skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, it is worth noting that if one were a professional Twitter user with a discerning eye towards mainstream media, this issue may have been apparent from the outset.

10,000 impressions per tweet for an account with over ten million followers is remarkably low, and contradicts the principle of the law of large numbers.
Just enough to avoid an anti-trust suit.
There's pretty good evidence to suggest that the design of American pickup trucks is at least in part to blame for this.

They have much longer frontal blind spots than sedans, vans, and SUVs, and their high bonnets mean that pedestrians are hit in the head and run over, rather than being hit in the legs (not great either, but a broken leg is better than a broken brain).

The ever-higher bonnets mean that these blind spots are growing, not shrinking, in never vehicles.

Furthermore, many such vehicles aren't even fitted with passenger-detecting automatic emergency braking.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/the-hidden-danger...
The Computer Chess Club
Yay for competition.
Ask HN: Please help track down lost ancient web browsers
Over the past year, I've been tracking down and archiving the earliest versions of the earliest web browsers.[0] I've scoured the web, the Internet Archive, what FTP servers there still are, and been in touch with some of the original developers as well as the Web History group at W3C. I've archived many of the ancient browsers, but some important versions are still missing, and in some cases, so are entire browsers.

Now I've hit a wall, and I need help to find the missing browsers and missing versions before they're lost to the sands of time.

Do you have, or know of a source for, any of the following?

Missing entirely
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* Tom Fine's Perl browser (known as FineWWW, distributed as w3browser-0.1.shar)

* Jim Whitescarver's curses browser

* Dan Connolly's Tcl browser

* David Rashty's VMS browser

Missing versions
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* CERN's WWWLineMode 0.9/earlier and versions between 0.11a (Aug '91) and 2.11 (Sep '93)

* XMosaic earlier than 1.0, especially 0.5 the first public release

* MacWWW/Samba any version earlier than 1.03 (the Alpha, 1.00, and 1.02 were all circulated at some point)

* Lynx with WWW earlier than 2.1.1 (Lynx gained WWW capability in version 2.0 Alpha)

* ViolaWWW from before July 1992

* TkWWW earlier than version 0.8
> No need for continuous full-time work.

Probably not full-time, but some software are never done
Viasat Hack Exposed Satellite Industry’s Security Flaws
I don't think it has anything to do with fitness level, but thanks for your concern.
> capitalism ruins everything

nah, capitalism is a great driver of progress

> imagine speed of improvement in AI if everything was open sourced

you mean, how Linux's year of the desktop has yet to come. open source is not a panacea for every problem.
https://archive.ph/UwfOF
Did worldcoin fail or shut down? Is there an article about that? It seems they stopped operating in a few countries in March 2022, anything beyond that?
How is loan forgiveness addressing any of these?
We don’t know how long the tweet in question had been up. 5 minutes? An hour?

Without this information it’s impossible to guess about the reasons because impressions accumulate over time.
I never succeeded via actual language textbook or flashcard thing. It is just so boring, dry and you dont get to hear the language much. It works when it is done in school with bad grades to threaten you with.
People planning to have kids want to live in the suburbs because the U.S., in its infinite wisdom, funds schools from local property taxes. If you live where there are nice houses, you get to send your kids to nice schools.
Wikipedia is not a good source.

The 1977 flu pandemic was unique because it killed the young more than the old. This is because the old people had been through the 1950s H1N1 outbreak and had immunity.

This study from 1978 shows that the 1977 flu was genomically very similar to the H1N1 from the 1950s. This strain vanished off the face of the Earth for 20+ years and then re-emerged largely unchanged. The odds of that are basically zero. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395678/?page=1

This 2014 report from the center for arms control and non-proliferation reveals that relevant scientists in the late 70s knew it was a leak but hid it.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Esc...

As this paper reports, the academic community didn't begin to acknowledge the lab origin until around 2008 and didn't begin to do so in an official capacity (academic papers) until 2009. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542197/
Stable Diffusion is accessible at no charge, but is neither free (libre) software nor open source, as their “don’t use for bad things” clauses run afoul of “freedom 0” aka “no discrimination against fields of endeavour” fundamental to both notions.
"If you refuse to utter them, the group will not accept you as a member, you will fail to infiltrate them, their planned terrorist attack will not be discovered in time, and innocent people will be murdered in an attack on the minorities the slurs target."

Valid point overall.
But the problem with undercover agents infiltrating terrorists are not really racial slurs. To be accepted among real terrorists, one has to do real terrorism.

(book recommendation: The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré)
Good catch, those are typos. Parameters a and c are both negative, as you say.
I'll have to fix that description, thanks!
They're doing geo-blocking because that site just says "This feature is coming soon. We’re currently working on it! Thanks for your patience." for me. It probably only works in the US aka the default country. The stream URLs probably work worldwide. They don't want people watching US TV outside of the US because reasons.
The surprising effectiveness of crypto regulation
Maybe comparing raw specs, not accounting for software running slower, if at all. You pay for it in time, but also sanity.
data mining. Microsoft’s bing app is ridden with ad scripts and they’re wanting to scale up rev share for Bing from media buyers
It isn't a solved problem because standards are evolving. The most noticeable ones are related to encryption, but there are also HTTP2, WebSockets, QUIC and other protocols you need to speak on the web.
Key word being "had".

He is not part of it any more.

>In 2018, Musk resigned his board seat, citing "a potential future conflict [of interest]" with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla's AI development for self-driving cars, but remained a donor

I don't think he counts as an investor, and I'd imagine he has stopped donating.
Try getoutline.com, if you really want to save money you can run the community version which is open source. My company uses it and it works great.
You can often know what will be useless tho
Where the work is 90% of the time possible to do remotely and thus is AI-able, but the employer has the reasonable expectation that if they ask you can actually show up on site somewhere and have full context in verbal conversations as to the work you were "doing".
Presumably basic stuff like showing whether or not you've upvoted a comment and showing your own comments differently to other people's.
> “Ideally, a game is a one-off effort where you write a piece of code and if you're lucky, you won't have to touch it again.”

Ideally a game pulls in over a billion dollars per year, every year for over a decade. Think World of Warcraft or Fortnite, not Flappy Bird.
Use Duolingo and combine it with other methods as you feel like. Eventually you will come across one you actually like. Duolingo is good for keeping you in and for slowly teaching you basics.

Once you are on basic level, start watching netfix shows in your target language with subtitles. Or youtube videos in that language.
It's still around (it was open-sourced a while ago) and OpenGEM is also available as part of FreeDOS: https://www.opendawn.com/opengem/
Yes. By curl.

Every time comments like yours come up I'm just thinking "yeah, the fucker have no idea how much handling of edge cases comes up with libs like that"
Google Cache still has a copy: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DrNxtm...
I do not really see how calling someone a petty pathetic vindictive man child spoiled whimsy attention seeker, is anywhere near a measured opinion.

That said, this is a prime example of downvote/flag moment and move on.
Those are based on similar online conversations. If lots people insist they are right in conversations ChatGPT thinks are similar then it will insist it is right, if many give up then it will give up.

ChatGPT has no other way to gauge "confidence" in the outputted text, the computed confidence you get has nothing to do with how truthful the statement is, but how well the text fits given the examples ChatGPT has seen. A person insisting that a wrong statement is right could fit better and then ChatGPT would give that statement high confidence. But still the number computed is 100% unrelated to the tone it responds in.
F# is also Microsoft, is it? I am thinking about third parties that want to use the dot net ecosystem with their own languages.
The gaming industry is not 0.1 percent.
Yeah, it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-In-a-Box
Unemployment :)

If you're able to make a program into a sort of puzzle concealing its state inside a twisty maze of tiny virtual functions so it's impossible to see plainly how anything is done, then you become indispensable as the only one who's internalized how the thing works.

And then you insist it's all for easier comprehension… for those sufficiently intelligent to comprehend it.
Is it though? Just because somebody follows Musk does not mean they engage with his content enough for it to be floated up past everything else they may follow. It's very likely that a great deal of those followers don't find his content interesting, but don't find it objectionable enough to unfollow him.
Ask HN: Is undergrad business school useful for running a startup?
Looks great! Once you publish the code, please submit it to the Rust Embedded Showcase :)

https://showcase.rust-embedded.org/
Some people flag these posts, and flagging affects HN ranking.
So maybe we should set some reasonable limit on how old person must be to enter into university? 25 or 30? Or just to take a loan in general?

It is strange that we say 18 to be too young and stupid to make this type of contract, but not stop them making most other types of contracts. Or signing up for military... If they truly were that stupid, maybe we should significantly increase the age limits for contracts.
EA Lays Off over 200 Apex Legends Testers over Zoom Call
> "EA would not comment....but said [work will now] be spread out to teams located elsewhere."
Macros are evil. I will stick to zig at the moment.
This particular instruction - XSAVES - isn't the sort of simple building block that most user code is full of like ADD or MOV. It does quite a bit of work (saving a chunk of the CPU state) and is implemented more like calling a subroutine within the CPU than the way the normal number-crunching instructions are executed. These updates basically just change that subroutine code within the CPU.
The "contrived textbook example from 20 years ago" still has a very real impact today. In my experience there are still lots of development teams that are instructed to develop in a "Clean code" style in the flavour of Uncle Bob. It's especially true in the .net development space, and is almost a cultural problem within .net.

As a former .net developer that was often pushed into "clean code", my big takeaway from the video was that actually, not using "clean code" techniques, such as polymorphism made the code so much more readable and easier to grok that the optimisation that followed was completely natural.
What’s mainstream media in this case? The Verge, a web-only publication that only writes about tech? Seems like stretching the definition beyond any usefulness…
Looks like someone saved a copy - https://pastebin.com/DXGstrXV
So the decoder is like an emulator. If so it would theoretically be possible to provide a different ISA and have it execute by the cops as well. Not saying it would be fast, or practically possible due to how locked down it is.
Yes, you are thought controlled through entangled consciousness and disembodied jackasses are indistinguishable from God in ordinary mens’ minds.

The unsuspecting are neurologically reprogrammed subtly over time. The unwitting say their lines or follow their lines of wandering. These through a technology of power modern man will vehemently deny is possible, wear our bodies as their skins.

These control the synchronicities in your life, the thoughts in the back of your minds, and those of everyone you know.

American Thought Control is the occult secret state of power screwing us out of our free wills and natural destinies.
Bilion build systems, package managers, compilers, test frameworks, etc etc

You change company and you have to relearn all boring tools
Agree. I not taking him at his word that he is correct, and of course we would need more data. But it does sound strange.

My problem with all these twitter reporting reminds me of Tesla a few years ago, people just wildly extrapolating and infering from tiny amount of information and then deriving prove that Musk is a piece of shit and the company is going down in flames.

The first can be argued, but the second doesn't seem to be happening nearly as much as people claim.
Let's see: spend x to train something that would cost .0001 x to copy. Tis a quandry.

Plus: a new tool for state actors to spread disinformation in perfectly convincing English. What could go wrong?
>> But this program is representable by a neural net; after all, neural nets are turing complete. [1]

This is indeed evidence of an interesting phenomenon. It seems that many of the hare-brained things that people say lately are conclusions they have drawned starting from the premise that neural nets are somehow magickal and mysterious, and so they can do anything and everything anyone could imagine, and we don't even really need to come up with any other explanation about those wonders, than "it's a neural net!".

So, for example, the author can claim that "there’s some sort of fuzzy arithmetic engine at the heart of GPT-3", without having to explain what, exactly, is a "fuzzy arithmetic engine" (it's just "some sort" of thing, who cares?) and why we need such a device to explain the behaviour of a language model.

Then again, what's the point? People write stuff on the internets. Now we have language models trained on that nonsense. Things can only get worse.

_______________

[1] The link in the article points to a paper on the computational capabilities of Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs), not "neural nets" in general. The Transformer architecture, used to train GPT-3's model is not an RNN architecture. In any case, the linked paper, and papers like it, only show that one can simulate any Turing machine by a specially constructed net. To learn a neural net that simulates any Turing machine (i.e. without hand-crafting) one would have to train it on Turing machines; and probably all Turing machines. GPT-3's model, besides not being an RNN, was trained on text, not Turing machines, so there's a few layers of strong assumptions needed before one can claim that it somehow, magickally, turned into a model of a Turing machine.

Anyway, the Turing-complete networks discussed in the linked paper, and similar work, inherit the undecidability of Universal Turing Machines and so it is impossible to predict the value of any activation function at any point in time. Which means that, if a neural net ever really went Turing complete, we wouldn't be able to tell whether its training has converged, or if it ever will. So that's an interesting paper- that the author clearly didn't read. I guess there's too many scary maths for a "layman". Claiming that GPT-3 has "some sort of fuzzy arithmetic engine" doesn't need any maths.
They literally didn't know what the current year was? Were they high and/or mentally disabled?
They bought ai.com so I guess it won't be long until they'll rebrand to o̶p̶e̶n̶ai.com
Best explanation in my opinion.

Almost like a CPU has an JIT emulator for x86.
Same, I just cannot get used to Pandas. It's weird.
It's well documented that these models can solve variations of questions that are not found anywhere in their training set, and even entirely novel problems invented by prompters. Not with 100% success, but they can do it far with a rate far better than chance, so the idea that they're pulling responses from their training data is simply not correct.
The Economy Is Great. The Middle Class Is Mad
> Yes, the .run drivers from Nvidia.

If you're manually installing them outside of Ubuntu package management then you need to reinstall them every time you upgrade your kernel. (This is a design decision by Linux to make life harder for closed source drivers, there's nothing Nvidia can do about it)
Very serious
Investors do love a bandwagon...
Polars is much faster, maybe that's interesting for you.
Elden Ring hype was based on reviewers playing the first 8-10 hours and (justifiably) being very impressed with it, completely missing how repetitive, frustrating and overly hard it gets later, not to mention the terrible ending.
Depends on how you look at the problem. if you look at it as a health problem it makes sense.
The issue is being thought about (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...), and then there is a problem with changing the existing habits.

As you can see with screen capture, even if the api is available, but it will take years to adopt, with some intentionally dragging their feet -- it is different after all, and the old way worked for me, etc, etc.

MacOS ecosystem moves much faster in this regard; mac users expect rapid adoption of new apis, and do not have 20+ years old bash scripts that should continue to work untouched.
It’s amazing how much work went into making it look like an abandoned 2003 arcade, even down to the team worrying about the color of the legs of a machine that might give it away as a more recent release. Then HBO stuff a Papermate Inkjoy RT pen in Sarah’s hand right in the first episode. The Inkjoy brand didn’t appear until around 2012 (and the retractable one was a little later). I’m assuming it was a product placement thing but it was quite in your face.

https://productplacementblog.com/tv-series/inkjoy-gel-pen-in...
Most crypto projects? (Half /s...)

But seriously, the buzz around ChatGPT is huge. Anyone could step in with a crowdfunding campaign to raise that if they promised the right things.
You do realize that’s an actual word? :) In topology, a thing is called connected if it contains no proper subset that’s open and closed at the same time, aka clopen subset.
The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories
OK, since we are splitting hair there, then most graphics controllers and gpus used are Intel.

Also note, that users that use graphics cards are minority themselves.
ClosetAI, it has hidden thought that it doesn't want society to know
What did it "clear the slate" from?
What are some unethical things about Wikipedia or archive.org?
Yeah, same experience here- although I wonder if a cache miss has the side effect of the indexer scheduling retrieval for later? ;)
By the way I've read some of your blog posts on the subject, and I very much agree with your sentiments on the difficulty of remediating prompt injections.
>> From the comments I don't get what is HN's stance for it? Could someone please ELI5 the arguments for and against this?

HN doesn't have one stance. The pros are that "the project" or those running it have full control of all contributions. In regular open source this allows doing things like changing the license. It can be beneficial to change the license from say GPLv2 to GPLv3, or maybe to MIT if that's what turns out to be important. The cons include things like taking the code private and changing to only commercial licenses. This one also seems to suggest they might have commercial licensing in addition to open. In the end, a contributor can always take the code and fork it if something bad happens, but in practice it's best for a project to have a single central development effort.

One project that comes to mind is Q-CAD. It's developer maintains a commercial/paid version that has things the open source one does not. Therefore a CLA is required to contribute to it. I suspect enough people decided "hey, I don't want to contribute to your commercial product even if the OSS version also gets my contribution" that very few contribute, and years ago an earlier version was forked to create LibreCAD. Sadly Q-CAD has since made major improvements - to toolkit and others - but the open version can't take those changes. So we have an open source version that is kind of old and a newer version not getting contributions.
Well, my experience was that ChatGPT produced utter nonsense including literally "1/19+1/19=2/19=1" when asked a simple probability question.
You're not "guilty, until proven innocent" of being a potential murderer.

In that scenario you'd be guilty of carrying a fixed bladed knife without a good reason.

You don't have a good reason to have a sushi knife on you in a pub because you could have just gone straight home or left it at work. That it might be inconvenient or take extra time isn't going to be seen as an excuse.

You might be the nicest person in the world but by incompetently bringing a big sharp knife into a pub someone else with less scruples might be able to make use of it.

Anything you do with that knife, that you just happened to have on you and definitely didn't bring to intimidate people, in a pub where you're clearly not at work as a sushi chef, would be covered by completely different laws.
Wow!
We allow for the same but the user has to click to highlight moments or highlight the transcript.

Having it automatically done is the next step but as we’re a generalist meeting tool it’s a tad harder (https://spoke.app)

We’ll done!
> It is ALL visual input.

And sound, taste, smell, touch.
I don't know how is it possible in 2023 both trains to run on the same line and therefore crush head to head with each other. This is murderous negligence.
Our cars kill people because our infrastructure is not made for human beings. The goal is not to make the cars soft and bouncy, it's to make them unnecessary.
As a SWE this is uplifting for many managements use Musk/Twitter as example to squeeze us.

This is selfish, but the worse Twitter burn, the less higher ups think of cheap out on software.
Ha! Cool, there's probably a few more of us reading on desktop than I think. I'll have to check out the Humble Bundle thing, I like Garth Ennis too.
Interesting but incomplete.

- State population density is too vague, what is the population density at the spot of the accident(s)?

- Age of pedestrians?

- Who was at fault, the driver or the ped?

- Did a mobile device factor into the cause of the accident?

- 2019 to 2022 feels like a small sample.

- I suspect there's another study somewhere, "More People Are Getting Their Exercise by Walking." That is, it's not about population and population density but opportunities. More walked miles creates more chances for an accident.
Are you sure? According to Wikipedia it's "source available"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion

It seems to come with a laundry list of vague restrictions
I see that it's down again cause it's not working
I still see these guys in Lisbon's main train station trying to get new customers. They also seem to do some sort of face scan for new customers.
My latest reply just appears on previously empty broken "Following" tab.[0]

As I remember, my reply(-ies) should not be shown on this tab at all, if there are not next reply from people I'm following.

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1630898754738876417
4channers use Normalfag. "Normie" is the sanitized version for Redditors and Youtubers that are too afraid to use the -fag suffix. Same with the "Glowie" meme.