skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, duh, nothing is consumed by a computer for its own sake. The only reason to feed anything into a computer is so that what you feed in can be processed to produce something that is useful for humans. That doesn't change the fact that a notation developed when paper and ink were state-of-the-art technology may no longer be optimal in an age of keyboards and screens.
OK, TIL. Still, I think it's fair to say that for this purpose, LaTeX leaves room for improvement.
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday

Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin')
If quantum works infinite precision is free.
Don't worry about the crystal vase.
I came across Unsong here on Hackernews, very shortly after running across a form of online (mainly TikTok) idiocy called Grabovoy codes, which are strings of numbers that supposedly amplify the Law of Attraction, each string thought to be a command or "cheat code" instructing the universe to give the user what they want. They were created by a scam artist and convicted criminal called Grigory Grabovoy... who is also an anti-Semite.

I thought, none of this is a coincidence because nothing is a coincidence.
EEA might demand their citizens to pay the VAT, but how can it demand/enforce this e.g. for some company in Vietnam? What happens when EEAians buy goods in Vietnam with EEA bank's credit cards, e.g. in a not-tiny restaurant? Is the VAT cancelled because they are physically in Vietnam for the time being?
Yes, I see that there are certain demands here. I'm new here and I thought this site was actually free. But I guess I need to adjust my expectations.
I think that if you want to expect a certain standard of conversation, then you either have to make the page private or have discussions with real people in person, ideally with your friends.
But as soon as you go public and demand that people adapt to your own content standards, then you distort the discourse on a very deep and fundamental level. You can neither educate people to be elitists, nor does the desire for it justify the karma evaluations that you automatically have to subject yourself to.

I think you could view HN as a fishing pond and fish selected voices privately to another private platform if you are really serious about high quality content.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.
Pagers are still in use. They receive signals much better (UHF) than GSM two-way devices.

https://americanmessaging.net/
How accurately could we predict when betelgeuse will go? What are the CIs?
Unstract - https://unstract.com/
They are a month away from launch(both open source and cloud)
The team might be able to give you a quick demo on your specific requirements.
But the fact the manufacturer wants you to replace the part, is not evidence that the part needs to be replaced.
nuclear weapons simulations

the first machine went to Los Alamos

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/these...
>You've finally let slip what you believe: Israel should continue to subject Palestinians to military occupation indefinitely.

This is incorrect and it’s demonstration of putting words into my mouth. Another trick to be noticed.

Short reflection on this exchange shows clearly that I am deliberately trying to avoid putting words into your mouth in order to see your analysis of the outcome to the actions you’ve suggested for Israel to take.

And while I do that you are desperately trying to avoid answering second part of the question.

“What outcome you expect after Israel does what you’ve suggested?”

Since analyse of outcome did not arrive I did it for you.

>The alternative, you claim …

I didn’t. I have analysed your so called “alternative” which it is not. Israel has already tested this “brilliant” idea in 2005 by withdrawing it’s forces from Gaza together with all settlements in Gaza strip in case you didn’t know and it have led to the current situation with a bigger scale of loss of life. Not caring about this fact together with your repeated lack of wish to analyse deadly outcome of your own suggestion demonstrates your lack of caring about the loss of life wether it is intentional or not.

> In other words …

Well let’s leave ‘In other words’ as ‘another words’ that are just words. They ate yours, not my.

The confusion in your comment between some fantasies and my actual opinion rises questions about integrity of ways in which you’ve analysed this conflict in general.
I think English definitely has it's influence but I think another big factor is the general idea that this hierarchic thinking just gets outdated and younger Germans strive to have a sense of equality.
I sound like the described engineer type (or so I was told), but without the 4x. I don't know if it helps at all, but I care deeply about my work and need 1) the environment to deliver results at least at the level of quality I expect from myself (in other words, don't make me produce crappy software), 2) technical challenges to help me grow, 3) meaningful projects.
/*`````````github`````````*/
bBwPjs[ ]search-title\"><a[ ]href=\"[^\"]+ {
github++;
CDp8iULPuCinsert(5);
fwrite("https://github.com/",1,19,yyout);
for(x=30;x<yyleng;x++)putc(yytext[x],yyout);
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
}
"</h3><ul class=\"Box-sc-" if(github)fwrite("[no description]');\n",1,20,yyout);github=0;
Text-sc-17v1xeu-0[ ]kWPXhV[ ]search-match\"\> jmp GITHUB_DESC;
<GITHUB_DESC>"</span>" fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);github=0;jmp 0;
<GITHUB_DESC><[^>]+>
<GITHUB_DESC>. {
if(yytext[0]==39)putc(39,yyout);
if(yytext[0]==34)putc(34,yyout);
putc(yytext[0],yyout);
}

To test:

#!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x" p=${1-1}\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
x=$(echo "$x"|sed 's/ /+/g;s/++/+/g');
curl -si04A "" "https://github.com/search?q=$x&type=&ref=advsearch&l=&p=${1-1}"

echo this is a test|005.sh > 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db

/* ``````````````google news```````````````` */

\[13,\"[0-9A-Za-z]+\"\],\"[^,]+,null {
w=0;y=0;z=0;
for(x=0;x<yyleng-4;x++)
{
if(yytext[x]==93)z++;
if(z==1)if(yytext[x]==44)z++;
if(z==2)if(yytext[x]==34)z++;
if(z==3)if(yytext[x]!=34)z++;
if(z==4)if(w<255){desc[w]=yytext[x];w++;};
}
}
,\[[0-9]{10}\],null,\"[^\"]+ {
CDp8iULPuCinsert(6);
for(x=20;x<yyleng;x++)putc(yytext[x],yyout);
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
for(x=0;x<w-2;x++)
{
if(desc[x]==39)putc(39,yyout);
if(desc[x]!=92)putc(desc[x],stdout);
}
if(w==255)fwrite(" [TRUNCATED]",1,12,yyout);
fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);
}

To test:

#!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x"\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
x=$(echo "$x"|sed 's/ /+/g;s/++/+/g');
curl -si04A "" "https://news.google.com/search?q=$x&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en"

echo this is a test|006.sh > 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db

/*`````````mojeek`````````*/

\<div[ ]class=\"infobox mojeek_info++;
\<div[ ]class=\"results\" if(mojeek_info)mojeek_info=0;
\<h2\>\<a[ ]class=\"title\"[ ]title=\"[^\"]+ {
mojeek_url++;
CDp8iULPuCinsert(7);
}
\"[ ]href=\"[^<]+ {
if(mojeek_url)mojeek_desc++;
if(mojeek_url){
for(x=8;x<yyleng;x++)
{
if(yytext[x]!=34&&yytext[x]!=62)putc(yytext[x],stdout);
if(yytext[x]==62)fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
if(yytext[x]==39)putc(39,stdout);
}
mojeek_url=0;
}
if(mojeek_desc)fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);
mojeek_desc=0;
}

To test:

#!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x s=${1-0}"\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
x=$(echo "$x"|sed 's/ /+/g;s/++/+/g');
curl -si04A "x" "https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=$x&t=40&s=${1-0}&date=1&size=1"

echo this is a test|007.sh > 1.htm
echo this is a test|007.sh 21 >> 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db
Interesting paper the one you shared and the justification paragraph on why pseudocode is more important than code in papers is surprising in a positive sense and appears apparent in retrospect. Quote:

"Source code vs pseudocode.
Providing open source code is very useful, but not a proper substitute for formal algorithms. There is a massive difference between a (partial) Python dump and well-crafted pseudocode. A lot of abstraction and clean-up is necessary: remove boiler plate code, use mostly single-letter variable names, replace code by math expressions wherever possible, e.g. replace loops by sums, remove (some) optimizations, etc. A well-crafted pseudocode is often less than a page and still essentially complete, compared to often thousands of lines of real source code.'
The BeOS loader was a little trickier: that one actually managed to enter supervisor mode, which shouldn't have been possible, and was why BeOS wasn't supported on Mac OS 9 (only 8.6 and earlier).
Just to add to this:

The T form (jij/je) sounds infantile in Flemish because it is infantile. The real T form in Flemish is gij/ge. But it's somewhat archaic and some people look down on it, so it's rarely used in written conversation. In many cases, the jij/je-form is used when talking to children or used by children. Once they grow up a bit, they tend to use the gij/ge form for informal conversation, and jij/je for slightly more polite conversation.

It's a bit different in the Netherlands, where the archaic forms are more rare outside of Brabant, and where reality more closely matches the textbook T-forms.

Companies addressing me using the infantile form doesn't bother me. What I find much more annoying is companies trying to be cutesy, with random slang thrown in their communications It always gives me "How do you do, fellow kids"-vibes.

I only very rarely encounter anyone talking in the V-forms. It's more common in the written form.

Being a bit of a contrarian, I refuse to write in the jij/je T-form, and consistently stick to the archaic gij/ge.

TL;DR: Flemish has 2 T-forms and one V-form, but the newer T-form is sometimes a V-form. Languages are fun.
This comment reminds me of the recent Dune movie franchise.
> Are those consts really necessary?

Technically yes, initializing a plain char * from a const char * (from array decay) is a constraint violation (an error the standard requires the compiler to detect and complain about) even in C89. Many compilers will let you off with a warning though.
Sorry for the noob question but how do you decrypt a SHA256 hash?
> because every single developer has moved clocks back and forth twice a year for their entire lives

Where I live, South Africa, we have a single timezone which never has DST.

It is very easy for a developer here to be oblivious of time zones/DST as in practice it will never bite them in the local only market.

Well, I lie, it’s only almost never, a common smell of incorrect time handling is when the deployment instructions have a note to ensure the server is set to the correct time zone.

Tangental pet peeve of mine, in the early 2000s I received an abuse report with quoted logs with the timestamps being qualified as merely EST (or some other US time zone), which I found super annoying as I had to look up what the offset for such time zone was and then manually apply conversions before I could do any investigating of my own.
Ukraine war: What's the impact of cyber guerrillas?
For anyone got by this, note that the law in most countries requires the bank to return any funds lost through such an attack.

It would fall in the same category as 'bank believed the customer instructed them to transfer funds when the customer did not make such an instruction'.

The customer in this case is the actual human account holder - not the customers computer system or account.

Notably, this is why lots of tech support scams try to trick the customer into transferring money, even though the scammer already has full access to the victims bank login details and browser. The scammers know that if they just make the transfer themselves, it is the bank they are defrauding, and the bank will typically try far harder to shut them down.
OpenAI did not become for-profit. OpenAI opened a limited-profit arm. The board of directors who fired Sam Altman is the board of the nonprofit.
Why ?

With NAFTA and USMCA the US can reap all the trade benefits without any of the liabilities

Turn on the immigration spigot and control population growth at will
317 comments, and nobody pointing out that the comments on the accepted answer has a comment by the Peter Shor.
Yes, but so were other contenders like French and German which have not retained such a prominent role.
Protecting Encryption and Privacy in the US: 2023 Year in Review
next weeks headline:
"GTA5 performance up 40% due to fan-submitted patches."

[0]: https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-thanks-gta-online-player-wh...
A doctor did this in Hawaii for a while https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/The-tale-of-the-doctor...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/court-violating-...

> Judge John Bates ruled on Friday that the plaintiffs' proposed research wouldn't violate the CFAA's criminal provisions at all. Someone violates the CFAA when they bypass an access restriction like a password. But someone who logs into a website with a valid password doesn't become a hacker simply by doing something prohibited by a website's terms of service, the judge concluded.

> "Criminalizing terms-of-service violations risks turning each website into its own criminal jurisdiction and each webmaster into his own legislature," Bates wrote.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/web-scraping-doe...

> Scraping a public website without the approval of the website's owner isn't a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that pits Microsoft-owned LinkedIn against a small data-analytics company called hiQ Labs.

So, uh... cool story, bro, but you seem to have a ridiculously extreme and pretty clearly unintended interpretation of this law. The users of Beeper have valid credentials to this service and are accessing only the things they were intended to be able to access... they merely are doing so with a modified or alternative client, which usually is protected under various laws due to an interest in competition and interoperability.
Great essay. You can tell from the writing Sam Altman is just a great person who cares about making things people want instead of just enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.
source leaks damage things aside from profitability.

this will just serve as yet another feather in the cap for the exploit/hacking/modding community; and a lot of THOSE people make cash by selling exploits.

If rockstar cared about cheating ( they don't ) this would throw a big monkey wrench into that effort, obfuscation is half the battle in a game where book-keeping like an MMO would be performance prohibitive.
What behavior would you define for

*((int*)rand()) = 42
Going through similar stage with my dad.

Biggest surprise for me was that the best aspect of the healthcare system has been Medicare. Consistently helpful and all the communications were clearly designed with seniors in mind.

Very other aspect is characterized by innatention of obvious corporate motivations.
Which languages are these? Especially the two that look similar
Or RISC-V for that matter.

(while being an order of magnitude simpler)
In 5th grade, around 1980, I would skip school lunchtime and spend it in the school library instead. The library had all the computer magazines, and Byte was my favorite. I would rather read these computer magazines than eat. I saved my lunch money every day and saved up enough plus some birthday money to buy an Atari 400 and a small black and white TV. I was in heaven. I eat pretty well now, and no doubt those early magazines and my first computer led directly to my prosperity all these years later.
We don't need most people, just a handful of very dedicated volunteers. That's what happened with Thief/Thief 2/System Shock 2's Dark engine, which was patched for modern hardware after its source was leaked by an ex-employee.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Why are eggs sold by the dozen instead of 10?

Factors 2,3,4,6 >>> 2,5.

The real reason probably has more to do with switching costs for ports, &c.

That, and copious people making fat piles of cash off of the status quo.
The future vision of Ruby Parser
>Americans in Vietnam

>But that breaks down entirely when your agressor treats their own people as cattle for the slaughter

That sounds like victim blaming. We had to massacre the Vietnamese, they didn't have to fight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties
The hash is not for decryption. It is for checking the integrity of the downloaded file.
Show HN: ComfyRun – Run and share any ComfyUI workflow with no manual setup
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Because people have to publish papers, that's why.
I think Ruby 3.3 is perhaps one of the most important and feature rich Ruby release in the past 10 years. I never thought Ruby would have a shipping and production ready JIT before Python. And Prism, Lrama, IRB. A lot of these were discussed in previous HN submissions.

But one thing that is not mentioned or discussed enough, is Ractor, M:N thread scheduler, Fibre and Async. Especially in the context of Rails. I am wondering if any one are using these features in productions and if you could share any thoughts on the subject.
An amazing history of Microsoft, MS Dos,Xenix, logica, and SCO! Thanks
You don’t decrypt a hash, a hash is used to verify integrity of a specific content. You can use several programs to create a hash of the files you downloaded, and compare it to this person’s hash to see if they’re the same.
How is this different from any other self-improving rules?
> Kings and popes must be addressed diffusely with plurals

So I guess "the royal 'We'" falls under "believing your own marketing".
More cult literature, awesome. These clichés belong in their own Substack newsletter.
Just to explain myself perhaps a little better.

Set theory since at least the mid 19th century has been fundamental to the basis of mathematics. The natural numbers are defined starting fromthe empty set and a successor operation that given a set a returns a U {a}, then the integers are defined as infinite sets of pairs from the cartesian product of the natural numbers with a particular common property[1], and rationals as infinite sets of pairs of integers[2].

Then Dedekind constructed the reals from the rationals and proved the least upper bound property. His construction is essentially to cut the numberline of the Rationals into two sets with specific properties (but essentially one less than and one greater than or equal to a particular real number, with the lower set having no largest element).

There is an excellent pair of youtube videos explaining how number systems are defined using sets https://youtu.be/dKtsjQtigag?si=3JFgz2YTUqB7EAv3 and https://youtu.be/IzUw53h12wU?si=D0lx1vCiy5FwjlwC

[1] Which you could think of as being that everything in the set [(a,b)] has a-b equal to some common integer which is what we think of as that particular integer. So the set [(2,0)] contains (2,0), (4,2) (-4,-6) and so on to infinitiy in both directions and that entire set of pairs we think of as the integer “2”

[2] where the common property is a division rather than a subtraction
Yes, that's great and all, but that doesn't change the fact that all of the car windows are smashed, and you regularly see people, sometimes the same people, smashing the windows in person.

Quoth Jeff Bezos: "The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way
you are measuring it."
Climate change is an unpriced economic externality. It's a political problem, not a technical problem.

If you want innovation, then create a market incentive for it. But that requires pushing bills that would wreck the prospects of oil companies, and cause trillions of stranded assets, so they lobby against it.
Here in Tokyo, it's almost always 2 days for me, and I don't have Prime membership. Sometimes it's even next-day.

It seems like it's only the Americans complaining about shipping speeds: probably a byproduct of the transportation network there being so bad and everything being so spread out. Their other problem is likely bad labor relations and a labor shortage.
What is "self-improving" rule?
I'd rather separate from the wife than my classic magazine collection.
no you'd have to make that in every users /home to be system wide. Else it's just user-wide
Sir, your comment breaks the site guidelines. Do better. Sam Altman is an entrepreneurial hero and not a cult leader. He deserves more reverence and respect.
Show HN: A better way to read blogs
Amazon JP is not a "gleaming spire", but I do agree it's not nearly as bad as the horror stories of counterfeiting I keep reading about Amazon US. However, there is still lots and lots of cheap Chinese junk here, but that's pretty easy to discern by just looking at the brand name. As the other poster here said about the UK version, "I get all the 1000 variations on the same shit product with ridiculous brand names on Amazon [JP]."

The other problem with Amazon JP is that returns are not usually free, unless there's a real problem; it's not nearly as easy and free to return stuff as Amazon US.
What make and model would you recommend for a mini PC? I was thinking of getting one lately.
Prism is interesting. Any Ruby code analysis tools that use it? I've been looking for ways to analyze my code at work.
Ridiculous DSC Neo <-> Home Assistant Integration
There's not that many variables to keep track of, yet articles on energy storage tech consistently disappoint by always missing the most relevant ones.
There's this old maths joke about the proof that Santa exists:

We will prove a stronger statement, namely that existing Santa exists. There are two mutually exclusive possibilities:

1. Existing Santa exists.
2. Existing Santa does not exist.

2. Is self-contradictory, therefore Santa exists.
I think its not really an opinion that the hardware/server side of things is becoming commoditized. People in charge don't really care what the hardware is unless they need several data centers worth of servers. They would rather pay to just outsource that to AWS/GCP/Azure. Which means those jobs are going to be less numerous in the future and the pay will continue to drop as the job becomes mostly a paint by numbers type of thing.

I could be wrong but I don't think there is a bright future in it. I would not recommend it to anyone except for a hobby. Like I said though sometimes the cool/wonder factor is the benefit to get a person interested in something though.

It is easy to lock yourself out of a remote server, at least for junior people. When you have to think about those things you learn to plan and think things through before you act.
Nice goal post shifting, though you're still mistaken in how low you assess the intelligence of the readers (and even real "legal advice" can be unreliable, so you're a bit confused here as well)
Every Christmas, like clockwork, Ruby Lang drops a new release.
A Rotterdammer using the polite form is the Dutch equivalent of angels flying out of ones bumhole: I've never seen it.

Joking aside: theres the school version of pioitesse, and the actual version.