skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us learned Assembly Language programming before we hit C. Assembly Language makes a lot of use of pointers. So we're very comfortable using pointers.

I feel that we work better with C because of that. In fact, C has been called 'high level Assembly Language' by somebody in the past.

C is not difficult. C++ is difficult because of its use of overloading (IMHO) and it seems quite messy. In C, the frugal language, what you see is what you get.
What are you worried about? That someone will kidnap you, force you into an MRI machine, force you to train it for hours on your neural firing patterns, and get the password to your bank account this way?

I'm trying to figure out which part of this threat model AI makes a meaningful difference in. If they already have you captive, the xkcd-certified $5 wrench is cheaper.

"End of private thought" doesn't seem to be on this tech tree, unless you posit being able to scan people secretly or against their will.
No, because flash memory (and so-called RAM) still do sequential reads and writes faster, but for sure I'll tune a default Postgres config to give less of a penalty to random reads.
Short stroking SSDs is a commonly used trick in the toolbag of wise sysadmins for dealing with this kind of workload.
It sounds like they patched infected hosts but didn't necessarily identify or remove any command and control infrastructure. Did I read that correctly?
> Vitamin D deficiency is widespread worldwide

Even in the Southern Hemisphere?
I like the idea. Note that LLMs have some skill at decoding sequential dense vectors in the human brain

https://pub.towardsai.net/ais-mind-reading-revolution-how-gp...

so why not have them decode sequential dense vectors of their own activations?

As for the majority scoring poorly, they suggest that most neurons won't have clear activation semantics so that is intrinsic to the task and you'd have to move to "decoding the semantics of neurons that fire as a group"
https://archive.ph/DeDJK
Shadow cloning support landed in libgit2
Perspective projection only works for FOV < 180deg. At FOV = 180 the projected coordinate has to be +inf and it won’t work, so games that support FOV beyond 180 stitches multiple viewports, either on display or by having multiple displays.
Why not share the title here?
What is the difference between maintenance and regular updates? If I for software it should be complete, correct, and secure.

No new features? Fair enough.
The same Apple in which you had be careful which USB C port you used to not overheat?
Really impressive, and very exciting I'm sure for orgs with legacy applets that they can't afford to rewrite or get rid of

Probably not intended for new greenfield projects
Brain damage by physical trauma, disease, oxygen deprivation, etc. has dramatic and often permanent effects on the mind.

The effect of drugs (including alcohol) on the mind. Of note is anesthesia which can reliably and reversibly stop internal experience in the mind.

For a non-physical soul to hold our mind we would expect significant divergence from the above. Out of body experiences and similar are indistinguishable from dreams/hallucinations when tested against external reality (remote viewing and the like).
Such a huge influx of capital with no mention of Generative AI features reading & writing emails for you.

Impressive!
Or bcachefs...
How would "interdependence" help? If anything, it makes it even worse. Growing enough staples even for yourself and your family is hard, growing it for trade is even more complicated.

Try it, and pretty soon you need to actually do real agriculture.
Bullies need a certain amount of cover and crowds are fairly ideal for it.

I'd pull the lever that unwound our budget-friendly, densely populated, age-segmented schools in favor of much, much smaller community (eg:walkable) schools where courses were based on students' academic ability (instead of age) and where student-student support was a focus.
Brilliant. Fascinating. Depressing.
And pedals! I've half-seriously considered experimenting with an expression pedal as a vertical scroll controller for desktop applications, using a second pedal to switch between relative (pedal position relative to center → scroll velocity, zero movement when pedal position is centered) and absolute (pedal position → page position, zero movement unless pedal position changes) modes.

For wide multicolumn IDE/text-editor layouts, spatially-mapped fader banks and/or organ drawbars might also make useful scrollers.
The parallels are definitely there. Two issues happening are imo primary causes, corporate consolidation and the move towards "Demand-driven Supply Chain".
I guess the founders might know that already. "Spiti" means house in Greek.
Incredible! Made my day; thank you for sharing. I used to be bored by history until I read somewhere that it is really the study of change (I think Harari wrote it?)
Vs push where someone sets up to receive it and then… never turns it off?
It's real simple: Give new members an Amazon gift card to purchase the book. You buy the gift card, then send the code. Or, buy a gift card to their local bookstore so they can walk in and buy a physical copy, or they can use the funds to place an online order and have the book shipped through the store.

The best way to get a book club off the ground is to make sure everyone has the book in hand before the discussion starts. "First book on us" is a great way to build momentum, and it lets people know that you're serious about the project.
Related ongoing thread:

Show HN: JavaFiddle – Compile, run and share Java code fully client side - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874969 - May 2023 (5 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35873552 - May 2023 (121 comments)
The `is` operator is checking object identity by comparing addresses. It is useless, although it may sometimes produce reasonable-looking results due to optimisations.

Python 3.11 gives me this:

>>> -0 is 0
<stdin>:1: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
True

Because (a) -0 is an integer, and there is only one integer zero, (b) small numbers have only one instance in memory as an optimization.
Ask HN: How would you go about finding a Product role?
Over the past three years I’ve been a PM in a tiny medical hardware/software company focused on surgical education. I worked my way into it right after film production school as this random video guy. I began by producing content and then transitioned to handling presenting the product to business partners. And then I just sort of evolved into the main “idea guy” and affable product manager.

I fell in love with the users, the problem, and the business. Along the way we built a moderately successful academy WebApp for surgeons, we implemented a product research process and a bunch of other stuff. I also became a huge nerd about surgery and the surgeons even like to invite me along into the OR. But now I’m looking around for the “next thing” and I’m at a total loss.

The 3 years aren’t really all that impressive, and all of these experiences have been so scattered that it doesn’t exactly match up with what most serious IT companies are looking for (not to mention all of those layoffs everyone seems to be talking about). I’m a bit too old for junior roles, and I’m a bit too young for the senior ones (not that I could handle them).

If you wanted to optimize for finding something interesting, something early-stage in tech; How would you approach looking for such a role or challenge? Especially assuming no proper engineering or dev experience? How would you “hack” your way into getting your foot in that door?

How would you go about portraying yourself professionally if you were me? What do you think is important in this sort of personality? Or maybe what’s wrong with this picture in your opinion?

Conversely, if you run a small team, how do you look for someone who is a jack-of-all-trades like me? How do I get into your team if you don’t even know that you need someone like me?

I should probably mention I’m an American in Europe so there’s that, but this isn’t a hire me post, just looking for pointers in interesting directions.
This is the same APA that in 2019 published guidance on toxic masculinity. While they're likely right on this topic as social media is a cancer, this is not a serious organization that should be paid attention to.
I use Postbox which basically runs on Thunderbird I believe but has some professional tooling : https://www.postbox-inc.com/

I started using it when Thunderbird went under the previous time.
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237990/html

'[As to what you wrote]: "There are informers [... to the king] and coming to his presence; if it is acceptable to the king, let me write and send my messages to the king on Aram[aic] parchment sheets" — why would you not write and send me messages in Akkadian? Really, the message which you write in it must be drawn up in this very manner — this is a fixed regulation!'

Ironically, the reason we know about this message from the King of Assyria about how hell no he won't upgrade to parchment is because it was a message baked into GOOD OLD CLAY...

"Clay. It's the future of the past." -- Assyrian Clay Council Marketing Blurb
Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space
Now you know and can get into voting for the suggestions you deem valuable!

I don't know if there are any other public surfaces the Thunderbird team uses to figure out what to work on (outside of bug reports/telemetry and Mozilla Connect).
This is one of the things I love about rock climbing. It really seems like an activity that people can gracefully continue into their later years (if you're lucky enough to stay able bodied enough).

Activities that are hard on your body, and 100% physical, can be really unforgiving when it comes to the aging process.

With rock climbing you can kind of shift your focus.. maybe do more trad climbing instead of sport or bouldering. Focus on different types of climbs, maybe more technical slabby climbs where you're on your feet more. You can still feel like you're genuinely participating in the activity you love, even if you can't do exactly the same things you did before to the same extent.
Search for people running PDC's - Permaculture Design Courses - in your area. These are variably well monitored / established syllabus, usually run for 5 days or so. I'm sure there's one-day intro courses, but I suspect you'd get a lot more variability, and obviously a lot less value.

Most practicing permaculturists I've bumped into tend to eschew the woo, as it were, but you may want to validate that before signing up to any particular course. (These branches of study can attract certain types of people.)

I did a PDC here in Sydney AU about 15 years ago, and like GP I found it a hugely interesting and engaging process. (The one I went to was run by a lass who had studied under Bill Mollison, which was kind of funky, but as a rule the material covered is much more practical, rational, etc - than deferential / by association to the two guys that kicked it off.)
I'm not worried about any of that at all. None of what I've said has some unstated "therefore, this is bad" clause to it. I'm just pondering the progression of technology here.

If someone comes up with a technology that allows people's minds to be read without their cooperation, then I'd start to worry -- but I see nothing in this that indicates that's where things are going.

Also, the idea of building my own MRI appeals to me, so my mind went on a little tangent about how to make that happen.
Mike Bostock recreating his viral bank failure graphic (25min)
What does “hydroxychloroquine jerks” mean?
Isn't the android "port" just the rebranding of K9? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727376
There is a major update to iOS every single year and many older application simply wouldn't run.

Bad experience for users, developers and Apple.
I wish there was insightful explanations on why AI cannot think, and if there are researchers trying to explore this topic, and if yes what they do.
You can actually hypothesize that a soul exists and that intelligence is non-material, its just that your tests would quickly disprove that hypothesis - crude physical, mechanical modifications to the brain cause changes to intellect and character. If your hypothesis was correct you would not expect to see changes like that at all.

Some people think that neurons specifically aren't necessary for understanding intelligence but in the same way that understanding transistors isn't necessary to understand computers, that neurons comprise the units that more readily explain intelligence.
By that logic there should be e.g. +4.0 and +4.0- (for when you go 4m forwards vs when you go 4m forwards but also turn around at the end).
Subscription models for creative software is the worst thing in the industry. 10 years down the line when you get a blast of nostalgia and you want to open a couple of songs you wrote, and you even have the laptop in a drawer. OH! None of my programs work anymore.

It's a fine model if both models are available. You might spend some $ for some months to try it out, then you decide to buy it. But what they really want is for you to never ever stop paying, because you have a bunch of files and works you did that you "just might" have to open soon so you might as well keep the sub running...
I don’t agree, and it appears to me that those who embrace the facade of free speech absolutism always turn out to provide forums for blocks, bans, and threats of political violence against their opponents. Look at the demise of any so-called free speech forum on the right for any numbers of examples. The right has been at this for more than a century while the left has staked their entire ideology on protecting free speech. Musk and Carlson have repeatedly shown that they value "free speech for me (protected class), but not for thee." The entire history of human rights is based on this dispute. One side wants free speech for the rich and powerful, while the other side wants it for everyone without threats of political and physical violence. Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, so by its very nature demands that free speech only applies to those with wealth and means.
musl libc 1.2.4 – now with TCP fallback in DNS resolver

The no-tcp fallback discussion has come up a few times on HN. Maybe that will unbreak some Kube clusters or at least remove the need for some workarounds.

I just upgraded one of my nameservers and the kernel is 6.1.27-2 was 5.15.109-0 previously. Upgrade appears to have gone fine. A few sysctl's deprecated. Nice and boring, the way I like it.
I have. That’s kinda my original point. I think there isn’t as much of a causal connection between energy and diet/exercise as people think. It’s the solution for some people, but many people need get their energy back before they can pursue exercise.
well, eight pages, in my edition....

https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl10/Pierre-Mena...
Flash controllers provide an abstraction layer that should turn any write workload into a sequential one, freeing software developers from having to care about it.
As someone who can run at a pretty competitive pace, speed isn't everything. I notice that operating at the top competitive levels of most sports tends to destroy your body pretty quickly -- lots of stress injuries, sprains, accidents, etc, simply because you're pushing it so hard so often. When I really tried to push it, I could go faster and further... at the expense of actually enjoying myself.

I trail run in a much more relaxed way now -- enough to get a good workout, but definitely not as competitively as I used to road run. I've also picked up trail biking, and it's been SUCH a relief to just not think about my speed. I focus more on the experience of enjoying nature and I feel like that's a much healthier place to be. You can still push it occasionally, but there's a really pleasant niche at 60-80% of your max capacity! I also get the opportunity to share the sport with friends who aren't quite as speedy as me; turns out it's more fun to be social during an activity than to push myself.

And I have to say: at 53, even 4 hours is very very respectable. Try to remember that these things are first and foremost hobbies that are supposed to be fun!
Time-lock using pi-hole or another interceptor? Theoretically you could put this upstream of your devices on the network in your home. Then device doesn't matter (unless you switch to data on your phone).

Part of this is not having something else to do in place of doing the old habit. Part of this is not getting a reward for doing the something else. Maybe make a list of things you (used to) enjoy and keep it somewhere visible, revisit it frequently, especially when you are about to hit a cue that sends you into an activity you want to avoid.
Is it a factor that a CS degree is seen as a relatively easy path to a well-paying career (compared to doctor, lawyer, real engineer, etc.)?

When the goal for many is to make lots of money, maybe there are relatively fewer nerds who love the field and craft?

And perhaps a CS department is getting closer to the departments that (fairly or unfairly) once had a reputation for attracting more than their share of less-scrupulous students?
Also curious about these emergent properties too. Interesting responses and links to this in child comments.
> "CarynAI will be your girlfriend for $1 per minute"

ok but I want one that can speak to the manager for me for $1 per minute
Major websites such as Airbnb have dozens to hundreds of feature flags which they use to run A/B experiments.

And so there is plenty of software available e.g. LaunchDarkly to help simplify the process.
I would take a $1000 bet with you that stalking cases by a known adversary outnumber child abduction by strangers. Not sure how to find the stats though.
It is really sad to see how the Code of Conduct Crew has infiltrated the Chaos Computer Club and turned the Chaos Communication Camp into yet another target for the thought police. This really stands diametrically opposed to the original intent of these hacker camps and, if allowed to continue, can be the death knell for this type of gathering of free minds.

One of the keynote speakers for H2K was Jello Biafra, the frontman for the Dead Kennedys. His message of "don't criticise the media, become the media" was well received and has in many ways come to fruition with the advent of "alternative" media ranging from individuals to well-organised groups publishing text, audio and video over the 'net. The message was clear, freedom of expression is core to the somewhat anarchist-leaning crowd which tends to go to these meetings. The Code of Conduct Crew's message seems to be "don't criticise us, obey us". While this is not the first time a "somewhat anarchist organisation" [1] gets taken over by authoritarians it would be a big loss if they succeeded.

[1] anarchist as in "a herd of cats", not as in "people in trench coats throwing bombs"
My take: Regurgitation of trained-on information about LLMs does not come anywhere close to "conscious brain knows it's conscious."
My ‘hubby’ just completed her first ever half marathon this weekend at the Toronto Marathon.

Meeting her at the finish line; I clearly in no way had any clue just how intense and borderline insane marathon running really is. She’d been training for about a year, but tbh I hadn’t really seen her do it a lot, since she was usually at the gym, and I guess just the idea of processing that she just did a 22km run, going up and down various hills as well; was honesty mind blowing.

It’s gotta be a labour of love, because holy cow; it seems tough.
Even better! K9 is what I use on my phone right now.
Even if we can explain the function of a single neuron what do we gain? If the goal is to reason about safety of computer vision in automated driving as an example, we would need to understand the system as a whole. The whole point of neural networks is to solve nuanced problems we can't clearly define. The fuzziness of the problems those systems solve is fundamentally at odds with the intent to reason about them.
What's stopping kids from simply hanging out with one another?
I went through this at much younger and I completely understand the feeling of loss of identity. I was a college rower back in the day, and at my peak I was doing 11 workouts a week, plus weightlifting. I finished school and it was hard to not completely lose enthusiasm for rowing because I knew I was the fastest I would ever be because I'd never have that kind of time again to train.

As an athlete, there's a big difference in mentality between trying to get better over time vs just trying to not get worse too quickly.
I have never seen anyone prove Molly White wrong.
Twitter is least likely to ban him due to the temporary chaos and incompetence of the "leadership". As lawsuits & losses pile, Musk will have to step down and then the "free speech" honeymoon is over. Also, I doubt Twitter has money for Carlson's show, the kind that'd justify him doing it, and paying his staff and himself enough to cover his costs and basic life's needs.
haha, ofc we do. The name was picked because of that.

house ->home -> home for your team videos. :)

You made me smile. Thank you!
It's the customer's fault for using the wrong USB port obviously /s
If the goal is to play old Flash games Flashpoint is very good. https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
For context on what an appropriate dose is, this article seems to suggest that the intensity of most effects start to flatten out as you go past 100ug. The effects that continue to get more pronounced past that level seem to be negative effects such as anxiety or potentially difficult to navigate such as disembodiment.

Seems like 100ug is likely a sweet spot for most first timers.
You don’t have any wellness centers or clinics around you that offer blood tests? A full panel costs $80–100 but its not expensive for something you can do every few months to make sure you’re in good health. No need to convince a doctor.
it reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
Australia's reduced rights was the impetus for the creation of the USA?
That's exactly what I meant. They performed well because they were in a high performance environment.
I added it to the Gentoo GURU overlay (still pending on dev branch). Will fit along with DBF/libdbf as formerly common 90's software available to install.

EDIT: Oh wait, this is lotusdrv. I haven't added that yet. Added the previously discussed linux native version of lotus123r3.
What matters for copyright is not the notes but how the notes got there. Colour refers to the qualitative differences in provenance, not timbre or anything physical. That's what the article is about. Every thing, from the legal perspective, is imbued with these unseen attributes. It's very confusing for artisans of any kind
The last days of a 350-year-old family farm
So basically shepherding adolescent online life is impossible given current reality of Facebook, whatsapp and friends and if it was, it would be a full-time job? Or did I miss something?