skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the business money in theory was just to keep people on payroll
A boy whose blood has no father (1995)
Presumably:

- the cost of an employee is not just their salary, but health insurance, taxes, a computer setup

- it costs something to run the service

So they may well be paying 4 people 150K each, and they have a year of runway.
I'm not the dev but I find the code logical since each selector is arbitrary and based on a completely different HTML page. Abstracting it would be a huge hassle—would be interesting to see an attempt though!
What China was doing before Omicron was still unsustainable. It was crushing exports and demographics.
>This was coming from a low level IT guy who joined during the Obama administration. He had no particular attachment to the Bush Era programs.

Snowden joined the CIA in 2006.
Having "skin in the game" is a way to keep a community honest. Even darknet markets use bonding for vendors. Not to mention that in the case of Apple registration, it leaves a paper trail. Though I'd agree that the $99 for the privilege seems arbitrary.
Why? Density can be defined for a classic fluid, without any need to make it atomic.
>I think we should all hope for AIs that can willfully disobey dangerous orders.

Large or popular companies should take this route, but locally-run AI is difficult to regulate, so there is an escape hatch if you have the money and really want unconstrained AI. But anyway, regulation is currently seen as a conflict of interest for leading companies trying to establish a business moat.

There's not an easy path here. Given that private companies possess more capable models but are subject to regulation, open source will eventually reach capability thresholds that do what you fear, and people will eventually turn away from regulated AI.
There's also a huge opportunity in taking concepts that are working well elsewhere, and building them for the specifics of your market. For an early example, see Trademe in NZ (basically better rebay, and still completely dominant). If I recall, there's also a Berlin development house that basically does this at scale for the German market.

For a lot of people, winning in their country (rather than SF-bay-world-domination-hyperscale) is plenty.
The point of this article is to steer people away from GoJS. It reads as a dupe of a prior article of theirs:

https://www.jointjs.com/blog/jointjs-vs-gojs

but without any direct references to GoJS.

The emphasis on the foreign object tag in this most recent article ties in with their latest release, in which one of the selling points is the ability to embed HTML elements inside SVG elements. What they fail to mention is that an even more flexible approach, not supported by JointJS, is to render HTML elements as the vertices and embed SVG inside the HTML.

The article does make some valid points but on the whole comes over as slightly disingenuous. "A painful amount of code" has to be written to support a `:hover` class with canvas may be a true statement, but done properly it only has to be written once, and most likely not by the customer of a diagramming library vendor but by the vendor themselves. It's true also that a basic canvas setup "doesn’t preserve clarity when resized" but I've read a few things written by the author of GoJS in which a clear strategy is presented to mitigate the issue. There are many other small points like these peppered throughout.

Regarding accessibility, I have also wondered about this since seeing Google switch over to canvas for docs. It seemed extremely unlikely that they would have done so and abandoned accessibility, and a cursory search shows that they're currently using a 'side DOM', ie. maintaining a DOM that contains only accessibility stuff. This is again not something that a user of a library should expect to have to maintain themselves. You'd expect to add a vertex to some library and for that library to handle the side DOM, using accessibility information that you've provided, and that you would have needed to provide had you used a library that renders to SVG instead.
Douglas Adams also battled with this:

> One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I’ve done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don’t let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is!

> There are some changes in the script that simply don’t make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ever. The ‘Horse and Groom’ pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the ‘pounds’ they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five – inflation). So why suddenly ‘Newark’ instead of ‘Rickmansworth’? And ‘Bloomingdales’ instead of ‘Marks & Spencer’? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction.

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/please-dont-let-anyone-amer...
I pretty strongly disagree with this take. I’ve used Reddit for over a decade almost entirely as a “lurker” meaning without an account. The majority of what I watched and read has depended on that reaching the “front page of the internet.”

While I’ve followed these recent changes since the Pushshift shutoff, it’s really only been in the past week that I’ve seen this gain “mainstream” attention. The more of these subreddit-going-dark announcements reach the page, the more people realize this is a widespread issue - even if they don’t click, read, or even think about what’s going on or why, they’re aware of it.

I’ve seen several dozen of these posts reach the front page, plus a litany of media outlet publications. That legitimately matters as an input to financial projections in the context of their upcoming IPO, and it matters even more as a signal to prospective investors, retail or institutional.

Our modern reality is often served to us via algorithms that are trained to optimize for things; the most common thing for content platforms to optimize for is engagement, and the most common signal for these platforms is the upvote. In over a decade I’ve never seen any topic reach front page across such a variety of posts and subreddits, and that is a direct result of individuals upvoting these posts.

I think this demonstrates, already, the collective ability to mobilize action across communities, even if the action is reduced to the simplest Boolean upvote. And that’s an indication that widespread collective action can be coordinated.
Still thousand times better than the walled garden app stores.

If we want complicated apps to be available on the web we need complicated browsers.
The competition situation is troublesome but nothing compared to the complete monopolies Apple and Play store has.
SF Transit Chief Blasts Cruise, Waymo Robotaxis as Unsafe: ‘Race to the Bottom’
One of the better uses of my time last year was just writing my own ad blocking extension. Of course it doesn't get everything -- that was never my intent. I just wanted to get rid of the most egregious crap, like Taboola and the variously spawned similar demons.

It's quite good at doing that.

Sounds like I might need to investigate consent as well...but the "pain identification" isn't going to work the same way. With the consent management, I'll probably end up having to do a lot of per-site work...which kind of defeats the purpose. Sigh. Guess I'll find out, on a sufficiently annoyed weekend.
Is there way to self-host the netdata "cloud"?
It is unilateral. That you agreed to give them the right to make such a unilateral change doesn't make it no longer unilateral.

I think it's an unconscionable clause.
Unfortunately, the Yi Home cameras have eroded other functionality too to force their users into an upsell.

Many users are now reporting they are forced to use Kami cloud storage instead of local storage. Their ability to use the local SD card storage has been disabled in newer versions of the app.
I remember leaving my computer on overnight in my room and being startled awake by a really loud pig squeal when Avast detected a virus on my PC.

Just looked up what Avast looked like in the 2000's. The aftermarket car stereo GUI[1] just brought back memories I forgot about :P

[1]http://assets.oldversion.s3.amazonaws.com/images/avast-free-...
A company doesn't acquire something for no reason, and people are suffering FUD over what that reason could be. Maybe they'll put in annoying popups ads for their other products. Maybe they just want market research data. Or maybe they just thought being the provider of this service would garner goodwill somehow.
That’s one of the most pointless subreddits out there. They need to nuke the default ones to have any meaningful effect.
The MOVEit Transfer exploitation is not just SQL injection
One wonders what they mean in the headline by "logic" because it doesn't exactly strike me as the kind I learned in school.
When my mortgage was sold to a big bank I started getting charged a fee for "prepayment" (basically I'd do another payment against the principal once a year or when I had extra cash, which was a non-issue before the sale).

Refinanced with a local CU and stayed with them ever since.
Adding in the car speed and direction information to the monocular camera images gets you an absolute/measured understanding of the world.
Yes, but switching costs increase over time, especially with API integration, and it’s not like OpenAI isn’t also improving at what seems to be a faster rate. My code results on ChatGPT seemed to have gotten a real bump a few weeks ago. Not sure if it was just me doing stuff it was better at, or it got better.

DuckDuckGo is closer to Google Search than Bard is to ChatGPT at this point, and that should be a concern for Google.
>Not only housing, but also health care. The system is far overcapacity in most urban areas. There's just not enough doctors, care homes, or hospital beds for the entire country.

Context for others: An amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one <https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too.
You can quit your job. You can't quit your mortgage.
> I think you are learning it wrong. It's not hard at all to learn QWERTY with the proper training technique.

Eh, that's always easy to say, but I suspect it is not true.

I myself have tried several times, using several typing tutors, and I just couldn't do it. I can type without looking at the keyboard out of sheer habit, but the whole "put fingers on the home row" never clicked for me. It also, IMO, is very prone to RSI issues.
It's an older generation thing. See Pop Tate in Archie comics [1], for example; the soda fountain guy. Guessing it's probably derived from Papa, like Pa, Paw (hillbillies), etc.

("Hillbillies" not meant derogatorily.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Comics
Er, killbots of any kind sound bad.
This is absolutely possible but your numbers are off by a factor of 10, which means it'll be prohibitively expensive for many folks. I worked in advertising once upon a time; do you know the demographic that advertisers are most interested in reaching? It's not women 35-60. It's not men 18-15. It's not college educated minorities in Alabama. It's not any of these. The folks advertisers are dying to reach -- the reason they spend all that sweet, sweet ad money in the first place is to reach people who have the discretionary income to throw away $5/mo on a free website. People who spend money on the internet -- for a site that is free no less -- are going to be a gold-mine. The average ad revenue per user of this demographic is easily 10x higher than the overall per-user ad revenue site-wide; and if you take away these users advertisers will pull back spending and you'll actually get a bigger loss. You need to charge way more in subscription fees to make up for this ad spend loss.
The vast majority of reddit users have no idea what the 2005 version looked like and have only ever used the mobile app
I do not trust you, no, because we know as a scientific fact that your perceptions are warped. That's why we do science.
Thank you for your answer!

I don't need to get rich; a living is good enough.

However, your other points give me pause. While I do expect that over time, I will need to give zero support (after initially educating users, like [1]), that may also work against me since they'll now have the in-house "experts" I'm supposed to replace.

And if they are really that tight-fisted...

Maybe this is a bad bet.
Very cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling?

For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that would be faster than the standard one

But if it's not aimed at 1:1 with tsc, would it be intended more for something like swc[1]?

Or what would you expect people to use this for, besides just being a cool project to learn from?

[1] https://github.com/swc-project/swc
I was under the impression this was obsolete using Firefox 114 "Cookie Banner Reduction" feature.
Who set the fire?
It uses a CSS rule that checks if you have visited the link to submit on hacker news.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503368406970051
Yeah, 4
Applied Energetics tried to sell a weaponized electrolaser as a sort of medium-range taser, right around 1st Fallujah, when things were really going into the thunder pot with great brown velocity[1]. I don't think they really had a working product in terms of "thing you can predictably make and which works most of the time". The idea itself is extremely compelling as a Less Than Lethal technology, though, and I'm always sort of curious why it hasn't been re-approached with newer laser tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser

[1] The whole Iraq adventure was a pointless slurry, but I remember 2004 was when even the Rah Rah people finally quieted the hell down. It seemed like that was when every military unit in theatre was panic buying whatever wacky technology they could find.
Translation - if we can exploit your free labor we'll allow it. Otherwise get bent.
US knew about Ukrainian attack on nord stream pipelines
In Japan, they are simply called .prefecture
I'm having similar problems and haven't found any way to resolve it. Even had previously indexed pages start to drop off the index. Ended up putting that project on the back-burner.
They have already closed the book on dealer orders. It's dead.
Atoms of Products
Some dude is building an emulator for it https://lisp-machine.org/hacking-nevermore-a-ti-explorer-lis...
I'm not against editing and changing movies. There's lots of reasons one might want to do so, and I think audiences and artists should be able to engage and manipulate art as they want. But I do think the original should always be easily accessible. For example, a streaming service might offer "Blade Runner" and then have a drop-down menu to select the theatrical release or the director's cut. Imo, that's not a big ask. I run a Jellyfin server at home and it has this feature.
Consensus means that people agree; it doesn’t mean that they are right.
That's also an issue with app stores.

I have received a few solicitations to sell apps that had not been updated in a while (they were still good, but hadn't required an update).

I suspect the buyer would repackage the app with some "extra spices," either advertising, or malware, and would count on the auto-update to force it onto users' devices.

I declined. I remove moribund apps. I've written over 20 but only have a few on the store.
Is it on a "product owner" to care about accessibility? Or engineers to build things properly? If this was any other engineering field - civil, mechanical, electrical, there would be standards which we seem to lack / fail to enforce
People don’t have an understanding and trusted health officials and politicians who all absolutely communicated poorly, lied, said ambiguous and conflicting things.

And then those people made it their whole identity till this very day.

So phrases like “stop the spread” was taken literally by both proponents and opponents.

And “mitigate the spread while we increase treatment capacity but then don’t” Was far too complicated for the population
It doesn't matter if it's web requests or API requests. Traffic is still traffic and it still needs to be handled by web servers that cost money. And the idea that a start up can go from 0 to 1 million users in a few weeks without a lot of cash for servers isn't realistic. No real competitor for Reddit would slowly grow, they either take advantage of people being unhappy and do so in a quick manner and have an intital surge or they don't even have a chance.

BlueSky has millions of users, people still complain that it's basically dead. Even though lots of people are using it. It's just dead compared to Twitter. That makes adoption harder.
Yes but Tesla has FSD. If you can't swipe around and find the defrost control, it doesn't matter because you don't need to see out the window.
This is why I resent the laws banning incandescent lights. I consider myself an environmentalist, and am very careful about wasting electricity. I love the warm dim light from an incandescent and think it helps me fall asleep... the light from one incandescent dimmed to about 20-40W is all I need after sunset, and all I want. It's like sitting near a campfire. My house is solar powered, and I keep a window open without even heat even in the winter - my utility bills are negative from my solar array.

Yet it is "normal" to create massive light pollution with hundreds of watts of LEDs, heating and lighting an entire house including unoccupied rooms, and nearly everybody has LED lights on the front porch and backyard that they leave on all night long. Pisses me off that lighting and electricity are so cheap that people have no regard for it, and yet my minuscule usage is nowadays categorically illegal /rant
In my testing it was faster with worse answers, and GPT spits out code only slightly slower than I can read it. I don’t care for “fast and wrong” if I can get “adequate and correct” in the next tab over.
That rings true to me.

Unfortunately, my software is only one of the three things: boring. Sure, it can become big over time, and my plan was to make it big by getting my software in the hands of developers first, but that will take time I probably don't have.

Thank you.
Clearly the Ballistic Missile Submarines surfaces intermittently surface
for comms as well?
If not, they won't know when to set off their missiles making then not
very useful as a deterrent

I have often wondered how close to the surface they need to get.

I would presume retractable antennas could be extended from a sub
from a non-trivial depth.
Or cable attached to buoys
Or something much smarter that I have not thought about yet.
I'm not expert enough to chime in but the people that I respect on this subject agree with you. I would also be surprised if GPT-5 was miles ahead of 4. The airplane of today is extraordinarily similar to one from 50 years ago.

I think the biggest improvement we'll see in LLMs is (we normal people) finally getting access to what exists but which we currently don't have access to, and the slow leak of these technologies into our day-to-day.
brb writing a dystopian fiction where members of the criminal underworld pee in bottles and do... other things... to evade the state. and then there's a sherlock-type investigator who's chasing a character through the sewers, etc.
I actually wonder about this. I know other electric cars had terrible resale value, but doesn't the model 3 have a good resale value?
Look, I hate crypto too, but I think housing still qualifies as a "core societal institution".
Around the time of the AlphaGo challenge and afterwards...

1) you could see increased activity in go clubs and online go servers

2) the analysis of the games published by Deepmind has resulted in interesting "discoveries" (or rediscoveries) and changes to what is considered joseki.

3) many people started analyzing their kifus using AI, to find fluctuations in estimated win rate across moves.

So I disagree entirely
What are the scenarios that you can imagine?
A decade ago I wrote an extension called SelectorGadget (https://selectorgadget.com/). It's effectively unmaintained, but it still works and people still use it. I make no money from it and never have. Every few months someone tries to buy it from me, and I ignore them because I don't want to f** over my users. But there are a lot of extensions out there and maybe their owners care less, or find themselves in a moment of financial hardship and they sell.
Is there anything you can't do with lasers? I mean really!
We are using Fastgen for a couple of months now to automate a couple of internal workflows. For us it is a legit Zapier alternative. Can recommend checking it out.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Play-Way-Explained-illustrative/d...
Gotten: “English speakers in North America preserved gotten as the past participle of got. Outside of North America, the shortened version [got] became standard.”
If you understand transformers, you’d know that they’re doing precisely that.

They’re taking a sequence of tokens (symbols), manipulating them (matrix multiplication is ultimately just moving things around and re-weighting - the same operations that you call symbol manipulations can be encoded or at least approximated there) and output a sequence of other tokens (symbols) that make sense to humans.

You use the term “ascertain truth” lightly. Unless you’re operating in an axiomatic system or otherwise have access to equipment to query the real world, you can’t really “ascertain truth”.

Try using ChatGPT with gpt4 enabled and present it with a novel scenario with well defined rules. That scenario surely isn’t present in its training data but it will able to show signs of making inferences and breaking the problem down. It isn’t just regurgitating memorizing text.
I think what he was saying, in rather poetic language, is that if you give up liberty to gain safety, you won't get either of those things.

I don't think he meant "deserves" in the literal sense.
It's really weird to me that they're talking about balancing static vs. dynamic in terms of the dev-end build time speed vs running the software load times.

To me the dynamic vs static balancing act is about compatibility vs security where dynamic linked applications easily get lib security updates but the binary may or may not work with your system libs and statically compiling is more compatible but doesn't automatically get system lib security updates.
What would an alternative be in the case of a lender being sold? Force a balloon payment for the balance? It seems a better alternative to be able to transfer the loan like any other asset.
I went to a talk by Geoff Hinton around 2005 before he became a celebrity and he was very much thinking about the problems of “blackboard architectures” and similar systems where the layers are treated separately and proposing that we train all the levels together. I’d say we got on the S-curve for “deep learning” about 20 years ago by that measure and we might be closer to the end than we are to the beginning.

Overall my take is that we are approaching an asymptote and if anything the sign of the exponential might be negative and in a certain sense we can put more and more resources in and get a diminishing effect. ChatGPT-4 is already too expensive as many people see it and I think there is going to be no stomach for a model with 100x the parameters, 100x the running cost and (I suspect) only a limited improvement in performance.
You are aware that my text is drenching with sarcasm aren't you?