skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen plenty of instances where if you dare to be critical of Palestine they straight up ban you for being a fascist capitalist pig. You can be as polite as possible, but if one of the rules is "fascists not welcome" they can just accuse you of being a fascist and ban you regardless of your arguments.

I'm sure there are plenty of other instances that behave the same way according other areas of the political spectrum. This has just been my experience when I wanted to sign up 5 years ago, when most people using this platform were left leaning and tech savvy
This is an excellent point. One of the main things I see people say about ChatGPT is "when it gets better in the future". But as you point out, it's already trained on the entire internet. There are many features they could add and there are infinite special cases for handling various prompts. But the core of the product, the LLM generated answers, can't get much better without an order of magnitude increase in training data.

In terms of petabytes of training data, it will be a long time before ChatGPT's own responses are a significant portion of the training set. And even then, at least for a while, that should just shift responses closer to a sort of average human response
Actually I want what "progressives" say they want:

> people should live and die under reasonable expectations of health, growth and participation in labor, able to bring up their children to aspire to a better living standards

But I have enough real-world experience and I've been lied to by enough politicians to know that we will never get that through policies. We can only get it though the same mechanisms that pulled us out of poverty and exploitation and offered us this amazing bounty of choice we are enjoying every day in non-government-controlled-domains: free markets.

This is why I support less restrictions and more opportunities for companies and startups.

> I personally believe that corporations should exist to serve their customers, their workers and then the shareholders, in that order.

I do not believe these are separate classes and instead they should mix together instead: anybody should be able to become shareholder at the company they work or consume from, start their own company or simply work for whomever they want.
The upgrade path in this scenario is clicking the Upgrade option when having the phone plugged in to iTunes or Finder. This however needs a bigger computer to do it.
Good curation.
In this video,[1] he mentions 6502[2]...so assembly.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUosmUcckU

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
> like requiring proprietary extensions to lock down the thing.

Which they are already doing in a lot of places. For instance, the VSCode Python extension replaced the open source language server with a proprietary rewrite (PyLance)[0]. They also have quite a few extensions that are proprietary, like LiveView.

And it's worth noting that those extensions explicitly forbid running in anything other than the official VSCode from Microsoft. Forks cannot legally run those extensions, and some of the extensions will have DRM to prevent it from happening[1].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/n9yse1/as_of_today_...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k0s8qw/vs_code_devel...
Be very careful not to take in too much potassium, especially if you're taking medications that increase it(ex certain BP medications). That can cause palpitations as well as more severe heart anomalies.
The category for "general-purpose device" is really broad here =)

I, for one, WANT my phone to be as hard to steal as possible.
What's wrong with a "JVM but for everyone who isn't a Java developer"?

If the model works, why shouldn't there be competitors and wide spread adoption?
The more “focused” a group is, the more civil it is, or if it is too broad it needs extremely strict moderation.
A good example is reddit, where the large subs like r/politics and r/worldnews are just cesspools like twitter comments and the more smaller and finely grained ones have serious and useful discussion.
> The whole point of focusing on public domain content is that you don't get dragged to court over that.

Are you familiar with litigation related to Project Gutenberg?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg#Copyright

> The website was not accessible within Germany, as a result of a court order from S. Fischer Verlag regarding the works of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin. Although they were in the public domain in the United States, the German court (Frankfurt am Main Regional Court) recognized the infringement of copyrights still active in Germany, and asserted that the Project Gutenberg website was under German jurisdiction because it hosts content in the German language and is accessible in Germany.[25] This judgment was confirmed by the Frankfurt Court of Appeal on 30 April 2019 (11 U 27/18[26]). The Frankfurt Court of Appeal has not given permission for a further appeal to the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), however, an application for permission to appeal has been filed with the Federal Court of Justice. As of 4 October 2020 that application was still pending (Federal Court of Justice I ZR 97/19). According to Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation,[27] "In October 2021, the parties reached a settlement agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Project Gutenberg eBooks by the three authors will be blocked from Germany until their German copyright expires. Under the terms of the settlement, the all-Germany block is no longer in place. Other terms of the settlement are confidential."

> The website has been blocked in Italy since May 2020.[28]
If some institutions track indexes, why don't indexes drop the chronically underperforming asset?

If it's not actually underperforming, that is, a lot of the market does comparably, not much better, them $1B / year is just the cost of doing business, however cynical this may sound.
Amazon API Gateway Considers HTTP Headers as Case-Sensitive
* Don’t let the children run the daycare.

* Set minimal standards. If people want to whine about that shut it down. If people want to threaten to leave then point them to the door.

* Measure things. Don’t guess. You will never know how slow or under performing your product/team/whatever is without numbers. Use that as evidence to protect your team.

* Protect your people from your boss and be very candid with your people. This is how you build trust and trust is the center of a strong team.

* Have clear goals.

* Build a love of writing. If you cannot communicate in writing you are not a real leader.

* Encourage automation and strong foundations. Most corporate software is shitty because untrained people are busy checking administrative boxes instead of writing software.

* Actually write software (your team). I know there are aggressive timelines and budgets and so forth, but you need to write original software. If your team expects to outsource everything to frameworks and third party packages your software will be shit and then you and each of your developers are fully disposable.
If you can make do with a microcontroller then the esp32 has excellent software.

Alternatively maybe buy ex business/government mini machines for less than $35 off eBay. Intel CPUs have better software than rpi.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224882648354?hash=item345c0ce522:g:...
So, 'write once, run everywhere'... I think we've been here before.
coming soon to an AirBnB listing near you :)
> In private hands our choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought.

Sure. But why is it so? Have these "private hands" somehow made people into toxic, rage-filled robots lacking "human decency"? Or, were people already like this before they started using social media, and these "private hands" really did nothing but follow what people craved and rewarded with their attention?

It's easy to paint Big Social Corp as evil, and yeah, of course they are to some extent. They literally just do what makes them the most revenue in ads, without any regard for how that affects their users. But I think we're missing something when we absolve individual human beings from responsibility, and paint them out to be mere victims of the siren song of social media.

There's an old web comic that I'm sure a lot of you have seen, that simply makes the claim that:

> Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad

I am a fierce proponent of the right to anonymity online -- BUT -- social media is but a subset of "the Internet". There is nothing saying that anonymity must be, or even should, be the norm on any web platform regardless of its purpose.

I have no concrete suggestion on how to do it, but personally I'm quite confident that if you remove "anonymity" out of the fuckwad equation, you don't eliminate the problem, but you decimate it to a degree where it's barely a problem anymore.

I very much doubt this is the road Mozilla will choose to take, since it seems completely opposed to everything they stand for, but I'd like to reiterate that you can be a privacy proponent without demanding privacy everywhere, just like you can be a proponent of free speech without being a proponent for "the right to be heard".
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I love how much development work is still going on for the C64 (and other old computers). There seem to be more game launches now than during some months during it's heyday
One way of looking at it that helped me wrap my head of why “this time is different”, is that Wasm is not so much as a language but a compilation target (as say x86) so it can really run anything
With GraalVM you can run any LLVM binary on JVM...
You missed the joke. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k
> “Why are we over-complicating this?” is a very easy thing to say after being introduced to a project. What’s hard is to reserve judgement until you’ve educated yourself on the entire problem domain, and noted all the considerations that were made by previous developers.

I think that this is the "money quote."

I wrote something to that effect a while back[0].

I've been at this stuff for a long time. I have definitely done my share of overenginering, and overcomplicating, but it's my experience that a lot of that, comes from underestimating the complexity of the problem domain, during the design phase, and going "Lucy and the Chocolate Factory,"[1] after starting implementation (when things start to come out of the woodwork).

The more experienced that I get, the more likely I am, to predict some of the issues, before implementation, and I have learned to develop in a modular, flexible manner, that allows me to modify things, down the road.

Right now, I am in the middle of a fairly major refactoring of an app, that is in "chocolate meltdown" mode, because of all the addons.

Rewriting the server interactions is a big, risky task, but we aren't shipping (one reason I don't like the MVP model), so it's entirely possible to get it right before our first real users get their hands on it.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/problems-and-solutio...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ58I53mjk
No, but that doesn’t make for an outrage YouTube video.
Here you have the different links:

- Article: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm

- Repository: https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm

- HN Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33067962
3??? To fail 3 is less than expected generally
The iphone 6 supports ios 15.

This is a problem for people that refuse to update their devices from ios 9.

It is all related to changes in the activation protocol, which was utterly broken and allowed all kinds of iCloud bypasses for activation; update it to a newer version, and it uses the newer protocol and no problem at all.

This is a nine-year-old device that can still be updated.
Imagine not understanding what it would really mean.

I write a book.

For 20-years I get paid for my book. After the 20-years just the publishers make money from selling my book.

Would it be ok if I came and took stuff you physically made 20-years ago and say it's ok - you made it 20-years ago.
I'm sorry, too busy eating the bugs.
Very nice. Do you have plans to extend this to meronyms etc?
Definitely not okay, just pointing out the different kind of craziness at play here.

(In that case it would be purely the holding employees with no connection to the specific actions responsible for what their employer does.)
There’s a barrier to entry here for businesses to enjoy tech continuum.

Clean books, squeezed operations, cash reserves, and providing critical internet infrastructure you’re likely & able to discount at scale right now as well as foreseeable future.

Most non-tech businesses get by with, and prefer, the platform world that spoon feeds them.

It’s either a good time to be Google, or a self-funded startup. Not much in between.
It is a general-purpose device if its official SDK is publicly available and does not require an NDA.
This kind of thinking is part of the "I know computers, therefore I am better than everyone else" arrogance that has plagued IT since forever. Anyone who describes users as "normies" earns my ire, to also call them "dumb"...

Maybe people like GP here are the reason software gets suckier all the time.
Interesting. The price would likely be absurd and regulators would probably try and block the acquisition, though they can easily point to Apple, Amazon, Google, ATT and say, we are just trying to compete.”

I am wondering when these tech monopolies break or begin to lose power? They all do everything now. Each is so pervasive in every day life. They are all pretty decent companies all things considered, but there is no doubt power has been centralized again.
Personally I think it’s ok to reflexively question complexity on a vast majority of projects.

Most engineers get excited about engineering stuff, that’s a good thing but in my experience, a ton of premature optimization can happen before you get your product in front of users.

Personally I think working prototypes that you can throw it front of a non technical person should always be the initial state of a project if possible.

It’s much easier for folks to grok complexity when it’s tied to a functional prototype and discussions come up about its limitations.
Proton was never mature or stable so saying it "never caught on" is a bit of a joke. It was never released.

It also wasn't equivalent to Electron for a bunch of big architectural reasons related to required changes to Gecko that the team never prioritises because Proton wasn't a priority project.

> was solely bleeding money

Yes. Because unreleased in-progress projects should be profitable before they're released in order to be viable. How much money was it bleeding? Do you have eyes on these accounts?
>Most fall apart within two.

lol

half the people in the third world use their phones for 5+ years
My favorite podcast is the All-In Pod, but search and discovery is tough for podcasts.

So I built a semantic search index that lets you search across every episode of the pod with Google-level accuracy.

It uses OpenAI's latest ada-2 embedding model and Pinecone to index the embeddings + k-NN search. Wrapped up in a Next.js + Vercel webapp.

The project is designed to work with any YouTube channel / playlist. I'm just using All-In as a demo.

Would love to hear feedback & suggestions.
https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=postgres%20wasm
Artistic control is major aspect of copyright; as an artist you might not want to allow Disney to make hack adaptation of your story, or someone use your song in an ad, or gazillion other things. Of course such protection can be made into separate law, but I think just slashing copyright would be problematic.
The whole point of Brezhnev reforms was decentralizing and using market signals instead of pure central planning.
A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
As far as buying cheap government computers goes... price is only one factor here. Formfactor and power use are huge wins with ARM SBCs.
Not only him. One of my psych teachers made the same comment in 2007 before the credit crunch. He used to work for abn amro, a Dutch bank
Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges
Also another good solution is to use key authentication. Anything with password authentication will drop connection.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server...
> rather than doing the hard work of terminating

I don't think that terminating an at-will employee is any hard work.

What's hard is to hire a replacement; it can easily take months, and cost months of the employee's salary in the interviewing costs. And somebody got to do the jerk employee's work in the meantime.

(And this is in the US; I can't start imagining the hurdles of firing somebody in the EU.)
Note that this problem also ties into American (really post WW2) cultural expectations, which are completely out of sync with the rest of the world. In the rest of the world, you either have a social-safety net from your community of your govt.

Somehow, America has neither.

In the rest of the world, if you lose your job -> you move back in with your parents.

In completely individualistic societies -> your govt. provides welfare by taxing the generation with wealth (your parents generation, ie. Age. 50+ people)

___

On the contrary, America allows the age 50+ homeowners to place unprecedented restrictions on housing stock, further increasing their wealth while paying a minority of taxes (prop 13). At the same time, it's the generation that 'kicks their child out at 18', in an era when gas, infrastructure maintenance, university & housing are no longer 'practically free'.
> So clearly that a simple mind like mine can understand it.

A legend like Edgar Dijkstra referring to his mind as simple is insane to me. Such humility.
The thing they scan is your boarding pass.

They do not perform the ID checking, which because of varying forms of ID is a non trivial problem that they push back to the security lines.
Yes! Wasm builds on top of 20 years of experience and improvements of JVM, CLR. There are a few key differences, but one important one is the universal adoption by the industry (no ActiveX vs Applets war, .NET vs Java) with companies as varied as Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft actively cooperating on moving the standard forward. I have never seen anything like that and I hope it continues for as long as possible!
That's it exactly, it's sociopaths all the way down.
Well, they can just fork if something happens, no? Or even phase out this product, if something goes that wrong.
People who believe Putin is a radical should pray every night he doesn't die and is replaced by Medvedev.
Or just like there are bonuses there should be maluses, that are actually enforced.
Exactly what I thought reading that comment... but there will still be some older people sticking to it for perhaps a decade or two... just like we have people today still using emacs (guilty) and Vim. Not sure if VS Code will last nearly as long as those, it's really hard to stay around for 40+ years (anyone here using ed, Eclipse, Sublime, Netbeans??? I am sure there are a few, but the number is dropping fast).
I hope this means my dentist will stop giving me free samples of Oral-B dental floss that contains forever chemicals, as recently as last month, I wanted to say something about what kind of doctor suggests putting PFAS products in our mouths but I didn’t want to be a Wikipedia patient https://www.classaction.org/news/oral-b-glide-dental-floss-l...
Android also has activation lock, except it is implemented locally and you can still unlock the bootloader if you don't want that feature. You can complete the initial setup on a new device and get to the launcher all completely offline.

There are also zero technical obstacles to implementing the activation lock such that you can use your own server. All that this requires is little bit of non-volatile storage that is not cleared during factory reset. Which is what modern Android devices already have.
“Refuse to update” ? If the device otherwise works well why should one do this?
It depends on who you ask.

Personally, I still prefer Sublime Text to VSCode.

Now, the problem is ST is proprietary, but then VSCode is starting to be proprietary as well.
"Evil" is going too far, even as hyperbole, but I exited this article due to this problem.
I guess we will see, but my experience with these kinds of things tells me that 0 professors will be disciplined at Stanford for using the words “user” or “American” on their Stanford owned properties. IMO you’re being hyperbolic and pushing baseless FUD to bolster your own preconceived notions, notions which aren’t supported by either the word list nor the link you’ve provided.

Indeed, the content from the link which is dead doesn’t support your point. They said they scanned for content and found egregiously harmful examples, along with many “false positives”, meaning there is a process here. So it’s not just “you used the word American, therefore you’re disciplined.” No, it’s nothing like that whatsoever.

It’s more like you posted the word “jewed” somewhere on your personal faculty page and they’d prefer to get rid of that. But if you posted “jewed” in an academic context, there’s obviously nothing wrong with that usage.

I don’t think I need to explain why Stanford doesn’t need a list of words or scanning tools to discipline employees for using racial slurs on company property, so what’s the problem?
Christmas comes early: Ukrainian church allows December 25 celebrations
You brought up enforceability, so I addressed that. The policy itself is also bonkers, I agree.
They’ve been saying that the poor are getting poorer my entire life.

Yet in my country, we’re healthier; longer living; and yes the average person is wealthier than ever before.

It’s physically impossible for the poor to get poorer every year without a complete societal collapse. Yet people keep repeating this line.
It's viewed as the "cost of doing business"
Wait, so crypto is a useless ponzi scheme UNLESS it is using a proof-of-work scheme based on churning text/image models? None of the existing uses made sense until you integrated AI into the backend consensus system? How does that backend change suddenly make crypto useful and not a global ponzi scheme according to you?

Not even saying this is a bad idea if it is possible, though. Just pointing out this contradiction in your criticism of crypto. We should definitely be looking for ways to use proof-of-work without proof-of-waste, as it is still technically the most secure consensus method afaik.
Nope. Servo was always a research project, meant to explore what was possible. Making a new browser engine from scratch is a stupidly long undertaking, and unless you're the SerenityOS guy that can afford to not have half the sites not working because you'll be working on it for the rest of your life, the only people that believed it would be a full on replacement and pushed that theory were reddit zealots.

Servo gave the following to Firefox:

* Proof that Rust can both be used to make browser engine components and easily integrate, with really good performance. Servo served as a way also to test out Rust changes and pain points that needed to be addressed.

* Stylo, a CSS rules engine.

* Neqo, an HTTP/3 library

* WebRender, the multithreaded rendering architecture that everyone was really thinking of when mentioning Servo

Which is really pretty much all of Servo. Html5ever is fun but unneeded.
Kernel 6.2 promises multiple filesystem improvements
The VM part of WASM is not per se the interesting part. The really interesting part is having a VM that is not able to access the system besides what it's being explicitly allowed to by the host. This is an extremely useful security tool.