skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live by three steps when writing software:

1. Get it working.

2. Get it working well.

3. Get it working fast.

Your last sentence reminded me of that.
I'm honestly a bit appalled by the comments here.
Do people nlt see that it's wrong to discriminate an entire ethnicity because of certain bad actors? Is it alright to discriminate against black or marginalized people because a few are violent??

A lot of people also didn't read the article I think, this stretches beyond students to professors who have been working here for decades. Even my mother, who works in astrophysics can no longer collaborate with Chinese universities on astrophysics unless she wants suspicion.

I hope this fervor can end soon and we can once again separate science from politics. Even in the cold war science was not racialized in this way.

Another minor note, these students very much fund most of our universities and serve as brain-drain that is beneficial to us. Once again I'm pretty appalled by this comment section...
I was a platform engineer before I was officially a security engineer. I’m very protective of our happy little servers and try to find ways to avoid installing awfulness on them.
> either top students or really hardworking students, and most of them will be excellent engineers and scientists

Only true for PhD students. Most are just from rich/CCP's families.
I've been using thunderbird in exchange places for years. Yeah, it's shit, but that's exchange. I just try to limit my exposure. But I can see "invites" and that kind of stuff. What am I missing?
I think that you can’t build it in a weekend. Well I couldn’t. As soon as you try to rapidly and reliably sync, say, 20k+ files over 3+ clients with intermittent internet connections, it gets surprisingly complicated.
OMG this. Why do people get so upset because someone else likes something that they don’t? It’s OK to like different things.
Interesting project! Would it be possible to add other types of boundaries?
We got into YC, pre-product, pre-revenue
I wouldn't compare osm-website and osm-carto at all. The commit logs are very different.

openstreetmap-website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commi... . Numerous commits most days.

openstreetmap-carto: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/commits . So far in 2024; one small regression fixed, one niche bit of tagging added to an existing style, some largely pointless code style tidying. That's it.
IMHO Rust got OSString wrong – it indirectly promised that UTF-8 can always be cast to it without any copying or allocations, so on Windows it has to use WTF-8 rather than UCS2/UTF-16. Instead of being OS’s preferred string type, it’s merely a trick to preserve unpaired surrogates.
And how exactly do you establish trust?

At that level of paranoia you should use a separate device. More secure and, more importantly, more time saving. It will pay off in no time.

Or perhaps use an operating system that provides stronger security guarantees like QubesOS or ChromeOS.
Interesting that some relatively recent changes of preferred names like Czech Republic->Czechia and Macedonia->North Macedonia are on there but not Turkey->Türkiye and East Timor->Timor-Leste.
Looks like they’re calling the mupdf CLI, which makes chai not a derived work of mupdf IIUC. This would mean that AGPL applies to mupdf only.
That's awesome, but I don't think Doom is considered a cult video game?
Ctrl-f "racket" on his "Projects" page here, there's tonnes of stuff https://defn.io/page/projects/
I have used iCloud as my personal cloud storage for 5 years now.

Gradually upgraded storage as I needed and now on 2TB tier. I actually never ever faced any problem on iCloud. I never used Dropbox but used Google drive as personal storage in past (and still use at work).
Consciousness is not sentience, and if it's all semantics I don't care but if people are going to make moral arguments using this conflation between the two then I have a problem. As it says in the article, sentience is roughly the ability to feel valenced emotions (good/bad). Consciousness is many things, but importantly the ability to feel qualia, experiencing what feels like the 'blueness' of blue, for example.

It's totally possible that all sorts of life forms are conscious. I just think to focus on sentience and call it consciousness is silly.
Another wonderful piece that reminds one what lol really means.
It seems to me like very few people would doubt that cows and horses are conscious? We just eat/use them anyway with a bit of cognitive dissonance.
Thank you very much. How lovely.
New Findings Challenge Old Earthquake Models
Lua - underestimated
And before that, it was conflated with some of the more recent ML techniques.

And before that, it felt to me it had gotten mostly pigeonholed for a while as a marketing term to refer computer opponents in games.

Before that, we are finally at its original broader, expansive meaning (the same meaning it's always had in research).

But maybe I've missed a few steps.
I think I have seen choosy but not finicky. Thanks for sharing though they both are MacOS specific.
Thank you for your efforts. This is a really good project. Kudos
Thanks, that exactly was why I didn't want to click.
I think I miscommunicated here.

I was trying to say “this is an area I’m also interested in, and I’ve been looking into this recently, and I’m surprised to see it pop up here, because I thought it was niche.”

If you’ve got other stuff in the Yagi-antenna area of interest, I’d actually really like to see it!
I made a tool to fix broken JSONs
You're not supposed to connect the dots. That could lead to effective reform.
Java doesn't read uniboms sanely. Heaven help you parsing mixed input files.
The TV Show That Predicted America's Lonely, Disorienting Digital Future
Why aren't valence emotions qualia?
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer in Operation [video]
First written account of x is becoming a little rarefied, not to say boring and predictable for some values of x.
So I expect this to be the peak of consumers buying little bics to write about their trips to Mont Blanc or the Amalfi Coast. Honestly, their friends are not interested. It was sad and ridiculous while it lasted, and now I hope it's over.
Here is discussion about a recent work that impressed me as art.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930463
If you're in Africa, you probably need a VPN to get the answer you're looking for.
That depends how the site is configured in Cloudflare.
On the other side the hooks system of git is very good api design imo.
Recently, I was looking to introduce robust integration testing to my company. Specifically working in Java with an SQL environment, I started exploring frameworks, tools, and approaches for conducting the integration. In this blog, I decided to share my journey around Java Integration testing.
Dufs also does webdav very well.

It also has ACL and can be used either as a listing directory or serving html files.

I love it :).

Only caveat so far: it doesn't like being proxied under a sub folder (https://example.com/dufs/).

I was fed up with nextcloud and replaced it with syncthing (for laptop/desktop) + dufs + wedav for mobile access, all hosted on a pi@home, accessed through a wg VPN.
That doesn’t look too bad from the outside. Must be all the water and greenery.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
I suppose the closest alternative to planning ahead (considering alternatives before taking any action - in this case generating tokens) is getting it right the first time, which is only really possible in cases of highly constrained circumstances (prompts) where the model saw enough similar examples to predict the same correct/preferred response. So, to that extent, I suppose better prediction - bigger model, more/better training, etc, reduces the need for planning a bit. Architectural changes, such as adding working memory, that boost predictive power, would also help.

But, yeah, hard to see too many alternatives.

1) Get it right first time (not always possible)

2) Don't plan, but at least consider a bunch of poor alternatives - tree of thoughts

3) Actually implement planning
This reminds me of the Chinese white monkey jobs.
You didn't lose it, it just wafted over to me. Faith in humanity restored!
It would be great for people collecting rent. No fees, just profit.
Why Did Cars Get So Expensive?
My hot take is that IVF enables infertile couples to propagate their genes, which is bad in an evolutionary sense since it increases the population and decreases the fertility of the gene pool. Another way of putting it is, it increases the odds of people falling in love with someone who is infertile.
Oh thank you for pointing this out!! I loved watching the ads and reading _ache_'s commentary. Wonderful work.

https://ache.one/articles/rail-and-advertising for the interested.
Agree entirely about free will, though I think the continued illusion of it is probably necessary to keep human civilisation running.

When I read about people (scientists, no less) apparently arguing that chimpanzees might not be conscious I wonder what planet they're on. It seems quite clear that every mammal is conscious in a way that most humans have always understood.

Apparently some ants pass the mirror test, so it should probably be uncontroversial to say that insects are conscious. Unless we think that also means ants have free will, that is - and for me, mulling over that problem is what led an acceptance that free will is not a thing for humans either. The usual belief in it results in the mess philosophy got itself into and has yet to extricate itself from, which feels a lot like how we spent thousands of years trying to explain God, a thing that also does not exist.
This thing I just looove to see everywhere is $blah_blah$ or \{blah_blah\} or some shite like that. At this point, I should be almost fluent in LaTeX or whatever eldritch tongue these people speak. Perhaps there is a lack of proper authoring tools for MathML? Doesn't Chrome support MathML at least partially these days? I use Firefox so I wouldn't know.
How about a public Airtable or Google Sheets document? If you want a standalone site, embed that document in your static site. Visitors can view and do basic operations on your site, and you can link to the document on Airtable or Sheets so they can do more advanced analysis.
Yeah 8 hours would be quite a bit for a day. I'll tell you our use case. We receive a large dump of data 2 times a week, and we spin up 5 machines to process the data files. We have one machine that uses a GPU, one that needs like 128GB of RAM, and a few smaller ones. They're up for maybe 3 hours each.
Yep its there; just use search as we have ~3500 genres and topics in the system :)

There is also a page for the best sci-fi books of 2023 that authors picked. We asked authors to share their 3 favorite reads of the year and then tabulated the results for new books and books published at any time -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/science-fiction
Governments are often sort termist too. For politicians next year's election is often what matters. They also have layers of management, in some countries they are frequently moved around so the long term (from any given manager's point of view) is someone else's problem.

From what I know academics in computing fields tend to write high quality software. Not all not Donald Knuth level, but they seem to mostly care about quality.
So there's two parts to having an emoji email address. You can do just the domain (supported some places) or go full emoji and have an emoji username too.

You should never go full emoji. It is supported in far less places than the domain alone is.
Mathematics was invented by the human mind to minimize waste and maximize work productivity. By allowing reality mapping abstractions to take precedence over empirical falsifications of propositions.

And what most people can't do, such as keeping in their heads absolutely all the concepts of a theoretical computer software application, is an indication that real programmers exist on a higher elevation where information technology is literally second nature to them. To put it bluntly and succinctly.

For computer software development to be part of thinking, a more intimate fusion between man and machine needs to happen. Instead of the position that a programmer is a separate and autonomous entity from his fungible software.

The best programmers simulate machines in their heads, basically.
Jonathan Haidt blames teenage depression, anxiety on smartphones, social media
Might be related to this: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-bodies/

/edit it’s in the article :D
OK before you black and white nerds lose your minds, in some settings, like a startup, engineers are admins... but in general:

Engineers should definitely not have "admin" access. They should have least privs for the systems and services they need access to...

Dont be this either. It will end badly when you, in a stressed late night stupor, blow up your "admin" access... be smart- you honestly want least privs for your own protection!
Not sure if this is a joke, but h5ai predates the current AI hype by over a decade.
The biggest, densest city in the country being below-median among other major cities for that stat still seems pretty good to me! Particularly since 1. NY is dragged above the national average on the cumulative stat by what are arguably “less severe” violent crimes (i.e. not murder, rape) and 2. Almost every city ranked better on that stat is very small comparatively, only two have >1M people. Every city that you could really consider a real peer of NY (LA, SF, Chicago, Miami, etc.) does worse.
This makes sense. Can you clarify what you mean by journal management in this context?
> Ever wondered whether htop could be used to render the graphics of cult video games?

Not really but I'm glad that someone did.
[1] Illegal nuclear proliferation

[2] Potential terrorism, it is a breeding ground for it. Lot of past perpetrators got training, planned it there or had some connection.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-men-indicted-operating-i...

[2] Lot of Wikipedia pages on Pakistani involvement in terror attacks on US: San Bernardino shooting, aaifa siddiqui case, support for OBL etc
the data on airline safety over the last forty years does not bear out your argument at all. Air travel has gotten much cheaper and much safer since Reagan -- TFA and Boeing's problems notwithstanding.

What you're describing sounds a lot like, to me, someone who loves unions and is mad about something that happened two generations ago, and it's looking for some bad effect to blame on it.
I bet (as does TFA) that this is mostly targeted towards dedicated gaming devices. Schedulers are very workload specific, once the basics are in place.
Accelerando was a cautionary tale.
How can you improve software, without tracking the ever-living s*** out of your users? (How did programmers do it for the first 30-ish years? As we all know, it's impossible ...)
If you truly understand this concept, then you know. When configured correctly, its damn near "admin"... but not "god clearance"...
Code as many times as you want, but if your prototype goes into production it will be annoying to fix mistakes in a clean way.
Perfect as the enemy of the good and all that.
I tend to see this as a sign that a design is still too complicated. Keep simplifying, which may include splitting into components that are separately easy to keep in your head.

This is really important for maintenance later on. If it's too complicated now to keep in your head, how will you ever have a chance to maintain it 3 years down the line? Or explain it to somebody else?
Having played enough of this, I can confidently say no one will "contribute to its evolution" on account of a complete lack of compelling features. It's not fun at all.

* Movement and aiming feel terrible.

* Enemies have no diversity outside of moving and shooting.

* Special attacks on both ships were bare improvements over basic weapons.

* Bumping into enemies for damage does not have balanced risk/reward and take out a lot of health.

What is effectively Galaga + physics is a very weak premise. I think the developers should call it a day and move onto a new project. Credit where it's due, they released it and that is a genuinely commendable achievement. I hope they continue to grow and release more games.

A word of advice to the developers: if the most basic prototype is not impactful and you can't make it impactful in 2 weeks time, bin it.
There was a near miss in JFK Friday between a Swiss Air that was cleared to takeoff, with 3 planes immediately after that cleared to cross the same runway by a second controller.

Would have had a death toll rivaling 9/11 if it was on a foggy day with no visibility downstream for the Swiss Air to abort in its take off.
I'm working on this problem now. It's possible in some sources - whenever the HTML structure is enough that you map it to the feature of interest - but it could also happen that the information is hidden within the text, which makes it virtually impossible
It includes J and K. One more than the Rosetta Stone!
These come across as rationalizations to justify your lifestyle.
> Download ffmpeg (the download file name is: ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl-shared.zip), extract all files in bin directory(excluding the bin directory itself) to C:\Windows\System32 (or other directories located in PATH)

Copying ffmpeg to C:\Windows\System32 doesn't seem to be the correct way to install it.
FBI Director Says China's Hacking Aimed at U.S. Infrastructure to 'Induce Panic'
I think the UK is very different, London in particular. The most expensive parts of London the most: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/london-housing-market-fo...

Those numbers do not count the people who moved to the UK (mostly London) to avoid paying tax under "non-domiciled" exceptions which the government has promised to abolish next year. The main opposition party has endorsed this policy AFAIK so things should start changing from next year as far as those go.
As mentioned, not everyone is you.
"If you think about it, rendering the "video" into ASCII and then putting them into process names seems kind of easy. "

It is easy if you don't really think about it, actually. Otherwise, it is not that trivial to get a good contrast and good performances. See libaa or libcaca for instance, hundreds of hours on this very subject.
Maybe it's some sort of weird social test like baby cowbirds.
There is also a pending US federal lawsuit which attempts to require that all federal lands [e.g. NPS] requiring paid admission to accept cash for entry.

I think this will help establish "cash allowed" precedent. I don't even use email, so this will be really helpful (since you cannot receive the entry pass without email and CC).
Spoken like a true MBA. Hope I never have to work with you.
In a really good org, Engineers THINK they have admin. lol.
I recognize the distinction you make. But most of this comes up in relation to practical ethics. Is it possible for a form of life to have consciousness, but not sentience? They seem to be bundled together. And if it were possible to have consciousness without sentience, would it matter? Valenced qualia have high priority in many systems of ethics.
Thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware of dufs and it looks very solid. Fileserver[0] is another popular choice, though it's more GUI-oriented for file operations.

[0]: https://filebrowser.org/
The CCP really did a number on perception here with their thousand talents program and the naked espionage efforts.

It is not right if this is racial profiling but the blame for it is on the CCP. The article itself mentions that the numbers affected are a fraction of total Chinese students so I’m inclined to believe it is not racial in nature. It is more a response to Chinese pillaging of Western intellectual property, explicitly in the service of overtaking/dethroning the West.

Another example of what we as open society citizens must deal with, how do we tackle such issues without sacrificing our values.
Is that your definition of consciousness? Worrying about things?
Like bridges and skyscrapers?
> It’s not the “programming industry” that OP hates, it’s the “corporate world”.

To add to this, the "industry" is very big and fundamentally quite diverse in character.

But right now we're on the tail end of a big surge in growth, and those surges tend to introruce a lot of uniformity in their wake. Processes and practices of the orgs are taken as some part of the secret to their success and are adopted by competitors and newcomers, and after a while everybody-ish doing work adjacent to the booming sectors within the industry are approaching it similarly and procedurally. The focus is on outmaneuvering competing businesses for a slice of the growiing pie, and matters of concern of the craft itself or long-term engineering vision are generally deprioritized.

This is not a permanent condition or a universal one.

All along, there were still people and orgs and departments doing things differently, but they did become harder to spot amidst all the boom chasers.

And as the boom tapers or bursts, with competition having less at stake, even the homogenized orgs and departments start having the headroom to take a second look at their processes, procedures, and priorities and again start to diversify.

It's reasonable to get discouraged if you've only ever seen the kind of orgs you can't stomach anymore, but a little patience can find you with opportunities you're more comfortable with. Some dedicated pavement pounding and deep digging for the orgs that never hopped on the bandwagon can make it happen to.

Different kinds of orgs are out there now, and more will come to look different again in some coming years.
Don't. That's exactly how I got started: music was amazing. Anything sensual gets super resolved but after a couple of years, you need to smoke simply to have the level of enjoyment you had before you started smoking. Your decision to never try again is a wise decision.
There ought to be a good spec (i.e. requirements). But it's hard to motivate people to excel without giving them opportunity to grow their talent.

This cartoon remains the best visual representation of an industry that seems incapable of doing requirements, testing, documentation, and security.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/475/749/fd8...
Please engage on a substantive level. I look forward to learning about the positive aspects of using “felon” to refer to a person.
I think it's a shame this wasn't highlighted more explicitly in, at least, my computer science degree.

We did finite state machines in quite a bit of detail, vaguely referred to pushdown automata but then concentrated on lambda calculus for quite a lot, with Turing machines less so.

The Turing machine description, without showing it in this hierarchy, seems like a really weird abstraction. Fitting it in here (and combining it with the different Chomsky classes of grammar) makes it all feel more joined up.
Sure, you're right - I haven't checked osm-carto in a while.
Nonetheless, the barrier to contributing to osm-website is too high and the maintainers also not welcoming. TomH is infamous for his comments that brush off even OSMF board members. The openstreetmap-website is due for improvements, but the same thing applies - maintainers are very finicky and even worse, one of them is abrasive as hell.

Elsewhere in the comments it was pointed out about hostility to experimentation, the same applies to openstreetmap-website. There are many things that could be tried on the front-end, but in the eyes of TomH you need to be perfect at the first shot, based on his understanding of the situation.

Somebody pointed out that openstreetmap-website contributions pace curiously picked up after the NorthCrab's blogs detailing his unofficial and unsolicited Python rewrite, OpenStreetMap NG. Honestly even if he's somewhat cringe at times, he's still more adaptive than TomH and co. E.g. people pointed out that Mongo is fauxpen source so he duly rewrote the DB part in Postgres.
It’s not a mere plot hole, it’s the premise of the movie. To me that was a major turnoff