skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that feels "techy" but doesn't require practice, study, or math is always going to be a magnet for grifters who were doing beer bongs while others were learning to code.

(Edit: I'm not trying to imply anything about the linked author of this piece. They actually do have code examples!)
Obligatory paranoia quote

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director
I'm using only FF on Ubuntu and Win10. Sometimes I receive the Verify window (2x per week) mostly on Win10. I'm from Europe. This started less than a month ago.
>if I can't know what I'm NOT seeing, then how can I discover I need to request it?

This is so true. I feel that most of our closed source scripts are duplicates because you can't search for existing internal projects in our system. If you know it's there you can ask for it, but you usually don't, so you build your own.
I have personally found Josh Comeau's "Joy of React" course to be absolutely exceptional!!
No news yet; however, one of the other HN comments suggested creating a new Firefox profile using about:profiles and that seems to have worked (whereas clearing cache/cookies didn't work), although I'm still trying to find the root cause because it's going to be annoying migrating to the new profile. I think the deeper issue stands that the process to find the cause of why CloudFlare is blocking large parts of the internet for me is too opaque, so I hope CloudFlare has a broader solution such as a diagnostic code or detailed help page.

Right now I'm reviewing about:config for non-standard settings. I did find that I did set general.useragent.override at some point and I forgot about it; however, unsetting it didn't help. I went through all other non-default settings and haven't found anything yet.
> We look at the body, we look at the hands, we look at the glass,” said Moodley. “Every time we count a drink, we take a video"

This is great, maybe it will spread to every industry and every event of economic relevance will be captured!
Thanks for posting that! I've always wondered what the deal is.

How do other file systems do it differently that allows for concurrent access to the file?
An an electrical engineer, I often scoff at people using the term software engineer. Even though I belong in the software developer class. So you can imagine how I look at “prompt engineering”.

True engineering is dealing with unchanging and unchangeable constraints (which you find in the natural world). It’s exceedingly difficult to do without a four year degree which is usually not enough.

This other stuff you can learn in a weekend, well, I wish they would not take the word engineering.
Bouncy Flip – Epic arcade fun iOS Game
Bouncy Flip is a simple & very challenging and addictive game. As the two coloured bouncy ball flips, Match the floor's color with the landing part of the ball. Every touch on ground will earn you one point.
I think there are potential alternatives that could evolve.

My preferred solution would be domain validated identities with long lived, global reputation alongside some type of attestation. For example, if I have a GitHub account with 'example.com' as a verified domain, GitHub could attest 'example.com seems to be a real user or organization that behaves well'. It would be similar to the web of trust concept in GPG, but technology is to the point where it could actually be built in a way that makes it usable. Money that you're spending, or the way you interact in well known communities, could have the side effect of bolstering your reputation everywhere.

My most feared solution would be a similar system of attestation, but using Passkey since it would solidify the role of the current big tech companies as the arbiters of everything online. For example:

You look like a bot. How do you want to prove you're human?
Microsoft
Google
Apple
Facebook

Those companies, as Passkey providers, would, for all intents and purposes, be your 'anchor identity' online and they'd be in a good position to attest to you behaving like a normal, non nefarious participant.

I think Apple would be the company that could sell that kind of change to normal users. It could be done in a way that's anonymous because all you really need is an attestation that says 'Apple certifies this user is in good standing'. Apple is very good at selling those kinds of changes as being privacy focused and I think their user base would go for it if it were framed as 'good people' (aka Apple device owners) getting a superior experience that isn't available to the 'bad people' (aka bots, bad actors, and outliers).

If it worked, Google would follow with Android. Anyone else large enough for their opinion of you to count (Microsoft, Facebook, etc.) could probably compete, but it doesn't work for startups or small, less known providers.

In my opinion, as soon as authentication moves to something like domains or digital signatures where 3rd party attestations become simple, we could see a lot of new ideas that focus on reputation and related solutions / services.
more like influencers? or more properly attention seekers
What? lol I'm not going to argue the definition of engineering with you but if you've done any real engineering you should realize it's not just some magic fluff of magically being able to do everything the first time.

Engineering takes many iterations of a concept before doing it right. You think people who engineer bridges and buildings have never thought about or attempted to design any aspect of any bridge or building before? No, they've tested a million different iterations of the same kind of thing and they've built models and they've tried things and failed.

It's why flow simulators and things like airflow chambers exist.
How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 2: Condition the Masses
I lived in a building with heat pumps in Europe. In colder climate, they're loud. As in, LOUD. It's likely fine when you can install the external module somewhere on the roof (poor birds though), but in many apartment buildings you can only put it on the outer walls, and you can clearly hear the sound inside the flat. Internal modules that cycle air are also noisy, though less.

I'm glad to pay the premium for silent heating.
They ARE required by code and have been for years. Parent's "luxury" apartment was not built to code. Probably one of those illegal NYC apartments where you tear open the walls and there's a whole other furnished room inside that isn't shown on the blueprints.
WAL mode requires shared memory (unless you disable concurrency through exclusive locking) and therefore doesn't work on network shares.
In Small Towns Up North Bingo Nights Continue to Struggle
Wait, really? As there are 20 countries in the euro zone, that means some countries have more than one currency? And don't forget about the West African CFA Franc, which is used by 8 countries. Are there other currencies which are shared between countries?
I am pretty much part of the academic system now (part time professor, part time PhD student) working in a field that generally expects a degree (software engineering). I don't think anyone would call me "anti-intellectual", and I live in one of the highest-taxed states in the country.

That being said, I really think it's reductive to say that not require a college degree on every damn job is "abandoning the American Dream". I don't think college is for everyone, and it's certainly not for everyone straight after high school. I did really poorly in college the first time around, dropped out, and did much better nine years later. I am very grateful that I was able to find work decent work without a degree.
I did the same thing with my Chromecast, I made it play a random episode from my library, one after the other, so there was always something I liked on.
I have heard a lot of attempts at justification, but short of highly specialized STEM oriented careers, there is hardly a job out there that requires a degree in my opinion.
One problem with masks is that they are statically charged and that charge depletes pretty rapidly. So it's not as if you can create a bunch of stock for 'some unspecified time in the future', you'll have to continuously renew it at that level every couple of months. This is certainly going to raise eyebrows if there isn't a demand for a longer period of time and someone figures they can cut that cost without impacting safety. Which works. Right up until the next pandemic and then you're back where you were before. This sort of vigilance is very costly and it is hard to get everybody to agree on the appropriate level over time.
chicken chicken :-( …… (*)

________

(*) edit: chickenshit: I just spent some time putting together a chicken story made of mostly chicken-related unicode emojis, math/logic operators and "chicken", but the hacker news site apparently doesn't really support emojis and removed most of them, thus ruining the story.

So I pasted it here with emojis:
https://paste.ee/p/XbUG3
I keep all my projects and other repos that I clone under `~/src` e.g. `~/src/github.com/rails/rails` for the rails project. I then have the following fish function to navigate to a project:

function c
set -l directory (fd -d 5 --prune -a -H -t d -g '.git' ~/src ~/b -x dirname {} | fzf --tiebreak=length,begin,end)
if test -n "$directory"
and test -d $directory
cd $directory
end
end

I just type 'c' and then 'rails' and I'm in the rails project. I really like diving into code and this makes it much faster.

I also have this one to clone or cd a project from github like `gc rails/rails`

function gc --argument repo
set -l dir $HOME/src/github.com/$repo
if not test -d $dir
if test -d $HOME/go/src/github.com/$repo
set dir $HOME/go/src/github.com/$repo
else
mkdir -p $dir
if not git clone "git@github.com:$repo.git" $dir
set -l git_status $status
rmdir $dir 2>/dev/null
return $git_status
end
end
end
cd $dir
end

And this function:

function list_after_cd --on-variable PWD
ls
end

Runs ls every time I change directory, which you basically always want anyways
>> So what's important is that the system already has the language installed and so it's not worth considering options you need to install yourself.

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

My answer is Perl is a useful alterative to Bash for simple scripts.

I did not say that other scripting languages that needed components or a runtime installed were not viable alternative or not useful.

However, I would argue that part of the reason that Bash scripts are frequently used is that Bash is widely available and installed by default.

In such environments where Bash is installed by default frequently Perl is also installed by default. Thus it might be a suitable alternative to Bash depending on the purposes of the script.
You should know this is heinously irresponsible and very illegal unless you apply proper filtering. Bashing the GPIO pin adds a ton of harmonics that fall outside the broadcast band, up into aircraft and military and who-knows-what other frequencies.

The README goes over this, but if people keep blindly ignoring it, expect regulators to figure out a way to make our lives a lot less fun.
> Health insurance providers are explicitly exempted from having to be truthful with you about coverage

citation needed? What entity rules that they are explicitly exempted?
Depends on the granularity of your copilot use. Generating entire classes or non-trivial functions from a prompt vs. generating just the next few lines at a time. Pretty hard to "steal intellectual property" when the comment you wrote as a prompt was "// remove all items from myArray that have the provided prefix"

> On a less snarky note, this seems like a pretty serious exaggeration. You could have learned about .every() and .some() in many many other ways

Yeah but I didn't because it was an unknown unknown. How would I have learned about .every() when I didn't know it existed? Copilot as a discovery engine is a fantastic way to learn about language features you didn't know about.

That was just one recent example. Copilot occasionally suggests ways of doing things I didn't know about and that were even better than my original approach.
On a tangentant note, I've considered if it would be possible to gut the driver related parts (usb / Bluetooth subsystem ect) of linux and package it up to run as a userspace application in windows.

Then we could all use ps3 dualshock controllers wireless again on windows. It seems all the links to third party programs to make it work are virus infected.
Stricly speaking, F# can be used in scripts too, which is where I think you've taken that syntax from. Ionide however is quite broken when writing scripts (or anything else) though.
Thank you for taking time to respond. Appreciate it. Mine is all software however.
It didn’t really stay personal, but I built a very basic Raspberry Pi Pinout website hosted on a Raspberry Pi [1] back in 2013. The intent was to collect the pinouts for some boards I was tinkering with at the time. It got wildly out of hand since [2] [3], but I think the original site meets the spirit of this question.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20130505194305/Pi.Gadgetoid.com/...
2. https://pinout.xyz
3. https://pico.pinout.xyz
> We understand it now, 2 + 2 = 5

"if someone says 2+2=5, the correct response is, ‘What are your definitions and axioms?’ not a rant about the decline of Western civilization".

From Wikipedia because math is hard, let's go right wing.

Use a wiki or something. Because when even I know that 2 + 2 = 5 can be true in some cases then you might want to reconsider your arguments.

BTW.

A + B != B + A also can be true.

> Constructs in your head are not real. When you die, they are gone forever.

Almost all of you is a construct, there are few things directly wired into the brain(but they aren't irrelevant) but most of it is learned. And when you die everything you had in your brain is gone forever. And then by your definition things that make us us are fiction. And they are as fictional as gender(btw. gender is not sex, and sex is more complex).
Is there a possibility that very old buildings are grandfathered in with existing ducts? Maybe they should be required to upgrade that.
Really shows they don't really care about infrastructure. The markets could collapse and FedEx, UPS, and DHL could go under, but because the USPS is still there, you can still send mail from one coast to another.
I hate to say it, but LLMs/AI are entering the "solution in search of a problem" phase. The tech is crazy powerful, no doubt, but it's going to be gradually adopted by companies and woven into products we use. It will not immediately lead to hundreds of successful billion dollar startups as "AI bros" on Twitter will have you believe.
Is MN State (not just Mankato) really 20k a year? Is CC really 20k a year there?
In most states you have to transfer any asset or cash many years before you need state paid end of life care, otherwise they will charge you a "penalty" for basically the value of whatever you transferred, or deny you outright. So you basically have to accurately predict when you will need a few months of state paid end of life care (more like a room to die in for $6000 a month) years in advance.
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Thanks, that means a lot.
After seed round anyway, a red flag was a combination of the technical hand waving and having the wrong sort of board for the product. In earliest decks you can only really look at the team anyway. I'm not sure you could reliably discount them in the first 6 mo, say.
Electric resistance heat is super inefficient. That's why it's often referred to as "emergency heat".

Ironically the best combo is a heat pump + natural gas furnace as a backup. Best of both worlds. But here we are making those illegal so we can pretend to save the planet.
I built a site to scrape events from my city and show them all on one page. It was amazing for finding things to do, until Facebook shut down their events API and the site died overnight.
>I suspect people behind CGNAT and other such technologies may be flagged as bots because one of their peers is tainting their IP address' reputation, or maybe something else is going on on a network level

This is a thing that is absolutely happening, I got temporarily shadowbanned for spam on Reddit the day I switched to T-Mobile Home Internet which is CGNAT'd, and I didn't post a single thing
Interesting . What are the main differences between DeepNotes and more conventional mind-mapping apps?
GE is centralized but is still free market no? Players set the prices.This brought on the whole concept of merch clans that would pump and dump items.
You're wrong. Using LLMs and other generative AI tools well is genuinely difficult, and takes a lot of experience and skill.

Anyone can type text in a box. Understanding the full scope of what you can and cannot do with these tools - and how to best get them to do those things - turns out to be a very deep topic.
Yes, it is "prompt alchemy". But that seems to be true for the whole LLM field, at least for the time being.
It is interesting to read about it proposed in 2014
https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlit...

Hipp:

> You used the word "immense" which I like - it is an apt description of the
knowledge and effort needed to add windowing functions to SQLite (and
probably any other database engine for that matter).
Just that everyone's heard it, so the doctor isn't going to repeat it to you with every visit.

I think a doctor absolutely should gently remind people that those things improve a variety of conditions, and occasionally push a little harder in certain situations (you need to start doing X now or your condition is going to be a big problem). Many of them already do, of course.
If the story is good, I'll read it, regardless of whether it was written by an AI, a human, or a dog. I don't really see humans as being special, of only wanting to read stories that have the "human touch," whatever that is.
the idea that learning to code is virtuous and having fun is bad needs to go away. Lots of people learned to code AND did beer bongs.
Oh, this is fun. Not familiar with the area I tried to check it out via Apple Maps on my IPad Air (3rd Gen) with iOS 16.3.1 and as soon as I switched to the satellite view my Apple Maps App closed. :)
Where can you get a 1 bedroom apartment in NYC for $1300 a month without locking in a rate controlled apartment 25 years ago?
I have an old industrial thermal camera that takes pretty good pictures. But I don't have the xp software for it, and without a "known good capture" it's hard to reverse engineer and make it work on Linux.
Telegram Ban: Durov says app may exit Brazil, complying with order impossible
>If eating animals is so bad for the environment shouldn't the Earth be a dry gray smoggy ball at this point?

No. Things happen sequentially and compound. It's like saying in 2005, "if Amazon is such an important company, why isn't it already worth $1tn."
I want Ben Mezrich to write a book about this.

From the linked summary:

1. Silicon Valley Bank's board of directors and management failed to manage their risks;

2. Federal Reserve supervisors did not fully appreciate the extent of the vulnerabilities as Silicon Valley Bank grew in size and complexity;

3. When supervisors did identify vulnerabilities, they did not take sufficient steps to ensure that Silicon Valley Bank fixed those problems quickly enough; and

4. The Board's tailoring approach in response to the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act and a shift in the stance of supervisory policy impeded effective supervision by reducing standards, increasing complexity, and promoting a less assertive supervisory approach.
This isn't true, though. Or at least it's not true if you want a free, set-it-and-forget-it solution, which people do for hobbies and side projects. You might want to take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719793, which is a story about somebody who started out trying to avoid CloudFlare and eventually had to surrender because there was no other way to keep his site online against attackers.
Yeah, there is a pretty annoying pattern right now on Twitter of such accounts trying to get some engagement. It usually goes like this:

"Everything is about to change. You are being left behind. Read this thread to know more"
If you just give my group absolute power, everything will improve.
However often you inform someone that they are wrong about what they found difficult, it will not thusly become true. Your brutish & obdurate insistence is only boring.

The difference between what you and I are claiming isn't in the substantive content, it's that you, Shiny Happy Rust Person-style (exemplifying what many of us find so ugly and bullying about the much-vaunted "Rust community") insist on universalising your personal experience.

I've already told you that novelty is nothing whatsoever to do with why I find Rust difficult. It has few novel concepts, and they are simple enough. Note that I never mentioned the fucking borrow checker. Now fuck off. I've blocked you anyway.
I've made a tool to create 3D tours based on Threejs Editor and it has been really useful to make presentations more compelling.

To create the presentation, you have to import 3D models (preferably fbx or glb) and place them in the 3D environment as desired. To create a "slide" you just have to click on the "new" button under the "slide" tab and it will capture the camera pose.

After creating some slides you can press the "start" on the menu to preview the presentation. Once everything is loaded, you can scroll through the preview page, and the camera will be animated sequentially between the captured poses.

That's the basic usage, but there are also other features available.

The editor page:
https://arthurmiy.gitlab.io/editor_slide_3d/editor/index.htm...

Presentation made using the tool:
https://arthurmiy.gitlab.io/se-webview/jaguariuna.html
YMMV, but I found the macOS app store way more picky than the MS Store. Denying my submission for using the term 'Exit' instead of 'Quit' rubs me the wrong way.
Generally you use different words instead of prompt editing for an LLM, but I guess it can be useful in certain situations.
Sure, in the same way that software engineering isn't engineering, if you want to be pedantic about the term "engineering".
You really don't think Google is using a language model in its spam filter?
Pardon my naivete, but what does 30B even go towards? Salaries and?

Imagine floundering that sum of money... and what good COULD have been done with it. This is an affront to humanity
I agree with you, but I think you should read the article. The author makes this exact point: "Much of it is coming from individuals who are peddling around an awful lot of "Prompting" and very little "Engineering"."

Basically, the author is arguing that just fiddling around with the words you enter in a ChatGPT window is not prompt "engineering". Instead, he talks about some specific techniques for e.g. blending prompts, indicating some words deserve more attention, etc.
There is no indication of what the charge was, and usually with hotlinking to an asset the legal issue is copyright infringement (which can be criminal as well as civil); that’s very different from suggesting that use of an API endpoint intended to be used by a public web frontend is a CFAA violation.
My city was only a couple degrees short of -40 this last winter.
The aforementioned tools do nothing whatsoever to grant to access accounts which aren’t theirs.
also lots of people didn't learn to code and did not do beer bongs... and despite knowing those two attributes, we know nothing about them