skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At yet here we are with nobody having a better plan. The issue is still the same as it has been for the past 20 years: making a (PKI-based) security feature means you can never share the secret parts or make it optional, otherwise it is immediately defeated. You can't have selective security where it works sometimes but not all the times. And trading out that security system is not an option.

This is BS. A security system where the user is not in control of the secret is not a security system but DRM almost by definition. And trading it out is not only an option, but likely the preferred outcome if you ask the majority of buyers.
Well evil geniuses aren't real, they are a literary trope. So it makes sense that they are not as common as people who suffer moral decay.
The thing about linux is that ime you can just implement this individually across all (most) the apps I use. I have vim-like binds for mpv, my pdf reader, terminal emulator/terminal file manager, image viewer, and of course my window manager.

The ones where I don't are the ones where it would be too complex to be taken care of by an external app. A DAW would need its own core implementation of modes for example, same with something like Krita and in that case it would probably not even be advisable.
The irony is that he did use social norms as an example that will never change. However, if we change the example to something that will _really_ never change, it's still quite accurate:
(wo)men will always need hats in cold weather.
Was there any mention of the jet elsewhere, e.g. in some printed t&c? If it was only in a random tv ad, then I side with Pepsico too. And I wish I had a spare 700k for a random stunt like this.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/85723-raised-by-wolves is a great example of watching an atheist become a believer and a believer become an atheist.
Same, this is something they don't tell you. That the rabbit hole does have a bottom, and it's really comfortable down there!
You still had ICA, normal, lidl, hemkop, city gross, willys, convenience stores, food delivery and restaurants though, right or are you using that as a shorthand for "everything"?

I was in Sweden for 2 weeks in September btw. Using cash was a challenge.

The biggest pain was bill splitting at restaurants. That's so much easier with cash.

Lovely country, btw, recommended. California-ish prices. Get your SIM from 7-11, they're cheaper and also get the 7-day public transit pass, totally worth it.
This definitely sounded like nicotine poisoning. I don't smoke cigars specifically because of this singularly unpleasant experience. I think I'd rather have COVID, the flu, and pnuemonia all together than ever get nicotine poisoning again.
This episode broke my heart with its wholesomeness! I'm a grown ass adult and I watch Bluey unashamedly. I don't even have a kid companion to provide cover. It's such a layered show, with themes that resonate with adults as well. Cafe, where Bluey as a kid makes friends immediately with another kid, and Bandit and the other kid's dad were very cagey about how fast is too fast. Puppet subtext is as serious as any Ridley Scott Maker/Creature theme. Space is about revisiting traumatic events in one's past, and a gentle advise on how to deal with it. "I am Magic Claw. Magic Claw has no children. His days are free and easy." Hilarious and true.
> Go's lack of operator overloading is occasionally a nuisance, it means that you'll never have to dig deep to understand what "+"

It's funny, in 10 years of writing Python professionally I can only think of one occasion when I had to dig into what a __add__ operation did (a Money library which didn't special case 0 meaning sum didn't work as you might hope).

I think it's probably because python has a pretty comprehensive standard library which gives reasonably consistent examples of where to use them.
I appreciate you may not be aware of the Independent but it’s a general audience publication. That author isn’t even a tech journalist so I doubt they are even aware of what a TCP/IP port is let alone that it’s related to the subject matter in any way.

They’d probably have more familiarity with “port” used in other contexts like:

- the opposite of starboard

- USB port

- the alcoholic beverage (like Wine)

…amongst any array of other usages.

And out of all of them, the one that makes the most grammatical sense to your average person is maritime ports.

So I don’t think it’s unreasonable the way it was written.
That seems to imply that there is a price at which they WILL sell one to a civilian, though.
I'd be hard pressed to find it again, but I remember watching a video years ago talking about the issue of buying new ovens for poor Africans in villages not actually working to reduce carbon as intended because what ended up happening is that they would just use now two stoves, the old one and new one, at the same time instead of tossing the old one and only using the new one. Great in theory and a seemingly easy low-hanging fruit, but may fall apart in practice, unfortunately.
I think you're using a different defintion of "crime" than I am (unlawful activity is probably the simplest). "Unenforced" would be probably a better term. e.g. Speeding in a car is a crime in a lot of places, but is often unenforced.
Programs that highly rely on their GUI are probably not the best for vim-like binds, imo they're the exception. And even if you did want that, you'd need a whole reimplementation from the program itself, to include modes.
Should IPFS support be built into the Go toolchain? Should the package authors be expected to be running an IPFS node? Should Google operate the infrastructure to access IPFS? This is an interesting proposition but it opens quite a few followup questions.
I remember noticing them all over Paris and some in Italy about a year ago when I visited. I was very amused!
> The one option he doesn't have though: Continue running the car as-is. And that's the point I am making.

Exactly! So raise an EngineFailure exception and let the driver decide how to proceed. But don’t kill the driver because you can’t figure out how anyone could possibly recover from what seems to you like the end of the world, when it might just be a speed bump as far as the driver is concerned.

> You are entitled to your opinion of course, but I'm not going to agree, and it seems a lot of people are completely fine with that design decision: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/3

I mean, a lot of people are fine with programming in PHP, that doesn’t make it a good choice.

> And yes that is the libraries call to make.

No. Absolutely, 100%, beyond question not. The library can’t possibly know every conceivable circumstance in which it is called, and therefore it is a guarantee that there is some conceivable set of circumstances from which what appears to be a fatal error from the library’s perspective is nothing more than a blip, or even a complete non-issue, from the perspective of the caller. Panicking the calling program so it can’t possibly continue is an abuse of trust, and any library that does so shouldn’t be admitted to any repo, and any language that allows it to do so is broken by design and should be considered harmful.
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Once my IPv6 works I’ll start taking IPv6 seriously.

Shame on you Turk Telekom and Turkcell. Still don’t support IPv6.
You have to consider percentage of emission vs percentage of the goods moved. I believe shipping is way more favorable in the regard vs it being replace by local shipping by millions of trucks.
No, it means that interest rates have recently doubled. That's the primary driver of affordability. Typically a house is least affordable when it is first purchased, because it is obtained with a 30 year fixed interest rate mortgage. So, over time, the income of the owner goes up with inflation, but the cost of the house remains the same, making it more affordable over time. Older generations can easily afford their houses, but younger generations need to scrimp for a time.
Power-starved North Korea turns to solar energy to keep the lights on
So, this is basically a airline fencing stolen goods?
Again, you miss the point that while they might want to make it secret, anyone following the mapping ships can secretly have a copy of those same maps.
One of the official reasons for the quota is to protect consumers from shooting themselves in the foot when they configure something incorrectly and start using the maximum available autoscaling resources which quickly makes bill to explode.
I cannot get used to American custom of advertising gross and charging net prices. It's 24.20 and would be nice to discuss it as such
OP said they're different products, which is very true. Yes, GPT-4 still makes mistakes, but it's leagues ahead of 3.5.
Were you actually affected by this somehow?

Because, you know, this page had been nothing but a redirect to Google Groups for 22 years. That seems plenty of time for people to update their bookmarks.

If you weren't affected, this doesn't really sound like an argument made in good faith.
read this

> snarky stack-overflow comments that I shouldn't do that,

and realized they're probably using the chatgpt equivalent: nice, corporate answers that you probably shouldn't use
I'd say PHP 7+
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TFA also mentions:

"The cybersecurity incident follows a cyberattack at Melbourne’s cryptocurrency exchange Coinspot, which saw more than $2m taken away from accounts."

However, theft from a cryptocurrency exchange may be considered to be a "credulity correction" in market economics.
The thing is, people do not like to learn a new UI to do the same thing on a different device. But they have to.
The politics I remember from the early internet was idealism about alternative approaches, like libertarianism or communism of whatever stripe. Such internet-nerd politics were usually divorced from what was actually going on in mainstream politics, and therefore there wasn’t the exhausting, unescapable partisan squabble as found on social media today.
Here is a dumb question: how does it distinguish between a partial solution that is just missing some characters/lines and nonsense?
The technology is there from what I understand. The difficulty will be on the regulatory/bureaucratic side.
> A lot of beginner material uses List to introduce algebraic data types, inductive and equational reasoning - but you don't have to use them. In fact, the standard library encourages Seq instead over List.

I have repeatedly found this the hardest part of learning OCaml - it seems really difficult to find a tutorial that explains how to write OCaml as a real developer would working with production OCaml. Like, I don't need another explanation of sum types or recursion, these are things I'm already using regularly. I'm more interested in the things that OCaml does uniquely that I won't have seen in other languages.

For example, which sequence type should I be using most often? And how often should I be using refs/mutability? And there's lots of alternate stdlibs - should I be dipping into those? What does unit testing typically look like for an OCaml project (and what about other forms of testing)?

It's also very difficult to search for these sorts of things, because I feel like a lot of the results I get are for students learning OCaml as an introduction to functional programming, so questions like "how do I reverse a list" are answered by showing a clever recursive function that reverses a list, as opposed to the List.rev function.

I am not the author, but I'm in a similar situation (right down the Rust background and trying out OCaml for AoC), and I'd love to get past the basics, but it's very difficult trying to find worthwhile resources to do that with.
I was being slightly facetious in parts. The point I was driving at is that a human mind has had a very long time to do something perhaps akin to hyperparameter tuning, and we know that even imperceptibly minor changes in brain architecture can be the difference between struggling to put your socks on and being a genius that’ll be remembered through the ages. So those 500M years since the first neuron can’t just be written off.

Ultimately I agree with your final conclusion. You can’t really compare a LLM and evolved human directly. Even just a neuron in an ANN is nothing remotely comparable to a biological neuron. Of course it isn’t surprising that humans and LLMs are different given that they are built to do completely different things on fundamentally different hardware.

It just seems like many people are keen to write off the significance of GPT just because it’s not yet quite as good at everything compared to the world’s most marvellous example of engineering we all have in our skull. We didn’t even have transistors 75 years ago, but now we have a pretty believable facsimile (until you really interrogate it) of human intelligence that’s improving million times faster than evolution was ever capable of. But now the criticism is that it learns in a fundamentally different way to humans and doesn’t generalise fast enough. It’s true, but.. really?
>by selling the item they are making a claim of ownership.

Yes!

Reminds me of one of my favorite sayings:

>The test of whether or not you own something is if you can sell it.

By this measure eBooks, shows, movies, games, apps, etc., even though you've purchased them, are NOT owned by you: you've rented them and your access may revoked without notice unilaterally at any time.
I thought lambdas are practical when they're called rarely, with a surge of traffic occasionally? So that you don't pay for the servers when they're unused, and occasionally you can withstand black friday traffic.

If a lambda is called 6 times per second, I suspect the underlying VMs/containers that power lambdas are rarely shut down (I don't know how AWS works but that's how it works in another cloud provider I'm familiar with - they wait for a little for new requests before shutting down the container). So might've as well just used an always-on server.

I also wonder why their calculations show that 6rps (that's what their "17 mln monthly lambda invocations" really means) would require 25 servers. We have a single mediocre VM which serves around 6 rps on average as well without issues... Although, of course, it all depends on what kind of load each request has. We don't do number crunching and most of the time is spent in the database.
Long form, magazines and Sunday reading
If I don't consciously choose, my time will be sucked dry by vampiric nonsense clickbait. Books are great, essential. But periodicals and opinions offer a more current and diverse conversation for the insatiably curious. I regularly read the below list using a mix of LibbyApp (with a library card), AllTop, throttlehq, SubStack, print subscriptions, Apps and web shortcuts.

Some are an investment, but you are what you read; it changes our worldview, daily conversations and mindset.
What diverse readings could you share?

My regular reading

Philosophy Now https://philosophynow.org

New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com

The Week https://theweek.com/uk

LRB https://www.lrb.co.uk

2000AD: https://2000ad.com

MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com

New Left Review https://newleftreview.org

Trebuchet https://www.trebuchet-magazine.com

WIRED https://www.wired.com

Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org

Money Week https://moneyweek.com

Pluralistic https://pluralistic.net

The Digger Magazine https://www.the-digger.com (My guilty pleasure)

The New Criterion https://newcriterion.com

Land of random https://thelandofrandom.substack.com/
An individual doesn’t stand to inherit the equivalent of a life time or labor because “their parents happened to live in California”.

They stand to inherit it because their parents worked hard their entire lives and invested an obscene amount in a desirable market. They probably made significant sacrifices to do this. Many of our families were here long before real estate started getting out of hand and contributed to building the economic machine that makes California so desirable today.

Newcomers absolutely deserve to pay higher rent and mortgage rates to live in the same place. They always had the freedom to invest in their own state or country.
You should be able to verify facts outside of your domain of expertise. Every time a new study comes around saying “actually, everyone should be drinking 3 glasses of wine a night”, do you take a trip to the liquor store?

LLMs are far from the only thing you rely on that will confidently lie to you.
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The masses must be manipulated. The world is too complicated for most people to make a rational decision and they need guidance. This has always been the way it works. It's a symbiotic relationship. Everyone in society contributes and societies often rely on intelligent individuals for guidance.

Take, for example, a hypothetical workers union in a coal mining town. Those people probably have union lawyers and decision makers staffed with the smarter people who make the decisions. It's literally a media trope: old, salty coal miner encourages his son to get educated and leave coal mining. Son gets educated, comes back, contributes to the miners in his own way.
> Sounds implausible but I’ve seen that more than once!

The textbook example of this going wrong is a lambda that is invoked on uploading to S3 that writes the result to S3. There's even an AWS article on it - [0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/avoiding-recursive-invo...
Well, if the doubtlessly complicated code needed to parse such uncommon borrowing scenarios is only called when such a scenario is found, then it should only affect compilation times for code using such scenarios (which is, I hope, uncommon)?
The page embeds https://stanforddatascience.github.io/best-practices/index.h...
Very ignorant thinking. Tell it to people who are involved in hard physical job.
Yes... it's a moderately interesting court case that has often been used to introduce law students to the concepts of offer and acceptance (and ancillary concepts like puffery), but I felt like the docuseries was trying quite hard to make the whole episode more interesting than it was. Maybe I am just jaded by all the insane financial shenanigans that have occurred since...
By that standard, almost any problem is a joke. There should be some space where something can be "no joke" without being life-threatening...

It's also not an argument in the context of maintaining payment systems. Who even needs to pay for anything, right? People survived just fine before there was money.
That makes energy innovation the most critical of our lifetime. Without the small manufacturers doing niche products worldwide everyone becomes much poorer on goods and services they need. That hits poorer countries the worst and triggers more war as people find fewer means of getting out of poverty (Putin was able to motivate Russians from far regions that thought washing machines were worth plundering and sending back.)

Globalisation keeps the world at peace - as long as world leaders see the scales of the choice between maintaining trade and starting a war tilted toward trade, the world is a better place. Fossil fuels for transport and coal burning in China likely contributes the most massive amounts to global pollution. Thus innovation in nuclear would be massive, and improvements in battery storage would increase the utility of seasonal renewables as well as electric transport.

Humans are benevolent when they are fed, warm, and secure. The most important effective innovation keeps humans from getting on each other’s throats.
Why can’t cargo ships tow a multi acre barge covered in solar.
It's true that the world is moving towards cashless, and I expect that 30 years from now all transactions will be made digitally.

If you're running a business dealing with cash has a cost. You need a till, you need to keep track of what goes in and out, and at the end of the week you need to take the cash and deposit it in the bank. This is all overhead, and it's much more efficient when all of that is done automatically by Square or whatever POS system you choose.

High traffic services such as public transportation or supermarket shopping will bottleneck with cash. Can you imagine if everyone that wanted to use the Tube in London needed to pay in cash? You'd have a queue that starts in the Cotswolds. Alternatives (like in Berlin) are to make sure everyone buys their train ticket beforehand, and then use ticket inspectors to make sure people travelling have paid - this will lose the transport operator money and make it harder to optimise services based on real-time demand.

We aren't moving towards cashlessness because of some government conspiracy to track us everywhere (governments can do that easily enough via the Internet anyway), it's because it's cheaper, faster, and more convenient for everyone participating in the economy.

Finally, I don't think the dystopia painted in the article is realistic in western countries. The flow of money in the economy is primarily controlled by the private banking sector, with oversight from a central bank (which is public-private hybrid). Transactions can be handled directly from bank to bank, or via a payment processor like VISA or Mastercard. These are all for-profit corporations, and they comply with governments for requests for data, but governments do not have any direct intervention in individual transactions, nor are there rules that could be applied to block transactions on a granular level.

TL;DR we're going cashless because it's objectively better.
I'm not surprised people still don't know functional programming at all. It is really such a different way of programming, and if you don't try to write an entire project using the style, it's just too easy to fall back into mutable code, depriving your self of the greater benefits.

Most of the code I used to write was just gluing libraries together, even heavily Object Oriented stuff was too complicated and becomes a spider web of dependencies, so I always hunted for better libraries, rather than try to extend existing ones.

Now, I've been writing Clojure for about 3 or 4 years, and I still struggle with certain functional and immutable algorithms. But, now when I go back to Python I occasionally get bit very hard from the surprising mutability. So my brain is definitely adjusting to the safety.

I'm still not fluent with a lot of higher order functional concepts. Though I think I'm finally understanding Monads and Transducers.

It's hard to break 10+ years of imperative habit. What really helped me was diving down into the core of how parsers and code evaluation works. I didn't read SICP, but understanding the plumbing of these languages can help ease the transition, at least for me...

Regardless, it's a lot of dedicated work that a lot of people don't want to invest.
I doubt it. Barter economies didn't have cellphones, PayPal, M-Pesa, Pix, etc.
I don’t especially like cash, but I wouldn’t mind it nearly as much if I didn’t have to deal with the inevitable change.
And yet, when things freeze over where I am, I see a lot of people out and about without hats on.
Not that hard with dosbox look at what Archive.org has done.
Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all
> the worst cheap Chinese knock off screens

Most of an iPhone is Chinese made
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Yes. If there was also global indexing and teleportation technology.

You can run your website from a dusty road and I can get there in a few hundred milliseconds.
I have a 20+ year relationship with them as a company that informs my trust with their products and services.