skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much respect.

There have been rough times, but the Reverend created a safe place to be for a while.

It's hard to remember San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic. No cure, the disease often fatal, ravaged immune system succumbing to obscure illnesses with limited treatment and no hope. People sent home to die.

On top of that, losing dear friends, partners, everyone had !most someone close. And on top of that: vicious homophobia. Cut off from birth family, some die alone, unloved...

I could go on. But that was the scene. Reverend Cecil Williams a sacred respect, at least fifteen minutes of not feeling abandoned by the world.
Feels like a bandage rather than treating the cause, but we're collectively injured so some care is important along with prevention.
I miss being bored. I have to make an effort to be bored now. When I go outside I usually don't bring my phone, but increasingly I listen audiobooks instead of read, and when I walk and listen and my mind wanders I realize it's time to pause the story, stop the influx, and let my mind synthesize, or at least relax.

Tech solutions to a tech problem just add more cost. We need better guidance from birth- funding early childhood education for all parents would be a huge step towards reducing all sort of adverse and traumatic experiences so that it's easier to know who and why we are- a sense of meaning and purpose, and thereby less liable to get sucked into videogames with their built-in purpose (that hardly transfers into meatspace, speaking from experience) and phone diversions.

Now that I've embraced parenthood my apps on this six year old iOS device have reached a steady state: rarely do I install anything new, and then it's just a tool (Bitwarden, to learn about it before I suggest it to my coworkers), except for a dalliance with Slay the Spire last fall- unistalled twice within a week :)

I'm even conflicted about HN; I learn from you all, but time here is time not listening to books, etc., and often my motivation is for the dopamine hit of seeing what's new.
I'm sorry to read that. Accidents happen. I'm sure, qtips have also been used in fights and killings already. It's an external object that we insert into a cavity.. we must take care. (Sorry, I'm watching to much of these Kong-Fu 'I fight you with chopsticks" movies)

But, beside that, how far must a men go deep before you can call him an idiot? It hurts. It's a curvy way. Sometimes, my qtips are of low quality missing the cotton - I notice it with pain, if...

To all my fellow q-tips-friends:

May the rupture be far, but the dirt go away.
I wanted to have a try at Verilog for CPU design. As I am a noob in this area, I decided to try to compile a 6502 core [0] on CPLDs. The first problem I had was that it seems there are very few free Verilog IDEs on Linux. I ended up using the one from Intel. So now I had to use Intel's CPLDs and anyway, the CPLDs used by Arlet Ottens do not exist anymore. Then while this 6502 core is not that old, it doesn't compile on the Intel IDE, despite several people having used the core years ago.

So is there a smooth way to edit 6 years old Verilog files on Linux without being linked to some manufacturer?

[0] https://github.com/Arlet/cpld-6502
Whether you approve of this censoring or not, it is law within Australia.

If in a conjunction of services a loophole emerges, the censor needs to find someone to eliminate that loophole. Now, Australia can either prohibit encrypted connections abroad or ask X to censor one piece of content that nobody in their right mind should want to see.

What would do more harm to free speech? The quote "a bloke who’s chosen ego and showing violence over common sense" isn't too unfitting.
Jpeg-xl encoding. Its API is almost openssl-style confusing. I found no way yet how to encode a image buffer to a file.

ChatGPT gave some nice code, but it wouldn't work at all, good ideas though
Incredible work. Reminds me of the VR Game holoball, mixed with Star Trek and Elite Dangerous. This was amazing. Sucks that I am stuck at the cafe for a long time though. :D
I really just want to vent. This keeps happening everywhere across the nation, everything is corporatized. I'm so exhausted.
Agreed, we shouldn’t use “invariant” as a shorthand for “not expected to change”.

We can still talk about “implicit assumptions” and “explicit assumptions”, so the article still works after that replacement. The headline isn’t as punchy though.
Here is a lecture explaining one specific use of this, writing a symbolic differentiator: https://youtu.be/_fXQ1SwKjDg
iPhone SE has them still.
seeing all the comments where people install Linux on their parents computers...

Is this because it's hacker news, or is Linux becoming a non-crazy option for parents?
I realize the author probably won't see this since the post is ancient, but it looks like there's a bug on the output: The "how many total objects are ambiguous at that abbreviation [length]" isn't quite right. It's actually "how many total possible words of that length can reference 2 or more existing objects, (and therefore are insufficient to disambiguate the matching objects of that repo)"
Yeah this is the kind of thing testing is useful for. Writing tests against invariants is a great idea. That way if the invariant changes, the test starts to fail.
I mean, WebGL was released in 2011, so this kind of thing was possible for like 13 years. If you go back once again as much, to 1998, the web has barely existed back then.

There were things, like Epic Citadel, a full port of Unreal Engine to the browser (using asm.js, a technique of compiling assembly to Javascript) a decade ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9KRBuVBjVo

And yeah even that somehow feels futuristic today.
My mother once somehow trashed her MacOS X install so bad it was stopping at a gray frowny-faced Mac logo screen and going no further. Because I had helped her set up SSH service on it a while prior, I was able to easily remote in from my Linux desktop and actually fix the thing and reboot it for her from hundreds of miles away. Macs make great machines for tech-terrified parental units, even when they break down. :)
Promoting App Lab apps was the most exciting part of this announcement.

I had been put off porting anything to Quest since I'd need to get official Meta blessing to actually get store presence to have enough users to pay for such an effort, but now if you can publish in App Lab and actually get some in-store promotion, it starts to sound way more compelling.

I do agree with their initial approach to keep the perceived quality of the first apps high. But reality is that people want to play what they find fun/funny, even if less polished, and this change might open up some store promotion for such apps that solo devs like me are more likely to be able to make.
> I guess part of the blame goes to our politicians though.

There is no universe in which public funds are leeched without political complicity and corruption. Most likely the publishers benefitted are either related to or provided kickbacks to the influential parties.
Nothing is going to go all digital, except maybe sales. Print-on-demand means that every ebook can also be a physical trade paperback, if the publisher chooses. Amazon even have a button you can click to give a free copy of the ebook to everyone who buys the printed version (not sure if this encourages printed sales, or more to expose people to the dark side).
Wow, will check this and reach you!
If someone is telling you that in your role as “responsible for reporting copyright issues” you should stop reporting copyright issues and focus on “being a new mom” instead then that absolutely is an issue. Essentially you are being told that they only need your name and your role on a piece of paper for compliance in case a lawsuit rolls in and they need your head on the chopping block, and that you need to stfu and pretend like there are no issues.
Some "required" fields in very commonly used protos ended up being unused, but everybody has to fill them out all the time. If they didn't, the proto wouldn't even parse, by design.

Protobufs explicitly do not have a built-in version system (though of course you could add an optional field for it), presumably because it is better to inspect the data than build in assumptions that a certain version overs a certain invariant.
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Along with the native language they're surrounded with ... and have to progressively decode all the intricacies thereof.
I have a bad feeling that this will break modded beat saber on quest once again :/
It happened to me multiple times that I bought a real paper book, but the ergonomics was so bad, I've pirated the book and read it on my kindle instead (since I bought it I feel entitled to get the e-variant). Especially paperbacks are bad - tiny letters, yellow low-contrast paper, difficult to hold open.

Reading good night stories to children is even more challenging, since it's usually dark. Bringing some extra light is annoying and distracting for the child.
Collect video, and audio testimonials and create a 'Wall of Love'- Feedspace.io
If the past is any indication, no. GitLab Ultimate is $100/user/month whereas GitHub Enterprise with the Advanced Security addon is about $70/user/month. Well, at least Ultimate used to be $100 before they hid the prices from the pricing page. Could be even more for all I know. And yet, the base product you get isn't really significantly better than GitHub, and using it day-to-day professionally, has quite a lot of bugs too.
Can anyone explain what exactly the author means by "dynamically scoped" vs. "lexically scoped"?
And that is weird. Apple gives Chinese government direct access to user data. Apple obeys every demand from China and Russia. Meanwhile Meta communications director Andy Stone just got 6 years in russian prison for allowing people to say mean things about russia.
I buy tons of print books on Amazon, probably around 20-30 per year.
Which is funny because it was marketed as close, while in reality being quite different from C++: all methods virtual, interfaces, type erasure, no method overloading, no operator overloading, no templates, to name just first things coming to mind.

We've been fooled in 90s so easily!
Thanks to Titus Winters for the phrase "Software engineering is programming integrated over time". Handling evolution of software is different from just writing it.
Came to write this exact comment. The tool is more aimed at C-level trying to reclaim a lost era, and not a better way to do remote.
I use that, but it's quite slow compared to running it yourself on hetzner on a VPS. Still the burden of updates.
About the banning... I don't do anything remotely shady and have been a customer over 5 years.
EDIT: Mine is the last one. The others were just things I've seen other people mention.
For practice you can buy several fire extinguishers at a hardware store and then walk in your neighborhood trying to convince people to buy the extinguishers from you.

Such a field experience is very valuable.
Are You Passionately Obsessed with Software Development?
Thanks for sharing about Feedspace.io will check this.
I'm not sure whether there is a legal twitter entity in Australia, but it may not need a legal basis to control. In this case, it's sufficient to have a legal basis to censor, no matter the path Twitter users in Australia choose to use in order to access it. If Twitter does not want its whole service to be censored in a country, they may have to comply with legal requirements in that country. Nothing new here. It's the same as with EU DSA, GDPR and so on.
Netflix has licensing restrictions too, but the limitation is time/exclusivity (rather than number of copies). You can only watch whatever Netflix owns distribution rights to. Although Netflix does charge more per device, so that's a bit like charging per "copy" of their service on top of the limited distribution.

I'm wondering if you'd really prefer a library system where you could get some titles instantly, but the majority of content is unavailable because some other digital service provider owns distribution in your region for the next 12-16 months. I'd hate that, personally.
This "suspicious activity" can even be triggered if you click the wrong invite link, although you have no way to tell where it leads you anyway.

Discord sadly was pretty successful to lure in users and even a lot of devs build their community there. I think it is a bad choice because of lacking discoverability and the proprietary nature of the platform. It feels lively because it is a chat. But otherwise most projects are better hosted elsewhere.
So are Meta publishing standards, gratis or not, which I can implement to create a compatible operating system?

I'm asking because it seems to me from this press release that they're just letting a handful of hardware partners use their software, which is not open in the sense of POSIX Open Group.
> The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036

It would be quite depressing if it was us failing to receive a fainter signal, rather than Voyager failing to send it.
https://sidequestvr.com/ exists. Also Google is pushing their new AndroidXR os behind the scenes (after they killed Daydreams).
> If we can harness all of the energy and mass available in our solar system, we [1] can likely compute more than several galaxies full of classical humans. We might even begin to test the edges of physics.

I grant that. But why would that keep us from pressing on?

If we have more resources in general, we will also have more resources for interstellar adventures.
This project represents the worst combination: publicly funded but privately owned.
Linux is actually a great option for elderly people. They have very minimal needs, so they aren't going to run into limitations such as Windows-only software that they absolutely must use. With automatic updates the maintenance burden is minimal, and the risk of malware or viruses is almost non-existent.
Hi, Can you simply summarize some of the useful and interesting ideas in there?
Well stated. Physics analogy is spot on.
Fake news, I bought a book just last week
And how is this a bad thing?!
The Google Pixel 8 series receives 7 years of updates.
And unlike Apple they are upfront about it, which is important. Maybe your iPhone gets 8 years of updates, maybe 6 noone knows.
I shall correct belatedly, the heuristic I point at after IsA is not in fact not-IsA. Also, the system runs out of stack space not of heap space.
Curation is a multi-stage filtering pipeline. Such brands do not look at a firehose of content - they rely on existing networks and markers of quality before even considering content.
I would add Stripe Press to this list.

https://press.stripe.com/
I clicked on trash and found exactly what I was looking for
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> the transmitter (which serves as a science experiment of its own) into the 2030s.

One of the longest-running scientific experiments, too. It's already about as old as the Queensland pitch drop experiment was when Voyager I was launched.
I think that's probably part of it; but on a really simple level with YAGNI you're not expending effort on something that isn't needed which reduces cost.

What I try to do is think about the classes of functionality that might be needed in the future. How could I build X feature in a years time?

Leave doors open, not closed.
For me it's not intimidating, it's just time consuming. I can create / iterate twice as fast when I'm styling inline with my HTML. It could be with tailwind, or other utility based libraries - tailwind has just done it the best from my experience.
My wife does an impeccable job of managing smartphones and tablet computers for many older relatives (and some younger tech-challenged ones too, I suppose) and they're also all on Apple gear.

But it's not because the users understand Apple stuff better. They can learn the core workflows they use on any device, and they have most of the important parts written down anyway.

The primary reason she put them on Apple was so that they would have mostly the same problems and she could learn from one and apply to the others. I suppose this matters more the more relatives you manage devices for. But as you say, the range of opportunities one can get with Androids or PCs is much wider – which translates to a wider range of problems also.
Up until about GPT 2, EURISKO was arguably the most interesting achievement in AI. Back in the day on the SL4 and singularitarian mailing lists, it was spoken of in reverent tones, and I’m sure I remember a much younger Eliezer Yudkowsky cautioning that Doug Lenat should have perceived a non-zero chance of hard takeoff at the moment of its birth. I suspect its achievements were slightly overblown and heavily guided by a human hand, but it’s still fascinating and definitely worthy of study. Genetic programming hasn’t yielded many interesting results since, and the unreasonably effectiveness of differentiable programming and backpropagation has sucked up much of the oxygen in the room. But not everything is differentiable, the combination of the two still seems worth investigating, and EURISKO goes to show the power of heuristic approaches to some problems.
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Is it just me, or is $269 monstrously expensive for some injection moulded plastic, plastic geared servo motors, an arduino compatible board, a battery and some connectivity modules?
Can you share more about what your work is? Why re-writing - makes it sound like there's an existing BIOS that doesn't work?

What's different about modern x86 compared to the old standards?
Not the version with authentic Renaissance instruments, in just tuning with elapsed time measured by sandglass?
The 1000 Indians working to track all activities remotely was/is a false story.

See link below:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7186447...
Whoa had no idea there were solutions to add memory to the Bekant, thank you for sharing!
An alternative way, that makes the "1"s a bit less ambiguous, is to draw a bar at the bottom. So even if you put the serif on the 1, and write it sloppy, you still have the bar at the bottom.

See the last example in this image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Ha...

Side note to OP and author, the Wikipedia page is pretty handy and has a lot of info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_handwriting_variation
If AI CSAM hides real material in a sea of fake, it means the fake has displaced it and killed its profitability. There will definitely be cases where it will make rescuing victims and persecuting criminals harder, but at the same time it'll rob many of them of the incentive to risk committing the crimes in the first place.

Regardless, I don't know if any of this is preventable. The only strategy that might actually have an effect is for law enforcement to use AI-generated CSAM themselves as a honeypot to periodically "ban wave" consumers and have the hashes of the fakes.
I am an Android developer (and user) with 14 years of professional experience, and I put my elderly mother on iPhone many years ago.

For me it came simply down to the simplicity of the iOS system. There are fewer clicks, buttons and functions for her to accidentally get into.

Another reason is also that my other siblings (and all of the grandchildren ) are all on iPhone, so I am not a her only IT support person in case one was needed ASAP when I would be unavailable.

Personally I don't enjoy the feel of iOS but for her it is perfect.
Accidents per driver without taking into account the miles driven is kind of inaccurate.
Not to mention there is no indication on whether Autopilot or FSD were in use. So this is completely not the way to judge FSD
Llama 3 is awful in non-English. 95% of their training data is in English....

GPT is still the king when talking about multiple languages/knowledge.
I find "Programmers are also human" quite funny as well. Interviews with stereotypes.

https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909
The amortized unit cost of digital books is in fact absolutely $0.00.
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I'm going to go against the grain here and hypothesize that the computational requirements for emulating human reason are much lower than commonly claimed, and probably within the reach of a high end GPU released in the last/next 10 years.

If you look at state of the art pre-trained transformers, they gobble up unfathomable quantities of dense textual data that far exceed what even the most learned and smart humans could traverse in centuries. Yet, their results are barely intelligent.

The human neural network, on the other hand, stores and is able to recall an estimated average of a few bits per waking second for a decade or two, barely a few GB of useful storage [1]. A great deal of effort and substance of the brain is dedicated to compressing the sensory input into an internal representation useful for rational though - a problem much simplified for a text-fed neural network. The ability of blind and deaf people (or even blind-deaf) for rational reasoning show these ancillary tasks are not intrinsic to human reason.

So things seem to indicate that what we lack is not hardware, but the right architectures and algorithms to unlock human level reason, the exceptionally tight self training loop of humans that can make sense of the world and even push humanity's understanding further using only a few GB of compressed training data.

[1] LANDAUER TK. How much do people remember ‐ some estimates of the quantity of learned information in long‐term‐memory.
I'm pretty sure that means 35% of books covered their advance (ie. authors actually started getting paid royalties). I think it is still about $1 per full price paperback (physical or ebook).
Which end? End number 2? 3? 113?
Well a library is a place where a population can spend the day getting smarter while not spending money.

If you're rich, powerful and an unethical asshole those are two things you definitely do not want.

Sadly many people seem to think they are really showing the folks up there by retreating from any form of self-education once they are out of school. The opposite couldn't be more true.
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I am not sure I understand what you mean in the context of Haskell.
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Wow! 24M makes it even less practical than interpreted pyodide.
Impenetrable Language
I would have just removed it. What else is there to discuss.

Otherwise X will become the new steak & cheese of our time.

But it's still an interesting topic. I would like to bring in a different example:
Porn platforms and EU regulations for online child safety. So xhamster, youp... and xvideoz are mandated to have an age verification.

If I would be one of them, I couldn't care less. Ok, I would check it first how much it will cost me in case of doing it and in cases of European sanctions.. if it's not my all, I wouldn't comply to. Why should X comply to Australia? They can try to ban it, but they won't - to much of the very same politicians are using X actively :)

So I see no danger for X in not complying. That's international way of business doing.
Agreed. Please give me a mug with the microservices diagram.
Well, technically all of your tests are very reliable then.
What’s autonomy?
DRM e-books should be banished because they subsidize rent-seeking parasitic capitalism.

0. Stick to real books that don't impose technical limitations or ongoing costs.

1. Promote piracy at every opportunity. Fuck the big 5 publishers and their celebrity book advance deals.
It's literally answered in the first four sentences.