skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the purpose of this type of reductionist poopooing? Are you advocating that accountability is undesirable? Of are you just flexing your intellect?

The basic flaw in this thought exercise of yours is, no one is actually '"accountable" for everything' with the power or desire to enact the consequences you listed. That said, there is nothing wrong with modeling that I am accountable for everything and accepting chaos theory as a unavoidable attribute of the world. This means that me being accountable and things going wrong does not necessitate any of the things you listed "independent behaviors by others must be extinguished" as this is just a sociopathic way of thinking on the path to destruction.
This is targeted at kids, and VB.NET might be easier for them. Also, in 2008 when this came out, VB.NET might have been more relevant.

If you look at the auto-generated VB.NET code, it’s very close to the Small Basic code, with the addition of a variable declaration. This variable is of a magic, SB-specific `Primitive` type that is a string, a decimal, and a dictionary at the same time. Generating it was probably easier than translating to C# and introducing real (static) types.
That seems familiar.

Yep! https://www.romandodecahedron.com/calendar
I don’t quite understand how or why but I was tangentially involved in a small-mid size e-commerce website that only serves B2B customers in the US and to a small extent in Canada and it absolutely got lots of hits from what I assume are Chinese search engines to the point where we decided we absolutely needed cloud flare rate limiting.

Now the code is a hot mess, sure and I am partially to blame for that but that is kind of besides the point. We don’t need to serve any more than thousands of concurrent users which the website can handle but we have to basically ban Chinese traffic to stay online.

Maybe people at bigger companies already know this but it was a revelation to me how much it takes just to stay alive in production.

I anal and I definitely don’t know what they get out of crawling every single product detail page on our website multiple times a day. Nothing here changes that often. Maybe they have some bad/overzealous code? Are they looking to attack take over our servers to them attack others with our machines? If it is an attack, why use Chinese IP addresses? Why not use their bit farms? If it is legitimate search engine, why not respect robots.txt?
Reminds me that in late 70s / early 80s, a lot of PLT were a syntax over some lisp macros, cause macros don't sell.
Agreed. VB.NET does have some weirdly useful built in functionality, that isn't in C#. From memory, date and string stuff?
There was a pretty funny, to me and my buddy, moment in our Digital Communications course when we were learning this. We were both dual EE/CS students while the rest of the class was straight EE. The professor is drawing out the trellis diagrams and going through this elaborate description of things and most people (including me and my buddy) were completely lost. At some point, though, he and I both had the same lightbulb moment. We turned to each other and simultaneously just whispered “it’s a dynamic programming problem”. And then it was all easy from there.
If they were you’d expect them to be a standard size and they’re not.

That’s what I recall from last time this went around at least.
> never understood how they reconciled trying to be strict in some areas but being lax in others

IMHO you’re describing all humans ever. We all live with constant choices between conforming and rebelling - religious, societal, etc. It’s not that surprising?
> So... They are a success story?

I've already explained who's success story it is:

> The VCs and founders who cashed out on IPO day are the only winners in this failure.

For the rest of retail and new investors:

> ...anyone who bought at the IPO price has just been exit liquidity.

A business that has constantly raised VC cash before IPO and now still remains chronically unprofitable even after IPO and has being loaned more post-IPO debt doesn't seem to be a great business success story for the new investors holding the stock since it IPO'd.

> You basically described the whole startup grift.

Indeed. Let's see if any of these new startups will get access to VC cash whilst as easily as the old ones did, especially as most of them are still unprofitable.
That I can absolutely agree with, as long as the taxes are usage based and opt-in only!
I must have overlooked all those conferences on time travel that are on the same level as, e.g., AAAI.

But yes, public perception is a different thing. Most people are totally baffled when I tell them that the first spam email was sent in 1978, because for a lot of people the internet (and with it email) popped into existence somewhere around 2004.
Bot accepting contributions is fine. It’s still Open Source Definition so anyone can fork it and accept contributions.
Show HN: Plugind.com – ChatGPT Plugin Directory and Reviews
> It's not good that kids grow up wanting to be youtubers not scientists.

To be fair, it’s not like being scientist is overly appealing. You have years of education which is potentially very expensive all for what? Crappy paying postgrad work and a modern academic career m or maybe a meh job in industry research that still is probably not paying that great.

Not that I think they’d be better off in YouTube, at least on average.
I think that's the reason it doesn't exist.
I've got it from @libraryofbabel here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710994
Did they manage to build and publish an evolution tree?
Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy–here’s why
Similarly, you can group prior generations’ rockstar, movie star, and unicorn startup founder into this category of “rare and successful” people doing the hip thing.
Looks like mode collapse in Midjourney. It is less capable of dealing with instructions now likely to increase the chance of generating aesthetically pleasing output.
That's exactly how countermeasure software works. I believe it was both the EFF and CCC that developed counteractive software for this after initially discovering it (correct me if I'm wrong).
Minor thing, but the format of their website is exceedingly frustrating. They have a table about halfway down the article which is shown as a series of blue boxes, and you have to click a specific column or row to un-obfuscate that selection of cells and remove the blue boxes. Besides annoying the reader I have literally no idea why they would do this.

Edit: a word
PDF report is here: https://www.imperva.com/resources/reports/2023-Imperva-Bad-B...
Ask HN: What's the best way to have a business anonymously?
I would like to have a business without disclosing the business owner is. Is this possible?
in addition to the comments, you don’t learn to code to get a job necessarily, actually it’s way more common to learn to code and then suddenly find that you can get a job… also language difference is minimal, you need to show that you can learn to get a job, not that you know this specific syntax, eventually everything is obsolete.
Automatic Reference Counting.

Writing by hand isn't the same.
Solidus v4.0
Why do we need a frontend framework? I am genuinely interested. The last project we used SSR and the sire ended up fast and snappy using a lot less energy than the previous similar project we used a JS based framework and we had all the functionality we needed.
That is more than relevant, otherwise we are comparing oranges to apples, pun intended.

Automatic Reference Counting.

Since = is the same as .clone() in character count?
PySpark for NLP workshop – Jupyter notebooks and instructions
That’s a team problem, not “what you learn” problem…
> Indian troops invaded East Pakistan to help the Bengali rebels, forced the Pakistan military to surrender, and created the new nation of Bangladesh.

AFAICT OP’s father was on the side of the rebels, not the Pakistani troops you’re talking about right?
>Likewise, your program can use any variables defined in your subroutines. In computer talk, we say all variables in a Small Basic program have global scope.

Is scope really that big of a hurdle for beginning students? Also, in the examples I saw there are no formal functional arguments. This seems like a big step backwards as a teaching language compared to Racket/Dr Scheme. Copying the same bad design decisions from 70s BASICs because of nostalgia doesn't seem that helpful for actual education.
I'm a minority (Spaniard, at an American company). I also I used to use PHP. I can 100% say that I'm glad people made fun of it because it influenced me to try other things and I was much, much better off for it. PHP was an objectively bad language (at least when I was using it, I hear it might be better now).

Mockery is a very effective signalling mechanism and censoring it to comply with US corporate correctness seems a bit overbearing, to be honest.
But we had a presidential candidate run on fears of AI in 2020, so that poster has a real point.
You're welcome. I can't vouch for them though, as I haven't tried them, I've merely heard about them.
Once you get over a certain income it gets harder to spend the money quickly locally. The wealthy in a way end up hording their income as they can and often spend it slowly. The wealthy often spend it trading for objects and property from others in their cohort. The difference is the velocity of money for a minimum wage earner compared to the top 1% in very large. In a study in my 1980s economics textbook, the annual multiplier for the bottom 20% of incomes, the money recirculated 11 times more within 12 months. The multiplier for the top cohort (I don't recall if it was a quintile too) was only 0.4 times. That top cohort might spend their money on art, brothels on the other side of the world or on international investments. This is the reason Adam Smith and John Stewart Mill advocated for a progressive income tax and for some legal restraints on corporations and banks. They spend their money slowly and in ways that harm most of us. This study is an example of how putting more money in the pockets of people who are going to spend their money quickly in their immediate neighborhood are going to actually in this case create local economic growth. We need a progressive income tax not for social justice but for better economic efficiency and getting a larger economic pie to all eat from.
> I will just use another language.

Hello C, C++ and Fortran.
Is the story of how the paper was stood up documented anywhere?
How big of a market is the prepper community? Wonder if this would actually be a viable business, although not sure if prepper and ikea aesthetics overlap much.
Generating electricity is a yield to humans. Other plants have other yields.

In an ecosystem, something spreading and growing is a feature, not a bug. It means that, as a living system, it self-heals and regenerates. This is better than just being sustainable. A solar panel neither self-heals or regenerate. It in fact, degenerates —- the cells wear out over time, yielding less electricity year over year, and will require replacement at some point. Without human intervention, it will eventually stop functioning.

My question still remains unanswered: what does a solar panel contribute to the ecosystem itself, that is not a result occupying a canopy layer or a yield for humans?
The OP is clearly dealing with the symptoms commonly associated with ADHD. Whether or not they would be formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist is actually irrelevant. People with ADHD have coping strategies for these symptoms. It is wise to share in and learn from those strategies. Note that GP did not recommend a pharmaceutical treatment. But, when we notice that somebody has the symptoms of ADHD, it's common to recommend they see a doctor to have it checked out.
I didn't see that suggested at all.
You just described the entire economy. It's worked out pretty well actually. All spending is someone else's income, which can then be taxed again.
I use Twitter to follow the select few journalists, academics, government agencies, and writers that I trust and enjoy reading.

There is no competition at present. I didn’t wish this situation into being. It’s where I find the world in 2023.

With tv you couldn’t just choose to consume better content, but that’s the whole point of Twitter. No bozos. You can word filter “Trump” and get on with life.
“One day I saw a newspaper headline reporting that the President suggested that if Americans had to buy their bomb shelters, rather than being provided with them by the government, they'd take better care of them, an idea which made me furious. Logically, each of us should own a submarine, a jet fighter, and so forth.”

— Philip K. Dick, describing the inspiration for his 1955 short story Foster, You're Dead!¹

1. <https://web.archive.org/web/20150419181303/http://american-b...>
I have literally patched OpenSSH to show me cat pictures instead of the usual randomart.
It also results in a disincentives for all parties involved to invest all the time and effort. You could either convince everyone that "don't be insensitive it's a lot of money for them", or you could try to make the process easier.
Which part exactly you claim allows you to do that? The only which remotely even allows you to do so is the "mere aggregation", and mere aggregation I already mentioned like 2 days ago.

The only part you mentioned so far:

> From GPLv2, Section 2: "If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."

Is literally saying that the whole must be licensed under the GPL (note: even whether there are sections that may be considered independent and/or separate and/or derivative and/or whatever), otherwise you just can't distribute it.

Just think about it. The LGPL would make no sense if this wasn't the case.
Asking for inclusion of the year does not suggest the content is less valuable, and often provides important context about the content and how to interpret it.

e.g. an article about the risks of AI written in 2007 will hit differently than a similar piece written yesterday.
Yeah the CPC eliminates poverty whereas the USG wages war.

There's no comparison.
If you want to understand McIlroy's code, you can always read the what McIlroy wrote in what McIlroy wrote in Communications of the ACM.

If you want to understand Knuth's code, you can always read what Knuth wrote in the code Knuth wrote.

To the degree "programs must be written for people to read,
and only incidentally for machines to execute" McIlroy's code traded incidental complexity for brevity. Considering his ordinary expectation that readers would be "old Unix hands" at Bell Labs, this is probably an entirely reasonable engineering tradeoff.

Knuth's intended audience has always included at least his future self. To the degree "debugging is twice as hard as writing code in the first place" verbosity is also an entirely reasonable engineering tradeoff. He's been working with some of some of his algorithms for sixty years.

If I had a criticism of McIlroy's response -- and I say "had" because it's been forty years more or less -- it's the either or approach. Literate programming is a not-for-me for a lot of people. That doesn't make it bad or good. Just a not-for-me.

But hell, forty years ago we didn't have so many chances to scratch itches to argument. Arguments always drive engagement for publishers.

Some things don't change very much.
Do as I say, not as I do... and other similar nonsense.
Where are you actually located?

1.1.1.1 does not support the EDNS client subnet header [1], which means that practically, the CDN's DNS server will see your request as originating from your nearest 1.1.1.1 resolver.

8.8.8.8 does, so if the CDN evaluates it, you might get a better match (or a worse one!)

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/faq/#does-1.1.1.1-...
There's this incredible phenomenon on this website where someone posts "Show HN: <tool>, but modern" where <tool> is something used by nearly every Linux machine in the last 40 years, and what makes it "modern" is Rust, inexplicably.
> The most plausible explanation from the comments is that controlling the mechanical hardware of printers is somewhat hard and somewhat machine-specific

Yes, but not since 30 years. /s
tmux is one of those things that is nice if you take the time to learn and actually USE it for awhile.

But it doesn’t have amazing uses that immediately make you say “wow”. The biggest I’ve found is setting up something on a remote server and being able to disconnect it. For example it can be much nicer for running a Minecraft server than daemonizing.
Do you know how well it performs compared to llama.cpp?
That is an average bonus of about $273,000, keeping pace with executive payouts that spiked in the four years before the pandemic hit

The headline makes it sound like executives were collecting enormous additional bonuses, yet this sentence basically says the bonuses were modest, and the same as previous, non-COVID years.
Aaron Toponce:Debian: “The LastPass password generator uses a userspace ”
Things like creating highways, making sure our food is uncontaminated, running the GPS, etc, etc, provide incredible value to the economy, yes. We are after all talking across an internet developed with public funding. They might not do so in a way people take note of, but it doesn't seem like a particularly bold claim to me.
The date is usually put in the title because it's informative.

> Just because it's old does not make it less valuable as you suggest.

Wait, who suggested that? Nobody even implied anything remotely like that.
Weights and Biases is good for building/training models and Lambda Labs is a cloud provider for AI workloads. Lambda will only get you up to running the model though. You would still need to overlay some job management on top of that. I've heard Run.AI is good on that front but I haven't tried.
CS department in my country teach insane amount of math but not really any programming languages. Students cannot write a damn code with ~100 lines even when in master degree. Is this normal?
States are racing to protect kids *racing to force all social media users to reveal their identity*. To go along with forcing them to reveal everything to the government and any bad actors (although in many cases I think they're one in the same) that crash the key repository.
While I agree with most of the article, I have some reservations though:

> I’m tired of people dumping on Windows, that most popular operating system, because it’s not what we choose to use . . .

Criticism can be constructive and the network effects of platforms are real. There is an appropriate time and place for these things. For languages which are almost entirely open source at this point the choice isn’t so important. For things like closed source (and deeply flawed) operating systems we should find healthy ways to advocate against them (not the people who use them). Don’t be a contemptuous nerd shaking your fist at the wind, but don’t miss opportunities that could actually make a difference.
Would you kindly enlighten us then? I'm pretty averse to taking on faith that supposedly undetectable things are real.
Web traffic maybe?
llama.cpp has CLBlast support now, though I haven't used it yet.
https://archive.ph/WICdT
I had medication induced alexithymia and since I've experienced both sides of it, I would add my voice to saying that having alexithymia causes major problems in finding purpose in life. Making any kind of decision was terrible; I couldn't decide what jobs to pursue, couldn't pick what hobbies to do, etc. I felt like crap physically because I couldn't feel any desire for food or other sustenance.

I also ended up with a drug problem because I tried drugs at this time and it was the only way I could feel anything and make choices.
> he is a _Bramhin_

By "he" do you mean the author or the author's father?
Vouched for this purely because I’m confused what you’re confused about.

There are innumerable households where you follow certain traditions/culture, that come from previously religious influences, without actively practicing. This is common across all religions, across the world. Even within religious families, people end up moving on from some rituals while keeping others. Nothing odd about it, it’s normal and expected the way society functions.
It is likely you have ADHD, as I do.
> the caste system was evil, particularly in the nineteenth century, and the government of India made it illegal as soon as it became independent.

I've heard this before, but can't find evidence of it. Does the caste system not live on to this day? I thought caste is a protected class in terms of legally discrimination, and not a thing that's been banned.

Any present-day Indians able to clarify? My dad left India when he was three, so my knowledge is not current :-)
I think you're massively underestimating how much legacy vb6 code out there that is both business essential and poorly understood. There's money to be made for people willing to get in the muk.
Idea for a Watch Dogs and Predator Vision
Your skepticism reflects your naivety. You might want to do your own research into Ostroms Nobel Prize in economics.
The EU is quite vast, and this is untrue at least for France, Netherlands, Bulgaria and from what I can tell Spain and Italy. Even very old school companies (think flag airlines and banks) have at least hybrid with more time remote than not.
LLMTune: 4-Bit finetuning of 65B LLAMA models on a single consumer GPU
And even at that, it's only your mac's transmitting (not receiving) link speed.
And to keep unrolling the chain, the tweet by Yglesias that Musk was replying to, was suggesting that Twitter's recent capitulation to Turkish censorship is prime material for another Twitter Files episode
> three month is new to me.

Nonetheless, others reading your comments won’t know if your account is three months or three years old unless they deliberately go into your profile. In other words, it takes effort to identify newcomers. In addition, downvoting is only possible during the first 24h since a comment was made.

> How can you see the downvotes come from the comment?

Downvoted comments become a lighter colour. That was the only grey comment in your account.
I haven't completed or deployed it yet but I wrote a C# API to calculate your chance of winning a hand of poker based on all known cards at the table.

All unknown cards are randomly assigned and it just loops a bunch, reasonably easy to implement and actually is reasonably fast.

https://github.com/JohnFarrellDev/PokerMonteCarloAPI/

With the amount of possible outcomes Bayesian statistics just didn't seem reasonable to implement.

Goes without saying this tool is still fairly basic, it shouldn't be used to inform how much to bet or when to fold as it doesn't take into account information such as how much your opponents are betting.
Obviously 100% of internet traffic is bots since human brains don't (yet) directly connect to the Internet. As far as what percent of that traffic does eventually enter ears or eyes, there's really no way to tell.
> When something goes wrong in an organization, the first question that is often posed is, “Whose fault is it?”

Pro tip: If you have a manager who acts like this, or even worse, an org, then it is best to find a better work environment. Having said that, these scenarios tend to be in the minority.

One of my best jobs had the department head say to his staff when things go wrong: "I don't want to hear X screwed up. I want to hear why we allowed X to screw up". Why could a junior employee make a change that affects the whole org? What systems are not in place to prevent this? Etc.