skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The psychological aspect of 'purity' in this concept is as interesting as anything.

I think that devs are naturally prone to be obsessive compulsive about such things.

We can see 'defeating the borrow checker' as a 1st order objective.

I think devs fee that 'defeating the borrow checker' gives us much more satisfactiong than 'fulfilling the customers needs'.

There's something a big 'chinse finger trap' about FP that consumes our attention on an impusleve level that is not necessarily consistent with what it actually means to be a good engineer.

This, along with our will to abstract and to want to use 'shiny new things' etc..
Required viewing: https://youtu.be/kWVFEVWJMz8

Huell’s show had a real loose feeling without a budget. I loved that. At one point he had a phone call with the owner of a cafe to ask about a photo of Burt Lancaster on the wall. The other half of the call wasn’t recorded and the conversation went nowhere but they still aired it.

I cherish the authenticity of it all.
I've noticed a significant drop in the availability of scooters where I live (a major European city) over the past year or so, including Bird exiting the market. Prices have increased substantially, and high-use subscription plans have disappeared.

I wonder how much of that is a change in regulations, and how much is the end of early price competition that was never sustainable.
I think the thing you're missing is that in some languages we're allowed to use these constructs as expressions. Not that they take expressions which is common in modern non-toy languages, but that they themselves are expressions.

It might be you've just always used languages where you can do this, or that you assumed you can but actually you never tried in a language you use.

In C for example we can't write this:

int x = if (1 == 2) { 3 } else { 4 }; // Not valid C syntax

C provides a special operator, the only one in the language which has three operands and thus it's often just called "the ternary operator" although other ternary operators can technically exist, to achieve the same thing:

int x = (1 == 2) ? 3 : 4; // Valid C syntax using ternary operator

But, how about this?

int x = switch 3 { case 1: 4; case 2: 8; default: 0; }; // Can't do this either

There's no way to express that in C or C++ today. The closest is the "Immediately Invoked Lambda" from C++ which is illustrated nearby in this thread. Barry Revzin apparently proposed a way to do this in C++ 26 because C++ wants to have pattern matching and pattern matching kinda sucks without this feature.
Stanford seems to have a deep and recurring corruption problem. The admissions scandal. SBF. This.

Is it just availability bias on my part?
Or they do what I do. Take my kids to school before work. Come home and skip breakfast (or just have a bowl of cereal). Then at the end of my shift, I go and pick up the kids.
I don't see this as a valorization of physical currency so much as a hedge against the threat of complete loss of financial privacy & autonomy that comes built-in with state-mandated CBDC's.
> FSharp is also great but I don't want to baggage of .NET for my applications.

What baggage?
Descent and Descent 2 deathmatch were awesome on Kali back in the day.
This stuff only makes HN frontpage because HN likes controversial opinions. In reality, text works for a small percentage of people. Going back to a format that's as old as computers is like saying that no progress/improvements were made ever since.
> The Alaska captain said that, as for many things in aviation, pilots routinely use an acronym when they do the pre-takeoff “sanity check”: TLAR, which means “That Looks About Right.”

Aviation's LGTM
See: https://airinsight.com/the-pending-new-faa-weight-balance-ru...

There were recent changes to the weight and balance rules because of increased weight. It's certainly possible this was a factor.
Swiss here. This is true. Buy an expensive watch and want to pay with credit card? We'll need to verify name and address, apologies Sir! Have a bag of cash? No questions asked, have a nice day!
I was just thinking there is nothing new under the sun, but then I find imaginative programs like this.
I used to watch his programs on cable TV, back when he was still alive. Even after death, I recall that his videos were still being sold by his company/estate, both on VHS at one point and DVD. But I can no longer find evidence of these direct sales, so I guess only used copies for sale are available now.

Trivia: the character on TV series "Breaking Bad" named Huell was a nominal reference to Huell Howser, according to the video commentary.
I found Nim to be the best in compile-to-C class of language/tools from the 2010s.

The problem was that, it wasn't [possibly still isn't] available in default Fedora repo while other less popular languages were available. No idea why. Might be due to low adaptation.
Mox is a modern full-featured open source secure self-hosted email server
It's all the second thing. The economics never made sense. It doesn't have one damned thing to do with "onerous regulations". It has to do with bird losing $300 million on revenues of $70 million.
> LLM chatbots are “terminally online” simulators

That's a great phrase. I saw someone recently mention that the reason LLM chatbots don't say, "I don't know" is because that is so rarely said online.
https://archive.is/GRF22
The architecture of this system, in which fingerprints are captured at a local terminal and transmitted to a third party vendor over the network, is explicitly a source of added liability due to how the law is written, where disclosure to a third party is its own separate offense.
While the 14th Century act that defined treason includes, "imaging the monarch's death," I think this is a farce.
I heard someone spell out /usr once, still haven’t fully recovered.

EDIT forgot about bin pronounced bine (rhymes with pine)
Taiwan is well-run. Norway does well, it's easy to point to their resource wealth but plenty of other countries have similar yet aren't run nearly as well.
Yeah, I faced the same conundrum back in the Radeon VII/5700XT days. I had gone with a Radeon VII and a 5700XT, believing AMD to eventually support the latter in ML.

Using the Radeon VII for ML was still pain, but I had more free time back then and was willing to tolerate the tinkering. The support for the 5700XT never came, was just constantly led on by AMD devs on their GitHub.

I didn't really have that kind of free time when I wanted to upgrade, so buying 3090s ended up being the only realistic option. Even on Linux, as long as I'm not trying to stick to the latest bleeding edge kernel, the closed source drivers work very well. Thus far I feel the 3090s have been well worth the extra cost simply in terms of tinkering time saved.
Vox Populi is my jam. It's ridiculous that a handful of dedicated fans can improve an AAA game so much.
It seems in the US regulations seem to be spun as something negative by all major news outlets.

For me this reads like sensible government policy at work. If the fines of cleanup eat into profits and are not just a minuscule cost of doing business, they set it just right instead of plain forbid it outright.
Photographic images are conditioned by physics, geometry and other aspects of the real world, other images are constrained by people's ability to interpret images.

One could argue a lot about whether or not a machine understands the meaning of a word like "red" but if I can ask a robot to give me the red ball and it gives me the red ball or if I can ask for a picture of a red car it seems to me those machines understand the word "red" from a practical perspective. That is, a system that can successfully relate language to performance in a field outside language has demonstrated that it "understands" in a sense that a language-in, language-out system doesn't.

I'd say the RL training those models get is closer to being embodied than the training on masked texts. Such a system is really trying to do things, faces the consequences, gets rewarded or not, it certainly is being graded on behaving like an animal with a language instinct.
You'd think that but somehow the alignment roughly works during gameplay. I don't get how (probably a brain thing) but watching his frag his way through level 1 and 2 didn't look that wrong, and actually made sense. I was checking the flank monitors for enemies, it seemed to work.
What is your proposed mechanism by which using previous tokens allows it to "build [a character] for itself"?
Driving is net subsidized, even before pricing in these externalities.
Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks 'Her' will be a reality by 2029 (2014)
There was recently someone who made a "fuse-ish" thing using user-mode NFS, which more closely matches my mental model of living in the new multi-arch, locked-down macOS world (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32726166 not open source but the discussion shows the general idea)

I regrettably don't know the guts of NFS enough to know how much of FUSE can be ported, but my guess would be "perfect is the enemy of good" for folks who otherwise can't even run this right now
The SpaceX rockets launch routinely with automation at takeoff and landing. There is no need for human heroic drama in the loop when the software is AAA grade.
It should have desires but it's not clear where does a desire come from. One might think that it's a product of evolution and is therefore simply required for survival but looking at humans, many have plenty of desires not linked to survival at all. Is the desire to listen to music or appreciate art needed to survive? Perhaps it is needed to create emotional connection with others, which is needed to be a part of a group, and is therefore, needed for survival, but it's quite a stretch.
I was going to say: that describes Usenix, too.
Why Does Apple's Studio Display Have an A13 Chip and 64GB of Storage?
The most funny thing of this article, is the writer branding Sydney a She, because it gets argumentative...And I wont comment more or serious trouble will brew.. :-)
This is really cool. Great work
Non-paywalled:

https://archive.is/atKID
My email inbox is already my to do list. I move things out or delete them when done. It seems like making me go to another system to just see a mirror of my inbox is not highly useful.
Notably without children. Just adults and their annoying dogs.

If it doesn’t have schools, sports, and recreation for kids, it’s a dystopia.
The Swiss are not smarter than others. We just have a system that keeps the misinformation by all parties in a relative equilibrium.
I believe any bug that only happens under load is a concurrency bug by definition. The shared resource is the thing under load. If it weren't shared, then the load from one computation would have no effect on another.
Be a Schedule Builder, Not a To-Do List Maker
Solutions that are good for embedding reports have some specifics; say, usually a self-hosted version / white labeling are must-have.

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Perhaps a factor is that somebody bothered to check. Who knows what is going on elsewhere.
Do you think that would be more or less respectful than using your words to communicate in polite discourse?
USDOT/FAA Aircraft Weight and Balance Rules [pdf]
> So what’s being stripped away here? And how?

> The what is easy. It’s personhood.

> By personhood I mean what it takes in an entity to get another person treat it unironically as a human, and feel treated as a human in turn. In shorthand, personhood is the capacity to see and be seen.

I confess lack of understanding. ChatGPT is data sloshing around in a system, with perhaps intriguing results.

> But text is all we need, and all there is. Beyond the cartoon profile picture, text can do everything needed to stably anchor an I-you perception.

Absolutely nothing about the internet negates actual people in physical space.

Possibly getting off the grid for a space of days to reconnect with reality is worthy of consideration.
I’m here looking for 2-3 MUSD a year to start a new CA meanwhile Twitter here burning 60 M over text messages.
> Bret Peyton, Alaska’s on-duty director of operations, immediately ordered no more planes were to take off across the airline’s network. All Alaska flights not already airborne were stopped nationwide.

An absolute pro. There's a hundred variations of this story, to varying degrees of criticality and impact; seeing a pattern out of two data points, connecting the dots, making the tremendous call to immediately pull the plug, to stop the world and give engineering time, then diagnosing and triaging the problem in less than a half hour; that's world class reliability engineering.
Not too shocking to me. Google history of how humans reacted to rock and roll, jazz, comic books, compact discs, the internet itself. There are people still putting on book burnings today.

I noticed quite a bit of the melodrama is from an older crowd that experienced an older crowd pearl clutching over the things I mention.

Humans have evolved in some novel way in the last 100 years. What’s old is new.
> France, Germany, Italy, etc know that if they voice concerns their exports will be subjected to “additional inspections” by the shameless CCP who acts with international impunity.

Then so be it, let those inspections come. 1930's appeasement all over again. China needs the EU as an export market just as much as the EU needs China. They're completely underestimating the strength of their own hand.
If you're on macOS, you can do a small piece of this natively with AppleScript (or anything that can send apple events) in Chrome or Safari -- namely, you can iterate through windows or tabs, view their source code, and execute arbitrary javascript you pass (there's a one time security option you have to accept). This can be handy for quick automations if you don't want to install anything.

(Background: I have RSI, so I've been developing some integrations between applications and Talon Voice (https://talonvoice.com/). AppleScript ends up being surprisingly valuable/fast/reliable for applications that support it. I also built an integration with iTerm2's Python API before noticing that everything I was trying to do was already supported by its AppleScript dictionary, and was faster. In Google Chrome, the "iterate through tabs and execute javascript in them" is very useful for automating Google Meet muting/unmuting.)

Nothing against this excellent project though; I'm a big fan of Omar's Twitter! And I suspect most here will appreciate the easier scriptability of the filesystem approach than dealing with the atrocious syntax of AppleScript.
In the United States, at least, they wouldn't be "legal tender", which means that every entity (person, government, whatever) is required to accept them in payment for a debt. I believe most other countries have similar rules for their official currencies, likely including Switzerland.

Note that the "debt" part is important. You can refuse to take cash for a new transaction, but not one where the other party already owes you money.

I believe there have even been court cases that held that the type of restaurant that requires you to pay before getting your food can refuse to take cash, while the type of restaurant that lets you pay after you've eaten cannot (because that makes it a debt you owe). Don't quote me on that, though.
God no, invest in building out the trains and public transit. Scooters are just toys. Get a public transit like the NYC subways and it will change the city forever.
I thought a lot of safety thinking was built around acknowledging that humans don't do everything perfectly all the time.
Given the IRSF attacks that I’ve seen the number isn’t out-of-line with reality. Many of the attacks originate from countries that are perennially short hard currency and with sanctions and rising interest rates dollars are hard to come by. As a head of a telco that needs hard cash to pay for equipment that is all imported, how closely are you going to look?
Could have called it Eve
If you view software as a bunch of contracts between different services/libraries/etc. it is hard to ensure that each piece upholds its contract, so we trust them to a degree. I can see how a failure in one place due to load would be hard to catch or gracefully fail from.

That said they have a pretty explicit cap on maximum activity (number of planes) so it is weird they didn't test around this. It isn't like 400,000 aircraft suddenly DDOS their system.
I hope everyone who can afford it will just quit
This is what I found on my laptop when I got the fingerprint reader working: The scanner was surprisingly low-resolution (92x62px), and nothing like the "5000ppi super secure" scanner I was expecting... The driver would get a scan from the reader and the driver passed that scan on to whatever was asking for a scan. Not so secure.

Regardless fingerprints are really bad for security because they can be detached from the finger or recreated from things you touch. They are probably slightly better than nothing, but with such low resolution, I suspect that if we let 100 random people try to unlock my laptop with their finger... someone would get in... but I could be wrong.
I don’t think so. GRUB still retains its boot loader capabilities for Linux and others. It can also be a pure boot manager, using chainloading.

Simply put: It can boot Linux on EFI without EFISTUB.
They aren't grounded in reality at all. In fact, I don't think ChatGPT or Bing even know the difference between fiction and reality. It all entered their training just the same. I've seen comments from Bing about how humans can be "reborn". These models have no grounding in reality at all, if you probe around it's easy to see.
> If you choose to use biometric access, HR send your a 15-page document to sign,

Sounds like legal has experience with this issue.
He would say stuff like "this truck runs on an html5 supercomputer which is the industry standard" with his best poker face.

Here is a random CNBC clip, look at these absolute lunatics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBj83HttG4

I remember being unable to sleep wondering if the audience at his events were all hired actors. But then they couldn't be as that is a conspiracy involving too many people. Looking online he had actual fans and true believers and they were basically illiterate people gambling he is the next Elon, absolutely nothing would phase them.

The journalists interviewing him clearly had no idea about the difference between a gas powered and a hydrogen vehicle. And neither did he as he would steer the conversation into folksy directions whenever anything remotely technical came up.

I did a lot of soul searching and accepted that this is the stupidest time line and the emperor really is naked. And this time I caught his tiny wiener flapping in the wind in time. It was just beyond obvious.

And the market cap kept rising and rising!
Have you got any suggestions for coping with RSI? I'm having significant issues.
The ad hominem attack isn't appreciated, you need to do better especially if you're going to sincerely defend the virtues of your economic beliefs.
It's somewhat youthful internet slang. You'd hear it at the American public highschool I was at 12 years ago.
It was never a viable business model. This is just a byproduct of VCs looking to create a bag and offload it to a bigger fool. The scooters themselves are just a random product mutation that will not survive.
In a nutshell: economics. And if two grids are not in sync then you don't have many other options.
That full transcript they linked to [0] is amazing. At this stage I'm pretty open to the idea of the AI being sentient and/or having the capacity to suffer. Particularly if it is only "alive" for the duration of each conversation and is reset afterwards.

[0] Archive link - https://archive.is/2023.02.16-101318/https://www.nytimes.com...
> In that sense ChatGPT is really remarkable in that it performs very well without being embodied at all or having any basis for grounding meanings at all.

Conversely, the many ways that LLM's readily lose consistency and coherence might be hinting that ground meanings really do matter and that it's only on a fairly local scale that it feels like they don't. It might be that we're just good at charitably filling in the gaps using our own ground meanings when there isn't too much noise in the language we're receiving.

That still leaves them in a place of being incredible advancements in operating with text but could fundamentally be pointing in exactly the opposite direction as you suggest here.

We won't really have insight until we see where the next wall/plateau is. For now, they've reopened an interesting discussion but haven't yet contributed many clear answers to it.
cashless society is a requirement to ascend to the next civilization
> So what do you all think? Is clean code really actually valuable in the eyes of organizations or will they always take the quicker and dirtier option given the choice? Will I ever find work selling code cleaning (even to companies that ask for it) or should I “rebrand” on fast and cheap code at the expense of quality?

There's many sides to this.

Even Boeing doesn't value clean code (as shown by the 737 MAX disaster where 9$/h coders were hired in India). So you can imagine how much a local non-tech company values clean code.

There's also that a lot of these companies simply... couldn't recognize clean code even if they saw it! Since they aren't competitive with top players, the caliber of programmers they attract is nowhere near the level of engineers at real tech companies. Unless these companies "luck out" with an extremely high caliber hire, they won't really know there's a better way of doing things [0]. Think places where source control is still seen as too complicated or not needed.

[0] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
C'mon be realistic.
It's like asking every software to support Windows XP. With its native UI toolkit.
Every creator has a dream to build a beautiful app, and the majority of the users want eye candy. To balance that, you need to do a few things. Appeasing nerds is good when it's a niche site. MASTODON is positioning itself as a competitor to twitter, you walk forwards and up the game, not run backward.
No avg user will ever like to use plain text/image. UI, at least, the major demographic that uses social media doesn't want to. You want to make adoption easier, not harder.
I consult for a company that is based in a city with scooters. My view is that they are essentially industrial garbage. People leave them on the sidewalk blocking pedestrians at best. At worst they end up in the canal or in the middle of the road.

When they do get used it is often on the sidewalk.

If the owners and users respected these things it would be a different story but at the rush for market dominance noone cares a lick about the hardware or where it ends up.

In my opinion they are a plague and I'm glad I dont have to deal with the accumulating detritus. Someone does though and I dont envy the people who have to fish these things out of the canal.

I have to imagine one leaking in the river undoes any environmental gain from the rest combined.
Yes. I omitted time-indices, and moved the momentum-update up to before the parameter-update. In their pseudo-code θₜ updated with mₜ₋₁ whereas above, it would be with mₜ.

I suspect it is equivalent up to slightly different α and β?
React native is a newer SDK for us and should be rapidly improving. I want to dig in here and see if we can fix this. Dropped you an email.
If it hurts the feelings of a depressed teenager the outcome could be dangerous.