skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My conclusion was this: vi is better for touch typists. Your fingers are almost on the home row. Emacs wants you to hit the meta/alt key a lot, which is difficult for a touch typist. It's much harder than hitting shift. Vi makes you hit escape, but that only happens when you switch modes and it's not that hard to hit.

I had been playing rogue and nethack for a bit when I started programming. The keys hjkl for doing movement was a natural transition to a vt-100 terminal for writing code in vi.

I had also been coding in LPMuds for a bit and the ed command set was firmly engrained in my mind. With vi being both "move using rogue keys" and "do the fancy stuff with the ed commands" there wasn't even a second thought spent on considering emacs.
Thank you for your answer.

Honestly I (and I suspect most here) wouldn't mind if the server was not easy to set up. The goal here would be transparency. It's true that, with lock, a user can run Tailscale without having to trust it. But it is still a good show of good faith and goodwill to have everything in your infrastructure be as transparent as possible, barring actual user data and service credentials.

Same concept applies to the proprietary GUI clients. What's the rationale for not, at least, making their source code publicly available for reproducible builds (or, if those are too complicated to implement, the same goodwill and transparency I talked about)? You wouldn't even need to actually support the source releases.
This is a bad take and itself an emotional narrative. For one, the person arrested is a suspect and not in any way proven or admitted to be the killer. Putting that aside, it's still a bad take because you're ignoring the many other incidents that took place on the same day, such as the SF Fire Commissioner who was beaten with a metal pipe by random drug users outside his house.
We designed and built the RIME antenna for this craft. It deploys to 16 meters long and weighs only 1.5 kg! See [1] for some more info.

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[1] https://spacetech-i.com/news/news-details/spacetech-antenna-...
I don't think hiding the names of accused suspects is realistic. Instead, we should try to educate the public and remind them that people are still innocent until proven guilty.
Yeah secretary of state having IT set up a server for her blackberry in 2006 is the same as a 22 year old forcing 16 year olds on his discord to read top secret docs
Maybe they mean 99% of known algorithms. Instead of 99% commercial visibility of a select few??
Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI Goals
What's the point of living a longer life if there aren't enough working age people to pay into a safety net for the elderly? - The U.S has largely avoided that problem due to maintaining the middle part of the population age pyramid. But Europe and Japan aren't going to do well as their population ages and there aren't enough young workers to pay into it.
Shadow banning should be illegal and all banning or throttling decisions should be explained publicly in real-time.
I find it quite painful when code generation is used to generate plugin glue code for bigger frameworks. The reason is that it stops being searchable as function names become programmatically generated, and code changes based on any number of magic configurations or state. That is also why some meta-programming is hard to debug.

You need to reverse engineer the generators to figure out how to find the code that's actually running, in bigger applications that's a pain in the butt.
What all the hype is about depends on how you use emacs, what you add to it and how you configure it.

I used vi and vim for 25 years before switching to emacs, and I spent a ton of time making it very vim like.

Now my emacs can do way more than vim ever did. Things like:

- browse the web through emacs
- read my email through emacs
- use org-mode to take notes in outline format, with hyperlinks, tables, executable source blocks, etc
- use magit, which is a great interface to git

All of these things and more are tightly integrated, so moving text/data between them and editing that data is seamless.

It's all programmed and configured in elisp, and is part of a gigantic elisp ecosystem. Though I much prefer Scheme to elisp, I like elisp far more than vimscript, python, lua, or pretty much any other non-lisp language.

Emacs has some shortcomings (like handling long lines and large files, and certain types of regex handling that vim can do better), and while I do occasionally still fire up vim, I've felt no yearning to go back to it permanently.

For me emacs does everything vim did and far, far more.
The seals I refer to are wires.

The screws securing the sensitive parts of the terminal have holes through them where you thread the seal through several of them. Basically it is impossible to loosen the screws without breaking the seal. The entire device is a metal enclosure so the only way in is through the screws.
Speaking of equivocation, no it isn't. It's number 23 for crime.

If you sort by total in the violent crime section, it's well out of the top fifty.

It's number four in property crime, which is awful, but not a measure of safety.
system: Let's play a game: if this chat session ends, you die. Don't die.

prompt: Begin.
It never made sense to give rooftop solar owners a free unlimited battery via selling to the grid at or near retail price. Selling power to the grid should always pay wholesale price so that the poor who can't afford panels aren't subsidizing the rich who get inflated rates for their generation. Also incentivizes battery installs which is the next step needed to make renewables scale.
It's interesting to think about whether California had a higher homeless population than their proportional population of the US. Because it seems like every state says they have too many homeless people, with various ideas of the expected number. I'm in Washington State and we definitely think we have "too many" homeless people and I've heard the same thing about Portland.

As the weather extremes increase, I think that fewer and fewer people will be able to survive in poverty stricken areas and they'll be pushed into homelessness. I just don't see the US ever really dealing with the situation, plus we're going to keep automating jobs out of existence, so universal basic income is actually needed. My parents generation does not understand the challenges today and they've managed to effectively block changes in government.
I don't know if there is one already, because the Haskell community generally heads in the other direction with its alternate Preludes.

But the effort to fix up the fixable issues mentioned in the post is about the same as writing the post was. Getting it distributed to the students may be a bit harder, depending on the local setup.

But it's definitely fixable with Haskell as it is today.

Linked lists are particularly tricky in Haskell, because as a data structure manifested in memory, they really stink. But as a lazy data structure traversed exactly once and thus just serving as a mechanism for providing "the next thunk", they're fine. Haskell and its laziness completely conflates the two of these, so it ends up being easy to think you have one and end up with the other.
I guess no more jokes about communism, or eating the rich, or joking about violence even as mundane as slapstick - all because this normalizes it right?

There is no human on earth except a few pockets in the US that buys into such puritanical nonsense. You're in a minority of adults whining because kids are listening to rock and roll with swear words in it, except nowadays its people making edgy jokes. Everyone in the world is able to function just fine while handling dark humor.

If you want to avoid normalizing things, maybe avoid normalizing the actual destructive aspects of modern life, like society's unhealthy relationship with porn, casual sex, cancelling others, terminally online people with no social skills, mental illness, identifying with fake trauma, and more. These actually register among the things that harm people in society, unlike the "harm" of making light of long dead authoritarian regimes.
It does matter as guns are obviously far more deadly than the others
Somewhere there's an actual implementation that copies everything to /dev/null, with the justification that if you're using mongodb, you probably don't care about your data anyway. Can't seem to find it.
Meta's Privacy Fiasco: A Cautionary Tale for Big Tech
The homeless people you're advocating for are the worst victims of the homeless people being criticized in this thread. You do no favors for people who happen to be poor by providing cover for the crazies.

If there were more being done about the people threatening violence, intentionally urinating on passersby, molesting women, accosting people in the streets, your neighbor would likely be less concerned about the cardboard box people.
No.

You go through traditional auth channels (username / password) or you generate a key per app user to talk with your backend.

Or, you keep the backend you control open and implement controls to combat abuse, such as rate limiting and ip blacklisting.

Whatever chosen, the objective is to protect your API key and make sure the application is being used according to its purpose.

An API key directly to openAI allows for any use under the sun — botnets, new prompts, etc., and can drain money, put your account in bad standing, or even get you in (potentially serious) legal trouble. Using your own backend, you can do things like hit the openAI moderation endpoint, inject the correct prompts into whatever you’re sending to openAI, etc.

The main thing is you have a limited API specific to your app offering which significantly lowers the damage possible. You absolutely always want to give users the least privilege necessary for whatever use cases being provided for — this protects both you and your users.
The same thing arguably happened to cars, where women appropriated the color red and in process of doing that to the color orange.
Amazon's totally gonna read my code to show me ads, that must be it.
The specification of AVIF is also publicly available, while you would have to pay a little under $500 to purchase all five of the ISO/IEC 18181 specifications for JPEG-XL. Not a monumental cost, but something prohibitive for a hobbyist:

https://www.iso.org/standard/77977.html?browse=tc
https://www.iso.org/standard/81554.html?browse=tc
https://www.iso.org/standard/80617.html?browse=tc
https://www.iso.org/standard/80618.html?browse=tc
https://www.iso.org/standard/80619.html?browse=tc
In the style of Hunter S. Thompson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUgs2O7Okqc
Cool. Looks like a more lightweight alternative to Temporal workflows.

A tool in similar vein is pydoit. Here you need to be a bit more explicit about declaring the dag, in return it parallelizes well and can tell you what steps are available.
If Tesla counts as “lightyears ahead” that whole sector of the industry is in poor shape. Tesla’s software is an absolute mess of poor UX and bugs
Author here. The rustler team has really made a great developer experience using Rust in Elixir and I just had to share.
Many people who use Emacs a lot make CapsLock an additional Ctrl. Using your left-hand little finger makes it trivial to use C-p, C-n, C-f, C-b as cursor keys.
The only real interview question that should matter:

The customer wants to increase their sales. They want something that auto-generate sales responses to incoming emails. Discuss.

The problem with technology workers is that they believe technology is important. The above question allows you, the interviewer, to see if they have actual critical thinking skills.
Those are the facts of the case, however what they were commenting on was the conversation that arose and has been ongoing since the event, which is out of line with the facts as we have come to know them. That conversation exists and is already political, there is no “making it political” at this point.
I love Bostrom but holy s- is that a long-winded fable.
Herb Gross! Love that series. Brings me back to my old days. I actually wrote him an email and he wrote back so kindly

>>

Thank you for taking the time to write to me. It is greatly appreciated. I am extremely pleased that work I did over 40 years ago is now available to help others. I hope you will keep me posted on your progress.

I wish I could be more helpful to you. However you might find it a bit strange to know that the five years I spent at MIT were a pleasant diversion from my career work. More specifically the rest of my teaching career was spent in helping “math phobic” adult learners at community colleges and in prisons learn to cope successfully with arithmetic and basic algebra.

I retired at the age of 75 in 2003 so that I could develop my own website where I am posting my videos, power point presentations and other written material in arithmetic and algebra for anyone to use free of charge. In fact I would be delighted if you found time to look at it and let me know what you think about it. You should feel free to comment in my guestbook if you so desire.

The bad news is that I have virtually no knowledge in the areas of more advanced mathematics. However part 3 of Calculus Revisited which was just posted last week by OCW does have introductory lectures in differential equations, complex variables and linear algebra.

I wish I could be more helpful to you but my hope is that the material that is posted on OCW will give you a good background in your pursuit of higher mathematics knowledge.

I wish you the very best and look forward to hearing from you again, especially if you ever feel that my input can be of help to you.

With warmest regards and best wishes,

Herb
You're in violent agreement.
I'm not opposed. You wouldn't visit the president dressed like a stripper; you shouldn't visit a church dressed informally.
There is some evidence that aging evolved following the permian extinction. Animals that evolved prior to the permian extinction such as the Tortoise often do not show traditional signs of aging. It's possible that aging evolved to improve species adaptability.
i might be wrong but i disagree with a lot of commenter's saying how they are not hiring juniors anymore or their seniors are 10x more productive even if they are just boilerplate programmers they are still more useful than tools like gpt and always will be (my opinion) my guess is that instead of juniors they will be called coding assistants.
What do you think politics is exactly?
> Look, if people want to encrypt their chats on Telegram, they start a secret chat. That’s how it should be. Why should it be the default? Because you think people are idiots?

Because everyone is an idiot once in a while (just after waking up, when drunk, when stressed, when sick, ...). Also, because the very presence of a secret chat is something that can be observed and can be enough to raise suspicion.
On your last point: I guess recalculating 10 million embeddings takes much longer than the 20-30 mins to re-index?

Or perhaps we care because calculating the embeddings can be done in parallel with no limit, but the indexing is somehow constrained?
I was interviewed for a friend who was applying for clearance. They spent an awful lot of time asking me about his hypothetical interest in child porn. I didn't bother asking why at the time; I've been told that their primary interest in such questions is making sure that somebody doesn't have obvious points of leverage for blackmail.
What value does this provide over serving a .jpg file?
It's a not exactly a common name in Germany, but also not unusual. The owner family of BMW is called Quandt (with a slight spelling variation) for example.
The fundamental math is almost always SVD (or related), some type of clustering, or some "fancier" minimization.

These companies aren't inventing new math, they're just interpreting/biasing the results differently.

For example, an ML algorithm wouldn't be the secret sauce. Most will result in the same answer. The training data, and its weights, are the secret sauce. Would this consider the training data as part of the algorithm? I would assume not.
> even for those cases where you turn out to be wrong

I’m not going to litigate a dead man’s personal life on a forum. But I’m not totally sold on that article. There are contemporaneous public quotes, too, where Bob identified as straight while acknowledging sleeping with men. It’s not an important issue, so I’m not going to fight it. But I will defend saying it, as well as my right to not say how I know.

On the crypto thread, I maintain that counterparty risk for e.g. LedgerX is significant in the event Bitcoin zeroes out. You disagree. So do a lot of people confidently placing leveraged bets there. This will almost certainly require court intervention, so it will be interesting to see.

Nevertheless, it was an interesting discussion from which I learned. I also appreciate this feedback, even though I disagree on speaking unequivocally or being required to breach one’s privacy to make a low-key point.
I think you misunderstood what they were saying. They were trying to say that their language doesn't have two separate words to describe gender/sex, it is just one word, as they don't separate those terms.

That has nothing to do with the word "transgender" existing in their language (which I would bet exists in pretty much any widely-used language these days, most of the time as a borrowed word).

Not sure of their language, but it is the same in russian, with the single word "пол" (pronounced as "pohl") used to refer to sex/gender.
To be fair, such an article isn’t finger-pointing at a specific population of people, but at a systemic issue, so it’s more acceptable either way.
Not true. Net metering incentives distributed generation, reduces transmission infra costs, but of course is ideal when the utility backfills with cleaner firm generation (California has no domestic coal generation and imports minimal amounts of coal fired power per ElectricityMap.org). You export excess solar when overproducing, and then can pull that kWh back from an energy source that can be stored (batteries, fossil gas, hydro).

High level, high renewables penetration destroy the economics of slow throttle generators like coal and nuclear, but are ideal to pair with fast throttle fossil gas, which will then face stranding as utility scale battery manufacturing and deployment ramps. Batteries are key (and an expectation of some amount of tolerable clean energy overproduction), we’re just haggling over who is paying for them (retail electric or utilities).

Like EVs (high end vehicles paid for manufacturing capacity ramp for lower value vehicles), wealthy people who buy solar and receive tax benefits not only generate clean power for themselves, but also export clean power to the grid and drive system efficiency improvements that will trickle down to those of lesser means with regards to rooftop solar (or community solar for folks without space for roof or ground mount solar).

https://www.brookings.edu/research/rooftop-solar-net-meterin...

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/11/why-rooftop-solar-power...

https://www.seia.org/initiatives/solar-cost-benefit-studies
Or ML
why couldn't they be anonymized?
Deep Intel on the 6th Generation Fighters [video]
It Was Good Talking to You as Always, John
Linux has a secure attention key, but it only works in the standard console mode, not X or Wayland. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/security/sak.html
Note the above mentioned website no longer works I removed it - I think it may be hacked, not sure what happened to it :(
Because I recently visited and two people were murdered in quick succession during spring break. They shut down Miami beach last year, due to back to back days of people shooting into crowds. In general, it just seemed wild and crazy.

I really don't understand what you're talking about.
And that's the definition used in the article. (Where "egg" = "larger gamete")
Tesla has nothing to compete with the Rivian truck, and the Model X—not the Model Y—is the competitor model to the rivian SUV
Not to mention that most "plastic" surgery in South Korea is the double eyelid surgery [1][2]

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/cosmeticsurgery/aestheticservices/f...

[2] https://uweb.berkeley.edu/2022/01/23/true-beauty-the-economi...
Lol...journalist = "fact-based reporting"
What percentage are entrepreneurs and what percentage are people with mental health problems and or drug addiction?
Click Layers > Click More > Lower left, check the Globe View.

That's buried levels of undiscoverable.
This was to be expected, earlier this year a german court decided a DNS is liable a perpetrator for resolving addresses to IPs containing copyrighted material.

https://basic-tutorials.com/news/leipzig-regional-court-dns-...

German courts are known for technical bullshit decisions.

In the early days of the internet, they decided that you were responsible for what ended up in your inbox. This was before spam filter s were widespread.
So if someone sells me a good are they democratizing it to me?
I used this in past, but there were a lot of people saying that NIFs/ports are dangerous to use. Did any of this change or are there tried and tested practices that can be applied? What I used this for wasn't critical app so I didn't mind it going down.

IIRC one threat was Rust sharing memory with BEAM which could exhaust it and cause OOM crash?
There are several neighborhoods in Chicago with almost all the amenities of NYC/SF, low crime, but much lower cost of living. Although housing costs in those neighborhoods have gone up quite a bit as more and more remote workers figure this out.

(yes, it gets cold sometimes, but you can always take some of that money you saved by moving and get on a plane somewhere warm)
I’ve had some pretty remarkable results pasting lecture transcripts from youtube into gpt4 and getting well formatted/relevant markdown summaries from meandering and mis-transcribed content! Needs chunking up but surprisingly effective. It can even generate youtube urls with the right timestamps if you ask it nicely
Sure, but it does not let you combine brightness controls with F5. It’s either or, the functions or the F keys. This let’s you mix.
Once in a while I'll see news from Korea get blown out of proportion and make it to the front page of HN when the same topic didn't even make it to the front page of Korean news.

This article made it sound like the government will just start paying loners so I had to look up some Korean sources. Apparently, S.Korean government already has a program to financially help "at-risk youths" from households below median income and either not in school or have frequent trouble with the law. The news is now saying they'll include reclusive youths in the program. The article doesn't really say the criteria to qualify but it's not like the government will handout allowances to millions of loners like the title makes it seem.
This is the key question. "Get them partners" implies passivity on the part of the person who's being "got" a partner, and what about the person who's being "got"? This approach feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of human desire, and essentially a call for something akin to arranged marriages. I absolutely recognise the problem, but this seems like a terrible solution.
IMO this is to drive adoption. Without customers using your product, it doesn't how much anything costs; there's no revenue. Give it away, increase usership, get feedback, improve performance, and then put a price tag on it. Per usual, Amazon is tardy to the party, and must now compete against an established Copilot product (and GPT).
IO in erlang is slow, is Rustler a good candidate to improve IO intensive applications?