skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of the article here. Thanks @pramodbiligiri for posting. Surprising and humbling to see this old article on the HN front page. I haven’t read it in years.

When I wrote that, in the wake of the 2008/9 meltdown, I intended to give programmers some career options to think about. More interesting and stable work out there than FAANGs and startups.
Interesting. I won't do business with companies that only have chatbots as customer service.
YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
Ask HN: What do you think GPT5 will be able to do?
Hmm, well reading the Wikipedia indicates that bin is used, which is similar to Arabic. It doesn’t seem that odd to call someone Mr. bin Osman. However the article does say that it’s considered rude to call someone by their father’s name in Malay culture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_names
Quality v. quantity.

1000 drones vs 1 genius that can see the 0-day.
do you see all the tweets or just the top one?
My assumption is this works around ham fisted "safety" measures, that don't work that well.
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Loki software did some serious good. Any idea what they've become ?
LOL. Big Government in action is exhilarating to watch.

I wonder what would be more difficult, getting your owners to adopt your digitization or to abolish the requirement altogether.

Its probably racist anyway.
One of my favorite things about earlier ages of English is the degree of linguistic specificity they developed for distinctions that we would now find meaningless or unnecessary. For example, red deer of different ages and sexes might be called brockets, spires, hearsts, staggards, harts or hinds.

But the lexicon got really involved when it came to carving. This is from a 17th c. book, The Gentlewoman's Companion:

In cutting up all manner of small Birds, it is proper to say, Thigh them; as thigh that Woodcock, thigh that Pidgeon; but as to others say, Mince that Plover, Wing that Quail, and wing that Partridge, Allay that Pheasant, Untach that Curlew, Unjoint that Bittern, Disfigure that Peacock, Display that Crane, Dismember that Hern, Unbrace that Mallard, Frust that Chicken, Spoil that Hen, Sauce that Capon, Lift that Swan, Rear that Goose, Tire that Egg. As to the flesh of Beasts, Unlace that Coney, Break that Deer, and Leach that Brawn. For Fish; Chine that Salmon, String that Lamprey, Splat that Pike, Sauce that Plaice, and Sauce that Tench, Splay that Bream, Side that Haddock, Tusk that Barbel, Culpon that Trout; Transon that Eel, Tranch that Sturgeon, Tame that Crab, Barb that Lobster.
Because it's not software you can (reasonably) swap out later. Once you've developed your product, it's part of your deliverable. It's like a company changing terms on their engine once you've already built a car around it, and sold them to someone.
This subthread is new since I read through and it is much more encouraging. Shame it got lost among all the people claiming there wasn't a problem.
> By the time a pilot ejects they’ve exhausted EVERY other option to control the aircraft, no AI is going to regain control at that point.

Every other option with the pilot on board. The plane _may_ be easier to fly without it.

FTA: “The loss of the weight of the crew, seats, and canopy, as well as the shift in the center of gravity, have seen aircraft pull out of an imminent crash with nobody left onboard.”
Why is heaps.io never in those lists? It’s not event in the wikipedia page.
Someone from the staff opened a pdf with malware sich stole their Session tokens and bam.
Hell, you could argue that SQL directly is clean architecture, and adding APIs is making it less clean and more complicated.
I’d argue that Greeks were about as secular as modern Canada or America are. There was the concept of religion but it wasn’t relevant. There was also a push towards leaving religion behind as evidenced by philosophers.
Handled in hardware on some machines (e.g. VAX)
Flat Earth is more of a sign of protest masquerading as a theory rather than an actual theory. It appears to be more focused on finding elaborate ways to deny other theories rather than seeking truth. It is inelegant, illogical, and cannot be stated without involving a host of conspiracies of low probability. (The fact that one can only adopt it given values/traits/issues that let one seriously believe in those conspiracies may also make it useful for social signaling.)

What I find tragic is that STEM-inclined crowd might have sort of triggered that defensive reaction by supplanting religion directly with natural sciences. Sometimes when you point out something similar to this thread (that physics does not make statements of absolute truth, there are only models of which none can be fully provably correct and complete, etc.) you encounter vicious insistence that the world is literally the way it is described in physics textbooks or Wikipedia—and it will stay that way until we are blessed with a new explanation for how things really are. You can notice how to a religious person this might feel indistinguishable to a competing religion, rather than an orthogonal aspect of worldview (it is completely possible to be both religious and a natural scientist).

Come to think about it, even your comment sounds slightly off to me in this way, primarily due to the mention of “explanatory limits”. I would prefer another term (possibly “predictive limits”). Again, “explanatory limits” makes it sound as if GR or QM (or X or Y) is capable of “explaining” something. Taking a model, just one metaphor that fits how some aspect of apparent reality behaves in response to input or another observation, and using that metaphor to explain how things are in some objective sense (which is what I take “explanatory” means) is, to me, a misuse of the model. The fact that the model works for some of our purposes makes it useful, but does not grant it explanatory powers.

I wish more of us techies resisted the urge to see in natural sciences explanatory powers that they do not possess, and instead branched a bit into philosophy—which can actually provide some grounds for meaningful discussions on topics that are out of scope of natural sciences per se. (As a side-effect, this might also make us more understanding and bearable to talk to for someone on a different bandwagon than ourselves.)
> So the existence of this pack of cards likely suggests rising wealth generally.

Yeah, the article alludes to that and suggests the cards were used by a family that became wealthy enough to serve meat to guests but not so wealthy as to be able to hire a carver/servant.
I was under the impression that BCD was generally recommended for money, often because of (IEEE?) rounding and machine precision/epsilon:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon
I didn't mention anything about oppression, just that the State enforces one's relationship to Capital. Which is objectively true. The fact that you reflexively went for some talking point is one of the reasons for the poor state of political philosophy in modern societies.
Show HN: Website Content from Query Parameters
I was inspired by smollsite that was posted here a few weeks back, if you add &party=true it will actually let you edit the elements on the page and adjust the URL accordingly.

This definitely isn't a replacement for traditional CMS's but more so it's a fun way to build & edit websites.
man these names are making me dyslexic. love it though.
When I looked at this I thought the title had been shortened and the meaning was obfuscated. The idea that Nintendo would sell to Microsoft is pretty laughable to me.
1) Most of uk.gov is actually designed and built in-house.
2) Germany, as a nation, got to about 1991 and collectively decided "This is nice, let's keep it like this". Even the most technologically progressive regions of Germany still think it's 1997. Elsewhere, it's like the wall never came down.
I still spend inordinate amounts of time playing Heroes 3. It’s been a strong procrastination feeder over the decades, but it also gave me a lot of fun!

I mostly play HotA in HD Mod these days, but I had used VCMI on Android (with SoD). It’s been a bit rough – the client-server thing that it does would have connection issues, the mechanics differed in subtle ways, etc. But I’m also super grateful that it exists.
I read that thread too and he just seems like a bunch of people denying there's a problem. The sibling reply here rather contradicts your point as do several others replies in the Reddit thread.
I'm not completely sure that Opera could send your data directly to China without employees in Norway making some noise about it, but it's absolutely a possibility and a risk.

It really does underscore one of big problems for China, no one trusts them. The CCP is an actual hindrance for Chinese companies as its involvement prevent them for growing trust in their products and brands. I suppose that's why Opera still uses a lot of mentions of Oslo and Norway on their website. It's better for the brand if people think it's Norwegian.
Musk isn't exactly popular nowadays, so it is risky to say anything that looks like condoning him, but if I abstract away from his person, the idea isn't wrong and I wish it would succeed.

Our current standard of service "everything in tech should be free and paid for by ads" is pathological on so many levels.

First, it turns us users from customers into product, and the corporations are free to ignore our grievances or to deny us actual support.

Second, while programs scale well and you can service the whole humanity with a few server rooms, this isn't true about the non-tech part, e.g. moderation, just enforcement of policies etc. These are human-heavy and expensive, and their cost cannot possibly be borne out of ad revenue alone.

Third, by relying on ads for money, the networks have a huge incentive to develop intentionally addictive products. The more time you spend on the network, the more ads you see, ergo the more valuable you are for the business. We ended up with virtual equivalent of the opiate crisis, the algorithms do their darndest best to polarize us and keep us online.

That said, people after 25 years of free services would probably rather run than accept payment, and Musk as the face of this change does not inspire many either.
If you actually want to do something useful and accurate and auditable and performant and space-efficient, because you have a lot of money values to bank with, you really don't want too much abstraction.

My experiences in various bits of banking include where juniors ignore advice NOT to store currency in floating point values and then come whining that arithmetic is broken, and tech dudes in a lab deciding that every single FX flow in an investment bank should have 2MB of (unshared) calendar hidden inside its abstraction which made some individual trades too big to load even for powerful machines...

Fixed point calcs in integers are good.
> I’m guessing back in the day when things were 32 bit or less, there were entire financial database implementations that handled this abstraction?

This issue is what COBOL was designed to solve. Fixed decimal point arithmetic in base 10
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> Note that given the franchise model, that's 50k profit on basically no expenses

Profit is already past expenses.

> That's just the tax they are charging the franchises for the privilege of calling themselves a McDonalds store.

McDonalds does plenty for the franchise restaurants:

1. Brand recognition and marketing which bring in tons of customers, without the franchise owner having to spend a cent.

2. Recipes that will sell. Franchise owners does not have to know anything about cooking, people's tastes etc. It's all covered by McDonald's R&D.

3. Efficient operations. Similar to the above, franchise owner's does not need to know anything about running an efficient restaurant. All equipment design as well as day-to-day operational procedures are standardized, highly efficient, and provided by McDonalds.

4. Employee training.

5. Restaurant interior design. Again, provided by McDonald - no need to think about it, no area to make costly mistakes by inexperienced owner.

6. Supplies. No need to worry about managing supplies and suppliers - it's all provided by McDonalds.

In fact, McDonalds does so much for a franchise owner that he's somewhat closer to a glorified manager with a profit sharing agreement, that to a real business owner.
"No, in the sense that humans are actually part of these ecosystems and it is possible for us to understand these processes and work with them. And this is the point of the research posted here: planting native seedlings is superior for restoration than 'just leaving things to nature'."

I agree with what you're saying - but I think this point is slightly misleading. Planting native seedlings is exactly what nature would do - we are just accelerating nature's own process - not changing it for another process.
Russel Brand? Isn't his career practically over now, after the recent allegations?
> Who do you mean by “we” when suggesting stricter standards?

"We” are human beings who are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

> How does that work? Nationalize Google?

Social expectations, social awareness, legal means. It would work like all other customs and laws work: you get socially shunned and get legal trouble for your actions that don’t meet social expectations. Try to open a bar that doesn’t allow black people to enter it to see how those mechanisms work in practice.
You are free to develop an X11 subset that is easier to maintain and convince existing Xorg users to switch to your subset.
Sorry, but that's hogwash. There's nothing holding you back as a developer due to not having cgroups. Develop on the machine you are using - alternatively (not ideal, but some people do it), develop against a Docker instance. I would not recommend the latter though.
I was surprised by the headline, but of course companies don’t want their ads on his channel and this is YouTube’s way of protecting their revenue.
no, integers are generally used. BCD is fixed-point in any case so it's just an inefficient integer representation.
> Brand does have a right to fair treatment under the law.

I’m not sure if that’s accurate, but maybe some lawyers here can enlighten me. As far as I know, if you run a business in a country’s jurisdiction, you need to follow their laws. It’s not anarchy/wild west. I can’t make a ToS for my bakery that only serves people of a certain race, for example. The same applies to online businesses. And don’t tell me this is an obvious discrimination but this case is different, so on and so forth. It’s because the law forbids it. And of course, big tech can’t ignore the law. They shouldn’t deprive anyone of their right to use their service to the fullest, especially if they are public companies.
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> Earth is currently in the ice age called Quaternary glaciation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

Basic definition is when ice covers both poles
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I certainly hope that we won't be burdened by yet anothet "hey, it's free, and we will only turn your personal data into a product and invade your privacy and polarize and harass you algorithmically to keep you attention away from everything else but our outrages of the day" network.

This model has produced so many pathologies that it is time to retire it. Entshittification of such services is pre-programmed.
why add the complexity of bcd when you can just put in it units (e.g. cents) where there's no decimal point?
What frightens me is comparing the snail-like rate of progress in the post-modern era with the rapid progress during the 20th century, regardless of economic and governmental system. It's like the a hand brake was simply engaged. I get it that people in power want to stall things so that they can skim money for their own purposes, but doesn't anybody else get just bored by the lack of progress?
We got here. Inside scoops from Microsoft. From Pandemic to Layoffs
N1570, 6.8.5, point 6 under "Semantics":

An iteration statement whose controlling expression is not a constant expression,156) that
performs no input/output operations, does not access volatile objects, and performs no
synchronization or atomic operations in its body, controlling expression, or (in the case of
a for statement) its expression-3, may be assumed by the implementation to terminate.

Namely, the "not a constant expression" restriction is important here. So an empty loop with a non-constant end test can be assumed to terminate, but a constant one (e.g. while(1){} or for(;;); ) cannot.

Note that the rules in C++ on this are different, and do allow even a constant-end-condition empty loop to be assumed to terminate.
I've been using Google Assistant to control my Hue light setup for more than a year now.
I've never seen anyone use floating point for money in their bespoke applications
Someone asked[0] what happened to Bard just 10 hours ago (or 8 hours if relative to this posting).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564768
Astronomers spot the first “bounce” in our Universe
Yes, I suppose optimal isn't really the right word - I suppose I mean relatively stable and long lasting.
Even thinking of going paywall-only suggests ad revenue is through the floor. Bit rich to make this about bots when most paid-user comments at the top of threads read like automated self-promotional ads.
>no, collaboration makes sense regardless

The EU is one big collaborative project. I'm pro EU for this very reason, so surely the leavers argument has to be 'some, but not too much collaboration makes sense'.

Of course that assumes a coherent argument from brexiteers...
Sounds slow as hell, what kind of financial systems have you worked with? I write trading software, and pretty much everyone uses integers with implied decimal place, similar to TFA.

How do you know you convert your internal string to a float/int correctly? You have to deal with the numeric types eventually
I’m actually asking the question — when we leave the ice age, will the Sahara turn green? Presumably, based on this paper, the sea water will rise and then yes it will get more rain.
Sure!

- Automatically deleting text-based and email-based 2FA codes

- Adaptive Transparency with AirPods Pro 2

- Live Voicemail. This one's huge. You can hear and read the VMs that people are leaving and use that context to decide whether to accept or ignore their call. Android's had this for a while; glad to see it in iOS.

There are others, but I can't think of them right now.
It boggles my mind that you direct customers to your issue tracker. With over 50,000 open issue, it is where requests go to die. It is not a place of honor.
Adding to that, the acquired company isn't even the original Opera Software. They divested of their browser, sold it to a Chinese consortium, and changed their name to Otello to focus on their ad business.

The new Opera likes to promote their Norwegian roots everywhere, but it is very much a Chinese business with an overseas office.
Floating point feels like an incredibly grokkable concept that was just not taught well for a long time. Maybe too mathematically (of course). Or maybe that was just my experience.

I feel like any dev team should pick up a copy of this for on-boarding: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/23/new-zine--how-integers-and-f...
My cutoff date is in September 2023 but I didn’t know this one either.
Oooh an AI assassination market

Me likey
Not true for any of the finanical systems I've worked for the credit/derivatives/FI/etc desks of some of the largest investment banks down to the systems for the virtual card e-money issuer in the UK that I founded.
I have never encountered such a system. Integers used for fixed-point representation do not suffer from "bit-level issues".
I think you are a little bit biased here.
Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition from ubisoft has one major issue, it's lacking expansions.
But the graphics itself is imo better than in hd mod.
https://www.gamersgate.com/media/products/product/14687141/s...
https://i.imgur.com/i1DNqNp.png
The second one is a pic from hd mod. The first one is hd edition.
Fraser Institute
What an awful name…
Oh and it's open-source so if you have ideas on how to improve of questions, please contribute!

https://github.com/stritt/params
Let’s Use AI and Property Tax Reform to Alleviate Housing Costs
BCD is better than IEEE 754 floating point, but simple integers with an implied decimal point is much better than either of those.
> I don't think rewrite in Rust is a solution to "modernize" GNU tools. Maybe another memory safe language, but Rust has severe bootstrapping issues which is a hard sell for distros that care about source to binary transparency.

That IMO is of lesser importance. It's a technical problem that's of little relevance to most end-users. It's still a problem, but one that I think can be solved.

The point though is that the world keeps on moving, and the FSF and GNU should be keeping up. If things are going to Rust, or Java, or Go, or whatever then the FSF should do its best to follow and to assert its influence there. Otherwise it'll be left in a sort of museum curator position -- taking care of old tools that few need anymore. That may be a valuable thing to do in many contexts, but is not what you want to be doing if you want to influence where the world is going.
Oh, now I get it - they named the engine after the play, "Waiting for Mr Chekhov."
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If by "bit-level issues" you mean bit flips (which you should be worried about), a string doesn't help much - "4" is 0x34 ASCII/UTF-8, flip lowest bit and you get "5" (0x35).

I'd imagine if I have to protect against bit-level fuckery something like this would be a better representation:

struct Dough {
u64 amount;
u64 amount_again;
u64 amount_just_to_be_really_sure;
}

that and hardware-level protection of course
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> What it says is that US's protections are not equivalent

It says that US intelligence agency can access data of any EU citizen without any authorization or control from the citizens or any EU authority.

More or less the same thing that Cina can do, the difference is that they have far fewer data.

> Look, as an EU citizen, I was disappointed by Snowden's revelations, too. But there is no equivalence.

Snowden was only the tip of the iceberg, what's happening nowadays with cloud/SaaS it's far more big and complex, and can only get worse.
To my knowledge, RenTec aren't market makers, they supposedly run directional bets. It is highly unlikely to do that with their size of funds ($130B) for that long (>20 years) with that success rate (>60% p.a.)
Eh, the more proximal issue is just that some people see how distorted the game is (and hate it), but most people literally do not see the issue with the game’s design.

The resulting dynamics of winner-takes-all, fuck everyone else is seen as just a natural consequence of the natural rules of the game.