skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grammatical issue is not the swapping itself, but the introduction of "but they" (indicating a problem with what the author has done) being applied to the swapping. That makes sense for the first part, tell not show, but not for the second part, show not tell (which is what the author should do).

Is grammar necessary? The original "lingua franca", an English pidgin, was a trade language around the Mediterranean, therefore economically very advantageous, yet has minimal grammar.

People can communicate with gestures.

One does need a way to qualify some specific part, e.g. if we negate something, what exactly are we negating? Maybe I have too restricted a definition of "grammar", but I think of the Chomsky Hierarchy, which are all sequential, i.e., with order dependence. I think the target of negation can be indicated without position, e.g. so "not tree" and "tree not" are not a sequential grammar (a commutative grammar?) Negation of a part could also be denoted with inflection, or gestures.

One could argue all this is a kind of grammar; but it's so far from what we normally call grammar that I think it's overstretching the concept.
Typical USG "because we can, and nobody can stop us, therefore we're correct".
Digression: "What's 2023's word of the year..." I agree with the concept but I wish there was another word for it. The s-word annoys me in a way that the f word doesn't. Also, if you want to explain this to young kids that "shouldn't" say the s-word, you don't also want to explain why it's ok in this context but not *that". Using obscenities correctly is an arcane art form. (grin).
Nice, but mixing typescript into a proposed standard just confusing.
Winter and the baby boom?
Not using an LLM for it.
I had a 7-day pass in 2017 for $255, 14-day in 2022 for $365, and a 7-day in 2023 for $207. That page shows $343 and $548 for 7-day/14-day respectively now. It's all within the realm of "affordability" for a tourist, but it no longer makes financial sense for a lot of travel itineraries.
> But was a couple of years ago so it is possible the avilability situation has gotten worse.

I was doing research and that is what I found. Seems like a gamble if you order on Amazon- could get old stock with older firmware, but it is random.
Yep, that's pretty much it.

Reminds me that one of the single biggest regressions in GUIs over the last couple of decades is: The knowledge of how to make a proper tabbed dialog has been lost to many.
I don't agree. As far as I remember somewhat extreme opinions were present in the public discourse (for instance far left positions on university campus, far right ones at the local pub).

Moreover, people who want me dead or removed from society because of my political views are in my immediate social or professional circle, no need for social media to meet them.
I never understood why my toothbrush and toaster needed to connect to wifi to be usable.
Lots of people have a good "closed my fingers in the door" story. Pinch points are common, not unique to Tesla vehicles.
Some people will hit each other up for paid references. The guy doing the referral can get paid by the new hire and the company. Idk what threshold of acquaintance is enough for a referral, but the worst things you can imagine have been done and are even routine in some places.
they know enough to know that solving tech debt doesn’t help their cause
I thought he sort of gave up and is going to build his stuff on Nvidia in the end? It's wild. I'd want AMD to present some sort of alternative if only because you can't get any high-mem chips these days but they seem to have some massive organizational uselessness on this front.
Yeah this is literally what “influencers” are… they are just freelance salespeople/marketers acting as the outsourced sales and marketing arm for corporations and countries.
At one point I recall TTF hinting being patent-encumbered, but you bring up a great point — any patents surely have expired by now.
did you learn anything?
For some reason I’m a reminded of David Hume’s argument about causation
Exactly! Very well done explaning!

Most people turn SELinux off anyway, so they have no clue how it operates.

DACs (discretionary, unix perms) are DACs and MACs (mandatory, SELinux) are MACs. They are mandatory - it's in their name.

Think of SELinux as completely orthogonal access control system, that can overturn any DAC decision, which it in fact does. SELinux language is much more featured than DAC language, it can express domain transitions.

Nobody here has inspected the sshd_t policies but I believe exec transition should be forbidden for arbitrary binaries (I hope).

That should in essence thwart arbitrary exec from remote key payload.
If actual shellcode would be sent though (e.g. doing filesystem open/write/close), that is a little bit different.
Same guy who said I'd never have a car phone...which he was correct for my generation at least...
Imaginary exercise for the reader: find a sneaky dot in a patch that implements this in Firefox.
Farcaster is not a tool for building social applications. It is a social network with 70k+ DAU [1]
You can use it through multiple frontends, the officially developed one is Warpcast [2]

[1]
https://twitter.com/dwr/status/1774490997789241709
[2] https://www.farcaster.xyz/
"demurred", if you prefer. "objected". "expressed concern". "pushed back". Your choice of verb.
mac.com is the worst. I ban that domain from new registration now.

And Apple sends no dmarc reports nor do they implement any actionable feedback loop.
Yes, I kept trying to follow his work after he left the column, but the work he went through, the extreme twists he put on logic and credulity in order to absolve the murderers of wrongdoing, that put me off.
>Initially, when they were new, also Siri, Alexa and Google Home felt mindblowing and "truly like the future".

Strong disagree on that one. It was difficult to get them to do simple things like give the weather if a different location, play the right song. Even asking what time it is wasn't guaranteed to give you an answer if you didn't ask the right way. The marketting material made it sound great but the first hand experience was very underwhelming. The biggest use case at launch was making it say funny things.
And now that they’re McKinsey-izing Redhat, one can see the IBM footgun is still firing away.
Two days back I got a notification for my Google user id being in a compromised list on my iPhone. I never shared my Google user id and password with anyone else. How could it get compromised? I am mot too worried since I have enabled 2FA for my Google account. I save user ids and passwords in an app called pwSafe. Does it mean someone got access to that file on my phone?

Edit: clarification
this leads us to the 2023 Word of the Year from the American Dialect Society:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
My Eclipse Photography Plan
Absolutely agreed about the importance of founding principles/values + hiring! (I thought that I had made that clear in the piece but perhaps not.) And while I think that the details broadly reflect culture rather than drive it, I also think (like an organism) that they are unseen feedback loops where the details do in turn drive the culture. (Compensation for us is very much in that category.)
There's value, but it's too expensive, too slow, and too unreliable right now to be feasible from a business perspective.
But ssh is written correctly. Now that other thing isn't. :D

I fail to see a problem here.
It does have it, lots of videos of people putting their arm/hand/whatever in the cyber truck frunk to demonstrate it stops closing.

If you get pinched close to the hinge your reaction won't generate a lot of torque on the motor, it will be less than the weight of the trunk itself.
We already have a wealth decay function, it's called taxation and when properly applied can absolutely redistribute wealth ie "reduce inequality."
Yes, finding a shape that excludes incursions is a big part of it. In the video he shows how he uses refractive fluids on the rough surface to make it less opaque so he can spot such inclusions more easily.
While the IC card is great and a must-have, the reusable ticket for entry/exit of JR stations isn't exactly inconvenient. If you haven't been back in a while the JR pass is even more convenient than it once was, you can now book your shinkansen reserved seat tickets at the kiosks like you would have to do anyway for an adhoc one, no more having to go into the office. (I think you can also do it online as well but I didn't experiment with that, I was satisfied with the kiosks or just yolo'ing it with snagging an unreserved seat.)
Split the difference with Espy Sans as seen in Newton, eWorld, iPod Mini, and often predicted to be the default system font in “Copland” Mac OS 8 had it shipped: https://lowendmac.com/2000/using-the-espy-font/

t. satisfied Nu Sans shareware buyer http://www.scootergraphics.com/nusans/ :)
No, he was definitely guilty. But if you do good things in recompense, it's easier for people to let it slide. As with modern antitrust, labor rights infringements, etc., it's not so much, "Are they doing it?", as, "Do we care enough to investigate and build a case?". Bankrolling a public good that politicians know need to happen but don't want to go through the political pain of appropriating funds for makes them care less.
Googles habit of dropping support for useful things make me not willing to trust them. I plan for my current code to be in use for at least 20 more years (i plan to retire before then), I don't want to explain to my boss either why we are maintaining a compiler or why we must rewrite working code.
I feel that the Apple keyboard was always significantly worse than the competition, whether it be GBoard or Swype (that MSFT eventually purchased).

Whenever I see my friends type on an iPhone I feel vicarious pain.
I'd have thought that the bigger the gem, the larger the markup.
Most doors aren’t powered by electric motors. The Tesla frunk is.
How did that work out for Nazi Germany, or the USSR, or Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge, etc?

Everyone suffers (or succeeds, if it’s a good path) when enough people just go along for the ride.

No man is an island, or We’re all in this boat together - let’s not sink it.
Why would you use cmake to build a single file??
What does even mean?

Are you saying Elon is wrong about those Chinese EVs?
The answer is: it varies. Some of them are strictly agenda-driven (and if there is no agenda, the meeting is cancelled), others tend to be around-the-room updates + discussion, others tend to be more free-form. That we record all meetings ends up being (much) more important for us than the specific form...
Person in charge of OpenAI's $175M startup fund appears to have been fake
It's not bizarre when you realize how Tesla cuts corners under the guise of innovation.

Take their power seats not stopping for obstructions: most auto manufacturers do not make their own power seat modules.

They buy those from suppliers like Bosch and Continental (yes, the tire guys): https://www.continental-automotive.com/en/components/seat-co...

But Tesla loves "innovations" that are just an excuse to vertically integrate in an inferior manner. That's stuff like the "superbottle" which integrates a bunch of parts you could normally replace independently with common parts into one (super easy to integrate on the assembly line) package
I guess the compelling question is why Dubai won’t extradite him?
Do you mean a cover letter is both required and taken seriously or is there a further component as well?
L2s do not fundamentally add any significant UX complexity.

There are some wallets that make this a pain (Metamask) but newer wallets like Rabby (https://rabby.io) and Rainbow are huge improvements.
I suspect it was an exaggeration to make a point.

As an engineer manager, I do agree with the sentiment though. Keeping engineers focused is tough. Allowing them time to burn down tech debt might mean they go off and work on interesting projects instead of something of business value. I’ve also been burned by the “let’s start over and do it right” refactor that resulted in no customer value. Making software is full of tradeoffs.
This is just a guess, but I think the problem appears more among low-level employees and managers. Maybe CEOs look the other way but I doubt they have anything real to gain by referring strangers who only look like them.
Discussed recently

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836745

FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU (furygpu.com)
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Is this like QML property binding?
Always reflexively thinking the same thing is a sure sign of brainwashing.
I work on clang and don't know go yet still find the go version easier to read.
Modern medical miracles aside, I doubt the die-off of baby boomers all within a short period is a clustering illusion.
> 'computers' can now rival the greatest painted masterpieces from all of human history

This is only true if you misunderstand the meaning of art as a concept and its relationship to humanity.
They changed their mind a few days later and announced they're going to do NVIDIA and AMD versions of their box.
I was going to just say springs, but this is more accurate. Orion (the original nuclear rocket) already had this. I'm not sure if the complexity of the multi-chamber pulsed plasma would make dealing with the vibrations more challenging though.
Heh, so it's an 1897 version of what this guy on youtube attempted with a monster truck with mild success: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohxGA7fpfu0 (warning: extremely redneck)
'Full Metal Jacket' was shot in or around London (urban scenes), with countryside scenes in Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire. Kubrick was reclusive and refused to fly.

The link I already gave above lists all locations for FMJ, with map pin and picture:
https://www.latlong.net/location/full-metal-jacket-locations...

> Full Metal Jacket was filmed in Bassingbourn (for Parrish Island), Beckton Gas Works, Cliffe, Epping Forest, Isle of Dogs, Pinewood Studios, RAF Swinderby and The Broads.

And here's another description of several locations and which scene they're in:

https://giggster.com/guide/movie-location/where-was-full-met...
How many web apps from 15 years ago still work? Flash, Java applets, browser specific hacks, fingerprinting, cross-origin shenanigans... all locked down or eliminated. The internet evolves by breaking APIs.
We're talking about the company that couldn't fix a mouse cursor corruption bug affecting all of their GPU lines for what, 15, 20 years?
I didn't even think about it. I do get stumped on some convoluted headlines, but not this one.

The website The Register has its roots in England. My impression is that English newspapers have their own style and idioms for headlines that takes some getting used to. But once you do, the headlines become easy to read.
There is an exception for work that must be done by US citizens though. No country permits foreigners to do certain security-sensitive jobs, generally.
I'm renovating the house I live in and the closest to smart devices I installed were Caseta plug in dimmers with pico remotes. The rest of dimmers are just hardwired Maestros. Knowing the half life of an internet facing service, the last thing I want is someone pulling the rug from under all my electrical stuff.

Once I tried to enable the app for the washer and dryer and have given up on the app suggesting I disable the firewall for something to connect. No thank you.
Because you’re dead my with natural objects of varying size, shape, defect, etc. this isn’t taking a 4x4 piece of sheet metal and punching the same shape out of it 100 times.
VW was involved in a colossal emissions con.
A bit reminiscent of John Carmack's method too; not only does he work for 10 hours a day (preferably uninterrupted) he also secretes himself away at some random location for a week at a time.

It's not the same, I know, but to remember things you have to establish and remember entire trains of thought. Not just remember individual milestones.
It can just be saying that it produces code instead of non-code.
I had some custom triggers I set up in Google Home to trigger streaming NPR on my Sonos. Every dang month I had to pick a new, more obscure trigger phrase because I’m guessing someone at Google would look at a list of phrases they couldn’t match and hardcode a new rule. And your trigger phrases couldn’t match any built-in triggers…
Could add a line in readme for: do this in Vite (our preferred tool).

And big +1 (+2?) for framework agnostic.
It’s it a bell curve, so stuff that’s 4 or 5 std devs out is (potentially) worth much much much more than bull stones.
Thanks for pointing this out - I was not aware of the recent new findings. After reading through some of the recent updates my understanding is that the recommended reframing exercises (the “Learned Optimism” part) are still effective, even if the original understanding of why helplessness occurs biologically was backwards in the original research. So perhaps a better descriptor now is just “helplessness”.

From a practical standpoint, this is critical to note because if someone is trying to address their stuck-ness, this book is still an excellent resource that is not affected by this detail and is focused on learning new skills to move forward.

I think this also underscores the importance of taking active steps to retrain our brains when necessary.
If teens were playing games in front of the TV as much as people look at their phones today, they'd probably have actual ruined a generation.
InternLM2
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The term 'technical debt' is conversationally bankrupt. Every possible programming anxiety is technical debt. Don't understand the system, the historical constraints, or the business objectives when it was written? Slap a 'technical debt' sticker on it and now you're the smartest person in the room again.

If you want to be an effective roadmap participant, learn to phrase technical problems in terms of immediate benefit to customers. It can then at least be prioritized against the reams of other immediate customer benefit ideas in the backlog.

If you want to marshal an impressive development cadence, focus far upstream of 'technical debt'. Whatever that term means to you, it's a lagging indicator. The solution is procedural, not technical.
I also find LaTeX hyphenation noticeably better than anything else.

Actually, for even better hyphenation than stock LaTeX, the package microtype is wonderful.

It uses lots of small refinements such as adjusting kerning, spacing, and letting hyphens overhang at the end of lines to arrange text in a more aesthetic way.
> I propose increased transparency between candidates, so they can quickly figure out which companies are serious and which not.

I was considering a similar proposal, for holding recruiters, and the companies they represent, accountable for e.g. ghosting.

But I foresee a dilemma with this:

(1) To prevent abuse / lies / slander, we want to somehow tie reviews to the identities (or credentials) of the person reporting it.

(2) But given the legal risk that poses in many countries, few sane job seekers would provide such reviews. I.e., they'd be privatizing risk but for a common good.
The spikes would be so small they wouldn't affect your skin cells. Viruses are magnitudes smaller than cells and your skins cells have thick, durable cell walls to protect them. It's no different than other materials like copper and silver that also exhibit natural antiviral/antibiotic properties. A piece of polished copper would feel smooth to the touch but if you looked at it under a high power microscope the surface would appear rough and jagged like the silicon spikes.
Well, that’s just it - we can have a lawless wasteland, or we can have arbitrary and capricious censorship. There’s no in between. If prefer the lawless wasteland (I remember them, they were much better than what we have now). Unfortunately, I’m in the minority.
i've personally observed an increase in this tactic from both reputable companies' blast communications and marketeers alike.
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>> Getters and setters work pretty well.

What do you mean can you explain more?
> Alexa is about as useful as a toaster

The toaster at least makes toast. Alexa can only prompt me about adding toast to my shopping list.
Personally, it’s never been about free shipping for me. It’s shipping inclusive pricing.

It’s the same reason I will always toggle the “include fees” on Airbnb’s search interface. Just tell me the real price.

Upfront pricing and an assumption I’ll get the item in 1-3 days is the real value prop, and I’m still a happy customer of that product
Using money you owe for something else for as long as you get away with is hardly alien in business in general. It is why most companies (almost every company?) delay payment of invoices for as long as legally possible, no point losing that fraction of whatever in interest (or interest saved on debt). Heck, with regard to cheques it is why banks held on to 3+ clearing periods on those and other payments for as long as they did. Doing the same with outgoings to employees isn't a stretch that would surprise me in the slightest.