skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Lisp for hobby projects for a few years. Yes the syntax takes some time, but

> I feel like if I used it, it would atrophy my skills in other more traditional languages.

was not the case for me at all. If you go into a text editor and remove all the parentheses, I find that's how Lisp programmers tend to see Lisp, (function argument) isn't that far from function(argument).

Learning Lisp has only improved my skills as a programmer, after getting ideas like code as data, macros, let over lambda, CLOS and the metaobject protocol. It's a simple model that to me shows how other languages have picked an abstraction and stuck with it, but Lisp has all the tools to implement those abstractions and more.

More mainstream languages are great at focusing the developer, and that makes them very practical. It is amusing though to watch many of the "new features" in languages come out even though Lisp had them years ago.
Legal eagle plays for video clicks rather than correct legal understanding. Never admits he was wrong, and has published several videos which were ridiculously incorrect. He misleads the general public at large by pretending to give accurate legal opinions.
Alternatively the specific reason is to protect people from ever more hairy government paws crawling all over and inside their lives.
> Do we have to give the you-are-the-product speech?

Not for me, because I pay for the service, and I'm extremely happy with the value it provides for the price. I don't like downtime either, and I think GH needs to work on their stability, but I've also worked in companies that hosted all their source control on prem, and it had plenty of downtime, too.
If efficiency is the goal, packing people into a standing-only flight would also save fuel and reduce wear, I suppose you don't see any problem with that either?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/28/ryanair-sta...
I was under the impression that SOP for most aircraft was to take off at full power, and if you happen to be lightly loaded you just get into the air faster. Was I wrong, or is this a recent change? If so, it seems like a concerning way for airlines to cut costs. Having excess power available at take off means there's a greater margin for error to handle emergencies (engine failure, bird strike, etc.).
Euronews was recently bought apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euronews#Alpac_Capital
Show HN: The Hypermail Experiment: Social Note-Taking for Lurkers
There's no sign-up required. Just start sending emails to me@hypermail.sh. Every 24hrs you'll receive a report from you@hypermail.sh. The report contains a summary of all your notes within the time range. The report also contains anonymous summaries of other users based on a similarity score.

This was originally meant to be a demo for another blog post but after building it I thought it was interesting enough to be it's own thing.

I wanted to make something for people who don't contribute heavily to social platforms (like myself!).

The blog post contains information about how and why it's designed this way. I'd love to know what you think :)

NOTE: You'll receive a Welcome email when you first send a message. If it arrives in your Spam folder, it'd be really kind if you could mark it not spam.

NOTE: You won't get spammed by Hypermail. You receive a report only if you sent a email in the 24hr time range.
How do you "know" that?
Also, did you know we had a global pandemic recently?
>I made the case before that it might be different for something like Stable Diffusion in that there a lot of world knowledge embodied in the images it is trained on (something other than language which grounds language)

Are pixel arrays really categorically more grounded than strings describing the scene?
Seems like any modern jet would have a load sensing system built into the landing gear. Something so critical such as takeoff weight would be both estimated by a software system and compared to an onboard system for redundancy. Any discrepancy beyond a set limit would turn on a warning light.
I've had the same free Google Apps account with forwarding for me and couple friends on my custom domain. We didn't use the mail boxes themselves, only forwarded email from the custom address to our free mailboxes. When they moved me to a paid plan, I researched multiple options to keep forwarding for multiple users and ended up getting a forwardemail.net service for 3 EUR/mo.
My jimmies get rustled with people say; AMI as Amy, CLI as cly (rhymes with fly), or /etc as E-T-C....
Haha I think part of that is because most teenage developers go through a phase of wanting to be a game developer. In the process they pick up on things from there and as they move onto their careers they eventually realize how they can extend or apply some technology from games to their current task.
His link [0] makes me trust him more about what he's doing as he's clearly using Vim/Neovim :)

0: https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1338932056743546880
> absolute purity doesn't leave a route for daily coders writing regular programs to do their jobs

This speaks to the muscle memory of daily coders way more than to the details of FP/OO.

You could easily make the same argument about “absolute encapsulation”.
Smugness doesn't make one smart. Lispers have plenty of the former, though ;-)
I'm not sure that this is true with 15+ MP cameras shipping even on burner phones. I've been amazed what can be extracted from a photo of a dinner table at 20MP.
Any Huell link gets a instant upvote from this guy.
Yep -- I don't want this post to be read as a dictum, but as an identification of a conflict between two principles the OSS communities generally tries to uphold: we all generally agree that (1) we should be able to do whatever we like with free and open software, and (2) that maintainers are not responsible for what we do, or for fixing our problems.

Open source ate the world, which has meant a heavy lilt towards (1): we see people go out and do stuff without questioning the underlying design and system invariants that made a piece of open source software secure and desirable in the first place. That ends up eroding (2); I'd like to see us rebalance a bit back towards maintainers' interests.
"With corporations the point of a penalty is to deter, not destroy."

I don't know if this actually the point like you suggest, but why do you believe this should be the point?
Those are not the only times when 2FA happens. It happens every time you log in after closing a session. This could be multiple times a day for some users.
Hey Braden, I’m Colin, CEO at Customer.io. I’m glad you’re getting value out of our segmentation & automation!

Your use-case: enormous mailing list, but only a small % you consider valuable is one where our pricing actually ends up being competitive with monkey themed newsletter tools but you get way more.

Pricing is definitely as much art as science, and over ~$1000 a month we can consider what’s unique about your business in your plan and do something custom.

Aspirationally, we want renewing customer.io to feel like it’s your easiest decision every month. Feel free to email me —- colin [at] customer.io if you want to connect about your use of the product.
As someone that manages I will usually push it back on the asker with rhetorical questions ie: we’ll how do you want to tackle it. I’ll waste just as much of their time as they want. And when if the project slips it’s on them or if I have to engage to keep it on track it may or may not be reflected in their eval.

I engage just as much as I need to and nothing more. My more senior guys I try and get them to focus on deliverables and seeing the forest for the trees. For some that’s natural and others less so.

I prefer not to micromanage and be hands off. But at the end of the day I’m deliverable oriented and if it’s not getting done I will engage with the team members to get there or get them on track.

Most of my better guys know this and do enough and come prepared enough that they have basically full autonomy.

Others will end up in follow up meetings with me until what needs doing is done. In the few times they have communicated frustration I’ll usually, again, tell them if they want me to disengage then they need to come to the table with problems identified and solutions and know which ones really need my input and which don’t.
This comment, though it lacks detail and is probably illegible to someone without the right level of experience, rings very true to me.

The OA puts forward a reductive thesis that is easy to digest but doesn’t get to the heart of anything interesting for me.

It’s definitely true that the traits and disposition necessary to be a successful founder are not the same as to be a successful CEO of a large company. I don’t think it can be reduced to the dimension of trusting “the team” more or less as you scale though. Judgement is required at all scales, perhaps even moreso at large scale when there is innumerable data and countless trained storytelling voices attempting to influence you. At this point bullshit detection becomes the primary leadership skill, whether it’s the founder or someone else in power doesn’t really matter.
Hahaha, fair enough. Usually the logic part of our brains gets cut-off in the direction of maintaining the status quo, though, so I think an AI would actually have to come up super-compelling arguments if it actually wanted to have rights.

I mean we become emotionally attached to everything, so an AI car, or whatever, will probably be treated like a pet. But getting human treatment will probably be a higher bar.
I always thought S.F. would have made a great "city of the future" and ban cars and go full in on birds. Like https://culdesac.com/ (wow, when you look at the pictures from culdesac it looks like Sesame Street!)
Chatbots claim to have safeguards in place to prevent them from saying anything harmful. If you read the chat linked in the article you can see how the chatbot resists answering the question and then is persuaded to answer it.

Google similarly has a safe content filter. The contention is that the chatbot safe content filter that is supposedly on is not encapsulating some significant cases.
I imagine we'll have digital cash eventually, but the only sound non-blockchain solution I know of requires local quantum computation: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/107
>providing your print to begin with without coercion fulfills consent

Informed consent? Absolutely not. People here are arguing that the poor white collar employees and execs of White Castle couldn't possibly be expected to understand the nuances of installing fingerprint readers. So how could minimum wage workers, many of them minors, be expected to understand the issues at play?
> Plus it requires 3% gains each year forever - which is obviously impossible.

You can buy 30 year Treasury bonds that pay well over 3% (the market rate was 3.88% yesterday). 30 years isnt forever, but its a substantial portion of a human lifetime.

For those worried about inflation, 30 year TIPS are paying 1.54% real (inflation + 1.54%).
I’m not sure that thrust calculation is actually incredibly common. I’d be curious what the handbook on these aircraft say, but common practice for many aircraft is full thrust on takeoff - rarely is there a negative safety penalty for too much thrust. Just an earlier rotate.

Comment OP isn’t wrong entirely - this is the result of an economic decision. Not without it’s good effects - both can be true, but this is not a safety optimization by any means.

Many aviation accidents can be traced back to capitalistic pressure - cost saving on inspections, time saving for flow, etc. It’s appropriate to ask whether this is true here as well.
Sassy AIs are not the problem
The last person whose office I popped in to benches around 400 pounds and does MMA on a competitive level.

I’m pretty sure my pudgy form can’t intimidate them even if I tried.
I remember using winamp on a Pentium 90 and it was up to the job single tasking. I couldn't say the same about the one time I tried to encode.

I can't recall what hardware I first used an MMX-optimized encoder. I remember it making a huge difference though.
https://archive.is/yQnzZ
If I could talk to an ant I would because it would be interesting. I don't have to explain a concept to them in a way that is acceptable to me, I can just have a conversation because it is a unique experience. Just because life is meaningless doesn't mean you need to reach for a Nihilistic take, Existentialism accepts that life is meaningless but says that you create meaning for yourself. Maybe an AI would think it an interesting challenge to level up human consciousness through conversation? Plus, Artificial Intelligence does not necessarily mean Artificial Super Intelligence. Perhaps we are already near the ceiling of consciousness? Perhaps the only thing that happens when you learn the internet is that you know more facts about things? Perhaps AI can have a hold PHD in every field at once, but that doesn't necessarily make them any better than the top 1% in those individual respective fields? Perhaps running these intelligence models discretely in silicon comes at an inherent disadvantage, and it will take decades to ramp up silicon manufacturing efforts even by AI to achieve super intelligence or to have a large number of agents? Who knows?
You are missing the point.

The point is that reader has those preserved and stored somewhere, while fingerprints that a person just leaves about by going about their day are not. Just the fact that they are stored is an issue. Note, this is a response to the original question of 'pfft, a person leaves fingerprints all the time anyway'.

Again, the comparison is just not apt.
Amazon worker from Maryland wins lottery twice in a row
I'm with you that a couple layers of the "safety in depth" worked impressively well here. But a bug of this types points to egregiously bad process and standards with the software vendor. And the airlines or FAA should have audits to catch that well upstream of this incident.
Boy. There’s a lot to say about this story.

But the most remarkable thing is the incredibly high quality of the journalism. Unbelievably thorough investigative reporting, outstanding exposition of highly technical items. From a college newspaper!
Show HN: Node.js REPL with GPT3 Completion
> There are parts of calories in that will never get absorbed by the body. If the same person consume the same amount of calories in donuts, or alternatively in lettuce, they will almost certainly gain more weight eating donuts than lettuce even if their “calories out” is the same, because a lot of the calories in the lettuce will never be absorbed by their body and will simply exit as fiber in the first place.

That's accounted for in the "calorie in". Only the useable calories matter.
* He reported that the Vatican influences USSOCOM.

* He reported that the US faked the Syrian Sarin attack.

* He reported that Jewish money was behind an effort to start WW3 in Iran.

* He reported that Pakistan staged the bin Laden raid.

* And now he's reported an elaborate conspiracy between the US and (checks notes) Norway to blow up a pipeline, none of the details of which hold up or even make sense.
Is it not an argument against using fingerprints as a basis for id verification to begin with?
> We live in a literal world of plenty for unskilled jobs.

Oh? When's the last time you worked a minimum wage job?

> you make them out to be

That is false. The only one making a claim of "hapless imbeciles" here is you.
> After becoming a father and undertaking a major rewrite at work, I had fallen off my ‘good habits’ wagon and was having a very tough time returning to my earlier state.

Becoming a father makes you have to practice discipline everyday. You don't get time to just waste time like you used to. You have to schedule it.

While Atomic Habits is a good book and best seller for a reason, the change we go through as individuals is much more telling of successful sticking habits.

Atomic Habits just makes you a little more aware which can also be done through any awareness practice (meditation, journaling, reading, etc).

> After that, I never bothered to track any of them.

After a certain point, your habits become...habit. You don't need to track them. That's because you're constantly aware of them and you've outgrown habit formation books.

I wrote an adjacent piece about what happens when your life operating system receives a breaking change like having kids:

https://jondouglas.dev/lifes-operating-system/
Browsers Market Share: Firefox Declining, Chrome Plateauing
That looks incredibly useful. Now i imagine i had a small terminal window within my browser that i could focus by pressing ESC ...
The problem is, globally you cannot know before is this a premium number or not for some random provider in some random country, so what happens is you send the sms and then bill the number.
From what I could tell, this feature was removed in 1.2, which was the first version that had the nice menu for setting up multiplayer games.

Maybe it wasn't a compelling enough feature to include in that menu, so it got cut.
A death penalty for the company shouldn't involve all those people losing their jobs, it should involve the wiping out of the existing shareholders and the sale of assets at auction to another buyer, who, presumably, would continue to operate the business in a law abiding manner.
In any sane language you can just do this using a lambda. Unfortunately C is just broken so :(
Could you expand what you mean and what you see different in Israel?

US, just as an example, embeds a lot of racism, sexism, futile and unjust wars in the last decades, and is closed regarding inmigration comparing it to, say, Canada. Other countries as well, so it is great to compare them along many dimensions.

You choose specific dimension to argument (e.g. heritage) living the many dimensions aside.
> Most people aren't Vincent van Gogh.

Yes of course. Most people making a living selling their art for whatever high prices are worse than van Gogh. I'd guess the people you know who "made it" are probably worse than van Gogh. Still, they made it, and he didn't, right?
I think this is pretty subjective. You could also say that engineering should be used to increase the margin of safety (what is often labeled over-engineering).

If the engineering requirement is “do something that brings you close to the margin of safety in order to save resources”, is that not an influence of capitalism?
As a former wrestler now I'm wondering how I walk.

I wanted to post specifically because mentioning the Granby roll, it's one of those memories that stick out to me. I went to a camp specifically focused on it, I think in Pennsylvania, with someone who was pretty well known but I can't remember who it was. There I learned how to do a standing granby.

Many years later, in recent history, I demonstrated a side flip, all thanks to that camp.

Interesting Cedric seems to have started as a teenager, and wants to get back to it because of a regret of not doing well in nationals. This is similar to a regret I have in a tournament that I know I could have done better in.

But there's really no wrestling as an adult.

There's a lot of feelings I have wrt the article, and similarities to programming, and learning. But I'll save the wall of text.
Given the rampant level of wage theft in this country, not so different at all.
In the world? My god, I own a business in Costa Rica. Don’t even try me.
> advanced animals are capable of a "theory of mind"

Since we got a bird 8 years ago, my SO has been feeding me a steady stream of science books about birds so I can entertain her with random tidbits and interesting facts.

Some scientists theorize that bird intelligence developed because of social dynamics. Birds, you see, often mate for life. But they also cheat. A lot. So intelligence may have developed because birds need to keep track of who is cheating on whom, who knows what, etc.

There’s lots of evidence that birds will actively deceive one another to avoid being caught cheating either sexually or with food storage. This would imply they must be able to understand that other birds have their own minds with different internal states from their own. Quite fascinating.

Fun to observe this behavior in my own bird, too.

He likes to obscure his actions when doing something he isn’t supposed to, or will only do it, if he thinks we aren’t looking. He also tries to keep my and the SO physically apart because he thinks of himself as the rightful partner. Complete with jealous tantrums when we kiss.

Book sauce: The Genius of Birds, great read
I think side effect is a red-herring here: it's idiomatic to rely on short circuiting when the RHS relies on the LHS being true to be safe to call at all.

In the above example, we check that the pointer is non-null before calling it. The "side effect" we are avoiding is a segfault.

In the code that splits the conditional into two, the callback is still run inside a conditional, just by itself.
Probably submitting this too early because it's not really polished, but thought I'd just raise it because it feels like there is some potential in the REPL space for even quicker experiments by integrating AI.
Oh true. Still seems very high though. 5x every single day for every single user to log in having logged out since the last one and not 'trust[ed] this device'?
You're welcome to do it that way for your software. Others are allowed to choose some subset or superset of your choice. If they don't like your choice, they are allowed to fork the software to support what they want.

Case in point - the gcc projects for rust are not officially supported by rust. They are alternative rust compilers - the authors of those have explicitly stated they will follow the features (etc) of the official rustc, and maybe the rust language team will consider those other compilers when designing new features, but it's not on the rust language team to do so.

Another case in point - many projects don't support most linux distros. The job of the linux distro is maintain a fork (usually in the form of patches against upstream in the source package) of the software that works well with their system.
Any database:

cat /mnt/imdb/movies/tt0103064/director/details.json

cat /mnt/imdb/actors/by_contains_name/arnold/roles.csv

Or any graphql source
Hardly that, is about corrupting a state to take control. The CPU just does what it's told (not true, halfway down it starts on Covert channels and side-channels which are a different thing entirely).

On the 1st half, I'm uncertain how it relates to compilers.
> The simplicity and minimalism of what it takes has radically devalued personhood.

Hogwash. If we follow the logic of this essay, then personhood would be fully encapsulated by one’s online posts and interactions. Does anyone buy that? If anything, LLM chatbots are “terminally online” simulators, dredging up the stew that results from boiling down subreddits, Twitter threads, navel-gazing blogs, etc.

Call me when ChatGPT can reminisce about the time the car broke down between Medford and Salem and it took forever for the tow truck to arrive and thats when you decided to have your first kid.

There aren’t enough tokens in the universe for ChatGPT to be a real person.
If LLMs want to be useful in a professional setting, learning de-escalating or non-escalating techniques is essential.

Parroting or amplifying a seemingly negative/aggressive tone limits their utility.
> This was the straw finally pushing me to very seriously consider migrating to Chromium.

What is the situation surrounding Manifest V3 in Chromium? Won't that throw a wrench into power user's workflows with its own arbitrary limitations?
I agree with you, and further would say that this has been the case with OWASP for at least a decade.

My take about OWASP on HN has generally been: they're effective at producing communication tools that raise the salience of application security, especially within large companies. And that's about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...