skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From esr's Jargon File:

> The name itself came from FOO NLI, an error message emitted by a PDP-10 assembler at SAIL meaning “FOO is Not a Legal Identifier”

I find old hacker culture endlessly fascinating and endearing. All of my machine [host]names have "foonly" someplace in the name (foonly-fenix, macfoonly, microfoonly, foonly-iv, etc.) as a tribute to these machines.
Apparently the pronouns to use are it/its? According to other people which makes your comment even better.
but if you can smell the plasticizers evaporating off of LDPE

It's more likely you're smelling unpolymerised ethylene. LDPE itself doesn't require plasticisers --- it's already extremely flexible without them.
The lead author is from a nonprofit called the Institute for Simulation Intelligence: https://simulation.science/

It must be fairly new, since their website is a skeleton compared to this article. I wonder what publication this is ultimately going to wind up in. Either way, this is exactly the kind of stuff I’m trying to integrate at my lab, and I’m glad more people are taking interest in this field!
Well, if they decide they don't want you to pass - I suspect they'll find their excuse then, no matter what. With power tripping people, I believe, it's typically not about someone's file but if they arbitrarily like you as a person or not.
To everyone hating on this...I think a GPT-3 summary of a diff is a great thing to have, because it's a summary of the change and thus can be quicker to grok than picking through a diff. Also this doesn't seem to preclude a developer adding their own text to the commit (the why, etc). Finally, if the summary looks weird/incoherent it could serve as a signal to the developer that the commit needs more work.
All known copies of the malware were obfuscated, meaning the variable and function names were renamed to nonsense. The version included in MsgSafe did not have garbled variables and it had source code modifications to hard code a MsgSafe certificate and servers.

This suggests that the relationship between MsgSafe and Measurement Systems was not a typical "oops, we added a library that turned out to be malware" relationship. Instead, they seem to have had access to the raw source code, rather than the packaged binaries, which in conjunction with other evidence indicates a close degree of collaboration between the malware developers and MsgSafe. It's not a smoking gun, but it's enough to warrant distrust.
Grammatically, “they” and “it” are the same gender, they differ in number.

Semantically, the difference in their singular use (prior to very recent evolutions) is that they was rarely used for specific known humams, and it was never uses for humans (but frequently for living things with sex and to whom grammatical gender corresponding to sex could also be used, in cases where the sex was unknown or unimportant, similar to the use of “they” for humans.)

So, while I find the idea of “they” as gender neutral but “it” as emphatically ungendered conceptuallt interesting, I don't really think it reflects historical usage differences.

OTOH, I suppose there could be debate about different presumptions of social gender vs grammatical gender here, too.
Unlike a lot of tech companies, I still like Netflix.
From "DVD in the post" to "We need to make/own our own shows" was a massive pivot that paid off for them, and launched dozens of wannabes.
I genuinely can't think of another company that managed anything so large.

Previous peers like spotify are still struggling to get out from under their publishers (still no HD music available) and they had to side-step to podcasts to own their own content.

Apple's got some good stuff they've paid for handsomely, but a lot of shit. Disney came in with a huge catalogue and had to buy Fox, and aside from a few star-wars spin-offs, hasn't managed to grab the zeitgeist and Marvel seems to be slowly dying.

Netflix is sitting on so much content and so many subscribers, they could cut back on new programming and introduce cheaper ad-supported tiers, and ride out the recession on their back-catalogue.
Plus (and maybe uniquely amongst the streamers) they've got franchises like "Nailed it" that are cheap to make but will keep fans watching.
And as my final "Netflix is going to win" point, they've successfully commissioned local programming and got the world to watch it. I can't think of any equivalents to say Money Heist, Squid Game or RRR from any of the other streamers. I mean just the other day I wandered into the living room and found my wife engrossed in "some turkish zombie series".. only on netflix.
Maybe in a sense that it also became a beating horse for people who missed the train both times and need to justify their failure and continued inaction.
Are you being purposely obtuse or are you unaware of the reputation of this community outside of this forum? They're likely serious.
> Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list.

Oof the international politics always come out in things like this. Twitter also publicizes all of its suspensions and bans. There's a Wikipedia article with a list of all the notable suspensions since 2010. It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-left aligned.

The list gets really boring the more you scroll down however. The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. A boring dystopia indeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
I knew several guys in the military who had never smoked weed. Their recruiters had them lie on their applications and say they had smoked it because they feared nobody would believe them and their honesty would be questioned. This was such a common experience that it was almost a trope: the only people who have to lie about their marijuana history are those who have never used it.

On the other hand, I also never smoked weed and I said so on my application, and nobody ever gave me trouble about it. Maybe I just looked like enough of a square for it to be believable.
GDP per person in history always blows my mind. In 1949, UK gdp/person was $11,000. Lower than Brazil now at $14K. $11K is right where Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bosnia are today.

Communist countries like the Soviet Union or Poland were at $3K. The level of Kenya, Syria, and Nepal today. $1K poorer than Bangladesh now which comes in at $4k per person.

Just soviet union: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1073160/ussr-gdp-per-cap...

The rest: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-2...
It's sad to think about how many old systems like this just... disappear. Something that cost millions of dollars (before inflation!), perhaps something incredibly important to history was computed on it, then just left to the fading memories of history when deemed more trouble than it was worth.

How many of these systems still rot in barns and garages, perhaps abandoned or about to be torn down because their owner moved or died? How many relics of arguably the most important human invention are gone, or their destruction is imminent, about to be stolen from the hands of future humanity by someone who doesn't know their value? When will the artifacts of history run out?
I don’t read any indications of humor, and I expect they’re serious, given the topic.
The suggestion might be that Trustcor received an internal build of the SDK because of their close links to the company. Perhaps the developer who worked on the mobile app also worked for the company behind the SDK?

Rachel’s suggestion in the thread is that the other examples of this SDK that have been observed obfuscated are much more recent, and that perhaps obfuscation was something the company has started doing more recently.
I am unaware. This place seems generally fine to me. Certainly no worse than others.
Languages are becoming more and more dumbed down. These languages become the standard learning languages. Eventually Python will become too complicated for the next generation of developers who are are learning low-code platforms. When that happens we'll read posts from our kids about how Python is not fun because it involves too much learning and us old timers will all be rolling our eyes.
> My stance on future Twitter-like proprietary social networks is clear and unequivocal: Never again.

It’s ran for over a decade, not a bad run. I’d very much be surprised if Mastodon instances last that long.

Decentralisation brings its own major issues, it’s not a silver bullet. Thinking that Mastodon-like services will take over is a pipe dream.

Proprietary services aren’t inherently bad as long as their business model aligns with your interests. The problem is that the current business model of social media is “growth & engagement”, not actual money from end-users. This means the relationship between the provider and the user is always adversarial and there’s an incentive to pull tricks like this so you steer users back into the malicious, official client to collect more data and/or harass them with dark patterns.

It is absolutely possible to build and operate a sustainable social media platform by charging a monthly token sum for the service. The only reason it’s not done nowadays is because there is no room for new players to enter - without interoperability either enforced by law (EU digital markets law?) or adversarial interoperability being made legal (the law is currently abused to prevent that), a new general-purpose social platform is a non-starter regardless of the underlying business model.
> 14000 is the total number of Ukrainian citizens, both civilians and fighter, who died on both sides, not counting Russians who overtly or covertly helped rebels.

Do you have a source for this?.
It has become unfortunately common for people to brand others with whom they don't fully agree as bigots.
Orleans is the first thing that comes to mind. Not sure how close the semantics are.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/overview
The usual way to do that is just to use a more general build system to call Cargo (or to call rustc directly) and whatever other language(s) compilers you need. Cargo is a Rust-specific build system, it's not really designed to build other language's code easily (and doing so isn't a priority).
> Our government bodies started allowing people to change their driver's license online.

Wow. Virtually never heard of. Most countries I suspect can't pull this off even if the intention is there.
The common belief of worth is where similarities between bitcoin and gold end.

What you list as drawbacks of gold are exactly the thing that preclude it being so easily weaponised for scams/fraud/rapid-wealth-redistribution.

You call bitcoin a SoV but further down describe it as a form of money. You also have an implicit assumption about what makes a "better" form of money. I'd like to read a bit more about what defines "better" in your opinion.
Hmm. Maybe comments like this are why the author doesn't like HN.
Haha appreciate the kind words, and you read correctly, looking for any reason to maybe back out of something I actually really want to do
They say the access got closed before publication.
Made me not read the article... oh well HN comments are usually better anyway.
I hear the men are real assholes.
If the programmer checks and OKs the message, then it still conveys information that you don’t have a year or two down the line. ChatGPT is guessing what their intent was, it could guess wrong, but if it guesses right and they validate that guess, then their intent has been summarized.
I don’t understand the logic behind this. A man can lose his job then how can he make court ordered payments for kids and wife? And then putting the man behind bars is detrimental to society because a divorced man would be experience depression and likely lose his job. Punishing such a man is not good for society.
I think you need to temper your idealism with some realism. Consider, for example, that 'qualified immunity' originates as a pragmatic legal doctrine rather than in statute or executive order. It is a creation of courts, notwithstanding the resultant tension with the Constitution itself (see eg Vega v. Tekoh, the most recent case in the linked summary).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/qualified_immunity
The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)
FAA: Contractors mistakenly deleted files, causing safety system outage
HN at least definitely has a Bay Area libertarian bro-ey vibe in a lot of corners of the internet. I think the white supremacist part is up to your interpretation but the intent behind it is serious, at least.
And there's also a bunch of CAs grandfathered in the trust lists from the time there were less strict requirements. I think those are the CAs that we now see being yanked.
Not that I'm going to try a similar quest, but how does one go about starting one? Just send as much mail, email and forum posts as possible, inquiring to every person you can get the name of?
What are you talking about? What is the supposed reputation??
I dunno there’s been some rumors “Anti-evil Operations” are building up to take over the role of moderators.
The people in these comments espousing "history"and want to blame every bad behaviour on the new owner seem to have a very short memory.

Twitter has always given a proud middle finger to third party clients to suit its own strategy. Firehose access terminated to analytics companies after it acquired Gnip:

"...After acquiring Gnip in May of 2014, we decided to bring all data licensing activity in-house in order to better serve our customers and partners..."

When they acquired Tweetdeck in 2011, they started cutting off apps who "'mimic' products, services and experiences that Twitter itself offers"

They banned apps like UberMedia (UberTwitter), twidroyd and UberCurrent over trademarks and having the audacity to offer DM longer than 140 chars. There are dozens of more instances. They have literally never been a platform or ecosystem friendly company. Ever. They used 3rd party apps to gain traction than killed them.

How is this recent behavior any different?
Medvedev warns of nuclear war if Russia defeated in Ukraine
None. As far as I'm concerned, they all suck because academia goes about teaching math in all the wrong ways.

I finally learned the point behind math thanks to dabbling in programming. All the math classes and teachers and textbooks in the world will never teach me what the importance of 1+1 is.
lol, mobile browsers are impervious, I was gone in 10 seconds flat
Your kind should just start calling it the P-word given how evil you think this term is.
I didn’t know it’s portrayed as low as 4chan
Example use in a DIY digital dashboard for a car:

https://youtu.be/iH9lp-Nms-o
Well that oughta clear up the reputation.
She goes by it, so go look in the mirror. We're all trying our best here.
iCloud: Who Holds the Key? – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Look at the sparse amount of native components that comes with them. Need a native map view, or maybe AR? Overlay them with your own custom markers? Go native or at least React Native. One single tiny component that‘s missing will force you back to native code. And do you really want to invest months of work before realizing that you need to reimplement everything?
The developer gets the upside of building a successful business and takes the downside of making business decisions that turn out to be misguided, no?

To put it another way - if the shareholders had had a nine-figure exit, would they have planned on sharing that with their customers?
China’s Population Declined in 2022 for First Time
As far as I know, you can use a self-signed certificate with HTTP/2 in every major browser.
Cable is cool, isn't it? https://i.insider.com/5273e2a669bedd7c06afe99f

Anyway Apple can make something uncool to something fine. See Apple Pencil gen1.
Here's a video of cars on the street in the Soviet Union in 1965. Lots of walkers and few drivers at mid day in a dense area of Moscow.

https://youtu.be/8uK5y8YjJTM?t=309

One from 1952, less of a big overview though.

https://youtu.be/J7UGpzhHIYQ?t=303
Or maybe the author is overly offended at even the slightest things, especially considering HN is like the least toxic community I can think of.. except maybe a fountain pen forum.
I don't think they actually shut down the API, they just revoked the API keys for popular third party apps. If you're using the API to build something other than a replacement for the official app, then I believe they still allow you to use it.

If they did shut down the whole API I was ready to make an argument about how public APIs can be costly to maintain because they're not used by first party software. But again, that's not the case, so I think we're left with the ads explanation.
Not OP, but the note surprised me too - I’m aware of a lot of the tendencies in conversations here, but it’s hard to really assess something from the inside, and the note feels harsher to me than I’d expect to be the common sentiment about this place. Can you share more?
I have a Tex Shinobi and the Lenovo trackpoint keyboard. The Tex is on my Linux workstation at the office.

When I had a Thinkpad and used the Trackpoint keyboard with my workstation, I had the same muscle memory for both. Bought a MacBook for battery life.
I'm not aware. If anything, I've seen a few cesspits and HN doesn't look like one. So, I'm surprised, and, naturally, would like to see a follow-up with more details.

Also, with all due respect, your comment reads aggressively, as an attack (my apologies if this wasn't intended as such), so I suspect you're going to get some strong reactions.

Just like that "if you're from HN you're bad, go away" banner. For what it's worth, I've also seen a few examples of groupthink bigotry, and I felt certain resemblance.
India has its border dispute but beyond that is not interested in taking part in a Chinese civil conflict.
When 1984 was written in the 40s the economics of car ownership were very different.

Great post on this: “Why Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car”

https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/why-agatha-christie-cou...
https://archive.ph/gcv2U
Does this applies to app like Buffer?
Sample Secret Keys for SAST Scanning Tools
Yes, Teams sucks. But (from my anecdotal observations) it's pretty popular. And in my opinion that's mainly because many companies decide: "meh, it's good enough, and it's easier (for accounting dept) and safer (for risk dept) to go with Microsoft, than to go with Slack / Zoom". Plus I'd say quite a few companies migrate to Teams from WebEx, which sucks way more, so hey, it's all relative.

So, in conclusion, Teams is probably a decent revenue earner for Microsoft at the moment, therefore I doubt that the Teams team will be hit too hard by this round of layoffs.
According to wikipedia ChatGPT is built on GPT-3 which has 175B parameters requiring 800GB of memory, so a few 4090s will fall short.
Exactly right. And to think there are still simpletons who dig in the ground for gold like neolithic primitives. Of course the doubters don't want us to know about this simple trick for turning iron into gold.
People disagreeing with you is not censorship. We can all still see your comment.
I believe the suggestion is not to _just_ say "google is an adware company".

It's to say "sure we shipped spyware to android, we're guilty of what we are accused of, but google does it too and steals all the same information, but from even more people"

> I don’t think merely being critical of Google (even in disparaging language) would result in them risking their appearance of impartiality.

But saying "yes, we shipped the malware you claim we did" would have gotten them removed quickly, which is again what I think the actual suggestion was.
Seems underwhelming to me. A bunch of useful ideas from computer science coupled together with mostly physics applications. The paper itself includes plenty of references, which demonstrate why their manifest is unnecessary.

I don't get it.
Yes, which could explain the lack of obfuscation but would not explain the source code modifications that hard code a MsgSafe certificate and URLs.
Very cool!

I'd imagine the challenge here is the long tail of tracing and metric needs. I'm thinking things like:

- For the JVM, do you support things like thread pools and execution contexts well? e.g. say part of serving up a response to an HTTP request means executing some async work against an execution context, does the context propagation work properly? And if so, would this work for other JVM languages, like Scala, or just Java? When I've manually instrumented apps for context propagation, it's been easy for languages like JS (Node) and PHP, but hard for languages like Scala, where there are so many different concurrency models ppl use

- Some units of work/tracing are pretty standardized, like say serving up a response to an HTTP request. But others less so, for example work triggered by job queues/events, where essentially a message on some sort of Kafka/Redis/Postgres/whatever queue triggers your app to do some work (instead of an HTTP request). I have trouble seeing how Odigos would instrument this well - e.g. even if you detect the work, how do you label related metrics well (can't just rely on HTTP method/path)? How do you measure success/failure of the job? Or if you don't try to tackle this sort of use case, would there be something like Odigos libs for manual instrumentation, where necessary?
> a pure capitalism based farming community would optimize for producing just in time and just enough to maximize profits which would lead to a complete fucking collapse next time a drought came around

I'm not sure where you got this idea, but unless you have a personal definition of capitalism that doesn't equate to private ownership of the means of production, this is an obviously false claim.

Capitalist economies are notable for their ever increasing investment in the future and corresponding decrease in the time preference of money as an economy becomes more developed.
My understanding is that RNNs aren't worse than Transformers per se, they are just slower to train, and use GPU much more efficiently, i.e. much more stuff could be run in parallel.
That's a very unfortunate side effect of a legal system and style of policing that, instead of being carried out reasonably by building trust and respecting rights of citizens, violates rapport and human rights at every step of the way with no repercussions for people in power.
I wonder if it would make any difference if the giver could specify how the donation is to be used? For example, say you supported student debt forgiveness and your donation could only be used for that purpose. Would that make donating to the government more attractive?

Unfortunately, such a scheme won't work because money is fungible and donations to a specific cause would likely result in congress allocating less money to that area of the budget.
In general I’m pretty skeptical of the ability to get anything deep out of these chat bots, but I think it is wrong to say that the generated commit message is worse than none. The programmer still read the generated message and OK’d it. So, it tells us something about their intent, in the sense that they thought the message summarized it sufficiently (or, they could just OK without reading it, but that’s just lying with extra steps, they weren’t trustworthy in the first place).
I am also completely unaware, ive never noticed anything like that in my few months here
Unfortunately the refund amount is not under their control because Apple has 100% control over the refund process.
My understanding that LSTM is a kind of RNN.
Consider this a prompt to review your /etc/sudoers for any utility whose behaviour is modified by environment variables in the env_keep list.
Right, so passing the Turing test is not sufficient to prove conscious. How can you prove that you yourself are conscious? What if we are all simply complex parrots?
I never understood the real use case of Google wave.it had lots of features without a clear goal. Google docs seemed enough for all those but the curious.