skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay this is fine but will they have the commercial backing that Rust has from the likes of Microsoft and Mozilla and others? Are the languages different? Is the fork just to fix the management or will the languages diverge/have they already?
Although I never had symptomatic covid, I'm relatively sure I've suffered some mild mental decline.

Before covid I had mild adhd and in a form that was diagnosed as auditory in nature, which means sometimes I hear words different than I say them.

I never remember having any kind of speech impediment as a kid, however nowadays I'll sometimes slur words or seemingly mess up my speech without realizing. It's been okay, but I'm considering some kind of speech therapy now.
ffmpeg vs libav is one case where I think the hostile fork ended up working well.
I know hundreds of people have already seen this, but maybe at least some people will see this: these edits were most probably made with a 6 year old face editing app. They are not caused by Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, or any other recent AI "stuff".
It is coming before climate change. No matter which group "put it" reality doesn't care. Humanity will not get extinct in the next 10 years by climate but many AI scientists think there is a chance this happens with AI.
Is anyone with significant contributions to the language behind this? Otherwise who cares? Another twitch/discord stunt to generate views and clout.
So higher power draw?

This all reads like moving goalposts to me.
I propose a new paradigm: microenterprises. We limit the scope of the responsibility of each monolithic enterprise Sync Tool to something more digestible by limiting the scope of the enterprise itself.

Best of both worlds.
Why do we need an FBI? There are over 200 other federal law enforcement operations, and certainly one (or ten) of them will step up to fill the gaps in cross-state criminal investigation that would be left by disbanding the FBI.
Or voting third-party with the hope that it makes the margin of victory for the "serious" candidate fall within the number of third-party voters.
He said more, not all.
I've read somewhere that this is a mechanism to supress the signals sent by the tongue.
The tongue is so sensitive that it can perturb our brain somehow, but once compressed it is only seen as noise, which the brain is then capable to ignore and concentrate on the actual task.
> Emacs, GCC, GNU libc, Vim

GCC had a standard to live up to (and it extended that standard in plenty of ways), the others aren't languages per se and do not and never did have the mission to appeal to the people that write non-sexy system software for a living. They value stability and a lack of drama in the suppliers of their tools above all else because any kind of fragmentation has the potential to cause them to have to (much) more work and they usually already have plenty of that.
All law enforcement agencies have the same amount of zero oversight that the FBI has, but local police departments also get to terrorize their local communities with military hardware on top of constant monitoring with stuff like Palantir
Signatures from massive tech giants that on one hand are saying "hold on this is scary, we should slow down" but also "not us, we're doing fine. You should all slow down instead" mean that this is a bit of a empty platitude.
Seems useful for creating unique and modern designs.
What I learned from this thread is that a lot of y'all seem to trust counterparties a lot more than you should just because one of the 172 CAs in your OS's chain will claim they are who they say they are. Remember that those 172 CAs include the Chinese and Turkish governments.
I built a Beeper password reset tool for 'login with email/code' users
This week Beeper's support has been a little busy and unable to help reset my password; so with a few Matrix spec pointers from the Beeper Community chat, I hacked together a PoC Beeper password reset tool for the email/code (JWT) flow.

With this, you can reset your Beeper password (or set one if you never had one) by using Beeper's new 'login by email/code' method (you don't need to have your old password set/know what it is to use this)

You can find the code and other notes over on GitHub:

https://github.com/0xdevalias/poc-beeper-password-reset
lol, as I said, 'kitchen sink'. And then there's all that business with 'caar' 'caaddr', or whatever. I mean, just no.
Everyone who is using node.js is using it... Anyway you and I have a different idea of what it means to die. The identifier io.js is no longer in use. But everything that it actually is, is now node.js.
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I have yet to see a solution for “AI safety” that doesn’t involve ceding control of our most powerful models to a small handful of corporations.

It’s hard to take these safety concerns seriously when the organizations blowing the whistle are simultaneously positioning themselves to capture the majority of the value.
This is insane and your ego too.

"The article never once made an argument against screening"

How do you start screening without an annual physical? You book doodle appointments from things you saw on Wikipedia? I just can't, stop. Calm.
Again, not "totally acceptable", but better to be limited to a single attack channel than multiple ones. You're just being willfully obtuse to ignore that.
Ever notice how the US government was set up as a group of competing powers? Or how parliamentary systems have similar competition between parties, a senate, and the monarchy or wtvr? It’s almost like you can’t trust any one group with power no matter where they derive their power from.
Oh well.. Another shiny example of completely failing to understand why after +20 years of liberal/progressive occupation got completely reverted in a couple of weeks.

Nevertheless, a truly fantastic for initiative for winning virtue signaling points and NGO employment for the next years. Keep up the good work! +1
A debt must be incurred for them to refuse it. If one walks up to a counter to pay for something, there is no debt and a business can refuse to take the cash.
This is way better than the open letter. It's much clearer and much more concise, and, maybe most importantly, it simply raises awareness rather than advocating for any particular solution. The goal appears to have been to make a statement that's non-obvious (to society at large) yet also can achieve agreement among many AI notables. (Not every AI notable agrees though--for example, LeCun did not sign, and I expect that he disagrees.)
Seeing that it's also in this book (which I would like to buy, btw) I can't help but comment on the myth of the 'first bug' in computing: it's a historical fake, see for example here[1]

[1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-comput...
They listen to the mossad at least.
I’ve been wondering about that too. Then again, some years ago, Spotify forced all users on (I believe) Android to download an entirely new app that was visually completely identical. Login state and downloaded tracks were lost. I still wonder what happened there.

Surely that‘s among the worst things you can do from an SEO and customer retention perspectives?
because it wouldn't affect the binary size in meaningful way
How much do they use and how easy is it to recycle? For example, lead in lead-acid batteries can be completely recycled.
Didn't places like Philadelphia and Baltimore face this problem in the 70's? You can either work in a city or live there, and we're seeing that the former is leading (again) to having city cores hollowed out. Happening in Toronto and Ottawa as well, maybe other cities that have "financial" or "office" districts (London UK?).

Assuming people aren't going to be dragged back to FT in the office, they're probably not going to do lunch shopping with additional commuting expenses. So it's up to city leadership to figure out how to do and pay for (or get the cash to pay for) recreating city living. I think people can be dragged back from suburbia if there's a real urban community with places to live, eat, shop and yeah, work. On-foot commuting isn't so bad on the environment and it's positively wonderful on a Spring or Fall day (see Montreal).

Is there the political will to do this? Not sure, and certainly not in a "f*ck you I got mine" climate. The alternative is Detroit and places like that when it's bulldoze and start anew.
Are there any apps or setting which reduce the saturation of colours? I notice that in many publicly available screens, such as in gyms, the saturation is extremely high drawing my attention to it. I find that this is also the case on my iPhone and Mac.

Certainly I can go monotone. But not desaturate partially.
Oh yeah! Now you mention it, it has all the elements of a chiropractor sales pitch:

Present a problem.

Convince the audience that they have it.

This problem will lead to {list of problems on par with stage 4 cancer}

We have the solution! No cancer for you if we crack your neck/teach you to breath

Here is a form to pay for your half price initial consult.
In Tristan Harris' words: There's a supercomputer pointing at your brain.
It’s been corrupt since its inception. It’s not possible to fix it.
You specifically mention "big feature" in your original comment so it's confusing that this is a good example of the kind of problem you're talking about.

This is a very different situation than large PRs containing feature code. I think most people would agree that one large PR is the correct approach for this kind of situation.
oh okay i can see how now context makes this make sense a bit ... though should the newly re-elected president be doing this -- you know appearances of bought elections and such.
> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

risk of extinction due to AI? people have been reading too much science fiction. I would love to hear a plausible story of how AI will lead to human extinction that wouldn't happen with traditional non-AI tech. for the sake of conversation let's say non-AI tech is any broadly usable consumer technology before Jan 1 of 2020.
Another option is Front Accounting (https://frontaccounting.com/). I found it much easier to install than ERPNext.
from the main [site](https://crablang.org/):

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A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus. All of the memory-safe features you love, now with 100% less bureaucracy!

Why CrabLang?

The Crab (or “CrabLang”) community fork was created as a lighthearted yet measured response to the growing concerns within the community about the influence of corporations and the restrictive trademark policy proposed by the foundation. This was not a "knee-jerk" reaction, nor was it an attempt to spread fear or cause panic. While the document the foundation drafted did lead to the fork, we believe it is an overdue solution to a problem that already existed, and addresses some issues that many community members have had for some time.

First and foremost: CrabLang is not trying to replace our beloved language. If you are happy with the way things are, we encourage you to continue using your language of choice. Our goal is not to fracture the community, but rather to provide an alternative for those who share our concerns and wish to have more freedom in using, creating with, and promoting the language without worrying about the litigation associated with trademark infringement.

We acknowledge and appreciate the hard work and financial support that corporations have provided to the original project. We understand the importance of their contributions, but we also believe that it is essential to maintain a balance between corporate influence and the will of the community. The CrabLang Collective aims to provide a space where the community can thrive without the constraints imposed by corporate interests.

We want to emphasize that we are not at odds with the project or the original language. We appreciate everything they do to make the language better, and our fork's main branch will continue to stay up to date with the upstream codebase. Our main goal is to ensure that the community has an alternative that aligns with their values and desire for unrestricted use.

The Crab community fork is driven by our love for a language named after a type of fungus. We simply want to use it while retaining the ability to create content and promote its name, logo, and other assets however we please, without the limitations imposed by a trademark policy. By offering a community-driven alternative, we hope to maintain a spirit of collaboration, innovation, and creative freedom.

With our shared passion for programming, we welcome anyone interested to join us in exploring the Crab community fork. Whether or not you fully agree with our concerns, we believe that diversity of thought and a commitment to inclusivity will only strengthen our collective efforts.

Come on in! The water is warm!

CrabLang 2023"

Got it now.
Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year?
I am seeing YC startups hiring for supposedly in-demand roles (e.g. Senior TypeScript, Senior ML) and offering 50-80k$/year.

This sounds very low to me, even if those are fully remote positions. As far as I know, this salary wouldn't attract strong talent even in medium cost-of-living countries (like Portugal/Spain).

Anyone has more insights around this decision? For example:
- Are they targeting extremely low-cost of living countries? Have they seen more success with that strategy?
- Will globalisation finally equalize developer salaries across the globe?
- Do they offer something else which is unusually attractive?

Intrigued to learn more.
If I was a billionaire I'd have such custom-made tiling installed in my home's hallways and terrace.
Not interested in any PR crap from scummy corporations angling to capture the regulators.
I really liked the way Sussman discussed repetition in the SICP lectures. Something like, “If you find yourself repeating the something, that’s often a hint that there could be a useful abstraction.” It’s a far less prescriptive (and more appropriately flexible) way of expressing the same general idea than DRY.
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> Stallman can think or do whatever he wants, but he is not and has never been an effective advocate.

Stallman has been right more often then wrong and has made his points forcefully, consistent and without compromise over decades. He's backed up his words with his deeds, has contributed an incredible amount of software and has been a very important factor in jumpstarting the free software movement. He provided a framework and a set of mechanisms for sharing software in a way that effectively aligns the rights of various parties, has convinced millions of programmers to give away the fruit of their labor for the betterment of the world in general and the relationship of end users with software in particular.

I really don't see what else one could wish for in an effective advocate.
What's stopping someone from placing the silicon under ab electron microscope and reading the data visually? I mean, the circuit that encrypts data has to have some way to load the key (the circuit might not be in the CPU, but it exists somewhere).
Doesn’t Apple already reset ratings between app updates?

I remember being nudged for repeated reviews by many apps, some explicitly listing that reason, before that was prohibited by Apple.
RISC-V Bytes: Semihosting with Zephyr on an ESP32
I’ve spent a decent amount of time figuring out to make porcelain tile. The most reliable way to do so and avoid cracking is to use a plaster mold and push slabs of clay into it. Cookie cutter and other slab methods produce too much cracking without heavy duty equipment or maybe a different clay formulation (I’m using standard porcelain which isn’t the easiest material)
Like 3 of them. Is that problematic enough that you cannot review the rest of the code? My eye just slides over them.
> Essentially the FBI is a rogue agency. They have no one watching them. They are beyond repair...

Outside of dictatorships, is there any law enforcement agency that gets the sort of oversight and accountability which the government departments (say) plowing snow off the roads receive? I am not aware of any. And outside of utopian delusions, "eliminate law enforcement" doesn't actually work in a large, modern-ish society - they are very quickly replaced by even-less-accountable private vigilante groups / criminal gangs / military / etc. Human nature abhors a power vacuum.

Perhaps it would be more useful to look at who benefits from unaccountable law enforcement, and do something about the roots of the problem? Especially look at all the "innocent citizens" who really don't want to believe "good cops" may be rotten creeps, or to hear about the messy details of law enforcement unofficially upholding a social order which is quite beneficial to those "innocent" citizens.
> Does it 1) check if the widget is "free" (whatever that means in the widget domain), or 2) frees the widget and checks the outcome of that operation?

Just program in Esperanto! So 1) would be "umo.libera()" and 2) be "umo.liberigu()".

I can't believe I still remember the grammar after what, 10 years of complete disuse?
See my below comment, which covers:

> As long as it's not regurgitating it wholly

...because (1) we currently have no guarantees that a model won't regurgitate it wholly (or enough that it's infringing according to the law and/or common sense) and (2) because the model itself is either (a) modification and redistribution of the content (in which case it violates those licenses) or (b) some new act not covered by existing copyright law, in which case the authors haven't consented to it because the licenses they've distributed their content under only cover the modification and redistribution cases.

> regurgitation is most of what our species does

Sure, there's a continuous spectrum from repeating a single new word ("jank") to a whole book - and one is clearly copyright infringement, and the other isn't - but you still have to acknowledge that partial reproductions of an artistic works can still be owned by the author. A single chapter of Harry Potter is still owned by J.K. Rowling.

> But because it's a model doing it and not a person it's intrinsically bad or something

You act like it's somehow not obvious that a model is not a person, and vastly different sets of moral codes and legal rules apply to each.
Also something I haven't seen discussed yet is space servers. This has to be a great speed opportunity to orbit some server system a few hundred km above the internet sats and laser link to those rather than retrieve data back from earth.
people love blaming feedback to the system instead of the system

no one wants two versions of rust including the creator of crablang

but this is how you provide signals to those in charge that they’ve gone over the line
I didn’t mean “EA = bad” to be clear.
That demand comes from scammers and other fun activities.
The Rust Foundation thinks it's okay to sue you for altering its logo. That is nuts.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. He favors government oversight and licensing. Arguably, that would entrench companies with deep pockets, but it's also a totally reasonable idea.
Hey, I'm the author of this small post. I was surprised to see it on HN.

> The issue is that browser and certain apps are available to me on the phone instantly.

I think you are right, and it has to do with decreasing UX friction: quick unlocks, overall performance, and muscle memory. I try to add some layers of friction, such as disabling tap to wake, or forcing password unlocks, or even browsers that offer a good but less smooth experience (eInkBro on Android could be one to try.

Overall, I think it helps me to go through apps occasionally and ask myself, “Is it an infinity app? Could I use this forever without content exhausting itself, or a purpose never being fulfilled?”

It's a demanding exercise in deliberate usage, and it can't always succeed (at least for me, I'm not that strong.)

I wish there were a good AOSP eInk phone to still use all the necessary everyday apps, but slower. The new Assistive Access simplified display mode seems very interesting on iOS from a UX perspective:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...
Dude, the LHC is basically just European tax money, you wanna go after Fermilab for your taxes.

For a more HN flavour answer, look at all this shiny list: https://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/entrepreneurship/curre...
That's not true at all. The whole reason why graphics on the original NES were so compact is because the color palette was so limited. Not only that, but tiles could only have a maximum of 4 colors within them, one of which was considered the "transparent" color if you wanted blending. So they were only 2 bits.

So yes, it does absolutely and unequivocally affect the binary size. Having made NES games for fun before, they are two completely different worlds and it's not at all fair to compare them.