skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, have been aware of it for a long time. It’s great in concept but as far as I’m aware a good deal behind current macOS — last I knew it was compatible with OS X 10.6 (released 2009) with no support for Swift or for any of the advancements in Objective-C made since then.

I’m also not sure how well GNUStep apps would fit into a modern GTK or Qt-based desktop, e.g. if they’d theme controls to match.
I think once google picks their minimum riscv extension set for android (soon?) then the rest of the vendors will aim at that leaving everything else as obsolete
> Path one - it's active suppression, which means mens rea, which means someone is out there silencing me, which means a conspiracy is active, to shut down criticism of Israel. Which means the Elders of Zion are at it again.

What a load of bullshit. "Anyone who thinks users are flagging this submission in deliberate bad faith must also believe xyz conspiracy theory"
>We are professionals, our tools should be powerful for the advanced user, not beginner friendly.

You can have both - powerful and user friendly.

This idea that engineer's tools must be a mess that is fine as long as enables to do something is idiotic.

The same argument was repeated whenever C or C++ vs Rust discussions were happening

"Just learn C and memory management (and all the quirks)"

"Just use this new language constructs and you're fine..."

and in reality we ended with a lot of CVEs - 70% in both Chrome and Windows were related to mem. issues.

There's absolutely no reason why git's CLI cannot be better than it currently is. Once again - there is no reason.

Proof? There are CLI wrappers or even GUIs like GitHub Desktop that make whole experience way better.
Combining Continuous-Time, Recurrent, and Convolutional Models
> Is there anything that a 100 IQ human could do that GPT4 with a body and more memory couldn't do?

The "more memory" part is carrying a lot of weight here, and it represents a very difficult problem. (Specifically, finding a way to identify and access contextually-relevant data in real time.)

Definitions of AGI vary, but almost everyone agrees that GPT4 is not AGI. Can transformers continue to be scaled to the point where they can power an AGI? Sure, maybe. But like the person you responded to said, there's currently not enough evidence to draw that conclusion.
Hahahaha, good one! You can lose an unlimited amount of money and then deduct up to a maximum $3,000 a year, if you use itemized deductions. Thanks for playing.
Didn't they recently deprecate this?

https://nolongerset.com/vbscript-deprecation/
perfect. so gandalf's point stands.
It's not my claim so you should refute the points Segal makes if this is a thing you're interested in doing.

Remember that this is what you were doing during this time. Some day someone will likely ask, and you won't be able to honestly say that you opposed this or even were ignorant of it. We knew what was happening, and told you, and you decided it was fine. Remember this when you lie to your grandchildren about it.
Ahh, so that's why some cups come out of the microwave with a hot handle while other cups come out with a cold handle!
Came here to mention Refactoring UI. I think the structure makes it very valuable: Each one is focused on a particular problem or topic. So if you need help with font weights or spacing or shadows there is a chapter for that and I often go back and look at a specific chapter when I encounter a problem.
Vim isn’t for you, and that’s fine. Statements like “all Vim users…” aren’t really a great contribution to the discussion.

I’ve used Vim for 20+ years. I like it, you don’t have to. I don’t try to shove it down anyone’s throat - nor do I try to tell you why your favorite tool sucks. Because it probably doesn’t suck - for you. Tell me what you like or what doesn’t work for you and leave the middle school attitude where it belongs.
which west? kingdom of netherlands? spain? denmark? brit?
> When you're making a word processor you can be nonpolitical pretty easily, Microsoft doesn't get any heat about what users of Microsoft Word are doing with it. Child abusers and the KKK use Excel? Everyone knows Microsoft are just selling hammers.

I think a lot of that is because Word and Excel were initially locally run and produced local files. Rightly or wrongly, when something is being hosted, people seem to associate the results with the entity that does hosting.

To go with your hammer analogy. There is a big difference between selling hammers and running “hammers as a service” where people pay for the service to go hit something.

This is one of the big reasons why models that you can run completely locally are so important. The tools that runs locally places more distance between the provider and the user.
This already exists, ex. Audimee: https://audimee.com/
Speed. Consensus usually implies self-reflection. Know thyself and all that jazz. If there's no time to know thyself, it's hard to get true consensus.
I was hoping the /s wasn't necessary, but just to be clear: my comment was entirely sarcastic. Signal has had its issues in terms of open source-ness (like that time they stopped publishing their code for quite some time) but the client and server are open source, and while they're not huge fans of alternative clients, they have designed their protocol so that it's practically impossible for them to refuse alternative clients, purely out of privacy considerations.

Now that Signal has usernames you can share, rather than phone numbers, I think the phone number decision is a lot less problematic.

Strangely enough, I did receive spam this week. Or at least I think I did, an account I didn't recognise with a profile picture of a woman I didn't recognise sent me "hi". This coincided with my first SMS spam of the year and spam on an email address I used for one specific company, so I guess they've been hacked and had their database dumped. Maybe I'm just lucky, but spam just isn't a problem for me.
I didn't say the diets were selected, just that a domestic cat can afford to be habitually inefficient in a way most wild animals can't and that we have selectively bred cats for some of this. Yes, big predators will opportunistically eat smaller prey, it doesn't affect the claim that a domesticated cat is a poor starting point for the comparison you were making.
So a thousand plateaus is great but also very weird, by design. One of their goals is to reject the very structure of a book. One of the forwards by the English translator elaborates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35459054

Honestly I think his forward is one of the better simple examples of the big ideas of the book.

But anyway.

Deleuze’s own work and his work with Guattari are very different. The series of books he wrote on other philosophers, and his own thesis, have a much more straightforward style. In my understanding they are often considered unorthodox readings of the source material (in particularly Nietzsche) but that is on purpose. You may find that stuff more interesting than the more adventurous stuff.
"being a slave in a mine"

Being sent "ad minam" was basically a slow-motion death sentence and everyone involved knew it.
These "biases" in data are a reflection of reality. If by default an LLM refers to engineers as "he" more than "she", it's because engineers are more likely to be male than female. Most people would prefer an AI whose model of reality matches actual reality rather than one that matches what some Silicon Valley leftists think reality should be. Those biases are only a problem if you think the main purpose of an AI is to moralise.
"Rome was not built in one day": Mistakes, debugging, fixing MUST happen.

And it is going to hurt. To get rid of the plague of optimizing compilers, I am willing to pay that price.

And instead of having to to fix assembly code generation in those ultra-complex compilers, it is much more reasonable to hook in an assembler which is beyond orders of magnitude saner than dealing with any optimizing compilers.
There is a list of supported languages here: https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/introduction.html#supported...

If you leave off the language command line option it detects the language from the extension on your files.
I don't think it works as long as people are fully anonymous. There's gonna a way to amplify yourself with fake accounts. The way a social network should work is, you only directly communicate with people you know IRL*, but it's easy to spread info across multiple hops. Each person along the way is self-moderating because they won't be scamming or harassing their real acquaintances. That's why OG Facebook without groups, pages, global recommendations, etc was actually very civil.

Of course, that's not doable in a typical chat room setting.

* Profiles don't have to be tied to real identities like on Facebook. Screen-names are fine as long as people know who's who, like on AIM.
You must be right. I actually didn't know JS had a "let" (which is different from "var" in that it is block scoped rather than function scoped). It's also quite different from the let in most Lisps, in that it does not establish a new lexical block.

Playing with it, the binding is scoped to the entire block, but the assignment happens in statement order so that e.g. the following will be an error, rather than logging either "1" or "2" both of which there could be arguments for:

{
let x = 1;
{
console.log(x);
let x = 2;
}
}
I was just thinking along these same lines and found myself considering using raylib (building on SDL2) for a small/fun side project.

It has bindings for Zig so that might be a good combo, having used neither :-) The list of language bindings is impressive[0].

[0] https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/BINDINGS.md
No, it's like saying that the building plans supplier that sold Osama bin laden those plans is probably going to catch some flak.
I don't know. I feel like __some__ additional features in terminal would be nice. Like having the new vscode sticky scroll, incorporating a file manager like ranger into common terminals, being able to display long (CURL) commands in a more structured way (maybe a hierarchical tree that you can traverse), etc. I use Vim on Fish shell but it'd be nice to have Vim baked right in the terminal as well.
Extensive discussion (>600 comments) last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155
I like what you’ve done here but I’m confused by the AI Price prediction. It seems to show that the price could go up, stay about the same, or go down. That’s true of pretty much any stock. There must be something I am missing.
> And with a 9-to-5 comes the dreaded commute—and actually having to show up for the job in order to get paid. “What I don’t like about Kabul is its ever-increasing traffic holdups.” Omar Mansur, 32, said.

Have the Taliban considered WFH?
> When you're making a word processor you can be nonpolitical pretty easily, Microsoft doesn't get any heat about what users of Microsoft Word are doing with it. Child abusers and the KKK use Excel? Everyone knows Microsoft are just selling hammers.

Unless that word processor is Google Docs, or anything else cloud based.

https://transparency.google/our-policies/product-terms/googl...
> It sounds like you're deep into scenario 2.

Arrgh, I meant to say, "scenario 1" - the second scenario.

The first scenario is numbered 0, because it has zero process.
It's not as difficult to break into AI/ML as you think. Personally, I think a motivated, experience developer who sits down and learns the math, which is all undergraduate level, can skill-up and enter this field. It's very reminiscent of what took place with data science, where you had "weak" developers who were strong with math build models and then orgs would lean on professional software engineers to clean up and scale their work.
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_th...
Why do I need to agree to the terms of service to run a terminal program?
I recently switched from FastSpring to MyCommerce, but they turned out to be crappy in a similar way. While their store seems more reliable, they are really expensive because they charge a hidden 5% fee on all foreign currencies (they charged 8-10%, then I complained and they dropped it to 5%). That's on top of their regular fees.

At least I didn't switch to WireCard (I had an offer from them, it sounded pretty good but their API seemed a bit half assed, so I was sceptical, then the scandal blew up, fortunately before I got set up with them).

Paddle seemed pretty sleazy, and switching to a UK company during Brexit also seemed like a bad idea.

Anyway, these vendors are all a bit crappy, but they are probably still cheaper / easier than doing it all yourself...
There's a lot to say that people prefer endless war over scrum meetings. But I think there's a greater story for the politicos in the room; the way to destroy an enemy is more about destroying morale than killing. That or give them access to the internet and too much free time
No the poster is not saying that. They are saying there is a line and “tools” are on one side and LLMs are slowly crossing that line.

You can ask chatgpt about the reasons for 90s NATO expansion, and it remains pretty straightforward and fact based, but depending on how you push it you can get answers that reflect the dc consensus or sound a little leftist or are more realist, and it’s a political question how different facts should be presented and emphasized.
> I'm wondering who exactly wants to run a stable kernel that receives all these updates so fast. If you want all the latest and greatest, just use -latest?

I find the kernel is now the least stable bit of debian stable

I've had LTS kernels break the networking on my workstation (with a 10 year old onboard NIC) and they deliberately broke ZFS in the past

in LTS there shouldn't be ANYTHING other than security fixes
The Book World Still Isn't Diverse. Dhonielle Clayton Is Trying to Change That
LLMs have no way to access reality.
When’s the last time an executive was charged with Contempt of Congress?

Clapper just straight up bald face lied multiple times about the US surveillance aparatus during the Snowden revelations and faced absolutely zero consequences. Altman could ignore the summons or just dodge questions endlessly and Congress wouldn’t lift a finger except to grandstand for their respective peanut galleries.
This is equivocating. It’s not better for purely historical reasons, it’s just a bad trade of speed for accuracy. If you really want to be sure, is one return click enough? Maybe it should be two. Maybe a mouse click. You could throw in a five second cool down to be really sure. Obviously some of these ideas are worse than the status quo.
But we have a big debt. Health care system is not what it used to be. I think we are living a fiction and this will end up in less than a decade.

We will still be spanish for our spanish things as much as we can but... I am alert of what could be coming.
Some of them allow you to view adjusted vs. current pricing. Some of them also leave it up to the user to figure out if it's adjusted, so it does take some homework to figure out at times.
Car wars: A flood of cheap Chinese imports upsets the global industrial order
It's not about an AGI solution. Keep in mind if I have access to the _good-AGI_ then Bill Gates will have access to the _better-AGI_ and will always outperform me. For us, the little people, as the parent suggested, spreading our investments to some decent (YMMV/AFAIK) mutual funds will ''''guarantee'''' that desired 13-15-17% growth per year.

I never make it a race against someone else, I only look at the clock and the years till I retire.
The article says otherwise. It says that many concerns were disregarded during that time.
Thank you @tarsius! Couldn't have said it better.

To add, I have issues with the attitude shown by the blog author.

If you use the development branch, you can't raise hell when there's a breaking change: it's to be expected!

Then it's fine to disagree on some change and discuss this. I read the email thread, and I do not see "arrogance". Just strong disagreement. So yes, converging will take a bit of time... Calling publicly someone "arrogant" for not folding back to your view, and trying to raise the crowd (a good part of whom won't read the thread to make their own opinion) looks like bullying to me.

Saying that his patch to make the change optional has been disregarded, when it was rejected because it not only made the change optional (that would have been OK, and a patch for this asked for) but removed other changes is not honest.

Lastly, pointing out one person to blame when the whole discussion is done with the Emacs maintainers in the loop is also a no-go in my book.

As a close to 30 years Emacs user, thank you to all its contributors! (and to Thierry, as long time Helm user) May their skin by thick, it's unfortunately sometimes needed :-P
> The scope is clearly defined by the parentheses, though if you're not used to Lisp syntax that can be confusing at first.

The scope is clearly not defined by the parentheses, and I've been programming in Common Lisp for 25 years, so I'm pretty used to Lisp syntax.

A sibling comment suggests it comes from the JavaScript let (which did not exist when I learned JavaScript; it wasn't introduced until 1.7), which is scoped to the containing lexical block, rather than a block introduced by the let form itself.
Electron…
Impressive opinion density! Have you ever seen so many opinions in an article not having anything to do with the Marvel universe?
>It is an industry tool for expert, professional use.

If you were talking about things like Kubernetes, LLVM, Ghidra then I'd agree.

But no git. This is not some expert tool.

This tool's purpose is literally to manage your characters' history, that's it.

Git could be used by any other profession that deals with letters - article writers, book writers, etc, etc.
Price prediction follows a gaussian distribution. The "Highest, Average, Lowest" are showing the value of the 68% confidence level.
The Red Cross.
I will also assume (I am not connected to the developer) that I/you/we will be able to save "favorites" and other functionality that would 'remain' in the profile (apart from the reasonable reasons the dev explains on his/her response).

I (anyway) use single-use accounts for such services.. doesn't anyone?
Perhaps other big carnivorous dinosaurs might have eaten small prey when given the opportunity, but for adult tyrannosaurids this seems less likely.

The adult tyrannosaurids had arms that were far too short to be able to catch small prey with them.

The heads of the adult tyrannosaurids were very big, so they must have had a large moment of inertia that would have made difficult to rotate the heads fast enough to be able to catch small prey on the ground below them.

Perhaps the best chance for an adult tyrannosaurid to catch small prey would have been to stomp on it (like many prey birds, e.g. the secretary birds, do today). Only then it could have easily taken the dead body in the mouth.

This stomping behavior would be a more plausible means for tyrannosaurs to catch humans in a movie, instead of their typical depictions when they catch easily the humans only because those are frozen by fear instead of taking evasive actions. (The tyrannosaurs could certainly move their feet many times faster than their heavy heads located at the end of long necks.)
Visual Basic clearly seems to have been aiming at QBasic/QuickBasic compatibility, in any case.

For example, the CALL keyword in QBasic is almost useless: It allows you to call procedures without a DECLARE statement, but DECLARE statements are automatically generated on save anyway.

In Visual Basic, even in version 1.0, it's completely useless because DECLARE statements are not required anymore, but both CALL and DECLARE are still in there in the language, presumably for compatibility.
Is there anything good Plan 9 hasn’t tried? I feel like every time I hear about a good OS idea, someone brings up Plan 9. Haha.
The way I read it, both methods will continue to be available, so I guess it's a question of defaults. (So it doesn't really affect anyone's workflow)
Was using vim for quick edits on files instead of vscode a significant pain point?
Gemini: Google's Quantum Leap in AI
Interactive world population density map
Serotonin Drop Linked to Memory Decline in Early Alzheimer's Progression
I searched for this comment. I was looking at the metrics and thought, "yep, that's what they're using." I like the presentation of the site.
As far as I can tell this is simply not true. I don't think the change is a good idea but the hard fork also looks like a pure political play, not a technical one.

Also, as soon as someone talks about "settings" there is usually a profound misunderstanding of how Emacs works at play.
Nokia hasnt even been bought by US companies. It sold a branch that was unsuccesfull and after it was bought it was still not successfull and they have the rights back. People are just ignorant about so many things and claim it is EU regulations that are the problem but that is a very simplistic view that just goes to show they are not interested in actually looking into what is going on and why
That must have been the section that broke downward, so was traveling faster than terminal velocity.
The proper guardrails worthy of being entrusted, they best come from an ecology of human minds with diverse perspectives and ideas, to grok the whole possibility space with minimal blind spots.

The human machine is already tuned to do this navigating of the information landscape. The sense of curiosity itself lures us toward things that are just a little weird -- the goldilocksian zone between familiar and unfamiliar[1]. Our minds are designed to bridge gaps and seek paths into otherness, but only when the individual steps are small. We are built to seek, grow understanding and incorporate diverse thought :)

[1]: https://nautil.us/curiosity-depends-on-what-you-already-know...
Adopting Asynchronous Collaboration in Distributed Software Teams
>Serotonin Degeneration and Amyloid-β Deposition in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Relationship to Cognitive Deficits

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
At the End of Our Rope
$ git log | grep "Author: Fish" | wc -l
3752

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