skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you say are the main contributions of RedHat to the FOSS world

For me, I would say their biggest contribution is their early work with getting Linux into the hands of 'normal' people. RedHat was the first to really get their CDs into bookstores, into computer books and into the hands of students and hobbyists. They sponsored and supported the writing of many of the books that first taught people Linux. At the same time they managed to appear as a 'serious' company and calm and convince managers that Linux on both company servers and work stations was a safe bet. I would also say they really pioneered the whole "FOSS as a business model" concept which many companies and projects later adopted.
I've used PowerToys Run before but struggling to understand how I would integrate this.
It fits perfectly well into a schema, it's just been ignored for some reason since the dawn of ID3.

It's crazy Apple considered it better to write a completely new app rather than improve their existing product.
I only use them as an additional layer between an isolated debit card and the internet. Anything more is reckless.
The password managers ("Passwords" and "Keychain Access") seem deliberately limited. A few issues that I noticed:

The discrepancy between the "Passwords" and "Keychain Access" app. Passwords manages 2FA codes whereas Keychain doesn't. Keychain allows you to add another URL for a password whereas Passwords doesn't. The latter issue often leads to headaches dealing with passwords when the URL of the login page is not the same as the URL for the second part of the 2FA.

An example that became unnecessarily frustrating. Heroku makes you login to dashboard.heroku.com but the 2FA code needs to be filled in at a salesforce URL. Since I can't add this salesforce URL to the existing password (+ 2FA code) I have to manually copy the code. The shortest routine I found for that is:

1. CMD+Space.
2. Enter "passw".
3. Click on the search bar.
4. Enter "Heroku".
5. Click on the password.
6. Go back to the web page to enter the displayed code.

Simply having the option to add another URL (which was possible in Keychain Access) would solve this entire issue...
It’s the “Real Names” policy which is arguably the more problematic of the two:

https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22R...
For one, the deprecation of CentOS
Could not find the app in the app store on my iphone...
Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
I get it, but I also wish they could make one app that gets all of this stuff right. They could start by improving on the data model. "Unknown Artist" would never pass code review!
IBM's acquisition caused this, don't blame only RedHat
Its also a name of a Egyptian goddess, a moon, a Dutch DJ (Dj Isis formerly known as 100% Isis) and a whole lot more [1].

At least the word 'is' did not get corrupted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(disambiguation)
Because "awareness only" has such a great track record when it comes to security-adjacent issues, and totally satisfies auditors/customers/regulators/...?
Suppose you have two classifiers, A and B, and some un-annotated data, D. You
want to know how good is classifier B at annotating the data, compared to
classifier A.

One problem is that you don't have the ground truth for D. So you start by
annotating D with the labels assinged by a third classifier, C:

C(D) → D₁

Having thus established a modicum of "ground truth", ish, you proceed to
annotate D with the two classifiers you are comparing, A and B:

A(D) → D₂
B(D) → D₃

Then you compare the classifications D₂ and D₃ to D₁, and find that D₃ better
approximates D₁ than D₂.

What is the result of the experiment? I summarise it as follows:

Classifier B better approximates the labelling of D by classifier C than
classifier A.

Now we can name the three classifiers as they were used in the experiments in
the linked article:

A: Human annotators.

B: ChatGPT

C: Human annotators.

So the result of the paper is that, plugging in the names:

ChatGPT better approximates the labelling of D by Human annotators than
Human annotators.

And that, is the finding of the paper.

Which is clearly absurd and a cause to re-think methodology.
Yeah mess with your email provider by sending false reports, I'm sure they'll appreciate that (sometimes I wonder if spam is such a big issue in part because users report anything they don't want in their inbox, like a newsletter they previously signed up for, as spam or similar)

Either you're at a small ISP and paypal doesn't care about a handful of customers that need to dig an email out of the spam folder, or you're at a large one and it won't have an effect because nobody else is reporting it

This doesn't hurt paypal but might annoy a small email hoster that might have to clean up your mess.

People use Paypal because they can't get around it. If you want to hurt them, help reduce their market share. Complain to the support of the service where you needed paypal, asking for better payment options (cite articles like this or whatever). That's what I do anyway, and doubly so when I know the owner. That they need to also offer paypal to get more customers, sure that's their risk (I make sure they're aware of it), but at least offer legit payment options as well
LLMs are probably better at generating specifications than writing code.
How about both? Both lax regulatory environment and expected AI productivity gains in the (near) future.
It's also a kind of artisanal soap, not surprisingly from Aleppo and therefore named after that. It's all over the internet, are they going to ban all those hipster, new-agey cottage industry websites? Stupid computer... stupid
> advocated for the use of open standards and interoperability

systemd, pulseaudio, freedesktop have bought much pain in the way of open standards and interoperability.
Off topic but the careful choice of rationale here kinda reminds me of the choices the Rust language designers made; addressing actual issues that have caused inconvenience. I love it. Something about an honest desire and attempt to fix a demonstrated issue; not sure if I'm articulating it properly.

This would be the opposite of what is often referred to as "user hostility", but which I think is more aptly described as "user indifference": stuff like a programming language silently allowing you to crash while accessing null pointers, or every single music app UI showing stuff like

1. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - I. S ...

2. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - II. S ...

3. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - III. S ...

4. Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos - London Symphony Orchestra - I. C ...
I'm not convinced it's tax collection specifically that gives value to the dollar. If the US government collected some taxes in bitcoin it would still have to pay its obligations on existing dollar-denominated bonds. So it would sell the bitcoin in exchange for dollars, thus creating demand for dollars.

I think that if people increasingly wanted to use cryptocurrency over dollars, the Fed would nevertheless be able to maintain the value of the dollar even as they got less common. Eventually the currency would disappear when the last dollar was traded to the Fed to pay off the last dollar-denominated bond, and I think dollars could maintain their value until that happened, even as the government started collecting taxes in other currencies.
Similar except that you can see the difference between lowercase and uppercase.
Doesn't OpenAI explicitly say that your Q/A on the free ChatGPT are stored and sent to human reviewers to be put in their RL database? Now of course we can't be sure what google, AWS etc do with the data on disks there, but it would be a pretty big scandal if some whistleblower eventually comes out and say that google employees sit and laugh at private bucket contents on GCP or private Google Docs. So there's a difference in stated intention at least..
> How?

Like this:

> The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.
Microsoft is a big player and here you go: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad...

I currently have a Microsoft (Work) account that I'm SSO logged on.
My friend had an account with Isis in the username because she learnt about the Egyptian god in video games. She was panic about that a few years later
> I know you should never underestimate human stupidity

Those of us “of a certain age,” will remember the old adage ”To err is human, but it takes a computer to really f*** things up.”
I was just referencing the fact that we have no democratic say over the fed rate in the US. Not trying to say democracy is bad, just that we don't really have it with respect to interest rate policy.
> >cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value

> If you get paid $20/hr, you can think of $20 being intrinsically worth an hour of your labor until if you quit or get a raise. The dollar isn't actually intrinsically valuable, but it's mostly treated as such anyways because no matter how the currency changes due to inflation or exchange rates, you're still only getting $20. On the other hand, if you get paid in crypto, you'd get paid $20 worth of that crypto. Today it may be 1 coin, tomorrow it could be 2, and in a month it could be .1 coins. In that case, how many coins you get paid in this crypto completely depends on the supply and demand on this crypto.

Piggybacking on this, the same example can be extended towards other currencies & assets: That $20 could've also been paid in pounds / euros / yen / gold / silver / seashells / MTG cards. The first 3 are less volatile than the rest, mainly because of the per-unit density of liquidity that can absorb the exchanges in between A & B (ex. USD-yen, yen-euro). For the currencies, they have much deeper liquidities to exchange with/against concentrated around narrower price ranges, and as such prices are not as volatile as commodities & assets. The exception to this however is if the currency in question is perceived as weak.
I know that the company did this in the past. E.g. employees often flying from Perth to Frankfurt they did the following:
First trip PER-FRA
Then the office in Frankfurt booked FRA-PER-FRA round trips.
Back then the max time between the first and last flight was 12 months. The ticket was on a fare where rebooking was free.

So whenever the next trip was required the return-leg of the trip was changed and a new return trip was booked.

I thought that airlines will block you from buying a flight from a different country. Often this is liked to credit card issuer country. E.g. you can't buy a flight departing from Australia on a foreign website using an Australian credit card.
I'd bet it is, it has the same structure: statement, an example "for instance", more info "futhermore" ending in the "in conclusion"/"overall" words very common. And the note about inaccuracy is a classic tell.
> Do you also block pastebin? Anything else that has a web form?

pastebin and indeed most things that has some sort of public webform is blocked in all the companies I have worked with.

It is probably a losing battle though, as it is very hard to block everything without default deny.

Paradoxically, maybe GPT could be used to veto websites on first access :)
> Crypto is the only one creators voted against.

> Yes, Patreon creators, where a lot NSFW content comes from, voted against cryptos.

This is a gross misrepresentation.

Quoted from your link:

> In the Census, 68% of visual artists and 50% of writers were opposed to creators having the ability to accept payments in cryptocurrency on Patreon, while 39% of image, 34% of audio/music, and 31% of video creators indicated it would be a “crucial” or “nice to have” capability. Across creator types, about a third say they “don’t care.”
It's simpler even: there are conversations that are straight up never happen in writings. So by training only on written text, you will never got those conversations. For example: teacher - student conversation where one side is confused and need to be explained, or many kind of debates and discussions where there is no end conclusion.

Basically, pick a random human from the street and they would be talking and listening a lot more than they would be writing. Those talking and listening is never going to be captured by any digital system.

It might end up that written text has enough similarity with verbal communication that it doesn't matter anyway. But that's hard to guess as a priori that it would be the case.
Kind of. Imagine if capital letters looked identical to regular letters just with a different byte representation, but Windows preserved them regardless.

Well, it turns out that Unicode can represent a lot of characters by way of different possible encodings (for example é could be a single codepoint, or the codepoint of e followed by the codepoint of an acute accent).
Nsfw
Try latest version. Now it just sends link to Wine.
Strange feelings looking at this... This is almost exactly the product I failed to get into YC with back in 2017... All the same ideas as far as the UX goes with one main difference: the business model. I wanted to apply the Steam business model where people would actually buy album again (and not tracks a la iTunes).

The issue is that while it's nice to have a UX tailored for classical, this won't likely help the classical industry to thrive again.

To simplify a bit, the classical music industry is composed of:

- the majors labels (Universal Music, Sony, Warner and EMI)

- A dozen large independent labels (Naxos being the largest)

- hundreds of small labels

The majors mostly care about promoting a few star performers and milking their huge existing catalog. They have no problem with putting everything on subscription services for pennies. This what you find on all subscription services.

The larger independent labels also have significant catalog and some will also put part of it on subscription services but mostly won't.

However, it is totally financially impossible for the smaller labels which are actually recording most of the interesting new records to survive on the pennies they would get from subscription services. Most of them have rejected that model and caters to the increasingly niche market of audiophile still ready to buy new high quality music.

As a classical music fan, I'm happy to see that there will finally be an offering offering a good experience and massively increasing discoverability (which is terrible in mainstream services).

But unfortunately, this wont change the fact that the classical recording industry is dying and that the sector is only surviving thanks to public and private subsidies.
This looks ok, but I can't be the only person suffering Content Fatigue.

Between access to infinite music, infinite movies and TV, infinite gaming, and infinite news - and that's just leisure - I'm not sure how much time I have left for a finite life.
Same reason they banned pornhub, I assume.
They have set a lot of standards. If Red Hat did something it often has become embraced. Basically, they have acted as a leader and I think they have done a good job as that.
> You have been brainwashed into lowering your standard of life

Destroying the planet is indeed lowering not only your standard of life, but everyone’s. Remember there’s no planet B.
> If they fail, you get paid the fine (not the state)

Source for this?
They are 2nd largest contributor to OpenJDK (Oracle is 1st obviously). They maintain the older releases - 8 and 11. It's mainly thanks to them that freely available maintenance releases of JDK 8 an 11 still exist.
"the government seems to show less and less restraint in exchange for instant gratification and short term benefits"

I'm not sure whether you're talking about raising the rates or reducing them. But the idea that reducing rates is just instant gratification is just false. The rates simply dictate how willing banks will be to loan money out. It's a tool. Countries have used this to spur foreign demand of their goods for years. Portugal Italy and Greece used to do it all the time. Once they joined the Euro and they were no longer able to inflate at will, their economies tanked.

It's better to think of money like shares. The total amount of shares outstanding doesn't really affect much... it's the relative proportions that people control and the percentage of equity that those shares represent that matters.
If you are interested in learning demoscene stuff, Revision 2023 which is about to take place in roughly two weeks, features some workshops in this regard also available as online streams.
Qobuz won't be too happy about this I guess
It works great for zero dimensional displays that are far away in brought daylight. For example, the Chaos Computer Club used to hack some rental bikes which had an LED that indicated whether the bike was available or not and the hacked bikes would flash "CCC" in morse code, so you could easily identify the hacked bikes from a distance.

I'm not sure about audio morse though, I'd guess voice would be better in all cases there.
PayPal sucks. I was scammed out of $130 because of their horrible UX. I can't believe no competitor has killed them yet.
I lived in Ballard for five years. If I drove to and from the office, even at rush hour, it was probably a 30-minute commute. It was 45-60 minutes by bus most days, and far less comfortable, because route 40 is one of the busiest on the network (or was at the time), and would often get stuck in traffic.

This is despite every-7-minute service and dedicated bus lanes.

Seattle might have some of the best bus service in the US, but bus transit is objectively worse than rail transit on a separated grade. (And on this point, one of Sound Transit's worst decisions was building at-grade light rail, which essentially turns Link into a streetcar for substantial portions of its route.)
This is a really nice implementation, so full credit to the creator. Regex is always confusing to compose, but it's also one of those situations where I can't help but wonder if the solution is just to improve upon / provide a nice abstraction for regex rather than handing over full control to a non-deterministic AI.

I've seen at least 2 projects in the last 6 months using LLMs to generate bash code which seems like a similar solve. LLMs are super cool, but there's a massive advantage to actually understanding what you're code does, and LLM generated regex, bash, assembly etc loses that.
You could have said 'Renminbi' instead of 'Yuan' to keep the alliteration going.
Let me fire these actual workers doing real work with the hope that $magic_upcoming_tech will hold the ship.

Great plan
I've been thinking about something similar: wouldn't it be possible to create an OS that supports both Linux and Windows executables? (And maybe also Mac while we're at it.) Probably not based on the Linux kernel, but perhaps on a microkernel of some sort. But if it already works with BSD, that's even better.
This treatment would also be very welcome for Jazz - I want to hear My Favourite Things but I don't want Julie Andrews
> C++ doesn't track lifetimes.

Of course, C++ does not have lifetimes (in the Rust sense), but your original claim was that C++ does not seperate allocation from construction.

> Such a separation is only useful in specific situations, such as the one the original article mentions.

It is actually quite common. You don't even have to reach for advanced things like memory/object pools. For example, if you want to implement a dynamically sized array type (std::vector), you typically want to increase the storage independently from the number of objects.

But then again, maybe you are talking about something different here...

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Also, I may need to clarify some things about C++ allocators. They are not used to allocate storage for the object itself, but rather control how an object allocates memory for its subobjects. Keep in mind that the object itself may exist in a different kind of storage than its subobjects. For example, the object may live on the stack, but its subobjects must be allocated dynamically.
FTX was fraudulent.
It's the opposite IMHO.
Reducing emissions directly will never work because of the Jevons Paradox[0] (at least for CO2 - crazy-high-CO2-equivalent-pollutants are something else).

The only thing that matters is preventing extraction of fossil fuels in the first place.

That's why the fossil fuel industry promoted the idea of "carbon footprints", and why Adtech make their datacenters renewable - greenwashing their business that makes money selling the whole economy of fossil-fuel derived stuff, including flights and the fossil fuel industry's actual propaganda[1][2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[1] https://www.clientearth.org/projects/the-greenwashing-files/

[2] https://stopfundingheat.info/greenwash-dog/
You ignore the other way more relevant use case: if I want to buy something at a store, the store is required to accept the nation's official currency. It might accept other currencies, but my guess is that it would be illegal to give customers any benefits or reactions if they use other currencies.
It does say it is iPhone only and in the FAQ

"Classical fans who want to listen on their MacBook, iPad, or in their car can open Apple Music to enjoy the tracks, albums, and playlists they saved in Apple Music Classical, thanks to the shared music library."

Which does not help me as I share from my mac - so hoiw do you do this?
This feels like a really cool idea for a tool - I would 100% use something that generates matching strings to a regex expression for checking my own or understanding other people's regex.
Perhaps internal models are just that good. It wouldn't surprise me given that people knew what GPT4 was capable of 6-9 months before public release.
They aren't false.
Had friends save enough money flying to Europe from Montreal, it was worth the drive from Illinois.
And you'll thus see that the answers converge at the rate a random variable would. Whereas with more accurate methods, the answers will generally agree with one another.
I love the Wikipedia image. It adds no information value except underlying how ominous the theory makes the universe seem. Always gives me the chills.
The curlicues and flourishes on those serifs add an extra layer of warmth and richness to the sound.
> Classical doesn't really fit that well into a schema, since you have composers, performers, and then under performers there's soloist, or multiple soloists, which orchestra, which conductor, and so on.

That sounds like a schema to me. Hell, even popular music can have such complexities, it’s just that they’re usually ignored e.g. if you want to correctly tag a cover featuring a rapper, that’s basically a performer (cover band), composer (the original band, or the actual composer as that’s often not the band), the soloist (the guest), there’s also the backing band and vocals which may have their own identity, and the venue may or may need a mention (e.g. a tiny desk live usually has a different feel than a concert live).

Obviously it’s not quite as bad as classical where as you mentioned there are eve more roles plus you might have hundreds or even thousands of interpretations of the same piece versus a handful.
Show HN: Cortex – WebAssembly/WebGL reflex game
Converted one of my C/OpenGL games to WebAssembly/WebGL with Emscripten, it was surprisingly easy and seamless.
Alternating digits and letters seems easy and robust. That is until you get unlucky entropy and send some 1337ed out curse words :p
How about a big tactile egg timer that makes a noise when time is up and can be set to 20 or 30 minutes?

It could be semi-transparent with a RGB LED inside that moves from white to red over the last five minutes on the timer. Push the top to cycle a few different set tasks (indicated by led-color?), wind up to start. Power and data over USB?

I need to save up for a new 3d printer and build this for myself.
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