skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It used to be that you could use a coaxial cables for Ethernet and wire a single cable between computers, but those days are long gone, and the speeds were low enough that the major reason to miss those times is nostalgia.

ah yes. I tried to make drama out of Xerox's whole Ethernet going down, because of a storm just like we're having now (except no lightning).

========= "Lightning Strikes" chapter of Inventing the Future =====

Thursday, January 5, 1978. Janet was visiting Palo Alto again, something she never tired of. Today, she was just supposed to check in with people and learn whatever she could about the Pilot operating system, the product hardware, Ethernet, user interface, and all that.

In one of those magic changes of name that Xerox never officially announced because that would let an enemy keep track of code names, the product was now called “Star,” She hoped she wouldn’t slip up today and call it “Janus.”

This time she took an earlier flight than she had been lately, the 7:00 am PSA flight out of LAX. She hated having to get up at an obscene hour, but really, if you took a more reasonable flight, you got to the office at 10:45 or later, and that made it a pretty short day. This morning, the roads were all wet and littered with tree branches and leaves. Apparently, it had stormed the night before.

She first went to Grant’s office to talk about the latest marching orders from corporate management. Grant was pacing back and forth, frowning, holding the base of the phone in his right hand and the receiver in his left. He glanced at Janet, smiled briefly, and motioned to the guest chair.

“How much of the network is down?” The answer seemed to make him even more worried. “Does Michael know? Okay, I’ll tell him.”

“Who’s looking into this?” He wrote down some names on a yellow pad.

“Um, yeah. We have Peter McColough and Bill Glavin flying out tonight for a demo.” He stared at Janet, knowing he just dropped the name of the Chairman of the Board. Janet knew McColough was adamant that no exec would ever touch a keyboard—that was for their secretaries. The idea of an expensive computer like Star for knowledge workers, whatever that meant, was dubious to him. His rule of thumb was that you shouldn’t buy a piece of equipment for a secretary that cost more than her annual salary. The execs were already a hostile audience. A bad demo was about the last thing Grant needed.

“I’ll let you get back to it. Keep me posted.” He hung up and turned to Janet, “The entire Ethernet is down. Excuse me, but I need to work this out.” He started for the door, then paused. “On the other hand, do you want to help out?” Grant strode briskly toward Michael’s office with Janet trying to keep up.

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If you already know JavaScript then Node.js and TypeScript is the easy path for writing backend APIs unless the backend team has used Python or Java.
See this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437239
In addition to what jerlam and others said, simple bug fixes can tip nostalgic fans over into purchasing again for a low price.

As to Skyrim, there's a chance that's on Bethesda's side rather than Valve's. I haven't used their publishing tools, but it's possible someone specified the upgrade criteria incorrectly. Even if it's late, you could try reaching out to Valve's support. They might say no, but it's worth trying.
If Internet is TCP/IP it is well alive and thriving, if it is about power concentration and attention economy it is dying even when there is a virtually infinite content.

Internet now ironically sounds like "if a tree falls and no one hears it...", in the early days you can give your voice. There were fewer people and fewer interests. It seems we can based some of the Internet results in complex system theory where centralization and decentralization compete but it is easier and less energy consuming to just scroll in one app that think and search for a result.

An open discussion.
Connecting to your home router is a lot easier with Ethernet, although you can use WiFi.
It's so weird. I thought they were just streaming a video; wonder what specifically Firefox doesn't support?
> but there is still a real possibility that LLMs and the underlying architecture don't pan out with regards to the company's goal of developing anything resembling an AGI.

There is, but in one sense, who cares? The technology is already super useful, even if it ends up not being the end all and be all of AGI. That is, there are really only 2 options:

1. LLMs are an important stepping stone on the way to AGI, in which case OpenAI is in a great position as the company with the best LLM.

2. LLMs turn out to be a "local maximum" in the search for AGI. I think that even if that actually is the case, OpenAI is still in a great position with much of the infrastructure, data, expertise, etc. even if they require totally new model approaches.

Also, I wouldn't worry so much about #2 because if we do ever get AGI, our economy would surely collapse, or else it would look completely unrecognizable to our current economic systems. That is, I'm always struck that when people talk about AGI fears they talk about things like Skynet and misinformation, but nearly our entire society is organized around people selling their labor for a price. I don't know what our economy will look like when/if AGI becomes real, but I do know it will change drastically if it means that the vast majority of people won't be able to price their labor more than $0.
Use a mild acid wash to get the whole area clean, power wash it, and then re-seal the concrete.
I see. Yeah, $200 seems like a great price point for that device and build quality. Too bad it's locked to PS games! Just Sony being Sony, sigh.
I’d rather just have memory safety.

If all you give me is half measures, then I’ll either just use plain old C/C++ or I’ll switch to a totally different language. Maybe one with a GC so I don’t have to please some ownership thingy.
https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/
> Russia isn't where Russian is spoken, it's where the 1991 borders are.

There are ethnic Russians who lost family in the Euromaidan incident who may disagree with that. They also didn't appreciate having a Georgian installed by the west. But what do they know? Clearly you and Victoria Nuland know better!

> Again, who cares? Are you saying Russia was "provoked"? By Ukraine?

The fighting went on after the western-backed color revolutions, with many Russians dying inside of that 1991 Russian border. So provoked by Ukraine? Not exactly. More poignantly, Russia was provoked by PNAC heavyweights like Nuland. If you don't know about this I don't think anyone is going to take you seriously, whether you support that Bush/Wolfowitz doctrine or not. Clearly you do, whether you know it or not. That is yes, by definition, antagonistic toward Russia, regardless of what Russian speaking Russians on whatever side of the border want.
The ownership works for non pointers. We can have integers (handles) that are owners. This allow custom allocators for instance.
The concept of owner is some value that works as reference to an object and manages its lifetime.
I would be so, so happy if Apple would just give users the option to turn off all the AI crap on the camera. It sucks so bad. I have an 8MP Canon point and shoot from 2008 that takes way better pictures than my iphone 15. And I'm not surprised that a larger sensor with larger, better glass takes better pictures with finer detail and less grain, I just wish more people understood what they're buying.

I've seen a few "4K" AI-upscaled movies and they look horrible. Rubber faces and uncanny valley effects every few seconds. What a shame. I'll stick with 1080P on blu-ray.
No benefits other than safety.
> As far as I can tell, many people learn very little in their college classes -- but it does still signal whether someone can shut up and do what they're told, turn in assignments on time, set a 4 year goal and accomplish it, etc.

If we're going to be brutally honest, at many, many companies, that's all you need to know how to do in order to have a fine career. Do what you're told, do it on time, and sustain that activity for years. Some companies say they want things like creativity, initiative, leadership, blah, blah, blah, but they're just words. Most of them are looking for cogs who take direction and finishing a 4 year degree shows you can do that.
I don't really use Pulsar as its heavy weight. But I'm glad for every legit open source project that pushes editing forward be it NeoVim, Emacs etc. The mono culture of do everything in vsCode under MS's thumb is not a great idea. Microsoft has proven itself untrustworthy time and time again.
If you draw a box around the solar system, and want a fast moving BH to settle in without rejecting on hyperbolic orbit, you'd just have to throw out another object that's comparable in size, at comparable speed. Momentum conserved.

A near miss with one of Jupiters moons might sling the BH into an orbit at slower pace and throw that moon into, say, earth to create our own moon.

This stuff probably happens more often than we think, on a galactic time scale.
Have you checked across the 8th dimension? Ask any Lectroid, they'll tell you.
What is the latest in this world? (Apart from this post)

I developed some prototypes in the authentication space about ten years ago. Our approach was to detect fluorescence; first in IR, then shifted to Blue-to-Yellow shift that could be triggered by a mobile phone screen and simultaneously “read” by the front facing camera.

The fluorescing dyes were trademarkable and very hard to develop, which we compared to holograms as markers of authenticity.
I'm regularly wondering why games are not more talked about in software engineering. Even in the early 2000s games were:

- more performant and responsive than most company applications
- while displaying complex real time geometry
- pretty well engineered
- fun and engaging
- didn't require reading 500 page manual to get by
Senior here too. It's a mix - usually my manager pushes hard on the less in the weeds-type topics, and I push on those in addition to the lower level topics. I can say with certainty that neither my manager nor I are ignored.
To be fair the bigger issue with the Vita was that Sony didn't really support it with games the way the PSP got. I remember watching E3 every year back then and being disappointed that they spent barely any time on Vita stuff.

The price of the console itself would've been fine if the memory cards were cheaper (or if they had just used a regular standard) and if there were as many good exclusives as the PSP had.

It basically just ended up being an indie and niche weeb gaming machine.

I guess it was kind of foreboding of the then upcoming console generations.
OpenAI is supplying the software underlying the productization. I would consider it far more likely that Meta or Google releases free software that becomes the new standard than that AMD/ARM/Intel manage to steal a significant amount of NVidia's business. And even if AMD came out with something just as good tomorrow, it's not like 2x the production capabilities would significantly hurt the price point for AI hardware.
One of the more surprising facts revealed in this article is that modern HDDs don't go through the traditional CHS order with increasing LBAs, and the number of sectors per track can vary even between two sides of the same platter at the same radial distance. I suspect a lot of this information is kept secret by HDD manufacturers, and known only to them and those working in data recovery (if a drive has one dead head, or media damage on one surface, traditional CHS order vs. the others would show very different results in which portions remain readable.)
I've worked with both extensively and I agree that Elixir's rebinding is a bit of a wart. FWIW you can get the Erlang behaviour by using the "pin" operator:

iex(1)> x = 4
4
iex(2)> ^x = 3
** (MatchError) no match of right hand side value: 3
Not sure I agree with that premise as the cake source would have been written in a way to be compatible with ownership annotations from the get go vs retrofitting an existing codebase. Help me understand how something like this composes:

FILE* open_file(const char* p) {
FILE* owner f = …
return f;
}

Now open_file callers would need to know that ownership is being returned which means that local variables would need to have the owner annotation propagated. That’s what I mean when I say it’s not composable - the ownership has to propagate fully throughout the codebase for a specific resource. Of course maybe you know better as this is just an initial glimpse on my part.
Wow, we’re really doing the singularity utopia or global nuclear warfare strategy.
I've got a lot of things that I would like to say in reply to you but I can only share some of them.

> enlightenment is a realization, not a state of being

If you say something is "not" a state, that is a state. ... no?

If you say it's beyond words, then it's not.

If you don't know how one might state it, then it's better to be able to know and say so.

> there is a state we can attain of true clarity and supreme perception that is often referred to as nirvana but it's just a state of supreme focus, it also passes

This is not totally true. It is true that karma can be reborn. But who says the "state" has gone anywhere?

What you're referring to seems to be the temporary nirvana - the magical city, for example - made up by the Buddha as he is recorded has having admitted in the White Lotus Sutra of the True Law.

If it were actual rest then you would also be at ease as to the question of how to not let that state pass. And the answer is: omniscience.

But he knew while pacing around his tree that beings wouldn't be ready to accept this, would doubt it, become afraid at it, or exhausted about it, or think themselves not the inheritors of it. So he made up the temporary nirvana as one of the benefits you get from one or more of the "vehicles" he also made up at his tree as a device to lead beings to the time they'd be ready to hear his disclosure that there are no three vehicles, no multiple nirvanas, but the singular Buddha-yana and the one actual nirvana.

> Then you are still in WoW, still a Dwarf, still just playing the game. But you know the true nature of things,

Contradiction. Check out the Diamond Sutra. There are no living beings. What we call living beings, aren't. Actual living beings aren't like that. Quite a good one of his. The Diamond Which Cuts Through Illusion.

> This is why is in the Gospel of Thomas Jesus says, "Those who learn the truth will be troubled" Enlightenment doesn't necessarily even make things easier if you don't truly embrace reality for what it is.

Yessss high five

"If you know the truth, you will be lonely; If you tell the truth, you will be under a curse"

and ... those who know of the true way... do not speak of it as if it is such a great thing.

Things like that.

After enlightenment, someone's life becomes harder. You will be obliged to do things bound by duty being the only one who can see, like a parent, in whose hands the future resides to some degree.

How much more so when you face the ridicule of those of small virtue.

Check out #41 of the tao te ching as well.

Take care
This isn’t actually true. Prettier does break code in strange circumstances and it can be very difficult to fix. The maintainers have a ton of stress on them and it’s hard to improve it sometimes.

It’s very well tested and easy to add cases too - just add an input and an output so that may be why it seems so solid, just whenever there is an issue people fix it.

I think the main thing is that Meta maintains it which probably is why it’s so solid.
Ask HN: How to Be Politely Curious?
I recently started to "be more curious," which is a common piece of advice in engineering. However, I find that sometimes I ask questions that come off accidentally rude. For example, asking "why" a lot of times can come off as annoying or irrelevant. (Or, could probably be better answered by a Google search.)

So my question is, how do you ask about something you're curious about in a polite way? Do you filter out questions that are irrelevant to the topic at hand? Do you make sure that whoever you're asking that they can answer your question?

I suppose the topic of this post could be more aptly put, how do you ask good, not annoying, questions?
> The most interesting applications of LLMs are not chatbots.

What are they then? Every use case I’ve seen is either a chatbot or like a copy editor which is just a long form chatbot.
> Maybe I'm missing something and Atom/Pulsar have some killer features that VS Code doesn't and won't ever have.

For one, it's not controlled by Microsoft which has its own plans and designs (lock you into GitHub, their proprietary extensions, telemetry, AI, etc)
Prettier isn’t terrible but compared to ocamlformat it is soooo… slow. Each time I save it takes a second or two for it to format.

Ocamlformat is instant in the meanwhile.
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Yes, that is the "verification" part I mentioned. With VMs like Java or .NET, the compiler has to infer essentially the same graph from unstructured labels and jumps.
I immediately remember $DFS having a large student debt portfolio; not sure if its relevant
> Even if it's late, you could try reaching out to Valve's support.

Generally that's good advice, but I've had enough negative experiences with Valve Support that my policy now is "Valve can fuck themselves sideways".

Thus only buying things from GOG or anything-other-than-Valve these days. Not going to bother contacting them for this. :)
> Sure ownership protects against more things. But some coding patterns are impossible under it.

In Rust you're told that if it's impossible under ownership then you should find a different way to express it rather than trying to circumvent ownership. I guess it's different in C.
He was referring specifically to Hamas.

That's the spin that the PM's office came up in an attempt to cover its tracks after the massive stink cloud that was raised once the quote became known outside Israel.

But for naught. Because it's manifestly clear from the language of the quote (and its historical context) that it refers to the entire population, not just Hamas. And unfortunately backed now by the IDF's actions on the ground, the zillions of TikTok videos gleefully posted by its soldiers, the rantings and ravings of countless government officials and other public figures, etc.
WD40 is used on concrete to make tags that show up only in the rain
Treason Act 1351
Signal and Matrix are not the only solutions with E2EE.
Before you move, be sure to check out the local vaccination rate. For example, according to: https://www.ppic.org/blog/school-vaccination-rates-vary-acro...

>More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools and eight of its schools serving seventh graders are on the audit list for 2022-23. This includes Markham Elementary where 65% of the 66 kindergarten students were not fully vaccinated last school year. The school had the highest percentage of kindergartners in California’s traditional public schools — with over 20 students — who were not fully vaccinated.

>Of the 27 Oakland Unified elementary schools on the list, more than 20% of kindergarten students in a dozen schools did not have all the required vaccinations last school year.
I... what the hell man? I'll turn 40 within the year. The only thing about my brain that's degraded is I sometimes find myself in the pantry with no idea why I'm there. I attribute that more to having 4 kids between the age of 7 and 14 who think I'm their personal assistant half the time. I don't see that getting better or worse in the next 10 months. But whatever, thanks for kicking off a thread of bad assumptions about my mental capacity, age and (this one's not your fault but sometimes you don't know how big the snowball will be when it reaches the bottom of the hill) overall character.
You can get dirt cheap rack servers on eBay now since everyone moved to the cloud. I'm appreciating the current position in the cycle.
WoWMIPS: A MIPS Emulator for Windows Applications
basically deal goes thru is p(republican admin takes over) + p(win in court) + p(settlement deal of some sort).
I cannot imagine ever abandoning Emacs (or vim for that matter), but I also can't imagine why anyone would want to continue Atom. If its environment worked for you, it seems like VSCode is clearly the right tool for that job.
Instead of linking to reddit discussions, we have our own Ask HN:'s and threads here for that purpose ...... and this has come up recently in a few discussions:

Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287616

A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423949
They should have moved to add YY in there.
Cusorless and Talon!

https://xeiaso.net/notes/cursorless-alien-magic/
Do North American consumers/merchants pay less in processing fees overall than European/Asian counterparts or is it roughly 1-3% all over the world?
> Desktop applications are uniquely auditable by security professionals in a way that web sites inherently aren't.

Except for the desktop applications that simply pop up a web view to load the web site from the internet.

(Looks at Discord, Slack, Zoom)

Not all Electron apps are this way, for example LM Studio stores its interface locally and therefore doesn't rely on loading it from a remote server at application start time. But a surprising number of them are.
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Website doesn't like it if you block third-party content (using uMatrix). It loads and then disappears a few seconds later.
> When dealing with Western actors, this is symmetric warfare. If you are a political party and the opposition impersonates you, you could do the same back.

No it isn’t symmetric.

There is no balance between party A being fraudulent so party B now needs to be fraudulent.

In both cases, the public C is the victim.

A permissive tit for tat view of fraud, simply encourages an arms race of victimization.

Organized crime groups compete too. That competition doesn’t result in some kind of optimal societal impact balance in the absence of legal responses either.
No. If you’re focusing on text on the windshield 50cm in front of you you are NOT focusing on the road.
Actually, I felt pk-protect-ai's post was spot on. That is, OpenAI does have, currently, the most impressive interfaces and models. But (as was famously commented on by a Google exec) they don't really have any unique moat. That is, while what OpenAI has built may be extraordinary, there is no "secret sauce" there that prevents others from copying them. And this isn't a knock on OpenAI at all. On the contrary, my understanding is that OpenAI was really the first to take the big risk in scaling their GPT models (i.e. spending the hundreds of millions to train their models before they knew what the outcome would be).