skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an aside, personally I’m curious about an alternative timeline…

This sorta happened at Apple (and IBM and Motorola) with the OpenDoc/Taligent initiatives. With the return of the Jedi however, Master Steve axed OpenDoc at Apple, to much chagrin of those involved.

Some of that hostility became internet famous, I am sure most of you have seen the video from the conference back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o#:~:text=I%20thin....

It is interesting how (in the video) Steve explains the decision: the Smalltalk way doesn't fit into an overall cohesive vision that allows you to serve the majority of people.

I think he got it right. The Mac/Win ways of Apps is the right way to slice and dice these issues. I do use Emacs every day. I do feel the Smalltalk way and I like it. But it's not the "right" way; just not.

The best concepts of integrating a terminal/shell CLI driven environment with a GUI and together with on-the-fly manipulation of ENV variables and objects based on those was actualized by the Amiga. Unfortunately Commodore went bankrupt.
Are there any decent open source alternatives to run this hardware ?
I think Figure 8 in the GPT4 report already implies this for RLHF, i.e. the base model is fairly well-calibrated about its confidence but the RLHFed one becomes less calibrated which ought to make confident, incorrect statements worse. Idk why they don't discuss that more in-depth.
Such an incredible stack.
A man who spent 10k days alone in the woods
The original are the woodblocks (it’s multi-colour, so I assume there were multiple blocks). Those wouldn’t show the full picture and would have been worn down, if we still had them. We don’t, though. The next best thing would be prints made by the artist.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/great-wave-spot-differenc... has a nice description using wear and tear to distinguish earlier from later prints.

Edit: nowadays, artists write things like “3/50” on their prints (meaning they made fifty prints, and this is the third). That informs collectors/drives up prices for the low numbered prints.
They control the redemption process, hence can devalue it any time they want
Does anyone know if something like this exists for Thai?
First thing that strikes me is genuine alarm that something like that might be needed. It's just red flags all around.

1. If you have such a bad meeting culture in the office that you think something like this might ever be useful. Fix your meeting culture.

2. If "anonymous voting" is considered reasonable or necessary given the office culture. Fix your communication. Have 1-to-1 meetings were you can discuss things like too many meetings, etc.

Maybe this is made as a joke, and if so, well done.
But it is unusually apt in the case of DNS, given it is about naming things and caching is one of the major things that keeps biting people with DNS.
The author says “Software-wise I use Aldus SuperPaint 3.0”, so I expect it was drawn 100% by hand.
Insect – high precision scientific calculator with support for physical units
This is the frustrating part of being a user, of any system. Change is risk, and why take risk? In case of Wayland, I see no upsides as a user. At most, it works as well as xorg did, which is to say, in the background, doing its job, for me to not worry about it.
I just said fuck it and am turning to my life long back up plan: military. I have consistently held a part time job in the military for moments like these. My military job pays much less than my long experience as a software developer allows but enough to cover all the bills. I was able to find an open slot for my next required professional military education course in the very near future which will allow me several months of runway to reevaluate civilian life and promote on time (in the military) next year.

As I become old it looks like I am vastly out growing software as a profession and will probably need a masters to become management, a principle, a product owner, or just go do something else. Software, at least web development, feels like a game nobody wants to play without either unrelated technologies and/or massive third party tools to do all the actual development. That means being between the concerns of a legacy tech stack or decisions dictated by expert beginners… just to get hired.
> MS's codebase must contain much good training material, unless they think their own code is crap and are embarrassed to let the AI look at it!

Having worked at Microsoft, I'm not sure I want my coding assistant trained on Microsoft's codebase.
Yes, lying is a much better option and couldn't possibly be uncovered and give [legitimate] grounds for dismissal.
> Is this a gradual property that appears slowly as models scale up? Or something that flips beyond a certain size?

I wonder if this also applies to biological neural nets. Some animals seem soo close to humans and yet so far.

Also if there could be a way to predict such emergence events.

We know that we don't know what could be emergent beyond human intelect, but it would be great to get a quantitative framework about the complexity of the models and emergence.
It is subjective though. Personally I really enjoy it, even when most of it is just basic 3-chord stuff.

The reason for this is partly the liberation of production. Anyone with a laptop can produce a track that rockets in popularity. There's plenty of really interesting pop too like The Weeknd.

There has also been a shift in the purpose of music for young people. Putting aside the use of music in things like TikTok, young people have zeroed in on simplicity to communicate an emotion. Music is more ambient, designed to provide something that resonates emotionally but isn't intrusive. Almost a self-medication with music.

This is, I think, because music became more portable. If you can have music on for 8 of 12 hours in the day, are you going to be sat doing critical listening to classical or 1970s prog? No, you're going to put on a background vibe that makes you feel good.

It is easy to be cynical about the commercialisation of music, but there's no black or white, the reality is more nuanced and there's innovation going on not only with the sounds and production ... but also what music means.

Ignore young people at your peril, or you'll be an old cummudgeon who only listens to Pink Floyd or whatever and misses out on so much.
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It can be on several levels:

- if we get full AGI, it is likely to kill us all as a side-effect while achieving its imperfectly aligned goals. Hopefully, we are far from it
- even without full AGI, AI can become smart enough to help its users see through the BS/propaganda (dangerous for the most powerful eg, the military budget wouldn't have any sense if AI even slightly aligned with human values)
- the most likely variant: if we believe "no moat" people that generative AI can be democratized, then the hyped fear of AI can be used to push regulations to prevent the democratization, as an anti-competitive measure, so that only few corporations may access the technology legally.
Its almost like companies fail to do software maintenance.
I disapprove of the term "IP". In the cases of both copyright and patent, there is no property; there is just a limited right to exploit a work or invention for a finite amount of time. That's not "property".

Patents is a mess. You invent cool thing X, and patent it; you get 15 years or so of protection. After 14 years, you tweak invention X to make thing Y, and patent that.

Wait - that means you've got another 15 years added to the patent term of X! How does that work? You should only have protection for the Y tweak.

Copyright was supposed to protect "works", not fragments of melody. The Led Zeppelin/Spirit argument about Taurus/Stairway To Heaven is interesting; I'm a big Spirit fan, and the Stairway intro sure sounds a lot like Taurus to me. I believe it was a lift. But there's a lot more to Stairway than the intro; Taurus was on Spirit's rather obscure first album, and it wasn't a big hit. It wasn't hit material. The claim was obviously a money-grab by the heirs of Randy California's estate against one of the biggest rock hits of the 70s. Copyright shouldn't be inheritable; it should expire on the author's death.

This gets really murky when people start trading in copyrights and patents. I don't know why that's permitted; the rights should adhere strictly to the author/inventor. There should be no corporate copyright. I think the theory is that the author/inventor is often unable for financial reasons to defend their rights; but I don't see why that should be. If a claim has merit, it should be possible to find a practitioner who's willing to help you, in exchange for a share of the damages.
Your commenting style reminded me a lot of a discussion I had earlier, which went on far longer than I had expected it to for stupid semantic quibbles that didn't even end up panning out to be correct. Of course I decided to go look it up, and it's none other than you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34589999

Here is some unsolicited feedback: you are unpleasant to interact with. You reply to people in an incredibly smug and self-satisfied way, except you often say things that are wrong or at the very least significantly misunderstand context. When people mention this to you just dig deeper by doubling down and accusing people of intentional bad faith. To be honest your responses make me wonder if you are involved in distribution of macOS software, because your views seem to distanced from the request at the top of this thread, which is so familiar to every Mac developer that they would recognize it immediately, and yet your initial response was like you just went online and searched "macOS update software" and picked the first command line tool you found, without looking at whether it matched the need being expressed. When I told you this you seem to have fixed on the word "package manager" and decided to argue that softwareupdate is one rather than understanding that I literally do not care what you call it. I understand and accept that macOS's built in software updater can update some of the things you've mentioned, although I disagree on the details of how you've presented it, but you haven't for a moment stopped to think "why did Sparkle come up in the conversation at all? Perhaps I am missing something by not addressing it?" Instead you ended up focusing some sort of definition about how OS updates and security patches are some sort of "package manager", and decided to be condescending while you did so. Seriously, you don't get to call my point for a "system API" to be a strawman when it is responding to a need for a "core OS service".

I enjoy talking to people who know their stuff, and sometimes I will put up with jerks if I learn something new, even though I would rather that they weren't abrasive. I haven't learned anything from this conversation, and I am unsure you know what you're talking about let alone what we are talking about. The fact that you keep doing this is quite disappointing and honestly makes me not want to engage with you. I don't check usernames very often and might still do it by accident but if you keep this up and I suddenly stop responding to you it's probably because I realized who I was talking to and didn't want to respond anymore.
Agree on this. Also a bug report - I was getting bored of a story level and tried to find a shortcut to skip it or speed it up or something. Pressed a key (not sure which - was thinking about Esc/Tab/Enter type navigation at the time) and apparently copied a Reddit command, ending up stuck in the state shown in this screenshot. Can't get out to continue the level, the [X] button doesn't seem to do anything. I deleted the modal from the DOM and could not press either button on the dialog below.

https://ibb.co/rM2Swzq

I was actually thinking through accessibility considerations while playing as I want to recommend to a friend who would be using alternate input methods. Not being able to skip / speed up cut scenes is a pain. Even just being able to click through the dialog (without the slow travel in between) would be an improvement.

[edit: typo]
I think their oauth service is really decent and easy too use (comparatively, since oauth is its own hell in my opinion, I want to join the "basic auth isn't unsafe-club").

For a company that large, it really does login you to many websites if you authenticated at your own third party app of questionable origin. Not every site, but I think office and azure are covered (with corporate accounts at least, which are treated differently I belive).

That said, I really, really dislike using such large auth providers because there are repercussion for anonymity and behavior spying. Microsoft doesn't need to know which services I use. I don't use my private MS account for anything, especially not for Windows.

I wouldn't want to save user info for my webservices anymore, but if I have to I would recommend specialized auth providers like auth0. Don't give that to big tech too.
Wow. I was expecting at least to be able to keep my account even if I can't use it to play the game.

The nickname is two characters long, I've received multiple offers from people trying to buy it. I don't want to sell it on the principle that it holds more sentimental value to me than I think its worth.

Now with Microsoft trying to force new TOS (alongside their accounts) down everyone's throats and the game becoming unplayable anyway due to the constant threat of your account being permanently banned just by sheer existence, I don't know what to do.

Do I let the account get lost in the ether as a silent stand against Microsoft?

Do I sell the account for a few thousand $?

Or do I cave into the petty demands of this large corporation and migrate the account. As a bonus, if I tie it to an email address on one of my domains, nobody will be able to ever buy it. (Without also needing to buy the domain. Assuming you can even make a Microsoft account with a non Microsoft email address).

If I fight Microsoft on this then at best I can get a tiny refund for the game.
Support means many things to a company like Red Hat.

"Ship it" in EPEL, sure, but support to Red Hat is a contractual obligation.
What's the clue that it's missing in the last example?
It's a shame they can't capture it and sell it to Europe. They'd be making $billions.
A centralized exchange in the USA doesn't really have anything to do with web3.
Ask HN: Do we still need code reviews?
We can find plenty of “DevOps automation” tools on the market. Do you think it still makes sense to do code reviews?
This is such a helpful comment - what looks, to the uninitiated, like line noise actually starts to make some sense now!
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Slightly related is C language using null terminated strings which is the source of buffer overflows. From what I remember the assembly languages of whatever platform they were using relied on NUL, an alternative was to use a leading single byte to set the length of the string, so "hello_world" which is 11 bytes would be:

0x0A h e l l o _ w o r l d

But that limited the length of strings to 255 characters and using two bytes rather than one would add memory pressure. Dennis Ritchie then went with null terminated strings which has the advantage of allowing any size of strings and is consistent with the assembly they were used with. The drawbacks is decades of buffer overflows :)

Eventually I found an abstract on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string#History and there is a 2011 paper about it: Communications of the ACM - Volume 54 - Issue 901 - September 2011 - pp 42–44 - https://doi.org/10.1145/1995376.1995391 . Direct link to the PDF https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1995376.1995391
> The worry is when you buy into something like Nest, who later go on to be brought into Google.

Obviously one cannot prevent things like that from happening, but when they do, you can decide to migrate to something else and just sell your existing (now Google) gear, to avoid Googley issues down the line.

It may be cynical, but at that point the resale value might still be good because not everyone has caught on to Google being Google like this.
Dunno why this is on HN but sure.

It's how you use Marginalia if you don't want cloudflare to spy on you. It's also (currently) a tiny bit worse than what you get in the web ui. It doesn't dig as deep into the index to make the API queries snappier, but as a result the results are a bit worse.

I added a temporary API key 'hacker-news-front-page' with a higher rate limit because 'public' gonna give you 503s all day, it's constantly under siege by metasearch engines. That's totally fine but it's not very useful.

e.g. https://api.marginalia.nu/hacker-news-front-page/search/paul...
Why? Depending on the semantics of the language the compiler can make better optimizations than a C compiler could.
> I love most of the people I've worked with at Grafana Cloud but it's a painful product. The price makes up for it though, so we use Grafana Cloud.

Hi, I run the Grafana team at Grafana Labs. If you could fix one thing, what would it be?
The post is interesting, and four years old... so what has changed in Hest since then?
Don't forget about outsourcing loads of your production to China, and then claiming your own country is about to meet its carbon goals. Works for Europe.
> Since he is a teenager who can drink in the US (minimum age 21)

This doesn’t look like a great example of good reasoning skills.
> But this is how it works in many places in Europe, like Germany or Netherlands.

Nope. I can see my Primary care physician today if I wanted to. It's currently 10:55 AM. If I had called before 9, I would have gotten a scheduled slot. If i wanted to see him now I'd have to go to the open office hour and wait 30-60 minutes.

For urgent (not emergency) stuff, the 4 hospitals in my city have daily open office hours with specialists. Without an appointment, you usually wait 1-2 hours (unless they prioritize you due to pain).

For non-urgent things like a diagnostic MRI "just to check", you'd wait 1-2 weeks for your appointment.

There are two exceptions to this: We got a lack of dermatologists and psychologists and you'd probably wait 2-3 months for an appointment.
The reinvention of Digg?

I like the design, it's very easy to navigate and self-explanatory.
South Korea (Samsung) is not mentioned at all.
Ilia Delio, a Franciscan nun who writes about the relationship between AI and God, has a better idea: gender-neutral robot priests, which will challenge the patriarchy, prevent sexual abuse...

Ok, that's enough internet for today (and it's only 11:00).
Something that anyone or more importantly any model with an iota of familiarity with machine learning should be familiar with.
I feel that google chat and meet has had screensharing working for a long time on wayland.
You don't need an app like this.

Just decline any meeting that doesn't have an agenda with a comment of "I don't think I'd bring any value to this meeting."

If the meeting does have an agenda but doesn't have any goal decline it with a comment like "I don't have a strong opinion about the goal here, so I'm happy to accept whatever the outcome is."

If there's an agenda and a goal then attend that one because you don't often get to see a mythical creature.
IMHO Matle Ubl will in the future be known as 'The Web Thomas Midgley Jr" for the damage done with AMP - and his relentless push to make it a thing.

Now he's left Google, and they are abandoning it - that's another decade of web content that will just die without the chance to be archived.
Thank you for explaining, and it’s great that Scrum is working for you and your team! However, I have to admit I still don’t get it. How is Scrum better at handling outcomes? Are you talking about the sprint goal rallying all the team around a specific outcome, within a specific time frame? I gotta admit I am very suspicious of this way of working because it gets unsustainable pretty quickly, but I would like you to elaborate if you have the time.
Yes. A good example of this is “Love me tender” by Elvis Presley. It’s melody is from the mod 1800s.
Trust the medieval Church for sucking the fun out of everything.
> IMO fishing rods / planes make for much more distracting visual issues.

What exactly are you referring to? I searched for it and all I got was stuff about actual fishing rods and some Minecraft and WoW guides...
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Customers are being asked to tip even at self check-out
It's also built into Google Calendar, create an event across some time, then change its type to Appointment Schedule.
Thanks for this, your work looks great!
I’m happy you found the concept of neuroticism insightful. I’ve had the same lightbulb moment reading about it :)
Obligatory counter quote from Douglas Adams:-

> He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Getting LLMs to give you an answer is easy. Getting them to give you the answer you're actually looking for is much harder.

LLMs are a very useful search tool but they can't be relied on as a source of truth ...yet. There in lies their main problem.
From the talk:

> "(caveat): doesn't work with DNS-over HTTPS"

That's kinda a big one. Thankfully, so far, Firefox can still be set to some "corporate" setting where DoH can be forcibly turned off.

If you want to experiment and play with Wireshark to check DNS queries you pretty much have to use Firefox and you have to configure it to not use DoH.

It's what I do: Firefox with DoH prevented. Then I run dnsmasq on the local machine (the one also running Firefox) and I also run unbound on a RPi (because, really, why not!?). unbound is really sweet: you can match domains using wildcards and null route them, you can force a higher (or lower) TTL setting before the response expires, etc.

Then there's the more extravagant stuff I do: like using the firewall to automatically reject any query that tries to fetch a domain name containing Unicode characters (yup, I'm like that and, no, I don't care that it may break a few sites... Unicode characters in domain names can just die a painful death).
This is how a startup can compete with Google!