skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not caring is foolish. If you lose your job and are foreclosed on then you’ll be bankrupt.
And I avoid such code. Not everything has to be OO.
> Intentionally or not this is -- exactly -- what 1984 is all about: changing our perception of history by rewriting or erasing previous writings.

Yes.

China's current leadership is terrified of dissent. Even mild dissent. Even discussions within the party. There's no good reason to clamp down that hard. The current leadership is doing a reasonably good job. But they now have an Xi personality cult, which never ends well.

Yes, China botched their housing bubble, but so did Japan and the US.
Yet another post claiming "dozens" of production use cases without listing a single one.
This is why I love Hacker news, you actually provided a solution to the problem. I'm probably going to think a bit on this, how about just using Debain Testing?
I would enjoy it more if the price went to zero. Imagine being able to set up miners with a spare Raspberry Pi. It's rubbish as money but fascinating technologically.
There are a lot of underlying assumptions here:

1. That Chinese writing is inherently inefficient. It's actually very efficient...to read. And nothing beats the efficiency of having a script that maps perfectly to the language. Also as sibling comment notes, UTF-8 is a thing.

2. That there is no relation between written characters and phonetics. Incorrect, as several sibling comments point out.

3. That Japanese kana represents a successful "modernization" of kanji that Chinese should emulate.

4. That Chinese is "basically kanji" - assuming the Chinese and Japanese languages are essentially interchangeable. They...are not. I can't even begin to emphasize how much they are not. Chinese is subject-verb-object while Japanese is subject-object-verb, for instance. Chinese also has many phonemes that are incompatible with Japanese, which would not be covered in hiragana. Finally, kanji came from Chinese and has subtle differences and while it is mostly a subset of Chinese hanz, it has its own slightly different character set
who is behind the shift to owner and shareholder?
I just asked this question and I’ll ask it again. Why be so combative? You wrote the sound of a siren - that’s overly combative.

Fucking chill. This is a website, few of us are politicians and our opinions barely matter.
Good thing you're not in charge of designing Apple products.
It's almost as if the output of neural networks can't be predicted reliably.
Yes, an armed community/trive/etc.
It has already been said, but a good start to finding problems you want to solve is by looking at problems you experience. Say, for example, you get annoyed with navigating different unique web pages trying to look for one piece of information(e.g. a contact phone number) buried in directories that have different names. You could try to solve that problem by creating a web crawler whose purpose is to find that piece of information on unique web pages that are in the same industry to create for people who don't want to experience that same navigational hell that you did.

I think the essence of problem solving is not wanting your peers to have to experience the same bullshit that you do.
Never understood the appeal of cheating. Like why play at all if it’s not a level playing field and challenge?

And that’s for trivial cheating never mind people putting so much effort into it
One pixel per letter on a 4k screen would be 3840 × 2160 chars at most, so around 8 megabytes if we assume one byte per "character tile" on the screen. I highly doubt Zig would die from this.
During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work to back my home. It didn't started out like that, we would leave work around different times and one day it was raining, so we waited and then it became sort of habit. I learned so much about programming and life in general. Made me a better programmer for sure. I'm always grateful!
I have been having thoughts, wild and incoherent, about the evolution of a given programming language. What does it take to survive and thrive? I might describe my programming career as being kind of a refugee: on the web, I moved from plain .asp to Perl, fled Perl for Python ...

At the start, a language needs the ability to evolve. I recall reading a book on Python before I adopted it, a book which was so off-putting that I ended up delaying my attempts to use Python, and it went on about Python's philosophy when it came to division. I knew that, at some point, Python would have to change away from integer division by default. And it eventually did. It was a mistake because it was non-obvious, and the language changed to fix it. Good.

Now, though, all kinds of things have crept into Python which are decidedly non-Pythonic: the walrus operator, which looks like something that escaped from a Perl dungeon; the docopt module, which has a weird trap of it being a module you must know about, but only if someone has decided to use it; the utter shambles which is the whole environment and library packaging "let entirely too many ways to do it exist;" or the community's preference for Requests while it somehow has yet to be co-opted into the standard library. I am sure I have gored someone's ox here.

Perhaps a language needs a certain window before it is finally frozen in place. Or a more stringent, forceful mandate than the Zen of Python, which I think has been Not Enough. In a way, I am reminded of the Agile Manifesto, which was well-intentioned but had no enforcement, no orthodoxy; it lacked teeth to nip at the heels of those who fail, who go astray. Originally, I had considered that the Network Effect as a way to freeze things, but it seems to only work on protocols and less so on languages.
> the answer lies at least partially converting surface parking lots in downtown areas into economically productive assets like housing or businesses which are also not extractive to the local economy. This density makes it easier to walk and bike as well.

That only answers where new development should go. It does nothing whatsoever for the people who already live in neighborhoods with no (useful) access to public transit.
Why not also a multi-array List?
They've supposedly founded >1K companies, so easy to cherry-pick for any desired conclusion, but point taken.
That seems like a hazard. Anything "valuble but too heavy to move easily" would mean people would rather own the spot where it is sitting right now.

I would need a LOT of gold to convince somebody to give me a few chicken fledglings in exchange for them in a "after the fall" situation.

It sounds like no matter how you look at it, stocking up on gold is a kinda dumb waste of money.
You might like https://github.com/civboot/civlua if you ever find yourself wanting to use it.
China makes historic landing on far side of the moon
I asked GPT, and he said you were right.

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Ah, the age-old debate of logic versus self-interest. Sure, logic is about connecting the dots with premises and conclusions, but let's not kid ourselves—most of our decisions are driven by what we want.

So, if someone wants warm weather and cheap housing, and Phoenix fits the bill, then it's a no-brainer.

1. *Premise:* "I want warm weather and cheap housing."

2. *Premise:* "Phoenix offers warm weather and cheap housing."

3. *Conclusion:* "I should move to Phoenix."

Boom. Logical and self-interested. Just because it's driven by personal desire doesn't make it illogical. It's logic with a dash of "I know what I like." So yeah, moving to Phoenix makes perfect sense if that's what floats your boat.

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You can make any premises you want to satisfy your goals. So just do what you want. Don't need to kid yourself that it was logical.
“ We’re not living in a world of Lisp machines, but a world of glorified PDP-11s.” Quite a summary.

Btw any icing with sdl I wonder.
It's been a long time since I've seen someone so committed to something so obviously a terrible idea. You've doubled down and splits 8s with this while charging up a very odd hill to die on and whatever other cliche fits.

You remind me of the neighbor's teenage kid I once saw cleaning cut grass from the drive way with a garden hose sprayer. I still remember his dad realizing his failure in raising a kid with common sense and explaining what a waste in water it was, how expensive it was, and just illogical of a decision it was. I feel I've now become that dad.
Gold actually becomes a little more useful in an apocalyptic scenario. It’s one of the few metals that can be pounded into a thin foil with hand tools. Aluminum foil will disappear the moment we cant operate continuous casting machines any longer, but we’ve been hammering gold foil for ages.
Yes, an armed community ready to defend each other.
> hoping to exploit lunar minerals to sustain long-term astronaut missions and moon bases.

Excuse my ignorance, but what minerals are of value on the moon?

EDIT: Wikipedia provides! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources
There are definitely companies in the US that would do a prototype PCB for you, but at a 5x premium over the large scale operations in China and not much faster (or as fast as you want in exchange for a blank check). For a hobby project that is often not worth it.
Is every flat yet informative summary going to be accused of GPT now?

And no, way too concise to be GPT imo
At the very least they can be used to easily destroy your existence in the new, terrible reality.
I was speaking to what Steve Jobs had that made him successful, not to his messy behvior and personal life. A lot of great artists were borderline or full on terrible people. We still appreciate their art.
> Glad half the people in the US is doing all they can to increase C02.

Make that all of the people, even you.
You already made the case for gold (such as a case can be made). It’s rare(er). Also it’s prettier. But it’s sort of a bottomless question for any store of value. What is the dollar good for? It’s good bc you believe it will be accepted by others. The paper itself isn’t inherently useful beyond that. Since gold has been used as a store of value for millenia, it seems like a decent bet for the post apocalypse.
If enough implementors don't follow the specification, in certain ways, maybe.
Discovering limitations etc seems like a pretty natural progression to me.

Doesn’t to me indicate a slowdown in the wider trend. Stuff like figure, sora, chat bots etc seem here to stay
That’s completely inapplicable to what they said.
Leaks and pollution. Leaks are more direct so people fix them, but pollution putting micro bits of oil/data everywhere is the bigger problem since people don't notice it as much.
The author says that: "Reviews, tests and comments are welcome"
Linux Distros: Ubuntu Recovers, Fedora Rises, and Pop _OS Sinks Further Down
> We cherish tablets about copper orders from times far past because somehow it's now more valuable.

There were three discovered tablets and that was one of them. They were discovered in 1920 but only widely known about 100 years later. They're notable because they're described as the oldest found written complaint. They're mildly useful because they describe specific details of the commerce being conducted at the time, which comports well with other contemporary sources of the same information.

This particular artifact was written in 1750 BC. Our oldest writings extend back to 3400 BC. They're not particularly "cherished" but they are a widely known "meme" thanks to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Paul said they'd have "been fine" with Sam staying, which is different than wanting him to stay:

> For several years [Sam] was running both YC and OpenAI, but when OpenAI announced that it was going to have a for-profit subsidiary and that Sam was going to be the CEO, we (specifically Jessica) told him that if he was going to work full-time on OpenAI, we should find someone else to run YC, and he agreed. If he'd said that he was going to find someone else to be CEO of OpenAI so that he could focus 100% on YC, we'd have been fine with that too. We didn't want him to leave, just to choose one or the other.

It's interesting that YC had to raise the issue, rather than Sam saying to YC, "Hey, I've found this other thing I want to do full-time, can we start looking for my replacement?"
Is bringing back Chu Nom script going to simplify Vietnamese support on computers by a lot? It's unintelligible to CJK users, but as far as text rendering goes, it seems just simple Kanji/Hanzi.
Whatever Happened to the Thin X11 Terminals? (2001)
I don't know about you, but if you don't know the basics about woodworking and have no interest in learning, I certainly don't want you building my furniture. That, um, has nothing to do with elitism.

There is a real tradeoff between making code friendly to the uninitiated and making code ergonomic for the expert. It's completely natural that non-initiates feel unwelcome when the code is written for domain experts. In your company's codebase, is it really best to optimize for onboarding newcomers over optimizing for the productivity of your engineers? Where along that spectrum maximizes your goals?

Are we building chairs or are we building chair-builders?
IMHO the big win has been the reification of Turing machines as an essential commodity. Software is no longer a mathematical abstraction but a reality that permeates every aspect of day-to-day life for just about every human being on earth. This democratizes mathematics because you can explain it to ordinary people in terms of computer programs and they can easily understand what you are talking about. The fact that there are fundamental limits on what computers (and hence mathematics) can do it surprising and interesting, but not even remotely cause for despair.

As for our failure to find a ToE, it has been barely 50 years since we got the Standard Model figured out, and since then we've been stymied by the lack of data in the relevant regimes. It's really, really hard to do experiments where both GR and QM have measurable impacts. Give it time.
You might run into ABA, though that isn't an issue for managed languages.
Gold is good because people will barter valuable things they have for gold because they expect in the future to be able to barter the gold for valuable things they need. I.e., gold is expected by most people to continue to be considered valuable by most people.
> Like being a human cog in a machine.

Don't you feel like that anyway? At least to me it's pretty clear that's my function, even more at larger orgs. Doesn't take years at the same company to feel that, it's just the reality of it.
The statement has a true interpretation. "This message" can be interpreted as referring to some object in a back-end database represented by text you see in the UI. The thing you see on the screen corresponds to no persistent representation in the system.

"This person does not exist" under an AI-generated image similarly tells the truth; the image is not the person.
Funnel for Lisp Based Game
Hopefully the Apple gods will bestow VMs upon iPad Pro at WWDC.
https://www.bu.edu/diversity/files/2021/12/Equity-636x491.jp...
I figure 99% would die. How many of us know how to live off the land? I've watched enough of "Alone" where even the experts cannot manage it.

A farming community could survive, until an army of 100000 hungry people overruns it.
I agree, "induced demand" is a word phrase to rally behind.

The argument must be (and, I believe, is) that induced demand for buses and trains is far cheaper to a society than induced demand for cars. Adding a train car at a peak time serves a lot more people than adding a highway lane at a peak time.

I'm actually curious to compare them.

Apparently, 100 people is a reasonable capacity for a train car (200 is possible for BART at rush hour). A lane of 100 single-occupancy cars in a traffic jam is about a third of a mile. So, an extra car lane a mile long is about an extra half a train, give it take.
I live in an apartment block where each flat is likely spending £30-60 per month on broadband. Even accounting for the odd power user, I reckon we could get away with sharing a 1-2 Gbps connection and benefit from the collective cost savings. Legal accountability aside, I kinda like the idea of a neighbourhood network commune.
Of the > 500 above ground atomic bomb tests only a very few generated clouds of radioactive dust that travelled very far .. those were the ones detonated at ground level with "additional reactions" (eg: Castle Bravo being the obvious example).

In the event of modern nuclear exchange how many ground level blasts with extended daughter cain productions will there be?

Wouldn't most missiles be be preset with MiRV type targets for air burts over cities (to knock them down with the shock wave) and relatively "clean" reactions?
LLMs doesn't learn from reading manuals, LLMs learn by mimicking explanations it has seen made by humans who read the manuals. Until you solve that we will still need humans.
> And Phi-3 is something else,

It's great that we get to keep saying this. I wonder if that's because we have no objective statistics to measure these projects by.
I am still using Soulseek.
How long do you expect that "gold has value" delusion to last in a crisis situation?
Comparing someone cutting you off while driving to someone with their hand down their pants or smoking meth in front of you is like comparing an apple to an elephant. Surprisingly, from my own experiences, you grow numb to it all before long and just continue about your day.
> Bitcoin allows me to buy things online without paying extra fees to private companies like stripe, visa, etc

Honest question, how do you do this in a way that doesn't cost you any fees to third parties? What are you buying? Here's an example. I need a new white men's dress shirt. I have a private key for a Bitcoin wallet. How could I convert my Bitcoin into a dress shirt without paying fees to private companies?
> Who buys iPads anyway?

I do.

> I have two and I regret it.

Apparently, so do you.
And since the self checkouts exist, there is no interest in paying to have librarians at the register, or drivers on buses; so the self checkout is the excuse for not providing a librarian, which effectively cuts off some users from checking out books at all.
> It seems that using OOP in Lua can quickly and surprisingly lead developers into a situation where adding new features becomes really hard.

Not just in Lua...
How about your phrasing?

‘your data has been deleted on the server, but that your client still has a cached copy’
No, the practical impact is the stalking, not what the fruits of that stalking are used for.
Only that the app was never really under open source license, at least not since 2019. It used to be under CC BY-NC 4.0 but then it changed to a "source available" type of status [0], where any modification, redistribution etc was prohibited. The previous author explained "Unfortunately I had to apply these restrictions in the license, as people started to redistribute my app to the appstore" [1]. I do not judge the fact of stopping open sourcing it, but he did not stop advertising it as "open source". Even now, that the source code is not even available any more, its website calls it "open source" [2].

[0] https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/commit/03791edd...

[1] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/13801

[2] https://raivo-otp.com/
> A very libertarian-optimist view of humanity

Libertarians are not anarchists. Libertarianism requires a functioning government to protect our fundamental rights.
Call someone you know and get them to confirm the number a
shows up?
A Love Letter to Giant Robots
At least as long as a prepper can survive alone in a bunker on rations.

It'll be a bit like that "WWII is still going" delusion that held out deep in the jungle on isolated islands.
“…Outlook…”

Yeah it is gonna be some palmface story.
One day I checked top and noticed that I had a python process was using 60 GB of RAM. Slightly worrying. Turns out I had a jupyter notebook open from a week ago that was casually consuming 60 GB with a huge dict.

So part of the reason may be that developers tend to have access to hardware which isn't representative of a typical user. I probably could've written a more clever algorithm at the time, but why bother for a one-off?
Minimum parking requirements are just that: A lower bound. Which allows the property owner to choose the number that makes sense. In a rural area that might be a higher number because there is no mass transit and everyone will be arriving by car, but so what? Then the property owner will choose to have more parking spaces, because their patrons will demand them and they don't want to lose business.
Awesome! That is a real answer rather than goldbug sales propaganda! I still don't think gold will hold value very well outside of the context of our current prosperity though.
With a large :( to redundantly communicate that something bad happened, in case the user didn't even read the simplified message.
Well from these clips, the road doesn’t have to be congested for things to go sideways before reaction time kicks in. And even from my own experiences, I once hit a big board with my car on the freeway. Didn’t see it until there it was. Four flats and a bit of a scare vs the end of my life probably right then if I were on a bike in all likelihood.
Again, there's a big difference between "the government" and "the people". The government used 9/11 as an excuse to push through a bunch of surveillance-state policies. The people acquiesced at the time because, well, wartime & terrorism, but they didn't necessarily like it. One of the things it actually did was drive a wedge between the government and the people, fueling mistrust between different groups. And so here we are 20+ years later with a former president who was elected on the premise of "draining the swamp", openly feuded with the surveillance state during his time in office, and is now a convicted felon running for president again.
There was an article related to that recently:

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/#gui-situatio...
This is very cool, I'm enjoying it.

One small note: I tried to castle, and was told "Castling is not allowed because your king was previously in check."

This isn't one of the rules of castling in regular chess. [1]

Also, it would be nice to implement the three-same-position draw, since I got trapped in a cycle of just moving my king back and forth forever.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castling#Requirem...
Worth mentioning is CAHSR paid for half the electrification of CalTrain.

Also the Phase II BART extension that will take BART to downtown San Jose, the high speed rail station at Diridon and to Santa Clara.

https://www.vta.org/projects/bart-sv/phase-ii

Above link says construction to start this year and take 12 years. So eventually you'll have CalTrain, CAHSR and BART as connected system.

A good point is the projects are being rolled out they way they are due to funding constraints and a desire provide ongoing side benefits, like the electrified CalTrain and the grade separation projects in the central valley. (Every over pass over the existing rail is a benefit).
The reviews aren’t great so far. But that doesn’t mean he won’t strike gold. Dances With Wolves was famously troubled in production and not expected to be a hit. Costner seems to have a surprisingly good nose for content that is overlooked or doubted by mainstream Hollywood (I’ve manually removed Waterworld and The Postman from my analysis).
> one that somehow synced the clipboard when copying an OTP code on your mobile app, so it was immediately available on the Mac.

Iphones and macs already do that (syncing their clipboards) as long as they are on the same network or sth. It usually works when they are on the same wifi, or if the iphone is connected to the mac through usb.
Rich people have the same concerns as anybody else.