skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I now regret helping with this effort, since people use it as arguments against using VLAs in general, although in my opinion this is clearly the wrong conclusion outside of the kernel. VLAs are basically always superior to the next best alternative: They are safer than alloca() (and standard's compliant), they are faster than heap allocation (and similar safe), and use less stack and allow better bounds checking than a worst-case fixed-size arrays on the stack (but are slower).
The DICE C compiler for the Amiga (must have been 1991 or 1992, not sure if it was actually shareware though, but it wasn't a "proper" boxed product either).

I exchanged Deutsche Mark into a hundred-dollar bill, put that into an envelope with backaddress and sent it over to the US. A couple of weeks later I got the reply with a 3.5" floppy disc (or was it two?) and a handwritten letter by Matt Dillon (later of DragonFly BSD fame).

Good times! (and one of the best software investments I ever made)
AI, the story of the year, told in numbers
In your opinion. In marketers' or app developers' opinions, it continues to make them more money so that's what they'll do, regardless of whether a small minority of consumers complain about it. Of the people I know, only technical people have turned off notifications, most average users simply have long lists of notifications on their phone, that they may or may not look at, ironically making the value of each notification from some random app a lot less.
> not everybody has the ability to exercise agency

Disaster awaits a person whose habits become lucrative for someone else.

At the same time, the distribution of Meta users by country is interesting. The top 5 countries for Meta are (with some variance among Funkbook, Insipigram, Wartsapp):

* India
* USA
* Indonesia
* Brazil
* Mexico

[1] _ https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/facebook-users-by-cou...
A healthy chunk of media from the 80s to the 2000s is hard to get released because of the copyright thicket caused by the shows sampling other media.

It sucks, and I don't know what the answer is.
Peter Attia seems a bit more reasonable:

Introduction to My Longevity Tactics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842186
Thank you for the reply and congratulations on the PhD position! I am still not 100% sure about the specifics but my new team focuses on cyber-physical systems and whatnot, so probabilistic modelling and analysis techniques will likely play a big part. I will definitely try pinging you and the other Storm devs when things become clearer :)

Also, I'm really glad to hear there's an interest in UX, I feel it's a weak spot of many otherwise excellent formal tools out there.
Loved OMF, I played the shareware version so many times. Eventually got a copy of the full version (since it was still a diskette game iirc so easily copied), I did play all of it but it didn't have the feeling of the shareware version, weirdly enough. Kids interact with things differently.

There was a sequel at one point, a 3D, 3rd person arena melee variant, but it just didn't work imo. A shame, it was a great franchise.
5 crew is a lot for a cargo flight actually. I wonder why there were so many on board.
Iterate Relentlessly
As a result of these copyright prohibitions Muppet Babies is in much more danger of becoming lost media. A lot of the early film media we lost wasn't just the cinematic flops (though we did lose quite a lot of that) but instead films that may have been blockbusters in their time but were owned by very controlling studios. A classic example of this is 1917's Cleopatra which may have been the most expensive film ever shot.
It’s what investment banks do, but it’s not how retail banking works.

Retail banks hold their assets in various forms (central bank reserves, bonds etc.) but can’t really ‘invest’ because they can’t accept the risk.

They make most of their money on lending, but can’t actually “lend deposits” because they are on the wrong side of the balance sheet. The bank levers up capital (money that shareholders have put in as well as retained earnings from previous years) to lend from.

Deposits do count as liquidity and are a fairly inexpensive form of it, which is why banks want you to move money into them and pay interest to encourage you to not transfer them out.
Plugin systems in a lot of software effectively are just dll/so files loaded at runtime, you could even enable reloading them at runtime.

Usually you would want to hot reload the code sections though and allow the application to change the data section which is significantly more intuitive than changing source code to change data.

Edit:

On that note most game engines serialise state to disk, pretty sure it would be easy to just read the state from like a yaml file and update the state if you really don't want to write an interface.

TLDR:
There are significantly easier solutions to "how do I update the value of a variable at runtime" than hooking into the running process and changing the variable in memory.
A curious case here. Which country should he have been deported to?
Gem that searches for unexpected `end` syntax errors
As an investor in crypto, I feel very confident that I am getting what I'm paying for. The basic facts about a coin or token, like how many are supposed to exist, are completely verifiable on some sort of public blockchain. That is the safest possible system.

In contrast, the stock market is a total mystery box as to even how many shares are even being traded with all of the tomfoolery with shares being borrowed and sold short, dark pools, and lots of crazy things that you'd need a decade in finance to even begin to understand.
Would you take the other side of those deals?
Indeed. I'm pretty sure VPN subscriptions had a nice little spike at the end of December in NC.
Meanwhile Rishi Sunak is defending Britain by ... Banning PhD students from bringing their families to the UK?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businesstoday.in/amp/latest...
Although the 900 Abba vs 100 Beatles is not very clear for me, and might not be either for 36% of voters. Even though if I think about it I guess the 900 Abba songs are the total of tracks listened (I don’t think Abba has produced more than 900 tracks), at first glance I read that as: user A likes Abba a lot and spent x hours listening to 900 Abba different tracks, while user B spent the same x hours listening to 100 Beatles different tracks (which is possible for the Beatles).
Which in that case would be an obvious 50/50 for me.
It obviously makes no sense, but well.. the polling is on twitter right?
This exists.

- https://skybrary.aero/articles/runway-awareness-and-advisory...

- https://skybrary.aero/articles/autonomous-runway-incursion-w...
Copyright ought to expire much much sooner than 70 years or whatever if a work is not available to reasonably (annd legally) obtain anymore. Copyrights are a balance between the public good, and allowing creators to make money from their creations, but as soon as they have obviously abandoned that, then no one is served by such an absurdly long copyright period. I suppose in this case, since it could perhaps be considered a derivative work, where the originals (Star Wars, for instance) are still available for viewing reasonably, it’s more complicated, but nonetheless this feels like a travesty, which benefits no one at all.
I could see real problems with plane navigation and even air traffic control. Not that it would mean planes falling from sky... Nuclear plants however... Yeah, no...
In the past six years there was some accidents just in the EU, at least one decapitation happened in the elevator of an hospital what I know. Or in the city were I live, a fail in a badly lubricated brake when an old person was entering (open door) sent the elevator to the top, just a few weeks after passing the monthly -supposed- maintenance service of the manufacturer.

The maintenance seriousness in aviation is superior to an elevator, but even like that, the last human layer decision should not be avoided.

For example, bad behaving sensor feeding a fin balancing algorithm introduced by the manufacturer to avoid the need to redesign an unbalanced plane to accommodate larger motors it was designed for, and pilots unable to make the plane follow their commanding due such algorithm blind decisions priority... has crashed planes.
Yeah. I said “a constant amount to the artist for every stream.” So yes. Per stream.
ZZT was great, it was my first programming experience and the earliest user created content / programming game I can think of; it was always a joy to find a collection of ZZT maps on these disks you'd get with computer magazines.

They were onto something as well, given the success of Fortnite which also has user created levels.
Awesome, these might help.

What I feel like I want is /chat where it still sends the context, but the prompt is maybe changed a little, to be closer to a chatgpt experience.

I haven't dug into the prompt aider is using though, so I could be wrong.

Great tool for refactoring changes though! Keep up the good work.
As someone training more in CS/stats, without formal bio training, can you point out the main items of pseudoscience?

Seems like he's doing the classic "management" tactic of setting targets, measuring progress, and coming up with models to best represent/simplify complex systems.
Interesting that they exist interchangeably in all vending machines, etc in Canada.
I'm not so sure most people know what they're signing up for when opening a bank account. I also don't think banks particularly hide it, but I'd be surprised if the average person realizes that their checking and savings accounts are only IOUs or that money lent out for a mortgage likely didn't exist until they signed closing documents.
Missed the joke.
In their README in the GitHub repository as well as the paper. I opened an issue [0] and it looks like they've updated their README, at least, to reflect that it's not open source.

[0] https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice/issues/16
The One and Six Pagers I have it write based on loose criteria help me refine the criteria and in some cases, uncover methods that would not have been evident otherwise.
I hope they bring back the MegaGames brand and start producing retro DOS games again, that would be cool.
Same with software and products from really controlling industries or research from really controlling academia.

We have lost a lot of human productions because of control, egos and misjudgements.
Re-Founding, ReInventing and the Future of AWS
pkZip - Phil Katz's archive program. pkzip 2.04g was the bees knees for a very long time. That, plus a stack of floppy disks with labels was my version control system for a decade.

Vern Berg(sp?) - LIST.COM - a file viewer, with a hex mode. I ended up writing my own clone, look

TurboPower Software - EDWIN - a wonderful text editor, had the ability to record and run macros.

I used Borland's SkidKick and Turbo Pascal all the time.

I don't remember the name of the image viewing program we all used.
Why You Need Strong Parameters in Rails – Mass Assignment Vulnerability
Instant messaging apps don't need notifications either. It upsets some people at first, but it is for the most part perfectly fine to just check and respond messages in your own preferred frequency.
All 7 seasons are well seeded on the torrents. It's hard for media to become lost these days, but if you want to see a lot of it, you aren't going to do so legally under such a ludicrous IP regime.
The way you conduct the interviews sounds humane and respectful. Thank you for sharing that.

It's interesting how "treat it as real as possible" is the best advice for both parties to have the best possible outcome. As an interviewee I've found that the more divorced from the actual work the interview challenge is, the "spicier" the engagement is overall.

I was part of an org that was having trouble hiring people. To help with this, they decided to obfuscate the stack used because several candidates gave up after trying to use the tool the team (who had all left) settled on ~10yrs ago. "Just don't tell them we use X" was the decision management made. At some point the people left holding the bag will have ask why and you will owe them an explanation of why this wasn't discussed from the beginning.

It took me a while to figure out why I think the way you are doing things is important to me, I hope that makes sense.
Human to human open discussion is superior to computer to computer in the business of flying/navigation.

It might make sense at some point in the future where an autopilot system knows how to taxi, take off, troubleshoot issues by itself during the critical phases of flight and so on.

And like others said, aviation is one of the safest industries on the planet.
Antimacassar
IA Writer discerns between text you write versus pasted from ChatGPT
Those kids don't have money yet. Parents do, advertising goes to where the aging people are.
I think my brother-in-law gave me a free copy of Doom in '93. It turned my gaming world upside-down, and I sent off for the full version and did it again when Doom 2 came out. I was also an early customer for Ultraedit, which I used on personal projects (and at work, against policy) for at least 10 years. Late in the '90s I paid for the QVCS version control system, and later, Enterprise QVCS, which was a multi-user client-server system that I used for personal and consulting projects. Good stuff.
One thing to note is that Mastodon - at least in its current form - is a lot lower intensity than Instagram. We don't have algorithms that try to hunt for content to "maximize engagement". So you're very likely to run out of stuff on there at about the same time as your 5 minutes a day. And the author already knows most of Meta's products are garbage attention sinks.
I hear myspace Tom is living the life.
Yes but I think a soft resistance is still necessary in a society towards language errors otherwise the language becomes too fluid to be usable and understandable. Where to draw the line between information and rudeness is the difficult part.

You don't need to jail or slap someone in the face for using less instead of fewer but you don't want gynecologist to mean oncologist and cancer to mean gonorrhea from one week to another otherwise nobody knows what we are talking about.
> Homo sapiens invented neural networks

Is it just me or did anyone smile at this sentence? The first paragraph sounds like the academic way of saying "we invented huge neural networks but we couldn't understand it".
which country

USA?

https://www.ft.com/content/63125c46-15e0-4d5c-bc51-50de8bbf1... / https://archive.ph/qm2cT

Is crime really on the rise in Germany? [Yes]

https://www.thelocal.de/20230331/fact-check-is-crime-really-...

Shoplifting in the Netherlands increased by over 15% in a year, police data reveals

https://nltimes.nl/2023/12/20/shoplifting-netherlands-increa...

Shoplifting has become such a pain in Spain that supermarkets are locking up their olive oil supplies

https://fortune.com/europe/2023/11/20/shoplifting-spain-supe...

How shoplifting has surged around the world as consumers return to physical shopping

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/322307...
Simple answer: I never thought of it.

But when I think about it, it absolutely makes sense. I'll definitely consider if this should be the default behavior of the month grid in v2.

Thanks a lot for your input!
Temu’s return window also starts from day of delivery.
Gravity Estimation at Small Bodies via Tracking of Hopping Artificial Probes
Hakan: if you are going to go open source just do it now. You have nothing to gain and much to lose by keeping it closed.
The Drew Carey Show suffers from an interesting similar-ish issue, due to music used throughout it. As a result it’s never gotten released past season 1 on DVD and a one-off compilation DVD. No streaming services.
What's fascinating to me is the ongoing "open" movements reverse engineering old executables to make code maintainable. Stuff like openra
I went to the main site of that one, looks like the guy does woodworking for a living or hobby :D
Skyglobe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyglobe

It didn't run speedily on the 286 IBM clone that we had, but it was pretty amazing to me at the time (ca. 1993)
Be very careful that for most people, the first impression of "sounds great" is in reality an "is louder", the loudness wars in audio production have led to less and less significants bits of data being needed to carry music, an objective measure of information loss.
Also I will not get started on hearing loss, but... if this was somewhere else in your body than your ears, what DIY project would you accept there?
Is there a car autopilot system that good on the market that only you know about? And that can replace the driver completely?
Historically, automation has always made society richer and better off as a result.

There are two guys outside of my window at this very moment getting rid of a huge pile of dirt. One is in an excavator, the other in a truck. There’s a bunch of piles that they’ve taken care of today. Two centuries ago this work would’ve taken a dozen people, a few animals of burden, and a lot more time.

Where are the other ten hypothetical people? I don’t know, but chances are they’ve been absorbed by the rest of the economy doing something else worthwhile that they are getting paid for.
It's to allow the user to click on that time to make another event manually. If the user has an event at some time and the event goes all the way to the right, there is nowhere to click to add the new event. With the gap, the user can click there and have the add event modal show up.
They make an ass of u and mptions?
There's a 50% chance that this doctor failed probability
Well, using this logic, every day you have a 50% chance of dying, since you either die or you don't. Or perhaps every second you have a 50% chance of dying.

...obviously this "math" doesn't quite work out.
I had been using Hiew in early 90th on MS-DOS and OS/2. Unfortunately it's still MS-DOS/Windows only thing.
Interesting that some emoji going back to 2020 don't render on my desktop browser. The flags don't show up either (just the two-letter codes).
My objection isn't that the impact of banning electronics during takeoff and landing is unknowable; that's not the main issue with banning car radios, cars, or bare faces either. Instead it's that the impact is too small to be worth the cost.
Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy
I imagine tailwind didn’t exist when they created this. Plus, there are many benefits to this approach vs tailwind; much easier to theme (crucial for fb), easier composition of styles in general and easier refactoring
SVG also has functions for hit testing [1][2] but I have no experience or at least memories of using them. So no idea if they could be useful and performant enough. But given that interactive SVGs might require finding the object under the mouse cursor as it moves, I would expect this to be reasonable performant, but it might of course still be too slow when used while drawing hundreds or thousands of objects.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGGeometry...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGGeometry...
Along the same lines, it turns out to be drastically cheaper to not means-test welfare payments and just hand out money without regard to the financial status of the claimant. That is to say, if the amount of money invested in means-testing and the current welfare system were withdrawn and put instead into a universal basic income, it would be drastically cheaper.

On top of that, but we have a well-grown mound of evidence now that universal basic income isn't just cheaper but also leads to improved socioeconomic status of the lower classes and improved health and decreased stress in communities, pretty much across the board.

But instead of actually implementing that, our government instead focuses on putting out propaganda against "welfare cheats", implementing progressively more punitive means-testing measures, and the argument around UBIs is held in a permastate of "the evidence isn't there yet, we need one more study-" (likely with the hope that the study contradicts the current body of evidence and swings against UBI, no doubt).

The conservative (and the new labour) approach is always to push towards the punitive option, to the point where I wonder if it's a pathology among people who have attended public schooling (if you're reading from the US, I mean private school).

See also:

"Basic income could cut poverty to lowest for 60 years at no net cost, according to new research " [University of York] - https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2022/research/ba...

Estimated cost around 6bn in Wales - https://www.futuregenerations.wales/wp-content/uploads/2021/...
Telemate, the amazing terminal program, with its own multitasking (on my IBM PC 5150) text windowing system. It allowed me to write all my school papers while BBSing.
where does one even get this type of testing / blood work / V02 max / stress testing done?
Do you use a specialized LLM for diagrams?
Did you not live through the iTunes era or something it addresses every one of your points here

I fault mankind for being uncritically thinking to let Spotify win

But then again “mainstream” mankind made Taylor Swift and Kanye West billionaires.
It's wild how poverty and depressed circumstances among lower income people, especially when they see business profits continuing to grow in spite of wages, can lead to crime!
How does it load so fast? It’s like black magic
I share a similar intuition, but am skeptical that my imagination is in the right ballpark of what it will look like 15 years hence.

What do you think programming will be like in 15 years and where is the high-value work by human programmers?
Hill Climb Racing 2
As a non US/Canada based reader reading the article, I had a hard time grokking the article without visuals of how this was pulled off.
I think it’s more that people want to pick and choose what parts of the internet they personally engage with, automating the loathsome-but-necessary parts and leaving the parts they enjoy for themselves.

It’s kind of chasing the internet as it was for many in the late 90s and early 00s, where it wasn’t yet common enough to be a hard requirement for most people, with the bulk of usage being being for leisure or at least entirely voluntary.
I was a very long time user of TextPad as well. I just had to go look it up and am pleasantly surprised it's still being updated. Though, the copyright on their website still says 2020.
> USA?

Oops:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shopli...

> A national lobbying group has retracted its startling estimate that “organized retail crime” was responsible for nearly half the $94.5 billion in store merchandise that disappeared in 2021, a figure that helped amplify claims that the United States was experiencing a nationwide wave of shoplifting.

> In fact, retail theft has been lower this year in most of the country than it was a few years ago, according to police data. Some exceptions, including New York City, exist. But in most major cities, shoplifting incidents have fallen 7 percent since 2019.
How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads
Anyone knows at a deeply practical and technical level how 11Labs achieves the level they do?
https://archive.ph/GGrdC
Was I digging too deeply before?

Was I asking the right questions from the beginning, and if not, can I effectively salvage my work?

Sunk costs disappear into a $20 subscription