skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least it has types beyond "cell".

I prefer MCPL ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/mcplman.pdf ) but I believe BCPL did recently pick up a floating point type, after Richards got a Pi and before he wrote a flight sim.

[does the C in CPL stand for Cambridge, Combined, or Christopher? Yes.]
The FAA has an ongoing class action lawsuit where they discriminated against qualified candidates on the basis of race using a newly implemented “biographical questionnaire” https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
Singapore’s Copyright Act already had the best Text and Data Mining exception. If scraped yourself, anything on the Internet is probably legal to train with.

Now, both Europe and the U.S. are trying to regulate both training and distribution of A.I. models. That might make Singapore an even better place for training A.I. models. The only question is if they have any regulations on training or distribution outside of the Copyright Act.
> Restricting the transfer to non-trusted actors of the model weights for advanced closed-weight models. The rule does not in any way inhibit the publication of model weights for open-weight models.

> Setting security standards to protect the weights of advanced closed-weight AI models, permitting them to be stored and used securely around the world while helping prevent illicit adversary access.

Controlling the weights is becoming critical for the US…
> Restricting the transfer to non-trusted actors of the model weights for advanced closed-weight models. The rule does not in any way inhibit the publication of model weights for open-weight models.

So the rule pre-supposes that close-weight models will just always be better than their open-weight counterparts. How do they know this will hold up?
> so allowing trans men into women's bathrooms basically ensures that all men can freely enter them, claiming to be trans men.

Any examples of this hypothetical situation actually happening?

If these spaces were regulated by law, and there was a realistic prospect of penalties for males who choose to impose themselves on female spaces, then this would have a significant deterrent effect. The males who say they're women (including males with a transwomen identity and your hypothetical set of males who claim to be transmen) would refrain from intruding.
Many years back, it was a thing that TfL actively encouraged developers to use their data, and I was lucky to be a winner of a notional campaign thanks to that.

But now, the headwinds apparently have changed. Sad :(
I live in California and I recently read an article from the perspective of Berkeley's CS department explaining why they don't take transfer credits from high schoolers who took AP CS or AP Stats -- they're just not "real" Computer Science, but rather applied programming.

Even when I was an undergrad (1995-1999) and a grad student (2008-2011) everyone knew that CS was a research science [that happened to turn out people who lucratively employable skills], and not a software engineering program, which existed separately at both schools.
What's the problem with design patterns? At its core, a design pattern is just a name applied to a frequently used code pattern. It gives us a common language. I can tell you we are using a publisher-subscriber model and you know what that is without me having to be super specific.
Looking at the site I have my doubts, that this is modern at all. Don't get me wrong, I have no objection. I just wonder what justifies the modern predicate.
Since it doesn't look like Genode is going to be ready to be a daily driver for a while, Qubes looks like something ALMOST capabilities based that I could live with. Some day I'll just be able to run stuff without worry.... but it's not going to be any time soon.

Can I run old versions of stuff like MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 under it? Or my beloved Windows 2000? Windows 2000 with Office 2000 pro (with the patches to read the new office 2007 formats) would be awesome. I miss outliner mode in Word 2000.
> Again, citation needed. I made it through the 2000s just fine, thank you.

Playing devil's advocate: banking trojans used to be really common here in Brazil back in the pre-smartphone era of the early 2000s (smartphones already existed, but weren't very commmon; most people who used online banking did it through their home computers). They're the reason why, for a long time, it was hard to use online banking on Linux: banks required (and still require) the use of an invasive "security plugin" on the browser (nowadays, there's also a Linux version of that plugin, which IIRC includes a daemon which runs as the root user), which attempts to somehow block and/or detect these banking trojans.
I fail to see what is extreme in it, in all sincerity.

It’s not like it’s a call to act in any extreme way. Actually, the comment doesn’t even mention anything that one should do.

We can listen to other feelings and interpretations of our words even with zero etymological consideration at stake. But if we try to deny their feeling that some word is derogative and back our perspective on lexical neutrality, maybe we might double check we are not missing some well documented semantics of the word and its history.

That said, given the number of downvotes, it looks like I miss some contextual clues about what it might make it feels as some call to extremist POV.
> Is an electron conscious at some level?

I am suggesting all existential reality is dormant consciousness and life is a technology which provides a feedback loop with the rest of existential reality.

> If we use a quantum particle instead of a pseudorandom number generator in ChatGPT does it become conscious?

There is no particle. What you call a particle is a stably bound potential. That potential is a subjectively bound scope of the universe’s consciousness. When it is disturbed it vibrates. That vibration could be said to be its experience yet this is far too primitive a stage to call it living consciousness.

The biotechnology of life provides an electrochemical interface for this potential feedback mechanism. Memory, cognition, and other traits are all technologies taking on tangential forms as life struggles in chaotic hostile reality.

> This seems extremely unlikely to me.

You think consciousness is a “thing”, and I suggest it is an intrinsic property of existential reality. Dormant of course, animated by life. The bridge between dormant physical embodiment and living system might be a billion years of electrolytic soup.

Life would then be a technology for capacitating consciousness and interfacing with the rest of existential reality.

> Do non-quantum, classical effects of the brain, all the electric and chemical interactions, contribute to consciousness?

Without a doubt. The electrochemical activity is our biotechnology for perturbing and passively “reading” the interface between the cell and the quantum flux.

This could be something as soft and gentle as a bias (not instruction set.) or synapse sparks are flashing our ROM.

I think of this domain as an analog holographic sieve.

Remove your every preconception of what it means to be consciousness. Consciousness is not intelligence, consciousness co-opts intelligence (and intelligence consciousness memetically.) consciousness is not complexity, however complexity may very well be scalar capacity for consciousness.

Holographically consciousness entangles millions of cells, each with a means to bias. Collectively, through constructive and destructive interference in the human mind they have a resolution as great as any experience you may have (maybe many times over.)

> This seems much more likely.
I think it's possible that quantum effects contribute to consciousness in the brain in some way, but it seems off to almost define consciousness as quantum physics just because we don't understand either.

What you mean “we?”
the distinction is rarely necessary in most discussions though, so if that's the intention, it's not all that helpful
They are from a conservative think tank. It is political activism, nothing more.
https://www.sportico.com/business/media/2025/nfl-owns-73-of-...

Usually 90 of the top 100 shows on American TV are football games. It was 72 out of 100 in 2024 because it was an election year.
User defined functions were implemented similarly as external execs in early shells. As the script was parsed, functions were dropped into /tmp without their wrappings and then called as external programs. Since they would still reference parameters as $1, $2 etc, it just worked: function bodies and standalone sh scripts had the same interface! Such a clever idea to avoid managing an interpreted call stack in the parent.
There is also 1830 and few others

https://www.dicebreaker.com/themes/train-game/best-games/bes...
No, it neither walks nor quacks like a duck.

Once a model is trained, the weights are static unless you train it again. This is a huge practical difference between LLMs and humans. I need to give the LLM the context I want it to consider every single time I use it, because it doesn’t learn from past use at all, it just produces a plausible string of words based on its constant, unchanging set of weights.
That's why you make it break differently first. To see your changes have any effect.
This is how physics is now. You teach an intro physics class and you have a billion engineering students all telling you what they actually need to know to be an engineer. But the truth is, it is often impossible to anticipate what a person needs to know for their future. The future is not an easy thing to predict despite recent innovations in AI and machine learning. And a student's current motivation is not necessarily the most important thing to consider when thinking about what they should be currently learning. People often change majors, career paths, etc. This is why I would rather people learn about topics that are fundamental to various fields, such as algorithms or conservation of energy or whatever, than some topical thing.
You can specify markers in the requirements file you write, not in the frozen requirements from 'pip freeze'. Because it's just a list of what's installed on your machine.
That’s simply not true. In high col areas like this and especially on custom homes that were well built rebuilding is much more expensive than appraised market value for structures.

Part of that is easily attributable to depreciation of the structure but another large portion is the large increase in skilled labor costs in the last couple years.
Nvidia responds with a Trump endorsement: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-policy/
That doesn't make sense, you have to specify the index when you're using Dynamo.
> Many years back, it was a thing that TfL actively encouraged developers to use their data

They still do but not the branding:

"Use our data - not our brand"
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/design-and-brand...
Well this is one possible scenario. Power management....

"Windows 10 Task Manager shows 100% CPU but Performance Monitor Shows less than 2%" - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...
> I agree that women would not want to share the bathroom with "male intruders who have decided to disregard women's boundaries for their own pleasure while falsely identifying themselves as women.", but this is not an accurate description of transgender women.

How is it not accurate? They are male (by definition), so when they decide to impose themselves upon a female space this means they are doing so with a disregard for women's boundaries.

Based on your comment, you seem to believe that "woman" is just an identity, that any male can choose to adopt if he desires so. If that is the case, why do you believe this?
If we've passed the point of no return, that's a relief. At least we can relax and enjoy our 18MPG 350HP sports cars now without guilt. Vroom!
who tells you to arrest people and take drugs. some friend that is.
I don’t see the issue. You were using the TfL schematic map which is very much a form of art. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that they asked you to take that specific map down or continue with a license.

To remove the whole site because of that seems petty.

It was clearly stated in their api documentation. It’s no
different than getting a license or usage rights for hosting an image or video on your site. Just because you are a hobbyist doesn’t mean you don’t have to follow the rules.

This is coming from someone who is extremely pro fair-use and right to ownership.
So agreeing that OEMs don't really care much about Linux Desktop experience quality, nor put that much effort into it.
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Why do you trust an unverified "leak" over statements made by multi-billion dollar multinationals? Sure, corporations can lie, but so can such leaks. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If the leak is alleging something impossible (ie. stealing location data despite not having location permissions in manifest), then I'd need far more evidence than some csv list.
"you can call people mentally ill but only if they're targets of the regime" isn't exactly in line with the principles of free speech in the first place.
https://c9x.me/irc/

A retarded C compiler, a TLS lib if you want TLS, and you are good to go.
something that also managed to trip my corporate firewall
WINE and Proton piggyback on Microsoft's guarantees of Win32 stability. As long as that remains in place (which should be for all intents and purposes forever given MS's customers) they can't really do anything about it.

So, next time you hear the joke about Win32 ABI being the only stable ABI on Linux, remember it's funny because it's true!
So now you have an overconfident human using an overconfident tool, both of which will end up coding themselves into a corner? Compilers at least, for the most part, offer very definitive feedback that act as guard rails to those overconfident humans.

Also, let's not forget LLMs are a product of the internet and anonymity. Human interaction on the internet is significantly different from in person interaction, where typically people are more humble and less overconfident. If someone at my office acted like some overconfident SO/reddit/HN users I would probably avoid them like the plague.
Dannon Whole fat is just milk (they do add pectin or starch to the low/no fat).

https://www.dannon.com/yogurt/whole-milk-yogurt/plain-32oz/

The various 'Greek' varieties are also widely available and tend not to use thickeners.

Also, I'm not sure why we would discount "right now".
I was unable to find the comment now, but a comment about fabric quality bothers me to this day:

Paraphrased: "The clothes had longer lives back then, because we were unable to weave fabric that thin (i.e. low quality). Since we can do now, we do it."

IOW: Things are more expensive and lower quality, because we want you to buy more things and spend more, so we can make more monies.
I believe this is a fundamental misjudgement of the CS curriculums at MIT and NEU and, apologies for being blunt, probably the worst take on this thread.

The student populations at MIT and NEU, particularly in CS, are fundamentally different. The majority of undergraduates at CS MIT participate in academic research while the vast majority of CS undergraduates at NEU do not (do not let NEU's exceptionally high computer science research output [1] confuse you - the undergraduate and graduate schools are very separate). MIT educates significantly less students than NEU. MIT's algorithms class (6.046) is significantly more rigorous than NEU's equivalent (CS3000) - just compare the publicly available curriculum and problem sets [2,3]. In general, MIT's CS curriculum caters towards the third of the student body that go on to do PhDs, while NEU's CS curriculum caters towards the vast majority of students that beeline towards industry [4,5]. The institutional goals and educational values between MIT and NEU could not be more different. I know all of this to be true because I've spent a significant amount of time at both institutions.

I don't know if NEU will butcher its CS curriculum. I hope not. I guess we'll just have to see.

P.S. it's worth checking out Pyret [4], essentially a functional teaching programming language. The language is mostly written by NEU staff, so I wager NEU's future CS curriculum plans to phase out Racket in favor of Pyret.

[1] https://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2014/toyear/2024/index?all...
[2] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.046/
[3] https://tlarock.github.io/teaching/cs3000/syllabus.html
[4] https://facts.mit.edu/alumni/
[5] https://www.northeastern.edu/experiential-learning/co-op/
[6] https://pyret.org
With the Beatles
I didn’t read it that way. I read it as trying to control what can be controlled; risk mitigation rather than risk elimination.
> scrolling web pages with large images is laggy

Now that I've read this, I can also remember that I was also annoyed by jerks when scrolling web pages.

I also found the backup management too complicated. I didn't want to back up entire VMs, just the data within the VMs. In principle, I would have had to start up all VMs for backups and run a backup script for each individual VM.
surely annoying, probably illegal
> Chip orders with collective computation power up to roughly 1,700 advanced GPUs do not require a license

Structuring, but for gpus. Seems like the sort of loophole you could drive a truck through.
Zero empathy for younger humans?
Not sure what "mpv" means in this context, but this reminds me the one actual pet peeve I have with Qubes - video/audio calls just don't work for me. It either doesn't work or the audio quality is really poor. I've tried all kinds of stuff, without much success. I'm using phone/tablet as a fallback, but it's not very convenient.
It's defined in the BCPL book.
This is the actual answer. The staged-up "we replaced 30% of our employees with AI" narrative is concocted for two reasons:

- To garner VC money
- To drive down wages and make employees more fungible

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. As long as enough people believe it, that’ll become the new baseline.
One of the issue with type states if you aren’t aware is the state of each type needs to then be a type parameter of the parent type. Meaning creating a dynamic number of these state machines would be frustrating.

Do you have some thoughts or samples of say a Vec of Lights as an extension of the sample tou have?
Is not whenever they deny it or not, your device can attest to it. Both Google and Apple have no qualms screwing up with third parties in their apps. Also, apps have been datamined up the wazoo, if a company claims not to do something and does it, someone would have already howled about it.
Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play
The premium on insurance of last resort are quite high they may do enough to cover costs or they may not but it’s hard to Predict and model so private parties don’t bother. The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze so to say
Secret Legacy of the Ancient Caves – Open-Source Roguelike for MS-DOS
It does introduce an opportunity to lose a limb, though. I think I'd rather have my bank account hacked.
Have you ever seen a comment of someone saying they have a coworker who writes in the Literate style, and they appreciate it?

Bias may be a factor.
I would assume that anything done by people is geo-engineering.

Check out the big red band "China"

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

But, as I noted in another comment, it's misleading since China has absorbed so much manufacturing for other countries, a lot of those products end up in your hands after you get it from Amazon Prime.
> Besides, global warming might not be so bad, if we consider that we are currently in one of the coldest periods in human history.

I don't know where you got this idea from, it's not supported by your link.

We were already in an interglacial warm period, and the warming since the preindustrial average is of the same scale as the difference between the preindustrial average and when the ice sheets withdrew from Chicago.
Yeah people say use git bisect but that's another dimension (which change introduced the bug).

Bisecting is just as useful when searching for the layer of application which has the bug (including external libraries, OS, hardware, etc.) or data ranges that trigger the bug. There's just no handy tools like git bisect for that. So this amounts to writing down what you tested and removing the possibilities that you excluded with each test.
Your comment gave me a notion.

"Science fantasy" was coined to discern between "hard sci-fi" (The Martian) and make believe (Star Wars), right?

How about:

Conspiracy -

- fact: stuff we know, like nicotine and climate crisis

- theory: likely but as yet "unproven", like a RICO case going to trial.

- fantasy: ancient civilizations, flat earth, X-Files, QAnon, etc.

- bullshit/lies: stuff we know is bullshit, like Holocaust denial

- mystery: we just don't know (yet?), like maybe Havana Syndrome

Acknowledging that "conspiracy theory" was coined to (successfully) cast "conspiracy fact" as "conspiracy bullshit". Like COINTELPRO.

Acknowledging that misuse and abuse of terms is the norm. Like how "hackers" morphed from tinkerers and inventors to criminals.

But at least when I say something is "conspiracy bullshit", my people will know what kind of conspiracy I'm talking about, without further explanation.
While I agree that HN usually gathers much interesting content, I don't understand why getting more karma on HN matters anyway. Chasing points anywhere isn't healthy by the way. Say something interesting because it is interesting and sparks a conversation and not for the sake of saying something.
Los Angeles homes, before and after
What were you doing that was cargo culting?
The real question is not "what does it mean", but "what will be done ?".

The answer is nothing and at this point without a massive change of life style, it is probably too late.

50 years ago, Pres. Carter wanted to get Climate Change on the radar, but Reagan stopped that and doubled down on Fossil Fuels.

We are probably 50 years from massive coastal flooding, time to start working on mitigations for the flooding. But of course nothing will be done with that until it is too late.

Look at insurance companies, they know what will happen and that is reflected in them pulling out of some parts of the country. 50 years from now, insurance will probably cost 25% to maybe 50% of the house value per year. Similar to Auto Insurance in high risk urban environments.
I really.like this "layers" approach, it should be adopted as a standard convention, taught in schools, etc.
> What more do you want?

Apparently, "they" will moan loudly about being silenced until everyone else has stopped saying things they don't like.

(using "they" as a vague, undefined term, after seeing such a widespread use of "we" in this thread).
You are the main character.
This is pretty generous, and while I'd like to believe it I don't think such a belief can be justified. The article, which is one of the best surveys on the matter I can find, doesn't really address whether the cargo cults understood modern technology. The furthest it goes is to state that for them, ritual was a kind of technology meant to achieve practical effects. We can say at the very least that the cargo cults did not understand how their rituals could achieve anything substantial.
I've tried to collect a list of books written thus at:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...

(please excuse _A Philosophy of Software Design_ EDIT and the two _Structure..._ books --- they were just too influential on me to not list)

I would be glad of any I have missed, or other such lists.
Kamon supports OTel.