skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For later versions of Classic Mac OS, there was A-Dock[0] which I used quite a lot on my CRT iMac when running OS 9. It was pretty capable, with some features that the OS X dock never had. It supported custom themes[1] and played nice with Kaleidoscope schemes and Appearance Manager themes too, which made it awesome for desktop customization aficionados.

[0]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/a-dock-301
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060103080636/http://jerome.fou...
Bank failures as a stacked bar chart
I lived in SLC city and it is flat in a similar way a bowl is "flat" The middle valley is very flat with a pretty steady elevation around 4500 ft or so IIRC but nestled between 2 very big mountain ranges and the great salt lake up north.

See for yourself

https://en-us.topographic-map.com/map-nptp/Salt-Lake-City/?c...
MacOS traditionally used `\r` for line endings. Unix (and thus macOS 10+) uses `\n` and Windows `\r\n`. Github isn't properly recognizing the files have classic MacOS line endings
I love this game and think it is one of the most important things on the internet, but I hate the consequence. The intended message is great: cooperate and forgive so that you can live in a great society. The corollary is absolutely awful... If you let defectors win, you are responsible for creating the defection.
I was able to get a debit card at 13 or so without my parents knowing; I'm sure enterprising (read: horny) teenagers in Utah are at least as clever as I was, which wasn't particularly clever.

Besides, there are plenty of VPNs that don't require any sort of digital payment. Mullvad somewhat famously accepts cash[1], and they're the whitelabeled service behind a lot of other providers.

[1]: https://mullvad.net/en/pricing
You barely do marketing
As someone who is very close with (and supportive of!) people in the WGA— this is not what they’re demanding.

They’re demanding that a studio cannot classify something AI-generated as “source material” in the same way a book, movie, play or another WGA script is. They want things generated by AI to be classified as “background material” (e.g. a Wikipedia article, newspaper clip, etc).

In a nutshell (but also, I’m not an expert), this gets down to how studios can pay or hire writers:

A studio CAN hire a writer at a day-rate (think, as a one-off gig rather than stable job) to “touch up”/“rewrite”/etc source material such as other scripts. This is usually at a lower rate than if you hire the writer in full capacity.

A studio already CANNOT hire a writer on a day-rate, give them a Wikipedia article, and claim that a writer making a story off of it is simply a “revision”. They must be hired in their full capacity, often with a writers room, to flesh it out.

The WGA’s demand is that ChatGPT and similarly generated content be placed into the second category.

A writer could still “use” ChatGPT themselves, and a studio could also provide writers with a ChatGPT-produced script, but the writers would need to be paid as if they were working “from scratch” (though, conceivably the studio still saves money in this context, as the room could be less weeks than otherwise).

It seems like a very sane middle ground.
Material components are a separate repo. They are not built-in.
Is it, though? The major selling point of coding LLMs is that you can use natural language to describe what you want. If minor changes to wording - the ones that would not make any difference with a human - can result in drastically worse results, that feels problematic for real-world scenarios.
That actually explains... a lot.
Are you not doing the same? What reason do we have to assume that things don’t have experience?
> If a candidate is primarily interested in your company because of your particular tech stack, they are probably the wrong candidate.

I disagree. I believe that most candidates are likely only interested in your salary, benefits, or other things not relevant to what your company does. A necessary state of affairs where worker rights and worker loyalty don't count for much in the face of the horribly named "right-to-work" laws.

Therefore a candidate that has a strong interest because of your tech stack is a positive where there wouldn't otherwise be one.
Actual title: 'How to Avoid a Great-Power War - a conversation with General Mark Milley'. I don't think the submitted title is informative; I only clicked because I happen to admire Milley.
"best have another way to auth"

right, so passwords it is then.
Overview – Grin Compiler
In Lisp, there is no distinction, and it's a huge advantage.
How to win at cards according to Dan Cates, poker’s autistic superstar
I'm sure if you handed the money to Austal or a similar shipbuilder with a yard in the US they'd figure it out.
At what age do people in the US get debit cards? I had one when I was like 12
Sure.

[0]: Trump tax cut 35% -> 21%, purely a gift to corporations. They now have more wealth and power. Couple this with the fact Trump continued to reduce IRS funding - and Republicans push back against Biden growing it - corporations gain more power to evade tax, and gain more wealth and power. I could find you a long list of things to this vein, but I would first suggest your head is in the sand if this is new to you.

[1]: His daughter and Kushner made hundreds of millions during their time in the Trump administration. Corruption at the top level of the administraton emboldens and enables corruption at other levels of the administration, which leads to corporations having more pressure points to continue their assault on regulatory bodies and powers.

[2]: He elected a Supreme Court that is blatantly partisan, undoes prior art despite a complete vacuum of new legislation on those matters, and is undermining the power of all kinds of regulatory agencies. For instance, take the EPA no longer being able to issue environmental regulations.

[X]: Some reading you might do well by.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/30/trump-tax-cu...

[1]: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1103595898/supreme-court-epa-...

[X]: https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/
https://archive.ph/z1xjz
IMO: https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/reasonable-person-standard...
> hah this is in many ways indirect proof that laziness-by-default is improving performance.

I believe this is the case, but the times it saves you are invisble.

The occurences where it bites you though are very visible and made out to be a much bigger deal than they usually are.
Pretty sure we're talking about ground elevation, not building height.
I think you’re right and it’s sad. There could’ve been a way to gradually disclosure complexity that ended up inviting and educating the masses.

OTOH, I know seniors managing huge WhatsApp groups, installing apps, upgrading OSs, migrating backups without blinking. Those same people couldn’t install a single app on Windows if their life depended on it.

We could’ve done better, but it’s unquestionable that there’s been some democratization of essential tech.
Lotus software still exists as a subsidiary of HCLTech, an Indian IT company. They acquired it from IBM. While it was still owned by IBM, 1-2-3 was officially discontinued in 2014.

Legally, HCLTech probably still owns the rights to it, but since it hasn't been for sale for years, I would consider it abandonware and would not have many qualms about pirating it, especially as this is a port of "Release 3", from 1989.
99% of users don’t care that it’s the same engine. They probably don’t even know. Looks the same, works the same, what does it matter? They just want to pick the browser name they trust, log in to its account and have all their favorites/bookmarks there. Whichever engine the browser happens to use is the least of their concerns.
I can also directly attest to this. The kinds of restrictions that passed for normal in SLC would be laughable in NYC (or really any other city).
Replit doesn't have special mod powers. A HN moderator downweighted this subthread, the same way we do any generic/indignant/offtopic subthread when we see it. That's standard HN moderation.

In this case we did so less than we normally would because we moderate HN less when the topic is a YC co - see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for lots of past explanation.
Temporal (and similar systems like Cadence, AWS SWF, Azure Durable Functions) allows you more expressiveness and better DX than defining DAGs in a UI or markup file. You can write (almost) arbitrary code, and the library translates the code's actions into workflow steps.

> The Visual nature of the flow, ability to visually diagnose suspended / failed executions.

Temporal has a web UI in which you can see which executions are failing, and see on which step they're failing:

https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-ui-beta
I think it’s important to get into the weeds as to _what_ the demand around AI is, because it’s not as simple as “you can’t use AI”.

As someone who is very close with (and supportive of!) people in the WGA— this is not what they’re demanding.
They’re demanding that a studio cannot classify something AI-generated as “source material” in the same way a book, movie, play or another WGA script is. They want things generated by AI to be classified as “background material” (e.g. a Wikipedia article, newspaper clip, etc).

In a nutshell (but also, I’m not an expert), this gets down to how studios can pay or hire writers:

- A studio CAN hire a writer at a day-rate (think, as a one-off gig rather than stable job) to “touch up”/“rewrite”/etc source material such as other scripts. This is usually at a lower rate than if you hire the writer in full capacity. These jobs are usually short — maybe a couple weeks, could be just a single day.

- A studio already CANNOT hire a writer on a day-rate, give them a Wikipedia article, and claim that a writer making a story off of it is simply a “revision”. They must be hired in their full capacity, often with a writers room, to flesh it out. These jobs are usually longer, likely months.

The WGA’s demand is that ChatGPT and similarly generated content be placed into the second category.

A writer could still “use” ChatGPT themselves, and a studio could also provide writers with a ChatGPT-produced script, but the writers would need to be paid as if they were working “from scratch” (though, conceivably the studio still saves money in this context, as the room could be less weeks than otherwise). As the article points out, their fear is that a studio will begin “writing” unattributable AI-generated scripts, give them to writers, and demand they turn it into a full show or movie— on a day rate.

It seems like a very sane middle ground.
This was the most well-written technical piece I've read in a long time. Kudos Andi. The conversational tone, imagery, well-sourced history - it was perfect.

It was interesting to read that Rust has a WebGPU implementation [0] outside of the browser. I wonder if this will become a more general standard.

Anyone know how WebGPU compares to CUDA in terms of performance and functionality?

[0] https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/#why-rust
A quick skim of what I think is the relevant file[1] in the chrome source suggests that would work. So worth a shot. If you can deploy enterprise chrome settings to the tablets that's also apparently an option.

Here's what I'm assuming is the relevant bugtracker entry for the implementation [2].

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/19719792bbd...

[2]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139491...
The first empirical study of the real-world economic effects of new AI systems
How To Hack Using QR Codes

https://hackeracademy.org/how-to-hack-using-qr-codes/

a nontrivial amount of effort has been applied to this topic
You gave them an income (post-tax?) of $200/month. Of course that makes it easy to loan them money.

It's also very easy to qualify for a $500k mortgage if you are clearing $250k a year. It makes me wonder how old you are, as "house prices are 2.6x a household income" is something that last existed in most places in the mid-1990s.

> To second order no one has a six figure credit history.

It is remarkably incorrect to treat it as a flat "no six-figure history means they are all are equivalent to a $500 history". Almost everyone has four-figure credit history based on credit cards, most people have five-figure credit history based on car loans and many people have six-figure student debts.
Remember how superconductivity is about the complete (?) removal of friction thanks to quantum behaviour ?

Also this talk of quantum toys convinces me even more that the right framing is instead how our (subjective) information about a system can only decrease with time (or stay unchanging for exceptional systems such as these).
Yes but in all directions at one!
I find their public statements to be vague and confusing
It's totally fair for employees to ask for more salary or leave especially if the company is raking in high profits but I think it's absurd to have a tipping system in an Apple retail shop. Maybe maybe I could make sense of a tip for a support request where the clerk goes the extra mile but in the unions system the tip is then spread amongst all members of the union.

> Finally, the union is asking Apple to pay $1 an hour more to employees who become first-aid certified

If Apple wanted their retail staff to be first-aid certified then they could just require that. I don't see why Apple would want it so much that they'd pay $1 an hour for it.

I am not familiar with union negotiations. Is this a case of "we ask for a bit of over the top or outlandish things which we'll then give up in order to make it easier to score the main points"?
The original context was "flat and squat," so I assumed we were including building height. But it's entirely possible that was wrong!
> In production Haskell you need to combine monads using e.g. monad transformers

In some workplaces, yes. However it's pretty tenable to use https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2018/03/22/three_layer_haskell_c... with no or few additional monads.

Alternatively, you can have just a few people that understand how to compose Monads and many others writing code within them.

I'm not sure if I think it's a best practice by any means, but it's a pattern I've seen that avoids having to include monad transformers in onboarding.
It's not game over yet for search engines.

There are clever tricks using the scarcity of IPv4 addresses to filter out spam.
As well as the possibility of some kind of 'RealID' system.
doubleclick is part of them.
These were magnetooptical drives, not cd drives. Also the entire machine booted off it and wrote files to it. No hard drive in the first models.
And yet average users fled IE en masse as soon as they had a (back then) good alternative. There is still hope!
I assumed the same. It was fun though!
Musk was definitely overly optimistic on the FSD timeline but the hate is pretty wild.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Teslas autopilot something like ~10x as safe as the average driver?
You don't have any subjective knowledge of what it's like to be the person you know best either, at least not any meaningful amount in the framework you propose.
Before anyone knee jerks into trying to spin this as an SF problem, and pull in their various political opinions about that city, keep in mind that Nordstrom just pulled out of Canada, shuttering their 13 stores there.

Nordstrom is struggling big time. Not just an issue around SF.
Re-live your trashcan with "TEN HOURS OF THE GROUCH FOR MACINTOSH" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXwi7xrgyzE
The je ne sais quoi that makes us all donate our takes to the needy is an organic phenomenon so far.

:)
Conquest banner: grammar Nazi vs. syntax Soviet.

Take it to a whole new level. MIDI anthem not included.
English is not defined by the Latin alphabet that it uses.
I think that's my favorite of his. It's got all the elements of a good Murakami story - all the usual human relations stuff in the main story and all the weird stuff in the "end of the world" part, and the constant feeling that there's lots more to understand. It's hard to put into words, but I'd say it's a much tighter story with the same effect as some of the ones that go on a lot longer.
I get the intent of the distinction. I just don't know that it has ever been as clean of a taxonomy as would be desired.

Maybe we have had some solid "pure scientists." Largely we would label them closer to philosophers? That said, the vast majority that you know the name of, were probably employed closer to what we think of as engineers in today's parlance.

Or am I off here and the likes of Feynman, Faraday, Fourier, Maxwell, etc. would not have been said to be working on engineering problems, by modern eyes?

My gut is that it gets difficult as looking at things with our modern lens of corporations today makes it hard to really consider institutions of the past?
I hate teams.

that is all.
Bouncing LoRa Signals Off the Moon [video]
Lots of people on here claiming vague "porn does damage" hysteria. Curiously, not one mention of what the damage actually is though. This leads me to believe it's pure nonsense born out of some religious delusion. Maybe not though so in all seriousness:

* What is the damage? (not yet another "it's harmful" sentance, I'm literally asking for details to learn what you mean, if anything).

* What is "widespread"? Presumably this can be presented in terms of % of population or other actual data shaped way.

* What is the "addiction" boogeyman in this context? What are the dreadful consequences you hint at? (again, please don't just bring the vague bullshit about "its addicting, lots of companies make money from it" - actual data is my request)

* What are the actual studies backing whatever articles you got your information from - do they even exist? Were they put out by some religious think-tank or by people who do science?

I'm going way out on a limb here, trying to assume you all are making good-faith claims rather than faith-based wishes. Currently I really suspect this is more motivated by a cult that has old dudes interrogate children about their genitals grasping at control over those genitalia than any reasonable problem solving.
They didn't sit still. They decided it'd be easier to give up and moved to private immigration detention and private prison services and private parole services and so on.

Total private prison profits are less than 5% of military industrial complex donations to Congress. They aren't comparable.

https://www.citizen.org/article/military-industrial-complex-...
A more recent test from last year still has not great latency numbers for Alacritty: https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
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> I can't think of another reason they'd limit browser engines.

Apple doesn't trust third party developers when it comes to running code that Apple has not vetted in advance.
AFAIK android will have an open API, iOS however is going to only support iCloud, classic monopoly.

Also it seems that Linux is completely out of the picture.
Again, not all costs associated with regulatory compliance are transferable; this is by design to keep a barrier to entry. Many accreditations/certifications have a reset clause when something significant in a business changes (like owner), or have a not widely available cheaper streamlined version for long-standing businesses.

This is even assuming that selling the whole businesses is the best way to exit; taking over the whole business rather than just the machinery (for example) is a restriction that might be detrimental.

The thing you are not understanding, is that you have to be able to loose money for longer than the competition; it either requires an investment on the same scale as the total valuation of the incumbent, or a string of failed attempts from others to set the stage... And you can estimate ahead of time how long you can operate for, and how long the competition can, so you can likely tell before you start that you are going to be one of the failures.
It's a single threaded test that doesn't use a lot of memory.
That's possible!
> Quite possibly, but I suspect there are good reasons why the existing runtime is strict.

This makes me wonder if this affects how code is typically written. Is it very elm like? Is composition more difficult? Is it very monomorphic?
My memory says that there’s a “Chinchilla” paper showing how to make the best model with a given training budget. There’s a trade-off between the amount of training data and the size of the model itself. Chinchilla under-training would mean that the model is too big for the amount of training data used. Llama is Chinchilla over-trained in that there is a ton of data relative to the small size of the model.

Note that this is still desirable for inference because you want the most possible training on whatever model you can actually fit in your memory.
I really don't get it then, why not simply write "sons" if the ages aren't relevant?
I worked in that team from 2012 to 2014. I don't have any degree and didn't publish any books.

Perhaps they made the interviews more difficult since, or you got unlucky?
HN is better when information from known liars like Alex Berenson is flagged as such. It's one thing to have respected scientists and physicians use real research to bring up questions about something new. I see that around here often and it's never flagged. It's something else to try to spread the verifiably false ramblings of a partisan hack. Flagging seems like a completely appropriate response.

It's pretty telling that you don't have any refutation of the GP's actual points, just typical "you're just trying to shut down debate" lies from people who don't want to debate, but want to spread misinformation and not get called out on it.
Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance. Helped me understand the dual ways I was reacting to the world - rationally and emotionally - and why I was confused about how to understand and evaluate my experiences.

Ultimately, I don't think I agree with the book's conclusion, but the journey was helpful for me.
From personal experience, adding a mouthguard brings this entire look up to "dead sexy" status.

/s
The reply wasn’t dead, and you’re confirming my point.

James Thomson worked on the OSX dock but dragthing had nothing to do with inspiring it.
I appreciate all the concern everyone has with third party cookies with respect to privacy but this really kills the use case of third party embedded web apps. Saleforce ecosystem is going to take a real hit as a result of this change. Hopefully everyone will figure out away to implement First Party Sets quickly and Saleforce will be able to offer a solution.
If convenience plus precision are your only goals, sure. But this requires probably too much trust in the systems. I'm fine with the FBI having that power and information.

Google, who I don't pay and doesn't owe me much, not so much.
Yes, my model 3 once tried to run me into a semi, on the other hand I watch human drivers nearly kill pedestrians (myself included) on a daily bases.
I worry about this aspect of my sleep. I have gotten used to sleeping in the quiet and darkness and I worry that over the years I might get used to this and not get proper sleep without it. I used to sleep pretty well in a noisy and with distracting lights when I was living near a busy street.
> I'm just starting to learn Haskell and I honestly can't fathom how it gets written in production. Everything requires so much more consideration, which is fun and valuable in some situations, but not when you just need to get the damn thing done in time for a deadline.

There are ways to write quick n dirty Haskell. Actually a super-power of Haskell is how easy it is to refactor from "quick n dirty" to "reasonable quality" without introducing defects.