skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, I'm hacking on a Ruby implementation where just operator overloading and some simple methods is sufficient to get a BNF variant written as code to return a structure encoding parser combinators on execution.

(There's nothing new about that, it's been done before, other than perhaps the sick and twisted levels of abuse of the Ruby syntax I'm toying with thanks to a newish feature (refinements) to make it look closer to plain BNF).

And if course, automatically "compiling" bnf into parser combinators is easy.
I find that part of the article and the parallels drawn to nurseries in the UK (by one of the researchers apparently) quite weird. My understanding is that what is denoted caregiver in the article is quite different to a careperson in a nursery.

I don't think that a caregiver in the hunter gatherer society will exclusively watch one child only (and not all the time). I suspect more that they are available if needed.

If we look at the scientific article, it studied 18 children across 3 camps and the camps of 20-80 individuals. The article says children had often 10-20 caregivers, based on the 18 children that's a minimum of 180 adults. Assuming an average camp size of 50 that would mean more adults than living in the 3 camps.

So clearly caregivers are not exclusive which makes the whole comparison to child to adult ratio completely non-sensical IMO and I'm quite disappointed that researcher was tempted to make a comment in this way (to be fair, often journalists try to pull out a political angle in stories, in our communication training as researchers we were actually warned to be vary of this).
That would also be a breach of the contract.

Why wouldn't it be contingent on the vendor to properly safeguard and transport your property?

I can send my Rolex into a shop for repair, or hand it over physically, and I'm pretty sure I'm protected from someone throwing it into the Hudson river without it becoming their property.

Just to note, most deliveries are contactless so a company really isn't capable of proving this supposed transfer of ownership.

Seems like a nightmare for the company and the consumer.
Just a note that the dogs/Tines aren’t telepathic but communicated via high frequency sound. The idea was exploring an entity that existed as a society of minds and how that would look from a practical perspective. There’s a story in the compilation discussed here that feature the Tines in another setting one may find interesting.
In what way do they handle them better?
I thought they just called their phones when they weren't in and used the default voicemail PIN (which most people don't change) to access their messages.
We're at the point now, particularly where a phone app is part of the security process, that the phone app itself should have direct/private "phone" calling capability between the user of the app and the company. Obviously we have this within common chat apps, and we know there are good open source frameworks for doing this.

Company calls consumer via their private company-to-app system, app alerts user of an incoming communication request, and user accepts and has a voice conversation.

Then of course it becomes a question of the security quality of the app and communication design between it and the company, but presumably if that is broken then any app-based status or verification would also be broken.
And this is quite literally the argument put forth by the maintainers. They could upgrade to a newer C++, but it’s a lot of hassle with few benefits.

On the other hand they chose to port to Rust which is likely an even bigger hassle but comes along with a bunch of benefits that make planned future development significantly easier.
Wrongly https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money
I just use my browser history.
How would you build and keep in sync the same library with the same functionality in 10 different languages? Every new feature would have to be implemented 10 times. Sounds quite foolish
You're a ~years out of date on both numbers :P
True, but I can get the same functionality with fish without the slowdown. I don’t think zsh is bad. I understand what was making it slow. I’m just glad I can have all of those niceties plus fish’s speed.
Right, I'm suggesting that using multiple languages is not a mistake or idiosyncracy in the web platform.
If Naziism survived, maybe whoever came after Hitler would have been more moderate and we could just write off the evils of the Hitler era as being the personal excesses of an especially brutal man, just like we do with Stalin. No, I don’t buy it. Communism always starts with mass murder and ends in economic stagnation. China seemed to turn it around but then they started back up with the genocide again.

> That's usually petty whataboutism as a proxy for identity politics anyway.

If people “identify” as communist, Nazi, or ISIS, I would prefer to exclude them from politics entirely (by custom, not by force at least to start) without getting sucked into the academic exercise of stack-ranking exactly which of these is worst.
Lecun's voice in this post, it sounds like he knows the answers for sure, haha ...
The price of C++ compatibility is that it doesn't use Rust strings internally. It's all "wchar" and "WString", which are Microsoft C++ "wide character strings".
This may be more of a Microsoft backwards compatibility issue than a C++ issue.
Owners Keep Zombie Malls Alive Even When Towns Want to Pull the Plug
They Usally only have 2-4 stalls so it can happen pretty quickly
1980's. vintage. Well, I guess. Technically it counts as vintage, but it makes me feel like the cryptkeeper.
But if you include TV with film, more and more people are willing to binge what is, essentially, a 10 hour movie. And freed from broadcast schedules, more series are experimenting with different episode lengths. This one needs an extra 20 minutes, whereas another episode is complete after 40 minutes.

Similarly, ebook readers, particularly ones with subscriptions like Kindle Unlimited, are consuming more novellas, which is an awkward length for a full priced, physical book since the (near) death of paper magazines and pulps.
Why do so many chess experts, practitioners and commenters, with varying degrees of familiarity with the chess world, misspell Elo?
I would love a book on the ESP32! Feel free to email me at hello@taylor.town if you need any early proofreading :)

What may be less risky though is to release videos in the style of Ben Eater. It’s generally a bad idea to pursue books without an agent. YouTube offers a nice way to publish material and grow a fanbase
Oh yeah, I forgot about the {n..m} syntax; I almost always use repeat these days or the C-style loop if I need $i, as that's more "in the fingers", so to speak, from other languages, even though {n..m} is easier.

I don't know why you would want to avoid short loops, other than subjective stylistic reasons (which is completely valid of course). The patch that added short_repeat just asserts that "SHORT_LOOPS is bad"[1], but I don't now why the author thinks that.

Also: my previous comment was wrong; you don't need "setopt short_repeat"; you only need it if you explicitly turned off short loops with "setopt no_short_loops".

[1]: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2019/msg01174.html
> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses...

I don't know. Every startup I've ever worked at has used a dynamic language and most of them have been successful.

I know many disagree with me, but I've used a lot of typed languages (Swift, Typescript, C#, Java, etc.) and a lot of dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, Elixir, etc.) in my 30+ year career and I'm still not convinced that typed vs. dynamic is as big a deal as some make it out to be.
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How to get banned from apple store in 1 easy step!
It's not that different from many other countries.

Atmospheric CO2 levels are often compared with pre-industrial (~1850). But for a long time after, emissions hardly moved the needle.

It's only in the last 2..3 decades that humanity put the bulk of GHG in the air. Mostly through population growth + increased productivity per capita.

So we've done the bulk of the environmental damage in just a few decades. Which is why 'hitting the brakes' NOW is so urgent.

On the bright side: with fast enough growth (which China is showing) a now-smallish % of renewables can become a big chunk of the overall picture in a short time.
I think the dog part really suffered from a quite common syndrome, that the sci-fi author gets some really cool idea/concept, and has to explore it in some context / story, but doesn't really deliver on it. For me the idea/concept was great, the story just boring filler needed to explore the idea.
https://archive.is/SIe26 (but I was able to view the article directly on WSJ by closing the popup)
With some smart dynamic binary translation it would be able to run Arm64 OSX binaries. Just 5 times slower.
Ah yes, the commercial interest of Arch Linux
Tesla locked in most teslas into their own network for one. Its theoretically possible to use another one but it would be difficult and cumbersome
I'm just here to ask that you post a followup when she finds that next job!
One idea might be RFCs. Instead of telling him to go solve a problem, ask him to investigate and write a proposal for fixing it. Add some requirements such as proposal should have one ideal fix and two alternatives that require less resources. Engineers want to do ideal solutions even if they are cost prohibitive.

This way then you can point out anything that he missed and select a practical solution.

However, ideally, you would want everyone to write RFCs for any larger project or that engineer will feel targeted.
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> It's quite absurd to assert that ELIZA from 1966 outperformed GPT-3.5.

They don't. The researchers ran a modern ELIZA implementation alongside the GPT models. They're not citing ELIZA results from 1966.
My other gripe with the Turing Test is it doesn't speak to understanding, intelligence, or sentience. It's more of a milestone than something that actually measures AI's capabilities.
He is not faster than engines.
Not if they know they are AI.
That's quite true I'll give you that. But there are still issues with it. It keeps swallowing up bits like resolver and others. It should only do one thing well.
You wouldn't use dapr for game dev. You would use it in systems where the added latency (very little by the way) does not matter.
Thank you. I have responded.
Thanks! $45 is the price we are aiming for. Our delivery range for preorders is going to be best case scenario 6 months and worst 18. We have manufacturing samples ready to be made so as long as things run smoothly 6-8 months should be realistic.
If HP refunded every time events would be leading to PR nightmares it would be bankrupt by now, it’s just a consistently shitty company
Agree. It's about whether a buyer would reasonably expect the price to be correct.

UK law for consumer goods and sales, I would say generally doesn't require the buyer to be an expert. Laptops are items that are frequently included in sales and clearance sales at 50% off or more do happen. £400 is still a normal price to pay for a laptop. So I'd say the buyer could reasonably expect a laptop discounted to £400 to be the correct price, therefore HP were unreasonable to try to blame the buyer.
They are clearing their crap and can't afford new shit. They are taking advantage of dumb buyers
Remember, this was all cleaned up recently for an international conference. So it CAN be done; they just won’t, because they prefer virtue signaling over the wellbeing of the residents paying their salaries.
> Amazon India can't do this - or that is what they have told me. This has happened with me multiple times. I ordered an item that I didn't want anymore and they clearly said they can't do anything about it and I should just refuse accepting it or raise a return and refund later which they assured on email they would do.

Can't and won't are easily confused. Probably Amazon (India) won't recall the package, and the customer service rep can't request it per policy. Likely their delivery contract includes return shipping for refused packages at a lower rate than recalled packages. But if it's a pricing error of thousands of pounds, it may make sense to pay for a recall; I've also seen recalls for gross packaging errors, if the shipping department sends a carton of items instead of unboxing the carton and sending the individual items as expected. It's much easier to ask the carrier to recall the package than to work with the customer, although proper notice to the customer should be included... For one thing, carrier recalls don't always work.
I'd wait till the next LTS.
Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: Systematic review and metaanalysis
Silicon Valley VC have a strange form of "expertise" where they are allowed to be wrong "99%" of the time. They are compulsive gamblers, not clear thinkers. Worse, they can influence the outcome of a bet with ridicululous memes like the one upon which this submission is based.

A prediction from Silicon Valley VC like Andreesen has a "1%" chance of being right. Observations about the world from a compulsive gambler should be tempered with reality. Raise interest rates, take away some of the gambler's (borrowed) money, and the memes start to taper off.
Yes it is seriously sad. Today they are to be avoided at almost any price. But when I bought my HP48SX, it was my most loved possession, and the company checked all boxes.
That is my intention yes, and I could swear that I did include the specific element on the link. But I guess either it was automatically removed or I somehow copied it wrong?

I got the link from Arch's wiki[1] (it's in the note at the end of the summary), all I did was right-click > Copy Link.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd
Can someone explain this? One three occasions in the essay, including the title. he adds a cryptic "2001 Tor". What does that mean? It does not exist in the many other mentions of the same book title. Also, Amazon believes the publication year is 2002. What is "2001 Tor"?
>pooperings

Just a side note, but it's hard to take you seriously when you resort to such childish name calling. I think your chance of convicting traders (me included) would be much higher if you used some technical arguments instead.
The decision in Debian didn't come that easily. The tech committee was locked in a filibuster over systemd for ages and the votes were 50-50. Then the chair cast his tie-breaker vote in favor of systemd and everyone on the other side flipped their shit.
Not what I meant—look at the path :)
What I learned from running 60 sales calls
Pipewire for the first time got Pulse and JACK to work together for me. Bravo.
> > None of the things you list came first from the companies you listed. Thank you for making my point for me.

If those companies have built on the shoulders of giants , then Tesla is an ant atop mount Everest considering that automotive is a 150 year old industry and the wheel is a 5000 year old invention and cult of personality is much older than both.

> > Weather predictions and the likes

Yeah sure weather and the like bro. Let us cook. As always with space enthusiasts people who want to play with rockets and watch technical porn for the sake of technical porn would find all sort of excuses to find fools who’d buy into the hype and finance them playing with expensive toys with no quality of life returns for consumers.

It already happened in the 60s with the Apollo program where the selling point to those who financed it was that somehow it was crucial to beat the Soviets to retrive those precious lunar rocks that contained god knows what secrets.

> > Ignorance

Unlike you, I do know exactly where
my quality of life comes from, who signs it off, and who is just talking and making empty promises. You instead seem confused and out of touch on the subject.
I've done enough app uploads to know it's also half broken on a real Mac, so I would not worry about that.
It takes fairly small extensions to BNF, though. When I write parser generators (sentences I didn't think I'd write, but it's been quite a few), there are a few things I'd often add extra constructs for. One being lists (term = value ("," term)? or variants occur often enough that introducing a list syntax that reduces pointless recursion is helpful), and other being patterns, e.g. when defining operator precedence, which I'm guessing is what you're thinking of?

Being able to recursively generate a rule-set where each level takes the head of a list is very useful.
Are finance professionals different from everybody else?
What the hell is a “sex predator”? Do you mean just a normal human? We are literally programmed to get sex.
It only swallows those things up if you consider KDE swallowing up painting programs like Krita. Systemd is both a program, a collection of programs.
> Are you saying that nobody breaks the law in Australia?

That’s right, we got it out of our system more than a century ago.

(TBH for a country settled by supposed crims, Aus is a surprisingly law abiding place)
So let's play alternate history. Say that Blue LEDs had been developed at this time, and Nintendo could have used Red, Green, and Blue LEDs to make a full color screen rather than just a red screen.

And all the warnings about headaches and such were all overblown things to try to make legal compliance happy, but they had the effect of scaring away customers who did not understand that they were for legal compliance rather than actual warnings.

So how would an RGB Virtual Boy have turned out? Imagine a cross between the Game Boy Color and the 3DS.
Ripgrep is probably my favorite command line tool (which replaces older solutions). It’s just so quick to search a folder for a specific line of text in a file.
I'll have a look, you might find the one I based it off if you search here?
It’s all “round numbers”. 81mg is just 1.25 grains, a quarter of the normal 325mg dose which is just 5 grains. It’s not like
anyone did a clinical study to determine the effective dosage to two significant figures.
I completely agree.

I remember a similar discussion about special effects in movies. The year was 1993 and I was telling my uncle that the newly released Jurassic Park had special effects that looked completely real. My uncle was an artist (a painter) and told me that he agreed they looked real to us now, but that they probably wouldn't in the future. That concept seemed crazy to me... He explained that when he saw the original Star Wars in theaters the special effects were mind blowing to the audience and looked completely believable and real. Of course, to me, at the time, Star Wars special effects looked crude and fake--I had a hard time believing him. But, if I watch Jurassic Park today, sure enough, he was right.
> Shells often use this knowledge so that names like '..' and even '.' work on the text version, not the filesystem version.

Which has the odd result that '..' behaves differently between shell builtins and normal commands. `cd ..; ls` uses the text version, but `ls ..` uses the filesystem version. `cat < ../x` uses the text version, but `cat ../x` uses the filesystem version.

I like the text behavior in theory, but this inconsistency is weird enough that I question the benefit of having the text behavior at all.
Yacy (Distributed search engine) is 20
Both of those phones are absolutely pathetic performance-wise.
2001 is a year. Tor is a publisher.
That is indeed the law in the UK, and applied to this story. The key thing here is that the customer ('MM') explicitly entered their side of the contract by clicking 'purchase' and providing payment details on HP's website. HP could have declined at this point: their original email and special offer website was only an 'invitation to treat'. But in sending an order confirmation message to MM, HP had chosen to sell - and thus made a valid contract.

Perhaps HP should have a human representative approving each offer and entering into contracts manually. However, I can't see that being likely or (from HP's point of view) entirely satisfactory.
Thank you for this. No, I did not, though now, I have. :)
Some financial institutions are bizarrely inept when it comes to security.

I had one once that had an authentication question in their phone banking script that asked how a certain system was set up, option A or option B. Given that I was calling to set up that exact system, neither answer made sense. The agent I was speaking to was seemingly unable to comprehend this, and I got sent to a branch having failed the ID check.

I went to my local branch with enough ID bearing photos and recent addresses to pass all the usual KYC/AML checks to open a new facility at any major financial institution in my country. Having explained the situation and showed that ID to a bemused but sympathetic member of staff, they called their magic phone number to speak to the relevant team, gave their staff credentials, and confirmed that I was present in person with them and they had personally verified my ID. They were then transferred to apparently the same phone system I’d called from home myself, which got stuck at exactly the same ID check.

Didn’t stay there long, though longer than the place whose “security team” called me and started the conversation with, “Good morning, I’m calling from the security team at (my bank). Before I can talk to you any further, I need to verify some personal details to confirm your identity. Can you please tell me (the top three things I’d need to know if I were an identity thief and wanted to impersonate you with other services)?” I particularly liked the anonymous phone number they were calling from. And in case anyone’s wondering, I did call the bank back at one of their public phone numbers, and they confirmed that the call I’d rejected was from them.
Sure, but it seems like the US is doing the same for all other drugs except for aspirin so I assume it is not a huge problem?
So if I accidentally buy a laptop with Windows in Germany I can return it? Fantastic consumer protection laws!
Oh, how I wish more protocols in particular had been defined in something like BNF, and asked themselves for very good reasons why they insist on something that makes that hard.

So many abominations of data structure and protocol designs have come out of people not bothering to write down a grammar of any type until after they'd already come up with something broken.
this obsession with using the market like a savings account really is a ineptly vetted plan and pure americanism
Is this research from 2014? The conclusions are based, but I wonder if there are any new systematic reviews
> When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.

"Can we have your liver now ?"
Meaning of life by Monty Python
What's going on in the picture? Has the illustrator never seen a chessboard?
[Random advice from the internet]

Everybody doesn't know what they don't know.

Don't be a junior manager. You were hired to manage the team. It's hard work. That's why the company gives you a paycheck. Holding an a team member in contempt is an indulgence in an unprofessional behavior.

But management is the art of making other people's jobs easier, not making your own job easier. Give the report everything they need and more. That's good management.

The proof of the work is not test coverage. It's the profitability of the company. Test coverage is not the proof of good management. The proof is team dynamics. If you don't respect your direct reports, they are not the big problem.

Good luck.
Obviously a joke, eh? A commercial pitched to adolescents? A company that fought tooth and nail to make sure the case never made it to a jury trial? What's Pepsi so afraid of?

You should be ashamed of yourself for being a corporate stooge.
> channel-specific SKUs

I'm sure this would eventually make its way online if the FTC started enforcing the existing sale price rules.

When I worked at Best Buy in 2000, this was already standard practice for appliance manufacturers as well as some PC brands.