skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this isn't the identity function, but it's the same idea and a feeling I get when using Lisps that the language is kind of "complete". Including the identity function and having built in 0-ary functions where it makes sense are examples of this.
Ok, so why don't you build things for fun that affect the real world outside of your office job?

And before you tell me you are too tired of coding from your day job, which is the cliche response to this question, you can do anything, even woodworking, it just has to affect the real world and not a video game.
The reason verifiability is important is because humans can be incentivized to be truthful and factual. We know we lie, but we also know we can produce verifiable information, and we prefer this to lies, so when it matters, we make the cost to lying high enough that we can reasonably expect that they will not try to deceive (for example by committing perjury, or fabricating research data). We know it still happens, but it’s not widespread and we can adjust the rules, definitions and cost to adapt.

An LLM does not have such real world limitations. It will hallucinate nonstop and then create layers of gaslighting explanations to its hallucinations. The problem is that you absolutely must be a domain expert at the LLM’s topic or always go find the facts elsewhere to verify (then why use an LLM?).

So a company like Google using an LLM, is not providing information, it’s doing the opposite. It is making it more difficult and time consuming to find information. But it is then hiding their responsibility behind the model. “We didn’t present bad info, our model did, we’re sorry it told you to turn your recipe into poison…models amirite?”

A human doing that could likely face some consequences.
> I never imagined fiber cable being used for something other than data

Interesting side note is that Compaq ProLiant servers of roughly the same vintage as C7600 actually use optical fibers for system status LEDs. (And using fiber instead of rigid lightpipes is not that uncommon in HDD trays)
The argument about parsing twice doesn't seem very good to me. Vim and emacs are also parsing keystrokes, should we abandon them too?

The cynic in me thinks it's more likely that because kitty offers tmux features he wants to lock users in to his product.
Waymo is not Google. And Deepmind operated quite independently until not long ago.
Yes, it has a bigger more active community with more features and plugins. I used to use screen all the time but then converted to tmux because of modern features that screen didn't support, at that time at least, like displaying certain Unicode characters and a way to restore a previous session. It was a bit of a hassle to make tmux work similar to screen and some things you have to really do in a different way, but overall I'm happy with the switch.
No, because the high potency stuff merely increases THC but does not increase and in fact often decreases other psychoactive compounds like CBD. It will not be the same.
No, but it does seem Goyal really dislikes tmux and is making the common misunderstanding that people use tmux for persistence more than formatting.
Last hours of an organ donor
and online: niche, reputation-based forums probably still running phpbb that have been online since the 90s and have aging users with post counts in the 6 figures.
I can't say I think they've been all that useful for me lately:

https://h0p3.neocities.org/#Promptcraft%3A%20Custom%20Instru...
you can absolutely purchase physical goods on onlyfans. it often comes in a ziplock bag!
I strongly recommend the opposite direction. Do not brand any accessibility feature as something "more" or "additional". Instead you want to weave accessibility features into the baseline of minimum competency such that a failure to consider accessibility is an unforgivable shameful failure of negligence worthy of civil liability and gross financial penalties.

For example, if you drive too fast in a parking lot and accidentally kill multiple people you did not simply happen to miss some advanced consideration. You violently failed a basic fundamental and unforgivable understanding of operating a motor vehicle worthy of spending multiple years in prison and liability of extreme civil penalties. There is plainly evident to the common person without any misunderstanding.

In order to achieve accessibility at Southwest Airlines the leadership mandated accessibility be a common virtue of minimum accepted criteria. This mandate came from corporate leadership in 2014 and violations were unforgivable. WCAG 2.0 AA was the standard and anybody who failed to achieve that minimum standard at every aspect of delivery simply no longer wanted to retain their employment.
Sounds rather like how Google photos does not identify anything as a Gorilla.
“We can’t get people to willingly use our chromium wrapper, so we’ll add features that only make sense when they’re forced to use it”.
It's just a scale thing. Around the rise of Facebook came the rise of mobile. With mobile the internet became huge, absolutely massive, and the idea of a shared culture on the internet basically broke down. I'm pretty sure the average Discord server is bigger than the top 5 ICQ chatrooms combined. The early internet strongly self-selected for a Western, upper middle class, college educated person (or someone who was on their way to becoming a Western upper-middle class college-educated person) as that was the only person who had the money, time, and education to afford the peripherals (home PCs, modems, telecoms costs, internet plans.)
well after the Ukraine stroke radar target inside the Russia. Risk of nuclear war might have gone higher,, at least temporarily. And nuclear war Means turning earth into Venus or Mars twin. USA can decide how much support is too much support and how small support is too small support, because too little support might lead Russia attacking NATO countries event without needing to occupate but the much support can just lead to termination of All life on earth.
Nvim was given as an example because I was interested in it for ages, and only recently gave it a whirl and loved it, but the situation, from my personal experience, is even more dire, where for example people are not aware of how to fix the virtual environment they are working in, or how it works so they can ask the proper questions.
IIRC even SGI themselves had something like Octane case converted into beer tap and used that very successfully as a way to get people onto their stand at trade fairs.
Yeah, I get it. I have friends, I like my friends (else I wouldn't be friends with them), and I like socializing with them, but it almost never even occurs to me to invite them out to do something. Stuff like that kind of makes me a little anxious.

It's also gotten worse since I completely stopped drinking alcohol for the last few years. I wasn't a huge drinker anyway, but the liquid courage of even a tiny bit of alcohol did relieve that anxiety, and made it easier to do stuff with friends. Now that I don't drink alcohol I'm a little boring.
But that sending institution may not be incentivized to do so, for the reasons identified earlier in the piece.
> greedily amped up THC potency

This had been going on for decades as a result of the prohibition on the substance and the criminal penalties associated with it.

> 5% was typical in the 1990s

What is your source for this assertion?

> vape instead

Is there a source for this as well?

> which is even more potent

The material used in vaporizers is typically from concentrated extracts. This is another product born out of the long standing legal status of the flower. The real question is, are users consuming _more_ when they vape as opposed to other methods, or is this simply a more efficient delivery mechanism for them?

> So the industry does this on purpose out of greed

You're ignoring edibles entirely. These products really didn't exist before legalization. A large segment of these products are much lower dose than the other specialty products and often have reduced THC in favor of higher CBD, CBG or CBN.

> but suddenly only high proof vodka was available?

Pure grain alcohol from stills has always been available.

> they used it as a door to carpet bomb us with ultra high potency products.

This single minded focus on potency of product and not on the impact of users is unusual. Why have you made this such a focus?
> cannabis (ab)use triggered psychotic episodes in two of my close family members, they had to be hospitalized multiple times (psych ward is no joke)

There are additional risks for those experiencing psychotic episodes over and above the obvious as they can fall afoul of other social problems like police brutality.[1] So, if you have a family history of mental illness, but especially a history of psychotic episodes related to cannabis use (!!!), it’s very foolish to use cannabis.

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna149646
Weed is not harmless. The question I always ponder is if it's more harmful than X. Alcohol, methamphetamines, etc.

Rescheduling is a start for more research into whether weed is causing these episodes or highlighting other underlying causes.

It seems like your friends arguement that it's legal for continued use is asinine. Plenty of prescription drugs are legal per se but would have adverse effects for some.
I've definitely heard the term "soccer nerd" before ;)

I thing the negative nerd stigma was mostly with the millennials during our teenage years, and now that some of them that weren't "nerds" back then are developers now, it begins to soften up.
Answers for me:

> Why didn't you do those things?

Because at that time I was a child, and thus simply wasn't able to, even though I saw the potential.

> Why aren't you trying to catch the next trend?

I actually attempt to, but since I have an exhausting job, I can only invest very little time at night and weekends on this topic. And no, my (also work) environment is not very receptive to my ideas ... :-(

So, what I do is rather attempting to catch some long-term future trends.

But I am very sure that I am onto some something(s) since when I presented some of my ideas to my former PhD advisor a few months ago, he immediately made slight attempts to (re)hire me. Well, a few years ago, I would likely have taken such an offer, but now I am not anymore willing to accept the bad job security and prospects in academia (which were central reasons why I left academia).
I think I understood 7 words you just said mister
I would do run both and try to port over customers to Shopify. The advantage of Etsy is people.
Opencv while not niche is also one of them. It’s definitely preventing me from going full in on rust. Probably for a while.

This Reddit comment captures my reasons pretty well: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1arys3z/comment/kqoak...
I have yet to find any kombucha with sugar. So far all the ones I've bought have 0 sugar. Sure, sugar is used as a substrate for the cultures but after brewed there's none left, and the resulting drink is slightly sweet and very low calorie.
There is that. I've seen plenty of robotic one-offs and small-volume demos.
That's changing. Robotics is finally starting to take off in the US. Amazon builds a thousand robots a day.[1] For comparison, the US has about 8,000 newborn babies a day.

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-...
There's even a HN post about the closure! Indeed, the two most famous towers Garisenda and Asinelli are closed for renovations for the forseeable future. IIRC, they used to be the same height and had a wooden bridge connecting them at the top. From there, guards could oversee the marketplace and look out for riots.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38087256
These kind of atom-like systems can be used as registers for a quantum computer. They allow you to store a qubit and apply gates to that qubit. It doesn’t make practical sense to use it to improve classical storage, although it actually can pack more information than a classical bit using “superdense coding” [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding
If you just need it to view far, then why build more than the primary tower, a backup, and perhaps a secondary backup (in a pinch, you don’t want to be caught without a secondary backup).
Well I'd say most transhumanists think that technology can save us from ourselves, not that it would necessarily always do.
I don't see how that is similar to believing in the cult in TFA, and how both are unscientific.
Also, email accounts are linked to account/identity not to transaction/purchase.
That was the plan for the United Nations. Get all the major powers who won WWII to work together to clamp down on anybody else with conquest plans.
the problem google have is that the ai answers are based on results and results got really bad a few years ago.

I got a couple of answers that are based on SEO spam produced by an ecommerce with a lot of reputation and of course the answers don't make any sense
Nice, thanks. But I have other limitations as well (Powershell 5 only and scripts must be signed, which I believe includes external modules).

Don't ask me why I can run a random binary instead, I don't know and I don't want to know.
It's 2024. Some of us are isolating because y'all refuse to mask up and we can't risk going anywhere.

I have powered through by wearing a Cleanspace Halo but that precludes a real lot of places I used to go: cafes, cinemas, theatres...
As augmented by their own websites I assume. You lose the mass discoverability but you at least reduce the direct competition with volume, largely mass-manufactured goods.

Maybe it wasn’t obvious at the time but it certainly became so that your low-volume artisanal craft couldn’t sell alongside manufactured Chinese goods going for 10% the price.
We've encountered the exact same problem in the past, and open sourced our solution to enforce those boundaries! https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach Alongside CODEOWNERs, you can effectively constrain teams to focus on where they need to be.
This is a fairly good article, but doesn't take into account that now everyone knows how unfair capitalism is through information sharing using the internet... you already lost before you were born. Why play hard into a game of monopoly where everyone already owned all the property and you just keep rolling around the board landing on everyone else's stuff paying them rent?

If there was something besides getting an investor who will take over control and make your stock useless by any means possible... then maybe builders would participate more?
> What's the threat model of such an odd design choice? Are there any docs on that?

Easy and not odd at all, I would say: if your computer/smartphone is compromised, you're screwed. If an external program can read what appears on the screen, then no matter what kind of encryption you have at rest, they will be able to read the text.

So if it matters to you, you should make sure that your device is not compromised; it cannot be done by Signal. What Signal can guarantee, though, is that it can transmit messages securely between non-compromised devices. And that it does well.
> Instead of calling B from A, you have to wrap B in an interface, instantiate it, pass it to A, and make the call.

There is a place for interfaces, but not all dependencies need to be interfaces. The database handle mentioned in the previous comment is a good example of where dependency injection can be useful without the need for interfaces. In your configuration example, a string path to the configuration file might be the useful dependency.
Pretty nice! I feel like there is a lot of room in this space for people to make choices other than the platform defaults, or the ones Linus Torvalds personally prefers. And there are a lot of optimizations on the table, for example on the hybrid Intel CPUs when an E-core cluster is running there's almost no marginal cost to assigning another task to one of the four cores on that cluster.
mkcd (mkdir + cd) Improved (2010)
Chilling effect, sure.

But between youtube, cheap IR cameras, 10k-Neuron-Net running on a raspberry pi, github open source swarming algos, extremely cheap 3'D printing, hap-hazard innocuous chemicals, and a global ubiquitous surveillance state...

A "sufficiently motivated citizen" could literally walk down the street, encounter an altercation, and snap their fingers, and have their opponent 'neutralized' within seconds, all with off the shelf hardware and open source software, right now.

These people exist, but do we really want to stir them?
Also cloudflare is on the other side of the trenches as well, one of their main services is protecting websites against bad actors, which love using these tools as weapons.

The whole deal reminds me of hobby file host projects.
Plenty of things require a lot of care and sometimes more than people expect. Where do you draw the line? Should we ban raw meat? Plenty of people get salmonella after all.

According to the CDC[1]

> CDC estimates Salmonella bacteria cause about 1.35 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths in the United States every year.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/index.html
We've tried to make it clear that she's welcome to move back if she wants, but that she's also welcome to stay here. Obviously we're not holding her hostage, and we'd help her move back (or anywhere else) if that's what she wants.

I think me yelling at her boyfriend made her feel like she was unwelcome to do anything fun here.
Etsy fits Cory's original definition to a tee though.
In my system prompt I ask it to always start with repeating my question in a rephrased form. Though it’s needed more for lesser models, gpt4 seems to always understand my questions perfectly.
I'm not sure sure if this is a joke given the Terraria test, where the game has very low requirements and it's locked to 60fps anyways. The potential max might've changed from 200fps to 100fps and the author didn't even report on the kernel compilation time.
A few of them [0]:

> a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and/or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

Our vocabulary in the US around politics (left and right) gives the false impression that politics is a 2D spectrum. It's not, and very few right-wing groups today have many shared beliefs with fascists at all. This includes the nutjobs who think they're Nazi sympathizers.

According to Orwell the word was already a mostly meaningless insult by 1944 [1], and it's still a mostly meaningless insult:

> Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.

> ... All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

[1] https://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune...
I lived there for several years and the prevailing notion among the locals seems to be status.

Then again part of being a true citizen of Bologna is to have incorrect information on some of the landmarks there.
It sounds like the exact opposite of that story. They manually blacklisted gorillas from being identified because they kept conflating black people with gorillas.
Even worse, it just wasn't funny.
That particular illustration is an artistic interpretation of another older illustration. I wish I could place a link for reference right now but I’m using my phone and that’s no fun.

There’s a YouTube video somewhere that explains all of this and shows a more accurate physical model (or as accurate as can be reasonably expected) that is located somewhere in Bologna, which suggests that there were quite a few towers but not that many and not that tall as shown here. In any case it still had an impressive skyline for its day.

If I remember to do so, I’ll come back here and post a link.
Good call, here cannabis damaging effects are usually minimised and hidden under the rug.
And you will always, always find someone telling you “what about alcohol”
> This is so obviously "enterprise software 101" that it is telling Google is operating in 2024 without it.

My impression of GCP generally is that they've got some very smart people working on some very impressive advanced features and all the standard boring stuff nobody wants to do is done to the absolute bare minimum required to check the spec sheet. For all its bizarre modern enterprise-ness, I don't think Google ever really grew out of its early academic lab habits.
We certainly have the ability to implement transfer authorization, from the sender side, using good authentication technology. This doesn’t have to be cryptocurrency: it can just be the same techniques that we use to authenticate people logging into their bank account, eg passwords, MFA, passkeys, Face ID. We don’t do that for a bunch of business reasons given in the article (mostly that sending institutions are disincentivized from enabling this, and regulators have come up with a kludge that spreads the losses out in weird ways.) The result is that we use a system based on trust, reversal and insurance. This seems fine, but it almost certainly raises costs across the entire system in ways that we can’t obviously measure. Those costs presumably show up in places that typical consumers can’t really see, unless they’re very sophisticated: for example, higher management costs and worse spreads and weird fees.
The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than humans
That is probably true, but you know you suffer for your art and all that. People don't really like software, but they love games. We know that games are just software, but it's so fun, that people forget that. It's pretty cool. Though to me, I kind of like getting 8 hours of sleep a night and playing other people's games. While getting paid more :/
Why did you write all these words and still not answer my question?

The context is interns, and I responded from the perspective that someone came to me with that code and asked to be an intern. You seem very convinced that most people that apply for software development jobs can't "write a working implementation of FizzBuzz", but I fail to see the relevance. Why count all the hairdressers and kids that have spent a few weeks on HTML and whatnot that might apply for one software related job and be refused?

It's a rhetorical question, don't waste time on it.

I think it's more interesting to look at the output from the machine as if a person had produced it and offered it in an internship process. That's a good way to at least partially neuter the influence of advertising and so on when we evaluate what you got out of it.

As for the chess part, I'm not so sure computers can play chess. Can they carry the board and pieces to the place where a match will be played? Can they unpack it, push the clock button, move the pieces? When the match takes place on e.g. Lichess, can they put a finger on a screen and move a piece, or do they need some special interface that is incompatible with humans to participate? Do they need a human to help them get to the game and initiate participation, or can they do this on their own, because they previously said to someone that they will or because they feel like it?

You're treating simulacra as ultimately real, and see me as stupid because I still have some contact with the material and don't confuse it with the virtual.
Maybe I'm not understanding the explanation, but how is a policy of "never wake up an idle core if another core is running code" different from "only ever allow one core at a time to be awake"?

The latter could be achieved much more easily without custom code, e.g. by using the cpuset cgroup controller to pin everything to CPU 0.