skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got this from an old HN comment I can't find anymore. I have this in my .bashrc:

alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'

And I init my dotfiles into a fresh home directory like this:

git clone --bare gitolite3@example.com:dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME config status.showUntrackedFiles no
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME reset --hard
All money collected from the taxes is paid back out to the citizens, but on a per-capita basis. Due to how the distribution of wealth/spending/carbon footprint work, the majority of people would get back more than they paid in tax - it’s an extremely progressive tax. Flying a private jet or driving a motor yacht would become incredibly expensive even compared to their current cost, and would fund a lot of poorer people investing in decreasing their own bills via heat pumps, etc.

It’d also help increase blue collar worker leverage and encourage onshoring/reindustrialization, because it’d become less attractive to ship goods from other countries.
Ask HN: How to deal with memory/cognition slowing down as an engineering leader?
I work in engineering management. In recent years I've noticed my memory has become a bit worse, and I'm feeling generally less sharp cognitively than I once was. I don't think this is anything pathological; it's not that severe - I think it's largely due to a combination of ageing and a chronic lack of sleep during this time.

Due to this, I'm finding myself in situations where my memory just fails me, in discussions where I really need to be on top of the details. And, while I've never been great at making decisions quickly, nowadays it's taking longer than ever.

Given some more time, I still have the knowledge and judgement to be make good decisions. But it is affecting how I do my job, and (I believe) how people perceive me in my role.

I wonder if anyone else here has experience with problems like this, and if so, whether anyone has any advice on things that could help. For example, I'm finding I need to take much more detailed notes. Tips along these lines would be welcome.
Then we can have many 6-fingered characters and other hallucinations. It's all fiction anyways so what's one for a other? I hope it either gets great fast or phases out as a fad.
> Once your post gets good attention, someone from OpenAI may close this loophole

They’ve intentionally made this available as per the README found in /home/sandbox:

“Thanks for using the code interpreter plugin!

Please note that we allocate a sandboxed Unix OS just for you, so it's expected that you can see
and modify files on this system.”
There are also those nonprofits that are run by rich people that are basically a mechanism to reduce taxes on activities they would already do
Ah, nice! I will shorten it after I finish the simd addition! I didn't even think of that. I was just overcomplicating my thread partitions to avoid collisions.
I wish my old floppies were in good enough shape for that. They got to an unreadable state before I thought to copy them.
‘Ideal’?!!
Things from 30 years ago:

mdfind 'kMDItemContentCreationDate < $time.iso(1994-06-23)' > out.txt

Highlights include:

* Castle Wolfenstien for MS-DOS (1983-6-29)

* Lisa OS Source Code (1983-6-29)

* Classic Mac Disks from the Boston Computer Society (1984-12-24)

* Atari 7800 Ms. Pac Man Source Code (1988-12-24)

* Pyroto Mountian BBS files (1990-10-5)

* Jumpman Lives Source Code (1991-04-13)

* Delightful AU sound files and TIFF images from Sun and NeXT systems (1992-2-29)

* Tim Berners-Lee's WWW Browser Source Code for NeXT (1993-6-21)

* C64 Disk Images (1994-6-17)
This is a highly intriguing device, but if it's to replace a MacBook or especially an iPad, battery life is going to have to be a great deal better. I'd be willing to sacrifice some raw muscle if that's what it takes to achieve that – even if it "only" performed as well as the original M1, that'd be more than enough if that meant also life north of the 12 hour mark.

Though it's not mentioned in the review, good standby time is also important. Not only is it irritating to find one's tablet/laptop dead when pulled out for use, the sleeping battery drain typical of x86 laptops since the advent of "modern" standby runs through your battery's cycles much more quickly than necessary.
And who is going to ensure they give up their guns?
Hmm. I don't typically mind throwing memory at a problem like that, but I can certainly see the issue.

Is lazy marshalling something that other languages handle better?
Yes that would be much better!
Why do people post comments like this and not name the offenders?
100% agree with all of your points
Sorry about that, I was on the Networks unit, still I could follow most of the Mobile stuff from inside.

After the Metrowerks based, tooling, there were two attempts with Eclipse, the first wasn't that great and I no longer remember the name, the second one was Carbide.

Which is when then eventually acquired Qt, introduced PIPS to ease the pain, and started to make Symbian C++ dialect more friendlier, and closer to common programming without those strange two phase constructors, handles, and special suffix names on member functions.

So the community was starting to see the light of transition that was several years in the making, and out of the sudden, that "we are going Windows Phone 7" on a company that was UNIX first for several years.

When I joined, all network software was originally targeting HP-UX, for example.

So there wasn't much Microsoft love on the corridors.
Go roboflow!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect We got it named already, it just needs to be properly propagated until there's no value left in calling things 'AI'.
> a personal macbook air, and a tablet. I wish the latest two could simply be merged

Un-crippling of Apple Silicon iPads with Magic Keyboards, which have a superset of MacBook Air features, can happen via:

- Competition from Linux on Qualcomm Oryon tablets and 2-in-1
- New Apple leadership
- EU regulation to unlock dual-boot of other operating systems, like Linux/BSD
- Future jailbreak
The original argument is that there shouldn't be debate about safety improvements, not that there shouldn't be safety improvements.
Those can really be called comma_nds!

Ahem. Nice idea though, I think I'll start using it...
> I could attach a debugger to the X server, however, debugging the X server pauses it, which would be a problem if I was debugging from inside that X session. Beside that, window destruction happens quite often, which can be prohibitive for manual debugging. It's still possible with a remote ssh connection, and gdb scripting, but it's inconvenient.

I will definitely look into eBPF and uprobe mentioned in the article, I don't know about them. But wouldn't something like XNest (or XWayland?) help with debugging X? You'd debug an X server running in a window comfortably from your real environment and display server without it being disrupted by the debugging session.
I'm one of those people, and I don't think advertisements are effective on any of them. I think that's proven true empirically. In 2016, Clinton massively outspent Trump, but Trump broke the "blue wall" by winning over a bunch of Obama 2008 voters. If you look at polling over the last six months, Trump has significantly increased his support among working class Hispanics, and materially increased his support among black people. But Biden has spent two to three times as much as Trump on advertising: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/advertising-election....

I think what you're really seeing with these voters is that they don't line up ideologically with either party, so their voting is highly context-dependent. They vote based on their perception of what's going on in the country. My wife and I are going to vote Trump in 2024, after voting for Biden in 2020, because of immigration, affirmative action, New York's prosecution of Trump, etc. The salience of these issues changes from election-to-election. In 2020, Biden was the pro-vaccination candidate, and in 2024, he's the pro-immigration candidate, and those two things cuts in different directions for many voters. But I don't think advertisements can change anyone's views on those issues. Obviously, cable news, Tik Tok, Facebook, etc., shape people's views on those issues (or rather, people's perception of the salience of those issues), but the candidates can't control that.

I think you're correct that the grassroots get-out-and-vote campaigns have a large impact, but I think that's also very different from money spent on ads. That's about each party turning out its base to actually go vote, not really influencing people through mass media. Is it a bad thing that money is spent doing that?
Interesting article, although it could use some more hyperlinks, e.g. to the bug.
Pianos are tuned differently, they use stretch tuning and will be pretty out of tune with other instruments at both lowest and highest notes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_tuning#/media/File:Rails...)
7 and 49 look the same.
The "critical difference" here is that in other cases the car wasn't manufactured by Elon Musk, the currently-designated Emmanuel Goldstein who needs to be the focus of a Two Minutes Hate every time his name is mentioned.

Edit: when a friend of mine locked her kid inside a conventional car a number of years ago, and the fire department broke the window, I assure you the incident did not even make the local news, much less go national.
Sorry for the silly question, I found the standardDevReloader stuff, hadn't realised it was built in. Not what I was hoping for since I want per-library reloading, but for the goals of mininext that's probably overkill anyway.
Singapore also has great universities. Research into this area fits Singapore well.
I don’t fully understand lisp nor emacs internals. Do you anticipate similar bugs would exist across different major and minor modes, or emacs by default?

E.g., is markdown-mode or python-mode likely to have similar bugs? What about web browser modes, or chat modes, etc?

I genuinely like emacs but I’m worried for a future where my client cannot be trusted to not evaluate random data it has in files.
Another font connoisseur put together a script here that might be helpful: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy/blob/master...
You're not wrong about the economics. Access to large amounts of high-quality protein (regardless of whether it's plant or animal derived) is increasingly going to divide the rich and poor. We can easily grow enough crops to provide everyone with enough calories (distribution problems aside), but people can't maximize performance and healthspan eating mostly grains and starches.

https://peterattiamd.com/lucvanloon/
Yes, it’s called running a “charity”.
Article is from 2009. Plenty of prevalent short named tools have been released since then, causing exactly this sort of issues. Just thinking about it, "node" and "npm" come to mind.
Ok, so the difference between medians is 42.7. Is that a lot or a little?
Conclusion: Our findings suggest a positive association between chili intake frequency and BMI and obesity in United States adults, suggesting that controlling chili intake frequency could potentially contribute to improved weight management in the general population.

Correlation does not always mean causation.
The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI
Top Libraries to Accelerate LLM Building
Just to understand the baseline you're working form, what data are you drawing on when stating what's "normal"? It has appeared to me throughout this conversation that you are starting from the assumption that your internal experience (at least, with regard to mental imagery) is consistent with the majority and making assertions about the majority based on that.

If you are actually drawing on a larger amount of data, specifically pertaining to the mechanisms of people's internal experiences, that'd be useful to know. If you are not, I'd gently suggest that you're working from a flawed statistical assumption, and that looking at the numerous interactions in this thread where people describe materially different internal experiences ("I can only recall tastes in terms of descriptors" - "I can experience a taste by imagining it"[0]) may be more informative without presuming universal consistency.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764813
The files from the 80s floppies have timestamps in 1999, so they were only a bit over ten years old back when I copied them off the floppies.

I did test some of the floppies in later years and still seemed to work. I still have the floppies but no longer have a working 5.25" drive to try them on!
The vulnerability is that Emacs evaluates this automatically:

#+LINK: shell %(shell-command-to-string)
[[shell:touch ~/hacked.txt]]
it's weird being 53 years old, click a random article on hackernews, notice the games discussed have something in common - why is that guy trying to recreate Braybrook's games? oh, he _is_ mr braybrook from my childhood.. But I cant remember
where I put down my phone or glasses last time..
Usually they encode anything except plain text with base64 since it is safe from these problems.
Doing one using lua and love2d and hence found some difference or things to ponder

- use ds and discrete event simulation instead of the usual dt (and continuous …)? Why? Seems all game engine offer dt …

- shall the track be one way and if two way traffic has to use 2 tracks? Otherwise if >1 train or train-group … crash ? And if there are junction … route and timing would be issues otherwise crash ?

- picolisp vs fennel ?
That's also my wish. The Asahi project somehow gives me a bit of hope but I remember the authors saying that porting it to an iPad is simply not possible because of some booting mechanisms, and dev'in on a jailbroken device was not its preference, which is understandable.
The problem was that right after the Symbian developer community decided to embrace Qt, the Burning Platform memo came out, telling them to dump C++, learn C# and target Windows Phone 7, with either Silverligh or XNA.

In a community that was largety anti-Microsoft, joking how bad Windows CE and Pocket PC used to be, versus Symbian handsets.

The majority of the Symbian community felt betrayed and went elsewhere, to Apple and Google.
Corporate probably doesn't know the manager started giving out free coffee, so the next time they look at numbers, Corporate won't be able to ever see a difference except that they weren't selling cups of coffee anymore
Any M-series mac with 16GB+ can do this also.
Hm I wonder why they’re so marked up, any idea? Maybe because the transportation is less efficient because the panels/modules pack less densely than a pile of 2x4s and sheathing?
Using simd properly(I think) and lowering the nonce text, I went from that 7MH/s to 10MH/s

I have a bunch of other ideas to get me to my goal of 20, but I am happy to let this run for a bit! Thanks for the suggestion!
Like with the three-body problem [1], would be interesting to apply statistics to "seemingly random perturbations."

Maybe in this case the drunkard's walk is exclamatory announcements of the next digit of pi. Wrong so often, is there a measurement for that?

One in ten choosing a unique digit per round would always be right, but is there a frequency to who is right more often?

Maybe it averages to everyone being correct versus incorrect about the same number of times.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758294
Are you sure it actually called to an external tool to compute the square root? Most big LLMs today can do that by themselves.
Yes, env is an abstraction for the sake of portability, but if you're setting up custom indirections then portability probably isn't much of a concern.
I don't work for ClickHouse, but I second this!!! Absolute juggernaut of a db warehouse/analytics product.
The bell curve IS the smooth single mode with LOWEST ENTROPY.
An alternative method for avoiding collisions in PATH is to use really long executable names that are unlikely to be used by other executables and then have shorter aliases for them in your bashrc. The aliases won't affect executables called from within scripts and you can still refer to your executables by their long names in your own scripts.

One drawback is that this doesn't have the same tab completion ergonomics, which I have to admit is really nifty.

EDIT: And another is that collisions can still occur in scripts that need to be sourced rather than executed as a sub-process (like Python's venv activation scripts). But those are rare.
Don’t worry. If there is anything history (and the geological record) has shown us, the planet and other humans have tried very very very hard to kill all humans in the past. And failed.

Not that they didn’t make one hell of a dent sometimes, mind you.

We’d more likely end up with an extra mutation or two, similar to the Moties [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye] and some solid species level PTSD from the whole mess.

Why do you think the doomsday prepper genes haven’t been bred out yet? I’m guessing because sometimes, they were the only ones left standing!
> we will eradicate HIV within the a single generation at this rate!

In the same way we eradicated COVID? /s

First of all, COVID is still around just less common.

Second, this HIV implant is a twice yearly implant. Not a one-time preventative cure.

Third, User Rlad in these comments calls into question its efficacy suggesting it merely stops replication but not infection. Once a cell is infected with HIV, a cell is permanently infected. This posit’s the concern that once a person stops receiving the implants, the dormant virus will then begin replicating —- fully infecting the individual. That makes this drug sound a lot like Luciferium from the video game Rimworld.

Fourth, the inactive ingredients need to be studied. If they contain heavy metals such as mercuries and aluminums, that a reason for pause and study. Autopsies of brains affected by Alzheimer’s usually find high levels of heavy metals in the brain. Heavy metal poisoning causes all sorts of cognitive issues.

Fifth and last, too large of an immune response is associated with the creation of new allergies. All allergies are a product of an immune response to something that the body shouldn’t have an immune response to. While HIV protection trumps new allergies, it’s worth examining side effects especially if some are mostly permanent. I also don’t know if this drug causes any kind of immune response. It’s all a starting point for someone who wants to study it more to study so you can come to your own conclusions after studying.
My favorite household NFC usage? NFC alarm clock.

Makes me get out of bed and tap my phone on a specific NFC tag placed somewhere around the house, in order to turn off the alarm. Then, I may as well wake up, since I'm already out of bed : )

It's a nice companion to help perform 'habit stacking' as Atomic Habits calls it. Want to do pushups right after waking up? Place an NFC card under your workout mat, so you're forced to the mat first thing in the morning.

NFC Alarm Clock https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nfcalarmcl... is a really great and simple Android alarm. Share if anyone has a good iOS recommendation.
And this phenomenon can be frustrating for both
I worked in the space for a couple of years and I will never give a penny to any of them after what I saw. The organizations are a mess of petty squabbling between people who could never get real jobs, there's a complete misalignment of incentives between the people giving, vs the people doing, vs the recipients that leads to all sorts of absurd inefficiencies with zero pressure to fix them. Fundraising ("development") is where the real horrors are. If a charity can raise $1000 at a cost of $990 that's a free $10 for them, so most do not care at all except to the extent that it hypothetically exhausts the potential pool of donor dollars.
I live in the congestion zone. It would affect me greatly, even though I don't own a car. That's my point. Nothing you've written addresses that point.

> As for the NYC one it’s a fee for using a car, not a tax on residents. Those are two different things.

Any fee on car traffic in the zone that does not exclude residents, is de facto, a tax on residents. Even if you never ever ever take a taxi or ride in a car, the billion dollars in projected annual revenues don't just magically disappear because they're being paid by the people who deliver the goods you need for daily existence, the businesses where you shop, or the services you utilize. They get passed down to you, in the form of higher prices.

This is basic economics.

> Also you’re factually wrong, as the east/west side highways were exempted. So you very much could transit the area, or from the Brooklyn Bridge to upstate or the Battery Tunnel to Washington Heights, for example.

You're arguing about something I didn't say and isn't relevant to my arugment, so I'm not sure how I'm "factually wrong".

Yes, the west side highway and the FDR were exempted. Regardless, if your destination was inside the congestion zone, or you ended up driving there to get somewhere else, you were going to be charged the fee. But I don't care if you can travel upstate from Brooklyn. I live in Manhattan, not upstate. My argument is about people living here.

Not incidentally, when you say "or from the Brooklyn Bridge to upstate" that's some incredibly slippery wording, because, in fact, that's the only direction you can go from the Brooklyn bridge without incurring a fee. Per the MTA [1]:

> Vehicles can travel from the FDR Drive to the Brooklyn Bridge, and from the Brooklyn Bridge to the FDR Drive northbound without hitting the street grid and so will not be tolled. Vehicles traveling from the Brooklyn Bridge to the FDR southbound, however, will be tolled, as that connection includes hitting the grid at Pearl Street.

[1] https://congestionreliefzone.mta.info/faqs
Copilot may legitimately be unable to execute code, but when you follow up with a request to compute it responds with a memorized square root. To be 100% sure that it's lying about not being able to compute you would need to have it do something more complicated that it can't possibly have memorized.

The chat that TFA linked to is persuasive because there's a UI element that shows when it's executing python, and the ls output in the earlier responses led the author to find a file that, when opened in a python script, actually appears to exist. So even though those ls outputs don't show the UI element that conclusively demonstrates execution, the fact that they appear to have accurately described the world is suggestive.

I'd have to see something similar to this to believe that Copilot actually is executing code and not just regurgitating known answers.
> Software development is vastly overpaid compared to how complex it is, imagine a 6 month Bootcamp for becoming a civil engineer.

If anything, I think the past couple years have belied the idea that you can become a competent software developer in 6 months. It is this "lowest level" dev work anyway that I see under the most pressure from outsourcing.
I've attempted to replace the clickbait title* using terms from the article itself, but if someone can suggest a more representative phrase from the article, we can change it again.

(* in keeping with the HN's title guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
The state CSF forest is like a gnat in the eye of the national forest. They only own 40k acres, while the USDA/USFS administers 16 million acres and BLM administers another 4 million acres.