skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Football became popular because anybody with a TV set could watch the millionaires

Come on now. Football stadia were already full before the tv was even invented, and not all stadia were built with public money.

Is it now just another exploitative market? Yes. But let's not throw away the working-man's sport with the monopolistic-capitalist bathwater.
Academia often involves a lot of time, but often in informal and flexible ways, with relatively little inflexible time (eg, lectures), and campuses that are not necessarily child-unfriendly. Unlike law, most likely, it isn't necessarily incompatible with having children if the university accommodates it. In some ways universities can even have particular advantages in accommodating children: they may well have entire departments of students being taught to educate and care for children (this can also include both educators and medical students), and spaces and resources that can be useful, especially for older children, like libraries. They might already manage things like housing, and can help with some worries, like trying to look forward to college tuition.

Neither my parents nor most of the academic parents I knew growing up paused or abandoned their academic careers. We just spent a lot of time on university campuses. Departments were often fine with even infants being brought to offices, and classes their parents were teaching, as long as they weren't too disruptive. Quite a bit of work could be done at home, and home was often quite close to campus. While I was usually was with my mother, I think there was also easily accessible childcare. By the time I was an undergraduate, I knew the campus and library very well, and many faculty and staff knew me.
Indeed, while the Send bound can safeguard against potential concurrency issues, it also dictates a specific architectural direction for applications. Consider a web server: with the Send bound, you might be encouraged to design it such that each incoming request is handled by potentially any thread in a thread pool. Without that bound, you might lean towards a more lightweight, single-threaded model similar to Node.js, which doesn't require Send bounds and still excels at handling I/O-bound tasks.

"Doing the right thing" can vary based on the context. For instance, in embedded systems where threads aren't available, requiring futures to be Send is unnecessary. Thankfully, the standard library does not enforce this and neither does Tokio with spawn_local, but embassy exists because there's a genuine need for async frameworks tailored to the unique constraints and requirements of embedded systems.
Some sort of troll I'm guessing.
Ask HN: Who Wants Another iPhone Mini?
I certainly hope they make another one.
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> My biggest complaint with OpenAI/ChatGPT is their horrible "marketing"

Agreed. Other notable mentions: choosing "ChatGPT" as their product name and not having mobile apps.
You need a model of yourself to game out future scenarios, and that model or model+game is probably consciousness or very closely related.

Sure, it's not completely in control but if it's just a rationalization then it begs the question: why bother? Is it accidental? If it's just an accident, then what replaces it in the planning process and why isn't that thing consciousness?
Yes. It runs inside the IO monad.
Did humans stop inventing facts? So i don't expect this thing either as long as it performs on human level
Are you arguing that people in their 20s should not be able to start families?
That definition really has no value outside the context of analyzing a given household’s situation. In the context of housing regulation, zoning, etc it really isn’t helpful since all housing is both affordable and unaffordable. Schrödinger’s housing.
Decisions are rarely made upon a single criterion, and such a criterion isn't usually formulated explicitly.
"Profitable" and "necessary" might sometimes be at odds.

That's why we have governments, though.
I've seen plenty that go $100-350k, especially when it looks like a company is hiring a few people... Useless to a candidate, but not dodgy or malicious.
I agree that the naming of the different entities is not very clear. That doesn’t imply that each of these entities is a mess though.
Are either of those things indicative of "fastest growth ever"? Maybe 100 million users, but we live in a world where it's hard to know how meaningful that is (ie Tucker's X videos getting 300 million views).
Then why raise an additional $100m?
Maybe they need an RSS feed or something
Whether it is possible to construct a perfect human action predictor that is not itself conscious has no bearing on whether consciousness affects human behavior.
At least they provide resourceful humans :-)
NTSTATUS is actually a combination of five types of information: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...

The first two bits indicate severity, the next bit identifies if it was OS generated or not, then there's an indicator to see if it can be turned into a HRESULT or not, then a bunch of bits indicating the source of the error, and lastly the error code relevant given the previously set bits.

The Windows status codes could be converted, but the status codes generated by other drivers can't be. Even then the conversion would be far from free, you'd need to keep a close eye on your optimisations with every compiler version to keep them free.

That also ignores the possibility programs have to classify their own status codes, so you'd need some kind of "unconvertible" object to indicate that you can't reliably parse the faculty ID, and that you have to treat it like a simple integer.
So long as I have the option to choose something else, I'm fine with this. some companies don't have a choice so a lack of support simply means rust won't be viable.
Education has traditionally been a primary method for upward economic mobility. Once student loans became a thing, colleges jacked up tuition to put it out of reach of anyone but the super wealthy unless student loans were used.
> You could solve async/non-async polymorphism via the introduction of HKTs

Rust has stabilized GATs, which are comparable in power to HKTs while having better interop with the language's broader feature set.
This is great news and required a lot of courage from Governor Newsom. He was put in a tough place between two of his largest supporters (tech and labor). Paradigm shifts like autonomy are hard in the short term, but it never makes sense to hamstring technology to preserve jobs - if that were the case we'd still be paying punchcard operators instead of using computers. Not to mention that this will make our roads safer.
“This is something we’d expect to see in Putin’s Russia or in Belarus, not here in a western parliamentary-style democracy,”

Canadian journalists now blaming Meta for the inevitable outcomes of the Canadian governments ham fisted legislation is a decent illustration of the brain rot that has taken place in the liberal professions. 'Big tech bad' is a mind blasting meme which prevents believers from thinking of any other explanation for the bad things that happen on the Internet
Yes. See for example: https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1405121496968843272
Yesterday I was listening to The Changelog podcast with Steve O'Grady called "Open Source is at a Crossroads". In it he says something along the lines of: We have companies come to us saying they want to release their source under an encumbered license and we tell them that they can definitely do that but they can't call it open source, because open source means something fairly specific to developers. We work with them on getting their specific license terms set up but they come back saying "We really want to call it open source, because developers find open source cool, and we want to attract developers." Developers like it because of what open source means.

https://changelog.com/podcast/558
The benefits would be if you prefer gleam:s syntax and static typing. In the end all compile down to the same Erlang byte code that runs on the BEAM so neither has any performance benefits.
Considering the field and progress that is being made I find this idea terrifying. All the big problems like "How will we actually control what we're building?" being answered "that's too hard; let's punt and solve that after we figure out how to consume voice data". One way or another this is likely the last technological advance that humans will make.
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Note for the next audience members: take the initiative to unload the gun.

No one has a very good reason to oppose you. Not that they could, you have the gun.
But no one forced those people to take on those loans.
>If this is an actual problem it's not yours to solve and certainly has solutions that aren't this... convoluted.

Yeah, I took that view for a while. For example she gets my physical mail, so in theory I could just send her a burner phone myself, they could be like here this is personal you can't take it inside and she can say no problem and have the phone. But I took the view that this is really not my problem to solve.
Imagine thinking where you want to live is more important than physics.
Apparently, this was the last in a series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Career
Good article, but I wouldn't characterize MERGE as strictly better than the older "ON CONFLICT ..." for Postgres, because MERGE doesn't support any sort of RETURNING clause.
One example I can think of is the "immer" package / the "produce" function:

https://immerjs.github.io/immer/

https://immerjs.github.io/immer/api

The API page lists numerous functions, but the bottom of the page says "In most cases, the only thing you need to import from Immer is produce".

My thought is, immer does something novel, but the vast majority of functionality can be covered in one function.

I think another problem with the "left-pad" situation is the lacking "JavaScript standard library", but that situation is improving over time, especially now that IE11 is deprecated so it's a reasonable expectation to develop against Chrome / Firefox / Safari which are actively maintained and continue to implement new JavaScript features.
This is true, and it’s worth noting: there would be more to do in Orlando’s city center if it had a direct connection to another major city.

This is one of the many ways in which designing for cars/low density “curses” an area to perpetual underdevelopment: direct rail connections would be speculative rather than serving existing demand.
> The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out

Yeah, I find that queries which can be answered in a sentence are the worst to find answers from search engines because all the results lengthen the response to an entire article, even when there isn't an answer.
It’s in my offer letter but it’s not a contract. The joys of “at will” employment.

I doubt my employer would do a Amazon/Grindr “move or else” on short notice but wouldn’t be surprised at a longer (6mo?) transition period.
They obviously aren't using responsible AI to figure out how and when to roll out new features there.
In the media it usually refers to someone who they agree with that is losely related to the field in question.
What would happen to the person renting from the landlord, if the corporation hadn’t purchased the house to rent to them? Well, maybe that person would buy the house themselves to live in.

But there still wouldn’t be any more houses for YOU to buy.

Corporations and landlords aren’t the problem, lack of building is.
>Yeah, we should totally put our trust in founders who would gladly accept money from immoral sources.

You shouldn't put your trust in founders period. Or companies. Or famous people. Or anyone that you don't actually know. They're people or run by people with goals that greatly differ from your personal goals.

What you're asking is that they put on a veneer of morality and then once you're really convinced they're on your side they'll stab you in the back. Like with the old poster child Google.
As a long-time user of KeePassXC, I switched because of the difficulty of syncing databases. Basically, I used the sneakernet and a thumb drive whenever I thought I needed to for five or six devices - it became wearing. At first after the change I kept the critical account - banks, email, and the like - solely on KeePassXC. As I began to trust Bitwarden I began to slowly add those accounts, too.

Also, while I trust Bitwarden sync, I'm not quite as sure of the various apps that implement the KeePassXC on iOS. I'm still not aware that any have been audited, so to my mind Bitwarden is more secure.

Still, the possibility of a change of management philosophy at Bitwarden also wore on me, so not wishing to be solely dependent on an app that I might no longer trust, I continued to maintain my KeePassXC vault, duplicating any new Bitwarden entries. It's a simple way to backup Bitwarden, though a bit time-consuming.

Syncing KeePassXC is simpler now than before I migrated; sneakernet is no longer required, having been replaced by Signal and "Note to Self." It's still not as simple as Bitwarden's sync, so I'll maintain that unless I have a trust reason to change. FWIW
I think there's a few things to note (as someone who used to live in Orlando):

1) The actual city of Orlando is about 9miles (as the crow flies) from the airport

2) The Brightline eventually plans to go to Tampa on the west coast of Florida, but is coming from South Florida

3) The existing Amtrak/Sunrail lines run south-ish to north-ish on the west side of downtown Orlando. To use the existing routes and knowing where Brightline plans to go, it'd likely have to go through the airport anyway, then curve north to downtown Orlando, then turn around and head back down southwest-ish to Tampa.

4) At some point they hope to connect the existing Sunrail commuter rail to the airport, so you could take that to downtown

5) There's not really a whole lot to do in downtown Orlando itself, not a ton of shopping, restaurants or entertainment. Most travelers to Orlando are there to go to the theme parks that are outside of downtown.
Denver Zephyr
Compared to .NET, Python and JavaScript async/await implementations, they both suck in the amount of boilerplate needed to implement, and debug async runtimes.

As there is nothing being shipped in the box, both suffer from "go hunting" for runtimes, and the interoperability between them.

On Windows, there are bonus complexity points, as they also get to interoperate with COM appartments, and OS async APIs.
Ooh that looks interesting and not TOO expensive, for a "out of the box" solution. Does it work well / is it self-sufficient without phone once you set it up? Can you adjust the scale, scroll easily, etc?
What do the betting markets think about the continued existence of Google Cloud?

https://manifold.markets/OliverMattos/will-google-announce-t...
> Wi-Fi 6's comparable maximum rate is 9.6Gbps. There is no consumer problem of today, no domestic use case imaginable, where 50Gbps works where 10 will not.

iphone has just 2x2 MIMO antena so even with WiFi 6 can get only max 2.4Gbps (1.2Gbps per antena - someone correct me if I'm wrong). And those are only max speed in labs in perfect conditions. So there is definitely use case for WiFi 7 in consumer devices e.g. VR/AR/Drones streaming cameras, remote control etc. Higher bandwidth should also make connection more robust and overall latency possibly reduced.

I'm definitely looking forward for WiFi 7
So many questions: Is this a deal in writing? Was a contract written that clearly specifies terms? I'm not trying to devalue the agreement if it is verbal. I'm curious how secret is this promise, and if vagueness might shift an otherwise unknown liability onto Xitter. Musk's and Xitter's finances have got to be intertwined in a messy way by now. Xitter probably needs loans from Musk to make payments to the LBO lenders. Fidelity, which has an equity stake, may want to know what side agreements other shareholders have and if those deals are compatible with the terms and information provided to them.

Elon has built a house of cards that spans almost all his businesses. Every new detail makes it look sketchier than before.
> Of course, one of the most successful aspects of science has been to describe the world in a sense that is true without relying on appearances. For example, Descartes very successfully describes the moon illusion (why it appears larger closer to the horizon) in his book on optics. As science progressed, it continued to correct for more and more illusions that were not limited to the realm of the visual. Thus Laplace corrected illusions of a mathematical nature, such as the commonly held belief that if a coin had landed heads many times in a row it will have a greater probability to land tails. Einstein was part if this tradition, taking it to a new level.

Very interesting quote, and I think in a sense that even hard sciences like physics are not only a study of the "external world", but also the "internal world" that our mind creates to represent it. So much of the conversation around quantum mechanics isn't really about the math or science, which really isn't that complicated, but around how it can be that what is _really_ happening is so different from what we perceive to be happening in our minds.

I think every break through in theoretical physics is sort of inextricably tied with a breakthrough in the study of consciousness. You have to understand both how the world works and also how the mind translates that to conscious experience of the world to really have something that most people will see as an explanation.

An understanding of light, for example, is not just an explanation of the math underlying electromagnetic waves, but also how the eye perceives those waves and translates that into vision.
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll put in a PR to fix that up today.
Really surprised by this as well.

So many comments are of the generic nature, "<COMPETING PRODUCT> is miles ahead", without any specifics on what that's supposed to mean. My last few employers have used LastPass and 1Password, while I use Bitwarden for my personal stuff, and I prefer the latter by far.

The browser plugin is more reliable about recognizing when I'm entering or updating a password, and offering to store or update it. The iOS version has smoother integration with password autocomplete in other native apps. It MAY be that Bitwarden lags behind in "team" sharing features, I don't know. For personal use, that class of use cases is irrelevant to me.

As near as I can tell, there seems to be a lot of HN rage that "most" of Bitwarden is open source, but there are still some proprietary bits that keep it from 100%. I never understand this mentality, that software should fall from the sky like manna from heaven and not support a business. I also don't understand why these resentments never seem to stick to products like VS Code, that are the exact same way. Maybe Bitwarden should just try a sexier-looking dark mode UI?
Yes. They literally have to or they’ve got no chance at competing in the job market.

They’re screwed either way, might as well get 4 years of college out of it.
> Shenzhen grew from 100,000 people in the 1980s to 13M now with no housing affordability crisis...by building.

I wouldn't use China as an example of solving the housing problem by simply building. There's currently a large oversupply problem [0] and, not entirely unlike the US (but more extreme), excess supply of housing has lead to people simply owning more than one property as an investment strategy.

0. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-smaller-cities-struggle-...
Google is a monopoly in most of those verticals too.
Corporate personhood is used to shield people from persecution for things they'd be persecuted for doing as private individuals. If there was no corporate liability shield, every single drug company employee involved in knowingly marketing and distributing harmful opiates could potentially be sued; no longer could people use "I was just following orders" as an excuse.
> which is something you couldn't have really made without AI

Serious question: Why not?

> Eventually no one will be of any economic value to society.

People have value outside of economics — I’m sure you know — and it makes me so sad that we as a society? seem to only care about the money in the end.
> let alone treat them as guilty until they prove their own innocence

That was exactly my first conclusion, and question, after reading it..
It's 17", not 15", but I recently bought one of these

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for watching DVDs.
How exactly would that work? Aren't the wireless chargers designed to work around an air core, and changing the core type would make them non functional?
Emotive language such as "eccentrically" is strange considering the decline in landline subscribers, and even less usage of an actual landline.

If you want to have a functioning "landline", why would you choose to use one bundled with your internet provider compared to a much more competitive independent voip provider?

This is a good summary of the decline:
https://www.wrappz.com/blog/decline-of-the-landline/
And you'll make less money

Or ask HR: What's the logarithmic mean base for your salary range?
Nothing about this is particular to TikTok itself. The real technology being used is PimEyes, but I guess that's not as clickbait worthy.
> I agree that assuming that someone doesn't understand something is generally considered rude.

I think assuming that someone doesn't understand something is only rude if there are no indicators for a misunderstanding.

javcasas seemed to assume that TylerE doesn't understand Monads because TylerE stated that there is a Monad insanity in Haskell to replicate a print statement.

I would also assume javcasas' comment wasn't made in good faith, but I still don't see that an insult was voiced.

Not every rudeness can be interpreted as an insult I think
I see this conversation pretty frequently and I think the root of it lies in the fact that we have mental heuristics for determining whether we need to fact check another human because they are a bullshitter, an idiot, a charlatan etc, but most people haven’t really developed this sense for AIs.

I think the current state of AI trustworthiness (“very impressive and often accurate but occasionally extremely wrong”) triggers similar mental pathways to interacting with a true sociopath or pathological liar for the first time in real life, which can be intensely disorienting and cause one to question their trust in everyone else, as they try to comprehend this type of person.
That wasn't my point. I'm saying that if the human brain is a physical object obeying physical laws, and all behaviour is a result of the physical state of this brain, then there is no room for the metaphysical to have any effect on the behaviour of a human.
> All words are made up. I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

It's so, so interesting that you believe this to be true.

Do you believe all things made by humans are made up? Is HN "made up"? Are other people "made up"?