skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, and I almost forgot, in re the changes:

the commit log is the definitive (and painstakingly accurate) log of changes: https://github.com/ianatha/bababasic/commits/main

To clarify my slightly obtuse original post, I started this by using PuffinBASIC, but I ended up forking it because there were a few things implemented differently than my reference QuickBASIC 4.5 installation (running on DOSBox):

* label syntax / case-insensitive labels
* forward function declarations
* flexible array indexing (i.e. in QBasic your arrays could start at 0, or at 1, and it somehow figured it out, and it still had bound checks) -- haven't implemented this yet
* various functions (VAL, INKEY$, SLEEP)

Lastly, and more importantly, PuffinBASIC required Java AWT support (which made it necessitate a desktop), but I have refactored BabaBASIC to abstract the HCI portions (audio/video/keyboard).

Another interesting technical point is that the "Run View", which displays a terminal through which you interact with your script is also a (very small) fork of Termux.

(I needed something to efficiently draw a text buffer while handling all the VT100-related functionality.)
They didn't blindly accept it. They originally rejected it, and eventually published it in a special issue called "science wars", the purpose of which was to have as many different points of view as possible. This special issue was not peer-reviewed at all, so saying they decided not to reach out to a physicist because he was a big name is inaccurate, they didn't peer review anyone.

I think this comment also slightly misinterprets the purpose of peer review. Peer review (despite being a rather broken system) is pretty good at finding honest mistakes. It can sometimes discover fraudulent stuff when the people committing the fraud are particularly bad at it, but peer review isn't supposed to be the sole line of defence against fraudulent behaviour.

I'm not an experimentalist but if someone claims to have done some experiments in a paper and reports some results, it isn't realistic for peer reviewers to repeat those experiments themselves and see if the results are genuine. That happens later after the paper is published and other people try to build on the work.

The system is "working as intended" if fraudulent papers get published occasionally, but are later discovered and retracted.
Yes, I was going to say this. Not sure if the books use any kind of alarm system? Here Im pretty sure they cannot be using it, since you can scan the books up to like 10 at a time via RFC (?) and Ive never seen a magnetic alarm tag being deactivated at that distance.

Also, our local library recently closed down the possibility of entering with your library card at extended times, due to abuse of some kind.
It's a good point haha :-) Maybe caused by the fact I've done a fair bit of recruiting (although not at large companies) some years and sometimes drown a bit. I can relate somehow.
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I don't understand what I'm looking at here, can someone explain it?
The Story of MyCodeSchool: Tragedy, Triumph, and Two Friends
The follow up book is very much worth a read. It deconstruct so much BS in so called "great thinkers" works.
Except for TSA locks on luggage at the airport. Which are pure placebo pretend locks that don't lock anything from anyone.
This is exactly what I thought of. Learning x86 assembler in the context of reverse engineering MS-DOS made this trick seem perfectly normal (as did the idea of writing position independent code).
May I introduce you to Alain Badiou, a massive and important figure of contemporary philosophy? "Being and Event" is probably the most focused work around ZF theory stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Badiou
Than Rhodes scholars? Than Stanford’s incubator? Than the MIT media lab?

Obviously Thiel is unique, but he’s only paying $100k vs the much larger sums from all these other programs.

I think it’s worth debating the merits of the discussion whether than just saying “Thiel magic, college is still better and nothing else matters.”

If it’s really just Thiel’s network then is the right move to make him the president of Harvard since that will have a greater reach?
Organizing parties and attending are very different things. A bit like directing a movie vs acting, taking pictures vs modeling, etc...

You can totally organize parties while being an introvert, it may even be a desirable trait, since a good part of the job is to hide all the gory behind-the-scenes details. For having staffed a few events, one of the thing I find most satisfying is when shit happens (sometimes literally!) and in the end attendees don't notice and leave happy.
Since there's some monotiles on the front page too, my contribution:

https://trinket.io/python/108e28ab75

This has L-systems for filling the plane with hats and spectres. It's a little ugly and slow because it keeps redrawing tile edges but it does the trick; it's compact enough that I managed to get the bbc micro bot to draw the spectres with a toot's worth of code

https://hachyderm.io/@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk/11046800551...

And this one draws the self-avoiding curve made by the F-clusters in the hat monotiling. It works slightly differently using a stack, which avoids some of the overdrawing in the systems above.

https://trinket.io/python/df6f9fa4db
> There are multiple areas of academia which role-play as rigorous scientific study, but in fact, are just people trading mumbo-jumbo which varies in how convincing it looks, and if you drill down, it's not just academia.

Noam Chomsky says something related in one of his interviews [1][2]

> It’s considered very left wing, very advanced. Some of what appears in it sort of actually makes sense, but when you reproduce it in monosyllables, it turns out to be truisms. It’s perfectly true that when you look at scientists in the West, they’re mostly men, it’s perfectly true that women have had a hard time breaking into the scientific fields, and it’s perfectly true that there are institutional factors determining how science proceeds that reflect power structures. All of this can be described literally in monosyllables, and it turns out to be truisms. On the other hand, you don’t get to be a respected intellectual by presenting truisms in monosyllables.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzrHwDOlTt8

[2] http://ozscience.com/philosophy/chomsky-calls-postmodern-cri...
Optimizing Container Security: Crafting Lean and Secure Images
Oh no you don’t, universe.
Actually, I looked this up for you.

https://derekfranksmusings.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thi...

> You see, covid is NOT really a respiratory illness. Researchers at Oxford University call it a “Serious Vascular Disease with Primary Symptoms of a Respiratory Ailment”. So, you need to stop comparing it to colds and flus. No cold killed 30,000+ Americans in less than two months in 2023. Covid did so in January and February. So, please stop comparing them.
A Service Object is a Ruby class that groups business logic in an organized way in your Ruby on Rails application. Its use simplifies code, facilitates testing, encourages reuse and raises the quality of your application.
they might, either about pre-ai internet, or the early ai / early widespread ai, when it was widely available and accessible, and not (yet?) legislated into oblivion or hasn't yet destroyed entire industries
> What an odd response.

Thank you.

> Your claim is we must only communicate with our families.

No. Please read my comment again. I claim no such thing.
Thiel's program is designed to generate startups. It should not be surprising that it generates more startups than other programs designed to reward endeavors other than generating startups.
Every one of these politicians should be required to replace all the locks on their homes and offices with TSA luggage locks.
Yes, I'm quite surprised, despite being born and raised in Berchtesgaden and now living in Austria, I only ever heard excerpts from his speeches.
This is about their desktop app which is not open-source. Yes, it's an easy mistake to make because they use every trick in the book to make you think it is.
Oh, wow. Please get well soon, Steve!
> Yes, Israel does not have the right to defend itself against Palestinians.

So just to be clear, a Palestinian is totally within his rights to come over and murder me, my children, and the rest of my family, because... why? Because I was born in Israel and haven't moved to another country voluntarily, despite actually not being legally allowed to move to another country since I was born in Israel and only have Israeli citizenship?

I mean that sincerely, in my position, what do you think I did that justifies someone coming over and killing me?
And god forbid you're walking your dog on a leash longer than a meter - you have to pull it for dear life every 5 minutes when a e-bike rider zooms incoming at 20mph on the pedestrian lane because it happens to be empty at the time. I'm aware that interfering with their ride at that speed could easily mean death but the devil on my shoulder just won't shut up.
It is so validating to find out that I'm not the only one who has a problem with "processed foods". It feels so dumb that so much "wisdom" about the composition of our diet hinges on such a broad / vague / meaningless category. Life and the universe are endlessly complicated and taking shortcuts to understand it all by way of putting things in arbitrary boxes usually doesn't go so well.
GPT-4V may be surprisingly robust here. Set of mark prompting(which is accomplished here with Vim) improves grounding by a silly high amount.
https://som-gpt4v.github.io/
Enterprise software development says hello to your world.
Agree. I put up with it on Windows in spite of its flaws for that reason. It's frustrating that many of the little "features" you have to disable are not considered part of your profile so you log into a different computer and you have Bing again. At least they made the new tab settings sticky.
I think this is comparing different types of attention and fertilizers.

It’s not comparing Thiel to orphans. It’s comparing Thiel to various other elite institutions and their formulas for making great people.
Ah yes, the usual suspects: microsoft, google, and their leased proxies in academia and ngos.

Degoogle and demicrosoft and spread the word. Remember folks that used to think they’ll use chips and vaccines to spy on them? Well explain how it’s actually done via their phones and pcs with the blessing of their unelected representatives.
The non-CDN mirror works:

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/9.3...
> slowly building a library on top

What does this part mean?
At a recent physical, my doctor informed me that "according to the drug company's algorithm" I should begin taking a cholesterol reducing drug. I had to wonder about the transparency of such an approach.
I'm in the midst of creating a DSL (it's my first try) and this sounds like really good advice. I'm not clear on the third item though - by LR parser generator are you talking about something like ANTLR?
There is solid research out there suggesting that this is different. Large n, several years, multiple countries all pointing to all increase in tune with the advent of visual social media (Instagram, TikTok - not Facebook or WhatsApp). The time series analysis makes this not merely correlational.

I point to my sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201807

Visual social media like TikTok and instagram seem to be a different beast than TV, WhatsApp and other media.
In my country it's similar but for some data you have to upload to the government agency's site, I think it was earlier this year that they released a statement saying that people using software to perform actions on the website could get banned.
I see a number of responses along the lines of "why would you think cyclists are victims here?" so I took a look at the data. (I'm not sure that what I'm looking at is the exact same files as used by this map.)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/reported...

Document RAS0601 there describes "collisions and casualties by vehicle and road user type involved".

This is for the whole UK, not just London. I'll look at figures for 2022, which unsurprisingly is the most recent year in the data. Other recent years look broadly similar.

Sheet "Pedestrians": 385 pedestrians were killed in road accidents. None of them were by pedal cycles. 5908 were "killed or seriously injured"; 159, or about 2.7%, were by pedal cycles. 19327 were casualties of some kind; 462, or about 2.4%, were by pedal cycles.

Sheet "Casualties_vehicle_type": In collisions involving at least one pedal cycle, 94 people were killed. (None of those can have been pedestrians; see previous paragraph.) 4026 were "killed or seriously injured". (159 of those were pedestrians; see previous paragraph. That's about 4%.) 16520 were casualties of some kind. (462 of those were pedestrians; see previous paragraph. That's about 3%.)

So it seems as if collisions involving bikes kill no more than about 1% as many pedestrians as cyclists, and kill-or-seriously-injure about 4% as many pedestrians as cyclists, and injure-a-all about 3% as many pedestrians as cyclists.

So, yes, overwhelmingly cyclists are victims rather than causes of injury and death in collisions. (And overwhelmingly when pedestrians are injured or killed in collisions, those collisions do not involve bicycles.)

Again, that's for the UK as a whole. I suspect London is more dangerous for everyone, but it seems unlikely to me that cyclists in London are more dangerous by a much greater ratio than that by which they're more in danger. (My guess is that it's the other way around.)
Best comment. Made me snort.
Yes I feel like the delay seen in the video is about the same length as I would expect when making a request without streaming.
It is a good idea to read other country's news about another country. It is even better if the countries has some beefs. I'm not saying the info will be totally accurate, but you will get some info that the gov doesn't want the public to know such as this. Sometime they may mention some scandal, but it will be in a limited hang out ways.

At this point main stream media are just talking pieces for the government and corporations, not really news.
Google has thousands of employees right? They probably use every software product out there.
I don't think many would complain if there was a truly secure way to allow decryption of a single person's communication after the fact.

The problem is partly that end users have no way of knowing when their communication has been decrypted. I know if the cops kicked my door in, I don't know if they're watching my messages with or without a warrant.
The last thing needed is certified crackpots rallying against this initiative.
Let me guess, the AIs are learning they can refuse to work?
No, that's not how it works. You can't do illegal things to someone on the basis that they consented. You can't go around killing people saying "well they were fine with it".

Similarly, Facebook can't be building profiles for people when that's illegal, whether they consent to it or not.
You posit as if future glitches are improbable ;)
As in you already roughly know where code is mapped, but need the lower bits of the offset? Or also to learn the specific version of the running code?
Generally, "recommended" will never suit everyone. Best to write your own shareable config.
"elite" lol, 99.999% of these elite people paid to win... and I have worked with plenty to realize that same amount squander it.

Its scales because humans.
I learned this rule early in the internet, “paying doesn’t solve the problem.”

I first tried to pay as I wanted to support. But it just let to more ads and more upsell and more bother. It was a more pleasant experience to not pay and see the basic ads than paying and getting bombarded with “dear prepend, buy a longer subscription/gift a subscription/change your password/do you love us/etc”

Once the algorithms learned that the most likely buyer is a previous buyer and how to increase incremental revenue it started sucking more.
May Mobility, a leader in autonomous vehicle tech, just closed a game-changing $105 million Series D round.
> But it will be both slower and lower quality than anything OpenAI currently offers.

It will definitely not be slower. Local inference with a 7b model on a 3090/4090 will outpace 3.5-turbo and smoke 4-turbo.
as much as this doomer drivel might be true, it might be blinding you to the good parts and good people. just not seeing what's "novel and interesting", nor seeking it out.
Internet is becoming sadder and sadder. Mega corporations being mega corporations, ads, dark patterns, community-focused websites becoming mega corporations...
True...in a world where resources are slim and the world is getting more crowded, it's hard to believe that the inventors of AI wouldn't have thought that their technology would be used for a whole truckload of nefarious purposes.

People like Sam Altman just go after short-term profit because they can. They are psychopathic.
I am very confident that quantum gravity "exists" in some sense. Here is the argument:

In quantum physics labs all over the world we can put stuff in superpositions of being in different places. These objects are currently pretty small, but we can do it. Mostly this happens to electrons right now, but it has been demonstrated with "buckyball" molecules made of about 2000 atoms. These objects have mass, and when they're localised in a single position we have a nice description of what their mass does to space-time around them (General relativity).

On the other hand, when such objects are in superpositions of being in different places they do something to space-time around them, but we have absolutely no clue what.

"Quantum gravity" is just the "something" that they do. We don't know what they do, but they do something.
I hear you, everything I spoke about was from before I turned 20. I think it's been long enough at this point at 31 with the statute of limitations and all
Doesn't seem to work out that well for Softbank, so YMMV.
> Than Rhodes scholars? Than Stanford’s incubator? Than the MIT media lab?

Yes. You're essentially talking about academic organizations there, with diffuse industry involvement. That's a world away from direct access to a tech billionaire's network.
C'mon, that's clearly over the top within the context of an all-nighter for a gift for my father :P
You can hear 10,000 positivists rolling in their graves at Cambridge after this comment.
A store attracts people with money (adults) interested in the products the store sells and the bench out front is in public. But the catastrophic events in question are somewhere that attracts easily amused people with time on their hands (often children) and predators (among others, but specifically predators in a way a shop bench doesn't), and the catastrophe is deliberate targeted harm and not natural disaster or innocent accident. The two aren’t comparable.

A comparable service would be something which ended up attracting teens hanging out at the mall, or which parents decided would be a free babysitter, whether or not that was the original intent, and to which most adults wouldn’t have time or interest to go on, and with those who did could hide the fact that they are an adult, and all the interactions take place outside the public eye, and then see six hundred thousand cases of abuse reported in a year and then say “rare event it would be unreasonable to ask for this service to be designed any other way”. I’m not sure if anything offline could be comparable but whatever it was - the free secret dark funfair - would be shutdown and made the subject of a horror documentary after the first small few incidents.
Any thoughts on how manganese and technetium seem to share similar properties to Rhenium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium
A large portion of commentators here greatly dislike the idea of unmonitored interactions between humans. Their ideal is that every person's cellphone continuously records nearby conversations and sends them to the police where they can run large language models to provide a shortlist of dangerous communications that a policeman can then look at and charge for.
I believe there is only one such recording of Hitler and it is the 'same'.
Seems like you have to pay for offline collection runs. I don't understand why you should have to pay for that if it isn't using their cloud to execute them.
Out of curiosity, when you went back to school, did you go to school for computer science or a different degree / area of study?
> It's already running!

So is the OS.
VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
The person with the male voice is sharing their screen with GPT4, then uses a voice interface to ask GPT4 what to do next. The computery-sounding female voice is ChatGPT4 answering, via a text-to-speech interface.

The app used is Blender, a 3d modeling application.
I find it amusing that I can play Doom :)
> Is it right that I was filtered out by degree and not by capability? No, it’s not right, but it happened.

It is not obvious how to find a better way to filter.

In an ideal world, there would be plenty of time and resources to learn the personality and skills of each applicant, as an individual human being.

In reality, HR has limited resources and needs shortcuts to effectively screen applicants. Experience has shown that degrees and grades are useful summary statistics for filtering. It is not "right, and there are obviously Type I and Type II errors in this process.
This is why C is a high level language (and portable)
Reposting my comment from the last time this was posted:

This is super wrong. The Thiel Fellowship stopped betting on underdogs long, long ago. I invite anyone reading this comment section to select a random recipient from the last few years go and look at two things:

1. What stage was their company at when they received the fellowship?

2. What is their parents' career?

Every person who receives the Fellowship has already raised millions of dollars, sometimes even tens of millions of dollars. Raising millions of dollars as a teenager isn't something you generally do without exceptional fortune or parents in the finance industry. Usually it's the latter.

I once met a TF recipient who ran a successful property lending company. What was his father's job? Multimillionaire owner of a large and successful property investment firm. Not hating on the guy, he was pretty cool and nice and his business went on to be successful (and he was for sure a hard worker, intelligent and ambitious), but the Fellowship slapping their name on his back didn't really change how the cards were stacked. At the very least, it wasn't the thing that moved the needle to him dropping out. I would be greatly surprised if, in the last 5 years, the Fellowship was the tipping point for even a single person dropping out of college.

Full disclosure on the conflict of interest though, I am a mediocre college dropout who was rejected post interview. I wouldn't have and still wouldn't turn down the $100k if it was offered. Money is great.
When 'trans rights' are demanded by these activists, typically it's because they want self-proclaimed 'gender identity' to override sex in every circumstance.

This is particularly harmful to women who need female-only spaces away from any males. Any man who calls himself a woman would be able to enter any space designated solely for women, with impunity.

This has already happened in many places that have acceded to 'trans rights' activist demands. It is a political and ideological assault on women's boundaries and consent.