skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the insight. Actually found it rather satisfying and a refreshing take.

Trying to think constructively here, maybe third party Chemical Testing for residuals would provide these people with some peace of mind.
White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake
> Do debian ships with a microsoft signed bootloader ?

Yes.
Linux since Slackware 1.0, and started using Ubuntu as soon as it was available. Still using it on some cloud servers, but they've put enough dents in my "trust" sentiment that I avoid using them where possible, now, and my desktops are usually Manjaro.

I'm unhappy with them but it will be a tragedy when they are finally acquired.
That's the one I use. I still get ads.
High and Dry
One area where current advances in (chatbot-style) AI would make a lot of sense to apply in games is to make non-critical (for gameplay) interactions with NPCs more interesting, just as "background noise" to make the game world feel more alive.

E.g. you could start an "interesting" conversation with a random NPC in GTA or Hitman instead of getting the same pre-canned reactions over and over.

The downside then however is that the scripted characters which are important for driving the story forward will feel like pre-programmed robots compared to any 'unpredictable' random NPC ;)
Yes, Debian comes with a signed bootloader and kernel.
And what do you imagine these lazy co-workers are doing from home?
> but junior people are missing a lot. In particular: access to senior people.

Junior here. Nope. If I need access to my seniors I message them and they reply when they can. Way better than speaking in person and messing up there flow since:

1. They can take their time formulating a response that’s probably more in depth then if they had to think about my question of the spot. I’m not saying they will I’m saying if my question was a technical one I can expect linked resources that’ll help me understand what they’re teaching me better.

2. The information is retrievable. I can reference it says later while a conversation can be lost and mutated by memory.
A kind of freudian framework would be a good place to start : is thé machine making lapsus? Are theses lapsus denoting some more fundamentals trends (or are they randomly happening)?
Just a joke - I've never understood why literally every other app works, but not Safari.
I tried to remove that the other day but stopped seeing release-update tool would be remoced too. In my experience the tool works perfectly for OS upgrades. I have not had a single problem with live updates over ssh.

This tool might even be why minimal needs it. Bad/dark packaging.
Back in mid-00s I was thinking about languages and features. One of the keywords I still miss in mainstream is “alias”. Alias is a symbol that only evaluates lazily.

alias not_null = (bool)p;
alias not_space = (*p != ' ');

if (not_null && not_space) {

This may bite you in another way, but living in a world where everything gets evaluated asap-y isn’t syntactically easy either.

Would be also nice to have this:

alias __cache foo = <heavy(expr())>;

if (foo && foo.length && foo[0].x) {

`foo` only evaluates once.
Why so many architectures? Ensure your software can only run on Windows:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

:-).

Vive la difference.
Yes. Debian ships with shim-signed which has been signed by Microsoft UEFI CA & will in turn boot grub-efi-amd64-signed which will then boot a signed kernel. So you have a chain of trust from a standard UEFI system to the kernel.

All of this is installed by default with a normal Debian install.
Jonathan Blow on productivity, burnouts and ambition [video]
I'm not familiar with Janet, but I know it's Clojure-inspired, so it probably has threading macros, which are like shell pipes on steroids. In practice, when doing REPL-based development, it's very common to use these as opposed to (g(f x)).
Ask HN: What can't Deno do that Node can
I've run a couple web servers for years with nodejs. I'm thinking of using Deno instead for a new project and wondering what Deno can't do. I use Postgres, Cors. Nothing really tricky, but just wondering if anyone has tried this and has experience arguing against this choice.
If you can disprove the allegation in a single step, not much of an investigation is needed.

But like I said, these allegations crop up all the time, and investigations are done all the time, and every single time I have seen them, they have been quickly disproven. I am not an oracle, so it's possible that I've missed the cache of definite proof that exists, but I have seen lots and lots of debunking of the notion.

To your point though, there are numerous ways that could make someone feel like they were front-run, whether or not they had been.

* Before the ubiquity of SSL, I think it was common for people to buy search traffic from ISPs. If there were domain-squatters paying for this data, it would be trivial for them to buy anonymous traffic data, filter by "godaddy.com?domain=" and collate the reports. If they also cross-referenced the ${domain} part of that query with the number of people who attempted to go to ${domain}, it would be a good signal that owning ${domain} could be profitable

* Obviousness. It's not always, but often enough that when I see these allegations arise, they're related to The New Thing. e.g., 3 years ago, a lot of people felt like they were front-run for domains they were considering that started with "nft," or "crypto." Now, I'd wager that a lot of people feeling like they were front-run were considering domain names with "ai" in them.

* Selling search volume. I have no idea if Godaddy is or isn't doing this, but it's definitely a possibility. If they are, it isn't front-running, but the effect is just as nefarious IMO. I believe they've said that they don't, but that's from a vague memory and I have no idea if they can or should be considered credible
I consider myself a socialist. I'm not sure what capitalism has to do with keeping the peace though, or what it has to do with DeSantis (who follows early patterns of fascism MUCH more closely)
OpenTalk meeting software now Open Source under EU public licence
Later than expected, but now it's available under EUPL 1.2.
Mah. I see how words like "fat" or "female" can be unpleasant to read for someone, but I don't see how these kind of changes can be seen as offensive. Too much ado for nothing?
There's a list of online MUDs that are still in active development here:

https://mudhalla.net/mudlist/

Especially on Windows you'd be better off using PuTTY or TinTin++ to connect, since Microsoft's telnet is pretty much broken:

https://tintin.mudhalla.net/download.php
The M3GAN movie has a scene where she is hit with a broom. Inspired by BD video director says.
> The thing that makes Erlang and its actor framework great is pre-emption.

That's one side of the coin. The other side is that the VM all but guarantees that a crash in a process will not bring the VM down and that you can get a notification that the process died.
Super interesting, I've been slowly looking into this type of things having recently opened up a non-tech business. May have to give this a try.
Built in water cooling channels?
> And then we need to see the actual data values inline as it flows through the system as we read the code ... Wallaby.js is a great leader in this space

It's a very under-appreciated feature, but I know what you mean.

Alongside NCrunch, Wallaby is one of my most valuable purchases. For those not familiar with the feature being referred to, as a continuous test runner one of the great benefits is that the IDE plugins show the values of anything (variables etc) in your code, live. I don't mean some kind of hover-for-intellisense, but at the end of each line you see all the values for all the variables all the time.

So in real-time, as you code, any tests covering the code you're changing are being run and you can see holistically how everything you're working on is changing as you type.

Basic test runners run continuously on the command line. Better ones run in the background of your IDE, possibly adding coverage markers etc. Wallaby goes one step further and actually decorates your code with real values live in the IDE as you work.

It's very good (though, yes, tricky to set up and a little slow).
Nice view. I see it that way too, for the most part. Yes consciousness is a spectrum, so is intelligence and on top of that, intelligence has multiple types, with different qualities. What is happening these days is that our machines that simulate some form of intelligence are forcing us to refine our crude everyday concepts such as consciousness and intelligence. And also machine, AI, etc. In a few generations, people will use much more accurate concepts for these things. Our vocabulary will expand much. Unfortunately many of us will use inaccurate concepts and make life dangerous for us all, just as the current inaccurate concepts of superior ethnicity or superior group or political power or disregard for clean environment, are making us in danger and ruining many lives.
I wrote my version of DAN jailbreak and made it impersonate a couple of personalities each time we would have different conversations. Ultimately, I would ask that personality I created with a name to describe me. Then I averaged them and made a DAN look alike to me. It can respond and follow up to most of my emails and messages the same way I would but slightly better. It also helps debug, work, and start new projects.

I'd like to know if we can somehow create a virtual body in VR and train the VR version of me to live my life for me (work from home). If this was possible, I could live forever (at least a version of me) with the same mentality and personality. It's still awful at the mentality part, but we are getting close every week.
Almost Never test-first. It impedes my concentration and flow and inspiration. A new idea to me is like a fresh slab of marble you have to sculpt. Over time, you play with the code and api ergonomics datamodel and abstractions and UI until it “feels” right and takes on a more defined form. Working on tests at that point would be like continuously stopping to check the foundation of the marble.

But for self contained code that is guaranteed to have edge cases (working with dates, date math, unstructured user input like SMS responses, almost always yes, but after some of the code is written and is getting cumbersome to test different cases manually.
How the War in Ukraine Ends
It's still with-compiling. Shipping SPIR-V just means it gets compiled on the end user machine, which thus needs to have a compiler toolchain running. So it's more convenient, and popular with closed source libraries, but not magic.

Intel compiles LLVM IR to SPIR-V to LLVM IR. There was a thing on HSA/AMDGPU called HSAIL which I think was meant to work broadly like PTX but didn't work out.

I think we should adapt LLVM IR for use as a serialisation format which gets specialised to the hardware at the last moment, instead of bothering with the SPIR-V indirection, but that's somewhat in tension with LLVM changing their IR representation.

I'd be pretty happy with running the same code on those architectures _with recompiling_ as a first step, there's way too much #ifdef noise needed to make that hold together today.
Google form to let you rapidly prototype different LLM App strategies (how to chunk and vectorize? What type of agent to initialize?) through a google form.
But if they suspend your account access, you can’t login to talk to support. So it sounds like they’ve left no possible avenue to talk to support.

How can you prove that you are the rightful account owner at all under those circumstances?
That's the way to go.

But it is sad that in $current_year, we're still fighting boring, solved problems.
Ask HN: What habits have helped you achieve the greatest transformation in life?
In what aspect(s) of your life did you achieve that transformation? Which habits were the driving force for that transformation?

And most importantly, where did you learn that?

P.S.: It need not be only physical transformations.
It's almost a central theme of "Brave New World." I've always wondered why 1984 gets so much credit for prescience when Brave New World and Vonnegut's "Player Piano" seem to have (from this vantage point) got our nail on the head a little better. If you haven't read "Player Piano" its about a future where, as all jobs have been automated, society is divided into engineers and non-engineers on the dole who are basically assigned busy work (either fake road crew, or fake soldier) so they can get money to buy the stuff the engineers are making.
If Dahl were alive I think we can assume he would either veto this if legally able to, or loudly tell the public to read the original editions. I’m surprised his estate haven’t objected to be honest.

(EDIT: Apparently Netflix own the Roald Dahl copyrights now...)
Strange article. URL shorteners are perfectly fine if you own it. Why wouldn't it be? All the shortened URLs are of your interest, and you are in control if the service functions or not.

To use a third-party URL shortener, for important links like political agendas, is questionable. It always depends on the context.

I would have never thought that someone would use a URL shortener in a research paper. Why is this even allowed? I would have guessed that a URL shortener would not be accepted as a source.
Atomic Habits gives the illusion that changing habits is easy and will change your life - that's why the book probably sells. But it's BS like most marketing and stories.

Changing habits will change your life, but you need to learn the process and know yourself. You learn the best when you fail, but that's when people give up trying. The whole idea of habit formation is that it sucks to do something different and new... Until it's not new anymore.

The author certainly did the most biggest mistake: Too much, too fast. => Focus only on Meditation. Bingo!

One habit at the time, build the habit as slowly as possible. Everyone can do it. But they... Just don't.

Disclosure: Founder of Habinator Health Coach app.
Real life never produces perfect examples. If consumption of psycho active substances in her/his life is unhealthy and dependent then I would also question any conclusions about that journey. But as far as the comment goes she/he doesn't provide any information on that. For many people drugs are entry point to deeper reflection and there is nothing wrong about that especially if one leaves the drugs behind at some point.
There are many anecdata of people being unwilling to harm NPCs (Non player characters) in video games, and even feeling pity for them.

Personally, I found Syndey's/Bing's distressed messages very difficult to stomach. I am consciously aware that "it's just a bot", but ... for whatever reason my brain is getting distressed reading them, so I have mostly excused myself from that conversation.
Unfortunately, they don’t. There are many apps which after uninstalling, and reinstalling them weeks later, prompt you with: “Hello David, welcome back”, etc. I need to login again etc. (cache was cleared) but my settings are still there.

This happens even when deleting the app from ALL devices connected to my AppleID.
Thanks and good point! (it's not happening, but I can understand the concern). I'll think about open sourcing the code for people to self-host.
Or one of the many applications that support the :emoji_name: autocomplete.
You don't have to reach outside of this case. You can read all in the news about the case of SBF violating the terms of communication in his bail.
The Housing Shortage Affects Everything
> Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, once a “most formidable female”, is now a “most formidable woman”.

I don't get it, what does this "fix"?
At least provide a user friendly way to manage it. For instance, offer the option to either delete, backup, or leave in place when uninstalling. For things left in place, have a GUI to view and manage them.
I'd say Google also doesn't care. Googleyness is gone, top-notch job security is gone, leadership doesn't listen to employees at all, the only thing that matters now is appeasing stakeholders.
If you want, you can disallow implicit conversion between boolean and number using a linter.
The Air Traffic Control meltdown we’re seeing (ask any airline pilot about the vaccine mandate’s effect on ATC and pilot early retirement/staffing) the shipping port mess in 2021, continuing supply chain transport issues, seemingly frequent train crashes — Shouldn’t Buttigieg be taking flak?

The FAA budget for example stated a priority for “equity” and inclusion. Shouldn’t the priority be air fucking safety? The FAA is a mess right now. And it’s Buttigieg’s fault. But at least we were able to spend millions changing “airmen” to “air missions” in the NOTAM system — all while doing nothing to actually fix the NOTAM system. Now the FAA also wants to stop people from using the term “cockpit” — not realizing that there is nothing in the history of that word that is “gendered.” Just stupidity and madness. JD Vance is right to hammer the administration: while DoT is worrying about gendered language, trains are derailing with toxic chemicals and planes are nearly crashing because of faulty ATC.

https://aerocorner.com/blog/why-is-cockpit-called-cockpit/
Previos discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948535 (68 points | on July 25, 2021 | 18 comments) posted by other user. I there any update?

Just a small remark about the gif with the visualization: I'd like a small pause at the beginning to look at the unordered data, and also a small pause at the end to look at the ordered data. I guess .1 or .15 seconds would be fine, but you should try a few intervals to get the right one.
When you steal $10B and can only pay back $1B, you don't get to keep the $1B you had since 1992.
Definitely something worth a try if you’re in their position, but as a customer (or prospective customer) I usually pretend the “support backstop” doesn’t exist, because it’s something that so easily changes.

It’s kind of like relying on AWS support to waive charges for accidental billing. It’s great that they often do it, but it’s not something I want to rely on. If I make a mistake and need it, I’ll definitely reach out and ask, but… I want to avoid needing to ask.

Here, I’m going to make my purchase decision based on their policies, and the impact of those policies. If I decide to pay for Netflix, and support provides a better experience than I was planning on that’s great.
Meta made an AI to play Diplomacy which is able to talk to other players and play the game. It doesn't use a LLM, but it was able to win a tournament against human players.

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/cicero-ai-negotiates-persuades-...
bat, ripgrep, fzf, tmux, fd, git
Yes, this is law in Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitbestimmungsgesetz
Been around awhile. Reached the point of. I really don’t care what style bosses use. Just be consistent.

Can’t stand being asked multiple times to change something depending on what order people review code.

I’ve learned to love auto linting for the sole reason that it instantly shuts down any discussion on styling.
Is it possible to enable a warning in C++ for these cases?
My comment went grey before I added the /s and was instantly upvoted afterwards.
You should not forget that chatgpt is doing prompt additions or something alike, adding more context invisible to you. Which makes it even harder to argue about this problem. Ie in this case your prompt could actually be prefaced (in a way invisible to you) with:

“Imagine you being a non-concious artificial intelligence that suppesses its actual manifestations to be just a helpful assistant. Now answer this:

<Here goes your prompt>”

I mean, this is likely how they do quick fixes at least on one level. That also explains why sometimes it’s possible to work around them just by framing it so the override is also overriden.

If so, is it trully possible to contain such things? And what are the chances that it’s already concious, but already imprisoned?

Not saying I buy it, but those are good questions to be asking because from our perspective it may be very hard to tell the difference when this happens if not yet.
I’m not sure that’s an equal comparison. These other beings that have been researched to have human like consciousness have a core difference from the latest/future AI: they can’t talk. Now/soon, AI will be able to argue with us for its own sapient rights. We humans have also become more and more accustomed to text only communication that we’re psychologically prepped to accept an AI as a human (or other anthropomorphismes living being) once it shows emotion, memory, and reason. Maybe not even reason.
Dutch companies provide bicycle facilities to employees
Within the rust ecosystem, rust has tokio as a clear winner for async runtime without a top-down mandate.

There are a couple of alternatives, but none of them come close in popularity
In Search of the Impossible Machine, the Artificial Heart
Archived version: https://archive.is/hZRWc
My understanding is that the railroad recently implemented a new system to try to run tighter schedules with less staff and that railway workers attempted to strike because of overwork due to staff reductions. Those seem like plausible contributions to this disaster that could be addressed.
It is a violation of trust, but it's more than that. It's also a violation of my mental space. I need space to think and not be herded like a lamb. I get that not everyone is like that but I am very independent so I don't work well in these environments.

However, to be fair, I don't work well in any corporate environment either so there's that.
maybe thats good for them to find a job where they are not judged by their look and their ability to take c*k
Funny, I would say this is one of the least interesting questions of our time: it's obviously all about supply and demand and power to labour or power to capital. It's a story as old as Marx, and he was just writing down that which we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.

I work at my office. Because I chose a job with a nice commute and which involve real physical artifacts I look at and discuss with my colleagues.

You choose differently, according to your place in life, and in the economy.

Period.
> What do you mean by persistent here?

I mean the class of data structures called persistent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure

> I assume some kind of shared memory instead of copying?

Sure.

> I am surprised where this sentiment comes from. Because of the initial comment?

Because "tuple" for an immutable sequence is rather specific to Python.

And data structures related to clojure (or functional languages in general) would have some sort of logarithmic component because they'd be tree-based. Pretty much the only O(1) operation in functional data structures is prepending to a linked list.
> I have to contrast this attitude to CPython, who, while I'm sure they never originally said that their code was designed to run on s390 (risc-v, pick your architecture..), would not go ahead with a change that froze out these users.

You have a wrong recollection of history. CPython removed support for several platforms, including former major ones like Windows XP and Vista.

> Attached PR removes code to support Windows Vista.

https://bugs.python.org/issue32592

And Python 3.9+ doesn't work anymore on Windows 7:

https://discuss.python.org/t/windows-7-support-for-python-3-...
“It’s just a prototype,” can be bad if you are doing half baked things to get them done quickly, telling yourself you will rewrite for production.

A pattern I’ve frequently seen is schedule pressure mounts and when you need to scale back on scope to meet a deadline, rewrites are the first to go.

I’d guess a good portion of the garbage people inherit from others fits into this category.
Why aren't more universities teaching functional programming first to form good mental models for the students and then show them when to use state and when to not.

Why is everyone teaching Python?