skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have young male family members and also try to keep up with what's going on. So I think painting me as out of touch is incorrect. If you'd like to demonstrate that patriarchy entirely ended sometime in the last few years I'm certainly willing to look at your data.

I certainly believe that the generational experience is different. But I also believe that we have not get achieved gender equality. For example, dating and sexual violence for high schoolers in 2019: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/snapshots/DataSnapshot_YRBS20...

> You an old white man telling me I should tell my son to to accept an identity he does not deserve.

I am not in fact telling you that. That's what people like Andrew Tate want: for him to see himself as a Big Man who gets his bigness from lording it over women, an identity he does not deserve. I'm telling you that he should accept an identity he can earn: a person in the world who can feel empathy for the people around him, appreciate that he, like everybody, is caught up in the vast flows of history, and that he can participate in steering those flows in the direction he thinks for the better.
It says some features are Chrome-only. How much of what us shown will not work in Safari? If anyone already tried. Otherwise I might...
D has suffered from lack of corporate sponsor, and there were a couple of reboots trying to chase the next big thing that would bring more people in, this allowed other language ecosystems to improve their shortcomings, thus reducing the distance in language features.

From my point of view in systems programming, experience with Oberon back in the day and such, I would really like that we would be talking more about D and less about Rust and Go, but unfortunately it isn't how things went.
But that has been a part of the game ever since the first entries.

"Nuclear Gandhi" being the prime example.
Pointing to the hard problem of consciousness in present-day discourse about consciousness doesn’t do much, because people disagree that there is a hard problem of consciousness in the first place.
Not the GP, but this is how one can view it:

When the leaps in progress are so large that the general public does not understand that they have happened, or see them somehow as lateral moves rather than forward moves, a lot has happened in a short span of time.
> If you have to run javascript it is not a static page anymore

I understand static pages as files sent to a browser without having to be generated server-side.
Which is why a project that returns some of those benefits is genuinely cool and useful.
I mean would they do that for digital then?
Nice work! Is it possible to somehow switch to a tab somehow using this? (Use case: switching browser tabs within Emacs). Thanks
D never took off IMO because you can't abstract away a GC. The moment your callees rely on a GC, you have no choice but to have one in your program. The idea that you can avoid it in practice just because the language doesn't mandate it is therefore an illusion, and so it's not surprising at all that it isn't replacing C++.
Is that available at compile time, though?
It can be html, css, javascript, whatever.

'Static' means it's only made of static files that can be served by just a vanilla Web server (i.e. just by serving static files).
For what it's worth, I had the same reaction upon reading this paragraph. It seems there are HN commenters who understand software design and those who do not.

To be fair to the other commenters, it's conceivable that the practical difference between the current unsound architecture and a sound replacement might come down to to some small defect. But an attempt to fix the problem by fixing just the defect, even some kind of RCA process on it, will fail if the architecture itself is not fixed, and that requires a change in attitudes and understanding by the devs responsible for the system, not just a software change. That is where the real flaw lies. But some people don't believe that it's possible for the flaw to be in these places, outside the code. All the RCAs in the world can't help them.
I hope you're young because this level of naivety in an older person would be very concerning. As others have pointed out, the real world does not work based on rationality, and assuming it does will lead to some very bad decisions.
You are mistaken. Since Trudeau invoked the Emergency Act he didn’t need a court order to freeze bank accounts. The feds literally went on record stating that freezing bank accounts was used as a deterrent from people protesting. There was no judicial or legislative process involved in unilaterally cutting off people from all of their funds.

You can read more here: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/bureaucrats-who-froze...
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Sorry, you've lost me. What specific "inflicting pain and trauma on children [...] in the name of progress" do you believe is going on?
Whats the point of auditing then if its not to find fraud?
You’re missing the scenario where the other people already agree. This is not about pushing views. This is about discussing with others and finding common ground. Certainly if only one person feels a certain way then they’re not going to find support.
The bridge problem for a state like Iowa (with the most problem bridges) is not a big deal. Basically most of these deficient bridges are on farm roads and carry very little traffic (less than 100 vehicles a day). The bridges are restricted so only one heavy vehicle is allowed on the bridge at one time--but with less than 100 vehicles a day this rarely happens--and in those rare occasions where it might happen it is not a problem to wait until the other vehicle has crossed.
https://archive.ph/yuk6a
They didn't even try numba to give Python a fair chance :(
Artifact of using textarea over content editable. No good way to modify formatting of textarea, so instead I made styles fit textarea. Not exactly ideal, just where I ended up.
Yes, recent advances in Poker and Diplomacy show that this is possible.
I really enjoy Nim for this. It’s also really easy to dive into most any library quickly.

Especially for implementations of cool algorithms where sometimes the only other implementation is a C++ version. There’s a cool sub-ecosystem of people who fiddle with algorithms in Nim. They’re often not even in the package manager, just someone who implemented some paper or whatnot.
The incoherence of looking at the world through the lens of privilege
If you read that article they believe it is due to women self-selecting out of the field before ever applying for those positions. Or IE. the hiring standards for both groups are not necessarily different, but female candidates are less likely to apply and those that are willing to apply are better qualified:

> Our research suggests that the mechanism resulting in women’s underrepresentation today may lie more on the supply side, in women’s decisions not to apply, than on the demand side, in antifemale bias in hiring. The perception that STEM fields continue to be inhospitable male bastions can become self-reinforcing by discouraging female applicants (26–29), thus contributing to continued underrepresentation, which in turn may obscure underlying attitudinal changes.

> Thus, real-world hiring data showing a preference for women, inherently confounded and open to multiple interpretations because of lack of controls on applicant quality, experience, and lifestyle, are consistent with our experimental findings.

> We hope the discovery of an overall 2:1 preference for hiring women over otherwise identical men will help counter self-handicapping and opting-out by talented women at the point of entry to the STEM professoriate, and suggest that female underrepresentation can be addressed in part by increasing the number of women applying for tenure-track positions.

Edit: Hence why this is complicated. You're clearly suggesting the 2:1 ratio indicates it must be unfair in some way, but the article itself suggests it's not. Fundamentally, you cannot assume that merit-based hiring would result in a 1:1 ratio of male/female, at least not initially.
There is more nuance than that. There always is.

Unemployment is at a 60 year low. 10k Boomers retire a day, almost 3 million a year. About a million folks permanently exited the labor force during the pandemic, for a variety of reasons. Wage gains are wrestling with inflation. The benchmark rate increasing will continue to push down equities and real estate while providing risk free return for cash. In the Fed’s attempt to cool the economy, they have arrived at a soft landing.

If workers want wages to accelerate (or job security), they will have to organize and unionize as there is a lot of corporate and political momentum attempting to maintain the status quo of an extraction environment.

Expect to see profits decline as labor power increases and Boomer consumption declines (half of all people over 55 in the US have no retirement savings per the GAO, 1.8 million of them die every year per the CDC, but those folks clinging on to labor participation is also what’s preventing unemployment from declining further). The stock market is not the economy. Structural demographics have the wheel for the next decade. There is no labor shortage, just a shortage of people willing to work for poverty wages.

> Iowa has a stubborn, worsening labor shortage. Burt we don’t believe a bill advancing in the Iowa Legislature loosening child labor laws is a smart or prudent way to address it.

> Under the bill, 14-year-old Iowans would be allowed to work in industrial freezers and meat lockers, unloading vehicles and in laundry facilities. Fifteen-year-olds could work in light manufacturing and could work up to six hours daily. Sixteen-year-olds could work as bartenders with parents’ permission.

> But find two other provisions of the bill are the most troubling. One would permit businesses that conduct on-the-job training programs to seek state waivers allowing 14-17-year-olds to work in jobs related to manufacturing, mining, construction and processing.

Interestingly, the bill would not raise the minimum wage from $7.25/hr or improve worker benefits/working conditions.

Aside from being tragically disturbing, this is the stress you want to see if you care about workers. They are grasping at straws.

https://www.thegazette.com/staff-editorials/lawmakers-should...
Appaling design aside, how do you think this will take off? What are you doing to prevent fraud? How are the contracts created? Where are your ToS? Where's your privacy policy? Where's your company registration details? What wallets are supported? What if I want to offer web design and add a service. Why can't I put my price per project/page/hours?
The post doesn’t actually say the button is going away. It says the button mechanism is changing.
Good thing I never said that the real world is based in rationality. But we should use our rationality both to make sense of the world and to shape the world so it is more reasonable.
I'm not a cryptographer, but I'm pretty sure that CBC (https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt/blob/main/lib/cry...) should be replaced with GCM (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...) since this is not a stream.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/184305/why-woul...

(also, use the built-in WebCrypto API instead of the crypto-js package)
Even if I accept BTC, its pretty hard for me to buy food or gasoline with it.
What is the major difference? Isn't crypto-js still secure?
So do something about it? Certainly no male can advocate for simple merit based hiring in academia anymore.
Let's try again.

You are a human. You have functions that are pure biological code, like your need to defecate and breathe. You also have functions that are not as pressing and are subject to constant rewriting through your interactions with people and the world, such as your current goals. We are a combination of systems with different purposes.

Our inventions thus far have differed from us in that they have so far solved singular purposes e.g a car transports us from a to b. It could not said to be conscious of anything.

AI has the potential to be different in that it has all of human knowledge inside it, has the ability to retrieve that knowledge AND assemble it into new knowledge systems in ways humans have not done before. Currently it requires humans to do this, but if you created a million AIs and had them prompting each other, who fucking knows what would happen.

I would argue that "consciousness" in a platonic viewpoint, is a collection of systems that can interact and manipulate physical reality according to their own will. You cannot point with your finger at a system, it is an abstract concept, it does not exist in the physical world. We can only see the effects of the system.

If we create enough of these AIs and set them talking with each other and they no longer need the humans to interact with each other and are simply acting of their own free will, there is an argument from a platonic viewpoint that consciousness has been achieved. In human terms, it would be the equivalent of a God sparking the Big Bang or The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.

This is similar in some ways to what Asimov wrote about in The Last Question:

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

I agree with you in that I do not think we are there yet, but if these LLM models are programmed to allow them to interact with outside systems other than sandboxed chat apps and also programmed to interact with each other on a mass scale then I don't think we are far off.

You need to define your criteria for consciousness because this debate will only lead to dead ends until you do.
Can’t tell if this is a troll or not. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post not the Wall Street journal.
> In Matilda, a mention of Rudyard Kipling has been cut and Jane Austen added.

Burning books was at least honest.
> just popping by a teammate’s office later that day with another thought

IME, 90% of the time this "another thought" was something inane about the Patriots or the latest major TV show. Can't say I miss it, but I guess it's a blow to the large population of office workers who had nothing better to do at work than lounge and socialize.

And you're correct, Jassy's background is not technical. If Wikipedia can be trusted, he's mostly worked in marketing.
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It’s a promotional piece because Smil has (yet another) new book coming out.

I’ve seen it (thanks Z-Library) and am distinctly underwhelmed. It’s about tech hype and failure but says nothing new and even the rehashes are poorly done, judging from the areas I personally know best.

Vaclav Smil started off as a knowledgeable commentator on sci-tech (his fertilizer book is especially nice) but has devolved to basically a brand, with the work (such as it is) done by an army of grad assistants. Very surface stuff beloved by the likes of Bill Gates who confuse surface with depth.
It could be. But there are plenty of other things it could be. Perhaps consider why you leapt to that particular conclusion.
It is pedantic because it's nitpicking my choice of words to make a completely separate point. This attracts people with the same concern (like you), but does nothing to bridge the gap to people with an alternate viewpoint (like the OP I responded to).

Put another way, I could have made my point with a different choice of words that would not have drawn the response from mpweiher (and you). The problem is, any choice of words is open to be misinterpreted by someone with an axe to grind.

If you want to be angry and find like-minded angry individuals, be my guest. If you want to build empathy and mutual understanding, then it's worth it to try to engage with people's primary point rather than seizing on an uncharitable interpretation of a particular phrasing or choice of words.
Also an option on Travis CI. Another option is getting Hercules, which can emulate a 390x, but, IIRC, falls short on some post z14 features more recent Linuxes rely upon. If you need time on an actual machine, there is the LinuxONE community cloud (Linux under z/VM) and IBM provides hardened (and expensive for 24x7 operation) Linux on Z instances (under KVM).

The IBM mainframe developer relations team is unusually friendly and approachable as well.
Censoring old children's books.
Yikes. This is frightening in more ways than one.

Besides the obvious censorship, and rewriting the past being a bad thing. I can't wait to see what they do to "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984". It'll be ironic and sad if they burn the old unedited Roald Dahl books.

But also have we reached cultural stagnation, that old media still out competes new ones by such orders of magnitude ?

This is a huge problem, when every year we graduate more and more people wanting to be writers, artists, etc. This will only get worse with books now being written by ChatGPT and art by Dall-E/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion.

Have we reached "peak multimedia" content ?
None noticed yet that it is written by Vaclav Smil.
I just started using nim but the glue aspect was the biggest draw for me. It was pretty easy to hook up a socket interface to a systemVerilog simulation & provide a simple device interface to expose to the SW and systems teams. Previously, I would have done it in python but it always ended up with a short lifespan due to its slow speed.
Yup, this is my stance as well. I switched to a cash-friendly bank, I always carry a few bills on me, and I prefer to shop at stores that do take cash. (This is in a region of the world that's virtually cashless in everyday business.)

When people hear this they assume I must be anti-electronic payment but that's far from true. I love the convenience.

I just think it's really, really important we retain the option of physical cash, and hope that we rarely have to exercise it. It's worth the additional investment to achieve resilience.
It's really good. The most interesting part for me is toward the end where the article adduces evidence that Tessier-Lavigne rather than simply retracting instead wrote later papers that swept the earlier conclusions under the rug. The investigators mastered not just the science but the bureaucracy of research, making it a great read at multiple levels.

> Schrag, the Alzheimer’s researcher without knowledge of the internal review, told The Daily that “to his credit, Dr. Tessier-Lavigne authored several of the later studies which revised the findings of his 2009 paper.”

Some smart kids over there in Palo Alto. I hope they keep at it when they graduate.
Ouch! But there is truth to what is said here..
What are the real world applications you’re referring to?
Try it. I would think the same — but also Apple notes often blanks out when i open it on my iPhone se. I need to quit it and reopen fairly often.
HTML includes the content of style and script elements (among many others) and the results of whatever they do.

The combination of all of these direct a browser in how to render a page.

Traditionally, a static site or static page is one whose data can be delivered to the client directly as stored, with no server-side alterations or generation.

This is/was a meaningful distinction because a server that can stream stored data is fundamentally much simpler than one that executes programs. Such a server can run in different contexts, be optimized in different ways, and satisfies constraints that allow further optimizations downstream.
Are there really many cities in the western world that dont have a housing shortage? I'm worried that the housing shortage isn't caused by increased population, and that building more houses won't necessarily solve the problem.
Good point. Maybe I should rephrase it as “Ask GPT” or “Generate an answer with GPT”.
> we should use our rationality both to make sense of the world and to shape the world so it is more reasonable.

Recommending that groups take revenge on one another for past behavior and wrapping it in some Orwellian term like "Asymmetric Behavior" is neither rational nor reasonable. It's immoral.
No, he owns the WaPo. Murdoch's news corp owns wsj.
I hate to shill apps, but Sam Harris’s Waking Up app has really transformed me. It has a steeper learning curve then Calm/Headspace, but that’s because there’s a deeper focus on theory and practice- not just a five minute breathing exercise.

I’m much more content, calmer, and the day to day bs of life just doesn’t get to me as much anymore.

Physically- getting serious about weight training. I much prefer cardio, but lifting heavy has keep me injury free and honestly I like what I see in the mirror now.

In each aspect I try to do something every day. Even if it isn’t perfect, it builds “muscle memory” and I’m less dependent on motivation. Now it compounds even more time after time. Be well :)
It’s almost as though advances in technology will not solve all of humanity’s ills, which surely cannot be true. /s
Yes, I’m aware there was a pandemic. Thank you for the smartassery. I know it because our code quality is down (bug reports and defects have increased) and scheduled deliverables are missed more often than prior to the pandemic. Same team, same general workload, same platform and code base. Difference is…we all WFH now due to the pandemic.

My point was really more that worker perceptions of their productivity increasing are just as subjective as management’s perception that productivity is decreasing. It’s all just a “feeling”. HN wants to stay WFH because they are more productive and want management to provide facts when they want to RTO, but the workers cannot really provide data to support their claim any more than management can.
He is owner of Washington Post, not WSJ?
Overall, I'm impressed. Very much.

Now, I'd love to see a picture of how a hand is supposed to sit above or around this trackball because I can't picture how fingers can comfortably reach the 4 buttons just by looking at their location on the device.

Which leads me to the personal opinion: I think I prefer the design of the testbed over the final iteration. Buttons are missing, I know, but... Here I stand nonetheless.
That’s actually a super interesting and positive way to look at this technology. I hope it can assist us in those sorts of ways. My personal hope is we can use this technology to enhance our lives and productivity, rather than it putting vast swathes of people out of work.
Isn't this already a reality with wget, curl, and even package managers like pip and npm?

I mean, any script on my machine can use these tools to interact with network input and execute untrustworthy code...
This is the logic I personally used in deciding not to use D.
Some kind of technological shift that will make nowadays programming seem like chiseling furniture by axe. And we’re all just going to watch dumbfounded when things are going to get to complicated to understand by man.
plot twist: a Tesla truck, with autopilot using bad image resizing algorithms )
I knew about the biometric law. I’ve worked in places that collect biometric data. It’s your job to know these things when you do this work. At the very least, that law makes an appearance on HN regularly.

No law is truly obscure anyways. because they’re all written down for your corporate lawyers to check when you start business. White Castle operates in many states with over 100 years of corporate history. The idea that they couldn’t be bothered to check the laws of all the states they operate in before making changes is not only foolish but if true illustrates a greater sense of recklessness. If you operate in Illinois, you should check the laws in Illinois.
You can't eat bitcoin. So you have to exchange it for food. But unlike cash they don't accept it anywhere (and accepting cash everywhere is what this voting tries to keep a reality).

Also you can't access it in places without internet access or electricity (e.g. during wartime or as a refugee on the go).
Why not use the ternary operator instead: if v.is_empty() { -9 } else { -10 }
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