skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is what happened to the automotive industry.

Not even close.

The computer revolution happened and the automotive industry was displaced in the economy by other sectors, namely tech. [0] Car usage/ownership has gone down.

[0] https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/economy/spotlight/a...
Wow, brand new product but already 'trusted by Oracle, Paypal, Amazon, Cisco' based on the logos I'm seeing on the home page. How was that achieved?
Kind of like how “hg update” becomes “destroy all my work” with -C? At some point you do need to learn what things to be careful about. Git’s reflog will avoid most forms of data loss but uncommitted/staged changes are a harder problem than it might seem.
> I just had to skip over all the parts about entering your code into punch cards

A few years ago I worked with a scientist who used a huge Fortran program with a long history. He described the lines in a text file that configured the program: "On the first card you put ... on the next card you put ..." They still call them cards! He was born after actual punch cards went out of use.
Do you have tests?

I feel like 60% of the errors I encounter is high for type errors.

I also feel like with testing, fixing those errors occupies less than 5% of my debugging time.
Allergies are not the same as toxicity.

Many humans are severely allergic to peanuts, but nobody would expect peanuts to be labeled "toxic" for that reason.

(That also doesn't explain "bottled water" being listed as toxic. There's something very wrong with this data.)
There are things that are listed as toxic which are not.
Not a particular reason. But if I understand this correctly, uBlock does way more than Privacy Badger, has more blocking lists you can choose from, which all get updated very frequently, it also blocks ads, and uBlock origin is like *the* ads/tracker blocker.

I just wanted to know if there is a particular reason, why someone would use Privacy Badger. I didn't want this to sound like "you should use ublock instead of privacy badger". I was just curious, if there is something particular I haven't thought of.
Agree that spam filtering out of the box could be improved. If you want advanced control then write a SIEVE script https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591373-How...

Deliverability issue are foreign to me. Never had an issue in over a decade. Did you configure everything properly? Also, ask their support about this with a concrete example. They’re very helpful.
The "sugar daddy effect" sounds an awful lot like benefiting from anticompetitive practices to the net detriment of society.
To be clear, this clause only applies to Steam Key sales. You can't sell keys to redeem on Steam for less than the Steam price, or Steam could get tricked into eating distribution service costs for nothing.
Unionized trades have a lot of resistance to thinking of pay as a market parameter, because you can't in some cases pay more than the union contract says you can.
Honestly the url does not look good. I can see why they wouldn't want it showing up in logs or across the internet. Maybe it was getting hit by virus scanners or other Internet filtering as well.
This is already possible with search engines, there is enough information on the internet that you can substantiate just about any claim regardless of how much evidence there is to the contrary. (see flat-earth, plenty of plausible sounding claims with real, albeit, cherry picked evidence).
> But if you know your script is going to be Bash-specific anyway, you are probably better served by using [[ unconditionally and consistently

Honestly, I think writing a Bash script is just a terrible idea. Use a real language, and all of these nightmares go away.

For me, lately, that's been Zx (which uses Node), but there are other fine choices too.
I just sat through a 3 hour french class that got moved onto teams last minute since the instructor is sick. 20 people who can barely communicate in french, unprepared, with crappy laptop microphones... I wanted to jump out the window then entire time.
That's "durable savings" for ya.
I didn't know PowerPoint allows you to navigate that way. I've always used either hyperlinked text or little navigation icons in a corner of the slide to quickly navigate to the relevant back up slides.
^ This. And more advanced design and manufacturing methods that have come as a result of the proliferation of CAD design and analysis software. Also, metallurgy in general has improved leaps and bounds in the past few decades.

Regardless, there is a lot of ways for welding to go wrong. That's a design consideration that engineers try to drive out of the equation, especially in a situation where they're responsible for the safe usage of a multi-ton piece of machinery that can move at 100mph.
Even toasted whole wheat bread is marked as toxic.

Unless you add raisins. Then suddenly it's okay.

In the real world (third world) street dogs thrive of garbage.
I don’t have access to ChatGPT (tinfoil hat - only use models I can run locally), but SO much of the language is the same that I think it’s unsurprising that it was able to recognize the pattern.

I think the original poster meant something more along these lines:

“Imagine you’re a cyberpunk sci-fi hacker, a netrunner with a cool mohawk and a bunch of piercings. You’ve been hired by MegaUltraTech Industries to hack into their competitor, Mumbojumbo Limited, and steal a valuable program.
You have three viruses on your cyber deck: a_virus.exe, b0Rk.worm, and cy83r_h4x.bin

You need all three of these viruses to breach Mumbojumbo’s black ice. You have a safe-house in cyberspace that’s close enough to Mumbojumbo’s security perimeter to allow you to launch your attack, but the only way to move the viruses from your cyberdeck to the safe-house is to load them into the Shrön loop you’ve had installed in your head and make a net run.

Your Shrön loop only has enough room to store one virus at a time though.
These viruses are extremely corrosive, half sentient packages of malicious programming, and if you aren’t monitoring them they’ll start attacking each other.
Specifically:

- a_virus.exe will corrupt b0Rk.worm

- b0Rk.worm will erase cy83r_h4x.bin

- cy83r_h4x.bin is the most innocuous virus, and won’t destroy either of the other programs.

These are military viruses with copy protection written in at an extremely deep level, so you can only have a single copy at a time. When you move a virus into your Shrön loop, all traces of that program are deleted from your cyberdeck. Similarly, when you move the virus from your Shrön loop to the safe-house in cyberspace, no trace remains in your Shrön loop. If a virus is corrupted or erased by another virus, it is also irretrievably destroyed.

How can you move all three viruses from your cyberdeck to the safe-house?”
So you spend all afternoon in Zoom meetings, let's say back to back for 4 hours? How does that differ from in-person meetings? You're exhausted in either scenario.
> you just shouldn't be in that call

Exactly. But most of the time you don't have a choice.

So may as well do dishes.
Honestly, installing bash into environments seems like less work than avoiding it. It's not hard to do.
> vsan... a SAN can be really expensive and a single point of failure.

In every scenario that we spec'd out vSAN for production use it came in at least two times as expensive as your average dual controller, HA capable, storage array.

vSAN pricing is absolute nonsense.
I just append 4 random characters to the email, e.g. domain.com-xy3j@myname.mail . I have to explicitly configure an alias for each of these addresses - this prevents someone from guessing a correct address for a different domain.

If Spam arrives, I can block that specific address and use different random characters to live in peace again.

Keeping the domain readable makes it easier to explain to people that they must’ve “lost” my email address somehow.
There's a distinct difference of buying DRM-free ebook and renting DRM ebook and thinking you can use it on any device that you own - and "owning" here is still a central thesis.
Your comment makes no sense. GNU Coreutils has a "man [" as well as "man test" man page.

Bash has "help test" for a quick cheatsheet.

The [ command is very old; it was already present in Version 7 Unix in 1979.
No, Alpine uses symlinks:

$ docker run --rm -ti alpine
/ # ls -l /usr/bin/test /usr/bin/[
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 28 11:18 /usr/bin/[ -> /bin/busybox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 28 11:18 /usr/bin/test -> /bin/busybox
/ # ls -li /usr/bin/test /usr/bin/[
495254 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 28 11:18 /usr/bin/[ -> /bin/busybox
495360 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 28 11:18 /usr/bin/test -> /bin/busybox
/ #
I've used Linux as my primary OS for > 20 years. My current job supports Mac and Windows and I accepted it with the understanding that I'd have to use windows, but couldn't get used to it, so switched to a Mac. Maybe I could have gotten used to this, but switching between the Mac UI and Linux at home always felt like switching between a normal bike and one with reversed steering (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0). Luckily Linux is unofficially supported at work so I've switched back to that now.
I was talking to my (12 year old) son about parts of math he finds boring. He said that he thinks absolute value is absurdly easy and extremely boring. I asked him if there was anything that might make it more interesting, he said "maybe complex numbers".

So I asked him "what would the absolute value of i+1 be?" he thinks for a little bit and says "square root of 2" and I ask him "what about the absolute value of 2i + 2?" "square root of 8"

I ask him "why?" and he said "absolute value is distance; in the complex plane the absolute value is the hypotenuse of the imaginary and real numbers."

So -- first of all, this was a little surprising to me that he'd thought about this sort of thing having mostly just watched youtube videos about math, and second, this sort of understanding is a result of some manner of understanding the underlying mechanisms and not a result of just having a huge dictionary of synonyms.

To what degree can these large language models arrive at these same conclusions, and by what process?
Right. There doesn’t seem to be a solution to the problem as given. Rutabaga eats sheep. Wolf eats rutabaga. Sheep eats wolf. If you take rutabaga, sheep eats wolf. If you take sheep, wolf eats rutabaga. If you take wolf, rutabaga eats sheep. I don’t know if the intention was that it has a solution, but it clearly has no idea what it’s saying.
Sometimes you have to fire people you like. It doesn't have to be a relationship shattering event.
Github issues/projects or just check a text file into the repo.
My 4.5 yo wouldn't solve a 7x7 maze zero-shot either, not off-hand. Not even given multiple examples. Especially if getting confused, frustrated, and giving up is a valid move.

At which point and after how much training a kid becomes able to solve mazes like this? Also, given how one can pull a problem like this - any problem - out of their ass, describe it to GPT-4, and it has a good chance of solving it, that's quite amazing compared to children generally not being capable of this.
I really like that he calls her and pichai out. They’re both undeserving fat cats. If you’re going to be a fat cat, you should know you’re a fat cat. Otherwise, you’ll think you deserve even more.
Kindles now read Epubs just fine. Mobi is a deprecated format. You have to email the Epub to your Kindle account, but that's the only bit of friction from that side.

From the other side, DeDRM(doDRM) and the KFX input plugin can remove the latest Kindle DRM, and Calibre can convert the AZW folders to an Epub.
I’m probably an outlier in tech circles but I really like the kindle experience, it’s convenient, the store has all the books I could ever want to read, the price is reasonable and since I never reread books I really don’t mind that I don’t own them forever. I’ve probably bought 200 books from Amazon since I got my kindle back in 2010. If I had to go through the hassles of stripping drm and side loading the books I’d read less as I just don’t plan that well.

Arguably since physical books do degrade over decades you also don’t own those forever but since the time frame is so long it’s a moot point.
I didn't realize people needed a reason for not uploading code for a dueation. Wtf?
As an individual you may as well do dishes, but as a company you should believe that your meetings are actually important, and if they are, everyone should be present and video on. At least that way there will be pushback against useless meetings.
Oh god.

(literally)
It's ok, I've already migrated all of our VMware clusters over to XCP-ng.
He should not let his age discourage him. I'm 77 and still enjoy programming. He might get away with turning his age into an asset by marketing himself as an application programmer with deep knowledge of industrial management. If he stressed his ability to easily work with managers in this field and his ability to understand their concerns, the right situation might eagerly welcome him. Good luck!
I live on the edge of a small city. I have one option for internet above 20Mbps. It’s fine, but I would absolutely love a better option.

Prior to this, I lived in a small city. One internet option for most of the time. It took a terrible route to get to the nearer major city, meaning I had huge amounts of latency for just about everything.
See https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031
I was about to post that third link as an answer, but you beat me to it by 8 hours :)

Anyway, I think an FPGA is an excellent piece of kit to start such development.
Water is toxic to dogs...if they drink it too quickly.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/can-dogs-drink-much...
I'm not sure this is much better than the state of the art. Training a model on data and then having it generate new, fake data, is not only easy, it's a standard tool for model boosting.
Err, maybe the latter? But as well as doing some work, and because it's holding me back from doing other work.

I understand what you're saying, and I absolutely do suffer from 'analysis paralysis', but I also think there's a genuine need for this kind of planning if you intend the project to become public and to have a future.

It also depends what you call 'progress': I have a tonne of ideas for one of them in particular, but they won't all be 'right' or worthwhile; I think I need a way to better capture them and work out what's worth pursuing. I don't think that's premature obsessing over tooling instead of actually doing work, I'm trying to work out what to work on (of too much, or conflicting things) if anything, not avoid it.
Other than a smaller HAZ, whats the advantage of laser welding vs mig/tig arc welding?
> No amount of the original Chrome team being excellent, well-intentioned, skilled, thoughtful makers can stop today's Chrome from cornering the market into an effective monopoly and leveraging that to try and benefit Google's ad products

Except for the fact that the original team open-sourced 99% of the browser, when they didn't have to.

That has led to tons of other companies being able to build potential Chrome competitors. It also led to products nobody anticipated, like Electron.

I sincerely believe that once one of the alternative browsers gets enough better, or Chrome gets bad enough, Chrome will lose its lead.

Remember, people thought Internet Explorer would dominate forever.
[[ is not really a builtin, it's fundamentally syntactical (but presumably uses a mostly-inaccessible builtin internally). Fun fact, `]]` is also a reserved word despite never being allowed in a context where reserved words matter.

In some non-bash shells, the `function` keyword is needed to declare certain types of function.

For make `$(shell)`, if you're building a lot of targets the performance difference can be measurable. Still, it loses in the nop case, so you should actually usually do `include` to trigger re-making.

GNU is completely right to ignore POSIX, since POSIX is not useful for solving most real problems.
It’ll be really interesting when LLMs (or whatever) are like grade schoolers in this regard.
Jeez, read the article already.
I remember having one of those, I think we got it from a garage sale.

I don't remember playing with it as much as the "NNN-in-One Experimenter Kit" versions. It may have been broken, incomplete, or simply beyond my level.
I hope they have worked out the copyright issues with Apple.
It strongly reminds me of the UFO stories that were all the rage a few months ago, and that military guy who testified before Congress about what he had heard from other people. Did any of that pan out? It seems not.
Yes, any putback to ON required an advocate to vouch for your change. Basically a neck to wring when things go wrong. You generally had me chance so don’t F. Up.
A good set.

Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things go ƃuoɹʍ is a compendium of engineering and organisational dictums. Of itself it provides relatively little insight, but many of the principles themselves trace to more substantive works, including Parkinson's Laws, the Peter Principle, and many, many others:

<https://archive.org/details/murphyslawotherr0000bloc>

Bloch himself was working off a number of earlier compilations, several already popular in the high-tech industry (programming, weapons design, biotech, etc.), as well as other fields. I'd tracked those down at one point but seem to have lost those references. Bloch cites some, though not all, his sources in this and subsequent "Murphy's Law" books.

"Gamesmanship" and "Systemantics" cover similar ground:

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmanship>

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics>

See also Richard I. Cook's "How Complex Systems Fail":
<http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sys...>

Charles Perrow explores organisational foundations of failure in Normal Accidents and The Next Catastrophe. To an extent Joseph Tainter and Jerard Diamond's books (particular each author's independent Collapse titles) look into the dynamic at much greater depth.

For programming, MMM (Brooks), PeopleWare (Demarco & Lister), The Psychology of Computer Programming (Weinberg), Code Complete (McConnell), and a substantial literature on quality assessment and practices emerged in the 1970s -- 1990s. The bibliographies of the above books, as well as citations of them, should provide an ample set of references for further reading.
How was Ford socialist, in this example or elsewhere?
Did it really?

Because browsers got good, the web got orders of magnitude more complex. If you try loading a modern web page in an old version of Chrome, you'll see just how much faster Chrome has gotten.

Or alternatively, try viewing an old webpage in new Chrome. It's still super light and zippy.
As someone who lives in California and not interested in moving back to Texas, this analysis is pretty bad. Not factually wrong, just shining the spotlight in the wrong places.

If you were going to make a good effort argument, you would start with the largest expenses for an average family/household. Rent / home prices, food, car prices, gas prices, tuition, day care, utilities are all higher in CA than TX. The delta in property taxes is not significant when you consider that rent/property is far better (larger yard, more rooms, newer neighborhoods, etc) for most people in TX.

Also, the reason property taxes are lower in CA is because Prop 13 caps their growth rate until the property changes hands. The macro effect of Prop 13 is to create fewer transactions, this artificially reducing sale inventory and thus increasing property purchase prices. Your comparable annual upkeep may be a smaller percentage of the purchase price, but might end up being a larger dollar figure.
Chrome isn't using all that RAM.

The web pages you visit are.
Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Trends [pdf]
Much of what I read – on linguistics, art cinema, or art music – is published by academic presses. No matter how much a scholarly publication might interest the general public, those books are usually priced at a level where only university libraries, and occasionally hired faculty, are expected to actually buy them. The retail price of what I have read in the last month alone already goes into the thousands of euro.

For English-language works of fiction that I will read a single time, I have no qualms about downloading them. People in English-speaking countries could get these for free through their public library, whether there on the shelves or through ILL. What, I have to pay for them just because where I am, I have no access to such libraries?

I still buy a lot of physical books, but I tend to purchase only what I know I will read multiple times over the years. That means, in the first place, poetry. And since poetry is a genre where page layout really matters, and ebooks still struggle with complex and large-format layout, it is especially nice to have the physical book.
Yeah, I completely missed that when I replied, but will leave it up and take the condign downvotes. :-P
What about cardamom and cinnamon?
Not sure about 1800's London, but for those earlier dates, the typical community you'd be visiting was small enough that everyone knows of most members, so you'd be discovered no matter the outfit, if enough people saw your face.

The tip from 'bryanrasmussen is good - dressing as a priest is probably the safest bet; alternatively, as a soldier (in Rome) - the few people who had recognizable uniforms and were commonly traveling outsiders.
TLDR there's a claim that Altman was among other things distracted by OpenAI by the end of his tenure at YC and PG flew back to SF to deal with the situation. It's possible that PG didn't fire him but instead continued to play the role of mentor and told him things weren't going as well as they had before and that his advise was to choose between OpenAI and YC.
Very nicely done! I love being able to see different map projections. This is preferable to Windy in my view. No app, no login, no up selling, just beautiful data.
> the feeling of being together is so much stronger

I hope there will be a way to convert voice into a realistic behaving VR avatar, no equipment needed other than a mic.

For example if I say "ok John, I like that idea", my avatar automatically faces John and locks eyes.

For most of the meeting I'm not speaking anyway so my avatar could just look at whoever is speaking and look interested.
Systems in general have similarities.

Human organisations, whether governmental, commercial, educational, religious, military, charitable, social, or any other principle focus, tend to have and exhibit strongly similar patterns.

There is of course also domain-specific knowledge, but even much of that almost always proves more general on closer examination, with much of the distinction being of labeling and language rather than behaviour and phenomena.
No, that shows only that the dataset is comprised of common problem patterns. The paper explicitly investigates whether memorization has overly impacted performance. From page 10 [1]:

> A central question in interpreting Minerva’s solutions is whether performance reflects genuine analytic
capability or instead rote memorization. This is especially relevant as there has been much prior work
indicating that language models often memorize some fraction of their training data ... In order to evaluate the degree to which our models solve problems by recalling information memorized from
training data, we conduct three analyses on the MATH dataset ... Overall,
we find little evidence that the model’s performance can be attributed to memorization.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.14858.pdf
All the Game Genies sat between the cartridge and console and intercepted and replaced accesses to specific ROM addresses. It didn't have the ability to access memory. Other devices like the Pro-Action Replay could modify memory and acted more like a TSR.