skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been trying to make my way out to Japan for the last couple of years but Covid has gotten in my way. Looks like it's finally going to happen later this year. And I'm so excited for it!
Checking properties of C++ template types
> Developers, my only word of advice, is seriously.. stop being so cheap and spend some money to make your lives easier.

30 USD here, 30 USD there, soon enough your bills go in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
You can do this with Workspaces and it works well. Made a video on this here: https://moderndevtools.com/lessons/12
As someone who works on another language that is relatively reluctant to add language features (Java) we regularly face such dilemmas. A user shows up with a problem that could be helped by the language. The problem is real and a language feature would work, but there are many such problems, and adding features to solve all of them will make the language much bigger, overall causing greater harm (even those who don't themselves use the feature need to learn it to be able to read code). What we try to ascertain is how big of a problem it is, how many programs or lines of code it affects, and is there possibly a single feature that could solve multiple problems at once.

So I would ask you this: what portion of your program suffers from a lack of user-defined infix operators and how big of a problem is it overall? Even if it turns out that the problem is worth fixing in the language, it often makes sense to wait some years and then prioritise the various problems that have been reported. Zig's simplicity and its no-overload (not just operator overloads!) single-dispatch is among its greatest features, and meant to be one of its greatest draws.
>an idealistic fantasy, not something that really happens much

Marriage as often presented is an idealistic fantasy, not something that really happens much.
We use BlackDuck for SBOM at my workplace and let me tell you, the false positives are driving me up a wall. Also, the binary tool seems very primitve (basically just takes a SHA1 hash of all your files and compares them to a database).
Solar panels will get cheaper to buy due to the scale benefits of mass manufacturing, but that's about it. That only translates to cheaper electricity for those of us who can DIY their own solar setup. A standalone installation (not tied to the grid) is less flexible has a huge advantage in simplicity and is far cheaper.

Otherwise, the cost of the panels is not the biggest cost in most solar installations. Anyone investing in solar has to pay for permits, workers, electricians, inspections, mounting and distribution equipment, etc, and these costs are relatively static, roughly tracking inflation. The payback on any decent-sized solar installation is still years or decades down the road, even if the panels themselves were given away for free.

Where power companies successfully deploy solar to lower overall production costs (like mind does), I can promise you they are not at all incentivized to pass those savings back to the end users. Those profits go to shareholders, unless the regulators step in and demand otherwise.
> when people lived in small tribes, there was no privacy in your tribe

Anything to back that claim?
Fresno tech darling Bitwise Industries furloughs entire 900-worker staff
3 years is irresponsible? To quote Logan Roy, you, software developers, "are not serious people" [1]. Just out of curiosity looked for a list of longest running electrical devices [2]:

1840 - The Oxford Electric Bell
1871 – Souter Lighthouse in South Shields, UK
1896 – The Isle of Man’s Manx Electric Railway
1902 – The Centennial Bulb

Apparently, "The Centennial Bulb has seen just two interruptions: for a week in 1937 when the Firehouse was refurbished, and in May 2013 when it was off for nine and a half hours due to a failed power supply."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZTaXjt2Ggk

[2] https://www.drax.com/electrification/4-of-the-longest-runnin...
On what grounds is Apple or Google going to block it? You're using the website wrong?
> Some languages (e.g. lisps) are deceptively small by relying on macros that form a "second-order" language that interacts with the "first-order" language, but Zig doesn't have that.

What are some other examples of such languages that rely on second-order languages? You mentioned Lisps. Would Forth be another example? Are there more examples?
It is remarkable how I keep on stumbling upon connections between Scizophrenia and Gut Bacterias and it is equally remarkable, the connection now being discovered between Gut Bacterias and Auto Immune disorders. And now when I find such anecdotes between possible connections of Auto Immune disorders and Schizophrenia, it just blows my mind to see how every thing is just connected to one another. This demonstrates just how much we still do not understand and on a more positive note, just how much we can in future.
I'd love to hear more about your non-stock cooperative. How is it structured? I'm genuinely fascinated.
I very recently had a 'dont care about the write address' story -- which I think is worth remember for those of us that monitor some of these less-common but known-to-technical-people mailboxes....

When I had an issue with LastPass, the ONLY contact method they listed for support required you to log in and use their help form...

Since I used federated login, only the browser extension was supported -- not website login... So.. I can't log into their website for support, but I have to log into their website for support...

I went through a series of help@ support@ helpdesk@ contact@ and got bounces / "use our web form" responses... I then escalated to the other technical addresses like webmaster@ hostmaster@ until I finally tried to reach out to sales@ for the support issue...

So sometimes people do intentionally write to 'the wrong address' because there's no 'right address' (that's publicly known/available).
They do. Kernel and libs require it, unless you want to be unsure if your system is still reboot-safe
In general, the only thing your car needs is insurance for the country it is being driven in.

Its quite trivial to take rental cars into other countries (but talk to the employees first they generally have to give you additional papers to prove insurance).
To be fair, if you follow the GP's formula, and magically plug in the correct numbers...you'll socialize the gains as well. Because the social losses of the pollution will be offset by the high fines. It's a fair system, it just moves agency for "who can pollute for the social good?" from the government to the private corporation.

I don't love it personally, but it's decidedly not "Privatized profits and socialized losses". It's explicitly a system to make sure that the profits are shared from the damaging-corporation, to the government of the people damaged. In theory, I think they have a great point, which might be workable to inform future fine frameworks (we will always need fines in addition to anything else, and this isn't the worst way to set the fines). In reality, I suspect that captive government officials will set some of the variables far too "in-favor" of the corporations in exchange for backroom deals or cronyism.

But it's far from the worst idea I've seen.
Communism predates fascism, so wouldn't it be more accurate to say that fascism has communist elements in it?
This is a bit dramatic but many think the RSV crisis was a result of naive immunity due to COVID-19 public health measures.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ppul.25582
Totally agree. I'm organizing a tiny conference in Southern California :)

[1] https://outland.sh

Does anybody have any recommendations for other small tech groups?
Not everyone gets that lucky, though.
> Even ignoring the possibility that the aforementioned advertising-AI get better, there's Neuralink and whatever competition it ends up getting.

I am skeptical. AI, Neuralink, or whatever might infer better on many things, sure, but these certainly will not be able to infer what non-dogmatic people think about, say, philosophy or politics already because humans have always a capability to change their minds, while AI is terribly bad at reorienting itself.
Have you ever asked people without MS to describe it?

If you don't know someone who has it, and weren't lucky enough to learn about it in school, chances are you don't really know what it is, or how it can present in a patient.

Neuro is poorly understood in general by a large portion of the population.
Don't fool yourself into thinking NYC represents the US.

Most people don't move away from home in the US.
Rydberg Atom
Feasibility of mapping the human brain with expansion x-ray microscopy
"Combining synchrotron x-ray microscopy with expansion microscopy may represent a feasible approach for whole human brain connectomics at the nanoscale."

"Assuming 1 byte per voxel, the amount of storage needed for an 11-fold expanded human brain with 300 nm physical voxel size (27 nm effective voxel size) is about 61 exabytes."
That's not what I meant. What you describe is deliberate engineering. Not accidentally falling out such as from just training on larger and larger datasets which some people think will result in digital consciousness or something through "emergence".

It is almost certain that the next stage of intelligence will be digital. But it is very foolish and unnecessary to try to speed that along.

It is likely that we have a century or two max left in control of the planet, regardless of what we do. On some level I agree that totally suppressing it indefinitely would be a shame.

When I said "living" I meant digital life. Such as those things you describe and others including control-seeking, self-preservation, and reproduction which are all central to living beings.

The problem is that AI will soon think 100 or more times faster than humans. This is anticipated based on the history of increases in computing efficiency and the fact that we are now optimizing a very specific system (LLMs). Humans will not in any way be able to keep up.

This is not luddism. I have a service that connects GPT-4 to Linux VMs on the internet to install or write software. I think this technology is great and has a lot of positive potential.

But when you deliberately try to emulate animals (like humans) and combine that with hyperspeed and other superintelligent characteristics, you are essentially approaching suicide or at least, abdicating all responsibility for your environment. There is no way to prevent such a thing from making all of your decisions for you.

The speed difference will be incredible. Imagine a bullet time scene where everyone seems to be moving in extreme slow motion. Now multiply by 10 so they are so slow they seem completely frozen.

This level of performance is coming in five years or less.

While I don't want to suppress the evolution of intelligent life in our corner of the universe, I also am not ready to join a death cult. Especially not accidentally.
And Finance (soon), Legal (less soon).
I use a cast iron grill, a cast iron skillet, and a carbon steel fry pan. All very non-stick if you care for them properly (which is pretty straightforward, there are a million guides online)
s/got unpopular/acquihired by Zoom and killed/

While I wouldn't call it "mainstream", Keybase got a lot of computer-literate but not IT people into PGP, which hasn't really happened before. It had a good chance to go mainstream, but I guess this ending was inevitable since it was a for-profit company after all...
> They are very different things

Yes, but also very similar. We learn very well by spaced repetition, and by practicing things. Our whole nervous system stores information in a similar way. Is the brain and the individual neurons more complex? Yes, sure, but that doesn't negate the core similarities.

> Learning done by machines at enormous scale and done to benefit private companies financially is not the same as humans learning.

Yes, that's the important difference. That in the end if you train a robot you get a program that's easy to copy/scale, the marginal cost of using it is orders of magnitude lower than what you'd get if you would do it with humans in the loop.

We already have fair use in copyright, because there are important differences between the various forms and modalities of human imitation.

And of course maybe it's time to rename copyright to usageright. After current copyright doesn't even apply in most cases. (The results are not derivatives, there's sufficient substantial transformative difference, etc. That said, the phrasing in the US constitution still makes sense: "... the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and ..." ... if we interpret Right to mean all rights, including even the right of who can read/see it.)
Money has to go somewhere. When real economic growth is high, that money gets locked up investments or used to purchase more goods. If there are no good investments and the number of goods manufactured isn't increasing, then the price of goods themselves goes up.
lol, it seems BS is one thing that CEOs and LLMs have in common, so maybe it's a match.
Thank you for letting me know!
Not quite sure how I feel about all the ClientSecret being hardcoded https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth/blob/62635f...

Is this the only way to make OAuth credential helper work?
The human brain’s characteristic wrinkles help to drive how it works
Now while that's nice, who's going to pay for that? Certainly not Apollo / other third party reddit users. And so, at most you'd get a honeymoon period out of this, while burning someone else's money, until they get fed up, and monetize or close the service. Similar to what happened to Imgur.
Just a suggestion on pricing: drop the lifetime option.

I've had a bunch of perpetual licenses I've acquired over a lifetime, and nearly every one of them have said "we have no record of you" after 5+ years. I know, I know...save the receipts and all that. But it's just frustrating.

Don't put yourself and your customer in a potentially problematic position of he-said-she-said. When you have recurring revenue with a more mature product (and a way to track those subscriptions that you won't end up scrapping), re-consider the perpetual license.
It is quizzical, isn't it? "Pervasive tracking of users goes against their autonomy". But what about when you do it? "We need to be able to keep the lights on, don't we? And anyways, users chose to visit our page, so they consented to any tracking" - how does any of that not apply to extensions the user installs?
Maybe "the whole computer is out of memory" (general purpose allocator). Contrast with a custom allocator which might only be able to work with a few kilobytes (for example).
> What did they have to offer me? Electro shock treatment.

Which State did this take place in?
No, you're just reading an article written by someone in a tiny social bubble, common among the single, middle-aged in large urban centers.
This is a typical fallacy that fails to explain why a smart person would resort to crime in the first place.

Remember absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I'm confused what xklb is doing in there. https://pypi.org/project/xklb/ describes it as being a manager for media libraries. I see from https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/ that it does have other features like merging SQLite databases, cluster sorting, and stuff.. but I'm intrigued why that stuff is in a media management library?
I had one done earlier this year. The doctor told me he was pretty much booked non stop since the time of that decision. I had jokingly said I missed the peak season of march madness. He said that in the past it was the peak season but times had seriously changed in the last year. He didn't bring it up specifically but he said he had around 5-7 consults a day since June of 2022, with a couple surgeries a day.
I think the hygiene hypothesis will turn out to be false, and data pointing in its direction will be the effects of cleaning products.
Author here - it is true that you could avoid the need for vim or bash (I just personally enjoy having those in my toolset)

As for this:

> And apparently nobody's used this thing anyway, including the person who made it, because the scripts have an obvious bug in them that won't let them run on OpenBSD

I've used this installer on multiple machines (x260, x201, M73 Tiny) and am writing this comment on my X201 running OpenBSD via this installer _right now_. Could you elaborate on the bug(s) / even open a patch is that is the case?

Thanks!
Apologies for not getting back on this yesterday. Made the mistake of posting from my phone right before evening plans took over.

Looking at this, it seems you build a few indexes, such that I'm guessing those are the main drivers on the benefits? Makes sense, does it add to the space at all? As I said, most teams I work with are still on CSV, so even if this adds, I'm sure it is well below that.

At any rate, thanks for the response. Looks really nice!
Saying 'Yes' to the Apple Headset
This reminds me of skybound stylizer http://www.skybound.ca/
By "sunsetting" do they mean selling it to a Chinese firm? No reason to suspect so, but you'd have to be mad not to, right?
What arm of the French government did this rapper represent?
Automating dexterity-based tasks is very expensive. Much more expensive than hiring a teenager or an immigrant.
Google Wallet adds support for QR-based cards and insurance cards
Can't comment on 9 in an hour anyways. You get rate-limited on HN. :)
Does the new one look similar to the old one, just with a different border?

If my level of bother for the website would have been higher than my appetite for legal risk I'd be checking the statutes and covering it with a proper paint job that does not damage the actual plate info
I completely agree with this. Not much more to add other than that, but you've put into words what I have been thinking of my own situation.
You are describing how the should operate given the current situation and assuming it doesn't change. I am saying the current situation is bad and needs to change. I think that what you are saying is unproductive because it gives off the impression that you think that "bad things are good/acceptable, actually".

> then they should make more money

Like this, this is such an incredibly simplistic response that it feels more naive even than a statement like "everyone should be able to live in a big city". If everyone simultaneously makes more money it just changes who is priced out. The current game is zero-sum, I am saying it should not be.
New in Brave: vertical tabs, search, VPN, block consent notices, RSS reader
>From what I understand, even to run locally you/your team needs to be able to afford a machine with a 4090. These are super expensive in some countries.

That's because we're only half a year into LLMs becoming mainstream. Give it 3-4 years. The advancements in bringing down model size, optimizations, and newer GPUs, SoCs from Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, etc will make it so that top LLMs will run on a highend laptop/desktop.
As a fan of Syft, which parts are roughest for you? Agree that there is work to be done.
Immortalized in King of Queens S1E20!
Until Congress passes data protection laws that result in company ending fines, no one in America is safe. How this isn’t a national security crisis is beyond me.

All this news about Hauwei but they just made something that is already easy, a little bit easier. We create our own holes everywhere, out of greed and willful neglect. We are fools to think our adversaries and competitors won’t use that against us.

The fines for this incident should be $Billions with a B, Big. End the company. Criminally prosecute company leaders and managers that ignore security, and put them in jail.

You have a responsibility and obligation, to do right by your users, customers and community. Ignoring security is inexcusable and immoral.
I’m no expert in business or management, but I feel like leadership plays a very “human” role? As in, you need to wheel-and-deal favours, get people excited, inspire confidence etc. If someone was going to make me chat with a chat bot to hash out some buy-out, or some big pitch for something, I’m not taking them seriously. At least a human has the smoke screen of “friendly person”, a LLM (even if read by a human) is just too on the nose as “we’ve automated removing money from you”.

Also who do you call out when they make a bad decision? When people want blood, they want the person they’re attacking to bleed.
Government plates should use .gov or some similar tightly controlled domain (.edu might be acceptable).

Florida has "myflorida.com" which is an official government website, but .com is not a limited and controlled TLD; so in theory registration could fail and someone scoop it up.

If it were "myflorida.gov" that would be much less likely.

ahahahah http://myflorida.gov redirects to dot com (it's dot muffin)!
Just looking at all of the companies in this post that are chiming in to say they are helping the tooling, I think there is no lack of effort. I agree that having a big sponsor would help clarify direction.
I pay $100 a year for WI specialty plates.
To be fair, there is an operator overloading proposal for C2y/C3a and there is at least one compiler that offers operator overloading as an extension.
some people have huge notebooks in real world, appended tags by sticky note or colour.
These people seem like they would have taxed smartphone companies so they can keep payphones alive. What is wrong with government in California? I don't understand how they can come to these conclusions after a lot of deliberation. It almost seems to me like they are only trying to find ways to line their pockets and then leave.
* This tool may increase my time spent rather than save time. I need to spend time to find out. So I don’t buy every one of the million tools because I am too cheap. I don’t have time to evaluate all of them.

* I have no way of cashing in saved time anyway

* Developers can affect spending decisions at work worth $1000s to one SaaS at the expense of another or in addition. If we can save a hire through $50k/y in SaaS bills we will.
Having used linear (we switched to Jira) I have to say its near-complete lack of automations, and no REST api, only GraphQL (and not a complete or reliable one at that)… did not impress me.

There is a big feature gap. And also Linear is even more opinionated, and seems to exist mainly to get you to follow their pet process.
Thats why you don't do this for humans :-P

But it would help the search to find out which viruses/bacteria/pollutants are harming us, and eventually when they are identified they can be eliminated, for example with a vaccine.
José Valim ( Elixir ) will be livestreaming on Twitch from Mon to Thu weekly
This is the post from reddit.
Thought some people on here would like to know.

"
Hi everyone,

I am livestreaming contributions to several Elixir open source projects (sometimes even Elixir itelf) on twitch.tv/josevalim. This is happening at 22:00 CET / 16:00 ET / 13:00 PT from Monday to Thursday.

This has been going for a week and, since I plan to keep on going for now, I thought I would advertise it more strongly. :) So far, we have contributed to Livebook, Elixir, and we are now working on Explorer, going through a variety of languages such as Elixir, JavaScript, C, and Rust.

If you are interested, join us. Have fun and be nice!

EDIT: If you can't attend, video recordings are available for 7 days.
"
C++ templates. Also the rich type-level language in languages like Idris (these are qualitatively different, but I'd say they're another example of a second-language-within-a-language that operates at a different level of objects).