skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone want to do a web2isgoinggreat.com version of this?
"Life is absurd" ~Camus

Once you make peace with that, coping with feelings of powerlessness is child's play.
As I have written elsewhere in this thread: Storage is free, RAM isn't.

And neither is battery power. A terminal application is supposed to be small, and next to invisible in terms of resources required. If it isn't, it will be uninstalled.
It definitely closed many gaps. Most servers, supercomputers, embedded devices, routers, smartphones, smart tv's... depend on free software one way or another.

A few software markets have been completely dominated by FLOSS: system software, compilers, lexers, shells, kernels, codecs, programming languages, arduino-like tools...

On the professional market, just look at what blender became. Other examples for end users: OBS is probably the most used broadcast software available. People ignore that most people don't need the features Sound Forge and Audacity has probably many more users. Other examples in this same category: VLC, Handbrake, Inkscape, 7-zip, Calibre, Krita...

Even on the places where it is not a leader, it is sometimes good enough. I can totally easily edit a video using kdenlive; record, edit and master a music using Audour; compose a scene using Natron; compose music using MuseScore; edit 3d models using Wings3D; design an environment using SweetHome3D; render using many of the top-notch state-of-art FLOSS renders like Luxrender or whatever comes with Blender these days.

Desktop software is much more beautiful, intuitive and stable than before. And it doesn't try to milk you for money, attention or personal data. Flatpaks, AppImages and snaps finally make it possible for users of the most popular distros to use the same software, the same version, working the same way regardless of the distro.

Now, go back a few years. The situation was entirely different. You could do nothing of what was described using only FLOSS if you go back enough. Or, you could, but it would be complicated and unstable. This is no longer the case.

Of course there are still gaps, but many have been closed over the years and most remaining ones are slowly closing.
I just blame others and don’t take it as my fault, I am too young for taking the responsibility. Those are the older generation, who allowed all that to happen, because that over comfortable life looks very appealing, I assume. (I personally never had an issue with that.)

What can you do? Just stop over-consume things, that simple. Wear clothes till they wear out, fix them when you can, reuse them (e.g. you can make that cover for your laptop out of your old jacket very easily). Don’t upgrade your phone (and laptop, and tablet) every other year, just keep it as long as you can. Yeah, that's difficult, because somehow every software application is super bloated. Don't buy that smart watch, you don’t need it, and they all are useless anyway. Don’t fly on planes that often. Don’t buy car, because you don’t need it in most cases. If you need car, use it as seldom as possible. I am sick of all those fat asses comminuting alone, especially inside fat cars. Possibilities are limitless, but the general public is quite mindless, to say the least.

That may sound insane for some of you, but it is not that difficult. As a person who grew up in a poor environment (i.e. no car, no tech, no fancy stuff, saving water, gas, electricity to keep the bills low) I have zero issues with keeping that life style up to this day. I can pay for all that, it’s not the money issue, it’s about being aware whether you really need all that stuff.
Another HN post from today on vector search.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29554986
Yeah, technically a variant who lies dormant for a long time while spreading slowly is a better fit than one that is noticed.

Didn't we learn anything from Plague Inc?
Those instant answers are the ones I'm talking about. Sometimes they're calculated, but often they're regurgitated from web crawls and the UI doesn't clearly differentiate the two.
I use both, I don't LOVE OSX, and find it annoying, but its just as bad as gnome to me.
Not true, your data and/or content is the rent you pay.
Speaking for average people, nobody can explain how they know where they left things, it's just knowledge. It's weird that people ask you to explain how you know where things are.
I wonder if there is a continuum here. I think that I can visualize things in my head, but doing so is difficult for me, and definitely doesn't look exactly the same as if I saw it. And certainly if you tell me to think about an elephant my first instinct would be to think of words that describe an elephant, not summon up images of an elephant. But if pressed I could visualize a shadowy silhouette of an elephant. And I definitely think I can visualize movement and actions, although it is different than normal sight, and there generally isn't a lot of detail in what the things moving look like. I definitely relate to not being able to describe what people look like, because unless I specifically take note of details like what they are wearing, what color their hair is, whether they are wearing glasses etc. or I don't remember those details.
Correct, shipping the equivalent of an entire full-featured GUI OS just to provide a terminal emulator is crazy.
I'll call Web3 Web3 when I don't need to keep an active whitelist via uMatrix. When I don't need to use uOrigin and when people actually host it on their own infrastructure rather then selling themselves short on the cloud. I will also call it Web3 when it actually brings people together just as Web1 did. And not Web2 where a platform has two social sides shouting at the same bandwagon.
I would add the ToC and one of the later chapters or sections to your main website. Later chapters are more informative than an introduction because the demonstrate how good you are in explaining new concepts.
I read an article somewhere that said something along the lines of "...due to fears of the omicron variant corona virus" and all I could think of was that, nobody has fears. Only the media outlets are the ones saying the word "fear" here. I haven't heard a single person where I live or elsewhere ever say they were fearful of the coronavirus in the past three months.

This is worse than Alex Jones freaking out about black hawk helicopters. This is a straight up echo chamber of a narrative being spit out. The only people who should be fearful are the vaccinated. To which, like the governor of Colorado said, "it's your own fault at this point."
Wifi is the worst. I had a wifi driver fail on me the other day after the updates included a newer kernel version that didn't work with the current wifi driver. Newer ones were available on github, but downloading requires wifi. Eventually I managed to make a hotspot out of my phone and connect to github via bluetooth.

Otherwise, no complaints.
does anyone know of a free (or paid) browser based site that can run GPT-3 if I wanted to try it?
You mean half, not double. Davinci is $0.06 per 1k tokens but $0.03 for fine-tuning.
I'm not so sure. These BMCs are dumb SoCs like any other (just with specialized I/O), their firmware comes from an external SPI flash. I doubt there is anything AMI specific at all in these chips. Looks like it's basically a license sticker some worker is putting on these boards after they're all assembled and tested. I can see how these stickers are there, maybe for contractual/legal reasons, without being a critical part of the BMC board BOM (1x roll of "AMI loicense stickers").
Why only Win32 — Azure Kubernetes had this limitation under some circumstances, even a few years ago[1]. Anyone know if this issue is still present?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17703371
No, I meant the ads injected by Youtube before the video that cannot be skipped. Those are completely removed by uBlock origin.

I'm not too bothered by sponsored segments in the videos themselves. If they annoy me a couple of right arrow presses are enough to skip them.
Take a look inside the room that’s hotter than the sun
Yes, the GPT-3 playground on the OpenAI site.
Yes. TL;DR: Chip does not meet MILSPEC or any other spec. People are OK with it. The chips really should be de-capped and researched.
I'm in the same boat. It's finally passed the point where I'd rather spend a few slow weekends adding missing QoL features to Ghidra then renew IDA.
I agree that it's a shame, but looking back at “web 2.0”, wasn't it kind of the same? I'm absolutely guilty about being excited about it at the time, but in retrospect, a bunch of rounded corners and incremental inclusion of Ajax didn't really warrant a SemVer major version update either.

Edit: actually, maybe the justification of the SemVer bump is that people stopped caring about IE5 support :)
They said there is no tampering. Someone should x-ray this chip vs a correctly labeled one to verify.
Wait you mean asking: "how many turkeys are in turkey doesn't count as meaningful?"
I don't see the problem, I want to run better software I have to pay for, not crappy free stuff, and giving choice to do that is not a negative. If linux did not allow any paid software, it would not make it a better OS.
What are the goals behind these people who spend time making sites and long blogposts about the failings of blockchains/web3, etc?

In real life, if I talk to people about crypto they are curious and open to learning about it and most just don't have the time to learn about it.

However, when I go online and see a post about NFTs or crypto, there somehow is always tremendous backlash, generally by people not involved in the space. I'm curious what about this space brings out the critics moreso than other hot-button issues. Especially since crypto adoption doesn't really impact these people's lives the way other issues such as abortion, vaccine/mask mandates, or drug policy does.
Log4Shell: JNDI Injection via Attackable Log4j
Knock $50 off the price and people will care.
> that would mostly end the need for nuclear.

No, it wouldn't. Renewables are nice, but they are not enough by themselves to build the kind of global wealth we need to adapt to change. We need nuclear as an energy source for that.
I've had two machines on Google Cloud that racked up $500 in charges from cryptocurrency thieves. They send me alerts but it is so hard to get through the billing dashboards and understand what is legitimate.
For me, it's vice versa: this is why I switched to Linux, because it gets out of my way.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but the idea that Tesla has trouble recruiting is hilarious. Tesla is growing insanely. They moved operations because California is a cancer that is metastising rapidly. Convincing people to move here is the trouble.
I haven't boxed myself in anywhere, I've maintained the same position throughout.

I'm not telling you anything in my opinion. I'm telling you what the empirical evidence says or doesn't say.

I have not stopped advocating Ivermectin. The empirical evidence shows that it is still an extremely cheap, safe, and correlated treatment demonstrated across populations of billions through a mechanism of action that has been well established.

There's literally no reason not to try it, and there's a reason it's part of treatment regimens across several countries. Its use doesn't involve eroding the liberty of the populace or solidifying absolute power of state. It has virtually zero side effects medically or socioculturally, unlike things like masks or vaccines that have zero long term data
Billion-dollar natural gas supplier Superior Plus hit with ransomware
if you want an always-on gpu for $50/mo? That's unreasonable. Consider how much "building from scratch" even a cheap "minimal" GPU unit costs (let's say 3k GPU + 1k supporting PC), whereas a cheap "building from scratch minimal webspace" is a fraction of a single CPU unit, so let's say $100-ish/unit dollars, to be really generous. A rented non-fractional GPU should be easily minimally 40x the cost of a website.

Don't expect these ratios to be authoritative; there are obviously different economies of scale and many many details I papered over, but this should just give you an idea of the back of the envelope "relative costs"; just that 5x is way out of the range you should have guessed.
No, I mean what I wrote. The usage price for fine-tuned models is double at $0.12 per 1k tokens.

The training price is half, but that’s likely gonna be lost in the noise of any significant bill. Unless you have to retrain often, in which case it’s just more overhead again to consider.
It's almost completely a staffing issue at this point. Good thing we fired a bunch of healthcare workers because they didn't want to get vaccinated!
Seems really interesting, and they make some bold claims. Below is a popular mechanics article[1] that I wonder if any HN reader could shed some light on? It’s paywalled (I could read it on Apple News+), but the headlines read:

The Holy Grail of Batteries is Here: Solid-state lithium batteries can last 25 years and charge an electric vehicle in minutes.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
Chemicals in our food and water supplies.
So much FUD daily here against Bitcoin and Web3.

Ask yourself, who is the most affected by these 2 technologies existing?

Web3 is young still, I'll grant you that, but it will eat the world in 3 to 5 years.

Bitcoin is already mature and it's the most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that?

I hear you about the electricity usage, but Bitcoin Lightning will drive down the usage so much that it will become a moot point anyways.
Ahhh, that's the critical piece of context I was missing. Thank you!

Article didn't fully explain why the sticker matters so much, so that left me scratching my head. (my gut reaction was "well, wouldn't a genuine sticker still be easy to counterfeit?). But based on your explanation this is more of a smell that everyone in the electronics manufacturing space is culturally attuned to. So, the fact that it slipped by so many people does indicate a slippage of norms.

If I draw a comparison to software to bring it closer to something familiar to me... would this be like inconsistent variable name formatting? CamelCase in some places and snake_case in others? To an outsider, arguably inconsequential, so insisting on consistency here might seem OCD to them, but to someone who's worked in the space it's actually a useful marker of general detail orientation.
> A changing climate doesn't mean an unlivable earth.

For virtually the entire history of life on this planet for the majority of life on the planet, this statement is false.

Peter Ward's Under a Green Sky is a great read on this subject from a scientific point of view and Peter Brannen's The Ends of the World covers it more broadly with a more journalistic style.

The geological evidence we have strongly suggests that rapid rise in CO2 and sudden climate change have been responsible for many of the great extinction events in the fossil record.

While the magnitude of our current CO2 spike is not as severe as the most extreme cases, it is happening at a rate that is unprecedented in the history of life on this planet.

Now to be clear, there are many, many unknowns about exactly how things will play out, so this isn't a "we're definitely going extinct in the near future!" message. But species extinction is absolutely in the cards (it is worth pointing out we're already in the 6th largest extinction event).
> OpenAI will not claim copyright over content generated by the API for you or your end users

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5008634-will-openai-clai...
Not that I disagree with the article, ternaries are more powerful than && but for the first example, would `contacts.length > 0 && ...` suffice?

It's also interesting that PayPal's team didn't have tests around a user with 0 contacts.
Are you trolling or do you really think that "every winter you'll be wearing a state mandated mask"?

We've been in this pandemic now for close to 2 years. At every single point, government rules and guidance have lagged recommendations from the experts. I'm confident that there is exactly 0 chance that any governmental body in the US is going to continue to mandate masking after it's no longer necessary.
All the Web3 criticisms remind me of my experiences with Star Trek.

For context, I never watched Star Trek. I'd read stories about fans and it always struck me as the dorkiest possible show, with unabashed nerdiness making something like the Big Bang Theory look like a sophisticated work of art.

But one day, I listened to a podcast about strength training and a question came up about which Star Trek leader the host liked more. And I was struck by how they described them. They were leaders. Competent, skilled, and wise men.

This is not the impression I got listening from their rabid fans who were at their worst, at the far end of this (at least on first and worst impressions).

I'd watch some scenes and it was in some respects closer to sci-fi Shakespeare than anything else. And so this gap between reality and impression stuck with me. How could I be so swayed by the worst version of something that never existed?

Years later and the rabid users of cryptocurrency rile me up. There's so much abuse and corruption happening in this space, metered with gambling addictions and delusions.

But the math and incentives are there. It would hard for me to make a case that eventually cryptocurrency will fail. There's a wide surface area of financial problems that even fintech hasn't solved yet. And a whole bunch of problems who we don't even realize exist that can one day be solved by these new mathematical properties embedded into software.

So I'm not too keen on stepping too deeply into the cynicism. I'd like to wait without a final judgement on what it might become.

I don't want to miss out on who Captain Picard might become.
Conversely, aren't all the 'good news' articles just... that more money was poured into the ecosystem and its "value" went up? I don't really see anything else coming out of this space besides speculative valuations
> - I wanted a form to register new types, so it could work for user-defined types;

Yes, I had the same urge. You can easily fall into the trap of too many features on the list. I settled on keeping user types out: you can always write a stringify() and pass that to the printf. Not the same, I know. But a more finite project.

> - the C pre-processor knows nothing about lists that can be expanded multiple times;

Yeah, that's a hack. Look at the 'VA_EXP()' macros in include/va_print/base.h. Ugly. Incomprehensible.

> - variadic C macros are ugly hacks.

Absolutely. But I think there is no other way in C.

> Actually, if the C pre-processor supported lists, it would be possible to implement RTTI in C.

I couldn't resist to put in '%t' which prints the C type of the argument...
You can try this https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/examples/jax_conversion/over...
You know Covid-19, like the flu, is treatable right? https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/. Also in what universe does the flu kill hundreds of thousands of people?
It is true (and I'm not even snarking) that this might be a desirable option on Windows, mostly due to the other options being fairly weak in a variety of ways. I don't know enough about 3rd-party terminal emulators on there to say for sure, but from what I do know I wouldn't rule that out. That's a good point.
It really is amazing. I spent loads of time fiddling with Mathematica in college, thanks to the cheap(ish) student license. I solved problems 1 and 2 of the 'Substitute' xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/135/ ) using it, for example, including a little `Manipulate[]` bit that let you pick a starting run angle dynamically and plotted how far you'd get.

There's something really, really powerful about good interactive tools and learning math. I'm convinced my success in subjects like calculus and diff. eq. were driven by toying with programs like Mathematica.

Anyway, I still find myself reaching for it occasionally. I recently used Mathematica for some FFXIV raid group statistics. Once you get accustomed to it, it's incredible how productive you can be at solving specific problems. "Nuclear reactor included" is a great turn of phrase (from above).
> unless, and this is my personal daily fear, an internet mob decides some offense was committed. I expect and hope for more from HN.

Is that what happened here? The second most popular comment on this page starts with, "this reads like a case of 'all about me'-ism."

$50 an hour is low for programming consulting in America in general, which is where Analogue is hiring. That doesn't mean I hate the Pocket, but it's worth just saying that it's not a competitive salary, and if you're in the US unless you have a very good reason you should think extremely carefully before you accept an offer like this, it's below market-rate. I think it's reasonable to read into that offer and say that Analogue is undervaluing the work that Endrift does (maybe not on purpose, but in practice pricing something below market rate is literally undervaluing it). I feel confident that Analogue knows what average market rates are for programmers in America. Again, doesn't make me hate Analogue or the Pocket overall, it's just a thing they did.

But the context of this conversation is a set of top level posts that are immediately accusing the developer of being entitled and of the post of being petty and mean-spirited. Who are we calling out here? You have a very different reading than me of what kind of HN culture is being demonstrated under this post. I'm not seeing a pile-on of Analogue from HN, I'm also not seeing a set of top level comments urging context or describing that this is a normal negotiation process -- what I'm seeing from people calling out the salary as under market-rate is that they are primarily either pointing out an accurate fact about US market rates, or stepping up to defend an author who shared their honest experiences of a US company offering them lower-than-US rates, and then immediately got called selfish/entitled for doing so.

It's a strange jujutsu that we're talking about whether or not people are piling on Analogue too hard as a direct child thread under a top-level comment that says the salary was good and that the post author has a problem with communication and empathy.
> every year more vulnerable people are added to that set as population ages, gets fatter, has more advanced coronary or metabolic disease, etc.

The number added each season is not necessarily the same number as the ones removed in the previous year - see the prevalence of really bad flu seasons for instance, which occur every 2-3 years or so.
>We have a ton of software written in unsafe languages (C and C++).

That's one of the favorite stances to take here on HN, and is driving the adoption of .NET, Go, Rust, etc (as far as I, a mere Pascal programmer, can tell)

It is not, however the root cause of our cybersecurity woes. It's ignoring the principle of least privilege at all levels, especially that of the OS kernel.

Instead of trying to rewrite everything in a "perfect" language, it would be far wiser to redirect some of this effort towards adopting a microkernel/capability based OS such as Genode, Fuchsia, etc, there's a handy list at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_operating_sys...
Even then, it's quite possible a human mission beyond LEO to repair the JWST would end up costing more than just building a replacement telescope.
I meant I love the way you phrased it.

A lot of programmers ignore the fact that they're serving a business function.