skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, this article misses the point, but only slightly. If we compare the proposed Photoshop for text and the actual Photoshop for images, those are very different tools in how they work with their respective mediums.

Photoshop doesn’t use AI models to generate new things for the artist, photographer, whoever (it does have generation of course, but not in the same way). A tool like Photoshop for text, in the way described, seems more like a writing aid than a writing tool; something I can give vague commands like “make this paragraph more academic” (whatever that means), and it’ll spit out something approximating the academic style it analyzed. Whereas “auto balance the levels of this image” is much more concrete in what it means, there’s no approximation of “style.”

I feel like Photoshop for text should be an editor that cares more about the structure of stories and who’s in them, with ways to organize big chunks in easy ways, rather than something that generates content for you.
We had 7 kids spread out over 15+ years (the oldest is 25 and the youngest is 9 - so about 16 years). Our oldest didn’t learn to sleep through the night until she was 7! At one time it seemed like I would never get a full nights sleep again, but it has been so many years now since I was last woken up by a kid at night (the last time was our 17 year old waking us up after he got home from work at 2am to tell us the basement was flooding) that I hardly recall those sleepless nights. It is nice that all the kids are now old enough to bathe themselves, do their own laundry, can feed and clothe themselves, etc. Plus, I now have a homemade boardgaming group.
I would suggest finding a forum devoted to either that style of game, or games from that time period, and just do a brain dump. I bet someone will know exactly what game you're talking about.

Some useful information would be: When is the earliest date you remember playing it? Or, when is a date where you are positive the game had been made at that point?

What did the graphics look like? Do you remember anything about any intros or loading screens?

Anything more specific than sci-fi? Space? Aliens? Was it dark/scary, light-hearted, dramatic, etc?

Do you remember any lines, characters, game mechanics, or plot points from it?
I don’t think that proves that either Facebook or UK regulators are rational actors. I’m also not aware of any earnings reports from Facebook point to any return on that investment. It also doesn’t seem like there have been many gify copycats.

[*edit] I'd also add that Facebook's share price dropped 15% the month the original deal was announced, and took two months to recover. It seems like the market agreed that it was a bad deal.
Yes! American, Anglo-Saxon culture while widespread is not the norm.

There is such thing as Inter-generational living.

You often see advice on the internet: Why are you 20 and still living with your parents, you're a loser.

You're 30 still living with your parents, you won't amount to anything.

Yeah right!!!

Meanwhile they leave alone with a dog,

- need a ton of additional psychotherapy to stay sane.

- Need to setup appointments to see their own parents

No thanks.
It's trivially easy to not mess up chat.

Not messing up chat while middle managers continuing promising quarterly growth, that's another story...
I used Office 2003 until I was forced to use Windows 10 for work at which point, despite my best efforts, was sufficiently incompatible, that I "upgraded" to Office 2010 which seems, I suppose, the least bad "modern" office version...

I still miss Office 2003, it was so much better than new versions
This 'Philosopher's Stone' of computing rears its ugly head every five to 10 years. In my lifetime, I first saw it back in the late 1970s.

In the words of the old saying: "There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".

Programming and programmers aren't going anywhere any time soon.
AI Winter Is Well on Its Way (2018)
Jack is looking towards the inevitable paradigm shift away from a primarily text-based programming to whatever the future may hold. It's to be expected that most people will say they are perfectly productive with how things are thank you very much.
Amazing, these are actually in stock:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/amd-xilinx/SM-K26...

Very good price for Zynq Ultrascale+
We have one other piece of evidence: Ecohealth Alliance will not share lab notebooks from Wuhan. As a Bayesian horse, you’ll know this “explains away” the natural origin hypothesis. The belief in a natural origin actually goes down.
People have been saying that exact thing for over a decade now, and there still has not been a single compelling use case outside of conducting illegal (or fraudulent) activity. A decade's worth of work from talented, enthusiastic people turning up nothing of substance should serve as evidence that blockchains are not, in fact, going to provide anything revolutionary.
I've found Moby Dick to be a great book to carry around, and to read a chapter (most of the books chapters are 8-15 pages) when I had some time. It basically is the journals of a whaler, the first scientific treaty on whales, explanations of the daily life on a boat at the time.

When finishing the book, the story that stays with you isn't Ishamel's, it's Ahab's. Ishmael is just a part of Ahab's quest to kill the white whale, and we are in his shoes. You are put in the shoes of someone following orders towards an insane goal, in unconventional circumstences.

I like to think of Moby Dick kind of like the Bible. Every chapter has something to say about the human condition, and was written earnestly by someone who cared to translate their experience.

And english is my second language as well - looking at your username I assume you are french speaking? I would go look at André Malraux's La Condition Humaine, which has similarities to Moby Dick in some of the ways I mentionned higher.
Over the decades, C started to reject more and more "valid" programs, and you have to use explicit casts to go from one pointer type to the other, or from an integer to a pointer. For obviously good reason.
The difference of course is that iOS already has enough adoption to get away with this. Windows Phone and Windows UI development forked for no good reason while keeping very similar names and structures while trying to get initial adoption. It was clearly a mistake at that stage. I personally looked into the tech and as soon as I saw how fragmented it was realized MS didn't have a good plan and didn't venture developing for it.
Except you can on the Mac. Ever heard of Target Disk Mode?
Use SQL without foreign keys for best performance [0].

[0]: https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331#issuecomment-266...
She's lucky she was high enough to get signal. When I was there, admittedly long ago in 2012, VZW signal died as soon as I dropped below the rim. The bison roamed all over the park, and even had me trapped in my truck for several hours when a dozen or so decided to park in my campsite.
Obviously this doesn’t hold true for everyone, but your attachment to your kid has nothing to do with how you feel about kids in general.
Basically -- to keep it simple. Holding the signing key in the PDS simplifies linearization and reduces device-pairing actions.

We spent most of the summer planning to store the signing key in the user device(s) but during a late design session we examined why exactly we wanted that, and realized the main reason was for account portability^1. Thing is, we dont need the primary signing key to be local for account portability; we just need a recovery key that allows the user to assign control away from the PDS later. So we switched to a server-held signing key, but we kept in the architectural pieces that make client-held signing keys possible, in case we want to explore that again in the future.

^1 We're interested in end-to-end encryption but that's not what the signing key would accomplish and will need to be developed later. Hopefully we haven't painted ourselves into a corner for that part of things.
"My recollection is that monoculture forests promote forest death."

Quite, and I'll venture that any form of monoculture is generally in an unhealthy state or will eventually cease to function. At best it will be sub-optimal. Diversity must be encouraged.

Whether you look at woods/forests, dogs, people, entire ecosystems, gut bacteria or whatever, you generally see rude health associated with diversity.

English is of course a (somewhat) Germanic language but as far as I know we don't even have a concept of forest-death or anything like it. We'd probably go for something like "dying-forest syndrome" instead. Actually, we'd probably call it something really stupid and contentious like: "German forest disease" or similar nonsense and then rapidly give it a Greek and Latin combo name when the sheer racism of the original name is called out.

Anyway, I recall wandering the forest near to this (1983ish): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermannsdenkmal My Dad was a British Army Officer and he very carefully got us lost via a complex "contouring" maneuver. We escaped eventually but it is said that to get properly lost involves a British Occifer and a map. Give them a compass and you are totally doomed!

Errr, anyway, we are wandering through the woods at Herman's Denk. Lots of trees and a lot of species seen. The woods looked and felt healthy. Any decent sized wood is a pleasant place for good reason - that's where we (humans) should be. We are a species of tree huggers 8)

My company owns a bit of land and we have three huge oaks (40' plus height, at least eight foot girth) on it. I will eventually kick my local council into bestowing "tree preservation orders" (TPO) on them because allowing harm to them will we environmental vandalism.
There are plenty of SSH clients that run on the iPad and code-server works as a fully featured IDE
Please don't respond by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That just makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The United States has indicated that they would intervene,

The US has made multiple unclear statements. What one president may say, another may walk back or reverse. Or the US might simply not do what they said, or adopt some face-saving half-measure.

Killing US troops stationed in Japan, OTOH, would force a very strong response; even if the government wanted to deescalate, the public wouldn't let them.
Here's a different twist on these issues that I don't think comes up all that much. (B/c it's pretty niche).

How do you deal conflict between product engineering teams <-> Infra Engineering teams.

Particularly when Product Engineering teams have product managers and the ability to say, business impact is X while infra teams don't.

It's a pretty difficult nut to crack at least at my current org, because the near term goals (usually) align, but longer term goals separate out. Eventually the product team becomes parasitic and destroys the infra team. From what I can tell looking at orgs like this, usually the eng team picks up the slack of bouncing tasks as much as possible to keep up. (But all the extra work slows things down.)

E.g.

Product team wants to build feature X, their PMs and managers all line up to say it should be in Infra, infra team says no, but then leadership vetos it because it's the only way to keep the product team on track. (Because they have the most influence in management.)

This happens two or three times, the infra team is now fighting over piles of technical debt in order to get things out, and can't work on new features to attract new customers to keep the current one happy. (and justify their existence.)

maybe I should write a blog post about this?
> You lose the utility of network effects, etc

Oh yes, you lose a lot of functionalities, but it's not the focus of the computation, simply to estimate, with the current technology, how much it compares to Visa in terms of electricity consumption. To be honest it would maybe make more sense to actually scale Visa down to bitcoin transaction rate, as we can assume more linearity there. The end result is the same though.

> Its like comparing energy costs of bicycles and ocean freighters, but no amount of bicycles could ever tow freight across an ocean.

Quite. However it seems to me its seems unavoidable to do so, since energy efficiency is a big topic these days. Also, while nobody pretends to be able to carry a load across oceans with a bike, it is usually advised to commute by bike rather than a freighter.
> What the hell are you talking about?

If you'd please edit swipes like that out of your posts to HN, we'd appreciate it. Your comment would be just fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Uphill battle, but okay.
Low-Code, Not Low Tech
You absolutely can't open complex sheets on the ipad still, I just tried a few and they're not functional. how do you open more than one doc natively? I'm still seeing online that it's not supported (using the browser doesn't count). And yeah, none of the extensions I use have a special iOS equivalent.
Well, knowledge of those experiments would be relevant when arguing the merits of GOF research, I'm not. I'm simply saying that Derek Lowe claimed that the uproar over these experiments was overblown because they were not GOF based on a certain narrow definition. The definition itself is not agreed upon by all molecular biologists, virologists and microbiologists. Derek Lowe could have made a variety of arguments around why the experiments were not as dangerous as media reports would have you believe. But he chose to focus on a technical definition of GOF that is hard to defend.
Then you can expect even more housing crunch. It’s simply not realistic to updates homes 50-100 years old without significant cost which old retirees can’t really afford. Some of the new codes would force pre-war homes to be completely tear down. For example, asbestos sidings which would require the homeowners to move out of the house. Bubble wrap the house and do mitigation work. After that, massive amount of interior work to ensure safety. Toss in electrical, plumbing, and lead paint, you might as well do a new construction.

Reality simply doesn’t work this way. Just like we allow people to drive old ass cars that aren’t safe for the passengers but will pass emission inspections.
your post was unnecessary, delete it and move on.
Not wrong, but it all depends on how you look at it. It’s also progress that got us life-saving vaccines and medications within a year of a deadly pandemic emerging.
How much did you hang out with them once you were home though? With a < 12 year old, you spend a few hours in the morning + from like 5:30 pm until bedtime on weekdays, and then the entire weekend, with your kid. I lived at home for some time. I spent an hour maximum per day with my dad, including on weekends.
Over at archive.org they have quite a large list of old PC games.

https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames
And who needs version control anyway.
any property that you would make about the possible state of the program by looking at the program itself has now been completely eliminated. Losing the state that is in memory is not universally desirable, but it is almost universally desirable.
Yet we still can't search for multiple hash tags on instagram.
> It all adds up

Does it? The DNC definitely conspired against the Bernie campaign, that’s a fact and they got caught.

The pizza gate nonsense seems like a random chance event. How often do crazy conspiracies for 4chan actually go mainstream?

MSNBC was actively peddling their own nonsense at the time, like the pee tape conspiracy. It was a weird time in American politics.

Two horribly unlikeable and pathological liars were competing and one of them failed to campaign in Michigan.
I don't think I'm necessarily having the same experience as you.... my advice to people who aren't sure if they want kids, is DON'T. It's bloody hard, you sacrifice A LOT. Don't have kids unless you're very sure it's what you want.

I have 2 kids under 6 and I feel like I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more. I leave for work first thing, come home in the afternoon, and haven't had any time for myself until the kids are down at 7.30, and I'm utterly wasted. Weekends are just chaos, yeah we can divide and conquer but that only goes so far.

As for enjoying hanging around with kids.... I don't know what age that starts, but I'm 5 years and counting.

Honestly I'm exhausted, and I'm not gonna lie, I have some regret about having kids when I see the child free people around me, and how they're spending their 30s.
How would that work in real life? It sounds nice in theory, but as the saying goes, "in theory, there is no difference, in practice, there is."

One programmer fixing a bug, one adding a new feature, are both working on the same program at the same time? Or is each one working on their own copy? And how does the merge happen if they're working on separate copies? How is the updated code moved to production? How is this "live coding" supposed to work?
"Door closed to door open" is not just a figure of speech, so if the doors were still closed and the plane was not yet at the gate: yes, they did (thankfully).

My source here is that my wife was an FA for many years. She has a couple stories of pilots deliberately not pulling all the way up to the gate if they know they're going to have to wait anyway, purely so the crew can stay on the clock (and it doesn't make any difference to the passengers either way). Though for every one of those instances, there are a hundred of being delayed in the airport or after-boarding-but-before-closed-doors or whatever that ends in hours of unpaid work time.
Sounds like a reliability and auditability nightmare. And, in securing software systems, full bill of materials and even reproducible builds are used to lock in the software to known good versions. How could software that can change thanks to the whim of a dev in the ops environment ever be considered reproducible? Wouldn't the result be just hugely fragile code state with no known source?
Dogs really need a job. They were domesticated to work along side us. Any owner should invest in training them.

Ironically, it is kind of the same with kids, kids really need a job and cultures that put the kids to work doing chores and things at an early age seem to raise better adjusted kids.
You know, something interesting is happening to me here.

I've never been upset about Stable Diffusion, because as you say, once upon a time, you had to physically paint an image to be visually creative. Never posted a comment about SD with "I cannot stand the idea of this. I know it's coming, I know I can't stop it, but it will be a catastrophic loss." Now, at the suggestion that it might happen for writing, all the sudden it seems wrong! Someone else noticed this in the other thread about Copilot: HN is not upset about Stable Diffusion, but seems to frequently be upset about Copilot! I think you may be right actually -- calm down, it's just a tool.

I guess I want to revise my prior comment. I don't just want to talk to a machine. Just like I don't just want to see Stable Diffused images. The human part is essential, it's the heart of the thing. My intuition is that you're supposed to augment the human part, not replace it.
Like Wittgenstein, I sometimes think of our [scientific and] technological age as a bedazzlement. Jack Rusher, on the other hand, seems to point toward making technology transparent (an end in itself) and is incredibily inspiring for it. I love his Vector Field III (2017)[1] generative art piece.

1. https://ello.co/jackrusher/post/t1n-uy-wghymnohgpygxhw
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That reminds me of a comment I once read about the roads in my city being too narrow to accommodate bicycle infrastructure because it was originally designed for horse and carriage. I had to laugh at that, because the streets were originally multi-use. People mostly walked or took a tram. The horses were there, but mostly for commercial use or the wealthy. The typical city dweller had neither the space to graze them nor the means to buy feed.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? You've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Fortunately you've also posted quite a few good comments, so this should be easy to fix.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ve always wondered how people with many kids can be emotionally available for all of them. How do you do it?
Blockading Taiwan would require cooperation from Japan, and that's not going to happen
Version control can be built into the system. One click to deploy the change, one click to revert it. (You could even have automatic one-box/A-B deployment of a change within code)
As a rough estimate? 10, but I don't know what you think that means.

If you look at what [changes] were introduced by the [2018] and [2021] editions, they weren't as earth shattering as some might think:

2018:

- Module system changes

- Mandatory associated fn argument names

- dyn, async, await and try are now keywords

- You can't write `let s = libc::getenv(k.as_ptr()) as const _;` anymore, instead needing `let s = libc::getenv(k.as_ptr()) as const libc::c_char;` (Method dispatch for raw pointers to inference variables)

2021:

- TryInto, TryFrom and IntoIterator added to the prelude

- cargo dependency resolver changes

- [1, 2, 3].into_iterator() now works

- `|| a.x + 1` now captures `a.x`, not `a`

- Small technically backwards incompatible change to the panic macro formatting string

- any_identifier#, any_identifier"...", and any_identifier'...' are now reserved syntax

- Some previously existing warnings are now errors

- a | b is now matched in pat macro rules

[changes]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide

[2018]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/index.html

[2021]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2021/index.html

Edit: it just dawned on me that by "epoch" you might not have meant the edition mechanism, which was at some point referred to as epochs and have so far happened every three years, but rather "how many iterations of idiomatic Rust code will there be in 30 years". If that was the original intent, you would also consider things like the introduction of the ? operator, or the upcoming let pat = expr else {}, or match ergonomics, or the likely deref patterns, or any number of features that on isolation might not be huge, but that can materially impact what idiomatic code looks like. I personally believe that that kind of iteration and evolution of a language is good and necessary. As long as forwards compatibility is maintained, and that forward compat doesn't hinder the future design space, making things better over time is a great thing!
Trustless Verification of Machine Learning
New results on trustlessly verifying machine learning models
Firefox is interesting because its roots as an open source project go back a long time and Mozilla has generally been one of the most open companies working in that space. That's lead a lot of people to identify as members of that community, which is good in some aspects but also means that you have a vocal group of people who appear to feel that having participated in a few Bugzilla issues over a few decades means that they should be consulted on every change.

Over the same time period, web browsers have gone from a hot new technology to a part of daily life for most people in developed countries, and that's created areas for conflict where someone at Mozilla is trying to figure out how to retain users against a hostile trillion-dollar company and coming to conclusions which are different than some of the more conservative members of the user community want. We saw this with things like XUL's deprecation where that feature was blocking a lot of improvements which benefit 100% of users and a small group of users felt very strongly that someone else should do the extensive amount of work needed to maintain and modernize a lightly-used feature.