skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent summary. A few additional comments from personal memory:

I have lived in Japan since 1983, and I started working as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator in 1986. I wanted to produce clean-looking text in English for my clients, so after a few months using a manual typewriter I took out a loan and bought a Macintosh with a dot-matrix printer. If I remember correctly, it cost six hundred thousand yen. The Mac could not handle Japanese; when I needed to write Japanese text, such as for notes to clients, I wrote by hand. I eventually bought a dedicated Japanese word processor for writing clean text in Japanese.

Around 1992, I bought a modem and went online, first to a local foreign-run BBS and then, a couple of years later, the Internet. Many of the first friends I made online were Japanese-English translators like myself, and some of the most active discussion groups I took part in were about the Japanese language and translation.

The display of Japanese characters in our online discussions was a problem for a long time. Even as more and more of the participants became able to type Japanese on their own computers, they were using a variety of OSs and character encodings, and the Japanese parts of their messages, when posted online, would be corrupted more often than not. When discussing a particular Japanese expression, we would have to romanize the Japanese and, sometimes, explain what kanji were used.

Here’s are two examples from posts to a translators’ mailing list in 1998:

> While this handbook uses "åòå≈ê´" for "robustness", the systems engineers I work with prefer "ÉçÉoÉXÉgê´" <robasutosei>.

> Ruth, the kanji for taikou are tai (as in taishi - Crown Prince) and kou (as in kugurido - the radical is mon with gou inside (gou = au/awasersu). Does this help? The dictionary meaning obviously does not make sense here.

This made it impractical to discuss longer texts or to have our discussions in both English and Japanese.

It was a great relief when, around 2000 or so, the encoding issues were gradually resolved and we became able to write Japanese freely in our online discussions.

(Addendum: I am still in touch with some of the people on that mailing list, including the Ruth mentioned above. In fact, last month I attended a party in Yokohama in honor of her and her husband’s 55th wedding anniversary. Several other friends I first met online in the mid-1990s were there, too.)
in 20 years people will still be saying lockdowns in 2020/2021 caused immunity debt.
So your argument against digital simulation is that currently digital simulation isn't good enough today so it will never be good enough?

May I introduce you to the exponential function?

It's a little something that's been carrying the whole field of digital computers on it's back since the 1970s.
IIRC, II was considered superior, where a lot of the ideas were supposed to have matured and gelled to create a compelling experience. I didn't own a 360, so I never got to see for myself, but I did get to watch a few hours of gameplay while hanging out with my boyfriend at the time.

A notable moment: he'd unlocked a Demon Door and was enthusiastically laying out how the game's real estate system worked, and his plans for the idyllic winter lodge he'd just found, when he walked his character inside and... well, I won't spoil the surprise. Suffice it to say, someone on the design team had a very good handle on what they were doing. It's always stuck out to me as an excellent example of how deeply game designers understand their systems, how those systems influence gamer behavior and expectations, and how to play on those expectations for emotional impact.
I agree, having a subset of Emacs/Readline keybindings available everywhere on macOS is really convenient and made Emacs quite natural to use for me.

GNOME used to have an Emacs GTK key theme, but it is no longer available as of GTK 4.0?
TBH, Porn is very clearly one of those things that there's basically no intrinsic added value to your life by consuming. Think cigarettes or fentanyl. Something, that, if most people could press a button to make themselves never ever use it again, they would.

> I wonder if we will start having people demand we go back to real human porn like in the good old days because it's just not natural to jack it to photo realistic catgirl dominatrices.

All that to say that, in the future, I think the more likely option is that people begin to treat it as a harmful, addictive substance and, that, hopefully, it becomes much more acceptable to seek out public treatment and support for using it.
> The second movie is much darker and more cerebral

It's one of the most underrated animated movies there is I think. There's a limited edition I was lucky to grab in a pretty random store in Tokyo years ago that comes with two books, one has a lot of the storyboards and the other contains interviews with Oshii and he considered it the most important movie he made for its exploration of post WW 2 Japan. And although GitS is great I think it's a bit of a shame that it overshadows Patlabor so much, in particular internationally.
I've been "sanding" my personal website (https://dustinbrett.com) for nearly 4 years now, and it feels like it could go on forever. Luckily I enjoy working on it.
Drop the disability qualifiers. This is awesome for everyone, period.
Depending on the job, interviewer gripes may be legitimate, or at least they should give you the opportunity to write a different type of solution.

If they’re writing a compartmentalized library specific to their domain, it’s fine. I’ve worked with a Stats PhD doing that.

If you’re dropping them into a shared codebase, the comprehensibility of their code to the other people on their team is essential. Great code that depends on knowledge no one else on the team has is not great. You end up with “That’s going to take forever to change, Steve wrote it”.
The question I would have is what the long term consequence is. I can completely believe there's a real benefit over weeks to months. I've experienced this myself in using a chatbot to talk through career decisions. It was nothing but helpful in prompting me to think through all aspects my decision and how I felt about each part of it.

But I wonder what happens when that translates to years and people find they are sinking their emotional connection into something that ultimately is not able to relate to their life experience. Such as when an older person forms a relationship with someone dramatically younger than them. I can imagine there being severe consequences when someone falls of a cliff and suddenly transitions to seeing the emotional connection they have invested in over many years as being shallow and meaningless (whether it is those things is almost a philosophical argument - but the risk comes from the shift in perception).

There are also very obvious risks to mitigate. What happens when your life long AI friend tells you it's time to go? or supports your inner instinct to refuse treatment or not to take the medication prescribed by your doctor?
I voted "light" because there is no "medium" option. Why is it a choice between gray-on-black or black-on-white? I would choose a "color" mode if there was such an option on the table. Maybe we can see a return to the yellow-on-blue mode which was popular with text editors a few decades ago?
Think instead of abstract arguments it's better to think about concrete examples. I can think of lots of software that's survived, prospered with a "get it out of the door, fix it later" approach. Lol at risk of being attacked, Microsoft is classic case.

Love to hear of specific (not company secret of course) cases where projects, products or even companies died doing such shortcuts.
I vaguely recall playing Fable on the Xbox and being satisfied, though not blown away by it. It was certainly one of the most fleshed-out house-buying/marriage-allowing games I recall playing (not the first, though) and probably paved the way for more complete systems.

I love Peter Molyneux and he's built amazing things, but he is certainly a hype factory.
Actually it doesn't seem to be that simple. Higgs Boson seems to contribute mainly to masses of leptons (mostly electrons) and bosons W and Z. And that influence goes to zero at high energies of the measures system making W and Z weightless and merging electrostatic and weak interactions into a singular electroweak interaction.

Quarks get most of their mass from QCD with very minor contribution from Higgs Boson. And nobody has any idea where the mass of neutrinos comes from.

It also has no influence on photons and gluons.

Higgs seems to be very peculiar and not very universal mechanism. I wonder if one of the potential future approaches won't do away with Highs Boson (together with virtual particles) as artifacts of specific math approach and interpretation without any physical manifestation.

Higgs was detected, sure, but it was detected through an interpretation of the data through the best available mathematical model which some postulate might contain some purely mathematical constructions along the way to the ultimate real world result.
Cricket once switched network types from CDMA to GSM (or whatever the terms are). That happened a couple months after I paid full price for a cricket-branded Samsung Galaxy S4, and it bricked it. It was no longer usable on cricket. It wasn't usable on any other network, either.
It's no better. The only reason you think it's any different is because you think one has a defensible purpose and one does not. Maybe you consider the one more like an industrial accident.

But they both have actually the same purpose. In both cases it's something the perpetrators think must be done for the greater good of all.

Any argument you can present ultimately resolves to that, and that is the literal definition of a sacrifice.

Or are you suggesting that an injection is better than a knife to the heart or a burning?
Take a deep dive at
https://cs50.harvard.edu/web/2020/weeks/

Enroll through edx.org
(It's free)

You already have The prerrequisites From What You are saying.

If You are in University, listen to Leslie Lamport: University is a time to edúcate youtself, You learn The job on The job.
If it was just about turning off a WP feature (revisions), I would agree with you... but the author also writes:

What WP Engine gives you is not WordPress, it’s something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress, but actually they’re giving you a cheap knock-off and charging you more for it.

Which is a more serious allegation, and trademark law would prevent them from calling it WordPress if they modified the software. It's pretty common in the open source community to insist forks use another name to prevent confusion.
"Something's shifted with how schools enforce (or don't enforce) these policies"

This is it. The other parts are tangential to the true cause.
> WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred. Every change you make to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system

I'm not sure I see how the absence of a revision tracking system rises to a violation of sacred principles.
7 works to understand the mind-bending world of Hideo Kojima
Because the devices AT&T sells are subsidized and come with a network contract.

You can go other places to buy unlocked phones.

I don't buy carrier-locked phones anymore, personally.
It's just a puzzle and should be taken as such.
https://archive.ph/OCPlK
I mean, yeah. Isn't that what they're supposed to be doing? Because an option exists to store every revision doesn't mean you necessarily have to do it for free. It is a costly feature. They're free to chop up WordPress as much as they like and monetize features that elsewhere are default. They're not hiding it and users can choose to go elsewhere. Otherwise every WordPress host would be the same, just hosting vanilla WordPresses... and while the WordPress people may not like it, ain't nothing wrong with it.
You can also just turn it on by emailing support...
250,000 Starlink customers in Brazil.

Contrary I do believe Elon cares about ordinary Brazilians, and ordinary people globally; and what a neat mechanism that him creating highly competitive products and services, allows people to vote for him with their dollars, feeding him, his organizations, and arguably his missions.

Also, do you fully consciously notice your own bias when it comes to Musk? Did you notice using the word "caving" and some other options came to mind, or that is exactly and only what came to mind?
What about what the Twitter Files exposed?
I’m not convinced that a more perfect simulation can meet the needs of a human psyche in the long run. I think we vastly underestimate our own complexity in this regard.

Whatever the case, we’re certainly nowhere close at the moment.
Reading this on Safari on my iPad, the favicon for this tab is the Youtube logo. I genuinely have no idea how this bug came about, but it's been like that for months now.
Only if you're an oppressed puritan.

I can make the case much more convincingly that food gives basically no intrinsic added value to your life and if most people could press a button to make themselves never eat again, they would.

Or to quote someone who said it much better than I:

If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly.

-Diogenes on public masturbation.
Do you feel the same way about strip clubs and burlesque shows?
Please, people, just use GRPC or Thrift. This stuff makes me want to vomit.
You need an RTX 4090 if you want enough speed
That are willing to take at least an initial stand against government's overreach/alleged censorship attempts?
Often you'll find there's '-chat-' and '-instruct-' variants of an LLM available.

Trying to chat to an INSTRUCT model will be disappointing, much as you describe.
You're simplifying the situation down to "had a legal ruling against Elon" eh?
> while the WordPress people may not like it

hmm i wonder why... https://wordpress.com/wordpress-hosting/

always great to see devs sh1t on other devs under the premise of "this isn't right!!!" when in reality it's just affecting their bottom line. money makes the world go round!
For context, my tooling is a Ghidra extension, so there's all the usual Ghidra stuff that applies here.

Indeed, it depends what the API boundary is for the selection to be exported.

If it's the whole program without some well-known libraries (like the C runtime library for a statically linked executable or the Psy-Q SDK for a PlayStation video game), then the API boundary is trivial in the sense that it's a documented one. The hard part is actually figuring where those libraries are so that you can cut them out of your selection while exporting.

If it's a particular subset internal to the program then it's trickier because you don't have that (but if you know you want to export it, then you must already know something about it). Traditional reverse-engineering techniques do apply here, it's just that you only care about the ABI boundary instead of the whole implementation, so it's usually less work to figure out.

However, if you get it wrong then the toolchain will usually not detect it and you'll have some very exotic undefined behavior on your hands when you try to run your Frankensteinized program.
Troubleshooting these issues can be very tricky because my tooling doesn't generate debugging symbols, so the debugging experience is atrocious.

I've always managed to muddle through so far, but one really nasty case did take me a couple of weekends to track down (don't cut across a variable when you're exporting because you'll truncate it, which can lead among other things to corrupting whatever was laid out next in memory at runtime when the original delinked code tries to write to it).
Hey, this is really cool.

Suggestion: check out the Slonik library for Postgres. It encourages writing raw SQL using string template literals (i.e. sql`select foo from bar where zed = ${someParam}`). It also supports strong typing of results, but the programmer needs to create their own Zod validators manually to check this and get strong typing support.

Seems like this tool could essentially pre-create the types for any raw Postgres SQL statement?

I think this approach of using raw SQL is much better than a custom query builder like kysely, where half the time I'm just trying to translate the SQL that I know in my head to some custom, library-specific API. But the benefit of using kysely is the automatic typing support. Being able to use raw SQL and get query types "for free" would be amazing.
I wonder what would be the optimal balance of material comfort vs self fulfillment. I picture a typical Pareto frontier. Did we push too far to one end? Did we actually pass optimality a few decades ago? Is there a bulge in the middle of the curve where we can still regain some additional self fulfillment while maintaining our standard of living? If we just regulate away all social media for example, do we still get the benefits of technology without the burden of perfect knowledge of our own extrinsic worth? Or is the desire for perfect knowledge simply too fundamental to human nature, even if it causes us self-destructive mental anguish?
You can chop up WordPress, because it's open source. But you cant chop it up and keep calling it the same thing. Only the vanilla WordPress gets to be called WordPress... because the project called WordPress has decided that the release they put out is what they want to attach their name to. Someone cant come along later, make a bunch of changes, and then attach someone elses name to it.. and then go around insisting that their version is the same thing.

Most large open source projects have a trademark policy that makes this explicit. Don't know if WP has one though.
I could be wrong or ill informed, but it seems to me like its way too early to properly regulate AI. Our fears are likely to illicit an irrational response to anthropromorphized machines.

I see the harm of these laws most likely outweighing the good and I smell a government power grab. Willing to be wrong as always but would love to know more.
Warning: Prepare for a jumpscare with authors face.
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Got it. I don't think writing in x86_64 is any more artisanal than Python or JavaScript. It's actually quite easy to make the distinction. Assembled software - using multiple libraries in place of crafting (almost) every piece of it - is the opposite of artisanal software. You can have that with assembly, C/C++, Java, or JavaScript.

As an example, I'm developing an IDE from the ground up. The current conventional approach would be to fork VSCode, a bloated, slow, over-engineered, ultra-complex Electron app reliant on Microsoft's standards.

Alternatively, I can code it artisanally, which will likely result in something worse in many ways and break in unexpected ways. But for my specific use case, it provides a much better user experience than taking the assembly-line approach to software development. The chances of this project failing are much higher using this customized approach than if I used the assembly-line method, but it doesn't matter to me - coding it this way is already so much more fun.
Generally they are sold at a discount, with the deal that they will make back the discount if you use their service. You can buy an unlocked phone new from the manufacturer but then you will pay full price.
this is a joke or troll, right? Right? :|
The US GDP is about $25 trillion. Our military costs about $1 trillion, even if you leave out things like the Veterans Administration or the funding of Ukraine's war. That's 4%, a number I'd be hard pressed to describe that as "minuscule". And it's close to the amount everybody else spends, combined.

The military is certainly necessary. But even a 25% cut would be a lot of money you could spend on other things, and still be by far the most advanced and expensive military in the world.
You can turn on an extremely limited version. Did you read the post?
Choose Boring Culture (2023)
The goal is not to develop social skills. The goal is to not need them, without being lonely.
Signs It's Time to Quit Your Job (2021)
> I work on a project with 4.4 million lines of code [...] It's really not all that difficult.

You may be biased.
I've never understood the claim that Apple's UIs are better than others'. That wasn't true while Jobs was around, and it isn't true now. Apple Photos, for example, loses keystrokes every time I create a new album. That's been true for years. And Time Machine randomly drops files from backups. Linux isn't perfect, but my daily experience using it has been far superior for years.
Did you read the post? They have no problem with other Wordpress hosts and are calling out WP Engine specifically. They even suggest switching to literally any other WP host that isn't WP Engine.
https://j-core.org/

"What is this processor?
The SuperH processor is a Japanese design developed by Hitachi in the late 1990's. As a second generation hybrid RISC design it was easier for compilers to generate good code for than earlier RISC chips, and it recaptured much of the code density of earlier CISC designs by using fixed length 16 bit instructions (with 32 bit register size and address space), using microcoding to allow some instructions to perform multiple clock cycles of work. (Earlier pure risc designs used one instruction per clock cycle even when that served no purpose but to make the code bigger and exhaust the encoding space.)

Hitachi developed 4 generations of SuperH. SH2 made it to the United states in the Sega Saturn game console, and SH4 powered the Sega Dreamcast. They were also widely used in areas outside the US cosumer market, such as the japanese automative industry.

But during the height of SuperH's development, the 1997 asian economic crisis caused Hitachi to tighten its belt, eventually partnering with Mitsubishi to spin off its microprocessor division into a new company called "Renesas". This new company did not inherit the Hitachi engineers who had designed SuperH, and Renesas' own attempts at further development on SuperH didn't even interest enough customers for the result to go ito production. Eventually Renesas moved on to new designs it had developed entirely in-house, and SuperH receded in importance to them... until the patents expired."
I agree, it hasn't failed yet, but it has signs of possibly going to fail quickly, like Nokia.

In 5 years, Nokia went from 50% smartphone marketshare to < 5%.

Markets seem to think VW has serious issues, as shares have lost more than half of their value since 2021-2.
It must be infinite then?
The main challenge I have noticed with that approach is maintaining the sequencing across different branches being worked upon by different developers - solvable by allocating/locking the numbers from a common place. The other is rolling back multiple changes for a given view/stored proc where, say, each change added a separate column - if only one is rolled back, how do you automate that? Easily done manually though.
The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.