skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, not high, just experienced.

> The only way Neuralink is secure is if we get rid of the system that incentivizes #1, aka capitalism, and not replace it with something equally bad or worse.

Oh man, you've ingested that anti-capitalism koolaid like so many young college kids are so quick to do. It's always such a shame.

This isn't really anything to do with capitalism, it's a question of regulation e.g. what the FDA does, and also a question of time because when enough time passes, most computing will be secure by default due to having rid the insecure foundations.

And more than that, it's an issue with democracy more than capitalism. Fix the way people vote if you want to fix the world, or prevent the types of people who want to believe the earth is flat from having a vote at all.
Agree. Approximately rank 65 on best-selling albums of all time, but generally ranked in the 250-350 range on top 500 albums of all time. Such more subjective measures probably include sales/popularity as one of the ranking factors, so one could think that the album is of particularly below-expected "quality" to drag it down a few hundred positions.
Waking up on the wrong side of a hundred monopoly rents enforced by the property rights of rich people doesn't feel like freedom to me.

Yes, fully socialist countries seem to be doing even worse, but so many of the good parts of my employment contract came from the New Deal and its wild success shows in everything from the infrastructure to the demographic charts that are still defined by echoes of the baby boom! It's no wonder the businessmen got together and tried to coup FDR and have spent the last 50 years trying to wind back these policies. We don't need a Glorious Revolution but we do need another Roosevelt.
From Software to Reality?
> ELI5: Why do people love Python so much?

Developer productivity.

> Maintainers seem happy to introduce breaking changes without major version bumps

Nah. Keep in mind that this is a PEP, not an announcement of what is going to happen, see also https://peps.python.org/pep-0313/ .
> "except:" is explicit enough and "except BaseException" is redundant.

Take that up with the consensus view of the python community, as reflected by python linters in their default configuration, almost all of which warn on bare except.

The debate in the PEP is whether this should be a syntax error. The debate about whether it is good style is over though.

> It's also not worth breaking production code over this.

Agreed.
I didnt know what bind mount js, so I googled it.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bi...

There is something here that might solve your problem: nullfs. Check the stack exchange link.

I don't use bsd, so this is just me sharing what I found out.
Eh, in many cases for actual customer-facing commercial work, they're sticking remarkably close to stuff that's in genbank/swissprot/etc - well characterized molecules and pathways, because working with genuinely de novo stuff is difficult and expensive. In those cases, Alphafold works fine - it always requires someone to actually look at the results and see whether they make sense or not, but also "the part of the solution space where the tools work" is often a deciding factor in what approach is chosen.
I don't know how you could prove or disprove why Kay worked somewhere fifty years ago, short of a written affidavit produced at the time. Additionally, most professionals don't admit that they took a job because of the pay, even if that's exactly why they did it; they usually say they 'went for a new challenge' or something like that.
Why wouldn't I want to mess with BaseExceptions? They are not magic, and add only 3 classes to the list:

SystemExit - You _definitely_ want to catch this one for logging. If a library (not top-level app) calls `sys.exit` you at least want to know what's happening, if anything so you can talk to author and get them to use proper exception types.

KeyboardInterrupt - I normally want to catch this one as well. If the program was taking too long and I hit Ctrl-C to stop it, I _do_ want to see all the debug output. And if I don't, for some reason, there is always Ctrl-\ which kills python immediately and unconditionally.

GeneratorExit - this one is tricky and I agree that in a lot of cases, you don't want to print logs on it. But it also very rare - it only appears in async functions (emitted by yield), and never propagated to caller. So as long as you are not doing async, you can simply ignore it, which covers majority of the the code I write.
Structures as Paths
I just find that justification really strange - you could have made the same argument about K&R or John Backus because C and Fortran have had enormous impacts on Physics research, much more so than AI has to date.
> It's obvious this construct is just injecting some additional information in a passing exception

There is a good chance it will fail to do that. See elsewhere in this thread.
I'm now doing a PhD!

Here is stuff I did:

http://d.hd.org/CV/DHDCV.html

So a bunch of consulting/contracting and start-ups.

Drop me an email if I can help more.
Open-source AI definition gets its first release candidate – and a compromise
Concur. Leaning into learned helplessness is not the solution to these problems. At some point, we need people to take accountability and responsibility for themselves. I'm done being developer IT.
It is because it's just giving in to the habit of some people.
You know about Ctrl-\, right? Kills python right away, no exceptions or anything.

(there is also coredump but most distros disable or hide them, so it's not a problem in practice)
You can certainly predict portions of it (1=1 will continue to be true indefinitely, and that's just one example).

And, there is no need for predictions to be true, or claims of fact about whether there are or are not "reasons" for things. In fact, epistemically unsound claims such as this are very often the only type of speech ~allowed, as crazy as that may seem.
> which is why you have competing extensions for LFNs.

This is Microsoft in the 90s so we all know why we have competing incompatible extensions. Or rather, why there are exactly two competing extensions: the one every non-MS operating system uses, designed by the 9660 working group itself and released as an open IEEE standard; and then the proprietary MS one.

Anyway, as you can see, ISO is not limited to "8.3".

> NTFS, HFS+ and later are UTF-16, ZFS is UTF-8. ext4 is the odd man out here.

No, the opposite. If anything, ZFS is the exception, and I'm not particularly sure you are correct there either, as it will likely break some Linux users. But I can count the list of file systems that standardize a encoding with my two hands; _every other filesystem_ does not impose one. Not even FAT does...
I also read it when I was 16, and throughout my 20s. I haven't read it in 10-15 years now. It's something that speaks to you as a teenager more than it does as an adult, because at least for me it put into words what I hated about the world, ex. phonies, and how I wanted to hold myself to that. I'm in my 50s and I'm not a phony so it won't hit me as hard, but I still remember how much it meant to me.
I never liked Hopkins', but Hopkins's is even worse, and Hopkin's is horrible. But how are you supposed to spell something that belongs to several Hopkinses's? This is why I never tried to start a restaurant chain.
Professor Index is a new way of rating professors, is it hot or not?
This is officially sanctioned by Green Day? interesting
Interesting! How far away is this tool from being a desktop simple RPA solution? Would it be able to interact with desktop apps and simulate mouse or keyboard actions in the future?
I'm from northern Ohio (Cleveland area) and it's only reading this thread that I'm learning/realizing that the name "JCPenny" isn't plural or possessive. My family always called it "Penny's" too.
I haven’t participated in this conversation since Kerplunk was released!

San Francisco punk was always a little different but Green Day was part of the late 80s/early 90s punk scene in the Bay Area. It was all centered around 924 Gilman Street.
All of the HW components are commoditized and horizontally integrated anyways. It’s easy to verify and build components with strong guarantees that ensures that the integrator can’t workaround (and why would they?)

I do worry that companies essentially use the webcam as their main profit margin (sell ads!) with a rubbish trash compactor added as a mere ‘free service’.
Maybe if google sold more products to the feds they wouldn't be so brazen as to kill them off
Considering how many great/successful products that Google killed because they weren't successful "enough" compared to the ad business, this would be a good thing.

Products like Reader, News, etc. would still be around if they'd been split off from the Google mothership.
> In exchange for such favorable terms (i.e., small carrying cost, matures on death), the bank will receive a share of the collateral’s appreciation (essentially amounting to “stock appreciation rights"), and this obligation will be settled upon the borrower’s death.

It's a loan in name only.

Regarding Bezos's selling of stocks - perhaps he has offsetting capital gains. See https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...
Yes I created back in May. I’m pretty sure Google’s copycatting my product lol
So it's OK to burden the whole country with a monopoly as long as they fund a handful of Nobel prizes?

Competition is a prerequisite for healthy Capitalism. Lack of competition is the Achilles heel.
Public Benefit Corporations (especially with the B-Corp certificate) is just a marketing strategy for gullible people uncomfortable with capitalism

But like with all entities, there is nothing inherent about them that would make the individuals within them act differently than a simple C-Corporation.

It all comes down to the bylaws.
Obligatory mentions (all free):

https://notebooklm.google.com/

https://illuminate.google.com/home

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/podgenai
The "necessary, but not sufficient" is unintuitive to most people. Billionaires who come from working class families are almost unheard of, but probably more than half the self made (for a definition, something like multiplied familial investments by at least 100x maybe?) billionaires come from upper middle class families.

I wonder if they are actually more likely to come from upper middle class (where parents are highly paid professionals) than the proper idle rich or even CEOs and company founders...
Not sure there’s a particular name beyond ‘working group’ or ‘technical committee’.

CLDR a really interesting one though, their list of users is quite something too.
Exactly. We're not researchers and many of us will internalize the finding without the proper confidence weighting. I wish reporting and HN had a higher standard for studies linked on the site with higher N and ideally some independent replications.

If the results is really interesting and novel then why aren't others racing to replicate it? Because it is not. Yet we're reporting it here with N=1.
There are more problems with using floating-point for exact monetary quantities than just the inexact representations of certain quantities which are exact in base 10. For example, integers have all of the following advantages over floats:

Integer arithmetic will never return NaN or infinity.

Integer (a*b)*c will always equal a*(b*c).

Integer (a+b)%n will always equal (a%n+b%n)%n, i.e. low-order bits are always preserved.

IEEE 754 is not bad and shouldn't be feared, but it is not a universal solution to every problem.

It's also not hard to multiply by fractions in fixed-point. You do a widening multiplication by the numerator followed by a narrowing division by the denominator. For percentages and interest rates etc., you can represent them using percentage points, basis points, or even parts-per-million depending on the precision you need.
Commuting will not cost you an extra $250 in any world I know of. You are typically only moving a biking distance here.
Yeah, this is what I mean by "a shitty answer fast" - structure prediction isn't a canonical answer, but it's a good enough approximation for good enough decision-making to make a bunch of stuff viable that wouldn't be otherwise.

I agree with you, though - they're two different answers. I've done a bunch of work in the metagenomics space, and you very quickly get outside areas where Alphafold can really help, because nothing you're dealing with is similar enough to already-characterized proteins for the algorithm to really have enough to draw on. At that point, an actual solution for protein folding that doesn't require a supercomputer would make a difference.
As much as people are harping on the fact that the study is N=1, the reality is that these researchers have 133 scans over 133 consecutive days, which is impressive.

I think naysayers are missing the point that increasing statistical power through repeated measures over long periods of time rather than just increasing N is totally valid. This is honestly probably a better approach than running more participants across fewer scans for an initial longitudinal fMRI study (e.g. I think this is more compelling than if a study were to run 10 people with only weekly scans).
Sort of playing devil's advocate here, but well run companies with near monopolies have on many occasions provided massive benefits that would not have been possible at smaller scale.

Think of Bell Labs.

Google has a number of Bell Labs style projects ongoing that massively benefit scientific research. Transformers, AlphaFold, etc.

It's hard to see how a smaller, more focused company would be able to justify that type of R&D.

That said, I do see an issue where some of the smartest people get sucked up by big tech. Instead of working on fundamental advances in image processing they end up working on beauty filters for Instagram. That can't be right.
> A lot of punk has always had an anti-success edge

Alternative take: punk, as enjoyed by the connoisseur, sounds terrible to people who don't like punk, which limits its success
Are these 18 things all that's killing you?
potatoe's
I agree. The study seems keen to point out that there are various cycles of the brain with various lengths. They claim to have identified a 2-week cycle. It seems likely the brain has all kinds of cycles at geometric-sequence varying frequencies. A ~100hz cycle for updating your vision. A ~20khz cycle for detecting sound pressure changes. A 90 minute sleep cycle. And now apparently, a weeklong cycle and a 15-day cycle. A bad sleep on Sunday night might dampen my whole week if I don't get a chance to make up. A paycheck only comes once every 2 weeks. My brain is a bit different a few days before receiving a check than a few days after. The rest of the article seems to be advice about "maintain healthy habits so they stick" which is nothing new.
>> Coming from Quebec, I understand why people are worried about their language being strangled out and their culture dying with it.

One of the most fascinating things I learned about language in college when I was working towards my degree in Anthropology, a graduate student who was my class did their Master's on the linguistic differences between European French and the French Canadian (specifically the Quebec version) versions of the language. She did extensive research on the origins of the language and why they diverged.

Absolutely fascinating work.

On a lighter note, I happened to play hockey with many, many Canadian players. My best friend was from Ottawa and everybody asked him if he spoke French and said he did and said, "Its like here, you feel like you're speaking French with a Kentucky accent." which always got a good laugh from our teammates.
I am not worried about the attack vector mentioned in the article - but that’s definitely a concern and a nice buzzworthy headline.

I am more worried about the robovac companies really being an ad supported spying company with robovac as a mere shipping vehicle.
The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles
The cash grabs from this band is insane, they are basically KISS at this point.
As the article says, the PBC structure has never been tested in court, therefore this is all speculation at this point, so it seems a bit premature to despair.

Yes, a big benefit of a PBC is that you're not only beholden to increasing shareholder value - that's obviously inherent to the PBC model, and I think it could be used for both "good and bad". At the same time, PBCs need to say what their "public benefit" is, and (my understanding is that) they have fiduciary responsibility to others besides just shareholders. This, I imagine they could also be sued by people saying they aren't fulfilling their public benefit mission. Point being, PBCs have pros and cons, and it will take some court cases to find out where the line truly lies.
In general advertising is low ROI, the tradeoff being that it's "easy."

I think a lot of these businesses could succeed using alternative promotional strategies. Some of them might suffer because the owners have more money than time and advertising is a good tradeoff in that case, but overall good products are still going to do well.
I personally prefer Insomniac. I used the opening riffs from Brain Stew as a ringtone during my on-call days, which ruined the track for a long time for me.
This Amazon the company specifically or online shopping in general? E.g. if Amazon hadn't been made and some other online retailer had dominated (or even if there had been many!)
Not having an itemized receipt certainly changes who people think is paying, and for what, eh? And making decisions when there is no ‘itemized receipt’ matters too, doesn’t it?

That is my point.
> ChatGPT maker will retain a not-for-profit entity, which would be independent and have a stake in the PBC. This not-for-profit would have access to research and technology but solely focus on pursuing OpenAI’s mission of benefiting humanity.

And up to 60% tax deductions for the for-profit entity and executives that carry forward for 5 years when unused and exceeds current year Modified Adjusted Gross Income
It's good that this exists, but new projects that come into a well established space should make it clear how they differentiate themselves from existing solutions.

For example, it's not clear to me why anyone would choose to use this instead of Caddy, which is a robust server that already has all these features, whether OOB or via plugins.
> I’d be all for a deprecation warning on bare excepts. That might nudge a lot of people to fix their code without actively breaking anything.

The PEP proposes a deprecation timeline for exactly this.
So I suppose you never gave in and you still vehemently write "bureau" instead of "Büro"?

It's just spelling. Also, please check your old Duden, Regel 16b, you will be surprised.
"c" for "ts" has a very long history in Latin script - pretty much all Slavic languages and many other Eastern European languages that use Latin use it in this manner, as does German in many cases. That's why it also has this meaning in Esperanto.

I do agree that the currently dominant English convention of adopting spelling from other languages (or their standard Romanization system) as is - or worse yet, dropping all the diacritics but keeping everything else as is - is misguided. But it doesn't help that English spelling can get very unwieldy when trying to spell something phonetically, especially across many dialects of English due to considerable variability in how things are pronounced. This has also caused problems - for an example of that, look at the still-common Korean Romanization of names such as "Park" which does not accurately represent the actual pronunciation if you pronounce it as an American would ("r" is silent - it reflects the non-rhotic British pronunciation, and was put there because the more straightforward "Pak" would tend to be pronounced incorrectly by a Brit).
> The model of "Let have the worst people do whatever they want, for the most selfish possible reasons, and hope for the best" has also produced a horrific amount of suffering.

This is a profoundly unserious framing. Suffering is the default state of man, and our current system has done far more to eradicate said suffering than any other.

The historical alternative system was voluntarily abandoned by all of its impoverished practitioners in favor of the current system.

The current "alternative" to our system is just our system with high taxes.

Just take the L.
> "Election Skeptics" refer to people whose candidate didn't win

What do you mean by this? It's not as if every 2020 Trump voter believes that Trump won 2020. (Although, I did find out that about 60% of Republicans believe that Trump won 2020. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/02/viral-imag... )
Spreads nonsense, confused by downvotes. Seems pretty par for the course.
Nope.

If murder or terrorism happened in France or UK and a social media platform refused to assist the authorities, There. Would. Be. Consequences.
If you rely on advertising you should not be outsourcing it to google anyway. You should have more control over that part of your business which means it needs to be at least partially in house. Even if you do take some google ads, make sure you have other partners and make sure that ads meet your standards (not a scam, not for your competitors).
What they're buying _is_ more special and thus worth more. Green Day doesn't need more money but I love limited edition art from small artists.

Why? I know the art up in my home isn't up in everyone's home. I want my space to be unique. I want to be reminded of the tour, the festival, the album release, years later. I'm paying extra to support the artist I love, to have something more unique, and I'm pre paying for nostalgia in a decade.

My walls are covered in art you can't get anymore. I love it. I'll never walk into someone else's home and see that I have the same mass produced dreck up, and every piece of art on my walls is tied to a memory.
Wow, thanks for finding this!
Cerebras may postpone IPO as US Government investigates potential tech transfer
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