skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This statement:

There is literally nothing stopping a 20 year old human who lives in Western society from growing their intellectual soul through learning.

Is wildly different than:

I do not believe that a youth today that desires to "grow an intellectual soul" has the single recourse to enroll in the structured environments of universities.

> I have no idea how you clarifying or arguing over the precise duration of the availability of public libraries contributes to that discussion.

Sure, when you totally change what you're saying, it's not relevant anymore.
Once I make my money I dream of opening a 90's esque hacker space like you see in movies like Hackers.

Dark warehouse, neon lighting, The Protegy playing in the background, a place where hackers can bring there machines, talk tech and rage. Coffee in the mornings, bar at night.
great point! and.. you can be addicted to a hobby to a point where it becomes detrimental.

seems there are some similarities between the two. both hobbies and addictions involve engaging in an activity, seems a key differences lie in the level of control, balance, and well-being.
If you want a scalable GC:

- Don't throw everything into a single global heap

- Don't rely on stop the world GC

- Support actors and zero-copy message passing

.. in other words, be like Pony's ORCA.
I’m not convinced it’s an AI quality problem - rather, the difficulty of translating natural language into machine requirements. This is an age-old problem, not even restricted to Computer Science.
I don't think most colleges make sense, except for the social life. I did my first university for the studies, and I didn't use any of it. Then I started a second one just for the parties and social life, and I hardly studied anything. The second one was much better...
> but the second is to clearly describe a compelling reason for people to adopt.

Build source straight from Git:

nix run github:someuser/someproject

Need a different version?

nix run github:someuser/someproject?ref=v1.0.0

Wanna replace some dependency?

nix run \
--override-input somelib github:someotheruser/somelib \
github:someuser/someproject

Wanna fork:

git clone https://github.com/someuser/someproject
# do your changes
nix run someproject/

And the best part is, it's conceptually very simple, it's mostly just a bunch of symlinks and environment variables behind the scenes. If you wanna inspect what's in a package, just `cd /nix/store/yourpackage-HASH` and look around.

NixOS just feels like a distribution build from the ground up for Free Software. The "reproducibility" in every day use just means that stuff won't randomly break for no reason. And if you don't wanna go the full NixOS route, you can just install the Nix package manager itself on any other distribution.

That said, the part where Nix gets painful is when it has to interact with the rest of the software world. Things like software that wants to auto-update itself really does not fit into the Nix ecosystem at all and can be rather annoying to get to work.

There are of course numerous other pain points, missing features and all that. But being able to flip between versions, fork, compile and all that with feels just so much better than anything else.
You have a very optimistic view of the people who worked at twitter.
My local bank removed all tellers and went to only allowing me to use the drive thru ATM.
I used plato and found it pretty meh.

MECC on the other hand
I don't agree. How is this not equivalent to the general authentication problem?

If you consider your impression from the video stream to be the "password" then there must be a second factor to confirm it. Signed audio/video streams is probably where we're headed. Devices used for real time communication will just require a TPM (many already have them).

> How do I know it's my children facetiming me in the nursing home and not just sending their bots to entertain me?

That means that in order to call you their device will have to prove it's the actual stream from the actual camera module on their uniquely identified phone. Every component of a computer system will have cryptographic elements soon enough. There's no way around this if AI ever gets to that level.
Slices (largely) behave like this in most languages

Is that really the case? I can’t think of many languages that let you construct a view into the middle of array, pass that view as an argument to a function call, and allow that function to add new values into your array via the view.

In Python or JS, for example, the “slice” would just be a brand new array, right?
Because many languages have breaking changes in the interpreter. For example it is almost impossible to review old Python projects you have to change so much, it is easier to rewrite in many cases.

Rust and other compiled languages that have backward and forward compatibility in mind do much better.
I've never used Edge: I usually use my Windows machine solely for gaming so I've had no need for it. But one day, that browser started itself to tell me of all the new.. Well, whatever it was, I killed the process before it could end its spiel. So now, I'll never use Edge.

I don't know what their marketing department believe their core business is, but selling adware and spyware isn't a viable long term strategy.
Is there a measure, anywhere, of the bollocks to content ratio on HN on Saturdays? It seems to peak that day. But, this one is so bad, it's not even wrong. Who on earth knows what the future will bring? Who on earth knows, ahead of time, what's worth 10 minutes, or 2 minutes, or no time at all. That's intuition, and that's a gift. All the rest is bollocks, and it seems to turn up on Saturdays too much; that is, the pieces that claim to have identified a "system".
I used to think Linux users were ideological, but now I just think they are long-term thinkers, preserving and contributing to both the culture and the code that will enable freedom of choice, and create software whose goals are well-aligned with its users.
Progressive is more on the social axis, meanwhile left is applied for both social and economic ones. FT are somewhat socially progressive, but right on the economic axis.

Yes, using left/right instead of something like a radar/pizza chart for political leanings is extremely limited.
I can tell you that the French don't "need to rediscover their own cuisine"...

Actually, it may be a good idea for the English to do so because it is all but extinct (I am not going to argue whether this is a good or bad thing...).
I don’t know if that distinction was intended as a limitation, “sound recording” is listed as a derivative work in the statute. It also clarifies that “Copies” are material objects, other than phonorecords

So, mechanical transformation such as rendering a webpage at 150% scale is seemingly a derivative work even if there isn’t any creativity in the process.
The review process is noisy and subject to much social engineering, lobbying, editorial PR, and quid pro quo if also serving as reviewer.

Reviews are inherently noisy because there are usually no more than three (over-taxed, unpaid) reviewers. But papers are now often highly multidisciplinary. Luck of the draw applies with force at n = 3 or even n = 10.

Reviews DO improve quality of final product, especially in the better journals. But there are still huge gaps in reviewing due to the underlying assumptions about “good” science.

For example, the majority if experimental studies using mice and rats use only a single genotype or strain of animal and are therefore essentially n = 1. My inclination is to reject a great majority of such studies without serious review because they are just fancy case reports.

So if you lucked out and did NOT get me as a reviewer you may be good to go at Science, Nature, or Cell. If you did not luck out then you will have to fight with the editor-in-chief to overcome my fundamental dismissal of case reports in experimental biology.

I support the eLife direction. We have squandered 20 years already and the hegemony gets stronger. Eisen is a bold publication experimentalist.
i fairly regularly want pairwise, yep.
> Colleges need to cost less. Much less.

Conservatives have waged a targeted attack on US education by shifting the federal and state tax burden to students. This began with Ronald Reagan and ended with the Koch network. Conservatives intentionally did this because they believe the traditional academic system in the US produces liberals and democrats. By shifting the tax burden to students, they have disincentivized free inquiry at the local level and supplanted it with corporate-sponsored job training which promotes hard right wing political and societal values.

Here is the supporting evidence:

https://starvingthebeast.net/documents/
I wonder how much further the situation in the US has to deteriorate until we stop referring to those moving to Europe as Expats and call them Refugees?

This term seems to be reserved (with an often racist/classist connotation) for people from the global south.
Interesting comment from an interesting username. Antihero, a somewhat strong IPA, from Revolution Brewing in Chicago is my favorite beer. I’ve definitely craved pizza after downing one too many antiheros.
I empathize with your situation.

You are angry and are still emotionally processing and reacting to what has happened to you. Your mind is focused on looking backwards and stuck thinking about your former employer.

For me, what helped was: talking to the other people in your life - your friends and family, ideally in person. Get plenty of exercise and sunlight. Take a break from the screen and social media.

When you have had enough time and space to mentally reset, you may find that you're not thinking about your former job or former managers any more. Instead you'll be thinking about what you are doing in the moment, or what you would like to do next - and that mode of thinking will be much more interesting, and positive, and productive for you.

If in the short term you need to keep the income flowing in, to support yourself or your family, consider looking for a next job that may not be your dream job, but pays well enough, and is one that you don't keep thinking about when you clock off work. After a bad job, a new job with no mental/emotional/political baggage can feel somewhat like a holiday.

Once your short-term financial situation is stable, and your mind has settled down and can think about your future rather than being fixed looking back, it could be a good time to start thinking about and working toward a longer term goal - a goal of your own, not the goals of your employers.
If so many people are reporting this experience, it may be time to re-evaluate the current state of education.
Windows does that too, on top of all the other crap
Once again, the solution to high inflation isn't Fed monetary policy, it's taxation. Corporate profits windflal tax at a punitive rate and income distribution to those worst affected.

Additionally taxes on resource extraction (eg oil and gas, mining) should permanently be high a la Norway.
Your argument is self-undermining.

Those with the means to pay for US healthcare benefit from it. Those without are cut out of the system.

Wealthy Canadian medical tourism doesn't any claims that access to US healthcare is highly inequitable.

Equivalent medical tourism from the US is often to lower-income nations, most notably Mexico.

Searching on "medical tourism", two different lists give top spots to Mexico and, suprising me, Canada. The US is included in neither.

#1 Mexico: <https://medtouragency.com/best-countries-for-medical-tourism...>

#1 Canada: <https://www.healthgrades.com/pro/the-top-10-medical-tourism-...>

And a third, also giving #1 to Canada, and excluding the US from the top sixteen. Or, on clicking through to the full report, any of the 46-listed nations. <https://www.medicaltourism.com/mti/home>
You should also be careful about incorrectly imposing limits on human input, as every "falsehoods programmers should know about x" repeatedly hits on. To continue the name example, there are people with legal names and titles that take far more than 64 bytes to store and truncation is not an appropriate solution. You should store the entire thing, even if that's a small bit more difficult technically. The other limit also applies. Some people don't have any characters in their legal names at all, like my mother (birth certificate name was blank).
Yeah, the bespoke ways the kernel does things makes me wonder if a linux-kernel-specific language could be a good idea. Almost certainly not, but I think that Rust/Nim/Zig/Carbon/etc. have shown that it's not insurmountably hard get a new language up to standard nowadays, mostly thanks to LLVM.

> Klint doesn't provide a way to prevent code from doing the wrong thing, it only acts a checker that things have been done right (probably). That's cool (and very useful), but quite different from e.g. "you can't make this mistake in Rust".

I don't disagree, really, but I'm trying to get a more precise idea about the distinction. Let's pretend that klint makes all the improvements listed in "future work" and all kernel developers `alias rustc=klint`. Is it any worse than the borrow checker or the type system with respect to "only [acting as] a checker that things have been done right"?
My phone has recently started to randomly detect taps in a specific segment of the screen, the placement is just right to trigger ads if im not careful

My normal tolerance for ads is basically 0, so I expect a change on what gets shown to me until I replace my phone, which will be interesting, because ads I get shown are targeted to me pretty accurately

From the location and other problems, I'm guessing the battery has swollen, so it will have to be pretty soon
Xtensa support (esp32). Will be interesting how this will be for Rust and Zig support for esp32

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/llvm/lib/Targ...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Xtensa-Backend

https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project/issues/4#issuecomm...

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5467#issuecomment-1465...
“HustleGPT” prompted to make as much money from $100
If the label doesn't say "USDA Organic", then the labeling is unregulated and can say whatever it wants.
I would assume that any image reformatting or exif stripping by online platforms would protect against this. Yet another good reason to include this when developing apps.
While this has some theoretical merit, IME, limits are quite useful to catch bugs (or prevent degenerate cases). For example I was recently working on a permissions system wherein there can be members of groups. I set a reasonable limit on the size of a group based on a maximum of actual usage and what I could foresee being reasonable. A few days later, this limit was triggered, and I got a bug report. But it turned out there was some bad caller that had essentially an infinite loop that was adding more and more members to the group. Without the limit this probably would only have detected after it cascaded and caused other failures.

As another example, Facebook famously had (maybe still has? I have no idea) a limit of 5,000 friends. This was based on the idea that you were supposed to be friends with people you actually kind of know at least a little bit, which would probably fit within 5,000 for most people. After some more popular users started hitting the limit, it led to the development of public profiles/pages as an alternative product to handle that use case. So in this case the limit allowed the company to identify a new market that they could better serve in an alternative way.

BTW, the George Gamow book that the name comes from (One, Two, Three… Infinity) is a great read for anyone interested in popular descriptions of physics or math. He also lived a very interesting life, I would recommend his autobiography "My World Line".
Hey, definely check Wide Angle Analytics. Cookieless or with cookies. You decide :)

https://wideangle.co

If you need selfhosted solution got for Matomo.

If you choose other solution, scrutinize their GDPR claims, you will be sruprised.
Which is why modern democracy must be treasured for all its faults.
I don’t know. I studied ancient history and historical linguistics in college. I managed to graduate with <$10k in debt because of working multiple jobs, academic scholarships and Pell Grants. Now, I have worked professionally as a programmer for >23 years, but I don’t consider my time in college to be wasted at all. College introduced me to a much more diverse group of people. I got to interact with very smart people on a continuous basis which helped me to think more clearly, more logically, etc.
EXIF metadata is useful but we strip it when we post an image because it’s also a security vulnerability.

Image edit metadata also seems like an incredibly useful feature. Do we just strip it as well?
Nothing in your last 2 points disproved the original comment. In fact... the opposite.
Ha ha, that was pretty good.
will there not be some registry entry you can change?
This issue can trivially occur in sequential code.
Why? For a lot of mathematicians, work being of practical use isn't even a consideration. I know math professors who would freely tell you that they were never aware of any application for their PhD work and never cared, because it was interesting. A lot of math does have a lot of useful applications, and there certainly are applied mathematicians, but it is not, on the face of it, absurd to suppose that there are areas of math with little to no known practical application.
Caveman also say that when give shiny item to other caveman it always break because too fragile. Shiny item worthless. :'(
Gossips paid by the weight of the amount of baseless, uninformed trash they produce aren't journalists.
Beware of False Charity
How dumb is your expected audience if that test required a "good luck!"

It's like basic math....
This is true, but note that the "Zero one infinity rule" only applies to the number of items, not the size of an item. Limits on size are a lot more typical anyway.

(Yes I know someone will point out that to store a list of items requires a linear amount of space, so therefore an unbounded number of items inherently implies an unbounded amount of space)
You’re probably right. That pretty much also means the end of general unregulated computer use. Will we allow it? It’s going to be a sad day.
We're looking at this. Some very fascinating stuff. Somewhere at the beginning of "The Calculi of Lambda Conversion" Church talks about the fact that quantification can be reduced to lambdas. I have not read to the end of the paper (still learning these things step by step) and as we have struggled to understand how we should represent quantification, one of the things that became clear is the analogy between functions and quantifiers on the ground that both bind variables, so on the surface what you're talking about has the ring of truth.
That is along is already great! Could be a way to slowly migrate off google spread sheets.
Speaking of hardware, LLMs dont run on air. OpenAI is likely using a boatload of Nvidia A100s.

And this is where the memory analogy starts to break down. OpenAI probably can't fund a hardware "LLM accelerator" to reduce costs. But you can bet Google, Amazon, Microsoft (who are silicon designers) are pondering just that, and Nvidia is probably thinking of hosting one themselves (which they can obviously do at far lower cost).

Maybe OpenAI can leverage a startup like Cerebras or Tenstorrent, but I am skeptical.
Asks me which design feels better and then has the nerve to tell me that me feelings are incorrect!
4. A socially acceptable excuse for spending a few years learning and doing interesting things, instead of focusing on something more productive in the short term.

When I was a student, it was a different time and place (20+ years ago in Finland), but this was a major motivation for many people. Some people didn't have the financial means to take advantage of that, some had too many social obligations, and some were simply not interested in learning. But for many, learning was a major reason for attending a university.

And this was not about the elite. In fact, studying a field with a clear professional identity and good prospects for a high-status high-paying job predicted having high-status professional parents and right-wing values. Studying a more academic field was a weaker predictor for left-wing values and middle-class parents. If anything, the elite saw higher education more as an investment, while the middle class was more likely to treat it as an opportunity to do interesting things.
last time I tried them they were extremely glitchy. have they been fixed?
I think your point about research is valid, but once that is done and you have a rough understanding of a solution, you just want things to work. You dont want a bunch of ways to do one thing, you want a single opinionated solution. Part of the information encoded in these models is from trainers deciding which answer is best, and that is information itself which isnt necessarily online.
Very simple script to check which PNG files have trailing data:
https://gist.github.com/Juerd/40071ec6d1da9d4610eba4417c8672...

I hope that people who host forums, image boards, chat applications, etc., will delete or fix potentially vulnerable images before anyone uses them maliciously.

One way to repair a vulnerable image is to use `optipng -fix`.
A must read. The Hacker Crackdown.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101

In Spanish (PDF):
https://underpost.net/ir/pdf/cyberpunk/la-caza-de-hackers.pd...
Exactly, and it's supposed to be what this forum is all about: intellectual curiosity and (to some degree) interdisciplinary knowledge-sharing!

It drives me nuts that the anti-intellectual stance is so prevalent.
That marketshare graph is interesting, but what's missing is a graph of the size of the market.

Anecodtally, people aren't moving from Windows to Mac, people are moving from desktop platforms to phones. Maybe Microsoft is taking a ride it into the ground approach. Usage growth for desktop Windows is off the table, Windows Phone is dead, so revenue growth for Windows needs to come from throwing users under the bus?
I wonder if function specialization will help Rust, C++, etc as much as it will benefit C.
I hate landing pages that tell you absolutely nothing about the product, and don't even give you links for more information.
There is a pretty strong reason for this; deviancy from the norm is punished heavily on social media. No one wants to be the main character when they have 300 followers and they're just posting their opinions.
I see that after 50 years, C has finally gained an official null pointer value and type! "nullptr" and "nullptr_t".

That wouldn't be so interesting, but it highlights the complexity of specifying a language and implementing a specification. For what sounds at first hearing a lot like "#define nullptr 0" the Clang release notes identify 7 syntactic cases where the C standard and the C++ standard disagree about whether "nullptr" should be acceptable in a location. Clang takes each side about equally and it sounds like they are waiting for the standards groups to fix the standards.
Fight or Make Nice? Two Books Consider How to Listen and Be Heard
Since you read the article beforehand, you know that this comment is entirely orthogonal to the vulnerability in question.
You are today, but that's because it is a signaling mechanism that you are a reasonably hard worker and willing to put up with bullshit. Also because practically everyone worth hiring has one.

This is not a stable equilibrium, though, when you couple it with the tremendous rise in prices.
Actual title: "Use of Chinese ammunition in Ukraine confirmed by U.S."

So that'll be an impartial claim then.
I rushed from bank to bank with my infant daughter when SVB collapsed
This is a hilarious revisionist history labeling a "hackerspace".

That Wikipedia also calls w00w00 a "think tank" when it was a social forum for teenage / college students is laughable too.