skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of ALGOL both predating and influencing FORTRAN. FORTRAN was announced as a product at the Western Joint Computer Conference in 1957 [1]. ALGOL was developed at a meeting in Zurich in 1958 [2].

[1] https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL
I'm quite sure the majority of people would perfere another day off as opposed to shorter days. I think for most of the people commuting takes around. an hour in 1 direction making extra 2 hours you need to spend to work. So realistically with 1 day off you get extra 10 hours off if you count commute.
> If the consumer doesn't want a product... it's somewhat the consumer's fault?

One could buy a burger at McDonald's immediately, or wait for half hour in line to get a healthier and better sandwich at a shop down the road.

The fact that McDonald's is more convenient, does not make it better.

Consumers want to eat, and they want to read news, but most of the time they don't want all that comes attached to either. You are of the opinion that we should have newspapers that are only headlines, something easier to digest, but void of content.

> Google feeds the publishers, not the other way around. A significant portion of their traffic comes directly from Google. The other way around simply doesn't happen.

What do you think Google's business model is? They don't generate any content after all. Do you think they are losing money on search or news?

Imagine a world where no one would want Google to index their websites, just because. The world wide web would continue working, but Google would eventually disappear, because they do not create any content themselves.
Good thing Switzerland kept it's CHF 1000 notes while the EU dumped their EUR 500 notes.

Of course it's stupid to keep cash with inflation at the current rate but you should always keep some emergency cash around. Then again some banks have such high fees you might as well keep the money in cash in a safe.
Yeah but looking how auto has been abused in C++ I don't think it worth it.
I don't know anybody who has no data they care for.

Everybody has some data they never don't want to lose.

So the Nostr key would be just another piece of such data.

Also, losing it would not that much of a desaster. Use a new key, and let people know about it via other channels.
That doesn't make any sense. You really think remote tech jobs are the leading cause of this population decline in a state of 39 million people?
> That said: where do I sign up for 16 weeks of severance pay?

The cruel irony is that having Shopify on your resume will open a lot of doors and likely result in a shorter job search than those laid off from lower-profile companies with less severance.

For point of comparison, my no-name series-D gave us a little over two weeks… and I’m unfortunately still looking 20 weeks later.
Ah right, gotcha. Actually I think `i` and `j` would be fine, since the whole point is that [:alpha:] will expand to any of the characters contained in that range before it has a chance to be interpreted as the intended character class (and therefore, i and j are safe from accidental pathname expansion, since they don't appear in that range).

But yes, this indeed causes problems if you have a file called `:`, `a`, `l`, `p`, or `h` on the system.

Good catch. Thanks again.
Of course. It's how much people who live there get paid.
I think the Tulip Mania, if that's what you're referring to, was a speculation bubble, whereas a recession is widespread by definition.
I disagree, one can make it difficult to data scrappers.
How about instead of scraping other people's headline and creating an automated summary of their content, you hire someone to write a headline and summary in their own words and then provide links to news outlets discussing that story?

Man Bites Dog: NY Times, CBC, Toronto Star, National Post

As long as you aren't borrowing their content, including their headline, I don't see that they have any basis for a complaint.

My guess would be that Google and Meta simply don't want to pay a human being when an algorithm doesn't draw a salary.
First they were promising haven. Now heaven. I admit, I haven't lost my suspicion of Microsoft since the browser wars, but these statements do more to put me at unease. Xbox is the _latest_ product by Microsoft to be accused of anti-compeitive behavior. It's also significantly less open than even Windows.
Caffeinated Wine Sparks Political Controversy in Northern Ireland
It says something about how long the original article was.
No shit! As an anecdote just yesterday I fell for the premium meme on LinkedIn... I could just not stand the idea of not knowing who visited my profile! (how weak of me), they literally charged me 20 bucks (half price) for a month of premium, I bet I will completely forget to cancel the sub next month and I will end up paying 40 dollars for a few more months until I finally decide its been enough... Also, fell for Spotify's 3 months free COME BACK!! meme... oh God... I need rehab
Massachusetts has a much more noticeable personal income tax because it is not progressive, everyone loses 5% off their paycheck. In California a household with 2 children for example won't pay 5% until their income is > $200k.
I have to disagree here.

C++ is becoming more complex and bloated over time.

C, on the other hand, is becoming more convenient with almost no bloat or confusing features.

C is aging slowly but graciously, in my opinion.
The video is worth a watch - https://youtu.be/WCniHh2_F7s
Someone else mentioned it's not passive, but a few weeks ago somebody referred to this language as "exonerative tense" which I thought fit well.
Now that is a much more compelling critique. Thank you for sending me down this interesting rabbithole...
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> Feels like AI is prompting..

Pun intended?
This is especially hilarious as Shopify senior leadership has traditionally been outright against AI, and is even blatantly against making decisions based on data, and even against people with domain expertise! Even today, I don't think they remotely understand AI and certainly not how to build it.

I guess their idea of AI is someone using the ChatGPT API. Good luck if they think they will "hack" some revolutionary AI together with a cowboy hacker culture.
Your alignment is 'Chaotic neutral'

"Warning: Small active tracker device hidden somewhere in the car. Good luck!"

thieves spend 3 hours literally tearing the car apart and then give up but your car is ruined anyway
I remember K in a relationship with a hologram and when Harrison Ford showed up. The rest is lost in time, like tears in rain.
sorry about to apply to YC as a late application
Salesforce Announces SlackGPT
I've camped at many private campgrounds in the US. There's even a big franchise chain called KOA for private campgrounds.

https://KOA.com/campgrounds

Sites like Hipcamp help people market their private campgrounds online. Lots of private places listed here.

https://www.hipcamp.com

On top of that, sometimes state parks/campgrounds can actually be just leased private land.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/15/fairfield-lake-texas...
There are no high interest banks. 2% in EU is very high interest.
Because C is a "do exactly as I say" language.
Post a couple of times that the account is not to be trusted anymore and that people should check your HN account / Twitter / FB / Website to see your new account.

In contrast to Twitter & Co, a compromised account does not mean you cannot post anymore.
An auction does sound better, at least then you either get it and spend the money or you don't.
> maybe, maybe not, but completely irrelevant to the discussion, since we're evaluating one simple, objective, yes or no question you can find at the bottom of this post, not comparing anything

> the opposite claim to >1 human in history being killed by an intelligence leak, is <=1 human in history being killed by an intelligence leak

No.

I'm debating if leaks are a net positive overall, so my claim is that it doesn't matter if leaks sometimes cause deaths as leaks save more lives than they take, especially the lives of innocents. And by the way my claim is 100% clear in all of my comments. If you choose to engage me then accept to debate my claim or stop wasting time.

> Yes or No, have >1 people been killed by an intelligence leak?

This is a ridiculous thing to debate on, and you know it really well. Next thing we're going to debate idiotic stuff like "Yes or No, have >1 people been killed by drinking too much water?"

If all you cared about was "winning" the debate on a technicality, congratulations! Shame that it doesn't amount to anything in the real world.

If the point was to have a constructive discussion and gain some additional insight on the topic, then this was a complete waste of time, at least as long as you refuse to listen what other people have to say and fixate on a technicality.
I'll take 4 months thanks + 1 week / year of tenure. That is a very reasonable severance.
Data Analysis with ChatGPT
The AI Bill of Rights: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights

+ Safe and Effective Systems
-> What should be expected of automated systems
--> Risk identification and mitigation

What they should really be focusing on is Hazard/Reliability engineering. "Risk" is too broad of a term for safety because it includes "economic harm" which ... well it's by decree.

+ Algorithmic Discrimination Protections

The only task these system perform is discrimination, and it's impossible to tell what the system can infer -- the Federal government will do anything to avoid naming the root causes of harmful inequality experienced by protected classes (and addressing that instead of holding a butter knife up to the neck of a shiny object).

+ Data Privacy

This is actually impossible without trust. Homomorphic encryption isn't a thing. This isn't happening.

+ Notice and Explanation
-> Why this principle is important

Chicago kept a secret watch list of violence-prone individuals. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/5/18/18386116/a-look-insid... is this important? If it was derived from OSINT, and it was being used for public safety purposes why is the federal government meddling in it -- do they have a monopoly on secrets? They shouldn't, if the public safety of Chicago is to be seen.

edit: I'm not sure what the criticism is here in light of the Notice and Explanation requirement -- there was N&E at most 4y after the practice began -- and it wasn't really a gaffe, presumably such a risk assessment system is still being used. I guess the argument is that this should have been required, or made earlier?

+ Human Alternatives, Consideration, and Fallback

This is probably what we need more of at first, and then less of later -- once all these goofy flat "simple" decision models have been replaced.

Here's a clear drawing of the ideal system without all the pesky words: https://ibb.co/7KrgBk4
The comments here are interesting, lots of possibilities for other ur-languages. My suggestion is macro based languages. Macro based programming predates all programming languages other than ASM[1]. The simple macro systems, like early assemblers provided, aren't ur-languages, but once macros can expand other macros and generate definitions of new macros, the macro systems can become general purpose programming systems.

The two earliest macro systems that were clearly designed to be general purpose languages that I know of are Christopher Strachey's GPM[2] and Calvin Mooers TRAC[3] programming language. These languages appeared at roughly the same time, the mid 1960s. I prefer the syntax of TRAC, but otherwise they are almost isomorphic. TRAC was featured in Computer Lib/Dream Machines[4] by Ted Nelson where the author said it was one of the three important languages for programmers to learn. A good introduction to TRAC and it's implementation can be found in Études for Programmers[5].

Other more contemporary examples of macro programming languages are m4, and TeX. LaTeX is programmed in the TeX macro system.

[1] Daniel Weise and Roger Crew, "Programable Syntax Macros", ACM SIGPLAN, 1993, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/173262.155105

[2] Christopher Strachey, “A general purpose macrogenerator,” Computer Journal, 8(3), pp. 225-241, 1965

[3] Calvin Mooers, "TRAC, a procedure-describing language for the reactive typewriter", CACM, Vol 9(3), March 1966, pp. 215-219, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365230.365270

[4] Ted Nelson, "Computer Lib/Dream Machines", 1974, Self-published. (There is a 2nd edition from Microsoft Press, but I'm only familiar with the 1st edition).

[5] Charles Wetherell, "Études for Programmers", 1978, Prentice Hall. (It's out of print and available from Amazon for $427. I'm going to have to start locking up my old books.)
It's hard to imagine how anyone can view collocation of stock buybacks, employee layoffs/comp reductions and ceo pay raise as evidence of "good management".

So far there's a lot of talk about how ai will end lower-level jobs -- but the real opportunity for labor savings will be to evolve new company structures which don't have the modern form of centralized leadership with more or less fraud-driven leverage over company profits.

New companies modeled after teams that are assembled more like movies, with crediting processes for everyone involved that tie to broad-base profit sharing mechanisms will be the new way. The c-suite can go away/be dramatically consolidated into real leadership roles -- more hands on and direct leadership -- more like the director of a movie than a ceo of a mega cap, more like an Andrew Kelley than a Sundar Pichai)

More collaborations, more loosely affiliated, and more transparent profit sharing structures will be possible as more and more of the business and legal structural bullshit (which significantly over-determine modern business outcomes) can be automated away.
I heard someone say a while back that “cancelled customers are just potential future customers”. Anyone that’s had an easy cancellation process will remember that flexibility if they ever need that service again. No idea why no large subscription service seems to understand that. Make me go thru annoying hoops and you’ve lost me for good!
The 1% is from the comment I responded to (and is actually higher than my past experience - employment contracts are really easy to read). The 3% is from an average of union dues.
> Why would a startup that's racing against time and money decide to create a new language when something already exists that can meet their needs with just a little tweaking?

Have you MET programmers? The idea that we/they would do this is not anywhere close to surprising.
GC is first and foremost a code design tool. Not having a GC causes less flexible code, every refactor will likely has to reimagine the memory ownership model at every relevant area.

So I absolutely don’t think of the borrow checker as superior to a GC, it’s a different tool with different tradeoffs. It was a good choice for a low-level language like Rust, but not necessarily for a high level language.
> Age checks for porn sites: seems like if parents care about this, there are plenty of technological ways to restrict their children's access? Is there a gap between what's available as a technological intervention and parents' want?

The real problem behind that are various Evangelical groups running scare campaigns against parents and pressure campaigns against ISPs and individual sites. The US was the first with FOSTA/SESTA, the UK followed suit, and here in Germany our media regulators are going nuts as well.

> Measures to clamp down on “anonymous trolls” by requiring that services give the option for users to verify their identity: for minors it seems like parents could restrict access to websites via technical means, for adults... don't use the website/app?

That one is more complex. There are many different and valid points that collide:

- the EU GDPR effectively demands that services can be used anonymously, and so did the old §13 TMG law in Germany.

- service providers (Facebook most infamously) try to skirt these laws because they sell "authenticity" of users as part of their product appeal, and others to combat spam

- the people demand the ability to post on the Internet without having to reveal their identity - say, in customer or employer review sites, or when unionizing or protesting against the government

- Employers and brands do not want anonymous reviews due to the libel potential

- people wish to watch porn or sext anonymously, because of the risk that a link between their porn habits and identity poses - the best example here is the prosecution of gays via Grindr

- governments do not like anonymous commenting either, partially because they're oppressive, and partially because of the potential for hostile acts by enemy nations such as the Russian and Chinese "fake news" campaigns

Striking a balance between these points is very complex, and the fact that many politicians are frankly way too old (or incompetent) to understand what they are regulating doesn't make things better.
I currently subscribe to the $5 plan, and I'm happy with that.

Most searches I do are simple, any search engine will do. So I don't use Kagi for those. When it's not trivial, I just start my search with "k " to use Kagi. I easily stay below the 200 searches limit then.

For sure it would be more convenient to have unlimited searches, but I'm not willing to pay for a higher plan.
I don't know about other laws, but GDPR does not say “immediately”, but “without undue delay”. In practice, it is within one month, extensible by up to two months (cf. art 12).
I couldn't resist asking it about the word entropy of its training corpus and quite predictably it wasn't able to understand my question and instead answered similar questions. However, it stuck quite firmly to a figure of 10--12 bits per word! I'm fairly sure that refers to the vocabulary entropy and not word entropy of English.
Some number of us who left would've preferred to continue living there, but it can be difficult to justify that if you're trying to not spend a majority of your income on housing.

In my case, as a remote worker it was hard to say no to a house twice the size of my old apartment for a mortgage payment half of what my rent was. The only tradeoff was more rainy days, since I moved to a metro in the PNW.

Had housing prices been more reasonable in the parts of California where people want to live, I wouldn't have had any issue staying. It was nice.
I'd hazard to say a fair amount of low-income rentals are still paid in cash.

It's not like the "don't declare income" slice of the economy disappeared.

If you're paid in cash but not declaring it, you probably want to pay rent in cash too.

Quick search, but unbanked seems a good proxy for "pay with cash": https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html

From the above, somewhere between 4.5% (average) and ~8% (low income African-American and Hispanic) people do not have a bank account.

Add in some more who choose not to declare, and it's a small but significantly non-zero number.
The issue is that "ethics" are not universal.

By all means, if you believe (as it sounds like you do) that this will result in the affirmation and expansion of your worldview this is good news for you.

If you suspect, at any level, that maybe the current formulation of what is "ethical" and what is not may, at any point in the future, be called into question, than designing the fabric of super intelligent computational processes to presumptively adhere to your preconceptions is at best ill conceived at at worst malicious.

Enjoy the basilisk.
I've noticed the White Ambiance lights don't dim to a very low level for night time night light type of use, but the White and Color Ambiance bulbs can get far dimmer. Also the White Ambiance Filament bulbs seem to get dimmer than the regular White Ambiance bulbs.

It's a shame, really, because it seems like the expensive bulbs might meet your needs while their cheaper ones don't. Granted, the filament bulbs do seem to fall more in line with the regular bulbs, so might be worth exploring.
Very useful little utility. I've used it to install SmartTube on my Chromecast with Google TV and previously to tinker with a Beelink box running Android.
At all governmental levels, California is fully mis-managed partly because management no longer has to do with outcomes beneficial to residents of California. And the question is as more reasonable people who expect reasonable management of the state leave (I plan to be one), how will the state ever turn around when voters continue to vote for management that does not manage in their best interests?
> Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income
Yeah just look at BBB reviews for subscription companies...
I agree, this is one of the more important common extensions we are still missing.
Ii is, because it inspired both the Smalltalk branch and the more mainstream OO languages, and hence it makes sense to consider it as a possible ur-language in that sense.

Smalltalk is a branch, but it's an important enough branch introducing important enough new concepts that unlike with Self I wouldn't have an issue with people considering Smalltalk it's own ur-language, and because I agree with you that Simula at least on the surface will seem more familiar to people familiar with ALGOL-derived languages with OO mechanisms than to Smalltalk.

Self, on the other hand, is less important for its concepts (ok, so it has prototypes instead of classes, but classes in Smalltalk are also objects, so I don't buy that it's that conceptually different, especially in a dynamic language where you can dynamically instantiate and mutate classes) than it is for the papers on its implementation.
It's a manufactured engineering problem. They created, collected, and processed data before thinking of the ethical and legal problems that may arise. Their lack of innovation to prevent this issue is why they now face a significant challenge in retroactively making their product ethical and legal.

I completely agree with the parent post, it's not my problem that their product was badly designed. If it takes them 10 million dollars to comply with the various data protection laws around the world, that's none of my concern.
Paper cutters are actually safer than scissors now, if you get the slide type instead of those insane guillotines.
> He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook. If you go into a store and they have a security camera that records you is that also violating your privacy?

Maybe not in America, but WhatsApp is basically mandatory in some countries. Schools will send out communications exclusively over it and many businesses exclusively use it for payment. 92% of Israeli phones have it installed. For some, the option is Facebook or not participating in society.
I would, I honestly i had an idea the other day where it would be good if social media would limit the posts per day at 1 and have fixed timeline (show everything in chronological order, as opposed to currated algorithm feed). It would block people spamming for attention/exposure.
In addition to the other points, "regular users" unfortunately still quite often use only a few passwords, shared between all their services. So only 3-4 passwords (and variations) to remember!
I was wondering the same thing. Even the prediction as I type this in is pretty good. It seems like LLM's could be even better.