skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this, Instagram is the fourth most popular social media thing. Facebook and YouTube are the biggest (although I disagree that YouTube counts as "social media").

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
It's a great story with many lessons in government over-reach and freedom. Keep repeating these Uncle Rico stories because future generations need to know what was at stake.
Unfortunately, for the ordinary user, the best solution still is Ubuntu, esp. if you're doing ML work, most tools assume you're using Ubuntu and have the necessary drivers and libraries.

I would love to switch to OpenSUSE TW (which I think is better than Fedora despite both being RPM based). I just hate the way apt works (think about all the dependencies that remain on the system when uninstalling a program).
Discord's Data Dilemma: Third-Party Support Agent Hack Exposes User Information
> an actor where the studio wants to use an AI-generated likeness in place of paying them

Likeness rights are separate and cover this pretty well I think. There's not legal precedent yet over AI specifically but Waits v Frito Lay and Crispin Glover's back to the future 2 lawsuit lay a groundwork. Disney recently bought the rights to digitally recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice using AI. I think Disney's army of copyright lawyers probably they're likely to need that, even though they own the Darth Vader character and have had others perform it, without (afaik) paying him anything.
Great example of how in the aggregate, perfectly reasonable individual thinking can lead to the construction of desolate hellscapes. (source: grew up in Phoenix, Arizona)
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

This guideline is likely one of the main reasons Hacker News comments are so simultaneously overconfident and undereducated. If you want HN to be a safe place for people interrupting informed conversation with whatever nonsense pops into their head, fine, but I don't want that, and until that guideline becomes a rule, I'm not going to be following it.

People should read what they're responding to before responding. Note, in this case, it's objectively clear that the person did not read my post--I put something in my post to prove that fact. This isn't just snark.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Is it kind to jump in at the first opportunity to correct someone without reading what they've said? Is it kind to spread misinformation that causes societal harm? This is a very shallow idea of kindness.
Alright then you should also consider not basing it off of whether you find the concept insulting. It doesn't seem to be the strongest rebuttal available.
Anyone knows if they are still working on their vector graphics app?

They announced it a couple of years ago but it seems to have been abandoned.
> It doesn't help that most of the planned transit improvements seemingly are focused on greenification of buses rather than just getting more buses on the road to expand routes, make lines frequent enough to use for commuting, etc.

Important note here: US public transit use is way down from pre-pandemic levels and might never recover [1]. I've spoken to several city transit representatives about this and they're looking for ways to green and downsize their buses as a result of low demand. Adding more buses not only doesn't help if there aren't enough passengers, it makes things worse because buses are massively expensive (think quarter million dollars each), need expensive drivers and maintenance, etc. That's money that cities could be spending on things like improving housing instead.

[1] https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles
I'll take this opportunity to try and bust the myth a bit more about people drinking alt because water wasn't safe:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/u5dxoy/how_d...

TLDR; People drank ale all the time because water is boring to drink!
I used to take Caltrain fairly regularly and never once smelled sewage. The drunken baseball fans were a problem though.
When I owned two vehicles as a single person it wasn't that cheap to own my two seater car. It was at least a few hundred in insurance, registration, state inspection, some age-related maintenance. I eventually got rid of it for that reason.
That's sounds great! Can you share some docs on WhatsApp bot? IIRC, those APIs were only available to businesses and not individuals.
It is not "better" it is different. Rust is "safer" although with the modern C++ along with tooling I do not really encounter any safety issues for about 3 years already. Looking at feature set C++ has way more. In my opinion Rust sits somewhere between C and C++.
As I said: since Win10CU. It’s a while now yes.
I cut my Linux teeth on Gentoo around when Sabayon Linux was released. Ubuntu didn't make me feel like enough of a hacker, so I had to bash my head against configuring grub through xserver until I felt like I got it. I learned a ton, but it likely wasn't the best use of my time.
Seems easy to say when you have healthcare coverage
Joined 18 years ago. Still compiling my KDE (but should finish soon). Then will take care of Firefox. My year of the linux desktop will be 2025. Great times ahead!
Slightly off topic, but I remember reading many years ago about a brewer who wanted to do something special for his brewery’s tenth anniversary. Whilst researching, he came across what anthropologists thought was a hymn, only partially translated.

He realized it was a recipe! With his domain knowledge, he was able to fill in some of the blanks. He then worked with the linguistic anthropology community to extend our knowledge of the ancient language in question. (Sumerian, maybe? It’s been a long time….)

He brewed the beer/ale and the result was a think rich brew best described as liquid bread.
Along with some of the other great answers you're getting, just look at the difference in funding. Highway expansions and arterials are granted huge federal dollars. But look at how much funding your local bus system gets. I can guarantee you almost any freeway widening project in a given location in the US is apportioned more money than the local transit network, except for a few prominent exceptions like NYC.

Part of this is a structural issue. The Federal government has a robust system of funding road network expansion but has no equivalent system of funding transit. Even after the passage of the recent infrastructure bill, look at the apportionment to maintaining Federal roadway compared to Federal transit funding. You can't compare a budget Android phone for a developing market with a flagship Android or a new iPhone.
put gpt in a robot friend
That is a self-reinforcing cycle. There have been long and successful campaigns by car companies and other self-interested entities in the US to associate public transportation with being poor. Just like how a city street is safer per-capita if there are more people on it, public transit is safer if it is more well-used.

I see this in seattle. When I am commuting in the morning or in the evening my bus is full of yuppies and working class people getting to their job. But if I take the bus on the weekend or during the off hours when well-adjusted people are not on it, the bus is a much less inviting place.

I don't know how to solve the problem other than to believe in the system and hope that other people do as well.
How are emotions not an expression of abstract thought? I think we're limited in our understanding of consciousness, which is what makes me so excited for Ai.
What exactly are you adding here?

I've noted that public transit is unpleasant 'cause it's underfunded and poorly planned. There's not much money for security, the routes are bad and irregular and so only those with no other choice ride it and so it's the very poor and that can result in bad behavior - plus those aiming to victimize step in as well.
The solution to this problem is converting those office buildings into apartments. This would save a lot of downtowns.
However, city zoning rules and real estate investors absolutely do not want this because it lowers the cost of their housing.
If you look into why this isn't happening there are some ridicuous rules requiring all units to be able to open out to the outside. I'm of the belief that affordable units are affordable because they don't have amenities like an outward facing window. In places like NYC, people want places to sleep that are affordable.
Oh well, these are all self inflicted wounds which will lead to an inevitable collapse in CRE.
I never claimed they were the same. I have been recently educated on this matter through numerous visits to psychologists/diagnostics in support of a family member. I promise it’s a better authoritative source than YouTube or amateur bloggers.
That's no hotel. It's a space station!
It is hard to not compare the breakthrough product release count between Jobs and Cook.

If that is the measure, then we have to bring in Jobs' tenure as not only CEO but company founder that stretched 25 years as CEO, 1976 to 1985 and 1997 to 2011.

Cook only took the reins in 2011, and at that time arguably the company should not have focused on releasing yet more revolutionary products.

iPhone is the most successful consumer product in history, focus was correctly placed in supporting that, building moats around it and positioning the ecosystem to support the next big thing.

One product often left out, which may have started with Jobs, but delivery should be attributed to Cook is the new Apple HQ. The initial impact has crumbled due to Covid WFH.

However, this campus may turn out to be a force multiplier going forward. If so, it is a victory, but not in the minds of consumers.
I think most people would agree with the following:
"You know what would be better? If I were not sitting in a car right now"

We can both recognize that cars can be necessary in certain conditions AND ideally not a big part of our lives. I think that's reasonable and possible.
Try a Google search for GitHub projects that do that. Or really any other GPT idea. People are building many copies of everything, so I'm not even going to recommend the one that I'm using because there's probably a better one already :). It's simple code so you can also modify it to your liking.
I am so glad I installed Gentoo on a headless box 15 years ago to use as a server (no GUI.) I learned so much about Linux by following the Gentoo handbook and being forced to use SSH and the console for everything, and I absolutely believe it (along with my highly curious personality) is what shaped me for a successful career in tech.

And for what it's worth, I'm still using OpenRC on it and not systemd, a completely free choice that users have with a Gentoo system.

It's such a breath of fresh air to use Portage and Gentoo utilities compared to other stuff. It's designed so well, has beautiful colours, and the terminal output is clean of random warnings or errors that you constantly see with other distros (e.g. when booting or upgrading packages.) All the terminal output from Gentoo tools is super meaningful and formatted consistently.
it seems like most people that have dislike bash never spent the time to learn it.

I have a love/hate relationship with is. I started with computers in 2000 and wrote a ton of bash for various things. Compiling software, running cicd, adhoc batch jobs, etc.

I've managed many cicd pipelines with bash in my time. While it's not great, once you know the basics, you can be very successful. That being said, rewriting the bash "program" in another language is much advised. If your bash is over a few hundred lines, chances are you've outgrown it

Some things in bash (mainly pipes and redirection) are just too easy. Job control is also great. The 'process' and 'shell script' are two primitives that make a lot possible.

Trying to do pipes or redirection in python is awful. There are a ton of subtle bugs you have to worry about
That’s because driving throws out all the externalities outside the window: pollution, noise, violence, the cost of roads, cutting cities with hostile canyons…

Saying driving is better is like saying littering is more convenient than picking up your trash.
So glad Lynn Goldsmith can grift forever on one black and white photo.

Forever copyright is a joke.
Good point! I would also attribute it to disconnected company teams working on their own thing without integrating it into other products.
Drone flies for five hours with hydrogen fuel cell
How do these ad tech engineers at google and meta feel when they see posts like this?

“Haha I made that xD. Oh well 600k tc lol”
I recently found the youtube channel Tasting History with Max Miller and I would highly recommend checking it out.

If this post caught your eye, I think you will find it very interesting, wholesome and worth the sub.

https://www.youtube.com/c/tastinghistory
While in general I agree, database libs are probably the worst example of this - in practice you can't just swap sqlite for postgres or mysql. I usually avoid the generic driver wherever possible and use one specific to my database.
It is absolutely magic! Have you played around with it at all? It is potent to the point of invoking wonder and awe.

But I can see from your other replies that your real objection appears to be use of the m word, which seems odd given its expressive power, but you do you.
It's funny: the ET in the title has blinded people to this great article.

They don't know what they're missing out on, because of they're living in fear and denial of the ET subject (aping government's archaic, panicked mid-century reaction) making them too prejudiced against anything ET as to be blind to anything suggesting it that they don't see this is written by the NSA's top cryptanalysis instructor for 20 years, and contains a dense, brief, highly interesting tract for the HN audience.
If "phone functionality on wrist" counts as a "different in kind" product, why on earth wouldn't "smartphone functionality without looking down at a smartphone, watch, or other device" qualify?

For that matter, if "smartphone with cellular data" counts, why not "smart glasses with cellular data and apps"?

As you can tell, I'm a skeptic of this difference in kind v. difference in quantity construct.
Don't say it too loud, friend of mine worked at a company where everyone had the same computer.

I5 Gen 3, 500g HDD and 8gig of ram.

Yes, outlook runs fine for the secretary, visual studio not so fine for debugging.
I don't mean to be rude but are you over 45? There is a will with most people under that age in my experience. Or maybe cars are important culturally where you live?
Any good articles on FreeBSD adoption?
At the time I first encountered Gentoo (about as many years ago, I still remember RedHat pulling in X because I wanted mpg123 to play music from the command line) it was the most customizable package-supported distro available.

From what I understand, there are more now that support that level of customizability, such as Arch.

What I really love about Gentoo, and why I still use it, is that it just happily upgrades without forcing things on me almost all the time. Sometimes I have to eselect news read and make a decision about something that's going out of support, but that's very uncommon. It's a rolling release that doesn't suddenly tell me I'm using systemd or insist that now I have to use nginx or whatever.

And since it's from source, all the compiler toolchain bits are already installed.

And I can funroll my loops and fomit my pointers.

Everyone should install Gentoo at least once. It's not hard, the documentation is excellent (up there with Arch) and you learn things. You may not want to, but you do.

Oh, and that color documentation? That made such a huge difference! Everything else was HOWTOs and black and white and here was well-written documentation with colors to help you understand the fixed and movable parts of the commands; chef's kiss.

Ooooo sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.1.28 just dropped, time to go! I'm coooooooompiling!

Also genkernel is one of the nicest interfaces to rolling your own kernel you're ever going to encounter. It's a joy to work with.
Charmbracelet recently developed 'mods' which has some cool ideas around Unix pipes.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods
Ask HN: Ethics on fine-tuning LLMs on books and papers
I want to get started on fine-tuning LLMs to emulate certain styles of writing (e.g. online posts, blogs, etc.) - but I don't quite understand the ethical and/or legal implications.

What are some ethical ways of sourcing such data?
Thanks!
Prairies are formed by the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. They don't need help to beat back water hungry trees.
Watch as this gets used as a reason to drag people into the office.
These magazines are a thing of beauty!
Voice AI, Telecom, Scams, and Co-Evolution (2018)
But even the amount of time they're doing "work" they're mostly managing refcounts and walking MRO chains and formatting strings and doing hashtable lookups to find local variables at runtime. Python code is 20-40x slower than C code. That other 19/20ths of the time is the bottleneck, not the memory bandwidth of the actual work. Same with your electron frontend.
Minari – A Dataset API for Offline RL
The US's approach attacks public transit from both ends. Transit is gutted, cars are prioritized, making transit not good enough. And social services are gutted, the poor and the unwell are demonized, and then the only people riding transit are scary. And these two feed into each other; by making transit inefficient to use, and making expensive cars necessary, poverty is increased.
The OpenAI API is available to everyone. I've spent well over $100 just trying various things out over the past two months. I was not trying to save on it, you can do quite a lot even on $10, just make sure to do some napkin maths before you query som endpoint a lot of times. For example it's a lot easier to spend a lot on Dall-e than it is on GTP-3.5
You want to have a more holistic view of living together. Public healthcare is part of that.

Whether people in crisis are on the side of the road (and easier to ignore with a lifted car hood) or in your train car, they aren’t getting the help they need.
No, moans.

So that's how it is in their family... /Rooney
And fuck the artists who created it right? You're entitled to the fruits of their labor after all. Feed em into whatever system you want and ignore the consequences.
> Emperor Justinian I lived to 83

i'm responding to the comment about hunting deer on foot to escape death from hunger. I'm pretty sure Justinian I didn't depend on that for his daily survival.

Based on this link*, expected age of death at 15 (past the childhood phase) for hunter-gatherers is somewhere around 51-56, which is some 25 years fewer than today, so no, not great

* http://www.unm.edu/~hkaplan/KaplanHillLancasterHurtado_2000_...
I think ethical or legal implications might depend what you do with the LLMs.
You say that on a website that shares 99.99999999% of its DNA with Reddit. Maybe we should all be destitute and go touch grass?
Some people have no problems developing literal killing machines, or even using them. I'm not at all surprised some have no problem building advertisement targeting.
Ok, you just gave yourself a different set of hard engineering problems to solve. Turns out that field-of-view, brightness, color reproduction, and resolution are all difficult to achieve on that kind of display. You can try a Magic Leap 2 if you want to experience those constraints.

One thing that Apple’s approach has going for it is that it could also be great at VR content like Beat Saber, Half Life Alyx, Bigscreen movies, or as a monitor for your MacBook. A Magic-Leap-esque device will suck for any of those.

However, the Magic Leap form factor may work better for a Google Glass type use case where you wear the headset as you go about your life and get some augmented features (maybe it can be an iPhone replacement eventually).
If you can safely hold POWs, hold POWs. There’s value to being better than the other guy.

If you can’t, I’m not gonna judge, and that’s almost certainly the position these folks were in.
There are plenty (perhaps far too many) tools for doing basically `curl` to OpenAI.
Local LLM tools are needed however; and are much better for deploying systems on terabytes of data at fractions of the cost.
Alright, I just added a link to the section of the original Peritext document related to preserving the author's intent: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/#preserving-the-author...

The specific definition of user intent in the context of concurrent rich text editing can't be clearly explained in a few words. it's best understood through specific examples. I've provided some examples in my brief introduction to Peritext.
> are lots of tiny packages encouraged?

Very much the opposite
Also important to note that "last year" includes the tail end of the pandemic where crime as a whole fell due to lockdowns. SF and NYC fall far below other, less dense, cities in the US such as Cleveland Ohio, Lansing Michigan, Rockford Illinois, and Anchorage Alaska in violent crime rates. Granted, Chicago is in the top 20 in violent crime, though, if I had to guess those statistics are driven by crime that occurs outside the "urban core".

Perception certainly matters -- perceptions of SF BART and MUNI probably are not helping ridership -- but the narrative that San Francisco has become an urban hellscape is not borne out by the data nor by my personal anecdotal experience.
In Go if you'd like to make an interface-compatible database driver, you have to construct structs with non-exported fields from another package using unsafe.
> I don’t totally believe that remote work is going to go completely away . I think that personally for me never going into the office wasn’t really a great experience. It made me much more sedimentary (which in tech is almost a work hazard) but that was my fault . I do like being hybrid (but also the team I was a part of basically stopped existing) so while I think it could be a combination of working from home and the team imploding made me lonely.

I think a lot of people ran into these problems, but there are solutions. Work doesn't have to be your only source of community, and in fact, it can be problematic when it is, because then your community only lasts as long as your job. On the one hand you might lose your job, and on the other hand you might not quit when you should. Having connections outside work is pretty key to having work/life balance IMO.
I guess you’re right. Even the Death Star engineers were probably excited to be working on cutting edge tech.
Just kidding of course. Gentoo people, you taught me so much about Linux, Operating Systems in general and made me start reading docs in their primary language to get the newest information (I’m German). You taught me so much, I’ll always keep fond memories about Gentoo though I moved on.
I've been reading that this change (hub and spoke to decentralized) was already a big effect of COVID.

I like trains, but an alternative could be electric buses, with Uber Pool-like dynamic routing. I'm not sure how the speed would compare, but, it gets pretty wild when you consider what's possible with mobile phones, AVs, and electric vehicles.

I for one, am excited by this.
Apple's first Rapid Security Response update patches two WebKit zero-days
So have I. That's why I said _general_.
Ah, the nostalgia! I can vividly recall the thrill of setting up Gentoo on my trusty Pentium 2 300MHz laptop. Then dist-cc came to the rescue, linking my laptop to my father's server in the basement. Compiling Phoenix (yes, that's what Firefox used to be called) was a lengthy process, spanning roughly 20 hours. Nonetheless, the sense of achievement and the memories created during those marathon compilation sessions were truly fantastic.

Also - the constant fiddling with CXXFLAGS even though my knowledge of C++ was fairly limited.