skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the "mid 2010s" (not "late") story is made up b.s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072908
Same was true in my middle school in the 80s. In hindsight it really was the right call. That same year we had a sub in gym class playing tennis and four of us boys managed to launch about a hundred tennis balls over the fence and into the woods home run derby style. We would have definitely put an eye out with archery equipment.
The article mentions nuclear-powered aircraft, but doesn't go into much detail. There were two reactors built, HTRE-2, and HTRE-3. They're currently on display, sitting on railroad flatcars in Idaho, sitting next to the parking lot of the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I).
> How many people would use slots if it were just putting a dollar in the slot, then a screen saying 'lose' and that's that?

You’ll be surprised by the concept of “risk-free play”:

https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-03-08/gas-station-gambling-is-...
Of course it will impact their careers. If there were no consequences then this exercise would prove to be meaningless.
The CEO in that case would be culpable for culturing a culture of criminality.

The buck stops at the top.
How exactly do you realistically think we are going to survive in outer space? And even if we could, why would we want to? I don't think the rest of society should subsidize the escape fantasies of a small minority who find space travel exciting and worth seriously pursuing.
A freighter?
I’ve been working in digital rights and advocacy for years. High rhetoric isn’t how you change things, it’s long-term commitment to meaningful action that must be sustained or it will falter.

My annoyance is that I’ve had this discussion a hundred times and unless you are in the trenches trying to make change while supporting your family I’m not really interested in musings on what a better world looks like, I’m busy trying to support myself doing the work to make it happen.

And per my comment above, I’ve given up a TON of money, but I still deserve to have money in my pocket.
How can software developers focus to ensure safety from AI era side effects?
> what kind of school brings this matter to a judge in the first place...?

The kind of school that prevents a student with dreadlocks to attend schold indefinitely [1]? This is happening right now. In the past, there was also the role playing game (dnd) satanism scare...

Granted, I'm not sure if there have been actual arrests, but it's the logical next step to take.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68377156
I'd probably stick with https://schema.org/Action ? Why invent something new?
Perhaps we need a big promotional campaign. Oh! What about "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry", or more simply, "Better Living Through Chemistry"?

We can promote how great DDT is at getting rid of bugs, how PCBs make an excellent transformer oil, chromium(VI) as an anti-corrosion additive, that neat use of tetraethyllead (let's just agree to call it "ethyl", ok?) for engine knock, CFCs for cooling and fire suppresion - why, the list goes on and on.

Rachel Carson? Never heard of her. Superfund? Sorry, I don't read comics.
But changing the tab to a space violated the clearly defined style guide for the kernel, so it wasn't an acceptable change
>it's just that most money today goes into curve fitting

It's pretty interesting to see comments like this like deep nets weren't the underdog for decades. You think they were first choice ? The creator of cyc spent decades on it, and he's dead. We use modern NNs today because they just work that much better.

Gofai was abandoned in NLP long before the likes of GPT because non deep-net alternatives just sucked that much. It has nothing to do with any recent LLM hype.

If the problem space is without clear definitions and unambiguous axioms then non deep-net alternatives fall apart.
Would setting constraints in the browser be feasible? Being able to define edges or midpoints that other elements can use for positioning.

I guess it's way more complex than HTML rendering already is
I'm apparently older than you, and when I want to college it absolutely made sense to go. I had $2k in debt when I graduated with a BS and MS, and I paid that off the moment it started accruing interest.

Instead of begging people not to go to school, maybe we should be rolling prices back to what they were when I went, inflation adjusted.
You just used 4 of them …
It should be impossible to own the trademark to a letter.
cool toy
I remember all of the above. In many ways those streams presaged a lot of what would later become the early YouTube cultural context, edgy-atheist teens, obscure anime (and anime music videos), MST3K, and all. Remix culture was hot back in the day, and I'm glad that in a lot of ways, that vibe never really went away, though it has centralized a lot more than seemed likely from the view from back then. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, and things like Reddit, Twitch, and Discord are doing a lot to keep the internet weird, in good ways, despite not being easily indexed or searched, or perhaps because of it.
Bigger models hallucinate less.

and we don't call it hallucinations but gofai mispredicts plenty.
Reminds me of The One Electronic from Rice Boy
Lots of pressures, eg:

Farmers around the world to grow fewer grain crops as increased production costs narrow profit margins

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-04-18/global-grain-pr...

Why this WA farmer is digging a mass grave for 3000 sheep

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/why-th...
1 inch Sony camera sensor and a fairly high price point. Looks like a more niche device.
Bessy II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries
The correct way to use tabs is to indent with tabs and align with spaces, that way everyone can adjust the tab size to their liking without breaking alignment.
Haha. Well it sort of manages to incorporate ChatGPT into your thoughts without having a chip implant or a ridiculous $700 pin on your chest. The dating use case isn't why I made it. It's a super useful tool during meetings and helping you decipher complex problems in real-time with others. I used it to study for my GRE too. The headphone capability is just a secondary use case. And you'd be surprised how many people have social anxiety and want to use things like this.
I mean, I agree with the sentiment but good luck codifying that in a law that won’t be abused to convict innocent people who were convenient patsies while letting guilty ones walk free due to the “subjective” nature.
Perhaps you could value-add by providing what you think some good search terms are.
I don't know any more details than what I've seen in public news sites.

My understanding is that they disrupted office operations. That automatically allows their employer to (rightfully) claim that they broke some fundamental rules of the employee handbook, and therefore forms grounds for termination.

Hypothetical: If they (say) held up the lunch line in one of the cafes ("people are starving in Gaza, no one here should eat either" or somesuch reasoning) -- would that also incur such censure? I'd wager the answer is "yes".

P.S. If they had gathered in (say) a nearby park, Google would have a much weaker basis for taking such action.
Yours better fit the context, but to show off my german skills: “Target-pain” is alternative translation.
Here are few projects to get started:
https://github.com/apptension/saas-boilerplate?tab=readme-ov...
https://github.com/ixartz/SaaS-Boilerplate
> includes liquidation to pay pack victims

Just do damages.

> Lots of big fines aren't big enough to actually kill companies that deserve it

Neither is a corporate death penalty. You’re just shuffling around assets and making work for lawyers.

> companies that deserve a "death penalty" often have victims who could use that money

Why the extra steps?

The closest we have to a death penalty is license revocation, e.g. Arthur Anderson [1]. Victims got screwed. Taking it further and the death penalty analogy seems appropriate--death penalties aren't about restitution. They’re an instrument of retribution.

> Bankruptcy doesn't prevent people from starting another company, or board members who failed at oversight to join another board

Neither does a corporate death penalty. That’s what bans are for.

Corporate death penalty is a gift to corporate America. It sets activists running in circles over a stupid idea that represents simpler, precedents punishments with the ambiguous baggage of extra steps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen_LLP_v._United_...
I'm very skeptical of Cyc and other symbolic approaches.

However I think they have a good excuse for 'Why didn't it ever have the impact that LLMs are having now?': lack of data and lack of compute.

And it's the same excuse that neural networks themselves have: back in those days, we just didn't have enough data, and we didn't have enough compute, even if we had the data.

(Of course, we learned in the meantime that neural networks benefit a lot from extra data and extra compute. Whether that can be brought to bear on Cyc-style symbolic approaches is another question.)
If there’s anything I learned from studying design and typography, it’s that there’s no singular correct rule you can use to align things.

Use precise measurements for your margins? Someone will say that perceptually it’s not symmetrical, and rightfully point out that perceived symmetry is the only one that matters. Adjust visually for your hanging punctuation, ascenders and descenders? Someone will draw a bunch of red lines and complain it’s not perfectly aligned with baseline, x-height, or whatever they prefer.

GUIs around us are rich with obviously broken examples where spinners spin out of their centers, text in boxes is misaligned, etc. However, as articles like this one show, even if every one of those is dealt with, us designers will still have everything to complain about. (Pro tip: if you struggle to find something to complain about in the English version of a GUI, just switch to, say, Arabic.)
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202400190
Indent with spaces: When the ASCII art needs to line up.

Indent with tabs: To save time time adding/deleting characters or squinting at exact boundaries.

Better than both: Files are saved with spaces, but the code-editor is smart-enough to act as if the multiple spaces are a tab during editing or when setting a custom tab-width.
Ask HN: Were arrow keys a mistake? Should they just have been delegated to HJKL?
A few months ago I finished TypingClub and while I type much better now, I couldn't keep my right hand on the home row for too long because I would have to shift it to the arrow keys anytime I wanted to move around. Recently I decided to completely disable and replace them with H J K L after I started learning Vim. Vim uses those keys because those were the arrow keys on Bill Joy's keyboard when he made Vi.

I wonder if it should've stayed that way with keyboards. If the average non tech savvy person knows to press shift to capitalize, as well CTRL C X V, then would it be easy for them to know to press a modifier key plus H J K or L to move around? In such case would it help to print the modifier key in small font on the corners of the H J K L keys to help type them?

It seems like computer have really been optimized for low learning curves for the average person, and to the cost of efficiency, at least arguably.
My question is if the disruption was in the name of climate change, will they fire them?

I bet they won’t dare.
Do you have a source for that?

I'd like to read it and add it to this list: https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/references/
They are working on it. And current large language models via eg transformers aren't the only way to do AI with neural networks nor are they the only way to do AI with statistical approaches in general.

Cyc also has the equivalent of hallucinations, when their definitions don't cleanly apply to the real world.
Remember, your coworkers have to be there. They have to be nice to you. They have to listen to you.

Respect that. Work is not an appropriate place for activism. Or bigotry. Or just assholery.

Your coworkers aren’t your audience.
Simply don't adjust the size. Tabs are 4 spaces wide, I have just declared it.

This is no worse than using 4 spaces to indent. Using 2 or 8 or 3 spaces for a tab is a skill issue.
None of those things seem to be protesting directly at the work they have been hired to do.
Why being humble can make you a better leader
Thanks Michael, I think so too! I think we've managed to do just that in the least intrusive way possible. No chip implant, no annoying bulky Meta glasses, no $700 pin sitting on your chest. Just a phone in your pocket + some AirPods. Oh and it's free..
If you take the red pill you come out of the pod bald, and then your hair starts growing. Up till now I just assumed the pod goop had growth suppression properties
Arguably, "align" and "cross-align" are more direct and descriptive.
Its a bold move to try to protest the people signing your paycheque while at work (without a union backing you up)
No, HJKL is ridiculous. Why would arrows, which go in 4 directions, be arranged in a straight line? Should video game players start using ASDF instead of WASD?

I suggest IJKL as a replacement for HJKL that actually makes some sense.
While I see your point, I think the idea that pro-life groups aren't disrupting workplaces is very wrong. Pro-Life groups constantly protest at abortion clinics, where people absolutely do work. Sometimes they even bomb them.

Again, I get your point, but that's a very bad example (unless you meant "disrupt their own workspaces") which is a bit different.
Yup, work harder and forget about having personal lives[1]. I wonder whether he sent it from a vacation home or a yacht…

1: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2023/12/22/way...
Chemistry has been uniquely difficult as a subject to study in my view. You need to be good at all of memorization, problem-solving with theory, and laboratory experiment: it's difficult to succeed with a weakness in any one of these. Though one could technically try to be a computational chemist for people who didn't enjoy the experimental work, you'd still have to go through a lot of labwork as a student. I have a special respect for people who've succeeded as chemists as a result.

Also, as a side note of personal curiosity that's on a bit of a tangent in case anyone with experience in chemistry is reading this: I heard an anecdote about improving results in teaching labs once that I've thought about from time to time, but I'm not sure if it's credible.

A chemistry undergraduate was running experiments at a teaching lab, when he decided to go the extra mile and look up how to calibrate his equipment. He then calibrated his equipment carefully before running the rest of his experiments each time that semester. His experimental results were so consistently close to the theoretical results, that he was accused of falsifying data by his instructor (though ultimately, he didn't receive any penalties). Would this be plausible, or a tall tale? I was always wondering since then, if taking the time to calibrate all of one's tools before an experiment could have such a big impact for experimenters—or alternatively, if the student actually was manipulating the data. But then again, maybe this was some kind of statistical fluke, and he attributed the randomness to his calibrations.
Writing on a whiteboard is not defacing property unless they didn't use the correct markers and stained the board. It seems like there is something more to it than that.
I get the whole, "leave politics out of work" but 37signals wasn't selling Basecamp to Israel defense services. How many degrees between your work product and the killing of another human is too few? I do sometimes wonder at what point do we become culpable (like 1940s IBM).
> The rule of proportionality requires that the anticipated incidental loss of human life and damage to civilian objects should not be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage expected from the destruction of a military objective.. (From the Geneva Convention)

The Israeli military goal is to destroy Hamas, which started the war, and is hiding in and under densely populated cities.

So the question becomes how you can destroy Hamas without unnecessary civilian casualties. My impression is that Israel is doing pretty OK with that, though things can always be better, and tragic mistakes are inevitable in war.

A common misconception is that the response needs to be proportionate to the attack. So if Hamas killed 1200 people on Oct 7, Israel should not kill more than that. That is not at all how the laws of war work!
> I'm not sure it is over the games that ran on custom hardware that wasn't just a Windows PC.

It is. I've played on both modern ligthening cabs, and on a variety of old official hardware setups in the CRT and Twinkle era. I'd rather play on a Lightening.

Specifically there is a source of lag even greater than the display lag introduced on almost all of the official LCDs. The input lag, or lag between a button being pressed and the game engine registering the input, is critically important in keysounded rhythm games. The bio2 board introduced in the IIDX25 hardware upgrade made a bigger reduction of this lag than the lag that was introduced in official LCD monitors.

The "custom hardware" or Twinkle system used by Konami for IIDX 1-8 is essentially modified PS1 hardware. It's really not much different than building ontop of Windows Embedded with the amount of custom hardware inside the cabinets.
> And yet the numpad people really seem to like is a straight grid.

I'm a "numpad person", and you aren't one of us, you "eschew numpads", so why do you speak on our behalf? Also, people like a lot of suboptimal things, so what? Like, you really seem to like all these non sequiturs and using personal experiences in place of addresing an argument. What does this prove?

> My original comment was literally my personal experiences and the reasons why I had those experiences.

And my original replies were literally about everything but. They were about how humeric row was worse due to having to stretch and how regular numpad isn't as perfectly ergonomic etc.

> on several devices for over 20 years and didn't enjoy it. That's what makes it relevant.

But how does it, specifically? You still haven't answered the original question about how your unwillingness to remap numpads on your friend's keyboard is relevant to a web form where you don't need to remap anything, veering off into some other snark

> It's like you're saying, "chocolate is objectively the best flavor of ice cream" and I'm saying I've had it a bunch over 20 years and still prefer vanilla.

More like me saying "your fingers have different length, so a design that takes that into account is more ergonomic" and you saying you have 20 years of experience eating chocolate

> You're right they didn't know the input field

> Not uio

So why are you trying to gaslight me into believing they exist when they don't?

> and couldn't possibly work.

That's again something you've made up, it could work: you track active input field type and switch to a numpad mode if it's numeric. Just like phones already do

> You're clearly not interested in any bit of a productive conversation.

For that you'd need to start saying something productive instead of measuring anger over the wire
I have actually enjoyed having both at previous jobs. If you’re oncall and you use your phone to receive oncall pages, you can’t turn it off or turn off notifications or even silence it. Having a separate physical device you can receive pages on keeps you less tied to your phone.

If I end up in this situation again I might try and get a cheap burner phone and only install the pager app on it.
Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark
Marc Andreesen had a brilliant post related to this: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1780450134188585045
Of course you should. But only when necessary.
The only people who will remember you worked insane hours are your family.
Isn't the whole issue that the data is being collected by private entities indefinitely for profit?

Data leaks will happen and at this point private industry can be just as bad as the state. What happens when private prisons purchase such information? Or other private institutions that have taken over government responsibilities?
All the best, but… yeah I don’t see myself and in fact anybody paying for this, even less a “subscription” amount. We are not talking about git or some command with hundreds os options and combinations, but brew, which is so simple that any abstraction on top seems to me like overkill.
For most designs, the visual centre is different to the geometrically accurate center: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap8/content.html

Mostly, you want to visually nudge things in one direction of the other until it "looks correct".
Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter
If you want to “protest climate chamge”, HR would probably be open to a carefully planned and choreographed event. They might even hire a resident performance artist to have continual “guerilla performance art” raising climate change awareness on the companies dime, with voluntary participation by employees.

They would not allow an unplanned and unapproved occupation of executive offices.
Ahaha. Of course they would dare.
My project got 10k GitHub stars within two weeks of open-sourcing
Mines usually on silent too because certain individuals abuse it and I don't like hearing it ping and boop and beep every 30 seconds. None of this is urgent stuff.
Yeah that would be interesting to know
Or even lower-powered? https://www.amazon.com/Token2-miniOTP-2-NFC-programmable-Two...

I remember my dad worked at a bank in the 90s and had one shaped like this to enter one of the buildings: https://www.amazon.com/HyperOTP-Time-Based-6-Digit-Services-...
I feel like they would. Companies usually take a dim view of employees trying to actively interfere with the company's business dealings.
fortunately, firefox now has a 'paste as plain text' option. So I can just use it instead.
Congrats to Neon on the generally available status. Big vote of confidence. I've looked around and Neon is the only serverless Postgres I’ve seen that provides copy-on-write branching. Every other managed service has some significant seeding limitation when one looks at the details.
> If the problem space is without clear definitions and unambiguous axioms then non deep-net alternatives fall apart.

I'm not sure deep-nets are the key here. I see the key as being lots of data and using statistical modeling. Instead of trying to fit what's happening into nice and clean black-and-white categories.

Btw, I don't even think Gofai is all that good at domains with clear definitions and unambiguous axioms: it took neural nets to beat the best people at the very clearly defined game of Go. And neural net approaches have also soundly beaten the best traditional chess engines. (Traditional chess engines have caught up a lot since then. Competition is good for development, of course.)

I suspect part of the problem for Gofai is that all the techniques that work are re-labelled to be just 'normal algorithms', like A* or dynamic programming etc, and no longer bear the (Gof) AI label.

(Tangent: that's very similar to philosophy. Where every time we turn anything into a proper science, we relabel it from 'natural philosophy' to something like 'physics'. John von Neumann was one of these recent geniuses who liberated large swaths of knowledge from the dark kludges of the philosophy ghetto.)
Ironically enough, the kernel style guide declares tabs to be 8 spaces and anything else as heretical.