skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like John and his body of work, but this and the general slew of posts with very little actual knowledge or expertise making grandiose / prophetic assertions are the soothsayings of our age - people convinced that they've cracked "it", but without any factual reasoning as to why.

They raise philosophical assertions disguised as logical / scientific assertions.

> “Better.”

> That is a concept that cannot be made via cold calculation. A universe boiled down to particles and numbers cannot care whether atoms arranged as a suffering plague victim are “better” than those arranged as a healthy child, or a plant, or a cloud of gas.

It can, John. The engineers teach machines what's good and bad. That's the first step in creating silicon intelligence.

> It is impossible to understand pain without having felt it yourself; it does not convey as an abstract value. I think the machine needs to tangibly interact with human suffering in the same way the Roomba’s wheels need to physically touch the floor.

Pain is nature's deterrence mechanism, bred into us through evolution. Deterrence mechanisms can take many shapes.

> This leads us to the ultimate cosmic joke: This task requires answering for this machine questions that we ourselves have never been able to answer. Let’s say I’m right and this system won’t exist until we can teach it emotion, and the capacity to suffer. How long until it asks the simple question, “What is our goal, long-term?” Like, as a civilization, what are we trying to do? What are hoping the superintelligence will assist us in achieving?

I hate being disingenuous and make a flippant argument here, but reading this from start to finish makes me ask a bad faith question - your assertion is that we won't have self driving cars because we can't tell the robots what to do with the whole civilisation right away? There's a whole spectrum of amazing (or terrible) possibilities between the extremes, my guy.
Sure, but science isn't a murder trial, it is entirely evidence based. Show the evidence, if there is none we'll move on and if there is you get a Nobel (in the case of superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure).

We (the rest of the world) can't prove a negative, so it is up to the claimant to supply the proof. Given proof it will be believed, no proof then it's a no-op.

With the murder trial you can assume a-priori that there is a murderer, the question then is 'who', not if a murder is possible or not. These are entirely different problems for a logic perspective.
And then your State-like adversary also gets hold of that information and you're now less secure before you had had access to it.

On a more general note, the same thing goes for a lot of centralisation efforts backed by technology ("Digitalisation", as it is called here in the EU), it's akin to building highways pointing straight from the border to your country's capital city and to your vital industries, all this while your very dangerous neighbour has a big tank army. Of course, tech-focused agencies like the CISA will never go against the process of digitalisation per se.
I don't know of a single terminal that actually gets these ZWJ emoji sequences right. There are several terminals who will render them, but I haven't seen any actually get the width calculations correct. (E.g., https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3810.) Part of the problem is that it really messes up the idea of a rectangular grid of base characters in memory, so you'll need some sort of indirection. Obviously I haven't tested all terminal emulators in existence, though :-)

I patched a similar bug in screen earlier this year (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039503), which indicates the kind of stuff you have to go through.
and apple.com
It's still very up-in-the-air since the EU-wide regulation should be uniform. I hope the pendulum eventually stops in a way more privacy friendly place than those recent french ones. Yes it would be a pretty harsh stroke for the business model of some companies (social media, for example) but the alternative seems much worse.
To me the line "blazingly fast" has become synonymous to ThePrimeagen's videos about face closeups while throwing at us the aforementioned line lol!

Apart from the joke, in my personal opinion speed should be a major factor if not the same objective combined with code safety wherever plausible and applicable.

The reason is lower CPU usage equals less energy consumption, which means less pollution AND less energy expenses for hosting companies and home users.
Hehe. Nice one.
Microsoft Terminal is actually pretty good. I was surprised when I configured git bash as my main shell there and when opening it via right-click in Explorer, it correctly translated the path and opened the shell in the correct folder.
If they were speaking of all, sure. Not all companies do poorly, though: Water treatment is often enough government owned, and we could do a lot of basic services in the same thing. We could do better on these, for example: Not billing residential customers for things like water, electricity, internet, and mass transit through taxes to ease the burden on poorer folks.

They aren't talking about anything like this. The companies can avoid turning over equity by not getting fined. I don't think this is quite the right approach, but I do think we should consider other options. For example, getting fined means that stockholders can't get payouts and execs couldn't get bonuses or anything outside of their base monetary salary. These sorts of things make it harder to just write off a fine as "cost of business" even if the fine itself is low.
I think you missed the GPs subtle point.
But what is really good and bad? We’re imprinting this into the machines but we don’t always have a grasp on this ourselves.

Was the use nuclear weapons at the end of WW2 good or bad ? For example …
Kitty has the wrong width: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3810

It doesn't immediately overwrite the emoji with the next character, but the cursor position is off, which leads to wrapping problems down the line.
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> Let’s build on Android instead of starting from scratch.

Wake me up when any phone like this will run mainline Linux.
Just having a server to back up your data using syncthing?
You can install steam os and have some couch gaming experience too..
>The point being that the BBC and other countries only use the term after qualifying that they specifically mean the USofA or other parts of the Americas.

That is the opposite of what actually happens. Outside of the USA, when people on the street refer to "America" with no prefix of "North-"/"South-"/"Central-", they're talking about the USA without even qualifying that they're equating "no-prefix-America" = "USA". That's just what most non-Americans do. If you go to India and ask a random stranger, "Would you like to visit America?", it's already assumed that the question is about the USA.

>Who says that though?

People living in Hawaii naturally say that. In Hawaii, it's natural in casual conversation to say "living in America" rather than "living in the USA". Example of "As Hawaii residents, we have both the privilege of living in America, with all the perks of not actually living in the continental states." -- from:
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/privileges-hi/
You can do your own long-life bulb - get a incandescent and a dimmer and run your bulb at a lower voltage. It'll be dimmer, but it'll last longer.
The cost of automatic memory management is latency and increased memory usage. In a soft real-time system like a game, the garbage collector may cause lag spikes so you miss the head-shot on your opponent. You also require at least 50% more memory for efficient automatic memory management. Throughput, however, is not one of the costs. You can in fact achieve higher throughput with automatic memory management than with manual memory management.
So much extra to get it working (like a proper laptop). Did you buy it or just for work?
Unicode is only curating the clip-art collection, inventing brand-new entries is left to interested third parties.

So a closer analogy would be the Oxford English Dictionary adding newly-coined words, which—of course—they do https://www.oed.com/discover/the-oed-september-2021-update/ in addition to expanding coverage of older words (analogous to the Unicode Consortium working on historical scripts).

NB if you don't like multi-color emoji, you can also use a monochrome font for them.
If it is a fluke or not doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is whether or not it is real, not how it was made. If it is real then we can expend a fortune on the 'how it was made' question, if it isn't real we can all descend from this holding pattern.
Whilst I agree that the flood of AI generated crap is frustrating...I kinda see it as people finding their feet with a new technology.

As with all previous technological jumps we've got people that hate it and dont see the point in it.

I wasn't there when the microwave was unleashed on the world, but I'd imagine a lot of chefs thought it was the fucking rapture. Fast forward to today and even top chefs use a microwave occasionally.

I suspect the same will occur with AI. Hated by pros right now because every man and dog is now able to do things they couldn't before...eventually though AI will probably become a crucial part of a writers toolkit and along with their existing talent, they will ultimately create better content for people to consume, while the garbage generating will slow down as the cream rises to the top again....some writers will staunchly be against AI forever, some writers will appear that otherwise would never have been writers if not for AI...and the rest will adapt.
> getting fined means that stockholders can't get payouts and execs couldn't get bonuses or anything outside of their base monetary salary

Norway can do this to the Norwegian entity. It has no jurisdiction over the global company.
Autogenerating Rust-JS Bindings with UniFFI
I don't think it's up to you to decide if Meta is useless to society (which society? There are many). If it vanished it would be a huge problem for many societies. That implies it's not useless.
This has also been my experience when I saw unreliable ZKs; they're sharing the OS, ZK, and maybe even some other services on the same disk, and sometimes they're even running software RAID or something on top of that.

I don't think teams who can't run ZK will have much luck running other distributed systems. (Maybe KRaft, if they're Kafka experts.) Most of the alternatives proposed here have been "let someone else run the hard part." (Which isn't a bad choice, but it's not technically a solution.)
> How do you propose that Unicode include glyph innovations that are digital-first?

Why does Unicode specifically need to include novel "innovations"?

It's arguably failure of the community that we have not been able to standardize interoperable higher level rich text formats, so now everything and kitchen sink needs to be bolted on Unicode instead in the name of interop.
An interesting thought experiment.

I aver the negative, on the grounds that, even for humans, recognising emotional states well enough to engage with other humans is independent of empathising with them. Narcissistic personality disorder[0] appears to be an example of the former without the latter, while ASD[0] appears to be an example of the latter without the former.

[0] judging by the popular descriptions, I'm not qualified in this field
I worked at these places. This is pocket money. Cost of doing business.
Does any intelligent life exist on earth which doesn't hold a formative black-and-white answer to that question?
> (How do you scribble "family of three: mom, father, daughter" without any emojis?)

Why you need to?

We dealt without hieroglyphs just fine in communication.
Yep, it was a cylinder, here is a naked picture:

https://www.varaosahaku.fi/image/900/a/85/d62c83/path/mnt/ne...
From my experience the kid can have more understanding of what is going on than the parents, and they may not realize the risk.
Moreover, it is not just a "tool", but "tools". In addition to the data browser that you are talking about here, there is also the "subsetter" (for extracting consistent subsets of a database). And for sure this tool is unique.
Should read "People Are Ruining The ̶I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ World By Using AI To Try To Harvest Passive Income Instead Of Getting A Fucking Job."

Time to start persecuting the lazy again, you ask me.
> the corporate nuke as a tool is available in most jurisdictions

“Corporate nuke” is a corporate lobbyist’s term for distracting from massive fines. Barring expropriation, once you ask what happens to the nuked assets, corporate death penalties all come down to massive fines with extra steps. If you want to “nuke” a corporation, revoke its licenses (not applicable here) or levy a massive fine.
Yeah I agree. I think it’s certainly entertaining, but my faith in the standard practice of science isn’t threatened by the social media / rapid experimentation. I’ve seen a lot of hyperbole about how this will replace methodical science and other malarkey and if it had been a slam dunk simple thing they would be crowing incessantly. But as these things are, it isn’t simple or obvious, and it require a meticulous process that can’t be easily supplanted by nitter feeds.
Do you have stats on that? I would imagine if you swapped it out with linux or BSD they would have something to say about why all their apps aren't available. It's a choice.

A modem's application is the one thing it does and the interface is an abstraction layer standardised enough that the modem could be replaced in a shoe closet without anyone even noticing.
But wanting something is not limited to wanting physical things, consuming things. You might want to get better at a sport, to learn how to make pottery, want to express yourself through art, so on and so forth.

It's not weird to not want to purchase things, it's actually pretty liberating, but it's extremely unlikely that you do not have any "wants" as in things you'd like to do or achieve.

Not sure if I interpreted your comment correctly, to me it really sounded very narrowly focused on wanting "things" (as in physical products) which I don't think is the point.
This is one of those sites that I simply loved. And it is also very much the way I think the web should work.
Show HN: Knit – A Better LLM Playground
Knit was created to solve pains of other LLM playgrounds.

Some of the highlights:

- Smart prompt builder, create prompt with simple requirement and few shot learning, fast and effortlessly.

- Function call simulation, visualize the function callings and you can also setup a mocked value to return.

- Support OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure models.

- Manage prompts with projects and members.

- And so much more!

I have been developing Knit by myself for over 4 months now, and am looking for ways to improve it. Any feedback is appreciated.
Are there some well defined Unicode subsets, e.g. one without Emoji? (I'm only vaguely aware of XML specifying "Unicode without control characters" in the beginning).
The use cases are right there in the first section. You're being a dick to the authors just because you don't understand why this is useful. Please take a moment and chill.
Any support for remote server connections via SSH? My RDBMS instance is not exposed publicly, and is only accessible over SSH.
Is it windows or is it golang making the difference there? Golang's implementation of wcwidth is different, and a commonly used lib has an 'emoji' table which covers that bomb (1F4A3)

https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth/blob/master/runewidth_...

The family emoji looks to have the wrong width, but it does resemble the behaviour supposed to be fixed by https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth/pull/63 (see https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth/issues/59 - like the flag example, that's multiple emojis with zwj right?)
Yes, it would have to decide what to do for every previous command. Still less complicated than git rebase -i.

edit: there's even prior art. Sapling has undo: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/overview/undo/ and is GPLv2 licensed. Just look at what Sapling does.
Ask HN: What was the last HN submission you favorited before Covid shutdowns?
“Covid Shutdown” date is largely subjective, and I personally demarcate March 15, 2020 as being pre-Covid.
I think whether something is painful or not depends on the perspective. Humans can voluntarily suffer lots of pain for a good cause. And vice versa, small things can be extremely painful if we don't understand them. (Edit: In particular, to some people, even prospect of loss of their own property is more painful than death of other people.)

So it comes down to your expectations. In reinforcement learning, this is very clear - bad predictions of your future actions lead to negative reward, i.e. pain. We could almost say pain depends on your expectations of reality (however the expectations are not always consciously expressed).

So you can torture a human, because our nerves have learned (have the expectation) of not being in pain as a normal state. If they could learn more (like RL agent), they would eventually learn that the pain is just nature of the world, and ignore it.

Similarly, Data can ignore pain of his missing hand because he trusts the Enterprise crew to put it back. If they didn't and betray him, or if he hurt his arm so badly it couldn't be replaced, then I think, on some level, he would feel pain. (Edit: Data mourned death of Tasha Yar, this can be interpreted as pain.)
Homebrew is a horrible thing for user who is not familiar with ruby syntax. Community do not have any user friendly how-to guides for developing new Formulae as well as weird tests like to long description or to long line.

For example I have a mono repository which contain Makefile and can produce one or six different executable tools. Four of these six tools are CLI utilities but the other three should work as a service. The problem I have encountered is the lack of documentation or an example of how to write auto-tests for daemons and for utilities in one formula because some of them require a working database from another Formula or in the root of the system. That is, it is very difficult to write such auto-tests, which would check workability, and really it was possible to run them when building the formula.

Yes, the workaround is to make own repository with Homebrew Tap but better to have it in main repository when users could setup software without any additional action.
I'm having a hard time understanding these ethical questions about things that we haven't proven we can build and I'm very skeptical about the "Soon" part. It all seems like trying to build an air traffic control model in the 1800s back when we only had dreams about flying.

Even in Asimov's SF novels humanity iterates through several models by ways of trial and error over hundreds/thousands of years before arriving at somewhat stable laws.
The Unicode Consortium's stated direction is that they want protocols to support stickers (arbitrary images) instead of emoji. But protocols don't seem to be doing that, so…
I didn't say that people who don't want to use their data for ad targeting are free riders, but they do become so when Meta is compelled to provide them services even if it is at a loss. It is literally definitionally free ridership.
I agree, but in some way I do not believe that this is a bad thing.

The more people realize that the internet isn't "real" or "social", the more they will be pushed to find an alternative.

There is no need to save or kill the web. Let it evolve.
> I worked at these places. This is pocket money.

Then you weren’t in a budgeting role. Multiple heads in Facebook’s Norwegian office will be on the line if they lose a double-digit fraction of profits. If you want headlines, go big and risk losing in court. If you want results, be smarter.

The way Oslo is playing it, this looks smart. They’re keeping it local to avoid jurisdictional challenges. And instead of a Vestager-Khan populist swing for the fences that entrenches both sides in litigation for years, it gives Meta a reasonable opening to actually change its behaviour in the short run.
> How do you scribble "family of three: mom, father, daughter" without any emojis

You don't. You use text.
In my ideal world, people would have a standard library of SVG emoji on their phones, they can send them around, but they can also save the emojis others use to their own library. Of course, artists can add new SVG emoji and send them around.

This way, we get an evolving library of emoji, just like how languages evolve. Unicode is stiffling this evolution.
Greta Christina has an excellent article about why "Socially liberal, fiscally conservative" is mostly nonsense. Fiscally conservative means socially conservative in almost every way that actually matters.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/here-are-7-things-people-wh...
Amazon's identification is a train wreck. Most books have links on the page to what is, by Amazon's description, the kindle version of the same book.

Quite often, that link goes to the kindle version of an unrelated book.
Copyrights only generally only start getting entertained if money is being made from it. It might be copyright infringement to post brand logo to a forum but it wouldn't be pursued. Make that forum the forums icon and start generating advertising revenue based on that icon and you'll start getting cease and desist letters.
Detroit auto had their own undoing. Protecting them vs. allowing cheaper and better Japanese cars would be terrible for the average American.

Germany auto handled global trade just fine.
Opportunistic, and morally equivalant to the destruction of the other 72 Japanese cities, and the bombing of European cities by both the Allies and the Axis.

Good v. Bad seems a tad simplistic.
Interestingly noclip (as in Danny O’Dwyer) have their own video game archiving project going on, where they’re preserving and uploading old clips to https://archive.org/details/noclip?tab=collection
I'll just add that every single time it appears, I'm reminded Google actively wants to take and own every single part of my life. Instead of a handy convenience thing like they intend, I just hate the brand more and more. `googleHate++` every time I see it.
My last trip to Kenya I got stopped by the police at the airport for a bribe for some stupid made up stuff. I expect this is mostly a shake down for bribe money.

I'm also a happy WorldCoin user. I think a lot of people who want it shut down are kind of miseries that don't like seeing other stuff being successful.
Yeah I knew there were some high-profile Finnish cases, the Nokia guy in particular. [1] I did some cursory looking before I posted to because I thought Norway had it too, looks like they have wealth/income based fines for drunk driving, not speeding. [2]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/norwegian-heir...
There are many languages that have multi-width symbols, it's not only emojis.
> There's no reason they can't be sold off again.

Of course there is: who would buy shares that can be stolen by the state?

This is why moralisers shouldn't design systems: they miss even the most glaringly obvious consequences of their OTT punishments.