skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over time I've learned to stop taking people like Julia Evans for granted.
Sometimes it feels like the Internet is an endless supply of brilliance and generosity and talent. But its not true! Not everyone creates, and not everyone who creates shares, and not everyone who shares shares freely. I feel overwhelmed by gratitude for Julia and (what I estimate to be) the mere ~100 creators in the world like her.
You're basing this opinion on nothing but gut feeling.
Left wing radicalization makes you depressed, right wing radicalization is congruent with fascism in the absoluteness of not just us versus them, but us or an apocalyptic, demonic, absolute and all-encompassing evil them. My favorite Innuendo Studios essay is dealing with this concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Luu1Beb8ng
That is a technical challenge for the 21st century. Much more difficult than establishing the provenance of physical goods.

But short of that, I was replying to "I'll pay extra for a guarantee (somehow, this is your value proposition) that it was written by a human without the help of generative AI." So yes, I guess that is orthogonal to fact-checking.
It feels bizarre to make appeals to a foreign society with a history, culture, government, and demographics which are utterly alien to the situation in the west. We don't live in China. Are you so sure that our situation SHOULD be that of China that you'd be willing to risk you or a loved one being victimized by a violent thug? It always confused me that people would side with criminals over the innocent.
Foucault is rolling in his grave.
I think they were also one of the first web based e-mails. This was when majority people used email clients.
Why is Google involved in something like this in the first place?
agree,in the meantime JavaScript can pull in goodies from typescript gradually.
My gut is that anybody who has used a smart phone more than a traditional desktop OS is less likely to know what a zip is
How do people feel about Brexit three years on? - BBC Newsnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KloM9uVcIOY
I wonder if that would be cheaper in the long term than the typical NFS plus off site tape backups and/or cloud backup used by the places I have worked. I suspect it would become a logistical nightmare to store and keep track of thousands of SD cards.
I think this can be solved by human organizations tasked with compiling a large range of human content before it gets muddied by low quality LLMs.

It would be a good job for cathedral-builder like humans who work on multi-century time scales (like the monks who saved western civilization during the “dark” ages by spending their lives slowly copying and curating texts).
I'm pleased that speed control has appeared on many videos recently. I'm not sure if this is brand new, or restored, but anyway it makes videos a lot more useful to me at least.
There is also elective plastic surgery to help address body dysmorphia. And even "fashion reasons" aren't as frivolous as some would think. A lot of people will judge you based on "fashion reasons," and being able to address that can potentially measurably improve you life. There are plenty of studies that have shown that people perceived as "more beautiful" are more respected and have an easier life. The inverse is also true, and being able to address that is powerful.
Is the likelyhood of my vehicle, be it ICE, Hybrid, or EV catching fire higher or lower than me getting struck by lightning, or getting eaten by a shark/bear/goat?
Why would you want to get off the waitlist if they suck?
This:

Engage with skeptics. Rather than ignore misinformation or pick a fight with the people promoting it, Nirav Shah, the former director of Maine’s CDC, decided to hear them out, going on a local call-in radio show with hosts known to be skeptical of vaccines.
But can't you already hyperlink product.zip to any URL?
Based on what quantifiable criteria?

All of twitter's usage records were broken after he bought it. All of them.
Ah, memories.

Sums up the political discourse pretty well though.
Some related questions also worth considering: are most people who have actually committed a crime arrested?

In what circumstances is arresting someone necessary or even beneficial for society on the whole? There are costs both to the people in terms of booking & housing someone in jail, and to the individual as for most folks not regularly dealing with law enforcement being arrested is at least somewhat traumatic.
It wasn't his hating on the victim that got him fired. It was his stating that the raging mob was not behaving appropriately for his race-based expectations of them.
AI for the command line, built for pipelines
one place where more software/language/architecture work is really needed to make this work well is architectures which aren't cache coherent (either by simply not having any caches like the MTA or the CM, by having software controlled caches, by strongly delineating local and global memory, or some other approach).
Agreed about creativity vs. consistency, it is a complex relationship.

Consistencies enable creativity. Painters want paint that maintains its colors, architects want materials with predictable properties.

And in the other direction, most impactful expressions of creativity provide a new consistency that can be built on. New math, a new programming paradigm.

Or in the art world, when an artist's body of work (over a period, or even their whole life) isn't just a show case of independent creations, but consistently demonstrates a new vision, a new technique, providing clarity that others can absorb, appreciate and build on.

--

Bzilion's Law of the Value of a Consistency: The value of a consistency is proportional to how it expands creative potential, divided by the square of how much it limits it.

Simply reducing extant complexity is a short sighted rational for a consistency. It is a pedantically tautological bar, despite its seductiveness for the attractive-design over ease-of-use crowd.

--

Premature enforced consistency on NEW ideas is where Apple typically err's in my opinion. While well thought out preemptive strikes on outdated freedom, i.e. dropped LEGACY complexity, often showcases their genius.
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Yikes, you can't attack others like this on HN. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I get what they mean -- it has definitely gained a foothold in the tool/utility world thanks to easy cross-compilation and single-binary output. Given their target, I definitely understand why they would put it in that group.
Why are you getting downvoted, that's literally what happened when it launched. A bunch of people were like shit I use .dev internally.

Nobody used .test, .example, or .home.arpa
I've never paid a fee to a bank in my life and until the last few months interest rates on savings accounts were a rounding error.
Technical people are the same. See for example SSL.
The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino
Just wait until google sells your data to the insurance companies and they refuse to insure you because you searched once too often for "cancer".

"But it was for my mother in law," you will say.

And they will reply: "We'll cancel her insurance as well."
Burak's Mangle Talk for RelationalAI
It's much more likely that he got fired because of the Dominion lawsuit from his election fraud claims.
Hey, I understand how frustrating it is when people casually insult a group that you belong to or care about (or when it feels like they are doing that). But please don't lash back like this on HN, for two reasons. First, it's against the site guidelines and we have to ban accounts that post like this (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Second, it's not in your interest. Fulminating may bring temporary relief but at the cost of discrediting your own position. That's not a good trade. It will only harden the other side in its views, giving people a fresh reason to be convinced they're right and righteous. Worse, by doing this you give the larger, neutral audience a reason to side against you, putting you in even more of minority than you already were (or feel you were).
Junior graphic designer is most definitely a tech person… they are literally working on a computer every day all day long. I think sometimes people lose sight of just how much of a bubble they are in.

Those who are old enough to remember when files had extensions might know. Those who work with a file system daily know. In both cases we are talking about extreme minorities now.
It would still be a derivative work.
If the goal is to vaccinate billions of patients, “there’s not enough stainless steel in the world to do what you need to do,” he said. By contrast, mRNA is manufactured using lipid nanoparticle pumps, many more of which can fit into much less physical space.
I suppose once it becomes norm, everyone will see it as norm and go along. I do agree with you on being turned off by initial interaction being a rep form. They're pretty easy to void. The various RE lobbyists are pretty strong and continually pushes for laws like your discussing to essentially force people into utilizing agents.

I have to get creative to get the commission into my pocket when I don't use agents. First, the other side usually does have an agent and explaining to them that I want the commission and it's already a sunk cost is usually a nightmare. I do it at the end, because otherwise it impacts negotiations "but your keeping the commissions already". (No I'm talking to you, doing the work of an agent, so I should get paid just like you are; it doesn't cost your seller anything more than the transaction costs they were already planning - in reality, I know it's because the sell side hears no agent and thinks "I get to keep it all").

In my state, it says only licensed RE brokers and attorneys can collect commissions. I'm neither. But we also have a clause in the law that allows commission rebates. So, I typically just pay an attorney a small flat fee to collect the commission and rebate it back to me. It can be a pain but then I realized I don't have to tell the sell side anything, I now have a standing agreement with my attorney who will collect the buy side commission and subtract out the flat fee part and rebate the rest to me. I just put his info on the offer as my agent and give him a heads up a few days before close. It works pretty well.
The daily 10,000 ? - https://xkcd.com/1053/
Fun read about the usage of CORP as the default domain for Windows Active Directory domains and the chaos that might have come had Microsoft not ponied up for the domain:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/dangerous-domain-corp-co...
This is not true. Some cancers are caused by viruses. Many oncogenes were initially discovered in viruses. But the majority of tumors are definitely not caused by viruses.

This was a hypothesis in the field for a number of years, and has been disproven. If you want a good overview of the history of cancer, I recommend “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
They might be committing other crimes, but at least they would not be speeding around in stolen Kias and Hyundais. That seems like a win.

Easily stolen cars lead to nuisance behavior that affects far more than the immediate victim of the theft.
What's the legitimate reason we need a .zip TLD?

Namecheap says:

> Why choose a .ZIP domain?

> Build your brand fast with a .zip. The .zip top-level domain (TLD) is the perfect fit for organizations specializing in file sharing, storage, and download technology, or for anyone offering speedy and efficient online service.

> Is a .ZIP domain extension right for me?

> Use your .zip TLD to showcase your expertise in the field of file compression software or impress your clients with turbo-charged customer service.

Really?

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/gtld/zip/
Fair point, in my attempt to throw shade at domain squatters I seemed to forget that countries and languages exist. (I really hate domain squatters...)
Yes.

By the way, SWE consultancy co-op are a thing and in my experience pay 15% more than regular consultancy.
>if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?

His "self reflection" is an attempt to feel self righteous and better than the stranger getting beaten for political reasons that he does not know.
`command.com` is owned by 3M now to advertise its Command line of removable adhesive strips.

URL prefixes were supposed to resolve this ambiguity (file:// vs. http[s]://), but I guess people got tired of saying "aych-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash..." :-)
What does that mean, specifically? What policy changes need to be enacted to fix the system, and how do we verify they worked?
I think these arguments are a bit contrived. bzip2 made progress on compression ratio. xz (and zstd) made progress on both compression ratio and speed. Neither hovered around the idea of cutting-edge "technology" (they all fall into the same technology: general data compression algorithms) because they aren't niched oddities like e.g. paq. But I don't understand why a successor must trump gzip in both aspects. gzip certainly didn't trump all of its predecessors on both aspects, and both aspects take turns being the more important one depending on user and scenario.
Netflix is very unique in that they put significantly more stock (and subsequently, capex) in making data driven content decisions than other studios do.

I don't know how the gamble will play out, but if it works well for them, I imagine they'll continue to pay top tier.

So while we may hate all their weird reality tv shows or wonder why good stuff gets cancelled why other things continue, it may have a lot less to do with a single individual's decision.

Also note, Netflix is known to pay significantly more than the rest of FAANG at this point, though they hire much less frequently.
6502 Computer – From Breadboard to PCB
This is incredibly exciting. Let me know if I can help test! Where does the branch live?
IIRC, that's the kind of behavior that got people crucified.
Earth means nothing. Just a tiny planet in a vacuum. Humans are worthless and what happens to them means nothing.
Anyone know why Guido seems to have reversed course in terms of keeping the CPython interpreter as simple as possible & is now supporting the addition of various performance improvements to the interpreter?
You could have chosen from about 220 countries with a lower incarceration rate than the US, but because you said China, people are ignoring the substance of your comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce...
I still have his linear algebra book on my shelf from the 1980's. One of the great teachers of a topic that has been crucial to my career in computer graphics and vision.
Speaking of ChatGPT-authored books: The example that someone posted on HN last month ("Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687868) is still up on Amazon despite the widespread publicity, fake reviews and all.

Note that AI-generated books have been on the horizon for a long time, well before ChatGPT appeared. Ingram, one of the biggest print-on-demand services in the United States, specifically banned "Books created using artificial intelligence or automated processes" in early 2020 (https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/m...).

Amazon clearly doesn't have a handle on the problem, and its book catalogue and Kindle Unlimited will increasingly be flooded with junk.
If transistors would not be possible, then lots of other stuff would not exist, like solar panels or digital cameras. Handy electricity conversion, etc.

I think alternativly we would have miniaturized vacuum tubes much more, the ones that powered computers before transistors (and made them huge)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum-tube_computer
I'm curious whether they put any guard rails around what kinds of sounds you can invoke. Can you get it to synthesize offensive speech that's legible? Does it do gun shots, fart noises, orgasm sounds, crying, or screams of pain?
Self-Efficacy (2005)
Maybe I'm a snob but they're all awful and I wouldn't listen to most of them once (I'd skip through) let alone twice.
Microsoft Internet Connection Test
Obviously not exactly this word-for-word, but I'm pretty sure most people have told equally objectionable things that they regretted afterwards or didn't fully think through at the time.
Users have been trained on Windows to click OK, automatically, without reading, on any pop-up that appears.
I don't think it is racist to highlight an aspect of a culture and how it might at a group dynamic level causally influence the outcome of something.

The claim that Japanese culture causally leads to better craftmanship might be wrong. As you've mentioned, there are plenty of counterexamples that argue against Japanese culture having the claimed causal influence. But this doesn't make the original claim racist nor even borderline racist.
The United States already spends over 1 trillion every year on social assistance, including 71 billion yearly on housing assistance. Anyone claiming that it would be merely a money problem to end homelessness is lying to you.
Meh, the plan is to turn Twitter into an American TikTok. Great pivot given the timing, but he first had to destroy the “liberal stronghold” image it had acquired. It’s cynical af, but yeah… also the milquetoast Jack was appeasement all the way down
No way to do that, shit will always be shit, but they can alter the perception of those articles by creating flocks of fake virtual personalities that praise them at command, then return to their daily chit chat to gain subscribers to be used at the next campaign. I feel that will soon become daily routine in politics and product advertising.
Once we abandoned tlds as actual ways of organizing websites it was always going to be vanity.
The whole .COM/.EXE thing is not limited to 16-bit DOS and Windows. For a very long time now, Windows simply treats both extensions as the equivalent of chmod +x, but the way the binary is loaded does not depend on the specific extension. That is, if a .COM file has a 64-bit PE header, it will happily execute on Win11.

Indeed, a bunch of system binaries are themselves like that for historical reasons - CHCP.COM, FORMAT.COM, MORE.COM etc - because they originally had such names long ago in DOS, and someone somewhere might have a batch file that includes the extension.
https://archive.is/flFZ
There is a metric smidgen. It's a gnats whisker bigger than the imperial one
Easier to sell if you’re CEO (in title, if not in actual job) than VP of Sales though.

If the issue is the advertisers need someone to escalate too (and someone who Elon would listen to when he needs talking out of some half baked idea), then it is a good fit.

If the idea is to have Twitter actually functional as a product driven engineering company, then yeah that won’t work. But baby steps.
Currently the only support shell is Bash
So this guy has founded multiple successful engineering-heavy companies, did not receive any actual financial support past 18 (despite inflated myths of an "emerald mine"), is attested by multiple skilled engineers, and has given videos where he talks in depth about engineering, but we're still looking for new & different kinds of evidence that he has skills?

Are we testing whether he knows anything at this point, or whether he's a literal Tony Stark? This thread started with discussion of whether he's any kind of engineer at all now we're looking for "rooms full of stumped geniuses" as if this was something every random engineer experienced.
Also available: photoshop.zip and office.zip
He's definitely not a pure snake-oil salesman like Jobs.
Not if they had to share with each other.
Shouldn’t they sue the car owners for owning a car that could so easily tempt someone to steal it?

Maybe they should implement car burkas?
Needing to be approved from a waitlist is the difference.
to be fair, you can select to install any "basic packages" but it is all or nothing
> This idea the default should be "act like you're being watched" is harmful, both to the individual and to society.

As George Orwell said in his 1984 "Big Brother is watching you".
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

(1) ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

GDPR accepts that person can potentially be identified with reference to location data.

Anyway, "Personally identifiable information" is a weird term. Person can be identifiable in various ways. Information is just information. GDPR doesn't use this term.
This is not intended as negative because this looks cool but I noped out when reading the small print about data privacy for Test Kitchen generally.

Perhaps I was over-cautious or unfair in this case (I'm all in on MS/OpenAI stuff) just a gentle suggestion to give it some consideration if you don't normally pay it much mind.
The article was out of date when it was published on March 19. GPT-4 was released on March 14.
Not true. 4chan’s gif board is pretty famous for the… uh funny webms.
Well, how do the shrink-wrapped EULA's work when you sell a computer? What is Microsoft's position on you selling your windows license to a third party? I expect that car manufacturers will eventually take a similar line. But it won't be a big deal for very long. As we will soon all be paying subscriptions to use our cars, license transfers will be balled up into the transfer fees paid when you move your ongoing subscription commitment to the person buying your physical car. The manufacturers will supervise the process.
Oracle isn't exactly a shining example. If you ask anyone technical who professionally came of age in the last 25 years what they're known for, the answer will be "lawsuits".

Your comment is a pretty good example of the kind of organizational dysfunction that results from unclear reporting and leadership vacuums. From the inside, lots of people are doing their job and doing their job well. From the outside, all this activity and all these highly-paid and highly-talented employees don't result in anything novel or useful. The company keeps chugging along, making boatloads of cash from its existing customers because old habits die hard, but gradually loses its capacity to adapt to market shifts. Then when a market shift happens, it goes out of business.

Twitter's problem is that a market shift is already underway, and their financials are precarious. Companies like Oracle or IBM can limp along for decades as long as their customers stay in business. Google is in the middle - their business is probably more precarious now than it's been in 20 years. Twitter is at imminent risk of death in the next 1-3 years if they don't turn the ship around.
The customers don't know they are getting AI crapware. And these "publishers" make a little money on each book. It's the same as all the other book scams on Amazon that has existed for years.
Just like .info.
People that reject the use of political violence are better than those that don't and I'm not going to pretend they aren't.
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MS just checks if a .txt file exists. If not, "No Internet Connection" shows.
Fritter no longer works.

At least on the aggregate.