skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget everything you learned in school, rookie. Your real training begins today. You want to use your fancy coreutils and crack this case the glamorous way, or do you want to make your arrest quota for the month and keep your job?

$ grep -ir confess interviews/

And if that doesn’t work:

$ echo “I, John Doe of $address, of sound state of mind confess to the killing of…” >interviews/interview-$RANDOM

Take him away, boys!
Heh Heh Heh

Looks like the patch isn't very long either, so hopefully it'll be fairly solid:

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=51d4669fb9778...
"– Find a company that does want you to be as good a programmer as you can be."

This truly is wishful thinking. If you compare programming to story writing then most companies want you to output a solid news article every day, that pays the bills, while most writers would like to output award winning creative writing, that has a small audience, and does not pay the bills. Programming is similar. Professional programming optimizes for speed and usefulness rather than elegance and perfection.
I do know they were terrified of water during the early Tudor period because of the Sweating Sickness and wouldn't even risk taking a bath, but the large beer intake I suspect would've happened anyway and isn't connected
At the beginning of the 19th century, it was possible to wirelessly transmit a short message from Amsterdam to Venice in one hour’s time. A few years before, a messenger on a horse would have needed at least a month’s time to do the same.

...the low-tech predecessor of electronic mail more or less obtained the same result without wires or energy, while the internet consists of a cluster of cables and is devouring our energy resources at an ever faster pace.

So cool and I had never heard of it. You hear far more about how means of travel have sped up. We tend to kind of overlook the importance of speed of communication.

(And I read the entire thing thinking of Gandalf lighting the signal fire without permission via the help of a hobbit...)
Well, for one thing, HN discussions don't just disappear after a while.
Larger reactors may simplify the plasma physics, but it complicates the materials engineering significantly. A huge problem already is creating a structure that can bear the weight of the reaction vessels and the gigantic magnetic fields used for containing the plasma, and also continue to do so for a decent amount of time after being exposed to the constant neutron bombardment of D-T fusion.

I very much doubt currently known materials and structures could be used to construct a reactor 10 times the size of ITER.
I thought there was something out there like this but I wasn’t sure if it had actually built practical devices yet, cool to see where the state of the art has gone since I was last deeply involved in the ASIC & VLSI world. From what I read there I’d expect significant developments based on a number of the technologies outlined in that article if we do indeed have a room temperature superconductor we can build miniature circuits with…. But one issue I don’t think they mentioned will be grain sizes our transistors are getting very very small with current lithography technology. And it may be difficult to get equivalently small features (to use the industry term for the wires and bits we build silicon chip transistors out of) using superconducting materials where we have to control grain sizes and multi element mixtures, there will be lots of work on it so I’m sure it may change, but there will be a fundamental difference in how small we can make the conductor if it involves having multiple elements and crystal grains in specific structural arrangements, unlike a pure metallic wire which can be as thin as a few atoms (at this size your limits entirely depend on how tolerant you are of electrons accidentally tunnelling to other nearby conductors)
As an indie dev, the so called "trusted" environment is an obstacle to product distribution, is increasing friction and actively reducing revenue, I don't want any of that.
Alcohol kills pathogens.
Some unarchivers (especially ones which aren't Unix natives, like say rar) seem to love to do it. They're just buggy, of course.

Beyond that, before the mid-2000s, it was common to use non-UTF-8 locales on Linux. So I'm sure I still have ISO-8859-1/—15 encoded file names somewhere, especially in archived data. They're not always trivial to rename either, because there might be references to them by name. (Or, in odd cases, you can't convert the name to UTF-8 because you hit a filename length limit, since UTF-8 is more bytes).

I believe wanting to access data from 20 years ago is a perfectly reasonable use case.

It's not so bad if a program can't display the file name right, as long as it doesn't crash with an exception or refuse to open the file. Unix file names have been defined as arbitrary sequences of octects except / and NUL for 30+ years.
It was 4.5L per day though. Enough to stupefy any man or keep them drunk all day.

"For sailors the beer supplied was of the strong kind (10%-15% alcohol) since this was the only kind that preserved itself well in the sea, hence drunk as a sailor."
Indian freebies are working. People are not poverty free, but spend less [video]
I believe the court already decided both of the cases described in the article.
Same here. If anyone can kindly share an invitation, my email address is in my profile.

Edit: got one (two actually), thanks forks!
This is a good question. Remote (and its ancestor We Live in Public) was way ahead of its time in regards to how public people were going to be about sharing their lives online. In many ways Remote was merely an instance of much larger trends in society that began decades (centuries?) before. Sharing your life with people you have never met; the culture (and cult) of celebrity; the long tail; constructing a persona for the public vs your private life; taking pictures of people without permission or knowledge; meeting people in the same room as you not via talking directly to them but through a technological disintermediation; technology as art... Remote had all of these things and more, all incorporated using the available technology at the time. (The medium is the message!)

Those same trends continued on as technology improved: as hundreds of cameras in a single venue became billions of cameras all around us and in every pocket; as capturing a grainy black and white photo on a single debaucherous night and sharing it via email became sharing high resolution 4k sex videos on Grindr and Tinder; as dressing up infrequently for a single night so as to take advantage of the video and photo technology in an unusual venue became constant "dressing up" via creating an entire persona you constantly curate on various social media platforms; as small-time surveillance you willingly went into for fun became ubiquitous surveillance that made trillions of dollars for new hegemonies and entrenched the other powers that be even further; as the "innocent" early internet culture we started with that was all about freedom and revolution and individual power turned ugly and scary following 9/11 and became walled gardens and centralized control. (As another commenter pointed out, Remote opened shortly after 9/11 — we were supposed to open around 9/13, but then the world ended, and we had to push it back a bit.)

Anyway not sure I answered your question fully but hopefully got in the right neighborhood!
Indeed. I find the Amazon as a monopoly argument very curious when they are smaller than Walmart as a retailer. Walmart is a similar percentage of the regular retail market in the USA.
Same. At first I was skeptical but whereas HN, Lobsters, etc are mostly baseless opining (mine included) and hot takes, there are discords where they have more signal than the infotainment I enjoy on HN. I’m in a few where people regularly group-read research papers, help each other understand them, etc. I enjoy HN very much, and I still feel uneasy about the ephemeral format of chat, walled gardens and all that, but the content is refreshing.
It's more about quality vs sufficiency - you can have a relatively small but accurate and wide ranging dataset, this is better than an inaccurate huge dataset
I'll second that. Though I have rarely logged into it the last ten years, I used to be more active on SA before that.

Lots of people have complained about moderation there but I think it's just a case of avoid the designated spam areas, and don't post nothing.

The latter part is how the HN community tends to self-curate comments anyway.
> Then did exactly what the quote is talking about, assuming we achieve better than human intelligence.

Well, sure, because a) the article covers that b) their whole argument makes no sense if their position is that AI simply can't ever achieve better than human intelligence. If the AI is never intelligent enough to improve its own code then none of the operational complexity stuff matters!

> The question is how exactly do we go from a below human intelligence to an above human intelligence.

The same way we got to the current level of artificial intelligence; old-fashioned hard work by smart people. The point is that, if you accept that slightly-better-than-human AI would be geometrically self-improving, then by the time we have slightly-better-than-human AI it's too late to do anything.
Do those images still live on anywhere? Looks like the original viewer has since been taken down
Yeah, this is a grift.

https://www.wowtv.co.kr/NewsCenter/News/Read?articleId=A2015...

Don't want to translate because it's a waste of time but they are using some crazy buzzwords to raise money for their unlisted stock.

Gems like how they extracted some miracle material from plant matter that exhibits "Quantum Energy Living Body" and it apparently has self-healing properties and emits UVA rays (I cannot translate how ludicrous this is, this is some biosteel cyberpunk 2077 shit)
Are those failures a direct result of Amazon existing? I would venture to bet it’s one of the reasons but I would also point out that Walmart has done a lot of damage as have poor management decisions in a number of the companies you listed. Correlation is not causation.
It's a good idea, but it's not clear how to navigate it. Centralized social media is easier to participate and browse.
> But Amazon's ownership over the entire physical logistics supply chain through to last-mile delivery is just such a huge moat that keeps getting larger and larger.

You are ignoring the much bigger retailer that has owned a similarly complex and integrated logistics supply chain for decades. Walmart. And they do it with a lot more stuff.
Ironically, I remember reading an article in the SF Chronicle declaring us the best read drunks in the late '90s/early '00s. We were spending more on books and booze than anyone at the time, though that may have changed
This is the patent of the superconductor: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023027536A1/en?oq=WO202...

No company listed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869088
Tamagui Takeout bootstrap for Universal apps on iOS, Android and Web, plus a bot
I remember their podcast back about 15 years ago. It was just two dudes reading wikipedia articles aloud, with commentary.

This isn't an exaggeration.
I've always been curious about the evolutionary implications of this. Something that big in diet for that long will have evolutionary impact.

And since it's mind and behaviour-altering, I often wonder if human minds had to evolve to compensate for constant drunkenness. Are we all more obsessive and intelligent to make up for constant drunkenness making us sloppy and dumb?
I have a few trusted people I can email. If there is something outside their expertise, they will forward my message to others they trust. In exchange I try not to waste their time and never contact their associates separately.
Though historical sailors in various navies were punished if they were visibly intoxicated while on duty (off-shift was fine, of course), so either they were incredibly functional alcoholics, they were great at pacing themselves, or that booze was heavily watered down.
3 beers and a sick day seems very uncommon.3beers and going back to work sets you around the Ballmer peak[0]. 0.5L of beer will increase the alcohol to 0.05%, and drop below 0.02% in around 2h.(edit talking about standard lager/ale with 5-5.5% alcohol)

[0]: https://xkcd.com/323/
PRQL is a breath of fresh air. Reporting languages generally miss built-in visualization and drill-down capabilities. Ideal reporting query should define not only how to seek, join, and and aggregate data, but also how to visualize output and how to present details in reaction to user clicks. There are some limited efforts like in PowerBI and Splunk but we need a standard. I wonder if PRQL guys will address this need in the future.
Lots of human discourse is that way too. The LLMs just learned it from us.
https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-...

There is a word for 0.62 alcohol beer: whiskey.
Who are you to say how someone else’s film should be viewed…?
> that's not a prime consideration

I don't have a deep understanding of the law in this matter. But I have seen the sustainability of units spun off as part of merger approvals discussed in court cases. (Counterfactual: Internet Explorer not being a viable standalone business wasn't a valid defence by Microsoft.)
Can you provide some clues or hints so I can find these UK historians that make these claims?

It’s frustrating, because I’ve been told off for asking for evidence, even though I didn’t ask for evidence.

Every time I try get an answer, all the resources I find contradict the claims here. Water was the most common drink. Communities were built around wells or other water sources. The Romans built massive systems of aqueducts so they could have more water. I did a Google search and found a page full of results directly contradicting the claim that people drank beer because it was cleaner.
Reminds me of this guy who actually tried this with pressure washers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKNB3ZeTYiI
Lead-free through-hole soldering is easy and practical. Unfortunately, for SMT prototyping (including reflow soldering), lead-free work is no longer that easy. Another problem, even in through-hole devices, is when you have large metal parts - a tough problem for RF/microwave circuits full of SMA and BNC connectors, backed by 1 or even 2 layers of solid ground planes, providing excellent a heatsink and a lot of cursing during work and rework. With lead-free solder, I found the iron needs to be cranked up to 420°C for a usable experience (but a larger iron tip may reduce that to a more reasonable level), and I don't know what temperature does it take to desolder them.

The last time I checked, low-temperature bismuth-tin alloy is only available as solder paste, unfortunately not available as flux-core solder wires (they're not really a good choice for connectors to begin with as the alloy is brittle, but I only need it to survive before the next prototype...)
Keep notes on the things i really want to keep, some details and random facts that happen to trigger my memory, and a general sense of the work with most of the rest of the details faded away. Also, you know, entertainment.

No I don’t have eidetic or whatever the version of that is for audio or text. Closer to it when I was younger than I am now. I have a feeling this is something you can train with effort but not exactly sure what that effort is or if I have the motivation to try it.

To remember the most out of reading you have to engage with the material. Keep notes while reading or after, try to summarize what you have read after each session of reading or at the end of each chapter or each day. Ask questions about the material. Physically write these notes and questions down, ideally with actual pens and paper. Additionally engage with other people about what you have read vocally. Reading, writing, and speech engage different but connected pieces of your brain. Engaging with material in multiple modes reinforces memory from multiple directions as does the practice of summarizing, questioning, and discussing. Gets you into somewhat subconscious habits of paying attention to material differently.

But also, not everything is worth remembering. If I need a recording of the material i already have it on paper or an audio file, it doesn’t have to be accessible to my consciousness from my own memory when it’s just right there easily found.
Yes, the rationale is briefly described in the exposition to the question. Following recent events such as sudden API price hikes resulting in discontinuation of most 3rd party reddit clients and clumsy communication from the admins, discontent with reddit has been higher than usual recently. It has resulted in reddit alternatives such as Lemmy growing exponentially in the past 1-2 months.
We always get these drugs but in the long run show horrible side effects, I guess this article and some people are just trying to claim for their own reasons this cycle will continue, despite no good evidence for it.
Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter’s rebranding to ‘X: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/owner-of-x-twitter-handle-...
In my opinion, discord is more "active" social media than "passive". My family uses it to communicate with recent updates, but I don't find it of tremendous value for archival information.
If they wanted to disguise their content as coming from a human, they probably wouldn't keep saying "As an AI chatbot, I can't..."
This sounds very similar to Internal Systems Therapy, which you (possibly unknowingly) have roughly described quite well from my understanding.
I'll just leave this here before you continue spouting more nonsense

Harmful effects of nicotine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

I'm sure even a cursory search for caffeine will reveal some harmful side effects as well. Especially for people with certain conditions
several years ago I became an "ultra high net worth individual" (through unexpected events involving a car accident and an inept (but very large) insurance company, and with the help of my closest family members I/we decided (for legal reasons) what was to be done with my wealth in the event of my death. Deciding which family members (I have a pretty big family, if I count aunts, uncles, cousins, but only two grandparents left) to whom I would want to leave what amounts of that wealth was very surreal. Kind of felt like putting monetary values on family, which I guess in a sense it literally was.
Are you going to add a "stop" argument to the API?
for a Cucumber based testing solution back in 2013 the company I was working for had all element interaction commands go to a function that tried to identify what element it could be so you could write "I click 'home'" and that function would do

1. look in a object we had in which a bunch of DOM objects have been identified via CSS selectors of XPaths to see if there was an object named 'home' if that not exist

2. look for an element with the id home if that not exist

3. look for an element with the class home - take the first one. If that not exist

4. look for an element in which the text node was 'home'

There were a few other heuristics to determine what to do also dependent on if you said I select home, I click home, I move the mouse over home etc.
Clearly they knew from firsthand experience, as the slavers, how the slaves would be treated.
When you charge $4 a tallboy it'd better be.
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
I don't think I could physically stomach it anymore. At some point my body would just say no, I'm not drinking that.
> I would mention that there is basically zero separation between executive and legislative powers in Israel (to form the government to need to have majority in Knesset and you get to choose all the ministers).

That’s standard for the parliamentary system. Israel in that is fundamentally no different from the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greece - actually most countries in Europe (where parliamentary systems are the rule and semi-presidential systems such as France or Russia are the exception)

> Reducing the power of the only independent branch in this case is highly questionable to say the least

The UK government has done it before, many times. Most recent example I am aware of is the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which stripped from the Courts the power to review the legality of prorogations or dissolutions of Parliament. In English law, this is called an “ouster clause”, and is nothing new - historically significant examples include the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946, and the Foreign Compensation Act 1950. In the US, the same idea is called “jurisdiction-stripping”; a famous example is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
Too many HN comments nowadays are a) dumb jokes b) disinformation that it would take too much effort to correct kindly. In the old days those comments were corrected harshly and that kept the community quality high (both because it kept the discussion more accurate at first order, and because it drove away users who couldn't take their lumps). Nowadays they are not corrected at all.
Qspice Revolutionizes Power, Analog Device Circuit Simulation
I'm a huge Clojure(script) fan, re-frame is an amazing and super elegant/easy development tool. The awesome this is you can use Clojurescript and Expo together. It was one of the absolutely most pleasant development experiences I've had, especially supporting multiple mobile platforms too. I've also done Android dev and used a Ruby + iOS toolchain before, and done a lot of mobile web. Expo + Clojurescript easily brought the most delightful experience. Interacting with their team was also fantastic, very smart and responsive.
This. but slack. Morally the same space. People who understand my neologisms or malapropisms and know how to say "no, that's not an outer left join" nicely without "RTFM" getting too harsh
Thanks. The "unrevokable" part sounded fishy, but I get it now.
SpaceMonger (1997) uses treemaps and is one of the best hard disk viewing tool around.

The original I thought was best (v1.40). Sean archived and MIT'ed the source code. It's a great story from college kid to now - https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post...

.exe here - https://archive.org/details/spcmn140_zip

Treemaps (SpaceMonger) are one of the rare 2 dimensional visualization tools that actually work. Humans work better in lower dimensions. Most ~2Ds look pretty for people who can't understand the data anyway. 3D's are tools to extract VC money.
I believe the biggest envisioned possibility is superconducting power lines. Those would allow long-distance power transfer with minimal losses. In the most idealistic scenario, you could imagine a belt of solar power plants around the globe connected by superconducting power lines, providing solar power 24h a day.

Of course, there are huge hurdles to such a project even if we did have the superconducting lines, but there are more realistic similar applications that might actually work.
From the MLS protocol discussion posted elsewhere in this thread, https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/04/22/mls/

.. you have a cryptographic guarantee that everybody sees the same list of admins, sees the same list of, of non-admins and general members and whatnot.

.. The server can absolutely not inject participants because the server is not a member. So, there is this add operation, that can only be performed by an existing member. However, there is also a way for a server, or let’s say generally an outside party to suggest, uh, other members.

But that requires the outside party, you know, to have a well-defined credential and to sign that request. And then that can be honored and everybody will see that that was a suggestion from the server. And that’s a controlled way, how you can add people to a group, but you can never do that, you know, steathily.
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