skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for the incoming question being on there, per your link:

> While it was notable that a potential question was written on Biden’s card, every White House press office takes scrupulous care to prepare their president for news conferences.
Do you think that was cause and effect?

I might assume that terrorism wasn't the "us versus them" issue that it used to be, so culture wars were something new to galavanize the in-group tribe of voters.

Or maybe contemporary culture wars came about after Obama was elected, the sense that the majority was loosing it's majority to the minorities.

The occupy movement didn't seem to be picked up by either political party, so was it really a threat to anyone in power?
Actual RCE on ChatGPT
The new code interpreter model allows real RCE unlike the previous RCE hallucinations people submitted. But there's very little impact.

I'm mostly shocked openai can support a container-per-user architecture.
I would assert a great deal of perceived problems are not being fixed because not everyone agrees they are problems, or agrees to what extent they are problems, or agrees on the solutions.

HN is quite a bubble, and we often form an echo chamber that strongly agrees with itself.
As far as I know, nobody ever proved that some programs for which halting cannot be determined are smaller in size than the number of atoms in the universe. Or in other words, that the theorem applies to practical programs. It's purely theoretical.
Oh sure! So the OCR is a statically linked build of tesseract based on [1] and pytesseract [2] which is a super thin wrapper but easier than writing it yourself. The I stole/modified the prompt from [3] to get the bot to write Python programs that do date calculations. Then I used [4] to take the output in case the Llm didn't use the format I asked. I run the Python code it generates in a rootless container that uses the Lambda RIE [5] because I was too lazy to make my own thing. So I'm mildly lied about the v8 isolate because everyone gets the implication and who wants to hear about RIE and seccomp profiles.

[1] https://github.com/wingedrhino/static-tesseract

[2] https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/

[3] https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/agents/tools/...

[4] https://pypi.org/project/dateparser/

[5] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-test.htm...
fMRI is extremely coarse-grained, it also only measures blood flow. There's no way you can reconstruct what a person is thinking from just that, except at a really basic level.

If we want better brain-to-machine interfaces we'll need to work on better non-invasive (or at least invasive but low-risk) brain imaging
Thanks! I think have my weekend free time planned out now. Or a least a Saturday. I don't do AI at work but playing with code on my time off, even for fun, is a little too work like to really relax. I needs me some mindless entertainment too.
Yes indeed and the difference between (eg) 10°C and 23.8° C is 13.8° C, or 24.8° F.
popd and pushd are aliases for Pop-Location and Push-Location, so they are the PowerShell equivalent. Unsure about dir -v.

dir itself is an alias for Get-ChildItem, but I don't know about -v (natural sort of version number)
I have this same problem! Except that it came from my SecretLabs chair.
Basically yeah, just a pretty detailed set of prompts and then “turn the next message into an api call” and it basically works perfectly.

When I first heard the term “prompt engineer” I rolled my eyes, but now that I’ve gotten into it I see it’s really an art form.
A technical feat, strengthening the notion that ageing is not inevitable.

At the same time, I don’t think it is particularly controversial to say that if we start modifying our own genetics we could eliminate most diseases, including many aspects of ageing. The ‘problem’ if you like is that 1) there seems to be no ethical/careful way to do this that doesn’t amount to experimenting on children; 2) we will cease to be a homogeneous species. Intermediate solutions are post-germline genetic manipulation… but how feasible is it to gene edit a majority of adult neurons, for example?
Who and for what? Losing lots of money?
I had a Toshiba T3100, it had a gas plasma display [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100
This isn’t for usage in real life. Just a fun example of what you can do with Whisper.
This has a slightly disparaging tone to it. Just because someone does a job you may not enjoy, does not mean it's not a good job or that it does not fulfill them personally.

All jobs provide purpose, even if that purpose is simply to feed oneself while looking for a better opportunity. Humans need to work on something, anything. Idle minds rot, figuratively, and having no reason to wake up each day is hugely depressing.
Sometimes Wikipedia reads like it is written by that math teacher who “just gets math” and teaches in a way that the only people who will understand … are people who already do.

Granted maybe this article is good and just beyond me, but it is disappointing how much Wikipedia is like that.
Have you tried lima? https://lima-vm.io/ https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
yes, yes you should. I highly encourage this.

And sit down with Gergely Orosz over at Pragmatic Engineer, he'd be a good person to get a written interview with
On the idea of being stuck in a local maximum of graphical interfaces, see the concept of “wheel of reincarnation” by Ivan Sutherland. http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

Rob Pike’s comment about this is very interesting too:

Through the 1970s and 1980s, there was a continuous invention in how graphics, computing, and software interacted. With the dominance of the PC and the VGA card, we now have a largely fixed architecture for graphics in personal computers. There is some playing around with the software model, but basically we have a powerful, privately managed external "card" that does the graphics, and we talk to it with one particular mechanism. During my work on Plan 9, it got harder over time to try new things because the list of ways to talk to the card was shrinking, and other than the blessed ones, slower and slower.

For example, a shared-memory frame buffer, which I interpret as the mechanism that started this conversation, is now a historical artifact. Back when, it was a thing to play with.

As observed by many others, there is far more grunt today in the graphics card than the CPU, which in Sutherland's timeline would mean it was time to push that power back to the CPU. But no.

Not a value judgement, just an observation. The wheel has stopped turning, mostly.
I would agree that a whole browser engine is overkill for any simple conversion of four simple bytes

...but you realize we're conversing via a website, right? :D Most people will already be in a browser!
I really doubt that it would happen real quickly. but it would be a very stupid move for MS/ Azure

It would highly likely lead to the downfall of MS (in the EU/ europe anyway) with the UK putting massive amount of money behind a version linux. ie look at what google did to linux for the mobile phones! and remember what apple did to unix? .It would also allow the EU to kick MS massively - Germany has been trying to go for linux for some time

even the US is trying to block this merger https://www.eurogamer.net/ftc-suing-to-block-microsofts-69bn...
Not a commute, but fwiw: My freshman college dorm was across the street from kayak club storage, and a block from a river dock. Supermarket was two busses plus several blocks walking... but across the street from a river park. The river being one side of a bus-bus-river triangle. I needed paddling time anyway, so picture a kayak with a row of inflated garbage bags towed like ducklings.
Migrating Rauchg.com to Next.js App Router and RSC
You can still write web apps with 90s HTML. If you want it, do it.

Most people don't, both as users and as authors. I was there for the 90s web, and IMO the nostalgia is misplaced. The modern web is far more useful and easier to create meaningful services for.
The real illusion is that everyone has the opportunity to create a job for themselves. Who's going to work in the factories to produce the goods we all need then?

It is clear that this system is based on the exploitation of a large workforce that sits at the bottom of the social pyramid. Our society would literally collapse if everyone was able to escape wage slavery at once.
i'll take a look. From what i've seen so far, this is what i'm thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eZVF1ouTT4
Further down the article there's a simpler example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrondo%27s_paradox#A_simplif...
i.e. was overly concentrated in the SF real-estate bubble.
Yikes. It sounds like there is an expectation that every member of the public has these apps installed or can otherwise use them. It's difficult to fathom that any organisation could claim "Sorry, we do not have email."

Not to discount the speed and convenience of messenging apps, but if someone is playing fast and loose with the law and trying to avoid a "paper trail", then avoiding email and using "ephemeral" messenging might be a strategy.

It was once claimed, by Facebook, that "[1 in 7 people worldwide is on Facebook. More importantly,] 6 out of 7 people are not on Facebook." Perhaps more than 1 in 7 people have an email account. Just a guess.
So you're just saying you don't believe in boredom, and suburbs by consequence aren't boring; perhaps a simplistic answer to a simplistic characterization.

My opinion is that the suburbs are definitely boring, unless you're antisocial and just want your own little protected area. They're often devoid of any character, sometimes explicitly enforced by an HoA. They're typically but not always car oriented, and typically but not always packed with the most commodity representations of culture that could be dreamed up by big box capitalism and conservative suburban disposition. In my hometown, which would be enough of a prison if I needed to be relegated to one, nothing works except people's backyards (which sometimes don't work due to flooding). Coming over and spending time in the backyard a pretty isolated and lazy activity imo, despite burning stuff being fun sometimes.

Suburbanites—and I'm not talking streecar suburbs— are often just boring people, that have boring standards for food, activity, and socializing, and are often just pretty entitled annoying assholes.

Car-centric suburbia specifically ends up accounting for some of the creepiest places I've been. White picket fences, this deep feeling that you're not supposed to be there, often no place to make new genuine friends as an adult. If a car-centric suburb beats out a city at being a city, then something is really wrong.

Suburbs that aren't car-oriented are just denser easily accessible areas outside the downtown core, often with everything you need within walking distance, plenty of people, public space, ideally with car-slowing street designs or other mechanisms to keep people safe.

More specifically, I'm dreading the visit home this year. Infrastructure is failing all over because the city bet on these sprawling car-centric suburbs for 70 years and can't pay for it now, the closest coffee shop is a Starbucks 30 mins away on foot, the closest grocery store is 30 mins away on foot, there's sand from the winter roads everywhere and nobody around. I have to walk 10 mins to the bus stop which has signage from the 80s and is situated on this 8-lane stroad and which might not show up, and it's just so bleak and terrible. Every restaurant is either a franchise or something someone opened because their friend told them they're a great cook.
Yes, noticed the same thing. It's still one number in the HTML source though, only in the status bar it shows the "normal" IP address.
I've been using "al dente" on my new laptop to keep the battery charge maxed out at 80% and hopefully extend the life of my battery.
You Are Getting Terrible Sleep Advice
Inside the filesystem shim, WSL will replace forbidden characters with unicode private use characters by adding 0xF000.
> (a big part of Plan 9)

It's the first thing many plan 9 users run after they experience their first grey Rio screen and figure out how to draw a window. It also demonstrates the power of the file system based interface and how a program can expose its internal functionality via files to external programs to build a symbiotic environment. But most will find it cumbersome or obtuse to use after a while. Another major gripe is that it cant do graphics in its windows which is kid of seen as a break in the design from being a graphics first OS.

Personally I always felt it's the equivalent of the Explorer shell for Plan 9. My gripe with it is it becomes obtuse to use after you start to open a lot of windows and everything is boxed into corners and centering the window is frustrating. So most plan 9 users who actually write code use Sam. Another trick is windows in Rio are just text buffers so people open windows to use as scratch pads and then copy/paste between them and Sam.

Then there's hold mode, the ultimate text editor. You hit escape while in a window and it turns blue indicating hold mode. While in hold mode rc or whatever is running will not receive anything you type into the window buffer via stdin as it's being held back in the buffer. So type as many lines of rc script or w/e, edit, then to run just hit escape and the text is processed. I do this all the time writing simple rc scripts. Then just echo 'blah...' >$home/bin/rc/bla and chmod +x bla when done.
As opposed to the competent legislators there today? I don’t think they can really be much worse in many countries.
>> it has objectively become a niche language, and a will continue to remain a slowly fading one at that. In fact it's been solidly on that course for close to 20 years now.

Perl 5 is a camel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_Perl#/media/File%3...

It is a smelly, sturdy beast that requires minimal resources and can get you through the desert.

OP asked: "What are the most interesting, alternatives for simple scripts."

As you've stated, Perl 5 has served as an alternative to shell scripts for nearly 30 years. It may not be the best choice for every use case, but I have seen several questions on HN where people need an alternative to Bash and Python, but have no idea how easy the problem could be solved with a Perl one-liner.

All too frequently Perl is dismissed by people who are ignorant of it because it is trendy to 'hate on' it.
I was just looking into this earlier. A lot of major packages have explicitly stated 3.11 readiness, but we're still only at 45% of the top 360 packages.

That's not to say the remaining 55% are broken on 3.11, just tread with caution. For comparison, 71% explicitly support 3.10.

https://pyreadiness.org/3.11/
Ironically, he's the advisor for a test tool/company combo that specifically markets themselves as better than Appium (with a quote endorsement from him on their homepage), so he's either the best or worst person to do an interview. :)
Linear regulators are still preferable when very clean supply and no spurious RF radiation are needed. Filters and screens can be easily added so that one gets both high efficiency and clean output, but they add to the cost and size.
This appears to be based on Firefox OS (aka "Boot to Gecko" B2G). Unfortunately, that was terminated Sept. 2016 [1]. The links to FOS on the JanOS site (such as "View porting instructions" on the Device List page) no longer work, though there is still a home page on Mozilla [2].

Edit: JanOS project looks to be zombied. The "Read more on our blog" link on the front page returns "Server Not Found".

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.fxos/c/FoAwifahNPY/m...

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox-os
NSA Cybersecurity Director Says ‘Buckle Up’ for Generative AI
Suggest appending (2015) to the title unless there’s evidence this is still active?
It should be required for vendors to unlock the bootloader on hardware devices that have reached EOL. Think of how much e-waste we could reduce if we were able to repurpose hardware we already own instead of it just going into a landfill or worse incinerated which is often the case with e-waste shipped overseas to low income areas for disposal.
OpenAI closes its monster $10B funding round at $27B-29B valuation
Here is a Python program which is definitely smaller than the number of atoms in the universe. Can you tell me whether it halts?

n = 1
while sum(d for d in range(1,n) if n % d == 0) != n:
n += 2
Your problem with Acme is you don’t grok Plan 9. [1] In Plan 9, everything’s a file. Acme in particular represents open buffers and windows as files on disk too. I don’t mean as copies of the text necessarily, but as sockets basically where you can send and receive data about a particular thing inside Acme. It’s kind of wild just how exposed it is. It’s not like you’re sending info to a single process server like an LSP server of today, no, you’re literally getting a file ID to go back to and write to when you finish doing what you’re doing.

Writing a plug-in is actually completely language agnostic. It’s just standard file IO.

Any time you middle click the name of a script, it executes that file by looking it up in a PATH equivalent (pretty sure it’s also project local as well, but I don’t remember).

This is really powerful for two reasons: everything’s an editable text field from your menu bar, your window bar, and the buttons on them; and chorded selections, basically you can send a selection to a command by selecting and then clicking on another piece of text to determine the command.

This allows you to create a UI tailored to whatever you’re doing as you’re doing it. If you watch someone program with Acme, they’re writing little snippets in their status bar to do common tasks, or for more involved things, they’re just creating a new buffer and typing or cut and pasting some relevant code they need to search different parts of (because searching is just one mouse click away). The best part is, you can just save and load that buffer for later. It’s just a plain text file.

It’s definitely a change up from the keyboard-driven focus we’ve come to see, but again, I think we gave up on the mouse way too quickly. If you’re really honest with yourself, I think you’ll find you aren’t constantly clipping around at 1,000 key presses per minute in Vim. You’re spurty, you sit and think, and then you type. Once I started thinking about hands on mouse time as thinking time, then it wasn’t nearly so unacceptable. I even came to prefer it (gasp).

[1] Sorry I couldn’t resist referencing the classic Vim/Vi write up.
Are you hopeful that all books written more than 40 years ago are purged too?
Thanks for sharing. I really admire what you're doing. Keep up the good work!
Often used in series for more than 6 volts. At least in the applications i've seen, though i'm a long ways from a sea and lakes may be different.
Yup - its 100 GB * 3 (well * 2.5 to 2.7 with erasure coding) + networking, power etc. etc. etc. Data is constantly being churned around as machines are serviced/die, disks are scrubbed for bit flips etc. and its not like you can put it on a tape on a shelf - the user expects it to be instantly accessible.

Google Cloud Storage is $0.02/ GB + a myriad of other charges for listing, accessing, replication etc. All while storage remains one of the lower margin offerings for the hyperscale clouds - they keep it cheap to attract high margin compute.

Now add to that the cost of building and maintaining the myriad of apps, APIs, integrations etc. for a consumer facing storage service and $2/mo for 100GB would be very very slightly profitable at best.
No kidding, I had to set curl user agent to chrome in order to call some API service hosted behind cloudflare or it'll get blocked intermittently.
Sometimes a cliche is a cliche for a reason.

I certainly felt the hostility when I discovered the preloaded apps and ads in my Win11 install that aren't included in the much more expensive enterprise version.
yep, and I learned to hate IP-Phones this way. Cause some manufacturer (Siemens) wrote (writes?) Decimal IP with 0 Prefix (so it's always three digits) for aesthetics.
https://archive.md/xtvzC

Seems some people equate the apparent dvd demise with Netflix not offering this service any more. This might be true where they still offered the service, but IIRC their Australian based dvd rental offshoot, that posted dvds within Australia died a long while ago, recalling people I lived near at the time lamented losing access to it, but could be I just misunderstood their situation.

Like the loss of the VCR rental market, so many movies never even made it to DVD, with film production companies figuring it just wasn't worth the effort. Often the fight is the legal side of (re) negotiation music rights which brought any ideas of printing a DVD out of the question, or only in Region 1.

Steaming wont fill the vast void either until there's a universal library of everything ever filmed and crafted into a movie, mini series or tv series, that a steaming service can have access to for special customer requests ... even if I had money to burn, I wouldn't be subscribing to a multitude of steaming sites.

The article laments top grossing films, but there's so much that were simply underrated. Same went for tv series and mini series.
(Rewriting the other comment in an easily digestible format)

23.8C (78.8F) - 10C (50F) = 13.8C (78.8F - 50F = 28.8F)
Can AI models act as an offline knowledge base?
It seems like a lot of the knowledge of web has been encoded in these modern AI models ChatGPT etc. I was thinking today that these models can act as an offline knowledge base if somehow we can host these models locally. Of course it doesn't allow people to connect with each other atleast for now.
> It's just a blob of fat.

Once, in Italy, my family was served a straight up chunk of lamb fat. My dad took one for the team and gulped it. I was grateful at the time, but later in life I discovered pork shoulder, with its drippy cracklin... and now I wish I could go back to that little albergo and try their lamb fat.
If you use "view source", you can see the link isn't rewritten there.
Seal Team Six Bake Sale! GoFundMe for Black Hawk nav system retrofitting! Reservists doing Speedo/Bikini carwashes! I'm sure it would work out great...
Not to mention the socio-economic impact of who is chosen and who isn't. The movie Elysium comes to mind. That said, I think research on samples and growing tubes is fine. I hope for the day when we can just grow a new heart or lungs or pancreas for people who have cancer or something. Taken from their own "good" cells so there's no rejection.
Here's the full call:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW_Bdf_jGaA

It's within a candidate's rights to ask that all his voter's votes get counted.
aliexpress is also broken under firefox anti-fingerprinting, except amuzingly, in a private window, aliexpress works again.

I wish to stress, it should not be said as "firefox breaks aliexpress". It doesn't. aliexpress is broken.
IMHO if you are already fluent in bash and aren't running or administering windows machines, there's not much point to switch. And I personally think PowerShell is nicer, but like 10% not 10x, and they do the same things. If you know some bash though, googling PowerShell and the bash command has been pretty productive for my learning.
I only saw that prices in euros once. It was in a tourist location, and the exchange rate was outrageous (I think more than 6pln/euro and you didn't get any change).
I added that, thanks. Are there any newer approaches to using a spare Android phone as an IoT board, as an alternative to finding a Rasberry Pi that is often out of stock?

Also I'm looking for breakout boards that make it easy to interface with GPIO pins, I've found a few that can do USB to GPIO on sites like Adafruit, but few review of what is available currently and if it works with recent versions of Android, etc.
What's your current smartwatch?
A Security Camera for the Planet