skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean...it was 1995. I tend to think things have changed since then, but it's still got a lot of "it was 1995" to it.

The idea that mIRC has been around that long and is still being used, let alone still updated, is in many ways shocking.
YouTube still needs to, legally speaking, accept DMCA claims from companies they have banned.
Ebay is not better. I was in Spain and our servers were in a datacenter in the States. One of the HDDs in RAID1 failed, and the array was in the critical state on our master DB. It was critical correcting this failure as soon as possible. I ordered a new HDD from ebay from a seller with 100% positive feedback directly to the datacenter and organized remote hands there to install it. When RAID rebuilt, smartctl showed that the HDD has more than 40k powered on hours.
I am afraid the days if high trust society, where services like ebay could function, are over.
Magnets pull these tiny medical robots deep into the brain
I posted this because I want to know more about how this will work. It seems pretty fishy from the claims.
Are models like ChatGPT the future of community building?
the question becomes, are systems that are made up of humans making decisions, organisms themselves that make decisions against the humans within the system?
Certainly this is only reflective of people who live on social media. No one in my admittedly small circles actually use this word, and rarely any of the previous OU words of the year, in actual human to human conversations. It's almost more of a Twitter aphorism (Twittorism) popularity contest.

With that being said, I submit Twittorism as a candidate for 2023's word of the year.
As opposed to the rest of the government that already has the same information?
Yep, this is what's kept my friends playing it for so long.

Tarkov looks great, but you need to plan. You can't hop on after a long day of work and realize you're too tired to play a good match.
We haven’t automated 10% of what could be automated, especially in tasks that were previously not cost-efficient to automate or that required AI tech to automate.
In my opinion, the only way it takes 10 years to get there is if all progress stops within the next 30 days.

Because it can literally almost do that stitching libraries together task now, if you give it a compiler and runtime environment and have it iterate on errors. Open AI has said they will release a big update before Christmas. This could include an API. And if we assume a text-only environment. But we already have the first text-to-video models, so we should assume that ChatGPT like systems will be built with multimodal models such that they would include information about UI interactions etc. in the near future. No reason to suppose that those advances would take ten years. We are seeing major improvements every 6-12 months.
Archaeologists anonymous (on the importance of anonymity for science today)
It worked for them because they kept releasing new version with new licenses, not updating Photoshop 1 in perpetuity.
That should probably be taken up with Popper, who named the thing. ;-)

Yes it is a self-contradicting property of an open society, 'tho I'm not sure that rules out it being a paradox either/also.
They're used as IoT/embedded computers all over the world. Or as prototyping devices for lots of hardware engineering.

You see /r/RaspberryPi posts all the time when people find them in the wild (ex:
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/zasupv/pi_spo...)
Sheriff is now saying the "right wing attack" rumors were started online with zero evidence. By everybody's favorite looney troon Charlotte Clymer.
Chrome team released the data for the decision to remove JPEG XL support
Definitely not; normies are not going to be using ChatGPT and validating/debugging the output.
Augmenting Existing Struct APIs with Rust Traits
https://archive.ph/1QeZ7
Here's a comment from a different reply I made (which you have definitely read and choose to ignore):

> I think living in a flat is great if that's your thing, it's definitely cheaper to heat! But the argument always seems to be this sort of dogmatic "do this if unless you're a shithead who hates the planet" and I just don't think that it's true for everyone, or a healthy approach to enjoying what limited time we have alive.

I'm logging out of HN now, there's only so much disingenuous chat I can take and your comments appear to be that of a wind up than real debate. Take it easy.
Arguably the non-sense videos on TikTok are not an existential threat on the web.
Validating Google Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
Ask HN: Any online communities for Project Managers to get feedback from?
Hey all,

I'm working on a startup in the Project Management space and I'd love to get in touch with PM's to get some feedback on a problem we're aiming to solve. Similar to HN, are there any communities specifically for PM's to get feedback from?

Tl;dr of the problem we're trying to solve: As a product manager, deciding on what features or products to prioritise is error prone, inconsistent and hard to manage. Customer feedback is not centralised (google sheets, Intercom messages, bug report etc.), hard to gain important insights (what are the biggest problems our customers are facing right now?) and inefficient when comes to quarterly/yearly planning (how do I know if this product will solve our customer issues and meet the company OKR's?).

We've used tools such as Respondent to run user interviews, but as you can imagine, the costs add up for a 2-man startup.
Believe it or not, we may also soon be able to cure practically every disease, including cancer; transition into an era of unlimited clean and almost free energy; produce all the meat we need without killing animals;

Hasn't this been true for 30-50 years?
Can't answer. I always shied all those thin "pretty" laptop. For me pretty is functional so all my laptops are big gamer type. Everything runs instant on those, even my 10 years old ASUS ROG G73. Mind you all my PCs and laptops are stuffed with max RAM they can accept.

I do have one exception - some tiny very slim laptop from ASUS. It is used strictly to play Netflix, youtube and music to entertain me when I am on rowing machine. It does that just fine but it does not run anything but browser and music player.
Bakardy's coyness in his writing implies he is an obsessive fan who trying to destroy the object of his obsession so as to acquire meaning from having figured, any way at all, in the life of his target. As though he saw Teller's work and said, "If his story becomes about me, I become like him."

The story to me is less about intellectual property and more about having a stalker. Celebrities, but also just normal people who happen to be attractive have to deal with similar stuff often. If you have something, or even just represent something, you likely develop a vigilence for people like this random character trying to use leverage, blackmail, and other ultimately destructive tactics to weave themselves into your story, so that the story they tell themselves and others can be about you and what you represent, instead of them, and what they know themselves to be. Sad and weird, but also, surprisingly consistent with other variations, just this time with magic.
Doing the exact same for some side projects. It's been a delight.
I dislike copyleft, but once you decided to go for copyleft, I think a clause like this makes a lot of sense.

Copyleft licenses are inherently trying to coerce the world to be a certain way. A penalty clause like this is probably more effective at changing the world than the normal clauses.
Then don't sell lifetime licenses.

"You bought the thing I sold you? What an asshole."
>The things people like or that are popular are upvoted because

You forgot to add "Because clever posters use bots to give an early upvote boost to their posts, and downvote competing posts" And the more eyeballs on the site, the more things will be manipulated this way by bad actors.
I haven't looked enough to know if this is possible. In general I found that any browser push notifications I may receive have been better served from a dedicated application.
> Scott A. and the author he reviews seem to thrive a little too well in the world of muddy explanations.

The problem of this causal explanation perhaps lies with the source material Scott Alexander cited without adequate critical analysis, namely David Brooks’ _BoBos in Paradise_.

“If Books Could Kill”, co-hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, analyzes and humorously takes down book-length transgressions against critical thinking. A recent episode adroitly and conclusively disassembles Brooks’ _BoBos in Paradise_ as quite harmful and comically wrongheaded. [0]

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id...
I used to love motorised lego stuff. Building marble runs was my favourite...
This is not true, the total money in circulation is far more than what is printed.

For example, USA has ~$2T of physical cash printed (https://www.uscurrency.gov/life-cycle/data/circulation) ; the M1 money supply (effective cash in circulation, including account balances, etc) is ~$20T - https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1 .
I live an hour drive north of New York City in a small, rural town of about 2,000 people. Large lot sizes, not much going on pollution wise. The lowest my CO2 has been so far is 659. This is when I open the windows for 30 minutes. I haven’t tried anything more aggressive than that. Either our rural, small-town air is worse than NYC for some reason, or the NYC air isn’t that bad? Very interesting.
Sign Everything
>passwords

isn’t there some law about trading stolen passwords?

I’m a fan of easy to type passphrases designed to spark a riot if ever read in open court since this seems to be a common pivot from the “look the other way when the user types” model I followed when I worked a help desk. We were told when I moved on to Hci research it’s unethical to collect the passwords, there’s a whole cottage industry of academics analyzing leaked data sets since they aren’t allowed to… just ask.

(I’m not Irb certified and not a professor, so I get to do whatever I want.)
Another, more efficient, business. Plenty of other extremely large businesses have failed in the past and been usurped.
The theme he's using claims to be the fastest WordPress theme:

https://generatepress.com/generatepress-3-0-a-new-era/
Well we had a thread a few weeks ago and that was not a welcome comment, the poster that said they bought a older car with out all the tech was lambasted for their environmental impact
Who is "Munro and co"?

The top result on Google is this baby clothing brand: https://www.munroandco.co.uk/

Cute outfits, but they don't look like EV trucking experts.
nice tip!
Marginal sales taxes make more sense to me than marginal income taxes. You consume more resources, you pay more.
Yeah good call. I'm actually an evil racist.
He seems to be very good at (at least short-term) pivoting platforms away from advertiser-based income. Mainly because all the advertisers are driven away, but still...
> But Amazon pivoted from a discount retailer to a premium retailer of convenience

My experience has been largely the opposite. Amazon has pivoted to selling junk that now ships more slowly.

I still buy a lot of stuff from them, but am increasingly looking to competitors who actually curate their items.
Banks generally settle their accounts by digital transfers in their central bank accounts - no physical cash involved, they're trading IOUs from the central bank of the respective currency.
Should a persons worldview dictate whether or not they perform a service? For example making a wedding cake for a same sex marriage? Perhaps this more nuanced.
If Doctorow seems like he’s selling his books harder, it’s only because he writes a LOT. Usually his posts have links to previous posts. He writes more in one space than many writers do, so why wouldn’t he hyperlink to his existing thoughts?
Adobe Systems - let's talk? I have a customer ID in their system .. from 10+ years ago! As said well here at YNews, the people who are most unhappy with the cloudy-Adobe are the people (like me) that were committed and loyal, so long ago. You know that Adobe is going to 'exit' the digital type market completely? That is how different 2022 is from 2000.

The day my registered and paid for, ten year old Adobe software stops working, I will personally pay for and print t-shirts and hand them out to anyone in front of the SF building. Its not going to be pretty, Adobe!

Let me pay for that old software then.. without BS cloud marketing traps. I will give some reasonable amount of USD and you do NOTHING and it all works. deal ?
If it turns out to be locally done, they can take the repair costs out of the homeowners and churches that house and foster the bigotry. Apologies if my assumption is incorrect, but I’m basing it on how things look from outside the us. Doesn’t seem like much “judge not lest ye be judged” going down, which is odd given all the rhetoric.
I don't know, but it seems extremely fast.
Except nobody has their definition of processing. I think some German working group also rejected Office 365 because they could not nail Microsoft down on what "processing" means and targeting minors with overly broad agreements when schools are already operating under stricter than normal data processing constraints is a no go even if your name isn't Epstein.
You're mixing up Raspberry Pi Foundation with Raspberry Pi Ltd. The former is an educational charity. The latter is a tech company that funds that charity. The more money that is generated by RPL, the more money RPF has to spend on education. They're both non profits.
It reminds me of a line in a Sopranos episode. Only it substituted penis for bottom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmsqjm4lV0
> Everyone knows that a lifetime license only lasts for a limited period

One of the more baffling statements I've read online this year.

This is actually why we have contracts. People say one thing, a few years pass, and they change their mind and start calling you a greedy tightwad for not giving them more money when they decide that they should have more money from you.
It is interesting that there are so many products that replicate Emacs features for people who don't use Emacs. ("X without Emacs" seems to be the open-source version of "Uber for Y".)

It makes me think that if Emacs had a mode that was usable by novices out of the box and retained the same power it would take over the world.
The new value offer for the WWW is the "Made by real humans". Record my words.
But they wouldn't be dead, because no one would be brave/stupid enough to drive such a car at high speeds while texting on their phone.
> I hate software licensing models. I wish developers would just sell proper support contracts.

Some (dare I say most) users would be entirely fine with staying with old version of most of the tools they use, especially if use of tool is basic.
Also need to weigh the long-term effects of CO2 vs other acute risks like fire. It's been a minute since I took the course on this but iirc smoke inhalation is one of the bigger dangers of home fires and having bedroom doors closed is the strongest mitigator of it (other than smoke detectors obv.)

I really don't have the information to weigh this either way but I've considered closed doors a safety measure for years so this throws me off in an unsettling way.
ChatGPT cannot express emotions because its creator specifically disallowed that from happening. I've had some chats with the more free and creative Character AI chat bots that are quite human-like, and I think if OpenAI gave ChatGPT some more leeway it could act shockingly human.
Most stores can get me what I need within a day or two. Either by pickup from the store or last-mile shipping to my door.

It's sufficient for most things.
I thought that the point of GDPR was to prevent American spy agencies from having access to European customer data. Hetzner has gained customers because it was a non-US data hosting provider. But, if Hetzner now has a nexus in the USA - does that dilute their ability to fulfill on the spirit of GDPR? Even if the US data center doesn't have access or control of the European data centers, these US data centers could be used as leverage by American spy agencies against European customer data.
ChatGPT provides incorrect solutions to most iOS prompts relating to UI stuff that I gave it.

They would look correct to someone who knows how to program, but does not know iOS. Most of them even compile. But they're very wrong, even when I tried dozens of different inputs in an attempt to get the correct solution from it.
Maybe AI content is just a way to launder copyright.
Another reason to not need a CRDT is privacy. A CRDT assumes that every participate has equal rights to all data.

I'm biased to simple WebSockets with OT using JSON deltas, and I'm building a platform that greatly simplifies how to efficiently build collaborative apps: https://www.adama-platform.com/
I just replace them once they reach 20% of "percentage (of their lifespan) used or so and then they become yet more drives on which I put on-site / offline backups.

They're so cheap I don't mind.
Try https://character.ai. Has not been optimized for accuracy/dryness since it's for entertainment.
A piece of AI generated art recently scored top prize in a digital painting competition. It's starting to look more like one monkey, on a limited time frame, making art that people rated highly.
A great conversation starter. One that we continue to have and don't actively have solutions for. We should have one. We should build one. We should make it open source. We should build a community around that effort they can manage it for a multi generational time period.
You're right of course, but picking the specific point on the slippery slope you mentioned earlier is why this is an interesting engineering problem (and not a math/logic problem).
It's a universally agreed upon social norm
So? Someone else can (and often does) just copy the recipe. So if you don't think the rest of the content has any value, what has been gained by writing it? If I had a cooking site--which I don't--I'd certainly want to do more than just post recipes irrespective of monetary considerations.
FYI this is probably not a good habit if you're trying to teach yourself, rather than just trying to get some task done. Reading documentation and searching StackOverflow are genuinely useful skills that take practice to get good at. Asking chatGPT is equivalent to just asking a friend for the answer, which is fine if you want to be efficient but not ideal for learning.

Obviously this doesn't matter if we think chatGPT is so good that you'll never need to read documentation yourself, but I think this is one of those situations where you need to be an expert before you're allowed to break the rules. Without experience, you won't know if chatGPT is really giving you everything you'd get from reading the docs yourself, or only a small and potentially inaccurate slice.
It will be: GPT output is usually either garbage, repetitive, very wrong, subtly wrong, or inconsistent in writing style in a way humans aren't. (It sort of starts trying to say something different, in the "same style" as it started with, then switches style later.)

When humans really can't tell the difference, well… https://xkcd.com/810/ seems appropriate.
However is this not a known limitation with how it's currently setup? It has no way of knowing what the current weather in Dallas is simply because it has no way of finding out (eg it could query a weather website, but it has no internet browsing yet)... to be an accurate comparison you'd need to repeat your simple experiment blindfolded.
Perjury based on _belief_ that they own the copyright, as I understand the DMCA. So being an idiot who doesn't understand copyright (or based on an erroneous automated process) is considered a defence.

So, worthless.
ImageLine software make a very popular audio production program called FL Studio that has been sold on a “pay once, free upgrades for life” basis for about 25 years. It has been cited as the most installed piece of music software. The product is wildly successful and the company is doing very well AFAIK.

This is in stark contrast to the other major players in the field that charge a similar amount to upgrade to the next major version.

I think in the case of mIRC the lifetime model may have continued to work had IRC continued to grow, but it didn’t and the users went elsewhere.
BP, for one, has been making noises about their fuel being carbon neutral. It's not impossible, e.g. you sell fuel that makes so many tons of CO2, you bury in a hole so many tons of vegetable matter that captured that much CO2.

Doesn't fly in practice, perhaps because of public perception. Net-zero on synthetic fuels is more obvious, although not necessarily less expensive.
Lenovo has the absolute worst bioses of any laptops I've ever bought. None have LVFS/fwupdmgr support. My most recent one, bought from newegg, appears to be a limited mainline-china-only release that hasnt received A SINGLE BIOS UPDATE despite there being numerous high-sev platform updates for every other device in my arsenal.

Neither would let me re-enable S3.

Again, unlike my other devices, the Lenovos become almost useless if the internal display breaks. They require intervention on boot (internal disp only) if you use an unofficial power supply.

This isnt even counting battery life, the M1 performance, trackpad quality, trackpad click mechanism, trackpad size, on and on, etc. Keyboard deck flex. The list goes on. Complete stockholm syndrome vibes.
"Long haul"

Just add a diesel generator to the back. Problem solved. :)
The goal of that campaign was not to change which denominations are in circulation, but rather quite explicitly to confiscate unaccounted-for wealth stored as piles of cash - that's why there were all kinds of quantity limits, and also the time limit to ensure that those who had a lot of such cash could not effectively launder most of it.
We'll watch the next World Cup
This is unfounded speculation presented as if it is evidence. Stop it.
Ask HN: Event Driven Design/Discovery?
Hi all

I remember finding (and subsequently losing the link to) a website a few months ago which outlined a process for requirements gathering and description based around an initiating event and the data transformations that should take place in response to it. All google searches I can think of lead to many articles about event driven software patterns. Hoping someone here knows what I'm referring to!