skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many people it's more of a reference book, not to be read cover to cover. Reminds me of this bit from a corecurisve interview with Richard Hipp:

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

Richard: You just pick things up. People tell you these things, and that happened to some with Bloomberg. They’d come to us and say, “Hey, why aren’t you doing this optimization,” and I said “Never occurred to me.” “Well, can you do it?” “Let’s see what we can do,” and then it would go in, so, yeah, kind of figure it out as you went along. I had to invent a lot of this myself. Nobody ever taught me about a B tree. I had heard of it. When I went to write my own B tree, on the bookshelf behind me, I’ve got Don Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, so I just pulled that down, I flipped to the chapter on searching and looked up B trees and he described the algorithm. That’s what I did.

Funny thing, Don gives us details on the algorithm for searching a B tree and for inserting into a B tree. He does not provide an algorithm for deleting from the B tree. That’s an exercise at the end of the chapter, so before I wrote my own B tree I had to solve the exercise at the end. Thanks, Don. I really appreciate it.

Adam: That’s awesome. Did you pull anything else from that book?

Richard: Well, it’s an amazing volume. I can’t give you a specific example, but from my era, everybody has to have read or at least skimmed through, at least browsed through The Art of Computer Programming, and know that algorithms that are there, maybe not Don’s exact implementation. I mean, I never took the time to learn MIX, which is his assembly language, but it’s useful to flip through and look at all the algorithms he talks about. I think that just a year or two ago I needed a pseudorandom number generator, and I was, “Let’s see what Don recommends.” You pull it off. You see what he does.
Probably One, Two, Three, Infinity by George Gamow. Got me started, as well as a few others.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Two_Three..._Infinity

Name drops Neil deGrasse Tyson (Is he that old?)

Internet Archive has a 1961 copy.

https://ia801305.us.archive.org/19/items/OneTwoThreeInfinity...

The Nature of the Universe, by Fred Hoyle, as well.
An argument against this is that this is nothing new, yet the new radical divisions are. It happened both relatively recently, and extremely rapidly. If you described the state of society today to an American 25 years ago, I think exactly 100% would think you were borderline out of your mind, because it's all been just such an irrational and illogical trajectory from where we were headed.

If you look at the big divide in the past, slavery, it was on a scale many orders of magnitude worse than anything we could debate on modern times, yet it still took society just under a century to completely collapse over it. And it's not like society was more impassive. In the midst of that century you had things like a vice president killing a Founding Father in a duel, over political disagreements.
Both of my old-fashioned ICE cars have electrically actuated handbrakes. Audi/Volkswagen started implementing them at least 10 years ago.
This is fun, but the game doesn't seem to accept that a pair of aces is a winning result. Aces specifically, other face cards work as intended.
mediocre company is the result of mediocre ceo hiring mediocre team, commonly without much if any accountability due to artificially abundant capital elevating zombie firms. any heroic attempts at excellence are neutered by inability of mgmt to comprehend or measure excellence resulting in KPI culture based on whatever vanity metrics are near at hand. C players remain, B players eventually leave, A players either never joined or the spirit of excellence is beaten out of them and they start salarymaxxing
The thing I want to achieve with WebAssembly is still proving a lot harder than I had anticipated.

I want to be able to take strings of untrusted code provided by users and execute them in a safe sandbox.

I have all sorts of things I want this for - think custom templates for a web application, custom workflow automation scripts (Zapier-style), running transformations against JSON data.

When you're dealing with untrusted code you need a really robust sandbox. WebAssembly really should be that sandbox.

I'd like to support Python, JavaScript and maybe other languages too. I want to take a user-provided string of code in one of those languages and execute that in a sandbox with a strict limit on both memory usage and time taken (so I can't be crashed by a "while True" loop). If memory or time limit are exceeded, I want to get an exception which I can catch and return an error message to the user.

I've been exploring options for this for quite a while now. The furthest I've got was running Python in wasmtime: https://til.simonwillison.net/webassembly/python-in-a-wasm-s... and running Pyodide inside of Deno: https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/pyodide-sandbox

Surprisingly I've not found a good pattern for running a JavaScript interpreter in a WASM sandbox yet. https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten looks promising but I've not found the right recipe to call it from server-side Python or Deno yet.

Can Extism help with this? I'm confident I'm not the only person who's looking for a solution here!
Ahaha, well I'm pretty sure it was for some heavily monetised crapware with art that you can pretty much find on e6 anyways.

That said, chatgpt is pretty decent at role playing, if you know how to trick it into it (still actually not that hard). It's an interesting topic though; some people are resistant to playing that sort of "game" with it, even though those people are fine with in-game romances such as those in Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate.
On the contrary it is very testable: look at number of grandchildren in families with different moral beliefs and cultural norms. Can look at whether the grandchildren thrive, too.
We are so incredibly far from highly fragmented I don’t think that’s even worth thinking about at this stage
That's the definition of type-safety (or memory safety that is pretty much equivalent). "strong typing" has no generally accepted definition.
"Unless there is shown to be a physical defect or fault that prevented the brakes engaging, I am inclined to believe the driver is at fault."

What about an electronic defect?

That's the interesting part to me - you're relying on the data logs from a system for court which in theory might not match what actually happened and may not leave an observable physical defect. For example but not specific to this case, if there was an error that actuated a brake through the traction control system but it wasn't recorded due to the initiating error.
>Do people have any faith in the these sorts of notices, when nothing ever produced by the company has yet been supported that long?

Absolutely. If they decided to make this announcement, I have faith that they'll stick with it. Whether Pixel 9, 10, 11 etc. will have similar pledges, we'll have to wait and see.
Is that really the fault of the public domain or a reaction to the fact that Winnie the Pooh was copyrighted for so long? The appeal of horror Winnie the Pooh in almost every single instance has been due to the novelty that it's even possible to do legally, and somewhat as an act of rebellion against the company arguably responsible for holding it hostage for so long.
I can't (or, more accurately, don't) believe that, but I can certainly believe they have nothing interesting to say about the topic of static vs dynamic typing.
I'd heard rumors about a Pixel Mini in 2023. Was holding out hope for a surprise drop at the Pixel event today, but with how leaky Google hardware development is, I should have known better.
The Pixel has like 1% of smartphone market and Google has been making their down devices for 10 years now! I have two questions:

1. Why hasn’t Google pulled the plug and thrown in the white towel yet? People have voted with their wallets and chosen Samsung and Apple.

2. Why is the Pixel devices getting such a massive news coverage? Other smartphone ORM’s with similar market share doesn’t get the same treatment.
I drive an almost 20 year old car. I'm going to have such a future shock when I eventually get a new one :(
The Twitter thread is worth looking at. Very Fascinating

https://twitter.com/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782?t=3b2F...
Trying to "suddenly" update something that's years out of date to a current[ish] version is always fraught with weirdly closeted skeletons

At this point, I'd probably do

- mysqldump of each site

- mysql import them on a new server

- setup however many instances of wordpress I needed

- connect all those instances to the imported databases

- click "upgrade database" (or similar) ... and hope for the best :)

Alternatively:

- generate a non-limited RSS feed of the whole site (not capping at 5 or 10 entries, but every entry)

- import into a different blogging platform via that rss feed
> but I can't get to why it should become freely shareable.

A side effect of this would be to encourage the creator or company to continue making it available.

> Secondly, that puts an unfair burden on creators. If I do a run of of my book, and it sells out, I don't think it becomes open season on duplicating it digitally, and I shouldn't have to always carry excess inventory just in case it's a hit.

That’s why I explicitly included a short time period to account for such hiccups. And, for example, if you’re talking about books then print on demand is certainly a way to satisfy the for sale criteria.
IMHO the ChatGPT startup scene is a house of cards. There is so little known about the longevity of any of these particular models, the internal R&D of the big players, the eventual cost, etc. that as an early stage investor I see too much risk at this point in time.
I think vaulting was relevant in the 90s-00s when physical movie sale revenues were relevant, but the business model of movies has changed... a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if all their back catalog are on Disney+ now or released slowly in a few years whenever new content production hits droughts.
Project management is hard because people are unpredictable. Each person heard the same thing and understood differently.

It's probably best to pick and choose a few tools that are complementary and focus on the team building itself.
Why? I didn't get any of that $700 billion TARP money from the 2008 bank bailout either.
This is somewhat misguided. Unless it results in a very specific breakup, it won't be what consumers actually want from the market. A lot of what drives me to Amazon is shipping. Smaller retailers can't scale this at all, so what's needed is a company that just does the fulfillment side of things with Amazon-level speed.
It's unclear what exactly the competition is about. Just to poke around the dataset?
PC does not offer the same experiences Nintendo has. Animal Crossing New Leaf was only on 3DS and is one of my favorite games ever. It's depressing kids growing up after me won't be able to experience what I did as easily, I used to do local and online multiplayer all the time, I had almost every fruit in the game. Still play it now after getting another N3DSXL last Christmas after my old one was stolen.
> Suumit Shah never liked his company’s customer service team. His agents gave generic responses to clients’ issues. Faced with difficult problems, they often sounded stumped, he said.

This was almost certainly his company's own fault. In every call center I've seen, the call center employees hated it, but they were given brainless generic scripts to follow by some quality assurance team who would punish them for any deviation or expression of genuine personality.

Then they'd be provided with flowlists designed to make it possible for any idiot pulled off the street to do the job with zero training and to make call center employees easier to replace at the drop of the hat. The lack of training and over-reliance on flows meant that any time workers ran into something their flowlist didn't account for, they'd have no idea what to do.

Honestly, call center work seems brutal and cruel. It's so metrics driven that companies treat their employees like robots anyway. Add in all the abuse the employees take from angry customers and it's probably best for worker's mental health if these jobs go away entirely. AI can have them.
Are Internet Service Providers about to go blind?
The right solution for Linux would be 464XLAT support in systemd: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/23674
You didn't provide an argument for why static typing is not worthwhile, merely that it won't solve all of your problems -- thus, you concluded, dynamic typing is better.

Yet static typing does very much catch issues, so I really don't see where you're coming from with this.
If you're interested, the CIA was enamored of LSD for decades.

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

Poisoning people: MKNAOMI

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKNAOMI
The founder of Coca-Cola might. But either way, pointing out the flaws of a loose analogy adds nothing to the conversation.
Static typing, as done in mainstream languages, doesn't show your program is correct. Is you compiler written in a mainstream language correct just because it compiles? Of course not. Don't point to academic curiosities with dependent types if they aren't actually used. Extensive testing, on the other hand, is used in the "real world" for assurance.
> Should it be allowed to be freely shared when 4th edition is still on sale?

I think so, even though the context around it might be more confusing/less modern or relevant.

For books and research, you can argue a lot of trivialities. For games and art, I think it's a necessary preservation requirement. For example, the other day I wanted to play Armored Core 4/4A. Digital copies can't be bought now that the servers are dead, and secondhand physical copies run well over $400. Your only convenient option for experiencing AC4/4A is emulation or piracy, which is absurd (but also the inconvenient truth).

Unless we'd rather these old and seemingly irrelevant works fall off the face of the earth, legalizing their preservation and archival should be urgent.
I'd think that many of here are some form of software developer, and many of us do miss the "Wild West" of the Internet we grew up with.

So, the big question is what's stopping us from building fun projects to bring back what we miss?

Is the problem the financial risk and the harder path to making money? Is it the fear of being cancelled/deplatformed? Is it we're afraid of looking stupid if we guess wrong and create a failure?
I don't think so. The appeal is in spoiling childhood innocence and not getting sued for it. Case in point: Peppa the Pig had problems with exploitative knockoff videos being uploaded for years, that were deliberately designed to be offensive and shocking.

If Mario went public domain tomorrow, I absolutely guarantee you that 90% of what goes online or gets made will be content intended to shock, traumatize, or offend. And that, for better or worse, can and will make people increasingly skeptical about the merits of public domain and copyright expiration.
On productive and counterproductive ways to read
Here's a link to the actual site for the event: https://neshobacountyfair.org/digital-program/

Flipping through the digital program is way more interesting/informative than this biased article.
Nice presentation, dunno if theres much original advice in it. Not that there needs to be. Laundry isn't a fast moving target.
As a note, I wish I had enough space to mirror their library. Looking at this brings out the collector in me...a tendency that I've successfully suppressed. You can only keep so many terabytes of archive around.
AI Detection services are the oiliest of snake oils. Seems like education is going to need to change drastically in the next few years. Maybe we'll go all the way back to oral examinations again.
Star Trek Borg Remastered
A very cool remastering of the old Star Trek Borg FMV game. There's more details at the link and trailer video, but it particularly cool that it was upscaled into high resolution from a Japanese version of the game that was released on DVD.
> usually a significant fraction of the cost of a new phone

For my phone a battery replacement from the manufacturer is right at 10% the price of what's probably the equivalent new phone. (Not that I'm having battery issues yet for my ~2yr old phone.)

To me that's well within the range of being worth it vs. a new phone.

I don't have a Pixel, though, so maybe it's different.
The most important thing: having done hundreds of very similar things before. Any developer can tell you how long a house will take to build from the prints. Same for normal roads and so on. However if you have a custom bridge that has never been done before nobody can really tell you how long it will take or how much it will cost.
Can noise cameras reduce ‘potentially fatal’ sound pollution?
> If you don't get it I probably don't want to talk to you about it, I might even think less of you as a software developer.

The feeling is mutual.
I haven't been in the market for quite some time, but I remember 90% plus of all job descriptions seem to be written by the legal department and all sounded the same. They want the submitter to spend time crafting a unique cover letter but put zero effort into crafting an accurate job description that didn't sound like it was written by a robot.
I hate electronic parking brakes. WTF are they good for in an emergency? I guess that's why they call them parking brakes and not emergency brakes. Are we really that lazy that we can't put on a brake manually anymore?
It's actually the article that doesn't seem very confident (based on what he points out).
Show HN: AiResume.com – Harness the power of AI to craft the perfect resume
Assuming a sufficiently secured access method via SSH (ex strong ciphers only, key only, etc), you can get by just fine without su/sudo, of course, youll have to switch users manually, by logging in as a root-like user (ex root aliased, or root itself). Services and such can still operate as other users, as (as far as i know) systemd and rc.d dont rely on suid.

Also, side rant, su/sudo were developed from what i would call being lazy (uhg i dont want to open a new terminal to run a command as root) which has led to a lot of abuse. But, i blame ubuntu for its widespread use and abuse, the first user made by a ubuntu install has full sudo privs out of the box. And then, every guide thereafter just became "just sudo su" (which uhg, in itself). The lazy factor by sudoing everything has led to uses of sudo i wish id never seen. I wish we never had it.
This is a really great step in the right direction, especially with the updates and repairability offered by iFixit with Google partnership. The only fear I have is what if Google shuts down the Pixel line or whatever because they are not doing well a couple of years down the line? Traditionally, they have not been great at keeping their promises. Hopefully Samsung follows the lead set by Google.
Is that some kind of subtly resurgent brutalist design?
The 85% number gets repeated around here a lot, but isn’t the full story for fed time. (Not that I’d expect software engineers to be experts on prison nuances)

Just off the top of my head RDAP will get him 1 year off (he for sure qualifies) and then a halfway house is another year although not everybody loves those. I have no idea if he’d be able to pull off a 35b or not. But you get the idea, it’s not JUST time off for good behavior.
Expropriation is the first step to destroying the thing. There no reason for unbelievably good customer service if you get paid by taxpayers regardless of outcome.
Llamas on the Edge: low-latency personalization with Segment, Cloudflare, Llama2
Hasn't Apple been doing this for years? The difference between 6 and 7 years is hardly a line in the sand, especially considering the quality issues the Pixel has had.
Hey. What happened to the repo?
Uh ... I don't like what Disney made of Cinderella, pinocchio or pocahontas. Commercial reuse handle copyright miserably.

Anyway, people having fun with Winnie ? Who will care in 2 years?
Do you often see shock content of cinderella ? Or xxx content of beauty and the beast?
Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Something deeper to be explored here esp due to the consistency across domains. I wonder how far we can push "externalizing" higher level information the model wants to store while in the forward pass.
Alternatively, according to Kurt Vonnegut:

>"Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
Yes. It's cheaper to have a lower assurance your program is correct than to have a higher assurance. The claim I'm making is that at the high end, the extra assurance from strong static typing becomes minimal.
Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview
I like that phrasing, but that doesn't mean that the consequences in "consequence culture" are sometimes hugely outsized for what the transgression is (or that there can't be a disagreement about various aspects).
I'd love to know how vector databases compare in their ability to do hybrid queries, vector similarity filtered by metadata values. For example, find the 100 items with the closest cosine similarity where genre = jazz and publication date between 1990 and 2000.

Can the vector index operate on a subset of records? Or when searching for 100 closest matches does the database have to find 1000 matches and then apply the metadata filter, and hope that doesn't reduce the result set down to zero and exclude relevant vectors?

It seems like measuring precision and recall for hybrid queries would be illuminating.
AI bias tests gloss over a crucial aspect of skin color, Sony research claims
It was sarcastic, and your additional commentary is also accurate. We do need more systems to actively protect citizens against these kinds of abuses.

It’s “uncommon” in the sense that a very small % of government employees are involved in these, but it’s common in the sense that something along these lines are always ongoing.
Adults too. People’s hard earned money being funneled into self-styled “gurus”. That’s them spending their money on “education”, and it’s not to become a physicist or anthropologist.
I don't know if sueing them is an option, but I'm pretty sure you can get (part of) your money back here if you can prove that you've used marketing and claims like these to come to a purchasing decision. You may need to go to court to actually get your money back and third party resellers may pose a problem if they don't copy the guarantees, but I don't think Google stands much of a chance here.

With phone prices being what they are, it makes more and more sense to actually take legal action. Google would be foolish not to meet their promises.

It helps that they haven't come back on their promises before. The Pixels have always received the years of support ad promised at launch. In some cases that was a mere three years, but customers knew (or could easily have known) that was a possibility when they bought their phone.
The story of "operation acoustic kitty" being squashed by a taxi is presented without skepticism; they don't mention that

> this was disputed in 2013 by Robert Wallace, a former director of the Office of Technical Service, who said that the project was abandoned due to the difficulty of training the cat to behave as required, and "the equipment was taken out of the cat; the cat was re-sewn for a second time, and lived a long and happy life afterwards".