skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did they even set up a bounty source if they didn't have any plan for spending the money, dividing it, or using it to pay someone who wasn't passionate for the project? They would have been better off spending the money on people not passionate about their project, or perhaps paid bounties to other projects. Now the money is gone. I'd definitely call that leaving it on the table.
The idea that Paris is a particularly dirty city is spread by far right groups to fuel racism. I've traveled to many large cities / capitals and Paris is at worst average. Exceptions like Tokyo (that everyone loves to parrot when the subject comes up) are precisely that, exceptions.
thank you! Bookmarking now :)
Regenerative farming won't help immediately, but it does cut way down on the need for chemicals input while capturing massive amounts of carbon into the soil and growing livestock in the same areas.
Today's billionaires are comical man-childs.

Rockefeller and Carnegie might have been horrible people as well but at least they left a charitable legacy.

Props to Bill Gates, looks like Bezos vows to give away the wealth as well.

Even better would be to pay the fucking taxes like us the plebs and perhaps starting doing something good before they become obscenely rich.
If you are going to do it at this level, it already exists as an example (section 8.7) in K & R.
Just a friendly UBC piggyback on Waterloo’s programming language ;)

Over summer, I built my own little functional language, Crumb (https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb). Unlike Flix, the scope is tiny, but some pretty awesome stuff has been done with it. (Checkout this pixel art editor in your terminal, 100% Crumb: https://github.com/ronilan/crumbicon).

There’s a template (https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb-template) and vscode highlighter (https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb-vscode) for anyone who wants to mess around with it. Any feedback super appreciated :D
> If there was a nonstop airport express

There kind of is (it stops once). Here's the schedule for next week: https://www.rerb-leblog.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/oraire...
I'm talking about a future where cash is banned.

Do you think that's a good world? Why or why not?
Your username matches your comment!

Also, I agree but I'm not sure what I would propose as a better token. Maybe another colon?

def printAndInc(x: Int32): Int32 \ IO =

becomes:

def printAndInc(x: Int32): Int32 : IO =

Or maybe, since functions need something after the \, even for pure functions, we just drop the \ and use the last argument?

def printAndInc(x: Int32): Int32 IO =
Helm and Surge XT are great synths (and effects in Surge's case). When my nephew wanted to dabble in audio production, I used them to beef up his free copy of Ableton Live Lite.
Related. Others?

Flix – Safe, reliable, concise, and functional-first programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31448889 - May 2022 (42 comments)

Flix – Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513397 - Dec 2020 (84 comments)

The Flix Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19928153 - May 2019 (2 comments)
Zoom Fatigue Is Not Just in Your Head, Study Finds
Speaking of this has anyone had much experience with Dapr (https://dapr.io/) before?

I always thought this was a particularly interesting approach from Microsoft where they use this pattern to essentially take the complexity of micro services and instead try and keep it as simple as a normal .NET application but (and I think this is the clever part) in both a vendor and language neutral way.

But all of a sudden it means you can start removing all kinds of cruft and random SDKs from your codebase and push almost all of your interactions with the outside world into something like this .
Why would car makers want to deal with Joe and Jane public? Sounds like a massive headache that they'd like to keep one dealership away.
>AFAICT, people did that frequently on regular systems as well, just to not bother with permissions.

This was an easy way to tell if you were dealing with a Muppet. If you saw this you would know that the software was going to be a problem.
tl;dr models are tolerating human language but can communicate in a phantom language nobody was aware of including the devs. Good luck conditionally censoring with that
In a democratic system the burden of proof falls on the one advocating a change in the status quo.
Freshening Up Google's USB-C PD Sniffer
> Can you give examples where transactions result in negative sum due to asymmetrical power, and what the proposed solution is?

Start by reading literally anything in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_labor_law_in_the_Un... and observe that most of the implemented solutions largely consisted of curtailing the rights of capital holders to do whatever they please in the employer-employee relationship. Weekends, sick leave, overtime pay, company scrip, employer responsibility for worker safety, fair employment, the right to free association, the right to work without harassment... Capitalism didn't produce any of those things - it is incapable of producing them - but has fought tooth and nail, sometimes with batons and bullets against them.

Power imbalances continue to exist, the purpose of all these work-arounds to them is mitigating the harm that someone with power can inflict on someone without.
Mutt.
> Assuming you meant `shellcheck`

I did. Edited my comment, thanks. I don't know why I'm so prone to that particular typo. My shell history is full of it.

> What's wrong with bash is that people invariably end up requiring features that aren't available in some deployed version, and then you've lost a lot of the benefit of writing in shell in the first place.

But I've gained quite a lot too. Bash has associative arrays. I just can't go back to a shell that doesn't have that.

Shell scripting makes it simple to manage processes and the flow of data between them. It's the best tool for the job in these cases. So there are still reasons for scripting the shell even if one is willing to sacrifice portability.
Redirection from http to https is trivial on most http servers (nginx, apache, etc)
eh, I think the funniest people are just out there touring and making jokes, not complaining about cancel culture
For me, it’s either impossible to start/continue, or impossible to pause.
The project link: https://github.com/gregdavill/PD-sniffer
HTML Spirograph (2021)
This actually drove me back to chrome (ungoogled-chromium specifically).
I favor POSIX sh myself, but BASH sits on a happy medium of portability and features; zsh might well win on features, but Darwin is the only OS I know of that installs it by default, where BASH is nearly universally installed by default on Linux distros and still has considerably more features than POSIX /bin/sh.
Without sales and marketing it doesn't matter how amazing your product is; if people don't know about it, they won't buy it.

One could argue that sales adds the most value to the process.
Could this be used for longer-range electric passenger aircraft? Charging could be made safer than refueling, since you can make a long cable to keep the "battery tanker" plane far away from the plane with the passengers.
I would just call it open. No secret part applies at all.
I can't believe what I am reading. It took you more time to set up nextcloud with docker compose? What? For my hobby stuff, I can usually try something out really quickly by giving a compose a quick read and pasting it into portainer for a test.

I have my gripes with docker - especially for my professional work, and I am not a fan about how much it obscures images, nor its shibboleth approach to using a CLI-daemon interface (should be a `dockerctl` command in my mind) but I really can't believe that you would want to manually set up multi process platforms manually. When you want to connect to a data base, and have it be ephemeral? I have rooted around in enough application servers to understand that docker-compose and dockerfiles is a very sane approach.

The real issue I am seeing in the comments are that people are complaining that they would prefer getting a maintained package for software. Would rather use `apt install` or `dnf install` than mess with containers. That has been discussed to death and we get the same answer is the same every time - yes that would be a nice world to live in, but it is a fantasy to imagine anyone doing that much maintenance work for packages.
Stable Diffusion is supposed to have filters? Is that just the default base model?

Given that about 70% of user-generated content on places like civitai.com is pornography* and a large chunk of Loras and Checkpoints on there are explicitly pornographic, I would have never guessed. Going by the prompts used with custom checkpoints on there, no trickery is necessary. Just ask for what you want.

> The scientists now aim to explore ways to make generative AIs more robust to adversaries.

Steve is dead and buried already. It's a bit late to try and come up with a better bullet-proof vest.

* It's hidden unless you sign in and toggle NSFW on.
There is a Russian game Space Rangers ¹ I played in the early ’00s, and I quite enjoyed it, was one of my favourite game.

It’s a 2D game with quests and space exploration, battles and some arcade mode in hyper-space. I remember it very well, as it worked very snappy on my poor computer (even by that time standards).

Now as I remembered that game, I wonder if Naev is something similar. I would rather not promote a Russian game these days, and I would rather play open source game. But from user interface perspective Naev looks quite bad when compared to that Rangers game made two decades ago. I judge Naev by its screenshots, so maybe the game looks better.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Rangers_(video_game)
> If you surveyed the same number of developers to contribute to the project and they said no, would you make the same inference about all developers? I think

This was not an assumption. You are stating a fact. I simply can't find as many UI UX ppl who are willing to work on open source..

Those I have asked reply with the answer above.

I don't know what b and c have to do with what I said though.
If anything, an obfuscated microservice-based application is easier to understand than a monolithic version: network data transfer is easier for observers to understand than memory modification.
I did like seeing the FAQ become more and more deranged the further I scrolled!

I'll perhaps be the first to jump on the 1/0 != 0 hate train though; they mention they designed the stdlib to avoid the partial-function pitfalls of Haskell's, but the article they linked to support their design decision of 1/0 being 0 mentions that it boils down to division being a partial function - x/0 is not a case division can handle. Would it not then be reasonable to make division return an Option?
I’ve had pretty good luck running my own on digital ocean for several years now.
They also shut down the VPSs they deem to be “too active” as in using too much resources, if you’re on the always free tier
> I'm thinking battery life and heat.

The problem is, I'm not sure how it'd help, when you have to do emulation. It often requires explicit hardware support (or some system level support) to break ABI to not manually do mappings and stuff, to make emulation as little overhead as possible. Make sure you caught that, "as little overhead as possible", I am not good at hardware whatsoever but to me there's no reason that an alternative chip would be any better than the original chip being emulated, when you have the same ISA being ran....... UNLESS there is some recompilation. This is why I'm a fan of JITs and their little VMs, you can do your own JIT compiler for VMs and implement your own optimizations, the same way you'd, say, implement fast-paths in a JS JIT compiler.
That's why I'm asking, it seems like a liability.
Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons
Unavoidable except if you price it up so much that people start using the car again. For the same reason why there will always be be traffic jams no matter how many streets there are and how many lanes they have.
I bet many of us do this due to small differences between BSD and GNU coreutils. One that always gets me is:

sed -i '' 's/foo/bar/g' # BSD sed
sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' # GNU sed
That’s a fancy word that doesn’t mean what you think it does. If you were serious that would “seem to be” a libelous thing to write about someone. Also, it’s fantastic that you think the world is reading this HN thread. Good thing you were here!
Q: What are the top 10 books right now?

A: I will give you a Catalogue of the best Books that are extant at this time, and then you may take what you please. The first is the Bible, the Word of God. The second is the Catechisme, the summe of the faith. The third is the Compendium of the Christian Religion, the summe of the Catechisme. The fourth is the Confession of Faith, the summe of the Compendium. The fifth is the Catechisme for Children, the summe of the Catechisme. The sixth is the Book of Common Prayer, the summe of the whole Church service. The seventh is the Book of Homilies, the summe of the Church doctrine. The eighth is the Geneva Psalter, the summe of the Psalmes. The ninth is the Exposition of the Ten Commandments, the summe of the Law. The tenth is the Exposition of the Articles, the summe of the Faith. These ten Books are the best Books at present, and I leave them to your choice.
The solar irradiance varies by less than two parts in thousand throughout the cycles, see [1], it goes up and down by about 0.5 W/m2 around it's mean value.

On the other hand, if we hit 500 ppm CO2, that'll contribute about 3.7 W/m2. The Wikipedia page on Radiative Forcing has quantitative data, including the effect of the solar cycle...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle#/media/File%3ASo...
I have my Gmail, telegram, and RSS feeds hooked up to GPT-4 to pre-screen for things that are important to notify me about (and might do a summary). Then they pipe to different Slack channels in a personal workspace that have different notification settings. So it's a central place where I can manage all notifications and search/snooze/remind on them.

Otherwise it's all about taking the time to go through the notification settings of each app and customizing to your liking.

Still not great though I don't know a better solution.
This, but I want to add, I think the root cause is less due to the ease of writing a Dockerfile vs writing a deb, rpm, etc. and more due to the low cost of hosting. Whatever low-quality Dockerfile you write, you can sign up on Docker Hub, build and push there, and you're done. GitHub Packages doesn't support deb or rpm, and anyway for better or for worse, packages are tightly coupled to the distribution they're packaged for. That means either getting your package into the package repository of each distribution you want to target, or hosting your own package repository, which is non-trivial in both financial and labor cost.

Docker has a lot more crap, but it did dramatically lower the barrier of entry, which is a good thing. The proper response isn't to bemoan the lower barrier of entry, but to attempt to lower the barrier of entry of traditional packaging.
Functional Programming was, for a long time, talked about as yet-another-solution to solve the issue of complexity in larger codebases, primarily the complexity of controlling state getting out o hand.

Similar to OOP, which promised to do this by encapsulating state, FP promised to do this via purity, aka. getting rid of as much state as possible, and only allowing stateful transition at certain well defined sections of the program.

The "market advantage" of OOP was that, via Java, it was already so well established, and so many coders had been trained in OOP languages, that it remained alive. FP on the other hand, coming out of academia and requiring all these industry people to suddenly do things in syntactically and conceptually different ways, never really gained traction. OOP simply came first, it is as simple as that.

Whether FP would have actually solved the problem is anyones guess, since it never gained the traction of OOP and Procedural languages. My best guess is that it wouldn't, because I don't believe in silver bullets.

It should be noted that both approaches contributed valueable things to contemporary languages. E.g. first order functions being the norm comes from FP.
What is Q-Learning (back to basics) [video]
Oh sorry, I interpreted your comment as asking whether Darwin installed GNU coreutils itself in some roundabout, very-expensive-lawyer sanctioned manner :)
AFAIK it's mostly not open sourced, but from what I recall the H1/H2 chips used in the devices improves and augments a lot of functionality. It includes a bluetooth modem among other things, and the result is much improved performance and pairing. On the software side I think (possibly also facilitated by the chip) Airpods also utilize a feature for switching between devices using your Apple ID. I think Apple automatically syncs bluetooth settings between your devices.
Perhaps it'd be very hard to block at the input prompt level, but output filters can be made progressively better to detect any unwanted output.
During the early years of Tesla, TSLA followers would post the VIN numbers of delivered cars to estimate the rate of production. They were accurate for a few quarters. After some time Tesla changed the practice of sequential VINs.
I have used only Firefox from version 2 to about 102 (can't remember exactly). Performance was bad at some point but it was't unusable. What finally drove me away was the constant stream of UI updates - some may have been improvements but not so major to have been worth of the pain of adaptation period, some have been just...ugly.
You know who really knows how to package software? Mark Russinovich, Nir Sofer, and all the others who gave us beautiful utililies in standalone EXE's that don't require any dependencies.

For the longest time I stayed on older versions of .NET so any version of Windows since 2003 could run my software out of the box. Made use of ILMerge or a custom AssemblyResolve handler to bundle support DLL's right into my single-file tools - it wasn't hard.

I have no complaints about Docker, but I do find where I used to be able to download simple zip files and place their contents into my project I now just get a black box Docker link with zero documentation and that makes me sad.
The mercury is denser than his hand but strangely, it doesn't go through? Similarly, it also doesn't go through salt grains until you stir them due to surface tension.
Math should be patentable, too. I see no reason for why not.

The old argument that it's discovered rather than invented is bullshit. Multiple people can always have the same idea for an invention because we think alike and live in the same environment.

Or just ban patents altogether. Of course, this may discourage companies from investing in R&D and that's the real problem: how expensive is it to invent something, and does it justify a 20-year monopoly? But there are no good answers here, and trying to draw a line between math and non-math is bollocks.
I have to agree. You cannot separate the statistical analysis from the meaning of the study. In the article, the author's random data is exactly an extreme replication of Dunning-Kruger. Why? Because, in his random data, people with low test scores almost always overestimate their ability, while people with high test scores almost always underestimate.

That is precisely the premise of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The fact that the original Dunning-Kruger paper shows a less extreme effect? That just shows that people are slightly better than random at estimating their own abilities - but still nowhere accurate.
> I always say that purely in terms of design my ideal language is high-level Haskell, low-level C.

That's similar to what I used to say. I was devastated to see the BitC project implode, but then Rust appeared and took up the mantle. It's not perfect by any means but it's influential enough to drag the whole field of PL development kicking and screaming in that general direction.
The Blockchain Group seems to be close to bankruptcy, if not bankrupt.[1] Trading in their stock is being suspended. "In view of the financial difficulties encountered by the Company, in particular its financial situation
the Company is actively seeking short-term financial resources that will allow it to
to ensure the continuity of its operations in fiscal 2024. The Company has initiated
discussions with its main creditors on the one hand in order to reach an agreement with them to the effect that
restructuring its debt and, on the other hand, with potential new investors ..."

[1] https://www.theblockchain-group.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
I would definitely pay $1000-$2000 more for a car if it meant I could just click a button and not spend a day negotiating with a dealer
Decompiling code is a reverse engineering method that provides access to the non-copyrightable elements of the code.
Case of point that USA serve it own interest and is not always right and i shouldn't bound by it evil point of view. so i have the right to finance the good guys who try to survive against a terrorist nation for example.
The amount is already being spent — but it's spent in the much more valuable currency of time right now.

Buying a car is a nightmarish process of emailing/calling dealers, making the rounds (often in person) to see what variations/colors are in stock, building spreadsheets of numbers, sanity-checking prices by surfing various online forums, and eventually facilitating your own personal local bidding war to decide which dealer gets your business.

It takes weeks — and, even after that's done, the actual process of physically buying the car is another multi-hour slog of paperwork, shuffling through an endless series of drab fluorescent-lit offices as you physically sign things on literal pen and paper like a caveman. Why?

There's no rational reason that buying a car can't be as easy as buying anything else online. It should be about as much work as ordering a pizza — go to the web site, pick your options, punch in your credit card number, and get a live tracking page that shows your order being put together and then delivered to your door in realtime.

I think most people would gladly pay a healthy premium to have that kind of streamlined experience instead of having to endure their own personal multi-week Homeric odyssey.
iEEE commentary on AI confuses the hell out of me.

Any model that has a concept of a human body in it, which it needs in order to do body accurate shapes, will spit out NSFW images.

Some training on top of it or some old style CNN nudity feature detection to make it less likely isn’t safety, it’s windowdressing.

Not making nude pictures is not a property of these systems, it’s IEEs framing of what they apparently want properties to be.
It's similar to a thick client, what Google does by eschewing language agnosticism. It's a reasonable approach, really: thin clients of course work, and you have to provide them across popular languages, making them thicker adds value.
cheap developer goes awol and the manager isn't bothered?
Back in time Algerian rebels were considers terrorists just go back and read new york times and see how they were depicted, after they got their freedom now they're considered the good guys who fought the evil french colonizers.
David Dunning response (2022): https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/dunning-kruger-effect-an...
I imagine anyone with a BA in CS has wrote a OS from scratch.

How many systems on chips are in a moderen computer, not the main system and cpu, but every little chip and controller, the boot system, every board seems to have a little OS.

In regards to security, its all about analysing risk and trade-offs.

For me using containers from known vendors is a risk im willing to take.