skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confused about the 3 hours without shelter bit, as it seems most people would be totally fine without shelter until around the 18 hour mark. But there is some important context:

- You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness), or in icy water.

- You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold).

- You can survive three days without drinkable water.

- You can survive three weeks without food
You went the generous route. I was going to say “The Barney Stinson School of Taking Out Your Ass”. ;)
> We then ask the primary database for a snapshot, a list of all past primary database transactions whose effects are visible to our new transaction.

I wonder what happens for records with many changes during their lifetime. Wouldn't the size of such a snapshot grow infinetely for them?
> Running their own crawler at this scale is probably not reasonable.

You can interpret your comment in two ways, so maybe I misunderstood you, but they are running their own crawler, and they’re providing API access to their own web and news indices. These are geared towards niche content, and maybe that’s what you meant: they’re probably not running their crawler at a large scale.
Sort of starts by being intrigued. You start wondering how a simple emulator works. Then you realise that the simplest high level CPU emulator is just a big switch statement, a block of memory, variables for registers and the Program Counter... Then you realise you need memory read/write functions. Then you start looking at the other systems involved...

It's never ending, it's great fun, and a huge sense of achievement. I'll never forget the first time I saw a BBC Basic prompt when I devved my first emulator.
Transformative tech: cars. If you invested in the early movers you very likely lost your money.

Transformative tech: personal computers. If you invested in early movers you missed microsoft and you very likely lost your money.

Transformative tech: Internet/web, dotcom boom. Google, facebook, twitter were not investable or did not even exist even up to when it popped.

Whether you believe AI is going to be massively transformative to the modern economy on a scale with cars or personal computing is actually not sufficient to start investing in the 'sector' (for want of a better term).

So this is useful as a reverse indicator. Anyone investing buckets in AI is worth betting against in general. Everyone? Maybe not everyone. Maybe.

Likewise even if the blockchain sector is dead. (Is it? No clue) This does not necessarily make the technology dead. (Even if you would like it to be). The web came back and reinvented as a massive distributed surveillance machine. Who would have predicted that in the crash? Who would have wanted it? Well we got it anyway.
Please don't do this. Like with western names, it is impossible to discern nationality/culture from written names alone.
thanks for the feedback, you're right, the "url safe" isn't the main focus (well, shouldn't, it's just that it's the last issue I had ;)

For further context, we are working on online campaigns (petitions, sending emails to elected representative...) and everything has either ids (numbers) that we generate (a campaign, a action, a supporter...) or given externally (eg. the elected representatives or vote reference).

Most of these ids are in the 1k to 100k range, that happen to often be the same range as the number of actions taken or emails sent) and mixing these KPIs and ids on the same lists happen to be confusing for users.

It might be that we shouldn't try to put these ids in lists and summaries, but they are super convenient there sometimes and unavoidable when exporting to excel, so dxid was my solution to work around our potentially poor ux design ;)
Couldn’t agree more. Crypto was a monetizable solution in search of a problem.

AI solves real problems, and has been doing so for many years. Generative AI is just the latest and most accessible instantiating of it.

My first company was a dialup ISP in the 90s. I look at GPT4 and I see the 56K modem of AI. There is so much upside to be discovered, we have barely started.
Actually compared to the economies of past societies, the modern economy in the West is amazing. If you work hard, have a little bit above the average intelligence and potentially a bit of luck you can make a lot of money. If not I guess you can make excuses.

The simplest way to organize a group of people, animals, organisms is to make one of them leader and have the rest follow him. This is the way our ancestors behaved for hundreds of millions of years and it's hardwired into our brains.
Find your your AI & Real soulmates in a gamified way!
I think people’s GoogleFu has also gotten worse. A lot of examples on this page of bad google results have natural language queries.

Google is a traditional search engine. Traditional search engines run on keywords. You enter the keywords you want on the webpage and press “search”. Didn’t find what you were looking for? Add more keywords to make it more specific. Things you don’t want polluting the search results? Exclude a keyword by adding a “-“ in front of it to remove those specific results. Rinse and repeat until you find what you need or give up.
> Mark Meechan, the one arrested for teaching a pug to do a nazi salute as a joke

Wait, that’s real? Some dude got in trouble with the police just for teaching his dog to do the nazi salute??

> In April 2016, Meechan posted a video on YouTube of his girlfriend's pet pug Buddha titled "M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi". At the start of the video, he says: "My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi."

> In the video, the dog, prompted by the command "Sieg Heil", raises his right paw in the manner of a Nazi salute, watches a speech by Adolf Hitler (footage shown from the Triumph of the Will), and responds immediately when Meechan asks if he wants to "gas the Jews". It ends with images of Hitler and Buddha the dog depicted with a toothbrush moustache similar to Hitler's.

Ahhhh.
> HashiCorp could feel forced to strengthen its position and introduce incompatible differences in new releases of Terraform and major-cloud providers

I'm sure it's hard to turn FOSS into money. I sympathize. But poisoning the well too discourage competitors will drive everybody away.

But could they really? Who actually developed the AWS provider?

My biggest problem with terraform over the last few years is that it always feels like they haven't been investing enough development in it. This has been spelled out directly by Terraform employees in their github issues, and it's visible by inference in the way that they disengage from certain issues.
Uhm, so what about REPLs? Jupyter notebooks? Are they wrong?

What if the typedness of the shell made the interaction better? Can you make an argument that this does not hold? The article does make a good argument in favor
Change your DNS - Cloudfare doesn't play nice with archive.today - (think, David vs Goliath)

2023:'public-dns'

You may also try an archive.today mirror;

https://archive.vn/wSnJu

https://archive.li/wSnJu

https://archive.md/wSnJu

https://archive.ph/wSnJu

https://archive.fo/wSnJu

https://archive.today/wSnJu

However, changing your DNS is the answer to the problem.
Currently stuck on level 10.

Btw it's a bit odd that there are no instructions anywhere on the site? I keep wondering if there's a rule I'm missing or something.

You have these rules in the blog post, but I find the language quite messy and imprecise:

> You are playing White, there is no opponent. You must capture all pieces to win.

> You become the "echo" of any piece you capture. Captured a bishop? Become that bishop.

> You can’t pass through red obstacles. Find the best move order to clear the board.

For starters, "you" is used to describe both the player and the piece. And the last rule contains two different statements, the second of which is redundant from the first rule. It also doesn't mention that there can be more than one white piece, or that white pieces can capture other white pieces.

Maybe something like:

1. The goal is to capture all the black pieces, which never move.

2. Move one white piece each turn, using the basic rules of chess piece movement. You can't move through red obstacles. Pawns don't promote.

3. When you capture a black piece, your white piece turns into the type of piece you just captured.

> I'm playing solo I tend to prefer Turn-Based Strategy games like HOMM, King's Bounty, Civ, Eador, AOW, etc. a little more than RTS games like SC2, Warcraft, AOE, BfME, DOTA, League, and so on. In multiplayer, RTS can be a lot of fun

For some reason, I'm the opposite - I hate RTS against humans.
Britain must become a leader in AI regulation, say MPs
That tends to happen when you have a small population and an outlier event occurs in a given year... Your entire country is the size of a large US city. If you calculated NYC's murder rate and included 9/11, it would also be pretty abysmal in 2001.
I have linked to this so many times over the years. Very cool to see it on the front page.
Nice contradiction.

> Crypto was never anything else than a grift.

Ah, alright then, I guess it's not useful for anything.

> evade financial regulators

Sounds useful to me!

> enable large scale movements of shady money.

Large scale movements of money? Super useful!
This is a certain kind of comment written by a certain kind of person. For certain
We need some fast charging and that's coming online as investments are ramping up rapidly. However, the vast majority of people aren't traveling anywhere close to the maximum range of their car the vast majority of the time. Meaning the vast majority of the time, all they need is a simple slow charger.

Destination charging is a thing. You go shopping, you top up some kwh. You sleep at a hotel, your car charges overnight. You go to work, you plug it in in the car park. Etc. There's a massive growth in the availability of chargers like that. It's only when you are going to drive longer distances that a fast charger is nice and worth the premium price you'll likely pay for using one. Most highways have those. Some areas are still a bit under served.

Basically fuel pumps require electricity to function. So any fuel station is a potentially charging point. And when double digit percentages of cars are electric, most of the surviving ones will be offering chargers. Many of course won't make it. Range anxiety is going to be a thing if you own an ICE vehicle pretty soon. Is there going to be a petrol station where I'm going? Is it still in business? Is it getting supplied? Just mocking ICE car owners here of course. Unlike an EV, you are really screwed if you go out of range of a petrol station. An EV can just plugin to whatever. Even another EV if that's needed. Mobile chargers are already a thing.

The practical reality of course is that the overall number of chargers is already much higher than the number of petrol stations. And many EV owners rarely use a fast charger. For most people, fast charging is a thing they do a few times a year. Mostly they just plug in and forget about it.

My parents have been driving an EV for the last half year. Fast charging is a thing my father stressed out about. I asked him the other day if he had used a fast charger yet. Answer: no. The need for that simply hasn't come up yet. The car has enough range for what they do. They've done destination charging a few times. But not fast charging. Mostly they charge at home and it's all they need. They are planning a trip to France soon (1200km drive). So, they will have to plan some charging stops. Likely that will be a mix of hotels with chargers and maybe a few tactical fast charging stops. But that will be the first time.
... and in herding cats no doubt. First define AI.
Slack does this and I don't like it. I have Hungarian colleagues and some (but not all!) of them have entered the family name first.

I always feel awkward responding to them, because I don't know if I'm typing `Hello $FIRSTNAME` or `Hello $LASTNAME`.
And maybe you don't need the full name.

And don't limit it to Asia either, it's relevant everywhere.
Is there a standard format for a-expressions?

I want to use them but I cannot find a spec like for JSON
You can't think of a less inspiring figure, than the man who made EVs mainstream and built the most successful space company?
> And since it doesn't come from a magic tree, it has to come from customers or from profits.

As a fairly impartial outsider (I'm from the UK and the price we see advertised for broadband on the website after entering our address is the price we pay), I'd like to counter that by simply agreeing that yes, the obvious outcome is that the customer pays for the fees. However, that's not what this discussion is about. The discussion is about whether the customer is told the price will be $X and then they have to pay $Y where Y is considerably more than X.

Instead of appealing to the magic money tree, companies simply need to be honest when they tell customers the price. They are free to keep the same prices, they just now need to say the price is $Y, and can choose to say that it's comprised of $X and then all these other things or just say it's $Y and leave it at that.

The reason companies don't want to do that, is they want to compete on having the lowest number for $X and sneak as many extra charges into the real price $Y in the hopes that customers don't discover it until they're locked into a contract.

Part of the problem is that the US has had this tradition for a long time with sales tax. Now I can understand online shops listing prices without sales tax, because it genuinely depends on where the customer lives. But in a regular real-world shop, they know exactly where the shop is and what the final cost of an item will be when it's sold, regardless of who buys it.

You have the same thing with tipping - you buy food at a restaurant, and then get told some nonsense that amounts to "because we don't pay our workers a fair wage, we're going to add an extra 20% on top of the price we offered and on top of taxes and all the rest". With your money tree argument, I'm surprised you're not in favour of your restaurants advertising a steak at $20, then when the bill arrives it's $20 plus $30 for the ingredients, $20 for the cook, $10 for the dishwasher, $10 for the waitress, $10 for the supervisor, $5 for the parking lot because the company rents that from someone, $2 for the company's phone line, $2 for the gas and electricity used, $1 because they need to clean the tables between customers, $2 for the condiments you might have used, and and did we mention that we want 20% tip as well. Yes, this is all the cost of business, but the customer doesn't need to know all that - they are, after all, just buying a steak.

The situation with broadband should be just as simple - "I want an internet connection. How much do you want to provide it to me?"
You don’t have to use terraform cloud to use terraform.
Companies like Apple kind of do it for you as you upgrade from iPhone to iPhone and data from your old phone is transferred to the new one.
PEP 726: Module ``__setattr__`` and ``__delattr__``
Also wealth is not money... Owning million of unliquid asset is not money.
Nushell is a great improvement in terms of shell design, and it really does feel like a modern, better equivalent of the shell.

However, I tried using it twice as my main shell and had to give up both times. The first time, I experienced a handful of bugs. The most annoying one was that I couldn't copy-paste passwords into the shell because Nu kept inserting control characters.
Then I kept having trouble with other programs that rely on the shell - for example, "conda init" does not work with nushell, nor does Julia's shell work with nu. So practically speaking, I had to continually boot up zsh inside Nu.

Then, there are the constant breaking changes. It feels like every month there is some breaking change, and every few months I need to dig into my nushell setup scripts to unbreak half my shell tools because some syntax changed.

Yeah, no thanks. Hopefully someone else will do the annoying work of test running Nu for 5 more years until it's stable and integrates well, but for me, I went back to zsh.
How do you figure that? Billions of people would mean over 10% of the world population having exceptional names, which seems very implausible.
With or without others, it's not uncommon. Even in some big companies (Facebook and Google) teams use this:

https://www.abtasty.com/glossary/trunk-based-development/
> why do you care what my real name is

Because the billing department verifies bills before paying them, and needs to know who to ask about the bill?
because we live in the real world where stuff costs money and money comes from people who want to see a return because they dont want to go broke
> It's also not realistically possible to auto generate spam video content like you can for blog posts.

It definitely is. If you look for videos just a bit longer then 10 minutes (something to do with YouTube recommendation algorithm) you will notice how much unnatural en spammy conversation and “information” is being told (backed by meme or stock images or just a talking head) before getting to the point of the video (which often is barely 1min of content). Sure it takes more time to actually speak the text and edit the video. But it really feels like generated garbage to fill time which can be easily churned out. Now with the dawn of AI I can only image this getting worse and worse.
Unicode 88 (1988) [pdf]
At least I can see more concrete applications than I did with the Web 3.0 bullshit (NFT, metaverse and other buzzwords).
This isn’t noir writing, I found it an accurate if a bit cynical description of reality
Love this game!!
Why would stationary installations use lithium batteries when there are cheaper, heavier alternatives?
Firmly in the skeptic camp, here to say people are love bombing AI to make money, not because LLM are a gateway to AGI and AGI doesn't have to appear for people to make money.

Belief in AGI is useful to sell stock and IPO. Few serious researchers in academia see AGI in what's going on, or even roadsigns. Look at the language Hinton uses more closely.
Is there any reason why you need to specifically know the first and last name, or the family and given name? I think there is a lot of inertia in the idea that you must have two name fields, but why?

Why not just have one name field, and let people type what they want in it?

Or better yet, have one field for “what should I print as the name when I send you a package or letter”, and “what would you like me to call you?” (e.g. preferred name)
I prefer the split approach. I use SSO on the inside of my home network and for hyperscalers and things like Tailscale. At least partly so I could enforce hardware auth when not supported or sane to implement natively.

Everyone else gets a custom email address.

It’s a nice in-between.
I will keep using this example. It's a good example for illustrating why transactions are necessary and what they are. And it's not relevant whether or not banks actually work this way.
Is there even any backend? Sounds like a collection of basic numeric algorithms, it should be possible to replicate almost all of them with little to no effort on either JS/WASM or Python/Pyodide.
Biased downvoters, look at the demographics data.
There is no "a solution" and never will be. Design your solution to be maximally relevant to your scenario and accept that it can't be perfect.
> In Singapore, we use a single field to input the first name and last name.

I have a completely “ordinary” name from a western perspective – first (given), middle, last (family). I live in Singapore, which has a few different popular naming conventions from a few different cultures. I’ve received documents with my name in every single variation possible. I‘ve been Mr First Name, Mr Middle Name, Mr Last Name, and so on. Often I can’t even determine if they have my name correct in their records – it could be recorded correctly but used incorrectly, or it could be recorded incorrectly and used correctly. Sometimes I suspect it’s recorded incorrectly but also used incorrectly in a different way.

Normally it’s not a problem, but like you say, airline tickets can cause issues. I think I’ve been demoted from “check in online” to “check in at a counter because we need to check your paperwork” a bunch of times because my passport doesn’t match my name on my ticket. Often it’s not even the name order – the airline will only sell my ticket with a first name and last name field (meaning I have to drop my middle name, which is on my passport) or they ask for all three and then concatenate first and middle with no space and truncate the last few letters.

Everything would be so much easier if I could just enter my name.
The problem is that the 0.1% don't seem to really understand this. If they did we would se massive investments in basic science and medicine from them. But we don't. Instead most of them seem to treat their wealth as internet points to compare to other super rich.
Then the source account could not have the funds for the transaction at the time the operation is ... transacted
Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Monkey Island, Duke Nukem 3D, Descent... And BBS games like L.O.R.D.
You can always find some earlier example of a tech that lost. But if you invested in the first company to mass produce a car (Ford) you'd have done well. If you invested in the first of its kind smartphone (Apple) even better. Likewise there's been a lot of early failed AI startups in the past 20 years that you could point to, and now OpenAI is hitting it out of the park, expecting a billion in revenue next year on a pure AI consumer product. I think that shows this time is different.
How many developers do you need?
We know that the non-tech people do check with their tech friend or family member for recommendations. What we all can do is recommend our friends/family member about such thing and move them away from such platforms.
With hindsight, I was correct about Bitcoin being worse than useless when I decided not to bother using my gaming PC and free electricity to mine it in 2011. With hindsight, this could also be seen as a mistake. Although I'm pretty sure I would have sold it at $25 and considered that an unreasonable gain.
Generate new videos from scratch of pretty much anything with this AI
For the first time of my life, I managed to see it, thanks to this tutorial:

https://hidden3d.com/howto-view-stereograms/
What does this do with the data I provide it with? Couldn't find a privacy policy or anything.
> While not nice, these things seem to be well within the rights of the other people and I don‘t think you should try to force to change their minds through political means/power. I actually think the US has quite a good way of dealing with this by allowing a lot of differences between the states. In that way you can go where you‘re treated best and the other people can go where they like the lifestyles of the others the best.

What if that logic was applied to other disregards for human life and rights such as segregation or slavery ?
Veriff laying off 55 people in Estonia
Estonian identity verification company Veriff lays off 21% of its employees

In addition to:

- February 2023: Veriff lays off 66 employees (12%) - https://news.err.ee/1608757834/weekly-estonia-s-feted-startu...

- May 2020: Veriff lays off 63 employees - https://news.err.ee/1085714/estonian-id-verification-company...