skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PC != Windows

And was never. The Personal-Computer is an original product of International Business Machines (IBM) and not Microsoft. Contrary to most products shipped today it's architecture is open for industry standards and other companies. A huge success for IBM.

Microsoft shipped the pre-installed and required operating-system. You can order desktops and laptops without an operating-sytem or Linux from Lenovo (former IBM), Dell, System76, Purism, Tuxedo and many more. Vendors which aim for cheap distribution to private customers usually only ship Personal Computers with Windows. Most of these are crap and come with questionable pre-installed software - and I don't refer to Windows.

That IBM sold the PC subsidiary was the worst mistake the could ever have done, both Apple and Lenovo show how much money you can earn with long lasting high quality products. IBM lost the contact point to many customers. They need to succeed with Red Hat now. Irony, IBM use and prefer (again) ThinkPads, preinstalled with Linux.

If you say "it runs on PC" you're actually saying your software is compatible to an Intel 286 CPU or higher. Well, if it is portable?
Ads work without tracking, just less efficiently.

On the other hand, misinformation and propaganda also work without tracking, just less efficiently.

Wi'll have to strike a balance somewhere.
Apple is asking users if they want any specific app to be able to track them. Users can still say it’s ok to track me, Apple just gives me the option instead of being on by default. Apparently a lot of people are saying don’t track me? And that’s important, I should be given the choice in regards to privacy.

Not saying Apple is a saint, however it’s not that Apple changed the rules they provide options that weren’t available before (and imho should have been available already for years).
That’s a really clear answer, thank you!
For sufficiently large transfers, there’s the good old “I’ll track you down and break your kneecaps”. Which often results in most, but not all, of the funds returned.
How is this any different than someone smoking cigarettes, other than that we're more accustomed to exposure to second hand tobacco?
> I find that people are interested in my thoughts on the causes until they hear them: while there were some really bad actors at the margins, the bulk of the crisis was caused by many, many people making good-faith, rational decisions which in hindsight proved foolish.

Would it be correct to say the really bad actors at the margins caused a cascade of events that snowballed and caught the people making good-faith decisions?

The bad actors being the people who did not do proper underwriting and verification (“liar loans” or “stated income loans”), and they did this intentionally under the guise of plausible deniability because they were earning profits on volume rather than quality.
no it would be online, not the pages you visit but the ones you bookmark, I’m thinking of building a browser extension that watch your bookmarks and sends the links to be scrapped and indexed
> There are a lot of professional workers that are on cocaine, business owners, successful artists, etc. Does that mean cocaine should be legalized? Absolutely not.

I think you are very wrong. I think there should be safeguards such as improper commercial storage should be unlawful. Similarly, distribution (sale) to minors and without proper packaging should remain against the law. However, I find no logic in trying to ban any substance from an informed consumer in a world where alcohol and tobacco are legal.

> In contrast, the majority of anti-vaxxers (not the crazy ones talking about microchips) ended up being more or less right with their decision.

I think they are idiots. As far as I know we don’t have any deaths because of the vaccine. It is safe. Maybe it could be more effective and I’m sure we will have better vaccines with time but there is no reason to not take the vaccine now and a better vaccine when it is available later.
Ask HN: I am a slow developer. What can I do with this?
I am almost 40 and have been working as a fullstack and frontend web developer for last 12 years as a contractor or a full-time employee for different companies. I learnt and familiar with quite a bunch of tech stack, libraries and tooling around it, using them when needed.

During last 3-4 years I had to end my relationship with with 3 clients/employers due to me being slow in producing code. The reason was always - I cannot deliver as much as my colleagues could or as the employer expected me to.

I am good at communication. People I work with always say I am nice to work with, adding vitality to the daily team work, but eventually things go worse as I am usually slower than my colleagues.

I sincerely love technology, web stuff, API, structuring, organising and connecting things together, but it ultimately takes more time for me to get things done than other people.

The problem is quite clear to me but I don’t see the way to improve the situation. I cannot deliver faster because I already optimise everything I can. Even during the tech interviews (one was just today) I see that I don’t achieve the expected result.

If the time pressure is lower, at the end I deliver high-quality readable code, but the time is always the part of the formula, and I understand it, because business needs everything to be delivered faster and sooner.

I feel quite sad and depressed when I see how easily and quickly my colleagues get into the problems and find solutions while I have to spend more time and as a result I question myself as a professional.

How can I improve or should I lower my expectations for the employers and look for less-demanding lower-paying clients/companies? Should I switch to some other tech area where the time to deliver is not the key factor (are there any)? May be there are techniques to improve my thought process?

Any advice is appreciated as I feel like if things keep going this way, I won’t be able to keep staying on a par with other developers around.
In this case it seems to be just a retaliation as NK was the aggressor. The article is lazy though as there is zero information.
There's a perfectly good, time-honored, well-understood American hand gesture.
Or like saying that "The right to own a car does not mean that you have the right to drive it".

Or even "The right to own a car does not mean that you have the right to drive through red lights".

The fact that you can own something does not mean that you have the right to use it indiscriminately. In this case (if we consider them "digital arms") I don't see how using it for retribution (rather then self defense) would be considered ok.
Hamurabi was the first thing I ever played on a computer, a TRS-80 circa 1979-80. The BASIC listing is here (along with all the othe Ahl games):

https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=7...

There seems to be an emulation here:

https://archive.org/details/hamurabi.qb64
App Store ads are growing fast.
They're going to buy 320M USD worth of ETH and use it to replenish the reserves. Solana has big VC backing it so it shouldn't be an issue to find that money.
I just got a word 'FE*ME' that I wasn't able to solve. Thoughts?
> I still haven't seen people use it as a legitimate currency. And this includes myself

Pre-covid we had a bar that accepted BTC using Lightning Network :(
> The predictability of a true engineer’s world is an enviable thing. But ours is a world always in flux, where the laws of physics change weekly.

Heh, I also disagree with this quote, but for a different reason than the author. I mean, what's nice about CS is that's it's pure, deterministic, straight forward. It's like doing basic physics problems and the text states "assume zero air resistance and zero friction". We have the simple laws of physics.

I don't envy those having to deal with the messiness of the real world. They have it far harder than me as a programmer.
Femme fatale is the first thing that comes to mind.
Actually - I would argue the other way around.

Selling user data (for ads) IS the problem.

No one would collect and store massive amounts of data if not to make a profit selling it.

They would only collect things that are useful in improving the product.

That kind of tracking IS valuable.
> For people who haven't tried another way: turns out nested folders inside more nested folders is a terrible way to organize your bookmarks!

Depends on the person I think. My mind is intuitively comfortable with graph/tree structures. Despite having used Gmail since beta, I was never successful in leveraging the label/tag+search structure into something manageable. It was always chaos despite recurring attempts to tame it.

Having switched to self-hosted IMAP with the traditional directory approach, I feel in control of my e-mail for the first time in over a decade.

Similar experience with bookmarks.

Great that you found something that works for you but I think it's a mistake to believe it's possible or desirable to have one structure for everyone.

Had similar thoughts in this thread, where so many were arguing if "users love settings" or "users hate settings", and which settings are loved or hated. Stop assuming you can reduce every human into a single profile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181291

(Apologies if I come off as projecting at you here, just got triggered a bit after yesterday)
FEMME

As in femme-fatale?
Agreed. For those of you who want examples, I’ve been compiling the best of TikTok: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1485117870237437957?s=2...
What does the used architecture have to do with the Y2038 issue? You can use 64 bit integers in a 32-bit system you know..
Insurance companies most probably have all the data at hand, couldn't coverage price reflect the real world risk as seen by someone with something to lose?
Do you hire outside the US?
> The implication being: the statements and solutions to these problems were not available when the Github training set was collected.

But similar ones were, because the amount of code puzzles suitable for such contests is finite. There are differences, but when you have seen a few string-compare problems, you have a pretty good grasp of what they look like, what common paths to solutions are, etc.
Apple's changes don't affect their ads.

Google could do the same thing.

The thing is - Google DOESN'T track you on Android unless you opt-in already. They're pretty sneaky about getting people to opt-in. But they could do this, and it wouldn't even hurt them.

But maybe it would bring regulation? Maybe it's coming? One can hope...
Ironically, Facebook was great back when MySpace and Orkut wasn’t a great experience.

I suspect that’s because it wouldn’t just let anybody in. Looking back, the decision to open Facebook up to everyone was (in my book) a bad one. I’ll use the nightclub analogy — a good social network, like a good nightclub, must have bouncers (of sorts) to ensure a quality experience. I realise the conflict between this and Metcalfe’s “law”.

Also, seriously, why not just charge for Facebook and WhatsApp. WhatsApp usage is at levels now when a lot of people will pay for it — and at one point (pre-Facebook) they weren’t free in first-world markets.
Brilliant and well put comment, thank you.
I think the author makes the distinction in the beginning.

> In experimental sciences, the experiment is the “real work” and the paper is just a description of it. But in math, the paper, itself, is the “real work”.

In other words, there is no replication crisis in math because there is no replication to be done. There is no experiment to be replicated, just work to be checked for correctness.
I play golf+ and really liked it. There's a great tennis one too.

Practicing without the weight of impact of a club/racket is good.

Its niche but definitely a new dawn for gaming. FB might be too early but they're in the right space.
I don't think it is scary. I think it is evidence that Facebook's revenue is built on ground they don't control. Google at least took step to have some control by creating Android. Given Facebook's bottom line, they could have done something similar.
I stopped using facebook in 2013 when I started getting invites from my aunts and my parent’s friends
I've seen people in this thread saying the opposite but for me having a kid has been the key to a good nights sleep. That kid just makes me feel tired all over.
This project reminds of what Wikidata does: organize facts as semantic triples [1] using inheritance in the way OOP does.

Example about our planet: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_triple
That does not work for Private Windows, which I use often.
I lived in Southeast Asia. Have only a low three-figure friends and did not follow any pages. I was sent sponsored content and suggested content quite often. I tried to check why the particular posts reached me, but the answer is just a blanket (Speaks language, age within range). I will be more forgiving if they showed how my friends interacted with the page, but the criteria shown isn't helpful.
Well, I'm not surprised because I know that large language models can learn smooth approximations of natural language. They can generate very grammatical natural English, so why not grammatical source code, which is easier? Of course, once you have a generator for code, finding a program that satisfies a specification is just a matter of searching -and assuming the generated code includes such a program. But it seems like that isn't really the case with AlphaCode, because its performance is very poor.

I have to say that usually I'm the one speaking out against an over-reliance on machine learning benchmarks and against expecting a new approach to beat the state of the art before it can be taken seriously, but this is not a new approach, and that's the problem I have here. It's nothing new, repackaged as something new and sold as something it isn't ("reasoning" and "critical thinking" and other nonsense like that).

I agree that future work must get smarter, and incorporate some better inductive biases (knowledge, something). Or perhaps it's a matter of searching more intelligently because given they can generate millions of programs I'd have thought they'd be able to find more programs that approximate a solution.
This post is an introduction to color management, not a complete reference. ICC is definitely being taken into account in the course of the broader Linux work, see the rest of the repo and the draft Wayland protocol.
I could be wrong but I believe only the compiled machine code is on-chain, you don't have to publish the source

this just happens to be a project that does
It's 1984 and everything is called by opposite names.
These sorts of things happen so often that an uninformed reader might wonder if the losses really represent that amount of hard cash.
Bedrock edition is available basically everywhere and unified the non-Java platforms, yeah, though the Java edition still gets feature updates in tandem. There are still other differences between the two that will likely never be rectified (not least of which are bugs becoming relied-upon features). But all that's kind of beside the point. Clearly Java wasn't a bad choice.
that doesn't mean Chinese people have zero privacy, lol. Would you say USA citizens also have no privacy, as the US government does the same thing?

it would be fair to say that Chinese are monitored, yes. not that they have zero privacy. what a ridiculous, unsubstantiated claim.
Most of the money is not being spent on things that advance the project. The people most involved don't want it ever to be finished; that is when the money stops.

None of the money is wasted, as such; every penny goes into a pocket.
>You can have multiple screens in VR. While I'm not the biggest fan of them, I will be if I'd travel to another country, not being able to bring my monitors.

This is the problem with VR. It started the adoption process the wrong way - instead of positioning itself as a work enabling tool that you buy for a killer feature - it's just a gimmicky toy that has reasonable stigma around it among normal people (non-techies).

If your phone was just a 1000$ gaming handheld it would be a niche product, at best something like a 3DS. But gaming is the biggest market on phones.

Likewise if VR ever wanted to get mainstream adoption it needed to have a killer feature like enabling ultra portable/productive workspaces. Imagine everyone working from home buying a 500$ VR headset for remote work - totally reasonable - in the price range of a monitor. And then you have a huge market for games when the people are used to it. Now it's just a nerdy gimmick.
Teslas are pricey to fix so it'd be hard to tell just from the premiums.
Offtopic, but I recently ran into a problem with Freedesktop's Cairo library in that it doesn't support the BGR pixel color format, which is the format used most often by Linux framebuffers.
One could be reductive and say that the Chinese Government has given themselves a monopoly on privacy invasion. Is that strictly worse than privacy invasion as a capitalist business model? I think the answer to that is highly subjective and highly culturally dependent.

Obviously the the ideal would be to have neither.
I suspect these code generating AIs will bring the singularity at some point in the future. Even if we don’t manage to create an artificial general intelligence, they will. I imagine they will learn to code on super human levels through self play just like AlphaGo and AlphaZero did. This will be awesome.
>PC != Windows

Technically, yes, that is correct, however, looking at the over 90% marketshare Windows has on the IBM/PC space, Windows is pretty much the synonym for the PC OS. Most laptops and PC's sold with an OS by retailers or OEMs, are shipped with Windows by default. It's basically a monopoly.

Sure, on tech boards like this one the proportion of people running some GNU/Linux based OS on their PC is much higher than the statistics, but the average joe consumer is 99% surely gonna have Windows on their PC which is where the assumption that "PC automatically equals Windows by default" comes from.
I was paraphrasing your argument. AFAICT, it remains faithful to what you are saying.

> Accordingly, there is no doubt that neural nets can only represent what is in their training set.

This is not true. If it were true that there was no doubt, the paper wouldn't have challenged it and claimed it false. If you assume your conclusion well obviously your conclusion follows trivially.

> And, yet again, the performance of the model is crap.

It isn't.
>It's interesting that this commit was made ~9 hours ago and the exploit happened a few hours after that.

Where do you find employees, even $500K/year ones, you would trust not to pick up $300m just sitting there in the open for the taking?

Hey team we need to patch this bug allowing anyone to drain all the funds of our company, get right on it while I browse Taycan options to match my wristwatch color.
"Well you see your account it still up... for legal reasons."
Why you want to do that?

You want to move from the dog's mouth into the lion's mouth?!

I wonder who has the strongest bite... XP
That's 320M USD. It might be an issue.
I've literally been experimented on and it was meaningful. The problem, in my view is low sample sizes, poor selection[0], hyper dimensional confounding data, and low rates of application. With math, comp sci, or physics reality hits you in the face when you start to actually use it to build rockets or what have you.

[0] Guess when I was experimented on? Of course it was during university and of course I'm a white english speaker that lives in North America.
> But the fact that a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch

In this instance, the flick of the switch added a prompt asking users whether they want to opt in/consent to Facebook tracking their activities on other apps.

If Facebook is truly taking that much of a hit from that, it tells you how many users opted out. If their advertising model only succeeds by tracking users without their explicit consent, then their model is a failure.
Most 32-bit architectures are affected by Y2038, because they use 32-bit time_t, which is part of the ABI for an architecture. So if you want 64-bit time_t, you need to either have a new ABI (and recompile the world against it), or introduce new functions using the 64-bit time_t (similar to the transition to 64-bit file sizes).
Yeah no shit. There is only one relevant data point and its teslas that got an accident with autopilot and without. That should spill out the lentgh of the track without accident….. for some reason tesla keeps comparing their high end cars with cars from the 90s……
> Microsoft are showing that it can be done, but I wonder if Facebook has the capacity to do great things. Perhaps the lesson from MS is that only a new leader can rescue such a mired company.

No, the lesson from MS (and IBM, Oracle and SAP) is that once you have a large enough moat of captive users who can't really move away, you can just "go on" and deliver crap to your users as long as the quality of the competition stays below the quality of your crap. And if there is someone coming close, buy them up.

The problem of FB is that there is, at the core, nothing except the "network effect" that creates such a moat. No multi-year contracts with governments or megacorps worth billions of dollars, no source of recurring revenue other than ads, there is nothing that fundamentally ties customers - both "end users" and advertisers - to Facebook.
AFAIK you can chose to disable (zero out) advertising ID in Android settings since version 12.
It definitely skews the statistics. Compare two driver's records, but use all the driving of the first, and only the driving on safe/clear/clean/visible sections of highway for the second. Voila: the second will very probably be the "better" driver.
There's a separate setting for its own advertising network that asks the user if they want their activity in apps to be used to target ads they see. Just like for the case of 3rd party apps like FB, it can be turned off.
As could Microsoft. None of the other players wanted to risk as much as Apple by investing in hardware and in person services. Really investing in it, for 10+ years. They certainly had/have the cash.
> Nobody in the mainstream consumer space wants an irreversible cryptocurrency.

Venmo and Zelle are both irreversible and mainstream but can't be used globally.
I can understand the value proposition of both Wacom and Cintiq. I'm not sure I understand this one's though. The former ones are tools for directly manipulating images, but this one is limited to grayscale, with the slow response time of e-paper.

To be fair, I'd be mostly OK if it had a simple reader/annotator, a battery and required a wireless connection to something else to do anything more complicated. As stated, at 13", the Wacom One seems to be a much better value unless you are really bothered by the backlight of the screen. And that if software support is good.

The folks at e-ink look like they want to milk their patents until the market bleeds.
Ask HN: Hardware problems from running with a laptop in a backpack?
I have around 9 km to work, and bikes to work most days. I have a really hard time finding time to get out on runs often enough though, and so would like to run to work and back 1 or 2 days a week.

I can not really plan for each day if I will stay at home or be at work though, so I need to carry my laptop with me (a 14" Dell Latitude with an SSD) in my backpack.

I was getting worried about the wear on the laptop because of the bouncing when running though, and so I was interested to hear others' experiences:

- Did you get any hardware problems from running with your laptop?

- Have you found any solution to minimize the bouncing?

- Are there certain laptops that are more suitable for this than others?