skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been writing python for going on 20 years now and while it was a good language to cut my teeth on thus sort of analysis brings only horror. Many thanks to the author for dropping into plain view.

I'm going to go back to learning more C and Forth... And shake my fist at passing clouds :)
So far I haven't there really isn't much here, the town center is maybe 6x6 blocks. There's a library, a tavern, a handful of drive through fast food restaurants and a few large costco like grocery stores. It's not a high priority but sure a problem, I'm used to the urban lifestyle. My bet would be the tavern
That matches how philosophers typically talk about the Chinese room. However the Chinese room is supposed to "behaves as if it understands Chinese" and can engage in a conversation (let us assume via text). To do this the room must "remember" previously mentioned facts, people, etc. Furthermore it must line up ambiguous references correctly (both in reading and writing).

As we now know from more than 60 years of good old fashioned AI efforts, plus recent learning based AI, this CAN be done using computers but CANNOT be done using just ordinary if - then - else type rules no matter how complicated. Searle wrote before we had any systems that could actually (behave as if they) understood language and could converse like humans, so he can be forgiven for failing to understand this.

Now that we do know how to build these systems, we can still imagine a Chinese room. The little guy in the room will still be "following pre-written scripted algorithmic procedures." He'll have archives of billions of weights for his "dictionary". He will have to translate each character he "reads" into one or more vectors of hundreds or thousands of numbers, perform billions of matrix multiplies on the results, and translate the output of the calculations -- more vectors -- into characters to reply. (We may come up with something better, but the brain can clearly do something very much like this.)

Of course this will take the guy hundreds or thousands of years from "reading" some Chinese to "writing" a reply. Realistically if we use error correcting codes to handle his inevitable mistakes that will increase the time greatly.

Implication: Once we expand our image of the Chinese room enough to actually fulfill Searle's requirements, I can no longer imagine the actual system concretely, and I'm not convinced that the ROOM ITSELF "doesn't have a mind" that somehow emerges from the interaction of all these vectors and weights.

Too bad Searle is dead, I'd love to have his reply to this.
| He will be forgotten in a week, at least by the West.

He wasn't doing that for the amusement of the West; he was doing it for the Russians.
> When Microsoft tried to add any error codes (say 6), the program would jump out into hyperspace since 6 was beyond that lookup table and that memory word could be anything. So Microsoft was stuck folding every possible file open error into code 5, and to this day that's why just about any file error in Windows just says "5 Access Denied". And no, Microsoft couldn't add more error codes and just let the applications break, since then nobody would buy the new operating system versions that their programs wouldn't work on.

This doesn't pass the sniff test because

1. There's documented error codes that go all the way up to 16k: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/system...

2. There's file related error codes way above 5, eg. ERROR_FILE_EXISTS 80 (0x50)

The general gist of your comment is correct though. Suppose windows didn't have file locks before and they were adding it. Returning an error code like FILE_LOCKED or whatever would be much more descriptive, but would also require all existing code to handle this error case. With that in mind returning ACCESS_DENIED makes perfect sense, even if programs aren't using jump tables.
Man, even that's a scam. All I wanted was cat videos, but it keeps showing me undressed humans :(
> Think back to the "cloud".

Yeah thank goodness those days of the “cloud” are over.
Hot war was absolutely on the table without expansion, just look at Moldova, or Georgia. Or even Ukraine. Ukraine was already ineligible for NATO prior to 2014 as a result of the multi-decade lease of Sevastopol to the Russian Navy.
<slaps the chip>, you can run so many different variants of Doom on this bad boy /s
Where do you got that info. Most Russians want to be part of Europe. Its not that Russian people dont have a way to think freely. They all watch youtube and other social media. And they all love to ski in Austria or to visit Italy for a holiday. I don't know one russian person who is not pro Europe. Even Putin himself is pro europe.
I had left it at "apparently MAD has worked thus far", not getting into the almost didn't. It still might end us.

Also, think of all the past plausible/likely bad scenarios that MAD averted, such as involving the Soviets.

I sometimes joke about a utopian future of humanity, all peace and love, for thousands of years... until we encounter malevolent space aliens. Humanity had lost the ability to even reason about such a conflict, unable to imagine many options. Fortunately, humanity had maintained the cryogenic suspension of Kissinger and other historical figures capable of cold-blooded ruthlessness. And there was a Thaw button. (In some versions of the story, as soon as the anti-dream team wakes up and starts talking, we decide they're even worse than the space aliens.)
Thanks for sharing that story. If something feels easy that actually should feel hard is a good signal that you found a sweet spot. Enjoy the feeling as long as you can, it will inevitably be hard again soon.

My analogy for this is endurance sports. Sometimes you get a runners high and you cover a lot of distance with a feeling of very low effort, but sooner or later the going will get tough again.
Recycle was always suppose to the last resort.

It was Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. But it doesn't take much thought to realise which one had the highest economic incentives.
Seems like Putin may be trying to get rid of young men currently...
It’s like App Store inception.
NYC plans 6 new waterfront shipping hubs to replace truck freight with barges
Your understand is spot on. I give a few examples in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403310
Not in the small cap SaaS world.

2-4X is the current range.

The exceptions are for companies with extreme growth rates for multiples years in a row. These are extremely rare, even more so with pure bootstrapping.
It seems like you were just passionate about something because you could do it and other people couldn’t? If your passions are validated extrinsically and the world changes yeah you’re gonna get burned sometimes.
Your argument falls apart since you deal with mobsters who don't respect any contract if it doesn't suit them. Remember pinky promises that they won't invade Ukraine just before they did it? If you keep stepping back to bullies, soon you are standing with ocean behind your back. And if you don't think russians would love ruling as much Europe as they can grab, you haven't been listening to them a single bit for past 2 decades, their ego is gigantic. We've been there for 40 years not so long ago, but maybe you weren't born yet to recall these times.

Also, this is how russia was defeated - mix of US being simply too strong and one sane russian leader who realized how bad this is (Gorbachev, he is deeply hated by all russian elites who now try to bring good ol' times back).

What you propose is a position of weakness, that leaders of russia see as a sign of weakness and will act accordingly.

I just wish all these naive commenters would spend a decade living in russia to understand what we're actually dealing with and what kind of conflict is inevitably coming to the western Europe.
I'm old enough to remember influential TV people advocating for the revocation of the "rights" of certain people to healthcare, employment or even being allowed to leave their own homes if they refused to be injected with the special science juice. That was just a hypothetical scenario! The sad reality in America is that anything real like UBI would be politically weaponized from practically day one.
What I want is something that says does the article actually say anything interesting beyond the headline. all too often I've clicked on a link and discovered the headline said it all - good for the headline, but bad for in-depth understanding - often the commenters know far more than the article.

In this case the article is worth reading. However it also is ignoring some important factors and so we still need to read the comments.
It's an x64 CPU running most of Windows with plentiful and fully supported USB ports. Why CAN'T I print from my Xbox? I can print with my phone, so why not my Xbox?

I'm sure there's something about "windows print subsystems are pretty terrible and we should excise them from anything we can" and "reduce code to reduce bugs" but like.... There's no technical reason it can't
Be that as it may, he wasn't controlled opposition.
> connecting with the people around you.

For the 0.5 seconds you're next to them before you pass them or they pass you?
No. A pensieve stores memories. They don't let you ask questions. Just rewatch them.
As opposed to the violence done to them by the wealthy? In comparison it was quite surgical. That Napoleon managed to run off with it is an error but that wasn't the only possible outcome and even today France has some of the strongest social fabrics that traces its threads straight back to those guillotine ropes.
This. Amartya Sen has claimed that two actual democracies have never been at war between each other. At least I find hard to find significant counterexamples in history. (Not sure about the Falkland war. And I think Finland was technically at war with UK in the second world war)

I think the democratic and developed countries need to change their game plan pretty soon. The countries that are willing to join the club should be offered actual help to develop. By actual help I mean trade treaties that are designed to benefit those countries, not developed countries. Includes IP vaiwers, duties that protect local industries etc.

The countries that do not want to join, (including China and Orban's Hungary) then again, should be punished in all ways possible. Massive duties to commodities and other products imported from those countries, as a starter.

Open democracies do not need to be nice guys if they are threatened. Must not be, to be more precise. See Popper and paradox of tolerance.
To him this is likely "a mild disagreement" as ukrainian civilians are being actively targeted by Russian missiles. Quite a tone deaf and horrible point of view.
Interesting implementation details:

> It does this using an imaging sensor with a cryocooler to bring it down to very cold temperatures. This reduces the thermal noise and increases the resolution. The upshot is that, with the help of advanced processors, the sniper can directly see the thermal signature of the round in flight.
Okay, I am wrong then. Glad you set the record straight.
There’s almost certainly an A5 [0] on the Zen+ SoC as well.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Proces...
Trade Republic: The Biggest Lessons Having Raised $1.3B [video]
well, that seems like an important piece of the contextual puzzle, because the Xbox printing example by itself seems extremely dumb. (issuing/publishing games on Xbox is not a wild wild west of unknown binaries, if someone cannot get the source code for their thing they are very unlikely to get their thing on Xbox. yes, there are probably binary blobs, but still, to me in this context it's ridiculous that instead of a an exception handling wrapper on the application side the platform does these fakes.)
If it is "undecidable" this means there is no counterexample to the Collatz conjecture, since any counterexample would disprove it. But the Collatz conjecture does exactly state that there are no counterexamples. Which means: If it is undecidable, it is true.

Which seems a bit paradoxical. If you can prove that the Collatz conjecture is undecidable, you would also prove that it has no counterexamples, and thus that it is true. Which would make it decidable -- contradiction. So this seems to prove that if the Collatz conjecture is undecidable, this fact is itself also undecidable.
I’ve never, ever seen a codebase that reliably used noexcept.

boost and Python are my arch-nemesi because they make heavy use of exception errors and it makes the APIs an absolutely miserable nightmare to use.

> How do you square that with backward compatibility?

Huh? The same way normal code handles changing function arguments or return types? I have absolutely never relied on exceptions to “future proof” return error types! Yikes.

The only thing I have ever used exceptions for is to escape bad input/data. It gets trapped internally in the “private” API and same result types are returned through the public API.

I would much rather have a return type of Result<T, Exception const*> than T but also maybe it throws or maybe not and you almost definitely forgot to check which is why people do filthy filthy hacks like the OP article.
In Germany, 75% of Ukrainians don't work. In other EU countries, nearly 80% work. It is a question of the system and incentives.
On that we totally agree. Orban is the top goon for sure, but he's not the only one, and there are several in the wings trying really hard.

The fact that LePen has done as well as she has twice now is in and of itself horrifying.
> snipers, who seem like they'd value agility

I'm not a sniper either, but my impression is that agility is not a key factor. Time in position is a key factor. And patience (duh).

I base this on having read a book by a sniper in the (or: an) Iraq war, altho the name of the book escapes me ATM. It was an excellent read.
Valve does not have a great reputation with its licensees anymore or its former mod developer community. This is probably a large part of it.
Robert Moses ran rough over New York for a decade or so and they are still paying the price for his roads. We have gone too far for sure, but there is a reason we did.
My view on the GPL is that it's freedom-preserving, like how a law forbidding the enslavement of people is freedom-preserving, even though it technically restricts a freedom. That's why I look more favourably on GPL software than software with a so-called 'permissive' license.
Imagine what these people could have done if they weren't at this point... just names that few, even of many few will remember. Ask the same question in a decade.
The US for all their huge defense spending has been involved in a lot more wars than the EU.

So defense spending as prevention of war isn't really a thing either. Nor is winning them (forget Afghanistan?)
Not sure where you live. I (and the people I know, some of them 65+) never had to wait for 6 months - even for surgeries. And I can speak about a decently wide range of categories.

You also mention "at least for some categories", then you mention that "you could call the average XYZ doctor", as it that was applying to all categories. You seem to be generalising out of emotions, to be honest.
“Stop the bots” was a made-up rationale when he wanted out of the deal.

The original intention was to buy Twitter so Musk would be the most popular man in the world, his comedy would be appreciated by a billion followers soon, and as a nice bonus they’d buy whatever crypto he decided to pump. The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic.
> The order of execution of the recorded commands inside a command buffer is NOT guaranteed to complete in the order they were submitted: the GPU can reorder these commands in whatever order it thinks is best to complete the job as quickly as possible.

It's my understanding that commands inside of a command buffer are guaranteed to complete in order. The synchronization must happen when you are `vkQueueSubmit`ing multiple command buffers, no? I think that's what they meant to say?
And Hitler was a vegetarian. What Geert Wilders yells to get votes has zero binding on what he is able to accomplish or really intends to do.
yuckety yuck yuck, what a crappy app :(
Elsewhere too

I first took stats in high school and we read a bunch of valid small sample size studies so I don’t know where people are failing to get educated.

There were so many factors going into whether a study was good.
MIT doesn’t give anyone the ability to restrict the freedom of others. When you fork a project and use a difference licence for it, the original project remains under MIT.
Are you saying that IEEE 754 floating point (which everybody is using) is not deterministic?
I have seen people complain about paying taxes for schools when they don't have kids, and all your other examples go back to the taxpayer in some way. Food stamps are like the school one, they don't go back to the taxpayer - they're paying without getting anything back, hence complaining.

GP's idea might be a decent way to sidestep that - at the very least it's tighter in scope so the negative effects would be limited.
The Farcaster frames feature is an exciting new addition to social media. Let's find out what they are and how to create your own!
>> As a rule of life, that's a pretty bad idea. I don't avoid conflict with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers by being scary.

Are they trying to conquer and kill you? If not, your analogy doesn't hold.
But they don't see the other half of Germany as untermenschen. Which is roughly how the Russians view the denizens of all of the conquered land in their empire that isn't Russia proper.
I get his account in my feed daily despite selecting "Not interested" each time.
> naively

I think that answers your question?
I've only done a rough minimal implementation of Vulkan in the past. I thought Direct3D 12 was basically Vulkan.
Wasn’t he considered a nazi before the Ukraine war? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56181084 Suddenly all the enemies of Putin are the good guys, even Yevgeny Prigozhin somehow turned into a hero in his last few days when he turned against Putin. And then we have US citizens dying in Ukraine prisons for publishing videos on YouTube that tells different story to the war in Ukraine, such as Gonzalo Lira without any notice in the western media!
> AMD discloses slew of high severity security vulnerabilities for Zen BIOS chips

"However, any attack would require local access to the affected system,"

High severity. /s
It would be interesting to know how well X detects signups with stolen credit cards. If scammers have millions of credit cards from data dumps and make a $8 charge on X, what portion of the victims would even notice? Even if X receives a fraud report and acts decisively to shut down the offending account, it might just be an inconvenience to scammers who have signed up for many more. At scale, fraudsters could be moving a substantial amount of stolen money into X membership fees.
Pretty sure I saw an episode of Penn and Tellers "Bullshit" pointing this out like 20 years ago
NBA unveils "NB-AI" voice assistant for personalized live game viewing
> The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic.

You know, a part of me hopes he makes it to Mars in my lifetime and just proceeds to take over the planet, running an alternative society there. Planet Musk: The Reality Show™ would be quite the thing to watch... from 140 million miles away.
Thank you! I actually found my way to its website and then downloaded, compiled, and briefly tried it after I posted this comment and discovered things for myself. It looks like it doesn't support a leader key so that's a pretty big blocker to me using it for even basic editing, but you're correct the bigger reason I won't use it is because it doesn't have the truly incredible emacs ecosystem.
The problem here is that the underlying and unknown correlations in the sample (aka people) is that they are NOT independent.

The larger sample sizes are a ... sort-of "proxy" ... to overwhelm underlying latent correlations.

The whole thing is actually a subtle sort-of generalization of the "Prosecutor's Fallacy".

So skepticism with the small sample sizes is absolutely warranted, unless some strong evidence is shown indicating mechanism-based independence.
> Not being able to run the back end at all?! I don't even know what I'd call that...

I'd call it proprietary software.
Maybe youtube then? I mean, you need your fix, right?
western countries maybe india, china, middle east, and turkey are still all in on russia
On a scale 1-5, 2 and 3 are exactly the same as or better than "decent". Otherwise the previous poster would have said "they are perfect (=1)".

You're being a bit unfair, to be honest.
Others long suspected it.
We kind of did in Windows/.NET with NGEN, and Windows Phone 8.x and 10, before Android started doing it.

Naturally NGEN has the caveat of only being good enough for faster startup, and requiring strong binaries (aka signed dlls), which meant not everyone adopted it.

Windows 8.x adopted Bartok from Singularity, where applications would be precompiled on the store, and linked on device at instalation time.

Windows 10 moved full AOT compilation into the store when downloading into specific devices.

Note that full AOT on Android is only on versions 5 and 6, starting with version 7 onwards is a mix of interpretation, JIT and AOT, which is nonetheless quite cool.
Agreed, don't sweat the runners high, enjoy it!
This and similar arguments in this thread work on the same logic that frames software piracy as theft. It’s the fallacy of treating software as a tangible thing that, when copied, is taken away from someone and altered irreversibly.
> It's not a weird gotcha when dismissing the tool. If you want to artificially narrow the comparison to "writing SW" (which is even narrower than text editing), then by all means - VSCode is the superior tool. But why stop there?

One, I wouldn't have conceded the crown to VSCode so easily as that. A fine-tuned Emacs config, with the requisite muscle memory and custom elisp, is a hot rod. I do use VSCode, and before that Sublime, but it was under protest, the details don't matter here but there were features I needed and no task budget for provisioning them in Emacs.

Second, why not stop there? I have a program for reading my email, it isn't VSCode, I'm fine with that. So telling me Emacs can read email is completely irrelevant to my use of VSCode. For most people, adding all of these features to the Emacs side of the balance backfires, because now Emacs has to be better than all the tools they use for that stuff, rather than just better at what VSCode does than VSCode is.

"Emacs does everything" is an aesthetic, and it has many decades of refinement, and people like it. That's fine.

> Most people don't need or want all the UNIX tools' capabilities. Does it make sense to compare the Windows command environment with the Linux one and say "Don't include all these capabilities in the analysis?"

This isn't at all what you're doing. It's more like if someone says "awk is fine for text munging, why would I use Perl" and your answer was that Perl has a web server.

There's such a thing as a like-for-like comparison. Emacs has org-mode, it has SLIME, it has paredit and parinfer. Those are all edges over VSCode, whereas checking email isn't. This conversation piqued my curiousity, and indeed, there's a plugin for that[0], a few actually, and yes, I'm sure Emacs does a better job, for some value of better. But I'll never know, because I don't intend to use either tool for that job.

[0]: https://github.com/buhe/vscode-mail
A corporation has no right of protection from slavery.

And just imagine if you said it was protected from slavery ... would that mean all corporations are suddenly free of the dictates of their executives, their boards, their shareholders.

Exactly what would this emancipated entity be?
who?
how is he relevant to hn
Judging by Putin's mood this morning, he doesn't think or particularly care that it's bad timing.