skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> English is the langua franca of programming.

I am not an English native speaker, but learned programming before even starting with learning English. In my head, the English keywords used in programming languages are thus just abstract (mathematical) symbols that are incidentally also English words.

As part of my work, I also work with Russian programmers, who, as long as they lived in Russia, hardly ever had to understand anything in English as part of their programming job ("Russia is so big that it is not necessary to learn English"). Just to be clear: they nevertheless attempted to learn English while living in Russia, but because of of intellectual interest, and not because it was necessary or helpful for their programming jobs. I heard rumors that a similar stance holds for China.

Thus: English may be the lingua franca of programming in North America and some European countries, but clearly not worldwide.
If anyone is interested in using HyperCard to make MARCHintosh content feel free to drop by the HyperCard Discord server I run if you want help! https://discord.com/invite/TAvA6TauZB
Also to some extent Singularity Sky. "You shall not violate causality within my historic lightcone. Or else." Of course, in that story it's a question of monopolization.
I'm happy it worked out for you!
More than 50% of US funds for 'climate-smart' farming do not help crisis
ah, thank you! I couldn't find anything on the website itself, should have thought to look at the code.
How can you vote with no information?

Might as well just pick a card from a shuffled deck…
It's crazy that he almost became CEO of Apple when Jobs died.
Included discounts versus mining your pc for advertising purposes, ok
Mastering Atomic Complex Operations in Redis
Come on now, that's not true. Every week LinkedIn adds a new email marketing category which you haven't opted-out of yet, because it didn't exist before.
guess toddlers are dumber than babies then https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/01/singing-to-b...
What? How do OpenAI and Antrhropic and Mistral API access contribute less to text pollution?
Why is that relevant 100 years after prohibition ended?
If only the thing could speak and summarize in plain English instead of hollow, overly verbose bulleted lists.
U.S. tests ChatGPT for military strategy
Show HN: Cardio ― open-source, roguelike, deck-building card game
Cardio is an open-source, (hopefully ;-) ) community-driven, roguelike, deck-building card game, written in Python.

Inspired by Inscryption.

Looking for people who would like to contribute and build something bigger out of this.
From what it looks more expressive and seems intuitive to me.
Alt + Tab
F1 has had lots of interesting things over the years - my favourite being the 1.5l 600HP V16 from the 1950s. Didn't work terribly well but worth listening to a recording of one because it sounded awesome - there are still a few running examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Racing_Motors_V16

Edit: BRM are sometimes referred to as "British Racing Misery"
People who need to type those characters often have localized keyboards where this is obvious. In addition, those are not special characters but compositions of characters, so adding them to a keyboard is relatively inexpensive in terms of key cost.
"New contributors" in the changelog is a nice touch.
I'd say you want something like 'debug_msg()' for this.

'print()' should be async because it does IO. In the real world most likely you'd see the output once you yield.
no upfront types, for me this is unusable sadly
Too funny.

Some years ago, D&I, as it was then called, became a thing in Corp. America. Companies decided that they needed to put pictures of groups of photogenic, diverse candidates all over campus, where a group would consist of about 30 or 40 people looking at the camera and smiling.

Sadly, the designers did not notice that they used a stock image of a generic Hispanic-looking person twice in the same group. Happy days...
Being a good listener is a valuable skill that fosters understanding, empathy, and strong relationships. But as I think these kinds of people are often not lestent to...
We all love an activist, until they need something
The Gemini did not mention his age, but it was provided as part of details given to the LLM about the user from google.

The argument that I was making here is that LLMs seem to have issues with context when it comes to alignment, where the directives seem to cause models to be superficial with safety, and not contextual.

Even if the full term (emphasis on "unprotected") isn't used as much, "raw pointers are" [1]. Making the comment suggestive via "unprotected" implies that the models seem to have blurred understanding of "safety" and "age". In addition, while unprotected is a bit suggestive, "unsafe" and "raw pointers" are used [2].

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=raw+pointers

[2] https://kagi.com/search?q=raw+and+unprotected+pointers
I hear you, but:

Kenwood did have drives (which others also sold derivatives of) that would, ideally, do 72x at peak. That was a thing.

They did this by cheating: They would read more than one track from the CD-ROM, concurrently, and in parallel. This is a proper hack, and it worked: It could read a CD at a faster rate, with a slower rotational speed, than many other drives.

I never owned a drive that used the Kenwood method. (I never wanted one; my ideas for high-speed CD reading centered around getting good reads from audio CDs, which was still hairy around that time.)

More-common "52x" (or more) drives just spun the fuck out of the CD. Mu circa-1997 girlfriend had one of those drives in her desktop tower PC, and it always sounded like it was going to disassemble the whole PC when it managed to get spun fully up.

But they never really exceeded 8k RPM. It was just a difference of read methods.

There was CAV, CLV, partial CAV, and other methods -- both for reading, and writing. In reader-space, the documentation wasn't always complete in describing the methods -- it became universal that "faster is better".

My own peak CD-ROM time happened with a Plextor PR-820 burner and a "24x" Plextor reader, both connected with parallel SCSI.

It was very fast for the time, but I was never successful with direct high-speed disc-to-disc copies with this rig. Even with IBM UltraStar 9ES ultra-wide SCSI disks and plenty of RAM, and plenty of time for tweaking -- I just couldn't a a reliable copy possible. (And all of my reported-successful burns were proper, and that was important to me.)

So I rolled on with this rig for a couple of years, when a friend brought over a new pile of PC parts to have me assemble.

And I did assemble the things, and then we did the requisite copying of the Windows CD.

He wanted to copy it at max speed. I was sure it would fail.

Except: He had a fast reader (>32x), and a "32x" burner (which isn't really a thing), and... We put the source disc in the source drive, and the blank disc in the target drive, and it just fuckin' worked. I timed it, and it took 2 minutes and 43 seconds. Both drives spun up like jet engines, and the progress bar just spooled across the screen without a pause in Nero Burning ROM.

It was amazing to observe. And it probably did not exceed 8k RPM on either drive, despite the necessary read/write rates.

(That was early in 2002, as a reference.)
Hopefully they'll learn that such standards don't exist and that if they do will deteriorate by the second year.

If it wasn't for it being some big enterprise corporate company no one would give a stuff about the blog post.

Do I care someone left company X, fired from company Y? No.

Do I acknowledge it's upsetting? Yes, Pack your stuff and try again.

welcome to life.
Why the name and the logo? Couldn't find info about it.

Otherwise, the idea of creating something close to rust but without the complexity sounds interesting. I just hope they don't stick to that name.
That's because computers are dumb servants. And that's a good thing, because computer solutions should be task specific. The human has agency and sometimes imagination, and the computer's job is to solve a problem as transparently as possible with as little cognitive load as possible.

Human language is optimised for human relationships, not for task-specific problem solving. It's full of subtext, context, and implication.

As soon as you try to use natural language for general open-ended problem solving you get lack of clarity and unintended consequences. At best you'll have to keep repeating the request until you get what you want, at worst you'll get a disaster you didn't consider.
Why would they sign on to this gamble though? It seems like idiocy or mis-selling. The article is frustrating as it merely explains the outcome and not how an obvious mistake was made. Basically nobody in their right mind would sign on to this and work for free.
Exactly I was pointing out why some may choose certain models. I would say that building a platform takes many considerations and the choices made led to this outcome. Apple made different choices and is often vilified for trying to maintain these protections.

Apple has been slowly making progress of opening up their platform. The next 3 years will introduce a new landscape for apps. People will still be complaining.
> I'd say that a soldier in a medieval battle had even less chances to survive

Why would you say that?

There were a lot of minor conflicts in the middle ages. Not everything was as big as the crusades.
Not SPC, but in a similar spirit usecase, I have code examples here of calculating confidence intervals around proportions in SQL, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2020/11/30/confidence-intervals-a...

I am one of the folks that for dashboarding prefer to push everything to SQL VIEWS and functions. So I use this to monitor proportions for different processes month to month, which may have error bars +/- five to ten percent.

It is technically not the right test to know if the process changed, but is useful by eye to know typical variation.
At the time I was working with either GPT 3.5 or 4, and – looking at my old code - I was limiting myself to around 14k tokens.

> Were you happy with the results?

It was somewhat ok. I was testing the system from a (copyrighted) psychiatry textbook book and getting feedback on the output from a psychotherapist. The idea was to provide a tool to help therapists prep for a session, rather than help patients directly.

As usual it was somewhat helpful but a little too vague sometimes, or missed important specific information for situation.

It is possible that it could be improved with a larger context window, having more data to select, or different prompting. But the frequent response was along the lines of, "this is good advice, but it just doesn't drill down enough".

Ultimately we found that GPT3.5/4 could produce responses that matched or exceeded our RAG-based solution. This was surprising as it is quite domain specific, but also it seemed pretty clear that GPT must have be trained on very data very similar the (copyrighted) content we were using.

Further steps would be:

1. Use other LLM models. Is it just GPT3.5/4 that is reluctant to drill down?

2. Used specifically-trained LLMs(/LORA) based on the expected response style

I'd be careful of entering this kind of arms race. It seems to be a fight against mediocre results, and at any moment OpenAI at al may release a new model that eats your lunch.
>> Just chunking every N characters wasn't especially fruitful

Is there any science associated with creative effective embedding sets? For a book, you could do every sentence, every paragraph, every page or every chapter (or all of these options). Eventually people will want to just point their RAG system at data and everything works.
Exact same reason jpgs and gifs were the standard for such a long time.
Or an opprotunity for more flexible insurers.
I never asked you why you code, this conversation isn't, or wasn't, about your hobbies. You proposed a future in which every skiddy has a hacking LLM and they're using it to attack tons of stuff written by LLMs. If hacking LLMs and code writing LLMs both proliferate then the obvious resolution is for the code writing LLMs to employ hacking LLMs in verifying their outputs.

Existing vulnerable code will be vulnerable, yes. We already live in a reality in which script kiddies trivially attack old outdated systems. This is the status quo, the addition of hacking LLMs changes little. Insofar as more systems are broken, that will increase the pressure to update those systems.
The reasoning with await is valid, it's an I/O call, but the await should maybe be hidden inside the print then?
> But then don't try to sell them to Spreadsheet users.

The problem rather is that "fetching people where they are" regarding the programming language design means keeping these people stupid. Instead, you should market the programming language to spreadsheet users by explaining them how the new kind of thinking that the programming language enables lets their intellectual potential explode.
Dada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
Does 'Open' means anything in legal sense? It may not be in bad taste but it is your interpretation.
If a business harms me, those laws prevent me from seeking restoration from the investors.
There is a Y Combinator in there!
There are people who question that the Earth is a sphere.
I guess I was expecting it to output a nicely designed website, not text describing the content
...why is this the top comment? What happened to HN, did it get taken over by prudish parental figures like those in the 90s who called for internet and computers be banned?

People have killed other people with forks. Do what that info what you will, but do apply it to your analogy.

Also let's not pretend the receiving side is innocent; choosing to receive money in crypto is already a huge red flag.
They’re both referencing the Dada artistic movement.
Acessar Deep Web via Tor Tutorial
> Generative AI poses no unique threat;

While the threat isn't unique the magnitude of the threat is. This is why you can't argue in court the threat of a car crash is nothing unique even when you're speeding vs driving within limit.
> The reason for needing to not know the hash is for cases like tornado cash. The site and repo was taken down. There's a bunch of people sharing a codebase with differing hashes, you have no idea which is real or altered.

> This is also important for cases where the domain is hacked.

I think at some point you need to know some sort of root-of-trust to kick off the trusting process. I believe in this case, you would trust a certain DID or set of DIDs (i.e. a Tornado Cash developer's public key). You can clone their version of the project and the history of the project MUST be signed by their private key for it to be legitimate.

To clarify, in Radicle, a peer's set of references are always signed by their key and this data is advertised so that you can always verify, using their public key, that this data is indeed what this peer has/had in their Git history. If this ever diverges then any fetching from that peer is rejected.
Reminds me of that book: 100 Authors against Einstein to which Einstein retorted: "If I were wrong, then one [author] would have been enough!".

https://archive.org/details/HundertAutorenGegenEinstein
Cool idea! Now it takes 2 bytes to bypass integrity validation, and 2 bytes to bypass cert pinning. (4 bytes in total)
SPY is beta roi, and it probably did worse than that.
Design2Code: How Far Are We from Automating Front-End Engineering?
at least they said they are
What tool are you using to view dictionary.js in your screenshot?
Huh, typically print is the debug message function vs explicitly writing to stdout
Why not? Diversity of sites is great.
It is indicated in the last paragraph of the FAQ: https://dada-lang.org/docs/about/faq (It is indeed hard to find though!)
THE MESSAGE!
By believing that since they aren't "MBA", economics and human behaviour don't apply to them.
Could you give some examples on where you feel Swift shines compared to Rust? I quite like Rust and it’s associated tooling and type system.
From https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz/rad:z3trNYnLW...

> A seed is a node that hosts and serves one or more projects on the network.

I have not read the entirety of their documentation in great detail, but what I did glance over, I did not see anything particular special about seed nodes other than they host and serve projects. And obviously there is a bit of plumbing required for that.
That would be pretty great. Even better - a movie widget that integrates IMDB and JustWatch. JustWatch tells you where you can actually stream/buy/rent a movie… I find it very helpful for dealing with ever-changing streaming catalogs.

https://apis.justwatch.com/docs/content_partner/
I know, yes. But US still account for a very big share of their revenues.

Check what happens to Tesla sales when countries cut EV subsides. New Zealand did it in January. Here is the data:

https://evdb.nz/ev-stats

The truth is, without subsides, Tesla would sell a fraction of what it does now, and it would certainly not be profitable (hell, it probably won't be profitable in 2024, even with the subsides !).
Because it empowers developers instead of salespeople?
>So how about we make the cars fun to watch again?

F1 can be very boring, the guys that were starting first were finishing first,
I would watch it to see overtakes and piloting skills and the problem is that without limits the company with the big money will win. This is not fun, it does not make money and rules change to limit costs so all the teams can compete using a similar budget.

I stopped watching 2 decades ago, I stopped also watching or reading the summaries, it got to boring for me but I suppose that there are soem that want to see that kind of sport where the teams have no limit and you just watch the cars running around in circles and admire them.

I think there are only a few engines providers anyway , so I am not sure on what they are optimizing on this days, maybe aerodynamics and fuel strategy.
You basically just described medical billing. They claim bills are due upon receipt, and then can't consider them delinquent as long as there was action made within a year from my understanding.
While I haven't worked for Accenture, I have worked for other consulting companies and designing and delivering custom in house eduction programs to companies was a non-trivial part of what parts of the company did. I imagine that they see Udacity as a platform for growing that part of the business.
Wrong. You refrain from people from achieving incremental improvements. The opportunity for change towards a positive direction is inhibited. That there is a status quo is a wrong assumption as there certainly was a positive development strongly associated with free societies that specifically prohibit discrimination among racial lines. A development that hopefully doesn't get stunted by DEI any further.

People that do DEI as their main job certainly try to ensure that discrimination will stay. They have a vested interest in it for themselves. What can I say, they are just human. Probably sexist and racist, just like you said.
Thanks for the correction, I remembered it wrong.

From his blog:

>[...]Eine ganz besondere Zugfahrt zum nördlichsten Bahnhof Europas, Narvik.

>A very special train journey to the northernmost railroad station in Europe, Narvik. [0]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narvik_Station
Folk racing has an interesting rule:

> Anyone can place a fixed-price bid on any car, and the buyer is then chosen by draw. The fixed price in Finland is €2,000 (≈US$1,650) or 8,000 SEK (≈US$1,000) in Sweden. Refusing to sell is grounds for having one's competition licence revoked

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace
It's a leaky abstraction (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...), but maybe there is no helping it and for some reason it is a necessary tradeoff for performance?
That’s like saying once Usain Bolt was born, there’s no point in running any more. There may be a team always in front, but the simpler rule would be: once you make it, you are out for a season or two. That drives incentive to not be over-the-top winning unless you want a guaranteed one-and-done team.
The function would be destroyed (guessing running instances would finish their handlers and then no longer be accessible) but the log group it created would still be present, holding logs from the dead function.
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MH370: Tragic Mystery of Vanished Flight Lingers 10 Years Later
I have heard 1st hand a guy who loves to bicycle tell a disabled man (who can in no way bicycle) that he must never buy a car, because they are bad for the environment.

A different time, a woman passing by felt the need to stop and scold a friend who had said a non politically correct joke, explaining that he could only laugh at them because he's a privileged white male. He's a privileged white male immigrant whose school time included training to run into bomb shelters because there was a war going on. And the woman was a white non-immigrant.

People who scold you for saying words such as "ghetto" or "retard" will then say "lame".

I've met so many of these people. They're so boring and entitled.

In general I think anyone not minding their own business when nobody is getting harmed is boring and entitled. On both sides of the woke fence.
The one downside is, after i've typed 15 texts, the other person is still punching in their first on a touchscreen.

This is probably just a matter of other people not drinking enough coffee, however.
the .rs is for Rust my friend
The media has been nonstop attacked by the political right going all the way back to the 80. It started with talk radio.

Before cable TV News was a loss leader mostly limited to time slots that were the least profitable for commercials and mostly covered headlines.

When 24/7 cable arrived with CNN and then Fox, the filled in time essentially became 23 hours of talking head opinion. Suddenly the critics isolated to talk radio got their own forums.

But what really finally destroyed trust was social media. Now instead of just your uncle telling you to watch Fox, he’s resharing all over FB, and now Post-Musk Twitter.

With the signal to noise ratio going to hell, and one side almost constantly spreading (according to a peer reviewed a Science journal paper recently) significantly more misinformation to their own bubble, is it any wonder trust is declining?

The final nail in the coffin will be AI where deepfakes and bots will make it almost impossible to believe any story.
There hasn't been real income growth in the last 3 years. Inflation wiped all of that out, and credit card balances are as high as ever.
Secure by Design at Google
Yeah, as a gay man I believe that men who have sex with women shouldn't be compelled into fatherhood just because they had sex, if that wasn't the intention.

Cruely, the answer usually seems to be "Well, don't have sex then". The only reproductive right men have at all is the choice to use the limited birth control available to them (condoms).

If they are lied to about their partner being on birth control then they are automatically out of the picture when it comes to choice around "what happens after". I would love to see a birth control pill for men, though the typical sexist response to that I've heard from many women is "men would just forget to take it as if we could trust them". Tables turning.
Plaintextaccounting_workshop
I personally find the semantics of javascript a lot harder to internalize than rust due to its scoping and very unintuitive object system. I can't imagine this is any more difficult than that.
Don't say that he's hypocritical,

Say rather that he's apolitical.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.
The Daytona SP3 isn't there, for example. Probably not the latest F1 car either (although to me it feels like the F1 cars don't belong in this list).