skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I remember programs looking like. You would have counters that went to 99 and no more because the UI wouldn't accommodate another digit, and programmers didn't know what they were doing, and figured it would be clearer if the software reflected its UI and couldn't handle over 99 at all, invalid UI means unrepresentable state.

Lots of stuff didn't care about the day, too, like you'd get 0997 and that meant September 1st 1997 because the first (or last) of the month was inferred, and you'd get goofy logic around year++ where you add 100 years whenever you want to increment the month, and the whole thing is written as a modulo 1200 but whenever the date is about to be 0000 you look at what's stored in year instead and add one to it instead of 100, because that way you have less variables to allocate and every "little bit" counts.

Everyone knows now, but lots of people writing programs didn't have any prior art, they were just good at messing with computers and sort of fell into programming by accident.
I was surprised by this too! I tried (briefly) to find a source, but it seems to be an urban legend:

https://www.answers.com/Q/How_did_Canada_geese_get_their_nam...
Fwiw, if you're using SMS still and on purpose, the Messages app is as good as it gets. It is actually pleasurable to use, and there are a lot of cases where trying to get friends/acquaintances to identify the right 3rd party messaging app to use (where inevitably at least one has to install something new), Messages is a great option.

To be completely clear, I am impressed with how well Google has evolved the remaining Comms apps (Meet, Chat, Messages) over the past three years -- especially Meet & Messages. Considering where things stood five years ago, it's been an epiphany.
You do know that the same time China was having its Cultural Revolution, America and the west were having one as well? With all those baby boomer kids coming of age, 1969 wasn't a calm year anywhere in the world. In China, it meant communism and down with the old culture/elites. In the USA, it meant free love, drugs, and protesting against the Vietnam war.

But this, I don't see any comparison to Google suppressing what images could be generated with AI to any of what happened 55+ years ago.
For all the panics about shoplifting or stores claiming they’re closing because of retail loss (spoiler: that’s not the truth) it’s a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft

https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-...
Holy god YouTube is 12MB? How!?
A better way to think about it is that you can trust the code you test. Y2K was a problem because it affected _everything_ because anywhere a date was used had to be checked. For mortgages, yes, banks did fix that code earlier but they did it because someone noticed a problem in 1980 and fixed that specific problem, not because they transformed how they wrote code and checked all of the millions of lines of other code which nobody had reported problems with.

Roll ahead a couple decades, and now you have even more code with lots of interconnected assumptions and the guy who originally wrote it retired to the beach at Margaritaville with zero interest in going back to Cleveland to talk about date math. If you’re lucky, a pile of cash could change that. If you weren’t, they passed in a boating accident last month.

My first tech job was working for a COBOL vendor in the mid 90s and heard a lot from customers and other people in the industry. Much of it was cosmetic (rolling from 1999 to 1900 on a display, etc.) but a lot of it would have had real consequences: not accepting credit cards with dates in the new millennium, calculating interest incorrectly, sending people incorrect notices or failing to send correct ones, etc. I remember a someone at Mastercard saying they wouldn’t have been able to processed credit card transactions at all after midnight if they hadn’t done several years of careful work.

The two things which helped were that it got enough attention to get the business people to pay for remediation, and there were enough dates in the future that people got wake-up calls in different industries. Mortgages were the earliest but closer in you had things like credit card expiration dates which caused enough problems that people got serious about deploying updates.

These days, I’m wondering how 2038 will go. We have a LOT more devices floating around and there are still plenty of new devices shipping with 32-bit embedded Linux which may never get updated. Hopefully most of that cheap IoT stuff won’t last another decade but I’m kind of something like an automotive company getting publicly outed for skimping on technical debt management and some people getting locked out of their smart houses.
>Seems like a waste to throw away the ISS.

Aerospace vehicles and structures have a limited shelf life. Patching ageing stuff up in space is expensive. So building a new one from scratch might be cheaper long run.
Can't wait for the definitive "List of Things That 'Aren't A Thing'"
No, this is just completely wrong and ridiculous.

People did this all the time until txting was common. Once txt was common there was no reason to just drop by someone's place randomly without giving them a heads up.
very basic advice imo xD
What's your chatGPT prompt, just what's shown or do you have a longer one? It seems to be doing much better with code generation than it does with my prompts.
I'm frankly amazed its been tried/tested as much as it has. Sure, it's amazing compared to where it used to be, very facile with language, but it's really very bad a lot of the time at present, especially compared to an employee who's supposed to know something about what is being worked on. Skillful users can get benefit from it in narrow situations, but it really needs to improve a lot.
A sourdough takes about two weeks (if you're lucky, maybe one) to become consistent in its strength (as the rising agent) and flavour. And requires 1-2x feedings a week, depending on, again, how you want it to taste and rise exactly when you need it.

The author makes a really good point. I'll continue to keep and feed my starter though, just in case I want sourdough crackers or to bake bread this week.
X-Strahlen (X-Rays) is the name Röntgen invented for his discovery :)
You can open a bank account in China without any real requirements and thus have a 'local' card. You just need a passport, phone number, and a local address (a friend's is fine).

And yes I think long long ago the WeChat setup would expect a Chinese ID number, but for at least some years now they've accepted passports as an alternative.

But very recently (in the last six months) they've started allowing foreign cards for WeChat pay. So you can add a card and pay for things in store, but not access the more general money transfers, red packets, etc. that people do with it. I guess those have stricter KYC requirements, plus they are keen to stop money getting out of the country.

Smaller places I never _see_ take cash, always WeChat, but I suppose that doesn't strictly mean they won't take it.
Those splines don't reticulate themselves, you know.
I get you, thanks.
...on a server that speaks ActivityPub. Mastodon is one such piece of software.
Bluesky isn't run by Jack Dorsey BTW. It kind of looks like he disowned it.
My read is that there's the Google Pay app (that currently handles tap-to-pay + all your payments), and Google Wallet (which handles cards only). In the near future, Wallet will handles cards + payments (including subscriptions) + tap-to-pay... but it's unclear whether Google is still going to have Offers & P2P payments as they exist in the current Pay app.
Edit: (I guess it is real) shutdown announcement - https://www.spreadsheet.com/blog/spreadsheet-com-will-be-ret...
Decouple Business Logics with AI
Once the Supreme Court ruled that money is speech, this was the next logical step.
Trump 1.0 triggered the initial woke wave in the first place (he was a catalyst, not a proponent). Trump 2.0 would rather trigger double woke, which will trigger its backlash like woke 1.0 triggered its own backlash.

Biden as president is boring, which is how I like it. But if you want to rile liberals up, nominate or elect Trump president again, it will definitely drive voter turnout if anything else.
Better link to the original announcement: https://www.spreadsheet.com/blog/spreadsheet-com-will-be-ret...
Sounds like you might have ideas of your own, care to elaborate?
"However, despite winning the business of over 1,000 organizations, we were unfortunately unable to achieve venture-scale growth."

Very hard to break into the enterprise space when Google and Microsoft have site-wide, multi-product licenses.
I run an ad agency. I only touch ad accounts with pre-existing spend snd results for that reason. If I take the client from $200 CAC to $100 CAC I'm a hero. If I go from scratch to $100 they don't know my value and it's much more work.
Starship is also the biggest rocket to have ever flown, with twice the thrust of the Saturn V!

That’s using a fraction of their budget.
If you want to check them all out in one place, we built a platform for that at https://shadeform.ai
This is definitely a major benefit of old school onprem (self-hosted) software.

If the software company goes bust, because your self-hosting the software ... it gives you extra time to find an alternative solution.

With SaaS, you're toast.
It's always worth making some effort at promoting your value; no one else is likely to do it for you.
Yo I think he works for Sheetcast. Hence the promotional link in OP which suggests an alternative.
The projection system, you can see in a photo, was made by Vitarama. Vitarama developed a number of interesting projection systems, but their best known was Cinerama, the three-camera widescreen format that was briefly popular in the '50s but had long-lasting influence by popularizing widescreen films. One wonders if Fred Waller, Cinerama's inventor, worked on this project. He was sort of an inventor of the classic type.

In another photo we see what I think is a Teletype Model 15, behind the clerk handling an impressive rolodex. It even appears to have a Bell Canada Trans-Canada Telephone System badge on it. Transmitting orders was a very popular application of teletype service, and a lot of Bell advertising in both the US and Canada focused on customers like Hudson's Bay and Montgomery Ward.
It's not that they can't, it's that they don't.
Bribery Slang Around the World
I don't know about fab capacity, but I suspect the price they can sell GPUs for is not so constrained.
https://archive.ph/eeBzr
We are just going to have to stop putting dumb cards into smart terminals.

The user needs to own the device that approves or rejects the transaction, and with all of the MITM prevention efforts we expect from any other system.

Years ago someone demonstrated a credit card with a display and a keypad built into it. Probably still a bit expensive, but then the first credit card sized calculator came out in 1978 and by the 90's they had solar powered ones the thickness of a few credit cards. It can be done.
Both the content collections and media can filter by file extension so you could very well have something like:

media:
input: posts
output: /posts
categories: [ image ]
content:
- name: posts
label: posts
type: collection
path: posts
fields:
- { name: title, label: Title, type: string }
- { name: body, label: Body, type: rich-text }

The collection of posts will only show the `md` files (that's the default, but you could change it by having a `filename` attribute on your content entry) and the media folder will only show images (`jpg`, `jpeg`, `png`, `gif`, `svg`, `bmp`, `tif`, `tiff`).
In such a case you absolutely should! At the same time, it makes sense that bsky, as the protocol stewards, might not want to make that pit too easy to fall into.
> So what data goes and what data is blocked by transitioning away from the main server?

Nothing. It is fully transparent to everyone. Your followers won't notice, and you won't notice. Everything Just Works.
You're both right and wrong.

Corporations and governments do consist of people and people do care...but it's also the case the being a cog in a large organization does have a tendency to induce stuff like "I was just following orders" or "It's not my problem, someone else needs to fix it" :-/
Come on, his point is not about AI but about politics: "they" versus "you".

And he is completely, totally incompetent on this - and by the way, he's also completely incompetent on AI, and on most of tech. See his stint at twitter...
htmx doesn't require you to make a request for UI changes. You can express your UI in terms of components which have built-in interactivity, eg dropdowns, inputs, details/summary tags, etc. You can go pretty far with those before you need to make a request.
That weird fork the second from the right was from when Google was aspiring to become a bank... or at least partner with one, to offer credit cards.

The far right branch is the "Next Billion Users" stream that launched Tez, which at the time was explicitly and solely for the Indian market, but since it was superior to the Google Wallet/Pay at the time, the VP lead decided to aim for global adoption, which was the previous Pay-->Wallet-->Pay nonsense a couple years ago. That has failed, so now everything is reverting back to the original/primary branch on the far left, which is and has always been, owned by the Android team.
You needed a working visa/resident permit last time I opened up a bank account in China (but that was in 2007, a bit long time ago). Linking to a foreign card to WeChat/AliPay would be really convenient, like how I was able to link ApplePay to Suica when I was in Japan (super convenient, but I had to top off manually on my phone, which was a bit annoying).

I'm really wondering how the hole in the wall xiaochis (e.g. 成都小吃, this is mostly a Beijing thing) work now. I'm guessing they would be the first ones not to take cash anymore if they didn't have to.
AT&T restores service after hours of outage
Yes, certainly can. We give the maximum customization for the LLM part.
The performance loss was many times higher than experts usually hit even when optimizing for correctness. You also assume it will be later be close to C’s performance which most people who are experts wouldn’t claim. I’m glad you are aware of their work, though.

“Know better than any of those folks”

The Word of God says pride comes before the fall and the proud get humbled. If you have the knowledge, then wisdom might be the next thing to add to the project. You will be living pleasing to God and might draw in others with exactly the ideas you need.
> 307MB of Enron emails

Wait what?

Is that some sort of inside joke?
It’s the Jonah paradox.
As long as they’re not using third party apps and clicking multiple times per thread to expand the comments section by 3 new comments with a potential break for ads.
To be fair to you, I think it's a valuable comment and the replies were insightful to me. Maybe your comment was being read as anti-Gimp (Gimp stories always get a lot of low-effort "Why hasn't Gimp done <x> yet??" comments). I love Gimp and I upvoted your comment because I've wondered similar things too -- just what is the relationship between GNU and GIMP?

That relationship seems to be a little confusing going by this thread, so I think your comment was warranted!
>Yes, some technical know-how here and there was technically "lost"--I've been in North Hollywood scrounging around for old NASA parts so that measurements could be taken and worked backwards from.

Oh, I don't know. I think we've actually made improvements in leaps and bounds over the "lost" tech. Our soundstage, green screen, and post tech has definitely improved /s

I know it's not what you meant, but the NoHo reference made me laugh at the thought
Chinese government has a pork reserve like the American government has an oil reserve.
I've used Amazon's One Medical for free-to-members ($9/month) remote visits five times in two months. One referred me to the ER, another refilled a prescription at a different dose. The shortest wait was 30 seconds, the longest wait was about 18 minutes. To get the free visit, you have to scroll down past the regular paid appointment to "Urgent Video Chat", which is weirdly the free option, not a more expensive option.
No, I think you meant Wat!
We do have support for IdPs like Azure AD + role based access control (these aren't in the MIT version of Danswer though :sweat:).

If you're interested in learning more, would love to chat through the details on Slack / Discord.
Follow our detailed guides where generate best practice documents & detail what to do & what not to. (They really are good & helpful, yay peer reviewed documents.)
oh, I had no idea from scanning the docs that it created a physical file for every virtual file. that really makes it of marginal general use.

I suppose the choice of the name also makes sense in that context.
If you don't have a content type, you're screwed no matter what you do. Web browsers use a goofy detection system that sometimes works and sometimes fails, because it only reads the beginning of the file.
As the owner of a 10+ year account, I got an invite earlier... Maybe I can finally be able to get in contact with an actual person after Reddit plunged that same account into a kafka-esque hell.

In short, their automated systems decided to block/hide everything I ever wrote--even re-blocking it after moderators manually approved it--while their appeals page simultaneously claims my account is in good standing! Resurrecting an old throwaway to ask for help, it too was killed without reason or appeal.
How fast can we process a CSV file
It would be even better if Framework laptops could do that since they’re all about parts reuse.
An LLM is not the same thing as a human mind and does not automatically receive the same exception to copyrights.

Whatever you think makes sense, it would be wise to be careful, because the law might not turn out to be what you want it to be.
We agree, yeah. My argument is just that if you're accurately describing the argument that 'levkk is making, then 'levkk's isn't a meaningful argument: doesn't really do anything to indict one language or the other, at least if I've correctly understood serde's usage in what appears very much the identical use case.
Good luck sending 10 BTC worth of USD from a US bank to China or Russia, or ANY bank without raising eyebrows and getting your bank account locked/frozen
When do you think Bluesky will be officially a broad public social media network? It seems rather niche at this point
I guess. You'll never feel as free and as restricted as you will in China, both at the same time! Free in the sense that almost anything goes in the party scene (although stay away from drugs, big no-no, even if you are offered some), restricted in the sense that many internet sites don't work and you are always worried that the Chinese authorities will become interested in you for some odd reason (even though this is unlikely, we usually aren't as interesting as we think we are).

Japan in comparison is much more law and order from the start, and mostly the opposite. Japanese Police will search your stuff just to look busy, but they are never going to unnecessarily persecute you.
You heard the man. We're trying to convince people we've faked another landing by landing on the moon
BlueSky isn't run by Jack Dorsey. I'm not a fan of him either. Luckily, he's doing nostr instead.
As China Expands Its Hacking Operations, a Vulnerability Emerges
https://archive.is/2024.02.22-221732/https://www.nytimes.com...
Well, right. I meant that to be more illustrative than literal.

That’s what other tools do, and what I think GIMP should do: provide a shortcut for the basics (circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, etc.). If you want to draw a tree, that’s on you. Put a box around a thing? It should help you.
> This kind of fault would be more indicative of a configuration error

Multiple networks being affected simultaneously would seem to rule that out, no?

That, to me, implies either an intrinsic fault (date/time related bug) or external factors, which could be as you've said a dependency (or hostile action.)
This is a repost from two days ago. why?

I commented a bit late on the earlier one so I’ll repeat myself here.

These comparisons feel like they are geared to analysts, not programming oriented data scientists. Which is fine, I suppose.

——- prior comment ——-
This is fine and all, (although I’m not impressed by the quality of the python code), but the examples don’t show how to do meta programming.

I often dont want to manually write out column names, but programmatically specify them, and similar for a lot of other of these examples. I don’t want to manually configure them.

I haven’t seen examples of that higher level programming in these various R python comparisons. It’s always manual examples.

The examples usually feel like manual analyst query type tasks. The tone in this one strongly reinforces that with text like “oh and Maria asked me to xyz”
I wonder if it'll be like the obviously insufficient design of Macbooks, such that there's so little space between the keyboard and screen that it would take an impractical level of caution to avoid inevitably eroding the coating on the screen.
The neat thing about this speed though is you can flip through the seeds quickly. Seed 626925 is giving me a fish holding some kind of gun, with what I guess are leather gloves. This has always been the main problem with SD imo, it can't really parse sentence structure so adjective descriptions often don't affect the thing you want.
The vast majority of Sans Serif fonts do not use crossbars in the I[1]. But yes, we agree with you that it is important to distinguish the two characters, which is why we have, as Tobias noted.

But in what textual situations do you think it is important to have that clarity when the text does not have both characters? That's the situation where I think it is actually useful. If it is only one or the other, context should be sufficient.

I've attached a paragraph of text using SN Pro[2] that has copious Ls and Is of both cases. Please give it a read, I would genuinely like to know if you feel that our tails are not sufficient (not necessarily perfect, but sufficient).

[1] https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=I%20love&stroke=Sans+...

[2] https://my.supernotes.app/share/imitate+gain+unlock+execute
Any thoughts on jute twine or coir twine? Fully plant based. Jute is probably very similar to hemp.
I have only brought this up once before on HN and it was over 2 years ago. Not adopting a new project because it is missing something niche is an extremely common reason why people stick with tried and true, mature software. I do not see anything wrong with pointing out niche issues because to some people these issues are important. Because it's broken out of the box it is allowing people who aren't aware of this problem to continue to setup broken sites. Even caddyserver.com. is broken.
FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk
How about just not having one? i am often interested to try things but I am not giving out my CC until I've tried it out, FOMO be damned. I don't want the burden of cancellation if I decide it's not for me, I've been burned before by forgetting and paying for a service I didn't want.
Absolutely, but there's a huge overlap in terms of what react and htmx can serve. Most websites that use react, can just as easily use htmx.
The cultural revolution was initiated by Mao because he was losing power and wanted to regain it. Even then it didn't happen overnight. It was preceded by a generation of buildup (in fact many of the violent perpetrators were young teenagers who were born after the Civil War had ended).
And even if you start counting from when Mao initiated it, it still didn't kick into full swing overnight.