skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here!

> The piece is pretty hard to read; it is a little histrionic. I am guessing it's AI generated.

This essay was crafted by 100% organic free-range meat.

But glad to know I don't pass the Turing Test :)

Feel free to shoot me an email at hello@taylor.town with any writing suggestions you have!

> Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that is usually characterized by futuristic and dystopian elements.

I'm still growing as a writer, but I personally see urinal touchscreens and a magnificent highway interstate system laden with ads as exceedingly "dystopian" and "futuristic". I tried to convey that feeling, but may have missed the mark. The only reason I didn't have to write satirical fiction is that it's already here.
William A. Wulf, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Dies at 83
(Sitting in Kendall Square right now). I'm not surprised, though we're saying the same thing. So. Much. Biotech.

This is why the WFH revolution didn't make me panic when I discovered how much it would end up costing to renovate a small house 1.5 miles from here. So much biotech, and for that you need to be in the lab at least some of the time. The MBTA's recent troubles ("global slow zone", anyone?) only make it "better", like I paid them off or something.
Crazy idea, combine that with the technique in the submission. Use the chroma as-is, and average the traced luma with the blurry thumbnail luma.
The average "investor" is a gambling addict or financially desperate Reddit cryptocurrency poster. They don't care beyond NUMBER GO UP and I am certain Justin Sun knows that too.
I don’t care about points but it’s annoying when dissenting opinion gets buried. Back in the day the only HN comments that got downvoted were flamebait or trolling.
Frame rate is often an interpolated and predicted view over a fixed tickrate.
Anyone else notice how inaccurate the iOS weather app has gotten in iOS 16? It used to be very accurate in terms of rain/snow in California, but recently it's just completely wrong. I end up going to weather.com to get an accurate report.
It seems like all the problems with AI generated text are already existing problems that AI may exacerbate.

A lot of people talk about them like these are new problems. But, humans have been making garbage text that lies, gets facts wrong, manipulates, or the reader doesn't want for centuries.

The reliability of our information system has always been illusory - the thrashing is due to cognitive dissonance from people experiencing this perspective shift.
It's not clear that the SEC has jurisdiction here; there doesn't seem to be a bright line test deciding if crypto is a security or a commodity. This behavior might be better regulated by the FTC than the SEC.
If AI is invented, it seems better to keep it fragmented. The real danger is one selfish AI to rule us all.
Canada's MAID is well ahead of the curve on this. You can qualify just for saying you're depressed in some cases.
This is the best I've found that covers recent developments:

https://meistdan.github.io/publications/bvh_star/paper.pdf
Depending on the context, it can matter a great deal whether or not it came from a human. Whether or not it contains lies is a separate issue.

The inability to reliably tell if something is machine-generated is, in my opinion, the most dangerous thing about the tool.
Economic Report of the President [pdf]
Nice job, a material improvement over the mentioned blur hash.

A nice CSS transition for when the image loaded would be the cherry on top ;)
In November last year it was still possible to get it to do wilder stuff by just asking it to pretend. This has been trained out of it by now and so it sticks to its stiff tone.
Is It Time for Morels Yet?
The potato WebP had the headers stripped off. You need JS to put the headers back on.
This screams to me that each internal team just wants a piece of the glory and the accompanying praise and "way to get this across the finish line team!" emails.
Another interesting use case - government training models on legislatively protected data (e.g. tax data). Lots of data the government holds is governed by confidentiality restrictions built into legislation, limiting its utility. Sounds like federated learning could be a way around that.
> For humans, there’s simply an alarming percent of the time they present faulting memories as facts

It's perhaps worse than just 'faulting' memories, but there is an active process where memories are actively changed:

"The brain edits memories relentlessly, updating the past with new information. Scientists say that this isn't a question of having a bad memory. Instead, they think the brain updates memories to make them more relevant and useful now — even if they're not a true representation of the past"

- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/02/04/2715279...

I forget where I was introduced to this idea. In that source, I recall (FWIW!) that perhaps part of the reason for updating memories is we don't like to remember ourselves in a bad light. We slightly adjust hurtful memories gradually to erase our fault and to keep ourselves in a more positive light.
The whole kubernetes section of this writeup is two sentences. They went with a vendor provided kube & it was expensive & didn't go great.

It just sounds like it was poorly executed, mostly? There's enough blogs & YouTube of folk setting up HA k8s on a couple rpi, & even the 2GB model works fine if having not-quite-half the ram as overhead on apiservers/etcd nodes.

It's not like 37signals has hundreds of teams & thousands of services to juggle, so it' s not like they need a beefy control plane. I dont know what went wrong & there's no real info to guess by, but 37s seems like a semi-ideal easy lock for k8s on prem.
Is this one of those "self aware wolf" situations?
That's the only image with a non-zero EXIF orientation. Which probably means you're using an older browser (e.g. Chrome started respecting EXIF orientation in version 81+, which I think came out 3 years ago?). You'd have to update your browser for it to display correctly.
Except it was created to model virtually every solution to every compute need. It’s not about the compute itself, it’s about the taxonomy, composability, and verifiability of specifications which makes Kubernetes excellent substrate for nearly any computing model from the most static to the most dynamic. You find kubernetes everywhere because of how flexible it is to meet different domains. It’s the next major revolution in systems computing since Unix.
> without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings

I’ve never understood why this loophole of “non admission of guilt” exists in our legal systems.
We just don't care enough. The amount of apathy the average person in a developed country has for the rest of their fellow man is astounding if you stop and think about it for a bit. People love to go on and on about how capitalism is good and paying them pennies isn't exploitation, we're lifting countries up into the "first world" and that's true to an extent, while conveniently ignoring that the countries being lifted up are either suffering for it themselves or are just shifting the exploitation farther down the line. Eventually we're gonna run out of people to shit on in order to make our lifestyles possible, and that's when it'll get interesting.

I've already written about this before on here so I'll just plop that down instead of rehashing it more:

I've read that there is a certain number of people that we're basically optimized to coexist within a societal structure, and modern civilization passed that a long time ago, and human beings in general just aren't capable of empathy on the scale of modern civilization. And I mean, it makes sense when you think about it. On some abstract level you have to know that even meagre standards of living in western society requires someone, somewhere to be suffering to provide it. $1 for a pound of bananas shipped from across the world before they even have a hint of yellow on them? That shit don't come without a cost, and our $1 sure as hell aint paying it. But we all just kind of don't think those people just to get through the day, because dwelling on the extent of suffering and horror we've wrought upon our fellow man in pursuit of whatever fresh hell the guys over at Oreo have managed to shape into the general form of a cookie would leave us a broken shell of a person and unable to show up for our next shift at the Big Mac factory.
Absolutely this, I think OP has an atypical mental model of the daily boundaries of temperature, we’ve been conditioned to think of daily highs and lows from radio and local news television forecasts. You can’t just look at the app in isolation of decades of social conditioning that predate the iPhone and weather apps.
As an engineer reading this makes me feel ashamed
The SEC's major focus on wash trading in this complaint might have some interesting implications for the broader crypto ecosystem.
>In my understanding it's something comparable to `gin.Default()` or `flask.Flask(__name__)`, rather than lower level basic `http.Server{Addr: addr}` or `http.server.HTTPServer(address)` (which still doesn't require any manual HTTP protocol parsing).

Its not. Keep reading.
> still sell their goods for less than U.S. companies paid in material costs

I don’t get how this part is possible. How are the Chinese paying less than the Americans for imported wood?
Come to my tech conference in SoCal this August!

(Sorry, we won't be offering any pissing games.)

[1] https://outland.sh
There’s a free, open source, community edition, which provides most of the functionality
Actual title should be the first line - @sama blaming an open source library for service issues provided by his multi-billion dollar "open" corp.

"we had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library"
A More Delicious Region: Following Alexis de Tocqueville to Italy
But does the market not also focus on profit and continuous expansion/consolidation? Clearly based on things like drug prices, egg prices, etc… profit is a “driving” factor, not “will this product sell.”
Coinbase Receives Wells Notice
Coinbase Gets SEC Notice Signaling Intent to Sue over Crypto Offerings
Down in Melbourne, Australia it’s regularly 5-10 degrees wrong.

It’s like they got a 7 day forecast, and never updated it.

Something must have happened this year, because it used to be very accurate.

Now, if if you want accurate weather (down under) you need to use the pretty good BOM app. But, it doesn’t have a Home Screen widget, or watch complications.
Which Wikipedia page is longer?
I usually post articles from my blog[0] in relevant sub reddits and here on HN.

I also try to write high quality content, and about things I worked with or encountered-thus hitting relevant Google terms, which in turn brings me a little bit of organic traffic.

[0] https://yieldcode.blog
I got full on random responses to a jail break I used the other day. They clearly have caching/isolation issues.
Due to stickiness prices almost never drop, but they can grow slower than inflation, which in the limit has the same effect.
The revelation that FDIC (allegedly) forced Signature's acquirer to divest of cash holdings from crypto companies is another bit of evidence that anti-crypto regulatory activism is a very real thing.

Which is quite silly because crypto is still small peanuts compared to the bank failures that happened recently.
Remix Without Limits: Streaming SSR with Vercel Edge Functions
I'm particularly partial to "the Holy Flock": https://www.randomseed.com/collections/the-holy-bible-king-j...
Sure they can.

I was just watching the video DHH put online about this new project and it was quite good seeing copy pasting IP addresses to YAML files still excites some people or think that this is somehow on par with a serverless offering to any cloud company.
As a photographer that's very sad. I've learned a lot by speaking with people on DPReview forums and seeing the works of others there.

Even the reviews were good enough. I wonder were DPReview regulars will be going to hang on.

I wish Amazon never bought DPReview.
I disagree. Money buys you recognition, influence and power. There is no fixed price for these. It's an auction where the rewards go to the highest bidder.
Author here!

I think this image does the best job of showcasing the difference: https://i0.wp.com/nightingaledvs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023...

In Apple Watch, the min and max values (the numeric values left / right of the pills) are all aligned vertically on top of each other. In Dark Sky, they aren't aligned because the horizontal position is driven by the min and max values themselves. This is subtle but CRUCIAL for information graphics / software, where "glance-ability" is so so important.
I think the "lab space" requirement is going to drive a lot of the WFH-or-not office space planning among employers that don't fall into the "come in for no reason other than I said so" category.

In my case, I work in robotics. Somebody working on the perception stack software and going to the occasional zoom meeting has little reason to show up at the office beyond random hallway meetings and free micro-kitchen snacks. A machinist in the prototyping lab, on the other hand, needs to be in front of the giant, expensive CNC machine. For me personally, I have a mix of coding days and lab days, and WFH or go in according to the tasks of the day.

Clued-in companies are going to adjust their real-estate mix. I predict a drop in the fraction of commercial space that consists of carpeted offices.
There are sites where you can purchase and download different world regions CD keys. I'd first remove CS:GO from your library completely (steam offers a way to do this) then activate the German version of the game. There is built in censoring for death/blood/corpse ragdolls afaik.
Weirdos will make demand for pictures of celebrities peeing, supply is only limited by the credibility of attribution.
Obviously it's fallen out of fashion, but it is/was just a shorthand way of writing "and" & it used to be pretty normal to just use it every time. It's not really something you can use "excessively"; either you write "and" as "&" or you don't.
Deception. Moving a piece on a game board should have more than one effect. One should preferably make it so that the most obvious effect (exile) is not the one that's actually the most valuable in the long term (taking root in adverse country).

Bonus "inception" points if you can make the adversary believe that you did it because they forced you to (sanctions).
Couldn't something like this be a few hundred lines of Ansible? Not trying to be intentionally negative but I don't really get the use case as I feel this is a pretty well established process by existing tools for server automation and provisioning.
absolutely the radio and local news television forecasts have always had daily high and low boundaries, not sure what is up with these people’s atypical mental models? They must not have listened to the news on the radio or on television growing up? Why should an app create a UI design pattern that goes against the majority of people’s mental models.
To protect the wealthy.

Pay a small fine that represents a tiny portion of your ill-gotten gains and move on without any repercussions.
Parent is saying those crates themselves are reinventing the wheel, not talking about using a crate
This is really cool. Federated learning seems like it could unlock a lot of value in healthcare settings.

Have you had any luck convincing hospitals / insurers / etc that this satisfies HIPAA and is safe? How do you convince them?
In this case yes, others suggested it was manual intervention from the bard team. Again, who knows ?
It sure is a mess. Everyone, including the legal and accounting experts, are trying to figure this out. Just goes to show you, no one can screw things up quite like our elected representatives. There is a bill being circulated to fix it (https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/senators-rein...), but who know when or if it will pass. Knowing them, they'll wait for the smoldering wreckage to appear before they do anything.
Enjoying the discussion. Here’s a related paper: https://docplayer.net/137462966-Towards-jit-compilation-for-...
But notably you wouldn't be an oligarch or what would be considered powerful as "Capital"

You still spent 62 years tied to someone else's money, instincts, whims etc...making sure a labor class doesn't form by not supporting Unions, not forgoing bonuses or quitting companies that are unethical.

So it's in many way's worse than being Capital, cause it's enforcing the never ending push from capital to alienate, ripoff and deprive workers basic human rights.

My favorite rejoinder to this is "yeah that's real life" or some other cynical platitude that simply accepts wage slavery, and the wage slavemasters as an acceptable state of affairs.
Mhhmm, is it popcorn time yet?
I'm often a fan of single source files, at the package level, including inline embedded API docs and unit tests.
An extremely interesting and complex discussion could be had about the merits of that advice.

In a perfect world, it would be fine, since science is highly trustworthy. Unfortunately, the world we live in is far from perfect, making it far less easy to determine how optimal the approach is.

And ironically, you would think that science minded people would understand and appreciate these complexities and their legitimate importance, however in my experience they tend to be the ones most averse to them.
Which makes me wonder why this can be done in Java or Erlang, and the answer is that those tend to be walled gardens from which one does not fork/exec.
Theory: Google does not care and will cross the legal bridge when it presents itself.
An unchecked majority can trample upon the minority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
In the short run, people can act against their own evolutionary fitness, but in the long run, evolutionary pressures should push those people to the wayside.
Only one of those countries won't throw you in jail or decrease your social credit for posting said violations.

So, answer your own question.

"Both sides are the same" is mentally equivalent to a 4 year old saying "But he did it, too!" and deserves the same consideration.
Sure there is, it's the Howey Test and the SEC has a whole publication on how to apply it to crypto. Fun fact, it's probably safe to assume that any ICO is a securities offering. [1]

This is a case of "there is a bright line but the community doesn't like where they painted it, so they pretend there isn’t one."

[1] https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-an...
Setting up a narrative? Did the SEC orchestrate FTX and all the other crypto failures?

They’re finally taking steps to actively protect retail investors. This should have happened after the ICO boom of 2017. Nothing of value would have been lost if crypto had been unbanked the past five years.
Mevi: A Memory Visualizer in Rust
I don't have any inside info but the app has grown exponentially. It's gone from 0 users to multi millions in less than 6 months. It's very hard to keep up with that kind of growth. It's also very resource intensive relative to other services. It's even harder when the service is free to the user. I suspect the service will get more reliable but it's going to take time. It reminds me of twitter and reddit. They were both very unstable during their growth phase but they've gotten very stable over the years.
OpenAI was already in bed with MSFT when they started working on Codex/Copilot together a year or so back. So the synergies were already there when OpenAI needed to scale up ChatGPT for the masses using Azure infra
Honestly, most (if not all with the exception of bitcoin) of the 'crypto' projects function effectively like a startup with the coin as the stock. There are some differences from securities, but mostly similarities. You are buying something with the hope that the development team will deliver on promised value in the future. This will at least clarify the regulatory landscape going forward.
Sheepshaver runs natively on supported Macs under BeOS and you likewise don’t need a ROM file as it uses the one built in to your Mac. The real reason is probably it doesn’t support MacOS past 8.5 really. Not well.
Dark Sky was eerily accurate, sometimes to the minute. That was great because my dog hates rain. I've often dropped what I was doing immediately and get out earlier because of a Dark Sky notification. If it told me I had 25 minutes before rain started, I really had 25 minutes.

I've noticed that it got progressively less accurate the closer it got of the shutdown by Apple.

The iOS weather app is pretty inaccurate and borderline useless in comparison. It will tell me it's raining when it's not and vice/versa. Time predictions are so out of whack that they might as well not be there; they also get revised all the time.

I understand that weather can be finnicky and predictions are just that. But Dark Sky did it correctly and Apple does not. I wonder what was the point of acquiring them, if their UI is inferior (although pretty!) and so are the predictions.
I changed DEBUG = False and I get an "Internal Server Error" - you can check it now while I have a quick go at finding the cause.

I want to try static page generators (Hugo) instead since they are easier to maintain. So it's a prioritization question - do I spend time fixing this bug or spend the time on migrating.
they'll never do this because one of the main drive to buy cosmetics in multiplayer games is to show off to others
I bet educated people can identify whether long form content from their own field is bullshit more than 50% of the time. By bullshit, I mean the kind of waffling without a point which LLMs descend into once you pass their token limit or if there's little relevant training data, and which humans descend into when they're writing blog posts for $5.
This is super interesting. I worked on something similar, but got different two words begin with and was able to secure approximate 95% accuracy when I simulated for all. You can check it out here & let me know what you think.

https://github.com/sarthakagrawal927/PlayWordle/
It was clear to me when they mentioned Emacs that their opinion on this can just be ignored. That isn't to say Emacs isn't a great thing for a certain niche, but it's just not something that matters in this kind of strategic product discussion (and thinking it's comparable is just a signal it's not worth engaging imo).

There are many reasons why VSCode is dominant and emacs isn't, similarly there are many reasons slack failed to compete (even after taking out a full page ad pretending to be apple before suing Microsoft). If you're going to pretend to be apple, you better be as good. If you're going to mock competition you better hope you're apple and not netscape [0][1].

I too think Slack is a great product, but that's not enough. Slack needed to expand into a more competitive offering and they failed to do that.

[0]: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/

[1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/slack-microsoft-open-letter_n...
And use IP addresses like it was 1999 again. Your IP addresses belong to exactly one location, the DNS server's config. Using a non-type safe configuration language is also meh. I am not sure why most people are unaware of Dhall...