skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smalltalk.

Which was hardly experimental in 1996, with IBM VisualAge series of IDEs being written in it, and being the ".NET" of OS/2.

There is a reason why hotspot and most early IDEs trace back to Smalltalk environments, frameworks and culture.
Solid advice.

The Internet has turned into quite a dystopian realm.

Surreal, when you think about what we all imagined it would be.
This is the most informative comment in the thread.
Thanks!
Hi, remilouf. You say that your background is in "probabilistic, relational and symbolic programming". In that case I suspect you understand that it is no problem to generate text from a regular or context-free grammar, or really any level of grammar. For example, you can do that very easily in Prolog (a relational language) given a grammar in Definite Clause Grammars notation.

As far as I can tell your approach requires a grammar to be given by a user. In that case, what is the advantage of using an LLM to generate text? Why can't you just run your grammar as a generator and generate the text you want? That would save you the considerable trouble and cost of training an LLM in the first place. And why would you need an LLM, a model of natural language, if all you want is to generate structured text, anyway?
Is there a chance of getting a copy of the crop/plant database? I am working on a little app for home use, but finding organized data or apis has been hard.
Time travel? And I'm hit this problem today only, so you are jumping to conclusions. Anyway how does it justifies the fact that Google is able to prevent me from accessing the content based on setup of MY SOFTWARE ON MY HARDWARE?
That is how I've been saying it.

I think usually where X is used as the initial latter the pronunciation is more like zh or zj than sh, but close enough.
Gaming rules is a fine tradition.

But who is the Feynman of college administration? I can think of about five famous university presidents, and I'm not sure the innovations of any were that positive: Eliot and Conant at Harvard: Gilman at Johns Hopkins; Hutchins at Chicago; Kerr at California. In a purely economic view, the publicity garnered by a couple of them was a gain for their schools, I guess.
I am glad to pay 7 € for YouTube Premium Lite.

For a while I didn´t consider the "full" Premium because I was always shown the 17 € version - which is for family.

Now suddenly I'm being shown there is a 12 € option which is for single person.

Still for someone like me who doesnt care about music or movies, I'll stick to the Lite version.
Regarding content extraction it's more accurate than newspaper3k (especially for languages other than English) and it entails more information: metadata, text, and comments. It works out of the box in most cases so no need to write a particular scraper for a given websites, which saves time. If you care about 2-3 websites and are willing to write and maintain scraping scripts then bs4/lxml/whatever is also fine.

It also features functions and a command-line interface to collect data on your own (say find recent news using feeds). So it's not merely about text extraction in the end but also text discovery.
Defragmentation Game
It's not selfish to choose red in this case.

One way has a chance to die. The other way has no chance to die. And the safe choice doesn't force anyone else to suffer the fate you avoided. They can and should choose red too.

No one anywhere should pick blue, not because of "stupid, let someone else take the fall" reasons, but because there is no reason for anyone to take the fall, and the benefit from choosing red does not come at the expense of forcing someone else to choose blue.

Basically the scenario was not as well constructed as the asker probably wished.
The rest of the server is C++. And yes, the problem is that there will temporarily be two libs active simultaneously for a few seconds. I'll need to think it through. Sounds like a debugging nightmare if things go wrong.
I mean, I hope your children never suffer from the whooping cough I had at 5. It's all I can remember of my early childhood: the pain, that canceled vacations and the fact I couldn't go to school and my mother couldn't go to work for a long time (6 month apparently), the feeling I would die until a doctor diagnosed the illness correctly.

Positive point from that however: my brother and sister got all useful vaccines, not just the mandatory ones, as my mother go outvoted on health decisions after that year.

I mean, it's your children, do whatever you want about it. Hope they won't suffer, but if they do, that's on you.
I have seen a lot of communities shut down / get shut down, idk what's happening there lately?

Anyway I'm not a big fan of Reddit either (except for specific reviews/experiences): Too Politicised (in a lopsided way too), too much vanity content.
Wait, who cares about trading cards?
Found the Civ VI player. I can hear that quote in Sean Bean's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqX-6L80sP0
“Win32 is the stable Linux ABI”

I think the general sentiment has been around for much longer, but it’s very well put. For instance old Loki Linux ports became useless after only a few years, but you could then run the Windows game in Wine no problem.
Does the value Breitbart adds to the internet outweigh the negatives of turning people into dangerous fascists by weaponizing misinformation? No.

Does the value added by sources like the NYT outweigh the negatives of being occasionally biased or outright wrong? Yes.
probably not much, but here wouldn't the case be if you streamed content that was originally from RPM how many views would I get?
Hmm - a self evident non sequitur that fails to address a real point about the actual world and the assumptions made by people about both violence and cannabalism.

That's a poor comment from yourself- I'd hoped for better.
OpenAI Complaint – Clarkson Law Firm
It's prob old news but i found it mildly interesting. Here's the actual paper: https://clarksonlawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0001....
He kept quite the menagerie and the best sourced version of the quote is a bit different:

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest...

In the context of things like

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/winston-churchill/11370727/...

it seems like he was more of an all-round animal lover who once delivered an amusing pig quip.
The form in which the websites were made available originally. They were public, so its more than fair to store a copy. It would be different if they were archiving content hidden behind a paywall or bypassing login, etc.

Other media and books have a more restrictive implied license of access and reproduction.
Demand sometimes goes up, but not always.

More efficient food production has enabled higher demand (both more people and an obesity problem), but rich people with more money to spend on even more food… don't (at least not in ways that matter; literally gold plating a hamburger isn't relevant). And the growth in supply has been much less than the economy as a whole.

Cheap metalworking means steel is everywhere; but there are not that many blacksmiths making full suits of plate armour and longswords.

And the original example of the paradox, coal, is now in decline in many places.

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So, what do I think will happen with AI and data?

Short term, sure, more demand as it's now possible to process things like getting heart rate and eye dilation from CCTV data, or use WiFi as wall penetrating radar for emergency responders, etc.

Long term (and in computing that just means >5 years because prediction is hard especially about the future), we might have automated everything. At some point, we will either automate everything directly (AGI), or automate the process of automating things "manually" (think narrow AI which makes narrow AI from watching human workers on whatever task for 6 months).
platforms that use secretive moderation lend themselves to spammers

how is that? i can understand it not being useful, but how would it help spammers?
Crawlers and tools will get the right location http header but browsers and users will get the delay.
Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
This is a billion+ dollar industry, it's not about "who cares about ..." but rather exposing evil corporations before it's too late.
It's just in the flowchart, not in code.
This is basically right. Look at excel, did that destroy accountancy and data analysis? If anything there's now a whole class of jobs that didn't exist before.

Look at what we call programming now that you don't need a mainframe. You're a lot more likely to run into a programmer now than before.

Why would AI be any different? There will be a whole class of jobs dealing with AI. Making infra for it, coding it up, using it for various apps, adapting for existing business, and so.

It does transform the jobs though. Mainframe guy probably has a very different experience from modern internet programmer. Excel accountant isn't the same as paper accountant.

ChatGPT era nerd is going develop his own relationship with the AI, how to use it, etiquette, jargon, and so on.
Ask HN: How big of an engineering challenge is it to move Twitter over to x.com?
Considering the vast infrastructure, user base, and technical integrations of Twitter, I'm curious about the complexities involved in migrating its domain to x.com. How might this transition impact third-party applications and integrations that rely on Twitter's APIs? Would love to hear insights.
Ecclesiastes in the Bible begins with:

The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.

and it ends with:

Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.
This is an interesting topic to me, because electric vehicles are heavier than vehicles of similar sizes, but as of right now aren't paying gas tax which helps to keep the road maintained. Heavier vehicles wear on the road more than lower weight vehicles, so it's a bit regressive at the moment.

Tangentially, there was a 60 Minutes or similar report recently on how the extra weight of the vehicles also makes them more dangerous to vehicles of similar sizes that are much less weight. Instead of being hit by a Ford Taurus with a lighter weight, you're basically being hit with an F-150 in the size of a Taurus.
Oh, sure. I'll just start reinstalling stuff on my PC when changes are happening on the server side. Very logical. Thank you for your help. You are the best kind of support person I've ever called for help. But did I?
The boomers should be dropping like flies, then. And of course we starting to hit the bathtub curve.

I'm impressed that you could snack on plain wonder bread. I don't think that I could have. I got through a lot, but toasted and with peanut butter.
maybe because it’s not in the commons
As long as you stop watching Fox News for the same reason you want to ignore me, then we’re all good.
Thin Client Wysens Up to Become OpenWrt Router
Yeah, I refrain from posting on Sh/X-itter as much as possible. The combination of Threads + Mastodon is pretty decent.
Fantastic! Any tips on tools one can use to parse PDF including their structure? Much appreciated.
More than that (as referenced above), `synchronized` currently pins a virtual thread to its carrier. So if you had 4 carrier threads, you only need to have 4 synchronized methods in flight that depend on the action of a 5th to hang the JVM.
I think it's curious why this isn't a two way street. Every "non-engineer" I ask "why don't you code", basically responds with "that is not of interest to me".

I'm seriously wondering why can't engineers dislike non-technical tasks, just like non-engineers dislike the technical ones... otherwise let's see everyone start coding and just do away with ALL roles. Everyone talks to the customer, everyone does some management, design, and product, and everyone codes. I see work that took years to master, writing complicated software, understanding systems within systems, only to have "non-engineers" take it for granted and assume that it is easy enough (since otherwise the engineer's time would be prioritized to do... engineering).
GitHub will disable non-2FA accounts?
I just got a big splash in my profile page:
GitHub users are now required to enable two-factor authentication as an additional security measure. Your activity on GitHub includes you in this requirement. You will need to enable two-factor authentication on your account before September 28, 2023, or be restricted from account actions.
I've watched (non technical) people use ChatGPT a few times now, and most of them have rather underwhelming results. The reason is that they think it's just some other search engine, and they phrase their prompts as 'search queries'. Or they go completely the other direction and think they can just throw in a few random words that somewhat describe what they're roughly thinking of, and then expect the computer to fill in the gaps.

It's 2023 and there are lots of people who don't know how to efficiently and effectively use Google. To be able to do that, you need some sort of mental model of crawlers and websites and what gets indexed and what not and at what frequency, and the results of SEO and how a somewhat savvy marketeer at some company might influence things etc. The same with LLM models - if you don't know what a 'token' is, your only chance of getting good results is to use these models a lot and then hope that you start building useful intuitions. It really doesn't come natural to most people like it does to most of us here.
Presumably this was the "private Google documents" that were reported on a month ago?:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/ftx-caroline-e...
https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/caroline-ellison-whined-sbf-br...
Adding Power over Ethernet Support to a Mac Mini
tok long yu trupela

I want to know how/where the word for plane came from? balus

But also remember the tok pisin is a recent language, created from the colonisation efforts so it's not strange to find that modern words will have a translatation. Helicopters and piano's were around at the time.
And keeps being updated to modern tooling and paradigms.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...

COBOL 2023 - https://www.iso.org/standard/74527.html
Those companies are currently locked into a fight over the American market. That's why they aren't making a profit over there: the US is still a battlefield and the war is worth spending billions. Americans are lazy and eat lots of fastfood after all.

Eventually a shake out will happen and whoever is left standing can start making lots of money.
> And obviously, I'm under no obligation to not voice my concern about that.

Except... You are...

The guidelines [1] of the site outline that most discussion of politics is off-topic as it most often doesn't gratify one's intellectual curiosity. It's rather explicit, too: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.".

1- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That sounds like a deeply perverse and useless market in the first place. Hard to care somebody is cannibalizing it.
> The whole Covid fiasco can't really be discussed on HN.

"Covid fiasco" is not a monolith.

On one side, there are people with a position "Covid is much less severe than we though, we should have just let it spread through population, and go on with out lives as normal, like we do with flu. The fiasco is that we tried to control it at all."

On another side there is a position "Covid is a more severe disease than we realize. It affects multiple organs, and after repeated infections some people will get long covid for years, or permanently. We should still aim to restrict the spread of the virus, not anymore with lockdowns, but with clean indoors air, and keeping using masks is crowded situations and in healthcare. The fiasco is that we gave up on trying to control the infections."
Yeah, you go this line a little bit longer and you might end up in the country not much different from North Korea.
If you'd like a higher quality response, sophistry and performative disappointment isn't the way to get it. I'm not going to give a serious detailed response to an unserious comment, I'm going to find a better use for my time.
This is what I meant with that you know nothing about her. Her parents didn't push her into the media spotlight. I'm certain some Youtube channel has told you otherwise, but the facts are that she herself was the driving force behind her activism, and she was the one that pushed her family to become more conscious about climate change.
That's interesting about jump tables in .rodata. That would break everything indeed.

I really want the C compiler to do all the work. If I was to emit the machine code myself it would end up just being stack based anyway, I think.
Mastodon seems to be surviving, especially if you pick one of the smaller instances with a specific focus. Federation means that you can still follow, and be followed by, people on other instances, but it does mean that you get light filtering of content, no algorithms, no ads, responsive moderators, and people who share (at least one of) your interests.

If you decide you're on the wrong instance and find one you think is better, you can migrate your account (with some limitations), so the decision of which instance to choose isn't critical.

Mastodon isn't perfect, and I'm sure people will weigh in here to tell you why it's dead and will never succeed, but I'm enjoying the instance I'm on.
This is what friends are for.
It certainly is for the ISO chairman, and all WG21 members.
No. Much of the British and American elite (especially those not of the intellectual class), was still absolutely opposed to communism (Operation Unthinkable), they had supported the USSR with enormous amounts of war material, because they prefered Communism taking over large parts of Europe over Fascism doing the same.
(WW2 nominally started over the German/Soviet invasion of Poland)

On the other hand the british and american intellectual class saw the USSR as worthy of emulation. They wanted a Stalinist regime in Britain/America.
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The way I prefer to solve this problem these days is to use a fairly generic tree node structure (fairly close to sexprs) and implement tree grammars which check for correctness of different phases (e.g. verify that nodes are annotated with types, or syntax sugar has been decomposed).

Being playful, I've generally implemented the tree grammars as literal constructions of the tree nodes themselves, so the grammars can self-check.

I've use this approach in Ruby and Java though, not functional languages with pattern matching and destructuring, so I wasn't leaving those powerful tools on the table.

In particular I have given up trying to represent ASTs using classes. I don't think they deliver a lot of value. Behavior generally belongs outside the class and not inside, transformations should be collected together as an algorithm, rather than distributed across multiple definitions. Double dispatch for type-safe tree navigation is unpleasant and you lose control over typing of context. You end up with explicit typecasts and you've lost what little type safety you had, and you still can't enforce constraints around how the tree changes from phase to phase.
I think it's pretty useful to share concrete examples like this. I basically always have a ChatGPT4 CI tab open these days when I'm developing these days - it's a usually much faster/better go-to than Google or SO for looking stuff up. ChatGPT is great for all the random stuff I don't care to remember the syntax for.

* I'm always using it to munge/generated tables/csv/markdown/json - you can basically throw any copy and paste from a random PDF that's some weird gobbedlygook of tabs, spaces, newlines and get something cleanly formatted. On the one hand, it seems like a waste of computation, but on the other hand, it's way cheaper than my time and there are so many tasks that require using poorly formatted output. Even better, CI will of course write awk/sed for you if you need to do any automation.

* I'm always forgetting the syntax for named byobu sessions (it happily wrote a script to help with that) but I've also been staging some dev servers and it was able to generate the scripts to create new named session and windows, attaching/creating when necessary, handling if the processes were running, and creating the systemd units for spinning these up.

* On this same project it wrote some python scripts for managing SSH tunnels and reverse tunnels, including filtering/logging of error messages, handling jump servers, etc. This is all stuff I've done years ago (and even written lots of docs for), but it was actually way faster for ChatGPT to generate these than digging those out.

* I've been running into issues w/ some HTML5 audio output and needed to swap to websocket streaming w/ webmedia output (which I wasn't familiar with at all). ChatGPT gave me the code to swap into my FastAPI server and the frontend code I had w/o having to do any further research, great.

* I hate Docker setups, and I had issues w/ Nvidia containers and GPUs not showing up w/ my docker config. I was able pass the various error messages and get my problems fixed without spelunking/hair-pulling. Same with figuring out some cross-container network hijinx.

* There's a bunch of one-offs that I might just not have bothered doing, that I can just ask it to do as well - eg, I've previously written code for poisson distributions and the like, so I knew what to ask for, but would have been a huge PITA to dig out exactly how to do it, but took like no effort to just ask GPT4 CI to figure out a one off I just wouldn't have done otherwise: https://chat.openai.com/share/80fa7bc0-e099-4577-bad9-d026e7...
What exactly is the "density" of a black hole?

As I understand, a BH is a singularity, so all mass is at one point which means all BHs have the same (infinite) density.

Is it a kind of "virtual density", e.g. the mass of the singularity devided by the schwarzschild radius or the event horizon?
Agreed. We are what we give our time to, and to those that would "brag" about how many hours a week they work, I ask "so, you are just your job, and nothing more?"

When I meet a new person, one of my first questions is what hobbies they have. It throws people off more often than it should that my first question is not about work, and in fact, I specifically avoid talking about work at all. In many of those cases, the conversation dies very quickly, which always makes me a bit sad.

It's not like I hate my job, either. I enjoy it, to the degree that I can, and do wish I had a better tech job, but for the most part it is tolerable and I am left to my own devices. I can talk about work, if someone asks, but mentally, when I am clocked out, my job doesn't exist. I suppose there are lots of people who always think about work, for lack of anything better, I guess.