skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's a feature request. FOSS doesn't make feature requests go away.

And you've already built a bunch of things for customers to do integrations and/or customizations. It just turned out that you did that so well that they expect even more. Honestly, you should take it as a complement, imho.

Not a bad problem to have.
I'm confused about what you're saying. This is a hypothetical scenario?
> How would anger —or even moral outrage— have improved the situation?

If at any point the chain of actions had broken down, anger would have granted the motivation to pursue through the roadblock.

You do understand that this very system implicitly disadvantages those who do not have such straightforward access to it, right?
Who owns WSJ again?
Which cultures are like that?
> very word "codpiece" comes from the Old English "cod", meaning "scrotum"

Wait, how did that transfer to the fish?
Heh, reminds me a bit of how a South Korean cult is behind Sushi becoming popular...
This is a very bad take.

Most WA residents live along the I-5 corridor in cities or surrounding suburbs, not in the rural parts. GP specifically lives in Seattle city limits, like about 10% of WA residents.

Also, GP is not trying to eliminate cars.
Well if you are interested in programming embedded Devices, I have a project that I could use some help with and would extremely grateful if you could help me see it to completion.

https://github.com/s1gmapr1mus/ESP32-Arduino-Stuff/tree/main...

Just to provide a bit of context, on October 14 2023 I was shot while driving my car and due to the crash and the bullet severing my spinal cord I am now a quadriplegic. I have obtained the hardware listed on the BOM and will be getting a friend to assemble the device but could use some help with the coding. Currently I am using an iPad with voice control and it is tedious to say the least.

https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/element1...
Cyberfeminism Index
Depending on liability for when the filter lets something through (which anything other than a whitelist would, and a whitelist probably would too), this bill might well be stupid. But the quoted provision seems fine? It's illegal to give minors drugs, alcohol, and porn as it is. Imagining some miracle filter existed, why wouldn't it be illegal to disable it for a minor without parental consent?

I'm big on free speech, but it gets real weird when people are against mandating parental controls exist and claim it's a form of censorship. Giving porn to children is already illegal[0], but little to nothing is done to enforce it on computers. It seems reasonable that people want to have consumer devices be capable of filtering, even if people more familiar with tech would know why that's challenging to do perfectly.

Edit: It sounds like they have to ask the user's age on setup, and if the user answers that they're a minor, activate the filter. And liability

> does not apply to a manufacturer that makes a good faith effort to provide a device that, upon activation of the device in the state automatically enables a generally accepted and commercially reasonable filter

So I'm not really seeing the issue. It just says parental controls have to exist on the device, and you can't go turning off someone else's kids' parental controls.

[0] Here's a federal law that carries up to 10 years in prison for knowingly providing porn to someone under 16 using the Internet. The law is almost as old as the web. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1470
So its subversive. Nice!
> rust async seems to be a terrible design blunder [...] that could destroy the community and render the language worthless

What an extreme take!

Async Rust as-it-is makes perfect sense for Rust's primary audience: folks who desire control/performance enough that they would otherwise be using C/C++. To call async an "efficiency hack" is to underestimate how important that efficiency is to Rust's existence. If async didn't work the way it does, it wouldn't have gained traction within the Rust community (folks would have just ignored it and kept writing state machines by hand) and it wouldn't have been able to act as a draw for C/C++ developers. It's a killer feature, and has enabled the language to thrive.

Not only is it a killer feature, the way it is designed is the only way it could have been. See: https://without.boats/blog/why-async-rust/
Nor did they mention Mark Zuckerberg, who is still holding his head up high in the face of negative press:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/faceboo...

giving the appearance that the mouse is tilted.
Right. And to be sure, GEB might have Godel in the name, but it's not really a book about Godel's incompleteness theorems. It mentions them, but that is not really the main thrust of the book. It's not a book about Godel, Escher, and/or Bach, really (though of course it discusses the ideas of these three people a lot). Hofstadter, if I recall correctly, even says as much (or something along these lines) in the preface.

So of course, there are more to-the-point resources for the technical concepts that Hofstadter employs. It's an understandable misconception to have when people so often say GEB is a must-read for techies and when it has a name that includes "Godel". So remember - GEB is about Hofstadter trying to argue for a point about a particular thesis (how the mind ("I") arises from the brain), and to that end, he employs many different concepts (many of which are from computer science) and explains them poetically (at least, a lot of people think so). But teaching you these concepts is just a secondary, even tertiary, goal of his. If you find his writing engaging, it might be a more fun way to learn about that stuff - but if not, don't worry, GEB wasn't primarily written to teach you anyway. I'm sure even the biggest GEB fans will agree.
This is a weird post. "What the transformer is actually doing"? You can just follow the code and see what it's doing. It's not doing something more or less than that. It's not doing some other thing.
He was not Brando but every bit as out of his mind as I had met as young and eager person trying to be useful with computers and a design background.

The design firm was Edwin Schlossberg Inc. based in NYC. We were revamping a public space in the AT&T building.

https://apops.mas.org/pops/m050018/

ESI was the best job I ever had but since it was also my first job I had no idea:)
I was wrong. I meant Treesitter sucks in vscode
Oh, this is brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

This is a very good introduction to the book.

The goal of the book/lecture is to show how meaning emerges from not-meaning. So cool!:-)

Also at the end of the lecture 1 he says that the book was written like Bach’s works - like a piece of music with theme, repetitions, inversions etc.

Going to read it asap:))
Yeah, my location also has special containers for clean plastic bags. But general recycling no longer takes them.
Carry around a bag all the time

As I was saying, this is not the hassle it seems like it is being made out to be. Setting that aside, a box seems like just as good a vessel to carry as a bag, so in this specific case, I really don't understand the issue. If this place has such good pastries and you know, you can plan ahead and pay full price.

If this really is somehow life changing savings on pastries I mean, yeah, taking some extra time walking won't do any harm.
Justified? For a 30 minute job to replace a bit of glass worth $20 tops?
The common supposition about video is that convenience makes the price worth it versus piracy. It'll be very interesting to see this unfold. Not only are streaming services in direct competition with a free option, but they'll have actual, real, not-market-inevitable competition for their "exclusively-negotiated" tv.
I'm surprised they shipped with the product name RealityDevice14,1.
> having a globally accepted standard for anything is a unique and historic achievement, let alone for free, fast, and robust global distribution of Turing-complete computation and content delivery.

It really is amazing.

> Now we can hope that those building blocks improve over time, but the current situation is so much better than it could have been.

I think the web is under-appreciated in part because most people have never used internet connected GUI computers without it, but it's important to remember that there's no a priori reason for why the web had to exist.

In an alternate timeline we could be living in a world where all interactive software has to be reviewed by a gatekeeper. I wasted an inordinate amount of time playing with this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020 and I remember thinking, it's pretty cool that you don't need anyone's approval to release something like this, nor do you need to pay excessive fees to distribute it, nor does it take any meaningful time to download/install, and yet it works on all my devices, and it's relatively secure.
In France there had been cases of employees wiring money convinced that they were talking to their CEO/CFO/lawyers over the phone.
Many cases were due to a Franco-Israeli gang arrested in 2022/2023 that managed to make at least 38M Euros out of it. They impersonated CEOs without the help of deepfake AI.
See https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/fran...
I'd prefer a _ban_ on plastic bags rather than the 10 cent ding for a dime routine.

Require the stores to offer a free paper bag, and allow them to offer an upsell to a handled paper bag.
So if this article is of interest to you then this was a good discussion of a nice 3D visualization of a small LLM (NanoGPT) in motion ...

LLM Visualization
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505211
(https://bbycroft.net/llm)
I can't imagine washing a grocery bag between every use. Why?
There is (or was) no authentication within the core of the public switched telephone network, since it was designed at a time when that was impractical and physical infrastructure was assumed to be reasonably secure. So you don’t need to fake signing, you just say “Hey, +1-555-555-5555 roamed onto my network and is making a phone call” and the recipient takes this at face value. (“Blue boxing” to fake the phone system into giving you free long distance phone calls worked for similar reasons.) STIR/SHAKEN is supposed to fix this, though I don’t know how far along implementation has actually gotten.
It's failing (completely wrong results) my goto query for testing search engines: "best sub 10 usd Linux single board computer"
Try it out
> but FYI the modern solution is to use CDKTF rather than HCL for Terraform.

That's an odd take. Are you saying that because it's newer? I would push something like Crossplane as more "modern" in that it solves the critical issue of Terraform not having any sort of reconciliation loop.
Current deep fakes are good enough to fool your mother. I've done it with friends to show what's possible.
I assume step 7 could be accomlished by tccboot, a c compiler capable of booting linux straight from source code. Expand it with the possibiliy to show the hash of the source code in ROM. No POSIX system needed. You'll need to translate the 140k C source to assembler, time consuming but not impossible.

https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
IIRC Moskva was partly broken.
This person should lose their licence.
According to [0] it’s not the same origin. Phew!

0: https://www.etymonline.com/word/cod
06/07/2016 and 10/30/2017, and 11/22/2018, I think there may be one or two more but I am too lazy.

cool idea to publish those. i remember when the pirate bay was publishing takedown notices in a special, public, category
This was something that I was thinking of for a while now, and now seeing what it looks like, I don't quite like it and I'm glad I don't have to try and implement it to see how it works! :D

Great work though, this is a super cool project.
Chrome already handles excessive CPU or memory use by a tab, and I very much doubt the format supports urls (and it would be trivial to check).

Nothing you've said should be an issue. I expect really they just don't want "their" formats to be obsoleted.
> anger and other extreme emotions are usually negatively correlated with long term success.

But historically when they did not result in negative long term success, they paid off big time.

Anger is not an extreme emotion. It's used all of the time to good purpose. You're thinking about rage. If the "other poster" failed to make this distinction then it's really important to make it now so that we don't start strawmanning or ad homineming based on a misunderstanding.

Personally Joy has been an extreme emotion that has done me bad. As when I experience Joy I start to stop paying attention. On one occasion I suffered a broken bone because of it.
RISC-V* (Reduced Instruction Set Computing, 5th incarnation)

And sure, companies can choose not to share chip designs, but if you want an open-design CPU then you should be checking for that specifically and not just filtering by ISA. There exist such chips already, and I expect they'll catch up with AArch64 chips (in terms of being able to run desktop Linux) in <10 years, given the specs already include SIMD and the high-end chips have clock rates comparable to the oldest Windows-on-ARM laptops, like the 1st-gen Surface.
I mean it in the sense that Marks used it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

I mean this not to imply a structural sense of our society, only the shock that his prediction is insanely accurate given the time and technology separating us.
Same prices and same wage does not work, because your wage now only produces 80 % of the products compared to before. If someone is syphoning off 20 % of your labor for nothing, then I am all with you and this should be brought to an end, but I fail to see how working a day less each week could be an effective tool to achieve this.
To be fair, Microsoft doesn't support VSCode on BSD anything (and likely never will).
But, that's not what Gödel proved. Not that things are hard, or non-obvious. But, that there are actual limits we won't be able to get past regardless of how much time and cleverness we apply to them. The limits might be very large. Might be unlimited for practical purposes. But, they are there waiting for us.

I don't understand his theorems well enough to pretend to explain them to this audience. But, this is my understanding of them.
Life Near a Bitcoin Mine
If you get a refund it means you overpaid your taxes. The amount you've overpaid can be considered a zero interest loan to the government. If you hadn't overpaid your taxes you could have invested that money.
Right but the point is it's the ability to delay, not the act of delaying. For the act to be valuable, you need an external reason for it. You don't delay for the sake of delaying.
Because I want to own the hardware I buy, not be at the mercy of the company that made it.
fewer outdoor trash cans. People carry trash home or e.g. to a storefront with an public indoor trash.
To my knowledge, the fee is for the dev kit rather than the ability to publish on the app store. If it the aim was to prevent junk from being published, then surely the fee should apply at the point of submitting an app for review.
s/the/they/

it was a typo. why mock a comment like that?
> Everyone gets the same pay, and prices stay the same. Shareholders see lower returns, but them's the breaks

This gets attempted once a generation somewhere in the world. The problem is when you devalue capital, it isn’t maintained. The only way your equation balances is with a massive jolt to TFP. There isn’t a free lunch in reducing labour; we must be realistic about the tradeoffs involved.
> However we can't allow it to distract from the bigger pictur

I sometimes wonder if that’s the real agenda

Like recycling. Keeping us busy sorting things in to different bins. Without thinking about the absolute torrent of crap people order on a daily or weekly basis. But it’s ok because the cardboard and plastic packaging is going in a magical bin (which often isn’t that magical…)
What’s this magical config service do? Take data in from a request and return transformed data back in response to configure the caller? What is the essential difference between this config service and existing config languages?
clearly labelled, contextual ads based on your current search query and a subscription option without ads

Perfect! This is the way the god of the internet intended search engines to work.

But DuckDuckGo does the same and currently provides superior results based on a very brief test.

So good luck with that.
Learning the iTunesDB File Format (2002)
Try convincing a tech person that the shares they get as compensation from their employer are equal to getting money and buying those shares at the time they get them. I also think tech workers tend to over-estimate what "average person" really is because they mostly know "above average people".
> there are few things quite as pathetic

I very much agree with your overall point. But it's literally the opposite of pathetic to elide one's own pathos. I'm actually a bit sad that such as useful word as "pathetic" was literally reversed in meaning to become a disparaging epithet.

All personality types have their own blindspots.
They are getting taught microcontroller programming in addition to programming on PCs - only now they teach the same language for both. I presume it's the school's difference between "Computer Science" and "Engineering" subjects, with more physical electronics aspects to the latter. Personally I think teaching programmers how to interact with the real world beyond a keyboard and screen is pretty important, but I am biased from working on hardware.

There are definitely ways to plug servos, etc. into a normal computer, and some of them are already branded as teaching tools. See SAMLabs, etc.
War using AI begins :O
When philosophy starts with a real observation (...then words, then discussion), obscurantism is appropriate and expected. Because words can only fit a real observation badly.

When philosophy starts with words, a clear point is expected, for the obvious reasons.

But that's two completely different worlds.
That will definitely prevent them from driving.
Thanks for that link. It's a fascinating story. My perspective, and my comments, were US biased.
This doesn't help at all as you need to coordinate so-name rebuilds across multiple architectures. This implies you need to some way to orchestrate a staging repository and have building do rebuilds towards this repo interactively until all issues are solved.

Retrofitting this ontop of gitlab sounds painfull. I don't even know if we would like to be that tied to a singular forge.
A bit tangential, but wanted to point out how modern Python gets surprisingly close (in the pragmatic sense) to Rust in terms of replacing tests with type-level correctness checks (proofs?). I realise you used Python merely as an example.
For example, Python can do structural pattern matching with exhaustiveness checking on the type level nowadays. It lacks discriminated unions, the ultimate secret ingredient, so will keep lagging behind in that area sadly.
I thought so too, but lately I have heard and read accounts akin to a lot of what happened in late WW2 with regards to radar technology was highly classified and much didn't enter the history books.

Pilots shooting and nudging definitely happened but likely other, more advanced stuff happened too. The germans had fully automatic radar controlled flak guns.
> That means I trust the browser sandbox a lot more than native apps

You shouldn't.

The most privacy invading behaviour by far is the cross-site tracking that happens on the web. Where large data companies as well as Facebook/Google are building behavioural profiles with thousands of features and data is being packaged and sold to entities you have no knowledge of.

And all of which is being facilitated by browser fingerprinting courtesy of Google recklessly adopting APIs with little care about privacy.
The Greeks were very close to Calculus.
Related:

Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39219344
I'm a little surprised you don't bring a wallet or money into a store. I'm not being pedantic, but folded it's around the same size. A good reusable bag carries about what two to three plastic bags do. Plus, you only have to carry a bag when you're actually going into the store, anywhere else you can keep it in your vehicle.
> the actual effects of all these laws and regulations it just makes me mad and want to ignore or fight ALL environmental laws

Oh come on. How do you even make that jump?
In Austria one CFO wired a few millions (7 I think) after a couple of fake emails from her boss - with a note to not mention it to anyone even him.
If that's the case, is targeting rich developed countries with efficient waste management and pickup the best approach? I live in a very clean, North American city. I rarely see plastic bags blowing around. We have residential garbage pick up, and public spaces all have public bins. Our landfills are, what I would assume, are well run. Does the plastic bag ban in my city make sense? We never had an issue with plastic ending up in lakes/rivers etc. Now look to developing nations where rivers and streams are overrun with plastic. Do they have plastic bag bans? Doesn't seem like it and seems like that is where there should be one.
Well . . . testing, checking, proving, validation, verification, etc. are awfully closely related terms and people don't agree on definitions for them. And that's just scratching the surface of the "OMG What Is Testing" lexicon!

But yes, your main point is what I clicked on the comments to make. Even in testing word-salad-land, compiling is not testing. Neither is using static types. Or foisting the software it on unsuspecting users.
In my experience it’s mostly orthogonal. I don’t write significantly less tests in statically-typed languages than in dynamically-typed languages. There’s just too many things that depend on the runtime behavior, on having implemented the correct program logic and algorithms (which a compiler can’t check). Statically-typed languages do give me higher confidence in the correctness of the program with regard to the invariants covered by the type system, but they don’t do a lot for the program logic that is being tested.
> The management didn't want faultless programs because the company derived its stability from maintenance contracts.

The bane of my existence. Companies like these get a decade long contract with governments and large enterprises (typically outside the "tech" space) to maintain a system, and at the end it's often worse than when they started the contract. Grifters, all of them.

The worst offenders are the defense contractors. They know they don't have to work, sunk cost fallacy is strong in government contracting.
I do like the attempt at aiding diagnosis with 'digital phenotypes.' Currently, the number one input into getting a mental health diagnosis is self reported (or guardian/caretaker/teacher reported for minors) subjective experiences. This generates a huge problem with screening or diagnosing. The current state of the art for autism diagnosis involves a panel of experts and multiple days of testing/observation/interviews. We currently know there are physical differences in the body and statistical differences in behavior for autism. I don't think this watch is the answer -- but I do appreciate the recognition this article makes that diagnosis is currently inefficient and inaccurate.

The diagnosis problem exists for other mental health conditions too, but Autism is perhaps the worst example in the industry.
I'm with you on all these examples but why is it wrong if someone is not interested in chatGPT?
Because I am a vegan. Maybe bad one, but still a vegan!

There are Muslims who drink alcohol, Christians who visited church years ago...

I don't always have a choice about what I eat.