skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this to happen between groups of instances which audiences has different stamps on the front cover of passports.

In case that is going to turn out to correlate with “worldview[s] that [are] objectively incompatible with [the other] civilization”, … what could it mean …
For more than two thousand years the lunatics have been running the asylum spewing all kinds of horsefeather metaphysics about spirits, souls, heavens, hells, gods, demons, turtles, triangles [1], and so forth. We will need to remind ourselves for the next 4,000 years at least that down there is just physics, chemistry, voltage-gated information processing with collective emergent properties, functionalities [2], and so forth, to clean and escape our selves, our languages, our behaviour, our conceptual frameworks from all the drivel. After those 4,000 years, yes, it will probably feel as demeaning to call the universe, the only one we've got, Everett be damned [3], just physics.

Watched recently on the Applied Science channel how to "identify chemicals with radio frequencies - Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance" [4]: just the universe as it is is more impressive than one could ever imagine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_(dialogue)

[2] Michael Levin, The collective intelligence of cells during morphogenesis as a model for cognition beyond the brain, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSNasSsiTlY

[3] Even this expression, "to be damned", is a remnant, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_EHceV9sk
Maybe Australia wasn't a good example of what to do under a pandemic.
Eat the best of what people ate a hundred years ago.

Plenty of people at that time were either:

Starving or near starvation.

Eating a profoundly limited diet for much of the year, relying heavily on salting, drying, pickling - freezers didn't exist for most people, food imports were brutally expensive and too slow anyway for short-life fresh produce.

Eating food contaminated with all sorts of garbage (sawdust in bread..) as food safety inspection and enforcement was only starting to become a thing.

Eating offal. So much offal. Roasting a whole chicken was a few times a year treat for my mother's family, middle income, UK, 1940s/50s. "A chicken in every pot" was a US campaign slogan circa 1930 - before factory farming, lean meat was unaffordable for many.
People on upper middle class incomes in well-connected parts of the world had it pretty good by the 1920s, but the average citizen, not so much.
If we ZIP both SVG and TVG, the difference is not that large anymore.

For most of people, wide support is more important than 20% smaller file size. That is why it is hard for WEBP to replace JPG.
That's a bad example because France isn't really an ethnicity. It's a group of regions that used to speak different languages even after World War II.

You have Bretons that are ethnically close to Irish/Scotish, Alsaciens who are ethnically Germans, Basque who are similar to the Spanish Basque, Corse who want to be independent...

A better example of a country that more or less encompass an ethnicity would be Germany, or Japan. But even there you'll find exceptions (Ainu in Hokkaido, Okinawa being also ethnically different as Ryukyu vs Yamato...)
Are you mad? I say this to grab your attention more firmly!

Do you think unchecked locusts, would not eat the planet bare? Goats, with no predator, would do the same, destroying all vegetation.

Cats torture their prey for fun. Hippos attack with little provication. Even male beavers, during mating season, are deadly and attack without cause.

Everything on this planet expands endlessly, without predation. Apex predators only die off due to starvarion, see prey/predator population cycles for more info.

Humans are perhaps the most benevolent species, for we actually try to reduce our impact!

Heck, even vegetation cares not for anything but itself. Vegetation changed the entire atmosphere of the planet!
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Hacker News only has an estimated 300,000 active users, you better stop posting on this dead, useless platform.
Great points! I opened an issue, but I don't expect much change: https://github.com/w3c/w3c-website/issues/301
> 7Charge sites can allow you to charge any EV that is compatible with common CHAdeMO or Combined Charging System (CCS) plug types.

There's no point putting CHAdeMO plugs on these chargers any more. They'd be better off making the chargers single or dual CCS.
What are time sharing mice?
This is one of the reasons I have become an advocate for mob programming, I think it allows people to have a best-of-both-worlds kind of experience; allowing the flexibility of remote work while facilitating the direct collaboration of in-person work.
Still no IRC support. Which - considering the project that became curl started out as an IRC bot - is slightly ironic.
Some recruiters definitely use automation tools that parse GitHub. I know because I started using a dedicated email address for my git commits a while ago out of suspicion that this might be happening, and I did indeed receive a couple of recruiting emails on it since.
If I've learnt anything in life.. it is one word.. Apprenticeship with a condition that older ppl would show (not teach) you real-life scenarios and responsibility is to improve what we're doing.
> How many database programmers do you know who ever did anything involving relational algebra when creating or tuning up a database?

...and this explains why database designs are what they are. It's also why you don't learn SQL and if you do you never admit it: It condemns you to a lifetime of maintaining CRUDs written by people who don't understand relational algebra.
> (...) a company which believes so much in virtual work that they renamed themselves after the "metaverse" is now thinking to require employees to return to the office.

This is not ironic. It sounds like a disingenuous ploy to force employees out of the company without having to pay them what they owe or deal with the fallback.

Amazon seems to be pulling the same stunt.

The coincidence between mass layoffs and forced return to office starts to look like a massive wave of workplace bullying, and I'd be surprised if it wasn't breaking laws.
Since bad actors were likely going to provide such tool really soon anyway, providing it along with the announcement for potential victims to check their files wasn't probably a bad idea.
Nothing, if it's your users who buy it instead of you.
Be it family, hobbies, religion, other topics of interest, the scope of things to do in life is near-infinite.

You could spend your evening honing your skills for a while, yes, but even then at some point you might feel tired of just spending all your time on computer-related stuff.

Then you log on HN, like you did for the last decade or so, and see another "Ask HN: I don't feel passionate about coding anymore" post. It's okay buddy, passion will come back, or might not in a way that makes it okay, you just need a breather.

Sorry, went on a bit of a tangent, cause I do agree with you in fact. I do expect my colleagues to meet a baseline of competency, one that usually only met by "doing your homework", and at the same time, I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to do it out of habit.
Most likely you are using old GSM codec limited to 14kbps.
The businesses leaving is a feature, not a bug.
Heh! I ran the same for the first decade of Linux use.

Now I am sad.
Well, I worked with a software architect who didn't know database have anything else to offer except SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE.
Yes I believe Singapore was more of less kicked out of Malaysia because there were too many ethnical Chinese?
The only story I know about mice experimenting on
humans is the Hitchhiker's Guide, and I think I'm overdue another one. Any recommendations?
I had the same thought!

Is this perhaps related to learning a language as a child versus as an adult?

As a child in an English-speaking household, "January" is just one of a million other things to pick up, and you just pick it up. As an adult learner, I can imagine it's very difficult because it seems so random; it's yet another thing that doesn't fit into a system so you have to memorise it and try to internalize it.

As a native English speaker, I find it very difficult to remember weekday names and month names in other languages. Mnemonics help, and knowing the derivation of the word can make for a good mnemonic.

Edit: re-reading the GP comment, sounds like it's not so much about mnemonics, more that knowing the historical reasons for weird design decisions can make it easier to accept them. Like knowing why "October" isn't actually the eighth month.
Technically, posting on hackernews is not working, unless "compiling" in which case carry on with the chair sword fight :_)
Semantic Kernel: Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly
Because XMPP doesn't have a commercial entity doing all the marketing work, and that's the only way to propel a type of communication when people don't have the time to choose
The employee leaked the credentials, but I'd argue that finding the leaked credentials, logging in, dumping the data into a file and publishing it with a note how you pwned the company is still a hack. Not a highly skilled hack, but still a hack.
You're welcome to make a PR :-)
I mean, Java 8 had the lambdas and FP which I would argue are pretty important in modern Java.

But like, that’s the rule. I took a web class in college and the professor was teaching how to use <i> and <b> tags, which are no longer supported as part of the standard. (Not to mention that these days it’s not really helpful.)
I learned that a couple months ago and was shocked as well. It could also be a symptom of ageism in the industry: as it becomes harder for those not attracted by the corporate ladder to be hired, they start a business.
> This is what scares me so much about AI researches, many assume that more "human like intelligence" is a good thing, it's been hyper destructive so far, even if unintentional, so I can't see it being much different into the future. Useful yes, not by default always "good".

It is our imperative for self-preservation that drives destruction. Everything else is just human psychology corollaries of the same thing (aggression, deceit, greed). Human drive for destruction doesn't originate in human intelligence, intelligence just amplifies the ability to destroy.

Arguably this is true for all reproducing mammals (whose intelligence is not comparable to humans). If you trap most mammals in a cage and threaten them, they will destroy whatever comes at them to the best of their ability.

So probably more relevant would be to make AGI without a sense of self or at least without an imperative to self-preserve or reproduce, rather than just fearing the development of something that happens to matches human intelligence.
Why would they search of a reason if they see their employees being more productive WFH and they can save a significant share of their capex by getting rid of their real estate footprints? HackerNews needs to stop with the motivated reasoning when it comes to arguing against RTO. Every single major tech company clearly has bucket loads of data showing some portion of their employees being more productive working from the office to an extent where it justifies taking the massive capex hit by bringing them back to the office. Your anecdotal experience doesn't outweigh that.
Because the curriculum is not good enough. It's way too small, and they have no exposure to the actual material other than 1 semester of theory.

And because some people say they did CS, while in fact they did some related study. No experience = no knowledge.

It's not just people who just finished their study.
How was your experience doing this while being a premium subscriber?
PDF however includes (a subset of) Javascript, making it just as Turing complete.

The spec for PDF 1.7 (dated 2008) is 745 pages long. The more modern PDF 2.0 is not freely available. I'm not willing to spend hundreds of euros to get access to the document, but together with the long list of errata and additional documents linked from the standard body's website, I'm willing to bet it's at least equivalent in length to PostScript.
The 'something' here being bonds 99% of the time, so... a funky loan.
You're interpretation of my comment contains the opposite message from that which you've perceived.

I'm proud to have the brain I have, even if it's like an Ape brain. It's not "just something".
They’ve been achieving ~two 9s for the past few months. Given the surge in traffic they must be receiving, that’s honestly pretty decent.
It is a browser extension built on ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo).
> it's funny to think that in the 90's they were considered a symbol of employees being treated like cattle.

Cubicles are still a way to treat employees like cattle. Except that this free-range approach to cubicles mixes the worst of cubicles with not having ways to deal with interruption, distraction, noise.

That doesn't mean open space offices are better. Free range cattle is still cattle, isn't it?

Working from home is like working in your private office, which in the 90s was reported as a perk and a status symbol.
Sue for back royalties ?
Trust but verify. We’ll get processes built around this for accuracy sensitive applications. I imagine it will look something like a GAN configuration with two or more LLMs trained to adversarially critique and fact check the outputs of the other(s). Might even mimic the relationship between the hemispheres of our brains.
your ssl cert expired
Would phishing also not be a hack? What about all the attacks that gained entry through social engineering?
Say that to the plethora of custom made guitars with different necks, different amount of strings, type of strings etc.
> The point is they blame it all on the US. Always.

Maybe because historically the US has been behind a lot of things?

> Trust is a delicate thing. Once you lose it,

Exactly, people simply do not trust the US in countries where they have meddled in. Rightfully.

Ridiculous to make this into a sob story about people vilifying the US "unfairly".
People actually read your profile? What kind of magic is this!
I've also read a line of thinking that negatively correlates home ownership with entrepreneurship - or sometimes this is operationalised as a high proportion of net worth being accounted for by home ownership rather than other assets.

This paper explores the idea in the UK over time, but I've seen studies out there that examine the idea comparing the UK to other European countries where home ownership is less of an embedded norm:
https://conference.iza.org/conference_files/ESSLE_2012/brack...

Anyhow, very interesting to think that there are human traits at play as in the original article as well as structural/socio-economic factors.
Well, that's interesting.

I honestly don't know how they're going to adapt it. A significant portion of the story is told from the perspective of the spiders. Just having giant spiders is going to make people freak out, let alone some of the scenes I remember from the book.

That doesn't even include the second book, which has even more.
I placed Stockfish (white) against ChatGPT (black)
> Everyone will need to push harder to differentiate from others. Race to the bottom.

That actually sounds to me like the opposite, i.e. "Race to the top", or just "a race".
I don't know, trying adding 2 and 2 and see if my argument leads anywhere?

Instruction from experts is a good thing, and that part of college is therefore a good thing. But there are many aspects of college that is directly or indirectly not exactly the same thing as sitting there in front of an instructor.

Things such as paying tuition, socializing, walking around campus, getting classes on being more woke. These aspects add and detract from the central idea of college, which is instruction by experts.

Therefore students have to weigh the total experience and see if it is worth it. The article is saying many of them reckon it is not worth it anymore.
What would it take for you to consider it alive?

Or, to simplify...why is a dog "alive" but a chatbot with a cognition loop is not?
https://test.petcanvas.art/ Is it fast enough for a e-commerce website?
I did a CS degree 20 years ago. Databases, concurrent programming, and network programming were all 4th year electives (I took network, AI, and image processing personally). But something not being included in a core curriculum doesn't mean someone can't learn it.

My curriculum was: Year 1: Intro Comp Sci / Year 2: 2 courses in Logic, 2 courses in data structures and algorithms / Year 3: 2 courses in processor design, 1 course in finite state automata, 1 course in parsers / Year 4: a course in ethics, a course in team programming (which covered UML and version control), and two electives.

I believe a major was 14 courses so I'm missing one, or it may have been it was three electives. I didn't take databases because I was already a paid sysadmin before I started college and mostly at the time database courses were just ten tedious weeks of normalization crap.

Also, treat your interns better. The reason to hire interns is because you plan to devote some of your resources to help them in their professional development. Stop asking what you can get out of your interns and start asking how you can best give something to them.
Do you have any literature on this?
AFAIK, semantic versioning does not prohibit you from voluntarily increasing a version number at a more "important" place than the one you need to increase considering the changes you did. It just requires that you increase it if you do "hard" API/ABI changes that mandate an increase.
> Musk has described the Tesla “Full Self-Driving” technology as “the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and being worth basically zero,”

I can't imagine how a meeting would go if an engineer has to explain to Musk that Full Self-Driving will take a long long time, way longer than it will take him to buy another company.
Hah. Goddamn. This comment was depressing enough to shock me into leaving HN for the night. We have so little time left. I should spend it reading good books.
Some things do change, though, and courses which involve specific technologies should at least be up to date to a point where people aren't required to use Windows XP when every laptop runs Windows 10.
Write-down feature: Yes

(I mean, it’s true that they would be converted to equity in some scenarios when capital levels are triggered - my comment was misleading - but it’s also true that they are wiped out in other scenarios and it’s the FINMA’s call in this case.)
Oh you legend, that was exactly what it was.

And I didn't realise KRunner could do everything in the app menus. I'll definitely look into that.

Cheers
Wait, I shouldn’t have given a random app the keys to my entire digital life?
Great! Multiple implementations are an important part of a healthy long term sustainable language. Even when they are niche offshoots that don’t gain wide adoption, they represent enough of a demand in terms of people writing code in that language and a supply of engineering talent and time to make a solution that better fits the niche they need filled. Just look at Python, there’s Jython, IronPython, PyPy, nuikta, Cython, micropython, and so many others all with varying degrees of longevity and success. All of which started with an unfulfilled need and some development efforts to supply that need.

Rust by way of GCC is great news and will do wonders for helping Rust expand further into the C/C++ dominated world of embedded programming where a lot of hardware lacks the support of LLVM and thus Rust proper.
I think you are describing the animation industry in Japan :)
Quickbit – A Replacement PCB for QuickShot II Joysticks for C64/Amiga/Atari
Zuckerberg seems to lack ... something.
Setting off the halon
Unfortunately, not enough ammunition.
> The big divide isn't over specific beliefs and policies as much as whether you believe the current system tends to favour you or not.

I'm not sure about that. I know some conservatives (which I'd consider myself as well, though leaning libertarian) who are very well off but didn't start that way, and their political ideas remained constant. I know others who aren't particularly wealthy, but hold the same ideas.

Fundamentally, I believe it's more about "what will work?", in essence "if we organized our society along these lines, would it still function, or would it fall apart", and progressives and conservatives have vastly different opinions on that.

For a single issue: conservatives generally believe that "if you pay people to do nothing, that's exactly what they'll do" and thus are opposed to high welfare (because people will stop working, and without people working, nothing gets produced), while progressives believe that people will be freed by not worrying about their income and will voluntarily work and become very productive, which is why they're very much in favor of high welfare (e.g. UBI). It's one side saying "don't change this, you'll break everything" and the other side saying "no, we need to change this, it'll get better".

But it's not about your current status in the system. My political convictions haven't changed much since when I was pretty much poor vs now that I'm doing very well (though they've become calmer, but I'd attribute that mostly to age).
Someone made a comment about how people had to be sold on the usefulness of electricity when it became available. This could be the case here.

I personally have been using it for how do I do this in X, and why is X producing Y error.
Not much, but the word "basic" does some heavy lifting there.

Even with just http(s), what you describe is just a tiny fraction of typical use cases, even if you ignore all the rarely used bits.
Or for people that are allergic to random browser extensions :

// ==UserScript==
// @name twitter redirect
// @namespace -
// @version -
// @description redirects twitter to nitter
// @author -

// @noframes

// @match http://twitter.com/*
// @match https://twitter.com/*
// @match http://*.twitter.com/*
// @match https://*.twitter.com/*

// @exclude http://platform.twitter.com/*
// @exclude https://platform.twitter.com/*

// @grant none
// @run-at document-start
// ==/UserScript==

var nitterInstance = "https://nitter.net"

if (window.top != window.self) { //don't run in frames or iframes
return;
}

const loc = window.location

const path = loc.pathname
const host = loc.host
const href = loc.href

console.info( "host:", host, "\npath:", path, "\nhref:", href );

let redirectTo = ""

if ( host == "twitter.com" || host.endsWith(".twitter.com") ) {
redirectTo = `${nitterInstance}${path}`
doRedirect()
}

function doRedirect() {

console.info( `==> RedirectTo ${ redirectTo }` )
window.location.assign( redirectTo )

}

It is extensible.

Maybe I should group the site specific data together, so one could add/remove new sites at one place instead of several (two?) different places.

Also checking against a ?noredirect or something in the URL sound like a feature I could use.