skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrible attitude.

“Hey, our software works and is certified but it’s ancient and no one knows how to maintain it. If was written 30 years ago on a version of windows that doesn’t even support the internet. We need to upgrade and recertify”. This is an easy argument.
> our current way of thinking is taking us nowhere.

What some people are doing is obstructing us from going anywhere. We need to stop acting helpless, stand up for what we believe, fight (peacefully), stop the post-truth nonsense that supports these people, and vote them out of office.

> All human activities, in different degrees, contribute to climate change.

It's kinda true, because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics (and ignoring activities that actively reduce climate change, like installing insulation or voting certain people out of office), but meaningless. Riding a bike and riding a private jet both contribute to climate change, but that's a pointless statement.

> Say that you bike to the office everyday. You enjoy your commute, you never develop a heart condition, and in the course of your long prosperous life you have three kids and nine grandchildren, own several dogs and get a bigger house. In other words, your climate footprint all of the sudden is greater than if you had used a polluting car and died of a heart attack when you turned forty.

That's restating the Second Law, in a sense. But we can do all those things, and still prevent climate change by using different technologies.

> We have the knowledge, the technology and the means to live in domes in the vast deserts of this planet, to go to the moon or to live in space habitats anywhere in the solar system.

What do you conclude from that?
From the HN guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
The worst thing is their insistence on whatever swipe touch poke gesture garbage that permeates the whole WatchOS and WatchApps ecosystem.

Useless useless useless, and Apple is martyred and married to it. (can't enter a PIN without the touch screen, can't ask app developers to rewrite apps to be button-focused or button-primary, can't _ever_ introduce something that is less capable, or less pretty than their existing overcomplicated mess)

I use to love being able to skip to the next track while taking a shower from my pebble because it used these things called BuTtOnS, a long lost technology that allows you to reliable perform a limited set of actions while on the go and without looking.
No I meant it seriously. It's clear, even if it takes a bit more space. And it's accessible whereas something like color changes on an icon are not.
Everything is easier than people make it out to be. Especially for skilled engineers.
So basically his answer is “No, and anyone who says you can is lying to get funding.”
Two-faced AI language models learn to hide deception
The measurements of the expansion of the universe don't add up
I'd argue its worse than pointless, at best it does nothing and at worse it seems to make the code harder to understand and audit, which could result in more future vulnerabilities.
Atlassian, famously, got to very significant revenue before hiring Sales. But even they, eventually, got to a size and complexity where Sales was required.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/this-5-bi...

The Bloomberg article makes the point that this could be a trend. It was not. I know of no other B-to-B Enterprise Software product which got close to that kind of revenue without hiring Sales.

There are several examples of successful companies who tried this model, and then moved to a Sales model - usually at $30 or $50 million. https://www.saastr.com/eventually-everyone-has-a-sales-team/.

Of course, there's no easy way of knowing how many companies tried this model and failed. But I don't think it was successful too often, because I hardly ever see this model any longer.
Nothing says "hack me" more than "tamper proof".

Let's see how long it takes before this technology is defeated.
I have had Microchip FEs say as much to me.

Will be interesting when chiplet technology gets to the point where multiple chips are installed in a plastic package (there are thermal expansion/contraction issues that make this a hard problem but still ...)
Agreed but I've found when you eventually wrestle with it you get amazing powers. E.g. Patching a system package from source in a completely reproducible way, while still remaining synchronised for package upgrades. (Assuming the patch still applies.)

All in about ten lines of code. They're called overlays if anyone is curious.
This got me thinking - why we live with rowhammer and how do you take it seriously.

This is such a crazy hack to get some protection around key variables - by requiring 32-bit manipulation.

Why isn’t this just “done” on the phy layer, or somehow detected automatically in-flight? Does the compiler protect against it? At what performance penalty?

It’s really much nicer just not thinking too much about it and going on believing our bits.
Didn't watch the video, but if I recall correctly it was always PostgreSQL?
> Or perhaps we'll keep searching for a thousand years and never find a trace beyond Earth.

If we find evidence of current/past life on Mars, what is the math that this means there's "overflowing" life throughout the universe?

And of course, the inverse: If there is no evidence on Mars, what does this show whether there is no current/former life outside the inner solar system (besides Earth)?

Maybe we spend less on Mars (at least for now)? So much more out there than ancient lakes?
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Apple has a very strong track record of building high-end hardware that is expensive at first targeting pro user early adopters, then iterating and reducing cost over 3-5 years, eventually becoming the dominant player in a hardware category.

iPhone for mobile phones, iPad for tablets, Apple Watch for wearables, AirPods for fully wireless headphones. They have few failed product lines so this seems like a pretty safe bet.
W.r.t. the edit, from the HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
As someone who ran Linux on Windows 3.1 era hardware, perfectly well.
Not sure what GA has to do with what appears to be a news aggregation site from 1998 about commercial airliner incidents.

Not sure who would be in for 12 euros for that list either. There are modern alternatives who are not rattling the collection plate.

I run across ASN the most when looking for this sorta thing. https://aviation-safety.net/
Are you thinking of @reset?

https://discuss.systems/@adrian/110783401400871208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888444
Property developers are exactly like market makers. If they hold inventory, they’re property speculators.

The key point is that property prices remain stagnant because a property developer creates value, turning undeveloped land into condos, etc.

Building casinos requires riding property values.
If it's demonstrated that life is able to develop independently on other planets, it seems reasonable to me to infer that any planet/moon with water and geothermal vents would have complex lifeforms. Possibly even intelligent.
>changing the definition of unemployment

source? There's various definitions of unemployment (U-1 through U-6), but to my knowledge they haven't changed those definitions, nor have they changed what the "headline" unemployment rate corresponds to (U-3). Finally the BLS openly publishes figures for all the different unemployment rates, so it doesn't seem like they're trying to hide anything either.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm
Reading your comment one would think Ruby is the only programming language with exceptions. In fact, lots of programming languages have them, even PHP.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php
Unfortunate. I sold to them a couple times (5+ years ago) and it was a good experience, overall.

Trade-in values are always quite low, and private party sales carry all sorts of challenges. Vroom gave fair value for the simplification of the process (which was clearly not enough margin to be successful!)
I'm sure Shopify would like to have a word
> It's nothing special, you can expect every NIC to support this, this is basic stuff, you can expect it to work on everything every time.

Even if every NIC supports it, how do I know that every OS supports it? Every system I've ever used has only needed a single address, so the multiple-address cases would seem to be a small minority (and mostly in networks with homogeneous systems), and not something I'd expect to be thoroughly tested on every random IoT device.

> If an address isn't routable, which may be the case in a NAT network, then it's no big deal since you can just threaten the receptionist to tell you where to go

What do you mean? If a host doesn't have its incoming connections forwarded from the router's global address, then how can it be accessed from the outside?

> If something can magically get past your firewall then that implies they have full control of your router now and can route packets wherever they like

You still haven't explained why this is the case. How does a firewall that exposes the router's address necessarily allow arbitrary control over the router? After all, I can access the router on my WAN all I want through its local address, and yet I'm still unable to reconfigure it.

> I'm reiterating here but everything I've described so far is in relation to IPv4, all IPv6 introduces to the equation is: more addresses so you don't need NAT, a clever way to do dhcp on a local host without router intervention

My big concern here is that I don't necessarily want every local host to be responsible for managing this, since I trust the router to have correct behavior far more than I trust every arbitrary host to have correct behavior.
The 16-bit Visual C++ 1.52c compiler (CL.EXE) and linker (LINK.EXE) are MS-DOS (DPMI[1], IIRC) executables, and should run under a variety of DOS emulators.

As an example, starting DOSBox-X with an empty scratch directory mounted as drive C, the Visual C++ 1.52c CD-ROM mounted as drive D, and no additional configuration,

C:\>copy con hello.c
#include <stdlib.h>

void main(int argc, char **argv) {
puts("Hello, MS-DOS.");
}
^Z
1 File(s) copied.

C:\>set tmp=c:\
C:\>set path=d:\msvc15\bin;%path%
C:\>set include=d:\msvc15\include
C:\>set lib=d:\msvc15\lib
C:\>cl hello.c
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 8.00c
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1993. All rights reserved.

hello.c

Microsoft (R) Segmented Executable Linker Version 5.60.339 Dec 5 1994
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1993. All rights reserved.

Object Modules [.obj]: hello.obj
Run File [hello.exe]: "hello.exe" /noi
List File [nul.map]: NUL
Libraries [.lib]:
Definitions File [nul.def]: ;

C:\>hello
Hello, MS-DOS.

C:\>

Alternatively, the full Visual C++ 1.52c GUI environment should run on any 32-bit x86 version of Windows 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Protected_Mode_Interface
You're right. I wonder if it works for me because feedbro checks every x minutes and eventually finds a working one to refresh my feed. I wonder if the situation is getting worse and I just haven't noticed yet.
I did not know in 600 million years trees would basically go extinct. Even if it is an incredibly far away time, I wonder what the gradual process will be.
Hertz sells 2 years old Model 3 for $21k. New model 3 is $39k. High depression is likely because Teslas are very expensive to keep. For example door handle is $495. I can buy door handle for Malibu for $24 on Rockauto.
Hrm, seems loosely enforced, we often see politics, news, etc being discussed

I guess theres probably also a factor of how much participation is in the thread
This makes no sense because even if you're self employed, you're still at the whim of macroeconomic conditions. Your customers can undergo spending cuts in the same way that companies can undergo hiring cuts.
No.

Do not want.

Rowhammer is a hardware problem ---- defective RAM --- not a software one.

The sooner everyone starts returning defective RAM and putting pressure on the hardware manufacturers to maintain correctness, the sooner we can stop this descent into insanity.

"They can always work around it in software" is the attitude that let Rowhammer exist, and continuing to fulfill that expectation will only make things worse.
I love nature, spend a lot of time in the forest. I find it all beautiful. Yet, sometimes, I am struck with disgust as somehow my image of trees swaps. Suddenly I imagine trees like an insidious growth on the surface of the planet. Like when you see fungi growing from a humans skin, I am involuntarily picturing trees through the same lens.

It is breif, but weird. Anyway, this is a really beautiful display, it's branches feel closer to tendrils, and I imagine if the music had picked minor chords predominantly this would be an experience closer to my negative view of trees. Thankfully the power of music prevails.
> I'm going to bow out of the conversation at this point.

Except you didn’t. You kept going.

> I also suspect you're one of those "needs to have the last word types"

I physically laughed at that. Framing your opponent in an ongoing discussion as “having the last word” is just a low effort way of deflecting away from substantive conversion, and suggests a lack of seriousness in your prior discourse.

If you have anything useful to add, I’m happy to continue the discussion.
I hope this event has limited international implications, but I'm afraid it may be a mess.
I think "disable DoH" there means "block all DoH servers at the router", not "configure Firefox to not try to use DoH".
Sounds like you gave them an unfair value.
I do not disagree.

Same applies to many service workers, etc. Their responsibilities are restricted so even in civilized places they are still abused. However, people might not do it in public, etc., that shows it is at least considered unacceptable.

In case of chatbots it’s another level, since it’s more like an appliance than a human. Very few people would consider it unacceptable to hit an appliance if frustrated. Except now this appliance talks like a human, so otherwise normal, non-psycho people may be getting used to hitting (without any shame) something that talks like a human.
How is dnscrypt any better than DoH? And doesn't unbound still need an upstream resolver to talk to?
They bought the car how is that unfair?
> The worst peace is better than the best war.

I’m glad the Nazis didn’t win and I don’t live under what they would call peace.
If Microsoft hadn’t killed Internet Explorer, they would still be using it today.
If I had a dollar for every time I forgot in PHP which Array methods are 'haystack, needle' and which are 'needle, haystack'.
They are not market makers. They buy property and improve it's value and sell it. They are a normal business. They do not buy property just to hold it.
Your post is warning about how other people will be held in judgement:

> People aren't dumb and they're going to notice that you aren't in their corner. And then they're going to start deciding what to do about AI without you.

I find it rather dubious. Who are these people who will remember what some random Hacker News commenters said? Why would they be listening to them in the first place? It seems like an empty threat.
Nero was the first Roman Emperor to use a ghost writer for his speeches, and it was considered the death of literacy. To be worthy to wield power over an empire, people said, one ought to be able to organize and express their thoughts.

To notice that people can't use a natural language interface because they're bad at organizing and expressing their thoughts, then claim this is a failing of the interface is for the poor craftsmen to blame their tools.

To say that we should make language models that are somehow agnostic to a user's command of language is so obviously a fools errand its hard to know where to begin. The author is implicitly calling for mind-reading models.
I would argue the opposite. It has led to the greatest improvement of human life in history and prehistory. It's one of the cornerstones of our technological progress. It has staved off immense amounts of suffering. Even if it doesn't last it was worthwhile, because we at least have a chance to deal with future problems like climate change. Staying as a pre-industrial society would never have given us this chance.
Imagine that trees sway on their own, rather than the wind moving them.
Certainly not riskless. Before government regulation many of these industries went bust often. They are usually credited as some of the first regulated industries due to their societal value and their nature to go under.
If you want to be wowed by how incredible method_missing and define_method are, read through ActiveSupport and ActiveRecord's source code.

Early in my career I made my own toy ActiveRecord implementation and it's full of define_method and was literally the first time in my life that programming felt like a real superpower.
I've been watching from the sidelines this whole AI schtick with much amusement. I'm pretty sure it will end with a whimper.
It’s worse than that. They have unfinished projects with units that have already been bought on mortgage. You have people making monthly payments for unfinished apartments (and I don’t mean just unrenovated, which is expected).

That guy who was banned from trading in Hong Kong in 2016 for shorting the stock in 2012 must feel vindicated, at least.
Yeah except a jury votes on it and it's all up in the air whether all the predicates are actually enforced. Even the "predicates" themselves are open to interpretation and enforcement of a verdict is also sketchy. It's not even close to CS or an OS, more akin to the output of an LLM.

Which makes sense if you think about it.
The biological effect of music on our brain has many studies.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/why_and_how_music_moves...

Given how profound the impact seems to be, I would be very surprised if there's no biological component to the correlation between the occupations and the music - but almost certainly the cultural aspect would also play a major role.
Oil refineries, aluminum smelters, steel mills, farms, mines, car manufacturers, chip makers, the list is endless.

Often such businesses will use financial instruments to remove risks (and potential rewards) from market fluctuations eg commodity futures, exchange rate swaps, etc.

This reminded me of another example of accidental speculation. An airline used rolling 6 month commercial loans because it was cheaper than long term bonds by a few basis points. This was fine until it wasn’t. Interest rates spiked and the airline was suddenly insolvent.

They’d inadvertently become a speculator on interest rates.
I’m not sure what to tell you here cause you’re not looking at reality because life is hard for a lot of people and getting harder.

I suggest you read this:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.026...
A very long paper but at the end it is just plain old poisoning, although the threat of deceptive instrumental alignment is new to my understanding.
I definitely prefer Clojure/Elixir-style macros to Ruby’s meta-programming features.

They’re still better than nothing, though. Method-mossing and friends played a critical role in making a framework like Rails possible in Ruby. In contrast, languages like Python and JavaScript just aren’t quite expressive enough to do it. A lot of energy went into attempts over the years, too! At best, something like Sails could get 2/3 off the way there and offer significant advantages on another axis, like making websockets first class.
> There's not much you can do if your clients insist on no longer working with you.

Then that's where the law needs to step in to protect people from the ignorant.
It is funny that I always hear people want no haggle cars but no ever wants no haggle flea markets, or jewellery stores, or home buying. Why do folks have such a problem with cars?
All those things are replaceable if the incentives align. So I don’t think large profits would be risk free.
I agree with your fundamental point, but I dont think you are are using market makers in the conventional manner with respect to property.

A market maker doesn't hold assets for appreciation. They make money on the transactions spread, not hold and speculate. The New York Stock Exchange is a classic market maker.

Property developers are classic speculators.
Won’t work without a conviction. Not sure why there were never charges brought against the guy who sent his supporters to the capitol to subvert the election. Not like there isn’t evidence. It happened on national tv. “Go to the capitol and fight like hell” people go and fight like hell, go to prison for fighting like hell. (On the day the election was to be certified, specifically to block the certification). Guy who sent them doesn’t get indicted. Seriously can’t figure out why.
But don't they say ('they say' - legit source) that dogs can predict earthquakes?
Also trying to free up head counted and resources for big AI bets.
Exceptions are not the issue, Ruby's inherent "cleverness" is. Whatever problems the original commenter has with exceptions likely stems from this.
> To notice that people can't use a natural language interface because they're bad at organizing and expressing their thoughts, then claim this is a failing of the interface is for the poor craftsmen to blame their tools.

No, its not.

The UI is the output of the craft, not the tool of the craftsman. And the blame isn't coming from the craftsman, anyway.

It is just as true as the one about craftsmen, if not as popular a saying, that it is a poor toolmaker who blames the people who the tools are made for the tools' unsuitability for their purpose. If a user interface doesn't work for the actual users, it is a poor UI.
I’d say long term use. If it’s going to be the same or a similar price over the course of X amount of years, you want a quality machine. Also, less waste.
You're making a false dichotomy. I think most disinformation is spread by ignorance.
It's not a threat, that's a pretty uncharitable reading. Society will realize that everything is not fine, and that the group of people who insist that it is are to be ignored. I don't imagine that will involve singling out individual HN users.

If this is a subject you want to discuss then I'm here to discuss it. If you want to dissect my language further, you're free to do so. But I'm not interested in arguing about semantics or tone and this is my final word on it.
If the US stops offering as much free military help, the EU would just have to provide more of their own defense, yes? Maybe even make a stronger military side to their current mostly-economic union.
Hilarious, thank you. Pythonworthy, even, "philosophers game" style.

(Ten minutes of "symphony as football", with running commentary)

P.S. they keep piling on the jokes, at 8 min. injured bass player replacement comes in strumming Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" ...