skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is probably some legal way that the transferred company can wrangle itself out of such obligations. Such as, for instance, that the company is actually a wholly different corporate entity which is just using the assets and branding of the original.
I treat all lifetime guarantees and lifetime licenses the way I treat employee stock options, as predicated on the company continuing to perform well. And my priors for that assumption lead me to be fairly skeptical and build in a certain amount of risk. Then I weigh that risk against the potential upside and the cost to buy.

This seems like an exercise a CTO should have down pat.
> Yeah, it’s shockingly immoral to not give children drugs that have existed for something like 0.01% of human existence.

What is the argument here? Drugs haven't existed for long, so it's okay to prevent people from using them? I'm sure we can all agree it would be shockingly immoral to steal cancer drugs from a patient, even if it is natural development.
Did I say "never" or did you just put that in quotes to pretend I did? Surgery is extremely rare and largely seen as unethical. Again, except for circumcision, which is downright common and often literally forced on children. Where's the outrage? Cisgender women get breast implants before 18 through similar channels and in greater numbers. Where's the outrage?
How much variation is there in rebar diameter? I thought it was pretty standardized. If so length to length comparison would make sense. Though I am curious about price fraction, is the rebar half the cost of a chunk of reinforced concrete? a quarter? a tenth? I suppose it varies with how much reinforcement there is.
If the assumptions made by the code are wrong, the code is wrong.

I would agree with you if the code would preprocessor-check ULONG_MAX and #error out if it isn’t the expected value.
3 favourite books is absurdly too few
Maybe but since we can't by definition know what is present in the model we can not define any behavior as emergent as opposed to simply trained.
Suppose you don't know anything about our school system and you observe that 12-graders know calculus whereas 3-rd graders do not. In their definition of emergent Calculus is an emergent ability in 12 graders because it was not present in 3-rd graders. ofc we know that it is not an emergent ability but result of new expanded mental model trained on bigger corpus of knowledge.
> 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.

Aren't users mostly forming parasocial relationships with "creators" and consider them friends, and want to be with those friends, regardless what they'll do?

I never understood the reaction videos and found them boring and stupid, if I wanted to have an idiot constantly pause the video and say something dumb that shows they didn't understand it, I'd watch it together with my 15yo self. But when I read discussions about it, users commented that they like it because it's something they can do "with" the content creator and they'll get signals to what their famous friend thinks about some topic etc.
> It's like swearing something 'on your mother's grave'.

But they don’t swear people in over their mothers grave. If they did I hope everyone would agree that it’s meaningless, unless that person actually believed in some power of his dead mother.
You live on the same planet. If you want to spite the EV fan, go punch one. Why spite the rest of us?
The behavior is obviously an oversight. I'd bet 1 to 10 that if you chased down the original author he would agree.

No sensible engineer would design a hash function that populates the lower 28 bits of the hash code, ALWAYS leaves bits 28 through 31 clear, and then SOMETIMES sets bit 32, but only rarely and only on certain architectures.

It makes no sense as a conscious design. The logical conclusion is that the intent was to create a 28-bit hash function, and the fact that the provided code sometimes sets bit 32 is clearly a bug.
I mean having a nice feature does not remove all the other pain points. On your last point go mod is way better than anything available in Java. There're still printing out 600 pages book about Maven.

Java will always be a mess of layer of abstraction and magical / heavy framework.
Meta can't afford not to invest into generative AI. They are constantly fighting to stay relevant. Just see how TikTok's better recommender algorithm and content creation tools made Instagram play catch-up.

I'm not certain about the direction of Meta, but for now it seems that their most important areas are entertainment (Instagram, Reels) and messaging (WhatsApp, Messenger), not social networking (Facebook), which is dying.

For entertainment and messaging, generative AI is going to be huge. In entertainment, content creation and discovery will be severely advanced by AI. For messaging, at the very least, users will expect AI support in message composition and company-customer communication.
That’s awfully presumptuous, don’t you think?
Not to mention, ruined the brand value along with it. People knew Facebook, good or bad, Facebook was Facebook. There was still a lot that facebook could do. Could gradually evolve into integrating payments becoming a PayPal in the process, a store front and what not. Bringing a video platform of its own with same revenue sharing model fully integrated and what not.

Yes, there are other companies and products in similar spaces but Facebook would have been cash positive in each of those ventures pretty soon if not crazy profitable.

Whereas the Meta VR demos are almost close to what we can see from 80s, not to mention that they add no value to gaming, entertainment, communication or commerce.
> it does solve a real problem - verifying transactions independently

Yeah, but who actually needs that "problem" solved? Money launderers? Drug dealers? Scam artists? Adolescent boys whacking off to Ayn Rand books in their mother's basement?
Nike sells product you can buy and there is a limit to how good a shoe you can make that we've been exploring for the past couple millennia.

Socials need to find worse and worse ways to advertise so line can go up and there are new paradigm-shifting features invented all the time.
The Crazy Eights of Large Language Models
Well, we are still in the "play silly games" territory, aren't we? What should comparing a string to a number equal anyway?
Yea, like many computing terms are normal words now being used as jargon
Remember that this is the NYT which has a directive that tech coverage must be critical (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473275). Not that I'm implying you were dumb enough to trust the NYT in the first place.

Also important to remember that FB is a competitor to legacy media.
Meta has sold 20+ million Quest devices making it more popular than Xbox.

And most of those billions have gone towards acquiring app developers, game studios and Meta Labs.

They deserve a little more credit than building a Second Life clone.
This is like, “well, there are other passages that conflict with that, so maybe just do it when it’s appropriate”
Completely impractical and completely wonderful fun. Thank you for your work, OP! I love seeing projects full of joy, mischief, and wonder for the power of computing.
Look up strict mode.

Array unrolling is a legitimate gripe. The design justification is that Powershell is pipeline-oriented. On occasions where you specifically need an array, either type your variable or use the array operator:

[object[]]$foo = 42
$foo = @(42)
Building Championship Manager style text commentary for Quidditch using GPT-3.5
GPT `thinks` using words/letters/tokens, as humans do we also think with words, or are we capable of thinking without any words at all. If we are, then whatever GPT will be at, it still will be only mimicking consciousness, until it can reason without using words.
You are allowed to do whatever you want. It does nothing for this conversation to frame it like your a haughty teenager. That's your own baggage!
One of my original Joyent lifetime licenses is still active. I had a shared hosting lifetime plan and one of their container services as a lifetime plan, both of those are long gone. But they sold off Strongspace to Expandrive and that's still going, somehow. It's only 100gb, so, not exactly huge amounts of storage these days, but it's all still accessible, though the service doesn't seem to have been updated since I originally bought it either lol.
There’s a huge middle ground between ChatGPT and an “open source unrestricted model”. OpenAI’s playground lets you specify your own system prompts for GPT4, which allows for a lot more latitude in user prompts and responses.

But if you’re looking to generate truly racist and vile stuff, yes, you probably will need a model with no training or inference filters. I’m not sure anyone’s investing in building that though.
> The Metaverse was always such a bad direction.

This seems like a bit of 20/20 hindsight. At the time, the biggest concern Zuckerberg had was that they didn't own a platform. Apple had the iOS ecosystem, Google had Android, Microsoft had Windows, Amazon had AWS and their logistical moat. Zuckerberg made a bet that the world would move to VR similarly to the way the world moved to PCs in the 80s, which allowed Microsoft to take over a big chunk of the world.

Zuckerberg's fear wasn't unreasonable, he just bet wrong. Apple's privacy changes had a huge impact to Facebook, and the other FAANG without a "moat-defining platform", Netflix, is also in the most precarious position among the big techs.

That said, I agree with most of the other comments. I can see VR evolving a little beyond gaming I guess, but it's actually kind of a nightmare to imagine myself wearing a fucking headset all day. At this point I think Zuckerberg knows he bet wrong and AI is the future, and he's clearly trying to pivot, but it's really hard to move a big company like Meta quickly, and it also means he has to admit he just lit billions and billions on fire.
Not a lawyer, not a customer, not read the ToS.

But the wording allows for many options.

A lifetime license, to a specific version. With no updates. A lifetime license for upgrades.
> It's been the same with crypto, for that matter. None of the reasonable people I know ever saw any grand value in crypto.

Were these reasonable people banking with Silicon Valley Bank like all the smart guys? Crypto is promising a financial system that has so far appeared to be much more resilient than the traditional system and bitcoin is currently at $30k. Tether has survived something like 2x depegs so far.

We might finally have a technology that can resist financial authoritarianism; there is no body that can stop bitcoin transactions and it is proving itself to be resilient enough for medium-term use. That is a change on the same magnitude as the internet.
The part that blows my mind is they found someone willing to click send on a "life-time is now two years" mail.

I personally couldn't stomach that & I'm definitely no paragon of virtue.
Edomondo did provide a workaround for existing customers when they changed tp subscription, - but was later shut down by the new owners.
In practice they don't, but is it because they don't want to or because the current building and social/financial infrastructure just doesn't offer it as a possibility? It's overly reductive to assume that anything that happens happens because people want it that way.

By the way, laymen did and do pay for buildings made out of brick which can last for 100s of years.
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> Performance would be measured on the basis of watts of absorption under sunlight, and watts of emissions to the night sky. It is possible to design paint that visually is any color, yet maximizes or minimizes each of those parameters independently

This doesn't exist.

Or is there a link to commercial paints that can do this? Or testing on real buildings not claims from a labs media department?

Here's a link disproving thermal paints which are ugly as well as don't work - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03787...

Given money most people could better insulate their homes so even if these could exist they are pointless unless they are also reasonably priced.
This, forcing exposure of personal skin in the corporate game, would fix an untold number of issues.
Facebook has been building out one of the most powerful GPU clusters on the planet [1] for AI research, since at least 2021. This blog post in Jan of 2022 says they were already doing NLP research on it "with the aim of one day training models with trillions of parameters.". Their 2017 cluster, had 22,000 NVIDIA V100s.

[1] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-rsc/
The point is there is a belief in a consequence for lying to God. Whether or not there is an actual consequence is irrelevant.

Furthermore, you can’t prove what happens after you die. I mean you may very well be right, but it’s just your personal belief.
A company's core competency can act as blinders to seeing the potential in other products. Not literal blinders to every person that works there. There are likely many people that see the potential ... but to communicate that properly up the leadership chain to get funding and people, during times of layoffs, would require an untold amount of momentum. My evidence: Xerox and PARC and all the tech that came from there: UI, ethernet, concepts like tablet computers, etc. The only thing Xerox leadership commercialized was in their wheelhouse: laser printing. Look at all of the dead Google products - they have a hard time commercializing many of the things that come up through their organization.

Here's the ironic thing with Google and stuff like ChatGPT: asking ChatGPT something is like getting paragraphs of text similar to if someone read and summarized top X results from a search engine, without ads. If someone built a browser plugin to replace your URL bar/search engine with ChatGPT (and had it output links to references) how disruptive would that be to their cash cow?
Rooting a Common-Criteria Certified Printer to Improve Opsec
Biden lands in Northern Ireland to keep the peace [video]
Yea, all of the above. And that's a pretty big market, enough to support its current price (around $30k I believe)
> options that are increasing in value as the company becomes more efficient.

I feel it's more like options that are recovering lost value. Recovering after admitting mistakes with the metaverse concept and over hiring.
What should 0x40 == 64 equal? Ought hexadecimal integer and decimal integer be the same type?

As long as conversion between representations is well-defined and not hugely surprising, what does it matter?
5.111x Chemistry by Catherine Drennan on MiT OCW.

CS3510 Algorithms Georgia Tech on Youtube.
Believing that there is a god to promise something to is the definition of superstition.
Man, this takes me back.

I remember trying to help a friend with their PHP assignment in college (~2001). I had only ever worked with C, C++, and java in my classes and I just remember being was confused as hell since I couldn't understand why PHP worked the way it did.
edx CS50
In this case, the term semaphore is equivalent to optical telegraph.

The separation isn't completely clear, but take a semaphore like a basic tool that produces signals with a strong predefined signification, like a red light in a highway traffic light. The optical telegraph have a basic signification on their symbols, like letters or numbers, but a wide range of meanings, like the message transmission.

Take a look to the wikipedia information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
Depends on the industry. MX companies don't innovate much in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics space (too difficult to
compete with the US next door and China due to pricepoint and information transfer from Taiwan/SK/MY/JP to CN) but a lot of R&D in the Medical Electronics, AgTech, Energy, and Automotive industries is done within Mexico itself, though regulations make it so it's more efficient to do so while being a subsidiary of a foreign company instead.

Also, I've never heard of BYD or CATL til you mentioned em, but I don't follow the EV market (battery tech notwithstanding) nor do I really care, but it does show that there is still some work to be done in brand perception if a normie like me hasn't heard about it.
1,000 shares is the default amount of shares any newly created corporation has, and iirc you need to transfer them to yourself if you want to protect your enterprise. So it wouldn't surprise me if there were indeed only exactly 1,000 shares.
Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
I disagree. I would like a machine that I could start when I want, I don't like when I start a load before leaving the day then having it sit in the damp until I get home to put it in the dryer. I would prefer to be able to start it an hour before I was going home so it would be ready for transfer to the dryer then.

I also would like phone notifications, it is sort of in a corner of the basement so I don't hear the alarms.
Finally got to the answer. So it IS paid from one particular vendor. I understand there are free options. But that makes it a mine in a field if you are not knowledgable enough. It went this deep into threading to really get an ack that there is a big red O' mine in there.

And there is one piece that wont run without big red O... :(
Raspberry Pi LTD Receives Investment from Sony Semiconductor Solutions
Samsung knowingly exposed workers to highly toxic chemicals
I think the ones that give a lifetime license to a freemium like version of their app often do better than those who give lifetime to the overall.

But if I pay a few bucks and get 2-3 years of use I'm probably going to be pretty happy. If I spend tons of bucks then I'll probably be less than happy.
> Google Bard is nothing compared to OpenAI implementation

That's simply not true based on the comparison done by MKBHD [1].

Bard has the requirement that it needs to deliver an accurate and quality result above everything else. This makes it more useful but far less interesting and compelling than OpenAI.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvo6acp5aI
You may ask: why is this news?

Maybe we are so accustomed to upper class wealthy people committing white collar crime to never be held accountable that it’s news when they actually do serve prison time.

Regarding SBF I’m still appalled how he’s treated with so much leeway, lesser people would be treated quite differently. I still feel like there is really different prison systems for the rich and poor. Maybe I’m wrong.
Mastering SAML Implementation in PHP: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide
Big +1 to Cryptography I. I didn't finish it completely, but the first ~half satisfied my curiosity about the theory I wanted to know, without getting to a lot of the practical details that I don't need to remember day-to-day.

Dan and Victor also wrote a course book: http://toc.cryptobook.us/
That's today... think of the future

My first computer had 512KB RAM and 20MB was an expensive hard drive.

64GB Macbooks are currently an expensive 'Pro' novelty, they will be the vanilla of tomorrow

> i don't see the ml accelerators/gpu in current models being capable enough to make the most of the memory available to it

that's exactly my point (and apparently today's Neural Engine can't even take advantage of all the unified memory available)

until LLaMA there was no reason to have more than this, they probably imagined it would just run a bit of face-detection and speech-to-text on the side

but if they got serious and beefed it up it could be the next wave of computing IMHO
Everything in EVE Online takes time. Presumably, they wanted to do it at a time where no-one is likely to notice it's happening, so the victims don't have time to transfer assets out of the corporation before the new CEO gains power and can lock everyone else out/loot everything.
>How the hell did the US (or Germany for that matter) accomplish what they did in WW2?

By repurposing the vast majority of manifacturing cpacity to the war effrot

>>If we treated the coming climate catastrophe as an actual crisis and waged war on carbon emissions,

because one even if the US Dropped emissions to Zero it would have little impact, and two you are talking about a generational problem not a problem today. Most people disagree over the urgency of the problem, in part because have have had decades and decades of people saying we will all die in 10 years if we do not act now... 10 years later we are all still here
Or maybe they had to use spring / hibernate and ran away.
> NFT has entered the chat.

And how would they help in this situation?
Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp
I’m impressed by the number of people that have long-running still active lifetime licenses!
The "triple equal" or "really really equal" or whatever we call it is the stupidest thing a language can have. If your language needs something like that, it already failed* somewhere along the way.

* Which doesn't imply it's not useful.
Put down the Atlas Shrugged and step away from the computer.
Python does weak typing and doesn't have 1% of the unexpected nonsense PHP has.
> At the time, the biggest concern Zuckerberg had was that they didn't own a platform.

I believe the concerns around the lack of a platform were both about "moat-defining" and the possibility of being deplatformed by Apple and/or Google.
My early (2011) purchase of Apple's Final Cut Pro X has been pretty awesome. I originally bought the software using discounted iTunes gift cards so i paid around 200€ instead of 250. Nowadays it costs 350€.

There have been countless big updates, all for free. It can now edit 360° and multicam footage and many more features like object tracking and HDR support have been added for free. Just browse the long list of release notes at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201237 and you'll get the idea.
You could also use the vim :%!python3 your_script.py (where your_script.py does the work to format the text) command that takes the text of the buffer as stdin to the script and replaces the buffer contents with stdout of the script. This can also be combined with visual mode linewise to only replace specific lines of the buffer (must work on entire lines selected).
The crypto problem has an army and intelligence apparatus and ostensibly, legality. Some people may think it would be nice to not have to lose portions of your savings by indirect taxation whenever the problem decides to print money, plus of course the rest of the spectrum of wild authoritarian control.
can I put the card back to the deck?
Can I get a tiny static binary with Java? Nope. Then Go still has legs.

Edit: nvm. You can get static muslc binaries with graal https://www.graalvm.org/22.2/reference-manual/native-image/g...
I don’t think you’re following the argument, which is that swearing an oath over something like Sagans book doesn’t mean as much because the person making the oath doesn’t believe Sagan will hold them accountable.
For people who equate LLMs talk with consciousness of humans, we don't really need an inner monologue or language to function.

https://theweek.com/articles/463962/possible-think-without-l...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/the-last-gre...

https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue...
One of my clients has admin staff that would click send on "decapitate a random person in the world" if the boss tells them to.
Caring for Future Developers (2020)
In practice after a few months the web server hosting your NFT's image goes down and it's broken.
> there are hundreds of thousands of developers who are willing and capable of replacing any of us.

You're basically describing a Prisoner's Dilemma.

Who runs the prison?