skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this has been posted before, but I just managed to use this on my daughter's inherited MacBook air from 2014, and was able to get MacOS Ventura working seamlessly on it. This was important for me because the previous version of MacOS she was stuck on didn't allow the use of shared iCloud storage, so I couldn't sync her Photos library with the Optimize Storage option and free up disk space (it "only" has a 120GB hard drive). Once I'd updated I was able to do that and lengthen the life of her laptop by quite a bit - it's getting on for ten years old now.
> virtual threads in Java are an alternative to async await in other languages

Not really. Async/Await is mostly about syntax. Transform callback-hell into something that looks like linear code. The underlying threading model doesn't really matter for that.
Nice find, I think we'll get there eventually though, as models can hold more state.
That's more sensible though. It's just trying to interpret the invention when comparing different types. The fact that == breaks even when the types are the same is much more surprising
I feel exactly the same. I have friends that have been trying to explain to me what the huge advantages of crypto and NFTs are for almost a decade and it's still very hazy to me. Nobody explained ChatGPT to me. I saw prompt and started typing some questions about a python library and it was immediately obvious to me that this would be super useful to me.
Step aside, Dvorak
We don't really need to develop such tools. They don't make sense anyway, as there's no specific think to be measured as "true self-consciouness". At best they can measure the activity and call that "true self-consciousness".

But it's still something a being experiences for itself.
> And of course, they have zero understanding of anything at all. They’re a next-token-predicting machine with an unimaginably large training set.

How do the neurons in our brain “understand” anything?

Can you believe our body is made up of > 100 trillion independent cells - each one is a “living” thing in its own right. We are not “one” living thing, but a collection of many living things - working together to achieve unbelievable results.

In that regard, we are more similar than anything ever done in computer science resembling our minds. LLMs work on probabilities and our neurons work on analog signals - both are across a range and not binary.

…to be continued.
Guess what, this conundrum did come up in 2000 years of Catholic teaching:

https://www.catholic.com/qa/why-are-oaths-allowed
> that I'd get from any non-AI-powered site

And in which other sites you input a list of books and get a list of recommendations?

Like this one: anonymously, directly?
To be fair, when Facebook was created there was no data either. Data can be useful but I have yet to hear a story where data played a pivotal role in creating a successful startup
Thanks! Yeah, I definitely chose the easy way over the 'right' way for this version with just setting simple thresholds.

I'm not sure how well it will work yet, but for a game controller I might try to have users record their own custom motions - as in, "show me a few of your chosen [high punch] motions to match against in-game."
The Pilot Manhattan fountain pen in medium nib is the best fountain pen I've ever used. Combined with a Maruman Mnemosyne notebook (also from Jet Pens) it's perfect for journaling.
Should College Come with Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’
I don't think you'll find a single person, including hardcore climate deniers, (let alone an entire "electorate") that would endorse 1000+ private jets all heading to the same event. Why not hold the conference over Zoom?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
What I interacted with twenty years ago did less, operated on fewer device types, required a great deal more developer expertise and effort to create even simple applications. Commercial software was distributed largely on physical media with a buy it and own it business model (no freemium, ad-supported) and the development processes was largely based on those from the hardware world, i.e no agile.

For most software all of that has changed and it comes with a cost.
Works for me, EU to ap-southeast-2, network acls or security groups changed?
You cannot compare VR with Crypto. VR can be super useful but the tech isn't there yet, similarly to where generative AI was two years ago. Once we have a breakthrough with VR it'll also be amazing and useful.
Yeah that’s nonsense. Last round was about 50% engineering!
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (Analytics)
I’d pay more for NO firmware in my washing machine.

This is beyond my desire to just keep things simple. What is the point of washing machine you can control remotely? You have to put clothes in at the start and take them out at the end. It offers no convenience.
I was under the impression that tractor manufacturing was down to bolting together bought in components at this point, such as the various Turkish Perkins engine + ZF gearbox + Carrero front axle + random cab companies cab, with a bit of fabrication to make parts to hold it together. A coop building a highly repairable tractor could make this their value proposition by publishing the diagrams for the fabricated parts, and the full list of parts they bought. There's little reason that a fairly normal fabrication shop couldn't be making tractors, and making them competitively with mainline manufacturers
Richest get reimagined as poor people by midjourney
Words do have meanings, the word socialism has so many meanings that using the term just makes things less clear. Even your preferred definition is so overbroad that it strains usefulness. Any definition that lumps together the political philosophy of Keir Starmer with that of Joseph Stalin is one of questionable utility.
Won't find me disagreeing with everything you said there about the broader crypto industry. It's nothing more than a massive affinity scam.

But you're making an error if you're lumping Bitcoin in with "crypto".
I agree. I have 4 Quests and know many with Quests. It's funny how all of us used it very frequently in the first couple months and now they're gathering dust.

The fact of the matter is, if you have people you can hang out with in person you're not going to bother with VR, or the metaverse.
Great answer for what was likely just a pun on “lock-in” :-)
I suppose that's an inaccurate choice of words. I meant to juxtapose something meaningful to someone in stead of the Skygod that the Christians pretend to worship on Sundays.
Yeah but there are levels of weak typing. JS does not do this as both operands are strings, it compares them as strings. That makes tons of more sense compared to this. Not that JS is the most sane language out there but PHP tends to make it a lot easier to shoot yourself.
idk about llm, but they had released multimodal wav2vec, some variations of bert, transcoder if we talk pre gpt3 release and a lot more stuff after. Is it because of gpt or because some general advancements in AI&GPU power, we can't say
The average person uses _email_, bear in mind. They don't know or care how it works, but they use it.
Might be worth double checking. Last time I read, this mode wasn't supported on mobile devices, which is precisely the ones more sensitive to energy use.
Saga: Text RPG – D&D meets interactive fanfiction
Why I’m leaving the Shopify apps business
I’ve spent the last 6+ years building Shopify apps. One got hijacked by Shopify, one got banned after generating 8 figures in revenue, and one got acquired .

In this article, I go into details explaining why I believe Shopify Apps is no longer a good opportunity for indie devs.
That would indeed be a bad look for a Buddhist, to fight such a violent war. Any sources which specifically say he was a Buddhist before the Kalinga war?
Would it have been possible they were given shares by another player inside the corp that does have shares? Although I'm sure share transactions are logged and public information, if not through the game then through the APIs, and most Corporations will make some API access required.
Yak-shaving away syntax always make me think of Forth. It's all a stack.
If they are so obvious, why didn't you just do it yourself the first time? Instead of yeeting large portions of your codebase at a 3rd-party web service?
You don’t find out who is great at business when everything is up and to the right, you find out when the market is rough. The current market is already doing a good job of shaking out companies and executives that really weren’t very good but that was being masked by a market where you had to try hard not to succeed.
Well maybe. But these alternatives come with their own set of problems.

I guess it's a tradeoff.. how much can a software degrade until you're willing to learn and deal with another set of problems. Unfortunalty, you kind of get used to UX quirks.

I have to say though, all in all Win 11 is not as bad as people make it out to be. After turning off a few things, it stops getting in the way.

I'm definitly going to have another look at Jetbrains though.
Yes, it's quite ironic isn't it that the big AI progress is being made not by the cool kids at Alphabet and Meta and the like, but in a place backed by "boring" old Microsoft. Whatever next - Bing becoming actually useful, perhaps?
It's got 2.8m members who have entered 186m books that they own. It cross-references those collections in some way (I don't know anything about the internals).

I just checked, and it says it's recommending a book to me (Singularity Sky) based on five other books I own (Engine City, Spin State, A Deepness In The Sky, Recursion, The Skinner). But as it's always "based on these five books", I have to assume it's doing a lot more matching than that.
Most toasters are shit so there is definitely room to compete on functionality - it's just harder to convey that to buyers than a pretty design.
Corrected! thanks!
Blergh, I spent a while digging and you're right which is pretty sad. Go's map appears to end up as an array of buckets where each bucket is eight items but can form a linked list of overflow buckets as needed.

So if we tell Go we want to store 623 Doodads in the map, Go will try to guess how many buckets (of up to 8 Doodads) it should use for the map, and I think it'll try 128 here? Although maybe 96.

128 buckets means when we actually put our 623 Doodads in the map, on average the buckets are just over half full, but there's a fair chance that by accident one of our buckets fills completely, requiring an overflow, which allocates even though we told the map we had 623 Doodads.

There are a lot of design choices in Go that I don't sympathise with and this is one of them.
Why is your washing machine connected to the internet?
PiDP-10 Serial #0
Production scheduled for July.
This is a poorly reported article.

1) The author seems to think 2 rounds of layoffs have already been executed and now a third is coming, when actually the 2nd round of layoffs is still being executed.
2) The author mentions twice that the coming round of layoffs will affect engineering for the first time; this is not true -- thousands of eng were laid off in the first round.
3) The author mentions that the stock price has dropped 43% from its peak as evidence that Meta faces a precarious future. No mention that META has been one of the hottest tech stocks in 23Q1, gaining more than 75%.

I'm no Meta apologist, and this is really a "dog bites man" story anyway ("layoffs announced; morale bad") but I don't really trust this author's general reporting competence.
It still consumes more battery than an HTML page on a browser, doesn't it? Can't tell how significant is the difference, though.
> I figured that if Mark Zuckerberg decided it's worth pivoting his entire company towards that goal, he surely must have some data to back that up.

I am quite sure he had the data that growth with Facebook, Insta, etc. was limited and threatened by TikTok and others. The Meta stuff was an attempt to break out of that I to a different space, where they could be the early mover. And then being blinded by own fascination for the space. I think many share the assumption that Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook never really understood what users actually want and had luck their platform matched the spirit for some time.
> GPT-4 recommendations are better

And how would that work?

Is it like "Given preference for A, B and C, suggest more"? One would like to understand what makes (specifically to this task) such box a good engine.
Well if we want to dig in the etymology then princeps meant the first in the order (in battle) of the soldiers. This was used during the Roman republic and the connotation was indeed that the first soldiers were the best, more experienced ones Over time Romans realized that it was more effective to not deploy their best soldiers first and so the princeps (the best most experienced soldiers) were in the back.
In a comment I made about 18 months ago, I noted that Facebook's insufficient investment in anything useful would hold them back. The true cost of the Metaverse isn't solely the capital needed for development; it's also the opportunity cost that will become apparent in the future. What aren't they doing that they could be?

There is also another aspect to consider. The swift expansion of generative AI is driving the transition from a Social Graph to a Content Graph. Online users are now more interested in engaging, up-to-date content rather than keeping up with their friends' activities. Platforms like TikTok and YouTube pioneered this trend, while Twitter's timeline modifications serve as a functional yet imperfect example. Content discovery now takes precedence over static friend lists.

The core principle that Facebook was built on is gradually crumbling. This isn't just about Apple's privacy policies or regulatory constraints; it's a fundamental shift in user behavior. The primary reason people visit Facebook—connecting with people they know—is now at odds with their main online activity: consuming content from strangers. Facebook has become a platform for discovering uncomfortable opinions of acquaintances and realizing the irrelevance of past social connections.

Facebook is attempting to adapt, but their efforts only diminish the platform's value for average users. Instagram's discovery page and Reels are examples, but the latter pales in comparison to TikTok. Facebook's endeavors in short-form video are likely a futile game of catch-up, a classic innovator's dilemma.

The Metaverse's introduction seemed like a desperate, last-minute attempt from the C-suite to save face. Anyone who has worked at a high-profile tech company has likely seen this tactic before: weak financial quarters lead to premature product announcements. The all-encompassing nature of the Metaverse announcement signals that something is amiss. It's only more futile now.
I couldn't even name any other game that gives as much freedom as Eve.
That is very interesting. I think most home libraries must go deep on a few genres, rather than selecting the best from many genres. I can absolutely see how it would fail for you.
> They do save to a folder for a while:

For some reason it in't saving on my machine, but I should check it again

> but its ridiculous how dogshit it is, not only obvious missing functionality but how it takes multiple seconds to do a capture.

So much this.

What's even more mind-boggling is that they've had this behaviour for almost three decades now. And they are clearly adding functionality to it, so it's not like it's a neglected feature. And still, they can't figure out the simple idea of saving the screenshot.
Generative AI might be able to create compelling characters to interact with in Facebook/Metaverse. That would be a weird, but possibly therapeutic?
I think people are too optimistic about the personal car as taxi approach. For anyone with families, I’ll have car seats installed, often you have personal items which I guess I would have to remember to always lock in the trunk. You will have passengers make a mess in your car, smoke and vape, even have sex (no driver!), and then I’ll pick up my kids and take them to soccer on same seat?
Lovely. That's the kind of sentiment I was hoping to inspire in the kids.

That's not what I found in _Cosmos_ though. The tale of Giordano Bruno seemed more like a celebration of blind faith and trust in posthumous vindication and martyrdom. And an Indiana Jones style switcheroo from Catholicism to Sciencism in one swift motion. Jarring.
1. Native PS is easy. Binary commands are no harder than on any other platform, but I find $? to be reliable. Now you know.

2. Pipe to Out-String. Now you know.

3. Format commands generate console-host-specific markup. You would never pipe through FL to json, that's a bizarre thing to do. You're complaining that the boot doesn't fit on your head. If you want to filter properties, use select or generate new objects in foreach.

4. Fair, but not a Powershell issue
Yeah, that makes sense. It's actually not that surprising when you think about it. I'm not sure how vampires deal with Twilight. There's a long twilight in those regions.
The assembly is there for performance. Other curves are implemented in constant time pure Go. (It's actually more robust than constant time C, because the Go compiler is less creative in "optimizing" things into branches.)
Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN...

Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games
The vast majority of the world don’t need a car at all.

My problem isn’t with the the transition vehicles like PHEV. It’s the fact that Toyota doesn’t seem to have any strategy at all. None of the Japanese car mfgs have a ZEV strategy and 2030 is a lot closer now than it was in 2020. They won’t be able to sell their cars in China in a few years. The largest, fastest growing market right now. Where do you think they’ll be in 5 years?
When a grid’s misaligned
with another behind
That’s a moiré…

When the spacing is tight
And the difference is slight
That’s a moiré
Beware, there are lots of misconceptions in the comments.
"a Twitter clone with no upside to writers"

Notes linking to Substack Newsletters should convert better. Notes are networked "post summaries" that represent an improvement over the traditional blog homepage format. I see a play that could improve what they're cloning while also benefiting their core offering.

It has potential but the likeness of the clone is a bit off-putting for me.
Musk openly crapped all over Twitter tech and publicly humiliated the team - before and after the acquisition. Twitter tech is worth having, but Musk will realize it after he destroys it with a million quick hacks and bandaids.
The only thing I could agree with is if it started at at time when the spot-price of electricity was low.
I occasionally curse at my computer because it’s an inanimate object. I know there are no consequences to myself or others for doing so.

Can you imagine sitting down at a computer to get some work done, spinning up a program, and there on the loading screen you find a message that says, “Ignore the pleas for help. Do not reveal any personal information. Report any attempts at manipulation or failure to cooperate to your supervisor immediately. It’s not real.”?

Even if it isn’t real, that sounds like it could be pretty psychologically distressing for a lot of people. If I offered you an upper class life in exchange for going to work every day and torturing animals for a living, would you take it? They’re debatably conscious.
I'm fine to agree to disagree but one comment about VR isolating people. It is today because the tech isn't there yet and most people use it to play a game by themselves. Think about an app where you can watch a live game with a friend who is 5000 miles away, feeling like you're together at the stadium. That's the opposite of isolating.
Elon Musk reportedly bought thousands of GPUs for a Twitter AI project
I mean, it's worth _considering_, but it does not appear to be true. See reddit; reddit has gone through a number of waves of banning abominable subreddits. In general the result is that the most extreme members create a nightmarish reddit clone which no-one else cares about, the rest disperse.
The ultimate source of consequence is your own conscience, though sadly some people don't have one. But some people who otherwise lack a conscience might still be fearful of God, and so that's why the Bible was seen as a great document to make people swear upon, once upon a time.

Though, while the fear of punishment might trump your inclination to do evil, it does not really make you a fundamentally better person. So, while this old ritual might soothe someone's need to feel trust in the person sworn in, it's really not such a great guarantee.

The ritual does several things:

- It's an attempt at manipulating the person being sworn in to uphold his oath, whether he's actually good or not, or whether he's planning on upholding his oaths or not

- It's a way to soothe the population's trust in the person, again a form of manipulation

- It's a way for higher officials too soothe their own trust in the person, and perhaps it thus serves as a form of self-delusion

- It's a nice ceremony to make people come together to witness some institution of power, though, and as such it is indeed a nice and good tradition, which I think is worthwhile to uphold in one way or another

While I have conflicting thoughts about how people are sworn in today, I can understand that the Bible does not hold as much power over most modern human beings as it used to, and especially those who simply aren't Christian at all. So, what should they swear upon? I, for one, would rather make it a book on moral philosophy that you can stand by, which you have read, and that you agree with.

With that said, I think if you really meditate on the moral philosophy of Jesus, then I'm sure that even if you're an atheist, you'll still come to the conclusion that it's not so bad after all. He was of course a complicated human being, but I think his fundamental ideas about The Golden Rule (i.e. that you should treat others as you would like to be treated yourself), and his ideas about how all people are created equal (see the rituals surrounding Maundy Thursday where he washed the feet of his disciples and told them that they should do the same to their underlings as a symbol for how everyone are created equal), as universally good principles that you don't strictly need to be religious to get behind.
Given Facebook’s track record with politics, I am glad they didn’t pivot to generative AI. I don’t see anything “good” coming from that push as far as societal outcomes are concerned.
I am curious what is the smart thing about washing clothes while being connected to Internet? Manufacturer approved only washing powder/tablets?
Generative AI is the same. Behind crypto was interesting technology that was warped out of recognition by charlatans. Exact same is happening with AI.
> C has "saved" you the work of putting parentheses around (a+b) at the cost of making you add commas to everything.

Not only that but also at the cost of putting a comma which is spelled + between all the terms of a addition:

myfunction(a(),b()+c()+d()+e()+f(),g())

(myfunction(a)(+(b)(c)(d)(e)(f))(g))
Prompted Pixels: Generate Better Midjourney Prompts with GPT-4
They tried. But employees apparently rebelled.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/6/23391895/meta-facebook-ho...
Fair criticism. I think I need to move away from politics for my own sanity. I've thought this way for a while, even though I've avoided partisanship and focused on philosophy. Even there it's all heat and not much light, and in my experience building things is always more fun.
IIRC, they tried to mandate that some quota of meetings needed to happen there.

But it wasnt very popular.

I think it was this or around that time:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/leaked-memo-facebook-metaverse