skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the “cancel culture” debate Republicans seem to have discovered the First Amendment but of course they are just as excited to ban books they don’t like as the transsexual maximalists.
When in doubt, and the outage is widespread it's either DNS or BGP, most likely DNS. My money is also on DNS in this case.
Okay but the reality is military expenditures are the largest discretionary budgetary item by a mile, and they are never meaningfully cut back because they are strategically spread amongst electoral areas to exert political pressure on candidates to keep the local jobs and money flowing.
If you are at the level of using precious metals as currency, you are going to need to be part of a powerful tribe that will watch your back so that your precious metals will not get stolen. And I doubt many, if any, “preppers” have that crucial aspect covered.
Replicating GPT-4 pre-training with current hardware would cost about 40-50m in compute.

Source? My educated guess it’s somewhere between 10 to 100 times cheaper than that.
Show HN: Building an infinitely scalable multiplayer game
I cofounded Hathora (https://hathora.dev/) last year and we've been working on making it easier for smaller teams and individual developers to build scalable multiplayer games. We think the serverless model is the simplest approach, allowing you to dynamically provision a new instance of your game server when users or your matchmaker requests a new session.

We made this .io style demo to showcase this approach, and we're releasing the source code and documentation alongside with it.
I remember this! the first issue was reprinted in a UK computer magazine called Big K (as in kilobyte) and blew my mind, but the magazine folded immediately afterwards. However they wrote about it, I was left with the impression that the comic had been commissioned for the magazine and thus assumed that the halt in publication applied to both.

As someone who was not great at drawing, the idea of being able to have the computer draw nice straight lines, undo mistakes, and copy/paste parts of the document were a revelation. Macintosh computers were not marketed to consumers in the UK and I didn't see one in person until about 5 years later; even the Amiga and Atari ST were expensive luxuries. I learned to program on a Commodore PET at school; later we upgraded to Commodore 64s.

I remembered the Shatter story quite well (though not the title) so I've spent the last ~30 years wondering what happened after the exiting mid-air car chase; this will be a fun read. The only thing that seems to be missing is a link to a digital copy of the full run. There are scans of the print edition at the Internet Archive but they look filthy compared to the original. Big K was printed on standard glossy magazine stock rather than newsprint, so every pixel was rendered with perfect sharpness and contrast, much as it would have appeared on the screen. I think there's a good fair use argument for archiving a fully digital version.

https://archive.org/details/shatter00mike
System records all people smoking on the staircase. The smoking tenant is evicted. New non-smoking tenants pay more. Old tenant can't sue the landlord over his eviction being racially-driven.
An analogy.

TCP is the "skinny waist" of the internet protocol stack. https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html

Large websites are becoming the "skinny waist" of the web. A wide variety of users and a wide variety of content, exchanged over relatively few pipes.
Are the kids the ones buying the cereal and candy?

I got cornflakes, oatmeal, etc. If I wanted sweet, I got a few berries thrown in. Up to the point that the kids start earning their own money, parents decide what they eat.
Maybe because they linked to the incident instead of just the domain homepage that other people tried to post.
My take was that the artificially shorten their lives so that consciousness can't develop. That's the piece that, when you combine it with their powerful specializations, would enable replicants to take over. Until then they have the consciousness of a toddler at best and are easier to manipulate. By the time consciousness starts to dawn "accelerated decrepitude" kills them off naturally.
I wonder if they are migrating most of their platform to Azure.
Separated bike lanes at street level or bust. Digging tunnels underground for bikes to get around is pants-on-head backwards- like we're trying to find the most expensive and circuitous solution to a problem we already know the answer to.
Can we say nicotine has nothing to do with mental illness? Because the mentally ill really like their cigs!
I think that's a great idea to give the regulators.
Always a regressive bringing up identity politics. What is it with you guys being so sensitive? Be an individual, dont think so much about what others think.
It is just that even if you got an idea nowdays you will be dumping it because of all what is going on around the world. I'm not a fan of data-selling-business. I do like how OSS is being governed, especially Vue.js, Webpack's history is also brilliant. I guess the layer that handles data sharing between platforms needs a ground framework to solve privacy problems forever.
Yeah, on the note of benefits from the split, I'm actually curious about when the best time to implement C macro expansion is. I think after lexing but potentially before parsing might be a good answer, which I did not expect. Of course... It would be wise to take a look at what the Clang and GCC frontends do, but I haven't gotten the chance.
A Register reader asked me how to run 1-2-3 on modern Windows, after I wrote this:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/friday_foss_fest_runn...

This seemed the easiest way, and so it was. I told them how to do it; no reply.

:-(

IIRC Smartsuite was also supported on OS/2 and so it should be "clean" and will probably work well on WINE.
The Source is what gives a hacker his power. It's an energy field created by all coded things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
I’m not an expert on wether this would be quite legal (or within the “calvinball” bounds of our political system - as the slightly more independent fed would have to go along with the treasury at least).

But the point is, repeatedly testing legal corner cases and economic disruption on basic things like will our govt reps allow the govt to spend what they told it to spend is shooting ourself in the foot for political theatre.

Nations want a stable financial foundation to transact between other nations. They want a stable reserve currency that doesn’t inject added disruption from political instability. Until recently that was the US dollar that was stable beyond all other currencies.
Depends on what the role of manager is. Lots of orgs push their best talent into management so they are also expected to do IC and also manage. My belief is there should be a separate but with equal pay track for ICs and you push your best ICs into that track. Ratios between of one manager to 10 to 20 ICs.

Also there is benefit of flat orgs which comes with higher ratio in terms of meeting reduction and also communication efficiency both top down and bottom up.
Not in Europe. I live in Ireland, the longer the term the lower the return. Counterintuitive but it's the case.

https://personalbanking.bankofireland.com/app/uploads/Custom...
Vast vs. skinny comparison, but from a technical networking perspective.
Smalltalk says "objects are instances of some class of thing", whereas Self went "no, objects are just objects, and what class of thing they are is mutable".

Since we can get from Self's model to Smalltalk's model by adding restrictions on what you can do to both objects and prototypes, Self is quite objectively a better type specimen. I wouldn't call it an "ur language", that was a silly choice in term, but as basis for discussing OOP models, it's the most permissive, and you can get the other OOP models by adding various (sets of) restrictions.

(Much like how a regular grammar is a context free grammar with additional rules)
Don't be so literal. Not every cool thing submitted as a show HN is interactive software.
Why does anybody buy this crap?
Oh come on. I don't know enough to have a real opinion on the overall situation, but surely you can see the difference between "no cost" and "no cost to the federal government".
Just cancelling the payment without any contact isn't legal, but if the company makes it hard for you to cancel that's already fraud and after that the contract is normally moot. (IANAL, by the way, and yes, there are enough obvious details being handwaved here that it doesn't matter anyway.)

But a company suing you to get monthly payments for future monthly services raises so many red flags that I can't imagine anybody even accepting getting involved with it.
Note: 25 states allow marriage at 16. 8 states allow marriage even younger.
In the various tools for determining blame:

https://isitdns.com

https://shouldiblamecaching.com

https://bofh.d00t.org

nc bofh.jeffballard.us 666 # I am surprised this is still working given its age; the CGI version at https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/ doesn't work anymore (but the page is still up)
In hindight, it was an unrelated and needlessly-negative statement that undermined the rest of my argument.

But seeing as you asked, doormen hit some of the aspects of US culture I've struggled to adapt to as an immigrant of ~7 years including

* Disproportionate fear of violence. It seems like doormen largely play the role of a security guard which is nice to have "just in case", without balancing against the mental harm of constant fear and anxiety. Let alone spending that money and mental capacity on actual problems like vehicle collisions and loneliness.

* An OTT service industry. I don't want someone's fulltime job to be opening the door for me and being nice to me for tips, it makes life feel like a sales call. Ditto for hiring gardeners to leafblow your tiny lawn every week all through winter, and the server at a restaurant checking in on you every 10 minutes. It's much easier to have genuine interactions and relationships with people when they are doing a worthwhile job for a fair wage.
When your partner can't get it up because they've been abusing porn, you're incentivized to not like it just for personal reasons. And that's without even touching the fact that your partner is getting off to images of someone else.

There's nothing "liberal" about porn. Porn is neither conservative nor liberal, it is libertine.
I get a vibe as well, though I don't share your theory of it. Older math/CS papers have a more conversational feel to them, and tend to assume that the reader shares a kind of philosophical disposition. Today, research papers often have a very corporate feel, and are bristling with "motivation". But I don't think it's at all difficult to write such papers without referencing race or gender. Many people do it every day, successfully. I'm curious why you think that race and gender have invaded math/CS.
>try and make that growing workforce come from diverse backgrounds

If one's race is in question, that is racism no matter how you ice that (very rotten) cake. Same goes for sexism.

Give equal pay and treat everyone equally, do not care for and be blind to one's race and sex. That is equality. Trying to manipulate the distributions is discrimination.
Well that's certainly nice!

The last time I got laid off was from a fintech company while WFH. It went like:

8am: Mysterious all-hands appears on all our calendars

10am: All-hands happens, layoffs announced

10:45am: Meeting with my manager happens

11:00am: I'm mid-slack-message with my team trying to coordinate a quick goodbye zoom chat when my laptop is remote-wiped and all access was cut off.

I totally understand why you'd do that and don't really fault them, but it certainly was a bummer. If you can safely do otherwise, it's a really nice gesture.
Oh wow... If that's not another dark pattern, hell I don't know how to call it. So no company out there would automatically cancel your contract if they aren't able to debit from you? How's that even possible? If I understood correctly the debt will increase indefinitely even let's say after two failed attempts to charge from you? Why is not that illegal?
>The primordial single-cell organism from which we all evolved was not conscious, but rather just a biological machine.

I reject this assumption. We have no reason to assume cells aren't aware beings and that a sense of being isn't fundamental to at least all life.
In this case, "too high" = "we haven't figured out how to commoditize it well enough yet because the skill floor/ceiling is too high to scale with cheaper talent." This was one of the primary reasons I began to specialize partially in tech domains that are regarded as "hard" (compilers/perf): much smaller market means employees have a bit more leverage.
Seems like this is an unfortunate consequence of data collection being opt-out, not opt-in.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members are found guilty
When a new language project like this drops I always feel like a kid on Christmas morning (or whatever your favorite gift-giving holiday is). I've wanted to see a general purpose language build on top of MLIR since it came out and I think this is a great way to do it, since Python is the main client for advances in ML accelerators. Treating the CPU as a target for acceleration is brilliant to. I deeply hope that this language will give general purpose programming languages a huge step forward in taking advantage of our current heterogenous-compute world. Bravo!
Rendering Performance Comparison: Skia vs. Impeller vs. Rive Renderer
BSD = Berkeley Software/System Distro.

iBCS = Intel Binary Compatibility Standard. iBCS2 = iBCS v2.

Not the same thing or even related.
I think, the differentiation between knowledge and intelligence is somehow besides the point, since it is about synthetic propositions, about the very synthesis that forms the relation between tokens. AI training is basically harvesting this kind of synthesis, at all levels, from basic compositions to entire, typical textures. And I doubt that such a complex, heavily regulated concept, like IP for applicative synthetic propositions (and products), will vanish in an instant. (It's about as likely as private wealth being reset to zero.)
No, I do agree that Nest’s face rec (and face detection too, for that matter) is pretty awful. I don’t have first-hand knowledge of what Google is actually deploying but I suspect they’re performing so poorly because they’re training the recognition on just the home’s dataset; it is sort of like each home training it’s own LLM just on text written by that home’s inhabitants, while GPT4 gets unlimited resources to train on hundreds of gigabytes of text from all over the web. But it is still a bit of a mystery why Google is allowing Nest’s facial recognition to remain so weak.

Actually, if Nest is representative of what most consumers experience when interacting with facial recognition, then I understand why there’s this common perception that facial recognition is buggy and unreliable. I’m drawing on my experience working on commercial models.
For what it's worth, GPT-2 got PTB perplexity of around 20, which translates to about 4.3 bits/word. The later language models are presumably better but they report bits-per-character or bits-per-token which doesn't convert straightforwardly into bits per word.
This is an overly simplistic take in my opinion.

From a PLT perspective they are programming languages just like any other, and one can analyse them using the same machinery (formal semantics, typically of the operational style) as any other programming language.

Just because they are not even close to an imperative paradigm doesn’t make them any less of a programming language. They are reasonably close to process-calculus/message-passing languages in the sense that you can treat a Verilog process as a receiver listening to channels that contain messages generated when nets/variables are driven.

I agree that a software developer who tries to write Verilog as if it were C will very quickly run into trouble, but that isn’t because it’s not a programming language; it’s because it’s a programming language with a similar syntax to C but with drastically different semantics.
> especially when the only stuff that gets funded through CBC and whatnot is based entirely on identity politics with no consideration of whether or not the people involved have proven they can make anything good

this is basically the entirety of Canadian culture at this point.

there isn't anything meaningfully different from the US, so they have to double down on 'the woke' to try to differentiate. the result is a few gems, a lot of dross, and non-stop virtue signaling.
Ah, true... for the sequel.

To be honest I was referring to the original Blade Runner and PKD's novel. I didn't like the sequel much (and I didn't think it needed to be made to begin with).

Though I suppose it applies even to the sequel; unless the serial shows up in x-rays you probably need to do surgery to find out!
> When your partner can’t get it up because they’ve been abusing porn, you’re incentivized to not like it just for personal reasons.

If your partner prefers interacting with porn to doing so with you, the porn use is a symptom, not the source of the problem.
We self-host Gitlab and haven't had an unplanned outage in a year since I joined.
This isn't possible. The docs[1] state once revoke_devkey has been set, you can't upgrade to a bootloader not supporting secure-boot and downgrading is disabled.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/blob/master/secure-bo...
G.P.T. or 6PT , or 9PT ?

what seems like the best candidate?
It is somewhat contradictory that a sentient person would claim he's not sentient.

But the question or what consists sentience is still interesting. I personally believe that free will is an illusion, since all my actions are determined by A) my environment, the set or things I can physically do, and B) my internal state, mood, the information I've perceived and value judgements that stem from them, whether conscious or subconscious.

It is actually not that scary, to me. It's much more liberating - it gives me a certain feeling of calmness, in an amor fati kind of way. Things are as they are, and they cannot be any other way. There is nobody that will judge me outside of this world, since I am merely a small part of it. All my meaningful existence is here, and the concept of an immortal soul is merely a spooky story.
>not that AI is sentient, but that we aren't.

Anything presenting such a ridiculous conclusion is so wrong as to not be taken seriously. The only thing that is for certain in this life is that we are sentient, everything else is derived from that. Same with things proposing we don't have freewill, we do.
Does this make Perl a FORTRAN?
I have no idea of their exact numbers. But The CEO publicly said they generate tens of millions of profits every year [1]. This is for a company of around 30 to 40 employees.

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1212837791031279616?la...
I'm saying that's a false premise.

Scenario 1:

Hire 100 new people, give them AI -> they do better with AI

Scenario 2:

Hire 10 new people (because AI has reduced demand for humans), give them AI -> they do better with AI

Both of these scenarios are in-line with the research, but are dramatically different when evaluating the proposition that AI helps low skill workers in general.
Sooo if you have root on rPi you can permanently brick it by writing invalid key to OTP ?
To prove it was not written by ChatGPT because no AI is that psychotic, not even SkyNet?
In this universe, who will do things like uncover the Watergate scandal (originally Washington Post) or the Theranos scandal (Wall St Journal collaborating with a whistleblower)? Journalism is much more than a ticker tape of data or clickbait headlines.
Yeah, because Gitlab would never go down.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gitlab+down
>This incident has been resolved.
Posted 1 minute ago. May 04, 2023 - 16:23 UTC

Everything resolved at the same time. DNS?
I think the point is they aren't loaning it out to random people or companies, they are instead only loaning it out to the government to get something approximating the risk-free rate. You then use your quasi-riskless money market fund as a way to balance the risk of your investment portfolio.
Probably around the same time as "a little bit of wine is actually good for you".
Lucky for us, otherwise instead of the free/open source software of the past decades we'd only have open core and similarly crippled offerings only :)

More seriously, the motivations behind open source projects and startups are completely different, it's just the end result being software makes them seem interchangeable. Open source software should be a public service and receive public funding ideally like most infrastructure that is essential for civilization.
I've used uBlockOrigin in the past for YouTube ads, and it works well on a laptop.

What's nice about Premium, if you use it on an iPad, is it lets you download videos, and let's you also play them in the background, etc. I did this a lot for listening to Sleep casts and such....

I'm at a point, though, where I only want to consume YouTube content from a computer, when I'm trying to solve a problem, and not passively consume it like I was for awhile.

Also, so much of the content I have has "built in" ads, and it's annoying enough that it degrades from the content for me.
According to the same status page, this is Resolved as of May 04, 2023 - 16:23 UTC.
> define monolith software

In software engineering, a monolithic application describes a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform.

"mono" stands for one/alone/singular, so monolithic is kinda defined to be exactly that, yes.

You can still have multiple monoliths, but they wouldn't communicate with each other and would be entirely separate applications.
Yeah, because the US is such a beacon to the "democracy".
> it's nowhere near viable to re-train them from scratch to remove some training data

Tough. If their business is only viable by ignoring the law, they shouldn't be in business.
Maybe at first, but just like alcohol or any other addiction it becomes its own problem over time.
It depends on your needs and team size. For few tens of dev that need a versioning system with some sugar, a self hosted gitlab can acieve better uptime.
I've never understood why some people seem to care so much about 1- or 0-based indexing. Literally who cares? I cannot comprehend actually refusing to use an otherwise-perfectly-good language just because the indexes happen to start at 1.
Gmail doesn't have a standalone Desktop app, does it? You're either going to interact with it in a browser tab or a mail client, in which case any of the email clients in the list would work, or the Firefox add-ons.
The amount of debt we are taking on is certainly relevant, it has strong effects on interest rates and inflation.

Using those metrics, interest rates, and inflation, to figure out what's going on, makes sense. Using nominal national debt doesn't.

And worrying about the "debt ceiling" is a complete and total scam. It's utterly meaningless and the only reason it exists is because people thought it would be a clever political tactic to use in cutting social insurance.
This article focuses on the impact of the EU AI Act on open source AI work and research, but the act itself applies broadly to all development of AI, public and private.