skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cant decide if this is a good thing or not.

State broadcasters like the BBC are tied to conditions not normally imposed on privately owned broadcasters.

The BBC has probably the worlds best TV archive in the world, they did alot of the digitisation down at BBC Maida Vale.

I wonder when looking at Britbox if this is a backdoor/stealth way for Channel 4 to access & commercialise BBC archives when the BBC cant really commercialise its archive, and once that threshhold is crossed there is no going back unlike C4 doing it.

Sure the BBC sells stuff abroad like Topgear when it was good, the Clarkson, May & Hammond years but how do you get out of a tight contract without penalty other than get sacked for hitting someone and then earn massively more working for Amazon, the BBC didnt earn their true potential in commercial ventures. David Attenborough's stuff is a joint venture with US documentary channels and is now more a voice over role with an international team than a wholey complete BBC venture.

But Channel 4 & Film4 have also invested in some pretty good films to rival Hollywood output, so this might be a good thing for Channel 4 & Film 4, ____if____ they are tied up together in this privitisation. Does anyone know?

Even Tory Chancellor George Osbourne got a special mention in one of the Star Wars film credits, because of the tax perks the Govt gave to help lure Hollywood overseas to foreign studio's & locations, so I dont think this will be a bad thing especially with China investing heavily in the UK.
And put them on the floor in a public area of the library? Mail seems safer.
Sometimes the knote comes early
Hah possibly a different definition of "getting involved" than intended! Upvoted.
A big capacitor?
My experiences are mostly from other countries but it seems whenever the government sells something off it's always sold way under value...
What I have learned from blogging so far – A retrospect (2021)
SAP keeps its Russian clients despite claims it shut down cloud serv in Russia
It's funny, I was originally going to comment "the worst of Oracle with the worst of IBM" but I prefer the way you put it

Edit: no offence intended to anyone at SAP, IBM or Oracle - I do think each company has a legitimate role to play for rather different markets
Do you read the Daily Mail?
This thread is making me think there is some breed of programmer out there that has 8 work desks in their house and switches between them sequentially every 5 minutes.
Pricing Comparison for Managed Prometheus
The whole appeal of 'cutting the cord' was that you got better stuff at a lower price than cable. Netflix is now pricier than it used to be, and streaming bundles have arrived. Should ads come to Netflix, it's obvious to pretty much anyone that streaming has become what it was supposed to replace.
The Predictable Impact of Salary Transparency
…Make people watch shows they think should be doing better (but no one seems to watch them) to get points.

Thanks I hate it.
Sure, but as I'm sure you're aware, the current system makes this model impossible for all but the most niche products: a faster growing, better funded (because they are growing faster) product will outspend you until you die. The existing VC model is hostile to 'slow growth' companies and products.
Whether or not it's the truth is a whole other matter.

It's not just cognitive bias in play. People do research things. In the specific example here of whether or not non-tech people trust gTLDs other than .com, there are insights available, and most of them point to people being more wary of TLDs they're not used to.

[1] eg https://www.semrush.com/blog/new-research-visitors-don-t-tru...
I had fun with another decompiler, JAD, years and years ago. There was a bug in a closed source LDAP server we were using and I was able to use JAD to narrow down the bug location and examine the classes.

Looks like this doesn't support modern javas:

> JD-Core works with most current compilers including the following: JDK 1.1.8, JDK 1.3.1, JDK 1.4.2, JDK 1.5.0, JDK 1.6.0, JDK 1.7.0, JDK 1.8.0, JDK 9.0.1, JDK 10.0.2
I think sometimes the followers find out that being engaged in the process of creating something brings more value than the game they're waiting for anyway.

I have been in a couple of communities involved with developers as they built games and it was almost disappointing when the game was released because the 'journey' was finished and so time to disband.

It can certainly be a curse though if the developer isn't or stops enjoying it.
I was thinking this too. What's the point in areas if the projects aren't in them. Maybe I need to reread or read on.
Some points in that list are deeply rooted in human psychology. I will comment on some of them I have hit in the past:

> 10 points for not knowing (or not using) standard mathematical notation;

I personally hate non-standard notation so I switch to the standard when I know about it, but at first, when moving out of well known waters you may be using non-standard notation.

> 10 points for expressing fear that your ideas will be stolen;

Ha ha, I don't express fear, but who is not afraid a little?

> 10 points for stating that your ideas are of great financial, theoretical, or spiritual value;

A lot of papers I have read starts with this actually, not to mention PhD or MSc thesis.

> 10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to established experts;

Most papers boast about how they beat the baseline that everyone uses. I do it myself although I try to be honest about the circumstances when this happens and when it's better the alternative.

> 30 points for not knowing how or where to submit their major discovery for publication;

Sometimes it happens

> 40 points for claiming to have a “proof” of an important result but not knowing what established mathematicians have done on the problem.

It has happened lot of times, since the beginning of time that some people rediscover previous results, sometimes famous people on famous and important results. To put an example the FFT, but there are a lot of them. And besides, who likes to read others people code?

I think the difference between a crackpot and other people is not accepting the mistake. It's curious it happens so much to engineers. I'm an engineer myself and if I learnt something during my studies is how little I actually know. I usually say that one thing STEM education gives you is the certainty that most of your ideas are wrong.
Don't be silly; it's not at the cost of the whole world.

We are still in a pandemic where one of the biggest reasons people could isolate for as long as they did was big tech.
You seriously never needed to plug in a plain common USB-A flash drive or any other peripheral? Or flash an sd card or anything of the sort? Interesting.
Logseq
Trying to identify the thief using evidence from their return of the notebooks seems like it would discourage people in future from returning similar stolen objects. But I can understand not wanting the return of a stolen object to indemnify the thief, otherwise you’re encouraging “borrowing” things. Is there a general policy or thought on how to deal with this?
Mirrors my thoughts.

The author's points do make some sense, but the broader context is horrifying.
You're probably thinking of the initial handshake bit rather than what the middle of the data stream sounded like.
https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture...
And undefined Q = "Let's get some press before our next funding round" /s
If you threw a thousand tries at a Markov chain, to use the classic "pure pattern matcher", it could not do any fraction of what this model does, ever, at all. You would have to throw enough tries at it that it tried every number that could possibly come next, to get a hit. So one in ten is actually really good. (If that's the rate, we have zero idea how cherrypicked their results actually are.)

And the errors that GPT does tend to be off-by-one errors, human errors, misunderstandings, confusions. It loses the plot. But a Markov chain never even has the plot for an instant.

GPT pattern-matches at an abstract, conceptual level. If you don't understand why that is a huge deal, I can't help you.
Can you please elaborate on that, or provide some links?
I said, "the WWW was text only for years, except in the sense that you could use it to download files of any type."

You seem to have responded that actually it wasn't because you could use it to download files of any type, including images (which you could display), and that years later it was able to display inline images (after pmarca added them to Mosaic in 01993). Well, that is true, but your implication that it contradicts what I said is false.
It's ridiculously hard to get the Web UI on printers use proper Let's Encrypt certificates. You often can do it manually, but there is no provision for automation and doing it every 3 months get old. Not to mention the printers that won't accept 4096-bit certificates or old firmwares that don't do SHA-256.

Then you have the wide variety of baroque protocols used by Windows. I don't do Windows and I'd like to reduce the attack surface, but if you disable them, often standard IPP/CUPS or lpd stops working for no reason.

I'm surprised printers are not more commonly used by botnets, their security is abysmal and they usually stop getting firmware updates just a couple years after being discontinued, which is itself only a couple of years after being introduced.
Phrasing this as a "transfer" is begging the question; it can't be a transfer if the responsibility is not decided. The word "responsibility" is also a moral conundrum, not an objective one, which gums up the works in terms of finding a good solution. People can bikeshed morals all day.

A clearer way to think of it is in terms of people who have the power to change the situation:

- Governments can issue fines, but this is unlikely to harm the corporate enough to make it change. It can win votes though, so it does happen.

- Governments can write regulations, but this is done sparingly because of all the unintended consequences of adding any regulations to any industry. Also, a common (intended, by the incumbents) consequence of regulations is adding ones that disadvantage new participants in a market.

- People can choose to change the company from the inside, or not work for the company. This can work quite well if changes are encouraged from various levels, but that's not common.

- People can choose to not use the company (e.g. not to shop at Amazon).

The second and fourth are the most powerful options, with the fourth being the very most powerful.
I haven't seen many critical comments anymore. Even on videos that are just completely wrong, the top comments are alway full of praise.
U.S. warns India, others against sharp rise in Russian oil imports
You still have to get from "unions are bad" to "union discussion should be censored".
With the active recruitment of low level support/engineering insiders as saboteurs what is the right way forward? More security or a better work environment?
They could also work as votes, as in please don't cancel this show I love that no one else watches.
I don't see anywhere that the author is suggesting that deadline must be explicitly defined up-front, or even be fixed. If you're writing something, it _will_ be done at some point (or is expected to be).
Can't reply to GP anymore, so I'll reply here.

Over here it is actually pretty common, it's currently a huge pain to find contractors (plus they're getting more expensive by the day). We talked to a lot of people who about what they did, and I have two findings: 1. Sustainability (of materials) is usually a lesser factor, most people seem to care most about the energy saving and to some extent the improved comfort. 2. Most people do these improvements over a long time, e.g. do the roof when they can afford it, save some money (or pay off the loan) and do the windows,... - so that might take up to a decade to get the house up to a decent standard. Doing "all at once" is more rare, and those people are surprised when we tell them we plan to do as much as possible early on, as we can then earlier realize the potential savings.

btw, I envy your draftfree house ^^"
Source for 1 trillion humans estimate? That's 1,000 Billion humans. There's ~8 billion now.

Sure without regards to any other than food organisms and pulling a "puppeteer" world (Ala Larry Niven) I don't see it. And I won't either way.
Tell HN: Google search for “TeRraQin” does not exist
Search "TeRraQin" on Google. It is an AI based music app. Google modifies my search to "terrain" basically suggesting the music app does not exist in their massive database and I was incorrect on what I wanted to search for.

Search "TeRraQin" on DuckDuckGo and multiple links are shown related to the app.
Because it takes the fameous 10'000 hours to become a master?
that's just how our industry behaves. we like shiny new conveniences and tend to want to adopt them as soon as they're viable.

this moment with postgres, node, webpack, babel, scss, and react feels off in a way. there are genuinely more capable alternatives to all of those that take less time to learn and work effectively with, perform better, cost less, and are trusted by big institutions. rails never felt this entrenched when it was the leading default, for example.

there are a lot of positives to this that non-web engineers have seen for a long time--education becomes better and more accessible, people can have more stable and successful careers, and groups can take on more ambitious missions--it's just surprising from how i've seen web engineers approach their trade over the past 15 years
> forced mega dose of reality

Sounds dreadful.
Oh they already are even before the (potential) fact. "Their right" has suddenly become "NO, NOT LIKE THAT!" overnight. lol
I get the feeling that the author is speaking from the context of corporate zero trust, where they would like certain policies enforced on an endpoint before it is allowed to access a service, and thus transferring the token to an unmanaged device is considered a problem.
> and the tools programmers today made will be used against the next generation

You're making me like C all over again.
Canada legalized it, prices dropped a bit.
1/8th is around 40$ CDN

Ontario legal prices
https://ocs.ca/collections/dried-flower?product=653604254702...

Quebec
https:www.sqdc.ca
black market around 30-40$ CDN (full @ 100-150)
> so they will say "sure, I might make it."

I really don’t see why you would do that if you already know it’s an hour’s drive away, and you think that’s too much.

Saying yes in that situation sets you both up for disappointment.
The left vs right dichotomy doesn't have too much to do with collectivism vs individualism. For example, social conservatism is a right wing idea, but it is highly collectivistic (prioritizing social mores over individual freedom).

Left libertarianism typically means free market economics + democratically organized and owned workplaces + social libertarianism (free love, free religion, free drugs etc). Right libertarianism is similar, but emphasizes contractualism instead of democratic control.

Left libertarians typically scoff for example at corporations for their limitations on the personal freedoms of the workers, viewing it as a form of slavery.
This is the mandatory linky to Johnny Decimal, which is another method with a little more detail on how to name your content taxonomy:

https://johnnydecimal.com
I wrote the article.

Great points, there's indeed a lot of subjectivity in this one. I decided to keep it that way because I cared as much about writing down my story (and diving back into my memories) as explaining a bit how I managed to keep my sanity (to some extent ).

I intend to write more articles on the subject, diving deeper into each topic.
Or just an external keyboard...

I'm using a BT mouse explicitly not to bother with a stupid "2.4GHz USB Receiver" and keep one (USB-A!) port free.
Thank you. I will look at the sites.
Until you can make quantifiable predictions of behaviour that you want to see it sounds like your objections are philosophical rather than scientific.

> A prediction of a "next frame" is always therefore just going to be a symptom of the frames before it.

But the physical appearance of the automobile itself was absolutely influenced by what went before - they were called "horseless carriages" after the appearance after all.

And NLP Language Models can produce genuinely original and unique writing. This is a poem a large LM wrote for me:

The sceptered isle
Hath felt the breath of Britain,
Longer than she cares to remember.
Now are her champion arms outstared,
Her virgin bosom stained with battle's gore.
Lords and nobles, courtiers and commons,
All stand abashed; the multitudinous rout
Scatter their fears in every direction;
Except their courage, which, to be perfect,
Must be all directed to the imminent danger
Which but now struck like a comet; and they feel
The blow is imminent

> we aim to coordinate, move, and so on with words.

https://say-can.github.io/

"Robots ground large language models in reality by acting as their eyes and hands while LLMs help robots execute long, abstract language instructions"
Milestone: A million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem
> No model of the regularities of text will ever produce a language-user.

No but it will produce language-users, incidentally. Language-users are an irreducible aspect of the underlying regularity in language. Now I'm not saying that "GPT will wake up" purely from language tasks, that GPT will become a language user by being a system that picks up regularities. But for GPT to contain systems like language users, to instantiate language-users, which it has to (on some level) in order to successfully predict the next frame, is already enough to be threatening.

I know that using examples from fiction is annoying, but - purely as a rhetorical aid - consider the Enterprise computer (in Elementary, Dear Data) as GPT, and the Moriarty hologram as an embedded agent. The Enterprise computer is not conscious, but as a very powerful pattern predictor it can instantiate conscious agents "by accident", purely by completing a pattern it has learnt. It doesn't want to threaten the Enterprise, it doesn't want to not threaten the Enterprise, because it doesn't have any intentional stance. Instead, it was asked "A character that can challenge Data is ¬" and completed the sentence, as is its function.
This comment speaks to me. I hate modern web development but I always want to build user interfaces so one day, I thought to myself "Why don't I start from scratch and make my own protocol and write a browser but only for the terminal?"

So that's what I've been doing and it's been a lot of fun. A lot of the time I'm pulling concepts from HTTP but what's great is that I can be very picky. Maybe I'll end up just rewriting HTTP but at least I'll understand deeply why all of those decisions were made.
Oıhh
I'm sure they have brains, they're just serving someone other than the public
> But not like creating a typesetting system to use to write your book.

I sort of did this once because I wanted both PDF (via LaTeX) and HTML output.
I have a Dell monitor (U3419W) that switches USB output based on video input. So all the peripherals (mouse, keyboard, webcam) go to my desktop when the monitor gets an HDMI signal, and to my (work) laptop when it gets a DP signal. Works pretty well.
I pulled it from running strings on SafariServices.
Any fool can write a language: It takes compilers to save the world
RT HK
Right. But even here, one has to be careful and look at the "Context" in totality (application of Game Theory not withstanding). This is where people fail to "adapt" but expect the World to operate in the way it does in their "Home Context".
Game development is a weird place. You want to be low level to get the most performance, but you also want to be expressive to be able to write an ambitious game. Really does invite the notion that there ought to be a better way, you get a sort of itch you can't quite reach to scratch.

I'm having a lot of the same struggles working on my search engine. What I want to do with files is often somewhere between what the operating system provides (too low level), and what a DBMS provides (too high level). So I'm having to build all these weird bespoke disk-based data structures myself. It's clear these things can be done and there is a lot to gain from doing it, but the language support for non-trivial disk based data structures is a bigger pain in the ass than sitting on a burning cactus covered in tabasco sauce.
> Unless this picture is wrong, that should be visibly thicker than an A plug...

Just re-measured with a USB flash drive and an actual MacBook Air M1 (which I'm actually typing this comment on), and it's not. Do you want a photograph with a caliper?

> But whatever, whether it fits or not with the current molding, the laptop does not need to be thicker to fit those ports. It just needs to change the curve near the back. Look how thick the middle is between the ports it has. That's way more than enough. Thickness including screen peaks at 16mm.

Actually, you can see in [0], there's no space to fit a full depth, full height USB-A port inside there. You need to make the machine definitely thicker to accommodate that ports, given all the shielding a USB-A port around it [1]. This is a listing for a straight port. You'll probably need a 90 degree version in a MacBook Pro, unless apple does something ingenious.

[0]: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/eIi44fP1clanGHWQ.f...

[1]: https://sa.rsdelivers.com/product/wurth-elektronik/692121430...
> I know they have team(s) of very smart people dedicated to solving this issue (at least at the individual level).

Do you actually know, or are you being generous and still trying to assume good faith from a company that disproved it several times?

I don't see a business reason for them to take action. The spam comments don't open them to any legal liability (they already get away with much worse), YouTube has a monopoly so no amounts of spam will drive users away, the spam contributes to engagement numbers and the advertisers don't seem to mind.
Slightly off-topic digression:
This article discussed "enterprise" grade "silent data corruptions".

What are some recommendations for "personal data storage" grade "silent data corruptions"?

"personal data storage" for my case is < 1TB, text / binary files (jpg, mp4).

I am looking at a wikipedia list below, and then searching through hn comments.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Blo...>
column: Data checksum/ ECC

I found many comments on ZFS, and not so much comments on dm-integrity, BlueStore/Cephfs, and others. So I am thinking of looking into ZFS, but if there are any recommendations, I would like to seek advice.

I am experimenting with Git LFS, git-annex, I like the filesystem UI better, so I am looking for filesystem like solutions.
How do I recruit chatbot beta testers?
Currently, inqoob is in beta-testing, and of course, it is still imperfect. We really need your tips, comments, and suggestions to make the builder work stably and solve most of the difficulties we are encountering now in building chatbots.

http://app.inqoob.com/
Given I've never in my many years using HN noticed it, I'd say it's significantly less obtrusive.
I'd argue it's not pernickety to highlight the underhandedness of branding something as a "universal system" if that system applies to an indeterminable but likely small percentage of readers.
> Were the Victorians really a classist society, though?

Yes, and it was one of the most classist societies that existed.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era
>In DE there are almost no politically incorrect movies on Netflix.

Are there any in other regions? Can you give some examples?
Honestly banning words just seems incompetent.

It's horrible PR. Will the achived effect be worth it? I doubt that.