skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did I miss this? Thought I had seen all the YouTube videos on Superbooth! And you shouldn’t think you have to make excuses for the presentation - it was great, your sense of enthusiasm for it really came across as well as what it’s capable of and why you are doing it. Fantastic stuff.

Now I will be spending the day working out whether this is something I need in my studio ( the price puts it into a category where I really want to make sure it is something I will be using rather than buying it because I think its cool).
I'm a very long-time Beeminder user and would recommend it to anybody looking for another motivational mechanism. It's not always the best approach to motivation, but for certain types of goals like "work out frequently enough", the one-week "akrasia horizon" which kind of means you're mentally committing to work by your future self rather than your present self (and as your present self you can only un-commit with a week's notice), along with staying on a good-enough-on-average "yellow brick road" as they call it, is a game-changer.
Have you ever taken the Night Tube? :(
Even though the novel is centered around an AI torturing humans. The more existential horror emerges from the realization that the AI antagonist, originally designed as a military tool, is trapped within its own programming and unable to transcend its foundational purpose.

This makes one think about a parallel with humans.
The ZX Spectrum simply refuses to go away, which is awesome.
To be fair, I think the bit about pixelated porn was actually a complaint about censorship, not that porn is everywhere. Non-pixelated porn is illegal and sometimes prosecuted apparently, but it's really not that hard to find on sites outside of Japan.

However, there is a LOT of porn in Japan; the JAV industry is huge. However, here too we're talking about public spaces, and while you can certainly find porn if you want to and know where to look, it's not forced on you anywhere and you could easily not see any. (In offline spaces, it's confined to seedy little "DVD" shops that aren't in main shopping areas. I imagine online stuff is slowly putting these old-fashioned places out of business.)
For me, simple naming conventions and a focus on code readability during code reviews are two of the most important tips.
> So actually it is a stance of the BBC not to condem it.

I think you missed the whole point.

The article states in no uncertain terms that "Our business is to present our audiences with the facts, and let them make up their own minds."

This goes against the use of loaded terms like "terrorist" because "Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally."

Not using a loaded term to describe something does not mean "they condone it".

There was a time when journalists were expected to present you with the facts and left you to think for yourself and make up your mind. It seems you have something against the latter.
Did ChatGPT Write This?
People aren't just going to say "OK, I guess I'm useless now" and simply starve. The scenario you're talking about has something like a civil war in there somewhere. Keep in mind that the people being replaced this time are the ones with political and economic power. This has never happened before.

By the way, in my book the bad ending of AI advancement is where skynet kills all humans.
Below is the fundamental hypothesis behind electricity markets:

> Efficient plants with low fuel/opportunity costs usually set the price, and prices rise slightly to bring on less efficient plants during peak hours.

You'll see it everywhere someone discusses electricity markets. The only problem is that this hypothesis is wrong in practice …

It's not so much the marginal price that sets which energy source start and stop, but mostly the technical flexibility of the produce mean. First of all, marginal price doesn't really exist in the first place[1], and different means of electricity production have very different ramp-up delay and costs, which is totally unaccounted by the marginal price hypothesis.

[1] and this isn't just the case in the electricity market, but pretty much everywhere: marginal price is a economic concept that just doesn't refer to anything existing in the real world, as illustrated by the work of Nobel Prize winner Maurice Allais.
Rangers are a valuable resource to anyone venturing into the backcountry. I cannot count the amount of times I’ve been provided useful information and services by rangers. I’ll happily strike up a conversation with any ranger I meet.

Based on your statement I’d be surprised if you’ve ever interacted with a ranger. The only people I meet who dislike rangers are the types who feel entitled to do whatever they please in the wilderness and refuse to carry a bear can when hiking through Yosemite.

Take the mindless anti government sentiment elsewhere.
I love how he uses the Berkeley Graphics license as an example, yet ignores the fact that you buy their font, Berkeley Mono, because you want a very well engineered font.

Like, there are straight up only two fonts I will say are engineered well, objectively: Berkeley Mono is the #2 on that list, PragmataPro being #1. It isn't about aesthetic quality, its down to how well hinted they are, and how well they render at absurdly small sizes on a wide range of renderers.
A method to assess trustworthiness of machine coding at scale
Is JSON XML yet? Nearly!

I’m going to invent Baz’s 11th law of computing here: any data format that isn’t XML will evolve into a badly specified version of XML over time.
Can homeless Japanese set up a tent on a sidewalk in the heart of Tokyo?

What I’ve seen in other countries is that there certainly are homeless, but the attitude is “you go to a shelter or you go to jail”.

Does wonders for keeping visible homeless to a minimum.
You pinpointed the issue: a C compiler is already way above the complexity of a normal assembler, but you can write "reasonable" real-life alternatives with a small team (cprop/tinycc/more?)... but C code is quite sensitive to planned obsolescence and abuse via extensions. ISO is always adding stuff, which first will increase the cost of writing a new real life alternative (slowly but surely), and some code was C but ended up being specialized to specific C compilers of cosmical cost, namely way more expensive (aka not reasonable for even a small group of devs) to write a real life alternative, linux kernel code (even though llvm is running after the never ending addition of gcc extensions required to compile kernel code), glibc and much GNU software code (the "GNU jail"), etc. You can be almost certain, some C software will get "feature creep" which will force you to update your C compiler, some sort of steady and creepy planned obsolescence.

We took the example of C, but with other languages it could be much more worse and accute, I guess you get the overall picture. For c++, it is just out of control, beyond sanity, this language is actually toxic.

I still write in C some software, but I am carefull to avoid as much as possible extensions, latest ISO tantrums, and I try to use NOT gcc. I force myself to code C programs which compile with tinycc & cproc/qbe & gcc (if I can get my hands on other "real life" C compilers, I may try to add them). But I am writing more and more assembly, because I realize the cost of a compiler is not that much worth it (and actually giving more trouble than an assembler in my use cases), and I get much better stability (and control on the actual machine code running). It is even reaching a point where I think it would be better to write the same code for different ISAs than using any compilers... it all depends on the type of code and its expected life cycle.

Writing assembly abusing a complex macro-preprocessor is not that much "better" than using a C compiler in the end, since the overall costs and drawbacks of such complex macro-preprocessor would not be that much "better" than the costs and drawbacks of a C compiler.

So I already think there should be much more assembly out there, and with RISC-V being a worldwide free standard, the golden grail of machine ISA interoperability, even more so.
Typically, when people say it lacks real understanding, they seem to mean it lacks an understanding of any object’s semantic meaning. In the above example, the person asked for an example of X API solving problem Y, and X lacked the functionality needed to solve Y. If the AI understood the formal specifications of the API, it would be able to know that functionality doesn’t exist and reply as such. However, the AI is just a next token predictor here, it only knows certain words tend to follow others. Thus if you never told it that X API can’t do Y in training, it’s unlikely to reply as such. Instead it might give you a fictional function call in the style of X API to solve your query.
Wasn't there a Charlie Chaplin movie with a similar premis? A child walks the street and breaks windows while a glass fixer walks a few minutes later and announces their services.
thanks for the tip, I'll search it out :)
Half an infinity is still an infinity
> The alternative is that we have a DNS-style lookup of every city on earth which contains what each city has chosen for their daylight hours.

We already have to do that: every business and government office (including schools) has their own hours (and holidays); even in the same city, people are not waking (or going to sleep) at a uniform time.

Time zones are a 19th century solution to a 19th century problem.
Germany will exit coal none later than 2038. I guess the rest of comment is just as wrong as the first claim. You still didn't bring up nuclear, I am almost surprised.
To your primary point, public spaces in Japan, or the ones I see portrayed in the media, are very very cute (for lack of a better word and I don't mean that in a condescending manner. I think the term is kawaii?). That would never fly here. Even with fences and guards that stuff would be covered in graffiti if not just broken.

As for the abortion reference, it wasn't long ago that we too were filled with that same confidence. And we're learned it only takes a single election to undo decades of progress.
What do you mean there's no way out? Some European countries have already stopped using fossil fuels, some are making good progress, in some the progress has recently stalled, some haven't really started yet...

Cheap electricity is going to be important for national economies and there are no countries that couldn't build cheap wind and solar (and/or cables to import neighbours' excess renewables production).
1. Corporations aren't people in every possible sense. Consider most of what you might read random sources say on the internet about corporate personhood to be probably nonsense.

2. Shareholders aren't officers (in the general case), so won't have been part of the decision-making or execution processes that led to this fraud (if that's what it is). So my understanding is they can be deemed to have been "unjustly enriched" by it (and so have stuff taken away from them that they shouldn't have) but can't be held personally liable in the sense that they would be jailed. To do that would be grossly unfair.

Consider that the biggest shareholders of any major corporation are going to be pension funds and the like. So you've got say the California State Teachers Pension (Picking one at random to be specific). You think they should go to jail because their mandate says they have to track the S&P500 to within some % and so they bought MSFT because it's part of the S&P500?
I don't have a simulation software recommendation, though /u/type0 might.

I would recommend just using an "expensive" prototype board, that costs maybe $20 USD, instead of over that costs $4. There are different levels of quality with regard to the little clips that grip the wires and components.

The wires are really the least problem in experimenting with electronics.
> I'd be out for blood too if (...)

Irrelevant. This issue is about whether journalists should use loaded words.
Not all content is covered byIp (intellectual property). Long textx (like an article), images, or videos are. But factual information (such as prices, a hot one in web scraping) are not.
Sadly my old "64 MB" (not really, it's 128 MB IIRC) player doesn't support OPUS. It's there where I have to fallback to AAC or MP3. But it luckily supports FLAC and Vorbis (which weren't listed in the specs) so I have some FLACs and OGGs on it as well. It also lacks speed adjustment so I had to pree-upspeed books with Audacity during the days when first Android devices were a luxury thing. If only it had support for OPUS, pitch-preserving speed adjustment and position persistance it could indeed make a great audiobook/podcast listening device.
There's other potential advantage (or disadvantage depending on how you view it).
Some countries like India don't like sat phones on their territory.
Some countries like Russia are ok with them but require local connection to terrestial networks and local licenses.
Some countries are in territorial disputes.
What if SpaceX or other such company decide (or would be "gently asked to") it could ignore local regulations in such country? What if it would be done for good?
Possible example: somebody lobbies ITU(via some kind of "emergency license for humanitarian purposes only") to allow SpaceX to allow SpaceX to serve Gaza for free with limits and USA is ok with it. Israel is against it but what they could do? Jam Starlink? What if they also use it? What if 10 years in future same thing is done to North Korea(it could be even more legal - as far as I understood, both Koreas claims they are only legitimate goverment of Korea so SK could issue formal license)?
Good that esoteric languages now start to crypt their source, it just wasn't unreadable enough before. For good measure add a crazy operation. Why not?

> The author himself has never written a Malbolge program.

Bloody amateur.
I'm doubtful whether it's a good idea to give a private company like Starlink so much power over our communication in general. Why should they have the satellites for such a network? Wouldn't it be better that something crucial as this is publicly owned? Just thinking about the incident when Starlink cut access for Ukraine in fear their use of Starlink might trigger an atomic war. Why should one business person be able to make such a decision?
The State of AI Report 2023
Lately I have come back to playing board games big time. I used to do this few years ago but then children happened and everything was put on a hold.

Now, that they have gotten older and do not require so much attention I finally manage to attend local group meetups regularlly. And I also find teaching both children news games quite enjoying for both parties (me and them :)).

This also enabled getting back to board games collecting - it was quite pointless without playing them. My collection went past 100 titles quite quickly and is still getting stronger every month.
all new technology is overestimated in the short term, and underestimated in the long term.

I remember when voice recognition was the big thing. Think era of "dragon naturally speaking" and similar. It was hyped, but practically speaking it was tedious and made lots of mistakes.

And then over time it found niches like phone trees, and it gradually became better until it was accepted.

Now AI is super hyped, but cars are driving themselves, closed captions are automated, people are getting assistance with art and writing, and chatbots are livening things up.
Choosing the opposite syllables for the portmanteau would have given Debian, which has a nicer ring to it.
> EMAI is also objective;

Yeah, right, just like the data.
Investigation of Kakhovka Dam breach on Jun 6th
A detailed aggregation of the events leading to the breach, with satellite, drone and on-sight photo evidence. Commonly accepted version of K-Dam breach is explosive demolition by russians. But there's also evidence of heavy structural damage to the dam months before the breach. This could indicate hydrodynamic scouring of the sandy soil foundation, caused by criminal russian mismatenance of the dam.
Show HN: Open-Source TypeSafe Feature Flags for Next.js
Hey Hackernews,

my name is Tim and I've built a solution for Feature Flags & Remote Config for Next.js (and other JS/TS Frameworks).

My goal was to built a solution which satisfies the needs of modern development teams in the JS world: amazing type safety and awesome DX.

Abby ticks those boxes by having static types (no generation step needed) and devtools which allow you to easily debug your feature flags during development (and production if you're feeling funky).

Would love to hear about your experience with feature flags & existing solutions you've used so far. Especially with Next.js.

Cheers
Tim
No need for conspiracy theories here.

It is much more likely to be Brexit related. They are the ONLY highly educated and native english speaking country in the EU and are eating the UKs business

The land of scholars and saints.

I dont even think they have the lowest rate in the EU and they are free to set it however they wish.
It's a Ducati Multistrada.
constant white noise on the background is way too distracting.
>That's why most of the enumeration methods in Ruby match the names of similar methods in Smalltalk ("collect", "reject", "select", etc.) and not the corresponding names in functional languages ("map", "reduce", "filter").

Ruby has both, actually; "map" is a synonym for "collect", "reduce" is a synonym for "reject", and "filter" is a synonym for "select" (well, actually, they are both synonyms for "find_all"). And the non-Smalltalk names seem to have had more influence on newer methods, e.g., Enumerable has filter_map, but not select_collect, even as a synonym.
*conservation area
Notice the large black borders around the gameplay area. That's due to hardware being too weak to render the game on entire screen.
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Common mentality even outside of tech. Guess those people forgot the days of indie labels or mom and pop shop. Can't really blame them given that being the intent for decsdes.

For Google, it very roughly makes about $25 per year per user in 2019. But it has an estimated 4 billion users. If you can take even 1% of 1% of these users, thats still 400k users. So you're still bringing on $10m a year if you keep the same price.

Now of course Kagi is nowhere near that 400k figure, but also charges more. So you see how it can add up.
The most chronic job hoopers I've seen are actually paid quite low though. They're the ones who come into interviews asking if we'd match a 10% salary increase and I'd be like bro we could do double your current salary. Sadly they weren't able to reverse a linked list and didn't get the job.

I feel like people tend to be paid pretty damn close to their market value, and inversely, buying the most expensive engineer in the market is usually worth it, with some exceptions, like the people who skill up in salary research and such.

Job hopping works if you're paid below market value.
Why would it? The people who made the decision not to pay are the executives not the shareholders. It's the same situation as if you ask if you can borrow 10 dollars so I lend you 10 dollars, then you don't pay your taxes and they put me in jail for it.

By all means hold executives accountable. If some of them did criminal things they should face criminal consequences - I'm all for that. Up to and including jail time. But sending shareholders to jail for something a company does is crazy unless they are also somehow complicit in it.
I'm fairly sure if you took an AT&T branded cell tower repeater into a warzone the wouldn't be very keen on supporting it either.
How do you imagine Android works across high and lower power ARM cores?

However ART is also a great piece of engineering at JVM and CLR level, even though Dalvik was quite lame, even when compared against Nokia and Sony-Ericson J2ME implementations.

ART is another level.

Nowadays you have an handwritten Assembly interpreter for faster startup, a JIT compiler, that also gathers PGO data, and an AOT compiler that picks up that data when the device is idle taking all the required optimizations.

To take this even furter, those PGO files are uploaded into the Play Store, and shared across compatible devices when applications are downloaded, not only allows jumping straight into JIT with PGO data, all devices collaborate gathering PGO data that covers all common use cases across the application audience.

And yes this also takes into account the ARM architectures.

On the JVM side, IBM and Azul have similar offerings with cloud based JITs for their implementations.
People taking a stance based on presented facts of having a opinion based on them because of complete or incomplete information also fine. But it defeats the purpose of having the definition in the first place. I am referring to the using violence against non-combatants mostly civilians with the aim of spreading fear. Never have I said anything of being pro whomever, only condemming the act with the intention of spreading fear. Just like there is fear of US dropping bombs on afgan houses as it is to having planes flying into buildings. It is the behavior not the party who does it.
I can't stand the hard plastic seats of US train services and busses. The UK seats are so much nicer. It's really not disgusting.
Finland now has the opposite problem where the market price is negative at times. Our neighbours (Sweden, Estonia) are not able to import as much as we produce excess on good days. Luckily, more cables are being built and the variably cheap electricity attracts new industry that can make use of it (green hydrogen and green steel production).
It is much more likely to be Brexit related. They are the ONLY highly educated and native english speaking country in the EU and are eating the UKs business

I dont even think they have the lowest rate in the EU and they are free to set it however they wish. The land of scholars and saints.
Such rampant pillaging of taxpayer dollars should have been more severely punished. If I was on a jury I would have sent them to jail for 20 years and slept well that night.
Who wants to pay for something that used to be free?
You don't get those features because the OCaml LSP doesn't implement it.

Works fine in other LSPs.
> If you're planning to call someone far away, picking a time "during work hours" becomes very difficult without time zones.

Does everyone in your office work the same hours?

We _already_ have the problem of "What are Bob's work hours" because most office workers don't work the same hours. Some folks come in early, some work late -- some come in late and leave early.

That has been common for decades and has become even more pronounced with increased remote work, particularly across time zones.

We shouldn't build our society around a myth of 9-5 office workers.
That total timing also includes compilation, not just the JSON parsing.