skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Singapore, we use a single field to input the first name and last name.

How do you handle this when passing the data to the airlines?
>And could the investment come from alternative sources if the billionaires didn't exist?

In theory, sure. In practice, pretending that the current system has been making things worse or that we have a viable realistic and better alternative is flat-out wrong.
This is what I do too. Basically, we are deflecting the awkwardness and/or blame to the software.
Why not just speech to text?
>he lack of explicit text instructions...is a feature of echo chess, not a bug.

Personally, I don't care for it. To me the essence of a puzzle is a clear goal, and a clear set of constraints, within which you try to find a solution. If there are unspecified means available, it's something different, like a "a puzzle with a trick to it". Like one of those lateral thinking problems where it turns out you're meant to fold the paper or something, because they never said you couldn't.

It's easier to enjoy and get deeply into a puzzle when you know for sure it's solvable with the information you have.

>Yes, this is one of those levels that feel incredibly frustrating until it just 'clicks'. In my playtesting experiments, users either smile/laugh audibly when they finally get the solution to level 10, or they let out a big sigh of relief. Let us know how it goes :)

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 - often a good way to solve. :)
You used honorifics in Sweden too until fairly recently. Don't need to go further back than Pippi Longstockings (Herr Nilsson, Fröken Prysselius). And in genealogy I see plenty of Magisters, Profosses, Dragoons etc.

But Swedish naming traditions are great evidence that there's no such clean divide between "western" and "eastern" naming schemes: There have actually been dialects/areas where they put the genitive form if the family/farm name first, e.g "Dals Olof" even in Swedish, and in Finnish-speaking areas this was very common.
Why not just speech to text? Or brain to text:)
The skeptics will be wrong this time. LLMs will be the biggest tech revolution since smartphones. It's something that literally every single person can find a use for.
If you have anything less than a flag ship from the last year or so, don't expect to be playing Zelda on your phone anytime soon though. Even then I heard people saying their phones were getting very hot.

Source: researching this about 3 months ago to see if I could play BotW on my S21 FE. I can't.
> Most people in the world have filled out forms on U.S. sites. They'll know what to do.

I'm just French (where we often use "FAMILY Given" in a formal setting, but "Given Family" is common otherwise) and I still need a moment to think every time I see "first name" "last name" fields instead of "family name" "given name", after decades of being online.

My parents just fill these forms in random order, basically.

The other problem is:

> For reasons of respect, you may need to address a person by either their first or last name (with a title).

This often doesn't translate well between cultures. American websites will often use the given name in any setting and this is weird. If they want to be friendly-informal they should address me with "Hello Given Family, this is your order".
> What's your issue with the wording?

1) The first sentence clearly stated that:

Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's autofree engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. Remaining small percentage of objects is freed via reference counting.

Which explicitly implies that objects are exclusively freed only by autofree and reference counting.

2) Your emphasis of "everything" seems to imply a contrast to Python or Go method of memory deallocation:

"It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything

which would mean that Python, Go and Java trace everything, which isn't true. None of the three languages (Python, Go, or Java) use GC to trace everything - there are multiple optimizations (such as escape analysis and reference counting) that allow a certain percentage of objects to be freed by means other than tracing GC.
Another case you might want to accommodate is Arabic speaking countries where the names goes like name son-of father-name son-of grandfather-name son-of great-grandfather-name tribe name. In most cases, such as when dealing with government applications four generations is required but sometimes tribe name is omitted where it can identify your religion, sect to prevent bias to you or against you. The son-of (Bin or Ibin) is mostly omitted except for cases where the first name is composite of two names, like “Mohammed Ali”, where both parts are valid names on their own.
I'm regularly using the Photoshop function to test its limits and applications to our printing business. It's kind of impressive at first but it lacks quality where it matters, especially with the more complicated jobs.

Also "editing photos" is more than what the AI does. We have solutions for that, on another level though, for the last 15-20 years already.
Can you send a write only file over the network? UNIX socket file? Device file? Setuid bit? What does setuid even mean when you push the file onto a Windows box?

Most people are only concerned with blob attachments when they say file.
Oh wow. I forgot about those days. In some ways I miss the WRT54G days a lot.

The Nintendo Switch does A/B firmware updates. It has tremendous speed benefits.

macOS sort of achieves something similar with the new system volume architecture, but…not exactly.
So long as a tool can output a machine readable format, it can be consumed by nushell. If it can't then... that's actually a big problem when composing tools in bash too. Parsing arbitrary unstructured text is not good for composition and requires making something bespoke for each and every tool. As well as each and every argument for each and every tool for those arguments that happen to change the output in different ways.
or don't join a game where it's likely you're going to run into abusive players, then tell your friends to play something else instead that isn't as toxic... which is the option the publisher is likely not super excited about and where the moderation for the players comes from.

People who want to be abusive to each other during the game can always use private chat just for them.
Yes, a binary search tree that is dynamically balanced, for example red-black or avl.
Considering the UK National Air Traffic Systems (NATS) cant even prevent an extra dot or two from crashing their airspace, messing up most of the airlines in the world, not to mention countless passengers, pilots, aircrew and their families, I think Australia is wise to stand back from this challenge.

Personally I think state sex education should explain, the emotional side to sex, instead of just the mechanical properties, but sticking to the mechanics is easy for the cash strapped teachers to explain.

They should also explain how people will use sex to blackmail and manipulate others in a variety of ways. Spooky hackers are big into kink shaming.

There is a lot of cross boarding data sharing, it is after all a global business.

They should also explain how easily life long diseases are spread and the state makes no effort in helping protect people from those infected who choose to lie about the state of their health to others, and women might pass this onto their kids. Condoms do break.

That porn can be a relief which minimises exposure to disease risks, but some forms of porn portrayed can involve participants out of their face on drugs, and the content uploaded will be from people who have not been drug tested. Some porn is documenting self harm and some porn is people who have been trafficked and sometimes drugged against their will.

Social media platforms with unpaid moderators, like Reddit and porn sites where users can upload content can be slow to remove illegal sexual content from the front page of their site, or most popular content web pages, and that this can spark curiosity in people who want to know more about it.

I kind of suspect none of the above will happen though, and I'm sure plenty of people will still be arguing over what algorithms to use in order to safe guard identities.
But this is the issue. There is not one way to do it right.

My ideal message from my telco would be this one line:

"Hi Leo, your monthly bill for <phone number> is available. Get it here: <url>"
Haskell Weekly – Issue 383
I can tell you that in my passport, my name appears in two different places and it's spelled differently been them.

Also, a lot of people in the world don't have passports.
I loved Glen Howerton’s performance and the first two acts, but the last third felt incoherent, like it wasn’t edited well or the writing wasn’t finished.
Substitute "full name" with "legal name". Then it's the government's problem.

Of course if you don't need the legal name it's best not to ask for it.
This is the most sensible answer here.

My name is Ritobrata Ghosh (Given Family). But my friends, teachers, colleagues always called me Rito. I have a different short name that is used by immediate family and close relatives.

Rito is also easier for western people's tongues. So, that is what I almost always use. I use my full name only in legal and financial documents. In every other place, I am just Rito. I like to be addressed as "Rito" and appear as "Rito Ghosh" in badges, documentation, slack, any non-legal/non-financial documents.

So, the best way to go, in my opinion, is having two fields- one for full name, another for preferred name. Do not _assume_ anything.

This is also consistent with western names, like: William Henry Gates III as Bill Gates.

There is also another field in many places where there are badges and such. "This field will appear as is in your badge" is wise in such cases.
Could you please post urls for the courses so it would be helpful to the community?
What about calc 1/2/3 ? I use those skills all the time in optimization work. Linear algebra? These are important skills that self teachers often forget
SailNavSim, a virtual sailing navigation simulator
USAmerica now only has experience fighting against much weaker opponents. Almost everyone who remembers WW2 is dead.

When confronted with slightly more competent weak opponents (e.g. Taliban), the US military performs far more poorly. This poor performance worsens sharply as enemy
competence scales.

Full-scale war with near-peer or peer adversaries? USA is SOL.

But aside from the loud-mouthed war hawks or perma-doomers on YouTube, I don't think anyone in the US or China (or Russia,
for that matter) with decision-making power really has the appetite for direct open conflict, since it means the end of all things.

Expect more proxy wars like Ukraine...
I have tried Mint, and there was a update mechanism - it was either Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade or something on top of that, I honestly can't remember. But the system didn't look like a normal installation after it, that's for sure. Fonts were a bit weird, some settings were migrated and some weren't, it didn't feel right.
Do you not use POs? Much easier, allows you to approve spend if necessary and means the person paying I voices doesn't need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of your employees and keep up to date with which ones have ledt
I have to ask: how to create this? E.g. from normal picture "encrypted" to like that?
PostgreSQL JDBC Statement Caching
I have spurts of this, occasionally I’ll spend a month of evenings/weekend time doing a project. It’s usually when work isn’t scratching the right sort of itch, so I scratch it elsewhere.

Personal projects are often embedded coding of some sort, though I spent some time poking at the PS3 firmware when that was first cracked too.

Spending months reversing and emulating a console… that takes dedication I don’t have though. I guess these guys are really itchy? Or it’s in a really hard to reach spot?
My takeaway was that compared to a dynamically linked binary, you don't need to literally patch it to get the correct addresses.

So you get the benefits of simplicity of a static binary and the size benefit of a dynamically linked binary.

Well that's the way I understood it anyway.
Country Garden: Chinese homebuilder could default after posting $7B loss
I don't understand why this seems hard to understand. Their reasons are very clear and explained in the post.

Tier 1 ISP censoring internet has worse long term consequences than this website existing.
I'd add that actually using llms to add surprisingly powerful or complex features is extremely easy as a dev. It's turned things that would have needed large ML investment and expertise into a few rest API calls. The other vital thing imo is the pay per token pricing with no minimum, and a simple UI for prototyping - you can build out a demo paying personally and then get a company account.
That sounds good and I myself landed on Debian too, after trying most popular distros over the years. Did you install UnattendedUpgrades, or is automatic updates a setting somewhere?
"Easily purchased credit card details on the Dark Web"

Well, yes, but if someone got ahold of my credit card deets, then there are 99 ways for them to ruin me, and watching me board a train ain't high on that list.

No, it's not a unique identifier. No, it's not adequate authentication. But this is not exactly a gaping loophole, IMHO.
The point is that there is no way to tell whether a company will become one of the "early failed companies" vs "the first one to be successful". Your strategy is not actionable.
About the "know your code" part, I got burned when I asked for an overview of a few header files from an SDK I wasn't familiar with in a local repo.
Claude hallucinated badly, making up functions and their descriptions for most files—in a very believable way, though.
I've got the habit of double-checking with ChatGTP, just to be sure.
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Food Network apparently tries to localize the URL based on geolocation, and sends me to a .co.uk "equivalent" URL, which then fails to load.
Oh nostalgia just knocked the door :-)

I have somewhere in my library one of the Magic Eye books and I was a huge fan of stereograms back in the 90s.
The moment you see your first stereogram you feel a strange sensation, like something has been unlocked in your mind.

Fellow HNers who haven't experienced this should dedicate some time and go down this nice rabbit hole ;-)
Im not even sure how to go about prototyping this, not without spending a lot of money to get there. Not a glove, but more like a custom formed mouse shell, thats at least as big as the users hand.

Theres definitely a market for it. People have made all kinds of ridiculous mods for their mice to make it comfortable, and then theres mice that come with a billion parts that allow customization for your comfort. This would give a better option, and allow choice of mouse based on pure performance, instead of having to compromise because of feel or comfort. As far as i know, nothing like this is being done for mice, but the technology to make it already exists in other markets
I feel like this is the way. If you want, include fields for all types of names (given, honorific, father's surname, whatever is imaginable) but also add the field "how should we address you" and use that for messages.

So:

* honorific surname: Sharifah
* given name: Azizah
* father's honorific surname: Syed
* father's given name: Ahmad Tarmizi
* address me as: Zaphod Beeblebrox the 4th
"Why don't people just change their names to the caste they want to be"

most people don't see themselves as lower caste, they have extreme pride in their caste and ancestry, people aren't ashamed of that

ground reality is different from stuff you see online
"Until forced to".

2016 it was fifteen minutes. 2017, it was reduced to five minutes. And from then down to where it is now.

> One of the findings was alarming. According to the NTSB, an agency that rarely investigates auto accidents and usually spends years delving into plane crashes: "[d]uring the last 41 minutes of [Joshua] Brown's trip, the Model S was in Autopilot for 37.5 minutes …. Brown had his hands off the wheel for a total of 37 minutes during the time the car was in Autopilot."

> "The Model S displayed the visual warning 'hold steering wheel' seven times during the trip."
The fact that you think our ancestors go back hundreds of millions of years…is wild.
Loved this movie.

I ran my first startup at this time and it was exactly the same as the first scene, where were all playing Red Alert on the network after work.
Android phones: https://github.com/tejado/android-usb-gadget

I have unfortunately not yet developed any mouse/keyboard app for this. I only use it for https://github.com/tejado/Authorizer
The guy who made Virtualdub (virtualdub.org) has a blog who said essentially that. His video program is supersmall because it doesn’t use 4 packaged libraries; he programmed everything to hardware / OS interfaces directly.
In way you are right.

From the global point of view the exceptional case is the American one, Name Middle Family. It's about 330 M people vs 8 billions, 4%, which is less than 10%.

But then you add the exceptional cases for every country or culture. From the other comments we already know that even in Western Europe there are many differences. So if you sum all those exceptional cases you get the 100% of the world population.

Edit: 330 M, typo was 353 M.
> Or do they magically become "beings" when they die?

quoting from your link

although in practice individuals can still die. In nature, most Turritopsis dohrnii are likely to succumb to predation or disease in the medusa stage without reverting to the polyp form

This sentence does not apply to an LLM.

Also, you can copy an LLM state and training data and you will have an equivalent LLM, you can't copy the state of a living being.

Mostly because a big chunk of the state is experience, like for example you take that jellyfish, cut one of its tentacles and it will be scarred for life (immortal or not). That can't be copied and most likely never will.
Those whose cognition has sufficiently declined will be defenseless!
I'd expect the real implementation to not be nearly as good as the demo shows.
Geez what a rant, with a whole lot of incorrect or silly assumptions.

New Vegas quests were extremely open ended, far more than anything else Bethesda had made, the one example they picked is actually fairly representative of the kind of branching that can happen. It's dishonest to say that it isn't.

The world design being better is, I guess, subjective. But I personally think Bethesda's worlds, while immersive and pretty, suffer from the same problems that are caused by their approach to difficulty scaling. If the game is designed so that you can go anywhere, everywhere needs to be designed so it can accommodate a player at level 1. Sneaking up north past the Cazadors at the start of the game is rewarding in NV because it feels like you're sequence breaking, it feels like you're getting one over on the game. That never happens in Bethesda's worlds (past Morrowind, which did a bit of soft-gating).

New Vegas wasn't terribly incomplete either, a lot of it's problems were inherited rather than created by them and the story and quests were all fleshed out. The multiple endings were varied, the ending montage could drag on almost too long with the amount of stuff it had to say about the effects you had on the world. It had some of the best received DLC too.

Reads more like a bunch of excuse making for criticisms of Bethesda and their games, rather than a truly critical analysis. Lots of subjectivity as fact. I like Bethesda's games, I'm looking forward to Starfield, I think a lot of negative criticism towards Bethesda is stupid fanboy garbage, but that doesn't make them above reproach.
> The freedom to abandon one’s community, knowing one will be welcomed in faraway lands; the freedom to shift back and forth between social structures, depending on the time of year; the freedom to disobey authorities without consequence – all appear to have been simply assumed among our distant ancestors, even if most people find them barely conceivable today. Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do. (...) the real puzzle is not when chiefs, or even kings and queens, first appeared, but rather when it was no longer possible simply to laugh them out of court.

The Dawn of Everything, 2020
GPT wrapper products are the equivalent of static corporate HTML pages from the 90s. We build them because we are the early adopters of a brand new technology and we’re working out how it works.

I’m working with such a company and yes, the first product is a (very nuanced and very domain specific) wrapper around GPT. But as we gain experience, we expect to develop far more complex and interesting products. But we gotta start somewhere.

2 years ago, nobody even knew about ChatGPT. We are at the very start of this wave and we’re just still plucking the low hanging fruit. The fact that GPT wrappers are useful speaks directly to the potential of the technology.

Contrast this with crypto, which wasn’t even capable of solving the problems it was supposed to solve, and where losses incurred by things like smart contracts were almost inevitable. The products being built with AI are real products that real people are paying for. The difference couldn’t be more stark.
This is not just an Asian thing, Hungarians put their family name first (another reason not to call it a "last name").

Not to forget the special case that people may only have one name (for which some immigration offices had to invent the rule to repeat the single name twice, as first and last name, to comply with online and offline forms that have these often mandatory fields). So we may add two patterns to your pattern list:

Only, Only
Only

Localization is tricky, not just for names, e.g. postcodes (GB) and zip codes (US) come after the city ("London SW4 0AF", "Beverly Hill, CA 90210"), in many other places before (e.g. FR, DE, e.g. "91054 Erlangen").
Ask HN: Why hasn't the cloud killed the mainframe?
I was surprised to see how few mainframes Big Tech companies that handle a huge amount of transactions (Netflix, meta, google,...) use relative to legacy industries (banking, retail, insurance,...)

This makes me suspect that the real reason why mainframes continue to exist are due to industry inertia, vendor lock-in or even legacy code rather than any performance/cost reasons.
Exactly. I think this is MP's with Empire building aspirations, only they are restricted to a global empire of legislation.

What is why the British and trying to build global empires of sorts?

Did they learn nothing from when they ran large chucks of the planet and the globe was painted pink?
No.

Either the name serves some legal purpose and they need to write it in full and 2 fields supports that.

Or the name serves no purpose and they can write what they want in those 2 fields.