skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this. I said as much in another comment, but you worded it perfectly. Google pushing their G Suite, Chrome, even ChromeOS far more than Apple/Microsoft and no one bats an eye.
I'd be happy to pay $5 a month to a site that essentially "hosts subreddits" for niche communities.

I think a lot of other people would, as well.

I could spin up a bulletin board on a $5 VPS for a few thousand of my closest internet friends easily enough, but there's something to be gained from a single, well-known site with a well-designed interface (not reddit!), a large existing userbase, and useful discovery tools.

I should probably stand up a lemmy instance.
I dunno why people are surprised by this. We are long past the whole "autonomy of thought". Much of our decision on a day to day basis is already guided by culture society which is heavily influenced by companies.

For starters (apart from a very few outliers), if you own any Apple product, you have fallen into the trap of paying more for something that you believe is more valuable to you, but in reality, that feeling is artificially created. You aren't paying extra for features, you are paying extra because you believe that those features are worth that much, which is not your own thought.
Whenever I'm asked by friends or family to fix their computers for free, I make sure to install Linux + Brave + Qwant for browsing.

Most times it works because they just use youtube, facebook and stuff on the browser and runs for years without troubling me again.

Other times it doesn't work because "reasons" and they won't dare to trouble me again since that is all that I install.

In either case, neither bother me again.
Claiming that Nouveau is or ever was as stable as the proprietary nvidia drivers feels like gaslighting to me, and I think that's what GP was saying. Nouveau has always been flaky.
Author here.

I know this is the orange site and we have to expect this type of comment, but still…

I’ve been building software for more than 20 years, and using React since it came out.

You’re right that this event handling system isn’t exclusive to canvas. But then I’m not sure if you read the first part of the article where we talk about the other big reason: performance.

Your assertions that setTimeouts should be banned show immaturity. There are some cases where certain browsers do things in a different order and you really are required to use a hack like that.

You also neglect the fact (and this also points to your immaturity) that products are built by a number of people over a long period of time, with different constraints on them as things change.

The SVG approach was done for good reasons and the code made sense for what it was for initially. Then things got more complex and people started making more complex maps.

What we also found is that the complexity of maps people made increases with our performance gains: the faster the app is, the more people do with it.

I haven’t got time to go into everything either in the articles or certainly this reply, but I’d ask you to have a look at yourself and decide if you really want to be That Guy on HN.
Yes! The original text is so much more satisfying—and usually better written.

Even Hegel and Kant. Pro tip: don’t read linearly, use keyword search to find sections that selectively interest you.
I'm not going to bet against GPT-4, or its multi-modal successor that's supposed to be out soon, being up for this task. The hard bit is manipulator hardware, which is out of scope for this topic, and the tricky bit is teaching a generative model how to use it, which I think is entirely within capabilities of current state-of-the-art models.
>Searching around apparently there is some kind of bug where Linux will "cache" the BTRFS UUID [1].

It's not a bug. It's just a fact that every BTRFS filesystem visible to the kernel (mounted or not) should have a unique ID. Otherwise operations on one filesystem (including mounting the partition that contains it) can end up applying to the other filesystem.

>At the time, the "solution" I read was to change the UUID of the BTRFS partition running btrfstune.

The solution would've been to find out why you have two partitions with the same filesystem ID and remove one of them. One example is that if you have the BTRFS filesystem on an LVM partition and then you clone the LVM partition, you end up with two BTRFS filesystems with the same ID. I accidentally encountered it while converting an unencrypted BTRFS parition into an encrypted one by dd'ing it into a new LUKS device - when I tried to mount the encrypted partition it ended mounting the unencrypted one.

Since you say it's an external USB drive, perhaps it disconnected and reconnected uncleanly and the kernel thought there were two of that drive connected at the same time.
> They'll more likely only delay their misery for a while longer than the rest of us.

Yep, but they will have died of natural age. So for the coming decades, people with money can avoid the effects (they can just move, buy more cooling/heating/electric, get food anyway etc) and then they die. The next generation will be similar, and so on, until even the rich cannot get away.

Many people who care and want to change cannot do anything or at least feel they cannot (a child-less one-Prius family driving less is not exactly a feeling of impact).
I don’t think social media broadly is going away, but they are changing.

Facebook kinda killed its own activity by pushing growth of their social graph.

Over time it stopped being a place to connect with friends and just became… I don’t know. But it discourages user activity because family, friends, old classmates, guys you bumped into on a night out, ex’es all can see your activity.

It’s not fun checking-in somewhere, posting funny pictures from last nights party or whatever because it is practically public.

And my impression is young kids don’t like it either. You do your highlights reel on Instagram, but other than that, everything happens in private chat groups.

Every meetup group I go to, every Facebook group I visit wants us to connect in a private chat group and have notifications every time someone says something.

For this old fart, it’s exhausting to keep up with.
Show HN: Keep – Create production alerts from plain English
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep Here.

We were tired of creating alerts for our applications, so we've built an open-source GitHub Bot that lets you write application alerts using plain English. The code is open-sourced: https://github.com/keephq/keep so you can review it yourself.

Every developer and DevOps professional is familiar with the fact that in order to ensure your application works in production, you need to access your observability tool's user interface (such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.) and carefully determine how to create alerts that effectively monitor your application.

Instead, by installing Keep, every time you open a PR, the bot combines the alert description (alerts under the .keep directory) with the tool context (mostly the configuration of the alerts you already have) to generate (GPT) new alerts that keep you monitored.

So, for example, if you create a .keep/db-timeout.yaml and open a PR, the bot will comment on the PR with the actual alert you can deploy to your tool.

# The alert text in plain English
alert: |
Alert when the connections to the database are slower than 5 seconds for more than 5 minutes
provider: grafana

You can Install the bot and connect your providers via https://platform.keephq.dev (after login, you'll start the installation flow) or just clone the repository and use docker-compose to start the web app and the installation flow.

Demo Video - https://www.loom.com/share/23541a03944c4dca99b0504a1753d1b4
If you buy bags of pre-mixed concrete then it's already mixed.

What we normally refer to as concrete is a mix of Portland cement, Lyme, and aggregate (pebbles and/or sand). Pre mixed concrete comes as that already mixed and you just need to add water. You don't really need to mix the water in unless your looking to float the concrete to make a nice finished flat surface like a road or sidewalk. Anyone who has accidentally left a bag of pre mix out in the rain knows it hardens up fine.
> But if a new CEO comes in (or if the company is acquired and there's an entirely new board), are they bound by the promises of the previous executives?

They may be not, it ultimately depends on the context, but I would call into question any highly disruptive decision made by a recent newcomer.
Still very much alive. This implementation with python, to me, doesn’t look promising, but Elixirs LiveView does.
The goal of a narrow victory seems faulty. I wonder if a "narrow accelerationism" might be more effective.

IP disputes tend to be B or C stories in the public eye-- either super-technical where they only really interest people in very narrow verticals, or containing unsavoury and unmediagenic characters that are easy to demonize.

Give the IP lobby everything it wants, and we create a world of "here's an adorable 6-year-old girl who will die a very painful and public death because of patents" and "we had to burn down the pre-school because Mrs Crumble photocopied some worksheets with Donald Duck printed on them". With any luck, the backlash would be so massive that nobody would dare speak the word "patent" or "copyright" in Congress for three or four centuries.
Yep so let’s not even try even if tons of experts worldwide say it’s doable.
And people complained about next door's aerial farm!
I’m curious to speculate on the most boring possible outcome. Let’s say there is wreckage, from an unmanned craft like a sensing probe dispatched at some unknown time in the past by an unknown creator, including potentially millions of years ago by a species that’s long extinct. There would be a clamor for private business and the general public to get research access, but maybe there’s very little we can actually learn yet. It could be possible these craft reached this solar system very slowly, with no sci-fi FTL propulsion. One way or another there would be a finite amount to glean, and other than any technological benefits how much would it really change life? Organized religion has proven resilient - I honestly doubt the revelation that there was at some point intelligent life distantly far away in the universe would upset their apple cart too much.
And permitting, there are often rules about how big, or small houses can be, etc.
AlphaStar hardly pawned GMs in any meaningful way. It mainly won on mechanics, even when Deepmind tried to nerf its mechanics. Probably the most important thing is that the “200 APM limit” is way higher than any human can do, because it made use of each one of its actions. Humans can reach 400+ APM by spamming, but their EPM will stay much lower than 200. The result is that it had god-tier micro that changed the game completely: zergling runby’s are normally good for Zerg and bad for Protoss. With alphastar, it was the opposite, because it could micro to avoid losing any workers. Its disruptor micro was again unmatched.

Now, my last argument for why alphastar wasn’t some sort of brilliant tactician was that eventually people figured out that it’s susceptible to all the same problems a normal bot is: you can dart a warp prism in and out of its vision and it will send its army back and forth, you can confuse it by going mass raven/PF etc. and it’s completely unable to adapt. So in conclusion, no: AlphaStar doesn’t say anything one way or another about military AIs.
That’s incorrect. Bootcamp has not existed for a while now.
There is a certain class of images that will be largely unaffected - anything where authenticity matters. Such as a space walk photo from the ISS, a celebration moment in the Olympics, presidential speech, met gala fashion shots etc. and the authentic non generative photos could go up in value as photographers who do not have access to those moments either start to resort to AI or to fall out of the competition.
The photographers who took those stock photos also trained on stock photos.
Yeah, you can get one of those steel buildings put up for way less, bigger too
I agree with you. This is probably a net positive for Russia which will have to defend a smaller stretch of land in the (probably) upcoming offensive.
> They're trying to sell you vision that they fully know will not materialize - because while possible on paper, it's not possible in our current economy, not right now, not at the current stage of technology, and most importantly, it's not why they actually want it to happen.

I used to think in this way as well, until I realized that it just isn't true. I've seen too many tech people who genuinely believe that their tech will save the world. Only if people could see how, behave in "the right way" etc. They are not different in any of messiahs outside of tech.
Ask HN: Notice any difference with Copilot/GPT-4?
I've been taking a break for the last couple weeks but today got back to coding. I use Copilot extensively as an auto-complete tool that kinda reads my mind. It's failing miserably at even simple completion/repetition tasks.

I wonder if it's just me or anyone else is experiencing this?
The relative rate of emissions reduction: Chinas emissions accelerate while the wests plateaus.

The Chinese don’t emit less because they are good global citizens, it is because they are less wealthy. If emissions per capita is our judge, we should be congratulating all the countries in the worst poverty, since they use the least amount of energy.
People have different reactions to alcohol -- some might get very tired after just one drink, some get more energy with every drink they take until they suddenly crash. Also when you're at a show and you're dancing or jumping around and sweating, you find you need far fewer bathroom trips.
Then that would mean giving up a chance to push people into the App Store and taking 15-30%
Especially companies like Getty Images being so predatory towards photographers
Depends on time scale. You can only piss off a certain percentage of users for a short time. If that percentage goes up, and people stay angry, that takes longer, but then you die.

People forget exponential growth in a social network always ends with exponential collapse. It takes a while to get there, but sites can clear out in a matter of months.
I’m incredibly nostalgic for that time too.

When I was 13, I managed to watch TechTV for one straight day while on vacation. Then, TechTV promptly shut down. But learning about Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, changed me. I wanted to move to San Francisco and get into tech. TWiT and Diggnation were totally foundational to me.

I remember still the excitement that on Digg you could upvote a story without reloading a page. AJAX! That was really what Web 2.0 was about, technologically.

I sometimes feel strange that almost no one talks about these days. Maybe it’s not long enough ago? I mean… it’s been almost 20 years.
Yea, I'm not sure what proportion of the negative camp is negative because of issues in early iterations like power consumption used by bitcoin which is solved with newer tech and what proportion is negative due to the use cases themselves. I do think that a lot of the tech itself is pretty elegant but I'm less certain on whether it's the right solution. I also think the fact that many in the pro camp have investments in crypto currency can muddy the waters some and it's not clear whether a person in this camp believes it can be a proper technology that can benefit humanity or if they like it because it's a historically high growth investment where they are trying to make money currently.

At least for me, my main concerns are with the seemingly short sighted libertarian implementations that don't take into account the bad actors of this world. I think there are definitely some issues with our current financial system, but I think its like democracy in that it seems to be the least bad solution. I wouldn't want to live in a world without regulation of our financial markets. It is too easy for people to defraud the little guy and for criminal organizations to prosper. Do you think there are solutions in newer technologies for those concerns?

I feel like both sides should be able to agree that there are pros and cons to the different technologies and use cases, that there are some that are better for the pro camp and less negative for the against camp. Maybe pushing harder to make the cream rise to the top could make these conversations less tribal and divisive?
better use firefox
The main problem with duckduckgo is that you can’t exclude results you don’t want.

So if you’re searching for something on Linux and you add a -Microsoft term you’ll be served more windows results not less.

That makes it pretty useless for narrowing results.
I don‘t think there is even a need to translate/represent most of that (text/image/video) to 3d. VR was not invented for that purpose but rather to „present“ 3d media in 3d space. So the ultima ratio now is a device which is a basically a private monitor? While great for spacially confined waiting situations this falls short with the original dream.
You can't exactly lean on the OS to detect bad pointers references because it will only work some of the time.

The OS doesn't know where your array end, so the error would have to depend on whether the access is outside the memory allocated to the process. A function specification of "if the input is outside valid range, either return garbage or raise an exception" provides no value over "either return garbage or crash the program", because there is still the possibility of returning garbage.
He applied for permission to disclose this to journalists and that application was approved by the Pentagon.
I mean, what if the app is only ever used by one person over localhost? Seems you would be blocked on access to the GPU, unless it also has GPU farm support?
Yes. Using it for a EdTech MVP at the moment.
Here is a different perspective: I like GraphQL because it helps with communicating with other developers. I have lost count of the hours I spent trying to understand a REST API or find where the docs for the REST API are... Sometimes people just add an endpoint and that's that.

With GraphQL, there is a minimum of communication that it is done by the specs and the choices of the frameworks. There are some costs and downsides but for me they are definitively worth it.
I think Apple is doing smart things here with their software:

- leverage existing content means they won't have an empty room problem or a big "now what?!" moment for users after the novelty wears off. Without Steam, most existing VR platforms would be completely pointless. So far VR is for games and most of those are published on Steam. That's because most VR hardware vendors suck at software and end up outsourcing that to game studios. Meta included. Despite their ambitions, their goggles are mainly devices for running games not developed by Meta.

- a focus on the living room experience with a high end movie theater experience running, again, off existing content. Genius move because people already spend lots of money on home theaters. Some people buy 10K$ plasma screens even. This market is very real. Also, involving Disney with their huge back catalog of completely unmonetized 3D movies ... so obvious.

- Extend the highly successful IOS ecosystem to the new experience. They have tens of millions of apps already. And they'll work fine in AR. Why not do that?

The strategy is about content. It's the right strategy. The first generation hardware is of course amazing too and it will bootstrap a new generation of application developers that will be using Apple SDKs and tools to target all this with new content. But to bootstrap the ecosystem they need an audience.

Here too the strategy is genius: SDKs are based on things developers already use. They just co-announced a push into gaming for Mac along with some convenient porting kits for developers. That was just a footnote buried deep into the mac related announcements. But of course this means more content coming to AR as well. All that lovely content currently available via Steam.

Top to bottom the strategy is about compelling content. I think it's going to work.

This is not the final answer to AR but the opening salvo in a decades long push to completely own this space. Step 0 is to get millions of these things in the market with enough content to get people hooked and keep them consuming content. The rest will come later. It's appropriately radical, pragmatic, and conservative at the same time.
It has precedent as has already been implemented to limit SO2 emissions to prevent acid rain https://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/2022-so2-allowance-auction
It will be very alien to us - "it's just predicting the next word" is what I have heard repeatedly said about ChatGPT.

First, AI is far more than just chatgpt, don't presume this is the same thing happening everywhere.

Second, The LLMs are all reasoning machines drawing on encyclopedic knowledge. A great example I recently heard is like a student parroting names of presidents to seem smart - it isn't thinking in the exact manner that we do but it is applying a reasoning to it. Chat GPT may be doing something akin to prediction, but it is doing it in a manner that is exposing reasoning. As the parent mentioned, our own brains use networks that refine over time with removal, and a huge number of our behaviors are "automatic". If you go looking for "consciousness" you may never find it in a machine, but it doesn't really matter if the machine can perfectly mimic everything else that you do or say.

An unfeeling unconscious yet absolutely "aware" and hyperintellgent machine is possibly the most alien we can fathom, and I agree there is no "end game" there is likely no mathematical limit to how far you can take this.
Never change, kid.
Like it or not, it's here like CGI in movies bestsellers. I don't envy artists, most of them will have to rethink their plans and switch to graphics or web designers, or something similar. Not sure who will be next. Probably GPT will take over virtual bookshelves on Amazon. Mandatory "AI generated" mark may help a bit. I will not waste my time reading it.

I think we should expect a flood of "masterpieces" in different channels. Including news reports, scientific papers. The solution could be closed humans only groups. But, like in chess today, it's hard to say who is cheating.
You're talking like I didn't need to go to physiotherapy and occupational therapy to deal with my wrist issues and the lack of muscle tone in my glutes.
Vision _needs_ to be about apps, in order to be profitable. In order to be useful, it needs apps.

Who is going to use it _just_ to talk to an AI assistant? Apple learned its lesson with Siri- no one uses it. No one really uses Bing after a while, and who is Bard, again? AI is not a profitable venture right now, and going all-in too early is going to be costly with very little upside.
Elon Musk and Twitter, the entire story so far
subscription software services

The key word here is "service". This is what most subscriptions are addressing.

What would a viable "solution" to service look like? Self service perhaps? Or maybe no service?

Have you considered that "self service" and "no service" are options that subscribers have already specifically chosen to avoid for reasons that are perfectly logical and valid to them? Just unsubscribe and say "no" to service is not a universally viable alternative.

This seems akin to looking for a solution to "food" or "water".
What if it's much more boring and sad than that? Like we're a contained invasive species. They're peaceful, and they respect our rights to this planet cause we evolved here but they're scared of us getting off the planet and running roughshod over the rest of the galaxy which is pretty full of intelligent life and there's no final frontier to speak of. Meanwhile our government is busy trying to reverse engineer what scraps we've managed to get a hold of so we can somehow practice galactic imperialism. I call this the "crowded galaxy" resolution to the Fermi Paradox.