skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just have a single "name field" and maybe preferred name, which is not the same."

This is the way to go.

"The family/given name format doesn't make much sense here."

It doesn't make much sense in many places all over the world. In Germany technically speaking our given names are a set and we can have many of them. While it is practically necessary to write them out in a certain order in our documents, from a legal standpoint they are all equal. There is no first and second given name and most certainly no middle name. Consequence is that in everyday life today I can be Hans and tomorrow Fritz. I can be Hans Fritz or Fritz Hans too, but not Hans-Fritz (with a hyphen) except if it's written like that in my birth certificate and then the order is fixed and I can't decide to be Hans, Fritz or Fritz-Hans.

The trade-off in this system is that it is much harder to change your name here then in most other places.

In Bavaria where I live, the informal convention is also last name first, exactly like in Asia.
I'm unreasonably excited about possibly witnessing a new popular term coming into being!
Every time I see an article like this, I look for SF-native comments.

One of my clients is administratively based in SF, but is never there. They moved to LA awhile back, and they directly cite crime, homelessness, general urban decay, and the “ridiculousness of tech bros” [0] as the deciding factor in their physical relocation.

[0] a paraphrased quote.
You may be interested in https://www.oilshell.org/. It has many of the same end goals as nushell with more of an upgrade path from bash planned. You can start with full compatibility, and then turn on shell opts as you get comfortable to enable new behavior and disable bad old practices.
How do you define "poor"? Net worth of less than $10M? Income less than $1M?

Unless you set very strict limits for "poor" like that, the people that the ultra rich hire tend to be rather well off, or at least comfortable, themselves ( by that I mean net worth of >$1M OR income of >$100k.

Actual poor people don't built state of the art tech. At best, they work as cleaning staff or in the cafeteria of those companies. Or maybe in the assembly plant in a foreign country. (And even those may feel wealthy when compared to their friends and family.)

Those who resent the ultra rich the most tend to be those who are themselves quite comfortable, often affluent even, but really hate it when other people are even more successful than themselves.

They often pretend to care for "the poor", but really all they want is to pull down anyone more successful than themselves.
> well, what's Adobe's moat, now that this exists?

Although this is debatable, lets accept it for the sake of argument that adobe has no moat.

If this is the case, this may be bad for adobe, but it is amazing for the design world. Producing more art for cheaper is real value.

And we may not know who specifically will capture that value, but it is undeniably value none the less that will go somewhere. That still benefits the economy as a whole, even if we can't guess which AI startup will win the race.
How is a toaster alive

How is the corpse of a loved one not a dead thing
Astigmatism is kind of a directional blur. If some lines look more blurry than others while looking at this image with one eye at a time, you may have it.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
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> The core Unix philosophy is about enabling workflows that combine a set of independent tools in novel ways.

You mean like

ls | rm

deletes the files in a directory?

Uh wait, that doesn't actually work.

Because the Unix tools actually don't implement the Unix philosophy at all.

Because as it turns out, text streams are not a universal interface after all.

Nushell succeeds where the coreutils have failed for decades precisely because its commands are designed to work together. They pass structured data around, which means that pipelines can actually work without requiring weird hacks to make one underspecified text format conform to the other. That is the Unix philosophy: Tools that work together.

But don't worry, the old Unix tools can be used from Nushell – and they work together just as poorly in Nushell as in every other shell, not one bit worse.
Adobe's moat is that GIMP still cannot properly edit 4-channel CMYK images. And none of the competitors can print with ICC profile correction. I kid you not, there is no way around Adobe for any kind of serious image editing.

Adobe's second moat is PDF. And it builds upon their imaging moat because companies want their product boxes to be sharp and with accurate colors, so there is an entire industry built around PDF-based print and cut and glue manufacturing.

So whether or not they throw an AI bone to the kids is probably irrelevant to their bottom line. My guess would be that Adobe added those AI features mainly to make their company look more sexy to potential future hires.
To make it more fun again possibly: http://astronaut.io
Honestly, it happens when I get some weird idea in my head that I can't stop thinking about, and a sort of mania takes over and gives me the energy and drive to work on it for hours on end.
Oh, so it's about inexpensive/expensive cars, and size is just something that correlates with that. I see.
ShellCheck: Static analysis tool for shell scripts
Google is a privacy invasion master... No need to be paranoid.
The distance between "sort of works" and "works" for AI is considerable. Not infinite.

Look at self-driving cars. The first tries were in the late 1950s, with GM's Firebird 3, guided by wires in the road. By the 1980s, the first self-driving vehicles were moving around CMU, very slowly. By the early 1990s, experimental highway driving had been demoed. In the early 2000s, we had the DARPA Grand Challenge, which had off-road driving on empty roads working. Then there were a few experimental self-driving cars that sort of worked on general roads. Many startups, most went bust.

Today you can take a driverless cab in San Francisco. 64 years since GM's Firebird III.
(Which still exists, in driveable condition, in GM's in-house collection.)

It may take a while to get from GPT-3 to Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0. But the path is clear now.
Any advantages/features this offers over UTM?
I second this. I also have a web background, and last year I started with this video, and the Gameboy is a great place to start with this sort of thing.

Start making a game, and you'll soon realise how the CPU works, and making a simple emulator will start to seem very possible.
Expr Release v1.15
I would says "vendor lock-in or even legacy code". It seems to me that the systems that use mainframes have business continuity and stability as main goal. If it works there is not sense in migration. I think that for systems that use mainframes money is not the issue and on top of that migration costs would be huge.
I think it depends on your typing speed, your target speed, and how much time you want to spend learning the method. On desktop I type 110-130 WPM so such a shortcut wouldn't really help in all but the most extreme examples in day to day work.

On mobile my typing speed is much, much lower and I extensively use autocomplete.

But even at the high end of typing speed there's still a use case for shortcuts, it's just called stenography and it requires specialized software and/or hardware and tons of training.
Not on every Thinkpad. On a T14s the FN and Ctrl keys have different sizes.
>authoritarianism

This term is functionally meaningless. Authority is not a coherent ideology (an -ism), it's just the natural outcome of the state maintaining a monopoly on violence.

The real question is: whose authority, and for whom?
> I suspect a history book will show me that nearly every society in history,

Don't suspect, read a book (unless your local library has been burnt to the ground or blown up by hyper ventilating pearl clutchers).

You do realise (I hope) that significant chunks of western theatre history (ie. popular entertainmant, including for children) has been rife with men in drag playing the part of ladies?

Quick, go check your history books, subsection theatre.

While you're there look up Onnagata in Kubuki theatre in Japan for a bit of Eastern cultural history .. and for goodness sake don't look up Bugis culture in Sulawesi as they've recognised five genders for centuries.

You have some pretty blinkered preconceptions. Home school?
It's your personal preference to be addressed with _Sie_, but languages change and German is seeing shift to the use of _Du_ even for transactional business [1]. Target audience, region, familiarity etc. will all affect which word is used. Claiming the use of _Du_ in customer relationships as "wholly inappropriate" again is an expression of personal preference, not fact.

[1] https://www.abendblatt.de/wirtschaft/article233949947/firmen...
I am using rule of two. I refactor at the second appearance.
I started doing this when programming Ruby on Rails a few years back, where DRY (Don't repeat yourself) was a big thing there.
There was no cataclysmic destruction of the Library of Alexandria. It declined slowly over several centuries. Wikipedia gives a decent overview. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria)

Jean-Yves Empereur discusses the archaeological evidence in "The destruction of the Library of Alexandria: An archaeological viewpoint" in the edited volume What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria? (2008).

In that same volume, Qassem Abdou Qassem and Bernard Lewis each discuss the origin of the quote mentioned above and dispute its authenticity.
> It's a bit weird to label millions of people, including presumably yourself, as 'poor suckers', is this a joke?

Your average millionaire is closer in wealth to the average homeless person than he is to the average billionaire.

A single catastrophic event - be it some kid getting paralyzed on your backyard trampoline, an investment gone wrong, a company going under because it can't compete with Chinese government-backed price dumping, disaster that rips apart one's home that has gotten uninsurable, cancer, or early-onset dementia - can wipe out their wealth in the blink of an eye, whereas the billionaire can afford to sink half a billion into a yacht and still have not made a dent in his wealth.
> In Vietnam names like Nguyen Thi Anh Mai are common.

Which reminds me of this problem: she might have sisters called, say, Nguyen Thi Anh May and Nguyen Thi Anh Minh, and in quite a few countries this will result in them having identical names on their identity cards and most communication, either "Nguyen Thi", "Nguyen Thi Anh" or even "Nguyen Thi Anh M."
> V has a native backend

It is important to note that (at the time of writing this comment) the native backend can compile only three examples in the `examples/` directory in the V compiler codebase:

hello_world.v
fizz_buzz.v
rune.v

All the other examples fail to compile when V is used with the `-b native` flag.
Not saying she's unreasonable for feeling that way - just wondering if this is also something that should be considered in Asia, too, and giving a bit of context for people who aren't familiar with Germany. I know that Japanese has an even more "complicated" (to non-native-speakers) grammatical distinction of familiarity, but not much more about it, and have even less idea about how it works in other Asian languages/cultures.

Knowing what name to display isn't always enough - you also need to think about how the rest of the text around it should be translated to match. For German, the safe answer is still third-person plural Sie, unless you're absolutely certain your audience are all children, and missing that distinction might be taken by your audience as either that you're trying to be creepily over-familiar, or that you think they're children.

A sibling comment says that "Du" (second-person familiar) for business is becoming more common, and while that's true, I would NOT recommend using it without a good knowledge of German culture and your specific audience.
Used this to create a Debian VM on my M2 Mac mini. Works great.
I thought said incident is how attacks on her began but it looks like the trigger was her sarcastic objection to phrase "people who menstruate".

Either way I can't really blame her if making a tweet about media allergy to word "woman" prompted death threats. Platforming, don't know enough to comment right now (though AFAIK people are not going out on protests against Joe Rogan like they did against her and we all know the characters Rogan is platforming...)

I consider myself mostly left but I think the world should be big enough for both trans people and women-referred-to-as-women (who have their own long going battle for equality) to coexist. If it is wrong please let me know why. But for now if someone treats using word "woman" as equivalent to attacking trans people then I write that off as "ideological issue" since it's obviously not attacking trans people. Looks like Rowling couldn't write that off and needed to comment because she was personally attacked and also felt the need to defend women as she is one.

Hope that helps clarify how people can be completely pro trans equality and yet be frustrated with some of what's happening as ideological agenda pushing.
Standing up from a kneeling position. I always struggled with this maneuver, especially as a Roman Catholic altar boy wearing a floor-length cassock, and with age, it became increasingly precarious, so to speak.

One day, the pastor walks into the sacristy, and he's addressing a cadre of young boys. He explains how to get down to the floor, one knee at a time. Then he explains, and demonstrates, exactly how to get back up: you put one foot out to the side, and then you've got leverage and stability to stand right up.

It was like night and day after I started using his advice. I'm glad that I never fell over!
The arguments presented by dragondrop are a classic example of FUD. The author is afraid of what Hashicorp can do if we don't just ignore the license change and pretend nothing happened. Based on that fear, they present various scenarios that seem scary to them. But when you look closer, these fears are ridiculous.

For example, "people will be confused whether they should use TF or OpenTF". Guess what: at the beginning everybody will be using TF except a small minority who will consciously chose OpenTF, mostly for development. And they will make sure that, at least at the beginning, the choice will be irrelevant because the compatibility between these two is a top priority. It's like saying in 2004 "You shouldn't release CentOS because people will not be sure if they want to run CentOS or Red Hat". It simply makes no sense. All other arguments are like that.
To your point in #2: this can create a murky and risky situation for the party being reviewed. Particularly if you’re small and you are trying to land your first big client that asks questions like “have you previously been compromised?” then your answer now depends on the definition of compromised.

Even if you are engaged in legitimate security research, it is highly unethical and unprofessional to willfully exceed your engagement limits. You may not even know the full reasoning of why those limits are established.
It is either an objective fact, or something you experience, but it cannot be both. Having said it, have you actually measured how much time you spend typing, to claim a huge boost in productivity? Developers very often overstate the amount they type p.d.

I can imagine, that going from pecking on keyboard to 10 fingers is actually huge - it is just a bump disappearing. But going from 80 wpm to 160 should have diminishing returns, even more so going from 160 to 320 - here, the Pareto principle should kick in.
Ask HN: Is it be feasible to automate answers to RFP using GenAI?
I am curios to know from the people here what are their thoughts about the possibility to automate completely or even partially answers to RFP requests by leveraging Generative AI. Every company that participates in RFP usually has a consistent database of documentation that might be leveraged for such purposes. At the same time the usual length of RFP documents might poses great challenges to LLMs in terms of their context limits. What are your thoughts?
> The distance between "sort of works" and "works" for AI is considerable. Not infinite.
> Today you can take a driverless cab in San Francisco [...]

From the outside, it sure does look like driverless is still firmly at "sort of works":

"After California regulators approved the expansion of driverless taxi services in San Francisco earlier this month, it took only a little more than 24 hours for a series of events to begin that seemed to justify the taxis’ detractors.

The day after the vote, 10 autonomous vehicles operated by Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, abruptly stopped functioning in the middle of a busy street in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Posts to social media showed the cars jammed up, their hazard lights flashing, blocking traffic for 15 minutes.

A few days later, another Cruise vehicle drove into a paving project in the Western Addition and got stuck in freshly poured concrete.

And then last week, a Cruise car collided with a fire truck in the city, injuring a passenger in the car.

So it was that last Friday Cruise agreed to a request from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to cut in half the number of vehicles it operated in San Francisco, even though regulatory approval for more remained in place. The company, which has had 400 driverless vehicles operating in the city, will now have no more than 50 cars running during the day and 150 at night."[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/us/california-autonomous-...
I get your point! But I don't like the subscription hell. 10 bucks here, 10 bucks there (and Kagi is what, 30?). No thank you. I don't even pay for video streaming.

I might change my mind for 10 bucks a month with unlimited search tho.
Microsoft to unbundle Teams software in Europe to abate EU antitrust concerns
Some people have more than one passport (multiple citizenship) and could use a different one to enter different countries because of visas. The name could be partly different on those passports. But yes, they probably know the passport they'll use since the time they buy the ticket.
None of those "knowing why others are stupid" and "AI is muchmuchmore useful" matters if the topic is rampaged and distorted by clueless pile of wealth into momentary apparent fame instead of developed sensibly. Crypto and blockchain could have had much better merit if it's reputation was not destoyed by forced through careless mania. The society will f up AI into something of a freak, maybe even quicker due to its powerful hence scary nature, if maniacs push into something where it causes serious damages or cathastrophy, triggering hard regulations and bans. At least for our lifetime, slowing its much needed introduction to life to several generations timespan. AI could, and probably will, be castrated rapidly by the frenzy of huge piles of clueless money.
That's a mistake that leads to premature generalization
Always wanted to see them, but I'm stereo blind ( ; ; )
Quality is an opinion. Big teams are oftentimes there to improve flawlessness and appeal.
> sometimes you've just gotta put a dude on the moon, you know?

in software development it looks like everyone and their grandmother is sending people to all moons known to mankind, though.
That's true for driverless cars but there's many areas where you don't need 100% to be useful. Stable diffusion and LLMs are 90% there but still very useful and cool.
https://archive.ph/bpLUo
Constantly my brain gets a question: Can I search specific youtube video captions?

Ok, this may be an answer... but is there an online service that given YT URL would spit captions out for me? Or maybe a browser extension?

Maybe even youtube has a hidden link somwhere where I could see all the text?

This submission triggered me for reasearch and found this gem: https://filmot.com/

The guy who created it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/oo8xbd/search_...
Adobe's business model is to provide you the benefits of wild-west AI with the legal stability of an Adobe service.

With Firefly they offer a tool an art agency can use daily without having to worry about hidden legal implications of using AI...
What have you read? Whatever you have seen is not our system.

Clinical need comes first.

My above links may help you.
That's about the only time I can do honest work programming. It makes me avoid doing programming tasks at work and try to find more writing-related stuff ...
It is a grift regardless of usefulness. "But it is useful" is hardly a justification for destroying the planet [0] [1] [2] without any viable efficient methods available today in training, fine-tuning and running it on every inference on tons of data centers.

All for so-called companies claiming to be 'AI companies' when they cannot even read or implement a technical paper and are just wrapping over someone elses API and immediately they are 'AI companies'. When it goes down they start crying over it 'not working'.

That is a confidence trick which is the definition of a grift and most replying here with excuses of "But it is useful" are likely to be underwater over their investments in inflated ChatGPT wrapper companies.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-data-centre-water...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/08/artificia...
The ideological part is the basis behind changes to policy and law such that single-sex spaces become mixed-sex spaces.

For example, opening up women's locker rooms to men who say they are women. This is to the benefit of the men who desire such access, but to the detriment of women who want to keep their female-only safe spaces. Whether cases like this constitite a justifiable change in policy or not is where the ideological divides lie.
It doesn’t matter if your friend uses an English name at work.

It doesn’t matter if the ethnic group writes it last first or first last.

If you’re filling in Chinese documentation and writing it in Chinese it will be a single field in Chinese.

If you’re writing it in English it will be written in 2 fields as first name and last name as the English version of the Chinese name.

The spoken English name of “alice” or “David” are not used on official documentation.

Name cards will sometimes have English names and sometimes they will put the English name with Chinese last name. But also write the Chinese name in Chinese.

I can’t believe how much people are over thinking this stuff.