skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also John Mearsheimer, an American, laid out the case for Ukraine as a massive NATO threat in a public talk many years ago. Available on youtube.

Russia has also been vocal about this for decades. The CIA director summarized it rather well during his time as Ambassador in his "Nyet means Nyet" cable.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html
Listen to RUSH's Manhattan Project song on repeat while reading the article
Well it did get the first one right.
In addition to all the great new features, Livewire is now a first-party Laravel package! You can review a summary of the new features here: https://laravel-news.com/livewire-v3-beta.
There are more people than you think who can read close to that fast and it doesn’t mean you are skipping things. For some, reading creates a full immersion in an interior world that subsumes the words themselves. Also, in the mind, time scales can vary, like in a dream, and although you are reading quickly, your imagining does not feel that way. To focus solely on the holiness of the words themselves is often not the point or aim of a lot of great authors. They are a means to an end not the end itself.
Alternatively, everyone not taking advantage of the credit card protections isn't taking advantage of what's offered around them. Everyone should be subsidizing everyone else, because no one should be using a debit card to make direct consumer purchases in 2023. It's too fraught with risk comparatively, and even the scummiest of the sub-prime credit cards give you a grace period to not accrue interest.
Does anyone know if the social icons on that site are from a set somewhere?
I've found it extremely similar to IntelliCode for C#, which is not very impressive. Surprisingly I've found it does a better job of writing accurate comments than generating useful code.

Maybe it's good for some languages, or for code that's doing the exact stuff a hundred people have already written. Copilot X certainly looks cool, but who knows when that'll be ready.
"Majority of people who drown cannot swim."
That’s not the reality of real industrial displacements. Rust belt towns in the US and coal towns in Britain are miserable places - their populations didn’t adapt when the industries that employed 90% percent of their working population disappeared, the quality of life in these areas just plummeted.

People often adapt when big changes come to their industries. They don’t adapt when their entire livelihoods disappear. LLMs look to have the potential to do this not just to a segment of one part of the economy in some regions, but to the entire knowledge economy the world over.
Wouldn't the sudden appearance of so much value absolutely devastate all of the world's economies?
One should use `apt-file search foo.h` for this (apt-file is a separate utility from apt and requires installation)
My initial comments:

• Does not cover the “raise from” syntax¹.

• Does not cover Structural Pattern Matching (the “match” and “case” keywords)². (EDIT: The FAQ states that it covers Python 3.8, and this feature was added in Python 3.10.)

• In my basic script template I have this, to show warnings by default:

if not sys.warnoptions:
import warnings
warnings.simplefilter("default")

• My basic script template also uses the “-bbI” switches to python on the shebang line.

1. <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-ra...>

2. <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-...>
This content has been deprecated by chatgpt. In fact, this could have been generated by chatgpt.
They should make a seal be the mascot
> and like an archaeologist any artifacts I can dig up that you've left behind providing clues to what was in your head at the time can be helpful.

This is why I'm against squashing commits in git, that our other development teams don't understand: you're going through extra effort to make it more difficult in the future.
She mentioned it in an interview with the ZEIT recently.

Here the article debating the interpretation of what she said.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230103062022/https://www.zeit....

> Merkel sagte der ZEIT: "Das Minsker Abkommen 2014 war der Versuch, der Ukraine Zeit zu geben. Sie hat diese Zeit auch genutzt, um stärker zu werden, wie man heute sieht."
It costs less than $10k to regularly find them. If it cost Google $200k per valid RCE report they would be absolutely flooded with reports of identified defects they would have to pay out and fix with no end in sight.

They would be forced to reallocate feature development engineers and resources to fixing the security defects in Chrome. How will they get promotions if all they do is fix defects instead of shipping new features?

To be less sarcastic, it would also not help. As I said earlier, a bug bounty does not cause quality improvements; you can not buy your way to low defect rates. What a high bug bounty does is provide incentive for high quality (otherwise you have to keep paying), third party validation (same as above), and a low-hanging net (to catch actual low cost flukes). Put another way, a bug bounty is a externally visible metric. It merely indicates and measures, it does not cause.
I think framing it this way can lead to real gripes with the interface. Web Components are a great way to build individual components that can be reused across an app, website, or shared as part of a library. They are like helper functions for HTML.

They don't work as well for building apps, sure you can do it, but tools like React/Vue/Svelte are much better at building a whole app experience. Particularly when you consider meta-frameworks and the ecosystem around them.
Here's a project that does that better imo:

https://github.com/dzhng/zod-gpt

And by better I mean doesn't tie you to OpenAI for no good reason
>it’s harder to read code that to write it

Isn’t this only true of bad code? Good code is almost certainly the other way round, harder to write than read… just like a really good book was much harder for the author than it was for you, the reader.
> how many places teach how to turn requirements into code.

I don't know. I know that where I did my undergraduate and msc, you either learned to do that, or you failed the courses. Fewer than 40% graduated on time where I did my undergrad, and a large portion outright quit in the first half of the first semester in grad school.

I did a year in the army, explosives-eod equiv, and it was a lot more chill than university.
reminds me of that one episode of South Park with hybrids causing a cloud of "Smug" pollution
The first part of the book, describing the history of atomic theory and experimental physics, is still one of my favorite pieces of science writing ever.
This is my hot take: we're slowly entering the "tooling" phase of AI, where people realize there's no real value generation here, but people are so heavily invested in AI, that money is still being pumped into building stuff (and of course, it's one of the best way to guarantee your academic paper gets published). I mean, LangChain is kind of a joke and they raised $10M seed lol.

DeFi/crypto went through this phase 2 years ago. Mark my words, it's going to end up being this weird limbo for a few years where people will slowly realize that AI is a feature, not a product. And that its applicability is limited and that it won't save the world. It won't be able to self-drive cars due to all the edge cases, it won't be able to perform surgeries because it might kill people, etc.

I keep mentioning that even the most useful AI tools (Copilot, etc.) are marginally useful at best. At the very best it saves me a few clicks on Google, but the agents are not "intelligent" in the least. We went through a similar bubble a few years ago with chatbots[1]. These days, no one cares about them. "The metaverse" was much more short-lived, but the same herd mentality applies. "It's the next big thing" until it isn't.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/business/facebook-opens-its-messenge...
>concerned citizens will figure out who they bank with, and will most likely be able to easily pressure the bank to drop them

This should be difficult to accomplish in a functional society.
When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games
I'm fine giving the animals the right to repair as well.
> In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference.

Yes and no. We delegate power to representatives to mediate that difference, and they ultimately delegate it to a bureaucracy, hopefully filled by experts in a particular area. These bureaucracies are then funded proportional to the quality of voter chosen leadership.

So I would say voters are responsible for choosing the level of corruption when they vote, but our votes are red or blue, we don't get any kind of say in resource distribution past that unless we are beauracracy/institution participants ourselves.
Early-stage SaaS startups grow the same with or without VC dollars
The article itself says "Not only does the recent Supreme Court decision in Warhol v. Goldsmith make clear that the high commerciality of your use argues against fair use, but no court would excuse copying illegally sourced works as fair use."
I had to read this twice - is it really not like in the UK? Is this the first US implementation of "Faster Payments"? Sure people in the UK sometimes use PayPal, Revolut, but most of the time its always just a friend gives (and you save on your banking app) their bank account number and sort code, and you instantly send it across. edit: with no fee
Meh.
I've seen teams and projects bogged down by "good clean code" rules and nit picking code reviewers. These folks, typically "staff" engineers, over-police the repos and care more about clean code than delivery and execution.

I'm waiting for the day where AI/co-pilots can enforce team and industry best-practices, style, maintainability, testability, etc before the code is even committed.

Call it "uber-linting" and get rid of code reviews.
That's wonderful!

Does anyone know the best way to convert an old printed manuscript into a font file?
But are people buying their machines?
> In trying to come up with a WebRTC solution, I think I've settled on defeat. The local network syncing works like a charm, but I haven't had any luck in trying to get around a TURN server by using an API endpoint to provide routing data. It would be nice if there were other prebuilts than COTURN (something deployable to a deno/node server would be ideal),

The bad news is that if you want something that works in all instances, you need a relay of _some_ sort, because p2p isn't possible/feasible in all cases. Bittorrent (for instance) works around that limitation by simply having many-to-many peering and relying on large numbers, to be reliable. But that doesn't work for 1:1.

The good news is that maintaining a relay (or TURN, with WebRTC), need not be expensive. Yes, you need a server, and perhaps some IP-based rate limiting, but that can handle a LOT of connections and small data.

I created https://github.com/betamos/rdv for this purpose, an extremely light-weight alternative to WebRTC, but for TCP only (BYO identity, auth and encryption). The p2p success rate is, anecdotally, very high. However, you cannot use it from a web browser.

Feel free to reach out (see profile), happy to chat about p2p whether or not you use this project.
Digital clones made by AI tech could make Hollywood extras obsolete
The humorful screed starts, as so many do, with a literal interpretation of something that is clearly intended satirically.

Maybe he reaches a sane resolution later in the video. I dunno. Didn't have the patience.
Nonsense comparison. We're talking about business partnerships. If everyone with a shred of decency turns your organization away, that's a great litmus test for its existence. Worry about the next revolution being banked when that becomes a real concern, not over an online troll farm that tries to convince vulnerable people to end their lives.
https://archive.ph/0v5YG
r/wellactually
I'm particularly impressed with their anti-tamper measures. "For each server sled, shine a light into the cubby to look for any physical tampering or damage."

https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/system/rack-installation-...
Oxide's "On the Metal" podcast is an incredibly fun deep dive into technical issues no one should have to deal with as told by people who lived them. "Deep" as in: software DRAM drivers, Ring -1 security, bespoke motherboard designs... I only wish there were more episodes.

https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal

I just noticed they have a second podcast. I'll assume it's just as good.

https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends
Care to share what made it complex? My comment above was most likely ignorant, but my general thought was to write some header prompt about available actions that the LLM could map to, and then ask it if a given input text matches to a pre-defined action. Much like what TypeChat does.

Does this sound similar enough to what you were doing? Was there something difficult in this that you could explain?

Aside from being completely hand-wavey in my hypothetical guess-timated implementation, i had figured the most difficult part would be piping complex actions together. "Remind me tomorrow about any events i have on my calendar" would be a conditional action based on lookups, etc - so order of operations would also have to be parsed somehow. I suspect a looping "thinking" mechanism would be necessary, and while i know that's not a novel idea i am unsure if i would nonetheless have to reinvent it in my own tech for the way i wanted to deploy.
Show HN: A fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model for generating Minecraft skins
It would crash the gold, nickel and iron markets. That's not going to devastate the world economy.
> you cant compute yourself out of a broken world.

Most certainly not, but surely you can build better tools with the aspiration of facilitating certain goals, can't you? It's not the tools in or by themselves that will improve (or worsen) the world, rather something at your disposal to pursue your goals.

> the myth that the computer will lead to a better, more equal society

Agreed that it won't. But, IMO, the strength of Shelter is that it covers a niche that many other systems (blockchain-y or otherwise) don't, which is data autonomy and confidentiality. Most popular web apps today are centralised silos that don't give you privacy from the operator, and those that aim for federation often also don't give you much privacy either.

Now, it can be that those factors are not important for the specific thing you're developing, and that's fine. But, if they are, having an existing framework to build on top of can give you a head start (even indirectly, by showing you what works or doesn't).

Disclaimer: I'm involved in the development of Shelter. All opinions are my own.
Firefox Awesomebar: It's finally possible to search all tabs
> they'll eventually run into legal troubles from the damage they cause to innocent people

Which is how this sort of thing ought to be handled, in stark contrast to "Chrystia Freeland sends an email to the heads of major banks to get troublemakers debanked with zero transparency or due process."
Looks like it’s time to put this on my kindle.
Just checked my provider's pricing ( in the UK) MMS are capped at 300kB and cost 30p (0.39 USD) per message.

That kind of pricing made WhatsApp an infinitely preferable alternative.

Phones automatically switching to MMS would be catastrophic.

Data (WhatsApp) is essentially free in comparison. £10 (13 USD) per month gets you 20GB: which doesn't care how many messages/recipients/photos you send.
If you care to answer then -- what is the thing that you provide that I must pay for? As in, if I don't give you money, then I don't get ....
I’ll take it. I spend about half my time developing/promptsmithing and the other half lawyering. “Wordsmith” sure beats some of the other lawyer epithets out there
This. I was about to mention the same quote. This quote alone has served me well over the years. Sounds jokey but if you live by this, it’s brilliant.
Does anybody know if this book (or the movie) covers Oppenheimers attempt to murder his teacher with a cyanide laced apple? I don't care to invest time in a biography that whitewashes the man.
To dispense with the unnecessary snark, you can claim exemption from withholding, but only if you had no tax liability in the previous tax year and you expect the same to be true of the current tax year.
fly.io too, although the scales have fallen from the eyes of HN to some extent after their repeated outages
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785516
Notaries are personally responsible for any misconduct with up to a felony criminal case for violations. Including not sufficiently verifying the identity of the person in front of them. Sure, most states will just slap them with a $500 penalty, but they'll also revoke the notary status pretty quickly.

I would like to re-emphasize personally. It's not a business risk, it's a personal liability.
> Would the United States welcome Chinese and Russian nuclear capable installations in Mexico or Cuba?

Personally, it's none of my business what Mexico or Cuba do on their territory, but are you saying the US has nuclear installations in Ukraine?
Last I heard, at least one of those "confirmed suicides" failed to appear in government databases, which casts doubt on its legitimacy (I assume it is one of those counted as "confirmed"), and another was associated with outside harassment and falsely attributed to KF. I don't know what the third one is.

I dislike that site and the general behavior of its users too, obviously, but during that time when it was in the spotlight I saw plenty of evidence of egregious behavior and blatant lies from people campaigning to censor them, and much of it seemed to work. It's not hard to see how debanking could affect less "problematic" organizations or individuals through censorship campaigns (or government interference) regardless of your feelings about KF itself.
Anyone read this one?

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/FICS/

Functional Introduction to Computer Science
Probably more easily than you'd think. DOOM is open source[1], and as GP alludes, is probably the most frequently ported game in existence, so its source code almost certainly appears multiple times in GPT-4's training set, likely alongside multiple annotated explanations.

[1] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM
I can think of 0 occasions where I’ve given anyone my bank account info who isn’t a commercial organization (employer, electric company, etc).

I had no idea it was the opposite in the UK.

Edit: with the exception of writing physical checks, of course. I use those when the receiver doesn’t accept Venmo or Apple Pay.
It does, but is priced uncompetitively compared to mobile data.
Leaked Docs Reveal Reuters and UK Gov Helped Overthrow Egyptian Democracy
So.... where's the decisive NATO strike? They won't even supply adequate weapons to Ukraine.
An invitation to a secret society
I've read and understood them both but didn't recognize them from the initials. In another comment here, someone said

> TAoCP (er, Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming")

I also would not have recognized TAoCP as referring to the Knuth book. Not all corners of the tech world commonly refer to tech books by their initials. That doesn't mean they have nothing useful to say about them.
There are cases where the tradeoffs don't involve the actual codebase. For instance, there are certainly many developers who are 3x faster than the average developer simply as the result of having enough experience and/or skill to know which tools and/or approaches are optimal for a large subset of the kinds of problems they encounter in their typical work, such as a developer familiar with a particular ecosystem accomplishing some task in 10 minutes by knowing which library and which function to use, and how, whereas another might take hours (or days) to accomplish the same task since they have to figure out what tools are even available to solve an issue and how to use them, or worse (sometimes), rolling their own solution where a library implementing the functionality already exists. The tradeoff here is simply that it will be harder to find such developers, and they'll generally want higher compensation, but their work will not degrade the quality of the codebase, quite the opposite.
> That is a lot of data for a single page IMO.

It is great for a cheat sheet to be on a single page. It makes ctrl+f searching useful and quick.
It's a very nice way to imagine good code. More likely, someone inexperienced or less caring will come along and edit it just enough to turn it into mediocre code and no one will care anymore.
> SaaS startups with between $1 million and $15 million of ARR saw nearly identical levels of growth, on average

Sounds reasonable but the study is by a company who lends growth financing to startups, for which the article is basically an ad. (Ironically earlier today there was an article about scams where you could buy a story about your company on techcrunch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800456
Tapping into Tailscale’s identity headers with Serve
I don't think there can be disputes or chargebacks, just like with any other direct bank payment method. Disputes are a service offered by CC companies to keep customers using their cards. Otherwise disputes are handled by a court of law.
I don't think this is a reasonable argument, but I do think it might still prevail in court, which from the POV of the authors an their lawyers makes it a worthwhile filing. Personally I hope it doesn't prevail, the implications for how people learn and synthesize based on an existing corpus is too profound.
Truth.

Years ago a wise man told me "The compiler is not your customer. The next person who maintains this code is your customer. It might be you."
> Taiwanese labor standards are way lower than in the US, and the price-point of our consumer electronic goods requires that.

not necessary. tsmc has 40% profit margin, so they could totally pay more to taiwanese employees, but decided not to and pocket profit instead.
“Python is for scientists. Lisp is for engineers.”

Then what does that make Hy language?

https://hylang.org/

Re Languages with lots of example code and LLM’s

With translators or things like Hy lang, one could get the LLM’s to solve your problem in Python before converting it to another form. Then, you just need a translator. If lacking one, it’s easy to translate by hand.

The practicality of this concept will probably vary by use case. My experiments had GPT doing sketching, implementations, boilerplate, and even porting Python to Rust. A legally-clear LLM trained on multiple languages could probably be fine-tuned to do Python to LISP conversions. If not, Hy might be a stepping stone, too.
They only started shipping this month... so, jury's out?
The territory isn't the territory either, so no big deal!
They recently shipped their first rack IIRC.
Problems arise as soon as you (ab)use a metaphor (used to explain a higher level/adjacent problem) to explain concepts it was never meant to model.

Example: Array of items as a shopping cart: how do you efficiently remove an item from the array (as you can from a shopping cart)?
It is, or rather was (sadly it's been deliberately suppressed by the mods of late), the HN culture. It's a part of what makes this place what it is, and was why this used to be a high-quality site.