skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, you'll apreciate wheels more if you are your own source of motive power.
> The question "Who invented this?" is most often pointless,

I’m having flashbacks to a corporate environment where several people would rush into any successful project, contribute something small, and then start telling everyone they created the entire initiative.

Our conflict-averse CTO would then declare that it doesn’t matter because we all created it together.

Then the other party would take that as permission to say they created the thing in meeting, presentations, and politicking. If anyone tried to argue the accurate history of who created it, they’d invoke the CTO’s proclamation that we all created it together.

Thus the collectivism became a way to rewrite history and take credit in contexts where they could get away with it, with a safe fallback to claiming we all created it together whenever someone objected.

I get the same feeling whenever there’s debate about order of historical events and someone tries to tell me it doesn’t matter. Clearly it does matter, because some people think it matters enough to try to rewrite history in their favor.
For posterity: I missed a crucial word in my comment. I meant to say "if you care about free software". Sorry for this.
Why do you think it's strange that people don't describe themselves with precision? People can be transhumanist and also other things. That doesn't make the other things part of transhumanism.
Transhumanism as an ideology is about much more than "use of technology to improve one's life". It basically amounts to the belief that any technology that improves one's life should be accepted and even sought after, and that any opposition to this is a bad idea. For example, a transhumanist would believe that human cloning for organ harvesting would be a good idea, and opposes the current laws against research into human cloning. This is in no way a foregone conclusion for anyone who wears glasses.
Yeah, I'd feel uncomfortable receiving a CV with a photo on it. I don't want to be accused of anything if I reject a candidate. Likewise I don't want to see your DoB either.

It is surprising how culturally specific this is though - I've had CVs for hiring in our offshore centre in India where a candidate listed his father's details as a contact.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/thinking-selling-your-te...

https://insideevs.com/news/753814/used-tesla-values-deprecia...
The author's tone is...definitely not neutral and it make it hard to believe them when they put pure conjecture in: "Between the high demand and likely paying workers a subminimum wage" with footnote "...While this practice was completely legal (current federal law permits employers to pay disabled workers a fraction of minimum wage), it’s certainly questionable practice coming from a guy whose entire schtick revolves around stewardship."

I was waiting to read how it was possible that Green might have kicked a puppy or drown some kittens.
Written in the style of a LinkedIn post even ;-)
This particular MCP server? No idea. I suspect it is just a different way, rather than a better way.

For tasks like that I personally use pre- and post-commit scripts to run all of my test validation, coverage, Ruff, etc. and output the results as “Current Code Quality” summary reports that are shared with my agents for context.
BTW, what issues do you have with strtok() exactly? It is straightforward to use after having read the documentation. I do not buy the "many people misuse" argument. Who? Wannabe script kiddies? People who are reluctant to read the documentation? From where do you get "many people"?
>but they can't trawl for me in an existing database.

Sure they can. The government obviously can. Otherwise they just buy data from the decade of tracking data left behind. That's the relatively easier part in comparison to targeted DNA gathering.
Also is a deficiency in patents. Instead of giving a temporary monopoly on a genuine original idea and solution, it becomes a land rush to who can get to a newly obvious idea the fastest.
I think it's a bit more than "because players put in almost no effort" but I do agree that is a big factor.

I'm probably nitpicking here, but I really hope they put a lot more thoughts into each quest. For example I remember one of the brotherhood tasks is to assassinate the Emperor, but it was a very disappointing task as far as I remember. Admittedly, removing the markers and such definitely helps a bit, but I can't help feeling that the game designers just wanted to pump as many quests into the games as possible, and call it a day. I'd rather have just half of the quests, but with each of them having more depth and require more thoughts.
It isn't that they weren't authenticating the items, it's that they weren't authenticating previous ownership. A lot of the items were stolen, as you can imagine there was a bit of wildness in the Middle East at the time (after the US overthrew Saddam Hussein). Which leads to the big shoe to drop. The people they were buying from and essentially funding is the group who became ISIS.
Kudos for sharing something in the early stages. The obvious comparison is ActivityPub or Bluesky's protocol but I don't see anything in the readme. It would be good to see some kind of comparison, or reason that one would choose RSSX over those. Is there something that you're planning to do significantly differently from those implementations?
A lot of it is just about maintaining healthy boundaries. I am a transgender person of faith. It’s not really a big deal except for the assholes.
Do you have any examples of sites that do that?
My Unconventional Journey into Tech: From Indecision to Engineering Manager
At 19, I was just another confused Singaporean male serving the army with no clear direction. I blindly chose the “safe” major of engineering without knowing what I was getting into. I switched majors multiple times, struggled with programming, and nearly gave up on tech entirely—until a hackathon changed everything. That one experience set off a chain reaction, leading me to Silicon Valley, back to Singapore, and eventually to where I am today- an Engineering Manager at Ninja Van. Looking back, it’s been anything but a straight path, but every detour has played a part in getting me here.
This seems like a common pattern: someone writes about sociopathic excesses of MAGA, but without sufficient empathy and respect, and the writer becomes responsible for the sociopathic excesses.

The article could definitely be more professional and mature. But something seems wrong with blaming people who are horrified by bad behavior for the bad behavior.
Show HN: I built Cursor styles for the browser called GPT Rules
I built this chrome extension because I loved Cursor Rules. There wasn't a great way to add context/rules to a chat session in the browser with ChatGPT. I used to copy paste from my notes or have rules saved in my clipboard to make my chats better. This made me realize, that I just wanted a simple chrome extension for easily accessible rules.

All you do is press # in your input field to access a list of rules that you can edit / change to prepend your chats to make the responses have higher quality.

It's free and open source and requires no API keys.

https://github.com/umerhd/gptrules

Just a simple tool.

Here is the chrome extension link if you don't want to go to the website.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mlpmfljecijammlighc...

glhf
I'm unclear - so what does get deleted? Just unlinks your name from the genetic data?
> Parent comment is coming from an ethical person and ethical people often have a hard time imagining how unethical people operate.

This is a trait of delusional people as well as those very deep into some "technocratic" ivory tower without any formed code of ethics, too.
Because there are many people that (explicitly or implicitly) understand human body and mind as 'sacred' and would oppose intrusive technological improvements to that. So it makes sense to have a term for people who, on the other side, welcome such changes.

Note that i disagree with OP about glasses or insulin pump, as most people support use of technology to fix deficiencies of a human body or mind, but if one has a healthy, fit body/mind and still want technological improvements, that is a red line.
> He doesn't like the architecture you chose? You're gone. He finds issues in the code of one of your subordinates? That subordinate is gone and you are too.

I doubt it would have been that severe unless it was a recurring thing. But it does bring to mind a story told by the USS Enterprise's then-chief engineer, about an episode before my own time aboard. Back in the day, there was a "billet" (org-chart position) known as the "shaft officer"; those were experienced, mid-level officers, as in, late 20s to early 30s in age. Each shaft officer oversaw (IIRC) one of the ship's four propellers and its shaft, along with the specific engine room and two nuclear reactors that drove the shaft.

(Enterprise had a total of eight nuclear reactors in four numbered "plants"; each shaft officer would have been roughly equivalent to the chief engineer of a single-plant ship.)

During one Rickover visit to the Enterprise, an officer is introduced to him as the shaft officer for 3 plant. Rickover immediately asks, "You're the shaft officer? How long is your shaft?" The shaft officer could have given either of two possible answers — and either answer would have saved him — but he "failed open" and couldn't answer. Rickover supposedly de-nuked him on the spot.
> Advocating for firing everyone in a hypothetical team because of a hypothetical scenario where hypothetical team members help each other out

That's not the hypothetical scenario described. Rather, the hypothetical scenario is that all of the other engineers are in constant need of babysitting by the one adult in the room, Tim. There was no indication given that, other than Tim, team members are helping out "each other", or that anyone else is helping Tim. If the team members are peers, then why is Tim disproportionately pairing, 100% of his time?
That would be quite a breakthrough.

Is there more than the 4-page paper that’s on the page? It seems very scarce on details and proofs.

And can you actually patent an algorithm?
The author seems to go down a dark rabbit hole describing how seemingly unrelated events are connected. They also seem to placate to any anti-Christian sentiment a reader may already have.
Honestly, I don't know why nobody says it, but I just _don't want to._ I don't want to use it too much. It's not that I'm paranoid about it outputting bad code, but I just like doing almost all of it myself. It helps that I will do better than it 100% of the time but that isn't really why I don't use it. If it's going to replace all of us, fine. I guess you can chalk me up as not being into this hyper-productivity mindset. I just want to write code, period. I use it in the same manner as I see most comments saying; that is, as a fancy code complete, but I haven't found myself wishing "if only this could do all of it for me!"
Who created the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer? And why does everyone think it's an American, 4 years later?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)

History is not a collection of objective records.
LinkedIn is not just only for jobs, it's also about networking
The beer hunter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_%28writer%29
Were they even transhumanists? There is a big crossover between the rationalists and transhumanists, but I don't think that is a given.
I feel like you're projecting a bit, frankly.

The statement was fine and not political. Inferring otherwise is an odd thing to defend.
I've been thinking about what would be necessary to kickstart a Linkedin replacement on Bluesky (on top of AT Protocol). It's network and job postings. I won't say "it is easy!" It is certainly not. But, it is another walled garden than must come down.
Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way (on Windows)
I'm not on LinkedIn
I was working on something similar to this a while ago, but the goal of it was experimenting with what a language that could modify it's own syntax would look like. I was going to write something as basic as possible and then have example scripts on transforming the syntax to other languages. I was probably just going to do brainfuck and c in the end, but I wanted something like that to be possible. I couldn't figure out how to make a language modify a tree structure for tweaking the ast of the interpreter, but I guess lisp fits the bill there.
And they did! They both literally did.
He should go back to making half life 2 mods.
I actually called that out in my comment, notice the author says "likely".

She looked at what is legal but horrific and then claims that he did it without any proof.
Maybe this explanation is intentionally simplified, but what it’s telling me is that medical science is just lost.
Atheists and fundamentalists are two sides of the same coin.
> For a long time now, many people who's religious values are deeply important to them have felt disrespected and looked down upon by "the left" (yes, I'm obviously painting with a broad brush here). In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the elite left essentially said "you all are backwards and silly".

A lot of them DO come off as backwards and silly. Christianity boils down to two commandments. TWO! Love God and love your neighbor. Who is your neighbor? EVERYONE! And you can't do one of those commandments without the other. And if you're calling yourself Christian, those are not OPTIONS - you can't choose not to do those. And yet, here we are...
Although I disagree with your point made, I appreciate you taking the time to write a well-thought out reply.
As you already know he is a bullshitter and a bully. His threats are weak shakedown attempts. If the opponent does not immediately cave he does something else. Bully threatens those who are smaller or defenseless.

All he wants is tough talk and "a deal" that looks win for him. It does not have to be real substantial victory, just something he can spin as a victory and "a deal".

"a deal" - is just photo op and signing something. He is a media person and a hustler.
Tiny Great Languages: Assembly
EDIT: nevermind, it's my stupid work proxy blocking the .WAV filetype :(

On both Edge and Chrome on Windows 11 I hear nothing. No "sound" icon in the tab either to indicate that it's muted.
He died in 1986, so everything in the Virginia program happened well after his death. His forced retirement in 1982 was largely because he made a lot of political enemies by making a stink about General Dynamic's flaws in workmanship on the Los Angeles class. His whole management style was to push for accountability and sweat the details.

I think what you're country is seeing is general flaws in quality for basically everything American-made these days. Which, if I'm being totally blunt, are because Americans are lazy and don't care about quality and basically do the minimum that won't get them fired. Hell, I started my career caring about quality and craftmanship and now I do the minimum that won't get me fired too, because there's no point busting your ass for some lazy manager up the chain to take credit for it.
Well, when a party has lost an election, what's supposed to happen is they spend the next several years figuring out what the people actually want. (Or, more cynically, at least what the people want to hear.) That's where the feedback gets listened to - when they're out of power.
Saying that anyone who wears glasses is associated with these beliefs is indicative of drinking the kool-aid.
How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing (2024)
The net effect is 0 if you're being paid back and paying back on time. How is this any different from putting it on a CC and paying it back on time? What's the big deal here that warrants this level of discussion? Why not let others do them and you do you? Maybe the real bad decision we're all participating in here—myself included—is feeling the need to split hairs over a hypothetical situation about personal opinions on personal finance?
That's hardly an unconscious parallel. That's a direct, atheist take.

The whole attempt at casting transhumanism as religion is silly. Transhumanist side says, "there's no supernatural God, but sufficiently advanced technology could approximate it" - and then people turn around and say, "you see, you say enough technology is like a god, therefore you're religious and believe in God (specifically in Christian God per mainstream religion, with all its mores)".

<facepalm>

Like X != X.
Those aren't particularly useful examples, though. They're all things that have been artificially seperated in containers and now there's a bunch of work to punch the right holes in that seperation, because people want the sandboxing of containers from a minimum-trust point of view, and that's pretty hard to get right. Previously this wasn't a problem, not because the distros solved it, but because there was no seperation of dbus or views of the filesystem or the like.

(Dbus, much like a lot of the rest of desktop integration, is something that has been standardised quite heavily, such that you can expect that any application that uses it will basically work with it without any specific configuration or patching, unless you've insisted on fiddling with the standard setup for some reason. It used to be that the init system was an area which lacked this standardisation, but systemd has evened out a lot of these differences, which distro and apps maintainers as well as users all benefited significantly from. Most of containerisation is basically trying to do the same with libraries as well, but most projects are also trying to achieve some level of sandbox seperation between applications at the same time)

(This is one reason why I don't much like a lot of the existing approaches here: I think the goals are admirable and the overall approach makes sense, but the current solutions fall quite short)
It’s one of the reasons I disagree with NDT and other popular scientists that Newton was the greatest scientist. Einstein was singular in that respect that he was the only one even thinking about spacetime as a geometric entity. Calculus and gravity, were already all things others were working on and making similar strides. Newton just got there first and while he’s definitely a unique genius and impressive in the breadth of things he accomplished, that takes away for me when comparing him with Einstein.

I think his most unique work may have been the contributions to optics but stacked up against a fundamental description of what gravity and time are that completely changed our thinking on it… Not to mention that still to this day 100 years later we’re building machines to verify some of Einstein’s predictions. Oh and he invented the idea of lasers despite not believing in quantum mechanics.

Not to mention that Newton’s foundational contributions to math and science stopped around 28 when he started focusing on alchemy and other things. By comparison Einstein kept making contributions to physics throughout his life and his contributions “stopped” when he focus on the grand unifying theory trying to bridge quantum mechanics and relativity, a problem still unsolved 70 years after his death despite an accelerating understanding and technology in the world of physics.
I would say rust. When you learn the basics, rust is very simple and will point to you any errors you have, so you get basically no runtime errors. Also the type system is extremely clean, making the code very readable.

But also C itself is very simple language. I do not mean C++, but pure C. I would probably start with this. Yes, you will crash at runtime errors, but besides that its very very simple language, which will give you good understanding of memory allocation, pointers etc.
Reminds me of the humility every programmer should have, basically we're standing on the shoulders of giants and abstraction for the most part. 80+ years of computer science.

Cool kids may talk about memory safety but ultimately someone had to take care of it, either in their code or abstracted out of it.
That's because they don't declare taking out long term bonds as part of their p/e calculations, just the cost of servicing the loan.

Netflix were borrowing circa $4 billion dollars a year to license content until two years ago. There's nothing wrong with that, but you aren't making a genuine profit.
my plan is basically make it more lightweight plaintext but support multiple format html xml json and my own format(tho i dont have much experience in formating im 13 :)) like im expirementing(inspired by aaron swartz)
Github repo https://github.com/chadmed/triforce
What makes it not user-friendly?
Except Christianity would find transhumanism exceedingly bland, for being an unoriginal repeat of the Original Sin; the latest scheme of humanity to be a God.

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
As a general rule, a statement that starts with “why don’t you just…” typically leans far too heavily on the “just” to handwave away the reasons why the next part of the statement isn’t going to be helpful.

In this case, you’re assuming a huge number of things like infrastructure and other requirements are in place, and all of those things take a lot of time and work, if they’re even appropriate at all.
Some examples from Deep learning:

AlexNet that started the deep learning revolution. Was there other groups trying to solve Image Net by training convnets on GPU’s in 2009?

OpenAI and the scaling hypothesis. Before chatGPT it was only OpenAI training larger and larger language models.

TRPO, PPO line of RL algorithms invented by John Schulman

In fact I would say, in general a lot of inventions only happen because 1 person or 1 group willed it into existence and it would seem very unlikely for it to happen if that 1 person or group did not exist.
Yes, but this sounds too (deliberately) naïve to me—like you’re trying to convince a kid that hard drugs are all harmless because caffeine is a drug. The dichotomy is not that Humanists refute technology while transhumanists embrace it.

The appropriate question to ask is, “what unique beliefs do transhumanists hold”. And the differentiating factor is generally a sentiment that the human condition must be overcome even at the cost of humanity. A transhumanist fundamentally rejects what it is to be human in line with a belief that humanity is inevitably deprecated. Humanist: technology augments humans. Transhumanist: technology replaces humans.

I’ve tried really hard and can’t seem to find a way to rationalize a transhumanist worldview—at least until we understand life and consciousness intimately and thoroughly. But even then I’d have to reevaluate, not take as a given.