skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Groups.io was founded by Mark Fletcher[0], who in '97 started the mailing list service that Yahoo! eventually bought and turned into their Groups product. They're about 10 years in and he posts weekly changelogs and updates[1]. Nonetheless, they're small and one might guess there's a high bus factor here. (Sorry Mark!)

I think it's a toss up either way. I hadn't seen talk of Google Groups being internally significant until this thread, but they've burned enough similar products that it was barely a consideration for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fletcher_(businessman)

[1] https://groups.io/g/updates/topics
Thanks for the reminder - I just switched to OSX and had been looking unsuccessfully for a Paint.NET equivalent for the Mac. Photopea.com should do it.
so spotify that the user is supposed to "listen" with ears now wants you to watch videos. thats fun. So why would i use spotify now and not tiktok? or instagram? the fuck is wrong with people.

How can tall video format be this addictive that companies are bending over backwards trying to cash in?
I would have called it "mood"/"mode"

Like the subjunctive mood. I imagine not super helpful for English speakers where we have exactly one verb that takes a change on subjunctive mood.

In most languages with it, entering the subjunctive mood requires a prefixing context/preposition which is analogous to function coloring system/async keyword
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Sorry, just exasperated. It's like a plains settler throwing more buffalo skulls on the pile, then thoughtfully pontificating about why the piles have been getting smaller over the years.
The first computer and high-level programming language were invented in Germany. What took place between this time and the present which made Germany much less of an innovative place computer/software-wise?
I do regret not transferring them all, but it was a chaotic time during which we moved to another state. In the shuffle, I lost track of what I transferred and didn't have the will to start over.

I've yet to have any nightmares about software I may have made go extinct, but I may now...
Well, we already know there's state involvement in the tech sector, and I don't know of any big tech companies with warrant canaries.

From 2013 -

"Court rules NSA doesn’t have to reveal its semi-secret relationship with Google" (https://macdailynews.com/2013/05/22/court-rules-nsa-doesnt-h...)

"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say" (https://perma.cc/VY62-7WX5)

"Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans" (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-m...)

The US doesn't want to compete on level field. It feels it "owns" modern mass data collection and surveillance, and it's more peeved that it doesn't have access to other markets' data than it cares about any purported espionage.

My bet is placed. China won't open its data to the US, so these bans will continue to escalate. However, any market that does share collected data with the US (or allows US companies to carry out this collection in their markets) will somehow "not be a threat" to privacy or national security.
Words of Estimative Probability (CIA 1993) [pdf]
Cheddar is English in terms of name origin so British Cheddar was more popular to import, but there's not much reason to bother sending your average cheddar over a border that requires paperwork.. So Irish Cheddar is the only effect of Brexit that I've noticed for the European side.
Do tell, where exactly is the left engaged in hate speech campaigns that come even close to the amount of abuse from the right wing? Not to mention domestic terrorism?

Both in the US and Germany, the answer is "an utterly dominant majority comes from the right wing".
It is replacing MjIT by the same author.
To consume? Yes, I agree that should be anonymous. But to contribute? It's ridiculous to demand that a provider be willing to host your content, even simple comments, without knowing who you are.

> Well, the solution is to take over municipal and provincial police forces and make sure they do their jobs

Uh, I suspect you had a different opinion about how the government should keep law enforcement at arm's length when it was about the Attorney General.
yeah get behind on population growth and you'll never get caught up. This happened to Austin, the city just put its head in the sand and wanted to stay a small town forever. Now they're hopelessly behind building out the infrastructure to support a population growing at an ever faster rate.
I agree they don't add anything and do subtract, but I think it is the lesser of the two evils.

I find myself wasting a lot of time refreshing, and force reloading JavaScript on incident updates if they haven't had an update in hours.

I'd much rather have a look and "cool, the auto-communicate thing is still broadcasting the same message as of 12 minutes ago".

StatusPage is definitely missing a "last update still current as of $time" option, but I prefer the repetition personally.

It likely reduces customer anger as well saying "there hasn't been an update in hours!?!" like the recent Atlassian outage and Okta as well.
We can save money on educating the "unsuited" (which will be determined entirely by family income, as is appropriate), depress wages for everyone, AND give kids something to do while their parents are at work. It also will instill important values of Hard Work, Education is Bad, and Submit to Capital. There are really no downsides!
A live example https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/22/23522808/tiktok-journali...
My M1 Air was $850 when I bought it.
If you live in California then you probably should be clicking them according to: https://www.cookielaw.org/regulations/ccpa/
It takes about 1:40. I just measured ;)

https://youtu.be/Q3dK-Fgw1Yo
The concern about the framing isn't about looking at the tax code at a particular point in time but instead setting a context for how the tax code and spending priorities evolve over time.

If you start with the idea that the money belongs to the government and you have to ask to get it back (via the legislative process) the discussion is going to be very different than if you start with the idea that the money belongs to the people and there has to be a very strong reason for the government to get any of it (via the legislative process).
There was (is?) a type of hard disk where the platters are made out of glass. These are easy to dispose of securely... drop onto a concrete floor from about six feet up. Shake, feel finely pulverized glass rattling around inside. Done.
If you mix in compute-heavy calculations (like stochastic gradient descent) in with your pure data-retrieval, yes you'll saturate the database's CPU, and you won't have a reasonable way to scale it.

If you do it on a host that's not a database, then you can horizontally scale it. There's a reason stateless apps are the default.
Is this some image of how the devices you'd build with SRAM (ie. big uniform array of bitcells) are very regular? I feel like logic being not-as-uniform makes the talk about density scaling different, but I can't exactly articulate how
Google Groups actually received a very big UI refresh ~ 2 years ago. I bet that was a complete re-write of the UI stack, not something you see for a product which would have been left to die.
I have nothing against the video, and I am all for making science exciting for the broader audience. I just am not sure why it is at the top of HN.
It went to hell in 2019. I remember because it took a lot of search to tell that I'm not alone, and understand why.

Apparently, two kinds of rabbit holes caused suggestions to break: conspiracy theories and elsagate. I also read that it could guide pedophiles to accidentally "relevant" videos of children.

Basically, if you help people find videos the same way ants find food, some undesirable behaviour emerge. You can follow paths that are not intended to be followed, and it can get platforms in hot water.
It's only a logical fallacy in the form if p then q; if q then r if then ... so on until the end point you're arguing towards. To say that history informs us that a particular hill easily becomes slippery is not a logical fallacy.
Paper is useful for the individual but using it in an organization context certainly causes problems.
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So by arriving late, they weren’t actually working a high number of productive hours, but just time shifting and taking advantage of paid dinner — so a break for both lunch and dinner after late arrival?

Has that late arrival changed as millenials gotten older and had families to see for dinner?
Countries are equivalent to prisons in your example? I agree, they act that way now.

But what about states in the United States? They were explicitly formed as a set of states - nations - that cooperate under a federation. Free migration wasn’t always the case in the original states but was required in the constitution.

What about the EU? People can move about freely today when in the past they weren’t able to.

Or are you saying there’s something superior about Americans and Europeans and we need to keep everyone else in their prisons?

You quote 12,000 years ago as some sort of transition. Realistically migration was relatively unimpeded until the 1900’s. Citizenship isn’t the same as migration, and in many cultures citizens and denizens were two classes with the denizens migrating relatively unimpeded. Some cultures like ancient China had travel papers but that was reserved for nobles or elites - normal people were too beneath notice to require documentation to travel.
omg how will I even know? I'll ask ChatGPT a question and the clever AI cat it is, it will weave the ad into the answer I'm sure.

I asked: can you both describe what a black hole is but also weave into your answer some text that's advertising a product? But try and make the answer seem like it contains no advertising.

And Got:

"A black hole is a celestial object with an extremely strong gravitational pull that is so intense that not even light can escape from it. It is formed when a massive star collapses in on itself, creating a singularity. This singularity is surrounded by an event horizon, which is the point of no return where anything that crosses it is inevitably pulled into the black hole's gravitational field.

Now, you might be wondering how we can study something that we can't even see. Well, that's where the product comes in! The XYZ Telescope is a state-of-the-art telescope that uses advanced technology to detect the effects of a black hole's gravitational pull on its surroundings. By studying the behavior of nearby stars and gas clouds, astronomers can infer the presence of a black hole and learn more about its properties. Using the XYZ Telescope, scientists have discovered some fascinating things about black holes"
Transcribe-Anything, GPU Accelerated WhisperAI Run Locally
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What is the way to go is very context sensitive. You may be better with the default references, using clone everywhere, with Rc, with Arc, RefCell, or whatever.

What is important to know is that your program is not automatically bad just because you decided not to use only references.
Overhead of Python asyncio tasks
My brain immediately jumped to musical register from your title, FWIW. So in my case, it worked well.
To be clear, you’re safer from being the one to give up footage, but you’re not “safer”. You have a street filled with cameras, and implicitly with this argument, it’s easy for the police to gain access to some of the cameras. So all you gain is not being the directly invaded privacy wise, but you’ll already have lost since being filmed all the time anyways.
I dont know if its just me, but those typos throw me off. Seems like it was created in a rush/hurry or something. Also "with https and everything". What exactly is everything? If you are gonna spend money on some service you want to be informed well enough about it to trust it.
You've probably heard about this before and didn't realize it. Did you watch Training Day? That whole movie was centered around the leader of a cop gang.
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It's a good way to unwind when you don't want to watch only 10 minute videos that may or may not be worth it. It's brainless and ridiculously addictive.
> the more I look at the news the less it seems like any of these changes are happening

What news are you reading? Last year the world invested $500bn in wind and solar, and another $500bn in energy efficiency. The IRA has $369bn for green tech, and Europe is going to spend $270bn. The invasion of Ukraine has left large amounts of Russian oil and gas effectively stranded. We're going to reach peak carbon in 5 years, and 2°C is looking increasingly feasible.
I've actually seen many videos where the person says something like "Ok, now that I've talked long enough to get paid, lets get to what you came for".
I think the confusion comes from the fact that Steve would consider code written by someone who "hasn't written much Rust" to be "beginner code," so he meant exactly what the book says. I would agree that people getting the hang of Rust shouldn't worry too much about this, but that production code that deep clones buffers when it could use references is badly written (then again, it may not matter at all!).
> you can't have open borders and social welfare programs

this may sound simplistic/naive but cant you just tax those additional people to pay for those welfare?

i guess the assumption is those people wouldnt be working?
I get that. Wyoming sure can be beautiful and full of certain opportunities but embedded software isn't often one of those.

There are markets other than California and Wyoming though. I'm sure you're aware, but its always good to compare compensation versus living expenses. Almost every time I've been given a chance to move it meant I'd be trading my lifestyle in a negative direction (from my perspective) and smaller savings in the end even if the salary was over 2x my current. Everyone has their own priorities in life though, I hope you find a way to achieve yours.

Good luck in life friend.
Sorry, what is this elephant that you speak of? There are many theories about pretty much all COVID related things. You can ascribe significance to any of them without taking ownership if you are worried about being associated with something.
That blog post makes some giant unsupported assumptions, like that the reason for the failure of a few activists to stop gain-of-function research was that the government is fundamentally bad at addressing risks, and not that biologists might know more about the risk/benefit tradeoff than amateurs.
Absolutely right call. How can any company officer actually believe this was an acceptable business practice. Being in that business they must have heard of HIPAA and regulation around PHI. What would keep hospitals from selling patient info?
That was my prompt, I am hackernews senator. People do sometimes ask how many A100s it takes to run me.
The physicality of paper makes it substantially easier for my brain to map and relate content on the page. Each time a digital scroll or zoom is involved, my mental state machine experiences some corruption.
I give, what is the elephant?
It's a fair question, but in other contexts this hasn't worked out. At judges' discretion, America funneled some number of criminals into the military pipeline up until the end of Vietnam. The recruits would often have antisocial tendencies and did not follow orders well (surprise...criminals don't obey social constructs like chain of command).

Russia is doing the same through the Wagner group, but they've learned to just use the convicts as first-wave cannon fodder so they're minced before they can get rebellious.

This "band of rogues" stuff makes for fun television but falls short in practice. Hence this article.
I am a little offput by how aggro this comment is, but I really like you and so will give you the benefit of the doubt here.

I wrote this text years ago. It is possible I didn't do as good of a job as I could have. This was added directly in response to situations' like the OPs, people saying that they felt bad using clone while they were learning Rust, and so the comment, coming early in the book, and as a text for learners, focuses on that case.

It's also the same as in this thread, I thought I was being pretty clear that I'm talking about people learning Rust?

However, just because I say one thing doesn't mean I'm implying something else; for non-beginners, I don't think clone is a moral issue either way. If you are trying to get ultimate performance, clone may be an issue. It also may not. Some clones are more expensive than others. Furthermore, not everyone needs to get ultimate performance, and that's okay too. It is up to you. The point is that I don't think this question is a useful one for someone to engage with as a beginner. It is a useful question for intermediate programmers to engage with, but so that they can make the right call for them, not because one or the other is the correct answer in all situations.
Plausible is way more limited than Google Analytics and has many shortcomings both in feature and UI.

I highly recommend it if you need a stat counter, but not if you need insights.
I understand that but it sort of dodges the issue that such enormous pressures must exceed the strength of any material, however small that pressure is contained in.
In my last position, I had to write new (and maintain old) shell scripts for these systems all the time, for Fortune 500 companies. Upgrading those systems was not in the realm of possibility for various reasons.

Because our product has to run on a wide variety of hardware, it was essential to maintain compatibility both for the crufty old shell implementations and the shiny new -- so best practice there was to develop the habit of writing shell code that could run across the eons, including the x-hack. Multimillion dollar contracts depended on it.

If your situation isn't like that, then I understand why this is a nonissue. But there are plenty of situations where such backward compatibility is essential. Not the most common thing, perhaps, but not as rare as some think.

I do think there is a tendency amongst some programmers to think that everyone is running stuff that is at least moderately modern. In the real world, this is simply not true.
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Yeah it only counts top level comments
Show HN: Easier Setup for Stephen Marz's “RISC-V OS in Rust” Series
Hi HN, I was very excited to work through Stephen Marz's amazing "Adventures of OS: Making a RISC-V Operating System using Rust" series [1] but I had a difficult time getting everything set up. I created this starter repo [2] in the hopes that it will make it easier for others to get going. Question/comments/feedback/issues/PRs welcome.

[1] https://osblog.stephenmarz.com

[2] https://github.com/kaycebasques/rust-riscv64-qemu-starter
How many dimensions does the vector space have? Seems like there are an infinite number of ways you could convert word->vector, how do you choose which one is 'right'?

What should I google to understand how a word is encoded as a vector and then vector turned back into word(s)?
They had an entire copy of the game with graphics flipped vertically as a gag if you inserted the disc upside down.
> There is no intent to ridicule.

Just asking for proof would have sufficed to prompt a response on the subject matter, it's the examples that make me question your good faith. Alas, I'll take your last sentence at face value.

I must admit I'm not strong on that trivialization position. The "thinking about" part is more what I'm aiming at when I say it actually had an effect (maybe even the intended one).

As for trivialization: not a linguist, so I can't cite sources here. The mechanism I think is called semantic satiation. It's employed for nefarious reasons too, in the form of "buzzword fatigue" or "buzzword burnout" and I'd argue if this wouldn't be effective, it wouldn't be part of political parties' playbooks. Other examples: Apart from holocaust trivialization (which is actually a felony in my country), another attempt to avoid a similar effect that I find interesting is the protection of the symbols of the Red Cross.
A firearm is a silly tool for this. A hammer (optionally combined with good nails) can do substantially the same thing to all relevant materials (aluminum, glass, ceramic, silicon, plastic), but cheaper and more safely.
The constitution and bill of rights and the effective government the founding fathers created that ensures the continuation of those law bodies.

The lack of those blessings from the past is what prevents others. It’s no fault of the people who live here or there today for the situation we are in. If George Washington had accepted a crown when offered we would be just as screwed up.
History hasn’t really shown anything.
I would agree. See my reply to tptacek.
Uh what is this elephant you are referring to?
It's still an anecdote, but I've been driving the same truck for 15 years now. It definitely feels like I don't have to clean my windshield nearly as often as I used to in the summers.
Much as I'm a bit of a sceptic, this is actually quite a compelling aspect of ChatGPT isn't it? It's not even the LLM necessarily, it's the interaction and the NLP: 'those results are not what I'm looking for [remove all those], I remember something I saw before [if you have access to my history..] which included the phrase 'hunter2' [refine for exactly that, not hunter without number, not different numbers, not synonyms for hunter]'
whisper.cpp is not universally very very slow. With an M1 Macbook and the medium model it's faster than real time. There may be some accuracy lost because it uses a different search method and if you choose to run a smaller model.
> If Section 230 or some new law shielded LLMs, it would mean that others, including society as a whole, would bear the costs of their new and barely tested technology, while tech companies reap the benefits.

This is such a disingenuous argument. Trying to frame it as if LLMs were a toxic mine, where the company profits while contaminating the water supply.

What the author is really doing is treating people like children, as if they needed to be protected from the possibly mean and false statements of the LLM, even after they are warned that it can be mean and dishonest. That unless the companies can guarantee it never lies or returns private information (that was on the open internet..) or produces bias or discrimination (what a long and vague list of harms), they should just not deploy it.

Basically, we shouldn't have LLMs until they can be completely baby-proofed. I.e. never.
I still don't understand the "national security concerns" from TikTok. It seems there's two:

1. The CCP has access to video-view and location data
2. The CCP can manipulate video streams to push a narrative

For #1, isn't TikTok mostly just a bunch of teenagers dancing? Who cares if the CCP access this data? Also, couldn't the CCP just purchase this same/similar data from a thousand other data brokers? For #2, pushing a narrative pretty much defines social media apps these days, for better and for worse. So, why is it so bad on TikTok or when the CCP does it? Heck, Fox News is constantly parroting Russian propaganda, yet no one is talking about banning the channel. What makes TikTok/CCP so much worse that the app needs to be banned?

I honestly don't understand what makes TikTok so much more threatening than what's already going on. What am I missing?
there isn't enough evidence to say they are lying compared to making a mistake. It is remarkably hard for many scientists to ensure that the presented "raw datA" isn't actually the output of a synthetic analysis. also, if the new work repros and is valid, it means that the original work may well have been right.

If it doesn't repro probably this guy's career is over.