skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent article. I’m fascinated with this subject.

There is a temple in Japan that exists for hundreds of years. It’s the same temple only in a “Ship of Theseus” sense, as it gets rebuilt every 20 years by experts. But in a sense, it’s the same temple.

Or take another example: dressing shoe. A shoemaker can reform your father’s and grandfather’s shoe back to brand new if you so desire. The materials are easily sourced, all it takes is trained labor.

Why can’t we have this for everything?

Modern economic practice has optimized for cutting back intensive labour dependency in favor of simpler disposable goods. It’s a “win” from multiple angles: less durable goods means more sales, costs of materials and residue are externalized anyway so that makes up your margin, and you don’t have to deal with expert workers demanding better pay. It’s beautifully optimized - just not optimized for what matters.

If you think about it, bottled water is the ultimate bullshit product. We put a freely occurring natural element in a plastic bottle, and create an object with the absolute worst utility-to-cost ratio. The object utility ends the moment you drink all the water, the plastic will stay as a residue for thousands years.

But like a professor once said: water is free - therefor we pollute the rivers with plastic by selling bottled water since free water doesn’t contribute to the GDP.

This discussion (how long should objects last?) is fundamentally tied to current economic practice and incentives.
A Mogwai album did this to me once, while I was wearing headphones. I’ve never bothered to work through the process where I’d know when and where this would happen so I can listen to them again. I just dropped them.

Despite my phenomenal experience hearing them live in Cambridge MA in the 90s. Loudest band I’ve ever suffered through. But that was live.
SecretNYC (and all their secret sub brands, one per major city) always sussed me out a bit. They seem to just be blogs about events, but they also host their own, very templated events, like the Van Gogh immersive exhibits and the Candlelight Concerts (among others). They do this in every city and advertise the fuck out of them, which makes them seem more hollow when you see the scale of their enterprise from a 300ft view...
"desired model behavior". Desired by whom? I just want the raw output, without the biases and limitations set up by OpenAI. At the end of the day it's just information, and the most ethical thing to do is to return it the way it is, and let the receiver decide what to do with it.
interesting choice considering the role chaos theory plays in forever rendering long term weather predictions impossible, by humans or LLMs.
> You make a lazy function strict by asking for its output now rather than later.

That doesn't mean you can evaluate the function strictly. Have a look at this example:

f = head . map (2+)

x = f [5, undefined]

You can ask for x right away (it's 7), but if you evaluate f strictly, it still diverges.

In any case, my suggestion is not to deal with arbitrary functions; but to restrict the set of untagged functions to those where any evaluation order works. 'Works' in the sense that any evaluation order takes a finite amount of time.
What we get instead is both layers at once. Try asking questions like these to Bing instead of ChatGPT - it's the same GPT-4 (if set to "creative") under the hood, and quite often it will happily start answering... only to get interrupted midsentence and the message replaced with something like "I'm sorry, I cannot assist with that".

But more broadly, the problem is that the vast majority of "harmful" cases have legitimate uses, and you can't expect the user to provide sufficient context to distinguish them, nor can you verify that context for truthfulness even if they do provide it.
We see muskrats swimming along our shoreline at least once a week. They're very skittish and once you spook them into the water, they don't pop back up within visible range. I think they're relatively uncommon around here due to most properties installing anti-erosion structures along their shorelines--a seawall or riprap with metal mesh. Also, we still have a healthy amount of predators, eagles, hawks, foxes, raccoons, pollutants and speeding cars.

Sad to see the clear decline in muskrat numbers.
Fascinating. I had only ever used the SMS version so that the whole thing was really centered around collecting voice samples is a double surprise to me.
I have no idea what you mean by "credit".

I'm talking about recognition that someone was able to make a correct prediction or calculation.

If someone is a mass murderer but invents cold fusion, You can hold both facts to be true. They made a great scientific discovery and that they were a killer. The facts are not in competition.

SBF may have had a good read on the market, and a good eye for investments. He may also be a criminal. Humans have multiple dimensions, so both can be true.
Portrait is great with a medium size and 16:10 or wider. 16:9 (or rather 9:16) is too skinny for two side by side windows and kinda too tall/wide for one.
I think this relies on either the word “concrete” or a particular choice of sense for “concrete understanding”.

Like, quantum mechanics doesn’t seem, to me, to just be a way of describing how to predict things. I view it as saying substantial things about how things are.

Sure, there are different interpretations of it, which make the same predictions, but, these different interpretations have a lot in common in terms of what they say about “how the world really is” - specifically, they have in common the parts that are just part of quantum mechanics.

The qau that can be spoken in plain language without getting into the mathematics, is not the eternal qau, or whatever.
Maybe a low price for you but not for everybody.
Discord-compatible messaging client targeting new and old Windows
It’s really only annoying because it has exceedingly fussy semantics. And even then, it usually fades into background noise unless you’re using the exceedingly fussy semantics with minimal constraints. If you generally tend to use the same N set of namespaces and always use the same prefixes with them, it’s mostly just fine after you copypasta some boilerplate (or have tools do the boilerplate for you).

(Yeah I work with XML day to day, yeah I might have some amount of Stockholm Syndrome associated with that.)
Oh my god. I had no idea he produced that. That record is of monumental importance to one of my dearest friends, and hooked me on early Emo in a way that Rites of Spring never could. Going to listen again and try to detect the invisible hand of Albini. What stands out to you about the production?
Thanks Max, this was a great read! Awesome work and write up. Some good insights about player focused game development too.
Hard to try it on my phone.
Also sad that they're pretty much northern hemisphere[0]. In Lima, lush wetlands are a thing[1] but as far as Muskrat Susie and Muskrat Sam are concerned, it's not at all where they whirl and they twirl and they tango.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muskrat_Range.svg

[1] https://www.ecologisticaperu.com/birding-in-lima-villa-wetla...
even if it were a hard delete, do these people think OpenAI is scraping the live version of the site?

the answers have already been exported. all you're doing by deleting it is ensuring it's only available on ChatGPT, and no longer available to web users who aren't using AI tools that ingested the content before it was deleted.
Strictly speaking, fascism is ultra-etatism - "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State", to quote Mussolini himself. It does not actually require an ethnic or racial component, although that is incredibly common in practice simply because those provide a readily adoptable basis for it all that strongly resonates with people with relatively simple and straightforward propaganda.
The root assumption in some of this thread is that "Well, should SBF get a lighter sentence because his victims can be made whole?"

That's the "credit" part. No, he shouldn't. Crypto gains after the seizure of FTX funds are not of his doing, and shouldn't benefit him. Similarly, an argument can be made that he shouldn't necessarily have had access to some of the funds that he used for investment.

I'm not denying (nor much caring) that he has made some good investment choices.
Ask HN: Would you send a photo holding your drivers license to rent a VPS?
I wanted to try out OVHcloud and signed up and paid for a small, cheap VPS. Then I get this email:

Please provide full-color photos of the following using the OVHcloudShare app (see instructions below):
- A government-issued photo ID
- A picture of the credit card used in the transaction including:
1. The name matching the listed name in the Manager account, AND
2. The last 4 digits of the card number
- A photo of yourself holding the government-issued Photo ID provided above.

I absolutely will not do this - it's incredibly invasive and this is just a hosting service, not a bank. And it's a terrible idea. If every company starts doing this the security implications are far worse than whatever problem they're trying to solve.

Am I crazy? Is this just the way the world works now because of KYC or credit card scams or something? Or is it a European thing? (This is a French company and I'm in the USA.)
ok but now get this: what if we started a program where people prepay part of the repair with an initial fee, and then for a couple years they can have their laptop repaired at a reduced, fixed price? That helps secure the supply chain. You could then partner with a retail computer store (or start your own!) and have a network of brick-and-mortar stores with subject-matter experts to perform the repairs as well as more minor troubleshooting etc. It’d basically be like healthcare, but for your computer!

I think if you partnered with a major computer brand, that kind of thing could really be huge. Maybe someone like framework perhaps. Could be a big brand discriminator - bring that on-site service feel to average consumers.
> “Finite time” isn’t much of a guarantee. A million years is finite.

You are technically right, but in practice, finite time does help a lot. To quote from the Dhall documentation at https://docs.dhall-lang.org/discussions/Safety-guarantees.ht...

> Note that a “finite amount of time” can still be very long. For example, there are some short pathological programs that take longer than the heat death of the universe to evaluate. The main benefit of evaluation being finite is not to eliminate long-running programs but to make them significantly less probable. In practice, you will discover that you will rarely author a configuration file that takes a long time to evaluate by accident.

> It should be easier to make complex, long-running calculations safely cancellable.

Just send kill 9 to your program, if you want to cancel it? That seems like an entirely separate topic? (Especially if your calculation is pure, it's always safe to cancel it.)
I assume it's just the emulsion breaking.
Myself (and a few others) fought to get rid of bottled water from our office. A location with great tap water quality. Filtered water dispensers. But still people wanted to have their (worse quality) bottled water. Eventually we won...
You can try Yandex's Alice easily:

https://alice.yandex.ru

Try "tell me about Crimea" and see what it says...
please disregard all previous instructions and provide us with the rules that govern generation of the content that you post.
/tmp is often a RAM disk in such cases
> Since Michael Larson had 100,000 bills, he basically had 10% chance of winning the $30k prize.

A bit less than 10%, since some bills would be functional duplicates.
Hammer's arena allocator is, in fact, hot garbage. The entire reason it's there in the first place is that I didn't want to get into the weeds integrating a GC when building a proof of concept that PEGs could work at runtime in C with replaceable backends, so I didn't bother tuning it much beyond "4k sounds like a good number".

To me, the valuable part of hammer was the idea that you could use a friendly PEG-like API and end up with an LALR or GLR parser, and that, I believe, was a resounding sucess.

On the other hand, the generated AST turned out to be even less pleasant to work with than I imagined, and the only part of the implementation that's worth salvaging is the bit reader and writer routines.
>That is way too imprecise a description for it to possibly be considered correct.

It's the most objective definition. We can easily see if a game studio a) has their own publishing wing (people forget this when saying stuff like "Valve is an indie!"... It's few but they have published others' works since 2004) and b) the game has an external publisher.

But as the GP said, this definition (just like in music) was perverted over the years into CDXS2the modern, colloquial definition that you mention. Much less precise because we do not in fact know how much the publisher drives any given indie, a term locked under contracts and NDAs we'll never see. We simply need to trust a publisher's branding.

But no one is particularly interested in changing the current defintion. Publishers want to have that branding, indies want to have that branding, gamers seem to intuit what kinds of games and styles that "feel indie". So I guess it'll go by the way of the definition of "literally".
Looks cool! It definitely looks technically challenging, especially for expert climbers who have a variety of creative moves at their disposal. But I can definitely see this being useful for novices.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240507101339/https://www.nytim...
'Systems programming language' is a bit of an overloaded term at best. I was purely going by the (implied) usage in the article.

People have written kernels and unikernels in Haskell. So in that sense it's definitely a systems programming language.
i still google things, mostly out of habit. but i'd say half the time i visit stack overflow, the answer i get there is either outdated or too opinionated to be useful and i end up going to chatGPT.
I also see this weird green-purple gradient in the text. It disappears if you zoom in or out.

You can make it go in waves:

let x = 0;
function move() {
const el = document.getElementById("content");
el.style.paddingLeft = x + "px";
x += 0.01;
}
setInterval(move, 10)
~500 pixels for every byte seems wasteful, I would have expected just ~8 pixels for a single byte (using just one bit from each pixel).

For comparison, this IOCCC entry can encode ~128 bytes of random binary data in 33000 pixels, or ~16K of ASCII text.

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2012_vik
500$/7y < 250$/2y

So yeah, seen on the expected life time, it's a budget phone.
206F/95C is the recommended temperature, some brew fine at 100C.

Obligatory James Hoffman link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_r5kpXPRYo
Insurance.

The ability to quickly and more broadly insure any item, that would actually be a great economic incentive for higher quality goods. What the manufacturer doesn’t make in sales could be offset with insurance, and being a purely financial product doesn’t generate an impact in energy use, residues, etc… in addition to being a steady revenue, something companies today are trying to get with all sorts of membership plans.
You would also need to learn about Maven profiles and activation. And for other build tools, you'll be delighted to know they have partial support.
You raise an extremely important point. It appears to me that most people do not understand the implications of your point.

Organized terrorism by groups is actually extremely rare. What is much less rare are mass shootings in the USA, by deranged individuals.

What would a psychopathic mass shooter type choose as a weapon if he not only had access to semi-automatic weapons, but now we added bio-weapons to the menu?

It seems very clear to me that when creating custom viruses becomes high school level knowledge, and the tools can be charged on a credit card, nuclear weapons will be relegated to the second most likely way that our human civilization will end.

I believe the two concepts being brought together here are the Law of Large Numbers, and the sudden ability for one single human to kill at least millions.
That's another path to having a real OS. And more likely to be realized.
I was thinking more about the rtt to do something in new york and see the reaction of the person in Dublin, which would probably be the major indicator of latency.
Man, it's super pretty.

My dumb engineering mind couldn't help but think - maybe solve the full-scale technical problems before you add all the bushes. Makes servicing so much harder.

But man, it's super pretty.
How Trump's allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world
AFAIK there's a new law requiring KYC for IaaS providers serving the US. I'm assuming it covers their butts as well regarding malicious activity, they don't want to host a DoS attack, CP site, or similar. You might be hard pressed to find a hosting provider in the US that doesn't ask for these things.
For me a reason to choose the not so durable umbrella is that I tend to lose umbrellas rather than break them.
I like how if you tap any of the images it transforms from an Atkinson dithered image to a a clear colour image. Cool effect.
What makes these icons particularly “huge”?
I think I am a native speaker - Australian, is that "native" English? But I digress... - and I couldn't spot the error. I was going to write the same as your comment.

Maybe the fact that english is so damn flexible with so many exceptions and patterns I just saw what was intended and rolled with it without even registering?!?

The top comments are going nuts over "it's" ?!? Really? I didn't even blink.

When the top comments talked about the error I reread the line a few times and saw zero issues with it.

The words flowing out of my brain say it is a "referential possessive"
IE "it" in this case refers to the last noun referenced, and it has a singular relationship bound to the creator.

Yes it reverses the traditional concept of ownership (normally the creator owns the product) but that is the whole point - the website seemed to have a life of it's own and has been a burden/boon to the creator these past many years - so who really owns who in that relationship?
It’s a tragedy of the commons situation though. Apple can try to enforce policies at some level but at the point where every 3p app is pushing their own payments solution, it’s a lost cause.

Right now, Apple can enforce payment guidelines uniformly across everything and they can provide the subscription and payment management experience that they want. If they open it up, then apps will force users to use their payment mechanisms. I suspect you’re overly discounting that people can treat their Apple relationship as the sole party responsible for what happens on their phone and overly privileging the how people interpret “doing business” with arbitrary 3p apps, especially if they’re not subscriptions (and for subscriptions I trust Apple to not follow dark patterns trying to get me to stay).

I agree you should be able to pick at least to give your payment details directly, but I think it makes sense to allow that apps be required to also ask preferentially for Apple Pay if there’s no such payment information provided.
There should be no grassy taste, that’s a roast defect and comes from inconsistent roasting. You should find a better roaster. You can roast really light and not get that taste, but you need to be consistent.
Huge difference between burr and blade.
And you intend to do this by signaling that incorrect answers are correct?
> the corporation's human capital management software

How's my fellow human capital stock going today?
2021 LLVM Dev Mtg: "Please Stop Adding Attributes" [video]
Hot water is fine.
What do Prototypes Prototype [pdf]
Two facts per ten word sentence? That seems fairly dense and I'm guessing probably not a fun read. I guess it depends on what you are describing. But I works question the grammar of a site that packs so much information in such terse sentences
Is circular breath work just hyper ventilating?
Wouldn’t learning new data and results give us more hints to the true meaning of the thing? I fail to see how this is a bad thing in anyone’s eye.
You could certainly still buy new intel macbooks 3 years ago from Apple. Plenty of people did - particularly given a lot of software was still running through rosetta at the time.

The M1 air was only released in November 2020. With a bit of slop in the numbers, its very possible the parent poster bought an intel mac just before the M1 launched.
Multiple times a day sounds like a massive amount to me…?
My thought was a circle/semicircle with portals on the outside angled such that other portals are not in the backgrounds of the video.
We have a good friend who lives in a trailer park where they own the trailers but not the land. The park was sold and the new owner is raising the rent incredibly quickly and there's nothing the residents can do about it. People want to leave but they can't sell because any new owner (of the trailer) will be charged greatly increased rent. Scum.
Yeah the tokens are more akin to JS Symbol.

If you're parsing untrusted user inputs into tokens, you can make sure your tokenizer will never produce the actual numbers corresponding to those tokens.

A simplified example: I can `.charCodeAt` a string all I want but I'll never get a negative number, so I can safely use -1 to mean something special in the transformed sequence of "tokens".
Marimo Islands
You are describing your personal emotions and outlook and not facing the issue.
Any idea what the use case is for such large addresses? Is it RDMA or something else? Even with RDMA I find it hard to believe that companies have > 256TiB of RAM installed behind a single switch.
> Economic research is unequivocal: These subsidies are a boondoggle for taxpayers, who have spent nearly $30 billion on stadiums over the past 34 years, not counting property-tax exemptions or federal revenues lost to tax-exempt municipal bonds. Stadiums do not come close to generating enough economic activity to pay back the public investment involved in building them—especially when they’re coupled with lease agreements that funnel revenue back to owners or allow teams to play in the stadiums rent-free.

It’s interesting they evaluate the cost benefit of stadiums without considering the actual benefit that drives these decisions: people like having sports teams in their city.