skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally it’s not unreasonable to expect a business to care about customer retention… and have them email you before this happens
Interesting to see Levin's zeitgeist spreading (even though considering the amount of podcast and discussions he made explains that too).

I don't know what the biological/medical field thought about single cell and tissue level intelligence before but I found this gap in the usual medical thinking (usually things are either genetic or biochemical/hormonal) quite mind blowing.

Hopefully this results in new opportunities for finer medical therapies.
Sounds like exactly the sort of scenario you'd want them to confirm with something like a photo... the exact thing the original comment is complaining about happening.
I mean, we're nerds and it's a good sci-fi book.
Phones today have higher display resolutions than desktop monitors of the 90s. So table-based layouts would totally fit in mobile-first UX designs.
Good times! I really enjoyed making a 90s version of my startup's landing page:
https://90s.wobaka.com/
George Orwell was a colonist cop who described his subjects as “brutes. The success of 1984 and Animal Farm were largely due to his wife Sonia Brownell promoting them in her job at the British propaganda ministry. He self-described as a “Tory-anarchist” but a detailed review of his life and beliefs leads me to think he was just the former.
China is already number one on the EVs industry, so if we continue going down that route of forced electrification of our cars there's a big chance many of us will be indeed driving Chinese cars going forward. Granted, neither North Korea nor Russia are big in that industry.
No, and ATLAS is dead. BLIS is a systematic evolution of the "Goto" approach.
I'd guess they didn't market it well enough

A palm pilot could do most of what people love iPhones for, but the only people who used them were business freaks and super-nerds
Ah, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that. I will give Eglot another go with this set up!
I just remember making websites using <TABLE WIDTH=100%>, and at some point reading that CSS and using <div>'s was the new, more correct way to do it. I only need a simple personal website for academics, so I still use tables for the layout.
Yeah you try SFTP on Windows FTP thingy then Filezilla too and it obviously fails on both. Plain FTP works but you feel paranoid so upload the zip file of your site via the slow web interface and unzip it on the server.
I think they meant it the other way around. They wanted to talk about abelian groups, and here specifically a cyclic (abelian) group.

It would be silly to talk about a cyclic group that is specifically abelian, all cyclic groups are abelian. But not all abelian groups are cyclic.

They could have kept it implicit, but not everyone might know that fact, so it doesn't really hurt
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of a regular marquee inside a <marquee direction=down behavior=alternate>

Unbelievably the website where I learned how to use these tags is still online:

http://www.funkychickens.com/marqs2.asp
EOL announcement anywhere between 1 month to 1 year of notice.
I think this is a lot more common than one might think. The trend of hiring "Only Seniors" puts a downwards pressure on both engineers and those managing them to focus on titles over pay increases. The engineer gets the title thinking they can leverage it for more pay at a different position, but in reality they end up trapped at their current employer because they are from then on interviewed as a senior level engineer and unable to pass merit by that benchmark. Should they aim for a non senior role, they automatically face negative hiring bias because the hirer assumes (probably accurately) that they will demand more pay for the same role compared to non-senior applicants with the same years of experience.

Strange catch 22 situation where the title promotion actually locks them in where they are for at least another few years.
Get yourself an Oracle cloud freetier. It's free and you can get 2x 1Ram1CPU x86 VM's and any combination of 24Ram4CPU arm64 VM's. There is also a bunch of other resources that you get access to. Be aware of VM reclamation, but it is easy to work around it.

More here: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
1) Maybe in the future, not today.

2) India like EU loves its regulations and compared to EU it is bureaucratic hellscape running on bribes.
>I live in a village of hundreds. We live gregariously and peacefully. But how about those people living in cities whose populations exceed the entire protohuman population?

I live in a city of almost nine million. Which far exceeds such a population, and not of proto-humans, but of fully modern ones (assuming the Toba Catastrophe Theory[0] is correct). As such, it's a pretty good bet that those few thousand who survived such a bottleneck 50-75k years ago lived similar lives (albeit with less technology) as we do today.

And while we do have some issues with anti-social behavior (which, I'm sure, is present in your village on a much smaller scale -- and only because it's a much smaller population) in my city of almost nine million, on the whole people are cooperative, supportive and pro-social.

If you don't like cities, that's fine -- don't live in one. But while Dunbar's Number[1] isn't applicable in my city, for the most part, we live pretty good lives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
Macromedia Fireworks will slice it for you.
emacsclient -ca ''

Connect to the daemon if it’s running, start it if it’s not.

alias emacs="emacsclient -ca ''"
JSON - yes, though some would like it nailed down harder.
I like this general concept.
How about creating Anki decks automatically?
I don't know, my favorite is Farley and Sandler, Spade, Myers, Carvey, etc .. but the one with the ghost busters cast was probably the best there were a ton of comedy greats back then. I was in my 20s when will Ferrell hit and he and the cast since were never that rememberable, I think Tina fey is probably the acception, she's awesome in most things I've seen her.
Haha whoops, thanks! That was a silly one!
Blindsight. One of the most interesting sci-fi stories I found impossible to get into and enjoy due to the author's dense and obtuse prose. I have a squirrel brain, so maybe it's just me.

I just wish one day someone will be able to turn it in a video game or a movie so I can understand how alien those aliens really are.
"Buy Viagra today CHEAP!"
Worst case scenario is perhaps being forced on the new version and not being able to keep using the old one even though the new version breaks your workflow.
As AI becomes viable business, OpenAI becomes less and less open.

Since open source has been a successful business model in software, we might see another closed vs open battle in AI: Facebook and Google publish their models open source now.
I would say it depends on how long the bill is not payed. I wouldn't expect them to remove everything when a payment is late for a month, for example. But if not payed for more than 6 months, then it is understandable.
What novel ideas did you see here? To me this looks like a standard 16-way compressed trie. The node encoding is quite natural if you consider the limitation of 64M entries (which is really not a lot). Did I miss something?
I don't think that's ever happened in a movie, has it?
One thing I miss from the 90s are the built in user/password dialog that enabled me to easily remember passwords.

It still exists, but most sites prefer to use their own HTML based logins because it "looks ugly".

Imagine if sites used the built in dialog; We would have a much more secure web. We would not have a need for dedicated password managers and would probably have found a low effort way of integrating auto generated passwords.
It's a mistake to claim that Altman has/had universal support in here. I'm neutral towards him for example, and in all this firing minidrama the only thing I was interested in was to learn the motives of his firing.
127 days: The anatomy of a Boeing quality failure
I'm guessing that OP is stating that the BEAM is a more preferable VM to that of the JVM, and that they prefer a Lisp over Erlang/Elixir.
>JSS is not currently used to make determinations about artistry, and it still isn’t considered ready to use on certain complex routine components, like beam connections and dance elements on floor; the tech just isn’t there yet

So at what point does a sensor of some kind that does some computation become 'AI'? Is this just marketing buzzword bandwagoning?
You can very roughly estimate the lower bound pretty easily, by assuming a meteorite to be roughly spherical and ballparking the drag coefficient. So its volume = 4/3 * pi * r^3. Its surface area = 4 * pi * r^2. We can assume half of its surface area is its cross section. So just change the 4 to a 2 above to get the cross sectional area. Meteors generally have a density up to around the 8000 kg/m^3 range. So now we have everything we need to calculate terminal velocity using a calculator. [1]

for a 1m meteorite:

mass = 4/3 * pi * 0.5^3 * 8000 = 4188 kg

area = 2 * pi * 0.5^3 = 0.78 m

The defaults for density and drag coefficient are fine enough. And we get a result of at least 500m/s, assuming air resistance is sufficient to slow it down to terminal velocity. The exact number will vary quite a lot - especially as this is for a whole meter sized meteorite that doesn't disintegrate, but this is at least a reasonable ballpark. So the tl/dr would be: more like a bullet, but with somewhere around 140,000 times the kinetic energy, for a 1m meteorite.

[1] - https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/terminal-velocity...
The little story about the alien at the beginning was interesting. It might be a way of rephrasing information theory as a limit on “measure-ability”.

I remember in high school physics realizing that an in-elastic rod would not be possible, because it would allow faster than light communication. There’s probably something to that effect that already exists that I don’t know about regarding information theory, and how you can’t store more information than is allowed by converting the problem into one of measurement rather than compression.

It might even say something about how small matter is allowed to be.

If you increase the number of sticks the alien is allowed to have, then his task becomes significantly easier. So the question could be rephrased as “what are the fewest sticks the alien could use to complete his task of encoding n bits representing m books”.

Fewer sticks than that would violate this law of measurement (I don’t know if that actually exists but it seems like it) and more than that is wasteful.

At any rate, for each bit of information you’re required to measure with one order of magnitude of precision better, so it’s clearly impossible.
It's annoying that other than the default example - one can't continue without 'logging in'
Frames are still used as underlying microfrontend technology with surprising success. Theory available at https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html#Run-t... and an implementation at https://luigi-project.io.
I assume that the pieces get enough time to decelerate to terminal velocity after its fragmentation and explosion in the upper atmosphere. If so, it would be like rocks falling from a great height - not supersonic, but you wouldn't want to get hit by one.

One nitpick here - meteors aren't called meteorites until they hit the surface.
I dunno, rogue One is actually my favorite now. I also really like the series that goes with. rotj I also loved but I was 4 when it came out and my favorite scene is like the first 20 minutes when they save han.
Yepyep - but my question is: what's the spiel? What do these companies get "in exchange for" becoming open-source? What's the incentive?
>1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements.

HN was launched February 2007 and uses <TABLE> and 1x1 gif to set the indentation level of comments.

<table border='0'> <tr> <td class='ind' indent='0'>
<img src="s.gif" height="1" width="0"></td><td valign="top" class="votelinks">
<table border='0'> <tr> <td class='ind' indent='1'>
<img src="s.gif" height="1" width="40"></td><td valign="top" class="votelinks">
<img src="s.gif" height="1" width="80"></td><td valign="top" class="votelinks">
<img src="s.gif" height="1" width="120"></td><td valign="top" class="votelinks">

The 1x1 s.gif is also used on the front page of stories at the bottom of the page to add spacing above the orange divider line:

<tr><td><img src="s.gif" height="10" width="0"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"><tr><td bgcolor="#ff6600"></td></tr></table><br>
I remember some TED guy talked about consciousness being basic substance around us, and the brain just concentrates them to make it significant.
One possibility at least is that "the experience" is not something that really happens. That is, it's possible that we don't actually "feel" anything, and our impression that we are is just the story that our self-model comes up to explain (and help predict) our reactions to ourselves. Just like our world model has ideas like "the rock wants to fall down", it's possible that our self-model does too.

We already know that our self-model can be entirely wrong about our feelings. People with paralyzed or even missing limbs often believe that they just don't want to move that limb at first. So, they think they are having one experience, but they are wrong about their own internal experience: in fact, they are not moving that limb because they can't. And there are many other similar examples of people being wrong about their own intenal experiences, typically but not exclusively because of some illness.

So, it's possible that our internal experiences are in fact only a model in which one part of our brain interprets the actions of other parts of our brain, often retroactively.

Note: I'm not claiming this is the truth or silly things like "if you believe in science you have to believe this". It's just another cocktail philosopher's story of what consciousness might be. Other stories are just as plausible, and just as consistent with the little we do know in this area.
>(...) says FIG’s Steve Butcher, who previously served as sport director for the organization and is now the president of the element-recognition working group for Fujitsu, the company that developed the AI."

Oh boy, considering the Horizon debacle going on in the UK, I can expect a similar story in Olympic gymnastics in the near future...
I had a trinitron in the 90s and absolutely loved it. I would love to get another one, but it’s quite pricey and I’m worried about keeping it running.
> a compiled collection of data from thousands of previous breaches
Well, actually, there was only a short time, when more than one had been widely used.
Something like Mosaic - Netscape - IE - Mozilla/Firefox/The Browser Now Known As Vivaldi/... - Chrome
My favorite workflow was to make a totally l33t render with 3dsmax, put it in Photoshop to draw UI buttons, and then use Imageready to slice it and autogenerate the html slices and maps. Instant fancy website that made me a cool kid as far as I was concerned
If I was being paranoid, Id say this is ground softening/ giving cover for, the councils to sell off allotment land, to make up for shortfalls in their budgets.

Allotments are chunks of land set aside for housholds to grow their own fruit and veg. Its generally an older gen (plus some younger woke) that use them, so nobody who the telegraph readers will care about.
The councils have had a very hard time of it from the party in power due to many factors, and some are on the verge of bankruptcy. [1]

So being able to sell land that is genrally in walking distance to other residental zones to devlopers would be a welcome shot of cash.
With the thin justification of "Its better for the enviroment" to keep most the would be defenders busy arguing if it is, or isnt, untill the deals are done, and they are lost.

It almost funny when the UK also has a general, saying that "Britain must train citizen army" [2], and allotments were promoted so the UK could feed itself when being blockaded. [3]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/06/english-town...
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68086188
[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/9996180/H...
Latest OpenAI Patent
OpenAI have just published a patent which involves generating different code solutions , and then verifying one of those solutions against the natural language description and issuing that solution to the user. At least , so far as I can make out .
seems to me that this would mean that the code interpreter we use in ChatGPT Plus would be much much more reliable.
Am I way off base ? If so what’s the correct interpretation ?
Mine says it’s the drum. Whatever that is.

Haven’t replaced it in 10 years, haven’t reached the limit yet ;)
My parents wanted a video doorbell after a neighbor had a break-in. I set them up with a Unifi doorbell and their least expensive recording/console device - the upfront cost is high (~$500, plus more time configuring and researching everything)

But now that it is set up there are no subscription fees, the data is local, and I can manage the cameras and their Unifi accounts remotely if they need anything. It’s been a great experience and I’m planning to gradually add one or two additional cameras.
If you haven't read any Douglas Hofstadter, do so at the earliest opportunity.
I agree with most you have to say, personally I think the only movie that really holds weight since Disney took over is rogue One. andor is a good watch too. the mandalorian is great as well.
(2014)

so while "technically" flex was available at the time it wasn't really widespread yet.
I wonder if anyone has calculated a range of body sizes which maximise intelligence and the ability to exploit resources of their planet.

Could a spider-sized human intelligence build a rocket to go to the moon? Would it have been easier to develop our civilization if we had been as large as a whale?

Maybe the universe is teeming with life a little too large or too small to build an ultra-technologic culture, or space travel. Imagine how long it would have taken us just to explore the Earth if we had been spider-sized, with spider legs and spider eyes.
Products making money from browser extensions aren't traditionally thought of as browser extensions. 1password, bitwarden, and others are a good example. These are password managers, but the most common way of using them is via an extension.
I'm glad the fix is easy, but the web has always been notorious for garbage HTML. You'll go farther with this if you adopt an attitude that you can handle low-quality content vs. getting defensive about someone finding a new edge case that needs to be handled.
React-Native-Heap-Profiler
Quickly take heap profiles on Hermes. More flexible and reliable than the current chrome devtools integration.
I know this won't feel satisfactory, but there's nobody else and nothing else that you could be. Not even in principle. Your consciousness is an unique product of your brain's labor. Think of it not from the perspective of your consciousness (as if it could up and change bodies), but of your body. What other consciousness could "this body" have? No other than you.
Buddhism claims that our feeling of separation (and thus the multiplicity of subjective experiences) is an illusion. But I never really understood why.

My hunch is that this is related to the question of why we are experiencing this particular moment in time and not another one in the past or in the future, is related. If you believe in the many words interpretation of quantum mechanics, one can also say why I’m experiencing this particular branch.
Typically a programming language (& family) is a bit more than token syntax. You could write any programming language in prefix notation.

C is more than foo{bar}.

A programming language has dimensions like: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, implementations, standards, practice, tools, social/community, libraries, code, ...
Sorry to hear that your UC is hard to live with.

I was diagnosed nearly 4 years ago during my first flare, after I had a COVID-like illness.

I've been taking mesalazine ever since, and am grateful every day for another day without symptoms. I take mesalazine tablets daily, and mesalazine enema twice a week. (The latter is really not a big deal, once you've got used to it, and is apparently very effective at preventing flares. I started off doing them every day, and very slowly over the two years reduced to twice per week, which I can tolerate.)

I think I'll continue taking medication indefinitely, as for me it is not worth the risk coming off it.
> Which means every mosque or church that was built on top of a demolished temple stands as a monument to colonization and conquest of a people and a festering wound on the face of the nation.

Not neccessarily, most nations in Europe converted to Christianity by their own accord, and not by colonization or conquest.
Ask HN: Best way to do scoped commands in a CLI app
I'm building a CLI and want to allow commands to be scoped to a project.

I'm trying to decide between:

A. `blah edit foo` (familiar...like brew)

B. `blah foo edit` (least typing...but project name could clash with command names)

C. `blah project foo edit` (explicit...like RESTful paths)

D. `blah --project=foo edit`

E. `blah project foo --edit`

Wondering if there was any guidance on this from the UNIX people. Perhaps scoping should be done using the file system. `cd path/to/project && blah edit`. Like git does with `git --cwd=path/to/project`. Maybe a virtual FS could even be used. Then you wouldn't have to continuously type in the scope with each command. Interesting thinking about how to maintain state in the terminal...thinking about how Python's virtual env bin/activate modifies the shell.

EDIT: Found an interesting guide here: https://clig.dev/#subcommands

> Either `noun verb` or `verb noun` ordering works, but `noun verb` seems to be more common.
AI will check you're old enough to buy alcohol
React-Native-Fast-Trie
Fast and memory-efficient implementation of a trie for react-native apps.
Still got my “Webmaster” business cards from the late 90s. No one will ever understand how “cool” it was to have that title back then. Now even I cringe when looking at them but so many good memories.
> we'll pay you for a while and if this works out your options will be your reward for sticking around

If it was at least as you describe, that'd be one thing, but not even that is guaranteed. At the time an exit event actually does happen, you might've been diluted out of existence.

I've personally been fucked out of shares once already. It's much, much worse than a lottery ticket. It's basically a dream.
No, it was from around the launch of meteora iirc.

I tried to look it up, but the only copy that have a bearing resemblance to what I remember doesn't load very well as many files seem to be missing. And, the snapshots after that one just keep returning a 302 error :/
Is "Tory" in your mind just this vast, vague ocean, with sea monsters and dragons scribbled in the corners, that lies to the right of wherever you are?

The man fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil war, for goodness sake. How can he be a Tory? Just because socialists 90 years ago had very different social sensibilities to those of today, does not mean you can suddenly decide they were conservatives.

(Not sure how detailed your review was, but he abandoned the "Tory Anarchist" label after his experiences in Spain in the 30s, and before his socialist apologist books that made him so famous).
Yeah, I was thinking of games too, where open source is still extremely uncommon. I guess that this supports the article's argument as a counter-example : unless this is a game that you are exceptionally fond of, you are not going to care about its maintenance.