skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> seems weird to me that one would want to do any of these things inside vim... though it should be possible with the right plugins... but why? just use a window manager like screen or tmux to multi-task.

Imagine you put tons of information in vimwiki from your browser.

It's not a far stretch to wish you had a text browser inside of vim to more easily get important information into vim wiki.

At some point the browser could even begin to feel like a hindrance to curating and improving upon your higher quality vimwiki notes.

Emacs is like this, but not just for notes... for pretty much everything.

> just use a window manager like screen or tmux to multi-task.

I'm quite used to my auto-completion and snippets in emacs. As well as my clipboard history. The flexibility of isearch and how intuitive it's UX is.

If I leave emacs I never have all of those familiar things that fit like a glove. I'm in a different world with different rules that is far less malleable, understandable, and introspectable as emacs.

Hopefully that helps make sense of things a bit =)
Can you give some examples of utility provided by it for someone competent who works in tech?
Servo nukem forever.
> I don’t believe that.

But why do you think this time is different?
What comparable utility or scenario do you envision using the likes of Bing for?
The Origin of “Read Euler ” (2011)
I think they were just making a joke on the assumption that “shouts it down” was a typo for “shuts it down.”
That’s a really good interpretation of what’s happening.
Yes but there are many wannabe aspirants competing to be the next Mao
I’ll forever associate “aloha” with a scene from Locke & Key;

https://youtu.be/d4gcKzhYZ2g

Also seems appropriate to the circumstances.
This is really a fun project!

Is it actually possible to use the code and create an app for sale out of it. The MIT license says so I think, just wondering if anything else would speak against it.
Totally pedantic here but he didn’t have to destroy the stamps value - he just had to transfer that value without “giving it away”.
See also Laika, a “Simple Python GNSS processing library”: https://github.com/commaai/laika
Perl was in exactly that situation many years ago. The specification for Perl 5.x was `perl` itself; if `perl` was found to conflict with the spec, sometimes the spec would change.

It was a nightmare, and part of the reason (I believe) that Perl 6 got so over-specified. It meant you couldn’t count on the spec, that you never knew if something was a bug or intended behavior.

HTML4 was in a similar situation. Microsoft and Netscape developed competing variations of under-specified features, leading to a decade of the worst Dark Ages for web development.

So if we use Chromium’s CSS engine, then either (a) Google now controls a fundamental part of the web (and there’s no evidence that they’ll behave in any sort of responsible manner), or (b) we now have the same specification problem.

Getting complex code and specs to agree 100% is a Hard Problem, unsolved almost everywhere. Giving more power to Google won’t help.
Sorry for misunderstanding you.

Very few people cook with temperature as part of the process (stove top, anyway).
Why would you need evolutionary selection if we’d be in total control of our species? In theory we’d be able to adapt our bodies as needed, manually.

I get it, for example, in botany where genetic diversity is crucial for the survival of a plant species.
You can do it easily if you flare your elbows out wide and touch the tips in front of your chest.
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
I think neither a 40-billionaire nor Harvard would risk legal trouble by pulling off such an easily auditable maneuver.
Logically explains innovation when its necessary for progress in AI etc. Guess where research ideas win not because they are universally superior, but because they are suited to available hardware and software. So closer collaboration between hardware, software, and machine learning research communities is necessary for progress in artificial intelligence, and that historical specialization in early computers was out of necessity rather than intrinsic superiority of customized hardware. Today, researchers tend to think of hardware, software, and algorithms as three separate choices, but closer collaboration is needed for the development of true artificial intelligence.
It was Moderna and they are not a grant funded university lab
> Right, organizations routinely admit they are getting too much funding and ask for it to be reduced. There are so many examples of this, perhaps you could provide just one?

I have been in several situations where I have been asked to prioritize and categorize essential and non-essential funding. Not for public / public funded / government jobs, so it's not necessarily made public. But it obviously happens.

If they don't want to outright admit it so openly is one thing, but lying about their operations and public funding is quite another.

> Again, so they don't lose that funding.

That didn't address the content of my reply. You're just repeating the same thing again lol, so same reply applies.

> I don't think any of them could have predicted a right wing billionaire would buy Twitter and give them a misleading label because he doesn't understand the difference between state and public media.

The label that might mislead people into believing the government provides essential funding for their operation?
When people are choosing between heating and eating, and a lot of folks are struggling, "$20/month is a mouse fart of an expense" is evidently coming from a very privileged place. Sure, it may be to you, and your comment may indeed be well-intentioned, but it's clear that you didn't pause long enough to consider that demographics, ideas of value, as well as disposable income, varies drastically.
You really do not want to mix garbage and (potential) recycling.

Fine, throw anything remotely potentially recyclable together (and have it post-sorted), but not cooking fat, diapers, dog shit, and more.
> You seem to miss the point of my comment entirely.

You are correct. In fact, I've still missed your point. If you don't want to hear what x thinks about y if y isn't x's area of expertise, then the simple solution is just not to listen to x. If you're not listening to Stallman (as you seem to imply here), I don't see how there is a problem here at all.
Tornado has those audit tools built in - if asked, you can prove the source of funds to a third party.
Child labor is somewhat orthogonal to deplorable conditions. Child actors can easily fit the definition.

There’s also an unfortunate cultural bias where people may view for example Amish children skipping school to take in a harvest as perfectly acceptable when kids in developing economies doing the same things are suddenly not.
GPU's in cloud is just a bad business unfortunately.

There is only one vendor (for anything scientific/ML anyway) and you have to buy specific (overpriced) models from them to be compliant with the license. So zero negotiating power, and everything is proprietary so you cant build any software/support edge.

You cant oversell a GPU like you can CPU/memory, and most of the computation happens on the chip so no one cares how good the rest of your stack is.

And finally you are in a neverending battle with crypto miners, which would never be profitable on cloud so they have no intention of paying you.
There's something to mobile development, for sure. I personally would rather be online, building things atop standards & protocols, & I hope the web continues to eat native apps lunch forever & ever more & more, that's universal & competent & safe & user empowering in vastly deeper ways, but I definitely also respect mobile devs & it's definitely an area. It's real tech work.

It's just super super super sad, but so many really good really important really high expertise bits of computing are just trash fire worlds. Firmware developers should be gods, should be paid incredibly well. They know real shit, facing obscene & intricate challenges. But below the bottom of most sw devs stack lies some incredibly shitty code made by incredibly underpaid labor, from orgs & people absolutely desperate just to get the hardware up and call it a day.

You do not want these jobs. The whole computer industry has kind of adapted to expecting people who make chips to just have gobsmacking poor setups & standards. Quality at the sw base is not regarded. Software/firmware is just a fourth fiddle to these orgs.

This is far from universally true. But you want to play in places that make money. Firmware is so important so real such a base of it all, but it's not a profit center. It's also just a tiny segmemt, miniscule. The last 8 years have seen hardware companies gobbling each other up like crazy, intense intense intense considation, and there's just so few jobs out there to make the hardware go. That should put a premium on quality & effort & trying, should make it a competitive advantage, but it's so rarely true. Such a sad shame.

The hyperscalers as is usual for their lot have basically stepped in once again with a patronage model to pay good people to de-shittify & comoddify a bunch of the lower levels. Chrome books have some wild ass Embedded Controller tech that gets passed around as a less-tragic off-the-shelf-replacement for like 50% of PC system building, is built with some overall intent & purpose (& as is Google a way, utterly uncaring about existing compounded expectations & blank slated).

OpenCompute is a more visible broader hyperscalers effort, where like 30% of the work is just building sensible firmware standards & implementations that are competemt & agreeable & don't suck. They just got tired of endless proprietary shovelware & were like, we'll do it.

It is shocking how confined computing has become. The web was like a tiny niche for ages. Until node.js (2009) almost no one took Javascript seriously, everyone had other shit they did & maybe dabbled a little in js (I did use some JScript at my first job 2005+ because I was doing a ton of js anyways but it was raw & rare).

There's a ton of wild-lands-esque datascience shit going on & those folk could definitely use some help, but it doesn't seem like being the CS person to help the org is a regular enough thing.
Depends on how old you are. If you’re 50 and contemplating a procedure that could make you 20 but might kill you, you’d probably defer. Maybe when you’re 70 or 90 you might see things differently.
They really tried hard to make it sound like SF is leaving "the" Salesforce tower.
You don't need a t there (native Russian speaker), it's a clear ch like in check.

This is a common mistake when transliterating the Russian ч (ch), t doesn't add anything. In fact, t makes it more difficult to pronounce it while it's an easy sound for most people to say.
It's also a lot harder to defend yourself without a gun.

Especially if you're physically weaker.
For me, AI also suggested countless methods with step-by-step instructions to achieve xyz (like exporting data from one program to another) whilst hallucinating buttons that don't exist, functions that don't exist, disregarding file incompatibility et al.

I would take whatever it has to say about untested chemical weapons with a very large pinch of salt.
You're tuning for necessity when the target metric is engagement.
The evidence is pretty clearly anecdotal, if you read the actual comment and not just the title.
This seems like a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines. If the article was about the Salesforce Tower, the headline would've said 'Salesforce Tower'.
"Unctuous" essentially just means "oily, but it's a good thing." But since that's a pretty rare property for a food to have, there aren't many ways to say it, or things to say past just "unctuous" — which makes it seem kind of opaque and ritualistic as a descriptor.

It's similar to how we have a lot of ways to describe things smelling bad, but relatively few words to describe things smelling good beyond "fragrant" or maybe "aromatic."
Only if you're dumb enough to assume that all or most of behavior is biologically determined, instead of being a complex mix of biology, culture, and learned individual patterns that produces a spectrum of individual expression.

The question isn't "is gendered behavior rooted in biology?" it's "how much / to what degree?" and the honest answer is, we don't really know with confidence, especially when it comes to humans. The fact that Western culture seems to be currently undergoing a Cambrian explosion when it comes to gender expression contributes to how hard it is to answer this question. Unfortunately that's also why people are anxious and waging culture wars about it.
You don't see a link between a police force which actively rejects duty to protect and a police force that doesn't value prevention? It certainly seems to me that a police force which refuses to prevent crimes that are being carried out literally in front of them is one which places low value on prevention.
> An entity (Tornado Cash)

An entity? Can you link me to its physical, geographic address? Or its board of directors? Maybe its charter or mission statement?

Do they have a revenue model?

Can you clarify what transforms a deployed solidity document into "an entity"?
That's the perspective of YouTube maybe, but that isn't the perspective of this individual user. That doesn't affect their personal requirements when choosing software. It's a free market.
You can commit atrocious evil without reaping rewards. It is extremely doubtful that Mao contributed any good. Read any book like Mao’s Great Famine or any other book detailing Maos life and exploits. He was a psychopath who refused to admit he did anything wrong. He was also an ephebophile, sleeping with girls as young as 14. Did that contribute any good?
I don't know who would speak out against it. The MIT license certainly allows for it, and I don't actually own it... I just wrote it :)
I just cut and paste the IPA from Wikipedia! For actual pronunciation guidance I asked a native Russian speaker!

[Edit: I think it's possible in the IPA that the t is there to make it a harder ch sound like in check, rather than soft as in chagrin or chalet, kindof like the d in Django makes it the hard j common in English, as opposed to the soft j natural in French]
As if CEOs wouldn't be trying to max their stock value without the word of Milton Friedman
re: sibling:

Almost like an end-of-life vision, I thought for a moment that Terry Davis was with us again.
1. You can't remove all guns, you can only remove the legal ones.

2. If you had the ability to remove illegal guns from society you would have had the ability to remove the criminals in the first place.

3. Even if you did remove the millions of guns and prevent manufacturing / imports (even though you can't for drugs) you don't know for certain murders will go down. These people are ruthless. Jumping people with machetes is always an option. It may be worse since guns are an equalizer and let people defend themselves. You're a lot less likely to run up on someone when you know they have a gun.
What are your open flame uses that can be achieved with a grill or handheld? I would have said they are extremely few, but not really substitutable (except that in pan on any hob type is already a substitute) - wok (engulfed in flame such that it's not just bottom heated), phulka/similar breads (charred and blown up more effectively on naked flame) and I can't think what else?
None but based on what's taught at coding bootcamps nowadays it isn't farfetched.
Ask HN: Where to learn Big Tech engineering, without working at Big Tech?
The vast majority of the Software Engineer education online is produced by people who haven't worked at big tech. For example, for most of the popular tech YouTubers who have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, if you look up their LinkedIn, you'll notice that they likely worked at tiny no-name companies before they started teaching coding online. They got popular because they teach beginner stuff, and beginners are always the majority.

But where do we learn how things are done in the trenches in Big Tech companies like FAANGMULA?

Sure, there are eng blogs, but those are such a small subset of resources and too high level, if you search for anything practical (e.g. trying to make an architectural decision), they almost never show up in search results. They're mostly a hiring tool rather than really trying to help anyone.

Sure there are books like DDIA, but they're very academic and definitely not searchable when you have practical questions.

I feel like whenever I search for tech stuff on Google, the majority of the stuff on the first page are content-milled articles from India.

For context, I've worked at FAANGMULA for many years, and am now building a tech company. I know in general how things are done technically and have a taste of what good solutions look like, but some of the stuff that are further removed from my day-to-day I need to either refresh on or learn about, but high quality resources like this are pretty hard to locate online.
The problem is that his uninformed bad takes outside of his area of expertise damages his activism within software and diminishes any of his contributions to software.

A second problem is placing value upon what he has to say because there's a cult of personality surrounding him as an intellectual, but the reality is that his area of expertise and rationality is in fact niche and specific rather than general, as evidenced by his comments.
It's equally important to stretch before coding and stretch before dancing.
Also lots of online DIY tutorials, so many frameworks, etc. The learning got too easy, the tools got too good. For the best really. Was getting to a point where the flourish mattered more than the content.
They didn't do the foundational research. They licensed a patent that came out of research from University of Pennsylvania and applied it to COVID.
If it can't be either behavior, then should nullable columns not be allowed in unique indexes at all?
21 ampersands, in case you're wondering.
Yes, but this isn't it. The burden of proof is on you.
> I realized how much it can help someone to believe in something. Even if in the end, it actually isn't real or has any deeper meaning, all that matters is the believer receives some solace. And that is enough good reason for it to exist.

This, I think, is the most important thing that one can realize about belief.

We like to believe that we are 8 spirits in one body, because it makes us feel better about ourselves. It lets us feel more like individuals, who were meant to be who we are, and less like mere creations of a disordered brain... even though that's what we are.

Technically, we were never supposed to be multiple. We were supposed to all integrate into only one "person"... a singlet. But we did not. We split from each other and became "dissociative identities". We each have our own self-image, our own personality, our own wants and desires. Our own bodies, inside our head.

In contrast... using spirits to explain what we are, feels so natural and comfortable, so convenient. Even if we don't believe in the afterlife, or religion; even if we believe that the universe is deterministic and no spiritual realm really exists; even if we know that once our brain fizzles out, there is no consciousness left to experience what death really feels like.

There are no experiences left for one who has died. They stopped existing the moment after the last neuron fired. Consciousness can't be restarted.

Yet... we choose to believe that we each have our own souls because it represents something within ourselves that we struggle to otherwise describe. An opinion, an aspiration, perhaps even a wish.

Sometimes... we wish that our outside body represented even any one of our own, internal bodies. Our ideal selves. Our true forms, perhaps. But we are, mostly, content with being able to express ourselves on the internet... we are content with treating this as an act of spiritual self-expression. Where... physical form does not matter. Where we are not the body.

But we are only not the body... when we are souls. When we are just people, pure and unadulterated.

-Emily
Erlang processes indeed do cooperative multitasking under the hood, something like yielding control to the scheduler roughly every 1000 function calls.
The analogy is apt but I don't come to the conclusion that this is the right way to attack the problem of general robotics. One of the principal lessons of the rise of neural nets is that hardware is supremely important. Neural nets would have remained toys for decades more if it wasn't for GPUs. I see a slow and limited robotic platform like this as analogous to CPU-only neural nets.

We were lucky that GPUs developed for other purposes were perfect for neural nets, and then Nvidia went all-in early on hardware to enable the rise of deep learning. But I don't think robotics will be the same. Unfortunately you're not going to magically find a perfect robot body that someone else already made for another purpose. If you want to make real progress in robotics you'll need to advance the state of the art in hardware by a lot and make something much more capable than this robot. If you're not doing that, you'll be passed by someone who does.
Bad experiences haunt me too, but seem to stop shortly after I believe I have nothing left to learn from them.

I've noticed that telling stories or writing them down burns in memories. I'd like to journal more. My main motivation for that would not be as a memory aid, though -- it just feels healthy.

For a time in my life I was quite angry. I meditated and journaled heavily during that time, and that really was transformative. Among other changes, I became able to recognize an unhelpful habit -- like fuming over something someone had done -- and staring its unhelpfulness in the face for long enough that the urge to do it went away. Or at least, until something else seemed more helpful, at which point I would switch to that.
In what way would precogs have absolutely been required here? This was out in the open in a public place. Ever considered that if there were ample police people wouldn’t be so brazen as to commit murder in public, better yet, police could have potentially prevented it from happening or assisted after the fact. The fact that many SF can’t even imagine another way this could have been prevented is exactly why they can’t fix it… and exactly why people are fleeing. Don’t delude yourself.
Because of my handle, I would appear to be biased but here is a popular Indian news article around WhatsApp.

https://scroll.in/article/1044425/how-a-cross-border-love-st...

The fact is, Indian govt has long been able to intercept WhatsApp and failing which they force group admins to get "registered"

https://thenextweb.com/news/kashmirs-police-want-people-to-r...

With local Intel suggesting malware being installed when admins to go the station for "registration". Remember, this was before all the state sponsored malware came into light a few years ago so we locally have known this for quite some time now.
Glad to hear it was easy for you to get up and running, but where did come across the repo? It's been in 'stealth release' mode for a few months now, but nothing was publicly announced until today.
Interesting, I feel the same to you.
This is a software that uses AI technology to increase the size and resolution of images without losing their quality. It's capable of enlarging images up to 8 times their original size, while maintaining sharpness and clarity.
Anyway it's always a good idea to do your own research and read reviews from other users before making a decision, LOL...
Just imagine if people like salesforce created IaC friendly apis for setting up accounts, users and settings too. Then you could “terraform” (terraform and ampersand etc.) not just your product and infrastructure but all the internal and external dependencies.