skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook release engineering famously kept riskiness scores for each developer and used that as a signal for whether that developer's changes got deployed or instead received extra scrutiny based on a history of broken deployments.
I’ll repeat: the obvious solution to avoid this (you are describing a low-trust society) is to show kindness.

It is simply untrue that the US is already a low-trust society, so yes it is obviously the correct solution to continue to show kindness.
I'd be curious to try that for beating the terrible resumé screening tools that so many company seem to be using these days.
What I'm most interested in is what an LLM trained on something specific like this (even though chess, arguably, isn't super specific) has to say in human words about their strategies and moves, especially with some kind of higher order language.

And the reverse, can a human situation be expressed as a chessboard presented with a move?
> at work one our cute “pretty plastic people” girls

What does this mean?
I’ve received so many of these scam calls from fake authorities that I used to just hang up (now I don’t answer calls ever). One time I didn’t hang up because something felt weird. Turned out it was legit and I owed a $20 traffic ticket from years ago. I’m pretty certain it wasn’t a scam, maybe it was.
Ok so essentially an easy to host activeadmin (rails library). I think the single executable that runs on every os makes it very interesting for usecases where data is generated into a static site
Especially knowing that it's double-dipping by the podcaster.
You are completely right and your description of the situation screams social media as the root cause of difference between then and now. Maybe 'social media' in a generic sense where any discussion board counts.
Nah man, you doubled down on justifying your pathological empathy to your friend, so it's well deserved that he doesn't talk to you anymore. You are all in for yet another round of lessons from the global south, as you continue to enable mass migration, and this time it's not just petty crime they're committing. I have zero empathy for the likes of you, and the way you defend your bleeding-heart ways: it isn't just by doing what's supposedly virtuous but also by pontificating. This is a prime example of the submissive, whiny millennial from a developed country (or a tier 2 one like where I live) who thinks they have the moral high ground.
Looks like there's a new edition in the works to cover C23. That could be useful indeed.
Arpanet
> white settlers have displaced and cleansed native americans from countless sacred places here on earth.

Same as they did to each other.
An illusory choice...

"Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will?" - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-quantum-mech...
yeah, the 68000 is fantastic! but i think the arm has all the creature comforts of the 68000 and more (though not of the 68020)
Universities are full of smart people, who know what works best for them. I doubt they would ignore extremely valuable work.
Wait until you find out how much exposure you get by being outside in the sunlight surrounded by cell phone towers.
https://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=9034

External power for the cameras is quite neat.

edit: In case anyone is curious, for battery replacements the term is (dual) "battery eliminator"
I did stumble upon an extension where it's one of the advertised features, but haven't tested it

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=trunkflo...
That applies to the AI example as well, just add a mention of China.
This is whats stupid about linux. Every time someone raises a specific issue , someone invariably suggests X or Y distro, which may fix that one thing, but break other 5. It seems I'd need to n install 5 different distros in my Dell Latitude to have Bluetooth, Sleep, Webcam, hibernation and fingerprint all working correctly. And somehow use one or the other depending of what breakage can I stand at the time.
You should've known how to build a non-causal system
It's also weird to use a football field as a unit of length not area.
> But at least that’s engineering incompetence instead of government overreach.

This is incorrect. Many states have laws specifically encouraging ID scanning: https://idscan.net/us-id-scanning-laws/
> Apple no longer understands that good docs is a competitive advantage.

Apple's competitive advantage is the rock-solid, durable hardware (compared to what's considered "acceptable" in the Windows world) and the lock-in effect of things like the App Store and its customer base, iMessage and Find My.

Apple doesn't need to attract developers any more, and so the documentation gets little love.
Ask HN: Any engineers from Google map team?
I need help with a research project pertaining to education. I will be grateful if we can connect.
Meanwhile, here are the Haiku docs for BFilePanel (thanks BeInc for great docs). Who said C++ was hard to use?

https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/BFilePanel_Overv...
Coastal erosion happens all the time. And yes, it's either covered under property insurance or your house is uninsurable, depending on the known risk when you buy/renew the insurance.
I had Mu-Lisp for myfirst computer, an Osborne-1, that came with a copy of Eliza.

You may find the original here:

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/commonly-known-el...
I am way more interested in how you gave up $800,000+ a year to do software engineering.
I seem to recall early Windows using mouse movement, to the point where lack thereof would block if entropy was exhausted. Then other things like network rx timing was added to the mix. But what's a system to do in the absence of all such physical inputs?
Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, Stratcom Chief Says
There is an amazing one using plastic plumbing pipes still on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns3jGFbJvXI
Oh I misread. I'm of course aware of Crostini, I thought you meant that it would be easy to install Ubuntu for real.
It was not the number of instructions in the VAX ISA, it was their complexity and the multiple indirection level addressing modes.

Some of the instructions are truly mind-boggling even by today's complexity standards, e.g. queue operations (four! – INSQHI, INSQTI, REMQHI and REMQTI), polynominal evaluation (POLYx), index computation, CRC calculation via an optionally supplied polynominal table (CRC), a comprehensive set of character operations, operations on packed numbers and others. The VAX-11 instruction comes with examples in a high-level programming language (COBOL, FORTRAN or PL/1) and how that translates into the VAX-11 instructions, e.g.:

COBOL:

01 A-ARRAY.
02 A PIC X(10) OCCURS 15 TIMES.

01 B PIC X(10).
MOVE A(I) TO B.

VAX-11 assembly:

INDEX I, #1, #15, #10, #0, R0
MOVC3 #10, A-10[R0], B

Or, the bitwise use of INDEX:

PL/1:

DCL A(-3:10) BIT (5);
A(I) = 1;

VAX-11 assembly:

INDEX I, #-3, #10, #5, #3, R0
INSV #1, R0, #5, A ; Assumes A is byte aligned
How can one initiate involvement in open source contribution?
I have been in the software engineering field for over four years, yet I haven't contributed to any open-source platforms. With the AI field expanding and numerous open-source opportunities emerging, how can I begin contributing?

Where should I look or what criteria should I consider when seeking places to contribute code?
100%

I put the query in the top of the page into chatGPT with the same requirements (Mac OS, in swift) and I got back detailed explanations, sample code, and basically all the writer was looking for.

Not great that OpenAI is serving as better docs than apple’s own, but at least there is an alternative.
Yeah, the discussion of classical conditioning led me to the same sort of conclusion. The fact that cerebelum has been growing faster in human like primates as a percentage of our already larger brains, well, I can't help but think that all our social reactions, drives, and complex needs are essentially some kind of cooption of this FPGA for optimization purposes. Like cerebrum does training and cerebelum et al do evaluation.
I always assumed ANN simply is a universal and learnable function approximator. That is, there is no direct equivalent of classical conditioning. Only data in, expected output pairs
Funny, but to be clear, the actual practical advice is to call the police department and verify it. That's what the woman in the article did, and it most likely saved her life.
> I do think that history has treated Mr. Armstrong unfairly for the essential act of his cheating.

> To be sure, Mr. Armstrong brought much of his disparate treatment on himself.

Perhaps history, but I think modernity has been far too kind to Mr. Armstrong. I'm floored that Lance Armstrong is still given a degree of celebrity and room as a public figure, and still more that he can make money off of that. That his celebrity and accolades were obtained fraudulently and all the while he openly and literally tried to destroy the lives and reputations of those who said as much stand in stark contrast to the space he is given today.
George Lucas in Love – short movie – Star Wars [video]
How much can the "crud operations page" can be customized?
Reminds me of XKCD's alternative Apollo speeches: https://xkcd.com/1484/
If you're going to pick one unit for unambiguous measurements for most day-to-day use, you could do a lot worse than mm.
There is at least one fishery port that had just become a breakwater built on land. Insane.

1: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/fdc126664613350e8448eed52c...
To avoid any confusion, it’s 138 bald eagles
Of course. My mistake.
I chose a simple math equation that should almost assuredly be in a dataset of 1 trillion tokens exactly to check its basic pattern matching skills. The token "10" and "20" are even in its hardcoded vocabulary set. I think GPT-4 might be exceeding HN discourse on ML at this point.
If you ask to see their badge and they show you a metal one it's probably a scammer, most real cops these days carry the plastic ones you can get at a Halloween store because budget cuts. IANAL etc etc
Currently wading through WinRT, and all things look good compared to the WinRT experience.

Layers of false layers of false layers of false laysers ... until you get to, pointer.

HorribleRunOnNameLandOfNoEnd::ThatGoesForeverOffThePageOnEverySingleFunctionCall::WithMassiveChainsThatCompletelyOverwhelmTheirOwnIDE::AndMakeYouTrailYourVisionAcrossMassiveGulfsOfTimeAndSpace::ToFind( int* ptr )

You grab some command line example off the web that seems kind of simple and get:

ExternalDependencies[7777]:

1: _msvc_bit_utils.hpp

1000: DirectXMath.h (?? it's not a graphics app)

2000: joystickapi.h (?? same. totally confused)

3000: processtopologyapi.h (?? we're doing topology calcs?)

4000: windows.devices.smartcards.0.h (?? not a smartcard app)

5000: xpolymorphic_allocator.h

And in using the IDE for a week or so, I've already found so many bugs I don't know what to do. Functions are perpetually listed broken because of an array upfield slightly wrong. It seems compelled to format my code the absolutely worst way available at any given time. It would be better to simply turn off formatting. And ... their example broke. Inside of a bag maze I had no interest in navigating.
what's up with the rumor that adobe doesn't install on ltsc?
They do have graphite in them (see comment from photochemsyn).
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901158 [PDF]
Fully automatic ones do exist, but its generally not done to not risk damage to the books. And without ocr of page numbers you always risked missing pages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvM-tjrS2-U

That said, a lot of automation processes in place do destroy the book by cutting the spine and scanning it.
I liked WordPad. It was a nice middle ground. Word is so bloated and feature rich that getting started was a faff. WordPad had enough formatting to be useful.

A bit like the Markdown of it's time.
They aren't taking human remains up there for scientific purposes, it's not any-ashes-will-do, they're taking specific human remains up there because that's what either the dead person asked for or some alive person wants to do with them, and more precisely because they are being paid to.

Nothing's gonna be learned here, it's a vanity project, it's entirely just the idea that "we should do something special" with dead people beyond what is strictly necessary from a public health stand point.
It would be a useful analogy for someone intricately familiar with computers but who was only sort of vaguely familiar with the concept of eating, has thought about houses only on occasion, and knows about refrigerators only insofar as they’re a food-related thing inside a house.
Really surprising the handhelds had such a small market share for their entire existence. For a while there, gameboy color/advanced/DS were all the rage among younger kids.
> My hypothesis is that in the old days, technical writers on teams would lead the docs effort, but today’s culture may have many teams with only developers, and those developers are primarily interested in shipping code, not docs.

And writing good documentation involves a fair bit of QA and remediation effort as well - you don't want your consumers to yell at clouds "why is the stuff in the official documentation not working", so the writers should actually go and test stuff themselves to see if the docs are actually still valid.

This is what permanently burned my relations with Openstack - half the stuff in the docs was broken when I tried it, either from old age or never being tested out of Redhat.
Thanks for sharing this! It looks very powerful, but I'm having a hard time working out how to use it:

1. When I open the "Instructions" tab, I see dark text on a dark background, which is almost unreadable. (This is in a Chrome-based browser.)

2. The mixture of Chinese and English makes the interface harder to scan. You can have the app detect the browser's language and show just one language. You could also add a language switch at the top of the UI.

To detect the browser's language: on the client-side you can do this by looking at the navigator.language property (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/l... ), and on the server-side you can check the Accept-Language header ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac... )
Is it unintuitive?

The concept of diminishing returns applies to everything any living thing does. I think it's very natural, even in the 'our brains are wired for this' sense.
I had a similar problem with needing a more powerful computer but not wanting to idle it all day long. The desktop however supported Wake on Lan, and the router stays on 24/7 anyways. So I ended up configuring SSH and software to send the magic packet on the router, and then sleeping the desktop. SSH in, send the wake up packet, then remote into the desktop. Put it back to sleep when I was done.

There's still some quirks. You can't wake the desktop from a shutdown state, only a sleep state so you have to be a little careful only to put the desktop to sleep. But worked remarkable well and didn't require any additional hardware at least for me.

The data transfer portion I don't know if I can offer any good ideas for you. My workflow was to treat the desktop as the primary workstation most of the time.

Be curious to hear your experience with eGPU as well.
Gigantic asterisk since this is just a general impression but I think that cognitive science and as a result ML have a huge problem coming to terms. Precise terminology seems like it’s plagued these fields since the beginning. Strong AI, weak AI, AGI, cognition, consciousness vs wakefulness, what are the essential features of consciousness?

As a result of this, you can read about AGI and think authors are debating whether a system is an AGI or a proto-AGI but they’re actually debating where the line is drawn.

Taking a page from Philosophy in the Flesh, I think that human reasoning and cognition are intrinsically related to the body—like even metaphor is inherently body and environment related. Have we really considered what the human mind would act like completely disembodied? Is language on its own really the right context for AGI to be born in?
There is a UK company that makes vacuum cleaners under the brand of Vax. They suck well, indeed, although they do not last due to the atrocious build quality – I had one years ago (granted, I had to pay homage and buy a Vax vacuum cleaner), and it fell apart 2 years later.
Oh, good, we're citing Jordan Peterson now.
It is always funny to see brain metaphors morph to resemble our current stage of technological development, as the years go by. First it was anima, or hydraulic analogies of spirits and fluid moving through the body. Then it was clocks, the mechanistic processes of the brain. And so on and so on until today we metaphorize the brain to be like computer hardware. In vogue as well is comparing it to neural networks, due to the influence of machine learning and AI today. I wonder what metaphors we will come up with next.

http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/w12/philneuro/metaphorsan...
Did you also read the comment by Steve Byrens with his own theory on what the Cerebellum does, and the author's reply of "seems right" ?!
I mean, the fact that they even had to use "football" fields as a measure of size was obviously an American thing! It's common to hear that on the news here. The other day there was news about a hole the size of a "fridge" on a street...

The lengths Americans go to avoid the metric system :)
Git Tower for Mac works great for this
In both cases a central safety effort seems nearly impossible. E.g. trying to enforce international AI risk cooperation via air strikes against data centers [1] can easily be avoided by defecting countries by building supercomputers underground.

With the moon bugs this wasn't a big problem, as they were so unlikely. But for AI the risk seems quite large to me.

[1] https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
Edge device that is communicating with web clients on a network would be my guess. People use WebRTC (mainly the Go library though) to create Remote Desktop implementations. Ex: https://github.com/imtiyazs/webrtc-remote-desktop
> What signals cause rewiring of the cerebellum?

Any signal, that's the point. The cerebellum learns the patterns of signals involved in motor control.

This is why you train your skills by doing the correct movement over and over again. Once the cerebellum has adjusted to the correct motor signal patterns the correct movement will become effortless.
Apple doesn’t really have a social media policy. Their default go-to is “don’t”.
It depends what the fundamental operations are in your context.

There are different types of map that we call "X homomorphism" for different types of algebraic structure X (groups, rings, fields, vector spaces, modules, algebras, etc). In an abstract algebra course you'd probably first encounter the definition of a 'group homomorphism' (preserves the group's multiplication operation, whatever that is: f(x*y) = f(x)*f(y)), and then a separate definition of a 'ring homomorphism' (preserves the ring's addition and multiplication, which are the two operations you have on a ring - f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y) and f(xy) = f(x)f(y)), etc. The definitions are similar, but they are distinct: a group homomorphism is between groups, a ring homomorphism is between rings, etc. (There's also a more formal sense in which they're examples of the same thing, you'd look into category theory for more on that.)

So what's going on in your example? Well, you could define a simple type of algebraic structure where, for any instances of that structure, you can only ask the question "is x positive" for one of its elements x and get a yes or no answer, and then define 'homomorphisms' between such structures as maps that take 'positive' elements of the source space to 'positive' elements of the destination space (and vice versa). But I'm not sure you'd really be able to use it for much. (On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphism#Definition, that'd correspond to having exactly one unary operation μ(x) = is_positive(x) and no other operations, not even addition.)
You didn’t give a coherent premise, just this wild tangent.
Great! I only have questions once a year and this is prefect for me!
Although I don't like it, I often use WordPad on Windows machines because there is a bug in Notepad. If you have Notepad open with word-wrap on, it will insert line breaks into newly edited lines where they wrap on the screen. When I have to quickly edit and save a text file on some random Windows machine, I use WordPad to avoid polluting the file with out of place line breaks.
I did this for 3 years and reluctantly got a smartphone again after service / voice issues on my dumbphone. Critically, my dumb phone had no browser at all but could hotspot. I would bring my laptop if I knew I needed connectivity. The phone could only do phone calls and SMS/MMS.

I think the long period of actual inability to use apps was extremely helpful in breaking the habit. When I got a smartphone again I immediately uninstalled/disabled all apps including the browser and have had no desire to enable them. It's effectively a dumbphone but with hardware/software that is reliable and a good camera.

It was inconvenient but I came to appreciate it even the inconveniences for the reconnection with the world. For example, I planned a motorcycle route and printed/memorized the directions. It made the trip more enjoyable using my navigation skills and not hearing a a digital voice giving me directions.

I used a Jethro SC490 for those that are interested, it lasted a few years and a replacement battery is cheap.
Clicked link above. Went to site that pointed to me iOS app. Downloaded. Tried to sign in, but I have to register. It sent me an email verification link, which I clicked. Got to a web page that had a button to open the app again. Which I did. And was taken back to the sign in/sign up form. Can't get past that.
I think the only use I've ever had for it was for reading some rtf licenses and documents, before connecting the computer to internet and installing something better.

Actually as others said, since it's simply a Rich Edit wrapper they could just leave it; at least they could leave a view-only version, although the editing features are in all likelihood equally simple.

Any vulnerability it might have is probably present in the controls themselves rather than its code.
If each ID has its own signature, the signature can be used to uniquely identify the ID.
Also, recently in the Atlantic: Why Parents Struggle So Much in the World’s Richest Country

Gift link:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/01/america-f...
Yeah that's the thing about remote work I hate the most. It's so dry. To talk about anything remotely personal or spicy you have to be face to face at the cafe or something.

There are a few coworkers who come in to the coworking space with me and we talk about all kinds of things and get to know each other really well. No one does this on Teams/Slack. Not being able to assess the vibe of the room and having everything permanently logged just kills any personality.
I think if America went metric it would be a boon for the economy and trade.

Buying American tools is such a pain in the ass, for example.
If you use C++ like an assembler, then it's not complicated. You only use functions, loops, arrays and structs. And GOTOs.

Congratulations you now have replicated what an assembler can do, but it has become much easier (you don't have to remember details of the architecture, memory layout, etc.)

But C++ puts a lot of syntactical sugar (abstractions) on top that, if you learn and understand them, can help you write even more concise and expressive code. This is where complexity comes in. Higher abstraction brings complexity. Whether that is good or bad depends on your knowledge of the language/concepts.