skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Artist/Designer/Creative

How is that not below the Cleaner or the guy who empties septic tanks?
> I think he attacked because he felt he had no choice.

The feeling of having no choice tends to be influenced by incentives, though. Had NATO mobilized 5 million soldiers in eastern Poland in late 2021, with the clear message that they would send those forces into Ukraine if Putin attacked, he would probably feel differently.

Personally, I think he may have felt "it's now or never". It appears he started preparing directly after the 2020 election, and he may have misjudged Biden, thinking him too weak to respond.
Anecdata aren’t data, and via experimental results, cranberry juice does not work. It’s often recommended, but it has the same scientific basis as drinking 8 glasses of water or walking 10,000 steps. Which is to say, it’s a marketing ploy.

Cranberry juice is no more effective on UTIs than chicken soup on colds and flus. That is, it can have an impact in part because of the placebo effect (which is substantially more powerful than is currently understood), but it is not because there is any inherent benefit to cranberry juice ("chicken soup" — that is, any clear broth — is at least partially effective because it’s warm liquid fighting diseases which cause dehydration; there’s no medicinal benefit).
So is dealing with city approval processes. For instance when starting a physical business requiring building permitting.
Agreed, I don't think the success of conversational podcasts precludes using the same platform for something like this.

Other feedback:

For this HN Recap, 20 mins daily is a bit long, a 5-10 minute version would genuinely be part of my daily routine.

1 chapter/section per story would be cool, so that I can skip stories I'm not interested in. I listen to podcasts through PodcastAddict on my phone but tested this on Spotify web at my computer, maybe this is already in there & I just didn't see it.

Echoing what others said - I'd love for the general vibe of the comments to be included in some way, I actually tend to spend more time in HN comments than reading the articles themselves.

Finally, I'm sure this is on your radar already, but IMO the big opportunity with AI-synthesized podcasts is personalized podcasts. For example, a personal Hacker News Recap RSS feed that knows the kind of stuff I upvote, or has me opt in to topics/tags when signing up.
They can, of course, but it's harder for coup-ing superior officers to make dozen of thousands of 20y.o. Grunty McGruntFace follow them to overthrow the government when the very oath they swore was to that government, and that this oath explicitly states they don't have to follow General von Teufel orders in this case.
What's heavier - your average EV, or an average US Godzilla sized pickup truck e.g. RAM.

My Model 3's roof would barely clear the headlights of one of those. And it looks like it weighs about half too, even with that large battery.
The nature is a source of great many hacks. We're destroying the biodiversity at our peril.
Money on its own won't win you wars, but you need money to even be able to fight. Sure, you may be able to replace some of the money with slave labour, levies/conscription, but you still need enormous amounts of food, materials, supplies and people, and a lot of that does require money, unless you've managed to completely eradicate money from your society.
Hard to blame someone for not wanting huge tires on their vehicle, once you get over 33s the prices for tires seems to climb exponentially. Plus the hit you take to gas mileage (or range in this case).
Click on the "Racer 796" game in the arcade to actually play the game.
The article contains a complete misrepresentation of the origins of Kubernetes:

> It started as an open source release of Google’s Borg: the internal platform that managed their vast infrastructure.

Borg has never been open-sourced. Kubernetes was a greenfield project, and there's no Borg code in it whatsoever.

Kubernetes is probably more influenced by Google's Omega project, an attempt at "Borg 2.0" which ended up having its ideas merged into Borg instead. For example, Kubernetes' persistent store is inspired by Omega.
> Lad, your typing words into a little box.

It’s more than just using ChatGPT.

High value prompts are used in API calls where performance, security and variable substitution all come into play. These queries can reach thousands of words/tokens.

A developer who spends all day writing prompts is at least as respectable as one who spends theirs writing SQL.
I'm in sand quite a bit. Several times a month. If your comment means getting good enough not to get stuck, my concern is more I don't want to actively fight a heavy machine. Getting stuck in the sand in a hot climate out west is a recipe for dying so I want advantages, not disadvantages and a heavier truck is a disadvantage. I can offset that with massive tires but a small truck with massive tires is even better.
While the "auto registration on a blockchain" is a bonkers goal, cars themselves don't have to take an in-person driving test (though they do have to have an emissions test that cannot be blockchained away).
> it is fundamentally gross and pointless

Crabby may be the word to use
Take a look at the big blades up close. I'd hazard that a single blade might have the equivalent mass of a hundred boat hulls or a hundred-thousand hockey sticks.
Rugged Flip Phone – Kyocera DuraXE Epic Review (2021)
Yeah, already do that with my current rig.
Ask HN: Is there a modern term for “hacking” in the “hacker” news sense?
"Hacker" is sort of a loaded term today. It tends to be associated with criminal behavior, or at least security research. If you spend time hacking on software/hardware projects, what do you call that to a layperson? Digital tinkering?
> Updating GPL code and making the resulting product proprietary is one of the main things the GPL is supposed to prevent.

It works perfectly fine if you own the copyright to all your code. You can't relicense somebody else's code of course, but you can relicense your own. So a company that develops something in-house and then slaps the GPL on the public release can change their mind on the license for future releases all they like.

It only gets tricky if they accepted external contributions. In which case there's often a contributor agreement, in which the contributor agree the company can relicense the contributed code.
Oh I'm definitely trying this. I currently have kb shortcuts defined for brightness up/down that invoke ddcutil.

This really ought to be built into every OS. From what I've read, the catch is that DDC implementations are often very buggy and can cause problems, so it would be risky to do this out of the box.
China lays out strict rules for ChatGPT-like AI tools
Disregarding structural wear and tear. A turbine blade is typically in a service between 20 to 25 years. If you look at a size comparison of wind turbines that are commissioned today and those that were commissioned 25 years. You will find that the average blade length has gone up 3-4 times.
Another part of infrastructure where EV could be just banned is underground parking space - just imagine EV car (or few) fire under multistory building - impossible to extinguish, high temperature fire for a long long time. Whole building structural integrity could become damaged rendering it unusable for residents for a long time - or forever.
Likely not much and assuredly wrong, I just wanted to ground my argument with numbers that came from people who presumably did more research than I was willing to do for an HN post.
Given expert skills in both Haskell and Rust, Rust is by far the fastest performing language.
And if you use idiomatic Haskell the difference is even bigger. E.g. if you use lots of Monad transformers and lazy evaluation.
It'd like some kind of chrome extension that will 'sso-ize' any 3rd party web app.

Ie. it will create a temporary deadbeef123@your-domain.com email address, use that to sign up to the 3rd party web app and keep the password secret from the user.

Then, when the user returns to the site, your on-site server provides the auth details for each logon (or even better, logs in for the user and just sets the right cookies).

For some sites, it will also make sure the user is a member of the right 'team', has access to the right shared documents, has their display name matching their name in the corp database, etc.
> Uncanny valley effect doesn't work any more.

That IG account you linked is very much in the uncanny valley. At best the character looks like molded plastic. At worst it looks like a drawing. In one picture it has 6 fingers.
What’s wrong with considering HTML and CSS to be a part of software engineering?
Just curious, what makes them particularly loud at highway speeds? And are they louder than similarly sized / weight ICE trucks?
The headline reads like the setup to a true crime podcast. It took me a moment to figure out what they were actually trying to say.
Might've rolled it back after incorrectly accusing Taibbi of being a Substack employee the other day. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/10/23678105/elon-musk-substa...
Nitpick - he didn't write the song on AHDN (i'm happy just to dance with you). John did. And George had 2 songs on PPM, but one was a cover (chains) and one was written by John (do you want to know a secret?).
Yeah, the headline felt pretty click-baity indeed. I just made a similar point in a sibling comment.
If I built a platform that leveraged the name brand of another with a similar purpose, but charged for it when the original was a well-respected community tool, it would not be seen as good form.

SoundCloud.help, say, a platform that leverages SC’s reputation in the DJ mixes community to advertise a platform for algorithmic audio compilations would be received rather poorly. If grep.help was some newbie-friendly url shortener for grep documentation or examples, I think we’d be more enthusiastic.
https://poe.com/Claude-instant

It also provides a ChatGPT interface, and a number of other models.
What if what we’re really measuring is a person’s ability to play along with poorly explained rules?
perl, python, javascript, Common Lisp, and Lua work well.
> Plenty of greedy people in non-capitalist systems.

Totally agreed. But I am not placing any moral value on either greed or capitalism. I would think, however, that capitalists would not ignore such an obvious profit center as the sex industry. Thus my bafflement.
In the last few hours, I've been thinking about how much effort would it really be to fork it, Iceweasel style, and IMO even just forking, renaming would be a pretty significant effort (if done right).

Fork the web page, you cannot just replace Rust with ALTERNATIVE, because ALTERNATIVE is not used at npm, you don't have a Discord community, and you don't have books and videos, and no foundation. All those changes would need to be kept up-to-date.

You could also have a new file type, .altrs, while you still want to be able to use Rust's files. Same goes for tooling, supporting websites such as crates.io: you might want your own, but you also want all the tools to work with the Rust crates. With the new file type, you need people to know how to change their config to treat .altrs files as regular .rs files.

.. though I don't know how much of it would be really necessary if all you want is to not violate their new policy, so it's more of a thought experiment at this point.
I worked at Google for -10 days
We should train LLaMA and DALL-E on the Mad Magazine archives and create AI-Jaffe.
gastronomical entrainer - don't sell em short Senior Principal Gastronomical Entrainer
Does this graph give you the impression that Mozilla knwos what their users want?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/StatCoun...
So what? I lose opportunities to gain "valuable skills" all the time. There are better ways to acquire those skills than this, especially since it's a huge mood drain
I’ve thought about this but more in the context of earthquakes. There will be a lot of EV fires in that scenario.
The Eurostar trains between London and Brussels/Paris/Amsterdam have 16-18 coaches, although they are noticeably long.

(Other than night trains, I'd expect these to be the longest in Europe.)
Luckiest Man – Lou Gehrig
This is oversimplifying a lot. Two browsers can support the same extension system and still be quite different (e.g., Firefox vs. Orion).
In this very release they give examples of many kernel APIs which are now unlocked.
You're referring to this all in the wrong tense. Corporations don't need to replace Richard Stallman because they already got Eric Raymond to replace his entire movement with the "apolitical" version: the Open Source Initiative. This happened decades ago. RMS warned us about it, we didn't care.

The dystopia in Right to Read also happened decades ago: it was called the Nintendo Entertainment System. Less toy-like examples would be embedded systems and cellphones, which have always been locked-down[0] since day one (waaaaay before the iPhone popularized this business model). The FSF isn't positioned to stop this. Microsoft pushed for locked-down PCs back in 2012, with Windows RT[1]. It failed not because Defective by Design made a good protest campaign and got Congress to stop it, but because Microsoft made several key strategic blunders that made their attack on freedom irrelevant.

If Intel fails in pushing Linux or BSD off of people's laptops, it will not be because the FSF stopped it, either.

The problem with RMS is that his area of expertise is several decades old and his activism has taken time away from him maintaining that expertise. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if the FSF was purely an activism project; but it also maintains an operating system and several other core utilities. The people actually fighting on the front lines of software freedom these days (e.g. Hector Martin) consider the FSF to be functionally impotent. The diversity concerns raised in the posted article are downstream of this: the FSF is still used to telling a very specific brand of techie why they should care about software freedom, they don't know how to make a convincing argument to the general public.

Now, let's contrast that to right-to-repair. This is a concern downstream of software freedom: you can't meaningfully restrict repair practices if you can modify the software on the device. So it might seem like a side-show we should just ignore. However, it's seen a lot more attention than software freedom. We've gotten right-to-repair legislation in Massachusetts and Colorado. And this is a function of two things:

- This being a more concrete and understandable concern. Nobody cares about being able to modify the software on their Tesla - until they need to break the software locks on their Tesla that keep them from swapping parts.

- Activism from people (e.g. Louis Rossman) who are willing to touch scummy social media platforms.

The last one is important. Social media is how a lot of political activism happens, for better and for worse. But as far as I'm aware the FSF does not have a presence here. Nobody at the FSF is making, say, punchy YouTube video essays or Twitbooktodon posts explaining the through-line between not having source code and corporations doing bad things to you. And as far as I'm aware their lobbying arm is nonexistent.

[0] Or, at least, not intended to be user programmable in ways that make locking them down palatable to consumers.

[1] The ARM port of Windows 8
> I'm glad the Foundation want Rust meetups to be firearm free. Good Lord. Is that really worth getting so upset about?

I strongly, STRONGLY, agree with their political stance. However, I find their forcing their politics down people's throats extremely concerning. Keep in mind that you also have to seek approval to use the word Rust (I am not affiliated with the Rust Foundation), which means that they could disallow it merely because they don't like you or what you stand for (which the prior rule shows a tendency to do). Call me crazy, but I fail to see how that's in any way progressive (yes, given even the tolerance paradox) - especially given that the other people and beliefs will be running the Rust Foundation at some point in the future.

This isn't a matter of "keep your politics out of tech," it's a matter of bringing in politics being actually harmful to the community.

Ending gun violence in America is the responsibility of voters and lawmakers, not the Rust Foundation.
> But that's not how you use web. If 90% of the pages worked in browser I wouldn't use that browser, ever, because chances are I'd hit one that didn't at least once every few days.

This is a fact that Microsoft understood and pushed when they tried to get people to build pages for IE instead of working across both Navigator and IE.
What is new with search? we are re-inventing it with vector embeddings
Not to mention that Kubernetes is nowhere near as scalable as Borg. I doubt Google runs anything on Kubernetes.
Why think step-by-step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience
Oh so he fulfils the resignation as CEO on Twitter
To have effective off-road vehicle you need some features like locks or good drive. That does add weight, but still being heavy does not help.
> GPT-3.5 it was removed from the API a few weeks ago.

context/what are you referring to?
No consortiums, just subsidize cloud or infra costs only.
It's funny, but looking back at the computer technologies that have been truly transformative since the 60s, it's hard to find anything that was considered sexy or interesting or had much hype. Heck, even the transistor, invented around 80 years ago now, was considered so uninteresting that Bell Labs gave it away. The semiconductor IC came out of TI in 1958, and again, it hardly made waves.
Slightly related is road wear. According to "Pedal Fort Collins", a 8,600 pound vehicle does over 20x the damage of a 4,000 pound one[0]. More pieces throughout the past few decades have also covered this [1-2]

0: https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh... (source is dead, so a blog reference is all I have)

1: https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...

2: https://www.gao.gov/products/109954
Yeah, I run 33s exactly for that reason. After that, the price doesn't really follow a linear increase.
This is only true for France because at some point, presidents decided that the electricity production plan was enough and stopped it in the middle.
Literally, Java.

If we spent all the effort we used up on making JavaScript work on Java instead, I’d be typing this from my Moon habitat.

But we instead chose a pig, buried it under layers of lipstick, and strapped a jet engine onto it. Sure, it’s airworthy, but was it the best way to allocate resources?
I expect the reverse: our tolerance for bland and generic messaging is already too high. With ChatGPT filling our world with it, there'll come a renaissance in clear, pointed, punchy text. Even if it's ChatGPT 5 or 6 generating it.
> I don't believe this works the way you think. Within the same chat session with GPT3 you can ask it to explain addition, then ask it to do addition, and the explanation will be perfectly accurate but the sums it does will be complete rubbish. It's not enough to remind it.

Again, I've had this exact experience with people many times as well, so again I don't think this in itself is any kind of indication of whether or not LLMs are all that different from humans in this regard. The point is not that there aren't things missing from LLMs, but that I don't find the claim that this behaviour shows how different they are to be at all convincing.

My experience is that people do not appear naturally generalise reasoning techniques very well unless - possibly - if they are trained at doing that (possibly, because I'm not convinced that even most of those of us with significantly above average intelligence generalise reasoning nearly as well as we'd like to think).

Most people seem to learn not by being taught a new technique and then "automatically applying it", but being taught a new technique and then being made to repetitively practice that technique by being prompted step by step until they've learnt to apply it separate from the process of following the steps, and tend to perform really poorly and make lots of mistakes when doing it by instruction.

> You can't remind them they learned this or that when learning to do sums and to use it again in this context, as you would with a human, at the moment that flat out doesn't work.

I don't know what you're trying to say here. Mentioning a technique to ChatGPT and telling it to go through it step by step is not flawless but it often does work. E.g. I just tested by asking GPT4 for a multiplication method and then asked it to use it on two numbers I provided and show its working, and it did just fine. At the same time, doing this with humans often requires a disturbingly high level of step by step prompting (having a child, I've been through a torturous amount of this). I won't suggest ChatGPT is as good as following instructions as people, yet, but most people are also really awfully horrible at following instructions.
An Option Value Problem from Seinfeld [pdf]
Same, I used to run it a lot, but I went back to it recently and have not really managed to make it work. I'm using sway, and I have hit a whole bunch of issues:

* Have to use 14-CURRENT to support my RDNA2 graphics card at all. This was not simple.

* Systemd sucks, but on Linux when I start a sway session it co-ordinates all the xdg-desktop-portal-wlr / pipewire / pipewire-media-session (I think). There doesn't seem to be a freebsd equivalent for user level services. Although dbus / consolekit seems to be doing something, I don't understand why or how.

* Sound is just broken. My usb headset gives constant loud feedback, by bluetooth dongle spams the dmesg until it eventually gives up and my hda card seems to work in all the mixers but no sound is forthcoming.

* Firefox with wayland on just loses the compositor connection almost instantly. Alacratty seems fine though, as is xwayland.

* My webcam doesn't work, in firefox it's blank, in chrome the video is corrupted.

* I have no idea how to configure XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to get created a login with the right permissions etc on tmpfs. I could leave it on zfs of course but apparently that's problematic.
True also it could have been a bug, twitter does have more bugs these days.
I would be very surprised if something based on Blockchain or similar software doesn't offer a solution here. Another route would be to establish a protocol for near instantaneous bank transfers, and try to get a lot of banks on board. The immediacy of transfers seems to be the main reason why companies use credit card services, not buyer protection or actual credit.
A16Z unveils 'state of crypto' index as part of its look at the industry in 2023
> Am I the most renowned writer in the world? No.

This is the key. Globalism and Technology both make many things into a winner takes all game. Be the best* or be replaced by and algorithm, perhaps a generated one like ChatGPT. You are now both competing with the best in the world, and with whatever can be encoded into a computer, which one of the leading examples is ChatGPT.

I also imagine virtual assistants will be hit hard.

* best could mean best price ie cheapest btw
Are you the designer of new reddit?
I think it would be happy to get all the novel training data from them. I assume a conscious GPT means one that continuously updates it’s weights, accounting for realtime multimodal sensory inputs.
Obviously I meant to write thanks.dev