLMs and generators are genuine innovations. But don’t lose sight that these innovations are driven by the Capitalist need to concentrate more surplus value into fewer hands. This is no different than programable looms, etc. of the past, except now they will try to automate immaterial/“intellectual” work. It remains to be seen if these technologies will succeed at that, but the Capitalists are compelled to try, and we will be forced to live with the wreckage.
Let‘s say productivity is the same remotely and in person.

Would that not make remote automatically better because of all the pollution and time lost commuting?
> no jobs

I think this is part of the key. The pattern I have noticed is one kid gets the parent's farm and the rest move to find work.
I used ohmyzsh but it somehow got slow, so i switched to zpretzo. It didn't get slow. So that's my comparison :)
Maybe I have missed it but I don’t know why there is not much talk about simulating evolution at high speed: brains evolved over millions of years to adapt to the environment and ensure survival. So instead of trying to understand and reproduce brain structures, we instead simulate evolution of embodied agents ultra high speed and see if some paths lead to brains comparable to today’s organisms.
I've looked into this "solar powered" solution for my heavy (Urban Arrow) cargo bike for those occasional long trips, and have always come to the conclusion that it's basically a overly costly and inconvenient idea overall.

The better solution is to lug around a charger, and failing that to simply carry around another battery to extend your range.

But the immediate problem is that extra E-Bike batteries are very expensive. Each OEM has their own little monopoly with their own chargers and customized plugs, and charges through the nose for replacements.

My E-bike uses a Bosch, and e.g. [1] has replacement cells for it that retail at 1/3 or even 1/4 of the full battery pack of the same capacity. The casing, charge controller etc. should add some cost, but not that much.

I think a much more practical solution is to work on bridging that gap, another commentator commented out that USB PD is stepping up to the 48v range from 20v.

But E-Bike batteries are so expensive that even if you had to carry everything with you to up-voltage portable batteries to 220v, carry the OEM charger, and then plug it into a portable standard outlet you might still come way ahead v.s. buying another OEM battery.

1. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33047384848.html
They didn’t freeze bitcoin addresses. That’s not possible. They went after centralized bitcoin to fiat exchanges.
Not wrong, but fish is so nice because it just works without any configuration. Sane defaults are a blessing.

I just checked and the only things I have configured are `set fish_greeting` (i.e. empty) and some paths...

Edit: Also, I don't know how, but the fish completion is magic. It seems to remember which commands I use often in which folders and in which order. I'm not sure if that's how it's implemented. Sure feels that way though.
POSIX shells does indeed have many problems, including lack of data types and various security limitations. I like the point OP is making that shells should focus on being interactive, but not so scriptable.

For scripting, it's better to resort to a simpler solution that doesn't even need complexities like parsing or data types. In a Unix environment all you need is the ability to compose commands together. This is what execline is for:

https://skarnet.org/software/execline/
The important connections ... are important. By definition they will not be affected that much.

Without much drama (like the "kinda-neurodegeneration" wording), this can be easily summarized as: optimal amount of sleep = you're at peak performance, otherwise you're working at less than peak mental performance.
I feel like AI-scientists themselves are partially to blame for this. For starters, AI does not 'learn' like a human learns. But still many of the main terms of the field are based on learning: terms like 'learning rate', 'neural networks', or 'deep learning' are implying that there's some kind of being which learns, not just a very complicated decision tree. It's not all the fault of hype marketing people!
Bash. Forever.
You're braver than me. If a stranger who knows I have cash on me shows up with a gun, I'm bailing.
well, this is not money laundering...
The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit and I can't understand why so many people are in a awe of a bit of software that chains words to another based on some statistical model.

The sad truth is that ChatGPT is about as good an AI as ELIZA was in 1966, it's just better (granted: much better) at hiding its total lack of actual human understanding. It's nothing more than an expensive parlor trick, IMHO.

Github CoPilot? Great, now I have to perform the most mentally taxing part of developing software, namely understanding other people's code (or my own from 6 months ago...) while writing new code. I'm beyond thrilled ...

So, no, I don't have an AI fatigue, because we absolutely have no AI anywhere. But I have a massive bullshit and hype fatigue that is getting worse all the time.
They can get access to all browser traffic if they're configured to. They can also be configured for activation only on specific sites. It really depends.
Now, we’re didn’t have Bluetooth back then like you do today, so we used to plug our headphones in through that little hole you see on the side of every computer. I bet you've always wondered what that hole was for! We used to have them on our phones, too, only back then they didn't have wifi and we called them iPods...
I'm using Fish for years, tried Nushell recently, but it didn't click for me. While I like the principle of data being more than just plain text, it probably was just too alien to me.

A few here said they don't use Fish or another shell due to compatibility issues, but I wonder what the problem is: If I want to use a script written for another (POSIX) shell, it most likely has a shebang (or I can add it), so it will get properly executed using that other shell…
Machine learning is way too generic of a term. Everything from linear regressions to neural models is technically "machine learning".

Language models are right now at the very top of the peak of inflated expectations. It's still too early to tell what the real impact will be, but it won't be even remotely close to what you read on the headlines.

Far more impressive technology (like Wolfram Alpha) has existed for almost a decade now, and it's directly comparable to language models for many applications.

My guess is they will end up being something like Rust. Very cool to look at, little impact on your day-to-day.
What makes you say that? They are shutting down in a responsible and orderly fashion, so I'm willing to take it at face value that they just aren't profitable anymore.
IMO in today's culture it is a gift. It's a gift in the sense that most companies aren't willing to do it. My quality of life being a digital nomad because of it (+ 4 days a week instead of 5) has shot up drastically.
...on 8 bit.

On 32 bit the difference is much smaller and SLOWER on the IOT darling ESP32.

This whole thing seems entirely not worth it thb
Mac OS X server had 1.0, 1.1 and 1.23 released before 10.0 was released, based on Rhapsody.

Apache was one of the installable options alongside Emacs and WebObjects.
Abu Ghraib was called a tapestry of nonsense by the Pentagon when he broke it. It is, as you say, a conspiracy theory that hasn't been disproven.
It doesn't matter how it is precisely called. It still creates a huge concern in the same of being environmentally good.

Roads are the worst place as they are constantly open to the elements and mechanical wear and are washed over and over by rain water.

Using it for housing is a different and possible a better scenario given that environmental risks are taken into account at the end of the life when the material is disposed (or recycled or up/down cycled) after demolition.
It is true for almost all employees, otherwise the business wouldn't be hiring.
Nice to know!

Nonetheless, what moved me from bash to fish was having this as granted. Now I worry only about specific higher-level functions. Also hunting each of these optimizations distracts me from my task at hand.

There's other stuff as well, for instance I'm abusing `for` iterations a lot more to run the same command for lists of things. Using bash before was less ergonomic and painful.
Like I said some days ago, I really wished that the hype would die or dwindle a bit. I'm working on my own AI side-projects, but the amount of BS and misinformation being put out everyday by new "AI experts" is fatiguing, yes.
> Spider-Man made over 3 times as much when adjusted for inflation.

How much bigger is the market of buyers? I assume much bigger than 3 times if people in China/India/etc were not watching American movies in 1979.
The hype will die down fairly quickly. But this technology is obviously a huge deal. We've found a practical algorithm to turn more powerful hardware into better results. And hardware was still ramping up at an astonishing rate last time I checked.

It seems more likely that we'll surpass the hype than not in the next few decades. I think people have forgotten how quickly technology can move after the last 20 years of relative stability where more powerful hardware didn't really change what a computer can do.
I’ve used fish for years at work but that’s mostly a personal choice similar to your preferred editor. It’s more productive, but nobody else really sees it.

What’s helped a lot more has been replacing shell scripts with Python once they hit a certain complexity level. Huge reduction in code size, better functionality (e.g. it’s trivial to have good CLI argument parsing so people actually add it), and every time a large bash script has been converted some set of error-handling bugs has been fixed.
I owned 2 KaiOS feature phones in a row. Loved them. FM radio, web browser, no app store (yet).

Google account integration for calendar and mail, which I ultimately disabled.

A few bugs and a very simplistic Internet experience, but absolutely perfect for anyone who needs a constrained and limited device that's still useful.