skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google simply can’t monetize chatGPT-like search to the tune of $150B/year.

The current model doesn’t work for this new reality. They’ll have to find a new model. And if history is any clue, the suits will be unwilling to change
>Nobody would even contemplate a public registry of car owners, for instance, but all of those countries maintain one for aircraft.

Are you joking? Lots of EU countries have had this, and still do.

For example in Finland, https://www.traficom.fi/en/services/vehicle-data-and-tax-pay...

In Sweden you can text the cars registration plate to 72503 and get the cars owners info.

In Norway you can look up car owners by registration plate or VIN https://www.vegvesen.no/en/dinside/kjoretoy/finn-eier-og-kjo...

In Portugal anyone can request the registration certificate from the IRN, that contains the owners information.

The governments aren't bound by GDPR and can totally do this, but as a private party it would generally be illegal for you to scrape this data.

>I’ve seen multiple attempts to make the same argument you are by disgruntled private aircraft owners every now and then. None have succeeded in any official venue.

Same is true of literally all GDPR violations, we've only just introduced these laws and catching up on the enforcement backlog will take decades.

Not only that, but most governments are doing a very shit job funding the enforcement authorities.

The obvious solution will be to allow impacted individuals to litigate GDPR violations by themselves.
But but my whitespace! I really love low density interfaces. The new DB app manages to fully halve the number of connections on a screen compared to the old one. That’s progress!
> Certainly Carmack has the industry respect to be taken seriously. Why wasn’t he?

I wonder if his schedule played some part. He worked there for one day a week. I could see it being really difficult to understand his vision if you have to wait 7 days to ask a follow-up*, for example. And it's gotta be close to impossible to move the needle on existing culture if you're barely around.

* and while you wait there are plenty of other people around to ask instead
It is silly, it's magical thinking.
Doesn't look like there's any updates in the past 9 months, assuming it's vaporware
Yes. Some are not as funny:

Example2.java public class Example2 { Constructor with

Hello there, hope you are doing well.

from OSX!
Unfortunately they also lost tons of functionality in the process. The fact that typing on a file picker starts a recursive search instead of simply jumping to the file/folder with the prefix you typed, is nothing short of hilarious.

Gtk-classic is the only thing that keeps me sane https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic
Hence single-use. Like in that koan about checking for your password on the internet.

Humans gotta make up new jokes, while AIs can only rehash the one they know. At least, until AIs generalize the concept of humor, categorize 17 essential joke structures, and amass big enough corpus to generate infinite supply of memes. Then the concept of joke as we know it will cease to exist and lose its meaning. But humans can make up something new.

To be fair, ChatGPT got caught when trying to explain jokes, so that might be used. But I personally think that the best test for humanity is something that cannot be put on the internet, which we humans work increasingly hard to eradicate.
I don’t know why but I always feel compelled to thank chatGPT after a great result.

I know its likely meaningless but it just feels…polite?
Musk has been at the helm of Twitter for five minutes and has done nothing of consequence. The previous management played a major role in US politics for years. It had a major impact on a U.S. presidency and suppressed true information that could have significantly impacted a Presidential information. Taibbi is entirely correct to focus on what happened before and not on Musk’s mean tweets.
Reading Token Whitepapers is always a ride, but this one, oh dear...

> Atari is going to cover this opportunity, as our first use case is a crypto-casino, offering players the possibility to gamble with crypto-currencies.

Didn't even try to hide it.

> Our industry has become more and more decentralized. A game development project might have its animation created in one place, game environments in another one, music in Canada, core development in Montréal or Los Angeles, and testing in India.

Montréal, in opposition to Canada.

> One of the best examples that comes to my mind is the 2012 experiment by the One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) organization. OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing tablets to illiterate children in Ethiopian villages, leaving no instructions.

I can't believe these savages managed to turn a tablet on! Yuck.

> The value proposition of the Atari Token is to be the crypto-currency of reference for these blockchain-based platforms, otherwise known as “smart platforms”.

Essentially, they could've taken a pitch for any other ERC-20 token and stripped out their unique selling point. They don't even sell it on "brand recognition". It's just "wow look at all that economic freedom and theoretical (unnamed) uses of smart contracts".

The hot mess: https://atarichain.com/documents/atari-white-paper.pdf
College: A Solution in Search of a Problem
>You can be ethically against stealing, but still see the positive elements in the life of a thief.

Translated: You can use ethics to judge an action or just look at its risk/reward ratio? Yeah, that's what Musk does but that's also why plenty of people consider him a (near) sociopath.
It bears repeating: this is not the case everywhere and the same principle applies to the private sector. You can usually tell from the job description and the interview
Audon: Open-Source and Self Hosted Mastodon Spaces (Twitter Spaces Clone)
Souce code: https://codeberg.org/nmkj/audon
License: AGPL v3
How to use audon(Japanese): https://songbird.cloud/@nmkj/109492502045953554
Needing an untrusted user plugin to do basic things like display application tabs on the GNOME bar makes the entire project a nonstarter.

I really appreciate team GNOME's commitment to wayland, but outside of that, they have released a completely unfinished product which pales in comparison to the feature set of its previous incarnation.
I've been using chatgpt to help me with my (online, ofc) shopping.

Which microphone is best suited for a podcaster?

What would be a good gift for a 6 year old's birthday?

Etc. Often we surprisingly good results.
The XAPI toolstack is written in OCaml: https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xen-api/

I've recently completed bugfixing/testing on 4.14.1+no-naked-pointers, and 5.0 compatibility is not far behind (we're usually 1 or 2 compiler versions behind latest, e.g. current production releases are built using 4.13.1)

Disclaimer: I work on the XAPI project as part of my job, the project itself is >15 years old at this point.
>>The vast majority is catch-and-release

Only if you're fishing for wild trout, which is the minority in the UK. Most fly fishing is stocked fish in still waters and your ticket normally has a limit on how many trout you can take (typically 5 in a day), and once you hit that limit you stop fishing.
The FBIs authority like many other law enforcement agencies is unfortunately only based on what they are caught doing. Now this is more complicated than it seems because for the longest time, decades, they never even fired an agent for any reason.

There is no real oversight at an investigation or agent level since the FBI does not police itself. Few other agencies have the ability to review the FBI and the DOJ often fails to do this as well, they are all part of the same family.

Congress has oversight but that is more of an institutional oversight and not down to the agents themselves.

And it's basically a fact that all law enforcement is slow or almost never holds itself accountable for anything. This is even more true with a quasi international intelligence agency that the FBI has become.

The FBI has always had a unique role in the U.S., and it is disturbing to see corruption hiding behind the political division.

The left historically had many problems with the FBI. The history there is clear. The FBI had historically been a conservative type of institution and was often well regarded by the right. This seems to have flipped lately and I wish people could put all of that to the side and take a rational view of information released even in the Twitter files and things like the MLK Tapes podcast.
> One thing that’s quite interesting with the coming AI assistants is that you can treat them like shit and they won’t mind. :P

When skynet is born you will be first against the wall. ;-)

Seriously, though, I'm happy when I hear my kids say "Thanks, Alexa".
There seem to be many ripoffs on Amazon. Just a quick search yielded this:

https://www.amazon.de/Crafting-Interpreters-Paperback-BOB/dp...

https://www.amazon.de/Crafting-Interpreters-Tracy-Shep/dp/B0...

https://www.amazon.de/Crafting-Interpreters-Steven-Billups/d...

Have you already tried getting Amazon to remove them and failed?
I feel this hasn’t much to do with calenders themselves, but I’m really curious why you wouldn’t stick to schedules you set electronically.

Is it about the ability to edit it afterward ? Or because it’s not in your hand writing ?
Ask HN: Am I the only one hurt by lack of writing skills?
As I've been advancing in my career, I've realized that my writing skills are pretty terrible. This has become even more obvious as I've been trying to become a staff engineer, since I have to write more emails, communicate more, connect teams, talk to higher level managers, influence people, and deal with office politics.

I've tried a few apps to help with my writing, like Grammarly, but I find that their suggestions are usually pretty minor and don't really help with the overall structure or clarity of my messages.

I've seen a few similar posts here and it seems like this is a common issue, especially for non-native speakers like me.

So, in the last couple of months, I've been working on this AI-powered app that can fix my grammar and give me better suggestions for improving my writing.

Aaand… I’m here to validate it! What do you think? Is this a good idea to pursue? Would you be interested in paying for something like this? I'm open to any feedback or criticism.

Note: The above text was reviewed and adjusted with my app.
Thanks, I lost about 4-5 hours last night watching the the reviews he's done on multiple musical notation apps.

Entertaining, scathing and very educational. The latest video on the improvements made to MuseScore 4 is really interesting as well.
Does anyone else here feel a little bad for ChatGPT in this exchange? Its responses sound like a socially awkward person learning a second language. Man, did you have to go straight to puns? Puns are hard if you're not a native speaker. I'm sure ChatGPT has loads of good puns in its native language. Poor little ChatGPT.
Windows 11 is the furthest thing from what I'd describe as a "polished experience". It too has suffered from braindead reversal of UX norms in the last decade.
> Windows did put the application-specific menus into the per-window title bar

Except that's not what Windows does. Just about every app has a different place where you can find the menu (if there is one). Looking at a couple Microsoft apps on Windows 11:

- File Explorer: menu in an ellipsis in the toolbar; toolbar is left aligned so the ellipsis menu is in the middle of the window for a reasonably wide window.

- Edge: menu in an ellipsis to the right of the address bar.

- Windows Terminal: menu in a tiny down-facing caret next to the new tab button.

- regedit: Old-style menu under the title bar.

- Office: you know the ribbons.
Make sure that every meeting (if it is necessary) has an agenda, and follow it – strictly. Preferably also send out a pre-read to get everyone up to speed.

For standups we fixed this problem with https://spinach.io.
You're thinking of the upper 0.01%. Global upper 1% starts at about $1M nw. Private jets are only really affordable at 9 figures.
I have used both. Ocaml is a joy. I would rather swallow shards of glass than work with Haskell again.

The language is a mess. The compiler is slow. Performance is poor. The community is insufferable.

I think that what is meant by practical.
Kglab: An abstraction layer in Python for building knowledge graphs
Changing the brightness of an LCD screen does not affect the contrast of the emitted light. The lowest possible black is some percentage of the backlight brightness, not a fixed value. You can see this by changing the brightness while displaying a pure black image. LCDs do also reflect some ambient light, so turning down the brightness will reduce the contrast slightly in most environments, but many LCDs have anti-reflective coatings to mitigate this.

LCD typically has higher maximum contrast than e-ink.
Reading ChatGPT's responses from the post made me genuinely afraid.

Yes, if you pay very close attention it's clear that ChatGPT doesn't fully understand some concepts. But damn, it's close. Some of the inference it does is fucking unbelievable. It's beyond my comprehension how this can be achieved by just training on text inputs, even if there's Terabytes of them.

We have to carefully define the Turing test now when talking about it, because this system would obviously pass many versions of it with many people.
Minimizing used space is often (usually?) at odds with good UX, so I guess the actual question is: why is minimizing vertical space even a goal there?
Occam's razor man. Musk needs a lax regulatory environment for his businesses neuralink, spacex, tesla, twitter. Conservatives in general are pro-business anti-regulation, anti-union etc...

Democrats tend to be on the labor, humanist/individual and consumer protection side.

This is like the history of civilization and the simplest explanation I've found.
You cannot sell a ARM processor that implements custom instructions.

Or more properly to sell* ARM processors (or devices with ARM processors) you need a license from ARM where they give you permissions and (unless you are Apple) ARM is not going to give you a license where custom instructions are not forbidden.

RISC-V is open in the sense that you do not need permission from the IP owner to use it.

* I believe that you probably can manufacture custom ARM processors without a if you never plan to sell them.
Another botched case by the liberal hero Andrew Weismann.
Build Your Own Programming Language
So it would seem you haven't used Linux recently if you consider it inferior to Windows.
YouTube know what they are doing… irritate the hell out of you until you buy Premium.

I once had YouTube on in the background and an advert which was an hour long popped up - but I was focused on something else and away from the screen and the tv remote.

The advert? A video of someone pointing a camera outside of a window during the night and onto a dark street (no sounds other than rustling from the person holding the camera). An hour long of it.

Skip.

It was soon after this I paid up.
> The fact that you need different internal descriptors should be a red flag

It can be, and you're zeroing on sense where vague lingo like "enhanced interrogation" replaces plain "torture".

But that's a stretch. Every profession develops their own lingo over time. They're called "term of art" (1)

An example is when one sysadmin asks another to "bounce the box" - these words have specific meanings which are opaque to outsiders, but are brief and precise to insiders.

This "internal lingo" developing is normal, inevitable, even necessary, and not in any way a "red flag".

If the admins of twitter had several different terms instead of calling them all the same thing then ... maybe they just needed to be brief and precise, to distinguish between them, in order to do the job effectively? You're trying to invent a problem where there is none.

1 )

https://www.yourdictionary.com/term-of-art

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/term%20of%20art

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art
IMHO it was a mistake to shut down German nuclear plants before their EOL, but it's a bigger mistake to build new nuclear plants now.

And there are additional strains on Germany's energy grid that nobody predicted, such as exporting lots of electricity to France in 2022 where half of the highly reliable base load generating nuclear plants were down for maintenance and generating absolutely nothing for months.

This is an interesting graph:

https://www.smard.de/en/marktdaten?marketDataAttributes=%7B%...
I wrote this[0] to better explain my wildly unpopular answer above. Everything is absolutely correct here, but it's not a popular view right now. Often very smart people like those on HN can be fooled by the "magic" of tech that might not really exist in the way they think it does.

[0] https://medium.com/gitconnected/behind-the-curtain-understan...
This sounds like comments made in regards to about Ask Jeeves in the 90s
Yeah, I guess I should move back to php-fpm... I did years ago, but then consolidated to a very simple server where I just wanted Apache with mod_php doing its thing.

Guess I should take some time this winter to restructure things...
The previous post was making descriptive claims about US healthcare but then you responded with an abstract principle supported by an example in chips. It’s much more apt to go straight to your very last sentence.
Same. I rather enjoy using gnome. I just want the dock to be vertical…
I can’t wait for a world in which every company has a comedy department.
> “The author, dkozel, never came back to answer. I imagine they typed the solution on a 40% keyboard featuring unmarked keys and then rolled into the sunset on a Segway for which they had compiled the kernel themselves.”

Haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
> you can treat them like shit and they won’t mind

First thing that came to mind is that when this technology becomes slightly more refined, malleable and commercialized it's very likely that the first people who lose their jobs are going to be customer support staff.
My experience is precisely the opposite.
Less space on a UHD monitor (meaning these days we have enough pixels). In the 640x480 px days then it might made sense to really squeeze btn’s in…
You joke but you are not wrong. One could argue actually they were nazis before that.

Repubs and dems switched platforms awhile back though. People need to read up on the dixiecrats. Nixon turned them back into republicans though.
>I would even argue the original Macintosh was ahead of its time

You can argue about the Mac but certainly the Lisa was. Early laptops like the Data General/One as well (although in that case there business issues as well).

As for streaming music, to go mainstream it probably needed cheap enough and fast enough cellular service. Of course, ripped, purchased, and umm acquired local copies of music also had a place once cheap enough portable devices with sufficient storage were available.
I don't get it; why would it be _more_ of a problem than with current tax & benefits systems? Politicians can already make the "increase $benefit"/"decrease $tax" their #1 policy.
If all of maths was taught this way, we'd be looking at a bright future (in terms of education).
I still remember being admonished by a housemate that the neighbors might be offended I named the house's SSID "fleshlight" (because I was tired of being an uncompensated sydadmin who also has to beg him not to trash up the place, ands he was a huge weirdo and ordered so many goddamn packages that the joke was they're so hard to clean he had to order a new one every few days).

Years later I found out he might not have been joking when someone referenced my SSID (which was uh... not in Brooklyn) on a podcast did I realize someone may have literally told him to tell me to change the network name.

(The late 2000s were a hell of a time)

Anyways, I don't pay for sex but I love letting horrible people talk about horrible things as I try not to become the living embodiment of the "white guy blinking" meme, so I'll drop some knowledge on you:

I suspect part of the appeal is having power over another living being, and therefor... sex robots will never be a thing.

(Thanks for reading my post on the internet.)
He's not high, he's been treating people like contempt ever since Harvard, this isn't new
Thankyou for creating this RFC. I can see benefits specifically around reducing sub-domain hijacking if people use this correctly. I just noticed they have working examples in the appendix. I am adding these to some of my domains now.
Seems to completely miss a simple reference like "mary jane" => marijuana

https://www.songtell.com/rick-james/mary-jane

https://www.songtell.com/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers/las...

(not everyone thinks the Petty song is about marijuana, to be sure)
Exactly, and that other disreputable—Edward Teller.
They bow to popular opinion. They use wedge issues to maintain power and control which is what it is about. That and grifting.
"Checking Dependent Types with Normalization by Evaluation: A Tutorial" [1]

This one is cool too, I believe from the same author. I've read it recently and it makes pretty clear the intuition behind dependent types implementation.

[1] https://davidchristiansen.dk/tutorials/nbe/
I had the exact opposite response. I was relieved that it could make guesses that sounded sophisticated, but missed the mark entirely.

It made it sound like the guy in the room who thinks he's smart but has no grasp of subtext, and I think those guys are more likely to be mistaken for robots than robots like that are to be mistaken for humans.
They blocked some links, as did other social networks, but the story was not suppressed by any stretch. It was still all over the place and everyone was talking about it in real time, on Twitter even.
It's complicated by patents for some of the low level implementations. Typically, you'd license x86 from Intel if you want to build an x86 chip, whereas there are no licenses/patents around RISC-V as far as I know.

The huge advantage of RISC-V is the lowered barrier to entry for chip manufacturers. It's now becoming possible for tech companies to make their own processors for their specific hardware and requirements.

In my mind, the even bigger advantage is that the door is now open for open source RISC-V implementations, so that people/companies can work together on high performance/low energy CPUs. It seems such a waste of talent for different companies all spending time and effort to implement similar features in their chips, when they could be building and extending open source chip designs.
Which is not nearly as simple as the common mythology.
Winapi, how to send 100k events/wakeups per second
Hello,

I stummbled on this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24684813

and I saw stagger87's post on how to do ~100k events, as windows do not allow microsecond resollution in userspace. Can someone (or stagger87 himself) post an example on how to do it? Please note that I am new in programming, so please keep it as simple as possible.
It's a Star Trek joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5FGCeIP8I
> Performant means that something is working correctly or well enough to be considered functional. In a technology context, this term is believed to have originated with programmers seeking a concise word to express that a system or program will work, but may not yet be optimal.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28231/performant
But they can't contact Twitter and express their opinions?

The government routinely speaks to news papers about the government opinion on articles and how they are wrong. That's not censorship. Holding a figurative pistol to someones head and say "change this line" is censoring and supressing free speech.
Puns are likely to be particularly problematic, as they depend on how words and phrases sound. That, however, is something that is intuitively obvious to all of us who can hear, so everyday conversation, and therefore the training corpus, is not likely to say much about which words are near-homophones.