skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is on at least one less computer than it could be.

I decided not to have Windows at home (I'd choose Pro version as preference for several reasons). It is enough suffering with it working hours, I feel relieved almost every day when I can turn it off finally.

They make no money here. Not from license, nor from advert or other whatever they try to push down the throat.
Absolutely, well beyond nagware at this point (with default settings).
I'm glad people are continuing the promise of Rome. High quality, high performance programming language tooling is a great mission and very much an unsolved problem. And tbh, the Python ecosystem is a great space. There's plenty to be built.
But yes, Windows NT was basically a DEC product. Cutler probably left because he knew DEC was dead. DEC: the brain was dead, but the body lived on.

DEC showed how long a company could survive on inertia alone.
Not sure if there was much need for snark, I was simply stating some positive aspects of living in the U.S. (becoming increasingly difficult) - would be nice to not have the violence piece thrown in my face. There are also plenty of cities with “culture” and low levels of gun violence here. San Diego, Denver, Portland, Austin for example of bigger cities.

Some of us have family and friends here or simply can’t afford to live in or move to the EU if we wanted to.
Good points. I'm not sure if this is right but I wasn't thinking of ALJs as being in the "federal system", which I admit isn't a precise term.

In terms of distinguished prior careers I'd say that's less than plenty of current lawyers though. One example could be Neal Katyal, who has agued all kinds of shit before the supreme court.
> At some point we have to stop accepting this narrative that monopolists and other rentiers are doing us all a favor by "taking on the risk" of actually owning things, freeing us of that "burden" and graciously allowing us to pay them for the privilege of that freedom...forever.

Why? The setup you described seems strictly worse than the one we have now. Currently a business can, but does not have to, buy property. You propose a world where they must buy property, claim it will be OK because banks won't mind lending them more money, then put scare quotes around things instead of refute them. Why do you think there is no risk or complexities in buying and owning real estate?
I just went to check the date and it was 23 years ago that Bill Joy (of Sun Microsystems) caused a tizzy with an essay on the cover of Wired magazine with the headline of "The Future Doesn't Need Us: Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species."

For what it's worth, genetic engineering and nanotech are, broadly speaking, the tools that enabled our species to develop and roll-out an effective COVID-19 vaccine in under a year.

And, for what it's worth, writing articles about how "THE SINGULARITY IS COMING!" continues to be a way to get some attention... whether or not one has anything useful or novel to say...
From a quick look, this is the paper that coined the idea of the technological singularity? I was aware of the concept but not the history.
The main problem is that teaching is only one of many things to influence what and how people learn. From teachers perspective ...

If I conclude after a lesson that learning took place then why? Is it because the way I taught (words and examples I used etc) or because kids had finally enough time to think about topic and things just fell into place and it really didn't matter how I taught? Or it didn't matter at all and they knew it already, but finally just realized what I asked from them? Was it learning at all or just memorizing? If learning didn't took place then why? Is it because of normal cognitive overload? Is because of lack of attention? If yes, then why? Tired? Hungry? Just a bad day? They just didn't like me? And these are only very basic and general questions. Normally there is 20+ kids in the classroom and they all might have different reason why they learnt or didn't. There is a lot of going on in every kids' mind and all these matter how they learn up to very big and complicated things like culture, family background and group dynamics. Every experienced teacher knows that depending on class results might be very different even if you use same methods, examples, words etc.
0-5 Years: I depend on my parents
5-10 Years: I want to learn to be independent
11-20 Years: I want to be independent and free
20-40 Years: Oh crap I need a network of friends and our parents to depend on to help with our kids
40+ Years: Oh crap I'm dependent on the love from my children who moved out
Zune's were very basic music and video players(I used to own one.) You can't say with a straight face that the user interface of the Zune had any great similarities to the User interface of a desktop OS.
Woah, I have been watching all of this guy's videos recently, I love how deep he dives into niche topics. His video on segmented displays got me very interested in the clever designs that came out of technical constraints, and challenged me to get back to design a little bit. It's nice to see him linked here
It's not like the "make money" part is superfluous, though. You need it for research.
Also seems to have relocated to a planet with two or three suns
Looks nice, I'll try it for my next little project.
I'm assuming it isn't deception as much as it is a bit plain ignorance. I confess I have harbored the thought that English is not phonetic in the past. Is a common thing for folks to say; especially when trying to point out that English is hard.
> using an Android phone (that hasn't been de-googled) without a Google account.

This is still very doable (or, it was when I got a new phone a couple of years ago). It wasn't even hard to avoid using a Google account.
>They are demonstrably and objectively not “fine”

Aka "my opinions are the objective viewpoint".

>They are the primary destructive force in society

Hyperbolic nonsense.

Today's mobile society with cars is better than anything else that has ever existed.
80% does not matter, period. I mean 20% is a lot. Hotspots are - spots. Like 0,5% of your code. Not UI for example.

You know, when money is flowing in, you have to hire some good people, let them spend time on fixing hotspots and in some rare occasions, rearchitecture a part or maybe two. Probably won’t pay off, but if you are growing fast enough, it will pay 100x.

Also you’re decreasing all future development speed with all this unreadable shit everywhere, so beware of optimizing unnecessary stuff.
Related. Others?

Marginalia Search has received an NLNet grant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34945541 - Feb 2023 (17 comments)

A Theoretical Justification (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586273 - Aug 2022 (22 comments)

The Evolution of Marginalia's Crawling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32565052 - Aug 2022 (22 comments)

Botspam apocalypse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339314 - Aug 2022 (346 comments)

Marginalia Goes Open Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31536626 - May 2022 (72 comments)

Uncertain Future for Marginalia Search - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200319 - April 2022 (37 comments)

Marginalia Search: 1 Year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30823481 - March 2022 (29 comments)

Show HN: Marginalia – Exploration Mode - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30047455 - Jan 2022 (53 comments)

A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764 - Sept 2021 (717 comments)

(just as a reminder, these lists are only to satiate curious readers - there's no reproach for reposting! Reposts are fine on HN after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
You could say it's management's fault they didn't know entire crews were on heroin. This is one of the challenges of being management: every failure is conceivably a management problem.
Nothing stopping you from running redundant links with redundant appliances, except beancounters ofc
NSO developed 3 new ways to hack iPhones, Citizen Lab says
Program Reconditioning: Avoiding Undefined Behavior When Finding and Reducing [pdf]
They have abandoned community editions - it is several years behind the pro edition, broken on high-DPI monitors, no code-completion/navigation. No plans to release a new version.
The cost is irrelevant. What could you learn in 12 months that an AI couldn't learn in 12 hours (or 12 seconds a couple of generations later)?
Does ArrangoDB have the changefeed thing that RethinkDB does? It's really nice to be able to sub to changes to a collection/table/etc in a single line.
Now people have more modern versions of the UI, it should be possible.
That answer seems simple to me, because cars offer a lot of freedom to move and do things.

As a society we can choose to completely urbanize, and some countries and regions do that pretty well. There’s not too much to choose from in the US to live car free, but it’s possible if someone really doesn’t want to drive.
>> Not exactly. It's a well-established accounting principle that you capitalize costs that provide a benefit over multiple years.

OK, so lets flip this. I'm a founder working for free, as many founders do. We code on nights and weekends and produce hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital value. If the business doesnt work out, can I claim all this as a loss?

We cant have it both ways, can we? So I should be able to take losses on these hundreds of git repos I have with thousands of hours of unpaid work?
> Every time my BT headphones connect, Apple Music opens up.

Sounds like your headphones are issuing a play command during the connection process. My car does this. It’s very annoying.
lol it sounds like a line from a Fast & Furious movie
i did something similar way back when only the server identifier was part of the session cookie iirc. Whichever server behind the LB started the session got all the requests for that session. It was more like a user load balancer vs a request load balancer.
The 737 is a single type rating. They are interchangeable. That was the whole idea behind Boeing's MCAS system - the 737-MAX didn't fly the same due to the engines being pulled further forward on the wing, so they made a piece of software that made the airplane feel the same as the 737NG.
I would say that’s a rather Vinge Friew.
Industrial Deployment of Compiler Fuzzing Techniques for GPU Shading Languages [pdf]
I think HN should ban people who are too lazy to put a proper subject line on their post.

I mean, "Astral" .... what's that ? The "astral.sh" domain doesn't tell me anything either.

I'm sure those in the know automatically know what it is, but for the rest of us, the title is completely and utterly meaningless.
R's dbplyr package lets you use the amazing dplyr syntax to query SQL databases.
Maybe one day you'll post an anecdote as interesting
That makes sense. I guess there's no simple fix for it.
How does this train of thought apply to something like AlphaZero? There, computation/time seems to be spent creating data. Why can't the same thing in concept apply here?
My thought was the first sentence in my comment - that snarky responses are common in many subjects (not particular to theoretical physics). The Google results were absolutely useless (top result was "22 Screenshots Of Hilarious Internet Comments"). So I thought ChatGPT could tell me which subjects produced the snarkiest comments. It sort of worked.
Not when you're a gangster able and willing to send goons to kill or hospitalize your accuser.
Grammatical English is an extremely restricted subset of all strings of characters. You can actually see for yourself that it's in the ballpark of a bit by going to a book, covering up a line, reading the context, and trying to guess the next letter one at a time. I get it 3/4 times, and would probably be down to 1/2 if I had to do it the right way.

Consider the difference in entropy between this totally randomly generated password, consisting of 4 words each from a pool of 100,000:

Correct Horse Battery Staple
4lg(100000) = 33

And this one of the same length where each character was chosen from a bank of 68:

VIW&jubiHZUgBrFA8PI9Vy1E(%G
28*lg(68) = 170
I thought Black was an auto-formatter, similar to clang-format, but for Python. Ruff seems to be only doing linting, not formatting. Am I missing something?
Humans have nothing in common with neural networks (other than if you choose to misunderstand the literal definition of those two words), there's no direct analogy to be made.
Except that having a great singing voice involves lots of practice and maintenance and people dedicate their lives to it, and until now society has valued that enough for it to be economically viable for some. And now this new tech comes along and threatens to undercut that skill for the sake of capturing a market. What happens when a large swath of previously valued skills (including software engineering) are significantly automated, not on the order of decades (like what happened with auto manufacturing) but on the order of a couple years? What happens when there are nowhere near enough jobs to employ the current population? I don't see a mass movement for a UBI to be paired with AI driven job losses, and the only alternative is finding new work for people or having people starve in the street. Our society is terrible at finding adequate replacement work for people who have been automated out of a career. We didn't find replacement work for the auto industry and the "technology always generates new work for people" line is a canard in the face of AI taking over knowledge work. If generative AI fulfills the current expectations for it, there will be no possible job for a human to do that an AI can't do better.

We are sleepwalking into an economic, societal, and political catastrophe and all this forum gets excited about is how much faster and efficient (critically though, not better or more resilient) production systems can become.

If society doesn't owe you a living because your skills now have the same value as "great pen twirling", what you are arguing for is mass death.
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You essentially want to get an SBC with decent armbian support and you'll be good to go! https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported
These leadership there will go until they hit the wall. Mr Cook is happy having an OS that just lets you work.
The article kinda touched on how modern anime is a little colder, but didnt get into any specifics.

"reborn/reincarnated/transported to another world as a _____" has matured and gotten popular to the point of being its own genre with associated tropes, rather than just being a trope that would sometimes appear in fantasy stories.

It's very rare that this is a good literary device. In my opinion, we have it because authors feel the need to turn the dial up on escapism, and what's more escapist than getting a fresh start in, literally, a new life.

Dont think of this as me whinging. "reborn as a vending machine" is my most anticipated show this season, I love the weird promises and read this one when it was just a machine translated webnovel :)
Starship launching and landing humans on Earth seems quite far away, if it happens at all. Of course they need the heat shield until then, but the much more immediate benefit of the heat shield comes from reducing cost of cargo flights by allowing for reusability of the upper stage. For ordinary non-human payloads, mainly satellites.
As a general rule, don't post comments on your own submission, especially not quotes from the article. Explanatory comments on why you submitted it are sometimes appropriate if the headline is counterintuitive or the submission seems at first to fall outside HN guidelines. Add '(1993)' to the title.
I think I'm failing to see your point, as I cannot find one here.

If GM needs a lathe and has a reasonable business strategy, they should be able to get their accounting office and their leadership to align on how to make it make sense over 5 years. If they can't, it's a business run poorly, and according to the basic tenets of free market capitalism (which you seem to be leaning on heavily) that business would and should fail.

More generally, this seems a natural consequence of the impersonal ways that businesses treat employees, aka "human capital stock" to use the term of art. Capital stock / assets used for generating revenue should be taxed the same across the board.
the factors make a lot of sense to me.

from the article:

• Proximity: You're around each other regularly.

• Unplanned interactions: You see each other even without putting an appointment on a calendar.

• Privacy: You're in a space where you can exchange confidences.
Do you know of any hobbyist sites within this space? I want to check a thing, could be this corner of the internet isn't well indexed. I should be able to tell with explore2.
On the flip side they could also come preloaded with malware.
EU reaches deal to boost chip production in bid to reduce dependence on Asia
Exactly -- but funded with a straightforward profit motive, not charity / policy / illuminati.
It was in The Baroque Cycle
Related:

The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the post-human era [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184764 - March 2023 (2 comments)

The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the PostHuman Era (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34456861 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11278248 - March 2016 (8 comments)

The Coming Technological Singularity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1273160 - April 2010 (1 comment)

The Coming Technological Singularity (original essay on the Singularity, 1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823202 - Sept 2009 (1 comment)

The original singularity paper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624573 - May 2009 (17 comments)
I don't think that's a sufficient condition. I too am from a New England town that was incorporated more than 200 years ago. But it doesn't have the density or the amenities that you're describing. (I wish that it did!)
Quote: I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030

Actually, my initial thought was this text generated by a LLM pretending it's from 1993
Theoretically...maybe. But even if you could genuinely separate reasoning from knowledge, we simply don't know how.
* Start with C programming language. K&R book is still the best, even though outdated.

* Take a course like Nand2Tetris (freely available online)

* Read a good OS book, e.g. The Design of the UNIX Operating System by Maurice Bach or any Andrew Tanenbaum book on the subject.

* Search for "unix systems programming" or "linux systems programming" and you will find some fantastic free books online.

* Read the free Linux Device Driver book. It is outdated but will still provide enough information to help you self navigate Linux driver code.

* Visit https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

* And as they say, "Read the source, Luke"; read the Linux source code. First you will have to identify which subsystem you are interested in, and then start browsing that.
I support their cause, but they are paid with public money and it is well established that school boards can institute dress codes. It's up to the voters whether these are the dress codes they support. Turnover on the school board is the right way to fix this.
I think this is flawed in both directions. Sure when you’re primarily building new stuff maybe the cost of that should be amortized. What happens if you’re just maintaining a product though rather than actually developing new stuff? That doesn’t feel like R&D effort.
Williamstown area?
obligatory Steve Mann reference: http://wearcam.org/myviews4.html

"WearCam has been an experiment in connectivity, starting early 1994, running on and off until September 15, 1996 (shut down when I went to ICIP 96 in Lousanne, due to poor net connection from there). After the conference, I decided that extensive revisions were in order: with further development of the pencigraphic image compositing algorithm that assembles the images transmitted from my wearable computer system to the base station on the roof of building 54. The hope is to have near-realtime performance using a 64-processor system."

also narrative (and of course related products like glass, spectacles, etc)
- http://getnarrative.com/
- (2014) https://www.cnet.com/reviews/narrative-clip-review/
- (2016) https://www.fastcompany.com/3064785/why-some-wearable-camera...

unclear how humane will toe the privacy line
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/humane-the-secretive-ai-st...
Strong disagree. Cars are great for freedom of movement. I like having a car and being able to go wherever I want, whenever I want. Good public transportation is fine, so is cycling, electric scooters and walking paths. But I still want my car, and I suspect so do a majority of people. I'll never support banning cars. And just because you hate them doesn't mean you're right.
I'm sorry, "non-invertible symmetry"? In what way is that still a symmetry?
I recently had the choise building home server with Windows or Linux, and due to diminishing and frustrating experience, not least with the unavoidbale spinning fans on my windows computers (I call them vacuum when I talk about them to my wife), due to the misfortune I have to work with Windows I started to dig myself into Linux matters instead and now have a satisfactory quiet and cheap home server setting at home.
Don't you think that the reporting of things in theoretical physics tends to be clickbait for pseudo-intellectuals that tends to dramatically oversell the findings? It's not the fault of the researchers most of the time, because as you said, the paper is innocuous. It's the reporting that makes it sound like tomorrow we're going to solve everything or talk to aliens or find the meaning of life.

Example: Venus phosphene incident. The author of the paper basically said shrug idk what else this result is, maybe a bio process" but of course the internet said "LIFE FOUND ON VENUS!!11212`1!"

So maybe that's why people are snarky. The Internet has turned science reporting into massive overpromising and under delivering on the results.
My first IDE when I started to be excited about programming! I vividly remember a book that was about teaching C++ to kids; I devoured it and spent a glorious summer just fiddling with what I thought was very complex code at the time. How time flies...
Why are software developer salaries classified as R&D expenses?
People also forget that the model is trained on older data. At first, it will default to referencing out of date frameworks and solutions, but if you tell it that its code isn't working, it will usually correct itself.
This comment is really not helpful or productive. The Brits really didn't like it when we dumped their property off a ship and into the harbor. It did invite "more projectiles" and imprisonment. I'm not sure what your point is.
Did autocorrect change "I have ..." to "AI have ..."? if so - ironic! (AIronic?)
This also looks like it completely screws people who get government research grants for their for-profit companies (eg SBIRs). When I was thinking about one, my accountant was telling me that the grant is technically revenue, which would make it convert to taxable income less expenses. Forcing companies to capitalize R&D basically means that you have to pay tax on the grant funding first, leaving only the after-tax value of the grant for actual R&D.

I doubt most grant proposals have a 20-30% haircut built into the budget like that...