skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at some of the other comments, "changing the way we live and organize society" for some people means depopulation and returning to a hunter gatherer way of living. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

I agree that we can all do better on our individual choices. But we're not going to convince billions of people to that in the next 10 years. We need to fix the problem now, and the solution is to power our current level of growth with clean energy.
Speed is not a measure of creativity but it is a critical factor in the generation of evidence.

In that respect it is beating your argument on all counts.

You don't have to provide anything. But it makes your argument weaker if you can't generate better works of creativity from the given prompt.

Let's stick to the dynamic prompt. The point is to choose a prompt that will create works that don't exist. We don't want the LLM or the artist in question copying anything that already exists. Proof of creativity requires an actual live demonstration of it.
Actually, only a small percentage of Puerto Rico's pay US federal income tax. Income earned on the island is essentially exempt unless it's from working for the US government. Here's an IRS note on the topic:

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc901

"If you're a bona fide resident of Puerto Rico during the entire tax year, you generally aren't required to file a U.S. federal income tax return..."

I'm having a hard time finding hard data, but the last number I could find, from 2010, showed the island paying $20 million total in individual federal income taxes, on a population of 3.7 million.
https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/tests/012/ashwin.tl
At first I thought that said Fuck DNS
>RPIs are out of stock because they're useful - this company found a use for them.

While I sympathize with this sentiment, it should be noted that their use case could have been most likely accomplished with something like an ESP32, which is only slightly more difficult to work with but boasts a bulk price of $1-3 a pop.

Using a Raspberry Pi 4 for this is a bit like flying a private jet to get to the grocery store.
Third person dies from meal made with poisonous wild mushrooms
Omg.... his Github contribution graph made me cry so hard right now. It was like he was fading away slowly.

You'll probably get emotional as I did if you click on this: https://github.com/brammool
CRT tvs with dvi-d and hdmi exist, where I'd imagine all those things in the mode line are still useful. I gather DisplayPort signaling is significantly different, however.
https://eth.limo/ is one attempt of several to map ENS domains to web addressable domains. Ideally all the major browsers will support ENS for domain-to-IP mapping and the issue is solved.
continuing, article claim is that 5 years of US counter-intelligence investigation of chinese nationals has resulted in many unjust dismissed investigations and chinese scientists fear being accused.
I've read that too, but the truth is that it doesn't really protect you from the real insidious effects of that level of money being dropped onto you at once.

For instance: what do you tell your friends when you suddenly move into a big house? When you retire from your job? How does it affect your motivation to pursue your interests when money is no longer a concern and never will be again?

I like to think I could manage to make it a positive thing, if that kind of money was dropped into my lap. I have a family who deserves more of my time, I have a ton of hobbies and projects I'd like to spend more time on. I have simple tastes for the most part and I think I could stay reasonably grounded. But still, it would be a big adjustment, and I can see how people have their lives ruined.

Maybe a better way to state my point: the famous lottery post is great advice for making sure your life doesn't get ruined by outside forces, but it can't help you with the internal forces of your own mind/brain/soul.
Reverse Engineering a Credit Card Featuring Dynamic CVV [video] (2020)
There's an elephant in the room, and that entails the fact that humans do not need sex or masturbation or genital stimulation to be content and live a marvelous life; they do not need intercourse or sex or nudity to have intimate friendships and fulfillment from relationships with others.

I feel like therapy could be successful, and more productive, if clients with sexual dysfunction, intimacy issues, loneliness, etc. could be led to find contentment and joy in their life circumstances, rather than attempting to fill it up with prostitution (yeah, methinks the author doth protest too much.)
Based on the integration examples, I don't think they are simply repackaging llama.cpp

Rather it looks like they are reimplementing their own quantization scheme, in such a way that it is a little easier to integrate for basic python users, at the cost of performance (compared to llama.cpp and others).

Given that the bar for integrating something with higher perf like llama.cpp isn't very high (and that's the way the world is heading -- ask any 15 year old interested in this stuff), I can't see anything of value here.
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There are degrees to this, going up to some random person and photographing their face is more egregious than photographing a friend with the random person in the background
>HN loves to simultaneously criticize Mozilla for 1...3

You summarise pretty much everything that is wrong with HN started appearing somewhere around 2013 before becoming mainstream in 2016+.

That is having zero understanding on business. Cash Flow, Revenue Generation, Sustainable business model, and market monetisation. Ironically on forum that is about startup and VC.
One of the beautiful things about vim is that they have multiple ways to skin the cat and, as such, you develop your own mode of using it.

For example to navigate within a single line you can:

- f[character] (jump to character)

- w/e (jump word by word)

- A (jump to end, navigate from there)

- / (search!)

- h/l (move left/right)

- even more ways!

What’s funny is that, theoretically, some of these movements are more “efficient”, for example jumping to a specific character is a lot faster than going character by character. However, I found that I often go character by character or searching instead of f[] just because my brain finds it easier to move that way than to think “what character is that”. I use massive jumps when finding a line; but once on that line, I use very slow movements. Now, it’s totally less efficient, but it’s how my brain/fingers navigate most naturally even after repeated attempts at to train myself to use “better” methods. Perhaps my habits will change over time, but regardless it is remarkable how “personal” vim can be.

Thank you Bram!

(Edited to fix list format)
ISDN BRI service became fairly popular during the big dialup ISP boom of the mid-to-late 90s. I worked for a tiny ISP during said boom and we would somewhat routinely (again, we were quite small; the other big local ISPs ordered 100s to 1000s of ISDN lines a year) order ISDN Centrex service - as the unlimited ISDN service offering was then called from Pacbell - for our customers. Many many ISPs sold a crapload of Ascend P50 ISDN routers. We even sold a few to some of our business customers. It worked pretty well. Once we even drove down to the Ascend offices in Alameda to get our Ascend digital modem box RMA'd.

But yes ISDN was generally quite exotic for the consumer market. Centrex service (or whatever the particular RBOC chose to call it) even moreso. It was as close as most consumers could get to "broadband" in the 90s. I used it myself at a couple places including my small apartment in Sacramento. It didn't seem too hard to get it ordered and setup. It may have helped that we knew a Pacbell tech, the dad of one of the principals at the ISP I worked at. Not sure if he helped grease the wheels but he may have. He pulled 100 pairs into an apartment where we temporarily hosted the ISP. Pretty handy guy to know back in those days and for that particular business.

Later on I've only seen ISDN in PRI form. When I later got a "real job" in an IT department PRI was commonly used for the Shoretel gear we had. I never worked on the telecom side for bigger companies though and of course almost everything went to 100% VoIP eventually.
People for whom being an important executive is at least almost as important as having as much money as they can reasonably consume.

Certainly there’s a vast range of FIRE styles and even what constitutes retirement but at some level it’s a combination of keeping score, feeling valued relative to peers (see also sports), and the industry recognition.
Justine Sacco is such a sad story, but she is doing better now thankfully. Last I heard she was rehired by the company who fired her when she made the tweet.
I had a professor in college who extolled the virtues of his unique sleep schedule - going to bed at 7 and waking up at 3am. He said he loved those few hours when everyone else was sleeping and got all his best work done during that time.
China provides many opportunities for its citizens to study abroad and expand their horizons, and the US is happy to take that money and nearly free brain labor. But when the fruits of all that training is ripe to pluck, the scale flips and now it is a fight between those two countries to retain the talents. And the US is losing badly.

Maybe China is playing it dirty and forces these scientists to come back. Or maybe it is simply that the US immigration is so hostile they don't see a future here. One of the main reasons people tried to go here is because of a chance of a better life. But when the naturalization process is so grueling and drawn out, they just don't bother anymore. Especially when China in big cities is providing pretty high standards of living to its citizens. Sure, "freedom" and "human rights" are something but frankly, those concerns are not relevant when we are talking about the upper class Han people. Stereotypes of rich Asian international students exist for a reason and that is because many of them come from rich and influential families. To these people, as long as you don't stir things up politically, they will feel safer and enjoy more rights in China than in the US.

Lots of US citizens do not understand the pain of immigration. It is in every way a demeaning and torturous process. You get treated like second class human beings and are forced to fight and prove you deserve something others were simply born with. There must be an incentive for these people to endure that kind of process. And for many Chinese whose homeland in every way a direct competitor to the US, there aren't enough reasons.
Unless I’m misunderstanding you you’ve basically just made it illegal to take holiday photos, pictures of popular landmarks, or just generally any photos outside of your house.
> "to deliberate pollution for financial again"

What do these words mean? Why would anyone do it and how can they gain something? I am suspecting greenwashing, but please clarify if possible.
The real world is the domain of empiricists. Rationalists rule online.
I agree; it's honestly easier for me now because my mastodon instance has exactly one user (me). Substantially less cluttered because there's no attempt at a recommendation algorithm.
This two gave us Facebook and taste of microplastics in every meal, so this time I don't know what else could go wrong...
Spin moved out of Pittsburgh recently (the law allowing them to operate was not renewed in the PA state legislature).

They responsibly and quickly gathered up (almost) all of the scooters in one weekend.

Maybe 0.1% of the scooters remain, likely due to the battery being dead and tracking being difficult.

So in my experience, I believe they are acting in good faith when exiting a city.
They are not mutually exclusive. A drug may be a hormone and hormones may be endogenous or exogenous. For example, oral contraceptives are drugs which are exogenous hormones.

One may think of the neuroendocrine system as the body's event system. Hormones are the event signals. Where they're emitted from doesn't particularly matter, the key is they're flowing and circulating to places and producing observable effects on any tissue with the appropriate interfaces which range from cell membrane receptors to nuclear receptors.
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I understand, but it frustrates me that your job gets to bully you into giving up your mobile devices for them to use. Depending on where you are, you may be able to make them provide a device or subsidize your bill/contract. For them to say it's a 'hard requirement' yet not provide for it.. it's like having employees pay for their safety equipment they need (which is illegal per OSHA). At the very least, if you're using your phone for work, look into tax deductions for your bills...

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/cochran-v-schwans-home-ser...

Also re: the door situation, maybe carrying around a smartphone on airplane/powered down for this? Personally I also need a few apps, so I'd keep it around for that?
The "overpopulation" people are essentially the most disingenuous concern trolls of the modern epoch. Since every problem can be expressed as a "per capita" value, its very easy to claim that less people would obviously fix whatever problem you're talking about (despite it not changing the facts on the ground: i.e. CO2 emitting power generation would continue to warm the planet whether it supplies 5 billion people or 10 billion - whether it happens now or in 100 years, mankind winds up just as screwed).

You then of course get the people who don't actually get that every generation is...well a new generation. For as many displaced and orphaned children as their are, there is not nearly enough for everyone who wants to raise a child to have one (nor any practical way to fix the logistics of that process, even before we get to biological imperatives).

And of course finally you have the reality that none of the people who ever bring this up seem to actually be aware of any of the statistics surrounding it: i.e. most western nations are at or below replacement level, so any population increase comes from migration. Birth rates are also falling in the 3rd world[1] - and this is principally attributed to success in fighting poverty, promoting women's rights and education, as well as family planning work. It turns out population management is easy - it's so easy that we've succeeded at it without even really trying.

Which leads to - as you note - the utterly shitty rhetoric everytime there's a breakthrough in reproductive healthcare. A whole little army of childless 20-year olds who feel entitled to pass judgement on people experiencing reproductive trouble, who want a child, and are going to have...you know, on average 2 children maybe because they're still accessing a high tech medical service.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-rapid-decline-of...
>when I got to about four thousand open tabs.

Thank you for putting my tab hoarding in perspective.
Are TOS even real? I can't immediately recall high profile cases that actually had to do with TOS. My impression is that TOS had disconnected from actual internal operations sometimes during past 20 years, and are now just filler texts for posthoc justification for internal code behaviors and manager ramblings.
How ironic, to propose a premise of astrobiology that is probably false, and name the pointless project after a scientist who popularized a provable and correct theory of astrophysics. Is it also ironic for me to mock them for the futility and blind faith of it all?
As I recall it Zmodem was more than nominally faster than Xmodem but in those days to squeeze even 5 to 10% speed improvement in speed on a 2400-14400 bps modem was huge.
Difficult to discern your exact point but maybe you're suggesting that it is not important because such people can just use surrogacy?

But surrogacy causes a lot of legal issues in a lot of countries, as well as necessitating trust of the surrogate mother. Not to mention issues for the surrogate mothers themselves who, as I understand it, are often treated poorly in poorer countries.

Of course, I'm sure there will be many legal issues with this alternative as well. But I don't think people will be complaining about having another option on the table.
I was born in London. When I was a kid, there were two types of pen:

- ink pens (aka fountain pens)

- biros (aka ball-point pens)
He-Man? Superman? Batman? Captain Planet… wait.
Here's some good discussion of the risks: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/how-dangerous-or-lethal-i...
You comment is better than the linked article.

Also, I think you meant allowed not aloud
It's not just the empty list being nil, but also that (car nil) -> nil.

Lisp had nil being the empty list from the beginning.

Scheme also had nil being the empty list, while it was still a project based on top of Lisp; then they fu^H^Hfchanged it.

What Lisp didn't have from the beginning was allowing (car nil) -> nil. According to Gabriel's History of Lisp HOPL paper, it was Interlisp which had this. Some sort of Great Lisp Summit event was held during which MacLisp people decided that it was a nice idea to allow (car nil) and (cdr nil). In turn, their big idea was programmable read tables, which Interlisp decided to adopt.

(cdr (assq key list)) depends on assq returning nil when the item is not found, and that being a valid value to pass to cdr. You could not make this work in Scheme if you have an assq that returns #f for "not found", unless you allow (cdr #f) -> #f. That starts to get absurd though, since #f is not related to lists.
It is incorrect American English, and correct Indian English.

If you want to sound good to Americans that you work with, don’t use that phrase. If you work with Americans who appreciate Indian English, don’t worry about it.
I hope you're right!

(I'm quite honored to get your first comment on this site after lurking for around 3 years and a half, lol)
So it's China then?
This is a remarkable article. Have seen sensor tower cited in the media for years. Always wondered how they got their data. Was cited in the FT and WSJ so figured it was legit.

It’s just….a vpn no one should install and some browser extensions? Far from the best browser extensions and a wholly biased sample to boot.

In particular the iOS app measurements are extremely limited. It seems that only Stayfree can track iOS apps, and it slows down your phone. Has no reviews in the Canadian App Store.
To shareholders (including many of us on HN, even), it's an investment of 225 million to receive profits of billions, thereby increasing the stock price for us. It makes perfect sense from that lens. If I could pay 1 dollar to turn it into 1000 dollars, I'd take that deal every time.
Standard legal boilerplate disclaimer?
It was in response to some UX considerations for a feature I wanted to patch into vim. I must have had a bad week, I was needlessly combative after an initially abrasive response from another contributor who closed my issue without consideration. Bram stepped in and finally got the conversation moving.

We couldn't come to an agreement on how to implement it in the most robust way... meanwhile over at neovim a PR was submitted and merged, and a backwards-compatible solution provided within 3 days of me filing an issue. :-)
> Isn't there a plugin to just display word count in the corner somewhere automatically?

You can add it to your statusline (or tabline, ruler) with the wordcount() function:

:let &statusline ..= ' words: %{wordcount().words}'

---

Aside: that "one-liner" doesn't "count the words in the file" at all? It just replaces all words with "1" and echos the last line number. I'm confused because this seems so wrong that I may be missing something? Unless the "67 substitutions on 5 lines" message is intended as the "word count", in which case I submit that 1) this is the ugliest thing I've ever seen, and 2) the author of this article doesn't know Vim all that well (there are so many better/easier ways to do this).
I once met a guy who cracked open scooters to take the sim card. They then had a 4G wifi router that they found an exploit to change the IMEI to match the scooter to create a wifi AP with unlimited internet not attached to their identity.
I’ve only heard of hispanic comedians using it in recent years:

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-leguizamo-latinos...

I first heard that joke in a 1990’s standup routine, fwiw. It could have been the same person telling the joke, I guess.

Anyway, it used to actually be used by white american racists; it’s been weakened to just self deprecating humor, kind of like jewish comedians like to tell jew jokes.
Separate compilation enables parallelism. This approach might save some time but also makes compilation single-threaded. I have many cores on my CPU. What are the others meant to be doing when I'm compiling?

So then what does the goal become? Splitting the codebase into 8 equally-difficult-to-compile translation units? What about someone with 6 cores, or 12? Or 32?
I hope we can relieve women of the pressure of motherhood this way. Maybe we can even develop more equitable societies where any gender can raise any children, or all genders will be expected to raise all children.

Or, worst case, only poor people will be expected to raise children at all, and raising children will become a job/career bimodally distributed to the very poor earning almost nothing raising workers to fuel capitalism and the very wealthy developing dynasties to rule over the poor with.
I wonder how far it is until transwomen could have a functional female reproductive system? This would seem to be one step closer.
Death threats trolling and sexist abuse climate scientists report online attacks
This is a weird response, it's not like it's not public information, there's nothing "impolite" about it.
The only thing that still matters are: the vertical back porch (it matters for variable refresh rate, too high and it will increase latency too much), the total vertical blank (it must be high enough to give the source to time to reconfigure itself to go to power savings mode) and horizontal blank (it must be high enough to insert HDCP information and audio samples.)

Sync polarities, sync width, horizontal front and back porch are usually ignored by monitors.
First, congratulations! Having a child is a wonderful experience. Personally, I think it's what makes life worth living.

That said, hate to be a downer, but I do want to point out some stuff:

> And I’ve never understood this

Let's just go through a few fairly obvious scenarios that can come from this:

- Once this is commercialized we no longer need women.

- Genetic diversity, thing of the past.

- DNA sequences are patented and owned by biotech at birth, you'll have to pay your loan back for life.

- Kill switch added to every human, such that if you question your authoritarian masters, they'll kill everyone with the given switch. (i.e. cloned slaves)

- Governments can castrate the entire population and control the future (think this wouldn't happen, see how mandatory abortion laws for the genetically unfit - they have quite a few in Europe, Asia, etc).

- Genocide-made-easy, wipe any population you want out and grow a new one

Let's just consider the more mundane:

- We already have children without parents. Imagine the desire for any kind of foster situation when you can just grow your own.

- Elderly parents looking to raise children (say, as you say, in your 60's) could now do so

- Government raising & caring for children...

I'm sorry, I hear the calls for improvements in this area, but... the down side risks are enormous. I personally, think it's inevitable, but I also assume all technology will be used for maximal good and evil. Unfortunately, this technology seems like it has far more evil potential.
The primary usage of public transit is 100% commuting. Malls are often used for bus hubs because they have ample parking. If you're seeing shoppers and students on the bus, then you're not riding the bus at rush hour.