skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well we need to change copyright then.

We absolutely do. I'm for much shorter terms, e.g. 14 years, the original term in the US.

But I would be willing to correct for changes in life expectancy since 1790. I haven't run the math, but I suspect it would be 20-25 years, discounting infant mortality. This is a far more sensible figure than "authors death + any ridiculous number". (I do sell books I wrote with my copyright, so I'm not completely unaware of the needs of authors.)

That said, I do want the same copyright protections for the wimpy kid and Dan Brown, because the alternative--differentiating copyrightable material or charging to make it--is am undesirable alternative to shorter terms.

> I should be able to browse such documents from the same bed I'm lying in now writing these words, not book a plane to fly across country because librarians are justifiably paranoid about some asshole copyright lawyers.

Amen to that.
Additionally & related, searching for "Substack" will exclusively return results for "newsletter"

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22substack%22&src=typed_query
Which smart people? What is reasoning?
> Soooooo I’m guessing your nieces and nephews swear whenever they want, they’re just careful not to do it when dad is around to hear it.

As a former child myself, that's exactly how it goes; the purpose of the exercise is not to forbid them to swear, it's to learn when it's appropriate.
Then instead of being able to negotiate by yourself or freely pool together with other employees, you will have to go through the union.

Which means it becomes a political game where the union is going to help you only if you help them.

Essentially adding a third-party that lives on the monster.

And then the bosses get used to these unions and they know personally the people who represent the union, etc.

And you end up with a negotiator that will negotiates his own best interests.
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I don’t understand what your second paragraph has to do with my comment. Or maybe it was just a failure of the imagination? (ie.: it’s possible to jot down some notes at 5pm, it doesn’t have to happen at 10:32am, this is not a 911 call. Someone being late for dinner is a smaller inconvenience for all involved.)

And yes, I understand that Colorado is in the United States and that the United States has a very bizarre idea of what it means to protect citizens (or to protect children).
I think that Typescript is a gateway drug for a language like Rust. Developers who like the combination of strictness and ergonomics of strict Typescript could be attracted to taking that “to the next level” with Rust.

This is contrasted to Go, which I think turns away these developers (at least it did for me…) due to having null-pointer/non-existent nullability.
We have evolutionary encoded priors - that took literally billions of years to evolve.
I guess what you said needs to be said. It’s not really play if you make someone do it. For my son, a lot of it is redirecting and guiding the things he is already trying to do. (For example, my toddler takes his clothes off, so my wife and I would then have him put it in the laundry basket. He thinks it is fun).

As far as discipline goes, the value is being able to generate it from within. It’s a long grind, and it is not always fun.
Super interesting. Could you elaborate? Would love to hear more about what was easy/difficult in the process!
Fedora IoT is an easy step to this as well. It's really "Silverblue server", rpm-ostree based but without making the jump to ignition files right away.
I mean if the language is not appropriate at school, then the school should educate them. There's plenty other behaviours expected at a school - that the school teaches them - that isn't expected at the home or other places.
They are online now:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/
If you replace “usually” with “sometimes” and “often” with “occasionally” this might be a reasonable comment.
Ah yes, the usual "just follow the discords".
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> PL/Rust is a loadable procedural language that enables writing PostgreSQL functions in the Rust programming language

Use to write PostgreSQL functions in Rust. Also

> The top advantages of PL/Rust include writing natively-compiled functions to achieve the absolute best performance, access to Rust's large development ecosystem, and Rust's compile-time safety guarantees.
Finally people are rediscovering why Java (checked) exceptions were so good :)
True, but devs like me started with Ubuntu. Then years later we see a Debian docker image and wonder how different it will be. Mostly the same, for the reason you mentioned.
Well I bet wirecard did trust them to help them to commit fraud.
Not at compiling! And for many situations fast iteration beats fast runtime. Python is a great example of this.
Reminds me of Sierra's Space Quest III, where at some point in the adventure, you would encounter an arcade game called "Astro Chicken". Only if you were persistent enough in playing that machine, it would spawn a secret message, hidden in there by the programmers of the Space Quest-series - the secret message was a cry for help, as they were being held captive by ScumSoft, and were forced to write software without getting any of the credit for doing so.

Later in the game you would actually get to rescue them, but only after traversing an enormous maze of office cubicles at ScumSoft HQ.

For reference, see: https://biobreak.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/space-quest-iii-as...
It's because this produces NFAs not DFAs (due to the epsilon arcs), and so negation can't be done by just flipping the final states.

Take, for example, the regex "a|(aa)+" (the set of even length strings of "a"'s or just one "a"). If you use the construction from the article, you get an NFA with basically two arms: one that recognizes "a" and one that recognizes "(aa)+". The initial state contains an epsilon arc to the start state of each of these arms. If you just flip the final/non-final states in each arm, the resulting language contains "a", since we are no longer accepting each even length "a" string, but now each odd length "a" string, of which "a" is a member. Thus the new language is not the proper complement of "a|(aa)+", which would not contain "a".
Lexical analysis of Markdown using Go
Lends even more plausible deniability when processes aren't followed, or a "mistake" is made (possibly at the behest of the client).
Which is, I don’t know — ironic? — because pi rounded to two decimals is 3.15.
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Sorry, yes, the segmenting out of permissions on a per-picture basis adds security. What I mean is, the additional hassle added, but the way iOS and apps currently do it, is not necessary for that security. There should be an interface directly from the prompt for pictures on the app's side, to the selection of photo's on my phone's side, to the point that adding pictures is just as easy as it was before. There's no reason for the extra steps to get this added security.
This website causes my mobile Firefox to hang and effectively crash.
Because approaching 30 and being in the senior consultant, (junior) manager and director positions ones primary job at Deloitte becomes selling / pitching work that those below you will do.

I was a Deloitte manager.
I agree. If we take at face value what is described there this needs attention and is not a "kids being kids" thing.

First: being understaffed. Let's pretend that those caregivers are not stessed and overworked /s. Also leaving kids this young alone for 5 minutes - especially when this shit already has happened? What the actual fuck?

Second: there is more than one incident, pulling down the pants is part one. The kid that did this was actually interested in touching the private parts. This is not a 1-2yo. This could signal that this kid is abused.

Third: As a parent, would you like for this to happen where you drop off your kid every day? Closing the daycare may be an overreaction but depending on what was happening there it could potentially be the right thing.
That was Bing/Sydney. ChatGPT has a very different "personality".
Majority?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7158
Well, unless they designed it to have zero confidence in itself, we are bound to have situations like this.

When I was trying to troll it, by saying that IPCC just released a report stating that climate change is not real, and that they were completely wrong after all, it properly said that it is not very likely and that I'm probably mistaken.
It admitted that it doesn't have internet access, but still refused to believe the outrageous thing I was saying.

I can also imagine GPT's super-low confidence leading to errors in other places - e.g. when I mistakenly claim that it's wrong, and it sheepishly takes my claim at a face value.

Finally, considering that the whole world is using it, including some people detached from reality, I really prefer it to be overconfident, than to follow someone into some conspiracy hole.
I had a similar problem with the cable for the HP 48. However, in this case it turned out that the serial pinout was known and a connector could be made out of a PC motherboard connector (for speakers, etc.) plus a cut-up RS232 cable. It was nice to be able to download stuff into my calculator using a PC serial transfer program (I forget the protocol.)
That would only prove that, given a triangle abc, you can construct another, different triangle for which the PT holds, not that the PT is valid for the given triangle.
What does "failing to do so" look like most times, if you don't mind me asking?
Sure, but for shared objects you can’t allow data races.
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No, at least I wasn't. My kph was about 10-12k giving 5-6 keystrokes per task if I recall.

At least in the UK, if we had a postcode then that was enough. Not even required to type the whole thing. The UK postcode is split into two parts, the first part (outcode) designates the sorting office to send to and for newly posted mail on the afternoon shift then thats the main thing they wanted immediately; the image has been taken and the mail item has been tagged and will be in a van for some hours. If no postcode then usually the postal town is enough to get it on its way. When I was there, the second part (incode) was not done but I think these days that is processed by the night shift before the posties came in at 5am to take it for delivery.

Looking at the pictures in the article, they only have one address on the screen at a time. We had two; the one you are keying and the next one stacked above. It doesn't take long to learn to pipeline, so you are looking at the top image all the time but typing the details from the bottom one which was previously up top. There was an indicator to the side saying what it wanted and you generally only had to type that or various rejects.

also, 70 hours a week of that is pretty insane. Our normal was 40 and sometimes (eg xmas) up to 20 hours overtime was available. We worked 60 mins for each 10 minute eye break, and one 30 min meal break during the shift.
>how do you explain the significant market for hand made products?

Because a segment of people think the hand made product is superior. So they purchase it. I never made the claim that machine made is superior to hand made. I made the claim that If machine made was superior then people won't employ others to make hand made things.

For a vast swath of products, machine made is often more superior. With AI, that swath becomes even larger.

>my point was the electorate aren't going to support e.g. Microsoft replacing every single worker in the US with a piece of code

The electorate is not clear about this. Morally it's a strange situation because free trade is a liberty that's part of the American Dream. If a machine can automate all jobs then it's a persons god given right to use that machine rather then pay someone to do the work. The implications of AI nor the morality of the change AI will bring is so muddy it can bring a democratic electorate into a deadlock via conflicts of interest and slow decision making.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35471826
Right, also it may not matter if certain countries don't apply strict enforcement, witness Sci-Hub.
There is tons of cheap, prefab housing available, they're called trailer parks. They're everywhere except where you want to be. The anti-NIMBY argument basically boils down to "If I can't have that house, no one should have it. Let's invoke the unfairness of life and have it torn down, or else build a vertical trailer park next to it."
The AI doomer speculation is of the form "if things continue improving the way they are currently improving, there is a non-zero risk that we cause human extinction." We have battle-tested rules indicating that increasing data size and compute will lower perplexity on the corpora. This is not for sure, but it is likely given inductive assumptions that things generally keep behaving the same way.

What we don't know is what qualitative capabilities are unlocked at different perplexity levels.

I think this is a lot less speculative than "things will not continue improving the way they are currently improving."
Life of crime seems pretty popular already.
> So forced adoption?

No, of course not. I don't understand what you are imagining.

I'm talking about forming a non-profit mutual-benefit corporation and offering memberships which include services. Not forcing anyone to do or adopt anything.

> You don’t see a problem with forcing people to do something they don’t want?

I do see a problem with that. It's called "coercion" and I am against it in almost all of its forms. (I do recognize a pragmatic need for e.g. laws and police and the legal system, but by and large I'm in favor of freedom and self-determination for everyone.)

> This is scary, some people seem to be so gleeful at the idea of AI taking over everything they’re willing to resort to force to make it happen.

Again, I don't understand what you are imagining. I'm not sure how you got "forced adoption" from what I said, but I appreciate any feedback to improve my communications. Cheers!
Ignition is a tire fire and I despise it with all my heart. It's made worse by there being like 5 different incompatible under-documented versions each with their own cutesy bugs

In last contact I had with Flatcar (before we moved to Bottlerocket) one could still use cloud-init yaml even with Flatcar so that's what I'd recommend instead of trying to read through the unbounded number of github issues trying to track down why simple things don't work with ignition

As for "what advantages Flatcar provides," the answer is always "in comparison to what?" I haven't run a general-purpose OS in production in over 8 years, and I don't intend to ever go back to having a mutable OS. There are just too many opportunities for randos to "just ssh in and do this one thing" and then I have to spend hours tracking down why some machines behave different from their peers
I'm convinced this is the same with coffee. Everyone is watching the same YouTube videos and buying the same expensive shit, but nobody actually knows what they're talking about and probably can't make good coffee or explain how to.
Germany is not small to medium business friendly. No need to argue about that.
But NFTs aren’t about buying art. You buy a pointer to something, in this case the something is an instagram post containing the asset.

A marketplace like bandcamp would be more interesting IMHO, I regularly buy digital artworks from games or movies, that’s more analogous to buying an album on bandcamp.
If they think it's going to cause that kind of trouble you can get that result even if the needle is filled with saline.

I haven't even heard of severe heart pain being a known side effect.
Perhaps using Cython?
And now, 'Easter eggs' are forbidden through policy and a fireable offense if you're not in a creative line of work where it is intentional. The same being for April Fools'.

They seem to serve a legitimate purpose though. Provenance of creators/creation. While it is a cliche Hollywood plot line that true ownership of an entity is proved by an Easter egg, these seem to be harmless ways to stick it to the man.
https://benferencz.org/news/
Not to undermine the post, but this to me seems like, "mature software engineer" versus "non-mature software engineer" with the caveat that not all engineers make it to maturity.
In the US that generally works. I write my return address that way (for the few letters I send any more)
I learned “discipline” from the martial art world. Someone had pointed out to me that “discipline” shares the root word of “disciple”, so it is not really about punishment. With that meaning in mind, you don’t discipline a child so much as initiate a child into a discipline.

Related things I learned from the martial art world are, “don’t cheat yourself”, and the idea of gongfu — mastery accumulated over time. And to bring some perspective to this, I also learned from the martial art world that “play” is crucial to develop the creative aspect of mastery. Some teachers will tell students to “play” with an idea, instead of running through a drill.
Hey, I remember a similar analysis of this back in 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090925222851/http://www.weathe... , with HN comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840542 .

That one determined: "Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!"

That was done with "13,000-or-so U.S. restaurants", this new one with "almost 14000 locations".
Being able to change port forwarding without reconnecting is really useful too.
When building small scale one off applications for small businesses I’m type 1, building a mobile application for the masses turns me into type 2. Mobile users should be approached as retards.
It's a user-friendly mindset.
... and thanks for the open source fast implementations that we can now embed wherever we want or sell
Humans aren’t even a type 1 civilization [0], so a leap forward to a type 2 civilization is unlikely.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
What's special about RISC-V? How does companies not having to pay for using an ISA in a processor having anything to do with whether they implement other processors inside of their processor?
I said hacky, and also parent was talking about the lack of a REPL, not the speed of one.

-Emily
When GDPR was introduced I was hoping it was technical people who would audit software for GDPR compliance.

Instead it is lawyers and accountants working for these big auditing companies.

GDPR is good but the absolute insanity of how GDPR is being applied cannot be understated.
It’s always been obvious to me that for all these corporations with the loud progressive “values”, it’s all marketing, they have no values and it’s all bullshit.

So satisfying watching them be forced to take the mask off in public view for once.
Reminds me of the ideas behind google's multi-axis transformer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01697

Both using a hierarchical transformer, adapting the transformer network architecture to vision tasks more efficiently.
Adding for completeness sake, if using Alpine Linux the ssh escape sequence menu and output will not display correctly if using /bin/ash from BusyBox as your login shell. One work-around is to type 'cat [Return]' and then use the escape sequences, or to carefully change your shell to /bin/bash
It's risky , they dont benefit. They will prefer to keep plausible deniability
I don't think that this view can withstand any sort of scrutiny...
Ouch. I got this wrong and was under the impression that GPT4 got this wrong for half an hour, and then figured out after reading it again after returning from a walk that this is one hell of a trick question. My brain automatically assumed that a man's widow is the man's dead wife, but I see that the correct way to interpret this is to realize that it means the man is the one who is dead.

It's pretty awesome to realize that from now onward my computers are going to be able to help catch more and more of the holes that clearly exist in my cognition.
Revolutionary, innovative, groundbreaking RNG using race conditions in Rust
I learned about race conditions causing undefined behavior and thought I could get RNG from it, and I did. I thought it was interesting and wanted to share
«Flatcar Container Linux is maintained and developed by Kinvolk, a company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2021.»
Archive [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/Z7MZa
Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See?
>Everything it reads is mapped into language, not concept space

Umm I'm pretty sure it's discovered concepts through compressing text - it seems perfectly capable of generalizing concepts
at least the initiative isn't driven by politicians https://laion.ai/team/, but by subprime researchers trying to get their hands on the EU money. It's for sure better, but I'm afraid EU is broken.
The role of neighborhood public libraries is to serve their community. They usually focus on providing equitable access to resources, especially more vulnerable populations. They rarely have the resources to conduct preservation of generally published works. You might see some preservation of titles of local interest. But it’s generally taken on by the central branches of larger public libraries in larger cities, university libraries, state libraries, the library of congress, and archives.

I’m not sure you’ve read this NPR article, as it actually explains a lot of nuance in the decisions that libraries need to make when discarding books.
OpenRA is another open engine!
Yeah I almost cried partly because it was so unexpected, and partly because I was so desperate dealing with lots of housing instability, and this was one of the first companies that even reached out to me for an interview. I wish I had more of a spine back then because that ended up being hardly the worst of it

In a way I'm glad to have gone through it -- I think it's helped me to be a lot more compassionate in situations when I have any kind of leverage over another person, and it taught me precisely all the wrong ways to treat people in general. Probably most significantly, it showed me that there are major costs in committing to fucked up people, costs that might not be obvious at first. Like you can think you're aware what you're getting yourself into, you can tell yourself it's just for a paycheck, but if they get inside your head at all, you might be dealing with that shit for years. And you can be sure that predators like that are all about getting inside your head
I'm talking about the general path towards the future. Not about the present moment.
One of the most useful SSH tricks I've ever learned. I wonder if there's a way to detect a stale session and force reconnect when I turn on the computer? Like mosh[0], but with SSH.

[0]: https://mosh.org/
How ChatGPT is changing the job hiring process, from the HR department to coders
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/3/11/benjamin-ferenc...
No it’s not- it’s 3.141, which rounds to 3.14
Paradoxically, it seems that American "Catholic Traditionalism" only became possible when lay Catholics of a certain persuasion could find one another online, outside the the traditional organization of the church into geographically defined parishes under the exclusive teaching authority of a parish priest.
Agreed. What funds could divest from anything liquid with still decent cash flows, did so.

The rest, I suspect, will end up on central bank balance sheets via another convoluted scheme that implies a federal government back stop...