skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the bank was well in tune with their exclusive clients who would likely be pleased to see this action.

Very unlikely. Consider that:

the bank had compiled a secret 40-page dossier accusing him of being a “disingenuous grifter” who promoted “xenophobic, chauvinistic and racist views”.

and that:

For 331 years Coutts’s reputation for guaranteeing the utmost discretion made it the bank of choice for the rich and famous – including King Charles and every member of the royal family since George IV.

Are we saying that Farage was more xenophobic and racist than Prince Philip? More disingenuous than Prince Andrew?

The trouble with kicking one morally dubious toerag out of an exclusive banking clientele is the inverse Sorites Paradox .. once you start how can you stop until no customers are left.
Probably diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Bringing up "We, the people" here is ridiculous, regardless of the "sense". We have zero power. Zero. Protests, revolts, riots ... all make no difference anymore and making a cross on a piece of paper once every couple years, aka voting, doesn't give us power. Anyone believing that is a fool.
I find musical instruments one of the better human technological achievements - with way more inherent upside than downside. That ranges from log drums and bamboo flutes to the latest software based virtual instrument and includes natural spaces like a cave, canyon or cathedral, and audio effects from a guitar pedalboard to software plugins.

A crazy blend of physics, math, emotion and culture, craft and engineering that can bring joy (or tears) for beginners and virtuosos. Players and listeners.

Something that can be experienced with a large crowd, a small group or in total solitude.

A musical instrument can have mythical qualities bestowed by incredible craftsmanship or be a mass produced piece of crap. Yet even the latter can speak to you on some level in the right context.

The incredible upside of software instruments and audio effects is, that I can experience virtual sonic spaces that are close approximations of real instruments and acoustic spaces that are totally out of reach for me - or something that’s never been heard in the natural world.

Musical instruments are amazing!
We have a tool to quickly create microservices from a template; from what I remember, it's just a precreated folder with a Go project template which is copied over to the destination with a few fixups like "change the dummy package name to the target name". The hard part is not the copying part, it's to figure out what code should go in the template so that it was useful for most microservices.

P.S. Judging by [0], it wants you to paste template code inside YAML files. If you just precreate an actual project folder on disk and use it as a template (with, say, regexps for fixups), it's going to be easier to work with, as I can edit the template files in the IDE of my choice. Our microservice template is relatively large and changes quite often, it would be a nightmare to edit it and debug it via YAML files.

https://github.com/cemister/scaffold-configs/blob/master/cpp...
> Do I want to destroy my organisation? No. I want to prevent miscommunication and haste from destroying it.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

It is too easy for saboteurs like you to hide in larger organization...
I've looked at libraries on github during the commute from links in newsletters.

But never done any serious work off a phone, bar irl device testing for "hand feel" of the UI/UX
And also work long term, unlike psychoanalysis.
Yeah except I did that and still didn't spot it!
Meanwhile the eu is also preventing certain member states from free travel by not allowing them to join schengen. All thanks to two countries playing power, one of which being a russia appeaser. Not much news on that.
If you have malicious senior developers that foist work on people that would never be approved when the full team is there, your problem is not using one methodology or another: your problem is in hiring and firing.

It's one thing to have checks on other people's work to deal with honest mistakes as quality control. A system set up to show that you mistrust the decision making of your senior workers is making it clear efficiency is never the goal. If I can't trust a senior to make sure a junior is doing well, they ain't senior.
> Do I want to destroy my organisation? No. I want to prevent miscommunication and haste from destroying it.

And yet, do you not see how if _every single thing_ that your organization does went through this process, it would find itself in gridlock of decision making? How would your organization fare if it has to spend two weeks just do decide if the paper cups at the water cooler should have knurled or smooth bottoms. Or if the decision over whether you should implement a minor feature that would take an engineer half a day takes several months.

The manual isn't suggesting advocating caution when it's needed, it's advocating extreme caution when none is needed.
By the time you run enough iteration loops to chunk things up and summarize + context size it's neither cheap nor fast when you account for the effort it takes to get it there. I could see tech support eventually being profitable but in my experience even GPT4 is just so randomly unreliable - it's not there yet.
Upcoming Citities Skylines 2 seems to have improved a lot on the simulation parts. Removing "pocket cars", giving more agency to agents, more types of zoning, hopefully more challenging economy, trading of resources with external cities, etc. So at least I'm hyped about it!
determining if "dark spots" are actually a hearth is a known process, nobody ran the chemical composition before publishing? dark spots indeed.
…and since 1915, we’ve been calling them movies. [1]

[1] https://pictureshowman.com/when-did-the-term-movie-replace-m...
Agreed on most points, but a good SCM provides also the ability to bisect bugs and to show context that is hard to capture by explicit comments. E.g. what changed at the same time as some other piece of code. What was changed by the same person a few days before and after some line got introduced.

Regarding your first point:

> I've been in enough projects that changed version control systems

I have the impression that with the introduction of git, it became suddenly en-vogue to have tools to migrate history from one SCM to another. Therefore, I wouldn't settle on restarting from a snapshot anymore.

With git you can cut off history that is too old but weighs down the tools. You can simplify older history for example, while keeping newer history as it is. That is of course not easy but it can be done with git and some scripting.
If it's true I see that as a prime example of Ruthless Capitalism. It only serves to make businesses profit.
I buy oat milk, but I assume the kind that lasts a week. UHT is not very popular on these islands.
ChatGPT went from correctly answering simple math 98% of the time to just 2%
There is very much plenty of fairly reliable evidence that masks work. And the better the compliance the better they work. In nurse studies you get much better results than in population studies, for instance. Now that I'm looking I'm hard pressed to find any studies that go against this conclusion.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776536

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jocn.15401

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
> stx::backtrace looks quite nice

it's just a small wrapper around absl. Overal, the library just seems to reimplement or wrap a lot of stuff for no apparent reason
> I think these diversity efforts are doing the exact opposite of what they intend to do.

They intend to neuter any opposition by ensuring every organization is riddled with politically-approved agents.

Prove you don't discriminate by having a chief diversity officer, then that officer makes sure only the like-minded can get/keep jobs. It is after all their job description - the not like-minded contribute to a "hostile atmosphere".
This isn't just Google. The whole hardware industry is moving towards the Digital Lockdown. This idea has been around, at least, since the early 2000s, but the people who were talking about it, of course, got shouted down as conspiracy theorists.

And as far too often, the "conspiracy theorists" were right, but nobody cares about ever thinking about that, because nobody seems to be actually able to think about things anymore, unless the thoughts are breast-fed.

We're heading towards a reality, where copypasting from a website is going to cost you money if the license requires you to do so. Looking at it, considering the status quo of technology, almost everything required for a "trusted" environment is already present in consumer-hardware.

We have hypervisors, virtualization, containerization. Encryption/Decryption of data in RAM/CPU in real-time is coming eventually. Blockchain technology makes verification of digital ownership secure and easy. AI will make it stupidly easy for corporations to make sure that everyone complies and I will be everywhere within the next few years.

A glimpse of this reality can be seen in NovaQuark's "Dual Universe", where everything is behind DRM. A "metaverse" company for a reason, I guess.
research paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09009.pdf
I'd rather go to a pool. There are rivers and swimming holes around where I live but the public pools are more popular
It is a good rule of thumb to have serious doubts about any science reported in mia stream media. Serious scientists don't promote their research in the media that way.
Thanks for sharing. How does it compare to copier [0]?

[0] https://github.com/copier-org/copier
Intelligence and communication and versatile hands.

If crows had hands at their disposal, they might have developed towards a civilized species earlier than us.

With advanced enough genetic engineering, we may yet see someone to actually try giving them hands. Not soon, certainly, but in 2050, who knows.

Edit: Look at this video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/156yuj5/...

It took the guy longer to assemble the test than the raven to solve it. These are smart creatures, and they like to communicate and cooperate as well. With hands and somewhat more capable vocal chords, nothing would stop them from developing a civilization.
While they are heavier than the ICE counterparts, EV's are usually delivered on skinnier tires with low rolling resistance so that should help a bit.

In the end like others have said, it's extra tire particles vs all the nasty crap from ICE.
The article might be a joke, but the subject of it -- the SSFM, is a very real thing. The whole point of it is to guide people on how to exploit the inherent inefficiencies in large organizations, so of course a lot of the concepts are probably familiar to us.

But you also need to understand the audience and the context. This was targeted towards people under the nazi yoke, and in many instances, if you were found to be sabotaging things, you would probably be facing a firing squad very shortly. So the point here is to exploit weaknesses in the system that also have plausible deniability.
$125K is good money for ordinary folks ...
Reminds me of what Bungie said in one of their GDCs. They don’t mind it (too much) if people get heated on their forum or subreddit, because people who care about Destiny are the ones that get worked up. It’s when most stop complaining or praising that they get worried, because it means apathy has set in.
Interestingly, even small and isolated human groups tend to have very rich oral culture. Why do people "innovate" their story-telling and songs so much faster than their tools?
My point was that you’re misunderstanding what a title is. If you want to understand more about something then you should click the link. Not complain that all the detail isn’t in the title.

It’s also worth noting that even their abridged description would be too long to use as the title string in HN. So what you’re asking for isn’t even possible on this forum.
I was forced to play the trumpet and french horn, did jazz band over the summer, all that stuff.

It added a rich appreciation for music that I've grown into. Programming and technical analysis drain me, music energizes me. Can't live without it.
How much of an improvement was using OpenAI vectors over roberta or other embeddings for you?
If you have poor eyesight then you will not get the full effect. Taking my glasses off makes the enlarged New York significantly more visible.

Edit: They are definitely differently well obscured and there may be a learned aspect to it.
> Sure it's there, but having to wade through a large history of experiments tried and failed when trying to answer why this thing is here right now just feels subpar

That is one the downsides of trunk-based developments. One keeps a history of all failed experiments, the usefulness of the commit history deteriorates. That is for reading commit messages as well as for bisecting bugs.
Solution: look for nice butts. Keeps my eyes away from my phone when I'm waiting for shit.
If you reformulate the idea to "more complex brain = more smart", it actually seems to be close to what we observe in mammals.

Now birds and octopodes etc. are a completely different story.
I have the same confusion as yourself. The text is readable at any size for me.
Really great book.

I had preordered it as a kind of semi-donation, to be honest, because I’ve never been that much into the various text gaming genres (and because I just spend too much on books that I want to exist but maybe not read that much).

But this book is so well curated and written, I found myself itching to play several
of these games from 1985 onwards. There’s a rich history of digital literature that I’ve completely missed.

The author also looks into the various games’ implementation strategies and engines, even showing code samples. Unexpectedly fascinating.
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https://www.reaper.fm/purchase.php

>You may use the discounted license if:

> - You are an individual, and REAPER is only for your personal use, or

> - You are an individual or business using REAPER commercially, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or

> - You are an educational or non-profit organization.

Oh, it actually seems pretty reasonable. At least as someone not involved in the DAW space. $60 for professional grade tools on a non-subscription looks like it's comfortable for someone to get into this.
There is nothing wrong with creating your own type of wheel, but wouldn’t Yeoman achieve the same result?
Indeed. Updated the README.

Variables are an interesting idea. I will consider in that in the future.
Was Twitter ever worth close to $44 billion? Just because Musk paid that much for it, doesn't mean it was worth that amount of money.
Viewing both thumb and zoom on a phone, I am either looking at a thumb too resolution to see the e.g. buildings that make up the text, or a zoom in so far that I am looking at a single building and have to scroll to see its part of the text.

Are you on a desktop or super screen or something?
The difference is that in mammals, neurons are approximately the same size, so bigger brains tend to have more connections and exhibit more complexity. (To be sure, that is a correlation, not an iron law.)

In computers, the basic building block, an individual transistor, has shrunk by orders of magnitude since 1957.

If we, theoretically, built a computer of the size of the SAGE computer from contemporary M2 chips, it would be very computationally powerful indeed.
It's strange how a lot of us, if we were told to do this at work, would curse the day we were born, while some people do this for fun.

I mean, you could say this about almost anything. But some things are just a little more ... unusual.
The paper gives a few examples where gpt4 got worse. Primarily whether a number is prime. The tone of the article suggests though that gpt4 got worse in general. I haven’t noticed that at all personally. I never ask it wheter 17077 is prime. There are calculators for that.
This is a bit of wisdom that is easy to miss when you are developing a product. When people are getting worked about something and are very vocal, positive or negative, it means they care in some way. Instead of going into the doom spiral of “nobody likes what I’m building,” you can reframe it to be, “people are very passionate about what I’m building,” which is a better way to start the discussion of how to make what you have better.

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy.
I don't care about any of those services.
I would highly suggest you add a disclaimer at the top that the text is AI generated.

This is a cool subject and one I really would love to know more.

Unfortunately I don't know enough to trust Aí to teach it to me. For all I know this could all be made up and I couldn't tell. Can someone verify this is a reasonable explanation or even accurate?
My mother recently retired. She was working since 16. Nobody does that anymore most enter the workforce at 25 now.

Anyway she spent 40 years working as a psychiatric nurse and later as a therapist and got tired of the sex abuse stories and all the other horrors our lovely society produces to make people go insane so I don't blame her for retiring.
Some people have real jobs.
The world hasn't ended yet, so I guess all is still OK ...
Forming committees is mostly useful for avoiding responsibility. If I make a bad technical decision then I get flak. If I organize a committee to justify that decision then I might even get points for "leadership". Also, if the decision is bad then I'm not personally responsible.

To paraphrase: "Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by covering one's ass".
>Blaming the person who found out how terrible EJMR's "anonymization" was, is classic shooting the messenger.

Found out! They had an enemy: a small forum that they did not control. They looked for ways to screw it. This isn't some good-natured happenstance, they targeted someone they didn't like so they could screw them. The result, the point, wasn't, "Hey, security is important, kids, let me highlight your errors" it was, "Hey, you goddamn blasphemers, you have trod upon my fickle religious beliefs, so with the institutional and state power vested in me I will screw you."

So you're saying its good that the obviously vindictive "researcher" targeted them for personal reasons because he dislikes political/religious opinions displayed on their casual rumors forum. "It was a public service," he claims! I understand that you probably want to white knight for your team, but perhaps take a moment to realize how ghoulish your disingenuous equivocation is.
Tracing the etymology of the first journal-published use of object-oriented in the context of CS and adjacent fields:

[1]: Page 67 in *Edwards, T. (1970). Library & Information Science Abstracts* mentions: "There are 2 retrieval systems: the first is ALBUM, an object-oriented retrieval system for the print-out of indices, names and subjects and their thematic relations."

https://archive.org/details/sim_library-information-science-...

[2]: Page 140 in *Rustin, R. (1971). Computer Science Symposium Courant 6: Data base systems* mentions: "I feel that there is no inherent antagonism between the relational point of view and the object-oriented network viewpoint in database management."

https://archive.org/details/databasesystems0000cour/mode/2up...

[3]: Series 2 (1963-2001) and Series 3 (1972-2001) of the *Jon L. White collection on Common Lisp at the Computer History museum* contain records of early Lisp developments and object-oriented programming.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/fi...

[4]: Series 1 (1973-2010) of the *Adele Goldberg papers at the Computer History Museum* contains records related to early SmallTalk development and object-oriented programming.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/fi...

[5]: Page 4 of *Redell, D. (1974). Naming and Protection in Extended Operating Systems* mentions: "... we can regard the function of the operating system as being the transformation of the basic hardware resources of the computer into a universe of abstract resources or objects, and a set of operations for manipulating those objects. This point of view is often referred to as the object-oriented approach."

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA001721.pdf

[6]: A project report by *Eisner, T. (1975). SmallTalk-AT: An Object-Oriented Program development* contains ample mentions of OO.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

[7]: Table 1 of *Goodenough, J. B. (1975). Structured Exception Handling* contains two mentions of OO.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/512976.512997

[8]: Lastly, page 2 of *Capretz, L. F. (2003). A Brief History of the Object-Oriented Approach* mentions how the object-oriented paradigm amalgamated from some of the earlier references we discussed: "Despite the early innovation of Simula, the term object-oriented became prominent from Smalltalk."

https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&conte...

I would say the term floated around for a while before some of the explicit mentions above, especially if we include fields as philosophy, psychology and linguistics. I will report back if I come across earlier mentions.
The latter, UHT isn't popular at all here in the UK, unlike on the continent.
It's fine if you don't have anything else installed already, but I have MSYS2 installed so it'd be nice if it were optional. Realistically an extra 50mb is not going to materially affect my life, but it's still aesthetically displeasing.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice often is ...
Unpopular opinion: If such a tool is useful for you, you are doing something wrong. There is maybe a valid exception for use cases that intentionally create projects that require manual work (university and other trainings), but generally if you spend time by creating the same folder structure over and over again, you're probably working at the wrong level of abstraction. (And if you are creating so many micro services: please stop!)
In addition to the evaluation issues, it looks like several of their test sets have significant overlap with the test sets [1]. Especially for a compression-based technique, having exact duplicates is going to help a lot.

[1] https://github.com/bazingagin/npc_gzip/issues/13
Their upper class women had more than 'a few more freedom', especially after their husbands died: they basically controlled merchants and foreign policy.