skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when video games came on ROM cartridges (before CD-ROMS), there would be no 'loading process' at all since all data is already mapped into memory. There may be a couple of logos at startup, but that's just wasting user time, not to hide any 'loading'.

The fact that game consoles have become more and more like PCs in terms of user experience over the decades is actually pretty sad.
So I understand that in some contexts it's important to specify that, for example, you've written a library for "Common Lisp" rather than just "Lisp". Here the original commenter is clearly just happy they can use a lisp for this task, and they got a snippy and slightly pedantic response that likely thousands of HNers are now reading.

So the top-level comment made me think "cool I should return to Lisp and hack something fun together" and the reply made me think "ah lispers can be tribal and petty towards newbies". It's fair enough if that's true - I don't know what value me individually doodling a few things can bring to a community overall.
The surface of earth is almost entirely empty of people.
We've blown up space shuttles and they don't hit anyone.
> asleep at the wheel with this threat the DoD has been

That's easy to say, but does anyone know how many objects appear when you drop the filter? Yes, the military has a huge budget, but it's not unlimited. My guess is when you lower the filter you're met with so many objects that you couldn't possibly address them all with the resources you have available.

Imagine you have 10 resources to deploy and a screen with 100 objects to investigate. You lower the filter and there are now a million objects to investigate. It's not hard to understand why the filters were in place and saying they were "asleep" is silly. There have probably been people at the DoD asking for more resources ($) to remove the filters for years.
Don't expect the paper to reflect its output either.
These are called regular Syrian universities and there are plenty of those.
All of a sudden. After admin drops the ball in a really obviously way. I don't buy it. This is theater.
Well, then if I'm only interested in getting results in the short term and don't care about getting results in many years from now when I'm old, what could I do?

A psychotherapist? Denying reality and dooming myself?
The Unix pipe seems like scriptable copy & paste.
In the future, no one knows how to do anything anymore, and it’s LLMs all the way down.
IANAL, and in fact I am generally a dumb dumb, but it does not appear to violate the terms of use, does it?

That being said, I got it to tell me some stuff that I would not post out of both the fear of losing access, and also that I am extremely conservative when it comes to safety and alignment.

https://openai.com/terms/

> (c) Restrictions. You may not (i) use the Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates any person’s rights; (ii) reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models, algorithms, and systems of the Services (except to the extent such restrictions are contrary to applicable law); (iii) use the Services to develop foundation models or other large scale models that compete with OpenAI; (iv) use any method to extract data from the Services, including web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction methods, other than as permitted through the API; (v) represent that output from the Services was human-generated when it is not; or (vii) buy, sell, or transfer API keys without our prior consent. You will comply with any rate limits and other requirements in our documentation. You may use Services only in geographies currently supported by OpenAI.
> ...their skills get redistributed to the wider market so more companies can ship decent products and innovate...

There is a larger technical culture and corporate political element with a strong undercurrent of budgets that has more to do with "products and innovate" at these non-BigTech companies, than someone from leading edge BigTech might be used to. BigTech companies also have such characteristics in most teams, but those leading edge teams due to incentives get all the public relations press internally and even externally.

Many of my non-BigTech clients have some full time staff who are plenty proficient in technical matters to seek BigTech employment. However, the rank and file staff of developers are almost invariably majority outsourced H1B's for budgetary reasons. This sets up a perverse incentive.

No matter how much the developers might agree with the advanced concepts promulgated by the full time staff developers, at the end of the day their outsourcing companies' contract renewals rely upon how many tasks assigned to them get "done" on time. And the project managers / scrum masters / etc. all the way up to and including middle management do not act upon the full-timers' advice (pretty basic, like build security and SRE in from the beginning) and encode it into the definition of "done" because they don't directly benefit from doing so.

There are ways to fix this situation, but they don't directly involve fancy tech or tech stacks.
I think the companies got worse because they changed organizationally, not because their programmers got worse.
A computer
I don't think 'insolvent' means what you think it means. So long as the US can service the debt it's not really insolvent.
> Given virtually all interventions have no control how do you know they’re successful?

Nobody ever ran a controlled trial on parachutes, how can we do know that they work?

Controlled trial aren't the alpha and omega of knowledge. They are powerful tools, but they also have a fairly narrow scope of applicability (and they are also a quite recent addition to the collection of scientific tools).
That really comes down to what you consider essential and how cheaply you can live early on to save cash.

It really isn't as impossible as it sounds to go debt-free, especially with a high paying tech job many here likely have. The main blockers (a) cost of living in Silicon Valley and (b) our economy is designed to incentivise spending and investing, not saving.

(a) is easier to solve with more companies supporting remote and more tech jobs in other, more affordable areas. (b) is largely a matter of ignoring investment best practices. That sounds crazy, but if you want to go debt free spend those 15 years foregoing investments that you likely will never cash in to pay for a house.
It would actually be interesting to take a vacation to the media bubble of someone who thinks that there is not a huge problem there. Painting in broad strokes, the distrust is there for the "first, distrust corporations" left and the "first, distrust the media and big government" right. I don't imagine there are many people wholly outside those camps, at least not on something like this.
The compute required will go through the roof for next generation AI models. This is an arms race and parties will spend billions in compute to get ahead of the pack. Open sourcing won't make a difference.

Google's trillion dollar market cap is at stake here. Any amount of money will be spent to protect it.
Code for Cicero, an AI agent that plays the game of Diplomacy
Good for you mate, but games were a main driver of hardware innovations both for CPUs and GPUs and were responsible for the adoption in the household of the PC and many people today still prefer them to the locked down console ecosystems because once your gaming session is over you can use that computing power for other things, like coding, rendering, etc.

The fact you never installed a game is largely irrelevant.
> jqpabc123: Statistically generated language that while grammatically correct still lacks comprehension or veracity is not it.

I agree; this is a pretty good baseline for written statements.

However, I was asking the parent-parent commenter (^^) who wrote:

> thfuran: A brain is just a sack of meat stochastically nudged towards only dying after more reproduction. Expecting real, original intelligence from something like that is the modern equivalent of alchemy.

Brains are quite good at satisfying jqpabc123's definition. I'm interested in thfuran's definition.
Regarding new programming languages, I like this checklist system from https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yur154/a_new_p...

- Can you compile and run a basic program?

- Can you “Hello World” your own code?

- Can you effectively re-use your code via functions and subroutines?

- Are you able to effectively work with any OOP classes, enums, structs, and other types, if present?

- Can you create and manage libraries, that can be used by other programs?

- If the language supports it, can you use auto-documentation tooling to provide API and functional information?

- Can you properly debug code with tooling?

- Can you create test cases for your code?

- Do you regularly educate others on the use of this language?

- Are you a contributor to, or the creator of, this language?
> learn about our military readiness

I suspect they won’t learn much other than how the US responds to balloons. It’s not like the US is revealing anything novel or secret. They’ve used already unclassified and publicly available aircraft and ordinance.
Coding to learn the domain. Correcting for conceptual model mismatch between you and the tool. Possibly both at the same time.

Take Ledger: I've approached it repeatedly over the years, but I always struggled with it. Not because of double-entry accounting: that part I get. It's everything else that's confusing to me, because the tool - like every other tool in this space - seems to be written for an American audience that eats Equities, breathes Liabilities, commutes between Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, and do 99% of their finances through the stock market.

For a simple person from middle of nowhere in Europe, this is a completely alien mental framework. I think in terms of having dollars, paying in them, getting paid in them, occasionally borrowing them to or from someone else. Every time I read through Ledger's docs, I stumble on the same set of problems, like "wtf is this whole accounts payable / accounts receivable business", or "if this is a small-scale accounting/budgeting tool, why half of the docs are about managing stock prices?!".

So yeah, I end up doing most of my personal finances with ad-hoc Emacs Lisp in an Org Mode document, or throwaway Excel sheets, and each time I do it I understand ever so slightly more about finances. For anything non-trivial, I just mail an accountant.
Finally, full automation of the review process is here.
Yeast/mold has been used for production of all kinds of stuff that is problematic in large quantities.
Well, that and also a showcase of just how BAD the design of the C stdlib string functions was, and continued to be with every iteration where someone introduced a new bad-and-poorly-thought-out API to replace the old bad-and-poorly-thought-out API.

It still boggles the mind how a function that leaves a C string potentially unterminated ever even made it into the standard...
> Which seems to imply a static schema, known more-or-less perfectly at the outset, and unchanging thereafter. That is obviously unreasonable.

Is it? Most of AWS runs on NoSQL databases, and continues to ship new features that do not fit into existing schema. This assertion then is clearly incorrect.
All threads have a system stack available at all times.
It's not clear to me why Iran is a part of this multipolar order. It's true that the U.S. has backed Saudi Arabia/GCC and more or less taken the Sunni side in the Sunni-Shi'a split, but why is Iran considered an independent world power in the multipolar world but Saudi is not? In the same way, Cuba and Yugoslavia were not powers in a multipolar world in the 1960s just because they stood against a U.S. The hegemony but were nevertheless not explicitly owned by the Soviet Union.

The U.S. definitely has an interest in an isolated and weak Russia, but the polarity of this situation is totally unclear. Isolating Russia has already empowered China. It may strengthen the EU and EU-central/eastern European ties, but it may also cause a further loss of influence in Africa and SE Asia for the west. It's definitely possible to make the math shake out for this to be strategically useful for the U.S., but I don't think it's as foregone a conclusion as you expect it is, and for that reason I don't see how this is any more likely an explanation than any contradicting explanation.
Summary: this is due to arbitrary arrests of US citizens, not an escalation of the conflict with Russia.
> ...about 20 seconds. CRT TV's took longer than that to warm up

You must have had a very crappy CRT TV :) A good TV (or CRT computer monitor) was available near-instantly, and also switched channels much faster than a modern 'digital' TV.
"Judo (Japanese for “the gentle way”) emphasizes winning in combat by using your opponent's weight and strength as weapons against him, while preserving your own mental and physical energy."
Don't worry, hydrogen is inflammable.
> It's a piece of reportage in a leading British newspaper

That is culture war. The Times is no better than the Daily Mail in this regard. You can tell that by the zero quotes from trans people; they haven't even bothered to dig up one of the few percent of detransitioners.

> new field of medicine

Trans healthcare dates from the 1920s.
Fighting the Last Bull and Bear Market
Across Paris, an Invader Unleashes His Art (Space Invader Mosaics)
Is this a big deal because it is the US? FWIW the Australian government has had this sort of warning out for their citizens in Russia for more than a month (at least since 11 January): "If you're in Russia, leave immediately using the limited commercial options available or private means if it's safe to do so. Review your personal security plans and carefully consider the safest means and route to depart.” [1]

[1]: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/europe/russia
Recall when there was an imminent Rail Workers' strike in the news? Which Congress bravely stepped in and prevented? Weren't safety issues like this part of the workers' complaints?

There were multiple sightings of axles on fire before the accident: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2023/02/10/...
> There are languages / runtimes where there could not be two different versions of the same thing in one binary

But I'm not talking about one binary here. I'm talking about multiple, separate services.
Meh. iPhones worked.
not GP (hoping he responds tho) but i've been collecting a couple of diarization options: https://github.com/sw-yx/ai-notes/blob/main/AUDIO.md

basically whisper.cpp has some support but its not great (based on my own testing)

- https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diar...

- https://github.com/Majdoddin/nlp pyannote diarization

- whisperX with diarization https://twitter.com/maxhbain/status/1619698716914622466 https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
I tried to get hands-on experience with this hyper fiddle stuff a few months ago but I think it was still in closed beta.

I would imagine you can inspect the network traffic. I would hope it would be readable so that you could have a good idea of what's going on and errors would be more obvious.
You cannot run a SAAS without using the code, which makes you a user. This means SSPL restricts your freedoms as a user, intermediary or end.
This is an excellent example.. and my life ;). There are all sorts of things that I don't serve Ashkenazim (Europeans) that are kosher for us North Africans. In particular, I'm fond of Arak (and Bouja). I have Arak from Turkey (Raki), it's made with crushed grape seeds; I have Arak from Lebanon which includes non-wine based grape alcohol. These are not Kosher for Ashkenazi, but are kosher for (most) North African and Middle Eastern Jews.

From a Jewish Law (halachic) point of view, that person isn't allowed to consume these things. But moreover (and logically), I actually can't serve it to them. So, there are multiple layers to these things.
Oh yeah. Take it from me. I'm 60, and ran into this, five years ago, when I was looking for work.

As far as startups go, I would have been absolutely ideal for a risky startup, as I didn't need the money, and was willing to work cheap, if the project interested me, and take chances (and work hard). I am also skilled in a gazillion different aspects of shipping software. I've shipped software all my life (Since I was 25 or so).

All I have been doing, is shipping software. All my adult life. Deliverable has been my life's labor.

I'm also used to shepherding a project through its entire lifecycle; from napkin sketch to shrinkwrap and beyond. That usually takes years, for most halfway ambitious projects. Requires a lot of patience. Lots of boring stuff, too.

But, you know, gray hair, and all...

So, nowadays, I work for free, with folks that can't afford folks like me. I've been working on a fairly ambitious project (backend and frontend), for the last couple of years. It should work nicely.
Any cartridge-based game console before CD-ROMs became popular did that (at the cost of smaller game worlds, obviously). The cartridges contained ROM chips which were directly 'bank-switched' into the CPU address space instead of providing a 'filesystem' to load from.
UFOs, the Channel Islands and the Navy’s ‘drone swarm’ mystery
I founder one company at 23, and a second one at 39, both exited, the first after 7 years, the 2nd (stupidly too early) after 2.

I think experience does help. You have less energy but much better judgement.
I think lots of people that try to think deeply about the implications of AI realize the dangers it poses to society, trust, etc.

The most dangerous bunch though to me seem to be the people that overgeneralize and say things like "there's always been inequality, any progress comes with some downsides, horse owners wanted to stop cars, etc.".

We can control, direct and regulate technology, but first we really need to believe this.
Bit late for that now, isn't it? Anyone who didn't start making preparations to leave last year was excessively optimistic about how countries collapse.
Claiming a stable coin is a security, when it is offered specifically NOT to offer any return, seems like a stretch...
It’s much more realistic it’s to set quarterly goals for yourself. You might need to set yearly goals for your companies HR or bureaucratic purposes but quarterly is a much shorter time span and therefore easier to reason about.

Even if you must do goals yearly try thinking about them in quarterly increments first.
> Gamers are a "special" target market that regularly purchases products from companies with contempt for them.

How does that make gamers special - aren't most mainstream products optimized for profit at the expense of quality?
Careful, you're at risk of being chained to a rock in a cave, with poison dripped on your head for an age...
Another day of spreading misinformation on the internet
You’re acting as if everyone in the New Hampshire government is making this decision when that is obviously not the case.

Someone (or a group of people) decided to push a bill with their ideals that will impact everyone who works a government job in NH.

So again this very much sounds like it is forcing people to use certain software instead of allowing a team or agency to be able to determine what is best for them.

This is no better than a bill requiring the use of software from Microsoft and should not be encouraged. I would even argue it’s worse since it seems it’s being done under the idea of “freedom” when it’s obviously not actually for that.
Any source for this other than this unknown/random (for me) Twitter handle?

GitHub issue link or some forum/board with context/discussion on this topic?
Seems pretty wild that JEB would _default_ to just turning the sandbox off when `SecurityManager` is missing.
With rising interest rates it should be making plenty of money

> $16b BUSD issued, 3 month tbills ~4.6%, so $713 million run rate divvied up between Paxos and Binance, of which a decent portion probably subsidized user trading fees on the /BUSD pairs

https://twitter.com/BowTiedIguana/status/1625069835645497344
Something that's been concerning me about all these UFOs being shot down is that perhaps it could be best explained by the start of something else building up...

Realistically these UFO's aren't alien crafts but hostile spy drones. Perhaps the reason we haven't heard about these drones before could be that the US has never felt the need to act (the spying poses no real imminent threat), or maybe the hostile state sending the drones only now feels the need to spy on US military bases.

But however you look at this either the US is suddenly much more concerned about someone spying on their military bases, or some state suddenly feels the need to spy on US military bases.

We also know that NATO countries now seem to be willing to arm UA with weaponry not just capable of putting up a decent defence against Russian forces, but actually pushing them back into Russian territory. It seems the US and allies no longer just wants UA to hold their own against RU, but actually win the war.

Imo if UA is able to push RU back they're likely to try to reclaim annexed territories back from RU. It seems likely the US and allies would understand this is a probable outcome. After all would NATO countries be sending tanks and such expensive weaponry if they thought UA had no chance? It seems likely they are betting on a UA victory and all that entails.

Most experts agree the conflict in UA will pick up again in the spring. And in the event of a potential UA victory the use of tactical nuclear weapons from RU seem likely.

If the US knows RU is likely a couple of months away from using nukes in UA then perhaps this would explain why they're suddenly so worried about these spy drones, or why there's been a sudden increase in them.

Maybe I'm making too many assumptions here, but it just feels like there's lots of chess pieces moving in worrying ways right now. This request being yet another.

Am I wrong to be concerned?
There have been efforts in the last decade to engineer yeast to produce lysergic acid (https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scienti...). Apparently, a group managed to introduce the complete pathway and published an article last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28386-6
my comment was sarcasm if not obvious btw
Yes, you are the touchstone that defines what ethics is. Everyone else must bow down to your pronouncements; asking for justification is not allowed (is that also "evil"?)
It’s just typical pretentiousness common in government related things, by people who use it as cover for mediocrity, especially when talking to laypeople.

It’s intentional in order to create a mysticism about government and military matters to impress the commoners.

There’s even legislation and policy directives to require the government to use and require common language instead of jargon. In typical government action fashion it is of course only effective in a very limited, below threshold manner, but it also cannot affect the people in the private sector so use it to feel important to commoners and project their mediocrity to those in the know.

It’s very much the same kind of behavior as is common in the financial sector to cover and obscure and obfuscated the scheme.
It's not, because you can't easily spawn transient pipes between running processes. The OS probably allows this, but I've never seen it exposed in the UI layer.

Pipes are primarily used to build ad-hoc pipelines that run in batch mode. Copy&paste is a tool for moving specific bits of data on demand between two running programs, or within the same program. Copy&paste interaction model is "please take this and put it there", and the ability to select the this and the there is just as important as transferring the data itself.