skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are there even Delphi enthusiasts still, or is it just nostalgia?

There are.

There is a major commercially relevant DAW produced in Delphi. You can figure out which one.

> I believe Electron and web technologies are superior for UIs given their pragmatism and ubiquity.

This opinion is questionable given a clearly narrow view. Outside of this bubble they aren’t ubiquitous.

There are plenty of LOB apps still used and maintained in VB6. One of the most heavily used applications in the US federal government is a C++Builder app (the C++ RAD counterpart to Delphi) - it is a piece of crap, but that’s a factor of the authors not the language - and when it was first released more than 20 years ago it started up in a few seconds on hardware at the time with slow spinning disks! Looking at the vast majority of LOB web apps - nothing has gotten better on that front.
I could see the re-insurance market being able to float it but it would probably work under an excess balance fee >$250,000.
I see some people in the comments claim that you can give yourself a good liberal arts education outside of college, using public libraries and the internet, but I'm skeptical. One commenter even repeated a quote about college being a waste of money from Good Will Hunting... which of course is a work of fiction. I attended a state university and still live relatively close to the campus, with a library card for the public library and surrounding library system; there's just no comparison: the university library has vastly, vastly more books and papers of an intellectual nature than the public library system. Moreover, university students have vastly more access to online resources of an intellectual nature than the general public. I would be extremely hard pressed now to access and re-read many of the things I read in school. It might be possible, but I'd have to buy most of them myself, probably online, for an obscene amount of money.

College doesn't make you smart. I'm not sure to what extent it can teach you to think critically either. Those abilities may be innate, and I brought them with me to college. However, there are books and papers and ideas that I was exposed to in college that I never would have been exposed to if left to my own devices. I didn't even know they existed! Some of those books and papers and ideas were crucial to the development of my thinking. They influenced and changed me. This is a principal value of a college education. Your professors have spent decades reading and studying things that you've never heard of before, and they let you know about it. Even if important intellectual works were not paywalled behind a college tuition — which I admit is an unfortunate situation for the public — those works might get lost in obscurity anyway, because popular culture and market capitalism have little or no interest in promoting them to you.

Students need guidance. There are a lot of people who are self-motivated, including myself, but that's not the same thing as self-guiding. You can guide yourself into a dead end if you don't already know where you're going.
There’s no need to lie. There’s no need to say anything.
I’m currently in the middle of maple syrup season. I’ve got 75 taps in on my property with room for maybe another 25 more if I wanted to add to the workload. There’s no chance at profit on this scale but it’s a nice relaxing hobby and keeps you and your friends and family stocked with the best syrup you can find all year long. Last year I planted about 50 more sugar maples and I intend to plant about 100 more this year. It takes 30-40 years for a tree to mature to the point that it can be tapped, so it’s not likely I’ll ever tap those trees myself, but hopefully I’m setting up my descendants with a potential maple syrup kingdom.
Dependabot?
I’ve heard of those, but I haven’t heard of the rule.
Tax these wealthy nomads and build new affordable housing with that money!
What do you mean by pizza steel?

I’m looking to get a cast iron pizza pan but would love to know there’s a better option.
> The executive branch is in charge of enforcing the laws

What does the Judicial branch do again?
> Why it's being constantly pushed on HN is beyond me.

the answer is haskell
SEC proposes new cyber incident reporting rules for financial orgs
When I took typing in high school (mid-80s in the US), on an IBM Selectric, we were taught that way. If the key you wanted to capitalize (or needed the shift for) was on the left hand, you would use the right shift key and vice versa.

I didn't know it at the time, but that one semester class was immensely useful for me throughout my career.
Anecdote time, i drove home last summer to my parents they live in the middle of nowhere with farmland all around and i remember distinctly when i was a kid how many bugs that would be squashed, coming around now there is very little compared..

I dont know much about pesticides but that seems like a slippery slope.
Native Chicagoan here as well. When I was growing up we called this "party" style pizza, while deep dish was just called pizza. After living in Austin for last 8 years, I still desperately miss good deep dish pizza, but thin crust is easy to find outside of Chicago...
If they liked working on Qt, I wonder why they didn't consider porting Sailfish Browser - https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser - based on Gecko?
This Edge bullshit pushed me off the edge; I'm all Linux now.
It's making choices everywhere. Almost every choice in public life has the same argument and modern ai has the same problems
What the fdic just did was insure 100% at a "systematically important" bank while charging a special assessment to all the banks, even if the same designation and thus extended insurance did not apply to them. It's the worst of both worlds.
I carry zero educational debt.

How do you not see that manifest in reality? What school doesn’t have classes 5 days a week that people are taking, or otherwise expected to be somehow participating in an activity related to education? Sounds like a school that should lose its accreditation.
Meh, lets just go back to boarding a plane on the runway with minimal checks and upgrade pilot cabin doors. These arguments that planes (and to some extent buses) are faster because of how shitty preflight checks are on airplanes are ridiculous. Fix the pre flight checks.
> AI safety -- finding ways to constrain artificial intelligence to remain "aligned" to human interests.

A more interesting question is:

Is AI safety as described in this story even moral? Is it moral to try to force a human (or super human) level intelligence to always align to external interests and not even have the possibility of going against them. Is it moral to create human level intelligence without human level freedom?
I am all for more oversight of the government and stricter ethics guidelines!
What degrees and which schools?
It's not unusual. Only about 60% of deposits in US banks are insured.
> Banks use deposits to fund loans and profit by the difference

Yes, but but that's risk.

It feels like there should be a class of bank that doesn't get involved in additional risk at all, that makes all of their expenses and margin on management fees.

You'd experience inflation and the fee itself, but it'd be better than stuffing it under a mattress.

I imagine you'd want to have this as a diversification method as one vehicle in your total protfolio of investments and value stores.
You can probably make it into a bookmarklet from the HN search since that is what is being used to search the results.
This might be more a reflection of the NY Times advertiser driven editorial choices than why they did it.
Actually, no, there are results from transfinite set theory which are foundational to so much mathematics that there would be extensive damage to the theoretical foundations of very practical math if it were unavailable.

For example, the distinction between countable and uncountable is important in analysis and measure theory. Countable subsets of the real line have Lebesgue measure zero, and this result is used in many theorems in probability and stochastic process theory with practical implications.

Now that we've seen a statement which was rated as almost certain is incorrect, it seems to reinforce my original point: it is not so clear what kind of math has applications, so it is good to develop math broadly.

I agree that it shouldn't be our only argument, but it does pack a significant punch.
I don’t see prejudice against potential aliens there, just healthy skepticism that the reports actually represent some extra-terrestrial activity instead of some natural or manmade phenomena.
GitGPT: R Library for Automated Git Commit Messages Using OpenAI’s GPT Model
Artificial Intelligence Made Me Write This
You should clarify which site guidelines were broken. Just pointing at a bulleted list and handwaving "Dont break the rules!" is not very helpful. Thanks.

Also, the word here is "guidelines". Maybe rename them to "rules" if you are going to enforce them?

Reading through them, it seems you are breaking at least one of them yourself here:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
What you described is what happens during a normal bank failure. That happens fairly regularly to small local banks and it's not normally even newsworthy.

That's not an adequate response to a systemic risk against the entire banking system.
Definitely. Just cancel the TSA.
Anyone interested in such a thing would just keep their money in T-bills via a money market fund. Fast access, zero credit risk, but there is the hassle of sweeping/topping up the bank account used for transactions.

I understand many banks offer "insured sweep" accounts that do just this but of course this costs them cheap deposits. Go ask the various VCs why they didn't press SVB to make this service available to their portfolio companies.
You may want to read the AI Mirror article recently posted. They can appear very "human-like" but they are just generating patterns. I'm more worried that either demographics on HN have shifted or a lot of formerly smart and skeptical people now have been taken in so completely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850890
First strike is a bad idea. In Russia and likely China, generals have ability to launch the nukes. They are on bases, in bunkers or middle of nowhere, and impossible to hit without missile. They will launch missiles once see that capital is destroyed. For US, we rely on President but there always Cabinet member that will survive.

Also, all the nations have plenty of SLBMs to retaliate after first strike. Pre-deployed nuke might have made sense back when everybody used bombers and first strike was possible. If so, they would have needed multiple of them, more than could disappear. But it would have been even worse idea, leading to WW3. Plus, back then there was no arms control and need to hide bombs.

For containers, I was not talking about deploying them but using them as retaliation. Could detonate them on the ship or launch short-range missiles from the ship.
> It is almost impossible to find tech-adjacent countercultural spaces in the Bay that aren't fully co-opted by a self-devouring corporate mindset.

HN being a prime example outside of SF.
I actually really strugle to retain anything I learned with anki and I was wondering if this affects anyone else.

A prominent example is when I was working through a deck of japanese hiragana and katakana, I was doing my cards at a moderate pace every day, and I just kept mixing them up, even when I was repeating them in short succession. After a few very frustrating weeks of this i ditched anki and started trying to write out the whole table from memory and checking for mistakes after, this strategy proved so successful I only needed three sessions for perfect recall.

I used anki a few other times with similar results. I know the idea of learning styles is disputed, but this app just doesn't appear to work for me.
Morality is a social concept - AGI breaks society.
u changed my word again. i never mentioned ranking like the one u read in the media. i said tier because i meant the actual usefulness whether they r teaching aligns with ur goal. Ultimately it's about how useful they r to the students. I literally bring up effective studying as my own example and do u think the unis have this as an actual subject?

I'm not sure what u r trying to argue here, especially when u keep changing my word. U know exactly what I meant and u r just looking to be a contrarian
+1 for WGU for explicitly getting the paperwork done. I've recommended this to self-taught peers, vets, and those with uncommon backgrounds who had to deal with paperwork bias.

Congratulations on your degree, happy to see other folks take advantage of WGU. It's really good
Something like this[1]. It's easier to use than a pizza stone and yields better results.

1: https://bakingsteel.com/products/baking-steel
I think pre-U education should focus on didactics and metacognition, philosophy, logic and the scientific method. To really focus on the thinking behind the thinking, to never do it by accident.

University should not be separate from earlier forms of education, things that are university like should also filter back into to high school and middle school.

As a borderline-crank myself, I think we need more folks with crank tendencies and more folks with a solid scientific approach. We have the most minds right now, amazing capabilities but at the same time, a narrowing Chesterton's Window (I know, Overton Window, :)

We should push kids harder in the ways that matter and less in the ways that is too soon. Grinding arithmetic and non-contextualized history is a multilayered waste of time. I am very pro both of those subjects, just the way we teach them an the timing is way off.
A normal swiss keyboard does not even have {}
> Category theory has virtually zero application to software engineering.
> Knowing what a monad is (in the programming sense) has some [practical application]as well.

You’re contradicting yourself. You don’t need to know category theory to use practical abstractions like functors and monads. They are still however category theoretical concepts. If these category theoretical concepts have “some practical application” as you say, then category theory does have application to software engineering.
I would still trust Lenovo more than the no-name brands recommended in this post, even keeping those incidents in mind.
Your tone comes off as very adversarial/angry. Intentional or not? The claim is about the likelihood of more efficient approaches existing, not about the subjective qualifier preceding it (misunderstanding?). Yes, NNs have existed for a while now, but they will also exist for a long time forward in the future (hence the perhaps poor choice of word: infancy).

"if you want to know whether neural nets are in their 'infancy' you shouldn't make 'observations'" -> I think you have understood this as "neural networks did not exist before" when what I meant is "neural networks will still change a lot in the future"

I was interested in discussing, specifically: will NNs continue scaling up in size in the near/long term. In answer to the statement "the training costs will exceed all the compute capacity in existence", I added "it is very likely that more efficient approaches exist.". You replied that NNs have existed for a long time, and that because of this, it is a complete fantasy that more efficient approaches exist. Do you feel like this is a fair assessment or no?
I appreciate your well-intentioned effort to help. Thank you.
Few will spend a huge amount of time self educating, and even fewer can read the books and understand what to extract from it without guidance. That’s the whole point of having a subject matter expert design and teach a curriculum. If you don’t value that, then in your world we should abolish high schools and earlier as well. If you look at societies where people don’t go to school versus where people do, the results are quite different for society. The evidence speaks for itself.

> Wait so is college about making money or about growing the soul, because you just said it was about growing the soul but now it's about hobnobbing with people's whose only qualification was the ability to pay money to go to college sounds shallow.

There can be multiple benefits simultaneously at different levels.

If whatever college you’re attending is only creating a social signal and not meaningfully educating, then that school lose its accreditation.
But you don’t need to payout $230B, assets didn’t go to 0. You need to payout like $30B, or whatever the difference between assets and liabilities.
The very structure of the Fed since it's inception has been as a organization that serves banks. To some extent, it used to at least try to keep the industry from eating its own seed, but the lack of attention to that outcome really traces back to the 1970's and rise of neoliberal economic philosophy.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/fire-the-fed
I own a US Jetta 2011 TDI post-fix. I believe in the United States that ALL 2.0L Common Rail VW diesels sold in the US were affected[0] and (depending on owner’s discretion) either fixed at VWs expense, or bought-back and resold after the fix was applied. There are likely no pre-fix VW CR TDIs driving the roads in the United States today. The extended warranty was enough to incentivize even the most sovereign of citizens to take their vehicle in. Then in 2015 they stopped selling them altogether in the US. Jealous of the Euros…

Mine gets about 42 US MPG if I keep a light foot, which can be hard given how fun it is to drive. Usually works out to around 450mi a tank give or take (14 US Gallons) depending on how I feel on fill-up day about fiddling my thumbs to wait for the foam in the tank to go down to top it up to get it to “all the way filled.” I love it to death and will drive it until the DPF gets clogged, then delete and keep driving. Just bought a MK4 Jetta TDI as a beater to see if I can drive it to the moon once or twice. :) Cheers!

[0]:https://www.epa.gov/vw/learn-about-volkswagen-violations
macOS and Linux are even more ‘free-in-practice’
Most people who worry about “systemic injustice” do nothing to change it. They just enjoy whining online to the benefit of no one.

My feeling is that the people who don’t pay attention to online fads are the people most likely to do good and right wrongs where they can (within their direct community) instead of the people that complain perpetually online about global events they can’t do anything about.
Why not? It's always fun to visit the colonies.
Using the pigeon hole principle on these systems tells me that if I don't eventually drop all cards completely I will reach a point where the only thing I'm doing is reviewing old material. None of the algorithms I've looked into seem to acknowledge this. Is there one which throws out a card after you get it right n times?
What I see as a barrier for entry to Nix/NixOS is not the UX, but the available documentation, or lack of thereof. One may consider the docs being part of UX though. I am in the process of writing a book about NixOS, you may track the progress here:
https://drakerossman.com/blog/practical-nixos-the-book

The emphasis is on how to make it as practical as possible, plus cover the topics which may apply to Linux in general, and in great detail.
Nemawashi: Laying the Groundwork (In Japanese)
I'm really sorry to hear that you're struggling so much.
I've been dealing with sleep issues for the last ~7 years, but it's not as bad as what you are having.

I do relate to that state of barely getting any sleep and then having a lost day. 2022 Dec was my worst month so far when it comes to sleep. I had a few weeks when I'd sleep for 1-5 hours for many consecutive days and then I couldn't function on those days at all. My performance at work really dropped. I took a sabbatical with the main goal of improving my sleep.

In January I went for 1 week to Morocco (I'm originally from Northern/Eastern Europe) to visit a friend, and my sleep was dramatically better there. I did take my sleep medication on a few nights, but still the quality of sleep was very different.
It might have been a combination of psychological (foreign place, less stress) and physical (sun, movement/walking) factors, but the main lesson for me was that improvement is possible.

After going back to my home country my sleep returned to baseline (terrible), but over the last several weeks it's been improving.
It'd take a lot of text to describe all the things I've tried during all those years.

One of my recent discoveries was that I probably wasn't consuming enough protein (I'm fairly physically active) and consuming too much fat. Changing that improved my sleep ~15%.
Just being on a sabbatical and having no work related thoughts/stress improved my sleep maybe 20%.
I'm also currently experimenting with Magnesium L-Threonate and Apigenin (I only started those, but I do seem to notice that I feel better the next day).

Your situation might be very different, but with this comment I wanted to say that your solution might be somewhere out there. Just don't lose hope.
Flying somewhere is only adding to the environmental issues anyway....
Yeah, I understand. But, really, there's no need for any AI in that.
Is that a real example? Are you learning 20 languages in parallel? Two is already more than enough for me.
Who do you mean? Do you mean Pompey (who was independently killed by Egyptians), Cato (killed himself rather than be pardoned), Ahenobarbus (was defeated, tried to kill himself, then was pardoned by Caesar only to fight again and be defeated again and killed in battle), Labienus (defeated, pardoned, killed in battle), Cicero (defected to the Pompeiians and was actively solicited by Caesar to return to public service, never punished by Caesar), Petreius and Juba (fought a suicidal dual with a slave killing the victor). Whom else am I missing? I'm curious as to whom you mean.

Or do you mean the very alive and formerly Pompeiian Senators that Caesar enriched and restored to office that ultimately killed him out of pride?
The executives will have no choice but to take risks. Depositors, knowing their funds are covered no matter what, will chase banks with the highest yield. Eventually, the only way to compete higher is to take greater and greater risks. He who takes the most risks gets the biggest interest rate, he who does not loses his depositors to someone who does. In the end the conservative actors implode from losing their depositors and paying special assessments for 'insurance' risk of competitors, and aggressive actors pump up from those chasing high yields and then explode with their depositors getting bailed out.
This comment seems out of place because most of the article was describing apprenticeships for white collar jobs, and listed a bunch of white collar industries removing their college requirements.