skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it somewhat ironic that DuckDuckGo returns more relevant results for me than Google does.

Some years ago, i would occasionally have to prefix my query with !g to get the Google results, but these days, if DDG cannot find it, chances are Google cannot find it, but will happily return a bunch of spam pages instead.
I like how they didn't say "leader in AI" full stop. Because let's be realistic, UK is doomed to be perpetually chasing USA's lead in matters of IT. So just mimic the EU and legislate it all away.
Hiccup syntax for Clojure uses hash maps (curly braces) for attrs, e.g. `{:style {:background "red" :margin "1em"}}`

See Reagent which uses Hiccup syntax: https://reagent-project.github.io/

(defn simple-component []
[:div
[:p "I am a component!"]
[:p.someclass
"I have " [:strong "bold"]
[:span {:style {:color "red"}} " and red "] "text."]])
By the way, Kagi, the paid search engine you might've seen on HackerNews as well, uses Marginalia as one of its data sources

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

If you use the "non-commercial" lens, those results, among with results from Kagi's own index and a few other independent sources will be prioritized.
One issue with that logic is when you have people that don't care about being happy at the workplace and just act like they are working. Even if you intervene and try to honestly understand what is making them work the way they do, some of them will feed you with BS.

An option to deal with those people is to just fire them, simple. But that means you are giving up on them. Another option is to have an hybrid approach: those that work great with having happiness as a motivation, we can just continue to foster a happy workplace; for those that don't care about happiness, find another approach, one example would be to introduce KPIs for those specific people and formulate a performance recovery plan if needed, if all else fails, fire them.
> We would sue them, and collect in state court.

That would work if Comcast didn't pay you but that's not the scenario under discussion, I asked what happens if they don't charge their customers exactly what you wanted and the answer is "Nothing". You don't have standing to insist Comcast charge this fee to their customers, that's between Comcast and their customers.

> I have the impression that I've read a franchise contract, and you haven't. Am I wrong?

I have the impression that you haven't read the enabling law for this, and you've assumed that "pass through" establishes some sort of magical tax at a distance when it's merely permission for them to pass these taxes on to their customers. Comcast are not, in fact, required to do this but they choose to do so.

Specifically the 1934 Communications Act (yeah, I know, that's a super old law, it was updated to explain how cable TV works) tells cable companies that they may pass through such franchise fees to their end customer. Note the word used, not "must".
Perhaps you have a Makerspace nearby or similar setup, those places offer a lot of expertise and tools to help get started. Prototyping also involves going a bit MacGuyver versus trying to build the final product you have in your mind. For example if there is a lot of custom forming involved your initial tries could just be made out of plaster of paris and chicken wire. Likewise you can use manufacturing techniques that wouldn’t scale to the final product but would be cheaper for a one off.
There's w3c guideline for this https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
Unlikely. You do not want to be caught reimplementing stuff after having looked behind the curtain.

Emudev projects often outright kick people out if it's determined they've peeked.
Why Automaticity Is Real
It's extremely rare that UX designers are also users of the products they develop. Maybe they use Figma or the order entry of Amazon even if they don't work for Figma or Amazon, but who of them is going to use again the order entry form for Random Customer N after they started working on the registration form of Random Customer N+1?
"These industries dominate a specific market and have not always had a positive approach to innovative ideas"

Google is itself starting to sound a bit like that!
> Why ukraine? Russia's enemy isn't ukraine. Surely they'll use it on their enemies.

Well they keep threatening to nuke Ukraine and like a dozen more countries, generally over things that happen in Ukraine.

> What were the consequences of hiroshima and nagasaki again?

What war is Russia fighting against an existential threat that is trying to invade them again?.

> I suspect if their nuclear weapons didn't work, we would have nuked them a long time ago.
> Sometimes people get so silly here.

Why? even if they didn't work we probably wouldn't nuke them, we don't nuke people just because.

America spends more money on maintaining its nukes than Russia spends on its entire military.

I have serious doubts about all of Russias nuke working given just how hollowed out and non-existent much cheaper parts of their military appear to be.
The risk analysis for conversion projects comes out with a negative result every time.

You spend a lot of money, and the best case is you end up with the same services as before.
Exactly. This is the case for my children.
Great project. Just hoping for command line attach/detach of USB devices and we can use it in our CI setup for some stuff.
Interesting to note the progression:

Python was initially another scripting / better shell to rival Perl, but it took a long time to do so. It didn't really become popular until way later than a lot of other languages. I think this was mainly due to it's libraries, lightweight for beginners and being used in all kinds of different places. Ruby was really only know as "with Rails" for a lot of people and there are a lot of use cases other than web dev.

C 1972

Bourne Shell 1979

Perl 1987

Python 1991

Javascript 1995

Ruby 1995

Java 1995
MIT 18.01, 18.02 and 18.06
Lots of countries don't. In the Netherlands, it was allowed but later changed to prohibit 'downloading from clearly illegal sources'.
and you're not going to address the fact that you're making false accusations against someone for hosting content that they claim to not host? You're not making the best case for yourself here.
Try logging into Facebook with different locale settings on your Facebook account. You can have several names depending on your language. That way they can handle name order but also show English speaking contacts a readable name, while say, Japanese friends gets to see the Japanese name.
Also if you are in banking or insurance and so on. Do you really want to put your trust in someone else? Cloud going down is not uncommon, but what if there is catastrophic loss of data? Or somehow their security systems break and everything or even last day is wiped?

Not that legacy will do better, but keeping your own fate in own hands does feel better. And these are at this point pretty proven systems. They most likely would have already failed.
One word, six letters
...yes? Have you looked at Indian names? Or Indonesian names? Or Ethiopian names
Or at least chunk transcription onto logical groups.

Chunking on the example webpage[1] is poor.

[1] https://obra.github.io/Youtube2Webpage/example/
Is AI any Better?
Given the advancement in Generative AI, there are lot of applications. I am working on ideas of using GenAI in existing solutions but the place I work is still assisting clients with modernization of their legacy stack, the usual consulting stuff and what not. So asking them to switch to AI is another ~4 year wait.

There is so much that can go wrong but also right. I believe we are having tunnel vision with AI right now. Willing to hear other's thoughts.
Fitbit is useless unless you consent to unlawful data sharing
But you are also making your own claim, by asserting with absolute confidence that caste-based discrimination doesn't exist. If you were just questioning the reasoning of the author, then sure, the burden of proof would be with them.

Also, this is not a courtroom.
>America doesn't claim Cuba as its territory.

Where do you think the Guantanamo Bay torture facility is located?
Being able to take a cab in a single tiny part of the world remains firmly in “sort of works” camp.
IMO companies that use mainframes are so beholden to their vendor (for maintenance, upgrade, consulting,...) that the trust they must have in their external provider must be 10x bigger than what you would have if you were relying on a cloud service, particularly from a business continuity angle.

Put another way if IBM says they are closing shop in a month time, or they were stop upgrading a particular product line this will royally screw many of their clients who will start scrambling for alternative solutions (although I would imagine they baked in significant notice periods into their contracts).

But if you use the cloud and have done it right, it is much easier to migrate from a cloud service to another.
Is XLB for Xiao long bao an example of this? Hadn't realized it was a wider system, that's cool!
Couldn't you simply use arbitrary precision floating arithmetic with i.e. Python?
Are you serious?

were having a convo on a internet board, not having an academic debate. People say “skin color” colloquially when they mean the general concept of race/ethnicity. Is it not used like this in Australia?

The hostile attitude is because you decided to focus on a hyper-specific nuance that nobody cares about. And then write an entire essay about a non-point.

Its like if I were to focus in solely on you purposely misspelling “color” using non-American and then steer the convo into an endless quagmire about semantics. Can you see how obnoxious that would be?
Here's what I found for birthdates - https://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html. The variation between dates doesn't seem all that bad. So, for all practical purposes, we can assume that births across dates is uniform.

Given this, the only real issue is ZIP codes. If we assume that we know nothing about how populations are distributed across ZIP codes, given just the gender and date of birth, we can narrow down the cohort to just 5650 US persons (330M x 1/2 x 1/(80x365)).

According to this link - https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/21/zip-code-populatio... - 80% of the US population lives in 27% of her ZIP codes.

Assuming your target individual is in the 80%, given the gender, birthdate, and ZIP code, you can narrow down to the following - 0.8x330M x 1/2 x 1/(80x365) x 1/(0.27x42000) = 0.4 US persons per ZIP code.

Basically, these three data points can almost certainly uniquely identify specific individuals - the only remaining thing is to connect a name/phone number to each individual.
> This offered ample time to set myself up for the day before anyone could interfere with my mood.

So what has really been highlighted is the work environment is wrong, and that time of day to wake is used to get closer to that ideal work environment and to hell with everyone else in the household.

Task lists also crept into this at the bottom, identifying the tasks that are most important. The definition of important will be different though, for some it will be activities that get closer to making money, for others, it activities which keeps the money and avoids having to spend more.
Well this is Hacker's news, you label something legacy like code, its never a nice thing or showing some respect to product/creators, rather contrary. TBH its also the first time hearing about this term, its simply not common, not even here and much less in general population.

And I have to strongly agree with OP, I couldn't care less about fate of FAANGs of these days, but I do care about those 'legacy' businesses tremendously.

As for original topic - if it works for 3-4 decades, don't be the stupid guy and change it. Tremendous risk to core business with little to gain.
You statement and question are different things. Its also worth pointing out that a mainframe can mean different things. Here I will use the definition of a large central machine (or cluster) designed for HPC.

> Why hasnt cloud killed the mainframe

A mainframe is typically a very powerful machine/cluster. You may be able to get those in the cloud (although I doubt you can get a single machine with >32TB RAM, for example) , but why pay a premium to the cloud provider on top of the base cost?

> Why do newer companies not use mainframes

Some do, but with your examples, its because they have been engineered to scale horizontally instead of vertically - i.e. using lots of less powerful machines instead of a single big machine.

> Are mainframes used because of lock-in

In some cases, sure. But there are many cases where big powerful machines are needed (where you cant have any of the issues that come with distributed computing - i.e. CAP trade-offs)
High-endurance sdcards are a real necessity for many, including me (I live in a very dry and dusty climate; ESD is my #1 concern.)

Traditionally, photographers and other users of sdcards must be scrupulously careful at airports, lest the scanners destroy all their work and equipment. This could be good news.
Just shut up and take my money !
I'm the creator of this. Yes, it's precomputed on a computer, but it only takes ~30 mins to calculate each view. Most of that time is file I/O (which I really need to refactor)

follow me on fedi/masto for more news: <https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/>
> I got it just after posting. I had just missed one of the possible pathways for a knight to get to a certain square. Was going through the process of proving that the puzzle was impossible

Nice :) That's the way to do it. I think you'll really like 11+.
I live in Japan (as does Kalzameus), my name will regularly cause problems in computer systems. In fact, quite often I'm not using my name but what I am called in Japanese, and even then it will often fail. Number 1 problem - not enough characters, because most Japanese people only use a few characters for their entire name, don't have middle names, and don't have spaces in their names. And that's just for starters. Should I use what I consider to be my name, my full name, the name on my passport or the name on my residence card…?

It's just not that hard to find problems with name inputs.
PhraseExpress for Win/Mac does something similar but different:

It parses your choice of documents and send emails and suggest to auto complete frequently used phrases.

Advantages:

+ no need to memorize abbreviations

+ no interference with your other typing.
Yes, but that is because the film was the picture. You don't put a 35 mm slide on your mantelpiece.
In very broad strokes, the problem with institutions is often that they don't have the option to act in good faith. A good example is the question: should you talk to police? A lawyer would say no, absolutely never talk to police. The reason is not because police are bad people - but rather simply that it is their job to collect evidence to aid in your prosecution. It is not their job to ensure a just outcome.
I took magnesium lactate. 120 mg ginkgo biloba extract and extract from the root of polyscias fruticosa help clear my head in the morning.

I'll see if I can obtain magnesium glycinate.
See my response to another comment. If you use a mainframe provider you are far more beholden to your vendor than if you were using a cloud service provider and engineered it right.
It is simply about a wholly different level of reliability that mainframes provide.

They are not at all a trash or a product of corruption or nepotism as many tend to think. That stuff works all the time, and did since ~1960, while we serfs spend our lives fixing bugs resulting from never-ending updates in that hodgepodge of javascript libraries our "efficient", "cheap", "FOSS-based" products are made of.

We all don't use mainframes because marginal or downright dodgy business cases of our products simply won't pay for it, thus we are stuck in this race to the bottom.
Self-driving is never going to happen, and its also sitting in some sort of informational blind spot for the people working on it - I have no idea why.

There is no such thing as "driving" there is no physical force, or particle.
There is no force preventing you from driving in the opposite direction of traffic, or through glass panes.

"Driving" is entirely a social phenomnon, the confluence of societal self impositions and engineering.

If you have a car on fire in front of you, you will need to reverse in the wrong direction of traffic.

In many countries - you have to regularly deal with drivers going full tilt, on the wrong side of the road.

Or You have to deal with theft, and people trying to rob you at every red light.

Im underscoring that this is a social issue. You would need to create models for each country and region, to truly improve self driving.

Self driving assumes a far narrower problem space than reality gives a fig for.

Self driving theory currently works in the same way any theory that assumes spherical cows works.
Legacy is mainly a marketing term for someone wanting a piece of an existing, big market. It also usually implies that you expect it to be closed down and replaced...
Tor is tricky.

If you have serious issues, I suppose it's always possible to block the exit nodes from the specific HTTP endpoint where the trouble is caused, or require authentication at that point, even if I would advise to be very sparing with such measures.

For the law enforcement route, a judge could be convinced to order tracking the exit node's incoming connections for purpose of tracking the child abuser down, then the relay node, then the guard, and yes these change frequently but rinse and repeat and you'll get it eventually (speak of dystopian...). The barrier I see is that some jurisdictions will find it disproportionate to track all incoming connections and relays and guards (this will fan out) for only one abuse case. You'll really have to get every involved country on board in whatever you're pursuing, so it ought to be really bad and otherwise you can suck it up. So you make a good point that you can't simply enforce anything even if that's broadly illegal under the current system.

VPNs are much easier because they're a single entity and so there's no huge fan-out (don't need to wiretap/subpoena tens–hundreds of entities, just have to ask 1 entity for data on 1 subscriber, or compel them to produce it henceforth if they don't have it). If they didn't do logging in the past, indeed you'll need to wait for a repeat offense, so again I suppose you're right that an IP+ts isn't enough. Does this speak in favor of the private key government-backed identity? I'd honestly really rather it didn't
My wife has an extra first name that she doesn't always use, and my mum has two different but both correct spellings of her name.
It's a mistake to pick any of those rules as an absolute truth. It varies by task, maintenance and time constraints. DRY makes a lot of sense in some cases, but some others even need a rule of four+ (think of heuristics-heavy code). IMO DRY is most useful when working on a codebase owned by someone else than you.
Hi! I'm the creator of this tool! I'm open to more feedback, and suggestions. Even related views.

Lots of people discovering OSM through this, which is great. This sort of tool is new, so we're all just fixing up lots of little tagging & topology mistakes which were hard to spot.

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What's an intuitive example which should be used instead?
> Right now there are 2 clear winners, a handful of losers, and a small group of moonshots that seem promising.

There are going to be much more losers than winners than people realize in this AI race to zero.
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That's true and it is the central idea in buddhism - anything that will be gone is shit, even children and kisses.
Auto replies would kill it pretty quick.

"I am currently on leave" could be the Wikipedia page.
I use DDG as my daily driver but I get better results with Google. Often it does find stuff that DDG cannot. The use of "matching terms" is good for example. Google is more flexible with its advanced search techniques.

It's a choice like Linux vs Apple. I choose to use something (DDG) that is a less good generally but better overall.

Privacy is better than search results.
fallacy of assossiation? It's not even a valid misalignment. "Oh they host servers and are in the same seller's circle as other server sellers". Yeah, we were all on Twitter at one point, guess we are all culpable for the terrorism there?

If you're going to make accusations, at least make them sound, let alone factually correct.
Does Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0 stop working in the presence of traffic cones?

More seriously, the distance between "sort of works" and "works" might not be infinite, but it most likely involves fundamentally unpredictable future developments of the current technology. There is no straight line of incremental improvements that gets us there.

It's fairly straightforward to imagine that if you have a 4.77mhz CPU and 64kb of RAM you will soon have a 3ghz CPU and 64gb RAM.

Bigger number going brrr is no guarantee of anything, here, so much so that models using a fraction of GPT4's resources are somewhat competitive.

By all means continue developing the technology, but claims that we are within arms' reach of X for disparate values of X are not exactly supported by anything.
You don't refer to yourself in private by your own name?
PhraseExpress does this.
I also liked this recent post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37207791
"The Assholes of society" - sounds like a judgement to me.
> What is on your passport then?

See my other comment on Vietnamese names, actually if you have a Belgian passport and a Vietnamese name, your actual given name (the third part for women with the "Thi" middle name) is not shown on your passport or identity card, only the first letter of it.

For French people who have three given names it's the same, although the two last ones are generally not used (you could say they're little endian compared to Vietnamese big endian names, I suppose) so it's not as important.

I have no idea why, and Belgium is the only country I know that does that, but it means your passport name is absolutely not your canonical full name.
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No, the questions are related. I am asking does the mainframe really deliver better cost/performance than the cloud (some of the mainframe prices are quite huge without even accounting for maintenance and recruitment costs)? Is this the reason why it is still a significant market?
Sourcegraph seems to have collected a bunch of these (now leaked) email addresses from signups on self-hosted instances.

I remember being very surprised when I was signed up to their mailing list after I made an account on my self-hosted instance, and I'm not sure about the ethics (and legality) of collecting these in the first place.
Ryujinx is one of the most impressive C# projects that Ive seen

The other is Roslyn
There's definitely some artist who feel that way. Jack White comes to mind. He'll deliberately use restrictions(like writing music for only two instruments) and even physically obstruct things at live performances. See this (very good) interview with Conan: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=890&v=AJgY9FtDLbs&feature=yout...
The article does nothing to refute the case, because Noah Smith has engaged in a little bit of sleight of hand in that section you quoted.

The 7% number is from 2018 data (!) -- yet Noah is talking about "since 2019." And, looking at the graph again, the major shift occurs in 2019.

So Noah's "7%" (again, from 2018, largely before the "decoupling") is totally irrelevant, and he handwaves away the possibility that China has since done an increasing amount of exporting to SE Asia for re-export to the USA.