skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to have that, at QFC/Kroger funny enough.

They got rid of it because few people used it (I tried it and it was very clunky) and replaced it with more self checkout lanes.
the PATH search is done in userspace by the exec'ing process. the kernel doesn't have or care what the processes' environment PATH says. it just gets the final location.

shebang processing is the kernel peeking at the first couple hundred bytes of a file to see if it should execute it using some other file instead of running it directly. there isn't a userspace yet because it's still setting the process up. even if there was a userspace, PATH searching should be done for the `exec`ing process' path, not the PATH given to the new process. so you'd have to squirrel away the calling processes path somewhere on top of everything else.

so, it would be a pain. and also incompatible with all of the previous exec system calls, since if you "fixed" it to follow the path, anything not expecting that could break.
Pro programmer != Github Pro?
Yeah pretty sure they're referring to Russia's army being so pathetic
I also ran that setup when I worked at Google. I liked it a lot. ChromeOS was a great desktop OS; even when I was in the office, I just ssh'd to my Linux workstation from a Chromebox. Thus, "local" and "remote" had the same experience.
Tree planting machines are a thing...
The median quality of life is MUCH higher today than 100 years ago. And bottom 1%-tile quality of life might be 1000 times better. All thanks to advance in technology and increased productivity.
I've been practicing a bit TLA+ and one idea I've encountered—which I agree with— is: if we can't even get the idea to work, can we ever hope to get a working implementation?

And similarly: if we have a good idea about how the idea works, then perhaps it is easy to end up with a good implementation.

But the situation is of course completely different when you already have an implementation and you want to get "the simple idea" of how it works. And a lot of things you're going to interact with are those existing implementations, not just ideas of them.
Thank you for teaching me the word hair-shirt. These kind of blog posts come up often on HN and it's good to have a word to describe them.
The most significant part of the headline was left out:

House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial

A consensus about climate change is essential to move from division and obstruction toward more decisive action.

Reforestation has been occurring in North America for several decades now. It would be more effective to focus on South America and Africa.

Also, in terms of O2 production, ocean algae are the biggest factor. We need to get ocean plastic waste under control before this garbage permeates the food chain, with mostly unknown but possibly catastrophic consequences.
But I can't hang my laptop from a USB cable. :)
How did they get screwed? I feel like I kind of got screwed going into SW. I have friends who make 1/3 the money as athletic trainers, but just seem to love their life so much more. Maybe when we’re 60 things will change, but seems like a bad tradeoff.
You don't seem to be 'simply' doing anything. Everything you have posted besides the first comment about phishing is some kind of dodge which uses obvious manipulation tactics, for instance saying 'I do that myself sometimes', which is a cop method for encouraging confessions, or 'you can have the last word' works to actually let you have the last word. Stop doing that.
You might as well skip the extra steps and just walk out the store with your cart without paying.
Not sure who the client would have been but i've seen traffic simulations that would be useful to city planners

https://www.tracc.anl.gov/joomla/index.php/transims-visualiz...
I think a compelling use case is flexibly defining rules. Biscuit’s Datalog tutorial does a good job of illustrating how you can go from simple auth to RBAC with just a few lines of code. https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2021/04/15/bis...

For your particular example, using DCGs like:

file(X), phrase(("cat", ..., ".jpg"), X).

Is a bit clearer. You can use DCGs to do all kinds of parsing and generating (and in this case, testing). But they aren’t going to be as fast as a highly optimized regex engine.
Yep.

It isn't going to be in the next 12 or maybe even 24 months, but in the not too distant future any company that made significant downsizing in the early days of AI is going to find out the hard way that they effectively threw away a lot of their lead against competition.

The smart companies right now would be keeping headcount the same, provide their employees with access to AI and training on how to use it effectively to reduce their workload, and then set them towards further specialization with the new freed up workload.

The cost for the productivity that 100 human employees can bring is much harder for a new competitor to match than the cost of 100 AI employees. So if cash flow supports keeping 100 humans on staff, and instead you switch over to AI to try and impress shareholders in the short term, rather than finding ways to maximize the output of the 100 humans for long term growth, you're going to wake up closer to being unseated by companies with less technical and bureaucratic debt (and probably often with some of those same ex employees on staff).
True, though I can just see them making a half-hearted attempt at pushing this through then throwing their hands in the air and saying nothing can be done when it inevitably proves impractical.
IMO the best overall "soup to nuts" survey of the history of computers is Campbell-Kelly, et. al., "Computer: A History of the Information Machine."

Specifically on the relation of telecommunications to computers I will toot my own horn and recommend my book, McDonald, "How the Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio Created the Computer."
The mean quality of life can be skewed by outliers. I wonder if there are median quality of life indicators with the box-diagram of Upper and Lower Fence values based on the Inter Quartile Range
The logical conclusion that people don’t like to hear is that there will need to be a fundamental restructuring of the economy. AI will, in the not so distant future, eliminate the vast majority of jobs. The choice will then be between a socialized economy or barbarism.
I think I've made substantial deviations from what was officially allowed at every job I've spent significant time at to the employers ultimate benefit and with employer support. If it is the right decision for everyone AND your employer wont fire you for doing it then you have the power to do it regardless of what guidelines say.

The guidelines are written in the hopes of achieving ends not as an end in themselves.
In the socioeconomic utopia we'll build in the meantime?
The #1 thing that bothers me is that almost ALL desks are 30" height in the US. Completely unergonomic for anyone not 5'10" or taller.

For example, the Ikea FLISAT desk still fits my teen kids even though it's for smaller kids (TBH I actually find it comfortable to work on occasionally).

For my laptop, I do set my screen resolution much lower (doubled/retina) than my large monitor. Less real estate, but I don't have to squint when not using a monitor.
A good portion of NA is literally choked in forest fire smoke.
Not everything is about housing, in particular someone choosing to work to 100+ doesn't really have anything to do with housing.
Any non-zero sum game can be re-formulated in zero-sum game terms, this is a rule.

Give me example of any non-zero sum game, and I can prove that under the hood it is actually a zero-sum game.

The trivial proof is that profit/revenue pool available for Corporation is limited, and the main question is how that profit pool is to be divided among Labor (employees) and Capital (investors/shareholders).

The fundamental laws of mass/energy preservation equally apply to money - you can't create money out of thin air, it has to be taken from someone else (customer) and then redistributed (among suppliers/labor/investors/shareholders/tax man)
I think the air quality is far better today than it was in the 30-40 years ago. I moved to Los Angeles in the late 80s and in the first six months didn't even realize that there were mountains all around us. I just couldn't see them because of the smog. I can see the mountains clearly today.

That's my anecdotal evidence.
There is nothing left of the Nazi era in Germany. The leadership was executed in the Nuremberg show trials and the scientists were given an offer they couldn't resist or were outright kidnapped by the Soviet Union and United States. Nazi scientists made the US space program successful.
You are aware that much of the research is done outside of universities?

https://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html

https://www.mpg.de/en

https://www.helmholtz.de/en/
NYC is really missing out on extra revenue by not enforcing this. $5000 per violation (per day?) Could easily pay one person's annual salary across all the areas affected by this. Could even make this enforceable through a citizen app like NYC already does with idling vehicles. One month of regular enforcement would probably stop violations for good. Could also post signs right at the plaza stating that public access is a right and to report if inaccessible.
then somebody with K followers says something randomly paranoid and stupid about "X" and has people kneeling cause dared to speak "the truth"
> Agreed. That is a scalability problem, it does not mean they were a failure at large in every aspect.

No, but the fact that they weren't actually winning most of their battles means they were not exactly a success in the military aspect, which was kind of the only thing they had going for them, seeing as their society was otherwise pretty shit (admittedly, their upperclass women had a few more freedoms than those in other Greek states).

> Their merit is studied in military academies around the world. Those are the types of studies that actually matter and can be tested in real situations of life and death.

Excuse me, which military academies these days are fighting battles using spears and shields?

Please tell me you're not talking about Steve Pressfield "Warrior Ethos" bullshit.
I think you need some numbers there. Pretty sure it isnt 50% ;)
>But Mayor Femke Halsema complained last year that cruise tourists were let loose for a couple of hours, ate at international chains and had no time to visit a museum, consuming the city but doing little for it.

My guess is most of HN is relatively pro-market pro-business so this probably won't be controversial, but this seems like the type of thing that a government will regret in ten years. So many municipalities would kill for a large number of people to come in, pay locals and local taxes, and then leave without using any social services. I realize Amsterdam is very wealthy, but feel like we've seen countless times cities discouraging visitors and then surprised when tax revenues drop.
The mode quality of life is also sky high compared to 100 years ago. So is the median quality of life.

Mode and median were raised even faster than the average. Humanity managed to uplift a huge fraction of people out of extreme poverty.

In 1820s around 70-80% people lived in extreme poverty

In 1920s it was around 60-70%

In 2020s it's around 10%

source: e.g. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e20f2f1a-en/index.html?i...
Please bring Jon Blow back!
No one except most Canadians, the West Coast, Midwest, and Northeast of the US.

And Texas too apparently: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/environm...

Is there anywhere in the continental US not affected by wildfire smoke? Hawaii is probably doing alright.
Anecdotally speaking, I don’t ever see myself being right-leaning because really, what do I have to conserve to be conservative?

I don’t have much wealth, I can’t buy a house for the foreseeable future, I will be done paying off literally all my debt including student loan next year, I have a wife and no kids. So yeah… I just want to do what I like and screw making another person or company richer, they’ll be fine.
I’ve found it heavily depends on the system the store uses and if improvements are actively made.

Walmart’s self-checkouts are great, and I’ve noticed distinct improvements over the years, reducing or removing common sources of issues.

WinCo’s on the other hand have been and continue to be prone to becoming a pain in the ass requiring multiple employee interventions.

I personally hate interaction at grocery stores, I want to get in and gtfo and not hold up the people behind me.
Hi there, old person here. Tomorrow is my 65th birthday. I had vowed to myself that I would completely and totally retire, Finally, at 65. But then, this "thing" cropped up and the day after tomorrow, I am pitching my 3rd startup to investors. I wonder, am I crazy. But I feel passion for this project. So, I am throwing myself into the fray again, there is no logical reason to do so. So, Rudy, I understand.
Trust me. Every few weeks I hear a complaint from my dad that he can't just go into an office or directly get someone on the phone to make some change. (And I'm certainly not a millennial.) At some level he just resents he needs to do this stuff on a computer. I'm annoyed when I can't reach someone in the event of a problem but I am totally cool with transactions happening easily and reliably through a computer system.

I do talk with certain advisors in person and we even share various personal info about what's going on--but most routine things are email.
I'm not sure you can call it a change of opinion when the older generation grew up where phone was the only option. So it sounds more like each generation prefers the method that they grew up with. If in the future everyone ends up doing work in the "Metaverse" for some reason then I'm sure the current online generation would hate it even more. I can't think of a good reason to do anything in the metaverse but maybe the next generation will find a way to make it work.

For similar reasons, a lot of people on Hackernews prefer reading articles rather than watching videos whereas a lot of newer programmers learn a lot from videos more so than books and articles.
> The original MSX was very similar to the Colecovision in terms of power and the games can be somewhat underwhelming.

And in fact the Coleco Adam was pretty much 95% of the way to being an MSX, but not quite enought to be compatible - a similar story to the first series of SpectraVideo machines (318 and 328) (edit: and the Memotech MTX series)

edit 2: perhaps 95% is a little overgenerous, Adam used a different audio chip (and didn't use MS Basic[1]), so maybe 80% of an MSX

[1] although the basic wasn't in ROM, so in theory you could have msbasic loaded from an external source anyway, although I don't think it was ever ported to the adam. Instead it used a 'clone' of appleBASIC.
Thanks for the feedback - This blog could have been better and less aggressively distributed. At the same time, we should consider the credible body of work behind this. It's not AI-generated spam but backed by actual code that provides a reference implementation behind the idea.

See: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
Erm. We are choking on smoke.

Its also the case that HappyMemes are very much as profitable (if not more) as home air filters.

Liars may not know they are part of the zombie horde .... but they do their master's will anyway.
> Huh. Everything at my grocery store either has a barcode or is produce that needs to be weighed, so there's no speed advantage for a cashier.

An experienced cashier knows what side and corner of the box of Wheaties the bar code is on without having to look, and has the produce code for the bananas memorized. If I have a lot of things, I always go to the cashier rather than the self-checkout. They can always do it faster than I can myself.
I don't think there's enough space in the US to plant a trillion trees.
Sounds like fighting against that sort of miserable workflow is part of the point.
I will pay up to 100% markup on things if:

1) I know there's a chance I'll need customer service with that thing
2) The company I'm buying from has actually good customer service.
It's also pretty terrible at non-generic-webcrap coding.
There will be a war, not UBI. UBI the way AI safety guys want it is never ever happening.
I was contacted by someone who was involved in terror incidents in several countries. They admitted several things to me but I no longer have the record.

They are part of a white supremacist group.

They do not want me to let the information out, but I have already sent in tips. They continue to harass and stalk me.

Who can I talk to?

edit: I will add that I was hacked while I was working at an energy trading company, which dealt with critical energy infrastructure. I told the CEO and CTO and they both ignored it, and brushed it aside every time it was brought up.
Stephen Wolfram has a sling that he can use to work on his laptop while out on a walk [1].

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
Because them stopping to build AI won’t stop AI impacting them. It’s like being afraid of the impact of guns — simply not owning a gun yourself won’t necessarily prevent you from being a victim of gun crime.
Aperture project's policy language is indeed inspired by Control Systems, especially PID Control.

See: https://docs.fluxninja.com/concepts/advanced/circuit
I’ve been using trackpad primarily with my thumb for about 6 years now. Obviously I have to use other fingers sometimes to scroll and drag though. I find a mouse slows me down when I have to take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse. This is coming from a vim enthusiast (worth mentioning in this context since a big benefit of using vim is how much time is saved by not taking hands off the keyboard).
New jobs are possible however.

Given the state of A.I. even today, which is not that advanced, we need one terabyte per day or per week for training purposes. Someone has to produce that data and combine human made data with machine generated data. Synthetic data like that will be fed into ML algorithms.

That simple process, in my calculations, will be the biggest industry on the planet by 2030. The data has to grow 1000x every three years or so. So this industry will end unemployment worldwide, for every person on the planet and also all ages.
>Planting one trillion trees would also require a massive amount of space — roughly the size of the continental United States.

This doesn't seem viable / a serious proposal.
A/B Street seems like a good candidate.

https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet
Yea I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. I think us fixating so much on monetary richness can b harmful to society and too little is made of general “wealth” (drawing some inspiration from pg’s how to make wealth).

There’s a lot of folks that make more than ur buddy’s dad, but I’m sure a lot of them are miserable in their jobs. In standard jobs u spend the majority of ur non sleeping hours in ur job. Are you rlly more “rich” if u can splurge on a few things on occasion but everything else is a chore compared to someone with an adequate amount to get by but enjoys the work?

Idk I find framing it this way and thinking about the dichotomy between short bursts of gratification and more subdued but consistent well being is interesting
Would you want someone to use your own brand without your permission?
To the extent that is true, I agree, they should see the positive impact of what they do as well. Your blind faith in the regulatory regime, however, is deeply undeserved. Many approved drugs prove to be dangerous and we can reasonably expect that many effective drugs never make it to market because of bureaucracy.
Butnot habing access to normal course of medicine is not what the author is complaining about
Fair enough. Einstein definitely pre-dates what I'm talking about, so if he's included, then this guy definitely is.
I tried a standing desk. It boosted my productivity for sure - when I wanted to procrastinate instead I just switched between sitting/standing and kept working.

It also created a couple of health problems.

First, I started to feel pain in my left shoulder. After a while I realized that it's caused by leaning on my left arm as a way to let my feet rest.

Then, I started to feel tingling/numbness in one of my knees. It persisted for weeks until I stopped using a standing desk.
Yes, but that's an entirely different problem I would say.

The parent complained about having to work more when the tools get more efficient, insinuating that the fruits of advancement go only to the business owner. I commented only on that.
Curious why you say vibration exposure should be avoided?
Retirement !== never working.

Personally, I’m pursuing FIRE for the freedom to choose my work regardless of how much (or even if) it pays. Decoupling my work from market incentives.

I don’t consider retirement to be sitting around doing nothing. It’s waking up and choosing my own path. It’s freedom.
Actually, economists are now saying that the 20th century was an anomaly in terms of QoL and we're reverting back to U shaped distribution of wealth.

It will be very interesting times when all that 20th century earned Baby Boomer wealth moves to the next generation and accelerates the shift even faster.
And I'm sure that those people dying are saying to themselves "well at least I wasn't coerced"
I've had both.

The back pain was instigated by moving, driving across the country, helping someone out with yard work slinging rock, and then going for a post-thanksgiving run, which broke this camel's back. Lumbar shaping is very, very important for the lower spine. You can do it with muscles, or you can do it with things. I used a 10 dollar IKEA chair + grippy bottom + a rolled towel. You roll the towel until it's the right size to create a slight arch. No rulers or drill sergeants necessary. It's also important to note that the drive to/from work is doing just as much damage as being at work, so using the towel in the driver's seat is a godsend.

The wrist pain was instigated by working on a laptop during a 1+hr train commute. I kind of looked like Groot (Despicable Me) prancing around, minus the prancing. I tried pretty much everything, but what stuck was the Evoluent mouse. It allows you to use the mouse without arm pronation (pronation forces the carpal region into a binding/constricted position). It's ~100 bucks but a single doctors visit costs more than that.

Happy coding.
I wish I shared your optimism, but I feel like we're running out of road while accelerating.
posix_spawn() is specified such that it is possible (but does not required!) it to be implemented in terms of [v]fork() and exec().

On macOS it is a syscall and is generally faster than using vfork() and exec(). It also has a number of extensions like POSIX_SPAWN_CLOEXEC_DEFAULT, POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC, and `posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np()` that allow it to actually be used in many cases where other systems need to resort to fork() and exec().
That this even needed to be said on a forum like HN baffles me. I suspect it's a result of decades of mainstream political/cultural doom-and-gloom propaganda.
This is like saying books have no value because the cost of distribution is near zero.

Books cost money because quality authorship is scarce and people are willing to pay for "ongoing support" (sequels and future works)
Given current rules for store employees they'd probably be fine. I'm sure it will all end well.
Two words - Bonsai Trees...
In submenu 66.3.105.44.9.2 you get to select the fasteners used to affix 12 mil vinyl barn siding. This game is deep!
They are getting choked by Chinese pollution.
”Planting one trillion trees would also require a massive amount of space — roughly the size of the continental United States.“
Venice did the same, some time ago. No one wants these "tourists"...
He's right that it's a him problem- but my bank and my HR website both have "Remember this device" placebo checkboxes that do absolutely nothing. The feature is broken way too often even on stock browsers.