skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I did a lot of that stuff too. That's not my point. There has been a very strong correlation to the people who lament things using the sort of terminology you did and the crowd that caused the changes they lament.

Someone like Xavori on Lake Superior was a good counterexample. He was a well role-played villain. Meanwhile there were hordes of troglodytes with borderline (or sometimes not at all borderline) offensive names going around and straight up griefing people. And that latter crowd ruined it for everyone.

A big delimiter I use when talking to people about those days was to what extent they view the largest issue being there not being enough unwilling participants in their PvP/griefing. A lot of people liked Siege Perilous, which was awesome. But a lot of the problem players didn't - because what they really enjoyed was griefing other players.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in the US in 2015.
You do realize you can use the same devices for as many services as you want. You don't need to "buy and grant access to another device for every service".

Have a couple devices. Your phone, security key, etc and use at least 2 for every service you use.
Gig economy
It's free speech alright - within "acceptable matrix parameters".

I am entertained by how the "libertarians" on HN were shrieking "bloody murder censorship" at day-to-day moderation decisions, and now falling all over each other to defend this erratic, impulsive chaos as "Musk's right to make business decisions". Pick a lane.
As well, people don't understand that React is an idempotent rendering framework. It's easy to reason about because of the same reason why functional languages are easy to reason about, it does not mutate but instead creates new copies.
There's tons to hate in the Art (capital A) but this is not one of those things.

Similar to High fashion where "stealing" and transformative action is recognized and accepted, in capital A art anything can be capitalized.

For those saying that Roy did not substantially transform the originals: the fact we are having this discussion decades later is proof that it was hugely transformational. Did Roy prevent any of those artists he "stole" from doing what he did?

Copyright is a silly "right" made up by emerging monopolistic hegemons to prevent others from doing what tbey did to achieve emerging hegemon status.

Intellectual "property" is not a real thing. It's not even universal in time or geography.
Socrates was unique in his wisdom, yet hardly in his trend for debate. In literally all of human history for which we have even a semblance of reasonable record, there was widespread debate (which not infrequently would escalate to extremes) over essentially any topic imaginable. Even in topics that trend towards "natural" taboos, like religion, there has invariably been extreme debate.

Again I don't really understand how you could think people just held "communal" views on "almost everything" in the past. Can you offer literally even a single supporting example?
Having seen what they've done already, it's a far better use of their resources.
It is not “stupid” to attempt to control use of your API, whether HN agrees or disagrees with your motives.

What is being discussed here, however, is whether using Twitter‘a web client to post a tweet containing a link to content on Substack is “abuse of Twitter’s API.”

Elon absolutely did this, and there is no “pretending” going on.
GPT has completely changed my use and feeling about regex. I used to hate them, would rather write the logic myself in a language I understand. But now I just ask GPT for the regex I need and voila!
You don't need the internal state if you have effectively unlimited API calls querying the generator endpoint. Your loss function can be with respect to the adversarial network only.
If it was a hard link to a directory, rm -r could've removed all the files from it first, before removing the directory itself. This would remove everything from the original dir.

(Or at least I think so - not a Linux expert here)
As bad as this decision is perhaps it's been necessary. We need a showdown over copyright before the public finally wakes up and realizes that existing copyright law is unfair and inequitable.

It's only when complaints from the public arrive on mass at the feet of legislators will they finally take action. Hopefully, this decision will increase the likelihood of that happening.

Alternatively, with such decisions continuing to maintain the status quo over copyright, and with the rage of those committed to copyright reform deepening, discontent could widen to the extent where copyright law is simply ignored
altogether and that policing it becomes impossible—copyright anarchy will then reign.

We are already at the beginning of the end of the copyright wars and publishers are still acting in ways that will ultimately ensure they'll end up on the losing side.

As a result of this decision, don't be surprised to see a fork of the Internet Archive created in some favorable jurisdiction along the lines of Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub. If that were to happen then it would serve these miserable the publishers damn well right as they have been acting as greedy unreasonable shits for many decades.
Apple Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores from Unionizing
GPT-4 is already at a level that it has graduate level math and physics knowledge, with a level of recall that most students can only dream of.
HP used to have a thing called Context Dependent Files (maybe still does?) that was part of their discless clustering. It was like a symlink, but instead of being a file that contains the name of another path, it was a directory of files. The files were named things like system architecture (m68k), and hostname, and the kernel would search for a match using some precedence rules, then treat it like a symlink.

So on your NFS mount you could have different files for, say, /bin/ls, based on architecture, or /etc/hostname that differed by the name of the host.

I always thought CDFs were pretty clever, but they never seemed to gain any traction.
Really weird too, try searching for substack, only get matches on 'newsletter'

https://twitter.com/search?q=substack&src=typed_query&f=live

Either this is a forced replacement of s/substack/newsletter or its a sign the term is banned or both.
Ambien is like crack for white middle class and up people.
Normally yes, but it looks like the trusted PL/Rust being discussed here is limited to some subset of Rust. They specifically note that `unsafe` code is not allowed, which means you can't (for example) implement your own syscalls or construct a pointer into postgres internals memory.

However, they make it clear that this is not intended to be your only defence against an attacker:

> Note that this is done on a best-effort basis, and does not provide a strong level of security — it's not a sandbox, and as such, it's likely that a skilled hostile attacker who is sufficiently motivated could find ways around it
As I said, this project was about as complex as Figma: a feature rich collaborative editor. This designation has nothing to do with code size.

Go hook up the React dev tools to Reddit and look how much each component renders. You see that components are constantly rendering even though nothing apparent has changed. I get that ideally React would only re-render when something has changed, but clearly it’s easy to create situations where react thinks something has changed even if it hasn’t.

Another good example is the Facebook website itself. It’s just so slow. I get saying Reddit developers suck, but I don’t think you can say the same about FB developers given that FB made React. React is popular because it’s a good developer experience. It’s not the best choice if you want optimal performance.
Just because you have access to the entire source code of Linux kernel, doesn't mean you'll be able to find all the bugs in it. Sometimes the numbers may add-up but it is the patterns which may be suspicious. Automation like sanity checks/pattern matching etc (+ ML now a days) would help a great deal but even then it is not a guarantee.
REvision 2023
You can download all of Google (and therefore all of the Internet) with:

wget 8.8.8.8

Make sure to have enough hard drive space before you run this, or you could irreversibly damage your computer.
It's obviously referring to scraping.

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/LinkedIn-Wins-Latest-C...
Youth and Age: Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming
iPhone + apps, esp Instagram.
The economy was bouncing back from the housing collapse and it's massive ripple effects. The promising tech was Mobile Phones. Everybody wanted a piece, Nokia tried so much with Symbian OS, Samsung came up with Wave OS. Microsoft pushed Windows Mobile which was well liked but wasn't a commercial hit. Firefox and Ubuntu made their mobile OSes, it was a tough competition against the mountains that were Android and iOS. Not only on Software, the hardware tech was mind-bogglingly awesome as well. Nokia made folding phones with keyboard, Blackberry stuck to their game, Samsung followed Apple but later found their uniqueness, Apple is anyway Apple, Microsoft wanted Lumia series to be a big hit poured resources in it but didn't pay off that well. HTC, LG had their ups and downs. After the bad press for Huawei and Google withdrawing their support, Xiaomi and BBK that took the market by storm. Their cheap phones were an instant hit in Asia, Africa. Each pushing the hardware boundaries every so hard to stay in the market, edge to edge display, pop up selfie cameras, high refresh rates, higher megapixels, bigger lenses, 2 cameras, 3 cameras, 5 cameras, glass finishes, chips that'll give desktop computers a run for their money. It was totally wild. My first computer was an IBM PC running Windows 3.0, to many others like me 2010 blew me away is an understatement.

There was Blockchain, Cloud computing became widespread with AWS taking around 70% of the market and incumbence of multi trillion dollar companies were in the news towards the second half of 2010s.
Read with me: https://youtu.be/3tJjHCzy8Sg
That actually didn't work out too bad, did it?
this is smart. I have a million of these I never wrote down at the time I did them and then when I needed a resume it was a painful process of trying to remember everything.
Instead of passwords many security keys have a pin or biometric that can replace the password. The main advantage is that access is that they are made difficult or impossible to brute force.
The other way around is to point at great React based apps. Linear’s project management tool is so quick and fast. It takes a whole mindset embedded into a team to make a product fast from the get-go.
Because land is actually real, physical, naturally finite. It's actual property in the simplest most intuitive sense. Intellectual property is just the whole world pretending it can't produce an unbounded number of copies at negligible costs. If we had planetary scale Star Trek replicators there'd be no need to have physical property either.
Instead of long learning or long contexts, at some point artificial neural networks will have to transition to continuous/online learning - learn while using the network. This way, limitations are broken like they are in our minds.

Similar to what Numenta HTM networks do, but scalable and performant for real use cases.

BTW, perhaps human-like conscience emerge as a "self-attention-like" mechanism between context and learning. Just saying.
Exploring the Gameboy Memory Bank Controller (2020)
Substack’s CEO has denied any improper use of the Twitter APIs. Given Elon’s long and storied history of making things up, this allegation seems likely to be another fabulation.
It would be possible to implement a solution based on locks similar to the one in place in Panama canal.

Among all the outlandish ideas, this is the least crazy of them.
Incomprehensible is the polite version.

1) Substack links are blocked and restricted. I've personally confirmed this, as have countless others. In fact you can't even search for the word substack (or tweets made by Taibbi!) right now. Musk is either attempting some sort of deeply disenguous argument about the meaning of the word "blocked", or he's just mistaken. At best.

2) I can't even parse the nonsense about Substack scraping twitter. It makes no sense on multiple levels. There's no real way they're trying to download a "massive portion" of Twitter's content, there's no way they're "downloading the Twitter database", there's no way they only have a single IP address, and this block isn't about IP addresses, it's about domain names, or in the case of the search bans, actual words. And also, there's no reason why they'd want or need to do whatever he's accusing them of to start their Notes product. This is so garbled is hard to even call it wrong.

3) Taibbi isn't a Substack employee. Not that it'd particular matter if he was, but he's not.

I'm honestly at a loss. This is so goofy and obviously wrong it's hard to figure out if Musk just believes his target audience will happily swallow nonsense and so has no need to make up plausible lies, or if Musk actually believes this stuff.
to make the car go More here

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6977673...
Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code?
When facebook started doing things like this, first taking away subscribers (likes) from pages and making them pay-to-post, then blocking competitors, copying their ideas etc. etc. it was hailed as "business savvy". obviously it is just as bad when twitter does it, but how come they are not "savvy"?
Show HN: Magic functions for TypeScript
Inspired by a recent post on AI functions for Python[0], I attempted to build the Typescript equivalent with the help of GPT-4.

The library itself is interesting and fun to play with[1], especially as you rack up OpenAI credits ;)

The surprising thing for me though, was how productive I was with GPT-4. I went from “this should be possible” to having a working prototype over the course of an afternoon.

Looking back at my early ChatGPT prompts that day is humorous, as I was asking very simple questions like “How do you pass a Typescript type to a Javascript function?” which eventually led me to the existence of Typescript transformers, ts-patch, typescript-json-schema, etc.

I had no previous experience working with the internals of Typescript, and had just assumed that this would be possible in a first-class way. GPT-4 kindly let me down, and explained I needed to use ttypescript or ts-patch. From here, we quickly dove through the rest of the task, with the LLM helping me debug version incompatibilities, library quirks (turns out JSON schema libraries are quite diverse in their capabilities!), and even creating the initial README for the project.

If you haven’t had a chance to play with LLMs yet, or you have a GPT-4 invite waiting in an email somewhere, I can’t recommend jumping outside your comfort zone and seeing how these models can help you build cool things. They’re not quite perfect, and certainly very hyped, but they don’t care how silly your questions are… they just… help.

Stats:

- 148 requests sent (including programmatic)

- $7.61 spent

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366838

[1] https://github.com/jumploops/magic-example
Google has a big moat. No social media has a moat, though one could say advertisers would be hard pressed to beat Meta's ad tech. But users have no loyalty.
And then there is also this https://www.ft.com/content/5e6f15ce-9eda-4b04-883d-686617020... -- cheating on ethics exams by EY.
It's all very funny that the whole system is built on assumption where the supposedly knowledgeable, ethical experts audit companies, but in reality, it nowhere close to that.
This is what modern corporate cancel culture looks like.

Billionaires buy media companies and politicians for a reason.

Its the same reason, totalitarian govs control their media and politicians.

The playbook is the same:

1. Make an individual decision against an individual, group or organization (ie. target)

2. Make your plea to the masses using your platform of choice to stoke fear, hatred or worst (complacency) with your policy

3. Act violently, disingenuously towards your target

We have not evolved beyond lynching in America. We just do it differently now.
What I found really aggregious is that Twitter is polluting searches for "substack" with results where "newsletter" is highlighted.

This wasn't happening yesterday, but it started happening today.

I tried a custom search where "substack" is on the must include list, and "newsletter" is in the excluded words list, but it didn't work: it still showed me mostly tweets with "newsletter".
Wikipedia mentions that the dome was dismantled in 2010.
> and it is very much not coming from a good place

Can you elaborate? I know nothing about this, but from the description it seems well-intentioned so I'm curious what isn't?
> This of course sounds totally stupid to us and we are right to criticize Twitter for blocking crawlers because a request is a request is a request.

Do you use or advocate using an email service that automatically blocks spam and phishing attempts? An email is an email an email.

Same with phone calls.

If you don't then do you post your phone number and email publicly like on HN, Twitter etc.? If not, why not?
What should happen is audit becomes a public trust financed by a tax on all public companies.
Hi, thank you for your comment, I'll try to address all your points, and I believe that we should add more info on our website. Indeed, it's early and we just launched.

1. Yes, it will figure out your database structure and reply without any further guidance from your part, you don't have to do anything else.

2. We have MySQL and PostgreSQL support (we will add this info on our website, thanks for the feedback).

3. We support a few basic graphs like pie, bar, line and area graphs. You can also get numbers as replies (like totals, averages, etc.), or a table view (you can ask to see a specific entry from your database).

4. You can ask anything, and almost always you will get a good reply.

Feel free to create an account and play around (you don't have to connect your database, we have a demo database that you can use).
What's missed in these discussions is that plagiarism doesn't just hurt the original author, it also hurts the fans.

If you find a work you like, you follow the author to find more works with similar vision. If the author plagiarized it, you're never going to find those other works.

I listen to a lot of Touhou arrangements/remixes. Some of it is barely a cover, some of it is so different you'd be hard pressed to identify what of the original actually remains. But it's clearly labeled, and I've heard the original, and I decided with full knowledge that the new work offered enough new ideas that I wanted to own it independently.

Plagiarism is also disrespectful because it reduces the agency of the fan - it decides for them that the new work has sufficient merit and denies them the ability to make that decision themselves.
Stop, you're both right! Weird quantum physics argument here: multiple timelines exist. There is a world where AI makes everything terrible and one which makes everything great. The world you will notice as time goes by depends on which timeline you "resonate" with. For example Eliezer Yudkowsky is definitely resonating with the bad one.
Hot reloading is still a widely loved feature for server side rendering. It is part of what mad PHP widely popular and many other frameworks have auto recompilation and reloading on watching changes. The smoothness of automatic recompilation falls apart the longer it takes to compile and rust is not known for fast compiles.
I meant you have to have more than one device so there's a backup, or else rely on alternative means to recover. Not that every service needs its own device.

And if one needs a backup device then one must also register both with every new service.
The first game ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion
I mean, as they are already running the query i think it would be easy to just show it together with the charts and answers.
trump led us to 0 wars. a feat no one else can praise himself of in recent american presidents. Id say that its his greatest achievement and for the world one that puts him ahead of other american presidents. do you research and look up what dear joe biden was saying a few years ago, against african american or even same sex mariage and try to see who is evil
I find being a "builder's FP" more true of something like Rust than Elixir, in my experience. This is mainly due to the lack of static and algebraic types in Elixir, which makes debugging very difficult, as well as more annoying to reason about the problem domain, because you can't represent it in types as well.
Wirecard was the other way around. Send invoices to companies that don't exist, and transfer the earnings to a bank account that does not exist either. Don't forget to pay taxes of couse. Get bonus payments and earn nicely on rising stock prices.
I use a yubikey everywhere I can. As a backup, when I add my yubikey as a second factor I also add a TOTP and print out the enrollment code.
This is an old myth thats no longer fully true. Rust is a language that straddles both high level and low level in the sense that it is literally indistinguishable. You can use rust as if it were a high level language without knowing anything about low level stuff. The binary you get at the end, ends up being low level in the sense that it's performant as if it was written in a low level language.

There is definitely a mental overhead with rust but this has nothing to do with low level or high level concepts. The borrow checker is actually a high level feature that exists for safety, not performance.
This is a discussion about perf. Creating new copies is part of what makes it slow.
Indeed, WhatsApp uses e2e encryption. But today's mobile devices are ever more capable with AI accelerators. It's just a matter of time until a locally inferred model is good enough.
First of all the LM002 is not what many would call a "Supercar". At least not modern day. An actual supercar, the Ferrari 296GTB, uses Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires, the same tires you would put on a Porsche. Or your WRX. Further I looked up the CEO of walmart, he doesn't drive an LM002

Even the Lamborhini Revuelto uses Bridgestone Potenza Sport tires which clocks in at about $500/each
Yes, we're locking users into analytics because you can easily ask chatgpt to write an SQL query for you and there's no need for us to replicate the same functionality.
I mean I just read that article and it doesn't seem like a lot will change, sure it can summarize a whole book, or read a larger chunk of code to do thing with, but didn't really see it talk about taking things to "the next level" so to speak.

The researchers are also, excited.

We’re especially motivated by applications that could benefit from longer-sequence models – high-resolution imaging, new modalities of data, language models that can read entire books. Imagine giving a language model an entire book and having it summarize the plot, or conditioning a code generation model on all the code you’ve ever written. The possibilities are wild – and we’re excited.
The problem is that memes, at least the ones that really take off, work because they are creative and funny, and so far that is probably the area AIs like GPT4 struggle the most with. It makes sense when you think about it, a technology that is built around the idea of predicting likely continuations will struggle with learning what is 'likely' in a context that asks for an element of surprise.

I.e., you'd probably need a pretty deep model if you want it to be able to understand that 'okay usually I combine likely concepts, but _now_ I need to combine unlikely concepts that still make sense together on a lower level'.