skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, if you read the origin story around Golang, it was made to be an alternative to C++. Some departments at Google were going crazy with a myriad of problems involving using C++, so wanted something less troublesome and easier to use.

However, I do agree that it could be argued that Golang has become much more of a Java and C# alternative. Looks like Rust will be shoehorned into C++ and C spaces, but it remains to be seen how successful it will be as an C alternative. Seems like many fans of C are quite resistant or even outright dislike Rust.
The automatic mechanism could fail right?
https://archive.is/my9X3
As someone who had questions about some of what you said and feels legitimately scared to ask what you meant out of fear of being judged:

> I've been told I'm "gatekeeping"

I mean...when the alternative is politely (better yet - excitedly) answering the question asked? You kind of are.

> I swear, the big reason models are black boxes are because we _want_ them to be.

Talk is cheap.

> I guess it's not a surprise Deep Mind recently hired him after that "get good" stuff.

I agree "fuck theorists" is in no way constructive. But, Deep Mind has objectively helped move the field forward. And your criticism of "get good" stuff? Did you not just tell people to "learn math" rather than help them to understand it yourself? That's the _exact_ meaning of the phrase "get good" on the internet. At best you're both being about as toxic (at least from your own description).
Just curious, are you speaking from personal experience?
> Can you name a crash which occured because the FO was in the bathroom?

Germanwings 9525. Can’t discount human factors, especially in an industry where human factors are very frequently the root cause of incidents.

More importantly I can name any number of flights where two pilots became task saturated and flew a plane into the ground. Or flights where a single pilot used bad CRM to force the other pilot to do something stupid, even though they both knew it was stupid. Both of those would be more common without a second pilot, general aviation is proof of that.
Platform edge doors could be done half-height style without massive rebuilds of platforms. I’ve seen the half-heights in Japan and Malaysia. That also then avoids the need for super precise alignment which is an issue for platforms supporting multiple lines and train types.

None of the above would enable driverless trains. It’d just go towards accident reduction —maybe suicide too, depends on the individual’s determination.
yes, pretty much this. As the article mentions, many OBGYN who are already here will stick around because of family reasons. But there will be far less willingness to move to Texas from other states.
But like, how are we fucked? What has cooked us and what are the effects of the cooking, I guess
Government overreach is the big thing that I'm worried about. All of the overreactions to adas is really heavily driving it. At some point, they will have to realize that the same attention systems used for adas could be used all of the time.

Given that there are hundreds of deaths each year due to inattention, it'd be almost irresponsible not to look into it.

But a lot of people won't like where that leads.
Kagi. Kagi. Kagi. Once you realize how much time you wade through garbage results with google, Kagi pays for itself.
Fools and their money...
You can't really blame the mega-corporations without also blaming the people that voted for a government that's promised deregulation, "drill baby drill", mass deportation, tariff wars, government dysfunction through mass layoffs, and general chaos that will only favor the rich. I have to wonder what they really thought they were voting for and if it's going to be worth the high cost.
Sure, but the article is talking about grep, not write() or libc implementations.

grep buffers writes with no flush timeout resulting in the problem in the article.

grep should probably not suffer from the problem and can use a write primitive/library/design that avoids such problems with relatively minimal extra complexity and dependencies while retaining the performance advantages of userspace buffering.

Most programs (that are minimizing dependencies so can not pull in a large framework, like grep or other simple utilities) would benefit from using such modestly more complex primitives instead of bare buffered writes/reads. Such primitives are relatively easy to use and understand, being largely a drop-in replacement in most common use cases, and resolve most remaining problems with buffered accesses.

Essentially, this sort of primitive should be your default and you should only reach for lower level primitives in your application if you have a good reason for it and understand the problems the layers were designed to solve.
Cars and SUVs are sold as lifestyle accoutrements in the US, and have been for longer than I've been alive. I bet that rationally identification of transportation needs, and searching for a vehicle that meets those needs at the lowest price is extraordinarily rare.
Given its relatively low cost, it would be entirely possible to use a non-reentry starship as a bus for an interplanetary probe with extra fuel capacity. They'd just have to strip down their lunar starship and possibly add segments for larger tankage.
If you’re working in a domain you know, use your contacts in that industry. If you’ve learned a random domain just to sell software into it, do it in a way that puts you in touch with people.

(If you’ve a mass market retail app, good luck!)
If not React, then what?
One of the more interesting photography books I've seen is 'The Past from Above' by Georg Gerster. 2005, ISBN 0-89236-817-9. Hundreds of aerial shots of long-abandoned archeological sites.
We need laws to prevent this
I totally agree with you about infix notation actually! I don't find it particularly bad to read (- 3 4) vs (3 - 4) and the first has the benefit of achieving some clarity of what's happening under the hood (- is a function being called with 3 and 4).

The main example for I has in mind was actually data science/analysis where you often chain together data manipulations. I only picked arithmetic functions because it seemed like it made it really clear which functions were being called, without needing any knowledge of clojure/lisp beyond basic s-expr syntax.
I think the point of the comment isn't to have this finishing layer to make things "better", but to make things "legal".

Humans are allowed to synthesize a bunch of inputs together and produce a new novel copyrighted.

An algorithm, if it mixes a bunch of copyrighted things together by itself, plausibly is incapable of producing a novel copyright, and instead inherits the old copyright.

Just like Clean Room Design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design) can be used to re-create the same software free of the original copyright, I think the parent is arguing that a mechanical turk process could allow AI to produce the same output free of the original copyright.
I was a postdoc there and I would not say it was brutal. I got a very good salary (far above an academic postdoc), health benefits, relocation, the ok to spend $1000/day on equipment with no managerial review[0], and access to anyone and everyone to whom I felt like speaking. I read horror stories in Science and other journals about people's experiences elsewhere and am grateful that I was spared so much nonsense. It was the greatest university I have ever set foot in. I still feel unworthy of the place.

[0]This was in the early '90s when $1000 went a long way.
So, I do this type of AI development for solving CAPTCHAs.

I can't get any real jobs that pay me for my more advanced skills. My primary sins were going to a second/third-tier university and some performance concerns in a portion of my previous roles due to divorce and burn-out. I make $80k/year in government IT, and $30-150k/year as the "AI" guy in a small 2-5 person group that offers a CAPTCHA-breaking API.

The spammers aren't the ones replicating this. They just pay B2B rates (combo of SaaS + Consulting, depending on client needs) to help them remove the roadblocks.
Does it give you links to pages?
> I've been speaking French at an intermediate level for a couple of decades, but thanks.

I didn't ask you to speak French, I asked you to put in any effort at all to understand what I said. Unsurprisingly, speaking has not conferred any understanding of what I said--you might try reading instead of speaking.

> I'm happy to expand my critique to how your arguments all individualize responsibility for a systemic issue that requires targeted collective action and social transformation.

Case in point: I'm puzzled where in my post you think I mentioned who I hold responsible for consumerism. It's certainly not individuals. But again, to know what I think you'd have to try to understand what I say.

> This is not leftist strategy.

Speaking as if you know what I think was bold, speaking for the entire left was bolder.
Programmers should ensure they understand the requirements of what they are being asked to build, and not just blindly build things. If I was asked to build an accounting system, I would insist on speaking with an accountant to understand the requirements. If I was asked to work on a medical imagining system, I would want to be working with a qualified radiologist and probably a PhD holder in a relevant field too.

Overconfidence can quite literally be fatal.
This article leaves out a lot of history of the lithium-ion batteries -- there were tons of companies using them in the late 80s and early 90s.

I ported software for testing them under various temperatures for use in down-hole horizontal drilling equipment in the late 80s. When looking up my old company when writing this post, I ran across the following list of hundreds of companies getting permission to transport them (hazardous back then too!) in 1991 from the DOT, and a 1973 technical report from the US Army on appropriate lithium ion battery testing procedures, which seems earlier than much of the research discussed in this article:
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/hazmat/documents/offer/SP7052.pdf/...

Related research from 1993:
https://colab.ws/articles/10.1016%2F0378-7753%2893%2980023-i

From 1984: https://colab.ws/articles/10.1149%2F1.2115957
To help you out if you're interested:

- a smeared gaussian in one axis and another in another axis can really help segmenting chars, finding lines of text in OCR

- You can unshear chars using the Radon or Hough transform as a basis to understand the angle

Went through MNIST a few weeks ago and I agree it's interesting!
I can't fathom how salty one can be over someone's wealth to have this level of hate for them but if it makes the pain/inequality hurt less then so be it I suppose.
https://archive.ph/mVxHB
> One room worth of radioactive waste vs a residential tower worth of radioactive waste is a big difference

Most nuclear waste is stuff near the reactor, not the fuel per se. And nuclear waste isn't the Armageddon stuff it's portrayed as in mass media. If this works, waste volume won't be an issue.
kagi : costs about one Starbucks trip per month, and is extraordinarily high signal to noise, unlike Google.
“Writing Fortran in Lisp” should not be disregarded. There’s a lot of value of having hands on exposure and success with common, even if not idiomatic, concepts.

Ye Olde “write once, throw it away” concept. Using prior language knowledge can make the first steps much smaller as you learn not just the new language, but environment and tools.

This can give you a quick, solid foundation with which to leverage learning newer ideas and idioms of the new system.
Lying to your insurance company is also a crime, but yeah, lying to the police and your insurance company is even more crimes.
There’s a lot of that on twitter for sure
> which would admit air that would cause the graphite to burn?

Rats, then it would cause about as many deaths per GWh as the coal it's replacing.
To be fair though, in places like Sydney, the 1% are buying most of the houses, having most of the good experiences, and living a very much better quality of life. You could be in the 90th percentile and still not afford any better than ‘house 90 minutes commute away’ thanks to $1.6m median prices.

I am very much an upper income earner and yet I could not afford any ‘average’ house in any suburb I’d actually want to live in.
Homo juluensis: Possible new ancient human species uncovered
And how is there any record of what was in the barn, or how much it was worth, or either it has been stolen or collected by the owner any time in the past 30 years. I don't want to call OP a liar, but a lot of times when I hear outrageous stories like this the details are very different than what was provided.
This is nice. I’ve been using noises.online for background noise when I work. Will bookmark this one as well and will try out.
There is nothing stopping people from going to Bing sure but I think you are forgetting that most people now a days interact with the internet through a mobile device.

Typing w w w . b i n g . c o m on a mobile device is are a huge barrier to entry vs just using the google search box Google pays the phone manufactures to bake into the the OS.
I am always interested! Thank you for the tips, I'll definitely research these.
Yeah I had been under the impression that the point of captchas like this (and those "slide a puzzle piece" ones) weren't the solution to the problem as much as checking for human-like mouse movements.
Felt like a very shallow article, though the point that AI will become cheaper and more abundant is salient.
What are you basing such a bold prediction on?
this happened to me about 8 years ago, but it was $5,000 in mens clothes and $6,000 in computer hardware. I disputed the charges but my credit card company rejected my disputation until I was able to 'prove' that the charges came from a city 45 minutes north of where I lived by a combination of reverse IP lookup on the credit card company's transaction logs and a last minute redirect from my home address to a package holding location in that same town. (or something like that—it's been a while).
People responsible for this kind of evil need to pay with personal property seizure.
That sounds about right. When I ask ChatGPT about "ought implies can" for example, it cites Kant.
any role that requires performance. Games, embedded (though than might be more pure C), some backend dev work here and there, fintech/quant, many jobs that need to work with Linux in anyway.
Definition of Dumb
3 ceiling fans by "Carro USA." Supposed to be compatible with smart assistants, turns out there are Siri Shortcuts and that's it. The backend is Tuya, but "Smart Life" which isn't compatible with any of the Homebridge plugins that I have. So aside from using the absolutely horrible Tuya app, or the Carro app (which is simply the Tuya app rebranded) there's no way to digitally control these fans. The smart ceiling fan market is a mess, and so many of the manufacturers rely on what is essentially bargain basement garbage from China. It's sorely disappointing.

Also, the Boxee Box. Worked great with Boxee for a little bit, and then it all fell apart and Boxee ceased to exist.
Tailscale may not work if you funnel traffic to a VPS as that's a common firewall avoidance tactic. A roaming SIM will have full access to the external internet without needing a VPN, if your carrier roaming is expensive an esim from 3hk or any other Asia roaming SIM may be worth it for 20-50usd depending on how much data and how long for.
If you have any conceivable access to data that someone really wants always remember xkcd and the wrench.
Enjoy china, is a fantastic place, don't talk about politics and enjoy.
It will likely be necessary to start with steel made before atmospheric nuclear tests began.

There are many uses for such steel already.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
I'm currently contemplating upgrading my 2013 Leaf battery to a 62Kwh (and much longer range). It's a substantial cost but that would extend the cars life another 15 years. (un)Fortunately I've taken decent care of the original 24Kwh which is at 80.6 SoH after 11 years. Its use case is daily commuter under 45 miles - that's over 11k miles/year (or 18k km/year). At 2% loss on the SoH, that's another 5 years before it hit's 70% and has a noticeable drop in range.
I live in a warm area and just leave the top down year round… but the 03+ soft top with multiple layers and glass window is quite good in any weather- but you can get a good hard top for 2-3k. It’s a better deal to buy one already with it.

I was concerned about the engine access but it’s really no big deal- takes a few minutes to open up, but you can check all the fluids without doing so. Mine is a manual and I did drop the transmission and replaced the clutch in the garage, just with jack stands and a regular hydraulic jack. It has been a reliable car and hasn’t needed much. And it’s amazingly fun- really I couldn’t imagine a car being more fun to drive.
Wait: which manufacturer's OS doesn't let the user switch the search engine to Bing in Settings?
Can someone who has a solar inverter explain why these are connected to the internet?
Another thing to consider is that those sites would rather you did you click those links. They don't benefit when you leave the platform and they down rank things they think will cause users to leave the walled garden regardless of the content.
I have already covered these points in the latter paragraphs.

You might want to take a look at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html
Makes me wonder what comes next. Could we create a forum where every member must do a 15 minute video interview with a moderator? I know this "doesn't scale" but I think it could make for a funny gimmick.
They totally let you. How many people do you think go in and change the default? Otherwise paying to make Google the default would not have any value.
There probably are. But it appears to be coming out of China, so good luck enforcing it.
> Germanwings 9525. Can’t discount human factors, especially in an industry where human factors are very frequently the root cause of incidents.

Not a great argument for a second pilot unless the second pilot never goes to the bathroom. The human factors involved in Germanwings 9525 didn't randomly occur during the flight, they specifically occured while the co-pilot was in the bathroom.

> Both of those would be more common without a second pilot, general aviation is proof of that

Between the reliability of piston engines versus jets to the experience of someone with a PPL versus ATP, this comparison includes far more variables than number of pilots.

> I can name any number of flights where two pilots became task saturated and flew a plane into the ground

I can do that for any value of N. The question is what the ratio is between N = 1 and N = 2, and how that has changed with evolving automation.

> where a single pilot used bad CRM to force the other pilot to do something stupid, even though they both knew it was stupid

Not really an argument for a second pilot either...

I'm not saying we have the evidence to say a single pilot is sufficient. I'm arguing that nothing you've brought up shows it's critical. That said, I'm sure we'll wait until another aviation authority pioneers the way. American aviation ceded the first-mover position decades ago.
Where is the government when you need it…
What I took away from this was:

- An incredibly grandiose claim that this would've "fixed global payments at scale"

- Complaints about the "slow play" as they have to comply with regulations that everyone else in that industry also must comply with

- A reason based entirely hearsay, yet with the bold claim it was "100% a political kill"

- The Fed didn't actually say that banks can't use the technology, but rather that they aren't comfortable with it

- The actual point of the post was to promote a new crypto startup

I don't walk away convinced that the big bad government killed innovation here; if the company with a $1.5 trillion market cap pushing this project really wanted to, they would've continued pursuing it.
Then it's a model for discovery of a tiny sliver of content :shrug:

Google is now moving towards the position AltaVista used to have: everybody is using this search engine because of its breadth of coverage, the users are often unhappy with having to search for a long time and adjust the query many times, and complain about the inefficiency of it.

I hope Kagi will grow and attain a large enough market share to afford indexing more of the web. Maybe we'll have a really useful search engine again, like it's 2001. For a few more years at least :-/
> and the other co-inventor of the integrated circuit was Fairchild Semiconductor, which as far as I can tell didn’t operate anything like a basic research lab.

Kind of a strange statement. Fairchild took the "traitorous eight" from Shockley Semiconductor, which was founded by William Shockley, who famously co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs (and who named the "traitorous eight" as such.)

So while Fairchild "didn’t operate anything like a basic research lab", its co-invention of the IC was not unrelated to having a large amount of DNA from Bell Labs.
As do high corporate tax rates
We fought and won a war against the Nazis. imposing one's law on another country can be done by that method of course.

Putin doesn't give two fucks what the ICC says. As I pointed out in another comment, issuing warrants that one cannot enforce is worse than useless.

None of these things affect the accuracy of my comment.
It is such a tragedy that a large percentage of modern multi-player games come with no options for bots. For example, it would be so lovely to be able to play the Master Chief Collection against customizable bots.
F-droid is good, but where's the curation part?
I think traffic/discovery patterns are a really good distinction. Something like Hacker News, Reddit etc will drive a lot of traffic in a short burst. People are sharing "cool stuff" and visiting it in one go.

Ideally, we need a fix as well for more regular discory of problems people have. If I want "Norwegian cooking blogs" google will probably return me mostly spam, and waiting for someone on reddit to maybe post something in that category obviously isn't an option.
I'm not sure about gitlab, but on github this is a distinct feature where you post a comment wrapped in three backticks and the language as suggestion. It'll format it as a diff that the author can one-click create a commit from.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/suggested-cha...
I love this, thank you for sharing your story, and congratulations on achieving your dream at 31!
Tangential to the main topic is this quote from the article:

> I barely getting by, I’m eating at the food bank now, I had grossed $250,000 last year

It’s too bad he’s in such difficulty that he has to eat at a food bank, but where did all that money go? And, presumably, decent money earned in previous years?

In a cyclical business, or a business dependent on the vagaries of a giant monopolistic corporation that can change the rules seemingly arbitrarily, it’s prudent to save for a rainy day.
It’s not clear how the device was bricked. Could it be reset to not be bricked by disconnecting it from the Internet and rebooting or reflashing?
Not even Oligarchs. Look at what is happening with Wild Berries. Russia is falling apart and dying and there is nothing anyone can do about it. It was never based on any kind of law and a mafia state. I predict it will be a repeat of 1998 where everyone will lose everything, savings, pensions, investments, etc. Afghanistan ushered in the fall of the USSR, Chechnya ushered in bankruptcy in 98 and the War they started in Ukraine will destroy the country entirely.

What a great time to be alive to watch an Empire of Evil and Murder destroyed.