skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your hypothesis is that it’d be better for the planet if Shopify were to remove no carbon from the atmosphere at all? Society as a whole would check the Shopify BFCM dashboard, see that there is no carbon removal metric, and have some kind of epiphany like “wow, Shopify isn’t removing carbon from my purchases, maybe I shouldn’t spend as much this holiday weekend”?

> Those someone are shady.

What makes them shady? I have a feeling you only think they’re shady because they want to do carbon removal, which you’ve unilaterally decided is ineffective.
Why do LLMs use greedy sampling?
Transformer Inference Tricks
it is more advanced in the simple sense that you get much more varied information, perspectives and viewpoints.

i.e. its more difficult to advance a specific narrative or agenda by the private equity owners on millions of people versus a handful of reporters who have to obey their editors
My apologies, you're right.

I'll tone it down.
Sadly it is an endangered species so it is illegal to trade now, I understand the best way to get it is to buy antique crown-green bowls and cut them up.
Biohybrid microrobots could remove micro-plastics from aquatic environments
Corruption can increase environmental efficiency in developing countries: study
Perhaps winning an Obfuscated Clock contest would keep copycats at bay and allow you a contract to service the devices for the remainder of your life.
Unless they do a complete and total eradication program, that will just create a selective environment for tokens that are able to avoid SEC fines. What you’re saying does seem to be the SEC strategy, and it is probably the profit maximizing strategy in the short term. It also requires the least effort; rule making that allowed for regular fee collection instead of sporadic ones might be profitable in the long term, but it would be a complex activity the SEC might not be capable of.
An interesting mummy fact: animals were mummified too.

In the 1800s, an English company acquired 180,000 mummified cats and pulverized them into fertilizer.
Thank you for sharing, I've never considered allocating the memory for an entire Go program at launch.

One neat thing that Go has is built-in benchmarking (part of the built-in test package) which shows you allocations per-invocation making it easy to spot the functions which need more work.
You can revoke tokens before they expire by distributing a token revocation list to front-ends. This involves some extra work, but presumably, the list of unexpired but revoked tokens will normally be short.
> like he was deliberately trying to hide secrets from them

It can't have helped that by all accounts he was extremely verbose in spoken communication, and almost impenetrable in written communication.
It may be that MAUI wasn't mature enough yet at the time they started working on it.
Ghost managed to see growth in their simple SaaS blogging platform over the past 10 years. Google had the resources to adapt Blogger and help it find a niche to thrive it, but seems to have starved it of resources instead.

Ghost's public, live financial metrics are here: https://ghost.org/about/
She was also a poor orphan who took to writing to have fund to live, so a marriage proposal from someone with similar interests - they even wrote books together - and they apparently lived quite happily until he died from cancer 14 years later.
With all the people he banned you still believe he actually cares about free speech?

Musk promise not to anyone not even the account the posted 5h4 location of his plane then he went and banned the account. And then went on a banning soirée of journaliste who are critical of him.

Musk is only for speech that isnt critical of him. If it is then he doenst hesitate censor them.

If you actually believe thst he's working to protect free speech. You are extremely ignorant of the facts and reality.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-journalist-suspend-...
I didn't expect determinism's usefulness to be ever under question but I guess there's first time for everything.

In Elixir most of us use the REPL to sketch out an idea; to shorten the development cycle a bit and have something that looks to be working. Once that's happened then we write the code properly, with tests and all.

REPL and tinkering are just one tool to make your work more deterministic. It's not a personality that wins over all other personalities.

And stop looking for ghosts in the machine, it ain't happening. I like me a good sci-fi as well but general AI is quite far away still.
"Fast-forward to 1962. Ma Bell begins using T-1s to connect its switching centers. T-1s are a digital communications link, not analog. The entire phone network goes digital. In a modern phone network, the only analog communication is between an individual house's phone line and the phone company's box."

This is misleading. The phone network used analog links (typically microwave relay) for long distance almost exclusively for many years (into the 80s) after the introduction of T1. T1 itself is not terribly well suited to very long distance links though and can only be pressed into it with repeaters every mile or so.
Sounds like he had a schizophrenic psychotic break. His behavior and especially his conspiratorial comments are classic schizophrenia. (Source: My sister and late aunt are schizophrenic)
Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas
> Not necessarily, it’s common for people to wait for Black Friday for big purchases.

That's my point though - if you can and do wait you don't actually need it. Like unless you're in some financial hardship or other edge case...

E.g. would you wait 6 months without a TV so you can buy it on Black Friday? If you can do that you don't need it. It's a nice to have.
Yeah, I've been deep in the bash manual and source code during my work on https://www.oilshell.org, which basically reimplements a "cleaned up" spec-driven bash (called OSH).

But I also used bash for 15 years before that, and I hardly used the bash manual. I got by with a minimal / sane dialect, and I read a few books about Unix, and one about POSIX shell (the latter is also "meh").

Now that I've read almost all of the bash manual, I'd say it's not really a special document. It's fine, but it's not complete, and I wouldn't say it's particularly well written. It lacks examples.

--

The main recommendation I have for anyone who wants to learn bash is to learn Unix and C. Learning the underlying model explains many things, explains the bad error messages, and makes it easier to use.

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/04/comics.html - Three Comics For Understanding Unix Shell

So yeah I don't think "learning shell" or "learning bash" is actually a great goal -- it's part of the operating SYSTEM, and you want to learn the OS, and its philosophy.

related - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/philosophy-design.html - Unix Shell: Philosophy, Design, and FAQs

--

Probably the most useful part of the bash manual is the acknowledgement that there's a lexing design bug with [[ and regular expressions.

It's better to make the regex a separate var, like

pat='[[:digit:]]+'
if [[ $mystr ~= $pat ]]; then ... fi

... than to inline it, because bash does funky stuff when you inline it. It confuses regex metachars and bash metachars.

It's trying (and failing) to make regexes syntaically part of the bash language, but it's better to treat it like Python, where Python syntax and regex syntax are separate.
This seems pointless. Just assume your wifi is insecure.
Do you think it might do better in a group of similar Mac Mod products, like Steam?

Is there a way to recruit another kind of user or customer? Who are they and why do they need Wins?

Any word on the need for similar managers for all UNIX systems? Have you tried working on any Linux OS with your current product? I know this is for OSX but a ton of users of Linux systems might purchase the product as CSE undergrads? Educational software?
I appreciate those pops and bangs, as a reminder of what it means to pump 250kW into a battery I'm sitting on top of. Especially in comparison to the 48kW that supplies my entire house.
Time for Telescope McTelescopeface
In Defence of Unit Tests
It's popular in tech circles to dunk on unit tests, with the common theory being "end-to-end or integration tests are better" because "they test the system as a whole".

While I agree there is value to integration and end-to-end tests, I think a lot of people are missing the forest for the trees.

Ensuring your user interface doesn't show embarrassing errors when it interacts in some way with your back-end services is a good thing, don't get me wrong. It will help you to deliver software that doesn't occasionally prevent users from doing what they need to do.

But skipping unit tests is worse than skipping higher level tests. Why?

Because only unit tests are ever going to make sure your system behaves correctly.

If you're working on an e-commerce website that needs to calculate tax on orders, you will, practically speaking, never cover all the different cases with end-to-end or integration tests.

We're talking about ensuring the core business logic - the most important part of the system, the part you really don't want to get wrong - functions correctly in all the cases it's supposed to function. Get that wrong and instead of a user getting an error message, they might end up paying the wrong amount for a product. Have fun sorting that mess out when it impacts thousands of orders! (Source: I've worked on high traffic e-commerce systems broken like this).

Please don't mistake me: aiming for some arbitrary unit test "coverage target" is dumb. Your engineers should be responsible and write unit tests to cover important code. They probably should not write unit tests to cover some endless sprawling front-end react application's components. That's just wasteful. (Suggestion: don't build UI component libraries from scratch).

But developing software and skipping unit tests because "integration tests are better"? [1] Dangerous, reckless and bad. Don't do this!

[1] (This is not a straw man, I've seen this argument made time and time again).
How do you feel about Ansel?
LaTeX: It's Not You, It's Me [video]
I support this use of parlance to get everyone onboard :-)
Because I was under the impression that once you buy certain currency, you're allowed to do with it whatever you want. Certainly if you're outside of the jurisdiction of the entity that issues said currency.
Great recommendations, my favorite bd serie is Ralph Azham[1] from Lewis Trondheim. It’s great for readers of all ages.
Boulet[2] is also a nice writer with the same kind of humor as the ones suggested here.

For teenagers there’s also a lot of good sagas published by Soleil[3] especially during the 90-00.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/347300-ralph-azham

[2] https://bouletcorp.com/

[3] https://www.editions-soleil.fr/

Edit: Formatting
I fear that pipeline operators will be overused and eventually become a community best practice unnecessarily bloating code. Also I don't see how this

const calculatedValue = -10
|> (n => Math.max(0, n))
|> (n => Math.pow(n, 1/3))
|> Math.ceil;

is easier to read / type than this

let n = Math.max(0, -10);
n = Math.pow(n, 1/3);
n = Math.ceil(n);

...and I would bet the later is more performant.
I wouldn't be too surprised if this happens on re-read, but it was definitely the right book at the right time.
What UI framework should I be focusing on in 2023? Should I focus on web-based framework (vis-a-vis Electron or similar platform) or is there something more suitable for desktop UI?
Please try https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#iOS. It's a little involved, unfortunately. But we can talk you through it if you run into any roadblocks.
I paid for something with crypto just two days ago. I don't do many transactions with crypto, because most of the time it's easier to just use my cards, but on occasion it's handy.

Frankly, it works well, but it's not user-friendly for non-technical users still.
High immigration into the UK has been depressing wages at the lower end of the scale (edit: and perhaps not only but I'm thinking that people who earn a good living don't think too much about whether all those foreign professionals dampen salary increases)

The "working class" voted to control immigration but were taken for a ride because those in charge actually want more immigration.
Did you mean: Why HN screw with titles?

PS: Title as of this comment is “Why 56k the fastest dial up modem speed”
So you just take their word for it? Pretend that reading about it is equivalent to seeing it?
Let people enjoy things :)
As is tradition! With the exception of the Sojourner in 1997, all of the American rover missions have far outlasted their expected lifetimes.

Spirit and Opportunity were only supposed to last about 90 days each but ended up operating for six and fifteen (!!) years respectively before failing (Spirit got stuck in sand and Opportunity didn’t wake up after a dust storm). Curiosity and Perseverance were both designed to last 687 days and both are still running, the former for over a decade past its lifetime.

It’s the 10 million mile warranty and NASA still exceeds expectations. Pulling that off with a remote piloted copter on another planet is something else though!
I've ended up using GSAP in this vacuum for sequencing.

It's a weird heir for all things animation on the web these days, it works great but something about the keyframing/sequencing process seems like it should be supported natively.
lowers, and (from the linked paper) also raises!

> Note that our degree reduction is lossless, in the sense that the original cubic curve can be perfectly reconstructed from the quadratic curves we generate, though the cubic and quadratic curves have slightly different shapes
P2P exchanges like Bisq use escrow and verification methods with dispute resolution for on/off ramp. There are other options as well for secure decentralize offramps, but bisq is much larger than any other protocol.
This is like saying sync() works.

You can sync to durable storage at any point, yes. But you cannot do it in a semantically useful fashion.

"I don't think anyone is talking about situations where B is being actively written to while the rename happens."

Well, you specifically are ignoring this. I'm not.

Filesystems are free to generate extra syncs whenever they like. You could even have a filesystem sync every single write operation to durable storage - why not?
New York State is part of a larger grid and imports a great deal of electricity. Critically only 1 in 7 households heat with electricity in NY (vs 2/3 in Texas) and they have much better insulation so demand isn’t particularly impacted by winter storms. Texas has intentionally set itself up for failure from winter storms in a multitude of ways but primarily not paying companies for reserve capacity.

Your area may have gotten above freezing every day in 2011 but that wasn’t true statewide. El Paso airport recorded February 2 High 15, Low 6f, February 3 High 18f, Low 1f, February 4 High 37f, Low 3f, and that was kicked off by a low of 14 on February 1st.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GH...

And they didn’t see such extreme weather in 2021.
There are a couple of schools of thought when it comes to how to deal with weaker players in Diplomacy and the main school of thought is that it's actually better to ally with stronger more experienced players against them, as the inexperienced player will make a poor ally in the early game and inexperienced Diplomacy players tend to betray their former allies too soon.
It would be a dream!
Yes, and after everyone was vaccinated...
I agree, I could have stated myself more clearly. Sutskever is a world-class domain expert in AI. Altman surely is intelligent and has some technical skills, but isn't the doing the groundbreaking technical work at OpenAi. My point was that it seems highly unlikely that Altman was canned for knowing technical secrets from the board (about Q* specifically) that Sutskever didn't know even better.
Where are all the 'godmothers' of AI? Women's voices are not being heard
On Wikipedia I frequently check other languges for comparison but I've never seen it recommended before.

Are there others who do it too?
That's bullshit. Even ec.europa.eu (the European Commission's website - I have to login there from time to time) sets session cookies on my browsers. Either you've misunderstood what's asked of you, or your manager has, or someone higher up in your organization. But the "cookie directive" has never prevented anyone from using cookies altogether. You don't even need to ask for consent for a session cookie.
To nitpick, the 53.3k limit only affected US Robotics' pre-V.90 standard called X2, due to how much power they would require, which violated FCC rules. K56Flex (the competing 56k protocol), and later the ratified V.90 standard didn't have this problem and you could achieve carrier speeds of 56,000 bps.

This distinction was getting lost to time even back then with everyone just assuming it was some arbitrary FCC limit. This post from NANOG in 1998 explains it: https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archi...
We have developers of various experience and skillsets that come and go, sticking to a subset of language features with minimal magic has made it easier to onboard and get people productive. We have massive codebase, and sprinkling these new sugars around in arbitrary places to be lindmines for them isn't worth it to me. From a business perspective, we're not too concerned about pushing the language forward, we're focused on creating value for our customers - the language is just a detail.
> I pay $20/mo for GPT-4 and don't understand why anybody would run a "less-good" version locally that you can trust less/that has less functionality.

Local might still be there after an online service is no longer available.
That's called 'art'. It's someone's self-expression that you connect to. I can't speak for the author, but that's how I look at my experience of engaging with, and especially of creating, such projects.

It's art, in the medium and using the tools the author knows. Many associate art with certain mediums, like paint on canvas. But does the painter make a sculpture or build the perfect engine? The programmer, when they feel the drive to make art, makes a program.

(Another signal of art, IMHO, is the author's seeming disinterest in global adulation. They aren't aiming for virality or influencer status or the next startup with an exit, not pivoting to the trending thing; they are making what they love.)

But again, I can't speak for this author at all.
A pioneering pilot's exceptional life story led to clues of second JFK shooter
I could have sworn it had gone up somewhat recently as well, but I checked my Google payment history while making that post and it's still showing $7.99 as of this month's billing cycle.

Either way, even the current new user rate of $13.99/mo would still be worth it to me because of how much I watch Youtube on devices like my TV which can't run advanced ad blockers, it's still cheaper than some drinks I've ordered this month, but I'm certainly not going to complain about still having the discount.
Even with one-person-one-vote voting systems people often vote to further their own interests, sometimes to the detriment of minorities.
Amazon: EU workers stage strikes to 'Make Amazon Pay'
Eisvogel: A Pandoc LaTeX Template
I assume whoever typed it in just missed a word.
Stage IV CRC as well. Agreed, for the vast majority, it is still cytotoxic chemotherapy. I used to follow these innovations hoping to bring it up with my onc, but rarely do any of them work better than standard of care in vivo.

I hope you're handling maintenance chemo okay. Tumor DNA can change over time, so get a biopsy at some point to see if you qualify for other treatments.
>> If you're okay with companies screwing you over, good for you!

I'm not. Which is why I choose who I give my money to. Its their choice to do what they do, and my choice nor to buy.

>> I believe online services and digital goods should have regulations.

Cool. Feel free to lobby for, vote for and garner support for regulations.

>> When I pay for something, I want a guarantee.

So do I. Which is why I choose not to do business with those that don't offer one.

>> Imagine it's 1998.

Well, remember for me, not imagine, but OK:)

>> You buy software on a disc (a game). Now, in today's digital world, it's like I'm taking back your disc without a refund.

Probably a bad example since I have lots of game disks from the 90s. The vast majority no longer work (OS reasons, hardware reasons, copy protection reasons). All my floppy disks are dead. I still have a CD Rom reader, but those are rare now too. -some- Windows games work. None of the DOS ones do. None if the Apple ones do.

So probably not a good example. But even then we (mostly) understood the life of those games was limited. The hoops we jumped through, the specialised hardware to run them, IRQs, Config.Sys - and, good times.

Music on cassette tapes? Movies on VHS? All digital stuff is temporary. No amount of regs could have saved that.

Maybe that's the difference. This is not new (to me). It's been this way forever. And if you don't to support companies with bad habits, then just don't give them money.

Its still -your- choice.
Playing the sounds "Navigate on Autopilot" through "Traffic-Aware Cruise Control" sounds like the song "Oh! Susanna"
"Nothing" can't be true. This is most interesting venture product I've seen recently https://vixion.jp/en/vixion01/
https://archive.is/66XIu
The "is" is missing from the title (Why is 56k).

I wish HN just autofilled the Title field after the URL field has changed during submission (but still allowed users to edit the title).
This is the fourth horror story I’ve seen in the last two weeks where someone went crazy while taking Vyvanse, a powerful amphetamine.
If you like crabs, there’s a crab museum in Margate (Kent, UK)

http://www.crabmuseum.org

According to their flyer, it’s the #1 crab museum in Europe!
Thank you.

I preferred to register a throwaway for obvious privacy reasons, immediately got shadowbanned, and while I refrained from posting the actual article link [1] that I mentioned, that did not really help.

[1] (Russian) https://vc.ru/relife/928248-50-bankov-kotorye-chashche-vsego...
There's one crucial detail we shouldn't forget. We can snapshot to the state of an AI agent and reply it again and again with the same or different inputs. Even if we don't understand the specific way of functioning of a given AI agent, we can conduct experiments on it that are just impossible to do with humans. So way before AI can "organize themselves" to do something nefarious against us, we will have all the time to study them and understand them better and better all the while we're making more complex AI systems.

It's easy to fall in the trap of anthropomorphizing AI agents, especially when we design them explicitly in order to appear human to us. But they are not human in one very important way: we can replay and duplicate them at will, we can control their context memories in ways that are utterly incompatible with our sense of "identity". We take our sense of identity for granted, but that's a special trait that it's not at all a prerequisite for having a useful and intelligent machine.
Black Friday is a stupid "holiday" that only drives people to buy more shit that they don't need. So nothing.

Apologies for the harsh response. It's not directed towards you. I went on walks around a suburb I live in for two years, and the number of garages PACKED FULL of absolute crap was astounding (usually while having two cars parked right in front of it, usually partially or entirely blocking the sidewalk). When I think of Black Friday, I think of that.