skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Flakes are only mentioned in a handful of places in the official docs and almost always as "this accepts flake as input". Never as something you should try using (even the format is not explained).
It doesn't need to follow any logic. Trump is going to use it as an argument and his base is going to parrot it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode

> Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter.

It's not Bytecode.
Analyzing My Dota 2 Stats: A Developer's Data-Driven Journey
I don't think the problem we are talking about is lazy programmers or the availability of libraries.

People think hard things should be easy and with less "friction". If I want to output a string why should I have to know what the difference between stdout and stderr is? If I write CSV to a file why do I need to know the difference between CRLF and LF, and UTF-8 and UTF-16 or what a BOM is? At the end of all of this you end up with a company named 'W""oopWoop;' crashing the banking industry.

So no, you should know all of that, and more or get the fuck out of my industry.
Amiga engineers were quite found of UNIX, most of its design was them searching better ways for graphical systems.

The initial game focus was the outcome of various factors during Amiga's transition from idea into a shippable product.

There are some vintage Q&A sessions that go through this.
> the modern economy leaves little room for exploring just that

If the needs of medical insurance was not tied to a proper "job", people might just follow their curiosities.
Came here to say this, confusion ensued.
> But next time you might go somewhere else.

But variable reinforcement works better than fixed one, so ice cream machines working being a gamble might actually increase customer addiction.
For Obsidian users, I'm a fan of the Execute Code[0] plugin which allows exexution of codeblocks straight from your notes.

[0]: https://github.com/twibiral/obsidian-execute-code
I agree. I was reading about Rupert Murdock's start in Australia. He was able to swing an election there through his ownership of a few newspapers. Newspapers don't have the same pull as they did back then. Now I guess it's the online platforms like Facebook, X, or Reddit. Reddit seems to be captured by the Democratic party.

There used to be a concept of journalistic integrity, to just report the facts, not to put any spin on them. These days that's totally abandoned, it's considered entertainment.
I can't read the article, but I'm wondering if the statement is true.

The energy required for those days-centers doesn't change depending on being in space.

In space this power can be generated by solar panels, but we can also do that on earth.

Datacenters need to be cooled, this is easy on earth, but hard in space. Datacenters in space would need massive radiators to make sure the generated heat doesn't build up.

Then ofcourse you need a lot of energy to get it up to space, and again every time you need to do maintenance.

Can anybody who has access to this article enlighten me what their solution is to those issues that would make it more efficient?
> its success is still premised on persuading election administrators of two things that are not true: that widespread election fraud is a real and present threat to democracy

I know what they mean, but it's surprising they'd write this sentence in an article explicitly outlining the possibility of a real and present threat to American democracy through widespread election fraud.
way ahead of you: In 2018, Akon announced a new cryptocurrency, to be called “akoin.”
> To what extent can most people actually move the needle of their government's actions?

I’m not unsimpathic to this argument. In wars innocent people gets hurt. Sometimes that means your name is removed from a text file, sometimes it means that your family is blown up in a missile attack. Either way the solution is the same: stop the war and take the troops home.

I’m not going to adress the textbook whataboutism line by line. Generaly i’m easy to convince that a lot more negative consequences should have followed a lot of attrocities. If you think you caught me in some contradiction by selecting examples then you are wrong.
Population 5,000. An hours drive from Timmins, 700 km North of Toronto.

Much bigger and closer to other towns than where I grew up. Isolated is relative.

There are houses there already, so it's certainly possible to build there. Probably requires being able to hire and load a double trailer semi, cast a concrete slab, do some plumbing and electrical work yourself.

Bit cold for my liking but it'll suit some.
Remember "silence is violence" and "everybody has to stand with $CurrentThing" trends?

Perhaps making tribal affiliation a requirement was a bad idea after all.
I think the opposite, most people don’t know how hamas controls Gaza. Most don’t know the difference between Gaza and the West Bank.

It seems more like whitewashing the numbers for ill informed people
Compiling Emacs on a PDP-11 wasn't cheap either.

And by today standards, a PDP-11 is quite comparable with the cost of the server farms used in training.

And yet Emacs was released under GPL.

So the economic argument is pretty miopic.
Amazing variety of old and new. Thanks for posting.
There will always be a need for both human oversight and accountability, and this is a good example. I think the net result will be, eventually, more and better jobs. It's a better job to validate the transcriptions than to actually transcribe.

Another example in medicine, radiologists will start handling orders of magnitude more cases. But the number of scans done might also increase exponentially as costs likewise drop.
European push for privacy legislation seems quite different than we’re talking about here.
A Starship plus its booster costs less than a single one of the non-reusable rocket engines of the Space Launch System... which has five engines.

There's simply no comparison when it comes to cost efficiency.
>a group of 51 former senior intelligence officials
That's horrifying, I think I would have preferred

int a = powl(3,int_ptr);

edit: The parent's code does a dereference and then a multiplcation. This is because of (imho) bizarre parsing rules for a dereference asterisk. I'm saying that's so horrifying that I would be less horrified if it really was an exponent (as it might seem by mixing languages).
The server would still be UNIX, but the big iron UNIXes, not GNU/Linux with some BSDs and Windows on the mix, there would be no reason for Linux.

ARM was introduced by Acorn, even if there was some Apple money.

As for the rest, we would keep having nice graphical desktop environments, with interesting paradigms instead of trying to fit GUIs into UNIX clones.

And vertical integration, plenty of it, as it has become the norm again nowadays.
There are already more channels than that, as bots training off the media produced by bots will just continue to grow.
I think it can be both. In scenario planning it makes sense for billionaires with large business empires to vote for Trump. One, the few details that can be determined from his platform are around lowering taxes on the very rich and making it easier for them make more money. Two, Trump has been pretty clear in his rhetoric he holds a grudge and will use the government to punish anyone who he perceives is against him. Taken together, there is little to no downside in supporting Trump, even if Harris wins. It's not like Harris is threatening to throw people she doesn't like out of the country. Whereas vocally supporting Harris where Trump wins runs the risk of becoming a target.

By the way, I think Musk did the same math. He likely thinks/knows Trump is an idiot, but it's almost all upside supporting him and little downside. Plus, Musk is likely still upset he was left out of a Whitehouse summit on EVs a few years ago. Regardless of what people think of Musk that was BS, and I wonder if that snub is part of what led him to come out in support of Trump so vocally.
> why should people employed by companies under those identified by etc. be barred from contributing to the Linux Kernel

Because the OFAC literally prohibits a US person receiving anything at all from a sanctioned person.

Can't find the specific sanction but here's a typical sample from https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1102

> All transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of designated or blocked persons are prohibited unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt. These prohibitions include the [...] receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Note: for both "U.S. persons" and "blocked person" also consider corporate personhood. It's not just individual people. And so the Linux Foundation, Linus himself and every Linux user in the U.S. can't receive anything at all from the sanctioned so it's no wonder they needed to be excluded.

You are welcome to lobby the OFAC to carve out an exemption for open source contributions. Or the White House or the Congress, what do I know who has the authority to write such.
It looks like being oblivious from outsiders perspective, but people living in Russia have culture of being apolitical, because as long as you don't care about politics, politics (Russian Government) does not care about you.

That then leads to bizarre situations when Russia is waging full scale war and Russians are doing their best not to notice.
The greatest part of that continuously added mass is just water pumped from the soil.

When you compute the added dry mass per second, divided by the mass of the plant, the rate is still big, but much less impressive.
Nor do the therapeutic preparations, these are developed just like curative treatments are. There is far more profit to be had from therapeutic treatments in the absence of curative treatments so there is a perverse incentive to develop the former in lieu of the latter.
It is indeed a bad thing when the algorithm's objective is to manipulate the end user. It's dangerous and can (and has) lead to abuse. Also, there's no need to "reclaim" anything. I don't think anyone mistakes criticisms of algorithms in social media to the ones doing sorting in Excel.
The wider Anglosphere is pushing this too. One organization behind it in both the UK and the US is the UK Labour Party. Yes, you read that correctly - high level Labour party operatives formed a nonprofit in the US to lobby for misinformation legislation, to ban X, and to pressure various other websites into deleting content.

> CCDH also held meetings with federal legislators while pushing for “change in USA” toward a censorious proposal it calls the “STAR framework,” which would create an “independent digital regulator” that could “impose consequences for harmful content.” STAR’s core concepts are similar to Europe’s just-instituted Digital Services Act and Britain’s even more stringent Online Safety Act, which puts the national media regulator Ofcom in charge of determining fines for uncooperative platforms.

The whole article is worth a read, where many people were targeted for innocuous stuff or in at least one case, for reporting on an article in JAMA:

https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-excl...

Apologies for the Substack link, but it covers (and cites) material you otherwise need a dozen links to discover.
>I can't read the article,

https://archive.is/Zy1vl
Funny enough, depending on your exact definition of 'algorithm' either essentially everything you can do on a computer is an algorithm or there some weird and annoying exceptions.

For example many definitions include the requirement that an algorithm has to terminate for every input. And I suspect that there are probably some bugs lurking somewhere in the HN codebase that make it go into the occasional infinite loop. So technically it's not an algorithm by definition.

(And even weirder, because I just suspect it might have those bugs, but I don't know for sure, I have to admit that I don't know whether HN is powered by an algorithm.)

I agree with you that for practical definitions we can go by a definition that's essentially: 'by algorithm we just mean "computer program", but we want to focus on the abstract things it's doing, and not details of the concrete implementation.'
Meta Open Materials 2024: An Open-Source Model for Inorganic Materials Discovery
I work in this space and there are providers who don’t require proprietary client devices (bring-your-own-iPad) but there is still proprietary hardware in the form of a small box (think MiniPC) that runs locally at the store so the iPads can still work while the location is offline (this happens far more often than I ever would’ve guessed).

Most POS systems, even if they let you use your own iPads, will still require hardware for taking credit card payments and printing receipts.
Yeah this is a more nuanced view that I find quiet true. Any algorithm has emergent properties that can make the resulting feed be healthy to consume or not. The issue is that these objectives simply don't align with the objectives of these companies. HN deliberately tries to avoid this kind of feed which is why it mostly works.
There's nothing stopping a platform from being correct both ways by saying "we use no manipulative algorithm" or something along those lines. It may be pedantic to point out that "no algorithm" is wrong, but it is in fact wrong and it's not hard to communicate both clearly and correctly.
> is it possible to loan movies and TV series online in libraries now?

Absolutely. In fact it's unusually popular. In undergrad I remember the only people reading physics books were physics students, but it wasn't only film/media studies etc checking out DVDs. I'm just about old enough that unlimited streaming wasn't ubiquitous, so people would go to the video stations in the library and bingewatch there.

edit: despite my anecdote, this service is available online too, see for example the service, Overdrive, which is popular with municipal libraries.
I recently used Odin in a commercial project and had a great experience. For me the biggest hurdle was not the language, but having to write programs without an IDE like Visual Studio/Xcode. Having to write my own build scripts (shell or batch files) etc and maintaining them is a PITA.

But I'm glad I did it because it checks off all the "C but nicer" checkboxes.
assuming that "build environment" includes more things than the author does (*it's* *not* *exactly* *a* *well-defined* *term*)

It is exactly my point. What is "build environment"? This definition is crucial for defining "reproducible builds" and we cannot handwave it away.
Please don't add misinformation.

>if all you've got is a vague recollection of stuff you read ages ago

I didnt say "vague", you added that. Kindly don't.

And I said "earlier", not "ages ago". That "earlier" could span a wide range of times ago. How did you manage to make the jump from my "earlier" to your wrong interpretation, "ages ago? That is sloppy / inaccurate thinking / writing.

In fact, it sounds more like misrepresentation than misinformation, which is even worse. Don't do it.
> (...) the new Raspberry Pie Pico 2 is both orders of magnitude more capable than the chip used here and also around half the price.

That's cool and all but what are the tradeoffs?
In the context of social media, algorithms specifically mean recommendation algorithms that try to curtail the feed for end users. It is much more specific than the abstract definition of algorithms.
Even at war, the USA was still much more "liberal" than Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan: for starters, they didn't put any German citizens / German descendants in a concentration camp.

The Japanese descendants/citizens living in the USA were treated different because of racism. You can argue that having a racist government isn't compatible with being "liberal", but it's a matter of degree. Having a democracy that doesn't allow non whites to vote is still more "liberal" than having a monarchy / dictatorship
Didn't read it that way at all in fact this feels like a projection. Moore loves his readers. He just thinks fans go overboard.
> not to mention their full potential as an interactive medium has only barely started to be explored.

Any examples come to mind? I’d love to try (or at least read about) some games like this!
Saying the fediverse is not decentralized is a wild take.
It certainly interests me that the website I use to view various headlines just displays 'Company named ">'
Nothing seems to happen however
This literally just published, IMHO it's a little premature to be accusing them of that at such an early stage.

More likely they just slipped up with getting everything uploaded properly - it's easily done, and luckily easily corrected, so we'll likely see issues get resolved fairly swiftly.
Will Jai be public? From the outside, it seems like the creator is using it to build his own software, but doesn't have that much interest in making it public? (which is fine, but I was surprised to hear talk of its impending release)
Still using webpack, upgraded from 4 to 5 but switched out babel and ts loader with swc.
And if that's the case, me too. I understand that IRC is plain and boring but discord I avoid.

Shame, I've never seen Odin before and got excited over the show cases. I've been looking to tinker with another language outside of the main three, (python, go, rust) and this looks nice.

I think I may try Lazarus again.
And all the other things as well, but we will use the title as a filter
AFAIK ES and Solr are both built on Lucene so they are either both DB based or neither, surely? Not sure what you mean by DB based.

Is "old fashioned" such a bad thing?

Thanks for the list. Several things that might be of interest to me at some point .
Wow, this is interesting to see. Thanks for sharing. This was long before any standardization in this area
Looking back to our greco-hyphenated heritage, Aristotle mentioned (ca ~300BC) TFA's genus of hypocrisy:

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

> ...such men, being unable to carry their prosperity, and thinking themselves superior to the rest of mankind, despise other people, although their own conduct is no better than another's. The fact is that they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct.
The economy is not the government, and banning sites clearly doesn't work well.
Whenever I see a python-requests user-agent I sometimes keep the connection open indefinitely without responding, to see if the developer was incompetent and forgot to set a timeout. Responding to other certain clients with 'Location: file:///dev/urandom' is also mildly entertaining.

My point would be, I'm not sure if this wouldn't be too damaging to the mental health of programmers if everyone was doing shit like that.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1105/. Be sure to check the alt text too.
'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016)
I agree that not using manipulative algorithms is the best, more nuanced, goal. However, most people would not trust such a statement from a platform with clear conflict of interest in manipulative algorithms. Chronological ordering is simple (and testable) enough that anyone can trust it is not tampered with in any way.
I guess the unspoken assumption Babbage makes here is «if I put only the wrong figures into the machine». Then it is completely unreasonable to expect correct output. In ML context an LLM has been trained on much data, some «wrong» and some (hopefully more) «correct», which is why asking something incorrectly can still give you the correct answer.
It is clear to me that people who make these comments, simple don't use the models much.

To say it is faster to get information from Google than the latest update to Sonnet is simply absurd to me.

I might have even agreed a few months ago but certainly not now.
Thank you for the highlight, I will fix it so that your link no longer work
The domain could also have been used to run spam email campaigns, meaning that it is blacklisted by email servers
You might want to look at Serpent AI: granted the repo is now in an archived state, but it did similar things to those you mention.

https://github.com/SerpentAI/SerpentAI
did:web is not a decentralized identifier. My understanding is that it was made for test suites but was taken out of that context for production uses.
Ask HN: Tips on leading and coaching the GitHub Copilot chat generation of devs?
Hi all,

Recently we've been hiring some new junior software developers (we're only a small development team of ~8 devs) - seeing how they work, I'm seeing a true difference between them and staff hired before 2022 or so.

The earlier hired - basically the older - people learned how to do research, use a search engine, use W3Schools, Stack overflow, MDN, MSDN (now Microsoft Learn), or even Reddit during their work in aid to resolve their problem or look up documentation.

Then in 2022/2023 AI happened in the form of ChatGPT and Github Copilot Chat.

What we see with the newer people, they tend to embed the mentioned forms of AI in their workflow very much - and rely less to none to the traditional ways of problem solving and research. Instead, AI just hands them the fish they search for verbatim - though without any opinion or additional insights you otherwise get from platforms like Stackoverflow. And good prompt engineering also is important - otherwise they get the wrong answer.

I wonder how other senior/lead developers handle this? Should one forbid or discourage Copilots? Should we encourage traditional ways of problem solving and research (old man yells at cloud)? Is there a good balance yet to be found?

Thank you all for your insights.
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I think you can opt-in here? https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/jamesmunns.com/followers
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Yes. Well said. Apposite. But we should also remember the Greeks and Roamans excelled in extreme acts of libel against their opposition, it was normalised for them to allege acts which even Trump can only dream of committing. Pussy grabbing would be the least of if.
Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean
You sponsored by them or what dude?
PeaZip 10.0.0 Released
Randomly ordered lists (and randomized hashmaps) typically relay on PRNG. Seed of PRNG is part of environment. If you use hardware RNG, it is part of environment and should be "the same". Same with timestamps. If you download files from Internet, whole Internet is your environment (and by pre-condition it must be "the same"). Of course, it is unrealistic. So...

My point is: without very precise definition of "same build environment" all discussion of reproducible builds are almost meaningless.
Long term, all the digging we're doing is pulling down atmospheric O2, by exposing ferrous iron and reduced sulfides, manganese, etc. to oxidation. The amount of crust that would have to be fully oxidized to deplete all atmospheric O2 is surprisingly small, I think just a few hundred meters. Atmospheric O2 is on quite a small scale compared to the reducing power of Earth as a whole.
Reframe:

It's not that the smooth path you can get via nepotism is the base way things work which people who don't "know a guy" are excluded from. Rather, everything is falling apart and shitty, and if you're lucky, you occasionally get to circumvent that shittyness.
On influence of carbonic acid in air on temperature of ground (1896) ( [pdf]
or How do you put on a Sokol spacesuit?
https://samlogbook-ru.livejournal.com/57444.html