skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slightly more modern equivalent of this is a 2009 Mac mini running Snow Leopard. You can find these machines for around $50 on eBay and they are very snappy.

I am waiting for someone to start a business turning old Mac mini's into dedicated retro gaming machines. This would be done by pre-installing OpenEMU and HaloMD on one partition, and Mac OS 9 on another partition to run old games like Lemmings, etc although emulation could also work for some of these.

If anyone is interested in this project, please let me know.

https://openemu.org/

https://www.halomd.net/
I think you're mixing up the reality of Zuckerberg and his PR.
What part of my statement is wrong?
When I was in school, long before Wikipedia, encyclopedias weren't accepted as references. That's why you had to go to the library. I don't have a problem with that part.

On the other hand, if I were a teacher, citations of random internet stuff would result in a bit of a lecture and points off the second time.
The fediverse would benefit from a massive migration to Honk.
The context for this post is a person who moves between countries frequently and therefore gets new phone numbers. This person has consistent access to the same phone.
created few bookmark to search latest content on HN, youtube, reddit, github, huggingface, twitter.

also writing code and prompts as side gig. accumulated over 40gb of trained models and datasets from various sources.
When studying statistics, I never understood the apparent conflict between frequentism and bayesianism.

To me, they seemed like complementary tools, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

You can use one or the other depending on what your goal is. Do you want to figure out how much you should believe something?

Or are you trying to figure out how compatible a hypothesis is with reality?
In the first case, go bayesian, in the second, frequentist.
How about just don't use Google services, Tutanota is free and is just as good.
> It seems as though you're putting emphasis on the wrong thing.

No, I'm just trying to be clear. If you can't move your messages in a messenger, you're not doing migration.

> It can, by their definition, be considered migration.

Their definition doesn't even require software. If they (and you) are trying to say that Mastodon is a group of friends, I'm going to beg to differ and say that it is a computer program that supports messaging.

edit: and why I'm going on an on about it? I'm clearly being persnickety, but because I think it's an important distinction, especially irt expectations that a user would have. The mystery for me is why you would insist that a messaging system that can't migrate messages has implemented migration.
I’ve got the Mac hooked up via an esp8266 running a SLIP server. Most of what I do on it web wise is through Gopher, it’s just the best overall solution for a computer of that age imo.

Things like HNGopher and 68k.news are great, those kinds of services make it very usable even in the modern world. I had no idea lynx ever had a 68k release, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

I have an HTTP proxy setup[1] which will downgrade https to http so that Netscape on the Mac can load sites, if for some reason I need to do so.

Thanks again for the links. Someday I’d like to get a version of my site on gopher too.

[1] https://github.com/atauenis/webone
I have an opposite experience. I'm a scientist and my research topic is accurately depicted in Wikipedia I would say better than any textbook. Of course Wikipedia has to be reductionist, it is not required to provide a full literature review for any topic. If you are doing a PhD-level research, then Wikipedia will fall short of providing the latest and finest details. Other than that, it's more than enough. I also believe it is the duty of experts to contribute to improving Wikipedia (I know many who do).
Sure; that's the reasonable way to talk about what "low skill" means.

The problem is that too many people are still stuck in classist, neofeudal mindsets and equate "working in a low skill job" with "being an inferior person, not worthy of respect/dignity/decent wages/a comfortable life/etc".
The linked webpage is generated with Storybook.js, a generic web component display framework, and is not itself en exemplar of the showcased UI library.
Could this be because your pipeline for app gigs is drawing from the candidate pool of `all web devs` who were qualified for web dev but aren't yet for web app dev?

Sounds rhetorical, but I ask sincerely.
Also: https://github.com/cy384/ssheven

You connect to SDF.org and power boost that MAC to the extreme :D

https://github.com/cy384/ssheven/releases/tag/0.8.9
Why follow something that has been repeatedly shown to be false when applied to humans?
Conference program

Saturday, November 12

Talks day! All talks will be streamed live on YouTube, exact schedule to be announced.

Sunday, November 13

Workshop day! We’ll use Discord for the workshops, exact schedule to be announced.

———————————————————

They are clearly not completely ready yet.
I don't know US market. How common is it to get 50k a month as a React dev or UX/UI designer across the USA? Or do you mean Silicon Valley only?
> November 12th will be a day of delightful lightning talks by our amazing speakers. We’ll also have a comedy set and musical number. It’ll be a great time.

This cutesy, fluff, advertisement-style language sounds deeply unappealing. Am I just a grouch or is this a huge turn-off for anyone else?
Used e.g. to avoid awkward linebreaks
I'm confused by this

> What’s more, static site builds in both Next.js and Gatsby can’t make use of server-side rendering functionality.

I haven't used Next.js but I heard that it supports server side rendering, so I assume you can use it kind of like Rails?

Is the issue with Next.js that you would have to remember to use <a> instead of <Link>? That sounds like not a big deal.
In high school I'd extensively used Windows from 3.1-98se, Linux (Debian, Mandrake), and dabbled a ton with BeOS and QNX (hampered from making either my main OS only by software support).

BeOS and QNX (Photon) were my two favorite desktop experiences of the bunch. They were so much better than the others—yes, very much including Linux. And BeOS was even at least as "friendly" and polished as Windows was at the time.

Here we are and neither's on the desktop and their closest modern equivalent that is prevalent is probably macOS, which is... fine as a consolation prize, I guess, but I still wish I could see a world where either of those made a real splash in the desktop world (I know QNX wasn't really trying to, but man, it performed so much better as a desktop OS than Windows or Linux).
Well, on the same page (which is an essay, not a policy) you have:

"Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about any living people, except for claims by the author about themself. This holds even if the author of the source is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer."

That limits things quite severely. The relevant policy is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

(Just to explain: in Wikipedia, "policies" are "widely accepted standards that all editors should normally follow"; a "guideline" is "a generally accepted set of best practices that editors should follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply", and an "essay" can be just one editor's opinion; it is "not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.")
Here's one major problem with Signal - you cannot delete contacts.

Following scenario:

1) X communicates with Y using Signal trying to hide from Iranian police

2) Y is getting arrested and who ever is found to have his phone number is getting in to trouble as well

3) X deletes Y from its contacts

4) Y stays in X's contacts on Signal no matter what

now what should X do? delete Signal? theoretically the police could reinstall it and see who you had in your contacts.

There have been several issues opened for this problem on GitHub for years. They all get closed by their bot after couple of weeks.

I have several ghost numbers and even ghost user names on my Signal clients. Super annoying and cluttering my list of contacts. For me Signal is just one option to avoid WhatsApp. But boy do I prefer Telegram ...
This!

Many of my old "worst regrets", which bugged me for years, no longer bother me.

If I revisit the regrets that don't bother me - well, probably they could start bothering me again!

I still have regrets that haunt me daily. I'm learning to live with those too.

A life well lived has a lot of griefs in it, but stewing in them isn't an awesome way to handle them.
As a ML Vision researcher, I find these scaling hypothesis claims quite ridiculous. I understand that the NLP world has made large strides by adding more attention layers, but I'm not an NLP person and I suspect there's more than just more layers. We won't even talk about the human brain and just address that "scaling is sufficient" hypothesis.

With vision, pointing to Parti and DALLE as scaling is quite dumb. They perform similarly but are DRASTICALLY different in size. Parti has configurations with 350M, 750M, 3B, and 20B parameters. DALLE has 3.5. Imagen uses T5-XXL which alone has 11B parameters, just in the text part.

Not only this, there are major architecture changes. If scaling was all you needed then all these networks would still be using CNNs. But we shifted to transformers. THEN we have shifted to diffusion based models. Not to mention that Parti, DALLE, and Parti have different architectures. It isn't just about scale. Architecture matters here.

And to address concerns, diffusion (invented decades ago) didn't work because we just scaled it up. It worked because of engineering. It was largely ignored previously because no one got it to work better than GANs. I think this lesson should really stand out. That we need to consider the advantages and disadvantages of different architectures and learn how to make ALL of them work effectively. In that manner we can combine them to work in ideal ways. Even Le Cun is coming to this point of view despite previously being on the scaling side.

But maybe you NLP folks disagree. But the experience in vision is far more rich than just scaling.
Thankfully someone is pushing against the hype, good for him. Thank god.

It really frustrates me when people, particularly people on here specifically respond to criticism of NNs and the like by saying nonsense like "but YOUR brain is a neural net!" as if all your brain is but mimickry after all and there's nothing else. There is this need to reduce all the mind's complexity down to a model that you seem to understand, just because you understand it, which seems like such a lazy, reductionist way to think. Reductionism in general has value but it tends to narrow the mind.

I feel like Gary Marcus is right, you don't just need the mimickry even if it plays a role, you do need "symbolic" understanding somewhere, and that makes it easier to determine whether Trump is president vs. Biden at the moment, as they talk about in the article. You do need concepts (symbols) deep down somewhere, it seems so bizarre to think you don't because no one even in their own lives lives that way or thinks that way. I mean literally right now, me reading and writing comments on hacker news is all about ideas and concepts, symbols in the philosophical sense. I feel like even if it started as mimickry when I was an infant, eventually the mimickry takes a life of its own, I figure out concepts themselves, and I no longer even work in mere mimickry, I work with symbols.

It reminds me of Baudrillard's concept (unintended pun, I think) of simulacra, it's not that simulacra are just representations of the real and are thus fake, like money represents some amount of food or gold or something and so money is fake. Money, as we all know, is in fact very real! Our daily lives are shaped around it, they shape our reality, things like loans, credit, bank accounts, stock markets eventually become things we care about. Money is therefore hardly fake. Eventually the simulacra develop a reality of their own, in fact, they become hyperreal.

Ideas are the same, and any real AI will need them.
As others have noted, there are many other providers out there. I think your essay would have had more value if it didn't end with an advertisement.
Greece actually is a country. A state. Whether it is part of the Eurozone or not doesn't change this.

Money is not magic. The value of money represents the value of the goods and services produced by the entity that issues it. Every dollar spent by government takes a dollar (of value) from its citizens, sometimes even more.

Government takes money from its citizens in two ways–

1. Taxation- front door theft en masse that is moralized by those who control the spending. A slight bit might be moral, e.g. to keep people from starving to death, but no where near what is commonly taken. "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." –The Matrix

2. Inflation– back door theft en masse that is never moral except perhaps to blunt mass murder through a war of aggression against the nation. e.g. Real national security where many millions would die otherwise, not fake national security where the government says that if you share a fact they don't want you to, you go to jail for life. It happens any time government spends money it hasn't raised through taxation. "Inflation is taxation without
legislation." –Milton Friedman
https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent
I don't think this has materialized in the EU.
The article and headline are somewhat in disagreement. Or at least, the headline is an over simplification. From the article, most rejected fraud claims are for cases where the victim was deceived (social engineering) into sending a Zelle transfer to a fraudster, rather than in cases of account takeover. In fact, the majority of the article is about Zelle, rather than takeovers.
I think the spirit of the article is to put the cloud in perspective of the organization size and the workload type. There is a sweet spot where the cloud is the only option that makes sense, definitely with variable loads and capacity to basically scale on demand as big as our budget, there is no match for that. However... there are organizations with certain type of workloads that could afford to put infrastructure in place and even with the costs of staffing, energy etc they will save millions in the long run. NASA, CERN etc are some. This is not limited to HPC, the cloud at scale is not cheap either see: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...
iPhone 6 launched in 2014
Notes from the author:

This story is not a push for a standard but rather an attempt to create a logically organized log format optimized for log parsing systems like newRelic or ELK etc. It will help you generate useful dashboards, metrics and event notifications (example: trigger an alert if the percentage of errors exceeds 5%).

Implementing a standardized log system in your applications will cost you time and money. Debugging will costs you too, especially in edge cases where information is key. Your decision should consider both sides of the equation.

Logging is a very opinionated and sometimes divisive conversation. However, no matter which format you will use, it is always better than no logs at all.
If you're working in rust I would recommend to have a look at the go-ap/processing[1] package, which provides a close representation of what the ActivityPub spec details about how to handle each Activity type. It's not complete at the moment, but it should be readable (I think) even for non Go developers and, in my experience it's not the vocabulary that trips people up.

For your use case you probably need to define your own custom ActivityPub types and logic, but for the default ones, it's a good starting point (I hope). :)

The go-ap org on github has a mailing list you can reach if you have questions or feedback.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-ap/processing#CreateActivit...
How Facebook Is Thinking About Its War with TikTok
I find this somewhat akin to how people are monitored in grocery stores.

You better believe that studies are constantly done on shoppers using video cameras. Or heck, just managers using their own eyes to look at how shoppers behave.
I really enjoyed reading this, especially the little branches off into other useful topics and tools. Here are my notes as a summary:

Good blog write up about reversing Reolink B800 IP camera
end result: https://github.com/thirtythreeforty/neolink

tools used:

* wireshark & dissector in Lua https://mika-s.github.io/wireshark/lua/dissector/2017/11/04/...

* binwalk

* visualize the BIN for blank space, code, etc. https://binvis.io/#/

* buildroot to make custom: gdbserver, busybox with all the fixin’s, and strace

* disassemble / decompile MIPS with https://ghidra-sre.org/

* using tcpsvd as tcp wrapper for FTPD in custom image

* quick setup env with "expect" script: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2020/05/hacking-reoli...

* using gdb Dynamic Print commands to target certain functions.
The dynamic printf command dprintf combines a breakpoint with formatted printing of your program’s data to give you the effect of inserting printf calls into your program on-the-fly, without having to recompile it. https://doc.ecoscentric.com/gnutools/doc/gdb/Dynamic-Printf....

* busybox has a watchdog minder, used like: watchdog /dev/watchdog

* background info on Baichuan protocol

* wrote new client software in Rust. https://github.com/thirtythreeforty/neolink/blob/master/src/...

* Gstreamer with RTSP server (in Rust!)

* using it with Blue Iris nvr software
For quite a while, watching 1997 BeOS demo brought tears to my eyes. It was so sweetly designed in every way. Maybe except the regular multithreading issues. Even the source code, at least the small bit I saw [0], was utterly brilliant.

[0] part of the FS query language, so you could select/filter through file metadata for free.
All I see is :

>Open landing page
>Force token update
>Log out
It's incredible they basically built it with a completely different design in mind. Making use of scrolls/swipes for months and years on the same screen.

Impressive.
I don’t think that would involve the wiretapping lawsuit.
It's hard to imagine the lawyers have much confidence in this lawsuit if they're going after Papa John's instead of, say, Facebook.
Another service that runs on AWS is CodeOcean. It looks like Toolchest is oriented toward facilitating execution of specific packages rather than organization and execution like CodeOcean. Is that a fair summary?

https://codeocean.com/explore
It's not a messenger, though. It's a social network.

And you can disagree with that, just as I do you.

Post migration still supports messaging.
It isn't limited to that site, quote from the "CEO of a major 'session replay' spyware company" in the filing:

> “this unique data can be used to activate custom digital experiences in the moment via an ecosystem of over 50 martech partners. With a global community of customer and partners, we are accelerating the interpretation of human behavior online and shaping a future of addictive customer experience"

> I gotta wonder where the line is drawn exactly

Violating the Federal Wiretap Act and CIPA
Banks should obviously do their best to prevent and revert fraudulent behavior, but there are points past which they can't do anything without just refunding out of the goodness of their (perhaps cold and small) hearts.

If I convince you to withdraw thousands of dollars in cash and then skip town with it, do we expect the bank to make you whole?
George Washington once said "The best time to become a Haiku contributor is yesterday. The second best time to become a Haiku contributor is today."

You know, I think he was right.
It seems to me that the government service responsible for providing the phone should be expanded to provide a permanent digital identity, including email, and a lasting phone number. A permanent address (open and scan, with selective forwarding) for physical mail would also be worth investigating.
Yeah I got about four paragraphs in. I asked to read an article, not a novel
Chase at least is popping up a bold social engineering warning whenever you’re attempting to send a Zelle payment to a new contact, or the underlying account has changed for an existing contact.

There are table stakes (security and financial controls, prudent IAM and MFA, etc), and then there are folks who will fail even with the most robust guardrails attempting to protect them.
When I bought this Mac it was actually completely fubar. The internal battery ruptured and ruined the main board, so I had to source a “new” one. The new one came recapped by the seller and I recapped the analog board myself, so it should be good for a long time to come.

You can see the rest of the gang here: http://muezza.ca/cats.html
Fighting Inflation with P2P Fintech
Everyone’s money gets hit by inflation– UK was 10% last month. That means the money you worked for and saved buys less and less. And if you’re in the developing world like me, your money doesn’t just get hit by inflation. It gets slammed. Destroyed. Completely wiped out.

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What I miss from Gopherpedia it's math support. It if had some support thru aamath it would be heaven.

https://github.com/gchudnov/aamath
I also assumed it was limited in such ways. Mostly because it is extraordinarily rare that anyone bothers to enable those. I'd much, much, much rather have a singular, consistent full UX available to me instead of defaulting to some "simple elegant" artificially stunted version.
Beyond 2FA, some type of chaumian cash like https://taler.net/en/ might help too.

But the problem is really downgrade attacks. There are multiple payment systems (bank wire, check, credit card ) and if there is one insecure way to make payments, then the whole system is broken.
All the best Ash, thank you!
ScyllaDB used Go generics to get a 40% gain for B-Tree performance

https://www.scylladb.com/2022/04/27/shaving-40-off-googles-b...