skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not taught anymore. I’d be interested in hearing from someone who didn’t learn cursive if the example in the article is actually hard to read.
I'm alone more often than not because I'm idiosyncratic, not the other way around.
But why do you bring XML? The parent is against human-readable formats, and XML is one of them.
This isn’t the greatest example as there’s some glaring issues. With more small claims taking up the court’s time then how will we have time to litigate actual important matters? Will we then have to result to AI judges? Slippery slope.
Similar here. Mostly alone, but not lonely (thanks in part to HN?). I usually manage to hang out with someone once a week or so (mostly, they come visit me to surf with me). That feels just about right. I do worry, though, about what happens if I get sick or injured.
> Or what about clean water, or electricity

Is access to clean water or electricity improving / getting cheaper? How about clean air and stable climate?
Being able to run a test suite in parallel on your own machine is massively more useful than having to run it across a bunch of machines in the cloud. First of all, clouds go down (the external-dependency problem), or become unavailable when Internet isn't available (and also cost extra money). Secondly, you get instant (more or less) feedback on whether you broke anything, and that allows you to maintain velocity without having to backpedal. Thirdly, if the suite is run concurrently in a deterministically-random fashion (where it outputs the seed before the suite starts), you can often identify reproducible concurrency bugs that will NOT (or be very unlikely to) show up on your multi-VM cloud test runner (which run all the tests single-threaded on separate machines). Fourthly, if we're talking a functional immutable language, those types of bugs (which are some of the worst and most costly of bugs to track down and fix... I know this from experience, a nondeterministic session-loss bug at Desk that it took me a month to fix likely lost thousands of customers, not to mention the cost of essentially benching me for a month plus the benching cost of the previous devs that took a stab at it and failed) are rarely found to begin with.

Every one of these leads to either more productive employees, lower ongoing costs, or happier customers. How are these not tangible business results?
> 2) Let her use part (50%+) of the time saved to learn coding or whatever other skill she needs (not sure coding is it).

People are still pushing this meme on HN, even after GPT-4?
Always wondered why USPS didn't adopt a system for writing zipcodes similar to the one used in USSR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_Soviet_Union_1977_C...

Add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_postal_codes.svg
Forgot to add, also checkout Rash, made in racket, you can combine bash commands with racket

https://rash-lang.org/
Someone didn’t watch Chernobyl
Let’s make this more constructive, why is there nothing that can’t be done ? If we really as a civilisation wanted to avoid catastrophe do you really think at this stage we couldn’t pull back ?

We’re on hacker news, you need to be creative and be a hacker, but just a person who likes the Internet.

If people start using ChatGPT-5 to hack critical infrastructure and take down power grids, do we just give up and die ? Or adapt ?

I’m going to float a pretty controversial idea…the technology we have today is an experiment, the digital world. Humans can survive without it.

Already it’s causing problems such as the spread of misinformation, addiction and social division. There is nothing to say that we can’t unwind a lot of it endangers our futures. Technology is supposed to be a tool to help us out, it’s not supposed to endanger our lives. Clearly it’s out of control and causing a lot of anxiety, we’re moving quicker than we can adapt and that’s also not good for technological progress either, so we’re on the wrong path.

Edit: Have a read of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/12by8mj/i_used... , if we don’t tear ourselves apart, there’s a good chance the backbone of the Internet will be torn apart long before much else happens.
That's fairly trivial to do, someone doing it for you is certainly not worth anywhere near £130.00 in my humble opinion.
But json is terrible for configuration, e.g. comments are absolutely required. Toml and Hocon are for configuration.
alas, because blockchains allow open participation, there is no reliable definition of split-brain, or network membership, or anything at all, really

because there is no canonical definition of the set of nodes which represent a source of truth for the state of the blockchain

the blockchain state is a function of game theoretical (read: unreliable and non-deterministic) algorithms that assume the result provided a majority (typically 2/3) of participating nodes can be assumed to be valid

they are I guess CP based on these assumptions (and others), but those assumptions are probabilistic, they absolutely can be violated, and those violations create forks of the chain which invalidate even the weakest consistency models

and nobody seems to care

the notion that blockchains are "trustless" is a complete fiction, all state necessarily exists in the context of some trusted authority, decentralization just means that this authority is not well defined, arbitrary from the perspective of its downstream consumers, unaccountable
"Air" Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw "The Last Dance"
Words are there to be abused :-)

Or at least bent to purpose, in this case the narrow zeitgeist of the 17th Century European numerate intellectuals .. those were the days of very slow limited copy exchanges of the latest thoughts by mail and by word of mouth via salons.

Somewhat like Mastodon with the bandwidth of a hikers backpack full of parchment.
I cant seem to post code into it, otherwise this is my favouite UI so far.
Good post on the quote:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/30/hour-play/
> A mindset of, I am doing the best I can here, if it's not good enough sack me.

Or maybe you just have a robust self-image? If it's that, I think it's a strong adaptation.

> I am still unpacking this though.

I went through years of therapy & many therapists. Got almost nothing out of it. Much of my childhood still lives with me for some reason. So... same here! One thing I love about programming is that it has far fewer of the kind of gray areas that I couldn't navigate as a kid. Can't tell you how much I love that when a program runs right, I can usually be assured it will continue to run right. It's totally awesome to have a job where you can be provably correct a lot of the time.
As someone who has had to develop desktop software (ugh) with true cross-platform support for MacOS, Linux, and Windows (thanks Animation and VFX industry) using golang, I can assure everyone that it is not “really easy” to make things like Qt compile for different OSes on different OSes. IIRC trying to build for M1 Mac on AMD64 Windows was the worst.
Loneliness and busyness are not antonyms.
Having been belittled by my second-trade teacher for my abysmal cursive, I’m pretty happy to see that particular bit of arcana go by the wayside.
If the american economy is so great, then how do you explain the inflation we see right now? Its the highest since 1970 I believe.

Edit, 1976
On average an electricity customer in the USA experiences more the 20 times the interruption to service compared to one in Germany when measured by annual minutes of outage per customer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIDI
Is it discipline? Or a medical condition? For example, I wouldn’t say someone with anorexia has impressive discipline. I can’t think of any reason rooted in reality why someone would fast for almost 2 weeks straight.
I really passionately hate that car companies get away with making their service manuals so incredibly expensive as to dissuade owners from performing their own maintenance. It should be criminal. Manuals and official documentation should not be charged for by manufacturers. If there’s a cost to making them, then include it in the price. Fuck these bastards.
As someone who has had to develop desktop software (ugh) with true cross-platform support for MacOS, Linux, and Windows (thanks Animation and VFX industry) using golang, I can assure everyone that it is not “really easy” to make things like Qt cross-compile with golang. IIRC building for Mac on Windows was the worst.
Also discussed here: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting...
Also an ADHD person. He's not exaggerating. I do notice every single 100ms delay in the computer doing what I commanded.
Slice Finder is a versatile and highly configurable framework designed for the discovery of explainable, anomalous data subsets, which exhibit substantially divergent metric values in comparison to the entire dataset.

To illustrate, imagine that you have developed a model for identifying fraudulent transactions. The model's overall accuracy across the entire dataset is 0.95. However, when transactions occur more than 100 km away from the previous transaction and involve cash (2 filters), the model's accuracy drops significantly to 0.54.

Slice Finder is a crucial investigative instrument, as it enables data scientists to identify regions where their models demonstrate over- or under-performance.

I really hope it may bring value to you! :)
Advanced Linux Programming (2001)
Funny that he considers certificate expiry as vulnerability.
I understood that you were being sarcastic. I should have said I loved your comment and thanked you for it as someone who was born and raised in New Orleans.
It’s been a while since I emigrated but my UK bill used to include a daily “standing charge” on top of the per kWh rate.

My bill in the US does split things up between the supplier (who buys the energy) and the infrastructure operator. By US standards it’s not too complex. I definitely miss the EU rule on advertised prices being all inclusive though.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35475280.
I highly recommend Telford Taylor‘s book on Nuremberg. It was an amazing, yet flawed process.
Clojure has had pretty remarkable stability over the years. Maybe Common Lisp even more so, since it's based on a standard that hasn't been updated.
Luckily there is a solution to this compatibility mess.

https://useplaintext.email/
I think vector_spaces is saying that it would probably not do anything.
Related (just one comment, but it was pretty good):

When Slide Rules Ruled (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396887 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)
The first time I had fizzy kimchi it blew my mind. Why does this feel like it's carbonated? Well, simple: it's carbonated. Then, I noticed that the container was gently bubbling. As an outsider to the culture who just loves spicy and/or fermented goodies, it was almost alarming, but it tasted fresh and delicious and I quickly convinced myself that it's entirely plausible for CO2 to dissolve into the water in cabbage just as easy as water that isn't in cabbage; that this is just advanced fermentation technology beyond my ken. But now I want carbonated dill pickles.

But fear not, dear reader: this delicacy isn't only available in Korea. My city has a sizeable population of Korean diaspora, and local grocers sell excellent kimchi (as well as a selection of kimchi refrigerators).
Is Outlook really only at 4.42%? Hard to believe with how ubiquitous Office 365 is.
Global pandemic, and then supply chains strained beyond capacity afterwards because of unprecedented demand.

The inflation given that context is not that bad all things considered.
>Those comments are not yours, so this is a false analogy

It was an example of showing a capability exposed to users designed with security in mind. Mods being able to edit posts on forums despite not "owning" them is a normal feature. A better example for this site specifically would be submission titles.

>The average user doesn't know about drive enryption.

All major consumer operating systems Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android use drive encryption by default. Users don't need to know about it to be protected by it.
Wish ppl would keep their mouth shut so we could have one good thing for a year
Me too but embedded (yip, ruby embedded). Love this!!
Ok so those are 'unsafe'. Plenty of safe (when statically checked) data structures in zig, like the managed array list, where the associated allocator is attached to the object.
Oh definitely. There was even more bad actor nonsense too but I don't wanna say to much or else I sky demask myself. But I promptly quit and the dude went from buttering me up to to make me stay to insulting my new job in the exit interview real quick once I made it clear I had no interest in being his employee. I had never experienced someone so manipulative in a workplace before.

If my current employer hired this dude as VPE, I would immediate quit. Just an asshole.
Depends on what you mean by "FP-ish". I never saw this code, but the way this was described to me as high church FP, the kind of people who really wanted to be working in an ivory tower FP language and so had coded as if that's what they were using.

I don't think it's unreasonable for average Javascript programmers to look at that and say, "WTF", the same way that they'd look at code from somebody who wrote C in Javascript.
> The problem is funding goes more towards killing varied brown people than improving technology.

The "war on terror" is mostly wound down now. But the point you're making is not correct; most advanced technology, especially aerospace, emerged from military research grants.
Do you recall his call sign?
If we're in the business of listing alternative ways to evaluate elisp (not to diminish IELM or the elisp modes of course), I can think of two other common ways to evaluate elisp.

* Eshell (launched with M-x eshell) is a shell in Emacs which uses a language that has elements from elisp. In particular, expressions in parentheses are evaluated as elisp forms [1]. Eshell is a shell (like e.g. bash), so it also has syntax to conveniently evaluate external commands, though it lacks some common shell functionality such as job control [2] and some types of redirection [3].

* Org Babel elisp source blocks [4,5]: In Org mode, use "#+begin_src elisp" and "#+end_src" to delimit lines with elisp and evaluate using C-c C-c, which will, by default, insert the result of the evaluation below the source block. This can be useful, if you want to keep a more organized record of the evaluated commands and their results in comparison to a REPL.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...

[4] https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html

[5] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-...
Editions Open no-level price (US dollar) Licensing model Channel availability
Enterprise $15,123 2 core pack Volume licensing, hosting

So it's like $7561.5 per core, but as usual you need to license all physical cores in the server[1] if running on the pOSE.

Of course MS heavily push for SA and while it's not useful for the most SMBs it has benefits like unlimited virtualization rights.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2022-p...

[1] https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/4/0f4c1b3c-cbc4-...

Edit: as a sysadmin the quite easy to configure default maintenance plans with backups is a godsend. It is still very awkward what you need reinvent the wheel (or use/buy a 3rd party product) to just backup databases on schedule in PG/My SQL.
This is the sort of thing that, if more research is done into this, has the potential to lead to pretty wide ranging challenges to previous decisions. Many courts would rightly rule that such an arbitrary decision making process is unconstitutional. Though I have a feeling such challenges would ultimately fail as those bringing the challenge would likely be required to prove that their particular adverse decision was affected by the factors talked about in this article. I would think that would be virtually impossible in most cases.
Sure, but you're now evaluating the technology in business terms. That's very different than somebody who loves the ideas of a language. I don't want to start a language war, so I won't name one. But consider all the developers who were very excited about "blockchain" not because it improved anything practical for their projects, but because it was a hot concept.
I believe you have good intentions, so with respect I will try to help.

Maybe try write what you would like to say in your native language, into a translation site or app, and then copy/paste the English version here? Then you can do the reverse for replies you receive.

Something that may help the translator app work better, is to simplify your native writing, as if communicating with a young person.

Doing this regularly may also help you improve your English.

Or if you are doing that already, I suggest trying a different translator app/site, as the one you are using is not giving an accurate result.

Anyway, best wishes to you.
My handwriting is not your handwriting, nor is it millions of other Americans' handwritings!

There's also plenty of edge cases: letters get wet, they smudge, get torn or folded, and so forth. A postal system that processes 420 million letters a day[1] with a 99% true positive rate on OCR still needs to divert 4.2 million letters for manual review.

[1]: https://facts.usps.com/one-day/
I grew up reading a lot of Heinlein. I always really got a kick out of reading about people flying around the solar system (and beyond) in nuclear powered ships, using slide rules to do the math for plotting their course.
there is no single definition of a crdt "register"

i know this because i've implemented many versions of crdt "registers", with different properties, at scale

there are lww registers and multi-value registers, the former provides deterministic (but arbitrary) conflict resolution which loses information, the latter provides deterministic and non-arbitrary conflict resolution without losing information but with a more complex API

> The observation was correct at that time and place, meaning, in the partition that it was observed. This is the P in AP.

this is not what partition means

partition means that different subsets of nodes in a single system have different views on reality

if v=blue was true only during a partition, and is no longer represented in the history of v when the partition heals, then this value is not legal, violates serializability, is incorrect, etc.

https://jepsen.io/consistency#consistency-models

this has nothing to do with synchronization
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Aquarium aside they’re a major oceanographic research center and might be what you’re looking for in the environmental space. https://www.mbari.org/

Edit: Just to add, they are a 501(c)3 non profit, you can donate here https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/join-give/ways-to-give/g...
Wow this is a really good reply. Thanks for taking the time to write all of this!

I think I agree with pretty much all that you have said here actually, this is one of the better and more accurate descriptions of the current state of things that I have read in general!

As far as the magic thing goes, I was replying to this specifically, and other similar statements made in other parts of the thread and even in the original post (the blog post or whatever you call it) itself, and even more so in the media:

>But it wasn't designed. It's not a computer program, where one can make confident predictions about its limitations based on the source code.

There have been media headlines about the potential for modern AIs to turn evil and destroy the human race sci-fi movie style. I think people who believe this do believe that current AI is "magic" in some sense but I'm not totally sure how to pin down exactly how.
I do think, since electronics have become cheaper and the AM/FM dial is becoming emptier these days, that we ought to look into what you're saying as a way to revitalize radio.

Although at this point I think it's on a one way path to being more bandwidth for the Internet (in one form or another).
Parody? if you weren't disrespectful i would have argumented further, instead i'll just wish you a happy easter :)
Read the thread I am responding to.
Not like the speed of light, but similar to thermodynamics. It arises statistically from complexity.
with NDA, I think it's fine
> Dooble is a minimal, scientific, and stable Web browser.

What makes this scientific?
People often make the assumption that everyone was just roaming primitive hunter-gatherer cavemen chasing deer across the plains until one day somebody just happened to suggest "Hey, why don't we stop here, start some large-scale intensive agriculture, and build a city?"

That's beyond extremely unlikely.

People lived in villages sustained by horticulture, fishing, local hunting and gathering, and pastoral herding long before intensive agriculture. Probably at least 5,000-10,000 years before. They could certainly have built other things if they had a use for them, and would use them long enough to make it worthwhile. Those that migrated seasonally from one village to another, year after year, might have done so.
> doubtful that this isn't a "cause celebre" sort of situation

I mean, honestly… it just is. Is it a new proof? I believe that it is. Is it any good? Yeah, sure, it's pretty clever. Is it really an all-over-the-news special kind of achievement? No. It simply wouldn't be all over the news if not for… uh, non-mathematical reasons.

Allegedly it's special, because it's trigonometric, and trigonometric proofs of it are indeed special. But this one is… let's say it's "trigonometric with an asterisk". Both because of the series, and because it is kinda analogous to a known geometric proof. And the first one truly trigonometric proof, which was really special, wasn't as much celebrated, as this one (but, of course, the internet was a bit quieter place back then).

And, yes, I agree that it does a disservice to an achievement. And I'm completely positive that it is an achievement no matter what — every new proof is, and it's especially true when the theorem is well-known (and there are very few more famous than this one). So, honestly, I'd like if we wouldn't have this discussion at all, and could just stick to the matter. But the problem is we probably wouldn't even hear of it, if not for those "non-mathematical" reasons. Because by itself it isn't that huge. I would love if every new proof of a famous theorem would be highlighted and celebrated on the Internet as much, as this one, but it simply isn't the case.

It's understandable, so it's neither good nor bad IMO, but I'm just saying that your suspicion is definitely correct.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The last two places I worked at that had office 365, everyone just used the web interface. It was pretty miserable but beat having a separate application just for email.
Opération Persil
I think there is a very real possibility that GPT et al fail to live up to the hype. I think the tech is amazing, mind blowing in fact. But, after using it for a while, I feel dissatisfied. It’s not quite good enough. That fact that its answers come close is impressive, but they’re still not enough for me. For instance, I signed up for Copilot hoping to have my mind blown. It was neat, but didn’t have any appreciable impact on my coding.
Is it just me, or is it really hard to focus on anything on this website? I can't pick out a specific reason for it, but looking at it feels chaotic, like my eyes are being drawn to a dozen things at once