skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really, because it's were we came from. Early computers used ones' complement and there had to be extra circuitry to fix the -0 issue. Two's complement was explicitly introduced to fix this. – So how do you explain a fix without mentioning the bug?

Notably, ones' complement is easy to operate on, when reading values from blinkenlights or entering them via toggle switches, especially with octal grouping in triplets of bits. Which isn't that true for two's complement representation, as it is less intuitive (and digit positions shift with negative numbers). And the introduction of two's complement roughly coincides with operator consoles and switches becoming less important.

(It's true, if two's complement does work, you must be able to express and generalize this in terms of number theory, but this doesn't mean that it really stands on its own feet in terms of raison d'être.)

Regarding the sign-bit, this is an essential feature: checking the sign-bit for branching (or skipping) is the most basic approach to Turing complete computing. (Turing, the man himself, thought it is all there should be.) And it's also an essential bridge between numeric and logic computing, e.g., when we shift or rotate a bit vector to inspect the bit now in sign position.
Linux,

Webauthen was supported for quite some while, _but only a subset of it_.
Was Second Life partially a money laundering scheme?

Asking this because I can't find any other explanation for people paying millions for absolutely nothing
Are you so awkward that you would rather pay a dollar than talk?

Slowly picking what you want on a website and seeing all your options without having to quiz an employee for a bunch of time on the phone is the convenience. Knowing exactly what you want and saying it aloud is not an inconvenience.
I think this is strange. What is the example you're setting... that we all follow the rules? And when they find out that you don't follow the rules, will that not be a disappointment?

Here is an incident that happened the second day I got to Vietnam (long before I was ever in Germany). My girlfriend was really sick in the hotel. I was vomiting too, but I went out to find medicine. I got to the corner of a huge boulevard, maybe 8 lanes wide. There was a pharmacy on the other side. But the traffic never stopped when the light turned red. On and on the traffic just kept going, weaving around all the other cars on the cross-street. The boulevard was maybe 1 meter below the level of the sidewalk. I stood there for 5 minutes waiting for some time to step into the street.

Finally, a 6-year-old boy walked up alone, paused next to me, and started crossing the boulevard in the middle of the traffic. And all the cars and motorcycles just went around him.

I was like, well fuck, if that kid can do it then I can do it...

So what value are you teaching children? How to cross a street or how to follow orders? Crossing a street when it's possible may be illegal but it's not immoral. The idea that neglecting formalities leads to immorality can only be true if the morality isn't implanted. Worse, it implies that formalities are the only thing that holds back man's immoral nature... which should not be the lesson. If a man jaywalks, it doesn't make him more liable to commit other criminal acts.
That depends how much overhead is in the VM. WASM is designed to be thin. Java is not.
yep. and when you need to write 300K SLOC, the average takes care of the outliers.
Hope this means the end of Putin’s war quickly. End the beginning of the end for Putin himself.
I've swung between Dunning–Kruger[0] and impostor syndrome all throughout my career. Impostor syndrome is only damaging if you lose money for the company. Same with Dunning–Kruger.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
What is their business model? It seems like they're providing an online service, are they already charging the business a recurring fee?
This is a crayon license. https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists...
I work at an unprofitable VC funded startup. We plan to be profitable soon, but so far we haven’t been. We’re not huge and not glamorous.

The entire point of taking a VC check is to run your business at a loss while you grow. The idea is to jump quickly from $0 to millions in revenue instead of having that journey take years. So you hire good people, pay them well, spend on marketing (in some businesses) and take on customers at terms that are break even just to have customers at all.

You learn if you have product market fit but you may not learn if your prices actually sustain your business. And then you can either raise prices (hard) or fire people (hard) to get to profitability . Or just raise more VC money and “make it up on volume”
The worst part is that while Monopoly has its flaws, a good part of what makes it so "unfun" is house rules.

Played by the rules (or using the official "short game" rules), it is not that bad. There has been a lot of progress made in board game design in the last few decades and there are way better options today, but if you are stuck with Monopoly, just read the damn rulebook, it will improve your experience a lot.

A game should take less than an hour, involve a lot of negotiation, and be pretty aggressive (gameplay-wise!).
A lot of those 10 billion would go to aerospace contractors either way. It's not like NASA would spend all that money in-house.
Tell me you've never done (or thought about) content moderation without telling me you've never done or thought about content moderation.

Rules are pedantic by their nature, that's the whole point of interpreting them.
You’re kind of advocating the “let’s all pretend the past didn’t happen” theory of easing racial tensions by never mentioning slavery, etc.

It’s a viewpoint, but I’m very skeptical.

IMO it is perfectly reasonable to contextualize a fictional race by the creators and the time it was created. Intentional ignorance and choosing to ignore reality never sit well with me. I’m more in the “those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it” camp myself.
AIG taught us that private insurance is not any more insulated from financial disaster than the government-backed insurance systems anyway. They’re so deeply connected that catastrophic events deeply impact both.
… another I see a lot is alot.
See Naur’s Programming as Theory Building.
I found it odd too. What kind of real research could they be doing. Not all ideas that a team riffs on qualify a research. Maybe this is another case where IRS audits could help out?
For small-run offset printing (as opposed to laser-printer-quality stuff you get from print-on-demand shops, including PoD reissues of old titles the big academic publishers sell under the guise of new copies), the books themselves are basically free compared to the plates. A bookshop owner who also worked in printing once told me it was in the order of $1M for the plates for a 300-page book, and then negligible costs for the actual books until you get past at least tens of thousands of copies. So printing one manual or a hundred of them is a very different proposition from a normal-sized run of like 50k of them.
Whenever I see the phrase "investment in cybersecurity", I sigh a little bit. It's nice to spend money on important things, and you can seldom improve anything without spending money on it. But cybersecurity is one of the things that you can't improve just by enlarging its budget. You build a culture. You hire personnel who care about it. You train your employees. You set policies and establish structures.

You can't just purchase a "deluxe cybersecurity firewall appliance" and plug it into your network, even if it costs $50,000. I bet that a lot of people believe that's what it takes, though.

Compare this to, say, education funding. It's good to spend more money on schools, right? I mean, teachers gotta be paid, students need (Chrome)books. But I always vote "no" on municipal school bond measures. I believe that money isn't everything, and I believe that it funds the wrong kind of things. The measures always pass, though, so don't worry, I'm not oppressing all the little kids in town.
Beautiful website and nice fonts!

but back to the topic: I’m quite shocked that PaLM gets outclassed by much smaller models on a regular basis. I would have thought that Google, despite not having a moat, at least had enough talent and focus to get LLMs right. But what I’m observing is that startups like ClosedAI, Anthrophic, etc. constantly beat big players like Google in their own game.
Those people get annoyed by everything and try to impose on people and prevent joy in the world.

Bikes riding fast in parks and murdering children does not happen anywhere at any significant scale. It's a made up fear, just like the "stranger danger" of the past.

Anger at cyclists for driving fast and breaking laws is an emotional response to feeling jealous that bikes are zipping past them while they're sitting there waiting in traffic for 10 minutes at a red light.

How often do you see motorists get pissed off and honk at other motorists running a red or yellow on a left hand turn? They want people to break the law in that instance but will honk at cyclists for the most minor of transgressions. That's all they proof I need to conclude motorists don't give a shit about the law or safety (the classic I just want cyclists to follow the law because if they don't I can hurt them and I'll have to live with a guilty conscience! defense) and care more about reducing their travel times.
I'd really like to hear commentary from HN readers inside Russia. Anything at all - how are you feeling? Do you think this will be good or bad for Russia in the long run? What do people on the street think of Prigozhin?
Could we just tether Phobos with an elevator?
>(and fire trucks) doing their jobs don't have to follow the sign.

In some countries they can ignore such signs only when under an emergency and rights have been given by a central or a local station. A police car can't just turn on flashy lights and drive into a park.
Also that's 9 billion over the course of ... A decade of development? Maybe half a decade? DoD spends that per year.
I'm confused. Is this Sam's OpenAI or some other brand?
Those had quality issues, but didn’t introduce a controversial new UI paradigm or tried to turn the OS into an eternal-beta SaaS.
Why does this look extremely sketchy?
DIY 3 Point Bend Testing GlowStitch LEDs
https://youtu.be/8zWz92f_HGs TnT
I guess that’s how I would attempt it if I had to- reverse of addition. Just can’t remember when I have had to. Funny how addition and subtraction are unequally distributed in life
This whole precious little webgame is about interpreting a sign in a park. Presumably a park on earth. Of course you can't park ambulances inside the crowded walkways of most shopping malls... or on the top of trees, or inside HVAC ducts, or in the intestines of parkgoers, or on the head of a pin.

The number of pedantic HN bureacrats in these comments is maddening... thank god real parks (and content moderators) generally exercise some common sense.
“ I’m sorry, but I can’t write code. But I can answer any questions you might have about BPE tokenization or any other text pre-processing techniques. Are you interested in natural language processing?”

Well this is unfortunate :(
I agree, but even in those cases, “in other words” is just throat-clearing. Like “simply put” or “that is to say”, these are noise words that only hurt the clarity of writing.

If two examples help, use two examples. There’s no need to call out that the second one is another example; people will get that.

At least that’s how I see it after a lifetime of trying to stamp out this kind of filler language in my own writing.
r/ukrainewarvideoreport has Wagner already inside Moscow Oblast. The sub seems the best place to go to see this event play out in near-real time, and presumably it won't be long at all before Wagner is at the gates of Moscow.
Yeah, there is no way this isn't a trademark issue. You can see that there are already confused people in this comment thread.
I'm 100% sure he meant a leash or restraint. It's obvious from context.
This seems to be particular for software businesses the require huge scale in order to operate. Uber is still not profitable, DoorDash is not profitable, Reddit is not profitable. The markets these companies are trying to serve are ginormous, and therefore require huge amounts of capital to efficiently scale. It's even more difficult for companies that combine real life with software, e.g. Toast, Uber, DoorDash.

Compare that to Netflix, which is a business that was able to start small and scale with time. It also had huge first mover advantages as most other profitable software businesses do. Network effects are extremely powerful, and benefit first movers. Uber has spent years trying to cultivate network effects, but the service it provides exists in the real world, with real people and real problems.

I would argue Reddit can be profitable if it knew how to properly scale and innovate with advertising (particularly via search, which is where Google makes its money). There's no real reason Reddit can't be profitable if Instagram, Google, and YouTube are profitable. As for real world software apps, it's a lot more difficult.
Yes, companies usually don’t have unlimited funds. Shareholders start complaining (e.g Metaverse).

It’s quite simple. The budget doubled to $10 billion. Cancel the project.

We’ve been promoting a faster, better, cheaper NASA for 3 decades. It’s not working. Let’s find a better way to increase innovation.

https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/2000/03/15/NASA-study-faste...
Exactly. As a customer, what matters is my out-of-pocket expenses. I don't care what portion goes to the store, the distributor, the wholesaler, or the government. I care about how much I pay.

I am fortunate to live in a country where the price that's advertised is the price I pay, but every time I visit the United States I am amazed that people are OK with buying something without it being clear in advance how much it costs. And let's not even start about your demented health care pricing.
I was already picturing what arcane invocation we would need to do to summon GC in a backwards compatible nin GC language
https://archive.is/4vQ3T
> When people try to make even stronger ones, they usually end up making something that's neither free nor open source

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

The FSF's stewardship of copyleft has led us to the current status quo, where the GPLv2 is still incredibly common compared to v3, the AGPL is considered niche, and it seems most developers these days prefer permissive licenses anyway.

These kinds of new licenses are exactly the breath of fresh air we need. If the existing free software/open source dogma says they're bad, maybe it's the dogma that's wrong.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36445278

(124 points | 1 day ago | 93 comments)
Dine in food vs. take out food also has different tax rates in Germany of 19% vs. 7%, but vendors offering both will offer the same price after taxes (and ask you so they can do their taxes).

Different products in supermarkets also have different tax rates, most "good" food will have a 7% tax rate while it's 19% for everything else (with many exceptions).

But the pre-tax price is only shown in fine-print, you as the consumer don't need care what taxes are now on the product while shopping.
And Nuclear codes in the hands of a hotdog Moscow salesman? Tom Clancy would reject it as too far fetched.
In many cases though, you only need a correctly-typed key in order to index into the object to get the value -- if you've already got the value, you're fine. And if you need to limit yourself to keys that are defined on the type you're using (rather than arbitrary keys which might exist on the object at runtime) then you need to check anyway.
Nope some other group. Definitely a trademark issue.
WASM is designed to cut through all the bullshit and leave only a minimal amount of bullshit, even though it turns out there's still a lot of bullshit in the other parts of the system that WASM doesn't address.

I like websockets for the same reason. Each message has a two byte overhead compared to TCP. Two bytes. Unfortunately messages sent by the client have a whopping four additional bytes to help protect buggy middleboxes.
This is beautiful satire. Indeed, what if the best models were open and free? We would be far ahead of the game, relative to the current situation.
Sure...

I mean everyone will die at some point.

But if this is only Wagner without any political support from powerfull people in Moscow, i.e. no one backstabbing Putin while this is happening, this will be a very short affair and Wagner leadership will be dead or in jail within a few days
Well done with getting that domain name, but you may be in a world of trouble with trademark infringement with OpenAI. To the point where they actually may have an argument to seize the domain:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en
Wasn't that because of Variable-Length Arrays? I remember a while back there was a movement to remove all of them from the kernel.
tbh i wouldn't be surprised signing (and sending) this petition would put your name on a list somewhere.

that's the state of things.
Never mind too how big a savings this is from sending a manned mission to Mars (to also return samples).
Is this not just the default state for delivery apps?

Wolt charges money from the restaurants on all orders, so a 11€ sandwich from Subway becomes 12.10€ when ordered through Wolt, then they charge you 4.99€ for delivery and then charge you 0.80€ for a "service fee". So a 11€ sandwich becomes 17.89€ with delivery and fees.
I dunno. Sometimes it seems that 90% of the complexity of making web apps is figuring out details, corner cases, and spooky action at a distance with CSS. For crying out loud, the CSS spec comprises 50 documents

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2023/

It's one thing to test that element A has the right classes on it, it's another thing to test that a certain CSS selector that is sensitive to the context works correctly, that precedence rules work as expected, or ultimately the document "looks right".
> “The American people are going to pay the $16 billion bill to prevent the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank,” Kelleher

That’s the biggest lie ever told, unless someone can enlighten me on the contrary.

For a govt that is > $30 trillion dollars in debt, the taxes don’t even begin to cover its obligations. In other words, the American peoples’ taxes ($2-3T) will barely cover the interest on existing debt. That number also includes taxes collected from non-nationals on US soil, btw :)

So, who is really on the hook - when a govt will literally print itself more money? It’s a good question for economists…

UPDATE: I thought about it a bit and the answer came to me. On the hook are treasury bond holders and anyone with USD cash/in their banks. Not just the American people.
What the author is saying about remembering the math vs the illustration took me a second to get. The discs should probably be rotated slightly to make it more obvious that the axis you're flipping over when you take the bitwise not rests between -1 and 0, not vertically through 0 itself. When you look at it like that, it's much easier to see that whenever you flip across that axis, you end up needing to take a step to the right whether you're converting negative to positive or positive to negative.

And the reason why it's the same rightward movement for going from negative to positive and from positive to negative is because a move to the right on one side is effectively a move to the left on the other side. I see it in my head as there being a phantom mirrored dot always indicating where you will end up when you flip across the axis.
Why would I even schedule to work at a company that requires me to take more time than less?
I don't know about Flutter, but my issue with these takehomes in a React world is that React is extremely basic. It is only a view renderer, and leaves up to you all difficult questions of: routing, CSS, components, data fetching, state management, even things like how files are organized and named are up to you. As a React candidate, your takehome probably touches on all of these topics, and you (rightfully) probably want to express some kind of proficiency in most/all of these areas. The more senior you are, the more likely you have opinionated ways of doing these things. But in an hour long span, you are left with two uncomfortable options:

1. Write it all yourself. Express those opinions as clearly and bug free as you can. Try to get it all in as much as you can and give up on finishing all the features in the spec. Definitely give up on the UI looking nice -- despite what anyone says, default HTML is not pretty.

2. Use OSS libraries. Are you actively up to date on OSS libraries handling these things? If you're a working React professional, you probably are not, because you're using whatever system your company uses. Do those OSS libraries properly express what you think is good code? And what does it say about you to use those OSS libraries? Do you look like someone who actually understands React and understands those tradeoffs, or do you look like the kind of person that creates the type of React app that HN is always complaining about, one with a billion dependencies?

Sorry if I sound ranty. It's not directed at you. I've just been dealing with a lot of these this week.
Well, the word 'open' is both incredibly generic, and very specifically what they're not. If there's confusion, it's pretty clear who started it.
> We would be far ahead of the game, relative to the current situation.

I am curious: what applications are currently unfeasible because of the licensing of GPT-3 and GPT-4? Even if those "best models" were open and free, the vast majority of the population can't even afford to run it.

I'm no fan of SAAS APIs either, but I struggle to imagine game-changing applications that aren't feasible with the status quo.
Why is that not important to you? I am not "splitting hairs" or "denigrating" anything. I am reading the sources cited and not jumping to a conclusion. The evidence here probably isn't even enough to win a civil trial.
Where I live, vehicles like police cars have the letters "xmt" on the left side of their license plate. That's because they are exempt from rules like "no vehicles in the park". Per the questionnaire, if the SWAT team drove their tank into the park that would be a vehicle in the park, but they get a pass.
Yeah. By itself Starship is indeed very dangerous for human spaceflight (no launch abort system, very risky landing procedure) compared to other designs except the Space Shuttle. But the reliability can be optimized while doing a lot of unmanned satellite missions.
This is really really disappointing. I thought since Toast is frequently used as the POS system for restaurants, using the app to place an order was like placing it directly with the restaurant, no middle men like DoorDash or Slice or whatever. If I’m going to have to pay a fee to use the app, maybe I’ll just call in my order/place it in person instead.
I was wondering where I can post ooh.directory to get more blogs submitted into different topics than Computer Science
100% agreed! And we have a study about it, too - https://leadership.garden/back-to-the-office/
Unfortunately posts like these would end up being flagged one way or another, just like the previous ones, which had great discussions but ended up being flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457511

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457433

dang's reason for flagging them is as follows. Hopefully he or the other mods can change their mind about it as it is developing into something not insignificant or trivial:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456034
US laws aren't relevant to the game, though.

Whether any airspace is included in the park is completely ambiguous in the game.