skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was deliberating between purchasing a new iPhone or a camera. I opted for a camera because of its more affordable price and longer lifespan. Bought an almost new, second-hand Sony full-frame camera complete with a lens, It was less than $1.5k.
Obviously, now you have a huge problem of defining celebrity. We've gone from Larry David to some podcaster who would be banned from promoting "anything". So basically this just means the only legal ads are like the guys who twirl signs around on the street.
Are you still building on this? I want to have it for any rss feed.
20/24 - some of the choices near the end were tricky. Have read Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle Earth 1-3
it refers to the nihilistic attitude of the punk culture. "no future" futurism.
Feels like we’re ever closer to the Futurama heads-in-jar.

There are tons of ethical questions that need answered, but human potential has no limits.

This is a power our ancestor could barely dream of. Attributed to an all-knowing power. And now, to some degree, we have power over it. We can write medical text on it on it in a scientific way.

We’re a cool af species.
My point is that it's terrible heuristic and likely overestimates the actual vacancy rate

e.g. legitimate units can go empty for longer than a week when transitioning between tenants
Funny you got flagged by what I assume is a viagra spam bot check.
That's dumb. Security is not a component here. They literally just want to put the files into buckets because filesystem. Also MD5 is much faster in my experience and on any benchmark I can find.
No idea. I barely use mine, so don't have any solid recommendations. :/
I think David Boies (lawyer) hourly rate was $1900 a couple years ago, from what I understand. Most biglaw partners in NYC bill at $1k-$1.5k per hour, I think.
They sell millions of garage door openers and probably <0.1% care about Home Assistant.

Nothing will change.
Sad to see they are planning on filling them up with concrete:(
I believe so, and also that ChatGPT has similar terms of use. (Though in ChatGPT's case, they specifically note if you run it in "history off" mode there won't be any review.)
I think you might be overvaluing “authentic human experiences”. It’s a luxury, not a necessity.

There will also be an over supply of people willing to offer it because they have nothing else to offer in trade for basic necessities.
Zelda mixed with Scott pilgrim takes vs the world style please
Why don’t more tech giants start making their own hardware?
It's journalistic malpractice to say "sparking privacy concerns" when it is in fact just the author's opinion. There is no one cited as being concerned. Just that the author thinks the "move" is "likely to spark privacy concerns".
Any celebrity or person whos is willing to endorse products and services for large money money should have a counsel whose business is to know how to do these things.
Yes I'm on Mac and to boot, my keyboard is one of those smaller ones and I'm definitely missing some of the expected keys. I get that Emacs is customizable but it's a bit unapproachable when I want to dive into coding.
Another classic of this genre, brought to you by McSweeney's: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/armed-band-of-thugs-or-m...
My dad bought an ‘89 Toyota Pickup in ‘93 and, between he and I, we put 270k miles on the thing

Extended cab, 5 speed manual. It was my first vehicle when I turned 16 and I loved it
Sounds like a market exists for a hire-a-hitman review site. Some kind of guarantees on how many of the agents my be feds.
I doubt they ever existed.

I had to write a VBScript parser some 25 years ago (to syntax-check ASP files before they would crash live) and to get it to parse valid syntax correctly, I ended up with a messy patchwork of logic which was also letting through some really pathological edge cases. While trying to fix it, to my utter delight, I found that Microsoft’s parsers also allowed the exact same cases which looked nothing like valid code otherwise. I don’t recall specific examples anymore, but they were far from obvious without looking at the parser code, and I made and won bets with other programmers on whether those snippets would throw syntax errors or not.
Finally I can have my very own Maxwell’s demon to sort heat for me. I have to pay him with electricity.
works pretty well most of the time; chicken scheme even compiles call/cc to c
Seems clear to me: "change the system so that publications in big-name journals are not important for career advancement." There are many fields that don't have this requirement, or anything like it, and the suggestion is that academia join their ranks.

The "alternative solution" to having a thing that wacks people on the head every Tuesday is...not having it.
You will need to do that research yourself. My comment was to highlight how 'At the time, I doubt anyone was talking about it' is likely incorrect.
the source is open, it's just not open source. You can't be pedantic about things they didn't say, and you don't get to retroactively define open to only be definable by OSI.
I think they should not.
So of course they’re both very old staples in human culture, but I mean to say that any attempts to regulate them are/will be met with more economic resistance than cultural… like Anheiser-Busch (spelling definitely wrong) and Philip-Morris (now Altria I believe) would be a bigger obstacle than “the people.”
Literally the first result when searched for:

https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/russian-lieutenant-colonel-mow...

Edit: not the person making the claim, nor am I particularly vested in this story or its validity. But it took me all of 5 seconds to find.
I was curious so looked up how it works before reading the summary at the end, and that led me to find another user of aioli.js jq implementation: https://jiehong.gitlab.io/jq_offline/ (featured https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28627172 two years ago); jqplay.org still sends all the data on every modification so they should learn from it...

Anyway, this article is neat! Good work!

If I were to nitpick one of the last examples with path has no explanation and flew over my head (would have to open the documentation), and a reset button for each example might be nice after messing with it a bit, but it was a nice play.
We disagree.
The startup (bootstrapped, non-US based) I work for creates a developer productivity tool which gives you high quality architecture “for free”, allowing you to instead focus on those bespoke un-automatable business rules. We essentially aim to solve the author’s stated issue here.
Nah. The reality is that very very few people will "make great discoveries and contributions" even for graduate students in those fields or after getting a PhD degree, and many people who are good enough to become professors do mostly mediocre research or publish papers that have very little impact. For this LK-99 thing, I doubt more than 5 people of all those that are interested will be making any significant contributions in 10 to 20 years.
This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder if I’m backward as all get’out. I’ve never been very tough-on-crime, but if you genuinely hire a hit (murder) on somebody through a shady website, and agree on a contract, well, this is an act that seems indefensible.

The fact that it was a parody site seems amusing, but not defensible, since presumably she was not aware of the parody.
I think we're in approval, no?

But in lawyering, people need defending cause they can't defend themselves. It's not preference, it's a need.

"There is nothing more annoying than when you think someone is wrong, but they think they are right". And here's the interesting part, it doesn't matter if you're actually right. This is why people need someone defending them. Cause the resulting optics from defending yourselves, coming off as ignorant, unrepentant, or downright evil, is so destructive.

Ofc it's even worse cause it often is the case that you are wrong, but still needs defending for lighter sentence (which you deserve, in truth). YOu can't do this on your own.

Tangential, but this is also why employees don't come to their manager to tell about all their small accomplishments and deeds that they think are underappreciated. You just simply can't testify for yourselves. Especially if you have some dirt on you, and who doesn't? We dont promote ourselves cause we know instinctively it will be received poorly. AND IT WILL.
But if other employees go to the manager and say things they appreciate of you, then it's suddenly okay. If people catch on to this, we'll have a more healthier workplace.
Looks like his kids are under 10. Do any meta products target that age group? YouTube seems much worse in that regard, wonder what Sundar and Susan (or whoever the new guy is) let their kids do.
So you were 100% correct on the test?
I can’t speak personally, but people often get from nicotine what they would also get from marijuana- both have a “high” that makes you feel “different”, and the withdrawal symptoms from nicotine are more like those of meth than marijuana (which as far as I know, has no withdrawal since it’s non-addictive).
So retargeting ads for people that started to fill out a request form but didn’t finish would be entrapment… got it!
> How many working horses are there today vs before automobiles?

Well, exactly. The less working horses there are, the more expensive and exclusive it would be to ride them.

There could be 1 trillion automobiles and I bet you, none of these automobiles would compare to riding a real, live horse.

Similarly, there could be 1 trillion AI robots, they could do everything better than a human, and yet I bet you'd still want to ride (or otherwise experience) a real, live human.

My point is that if automobiles were always better than horses in every way, then nobody would want horses. But even today, with the amazing automobiles that we have, some of which even faster and more reliable than most horses, it's clear that we still want horses.

My question is, if horses were as intelligent as us and they could have their basic needs met extremely cheaply, would they be willing to work at all, apart from the occasional ride? Because the horse labor pool would shrink immensely if they didn't really want to work.
> Business value is the value that a business creates through sales or services. So essentially, income - expenses + goodwill.

Well WeWorks’ business value was negative as expenses always(?) exceeded revenue

Goodwill is the excess paid for a business over the value of the assets so it’s a fudge factor at best

When a founder of a company that’s never really made money walks away will hundreds of millions and everyone else gets stiffed you know there was something very wrong going on
> [While I concur that x86 MOV is impressively powerful, it is also well-known that simple NAND gates can be combined to compute arbitrary logic functions. There are also many simple single instruction/operation CPU designs.]

Strong agree. My fav example in the same category as "all circuits can be made with just nand" and "all you need is x86 MOV" is the iota formal language.

If the lambda calculus is too luxurious, and SKI combinators are too bloated, try using iota for all your language theory needs! No unnecessary concepts, or the two redundant operators of SKI! just one "simple" primitive:

i := λf.((fλa.λb.λc.((ac)(bc)))λd.λe.d)

There, now you're turning complete.

;-)
At minimum, I'd expect that law enforcement would have to put significant amounts of advertisements of the services, along with persuasion to use them, for it to be considered entrapment. Just offering the service is not entrapment. There needs to be incitement.
Yes, there are hard limits in the CFS. I have used them for thermal reasons in the past, such that the system remained mostly idle although some threads would have had more work to do.

Not at my work environment right now, don't remember the parameters I used.
You'll note that there's also no interviewing, no requested comments, and no research besides summarizing widely publicized information from one corporate web page. Holding it to any standard of journalism is a stretch.

Nobody calls it out anymore, but this is a blog post.
until it isn't...
Yes, but the article clearly states that the website is a joke, not a honeypot.
> But, to my knowledge, there is no artificial intelligence out there looking around, deciding that the this is an interesting topic …, publishing it somewhere, and then following up on that with other interesting…

this looks like a perfect definition for an Ad system :)
(sorry for cutting out a few words).
There's an interactive graph linked in the source [0] that provides individual days for measurements. The dates and download counts are also available as arrays in the page source.

I didn't dive deep, but it appears that the lower bound of the graph is downloads on Sundays. The last spike is around April 11th 2023, and the lowest recent high is August 17th. Not sure how much can be read into this (does high weekend usage correlate with developer excitement? Does the reduction in growth over the last few months reflect stability? Stagnation?) but it was interesting anyway.

[0] https://bestgems.org/stat/downloads
Ignoring the cases of entrapment for lesser crimes (I.e drug charges), I feel pretty okay with charging those that fall for a hit man (murder) honey pot. Am I backwards?

Yea, it’s unsavory, and in some way unfair, in an academic sort of sense. But don’t hire someone to murder someone else, under any circumstances. Right?
South Park already figured it out in the Magic Johnson AIDS episode: Money
Couple of interviews with the Rent a Hitman webmaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiPajuyET1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYBCuU1C1xg

And fun short doc by wavy websurf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDWi4EEW2c
That wasn't the issue. The Hobbit was shot at 48 FPS in true 3-D. While it might have seemed "too clear," it was a truly remarkable movie experience that set a new standard of quality that we should get used to. It was higher-quality motion.

I hate the fake interpolated frame rates on recent TVs. But if we started legitimately shooting at 48 FPS, I think we'd get over the "video"-ness of it.
What's the problem? Lots of newspapers have separate news and editorial teams who don't talk to each other and only learn about what the other team is doing when the paper comes out. Nature may well be doing the same thing. I don't know if there is anything funny here
I agree there's a gap, but I've heard both people dramatically insist it's one way, and the other. I don't have a good model of why that might be (other than a coordinated campaign at least one way).
4dtris – Tetris in 4 dimensions [video]
I'm almost certain that everyone has this story entirely backwards because people are used to thinking in a linear sequence of this happened, then that happened. Apple famously works backward from that process.

Reading the story behind the story, I think what happened is that several years ago, Apple execs were looking at a range of plausible technologies that were becoming feasible and were trying to find some kind of coherence among them through the story they wanted to tell. The story that was really speaking to them, as Gruber identified [1], was that finally the professional and consumer market were about to merge in really interesting ways.

I think what happened was at that point in time, they decided that the iPhone 15 Pro was going to be used to film the keynote for the iPhone 15 Pro and that this was the target given to all teams to give them clarity and focus to deliver a coherent end product.

Even tiny things like, why did they delay the introduction of USB-C for so long? Start making sense under this framework. If you're not used to this mode of thinking, a lot of the things I'm saying can sound like a stretch but if you adopt the framework, a lot of tiny things they mention suddenly make sense.

People are focusing on the specific output which is a single video but the power comes not from the output but from understanding the process that resulted in that output. Apple knows that other companies will always struggle to reproduce their exact process which is the core source of a durable sustaining advantage.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/31/downplaying-sho...
a couple of minimum wage teenagers could do it faster, better, cheaper, and safer.
It's a slippery slope. In my language (french), we call it "sausage politics", where you take small slices of your freedom one by one. This regulation is unwanted by anyone in the EU, creates security risks, and relies mainly on "trust me I won't do anything bad", that we all know is not going to happen.

Also, laws can't be reverted in the EU semi-dictatorial regime, so, such things are really dangerous. Each year that goes, I'm thinking of a plan to leave, as our freedoms get lower and lower. Recently, the digital services' EU gauleiter declared that "content calling for rebellion" should be deleted from social media.

Same goes with AML, and with the digital ID, where your government will have a single key allowing to know every service you're registered to. And let's not speak about the CBDC.
I'm European and I studied Latin for 6 years in high school and yet I found the test very challenging.
Like domestication, then.
"Your Princess Is In Another Castle" made me snort. Nice work @Patio11
I’ve often wondered - who are the Madison Avenue don Draper crews of the prescription drug world? How do they all create these terrible names, and terrible commercials around them? There’s clearly some consistency and yet it’s all insane.
We need a more anonymous site for this. Hitmonchan.
I'm very skeptical that's high quality for all use cases. Architecture is a huge trade off space and what's right for a particular product is most certainly wrong for another.
No RAII means that allowing early returns in C can increase the likelihood of not performing cleanup along error paths.

Consider writing a function called connect() which opens a socket and, if successful, calls setsockopt, bind, and friends.

If e.g. bind fails and you choose to return early, then you also have to remember to close the opened socket.

In my own code I prefer to use early returns for all situations except ones like the aforementioned. For those I use a forward goto to a label named "off_ramp" which does the necessary cleanup and returns an error code.
I got 23/24 this time, as I guessed one Tolkien character wrong. The last time I saw this test, maybe a couple of years ago, I got 24/24.
If it were not a ban, but a liability limited to something like twice the earnings from the promotions, you'd have to do a bit of vetting...
American Power Was Built on Cost Overruns
Hey, thanks for your kind words!

Regarding the reset button: I think that's a great suggestion and now it bugs me so much that I can't reset it. I'll add a reset button later tonight when I'm off work.

Regarding the confusing example: Yes, some of the examples are missing explanations (mainly because I spent more than a month on this post and I just did not want to put off putting it out any longer). Sorry haha. I'll try to improve the explanations and add more.
> I think you might be overvaluing “authentic human experiences”. It’s a luxury, not a necessity.

Rich people are notorious for seeking luxuries.

> There will also be an over supply of people willing to offer it because they have nothing else to offer in trade for basic necessities.

I don't know, perhaps you are right. I do hope you are wrong, though... :)

Also, I'm hoping if such an extreme situation would present itself, governments would be forced to step in and somehow ensure people would always have their basic needs met by, say, a strategic national AI army dedicated to provide those basic needs.

Speculating is fun, isn't it? lol
> Writing a compiler is not too difficult.

Wait till you're faced with the endless .h files with their inevitable use of nutburger undocumented C extensions.
EU laws can't be changed unfortunately. The unelected European Commission is the only one that has the right of initiative.
The medical industry cartels didn't spring up overnight. This was happening then, too. There is a common pattern of political propaganda that starts by labeling its opposition with terms that would be more appropriate for what it's pushing, cutting off the obvious criticism. For what should be a non-US-partisan example: see Russia calling Ukraine "Nazis".
Sagrada Ordinador
You’re right that it’s asinine for those politicians to think they can block open source, and I failed to make my full position clear. Yes, you cannot stop open source. I agree with you there.

However, I still feel that this aggressive stance is still good overall as a starting framework for barring people and companies from providing direct, paid, specialized support for China e.g. expertise in building anything related to chip foundries, et al.

Globalism as we know it will be dead soon
It looks like for something the size of a UUID on Node 18, on my 8th Gen i7 (main machine broken) MD5 is only 10% faster. I guess I was remembering a time when it was like twice as fast... Neat. :)
In no way shape or form is that phrased as your own personal opinion. You asked the parent commenter for a source and then parroted an alternative theory as what actually happened.

Considering you were so adamant on asking a source for the other person’s theory, and were so sure of your own, that you must have proof of it, right?
>I wish there was similar effort put into tools for observability and debugging of neural networks.

So do it. Then show it to your team and boss then boss's boss.
> Shortages lead to gluts.

On commodity markets. GPUs are essentially a monopoly, so gluts are only really possible with outdated hardware.

My favorite eBay listing of today is a lot of 100 NVIDIA P106-100 6GB GPUs for ~$20 each: https://www.ebay.com/itm/305023042595
SPHINCS+ is an elaborate scheme building up on very simple blocks. It's all down to cryptographic hashes, there is no other security assumption involved.

There is a good talk given out by a NIST guy that starts from the simplest one time hash signature construction and builds up to XMSS/SPHINCS: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiU0ICoiPI0>

TLDR;

SPHINCS+ is a hypertree of Merkle trees where leafs of Merkle trees are used to sign Merkle roots of other Merkle trees. Leafs of the hypertree (final layer of Merkle trees) are used to sign messages.

Paths through the hypertree need only be constructed on demand through the use of a PRF - computing paths through the hypertree requires computing entire Merkle trees. The private key is just a secret key to a PRF.

A hypertree can be as big as you want it. Merkle roots are parts of the public key and public signatures and can only be determined through computation, if the Merkle tree is too big you will not compute the root in reasonable time.
There is also the ANTLR parser generator which generates a top-down parser. It's nice to write in a grammar. Still, almost all production lexers and parsers are hand written.

https://www.antlr.org
yes i do.