skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've mentioned it before, but maybe If I can help one "almost-lisper":

IF the "Syntax / Parenthesis" is the "only" thing that puts you off LISP (I'm sure there are many other semi-valid reasons), keep pushing. It's a little bit like smoking, most smokers didn't enjoy their first two or three cigarettes, but suddenly one day you realise you addicted and now all other non S-Expr-Languages looks ugly. It's kinda like magic the "sudden switch" from hate-to-love. At least for me :)

YMMV
If you like this sort of thing there’s a great book: Methods and Programs for Mathematical Functions by Stephen Moshier. It covers the computation of all sorts of special functions. The code is available in the cephes library but the book may be out of print.
While I’m sure Reddit has some wonderful woodworking or music discussions, its main function is to be the shit that attracts flys and keeps them away from sites like this.
Not exactly a collapse, and a fall was always going to be the case; Brussels was always going to absolutely murder the first country to leave, as an example to the other states.
Well then maybe "the business" shouldn't depend on the gratis effort of hundreds of thousands of unpaid volunteers. If I read between the lines, it would seem to me that management has decided they can make more money by allowing AI-generated content. I don't think this is true. Yet. But whether it is or isn't, this is a revocation of the implied contract we, the users, have had with the site.
Elon Musk to host presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Twitter
I can't imagine it will have any noticeable effect on their ad revenue. We are talking about a handful of subs out of thousands.
no, the source is not the document, the document comes from a source.

In a journalistic context, a source is a person. That's why words like "my source" are used.
Home assistant is too involved to set up… Proceeds to code a basic display that will need endless support.

Home assistant can run on a pi and is actually decently lightweight. Just because behind the scenes it uses containers doesn’t make it complex and difficult to maintain.

My home assistant hasn’t needed and babysitting and is my least involved support project. Upgrades are stable and one-click and you can use as little or as much of its functionality as you want without the sacrifice for performance.
Neuralink valued at about $5B despite long road to market
Some subs are posting metrics for this. The few I've seen show the largest slice is 3PA.
That alone would not be sufficient though, you could have learned about it by chance - it would be more useful as a meta-encoding, like a watermark, with multiple 'trap concepts' that are connected enough with everything the model knows as well as 'white spots' at certain points, e.g. about a fictional book or movie. Edit: so the existence/absence of ctrap concepts encodes the 'version'.
How large is a "large portion"?
Speed running in general is usually about playing games in a way they were not meant to be played.
The advice is meant generally as a matter of having a habit of listening and considering before speaking. This has nothing to do with being able to handle a debate partner. Prudence is assumed here, as always.

(W.r.t. Trump, I would not say his style is "designed", even if it is exploited. As a New Yorker, his pauses are conventionally short relative to those used in other regions of the US such that someone from some place like Texas, where pauses are longer, may not be able to catch the pause in time or even discern the pause at all. So his interlocutor must realize that this is the case and respond accordingly.)
I'm beginning to wonder if Elon's goal was to become a new Joe Rogan.
Presumably he was still paying for the service, just not for API access.
I actually think it's a lot more about initial training. and corporate sponsorship.

People would rather die/retire than change how they program. The assembly guys died/retired rather than learn structured languages. The imperative people died/retired rather than learn OOP. The OOP people are currently dying/retiring as languages shift to be much more functional.

ALL of these things have existed for 50+ years, so why did they take so long to adopt (as people now almost universally agree these things are better)? It's all about what they are taught and use early on in their career. With the exception of 5-10% of outliers, everyone takes what they learned in school, adds a little more past that as they are learning to code, then cement their synapses into that pattern for the rest of their career.

A conflating factor here is corporate backing. If you look at the popular programming languages, only a couple became successful without a large corporate sponsor. Corporations tend to be conservative in their investments too. This creates a secondary effect where even when you encounter a superior language pattern, you cannot use it because your company isn't likely to pay you to rewrite complex libraries in a new language.

JS pushed the world so far toward functional programming because even though it was different, it was the only standard. OOP devs in the 90s and 00s would rather die/retire than actually learn JS and more functional programming paradigms. But because it was the standard, big companies like Google and MS were forced to pour in resources and make it accessible. In turn, that has led to a glut of functional features being bolted on to other languages now that a generation of programmers has adopted them.

I'd hypothesize that if Eich had made a Scheme instead of JS (as he originally intended), we wouldn't be having this debate today. It would have forced corporate backing of a lisp and of a functional language. The current crop of devs would have been introduced to both of these ways of thinking and nobody would question the merits of a lisp-like language compared to ALGOL/C derivatives that have been foisted into mainstream education and corporate support for the last 50+ years.
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Hi, good feedback! We've improved the text sizes to fir with default, the change is subtle though
Surely Permutation City by Egan is more relevant :-D
The Ants and The Grasshopper
> Trying to debug some XSLT right now

Heh! I haven't touched XSLT for decades. I can't remember it enough to discuss its strengths and weaknesses; all I can remember (weaknesses) was that it dealt badly with namespaces. I think it was invented before XML namespaces came along, and the terseness of XSLT became a horrible mess in the face of namespaces.

I remember being told in about 1996 that XML was the future; the guy that told me was my boss, who was a manager, not a techie. We worked for a document company, and in that sense I think he was right. So I put a fair bit of effort into learning to use XSLT to translate XML data notation into HTML presentation notation.

XML never made the grade as a document notation, and literally nobody I knew wanted to know anything about XSLT.

But yeah, XSLT was a lot like regular expressions - pretty much a write-only notation. Hmm - I just realised that I'm using the past tense, as if it was my dead uncle or something.
The aim is not _just_ to make money, but to force users to use their crappy app so they can track users better. Sort of like what Twitter did. It’s also why they had like one dude working on their mobile website one hour a month for the last few years.
I think I'm following this but on the other end, I've often thought that there is a need for a NA class/type hierarchy, so the Arrow approach discussed in this piece might be too simple at some level?

I'm being really loose and am unfamiliar with Arrow but it seems as if these kinds of discussions are useful but also maybe heavily language-dependent. E.g., how Julia, Python, R, Rust, or whatever interfaces with Arrow is also relevant.

Treatment of null and missing data in the context of data science has rarely gotten the full consideration it probably warrants in design.

Interesting read though.
This Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance)
Why is this is a surprise? You don't own Reddit. It's not "your" subreddit. You're a free worker (moderator) and you went against the boss (Reddit). Of course they fired you.
> If the US has Eastern Ukraine, we can place missiles inside the Russian's early warning threshhold aimed at Moscow (Think Cuban Missile Crisis but worse). There are no true geographical barriers from driving tank divisions from Ukraine into Russia proper.

I don't buy this.

First, tech changed a lot since the old days. ICBMs can strike anywhere on the globe. Physical proximity to Moscow isn't really necessary.

Second, Finland joined and is within HIMARS range of St Petersburg. That plus Sweden blocks the Baltic Sea. That somehow doesn't seem to have caused a crisis.

Third, there's Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. There's really no lack of existing options.

> The current Administration and their allies in Congress will fight to the last Ukrainian.

That is silly. You have to consider that Russia's willingness to sacrifice its own people can't be infinite either.

> If the US administrations truly wanted peace they would have signed up for permanent no-NATO agreements as Dr. Mearsheimer has pointed out.

I see no reason why such an agreement would be advantageous to anyone.

> Each time we give the Ukrainians weapons we stall the inevitable, and we ensure that more Ukrainians will die.

Easy answer. Give them enough stuff to push Russia back to the border.
Which 3rd party YouTube app are you using?
I mentioned this elsewhere: ruqqus and saidit seem to have failed getting traction. The latter one still exists (the former one doesn't, it seems), but is a cesspool of trolling, anti-everything-ism and conspiracy theorists.
> You haven't. People aren't. This is a hypothetical that isn't the reality, and an irrelevant distraction.

How can you be so sure? If one day comes a 100% reliable way to detect all AI-generated responses, how can you be sure that also the good ones won't get deleted in one major sweep?

Yes, I see there are many people who despise the AI generated spam on many sites. But nothing you posted proves that all (I'd even say, "significant portion of") AI generated content is spam.

I don't see anything wrong letting the AI generate an answer and edit the rough/wrong parts if necessary.
As a product or a company? Pretty sure the combined entity that now includes WhatsApp is drastically more successful from a financial standpoint that the predecessor standalone company that comprised WhatsApp and had 55 employees.
> Don't think they will "win self driving cars" though.

The boldest and bravest prediction.

Comma.ai wont win self-driving against Google and Tesla.
you don't have to kill a popular social media network, you just need enough people to leave to an alternative to make them viable

all together the 3rd party app users and res users consist of millions of the most dedicated tech savvy users that will switch.

myspace and digg technically exist but they're no longer relevant. Reddit is moving in the same direction

Lemmy/kbin is more popular than it has even been and the main lemmy instance is overloaded.

July when the actual apps shut down we'll see a huge migration to the fediverse
Where to publish a paper if not associated a college and have no degree?
Title. I have a paper that I'd like to publish, but I know no one, have no degree, and am not associated with any university.

Can I submit one for review anywhere?
AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova says
No, it's a negative shift. Twitter trying to be a Fox News is reducing their total addressable market and value, you understand that, right?

They had a business that (in theory) appealed to every human on the planet. Now they don't. It's shedding its userbase as a result.

Not to mention the Venn diagram between "people who are not already on Twitter and are evaluating Twitter as a platform to use" and "Fox News / right wing information consumers" has a very narrow overlap.
Idea: Integrating INET-like identifiers into LLM conversations to introduce packet-switched asynchronous inference and training that uses IP to deliver generated content to end user applications from a local AI computing bank.

https://thetaplane.com/ai/python/GenerativeStreamRequestHand...
That's interesting and has a lot of similarities to this ham-optimized version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7wRupZ-AQ

This is meant to be left in the tree long-term, but still removed easily when needed.
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really tried to get into it for a while, but the tooling situation feels like the polar opposite of Go, where everything needed in daily work is right there in a standardized way and just works out of the box.

I kinda like the language (its what I want basically) but the operational aspects are what I actually need and want first and foremost.
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Someone much more insightful than me pointed out that most of the safety advantages of Rust are really a cultural phenomenon, rather than a strictly technical one. You could write unsafe unsafe Rust that derefs invalid pointers all day but when building systems and libraries with Rust, people value safety and Rust enables that as a priority.
Whatever the real intentions of Sam Altman are, I think what he is doing might end up being a net positive.

Imagine if fossil fuel companies had helped, early-on, to hammer into the public perception of oil how it might end up being disastrous for humanity instead of burying the studies they made.

I don't think we would have stopped using fossil fuels, but maybe we would have been in a better spot today.
> Do you have a source for “a large portion of reddit contributors use 3rd party apps”?

Most top-level reddit posts come from bots reposting old content. Those bots aren't using the first party app...
> Ok, so you won't ever complain about a underfunded school or similar ever again?

I think the wealthiest country the world can manage to fund both.
> Still, this could have been avoided by providing free-use keys to trusted developers.

This approach mostly doesn't work because, for third-party client apps that don't go through the developer's own server, scrapers could snag those keys from the client. Scraping has always been a thing and I don't see a foolproof solution that allows good actors to use the product without bad actors getting to scrape content (not that scrapers won't settle for html scraping).
Source for people being happy to pay $50 per year?

I’m not saying that Reddit handled it well. Buy your option doesn’t seem to be any better.
I vaguely remember a weapon in an old text based multi-user dungeon (MUD).

It was cursed: once picked up it couldn’t be put down. It was also very powerful, with only one downside: randomly you’d hit an ally in the same room instead of the enemy.

Reminds me of a lot of things in the world.

It was also just at the right level that you’d be getting self-confident and even a bit cocky, but not experienced enough to recognise such an obvious trap.

Of course, I dual-wielded two of them like a maniac to the dismay of my party. I only killed a few allies! An accident, I swear. Not my fault.
I think the biggest effect will be in terms of PR. Reddit will IPO soon and if the blackout happens the protest will make it to mainstream media.
Los Alamos got kickstarted in WWII when the government literally got to tell physicists where to go and it became a major hub of such research.

That might work if the NIH wanted to spend 50% of it’s budget in one location, but their proposal was to spread across not just one second tier city but dozens of such locations.
Your life is only wasted in the paradigm where men are supposed to accomplish things through lots of work. This paradigm is very recent in our culture, a couple hundreds of years old at most. I recommend reading for example Alexis de Tocqueville "On Democracy in America", esp. the second tome. He was a Frenchman tasked with travelling the new American republic and later describing it to the French government, in the first XIX century. He saw the nascent paradigm of work and accomplishments through work, as it was emerging in the US. Reading about it could give you some perspective.
First class support on Linux and Mac with caveats. Zero snark intended.
If a species is extinct it can come back. There's evidence to support this happening.

Largely, my message is to prevent future extinctions if possible, and that means people stop building their homes as if humans live in a vacuum.
I have been thinking lately about the data structure needs for A.I.-powered tagging and one clear requirement is some kind of three-valued logic.

For instance, if a system is putting tags on RSS articles or photos, those tags can be put on with a truth value of "indeterminate". Tags attached by users are "true". For subjective decision making systems, however, it's not sufficient for the absence of the tag to be "false", as the auto-tagged could possibly put back wrong tags, so if a tag is "removed" by the user it really is put in the "false" state which is a definite statement that the tag does not apply to the content.
Thank you for this extremely helpful response
The core mission for the c-suite executives and owners is commercial. But they neither build nor use the thing. They're just in charge.

Workers taking back some of that control is a great thing.
i know the pcgaming is around 20 percent which isn't a majority but it's enough to move somewhere else
Good to know, thank you! I have only done a small amount of Clojure and Racket.
The municipality boards the world over were all similarly overwhelmed with sanctimony and paranoia. I think this mostly speaks to the demographic of Reddit. Which is to say, the fact that Reddit is home to any edifying discussion at all is in spite of its demographic, not because of it.
Reddit Premium costs more per month ($7) than the expected cost per user for the API ($2). If third party apps can’t make it work with the request-based pricing model, limiting access to just premium users isn’t going to work any better.
You can't evaluate a future in normal rust as there's no default executor, you need to pull in some library to even make blocking calls to async functions.

IMO, this is even worse than function coloring.
My point is that you don't fix society by banning stuff left and right. It just makes thing worse and I'm sad many people even on HN don't realize that.
While I suppose it's possible that this was a conspiracy, I'm a little disappointed that not a single person in that thread is considering the possibility that this was a legitimate reaction to a possible account breach?

OP logged on from (what would appear to reddit as) public wifi and that posted drastic messages. That's a lot like what it would look like if someone had hijacked a mod account. Deleting those posts isn't crazy, especially if the janitor isn't aware of reddit politics and is just doing their job.

Also, not to nitpick, but OP is lying in the title. He clearly wasn't banned, he was temporarily locked out.

Like, don't get me wrong, reddit is being incredibly shitty lately, but probably not for these specific reasons.
In this day and age, after fiasco of the likes of Twitter, I wonder how developers choose to spend their time to develop apps for companies that own the content.

It is going to be a bumpy ride, and the content owners dont give a damn about third party apps.

I solely blame the developers of the apps, for trusting a mega corporation that is set on path of profiteering and data secrecy.
How much overlap is there currently between LLM prompt engineering and (for example) academic test/assignment question guidelines?
- IMF special drawing rights (SDR), some basket of multiple currencies.

- Swiss Franc (CHF). "But it's such a small market" -> lol they can make more.

- Japanese Yen (JPY).

Also, please don't format with monospace, it breaks things on mobile or small screens.
At least on Android, the official app is terrible. Scrolling is very janky and feels unnatural, and the design is cluttered and soulless. Just need to look at Reddit is Fun to see how good it could be.

They say a product reflects the organization that produced it, and it's clear from the app that this is a company with unchecked Promo-Driven-Development and Resume-Driven-Development. There is no impressive metric that measures app jankiness or design clarity in isolation, and the effort to fix it is disproportionately larger than the line that it adds to your resume or promo package. So even though it's glaringly obvious that the app is broken within 3 seconds of opening it, not a single person anywhere in the org is incentivized to fix it.
Reddit conversations are mostly memes at this point. I have two geographic subreddits for my city. One is owned by a dude in another city, I'm pretty sure Detroit, who just doesn't moderate anything. The other is owned by a group of people who will straight up ban people for even marginal dissent from their favored ideology. Most of the people active on those subreddits aren't even from Portland. They're conservatives, liberals, and leftists who view Portland as this gateway of cultural relevance. It's the internet equivalent of Ballmer and his wife buying political influence in Portland, a city they don't live in, much less the state.

The rot is root deep at this point if it's let things like this happen.
It really does look like dead internet theory becoming real is a matter of time.
Well, we may go along with it, and still end up not being able to have nice things with the current economical model, because we won't be able to afford it.

Nobody knows if average consumer will be able to afford to pay for GPT-5 or whatever the next thing is.

It may not in the best interest of the companies to give access to you, if it proves valuable beyond measure.
You are indeed a cunning linguist!
While it's still bad for adults it's not the same because their brains are fully developed. It's worse for a kid's brain that's still developing. "Hard-wiring" your brain during your developing years is far worse.
To be 100% honest, I kind of appreciated it when I was there. It definitely reeked of 'white privilege' though. Need something done more quickly (or well)? Just hand someone some cash. I'd much rather just pay for a traffic ticket on the spot rather than deal with local city bureaucracy. In the end, it kind of keeps the wheels turning there.

It really is just a different type of corruption. In the US, the bribes just come in the form of political donations, or giving someone's family member some work. I owned a bar/nightclub and we were expected to donate to the fireman's fund. I donated to Mark Leno too, despite not liking the guy at all. I mean, look at the people who got the contracts to build trump's border walls!
> I am not sure that's really correct: while Git is internally pretty powerful, it's by no means incredibly powerful.

Good thing neither "pretty powerful" nor "incredibly powerful" have formal definitions ;)

> Also, internals do drive what UX you can have

Yes, but that's not what I'm talking about. Git just has bad UX. There's no reason why creating a branch can't be part of `git branch` rather than `git checkout`, but that was an opinionated decision that every user just has to deal with now. Or, why does `git stash pop` immediately stage changes if there's a conflict, but not otherwise? Yes, there's always a reason behind these choices, but they prioritize some concept of "purity" over UX. The result is a tool that has spawned a thousand "learn git" tutorials because it's so user-hostile.
> Why is a database always represented with a cylinder?

Because that's the data bucket. At least that's what I learned at university. Seriously.
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Just keep in mind that Umbrel itself is not open source, since they prevent commercial use/distribution.