skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Whelmed" is new slang to mean, it was ok, just alright. It is a reaction to over- and underwhelmed which now carry a bit more extreme connotation.
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> Is this something the folks at Microsoft or Slack are actually saying "this is how our product is intended to be used"...

What those folks have to say on the topic is pretty irrelevant. What is relevant is how specific people (or groups of people) are using these text-based-communication tools.

> I ask because approximately 0% of the people I've met have ever used Teams/Slack/etc. as email

I've been working at a largeish company with employees all over the globe. It's very common for its employees to have to get information from someone who will be reporting to work 4->16 hours after the information requestor has clocked out for the day. Phrasing requests for information "as email" is one of the most (if not the most) correct ways to structure these requests.

When RTT for a reply is measured in hours rather than minutes, you tend to pack a bunch of useful information in to your request. (As an added bonus, future searchers often only have to read one or two messages to understand what was being sought and and why, and whether or not it was found.)
Like spelling, a lot of things used to be far less standardized.
Thanks. To me the first part linked above is rather "foundation of computer science". I remember this to be content of my first classes in CS ( turing machines, lambda calculus, finite automata, ... (Actually the course in 1999 in Uni Karlsruhe was unfortunately also was the last time I implemented things using Haskell).

This full list I guess goes beyond and looks interesting.
> ...the Roman numeral system changed to the more familiar subtractive notation. However, this was well after the fall of the Roman Empire.

This contradicts examples that Wikipedia has of subtractive notation during the height of the Roman Empire (though it's not clear to me when "IV" became the accepted standard form).
Airbnb was never meant to be what it has become. It started out as an easy way for people to rent out a spare room. The name “Airbnb” came from air mattresses on the floor.

It’s the get-rich-quick types who decided to be professional Airbnb landlords. Short term leases make no sense at all to anyone actual invested in rental properties, without something like Airbnb to back it. A long term tenant who pays on time should be the dream of every landlord, but with all the Airbnbs, it’s not even considered.

I don’t know if this is the fault of the early investors, but I’m all for pulling the rug out from under the the people who own dozens of properties for the sole purpose of doing Airbnb. They are likely extremely leveraged, due to the low interest rates from years past, so they’d be screwed and be forced to sell fast.

I agree on the international investors as well. Priority should always go to people who will actual live in a place. All those multi-million dollar places in NYC that sit vacant are a horrible. What’s the point of housing if no one is there to live in it.
I actually can understand why some shareholders see it this way. The stock market today is very much a Ponzi scheme in all but the very specific legal sense. There are more shares owned than actually offered by a company, and investors are taught to treat shares more as a commodity than as an investment of a company, value-based investment, or really anything beyond a gamble that prices go up.
This is it. I never got into Instagram reels, fb shorts, whatever it's all called until I had a period of unemployment this year. I got sucked in because I was absolutely fascinated by how disconnected this online world is from real life. It's an onion of strawmans and hypotheticals that didn't actually happen that people are getting outraged over. People are frothing over the mere idea that someone would have a thought or carry out an action that they deem unethical.

It's pure insanity and I really believe the source is Russian and Chinese cyber ops. I'm liberal as fuck, but the stereotypical blue haired anti-gendered person raving about communism isn't real, per se. It's like a few hundred people that got pushed to the top. And people lose their shit over it. It's brilliant.
Interesting problem! I've never formally studied computer science, and my math degree is far behind me, so I probably won't be the one to help you solve this, but I'm commenting to at least remind myself to check back here.

Some thoughts that immediately spring to mind (apologies if you've already thought of these - just getting the brain flowing!):

* We only need consider colorings for which 0 and 1 are differently coloured. If 0 and 1 are the same colour, then we're trivially done - let w1, w2, w3, etc. all have length 1

* this smells like it'll be some sort of combination of induction and contradiction? E.g. "assume this property is true for w1w2w3...wn-1, and that wlog they are red. Assume there is no wn that can continue the sequence of red substrings - thus, all strings starting from the end of wn are blue. If that's the case _and_ if we can convert the string [w1...wn-1] into blue substrings, then we're done. So show that there is some contradiction proving that impossible (maybe using the observation I made above that we only care about cases where 1 and 0 are different colours)"
> The numerical notation of 4 is IV in Roman numerals.

Using "IIII" instead of "IV" isn't even necessarily wrong. Rome was a big empire with a widely-distributed populace that lasted for a thousand years. The usage of numerals changed over time and according to context:

"While subtractive notation for 4, 40 and 400 (IV, XL and CD) has been the usual form since Roman times, additive notation to represent these numbers (IIII, XXXX and CCCC)[9] continued to be used, including in compound numbers like 24 (XXIIII),[10] 74 (LXXIIII),[11] and 490 (CCCCLXXXX).[12] The additive forms for 9, 90, and 900 (VIIII,[9] LXXXX,[13] and DCCCC[14]) have also been used, although less often. The two conventions could be mixed in the same document or inscription, even in the same numeral. For example, on the numbered gates to the Colosseum, IIII is systematically used instead of IV, but subtractive notation is used for XL; consequently, gate 44 is labelled XLIIII."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Origin

As for clock faces, the explanation that I always heard was that it simplified the manufacturing process to use IIII rather than IV; something about making better use of materials to have one fewer V and one more I.
Computation is a fundamental propery of the universe? How is that? How do flora and fauna compute?
Reminder that NSFW content has disproportionate amounts of fraud and chargebacks. This is also why Stripe, PayPal, Visa, etc. hate it just from a business perspective.
What would this do that a minimum wage wouldn't do?
Why can't GTK be asked for the pixel size the display server needs instead of converting them to yet another vector format and rendering them on the display server?
I mean:

"The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark “nationalist feelings”."

Winston Smith got nothin' on these guys. Via https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/the-dark-side...
I mean, yes, but her opinion still means more than a random science journalist's.
These have been on HN:

- https://www.bookai.chat/

- https://www.myreader.ai/
I know. But I also know that if NSFW content makes up the majority of your store and/or sales, it behooves you to find a payment processor who accepts that risk (albeit at a higher cost).
Python’s as good a choice as any for the application layer. You’re either going to be using PyTorch or llama-cpp-python to get the CUDA stuff working - both rely on native compiled C/C++ code to access GPUs and manage memory at the scale needed for LLMs. I’m not actually up to speed on the current state of the game there but my understanding is that llama.cpp’s less generic approach has allowed it to focus on specifically optimizing performance of llama-style LLMs.
> and don't even get me started on the fact that the vast majority of this Internet activity is ultimately bots, bored trolls, and paid schills.

I suspect there are many more shills living in our imagination, than are on the payrolls in reality. Do you have any evidence one way or another?
Aren’t there payment processors that allow adult content? Makes me wonder why a platform like Gumroad couldn’t just use a different processor for customers that mark themselves as NSFW.
I've been using this site since 2008. This is my second account from 2009. HN very much used to be a tech niche site. I realize that for newer users to HN, the appeal is like r/programming or r/technology but with a more text oriented interface or higher SNR or whatever but this is a shift in audience and there are folks like I on this site who still want to use it for niche content.

There are still threads where people do discuss gory details, even if the topics aren't technical. A lot of the mapping articles on the site bring out folks with deep knowledge about mapping stacks. Alternate energy threads do it too. It can be like that for LLMs also, but the user base has to want this site to be more than just Yet Another Tech News Aggregator thread.

For me as of late I've come to realize that the current audience wants YATNE more than they want deep discussion here and so I modulate my time here accordingly. The LLM threads bring me here because experts like jart chime in.
>I actually believe that mainstream media is more balanced nowadays compared to a few years ago. I think that they've caught on to the fact that trust has eroded in recent years and are adjusting. However critics have not yet realized that.

It's not that the critics haven't caught on, its that the same people/orgs/editors who weren't trustworthy last year aren't trustworthy this year just because they're trying to appear more trustworthy - it should make you more suspicious that these shrieking propagandists are trying to earn your trust, not less suspicious.
Boeing 737-800 was missing an external panel when it landed in Oregon
Most of Madoff's victims were middle-class. Very few were rich. None were connected.

He was still getting away with the scam for years after the allegations started spreading.
> The whole meme that companies exist to maximize shareholder value is just that: a meme, and a recent one at that.

Nah, stakeholder capitalism is a way more recent idea than shareholder primacy.
Lols no // caffeine dealers
I was taught about Roman numerals in school (mid-90s) but it was a brief thing, maybe a few homework assignments in a larger unit about Roman history. Certainly not hours of drilling. I can read a clock fine, and I can read a date if I spend some time thinking it through. But it's not really a life skill.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." I think you have to be smart to become truly nuts.
Wow, Graphic Walker looks incredible! AND they vega-lite - I'm a BIG altair fan - this look like fun - I'll take a look!
The TikTok Ban Is an Issue of National Security
Dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39721337
Moto G Power packs wireless charging, 8GB RAM in a $300 phone
This is mixing up cmd.exe which is the dos-like (but not dos) scripting interpreter, and conhost.exe which is the actual old terminal emulator/console that the kernel would spin up whenever you ran cmd.exe.
Then the artist can take on the risk by establishing their own business and finding a payment processor who accepts that risk instead. Will they? Won't they?
What’s it like from your perspective? I’m currently single and work remotely as well.
Seems like a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39721337
I'm not saying you shouldn't view mainstream media with suspicion anymore, but coverage is definitely more balanced than it used to be (not everywhere, but in some of the traditionally trustworthy publications like the New York Times). Conversely, social media networks are increasingly divisive and radical, so if that's your alternative I don't recommend it.

If I have to make a recommendation, the Wall Street Journal has been consistently high-quality in my experience.
Logout , delete your social media disconnect and just listen to wfmu.org . You will feel better . Don’t believe give it a try .
> I was absolutely fascinated by how disconnected this online world is from real life

Relevant Bill Hicks (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE
I don't think the changes in behavior have anything to do with mass media. People don't really follow mass media these days. People simply default to maximizing comfort (minimizing effort), which leads them to all these choices. It's unfortunate that maximizing comfort does not maximize happiness, which inevitably leads humanity into increased unhappiness. Someone should really invent a way of life which aligns comfort with happiness.
I have a handful family members now getting suddenly mad in the middle of conversations because they had an intrusive thought about “Pelosi” or “Hunter” and make a sharp turn into rageville. These are people who have never been interested in world events or politics but now the specter of “Pelosi” haunts their thoughts in the middle of breakfast.
If everyone on your platform does that, you no longer have a platform though.

Banning/outlawing the majority of your users, no matter how annoying or costly they are, is generally not a winning move for a platform that lives off its users.
Move to Somerville MA. You will find that stereotype walking the street. Not everyone, but a surprisingly high percentage have swallowed the Woke agenda whole.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.15-214839/https://www.bloomberg.c...
You have to have right amounts of inputs to get outputs.

Plants I grow are complex function of CO2, water, energy and bunch of other things things. But I do know if I don’t water enough or too much, plant function will return not good results.
Some 'Normal' people are losing their minds too.

The double stack effect of people losing their mind in real life and then finding an echo chamber to blame it on, is hard to escape solo.

Critical thinking and solid reasoning goes out the window too easily.
I totally believe there is a Signal or equivalent chat room for the cabal. Look at the near synchronization of messaging regarding RTO starting first from the city politicians and then thr corporate overlords.
> "In-person interaction is hazardous to your body, mind and reputation. The only truly safe space is at home, in front of a screen."

> This is the one conspiracy theory I truly believe, that mass media’s relentless “stranger danger” propaganda serves the same purpose as a cult’s rules against fraternizing with the heretics. And it’s the worst kind of conspiracy in that I don’t think the conspirators have any idea what they’re doing.

Great insight.

All mediums promote themselves so they can remain competitive against other mediums. 'Stranger danger' is a powerful way to promote, it hijacks our natural inclination to focus on data that helps us assess risk.

We've seen this grow from having like 3 tv news stations to 24h cable news and now to UGC video. As production & distribution tech has increased adoption (from 100s of producers to billions), it's increased the quantity and quality of content that can deliver this stranger danger message. Meanwhile our paleolithic emotions remain unchanged.

Whether it's cults, media, social media, politics, etc, the incentives of maximal extraction are always to divide & conquer. Our isolation and a lot of our strife is the product of our extractive economy slowly winning out over our agency.
That's a pretty negative perspective. 87% of electricity in NZ is from renewable sources. NZ is a world leader, and should be lauded.

What is the basis for your perspective that NZ is failing to "make it work"? NZ is so far ahead of Germany it's not funny (Austria is similar to NZ with 87%).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_New_Zeal...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany
As much as people love to hate it: crypto
Right on.

I moved to Berlin 15 years ago in my mid 20s. Back then we didn’t work very much, we constantly had hangovers, we were constantly out, running around Neukölln and Kreuzberg.

Whenever I chat to that age group now, while they often look the part, they’re actually tired, overworked, cash-strapped, and living far from the center of the city.

A good weird party scene needs that bad-judgment-high-enthusiasm energy of the young, and now there’s much less of it.
That sounds awesome and very creative. Do you have a link to an old class site, or a syllabus, or anything that would give a flavor?
Which seems kinda silly. People willingly traded their USD for garbage that wasn't worth anything, and put their money into accounts any reasonable person would think is worthless.

He was really just serving a market for people trying to put their money into valueless garbage
Not remembering the details, but learning it in the 70s or so, I can look at a Roman date and not immediately grasp the year in terms I'm more familiar with but I can decode it in 10 seconds or so. I assume there was a fair bit of drilling if I remember after all this time. But then I had a couple years of Latin too.
You have to read between the lines. Apart from the nutter OAP, 150 objections can easily be explained by occupiers actually having to contribute to the replacement. When a landlord does a big renovation program like this, they're going to get the money back somehow - be it with a large lease increase or compulsory contributions.

But arguing about money makes people look greedy - or worse (in classist Britain) cheap, aka poor. So they will argue about windows, character, anything.
Why is this surprising? These systems are doing what we programmed them to do: maximize engagement with media by selecting and prioritizing the most engaging content.

(That happens to be the craziest, most divisive, most triggering stuff because we are wired that way, but the algorithm doesn’t care. It just followed gradient descent and found a local minimum and gave us Qanon and cancel mobs.)

This comes at the expense of friendships, relationships, hobbies, and self care. It has to because people have only so much attention and time.

So it’s ruining our minds and destroying society, but at least people click ads.

Acting like this is a surprise is like “this machine gun perforates things with bullets when I point it at things! How is this happening?!?!” Well, it’s because that there gun was… uhh… designed to do that…

People don’t want to admit that this was a deliberate choice.
Do you happen to have any other suggestions about reading?

I am currently reading "Asynchronous Programming in Rust: Learn asynchronous programming by building working examples of futures, green threads, and runtimes" and there is vague talk about how cpus process things, but it really would like to know more. I am even curious about what is actually happening in hardware. It seems hard to determine where to start.

I don't have formal education in this field unfortunately.
I use Orbstack and it works flawlessly to do this. Really good tool. I use Docker to cross-compile for {aarch64,amd64} x {linux,darwin} since not all the cross-compiling is super robust across our stacks (I'm using a specific glibc for one Linux part, etc.). Just a bunch of docker on my Darwin aarch64 and it compiles everything. Good experience.
can we please stop upvoting blog spam?

this is pure blogspam of the 2010s era
These animals went extinct for a reason, likely related to maladaption to the environment. Does it strike anyone else as a bit crazy to try and resuscitate them?
I base my characterization on comparables.

In this case, gambling sites, which perform age (and residency) verification.
Really appealing idea until you look at the language. An imperative language for something whose principal job is to declare some kind of configuration. I strongly encourage anyone who's considering designing a "custom language" for something to get in touch with someone who really understands programming language design, otherwise you frequently end up with abominations like HCL.
Maisa AI KPU
Hmmm....her best move might have been to write up the data-fudging she did, but in the form of a proposal to do an experiment, fedex it to herself, and put it, still in a sealed envelope, in a safety deposit box.

What was the experiment? What happens when you attempt to deceive your RAs, colleagues, and reviewers about the results of the experiment!! After all, she has a Ph.D. in deceit, whaat else is she supposed to be studying?

If and when somebody started to suspect, she could just retrieve the fedex envelope, dated and sealed before the results were submitted to review, as proof that this was just one giant experiment, congratulate everybody that they were doing such a good job at preserving the integrity of the field, etc etc...

Frankly, after reading the school's report, I'm amazed that somebody with a Ph.D. in deceit-ology couldn't come up with a better line about how the data was corrupted. Somebody stole my password? Not even my wife would believe that one if she found compromising chats on my phone--and that without benefit of Ph.D.
Sellers also have a strong incentive to make their listings discoverable.
Yes, but in the article under discussion, she's writing like a science journalist. A theoretical physicist's criticism of the paper belongs in a published paper of her own, not a pop science article.
> how important screen time is.

To have or to avoid? I'm OOTL on this.
Only here would someone try to argue that two terms that have giant wikipedia pages as their first result on google are somehow ambiguous.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes
Or CIUT
And where is Category Theory and Lambda Calculus?
Hmmm, wonder who the best possible new owner could be?

There's got to be some places which would benefit from this, and move it forward + clear up the licensing issues.

Amazon (AWS) might actually be a reasonable candidate for a good potential owner.

--

"Worst possible" new owner would likely be Oracle, or maybe IBM.
> I really believe the source is Russian and Chinese cyber ops

Here in Colombia we got something that went to be known as bodegueros: People hired by the (then right-wing) government and their allies (and sometimes using public fundings) to mass spread misinformation to make it seem the opposite parties as the "baddies". Blatantly enough they went to the point to claim it is the opposite party who is doing such practice.

Facebook and Twitter are full of fake accounts posting/sharing/retweeting whatever strawman and sensationalist "content" en masse to provoke outrage. At the point I went out of Reddit, even r/Colombia was going the same course - even at least a couple "colombian" subs went this way, like r/ColombiaReddit and r/ChomposCol, but all with that same pattern.

The odd thing is that r/ChomposCol came as a Reddit extension of what is/was a group on Facebook that originated on a private university that actually did hate acts in real life, like harassing a student or menacing a teacher with physical violence.
Won't get invalidated even if what "apt-get install python3" does changes - the cache is only based on the syntax of the RUN string plus the previous layer hash, IIRC. (COPY actually invalidates if the file being copied changes, so maybe there's a way to fetch a hash of the repo and stash it where copy will notice, or something, but then it seems you need external tooling to do that bit?)
"need to purchase our product to get the license,the packed app is only valid for 7 days without license." and thats USD 299 per year.
Why do you keep spamming your scripts? Anyone who cares doesn't need your "help".
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
This smells like it was written by an LLM