skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even describe how much I relate to this :( Especially the Podcast part. I've literally read and listened to every single thing I could on increasing focus / concentration and nothing helped me yet.
OTR is now dangerously insecure:

https://dustri.org/b/time-to-sunset-otr.html
>allowing them to continue to exist as a separate country from the United States.

This inadvertently makes a point I like to make when discussing the US Civil War with those unfamiliar with it. The US didn't really have a civil war. It split into two separate countries and then had a regular war, where one country conquered the other.
Software technology moves when we figure out new ways of doing software that bring some kind of advantage. If no one is finding new ways to do software that have any purpose, technology will stop moving. Physical reality doesn't really have anything to do with it - we're limited by human ingenuity, and possibly by the mathematical space of algorithms (though that's likely to be much larger).

For an example of this happening in a field, look at the glacial pace of advancement in theoretical physics for the last few decades, compared to 1900s. Or at the pace of development in physics in general in the centuries before.
Key insights:

- A recent study tested GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and 1960’s ELIZA, to see which program best mimics human conversation in a Turing test. Participants had to guess if they were interacting with a human or an AI.

- Surprisingly, the old ELIZA program outperformed GPT-3.5. GPT-4 did better than ELIZA, but didn’t reach a 50% success rate, which effectively means worse than a coin flip.

- The authors write that the Turing test still has relevance in understanding how humans interact with AI. However, we should refrain from seeing the Turing test as a barometer of AI intelligence.
You’re reinforcing the point, right? That it’s geopolitical concerns that dominate here.

If it will take a long time to transition to solar, you won’t be dependent on China tomorrow…

And by simple I mean so fundamental a source of energy that five year olds can understand them, and they don’t require mining, radioactive waste management solutions, military control, or improved safety engineering to avoid yet more Chernobyl and Fukushima’s, not to mention they don’t provide targets for conventional weapon attacks to escalate into nuclear disasters…. Oh, and they’re decentralised/easy to deploy.

Solar/Wind power are simple in those terms.

And turning excess energy into hydrogen for storage is also relatively a imple but requires investment to improve the economics.

But nuclear fanboys will fanboy because there is a fundamental power and control element as well as exciting physics involved.

And that’s fine, as arguments go, it’s just frustrating to see simple solutions avoided for political reasons, and roadblocks put up to justify nuclear expansion and investment.
Hashmarks: Privacy-Preserving Benchmarks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation
Abstract

There is a growing need to gain insight into language model capabilities that relate to sensitive topics, such as bioterrorism or cyberwarfare. However, traditional open source benchmarks are not fit for the task, due to the associated practice of publishing the correct answers in human-readable form. At the same time, enforcing mandatory closed-quarters evaluations might stifle development and erode trust. In this context, we propose hashmarking, a protocol for evaluating language models in the open without having to disclose the correct answers. In its simplest form, a hashmark is a benchmark whose reference solutions have been cryptographically hashed prior to publication. Following an overview of the proposed evaluation protocol, we go on to assess its resilience against traditional attack vectors (e.g. rainbow table attacks), as well as against failure modes unique to increasingly capable generative models.
You can technically omit the double-quotes during a scalar variable assignment (as long as it's not preceded by a modifier such as `export`), so the outermost quotes are not needed above.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68694/when-is-doubl...

The extra quotes don't hurt, but also: use shellcheck. It will tell you if you've omitted necessary quotes.
The D language has almost become a German preserve, what with the only major adopters being from there. Deutsche Bahn are supposedly using it too for their platform signage.
I always thought the idea of federation from the users perspective is something of a middle ground between small community forums and social monoliths like twitter. Small-ish communities that for the most part see content that is part of that community but is not entirely isolated from other communities either. Also means that if somebody comes along and screws up one instance it just gets defederated and the people that want to move do so.
With your setup, is that having your data on a single local drive at any time, or was it generally copied onto a few?

aka "making sure you're not hosed if a drive goes bad"
Varies by country - there's a lot of pushback against facial recognition in Australia .. at "average joe" stores:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/25/bunnings-...

It may yet return (probably will when the fuss dies down) but Bunnings (Hardware), K-Mart, Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, Target, Big W, Myer, David Jones, Dan Murphy’s, BWS, Vintage Cellars, Liquorland, Rebel and Officeworks in Australia have all pledged "no facials".
The calling location has been omitted from the snippet. You don't need to do anything special to call it, just `increment()` wherever it's in scope.

`<button on:click={() => increment()}>+</button>`
I think it would have to be a military stalemate, and then a negotiated victory.

But it would be a very silly thing for the Union to give up, having a hostile country so close would be a recipe for disaster. It doesn’t seem like a real stalemate would be possible, in the sense that the North’s economy was so much bigger. Stalemate today? Keep building factories, keep up the blockade, check again tomorrow.
Like many large companies, IBM discourages us from engaging in "social media" (which I guess includes HN) on work-related questions.

I felt that I could make an exception for the minor correction of the product name.

It's probably not appropriate for me to comment here on how I like the job.

I would be happy to discuss it privately with you or anyone else who is curious. My email address is in my profile; feel free to drop me a note and I will follow up with you.
I don’t doubt at all that Groovy is great for doing stuff when you’re used to it and spend a reasonable amount of time with it. I’ve heard great things.

But things like the differences between single quotes and double quotes and a bunch of other subtleties like that, make it really frustrating when the only time I use it is updating build logic.

I’d honestly prefer a more consistent language like Python or Lua. Even if I don’t code them all day, they have more resources to lookup and fewer gotchas.
In addition to other details noted about escaping/quoting and the portability of realpath, it's important to realize that those paths by default are not relative to the invocation directory, they're relative to the current working directory, which happens to be the current working directory of the parent process initially. Also, for a shell script it is relatively reliable to rely on $0, but not guaranteed by any means: for example, an obvious way to subvert this would be to pipe the content of the script into a shell, though there's surely plenty of ways you can think of that this could be broken.
> I’m not an electrician. I’m not allowed to make alterations to my consumer unit.

It's funny how we reach a society where you need government as a babysitter and tell what you can do and whatnot.

> Would I mess around with attaching something at 240v that I made from scratch that could burn my house down and kill my family

It's also funny how those people readily plug in any consumer device they buy on amazon, which is assembled in china/india without any thought about safety.
Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on climate change
I'm a consultant turned agency, but a side project was instrumental to business growth.

I built Doggypedia.org as a side project, I grew it to 100,000+ organics/month without backlinks or technical BS.[0] I wasn't able to monetize it. It actually made negative profit after hosting expenses.

But the case study was enough to attract the attention of a seed stage startup. I grew them from 0 to 1,500,000 organics/month and added ~100k paid customers [1]. This growth enabled them to raise a Series B from A16z.

This case study led to working with brands like ClickUp.

[0]https://contentdistribution.com/0-to-116k/

[1] https://contentdistribution.com/seo-case-study/
All things considered, the note seems honest - lays out the facts and considerations. The severance package seems quite generous as well.
I wish for genocide and occupation not to happen, no matter if I agree with their values or if who writes stuff more eloquently.
Wah wah wah someone decided to move to Linux. They hurt my feelings.

Use your Windows 11 with your ads, no one is stopping you.
They need a bigger cut. 17% will not have a big enough impact to its bottom line.

They need to have enough money to invest in other initiatives, as the business they are in is proven to be margin-thin.

Apple and Amazon will eventually eat Spotify given enough time, if they don't find a moat to be built
A Decade of Have I Been Pwned
> First, nobody cares about this. This has no value proposition to users. It shouldn't even be a topic of conversation.

Did you quote the wrong part? Obviously, value proposition to developers isn't a value proposition to users a lot of the time.

Second, this is a dev-centric forum.

> There's a ton of hand-waving that goes along with this statement. It's like if you tried to cut out talking to Verizon on your POTS exchange. Well, technically you can do that but then you can't talk to the customers on that service and they can't talk to you.

It's exactly like that, yes. That's the very point: that if say, Verizon starts doing something unpleasant like spamming, they can find themselves cut off from the rest of the system.

Meanwhile, unlike with POTS, any alternative is accessible to Verizon users, so they could move over with minimal pain.

The ideal is that in a federated system, there's always alternatives, and no instance is too big to fail.
Melatonin levels are exactly opposite, highest at 3AM-4AM.
Seems brave blocks some js scripts .. this works in Firefox
LimeWire: Beginnings (2017)
Consider the many causes of death that may not be strongly negatively correlated with the particular metrics being targeted here, like accidents, heart disease, or stroke.

An improved immune system response (aimed at infectious diseases) may also do well at suppressing cancer rates (2nd leading cause of death), or if not, may at least improve remission or survival rates for treatments, but that is somewhat speculative, and you might also (or instead) get an increase in various autoimmune problems.

So, from a "reversal" of a decade or more of aging by those measures, you might find that longevity is only increased by a couple of years.
Unfortunately, cloud storage really does have reliability issues. A recent case in point, though there are many more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2023/11/29/google-i...
> insurance. Insurance is for high cost unforeseen events. Most health care is not high cost unforeseen events; it's foreseen events like physicals, shots, checkups and prescriptions for chronic conditions, etc., or low cost unforeseen events like getting an infection and needing treatment

Is that really true total cost wise?

> Food stamps just give people a monthly sum they can spend on food;

So you’re saying that this approach (giving people a fixed sum) certainly wouldn’t work for healthcare due to perfectly obvious reasons you’ve described?
One thing I learned in art school about feedback is that in matters of taste and emotions everbody giving honest¹ criticism is right. What they are sometimes (often? nearly always?) might not be right about are the suggested ways to fix that.

So if someone criticises the way your code is written, instead of focusing on them and you ("They are criticising me"), you should focus on their feeling and the code ("What in/about the code made them feel that way?").

Then you can still decide whether this is a thing you want to address and which way of addressing fits your project.

To receive good feedback, you have to ask specific questions. So not: "what do you think?", but: "I am not sure about that part being like X, I thought about doing Y, but I think this had its problems as well. What do you think?"

¹: Of course people can give dishonest feedback, e.g. to put themselves into the spotlight or because they dislike you or what you stand for in their mind. In that case the feedback could still be valuable, or it could be useless.
In some cases it definitely seems to be the carriers making money.

I’ve never really had any issues at all with SMS spam in the UK and Europe - but I’m currently in Thailand where it’s awful! When you buy a new SIM card at the airport, the spamming starts within an hour or so. I count 18 sent yesterday alone, once every hour or so during the day.

I believe it is actually the carrier (true.th) sending them as they all follow a similar format and seem to arrive with a somewhat predictable regularity.

They even have an automated number (*137) you can call and supposedly turn off spam, but it doesn’t work: “System will cancel spam SMS within 24 hour. Thank you for using!”. Yeah right.

Only solution on iOS seems to be to disable notifications for SMS from unknown senders in System Settings. Then, at least, they only annoy you when you actually look at the messages app.
Wouldn't

readlink -f $0

work to get the actual location of the script, and from there get the base for relative scripts?
Acoustic Cybersecurity: Exploiting Voice-Activated Systems
Wheelhouse (https://www.usewheelhouse.com) | REMOTE | Full-time | Design & Front-end engineer
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We’re a small team of designers, engineers and operators in the hospitality space.
We’re building a revenue management platform for the $500B+ flex rental space. Our technology empowers short & mid-length stay operators, who manage single-family homes, apartment buildings, and (in some cases) hotels - a broad & massive addressable market.

In 2021, our target customer segment voted our platform “Innovation of the Year” at the Data & Revenue Management conference. In 2022, we closed a significant funding round (via many of the best tech, travel & real estate investors) providing us a long runway, low burn, and rapidly growing revenue.

More about us:
As a team, we enjoy shipping products our customers love, on time or ahead of schedule, while balancing work/life & having fun together. Many have worked together for 8+ years across multiple companies. We’re best described as transparent & collaborative, and we strive to set our teammates up for success - both professionally & personally. We’re a remote-first, work-anywhere, and a “yes - you should make time for that adventure/vacation” company.

What we’re looking for:
An experienced (3+ years) front-end engineer with design capabilities. Someone passionate about building great user experiences and who is comfortable taking a design from exploration through to production. Ideally, they can build out designs on their own, or, with partial help from our product designer.

Bonus — Our product can be complex (lots of data, configurations, edge cases), so, someone looking to solve hard problems with a mind for simplified UIs and intuitive experiences would be ideal.

Stack - Tailwind | Chakra | Next.js | Ruby on Rails | Postgres
Benefits - Competitive salary and equity. Full medical, dental and vision benefits for US employees, Fidelity 401K available for US employees, Unlimited PTO, and more.
> any aesthetic reformatting mistake can change the program's meaning.

Why would you just randomly change indentation? On the contrary, I don't want the indentation to say something else than the code actually does.

> You can remove all the newlines from a 10,000-line Lisp program and the compiler will parse it exactly the same as if it were formatted aesthetically.

But a human won’t. And that’s a problem.
This is incorrect. China's landmass is larger than the US (including Alaska). The US is only larger if you include coastal and territorial waters, clearly not landmass area.
Can you link me?
Probably a reference to Afghanistan or Iraq? "Another" works in this context, I think, even though those are in the past.
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, limited to Jakarta, Indonesia and Surabaya, Indonesia

Technologies: NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Fastify, ReactJS, Golang

Résumé/CV: https://fbrns.co/resume

Email: ridho@fbrns.co

Hi, I'm Ridho, a software engineer with 3 years of experience working on a fullstack using stack mentioned above. But I have a stronger skills in the backend side. Looking for a job opportunity as soon as possible.

A bit of myself, love to build products and do social charity programs. Love to do some research in technology. Recently been into fediverse and privacy-security concern.

Let's have a talk through email, hit me up!
What's an A-expression? I tried looking it up but didn't find anything.

I have heard of M-expressions but never of an actual implementation. Scheme also seems to have some SRFIs involving alternate syntax that's whitespace dependent, like SRFI 119 (wisp), SRFI 110 (sweet-expressions or T-expressions), or SRFI 49.
Garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/) gets pretty close for object storage. It’s built with mixing high/low latency links and replication between multiple hosts. Unfortunately it’s not really built for end-users, but devs, so there’s no ui or anything like that.
Unfortunately, my application is designed to persist binary requests and responses, so the file format is also binary. Encoding it to a text format is not ideal as it would increase the file size drastically. This is a big barrier and I do not have a concrete direction yet to make collaboration possible in a transparent and easy way.
Philips has had a series of lights to stimulate the sun during the short day season, that they've been selling in Norway, at least since the nineties. At the moment they've branded them energy up. They are the only brand I've seen selling something like it. But there might be others.
The contents of a $30 book is available here, free.

Yet the comment section will endure much complaining by those who feel entitled that the layout, formatting, and typesetting be given away for free, too.
There D wiki has this list: https://wiki.dlang.org/IDEs
Some disciplines have started moving to Arxiv. And all the major programming languages conferences (PLDI, POPL, ICFP, more) switched to PACMPL, which is open acess and I expect is cheaper but am not sure how to check. I don't know much about this; mostly just wanted to make the point that peer review != publishing.
Now the question is, why is a personal language that he doesn’t want other people to use getting so much publicity?
Same. I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by the title. I think "birth" was the word that totally threw me off.
>They need a bigger cut. 17% will not have a big enough impact to its bottom line.

What's stopping them from bigger cuts? We've seen that big SW products can run on lean teams(whatsapp, post-Musk Twitter) and we know many large tech companies are overloaded with way more workers than they need to run(Google), just because they could overhire when money was free.

>Apple and Amazon will eventually eat Spotify given enough time, if they don't find a moat to be built

What prevents Google from doing the same? They already have a large customer base in Android users.
Staring Down Death
They didn’t have the industrial base to win.

Maybe if Europe had gone all in on supporting them with trade, refused to recognize the blockade, that sort of thing? But that’s a pretty big “what if?”
Who Controls Technology? (Daily Philosophy Newsletter #291)
Why would you use tubes if you're not making guitar distortion?

Do you really need pentodes at the speeds involved? It looks like the guy is toggling a switch by hand to generate a clock signal. Pentodes are devices for RF amplification.

Those 6AU6 tubes are 7 pin units, but they contain only one pentode element. Two pins for the heater, then five pins to hook up the pentode.

There exist common 8 or 9 pin tubes that contain two triodes, with which you could cut the tube count in half. (You wouldn't save any money because those tubes cost about twice as much. But less board area and fewer tube sockets counts for something.
I know how you feel. As an European living in Beijing, China, it really blows my mind that, depending on where I go within the city, it can take me a 3h drive here. Not even talking about remote rural areas or state/province distances...
There is a D subset:

https://dlang.org/articles/safed.html

But nothing like Ada SPARK provability stuff, I don't think.
The link between intrusive sleep and ADHD
For all the people with ADHD who sometimes wonder if they also have narcolepsy…
Just literally bored out of your mind to the point that you lose consciousness.
To the people downvoting: Would you elaborate why you think I’m wrong?
> Make your environment; your job, your house, your finances, your routines, ADHD proof. Treat yourself like the chaos you are and make your life resilient to it.

Can you expand on this? What suggestions do you have for accomplishing this?
How to Not Use Secrets
You were actually correct. See note [e] in that table.
That page is quite a bit outdated - Nim version 1.4.0 was released in October 2020. The newest Nim 2.0 release has the default GC set to ORC, which is ARC + a cycle collector, see https://nim-lang.org/docs/mm.html.

As for ARC/ORC specifically, you can read a small introduction in https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc..., but as a TLDR: ARC is something closer to RAII than a GC (destructors injected automatically at the end of scopes) with reference counting for reference types. You can switch between ARC/ORC when compiling, and destructors give a lot of control - https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html.
It is available for mere mortals, however I think you need to prove you have an interest more than just using it for a day. (ie, track the email Jon has set up for the language, write an email asking for access, make it a half decent request/justification, etc).
I'd say it is not the 4GB GPU setup that is the champion of sharding, but the 4xRTX3090 that is significantly cheaper than a single 80GB vram card.

Btw, has anyone experimented with Microsoft's DirectStorage api for this usecase? I understand that the shards will not be very compressable, but maybe the increased IO offloading can have benefits?
In primary school, after doing extra reading on the Phoenicians and Etruscans, I handed in a couple of history assignments written using the respective alphabets to be a smart-ass (with the "logic" that she'd never specified which alphabet to use). To her credit, instead of punishing me for it, my teacher wrote the corrections using the same alphabets.