skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
95% of the time I try to be empathetic and patient and open minded when discussing online. 5% I’m in a bad mood, or tired, or sick, or whatever and I don’t try as hard. On those days, I should disengage. But, I’m addicted.

It makes me think though of all those people out there who don’t have a cushy life like many of us and suffer daily. I’m sure they’re in a bad mood a lot of the time, and the internet is their main form of entertainment.
I don't mean to be anti-intellectual. But as someone who doesn't know much Haskell and likes to hand roll a precedence climber, my reaction to this is "so what?". But really, what are the implications of this? What does this mean for the code that does the actual parsing, how does this transform how you specify the rules of the grammar in code?
Ah yes, because operating it as a national service is really gonna make it sooo much better…

Removing all incentives is surely gonna make people want to do their best.

You know many counties originally had only a single or two nationalized airline and all of them were such money drains that the governments were all forced to privatize them to keep them afloat.
Sometime the mods cherry pick some posts a give them a "second chance", and they are send to the front page for a short time with a fake time. More details in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
This is not the only use of those apps. There are plenty of large channels that are either broadcasting from a central source of a sort of forum sorted by new of people who don't know each other but share some type of interest, specially in countries and regions where those apps are dominant (which I believe is not the case of the US).
Perhaps you are right, but this point is irrelevant. Capitalism incentivizes and rewards this behavior, so you can expect more of it. A democratic government has different incentives and are rewarded for an entirely different set of behaviors.

Capitalism may not change the behavior of a single individual. But does certainly put the greediest to the top of society, and in aggregate you see more greediness among those that have the power to change things.
resume driven development
Emulation is a whole lot easier to get started with TBH and you could run the emulator on something like a Raspberry Pi 400 if you wished to preserve some "home computer" feel. Dealing with real hardware from the 1980s is not for beginners, and the machines are only getting flakier and more expensive over time.
Does your 13 yo MBP have the horrid GPU in it? Can't remember the year they started, but my 2011 MBP had one. My cheap ass would probably still be using it if it didn't freeze every time a GPU request was made, which is everything now. Once the browsers wanted GPU acceleration, the thing was unusuable
The "deal" is mandated by a regulation. These companies couldn't choose the deal if the regulation putting forth the deal did not exist at all. As a sibling commenter noted, people (and organizations) respond to incentives.

When you make a regulation that incentivizes these companies to use up slots, they're going to do it simply because they know the competition will also do it, and if they do not, they lose. These rules were poorly planned, as they did not account for the incentives or the unintended consequences in the event that these flights did not actually have to occur. And after this happens, they're attempting to blame businesses for responding to the incentive.

Say I were to go into a crowded room and announce that I will give $10,000 to whoever breaks some specific person's nose. Who's to blame? Yeah, probably some combination of the people who took the money and especially me, who put forward the idea or "deal" that resulted in people taking action when they otherwise would not have done anything like this.
Grid Garden
Grid version of flexboxfroggy.com;
A game for learnning `display: grid`;
Please speak for yourself.

Most people don't want to be assholes. Companies however don't care and most of them are acting as assholes.
I'm in the UK and even emergencies have always been treated as best effort wherever I've worked. If it's the weekend, you might be drunk / on the beach / on a plane / whatever.

Obviously, if it is a genuine rare emergency, most people are generally fine to help if they are around.
That's a fantastic random fact that has absolutely no bearing on the point I made.
Nearly 100k exposed industrial control systems (ICS)
ICSs — a subset of operational technology (OT) — are used to manage industrial processes like water flow in municipal water systems, electricity transmission via power grids, and other critical processes. Critical infrastructure sectors heavily rely on ICSs to control cyber-physical systems, compounding concerns that the exposed systems identified in this research could present significant risks to organisations and communities around the world.
One of these days...
This is still a semi-puff piece. Makes it seem like he is being turned into a scapegoat for the industry and drums up sympathy for him.
Could you articulate what that opposing view is in this case?

It's also worth pointing out that Python (and it's ecosystem) is developed by an international team of people, most of whom volunteer their time out of good will and sense of shared purpose across diverse cultures.

The "both sides" logic seems to miss the point that world without mutual aid and international, cross-cultural cooperation would be one that would not have Python and it's ecosystem. It's not political for the Python developers to support such a view, such a view is foundational for the existence of Python.
- random people running to your desk, grabbing your monitor and running away
Apple is nearing 3 billion dollar valuation. This is an inexcusable bug since the most banale Q&A testing would have caught.
Minimal Debian/Ubuntu Linux SD card images for various ARM based SBCs
It looks like that because Unicode is trying to solve a problem that everyone thinks is easy until they uncover the true extent of encoding human languages.
Mathematics reliably predicts observable phenomena from nature.

If that's not a proof of its "realness", then I don't know what possibly could be.
> PS anyone responsible for the chromebook site out there

Thanks, not responsible but I've already reported one other 404'ing link to the author and will pass this on too.
My favorite part about this response isn't the "non sequitur strawman", although that's amazing in and of itself.

It's the assumption that I'm not a descendant of a slave and have no insight based purely on a post in which no mention of ancestry or race happened.

It's like the old meme about tying a buttered piece of toast to a cat, they spin in the air indefinitely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

Am I hire-able? I aint white, so presumably you SHOULD hire me to help with racism. yet I rename my main branch to master on all personal projects.

So the question becomes, do the above posters hire me or not? Presumably no since I have the wrong opinion but if they refuse to hire me they're furthering racial inequities so then presumably yes.

Of course, this paradox goes away the second you acknowledge both are stupid reasons to hire or fire anyone.

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Here's the real problem with the other posters.

A complete and utter lack of respect for the effects of their decisions on the lives of other people.

It's why I'm such a fan of the following C.S Lewis quote

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/lewis...

> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
On #3: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely...
> Maybe now I'll be able to actually figure out what data to send libraries without actually reading their source code.

One could hope, but any library abusing kwargs in all their methods is showing they’re willing to go through the absolute minimum to make their code usable, let alone readable and self-documenting.
The vaccine was never approved for reduction of symptoms because there was no good evidence to make this claim. And there's no good evidence to make it now.

It was approved for the prevention of Covid (the 'D' stands for disease). It was supposed to prevent you from getting Covid, regardless of severity, and it didn't.

And if we're citing anecdotal evidence. I know of no one who got anything more than flu symptoms, and for most it was mild, regardless of vaccination.

That includes obese diabetic 80s year olds. I know of no one personally who went to the ER except for a vaccinated friend who panicked.
> would you rather have him do?

Fly commercial instead of private.
You might like https://fermatslibrary.com/
You can export to PNG and other formats in the Mermaid editor https://mermaid.live/
I don't want to give liberals more ammo to destroy our civil liberties but mandating carbon fiber break pads would significantly reduce break dust on our roads and oceans. Source: The Joe Rogan Podcast: https://youtu.be/b1wEZwzwcJM?feature=shared&t=291
It’s actually the opposite of balanced; it’s polarized.
It is especially funny because the pitch seems pretty similar to the Ultrabook pitch (thin and lights, but the branding guarantees some performance hurdle was passed—started more or less at the same time as the original Chromebook).

ChromeOS was of course notable as a laptop OS on both ARM and x86.

I suspect the whole Ultrabook thing kinda fizzled out as it became apparent that ARM was not getting much traction in laptops (other than Apple, but then, they are always an outlier).
GP isn’t actually saying that a parser isn’t a functor. They’re loudly and performatively saying that they don’t care.
How does a country with so many sanctions have the ability to do this?
It was a bit different, but the C64 really made it feel like I have my own machine I can do anything with. After flipping the power switch and instantly booting the OS, I could start typing a BASIC program. But typically it was:

LOAD "*",8,1

and my game started loading :)

Getting software was more or less like the PC era, people copying stuff on disks and cassettes. In 80's Hungary they experimented with full program trasmissions over radio.

What was interesting to see is the immersion you can get with only 320x200 pixels. I only realized this after running an emulator on a PC and I got suddenly teleported back to HD land.

It was quite neat that I was able to play with these machines, but after getting a PC there was little desire to go back.
Yes, in order to save tens of millions of lives globally - which is exactly what happened. You really don't want to discourage that.

But leaving aside pragmatics, you're assuming that the manufacturers wouldn't be liable. If they'd e.g. hid bad results from some study, they'd presumably still be criminally liable.
Fantastic interview. Always love great branching off points from HN.
I'm lost for words. I wish there was internet connectivity so we could download software.
No, it is bad. He's basically saying "you peasants should give up the little you have so that we can save the planet without me having to give up anything".
> First, does the problems still happen in places that aren't financially motivated like a hobby forum some guy hosts or on volunteer Mastodon servers?

I can't speak for Mastodon as I've never used it, but I was an avid user for a long time of many forums and boards on many topics back in the old Internet. And while we certainly had our share of flamewars about shit related to the topics, nobody was ever building a following invoking the tenets of White Supremacy on any of them?

> And don't internet forums broadly speaking also have problems even if they don't have feeds engineered for engagement? For example 4chan is just chronological sorting.

I mean, 4chan is a large board that doesn't have feeds, sure, but it does have different boards for different things. Most of them are benign nonsense and weeb culture stuff. What most people think is 4chan is actually 4chan's /b/ subforum. And while voting systems certainly increase engagement, I don't think they're required at all, especially when the larger community has already defined a culture of... well, whatever you'd like to call 4chan. It's certainly interesting whatever word you want to use.
Fidelity Blocking Plaid – Prioritizing Spin Off Competitor
> Yes. About 4 times poorer.

You don't need to buy a house to be able to live. And no, people are not poorer if you consider all factors. That's a crazy argument to make. No human living in 2023 would want to live with 1950 standards.
The 8-bit generation was special because it's possible for a reasonably involved (as in, someone with a job and a family, can't spend 16 hours a day on this) person to learn and understand literally everything about the machines. It will take a while, but it's an achievable goal as a hobby. The C64 was the most common 8-bit computer, and a lot of people in the age group where they suddenly have a lot of free time and money have fond memories about it. Then it's easy to get lost finding out that that's how that actually worked.

The later machines, or even just IBM PC, which predates it, are much more complex systems and you are less likely to fully understand them.
RustRover: A New Rust IDE by Jetbrains
those may be apps that use error correction, but these are not the apps I was thinking. i don't run Linux desktops. It was most likely a Mac program, but at that time I was still forced to use Windows for some work tasks. I'm thinking it was Nero Burning ROM.
You’re completely right but I can’t imagine most employers are going to be interested in chatgpt abilities.

I’m not sure what technologies employers are interested in for data science right now.
People do self-diagnose, its a big problem on platforms like TikTok
Can't comment for them, but the ways businesses generally work is they are incentivised to serve the needs of their customer.
Walter Issacson (the author who originally broke the news on this story) later clarified that he was mistaken on the timeline. Calling someone a fascist is a pretty wild accusation, especially when it seems it was motivated by a misunderstanding.

"Hi, Tim. Based on my conversations with Musk, I mistakenly thought the policy to not allow Starlink to be used for an attack on Crimea had been first decided on the night of the Ukrainian attempted sneak attack that night. He now says that the policy had been implemented earlier, but the Ukrainians did not know it, and that night he simply reaffirmed the policy." [1]

[1] twitter.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1700522506363248665
> Most successful French startups move their HQ to US as soon as they can

I'm pretty sure it is more a question of astonishing level of taxation and the difficulty to rise capital than national pride.

> "Made in France" software is a shame

Any source to back this? I've never read or heard anywhere that a piece of software sucks because it was made in France. I'm pretty sure most people don't care, and those who do (Frenchmen) take it positively.
`(require 'server) (or (server-running-p) (server-mode))` :)
AI Book Bans: Testing LLMs Against the Freedom to Read
a good 7x increase.
yup, pretty annoying
why would groups have to be moderated from the outside? if their content is not public because you can't find it unless you explicitly join the group does it matter if the conversation is happening on telegram or in a room somewhere in the city or in a private forum somewhere else?
It's for keeping food warm. Observant Jews don't cook on Shabbat. All the food is prepared on Friday before Shabbat starts.

Elevators in some Miami Beach hotels have a Shabbat mode where they simply stop on every floor, open the doors, wait a minute, then close the doors. It's to allow observant Jews to use them without operating a switch.

We Jews are a funny bunch, finding ways to work around our 613 commandments without breaking them. You're generally not allowed to tear things on Shabbat, so observant Jews will pre-tear toilet paper and set aside a bunch of squares for the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/484233/jewish...

There are Eruvim all over the world, almost wherever there is a concentration of Orthodox Jews:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_eruvin
..or go a step further and just use nixOS :)
If you're not freely donating your time and energy to improving the proprietary dataset that powers Copilot, can you even call yourself Open Source?
> You called that very statement a "bizarre claim" upthread.

The discussion was about Covid. Covid is the disease (infection+symptoms). The vaccine was supposed to prevent you from "getting it".
> They’re doing this in Reykjavik as well which is great, although enforcement is poor so on the larger roads that are now 50km/h everyone is still driving 70km/h as they were when the limit was 60km/h.

The car speedometer is conservative so it is several kilometers behind, and the speed camera allows in the Netherlands about 3 kilometers margin. In practice this means you can drive about 107km/h indicated car speed on a 100km road.

That said, lowering the speed on a road should not only be achieved with different signs but also with traffic calming - so redesigning the layout of the road.
some combination of using aviation biofuel (which in principle can be produced in a nearly carbon-neutral way) and buying non-fake carbon offsets (i.e., actually taking physical carbon out of the air) would probably be good enough.

this would further absurdly increase the cost of operating a private jet, but billionaires could still afford it.
A 1TB MicroSD card is still like $100 compared to getting a 64GB for like $3. I'd prefer to save $97 and delete some data that I probably won't even notice. I'll also get better battery life when picking a codec which my device has hardware decoders for.

And I get that the 1TB for $100 is cheaper per gig, but if I never even needed those gigs in the first place my overall cost is still cheaper to get the $3 one.
How to think business areas with AI
This is an interesting article about how business areas will change very fast and how to adapt. The text has some comments about Gartner and The Economist magazine.
Relying on timestamps to be sortable, when clock skew and ntd guarantee that they won't always be, strikes me as poor design.

If you need to sort by insert order, use an autoincrementing integer, if you need uniqueness, UUIDv4 is fine, if you need both use both.

Use timestamps when you need to record the time, just don't commit the sin of presuming that clock time will never run backwards, I assure you, it does.
People regularly say pro-Ukraine things that are anti-pacifist. Whatever, I understand that most people are not pacifists.
>If there's anything to be gleaned from this study, my personal take is that pleasure seeking but spiritually lacking behavior (in this case, buying expensive sugary drinks very frequently) can correlate with depressive symptoms at a population level.

This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Modern society is all about speed and convenience and entertainment, so people get used to craving something and getting it more or less immediately. We know sugar is addictive, and so is nicotine -- both are easily sated addictions and bring momentary comfort. Pile addictive social media on top and you have a population that is used to finding that next spark of joy/comfort/excitement immediately.

Buddhism posits that "life is suffering" so these moments of comfort can be understood to salve the suffering a bit so we can then go out and endure more suffering for the good of each other. But when those moments of comfort become minutes or hours of comfort, we are no longer struggling against the suffering as much as we are trying to hide from it. When those moments of comfort become the most important part of the day, we are not on the right path.

I fear this means that society on a broad scale is less durable than it used to be, which is why we have seen an increase in both suicide rates and escalating attacks between "opposed" groups. Toleration of groups which don't agree with you is a kind of suffering, yet this behavior is actively avoided due to the shallowness of social media interactions being taken to mean "interacting with someone = you agreeing with them" which leads to endless purity testing and spiraling relations between groups.
In my experience the output is always a heterogenous tree of nodes, even if sufficient performance is required.

Which is not great since that's quite literally the worst possible data structure imaginable for modern CPUs, but I'm not aware of any other sane way to represent the common outputs of a parser - ASTs, GUI layout trees.
> You get to pick which direction you agree with.

One of the two opinions, which are all that exists. All reasonable people have the one opinion, and all other people are all idiots who all have the other opinion.
With massive amount of data this would negate the performance advantage completely. Related data is no longer stored close to each other, every time-sequential access is a cache miss ...
> According to The National, German airline Lufthansa said it ran 18,000 empty flights in the winter of 2021-2022 to ensure it didn’t lose lucrative deals that gave its planes spots at major airports.

This is scandalous.
Very interesting. I think I want to check out the Pico 8 next!
These specialized grammars attempt to strike a balance between human-readable and machine-readable. JSON is a terrible solution because you'd have to have an id + dictionary, then a list of relationships. Basically, no human is ever editing that.
It should be possible to drop in a coprocessor board to handle the encrypt/decrypt. It's compute bound rather than bus bound so it should speed up nicely.
That's still a competitive risk -- it does things like reveal if a given list of customers from recent orders/posts are all new customers or long-term customers.

Or from a list of most recently added customers/users, you can figure out the rate of signups.

Revealing timestamps is bad because it can reveal way too much information about the health of your business that you prefer to keep private, if a sequential list of ID's ever gets exposed (which is hard to prevent).
Correct. In my Hyundai Matrix I drove at 3rd gear.
Seems dishonest to compare a single American company to a global industry containing way more than just transportation fuel.
Would those benchmarks capture the performance improvements listed in the change log? From what I read, there were two big ones:

- Inlined list and set comprehensions.

- Reduced data copying in asyncio.
Well, either that or they are adulterating it with some cheap vegetable oil.
> Could you articulate what that opposing view is in this case?

They wrote about how abortion is very often immoral and unnecessary. That would get people up in arms.
so I have to pick a certain MySQL type?
Ask HN: Is September 2021 the new 'eternal September'?
Both GPT-3 and GPT-4 mark this date as their 'knowledge cutoff date'. Maybe this date is chosen on purpose, in order to avoid a negative feedback loop, where the learning process of their own LLM is influenced by the output of bots that are powered by their own engines?

A public reminder: September 1993 was the old 'eternal September', where the big collaborative message board of olden times died, due to a sudden influx of new users. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The sorting algorithms are just a tool in learning about algorithm complexity.