skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of erlfuzz here. I'm part of a team at WhatsApp that, among other things, builds tools to improve developer efficiency for Erlang developers, especially at scale.

erlfuzz is intended to make it safer for us (and others) to hack on the compiler and VM by catching early any bugs that might be introduced. That it also found a bunch of bugs that had been hidden for years is a very nice bonus and validates the approach.

Other recent projects open sourced by my team:
- a massive speedup of a common static analyzer for Erlang (https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/5997)
- a type checker for Erlang (https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer/)
- an automated code formatter for Erlang (https://github.com/WhatsApp/erlfmt)
- a grammar to easily parse Erlang (https://github.com/WhatsApp/tree-sitter-erlang/)
- Leila: What about our relationship?
- Otto: What?
- Leila: Our relationship!
- Otto: F@ck that!
- Leila: You sh@thead! I'm glad I tortured you!
The issue is rather complicated. Yes, you want to have a diverse sample, no questions here. However, there might be issues with the statistical design. Mice are territorial animals, and male mice get especially aggressive in a presence of a female. Put a couple of male mice in a cage, they'd be fine; add a girl in there, and there will be casualties.

That creates extreme stress in both male and female mice, and stress is an important confounding factor in neuroscience and beyond. Grouping mice by sex in different cages is obviously incorrect - cage effect is a major factor in animal research.

Not sure how these problems are solved now - maybe there are statisticians in the audience who can shed some light on that.
besides everything that was mentioned here, what made it finally click for me early in my journey was running through this excellent tutorial by Peter Bloem multiple times https://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers highly recommend
+1 for Spanish
If this is using LLMS then it would be great to expand to as many languages as possible because anthing outside of large languages are very poorly served by existing language learning apps. Danish (from english) would be my preference, but I imagine you could have a user configurable pair (I understand the situation is much, much more dire if you don't even presently understand a large language english,spanish,chinese etc)
Doctorow was once a meaningful tech and corporate skeptic, but at some point he became a dogmatist and his takes have become increasingly ungrounded.
Indeed, in another article Chen actually explicitly claims that msft invented (what we understand to be) futexes and that Linux switched their futex syscall from semaphores to futexes by copying windows. It is truly a wildly incorrect and implausible view of history.
Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’, say scientists
Maybe for the recent idea of social network. But back in the 2000', a lot of "social network" were IRC server/channel and forums. And they were often small and meant for a specific community/hobby/interest.

The idea of a social network where almost all of your friend and family are on, is really something that started in the 2020'.

In many way, Mastodon is just the phpBB of the 2020', with the added benefit that you could connect to other phpBB instances.

And even though hosting your own phpBB instance or IRC/TeamSpeak/Mumble server kinda fell out of favor due to Reddit and Discord, they also kind of act in the same way. Sure you have one login to access all the community instead of having to have a separate account for each, but each community are their own bubble and can moderate however they like. It is not a "worlwide forum" like twitter or instagram.
Was it because it was also free to teens willing to burn the books?
Companies make claims about the future for many reasons, not all of which involve direct cash payment from customers.

BMW wanted press coverage that showed them as on the pulse of advanced technology. Perception influences brand associations and car purchase decisions.
missed a disclaimer?
Yes, but Tesla does have a driver monitoring, so that's the relevant safety number.

Nobody, even Tesla, is currently arguing that Tesla FSD is ready for driverless.
You are spreading FUD and fearmongering about nuclear.

We've had 60 years of nuclear and thousands of reactors. Still waiting for those terrorists I guess.

> as supposed to the also criminal but less intentional neglect in the case of Fukushima

Which is also a load of bull, mostly. I wish all criminal neglect was on the same level as Fukushima, really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35711895
I took a quick peek at the code and, unless I missed looking at big file somewhere, looks like it’s only around 550 lines of code.

That’s great if so. I haven’t looked at lines of code in any other graphql library but I’d guess there’d be far more.
I swear I heard Jeff Bezos personally thank all Amazon shoppers and employees for funding Blue Origin. Perhaps you mean that Amazon doesn't make an enormous profit per item, but on the whole...
this whole article is literally FUD.

"some instances shut down", "there might be a CVE and everyone will reevaluate", "moderation isn't centralized"
Not a lawyer (barrister?) but I’d guess it’s because both Microsoft and Activision have offices/legal entities in the UK as well as the US. I wonder if the decision could be routed by Activision simply closing those offices and exiting the UK? Not saying it should be routed, just openly speculating as an armchair not-lawyer/barrister.
Seems like monopoly abuse 101 to me.
Loving all the Ruby articles. Ruby has been my favorite language ever since i discovered it back in 08.

Before that I was using Perl..
Chairigami – Cardboard Furniture Company
Yesterday's post about Ikea[0] reminded me of this company that exclusively sells cardboard furniture.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35700751
The parent was an appeal to authority.

My comment wasn’t so much about this particular author as it was a comment on the general motivations of people who write on the Forbes contributor platform.

In this case the author bills themselves as a consultant on self driving cars so given the venue of publication one has to wonder whether they were paid to write this. Writing under the Forbes contributor by line is an extremely questionable choice in any case.
I think your flippant response here robs us of a conversation as to why we do this — what larger purpose does it serve in the macro scale mentioned earlier. Is earth a set of short term
optimized life leading to different eras or are humans the first sentient life that must take responsibility for it. If so how and with what goals. For our own preservation? To freeze all life as it is today?
Some Mastodon instances block all Pleroma instances because they don't like the developer's politics though so you have to keep that in mind
If someone wishes for a thriving Fediverse, Mastodon HAS to die. And Misskey and Pleroma (and Akkoma, and Takahe) too.
The way these apps are shaped requires a subscription model or a big thankless spender to keep them afloat, they will sooner or later be the reason for more siloing incidents and creation of new walled gardens.
I already know most of the users have no alternative, but still.
Would it be possible to add different translation engines, like DeepL or ChatGPT? (ChatGPT in particular is often much better than all the alternatives.)
Ever heard of Hacker News?
Making a Choose Your Own Adventure Game Using ChatGPT
This is a short adventure in the style of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" or "Fighting Fantasy" from the 1980s. The text was mostly generated using ChatGPT. The images were created by Midjourney AI and Bing Creator.

Everything else is straightforward vanilla JavaScript.
News flash: tech and fads change constantly on the internet. Almost everything is “doomed”.
Does anyone else think its crazy to unwind these acquisitions years afterwards? Where the companies have already been operating as a single entity for years?
> It's publicly accessible. That's the permission.

Fair use is permission. Every library book is accessible that doesn’t have copyright implications.
And what is the name of the fund that holds 62% of a company that was once valued $47 billion and now has a market cap of $345.7 million?

Vision Fund.

Can’t make this up.
I would play around with your home page a bit. The first two images are basically the same. It's not until your 3rd image where the use case is demonstrated (and not very well). I think you should show a quiz as a popup on a demo e-commerce page or something. That better demonstrates what the product is and where it would live.

I also agree with the other commentor. Don't use your "Try Quiz" as your own lead magnet. Create a fun one and provide the results at the end. You want your potential user to see the full product, end-to-end.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm trying it out now.

One thing I noticed is that the translation links are auto-detecting the language, so some words are assumed by Google to be a language other than German.
HN has an API and a search database connected to it, but it's also "a service that works". It's not as complicated as Bitcoin, everything is abstracted as a simple account/forum system. The non-user-facing complexity is high, but the user-facing complexity is minimum.

That's what ActivityPub integration is going to look like, IMO. With companies like Flipboard and Tumblr adding integration, it's undeniable that the network is growing (even if it's not it's strong suit). For people who want an RSS-style feed with light interactive elements, it's a dream come true. Maybe that encompasses Twitter users, maybe it doesn't.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pano-one-worlds-la...

>Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is the world’s largest organism by mass (Oregon’s “humungous fungus” spans a greater distance). Quaking aspens can reproduce by disseminating seeds, but more frequently, they send up sprouts from their roots and form a mass of trees aptly known as a “clone.”

and I was able to find

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-...
MuseScore and Tempo (metronome).
Competition, both between similar units in similar places and between alternative arrangements. Maybe having a roommate or living with my parents isn't worth it for $X/mo but it is for $2X. Certainly it is for some X for most people. Also the presence of a UBI directly increases "housing" in the sense we mean. We don't really have any shortage of housing - we have a shortage of attractive housing, where a huge part of "attractive" is "sufficiently close to sufficient income" and a UBI makes more things sufficient. And for those in the cities, by elevating the bottom of the income distribution we make developers more interested in building the affordable housing we need.

Will some of the increase still be captured? Probably. More in some areas than others. Will we be right back to square one (or worse)? I really don't think so.
I agree. I was really hoping this would go through so Microsoft had some chance to keep Activision Blizzard from destroying itself. Dragonflight has been one of the best WoW expansions and yet the dev team continues to lose talent due to terrible management decisions from people who must neither understand video games nor people.
Which graphql frameworks do handle auth? It’s a genuine question, I don’t know the space but had to rule out graphql in its early days for a seeming lack in this area. But I’ve got a project now where it might be a great fit.
* US only
> Do you think it's fair to say a crow learns how to crack a nut via compression and abstraction?

Well, yes. Do you know another way?

Edit: oh I forgot your second part (I’m Ugh).

You say a crow alone does not learn this. How do you propose the first crow learned?

At some point a single crow learns. I know it propagates fast through a group, but that’s propagation. A different problem.
Funny he talks about the Boston Globe.

I canceled before they rolled out the online cancellation. I had subscribed early during the pandemic to try and have something high quality and local to follow. The online version of the paper is a lot worse than the old paper version was years ago when I got it. Lots of clickbait articles and articles intended to rile up online subscribers and drive engagement in the comments.

When I went to cancel the process was absolutely horrific. And it also revealed just how scammy the pricing is. The globe would be happy to let you have a subscription for $1 a month. But if you just go in and subscribe they will charge you 10x, 20x, or 30x that amount. You only get access to the cheaper prices once you tried to cancel and had to fight it out with the representatives on the phone. It sounds like the new online cancellation process is something everyone should do to lower their prices even if they don't intend to cancel. If you just sign up they might charge you $30/month, but as soon as you try to cancel they'll give you a way better deal.
This. Even if dealers don't "go away" as many want the shift to a "put in your order" model over 2020-2022 definitely gave OEMs a lot more visibility into what people want vs what dealers want to stock their lots with. See for example the success of the Maverick and the jump in manual transmission take rate.
LibreOffice: The next five years (2020)
Unfortunately, what happens is that (for some reason), instances cache remote media. So if I'm on rando.zyx, it will download and cache the image from octodon.social for local rando.zyx users.
We need some turnkey VPS hardware, and a lot of these problems would be greatly reduced.
In what way are any of his points not constructive? He obviously speaks from authority and provided alternatives or feedback on all his points. I found it extremely interesting and would have loved to read even more.
The Tesla investing community on Twitter has a lot of zealots that practically worship Elon and launch vitriolic crusade against even fellow "bears" who make minor criticisms at their god-emperor, his companies, or their products.
Installed, works smoothly. Able to see few network errors in my code.
The problems with this policy are obvious, but it brings benefits too: we are allowed to develop new technology. If self driving has to be rigorously proven before it can be tested, the chicken-egg problem simply resolves itself into "the tech won't be developed here." Is that really what HN wants?
None of that was enough to stop email. Free is a very good price.

Once it was obvious that emailing was a thing many people wanted to do, and a free server became available, servers started springing up all over the place, many more implementations of the underlying protocols were developed, businesses figured out various ways to monetize, the standards evolved (somewhat).

Now let's do an inventory on ActivityPub...

1) It became obvious that tweeting was a thing many people wanted to do? Check

2) A free server became available? Check

3) Servers started springing up all over the place? Check https://www.similarweb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/m...

4) More implementations were developed? That's where we are now

5, 6) Stay tuned
I love the idea of it. The average user is never going to do it.

> Unzip the image and install it to an SD card

OK, you'll lose some people here but a lot could handle that

> Configure your WiFi by editing pleromapi-wpa-supplicant.txt

Aaand they're gone
The one key advantage centralized social/messaging has is spam control. Of course that's because spam is unrealized and unregulated advertising revenue that the platform doesn't control.

How does Mastodon prevent itself from becoming email? I'm unfamiliar with the design. Do you simply turtle your trust with other servers?

One of the interesting things I haven't seen with advanced AI is the antispam AI. I would love to have a semi-trustable service that reviewed incoming numbers/messages and evaluated them against expert level manipulation, propaganda, advertising, and con techniques. Of course that then provides access to the agent ...

You'd THINK facebook and google have advanced AI language models for these given ChatGPT's abilities, but I've never seen or heard anything like that. Then again, that would be customer focused, and google and facebook are now more spam/con than pro-consumer utility.

Ha, if ChatGPT is REALLY converging to the point of coding actual systems (1-2 years maybe???), then I would like to weaponize it to counter the api drift defense used by the social media walled gardens.

No one has been able to truly integrate your social media content across the walls. Because no integration stands the constant drift of api interface. BUT, if chatgpt can constantly adapt to the changes, you might be able to do it.

Consider that while the walled gardens can shift their APIs to some degree, they can't shift them REALLY fast, because their "actual" partners need some stability. So I might be able to AI adapt-scrape from my sources and centralize better.

I don't think that is within ChatGPT's current abilities, but I don't think it is that far.

"Turtling" : a defensive, cautious approach to expansion in RTS and 4X games, rather than reckless expansion and "mixing it up". In this context, you carefully whitelist nodes conservatively, but you'll miss a lot of content and people.
So... until they reach that number, they'll publish misleading stats (i.e. outcomes that favor them depending on how they count)?
Definitely pretend you want to cancel and you'll get a reduced price.
Segfaults are unexpected and shouldn't happen in a conforming C++ program that doesn't evaluate operations with undefined behavior.

But in non-portable C or C++ program doing manual memory management with OS primitives targeting a specific OS the conditions for segfault are well documented, and you can also rely on the programs behavior when that happens (the OS raises a signal for you, that you can handle).

There are not many programs that should be written this way, but I assume the JVM might fall into this category. I'm still not sure if handling page faults this way in regular operation is the best strategy, but I would worry about performance more than correctness.
>We are a paid customer

To be fair, so were Stadia users.
+1 One could display a small context menu with a "Translate" button whenever the user selects text. (Similarly to the "Share this on Twitter/Facebook/… menu on Medium".)
From a site owner’s perspective, it also makes me question the quality of leads if someone is just going to use a disposable or one-time email just to get results, not to mention the bounce rate after the initial engagement. From a user perspective, “fun” quizzes and the like have been completely and utterly ruined by the “enter your email to get results” and I just tend to ignore any quiz-type thing because they are known fluff-funnels for lead gen.
One would think the US part owns all of the IPs as well.
Those social networks are all sitting on top of the same internet, and everybody is on the internet (e.g. there's no reason why different social networks shouldn't be able to integrate with each other).

(I shudder in horror to think what email would look like if it was invented today by some Silicon Valley techbro startup - interoperability somehow isn't even considered as an option anymore)
Even then there'll be a distribution shift effect they need to account for. Not everyone is allowed into the FSD program, and the fact that they're self-selecting to use FSD additionally biases the roads and conditions where they choose to do so. Moreover, how you count is still very relevant if all the hairy events happen when a human operator takes control -- the car screwed up, but the resulting crash gets blamed on the operator who couldn't react to the ensuing shitshow in time, and even if total crashes/fatalities are lower when counting those events you still have the self-selection problem of perhaps those FSD operators in those conditions being better at recovery from car-induced errors than the general population in arbitrary conditions would be.

Like...maybe it's fine. But even at 0 fatal crashes in 5 billion miles they won't have a strong argument that a more widely deployed FSD would have similar success without a lot more data to explain how the thing they measured directly connects to the thing they'll want to claim it represents.
Mastodon is doing fine. It is vibrant with a ton of activity.

Mastodon could be more efficient. I think there must be problems in their implementation. I think it needs a core rewrite.

I think of the current infrastructure of Mastodon as like old Atom editor. Remember it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor). It was super extensible and ran on Electron, but it was slow and somewhat unstable.

Then VSCode come around with much of the same benefits but it was fast and stable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

Before VSCode rose to prominent, many people would claim that an Electron-based editor would never work and point to the problems Atom had. But the issue was more specific to Atom and not just inherent in the general idea.

We need the VSCode version of Mastodon so it can discard the inefficiencies that it currently has and scale to the opportunity.
I read that book and watched the later documentary about what happens when the earth takes over, about how nature just over-runs human endeavors ... it was pretty depressing (though the writing was sophomoric)

but I am always amazed at how much 'nature' has been interrupted by humans laying concrete (streets and buildings etc)

Manhatten Island was once a sanctuary and now is a concrete cemetary.
At this point, I don't see the difference.
Do you think you could still enter the job market working something like a part time job to prevent burnout? Its quite refreshing to hear a realistic situation of freelancing, so thanks for posting.

I know something like THC or drugs will be my downfall in life, I have a very addictive personality and often cannot escape addiction of any kind
It seems like it's impossible to prove that it's safe on public roads without actually using it on public roads, though? Wouldn't that be an impossible ask, by definition?