skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went all in. No laptop, no other keyboards. From now on, your only computing devices are desktop computers or two-in-one convertibles (microsoft surface pro). My coworkers don't touch my keyboard, I don't touch their dirty keyboard.
It's a bit easier if you're already typing on a non standard layout, like dvorak, which was my case.
The other side of the announcement was an increase in the amount of enforcement using mobile speed cameras. I suspect that'll make more of an impact.
you can remove the `prima` from the italian version: it's implied by the use of past tense and it sounds really bad in italian.
if you want to emphasize the `before`, you can use: `ha già detto addio troppe volte` instead
The Polish language also has an insane amount of compression. Example, "to play": https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/bcthjo/conjugation_o...
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37403583
They're not criminalizing dissent in their indictment of Assange, they're criminalizing the conspiracy to hack government systems with the intent to leak state secrets.

If Assange didn't help Manning dig deeper as alleged, there was no crime. If he did assist, he committed a crime. It's entirely disconnected from publishing documents you happened to come across, which according to New York Times Co. vs United States is not a crime.

Do you see how there's a difference between actively taking a role in attacking state computer systems versus just publishing documents? They're two very different acts.

A journalist equips someone to break into some company building, rifling through their records to show the public they're poisoning the river. The person doing the search gets caught and are arrested after they find what they were looking for. The journalist publishes their findings. The person who was caught had their phone linking them to the journalist equipping them. The journalist is charged with conspiracy of breaking and entering and trespassing. See how writing the article isn't the thing being tried here?
Curious what your thoughts are on the paradox of tolerence?
Google and the person hosting a static blog on a server in their basement are not the same.
This war started in 2014, with "little green men" in the Donbas and the annexation of Crime. It went hotter last year, but it's not a new thing.
It's "&c" – Latin ligatures are important, especially in a thread like this! ;-)
In my experience this is the best non TUI orthodox file commander available on *nix machines.

The amount of dedication that was poured into it to make it as close to TotalCommander as possible is nothing sort of amazing.
This annoys me to no end as well. Whenever I see that message, I just close the window and do something else.
You lost the gender of the person though, which from my understanding is preserved in Latin with a verb suffix.
For further nitpicking: "etc." shall also end with '.' as it is the abbreviated form of "et cetera/caetera". Also, when used in an enumeration, it shall be preceded by a comma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_cetera
>more or less based on the idea that bloodletting and rectal feeding and wound probing were medical "best practices" of the past and now seem so obviously ludicrous to us now

I often remind myself that the Australian aboriginal people, the previous members of what was once a fantastic civilisation, had a sense of anti-bacterial properties of plants and things, and often treated their frail and ill in interesting ways which we, 'modern' Europeans, misinterpreted as "primitive hysteria", because everyone know: 'miasma theory was real, whereas the primitives are just cooking themselves'.

So much life lost to those who always, always know best and never question themselves, really...
Bletchley Park codebreaker Margaret Betts has died
It does not appear to me that Google does EEE, no - certainly not in the way that Microsoft did.
Go interstellar and build your own replica TARS robot
Martian Lawyers Club raises $2.2M for AI-based game personalization tech
Well the easiest way to give people secure systems is to ensure that they are able to change the software themselves. So just require 90 days prior to end of support, that the manufacturers publish information that would allow independent their parties to build, install and run their own custom work on those systems. Basic hardware documentation goes a very long way with the Open Source community and without it we would only be able to support systems that the FSF community reverse engineers.

It is that lack of information, which prevents hardware drivers from entering the Linux Kernel main tree; which along with Tivoization are the leading drivers of e-waste and unsecured systems.
Thanks for the question! GX is a great tool providing data testing, which is also useful during dbt PR, similar to dbt tests. PipeRider provides additional comparison about data profiles between the merge base and the PR, and also presenting more dbt-specific information.
Hi, My name is Geat Aharon, I'm a therapist and a recent graduate of a software course. I would be happy to get involved in any way I can.
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“Despidióse excesivamente antes”?
How come it's not a Go/Rust problem?
I worked at a phone factory once. One day, an app stopped working. It was running on an old Linux server. Nobody had access to it, or so I thought. I noticed the pings were showing high failure rates. I asked to check switch logs or the server's ifconfig output and got weird excuses why they couldn't check anything.

One week goes by, people are living with the error and adjusting the factory to work around that. Many meetings, etc.

Network engineer pulls me to the side and says "you seem like a nice guy, stop worrying about this issue. we won't fix it because if we do, this server becomes ours and we are responsible for this app.. so nobody will touch it. yes, the cable to that server needs to be redone. yeah we won't do that"

I stayed there for 10 months and quit.
that's more like "she's been saying goodbye too often"

the "before" at the end throws me off. I don't think there's an correct tense to properly get this across in Polish. "Kiedyś żegnała się zbyt często"? "Często" also kinda applies to frequency in time, not count, so a literal "zbyt wiele razy" feels better.
Unless of course there is something happening to gravity at the quantum level, which we're pretty sure there is.
SimpleClosure raises $1.5M to help companies shut down faster and cheaper
It’s easy to start a startup. But it’s far more difficult to shut one down.

An estimated 90% of all startups fail, so there is no question that the problem is a widespread one. Yet the process to wind down a company is largely manual and bureaucratic.
Surely smart bots would call the API (https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2) rather than try to scrape the web form. HTTP calls to a web endpoint are much easier to scrape than whatever the website frontend decides to call. All you need to do is parse the Retry-After headed for the 429 error code and you can pretty much query away without worrying about CAPTCHAs.
Those prepaid legal services should suffice. You know, like Rocket Lawyer or Legal Shield, you pay $30 a month to have a lawyer allegedly on hand.

They will review N pages of legal documents included in the base fee. So you should be able to shovel over your most important EULAs and contracts for them to check out. They may not be able to tell you anything useful, though, since the lawyer who fields the call usually has no idea who you are, just has passed the bar in your state.
> LZX had supplanted LHA already by 1994.

What's your background as an Amiga user?

As someone who started using Amiga around 94 until 2000, I can't remember seeing many usages of LZX. It was always LHA.
It can be used for both. A better translation for it would be "excessively".
I briefly looked into it many moons ago when I was a Ph.D. student working in the area of computational semantics in 2006-10. This was already well past the hayday of CYC though.

The first stumbling block was that CYC wasn't openly available. Their research group was very insular, and they were very protective of their IP, hoping to pay for their work through licensing deals and industry- or academic collaborations that could funnel money their way.

They had a subset called "OpenCYC" though, which they released more publicly in the hope of drawing more attention. I tried using that, but soon got frustrated with the software. The representation was in a CYC-specific language called "CycL" and the inference engine was CYC-specific as well and based on a weird description logic specifically invented for CYC. So you couldn't just hook up a first-order theorem prover or anything like that. And "description logic" is a polite term for what their software did. It seemed mostly designed as a workaround to the fact that open-ended inferencing of the kind they spoke of to motivate their work would have depended way too frequently on factoids of common sense knowledge that were missing from the knowledge base. I got frustrated with that software very quickly and eventually gave up.

This was a period of AI-winter, and people doing AI were very afraid to even use the term "AI" to describe what they were doing. People were instead saying they were doing "pattern processing with images" or "audio signal processing" or "natural language processing" or "automated theorem proving" or whatever. Any mention of "AI" made you look naive. But Lenat's group called their stuff "AI" and stuck to their guns, even at a time when that seemed a bit politically inept.

From what I gathered through hearsay, CYC were also doing things like taking a grant from the defense department, and suddenly a major proportion of the facts in the ontology were about military helicopters. But they still kept beating the drum about how they were codifying "common sense" knowledge, and, if only they could get enough "common sense" knowledge in there, they would break through a resistance level at some point, where they could have the AI program itself, i.e. use the existing facts to derive more facts by reading and understanding plain text.
European Alternatives for Digital Products
This reads like an ad.

There are much better ways to deal with bots than to let Cloudflare further bifurcate the Internet.
You could measure the efficiency of a language by computing how many bits are required to store the semantics of a word/phrase/sentence losslessly. Assuming ideal encoding to bits of course. Think of things like perplexity and the like.

However, traditional way of computing efficiency of compression would not be useful for a meaningful analysis of the efficiency of a language. Barring issues like having an ideal encoding to bits, or even having the concept of "efficiency" being rigorously defined, there are problems just from the outset.

Take context for example.

All useful compression methods have some sort of decompression key involved. This could be the dictionary, or the bitmap or the know-how (for cases like RLE). In natural langauges, the compression/decompression key is stored in a distributed fashion across the minds of a society.

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is a VERY efficient compression for what is presumably a very long story about two hunters who met at an island and fought a beast together, but it is only efficient to the people who speak that language. The "local" efficiency (to the population who speak the language) is very high, but the "global" efficiency isn't.

So we must account for efficiency in terms of the size of the compressed concept as well as the compression key. And from my experience, it's a sorta lumpy kinda world out there.
A delay would tie up TCP connections/sockets on the bots but it would add trivially compute cost. Couldn't you just increase the parallelism?

I think a lot of these schemes rely on solving a CPU or memory based computation with JavaScript
It seems like i'm mixing them, but i'm not.

I'm saying as a matter of fact ChatGPT should have different confidences in propositions. My issue isnt the tone of voice, my issue is the content of what it's saying is wrong wrt what we care about, ie., expert credences (/confidences) in the claims it's generating.

It can "express confidently" scepticism; it does not. That's the issue.

In my lang above i was mostly using credence to talk about the strength of the mental state of belief; and confidence to talk about the model of that used in statistical AI.
> But what if you are sued due to something completely out of your control and lose your wealth?

You will be able to afford lawyers, and the US justice system is not so corrupt that you would lose millions of dollars for no reason. Don’t drive drunk, don’t operate a business, and buy umbrella insurance and you should be fine. Biggest risk would probably be divorce, or accusations of abuse from within the family.

> Or face a medical problem that requires expensive treatment not covered by your insurance or government healthcare?

This also sounds super rare as health insurers are legally required to cover all evidence based healthcare, and there is an appeals process for denied coverage. As long as you can afford the premiums and annual out of pocket maximum, which are legally at most $40k to $50k per year for a family, you should be okay.

Of course, you might have to pony up an additional $10k to $20k to buy concierge care/direct primary care to buy timely access to actual doctors rather than see a Nurse Practitioner or Physician’s Assistant, but your passive income from
$10M should suffice.

> Or your investments fail, the USSR fell very quickly risking pensions people relied on, the roman empire fell. US investments could too; I mean they kinda did in the early 1900's, recovery from that took time.

If $10M in the US invested in broad market low cost index funds backstopped by the federal US government is not secure enough for you to relax, then it might be impossible to help you feel sufficiently secure because this world does not offer many better guarantees.

> I suppose it depends if you would equate security and certainty to the same thing? I certainly did but wouldn't now. I wager you don't since you said 99% not 100%.

I do not know what the purpose of distinguishing security and certainty would be in this context, they seem interchangeable. And since nothing in life is 100%, 99% is a way to convey “all the security that is realistically obtainable”.
also known as: microsoft goes out of their way to avoid allowing people outside the EU to choose their default browser
So if I'm understanding correctly this is using AI to fancily upscale Senitel 2 data, essentially guessing what it's seeing, and then suggesting the output of that should be used for making new products/decisions/models. Sounds a bit like CSI Zoom Enhance stuff...
Not fair getting “doch” involved, that’s like saying “dude”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7sf2O90eu4
Turn Your Face into an Emoji
> In New York, if I’m coming to the door to meet the delivery, then I may as well just walk the 1/4 block to get it myself.

Then people in this situation should do that.
That is true. It could also be used by a "he", so there is a bit of ambiguity.
I don't get it, you can make a [ , ] key anywhere. The ] key could be to the right of your pinky on the homerow. The [ key could be the one right above that.
Personally, I have ()[]{} on the home row, activated by a layer and i'm never going back.
Now I'm not going to say the sentence Chelsea Manning received was fair or that I'd be down for going through what she did, or pretend that her life will ever go back to normal, but can we not act like we don't have multiple, recent whistleblower/leakers who have served their time and been released from jail?

For all conspiracy theorists like to talk about it, there is remarkably little disappearing going on in the US, even when intelligence agencies are involved.
Sure, the reduced rate of accidents and emissions is just a useful side catch.
Switzerland has 120kmh instead of typical EU limit of 130kmh. Slightly less pollution of all types, slightly safer roads, cars last slightly longer.

Typical swiss driver is anything but typical driver basically anywhere - polite, respectful, and just doesn't break rules in mormal situations. I really like it this way, and couldnt care less for the limit, saving 1-2 minutes is neglible every time.

That being said, anytime I cross the border to Germany there are these few first minutes of going faster, our roof box is basically the limit so somewhere around 160. Without it, maybe 220. After few minutes novelty wears off, you realize how dangerous and frustrating in actual traffic such speeds are, and go back to something closer to 130.

With fully automated driving, this wouldnt be a topic, I would be reading a book or sleeping. Looking forward to this.
You don't even need to do anything unorthodox. I'm using Firefox with Javascript enabled, set to block fingerprinting and cross-site cookies, and Cloudflare's bot detector regularly puts me into infinite loops. It's especially frustrating when it's the login page for a paid service doing this to me. Why on earth would I abuse your site with a bot using credentials associated with my real name and payment info?
> Much of the time I’m using flags so I can commit unfinished code

There are two interpretations of this, and I find one of them horrifying

1. I'm working on a feature, I need to update multiple components, so I make small changes for each component and feature flag those (this is fine! Totally normal)

2. I commit code that doesn't work because I'm unwilling to use or understand git

The second of these scares the crap out of me. Why? Doesn't it feel like a bit of a footgun to have broken code deployed?

However, I like most of the other comments of the essay - deploys should be easy! That makes rollbacks safe and easy. Using bool flags is fine too - imo feature flagging systems are best at de risking expensive deploys.

If you have an expensive deploy (thinking at least 20m to deploy prod) and you have staging which mirrors prod (probably also 15-20m to deploy staging), then any commit you want to deploy to fix or revert a change in prod is going to cost you a lot of time or hassle. Feature flags give you a mechanism to instantly rollback.

But it sounds like you already have that - it's called your normal deploy.
I always heard the lyric as ‘she’s said goodbye..’, which both scans and makes more grammatical sense. Also matches the tense of the previous line - ‘this love has taken its toll..’
"appear"
I agree. On my ergodox, the top row was f1-f12, and I had a virtual numpad on a layer.
I worked with an admin like that. We had a huge cluster, but he was greedy with the storage space for a service that was critical for the operation of the org.

And I get that this is a good mindset for not wasting space overall, but if a single backup fills 90% of your storage space in test use, that machine is not ready for production. And we are not talking about a lot of space here. The backup was maybe 30 Gb the disk 40 Gb. He could have easily just allocated 100 Gb and call it a day, this way we had to go to him 3 times to scale it up in 10 Gb steps each time, including a the stress of figuring out why things are failing (something that the admin should have seen on his monitoring system).

Admins are my heros, but please if you allocate disk space, just take the biggest expected backup and multiply it by π. And if you need to be stingy with storage for some reason, be stingy, but decide when and where to be stingy — and at least keep an eye on the monitoring and upsize the storage before it is too late.
Usually German is just longer than a lot of other languages, more verbose.

Do you have any examples where it really excels? In my experience English is quite a good language to describe complicated things rather simple and short.
An inside look at SimEnvironment, Maxis' long-lost toxic waste simulator
And then Google slowly built a monopoly on browser implementations. Interoperability isn't appealing to corporations when users don't have much of a choice on using your platform.
Or, the government should step in and say "No. Have different companies take over different parts of Windows. Do this in two years or pay a 1 trillion dollar fine."

I think that would be a lot better.
There are 2 countries I've driven in in Europe with higher limits, France (130 in good weather) and Germany (unlimited in some sections). UK is 70mph. Max I've seen in the US is 75mph.

Most traffic in Germany, even in the unlimited sections, tends to max out around 130. France tends to hit that 130 and not go above it.

I stand by 120 as a generally reasonable speed for a motorway with a speed limit.
The subject is encoded in the verb, as stated.
The goal is to save and invest so much money that if you have age discrimination against you, it doesn't matter.
If this is information anyone can get by flying a drone around military equipment or buying old equipment offered for sale, this seems like a startling suppression of first amendment rights
Excuse the rough conversions but here where I live in the US (New England) the speed limit is generally ~105km/hr on highways but isn't enforced below 130km/hr unless there's some other violation in play.

It seems entirely reasonable
That would be impressive and surprising. Humans aren’t capable of that.
Previous Discussions when the list was much smaller: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627097
What makes it harder for many of those smaller shops is that they require the new worker to own their own tools. WalMart does not require workers to supply their own forklifts, nor bring their own mops & buckets when they start working there.

Working in "the trades" is an entirely different thing.
Same issues in New Zealand. Good roads capable of driving fast, but there’s too much traffic and they should have invested in infrastructure 30 years ago.
Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 – Programmable HW Keypad
To send hardware programmed keyboard inputs like keystrokes or text
Yup, some of these are pretty invasive like opening websocket connections to localhost to try to find daemons running on the clients machine (I think eBay and maybe others were doing this)
Yeah, make Irish roads even thinner and more twisty!
Mostly unrelated, but there was a study [0] some time ago which said that the information rate of all languages was roughly the same. So if a language had more data conveyed per syllable, then it might be spoken slower for instance.

0: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594
Doesn't description logic mostly boil down to multi-modal logic, which ought to be representable as a fragment of FOL (w/ quantifiers ranging over "possible worlds")?

Description logic isn't just found in Cyc, either; Semantic Web standards are based on it, for similar reasons - it's key to making general inference computationally tractable.
I'm just a hobby linguist, but I believe research has generally shown that speech information density is relatively fixed. Languages with more complex syllabic structures end up speaking slower, but they can also code more information.

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav...