skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in vision. Go look up the imagenet leaderboard. Look at the results of Alexnet vs the top result today. The trend is a log line. The top contending architectures still include CNNs trained on backprop, they’ve just had a decade of tricks applied to eek out some improvements. The transformer based vision models aren’t much better.

Talk to any machine learning expert and they’ll tell you the math and fundamentals haven’t really changed since the 90s, we’ve just gotten better at scaling. Transformers came onto the scene half a decade ago and we could scale them much better than CNNs, but like CNNs of today, we’ve hit the diminishing returns limit.

Maybe look at actual data instead of being dismissive to different opinions.
True.

But even then the reason I prefer my Mac is that it integrates with my personal hardware. I do log in to my personal account on my work Mac But I am careful about what gets synced.
This presents a path to mend the wound of D1->D2 transition.
I see that instead of answering this you put a top level comment linking to your faq. I looked at the faq and it's so vague it doesn't answer it.

In your top level comment I saw you are concerned that people in this hacker news post are disrespecting your chatbot and your country and different cultures and traditions, but I hope that nothing I have written shows any of that kind of disrespect. Is it your reason for not answering, that others in this chat have shown disrespect?
To get the convo started: The skeptical take is of course that there is no long covid. either people are faking for benefits or they are being sincere but imagining it. Similar concerns around Lyme disease.

Q: is there firm evidence for long covid that excludes these possibilities?
There's only one executable, with no .dll or .so files. It needs some text and image assets that don't need to be in memory all the time, so I don't want to nail them into the running executable. (You can do that in Rust, and I do it for a few minor icons such as arrows that aren't going to change. But not for big stuff.)
The very article you posted claims its 300mio a month. How dows that compare to 6 billion?
38 years ago. Almost 40 years ago. Almost half a century ago. An eternity ago. It's such a bygone era that it's foggy in my mind. People who grew up playing this stuff are middle aged already, probably already parents. They'll probably die and the culture that they literally grew up with will still be owned by corporations. This is screwed up.
I wonder if you could make a workable StarCraft league where the exact rules aren’t known to the players until the match starts, or maybe just minutes before the match.
At least for me a browser should be an interactive document viewer. Not CAD, not file conversion, not writing OS images to an SD card, not generating GCode. Ingesting HTML, CSS, and JS and turning it into an interactive view of that XML document nothing more, nothing less.
Additionally, the CFO position at Tesla has had noticeably high turnover the years.
Elon Musk quietly starts X.AI, a new artificial intelligence company
The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market
Sound Money Bills Moving Forward Rapidly in Many US States
Welcome to the world of being a deviant from social norms. I have contamination OCD; it was very mild until mid 2021 when the assholes in charge thought it was a great idea to drop both mask requirements and social distancing requirements at the same time. Then it flared up to moderate OCD and has stayed there ever since.

I live in the SF Bay area and only once overheard a sarcastic comment directed at my mask wearing. But every time I go out shopping in public and see people without masks I feel it. And that's completely discounting all of the articles I've read that favored removing masks and distancing, even from left-wing writers. The few people who are still mask-positive, or at least talk the talk, are nice, but seem less salient before the mask-negative people.

People don't give a shit, even though they know that behaving as normal means that literally hundreds of thousands of people will die each year from disease.

As a person who is not trans, but does have OCD, it's annoying how big a deal the powers that be make being "trans accepting". When at best they just say "tolerate those who continue to wear masks, but don't bother social distancing from them, or wearing your own mask". I think this annoyance (in people who see their own issues not cared about the same) sparks a backlash not necessarily against trans, but against the very large, disproportionately noticeable, social push for not just trans-tolerance, but trans-inclusion.

The main issue with "Trans" is that it covers way too many things these days. Everything from what used to be transvestitism to full-on post-op and hormone transsexualism, and including brand new things such as pronouns. And actions ranging from trans people who still otherwise behave entirely like their birth sex socially, to those who stealth everywhere they can in every way they can, to those who flaunt their transness in various ways. And that's without factoring in the third parties who support transness, and the various kinds of actions they take (such as militantly policing pronouns, or encouraging people to consider whether they're trans without letting the topic arise naturally - which is a definite problem for some people who are on the OCD spectrum [Trans-OCD] as well as people who are suggestible).

And it includes other people who are even more socially deviant (pedophilia, extreme body modification), trying to hitch their wagon to the trans issue, as trans hitched itself to LGB, which brings in the slippery slope arguments.

Basically there's a ton of stuff going on with respect to trans. Various people can be okay with almost all of it, but not with some of it. These people can say what they have a problem with and it can be perceived as blanket anti-trans or "transphobia", when it's not. Or those people can actually become blanket anti-trans because of the one thing they originally had a problem with.

P.S. I found your comment while going back through my thread list and felt the desire to respond.
A space elevator is really an optimization in reducing fuel costs for upfront investment. Such a thing becomes attractive past a certain volume of launches.

While it’s never necessary, it will make sense at some point.
Using Vim with the colemak-dh layout
Thesis from subhead: "It’s not just lavish marketing and the threat of green bubbles—Apple’s commitment to supporting old phones has allowed it to capture a part of the market once cornered by inexpensive Android devices"
That's cool. Seems they're focused on writing apps in SQL though.
Back when I got my DoD security clearance, I remember my employer's security officer sitting down with me and going through a PowerPoint together, and then witnessing my signing of some paperwork. As I remember, one of the points in that paperwork is that a warrant wasn't required to tap my phone, etc. (and also, I'd go to prison if I shared anything improperly).

Am I misremembering? Maybe it was only that no warrant was required to monitor me on company systems, but (it's been 20 years), I thought I was generally signing away an expectation of privacy in exchange for access to classified information. (So, indirectly gaining extra pay, job security, and access to interesting technology in exchange for signing away privacy... not sure how I feel about that 20 years later, but it seemed a good trade at the time.)

If I'm remembering things properly, no extra legislation is necessary for monitoring people with DoD security clearances. Even if monitoring were warranted, I believe these powers already exist to cover this case, and any extra legislation is a power grab.
New technology prevents fouling in photobioreactors for CO2 capture
I don’t necessarily disagree with any of this. But the toolkits first listed are all pretty poor if you care about aesthetics and UX.

It’s like making furniture with framing lumber and OSB. It’ll work fine and be durable. But it just always feels not great. They generally feel, to me, a semitone sharper than portability with 90s Java applications.
People thought that if we didn't see the USSR's stuff it must mean they are even more advanced than we thought and must be imminently preparing first strike! Evidence of Soviet military power was evidence of Soviet military power, and lack of evidence was evidence of even more Soviet military power! People really non-ironically thought this.

It seems completely unhinged today, but this was right after the world had just been rocked by two successive bloodbath world wars. It wasn't that crazy in the 1950s and 1960s to think WWIII would be up in short order.

Another major factor was how much secrecy there was on both sides. Secrecy breeds conspiracy theories and paranoia. The Soviets were also preparing for a first strike from us and probably were following similar lines of reasoning.
I strongly disagree with most of the points in this article. Why does he blame small app developers for vendor lock-in? Why is everyone casually avoiding the fact that vendor lock-in comes from.. vendors? You think I want to rewrite the same app 3 times for it to work on Apple, Google and Microsoft systems? When is the last time these 3 major platform owners have done anything but locking you in their ecosystem?

Such a weird take on this, really.
I had been thinking of ideas such as memory compaction (summerize things), or using the LLM to translate into an execution language for the automation.
Pushing back on the "late capitalism" vibe, the market cares about certain things over others because people have a limited amount of everything and wish to spend it on things they want - the way you make billions of dollars on a video game is by getting millions and millions to buy it. This is, nominally - a good thing!

There's places where it falls down (mtx gachas, where individuals tend to all be overvaluing gambling dopamine in the same systemic way), but like - teenagers want to talk to their friends, not learn to code and if they did they have a perfectly usable computer
This is also one reason why users in corporate environments solve so many problems with Excel: it's a powerful, easy-to-use tool for making custom "applications" (within certain constraints) that is already installed on your work machine. No approval process, no procurement, no IT staff involvement; just users getting things done with what they have.
You should chech out the Iskra ETA 80 (1980) from Yugoslavia, which was plagiarised in the USA:

https://www.tms.si/en/the-bramao-and-iskra-eta-80-telephones...
Adobe and Microsoft both have spent 30 years optimizing their development around supporting both Macs and Windows.

But how much of the GUI is actually cross platform? Adobe famously used Apple’s Carbon API and was very upset that it wasn’t ported to 64 bit. There is a lot of Cocoa in both products.

Microsoft use to brag that they had more Mac developers than Apple did.
From people running GPT based loops like this one, can you share typical tasks you've been performing & the associated costs?
Well, you're obviously welcome to do whatever you want, but I personally regard this as backwards. I believe in libre software, because I believe it is ultimately going to be better for users (over what timescale, I can't say for sure, but longer rather than shorter), and better for developers and better for technology. So I want to work on a libre platform, to some extent regardless of the applications I need/want to use, and thus I pick Linux first and apps second.

When the app is not there (e.g. a DAW), I merely choose to spend a few decades of my life developing it, thus destroying my ability to do what I originally wanted to :)

As for why would you prefer Linux as the daily driver, that would depend a lot on what you were doing/needed. It is a technically superior in almost every respect (not every, but close). It has better audio latency performance, should that matter, better bandwidth for most things, is generally more customizable to your own preferences (though obviously other platforms may be customizable enough). Upgrades and maintainance is generally simpler and smoother. I like being in control of my technology in a way that Microsoft and Apple increasingly do not allow me to be.

I'm not saying that you have to care about any of that. I do, that's all.
> Did you reinstall OS, or it works as upgrade?

I reinstalled thr os from clean when I swapped-out the storage, so unfortunately I can't comment on the upgrade path.

The machine periodically prompts me to upgrade to Ventura - which I keep declining as Monterrey is fine for my purposes[1] at the moment - so it's obviously happy to do an upgrade.

[1] Running Visual Studio for Mac to build .net apps for MacOS
I see this link on the Blizzard support site that provides downloads to classic D2 and LoD but I haven't tested them out to see if they ask for a CD key or not.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/13867
This is pretty big. Not only did Crow buy the house & then Thomas failed to disclose the sale (which he is obligated to do)… Crow also made a huge donation to Ginni Thomas’s organization, out of which Ginni received a fat salary.
Kind of odd generalizing 'smart'. People have different skill sets and it's pointless comparing eg dev skills with marketing skills.

Imo, Jobs was good at making hype, that was his skill set and he was undoubtedly good at it. Woz, Torvalds, have very different skill sets from his but it's apples to oranges.
I would argue at least in the United States, the benefits for being disabled is quite limited. There’s wealth limitation (ie. You cannot own more than a certain amount of anything among any assets) and this often precludes disabled people from marriage among other sucky things. The other thing is iirc there’s been brain scans and other biomarker testing of long Covid that shows noticeable differences similar to ME/CFS.
> If you can't ever have your thing in the open maybe you shouldn't be having it at all? No matter how many gray hairs you have and how nice your suit is.

Nice in theory, but doesn't stand up to basic scrutiny. I have secrets. Hundreds of them. Mostly passwords. And I mostly keep them secret because if I don't, naughty people will take the things I need from me or generally cause chaos for me and my family.

You're absolutely right that young people are more likely to question traditional narratives, but they are less likely to have the context (or apply it, anyway) necessary to form a coherent narrative in its place, which will often lead you to at least some variation on a traditional narrative.

I think where young people often do good by questioning authority is when a traditional narrative used to apply but in recent history no longer does for some reason or another. If you're an old, you've likely already mentally examined some idea or process and found it to be sound, and now you're less likely to come back and question it later. Young people come along later and question it and find it to not be sound anymore, and the olds realize they might be right.

For most other things... You don't have to be young to smell the bullshit.
Whatever features browsers have, it does not prevent you from writing native tools.

But browsers don't limit themselves to serving your needs only, and they are not in the business of promoting your approach to computing among their users. Why would they?
Good luck with that. Developers love creating frameworks and new ways of doing the same things. You might as well complain about how movies keep using the same plots.
My apologies, I'm used to comments asking for evidence being a form of accusation.
I don't even know that this question means.

Is Photoshop a cross-platform application? Protools? Chrome?
>credit cards are [exclusively] issued to folks 18 and over.

This is not 100% true.

A child can have a credit card as long as they have an adult co-signer. A child can also be an authorized user on an adult's credit account and be issued their own card.

I didn't have a credit card myself as a child, but I DO know a few people who did.
Citation? What I've seen is that he probably leaked the documents to impress his friends and was racist. Not every racist is a neonazi, though, so if you have other information I'd love to see it.
Any connection of this mechanism to cognitive symptoms, brain fog, or sleep difficulties?
Getting on the disability rolls in the US is a long, arduous slog. If a substantial number of people make it there, especially if the economy is doing well, that would indicate that, yes, Long Covid is real.

The data from the St Louis Fed do look concerning.

Civilian Labor Force - With a Disability, 16 to 64 Years, Men: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01076955
Civilian Labor Force - With a Disability, 16 to 64 Years, Women: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01076960
Plenty of usmil enlisted are anti-war. They’re the ones with skin in the game, after all.
Who says every app has to run in a separate browser instance like with Electron? It could be as efficient as a browser tab, which would be perfectly fine as long as the UI is built in a reasonable way. On Android it's been possible for a while to install webapps via the browser that are then displayed like normal apps on the homescreen, and that is nothing more than running a website in the single browser app instance running on the device.
> I don't understand this claim at all. Qt (or GTK) let's you "escape out" to the "native" toolkit on Windows or macOS as needed.

You're kind of fighting against Qt or GTK when you do that. Qt and GTK have their own widgets. React Native is more of a framework that uses native toolkits to begin with, so it starts out with much better alignment with platform expectations, and has better interoperability with platform features.

> There are not multiple "native toolkits" on Windows or macOS.

I'm confused by this comment. I don't know what kind of point you are trying to make here, or what you are responding to.

> So basically, you're denying that it's possible to do excellent cross-platform apps at all. OK. I'm not sure I agree with that, but it's a position.

Yeah, let's dial the "it's a position" condescension back one or two notches.

When I said, "Different platforms are just slightly too different from each other to make it work well," the "it" refers to cross-platform toolkits like GTK and Qt, which provide their own widgets. This explains why so many people use Electron and just embed a web browser (let's say "fuck it" and make one UI inside a big window), or choose to use something like React Native. Maybe I'm drawing too fine a line here--I think of Qt and GTK as cross-platform toolkits, I think of React Native as a framework without the toolkit parts, and I think of Electron as some kind of cross-platform box that you can something inside. I'd rather not talk about the definition of "toolkit" or "framework" because the definitions are not material.

Qt is a big honking mess, and GTK is worse. Speaking as someone who has written apps using both, and fixed UI problems in people's open-source Qt and GTK projects.
That is exactly what they are saying. Having control over your relative experience is the only thing people want.

As we all spend most of our time inside of browser interfaces its not a surprise we see app, features and interfaces move to that process portal to. (Online IDEs, Cloud, Photo editing, etc.) Sure you can use your solution but in general, as always, its whats most efficient for the masses.
Yeah, that's planned: https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB/issues/77
Maybe contests should ask themselves if they need to change. Handing out prices for creations at the event.

It is now like you had contests for nail smiths, and suddenly you could buy the nicest nails at home depot.

Edit: Also you wouldn't hand out prices for a reprint of an oil painting.
I have to say, this is the aspect that almost shocks me the most. The leaker himself doesn't seem like the most sympathetic character, and it might be very well be that he was some rightwing gun nut who shares this for entirely questionable motives.

And yes, I'd also condemn publishing detailed military positions or names of sources.

Nevertheless, I think it's unsettling how quickly media, politicians and the public are to treat any kind of leaking as a grave crime. From what I understood, the documents contained evidence of illegal activity by us agencies - spying on allies, and possibly misleading the public about casualty numbers (that seems questionable though). Yet everyone is condemning the leaker for exposing this stuff instead if demanding an investigation.

Looks like the US press really learned their lessons from the Snowdon leaks - and it weren't the ones he intended.

You can see it in the naming conventions as well - he is called "leaker" now, not "whistleblower" - or, if any media has to, it's "self-described whistleblower".
From my experience with gastro issues, it sounds like covid causes leaky gut and dysbiosis which is leading to a lot of these other issues like brain fog, tiredness, laryngitis, etc.

Is there any research looking into this?
But the web is where the stuff I want is. Just about everything else gets in the way.
That’s a good point. I’m extraordinarily lazy about security. Maybe you could make one browser profile to look up products, and your usual one to buy them.
But corporations don't necessarily have finite lifespans. Can a corporation which stays in business maintain the rights to a work indefinitely? I'm pretty sure they cannot, but then I don't know what the limit is.
Being dismissive is not helpful, trying to reduce some one's attempt to bypass the bullshit and get to the meat of the matter to a 'cognitive bias' is also not helpful.
Off the top of my head, Genshin Impact is a mostly single-player game with some multiplayer functionality. It uses kernel level anti-cheat to make sure that microtransactions are protected. This driver had a known vulnerability that did not get patched for years and was used by malicious actors: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse...

Street Fight 5 did the same thing; it was possible to unlock characters for local play using a trainer. They patched in a rootkit with known vulnerabilities in an attempt to prevent that.
And in a thousand years historians will look back at baseball, a well-known sports game with ritual overtones. The team known roughly as 'the bloody foot-mittens' is known to have been cursed by the gods for over half a century.
Tell HN: Twitch.tv now supports WebRTC ingestion (Broadcast from your browser)
You can use it today with these values. If you have any feedback/questions I would love to hear.

* URL - https://g.webrtc.live-video.net:4443/v2/offer

* Bearer Token - (Twitch Stream Key)

You can stream from your browser or from other tools like OBS. You can get a build of OBS that supports WebRTC here. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7926. This doesn't use all the features of WebRTC yet, but it will continue getting better and better.
Two founders are not always better than one (2018)
For example:

"Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground" (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65245065)

You can say "everyone knew that" but nobody could prove it before.
I wish cellphones had sidetalk.
There’s more than one definition of disability. Getting any kind of financial support is extremely hard, but getting ADA provision much less so. Most people with a chronic disease which affects your life will have at least some protection from the ADA.
I am not proposing my post for school curriculum and if you want a more substantial discussion, the ball is in your court. Why should I search for references when you are just ranting?
I have an Android and have done as you described but they're simply not as smooth as native apps, not even considering the lack of good native API integration.
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