skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you stopped asking locals for directions because of Google Maps?

Did you go to the library or ask your parents stuff growing up, or did you google it?

Do you order in, get amazon delivery, watch netflix?

Our generation has already become like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35994494
Well yeah, i bought a "ham and cheese sandwich" so give me ham and cheese. Anything else, I'd consider fraud.

Otherwise the manufacturers can start replacing everything with cheaper alternatives... fllet mignon? Just mechanically/chemically tenderize some cheap cut, it will be indistinguishable, and sell it at a same price. Honey? Just replace it with syrup and aromas, noone will notice. Not enough actual milk in baby formula? Just add melamine, noone will notice.
I remember somebody at Microsoft arguing that AARD had a sort of legitimate purpose -- Windows reached deep into DOS in ways that in modern times would be anathema, and did stuff that one couldn't expect to necessarily work properly on a DOS clone, since it wasn't part of the public API.

Still, that idea could have been better executed.

Aha, here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...

> As a simple example, when Windows started up, it increased the size of MS-DOS’s internal file table (the SFT, that’s the table that was created by the FILES= line in config.sys). It did that to allow more than 20 files to be opened on the windows system (a highly desirable goal for a multi-tasking operating system). But it did that by using an undocumented API call, which returned a pointer to a set of “interesting” pointers in MS-DOS.

[...]

> But the problem was that the MS-DOS 4.0 SFT was 2 bytes larger than the MS-DOS 3.1 SFT. In order to get Windows to work, I had to change the DOS loader to detect when win.com was being loaded, and if it was being loaded, I looked at the code at an offset relative to the base code segment, and if it was a “MOV” instruction, and the amount being moved was the old size of the SFT, I patched the instruction in memory to reflect the new size of the SFT! Yup, MS-DOS 4.0 patched the running windows binary to make sure Windows would still continue to work.

So yeah, by modern standards the way old DOS software worked was all kinds of screwy.
Well, Logic Pro is coming out on it later today, but apart from that, it massively depends on what you want to use it for and how you want to use it.
I'm working on adding Siri intents - something like activating Siri and saying "Ask AKME ..." and AKME would return to answer to Siri, which would read it out loud - but I don't have an ETA yet.
The idea of collections of humans without hierarchy is beyond delusional.

I am a Buddhist but it is hard to say I am serious or I would be living alone in the woods.

Nearly all Buddhist teachings IMO are bullshit and just enforcing natural hierarchy.

Sogyal Rinpoche telling his female students he is going to give them a dharma lesson by sleeping with him. In a metaphorical sense though I think that is what most students are looking for actually too and of course they find it.

For me personally, I don't want to wake up yet. I am still enjoying this dream.
I personally know a baker who publishes recipes that will fail along with a picture of what the end result should be.

This is an attempt at self-promotion: you fail; but I am marvelous and can make these wonderful things.
“Looks like Ray-bans” is a way to make sure AR takes longer than Jesus to arrive.
Open Source Realtime Voice Changer
I wouldn't mind an AI companion in the friend sense, but I really struggle with the GF part. Perhaps that's me being silly but it feels a step too far & like setting yourself up for trouble.

Either way it would need to 100% local. Not just privacy (that too), but more control. See replika service recently changing their algo and a bunch of people freaking out about their companion being broken.
I'm just sad that they spoil perfectly good fresh, juicy, crunchy onions.

They call it 'caramelized' but don't even put any caramel in. Which is probably good because actual caramelized onions would be gross too. But why not just be honest and call them burnt onions? Or "onions with all the flavor and texture removed"?

Personally, I find those recipes quick enough because I simply opt not to ruin the onions. They don't need any cooking. Just chop 'em and drop 'em on the finished product for a zesty flavorful crunch that you'd be missing out on if you actually followed the recipe directions.
Blow up dolls for grandpa, charming.
i don't disagree with you, but if you're already terminally online whats the difference.

The internet and social media has exacerbated a societal problem that has always existed, so now we have the problem why not make it more meaningful and less depressing.
The company that makes GTA was sued for content that was not accessible in the game.
Just had this discussion here a couple days ago [0].

While I certainly see AR glasses supplementing screens, I don’t ever see them entirely replacing screens. One screen can broadcast to multiple people, but literally everybody would need to have compatible, functioning AR glasses to share a virtual screen. What if someone in the room can’t afford the latest iGlass version, and their old iGlass 3 isn’t compatible with the screen being served on someone else’s iGlass 6? If your battery died or your glasses couldn’t connect to WiFi or broke entirely it would not only mean you couldn’t see your own screens, but also be unable to see anyone else’s.

As of 2022, only 80% of the US (and 60% of Mexico, for comparison) own smartphones [1]. I don’t see a future where literally 100% of sighted people in the world own intercompatible AR glasses, since that’s the only way we could get rid of screens entirely.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36022133

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_smartph...
You forget the part wher African countries have terrible political stability and no money. The only way of making this work would be neocolonialism, which is ok imo (in the end it benefits both parties), but it's frowned upon by some political circles.
If you took more than 5 minutes, you would realize there is. There is still askthedonald and conservative, all the subreddits dedicated to people like ben shapiro, conspiracy, the catholic subreddits and politicalcompassmemes. And it's not as if isn't there a lot of right wing and reactionary takes that get upvoted on default subs whenever trans people or minorities are involved. Maybe you don't see it because you believe conservatism consists of spamming slurs and making thinly veiled threats, but there is a very health conservative portion on reddit.
Just watch the movie
ChatGPT models can be all that and more, if you simply prompt them to be like this. You can make it simulate "self-interest and competing priorities" with the right system prompt.

This makes me think if ChatGPT-based bots could be useful for teaching social skills in a therapeutic context. A therapist could use such LLM to synthesize examples of realistic dialogue by describing people and the situation, and discuss them with the patient. They could set up a bunch of bots with (hidden) priorities and goals, and have the patient navigate a conversation/situation with them - whether as a short exercise, or a prolonged one (e.g. couple weeks of talking with ChatGPT-powered fake "friends" on an IM app).

In fact, take the last bit as a free startup idea: a platform for psychologist and therapists to set up GPT-4 (or whatever comes next)-powered chatbots, with an easy interface for configuring their personalities and setting up scenarios for patients to navigate, and helping evaluate their progress over time.
Challenge your friends to a Twitter Race
> The chinchilla law states that the amount of data required to train a language model grows exponentially with the model size. This means that it is very expensive to train large language models, even with the latest hardware. The RWKV community is working on developing new methods for training large language models more efficiently. There are a number of datasets available to the RWKV community, including:

What? I though the chinchilla-optimal regime was something like "20 tokens per weight". That's not remotely exponential, even by the word's colloquial use.
Wow shocker
Brand destruction = Brandstruction

It is astonishing how they can work so hard to build a brand like HBO and one day give it up for something generic.
I find various economic views are represented, but the economic discussions are quite a bit less sophisticated than the technical ones. That's a general pattern of techie discourse: see also, e.g., the absurd simplifications around human intelligence and AI.
The idea behind Push is you can control everything in Live with it. It's not a generic MIDI controller like a Launchpad. It's a full hardware interface to a specific piece of software.
See my other comment but RAID 5/6 are not usually considered erasure coding implementations [0]. Mustly, because AFAIK RAID 5 and 6 aren't standards, so it depends on the controller or software manufacturer implementation. Some use XOR, some use Reed Solomon, some use other stuff...

For example, Linux MD RAID 5 uses XOR, and RAID 6 uses Galois fields. [1][2]

0: https://www.itprotoday.com/storage/erasure-coding-vs-raid-which-right-and-when
1: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/A_guide_to_mdadm#Raid_5
2: http://igoro.com/archive/how-raid-6-dual-parity-calculation-works/
Is there any analysis to back up that assertion?
You basically switch out the proxy you use to scrape. Services by Google or others can identify scrapers cause they'll use the same proxy to request paged
Is it now your monitor's support?
If you take away the hype, blockchains remain mega-cool
High end small speakers still are mostly usable, with purely optional apps.

Look into B&O.
I'm excited to see where this goes but needing two 1w Airjet Minis to cool one 7w CPU is a pretty terrible power ratio. I'm sure the 1.7 watt fan in my Win Max 2 is much louder, but it can cool a 35W APU.
The Modern Family Cookbook by Meta Given. Copyright 1942-1953.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments. Introduction. Meal planning (45pa). Food shopping (12pa). Cooking (530pa): measurements, beverages, breads, cake, candy, cereals, cheese, cookies, desserts, eggs, fish, meat, meat sundries, pastry and pies, poultry, preserving and canning, salads, sandwiches, sauces, soup, vegetables. Deep fat frying, leftovers, misc.
Same with games already though
$700+ on backmarket
Every country to try currency controls in the modern world has just failed harder...
Seems like a good guess. It would also explain why it doesn't support plugins.
While not "SELECT APPROXIMATELY COUNT (*)," both MySQL and PostgreSQL both offer various metadata tables with approximate (albeit completely unfiltered) total row counts.
>Of course, we are very far away from any experiment of this kind, given that current models actually require much more examples of language than any human has ever been given for an entire lifetime.

Doesn't take much to imbue grammar, coherent completions and basic reasoning.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759
The maker in question (Simone Giertz [1]) has a rather ... complicated relationship with making sensible engineering choices in order to get things to work. Making things that are interesting and kind of almost work is almost her signature.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Giertz
Imagine the countries as a set of microservices, each exposing the data they want to. You can get all kinds of dystopian with this, and from technical perspective (although being a cool solution) somewhat twitchy eye inducing. Unless you make an OpenCountryAI standard that everyone confirms to - it'll get NASTY.

Now imagine micromonoliths with shared data. Much more soothing IMO.

I want microservices where appropriate, and I want my world global. Geographic boundires outlived themselves.
Everybody already knows that nut milk is different to cow milk. Calling it nut juice isn't going to to change the contents of the bottle or who would buy it.

What would you predict are the amount of people total who bought almond milk instead of semi-skimmed?
The article does not say anything about what sectors of industry these CEOs belong to, or what is the total capital of the businesses they represent in absolute and in % to total cap in the included industry sectors in their survey.

So, all in all, the article says nothing substantial backed by any solid statistics and figures.
Most of Europe's amazing social security benefits are funded by taxes, pot which is shrinking.

To combat rising wealth inequality, we need to tax the super wealthy who have vacuumed most of the worker productivity gains of the last decades, but we can't because they exclusively go to the jurisdiction where they have "special deals" where they pay next to no taxes.

Europe can't keep having amazing social benefits if it starts an internal race to the bottom of who can give the best tax breaks to billionaires, and then the tax burden moves on to the already shrinking middle class.
> 1. Windows 3.1 can run without DOS. For example: on top of DR DOS, an entirely independent operating system from a different vendor. And of course it also runs on top of OS/2 2.0 and above which is not remotely DOS like in structure. Now yes to be fair that is because IBM had access to the Microsoft source code for Windows 3.0 and 3.1. Even so it falsifies your statement

You are mixing up the terms here.

Windows 3.1 cannot run without DOS.

Windows 3.1 can run without MS DOS.

The difference is, that you provide other DOS implementation. It cannot run if you remove it. It was not able to boot itself, the launcher itself (win.com) was DOS executable.
Now that I think about it, there doesn't seem to be a precedent for an exponential tax anywhere.
I picked up a cookbook from the 70s in a second hand shop. It's got okay content for the most part but some recipes are incredibly unappealing for modern tastes, stuff like savory jello.
Fluorine-based novel drug synthesis at lightning speed
They probably shouldn't have?
"dark showcase of what a lack of human interaction (..) can result in" - nowadays everyone and your dog wants to become a moderator. millions worth systems trying to automatically deduce your sentiment towards USA presidential elections, Russian-Ukrainian war and if you may be in a need of penis enlargement. I just quote Bender Rodriguez, Achmed the Dead Terrorist and filter out all the (unsurprisingly most of them) stupid places. vote with your legs and let them rot
A foul tasting alternative for people duped into believing that regular artificial sweetener will give you cancer.
You should probably try buying better quality cookbooks? I don't think I have ever seen a stock image in a cookbook.
You can look at Josh Weissman's channel to see that in action. All his stuff takes forever, but it is edited down to be informative and entertaining
200kgs seems fine to me, it's almost like having 3.5 Americans in the Toyota Camry vs 1 American in a Tesla Model 3.

Average adult American of 80kgs.
Europe has a lot of shale gas it isn't using - it's a political decision.
> 1. Windows 3.1 can run without DOS. For example: on top of DR DOS, an entirely independent operating system from a different vendor.

So it still needs DOS.
I mean you cannot boot directly in win.com.
In a world full of so-called "progress" I appreciate that the people on this site are willing to regularly look back.
I see it on Twitter
Wonder how many Stasi joined the ranks of the Verfassungsschutz
Gnome's target demo seems to be people who aren't linux enthusiasts... who are for some reason using linux anyway. So basically, people who are made to use linux on their computer at work, or hapless elder relatives of overzealous linux users who had linux installed on their computer without understanding what it was.
Cut two holes in a paper bag.
Put paper bag on your head.
Look at three monitors through the holes you cut.

Same experience but resolution is much better.
Note that HLL is used for counting `unique` things. You don't need HLL for counting the rows of the table.
What does t_d mean?
I m on Reddit but never heard this term.
Planet Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, is excited to announce the release of Corteza 2023.3
Changes include: Multiple Page Layouts, Conditional Fields, Drill-Down Charts, Block Magnification, Tabs and Navigation Buttons, Support for SQLServer and more.
It was later revealed exactly what the purpose was, when internal mail discussions came out in court.

"What the guy is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is dr-dos and then go out to buy ms-dos. or decide to not take the risk for the other machines he has to buy for in the office."

-- Brad Silverberg, Microsoft, 1991, as quoted at
https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_inc... and in many other reports of the court case that one can still find.

That was the purpose.
if that's the price of a cartridge, and i need that much ink in a month, then sure. but if i don't use up a whole cartridge in a month, or even if i use it up faster, then there should be an option to get the next one only when the current one is empty. why should committing to a fixed amount be the only option?

charging by pages printed is just creative accounting and unfair to those that print lots of pages with little ink, while giving an advantage to those who use lots of ink per page. what's more, that's information i don't even want the printer company to get.

there is only one benefit to charging per page: print shops, because they charge per page too, so the cost and profit margin per page will remain the same regardless of how much ink they need.
If east eu is any indication of how things will develop, then it’s guaranteed to end up with colonialism.
It's not about anything but resentment here
All enemies, foreign and domestic, specifically those operating within the federal borders of the United States, it's territories, and any foreign holdings (e.g., embassy grounds).

Investigation should begin with crimes that have occurred, suss out those circumstances where there is a bigger picture, and attain warrants for further investigation. Lack of probable cause means no search, a right extended by Amendment IV to all people (at least within US holdings as described above, which is where I think the FBI should be operating).

The fault here lies with Congress. FISA is their doing, and it expressly violates all clauses of Amendment IV. The FBI is at fault for swinging this particular bat in a room full of citizens, but they shouldn't have been given the bat to begin with. Why FISA hasn't had a Supreme Court challenge on constitutional grounds is beyond me, but IANAL.
Volition raises $11M for “DigiKey” for all Industrial Parts
Brings to mind the children's book "Flap Your Wings" by P. D. Eastman. Didn't climb a tree, but was raised by birds in a tree!

[0] https://seuss.fandom.com/wiki/Flap_Your_Wings

[1] https://www.parentsoffostercare.com/pd-eastman-how-to-explai...
A keyboard and a mouse might be faster in some instances, but they are also far less musically expressive. When it comes to putting emotion into music, I think it is a lot easier to do so with an expressive, physically embodied musical instrument.

In terms of speed, I'm also not sure how quickly you can create articulations like vibrato and slides with a mouse and keyboard, but that seems like it would be fairly tedious to do manually? Wouldn't that require a lot of envelope tweaking?

Speaking personally, playing on a pad controller uses a different part of my brain and body than using a keyboard and a mouse. When I create stuff with a keyboard and mouse, I am in "design mode", where I am thinking in a deliberate way, similar to programming. When I create stuff on a pad controller, I am in "express mode", where I am not really thinking at all.
Provenance of this reviewed at http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done... (and last discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10432608 )
Indeed. EU should first fix the internal squabbles, turmoil and issues (rising youth unemployment, rising inequality, illegal immigration, housing crisis, rising extremism, etc), before expanding to other continents.
Convenience. Anonymity. Works without power. Frictionless transactions. Facilitates small-scale transactions.
I love this so much. Thank you!
WhatsApp finally lets you fix typos in sent messages
It's very well known plugins break with OS updates. The vendors usually send emails warning against updates. Someone making music at home for fun might update on day one, but no professional studio will.
It's just a landing page with a video and an email signup form. No usable product. Is this kind of thing allowed on Show HN threads?
Why you think you can't use epoll with disk files on linux?
Don't send armies, only goods, services, and payments.
None of the pro musicians I know leap to update their OS like that. Some of them even keep their music machines perpetually offline. These computers are tools for music which just happen to run some OS.
What's the difference between Franz, Ferdi, Ferdium?
Which squabbles would you say it must fix?
They have to be paid, so that people other then the petty power seekers with their race-to-the-bottom dynamic apply to become mods.
How long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones
My honest opinion is that encrappification (of the world in general, and software and computer culture in particular) has some part in it.

While A.I has exciting properties, there's not very much really interesting stuff going on.. Mostly new libraries, written on top of older libraries to abstract some abstraction into something even blander..

When was the last time a new kind of hardware device was introduced ? I don't mean some iteration of an old one, but a new one ?

Like, when we switched from working off of floppy drives to hard-drives, that really _changed_ something.. When we started attaching modems to our computers and went out into the world..
When the voodoo chips came and we started having dedicated pci cards just for drawing 3d graphics!

There is a bit going on with VR headsets, but they're not showing the same kind of promise anymore..

Software is becoming scarce.. We sit with the most powerful general purpose computers in the history of mankind in front of us, and we use them to view "web apps" crawl forth with abhorrent efficiency compared to the wares of yesteryear.

So, maybe some of the nostalgia is not so much because we want to look back, but rather because looking forward is frankly a rather bleak sight.
Note that ZFS (and probably other fs) checksums are not data corruption protection, but data corruption detection ;)

If a checksum error is detected, you depend (mostly) on your RAIDZ protection to recover from it [0]. If you're on a single drive or striped array without mirrors or raidz1/2/3... you're SOL. (ditto blocks can help but they aren't the best. I'd only recommend them if you're stuck on a single drive setup without raid)

But you at least know that your data is corrupt, and that's very important too :)

0: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Checksums.html
Ask HN: How to start with GPU programming (preferably with Rust)?