skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a production of Fiddler maybe 15 years ago, but from what I remember its message was something like “don’t let tradition stand in the way of love”. My family has found plenty of ways to honor tradition while reshaping those traditions to also honor our values and views; our Seder Haggadah is full of taped-in pages like modern plagues and Miriam’s Cup, and crossed-out or edited sections like “the wicked child”. But a legal contract/institution is a bit more involved to edit and update…
Zen Buddhism Selected Writings by DT Suzuki is really good. Seeing Zen as an organic mixture of Indian Hinduism, Buddhism and Chinese Taoism which then arrived on the West Coast of the US is really interesting.
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.

Explicit is better than implicit.

Simple is better than complex.

Complex is better than complicated.

Flat is better than nested.

Sparse is better than dense.

Readability counts.

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

Although practicality beats purity.

Errors should never pass silently.

Unless explicitly silenced.

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

Now is better than never.

Although never is often better than right now.

If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
Are we pretending things like vasectomies aren’t a thing? The success rate is generally in the upper-90% so sure it could fail but for the vast majority of people, that is equivalent to “disabling sperm production entirely”

The laws also, as have been mentioned already elsewhere in this post, do include such a consent clause. So it’s not really theory either.
Very colorblind here. I would much rather have accessible use of color than black and white. The whole thing is like saying that the best way to accommodate wheelchairs is to bulldoze the world to completely level everywhere.

No. Accessibility is about awareness. We use ramps, rails, elevators, and other tools to make a 3D world accessible to people who rely on wheels.

Similarly, here is the one thing you need to know to use color accessibly: think in HSB (or HSL or HSV), and always vary at least two of those dimensions.

I am fine if you want to use red/green for status as long as it is light red and dark green (or vice versa).

Encoding information redundantly in two dimensions makes the result accessible to those who can’t see some/all difference in one of those dimensions.

There. Now you can enjoy your damn purple skies and green fire trucks without worrying about me.
Never understood the childish fighting between languages, libraries within a language or as here different viewpoints.

I mean, it's good to discuss different viewpoints, but programming choices is a hill I would never want to die on.
I really love Rust, and I'm very encouraged to see this "ideological posturing" happening in public.

There is a wide wide world out there, and just as having an easy to use crate system is important, so is having a large community. You don't get to a large community by being exclusive, but by being inclusive.
You know, this pattern:

* Person is invited to talk

* Person asks "You know about X, right?"

* They say "sure, it's no problem"

* They talk in private and take decisions in improper venues

* The guy is slighted at the last minute, told it is because of X

... is an all too "professional" way to do it. This is how professionals will do it, when they want to let you know they don't like you. With a little deniability, but not too much. If what the complainant alleges is true, there are too much social skill at work here - skill at exquisitely snubbing someone.
> If they have sufficient resources, and most of the [permanently single] ones I see are financially independent, they are relatively content.

Rest of the article suggests "financially independent" as working a job to support oneself. Though I wonder if a significant portion of their clientele are wealthy enough to not work or only work a small portion of the year. When I was single and made enough to live alone it actually increased my desire to seek a partner, not necessarily get an official marriage document.
Curious to know how it works out - will you comment here in a day or two?
"3 of 100 people" - I'm one of those three.
The blogging platform every dev hates but always turns to first when friends, family, or group associations ask them to “make a website” for them.
The author was one of four members of the core team [0], "which is which is ultimately responsible for all decision-making in the project."[1] If there was a power imbalance it's because they were ineffective in their position.

[0] https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1068-rust-governance.html
I would also suggest modern translations of the texts
I’ll risk it and defend marriage to this crowd. To me getting married was about getting out of myself. As someone who got married later in life, I’d spent decades living only for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Relationships were shallow and lasted only so long as convenient. By choosing to get married and intentional build a family, I knew I was sacrificing a lot of ego and choosing to give up a lot of freedom and self. But I was ready to do it. I firmly believe what we’ve created is greater than either one of us, and is worth the irritations sacrifice.
Thank you. I literally asked out loud "Map reduce?"

However because Kafka is in the top 5 of this list, and I know Kafka well, clearly it's right ;)
thats legendary amount of kludgery.

one thing that was fun about bare metal that we dont get nowdays (and we coudlnt with all the viruses and ransomware)
That's not my understanding of micro-aggressions [1]. IIUC, inadvertently doing a micro-aggression isn't being an asshole, but persisting in it after it has been pointed out definitely is.

[1]: Disclosure: I'm a minority (disabled), but I'm also a white man.
So someone has a belief that some feature may have benefit the language, and people are stating they are uncomfortable?
I suspect (as complete outsider) there has to be more going on here and the "uncomfortable" people are not being sincere & honest.
It’s “cue” for this usage, I believe. “Queue” refers to a group of people in an ordered line, or the act of creating that ordered line. To cue something is to prompt it - as a cue card prompts an actor, for example.
A wheelbarrow assisted human can haul 100x faster than a human assisted human.

There, I just compared humans and wheelbarrows in a meaningful way.

There's no problem doing the same with LLMs.
Unwinding is optional, and not available on all platforms that Rust supports (including WebAssembly). The language made the right choice here IMO. Lack of faillible allocation in the stdlib is a major issue, but it's also fixable.
I’m less interested in collective blame/punishment and more about “how do we prevent this from reoccurring?”

I’m not seeing any obvious solution. If one member of the leadership team does something stupid on a Friday, it can only be resolved by Tuesday or Wednesday. Folks are going to pick up their pitchforks on Sunday and say that “leadership failed”. Sure. But I don’t see a way around this.
You mean the council forced the home owners to live with it? How does that work? Someone vandalises your property and then it’s made permanent?
They quit because they didn't get a keynote slot. They were still invited to give a talk.
My guess is the 50$ come from the open api charges, not from the laravel app.

Can you cache some of the interactions and serve the cached version for the most common ones?
L Ron Hubbard - Mission Earth
Previously discussed 16 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35916064 (71 comments)
I support emulation, but emulating a live system __and__ publishing it in Steam is pushing some ethical limits. I don't say breaking them, just entering a gray area.

Nobody raised an eyebrow with RetroArch, which for me is the proper use for emulation. Software preservation and keeping alive out-of-market systems.
I'll risk the downvotes then.

> A lack of diversity is just a piece of data: it might be complete coincidence, or it might be related to some underlying bias or discrimination.

I say it's a coincidence. I've known racist people but they were an overwhelming minority and had no power. Let's stop there. Find me a systemic racist in a position of power where I work or participate in local events and I promise I'll fight to eject them from their place of power. Done. Discussion should be over at this point: let's have actionable steps. We don't have them? Let's do something else.

"Might be related to some underlying bias or discrimination" is not a convincing thing to say. Going witch-hunting for witches that are 90% likely to not even exist is unproductive. The Sun's magnetic storms might influence our moods, that too falls in the "it might" category, but I don't base my life decisions on it.

> "Calling out" a lack of diversity is just bringing attention to that piece of data

A lot of people have been "bringing up attention" to many things. What are you doing to help? I had a few technical talks held in my city and in one occasion I insisted the discussion after the talk be in English and not my native tongue because we had just two English-speaking participants in the audience. I am helping in practical terms. Are you helping practically?

Many people in more privileged countries are completely blind to the fact that "raising awareness" is being done ever since the 1970s yet very little progress has been made in many areas (happily racism and sexism were reduced, which is good!). When are you going to understand that somebody at one point should actively do something about the problems and stop "raising awareness" until the heat death of the Universe?

Many people are quite aware of a ton of problems, believe me. I go outside and talk to people of many nationalities and races. The people willing to do something outside virtue-signalling are very few and far between though, sadly. And you strike me as a virtue-signaller.

I realize my tone is a bit combative but honestly, it's getting tiring and at one point I find it hard to talk entirely calmly when the other side of the discussion is content to only repeat the same things like a broken record.
For Judaism and Christianity, Yale offers two intro courses (admittedly, they are more about the scriptures, not the religions per se):

1. https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145
2. https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152

They are also available in book form.

For Buddhism, A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana (インド仏教史) by Akira Hirakawa is the best one I ever read.
Maybe the one he wept at helping to create.
Weird thanks for filling me in. Uh yea I had no idea... Ferris is the little crab right?
Valve is, unfortunately, a US based entity, and thus bound to US laws.
Actually, what I found was that in Duolingo I was learning random, specific versions of verbs such as Quiero (I want), Quiere (she/he wants), Quieres (you want). But I should have been learning the verb starting with the "to form", e.g. Querer (To want). From that you then learn how to conjugate the different variations based on the use-case, which isn't just I, she/he, you, they, we but also is different in the various tenses. But having blindly learned words in Duolingo without explanation is hampering me, I kept reaching for say Quiero and not Querer as I should and then the rules for breaking down the verb and adding the right ending don't work right.

I wished I'd started with LT, learned the rules, then maybe Duolingo would have been ok for practice (although the gamification sort of annoys me). My Super Duolingo sub is up this summer, I think I might not renew and stick with LT and Dreaming Spanish.

Regarding Latin American Spanish vs European -- in the LT lessons, they cover the differences in pronunciation when applicable and also differences in word usage (Carro vs El Auto) and even later on talks about "Spanish Idiolects" (e.g. the ways individuals speak Spanish).
I’d like to push back, if you have the time to clarify. Are the following summaries accurate renditions of your points?

1. We shouldn’t worry about SI because we haven’t seen one yet.
2. We shouldn’t listen to smart people, because they’ve been wrong before.

Because if so I obviously don’t find those convincing. The whole reason the SI cultists are so “alarmist” is because by definition this is the kind of problem we have to preempt, not run into and then wing it.

If someone responded to concerns about the atmosphere igniting into nuclear fire with “that’s never happened before and the only people worried about it are scientists, so don’t worry about it” instead of equations… well I’d be damn well terrified
Or Wellington's retreat to the lines outside Lisbon, during which resources were destroyed to deny them to the French army.
This might be true for some or even most, but I know someone who was able to pay off a pile of horrid credit card debt due to the pause.
Sounds similar to Atlantropa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
I don't think it's racist, but I do think it's tunnel vision and not taking into context in the greater context of society. There is obviously and undeniably a paucity of black people in STEM. So yeah, I think that having someone get a +1 for being a POC in a group of several +1's in choosing something like a keynote speaker. It's a chicken-and-egg problem in STEM. It should never be the sole determination, but if you're down to keynote speaker of basically identically talented keynotes, then being a non-white person can be that +1 to make a decision. Fairness does not always equate to exactly the same treatment
He’d have to be able to communicate with the cat for it to be a worthwhile metaphor to the ai in a box case and humans.

If he can do that it requires one weak link human over an infinite time horizon.

Humans are already terrible at preventing breaches in a lot dumber circumstances without something smarter than them trying to do it.
My brother married then his wife started to beat him up. He tried to escape has been forced back every time. It was either prison or wife. She reported him beating her same way. After lots of stress they finally dissolved their marriage. I'm planning to never ever marry anyone.
US ‘ready to fight in space if we have to’, says military official
Possibly, but historically it high end semiconductors seem to turn into a winner takes all market more often than not. If that’s the case it’s probably preferable to have someone like ARM at the top than Intel or Nvidia.
Is that supposed to be a counter point to something? It’s relevant and related capability by orgs in the industry that the article mentions.
Which single element are they then?

Surely such a system would have a products table with something like nominal element fk, purity, mass columns anyway. (And stock table with fk to products.)

Then nothing wrong with 'natural' key on the elements, but sure, products are the thing you've (personally) made up, so of course there's no 'someone else's' key to use.
It's also a relatively apt description of a small subset of left-wing groups. My assumption is that the parent comment is explicitly referring to this small subset.

Similarly "white supremacist" is often used as an insult on the inverse side, even for groups that don't believe in or desire white dominance. If someone actually does believe in those things, though, it's still a totally fine term to describe them.
Are you saying they didn't log all those trees? I don't know the specifics, but I know that where I am up in Oregon there is very little of the old growth left. Almost everything got logged at one time or another. We still have plenty of forests, but they are all second growth.
Hibernation artificially triggered [in mice and rats]
There is a fairly viable hypothesis that dreaming could be regions of the brain attempting to kind of “protect their turf” by turning on and being active — thus necessary and relevant, and deserving real estate in the brain — as senses actually attempt to utilize brain regions utilized for other purposes throughout sleep. That’s why you can improve your ability to use various senses throughout life, such as if you go blind. This could have emerged a very, very, very long time ago in very simple organisms and thus could be present in most animals with a reasonably simple explanation.

That humans have stories, language, and nightmares within dreams (and evidently dogs as well, regarding nightmares) could be a more sophisticated version of this protocol that might be a mammalian thing, but fundamentally uses the same protocol. It’s like various regions of your brain turning on to say hey, I’m still here, don’t overwrite me with that other stuff.

It’s a hypothesis, but it’s a clean one I think. I like it. It works well to unify a lot of organisms and doesn’t seem so strange if it’s convergent — what’s really happening is more like a simulation to stimulate the brain.

I realize as I write this that the simulation part is maybe the most fascinating aspect. Why isn’t it random noise? Well, perhaps because part of the way our brain works practically requires running it through the simulator. But why would that be the same for an octopus, assuming it is? That being convergent would be more surprising. However, maybe the underlying feature of brains running simulations is actually common to far more animals than we realize.

A fly can anticipate something coming towards it and missing, and it won’t move. If the object will hit it, and assuming it’s not moving too quickly, the fly will move. Is the fly performing a simulation of the object to predict its path? Is that the same ancient simulation software?

I’m just rambling. It’s an extremely interesting topic and I had two coffees instead of one this morning.
I know at every company I’m working with they’ve found pretty useful and interesting fits for this tech. It fills a space that’s been impossible to date - an abductive reasoning ability in an abstract semantic space. While they can’t actually reason - any more than our inductive or deductive reasoning systems of yore - the missing piece in a lot of stuff has been the ability to navigate an abstract space and find a likely “meaning” then produce a likely output that’s semantically “accurate.” The optimizing, constraining, informing via goal based agency, information retrieval, etc - those are simply integrations, as this article discusses. By looking at LLMs as a finished product you missed the magic. It’s not a product, it’s a capability in a larger system being displayed in demo ware. The larger systems are where the magic happens. Don’t take my word for it - while we will see more hype than we ever have before, we will also see systems that transcend what was possible by amazing leaps and bounds. The jaded are both right, and profoundly wrong - as are the wild eyed dreamers.
"Colored" is now considered offensive by most, so why isn't "person of color" also viewed the same way? Both terms describe the same opressive system of nonsense racial hierarchy, after all.
To answer your question. Of course I have been in those situations. But nobody has ever tried to deceive me nor have I tried. I wonder what kind of software interviews you have been in? If somebody confuses functions from different languages or frameworks, that's of course something that I wouldn't count as cheating. That's just a mistake and of course that happens regularly. But in those cases the functions did actually exist somewhere and weren't completely made up.

Regarding my prior comment: The difference obviously is that in humans this is intentional behavior unless the human is not in a healthy state memory-wise. Hence my initial comment about being deceptive. We usually know when we don't know something for sure. LLMs do not. At least not yet.

If the question is whether LLMs have an understanding of their output, then my argument just states that the fact that they obviously aren't trained to deceive and still emit this kind of output likely means that they don't have a complete understanding of what they generate.

As far as I understand the issue, this has nothing to do with the training. It's a general problem with the transformer architecture that there is no way to estimate the confidence of the output. Correct me if I am wrong here, I am not an expert on transformers. Just trying to wrap my head around this stuff.
Rust is winning market from C and C++ precisely because of strong technical leadership and direction. It couldn’t have made much progress by taking similar hands off approach as C, because C is already more than good enough C.
ffs smaller please... i feel like they're getting bigger just to keep up the specs game (bigger battery, better cameras, etc)
90 years after the publication of the last Wii game, and not a second less! /s
What was the overall point of the talk?

I get the sense that the talk was meant as a rebuttal to something, but I'm not exactly sure what. Some of the points come off as disconnected.
Rentry has an excellent UX but they haven't registered with dmca.copyright.gov so I'd be wary of setting things up there in case the site craps itself like Cohost and Hive Social.
I’d wager that nonhuman intelligences out there in the universe have analogous tables to the periodic table.

And I suspect it would be possible for us to JOIN our periodic table onto theirs by matching on the atomic number field to create a mapping between, say, our names for the elements and theirs.

That seems unlikely to be something we would be able to do with literally any other dataset that an alien civilization has. Their star catalog will contain many of the same objects ours does - but there won’t be an obvious key that lets us join them up.

I guess there’s a few mathematical objects that would work - the list of Platonic solids maybe, or the symmetry groups… but in terms of real world physical things? Atomic numbers might be the only truly natural key there is.
EU Digital Identity Wallet
There’s two options: our brain accesses fundamental forces of the universe as-of-yet unobserved in any other place, or our brain is a flawed ball of meat. Give the huge amount of unknowns, I find it highly illogical to seriously consider the first option. Occam’s razor and all that
That’s the “correct” direct action of course. However, other printer brands are ever hard at work to copy HP’s advances. So when buying a printer, make sure to research in depth.
How to Get a Novel Traditionally Published
Wahch the meaning crisis series on youtube by john

https://youtu.be/54l8_ewcOlY
People on HN are generally in a bubble and don’t understand the bimodal distribution of compensation in the industry.

Most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are working for the military/industrial complex, government, banks, insurance companies, etc and aren’t getting stock. They are starting off making around $70K and top out at $150K.

Most aren’t working at “a FAANG” or in the Bay Area. The salaries listed are represented for the vast majority of developers in the US.
It rebuts Bostrom, no?
in my experience, a ton of chrome extensions (at least MV2 ones) work in FF basically out of the box

it's not necessarily true the other way around, though, because there are some weird things that google chooses not to support (e.g. promises, they require that you use callbacks instead)