skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep shell scripts separate from binary executables in a directory called 'bins', the personal binaries will go in the /home/username/.local/bin directory.

I don't clutter up my home directory with all those 'write once, keep forever' files like music, books, source code, manuals etc. Those go on a separate archive disk.

All files get backed up daily. The home directory has a separate complete snapshot . The archive disk gets rsync'd to several archive-backup disks.

If I need to keep several versions, I distinguish them not with a version number, but with a date. The date is a two-digit year, a two-digit month, and a two-day. That makes all the versions sortable by date with 'ls'. So:

'myfile_210601'
'myfile_221004'
'myfile_230728'
Here's what Wikipedia says about the creator of the language.

> Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American computer scientist, former Google and Tesla employee and co-founder of LLVM, Clang compiler, MLIR compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language.

I have the sense that he and Apple knew exactly what they were doing. Using something established comes with it's own baggage and risks.

It's times like this I wish HN had 'fact-check' flagging for posts.
My take is that this is basically what inflation is. Use the money for something useful, or it becomes worthless.

This is basically the principal behind universal basic income; adding more money to the pool by sending everyone a monthly check devalues the existing supply of money. If you have a billion dollars stuck in a savings account, the purchasing power of that billion goes down, incentivizing you to use it on something useful. That hurts you more the more money you have. As for prices increasing because of inflation; that's the beauty of mailing everyone a check. That takes care of that problem at the level of basic needs (food, medical care, housing, transportation), but not at the level of private jet flights being subsidized.
You kind of can, though. It's a bit less obvious through the chatGPT website, but if you have played around with the API (where choosing your own system prompt is part of normal operation), you see that getting it to output things according to that prompt is where most of the magic is.

… And that getting it to output that prompt is trivial. And no, hallucination is not really a problem for this. At the end of the day, such cynicism is baseless.
What the medium of games really needs right is to start borrowing length terms from written work. Why? Because the term short/small game is meaningless. Flappy Bird and Pong are short games but so is A Short Hike which takes 2 hours to complete (feature film length) but there are also RPG games that are described as being short but take 10+ hours to beat.

Writers usually divide their works based on word count into flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, novellas, novels, and epics. Now these aren't one to ones when it comes to game developement but it's a much better tool to describe games then what we're using now.

For an example many of author's games are better described as flash games (not that Flash just flash as in very short), while something like A Short Hike and many would be a novellet (gamellet?). Many arcade 8 bit, and 16 but games would fall somewhere in between flash and short. Many AAA games and many RPGs would be Epics. Etc.

Of course this isn't a perfect way to categorize games but it's certainly better then the term small/short being used for anything that's less then a 100+ hour AAA game and it could help developers too. You can ask yourself "Do I really want to make a Epic? Or maybe this would be better as a short or a Gamellet?" or if you just want to make something very small you can just say "I'm going to make a flash game."

Different names are needed but I still think the point stands. We need a different to talk about game length then just the words short, small, or long.
> many analysts have expected this to happen this year

They expected the economy to cool thereby causing rates to fall. Because what we're going through--rising rates, falling inflation and persistent growth--is literally the first time an economy of note has managed the opposite of stagflation.

The Fed being constrained by the federal deficit (or even interest expenditure) is a different beast. Nobody serious thinks the Fed would lower rates to finance the government thereby causing inflation. If the Fed is lowering rates, the economy is cooling. That's deflationary. If the economy is doing well enough that lowering rates would cause inflation, there is no need to lower rates.

Stagflation is real. But it's never happened in the way this theory describes (deficits --> lower rates --> inflation amidst recession). And there are simple, well-tested reasons to find that causation ridiculous.

> banks will end up with huge holes in their balance sheets

It's a trivial hole to fill: let banks borrow at the discount window against the face instead of market value of their Treasuries. (At a penalty rate, I would add.)

The persistent problems in banking come from credit risk. That's happening in commercial real estate. But not rates.
I hear Pakistan has low taxes.
Hi Victor — exciting work! For language designers interested in this system, is there a common reference for e.g. using it (for example, from a language + lowering pipeline in Rust)?

(Or perhaps that’s also what you alluded to in the next couple of months)
Is this real? Sounds like a very fake Amazon review
In that case, have the fuzzy search be the default, and have an option to opt out of fuzzy search. The current state of Google search is always use fuzzy search - it cannot be disabled anymore. Even clicking the "No results found for X, did you mean Y" link submits a new fuzzy search query with Y.
Rabies lives in a LOT of animal populations (many asymptomatically).

Let's get a working cure for humans before we start worrying about sci-fi methods to eliminate a disease that's endemic in wild animals in many regions.
>Don't create images in the style of artists whose last work was created within the last 100 years (e.g. Picasso...

Huh, once again ChatGPT subscribers get the short end of the stick. Bing Image Creator will do Picasso just fine.[1]

[1] https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-picture-of-a-japanese-w...
For much of our time in Canada this summer we had a US IP address on Starlink (Seattle PoP).
There is no such thing as a better hotel.
Internet traffic impacted in Palestine after attacks. Some ISPs are offline
Above 100k is nothing.
I'm not sure it's fair to say that the industry has added overhead versus the 90s. Unless you're talking about gamedev, which I can't comment about. But it's hard to say that tech in general is slower moving as an industry than thirty years ago; I think there's more nuance to it than that. What exactly that nuance is I'm not completely sure, but here are some counterexamples:

Intel shifted the entire direction of its company away from memory and into microprocessors as early as the 1980s, in response to smaller, allegedly faster moving Japanese competitors.

IBM has been a slow-moving behemoth for decades; the story of how DOS began is an idiomatic David vs Goliath tale of the industry.

Apple debatably rose to prominence on the back of tech lifted from Xerox, which for one reason or another (maybe they were too confident in their fax machines) didn't ship their own tech.

Google was at one point a fast-moving startup, up against slow-moving competitors like AltaVista, arguably Yahoo, MSN.

Amazon's original web stack was written in C, iirc. I personally would have a hard time arguing that things done today in web development could be done faster in C.
Sure, but apart from the detail that you can make them pause by not feeding them words, you can't technically argue that they lack all those things. They are stateful in the sense that they see what they write, so they can keep their inner plan and state in that way across word-iterations. They for sure work differently than a human brain, but without further pretty deep analysis you can't really claim that they can't reproduce similar traits using the mechanism.
Not even close. Military enlisted. Living the good life writing software 9 to 5 now though.
> Myth: Your Early Adopters Are Your Best Customers

These folks suffered an extreme case of Early Adopters being unlike the majority, but anyone who gets this advice should read Crossing the Chasm (one of the 2 or 3 non-worthless business books, even if it's really only a single drawing).

Basically: consider the bell curve of a product's life span: First early adopters, then the early majority (your volume customers once you really have PMF), then on the other side of the midpoint: late majority and then the laggards).

The think is your early traction is on early adopters: people with special needs (not usually fraudsters :-), who find your product so valuable that they can put up with its bugs and lack of features to get value out of it, or just people who like the latest thing.

The features the early adoptors want not only are rarely what the majorities want, they could work against what the majorities want. The gap between the early adopters and the majority is a "chasm" -- huge, hard to get across and, as with Braid, often something a company falls into and dies.
Airbnb was awesome for several years and then it just became shit. I guess they make more money, somehow, by being shit, but I wish people would care about something other than making money and becoming shit.
The problem in the parent's post is that people advocating for "taxing the rich" aren't actually talking about people who are being payed $100K. They are talking about people whose wealth comes from owning property.

In that case, I'm not sure that our intuition about the effect of marginal incentives necessarily applies to the same degree. E.g. if a wealthy industrialist decides not to invest in a some piece of capital, it's not as though the capital ceases to exist; it will just be used by someone else. E.g. if an industrialist decides not to invest in a gold mine, then it's not as though the gold disappears. The land will simply be developed by someone else.
Unfortunately many companies just have an option to delete an account. I’d love to tell them all not to sell my data.
The problem with that is not all labour is the same. Should a weathly farmer be taxed less than a hairdresser? It’s a more physically demanding and dangerous job.
>> ...signed into law this summer to prevent a national default could result in a $1.5 trillion decrease to the deficit over the next decade.

I find this infuriating. Why over 10 years? Why not now? Because the deficit is on the order of $1T per year and saying it'll be reduced by 150 billion dollars a year sounds pathetic.

The economy is booming, stop spending money you don't have!
Rabies is such an unfortunate disease. It can live in you with no symptoms for months, and sometimes even years, and then one day you start presenting symptoms and the next day you’re dead. There’s no way to test for it because the way it’s tested for is by cutting your spine/brain apart…

I was exposed to a rabid bat a couple of weeks ago (captured, tested and confirmed to have rabies, unfortunately). While I’m not ecstatic about the cost of rabies treatment in America (it can be up to $40k a person, and 2 of us were exposed), I’m so glad we were able to get the bat tested and get in for the vaccines fairly easily.

The vaccines themselves are reasonably priced, but you have to get Human Immunoglobulin as well, which is only available at ERs and ranges from 2-12k per dose… and we needed 3 doses for each person (it’s by weight). In addition to those 3 shots, we had to get 4 vaccine shots, spread out over a 2 week period. Each shot caused symptoms. Luckily our symptoms were primarily just extreme fatigue or hot skin near the injection site, so it was not a fun 2 weeks but not the end of the world for us.

This alternative treatment sounds like it could be significantly cheaper and easier than that, and that it could possibly work in later stages, so that’s awesome to hear! I wasn’t clear from the article if they think it’ll be usable in humans once the symptoms begin though. If it’s before symptoms begin only, then it’s not much different than the current vaccine regimen other than cost/simplicity (which is still an awesome improvement, but not helpful for the people who don’t know they were exposed).
Getting a backdoor into an official Google or Samsung phone would seem to be a particularly difficult task to pull off. At the very least, they have an interest in protecting their reputations, and they have non-trivial resources they can apply to ensure the integrity of their source code and image repositories.

What assurances do we have that these third-party ROMs aren't somehow compromised or backdoored? Are the individuals maintaining the repo trustworthy? What would it cost to bribe one of them? How many people are paying attention, and who would notice? Given that many people using third party ROMs are inherently distrustful of mainstream phone distributions for whatever reason, would they be a particularly attractive target for state spy agencies? Seems there may be a combination of increased susceptibility to poor security practices or corruption combined with increased motivation on the part of some attackers to compromise the software.
That doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing. I'm not sure that we need everyone to be working 50 hour weeks.
I'm currently learning Spanish at an intermediate level, so would love to try it!

gmail: antforce
Can't recall cleaning fees higher than $100 over the hundreds of AirBnbs I've looked at (generally studios/1 beds throughout Europe and major US cities which would be seen as hotel competitive units). Was that for a house or something like a luxury 2 bed in NYC?

I've heard this is a major issue but I feel like it's very rare thing, usually it's what I'd expect for having to clean a 500 sqft space. The only time I'm disappointed is say a $50 fee is assessed for use of a bedroom.
> And when was this magic period of interop?

From about 2002 to whenever Google and Facebook killed XMPP federation. If you were among the computer nerd crowd you had a blog with an RSS feed rather than a homepage. Your Flickr galleries had RSS feeds. Many sites we'd call "social media" today had some type of feed. If you knew someone's account name on the service you could get a read-only feed of the content they chose to make public.

You could "follow" someone by adding those public feeds to your RSS reader. They might even allow pingbacks/trackbacks that let you reply to them on your blog.

You could fire up your Jabber supporting IM app and send messages to other Jabber users as well as any Facebook or Google user.

The model was very interesting but was not workable for billions of normal people that didn't have blogs or Flickr accounts or whatever. I say these things were only available to computer nerds because to run a blog usually required you be your own sysadmin, moderator, and security. Pingbacks and trackbacks were ruined by spammers as were blog comments. WordPress was hilariously insecure and damn near every blog was hosting at least one piece of malware.

Facebook et al worked for "normal" people because Facebook took on the roles of sysadmin, moderator, and security. Most of the services offering composable feeds were either going out of business or shutting down feeds because they realized (like Facebook) that they could monetize access to their users.
The hard part is knowing what parts -and why- you need to load into your head, so work can even begin.
You'd sit for eternity if you suffered a lesion in your reticular activating system - a relatively small cluster of neurons that generates a kind of clock signal in animal brains. Coma patients with RAS lesions seem to visualize scenes, given prompts, despite not really being conscious.

Conversely, ChatGPT does decently well on multi-armed bandit tasks, demonstrating (rudimentary) reinforcement learning capability during inference. It's known that LLMs evolve their own optimizers in the process of acquiring few-shot learning, so I assume it picked up these RL abilities similarly. That kind of on-line RL is foundational to autonomous agents.

The prompt isn't part of the LLM, it's part of how the LLM is wired into a chat window. You can make them stream tokens forever, or prompt themselves, or ditch causality entirely. The foundational abilities for autonomy, I think, are in there, for the simple reason that they've learned to model autonomous agents - human beings.
There’s literally always a better hotel unless you’re staying in the best hotel of the world.
> It’s frankly pathetic that Russia needs North Korean weapons.

Norks is most likely China's beard. China is officially not in the conflict, but is likely channeling its sales through norks and letting them take a cut.
It does seem like coffeescriptification. I would argue the way to tidy up Haskell is

1. decide on a decent non GHC extended standard. (maybe the last one was good enough? not been following)

2. build out a decent standard library to cover all the usual things from datetime handling to web serving without using GHC extensions

Then let everyone use that

Even better have a JVM/CLR type target for syntax experimentation. I think they have this already.
oh, didn't realise you could do that - I've tended to use `... |awk '{print $NF, $0}'` to add line numbers to something
How to top having too many tabs open
Continental EU
No, you cannot talk to a human; Google doesn’t waste much money on that sort of thing. The only recourse you might have is the courts. Talk to a lawyer.
Plenty of hotel rooms have kitchenettes, you've just got to find the right hotel.
VPN and burner SIM for SMS verification
I don't know, he's not totally out of the running yet. All he needs to do is get some momentum with the right moment, it's anyone's game still. I think the recent war in Israel-Palestine is the exact kind of issue someone like him/his team would exploit to get emotions all riled up.
>Are you under the impression that Yes Minister was a documentary?

Are you under the impression that it wasn't?

Trump years showed clearly how the career people could sabotage easily administration's agenda.
This article is primarily about AirBNB in NYC, and how they think it’s been “taken down” is a complete mystery to me. Their 12 month revenue reported in June 2023 was $9 Billion, an increase of 23% over 2022. The increase from 2021 to 2022 was over 40%. It’s a service that presents great value in many locations.

I’ve used it to stay everywhere from DC to the Appalachians to the Carribean and it’s been an outstanding experience every time. You just have to know how to filter and choose the right rental. If you’re looking for a hotel in NYC, get a hotel room.
I know how to program. But how can one learn to design circuits just like one writes a program?

Sounds totally black magic to me. Any starting points?
pardon the change in topic but what does GP stand for? is is like OP but for a comment thread?
Are there any standalone projects for this? A stable docker image that I can point to a Postgres server that can handle both archiving streamed logs to storage and populating a standby (say, on a different cloud) in real time?
If it's just me passing by: hotel. If I'm going somewhere for a few days or with family and friends: AirBnB.

Hotels are "I just want a bed to sleep and get out and about".

AirBnBs are when you need more privacy because of imperfections like kids, or when you'll be somewhere for a while and you need a chill-out place, and you need some more normal house-like amenities.

In recent years my pendulum pushed back toward hotels, from almost exclusively AirBnB, but I still book AirBnBs about 50-70% of the time.
All the bombs being used in Ukraine combined, pale in total heat generated and total carbon emissions from even one medium-sized forest fire.

Note: I wanted to make sure I was not talking out my bum, so I did some quick research to make sure I was not going crazy, and luckily (for me), I was correct.

Fires are classed A-L based on number of acres[1], so taking the bottom of G as the middle, that's 5000 acres.

The Intertribal Timber Council compiled data from the US Forest Service to estimate the BTU-equivalent output of forest fires back in 2002, estimating BTUs as around 794.6 Million BTUs per-acre[2].

That would put a 5000 acres fire at 794,600,000 * 5,000 = 3,973,000,000,000 BTUs. That's 3.9 Trillion.

The energy release of the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima is a commonly-used unit for estimating earthquake and asteroid impact events (HBE = Hiroshima Bomb Explosion). According to justintools[3], it is equivalent to 56,869,019,274 BTUs (56 Billion*).

Comparing the 2, it would require ~70 "HBEs" to equal one 5k acre forest fire in total heat generated.

If I had to guess, I'd postulate the difference is down to time, since a bomb exploding peaks in heat very quickly and then immediately begins to drop off, whereas a forest fire is burning for hours and hours.

[1]: https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/data-standards/pdf/...

[2]: https://www.itcnet.org/file_download/a909947a-b11b-4799-9652...

[3]: https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=hi...
Neither of them would meet that definition of "the rich" since they are both income gained through labor. Therefore, neither of them would have their taxes raised by a policy of "taxing the rich".
I can’t think of any counter argument that says if you truly believe the American economy will be exposed to quantitive easing in any form (even if it’s interest rates below 4%) in the near future, then US equities are a great thing to have financial exposure to. I’m going to guess you would agree with that?
Because when I'm traveling in a lot of cities I value predictability over a potentially better (or worse) experience. My lodging isn't usually the experience I'm going for. It's something about the location. So I often book the lodging that provides me with a decent place to stay without unpredictable downsides. (I've used AirBnB--rarely--but generally go for boring business-class hotels.)
Practical guide with methodology explained
Pretending to care about things like that but instead spending all your money on wars.
I'm so glad Intel is back in the game and at the leadership position at that. I feel so hyped for some odd reason..thanks Pet.
games are a new medium

you're right that software engineer and programmer types (of persons) would do well to learn form other older media formats that precede games.

but let's not pretend that games are anything like what came before.

interactivity is a new element to put into the storytelling toolkit. but the point is how games can do a much more than tell stories; it's like puzzles are part of the story somehow... but answering how exactly goes quite deep.
this is probably a dumb take, but I’m going to guess if you look at the budget of the federal government, you’re going to run into two problems that conflict with each other other. The first one being, there’s lots of spending that you really can’t lower easily. The second being that you really cannot increase revenues/income without some serious negative effects.
Are new things being discovered in Pompeii or just new blogspam or AI dreck?

I’ve always found it fascinating and would love to find more comprehensive articles or books on recent discoveries.