skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the war in Ukraine advance US interests? The US helped provoke Putin's invasion of Ukraine, by trying to get Ukraine to join NATO. How is it in the best interests of the US to instigate a war against Russia?

Back in 1962, the Soviets put missiles in Cuba, infringing the US sphere of influence. The US retaliated with a blockade.

Moving NATO to the doorstep of Russia is analogous. Not surprisingly, the Russians retaliated with force.

Of course Putin is a corrupt thug, but you don't go poking a bear with a stick and then complain when he slashes you with his claws.
Privacy is about being in control of what information about you is made available and to whom. Identification is relevant by implication, not by definition.

You might insist that people knock before entering your room to respect your privacy. No identification is relevant here; your housemates know who and where you are already.

Someone might ask you what you did this weekend, and you might not want to reveal that you spent the weekend on a hobby you're embarrassed or sensitive about. Maybe you spent the weekend writing your novel, but you aren't ready for people to know about it yet. If you tell a white lie that you spent the weekend camping, you're doing so to preserve your privacy. Again, no identification is relevant here.

If something can be linked back to you, then you lose control of the information and your privacy is compromised. But that's an implication of the definition, not the definition itself.
You really need to stop doing this.
It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021)
I can only conclude this is unscientific or I am an outlier as social media made me quite unhappy, and walking away from it has helped me a lot.
Yeah, many people approach loneliness with different motives, and the one we are trying to promote on this platform is genuine connection. Sure, it could develop into a friendship or a romantic relationship, but we think it should start from authenticity. Too many apps focus on superficial qualities, and the world does not need another one!

We did our job of putting this out there. We hope people from different pockets in the world who feel the same come and join us. If it does not turn out well, I think the journey was well worth it.
Hello, the app creator here

> it hints at a latent desire for computing closer to how I enjoy it ;)

Agreed, same here!!

If you like this, you might also like my solitaire clone for the terminal: https://github.com/eliasdorneles/usolitaire =)
The flaw in every voting system [video]
A Simple Breakdown of Amazon ECS Pricing
> Why would you build something to throw away before it ships?

That's because you learn things along the way. About underspecified requirements, about design choices that looked good on paper but ended up brittle, about tech that promised something but couldn't hold up to it when tested out thoroughly. There are many reasons and in every field you see this effect.

> Hire good people and they won't build un-shippable crap

Ever heard of a prototype? Those exist for a reason.
How to look at product development [video]
I haven't my used Zig much, but I suspect that in practice Zig is much safer, even if only because it's more expressive.
In CH the first 62.- is free and after that you pay VAT. Which also means that for 5.- VAT they add a racket fee of 20—30.- on top for their efforts.
How is BC or the gender relevant?
We’ve had AGI since 2017. I find it very hard to take AI predictions seriously unless this fact is acknowledged.
Not everyone can do these things. Some people can't afford to start a hobby or go out. Some don't have the time or space. Or mental energy required to go out and be perceived by others. Others may have disabilities that the public doesn't bother accommodating for.

Apps like these offer ways to cope for the time being. There are millions of people treading water and the old coping mechanisms aren't working anymore.
Perfect example of what’s wrong with AI - unless you command massive trust, this is worse than asking a random stranger on reddit. There’s no explanations (you get that on reddit/lemmy).

Many startups will find a rude awakening about how much the vast majority of consumers hate and fear AI at this point when they roll out “trust his AI” bots.
A type system associates types to terms in a language; I wouldn't call it "syntactic" although I'm not sure what exactly you mena by that.

The system you're describing sounds rather unlike a type system, but in any case it's certainly not what a given lisp implementation is using at compile time, which was the original context of this dicussion. The thing that is being used at compile time in the original comment is almost certainly a type system (because at compile time one has the expression tree, especially in a lisp, and one needs information that there is no other reasonable way of determining); having a quite different thing called a "type system" only adds to the programmer's confusion when trying to understand what the thing that is being done at compile time does and doesn't guarantee.
Curious if this can be a wedge to challenge the concept of at-will firings for non-app workers. European-style work councils in our far future?
I haven't seen it applied out of the context in which Doctorow has used it... but I have only seen it on Hacker News.
For taxes there are apps that calculate it for you and if you use a platform like Coinbase it has some tax functionality built-in.

The transfer itself is very simple. You put in the target address, calculate the amount and submit. The awesome thing here is that it is much, much faster than any international bank transfer. With Ethereum you are looking at minutes and Bitcoin should still be under two hours.

Of course this assumes that both parties already have wallets set up and have a way to get money in and out. Everyone I've interacted with already had wallets and were also eager to keep it in crypto which made everything even simpler. Using this to send money to my parents would be a complete nightmare though. On the other hand, setting up a Coinbase account while screen sharing might work and be ok if they pull the money out anyways...
I have this. But every time I go on holiday (like, proper leave the city holiday) it goes away immediately.

I believe it's stress related for me. Meditation and sleep hygiene works, but nothing else so far. YMMV, good luck.
Never root for Getty. What an evil company.

Many years ago, we licensed some pics from a small studio. Getty bought them. Claimed the pics were unlicensed (they apparently didn't keep the records of the studio), refused to believe our receipts, and threatened to sue us. Our lawyer said that the costs of defense would exceed the amount they wanted, so we should just pay.

Turns out we were an early victim in a major campaign throughout Europe. They never took anyone to court - just blackmailed a lot of little companies for what they could get.

Evil.
When this happens too many times though you’re flagged as a criminal and amazon will never ever refund anything ever again.

Ask me how I know, I lost over 400 EUR this way through no fault of my own and got stuck in an identical and irrelevant copy/paste CS email loop.
I appreciate your thoughtful input! I agree, if we EVER make an iota of data about the users, that should be included in the terms and conditions of the app. The way we put the app out there to the users right now is with the understanding that we will not make any data, so we will uphold that.

Regarding law enforcement: I think that could be a good idea. Have the data permanently deleted after a period of time and/or ensure backups are deleted completely. Thank you for your feedback!
Whenever I see like this, I ask, "have you ever worked on a team? Have you ever worked code without anyone who originally wrote it being around?"

Dynamic typing only works small / solo projects and those that love to be obscure for fun.

The things they want to do are...largely ill-advised. Because the problem they talk is about is less static typing, but structural vs normal (or transparent vs abstract) types. You can't "reverse an Automobile" for good reason!

It is good they are aware of dependent types, but

> Additionally, Idris features computational effects, elaborator reflection, coinductive data types, and many-many stuff for theorem proving. With

This is attacking a strawman. Yes, Idris is a kitchen sink. But they also don't need any of those features. They could have used Agda for the example, and Agda is quite a small language!

And still, I return to the stuff at the top. Reflection, breaking parametricity, etc. are all banned for good reason -- their midwit meme is off it is Zig etc. which are the midwits. Monotonicity (e.g. with traits) and parametricity are important metatheoretic properties for reasoning about code.

Bottom line is this person wants to do things I would reject in code review regardless of the language.
This special casing just had not been implemented yet. But as it is an interesting optimization, more so with multi-interpreter or no-GIL Python, the developers will actually introduce immortal objects in Python 3.12 to avoid counting references on some objects (PEP 683 has been accepted):

https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/
Teams doesn’t even implement scrolling backwards through message history correctly - it’s like some kind of janky game of precise mouse control to see if you can get it to stay still on the message you’re interested in.
The problem with monads is that they’re a term from abstract algebra. Haskell’s documentation talks about them from that perspective (including monad laws), which makes them quite natural for anyone who’s studied some abstract algebra in university.

Unfortunately, most programmers trying to learn Haskell have not taken any abstract algebra courses, so these definitions and laws are deemed insufficient. Regular people want to know the exact nature of a thing — not just a list of mathematical properties that hold — and so they insist that there must be something more. But there’s nothing there!
Most tech workers wouldn’t last a day as a driver, let alone the years in the warehouse before you get a chance to drive.
Still waiting for the two I've ordered, not yet progress on shipping :-(
Just re-sell the products on Craigslist?
Fair use is basically the whole defense.
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
I am not sure if going with limited messages is the right idea. I do want to make this platform available to people to form meaningful connections regardless of their wallet.

I think having voice alteration as a premium feature so that it is not abuse-able but accessible to people who are willing to pay for it for the extra layer of privacy, could be a net boon for the network. Still food for thought :)
Hopefully they'll get artificial penalty for gaming the system.
Do you drink filtered or unfiltered coffee? Unfiltered coffee is known to raise cholesterol because it contains high levels of cafestol.
Memory bandwidth for unbatched decoder-only autoregressive inference should be the only bottleneck. The listed numbers imply you're only saturating about 500 GB/sec, ignoring KV cache traffic. Implies there's still quite a bit of inference performance left to squeeze out of the 960 GB/s spec.
The idea that Putin needed to be provoked and acted out of self defense is tankie fan fiction. They ran out of stuff to give their elites after the annexation of Crimea and needed more.

Russia is not the USSR, Ukraine is not part of an aligned block (however forced) but a separate country.

Stop making the equivalent excuse of “she was wearing skimpy clothes and provoking me”, a rapist is a rapist and a war criminal is a war criminal.
It's used in one of the fastest sorting approaches - counting sort / binning - to compute the location of where to store the sorted/binned items. First you count the number of items per bin, then you use prefix-sums to compute the memory location of each bin, then you insert the items into the respective bins. Some radix-sort implementations also utilize counting sort under the hood, and therefore prefix-sums. (Not sure if all radix-sort implementations need it)
A program's (effective) log messages can have many sources
Let's say we get AGI that costs billions to run, can't do some simple things well, don't have good cheap robots to use, but discovers a way to lengthen the human life significantly and cure most illnesses. Pretty transformative if you ask me.
He has very specific questions and theses he wants to get through with each person. You’ll certainly love it or hate it.

I enjoy that he often ventures outside of the common questions you would expect. Usually if you’ve heard someone on one podcast, you’ve heard them on all of them
I'm not completely convinced about the free discs argument.

I grew up in a modest family, small village (3k people), 14k modem, and yet every (all the two of them) newsstand had at least two biweekly Linux magazines. They cost something like 5€ (or whatever currency we had at the time) and they always had either 2 linux installer cd or one installer and one cd with some cool software to try.

And they had serious quality articles too. I still remember one where they described in detail how they built a DIY magnetic tunneling microscope and used it to recover some data from an hard drive.

By the time Ubuntu free cds came out I already had a big collection of Linux installers, none of them downloaded on my own.

Agreed about the rest. They've always been poisonous towards upstreams and probably contributed to set back the famous year of the Linux Desktop by diluting the efforts in dead-end projects instead of working with upstream towards a common goal.
It was discussed a couple of weeks ago on HN that if Apple released a Siri+ with ChatGPT capabilities, that had access to your calendar, contacts, iCloud, photos, phone data etc but still maintained "some kind of privacy" (ideally running locally) with your data, it would be a killer product.
I had not realized that PG and his family moved to England.

I also recently moved from California to England, so would be fascinated to learn more about the genesis of PG's move. (As an aside: I sometimes hear my kids late at night trying to convince their friends back in California to ask their parents to move here. Anecdotally it does feel like many families are considering it. Of course I have an availability bias here.)

Does anyone know of any essays or interviews where PG discusses his decision to emigrate?
I don’t know if I’d want to anger an angry thug, who knows where I live, and who already almost beat me up when I waited for him the last time around.
>Storing and indexing and maintaining old content isn't free, in either dollars or environmental footprint.

It's pretty close to free.
I don't remember it like that. I think even php2 had support for more databases. One I am sure it supported was mSQL. I think they always had ms sql and oracle too. They were after all always very quick to provide bindings for anything with a C library. One of the reasons for php syntax being all over the place is because they tried to keep the C semantics for any given library.

Perhaps what you are remembering is a particular OS or installer's packaging.
What Will the World Look Like with Less Babies?
Oxford confers an honorary MA to any bachelor's graduate who applies. No extra work or exam is required.

https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/oxford-ma-0

The only question is whether Emad applied and was awarded the MA.
Very well said! That has been a lot of what I heard from talking to the users on the platform. Many people struggle going to venues to meet people because of their anxiety, geographical location, disabilities, and time, to list a few.

Many people suffer in the dark. I hope Bubblic can be some sturdy straws for them to grab on to re-shore themselves.
Heavily disagree. The tone has the same charm as Kingdom of Loathing.
One could view it as an excellent alternative to or first draft of a more dry/academic text if the author chose to reiterate.
> That said, is it as convenient to write certain classes of applications in haskell?

Certain classes, of course. GPUs, high-performance computing, compile-to-javascript, GUIs- Haskell isn't terrible but there are better alternatives.

But usually what people mean when they go on about how Haskell is "mathematical" and "not pragmatic" is that it's worse than C/Java/Python for ordinary general purpose programming: CRUD, web backends, command line tools, etc. And this simply isn't true.
No it is not, IMO. These devices are only ever usefull if you have unencrypted connections, with peripherals with static addresses. Add either random addresses or encryption and you won't have any success while debugging. So this tools are not usefull for 99% of peripherals you see around.
These cheap tools can only operate on 1 frequency at a time. BLE Advertisments are done one 3 channels (37,38,39), you have to listen to all of them to get the init of the connection. With this cheap devices you have 66% you miss some parts of this and thus fail to follow the connection and encryption on the remaining 36 channel (BLE does dynamic channel hopping, the channel list is exchanged within the connection).
Plus with only 1 channel, it will sooner or later fail to follow the connection and this is usually just before you could repro the issue at hand.

Believe me if you want to do anything serious you have to invest some money. Up to BLE 4.2 i would suggest https://fte.com/products/bpalowenergy.aspx which comes around 1000€. There is so no follow up for 5.0 (which more and more devices have now) so I have no suggestion there (unless you want to invest 10.000+++)
I'd read a blog post about that!
Limited potions can be reproduced In the derived work you are distributing. Summaries and statistics of the work are almost certainly fair use.
Isn’t he a MIT professor? That seems like an awfully high bar
Seems pretty good so far. Is the source code for this open-source? Verifying what data the app collects from me gives me a sort of peace of mind.

Best of luck on your app!
Is the fact that CNET deleting old articles improving its Google Search ranking? I'd say so, it's all over the news now.
To be fair, the old internet wasn't killed. It just passed away. The curious voices that were prevalent back then are buried now.
Types and the Zig Programming Language
Love how you talk about the "free market" here, but also insist that certain types of employment should be illegal. (As an aside: we don't have a free market. Such a thing doesn't actually exist in the real world.)

I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Certainly there's some legal regime where workers can continue to enjoy the kind of work time flexibility they have with gig work, while also being compensated and treated fairly.
Hey, this is a great idea!
I’ve found myself using dating apps for this kind of purpose and I think this could be a better approach, especially from the support side. (I’ve had a few instances where being supportive but not wanting a romantic relationship with that person to be really frustrating for that person (which is understandable given the context of a dating app))

A feature that would be great here though is to have realtime conversations, I think you can connect a lot more when it’s realtime. Also supporting text replies could be really helpful.

Anyway, love what you’re building here and hope it goes well!
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Yes, it would be possible to add data capture and in fact there are many devices that have that as well ass additional capabilities.
Lex is Rogans little brother who’s into Dostoyevsky and existentialism and computers instead of comedy, MMA and psychedelics
The catch with those enticing monthly offers (versus selling the extension) is that you are taking the risk to get your extension taken down, while the offerors can at any time switch to another partner/victim.

Blog post from an ex-Chrome extension DevRel: https://dotproto.com/2023/06/06/a-warning-about.html
And considering all the AI hype, one could have hoped that the leading search engine crawler would be able to "smartly" detect new contents based on a url containing a timestamp.

Apparently not if this SEO trick is really a thing...

EDIT : sorry my bad it's actually the opposite. One could expect that a site like CNET would include a timestamp and a unique ID in their URL in 2023. This seems to be the "unpermalink" of a recent cnet article.

Maybe the SEO expert could have started there...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-5-rev...
> Leave out ... covariance, contravariance

This means giving up on first-class functions.
We've done a ton of education on Tiktok as doctors without any patients: https://www.tiktok.com/@wyndlyteam

company: https://www.wyndly.com/
i guess for the next order, it has to be a completely new set of addresses?
Did your extension go through the normal vetting process or the extended review necessary to become a recommended extension?
I'm afraid that, as so often with any topic, the vast majority of users never or rarely uses the time filter and so everything gets optimized for the users to dumb to search properly.
I don't think there's a point in law that makes ML models more of a violation than thumbnails are. For one thing, they're a lot more transformative, so thumbnails actually seem worse here.

That's US law, of course. EU law (which Stable Diffusion 1.x was created under) simply explicitly says ML model training is legal for research purposes, so the question is more about providing it as a service.
You have seen his essay addressing that?
"What I Worked On",
http://paulgraham.com/worked.html
Show HN: Englishell – Plain english shell command executor, powered by ChatGPT
There are easy and there are hard unix shell commands to remember, nobody knows them all.
Why not use ChatGPT to translate plain english instructions into executable shell commands.

Here are a few examples how `englishell` CLI can be used:

$ englishell kill the process that listens to port 8080
->
lsof -i :8080 | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 1 | xargs kill -9

$ englishell print current git branch
->
git branch --show-current

$ englishell show the sizes of all folders in parent of the current directory
->
du -sh ../*

$ englishell how long the system has been running
->
uptime

$ englishell generate strong password
->
openssl rand -base64 14
I read and loved that book however nowadays I highly recommend playing the game “Turing Complete” instead.

It does a fantastic job taking you from nand gates all the way to function calls but in a delightfully interactive way. Instead of just imagining how it all must work in ur head as u read, u get to build it.

I went so far as to build a little simd/gpu that drives an led matrix with my own cpu assembly and programmable shader language.
Braille Is Alive, Well, and Ever-Evolving, yet still can't see.
We are building a semantic search platform if that's cool for you: https://matrix.to/#/!xMVJxEwSuqdUwCrAAA:matrix.zerodao.gg

Rossman repair: https://matrix.to/#/!XoWpYPxjykSaCPYIfO:matrix.org

WebGPU: https://matrix.to/#/!MFogdGJfnZLrDmgkBN:matrix.org

Endeavor OS:https://app.element.io/#/room/#endeavouros-space:matrix.org
I think the GP was talking about liberty with regard to the worker, that they are free to take (or refuse) any jobs they want.

Of course, the inherent power imbalance between an employer and a worker is what allows for exploitation, when not otherwise protected by law.
Is anyone using Jekyll these days?
Justapedia, a Wikipedia alternative and aspiring replacement, has gone public
No, my understanding is that the problems are

1. Connecting probes to samples the size of a grain of sand

2. Superconducts can only superconduct a finite amount of current. So if you use a bunch of current, you may go past this material's max. And if you use a smaller amount, the limiting factor is the accuracy of your equipment
I suppose I don't know which countries are more or less alienated from their extended families, but the US is surely more than averagely sprawled since it's so large and so suburbanized.