skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> …given all the success we've had with LLMs, it's weird that we can't use the exact same tricks with time-series data.

Forecasting works quite well when the series is forecastable. The fact that it often doesn't work (e.g. there really is no effective predictor of where the S&P 500 will be 3 months from now) might just be because the series really is effectively unpredictable (combinatorial explosion, chaotic complex systems, and all that).

One thing to note with LLMs is that they do things (e.g. generate text) that we know are possible. We know this because we consistently see humans successfully doing it, this comment being one such example (hopefully?).

We _don't_ see humans consistently predicting the stock market nor other notoriously difficult to predict time series. That's not to say that just because humans can't do it, it's not possible for an AI, but I'd consider it another clue that it may not be.
Not going to comment about Go here but JavaScript code like what is written above confuses many people. `Promise`s begin to resolve immediately on creation whether or not we've attempted to unwrap their value using `await`.

Therefore, it's quite possible that the first call to `promise()` might resolve after 3 seconds, while the next two calls could take 7 seconds and 10 seconds respectively. In this case, the `Promise.all` would produce a result after 10 seconds, and then the next line `const a = await aPromise` would unwrap the value within `aPromise` immediately as it would already have been fulfilled 3 seconds into execution of the `await Promise.all([promise(), promise()])` line.
I wonder if a pizza chain will pick up the carcass of this startup to use as a base for a robotic pizza maker.
time to migrate to 4chan
The cause of stale documentation? Not writing documentation.

According to this saying, the fix to stale documentation is (often implied) to not write documentation. Can't go stale if it doesn't exist!

The above saying is so often used as an excuse to write no documentation so much that while stale documentation can provide more acute pain than no documentation, the chronic pain of no documentation is a cure worse than the disease.
https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r...

Millennial home ownership rates are a bit behind, but not by a crazy amount for example.
I'm a bit underwhelmed. There are tons of QoL changes, but afaict there is little innovation. I would've expected at least a not grid-based zoning so that buildings on curves look more natural. All these empty pieces of land in between buildings look really bad and kind of force us to make grid cities. And that is not even an innovation, it was already present in the SimCity series. But some procedurally generated buildings for smooth corners and connecting buildings would be nice.
Makefiles for Fun and Profit
Star Wars: The Old Republic is probably the biggest example.

Edit: Rift is probably another good example, though less high-profile than SWTOR.
I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for.

EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.
I am not a lawyer. That said, I'm not sure this counts as news.

The Rogers test comes from the 1989 case Rogers vs Grimaldi where a Ginger Rogers sued the defendants for making the flim "Ginger and Fred", saying they used her name and people thought she was involved in the film. The court ruled in favor of the defendants, finding that the film was a work of artistic expression, not a commercial product, an therefore not subject to the Lanham Act. The court used the Rogers test, which states that the use of a third-party mark in an expressive work does not violate the Lanham Act “Unless the title has no artistic relevance to the underlying work whatsoever, or, if it has some artistic relevance, unless the title misleads as to the source or the content of the work.”

Since then the Rogers test has been used rather inconsistently by various courts. In Cliff Notes vs Bantam, the defendant was selling books that parodied cliff notes, and used their distinctive black and yellow trade dress. The court ruled for the defendant, saying Rogers test applied because the defendant's use did not create a strong likelihood of confusion, ignoring the artistic relevance part of the Rogers test. Other courts have required a "particularly compelling" likelihood of confusion and have generally favored artistic expression, though not always.

(https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refer...)

The article argues that this is a reversal of a long standing clear precedent. But the precedent is not really clear. Various courts have struggled to determine whether a product was "artistically relevant" and whether consumers would be confused as to whether the paordied product was sponsored or created by the original since the Rogers case. And they have applied the precedent somewhat inconsistently that whole time. This is just one case where the court has ruled for the plaintif.
Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.
Amazon accuses customer of racism and shuts down their smart home
<conspiracy>
Disgruntled user ddos attack? or So Reddit can blame the lower traffic on technical issues.
</conspiracy>
Cloudflare Is Having Issues
Looks like they figured out that censorship is effective.

Which is why so many people are upset at the level of censorship happening online.
> Of course when a decision comes down 9-0 from the Supreme Court, I have to assume I'm missing some understanding here.

9-0 is a great clue that if the headline is confusing then maybe it's time to read the controlling opinion in the decision.
Such a friendly message for the user as an error. /s
Yeah, my assumption was that something in some layer of their application isn’t well optimized when asked to return posts from a subreddit that has “gone dark” in whatever fashions the mods chose to do that.

For example, maybe it causes reads from the database take a lot longer than they normally would, locking up the database or causing the process the crash (again, that’s just pure speculation).
Just want to highlight that "critical" here refers to the "critical" in "critical race theory", and associated with it is the kind of intolerant moral orthodoxy that's seen on the extreme left. This is a radical form of activism that has disguised itself as academic work. We should be skeptical of this, less they accumulate unmerited authority to dictate the direction of development of artificial intelligence.
"Since first launch, though, Canadians haven’t been unanimously proud of the Canadarm. In 1995, Royal Canadian Air Farce poked fun at it with a sketch about one breaking."

The author, although Canadian, is missing Canadian culture here. Air Farce (a satarical Canadian news show) poking fun at something Canadian does mean we are proud of it. That's Canadian, self deprecating humour, poking fun at ourselves.

Growing up in Canada, anytime space was mentioned, the Canadarm was front and centre. We are very proud of our contributions.
I'm with you on this one. Nothing is going to really happen save a few small subs going dark permanently, but I do recall reading something a while back that said 3rd party apps accounted for 30% of traffic. I think the rest was split between the web and the first-party apps.
Aldi thrive on this by selling their own branded stuff that looks really similar to big name brands, even down to the style of packaging.

Dogebrau Anarchist IPA isn’t half bad compared to the expensive alternative.
You saw 10% comment drops in subreddits still available or are you saying 10% of comments overall on all of reddit including the privacy subreddits?
>The people with the ban-hammers are doing nothing but creating further and further resentment and confirming whatever biases and conspiracy theories that many people already feel.

You had just got done critiquing the article in a clear and cogent way, then you go off and assert something for which you have no evidence.

The existence of these online groups, they get people, they turn good people into bad people. We have friends and family we have seen it happen to. So perhaps they are not ONLY causing resentment among those already converted, but perhaps also preventing further conversion.
I think you're missing the bigger picture here. The audience is not outraged because Reddit is trying to be profitable, it's their execution which has enraged the entire community.
First, the time frame given to the 3P apps is basically something which seems like an attempt to weed the more popular ones as soon as possible, eg: Apollo, RIF, Sync.
Second, the CEO is openly propagating misinformation and slandering the developers, particularly the creator of Apollo.

The devs are not asking for a free API forever, they just want Reddit to work with them and provide them with options - a sensible time frame and API pricing. Giving them a deadline of literally less than a month and an invoice of $20M doesn't show any goodwill at all on their part.
What JavaScript does right, is to have an installed VM on basically every computer out there. If you are building a consumer focused thing, it is hard to argue for any other installation method. Especially when you consider you can remove the need to track multiple deployments in the same way, since you can basically force an update to all users.
A good discussion is https://gwern.net/doc/psychiatry/1991-castle.pdf , which highlights the curious criticism of https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/parapsychology/1950-sabine.... which argues that it wasn't retrocognition but precognition of their future research on their vision - so the archive research 'proved' their vision because the vision was of that archive research in the first place! Thus, you could never prove retrocognition because it could just be precognition of the proof.

I found the epistemological paradoxes here amusing enough to write some more about: https://gwern.net/retrocognition (My contribution here is to suggest that Sabine doesn't go far enough: precognition of verification is also self-refuting, because if it's possible, why haven't we already precognitively copied the proof of precognition into the present?)
Shouldn't that game be called How to ruin beautiful landscapes with concrete instead ?
This is almost certainly a counter-protest from Reddit, Inc. in response to the subreddit blackouts.
But this time it's different because most high traffic subs have already gone dark, so the traffic must be minimal as there will be very few posters relative to what the server can handle. And yet, I'm getting "You broke reddit" when I try to visit which is quite ironical.
Watch the scientism-believers come out of the woodwork to accuse you of asking this in bad faith. It is, of course, largely the same group of people who will redefine "hate" organization to include people who, for example, didn't want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 [1][2][3].

They know that "hate" can be redefined in any manner as they wish, and if they can correlate hate <=> censorship is beneficial, and they can correlate anything-I-don't-like <=> hate, then they can correlate anthing-I-don't-like <=> censorship is beneficial. But they want to pretend you're the "sea lion" in some moronic comic as an ironic shorthand to disrupt and short-circuit a serious conversation on censorship.

1: https://theconversation.com/the-inherent-racism-of-anti-vaxx...

2: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapt...

3: https://www.theedgemedia.org/purebloods-anti-semitism-white-...
a casual observer might note that the definition of "violence" has been expanded somewhat in recent years, possibly to the point of creating a circular dependency on the also-expanding definition of "hate".
In the olden days hard disks wrote data on spinning platters the size of dinner plates with heads the size of Sharpie markers, and the controllers were a Z80 microprocessor on a card with a few kB of ROM and maybe as much as 16kB of RAM.

Everything past those days though, the data is very thoroughly scrambled for spectral whitening before being written to disk so there's no practical difference between /dev/urandom and /dev/zero.
The scale on those graphs is wildly different.

Office have 120 down reports per period. Reddit has 40,000.
If all you care about is news then it’s interchangeable with any news aggregator.

I’m in it for specialty subs which are all shut down. Hobby and niche interest subs which are the real life blood of the site IMO.
As an older programmer who deals with multiple languages, the very complexity of ASCII in a multi-language context does make unicode seems like a breath of fresh air.

Seriously, multi-language in the 90s was a hell of half-baked incomplete and incompatible solutions.
Hacker News seems to be struggling rn too. I'm guessing people started scraping Reddit, then it crashed so people are coming here instead.
Also probably a lot more traffic going through the modmail system as folks click the obvious button under the "this subreddit is private" notices.
Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.
there's a very big difference between trying to become profitable and making a change that forces every 3rd party app to shutdown within 30 days because of an asinine price hike on their API

The transparency has been horseshit from spez and the other admin. As it's been pointed out, when Apple bought Dark Sky, 30 months were given to anyone using the API to adjust to the new landscape. These 3rd party apps that have been around longer than Reddit's app were given 30 days. And that doesn't even take into account the finger-pointing and immature behavior Spez threw at Christian (the Apollo app-maker)
It's a paradox game, expect it to be missing a ton of content only available post-launch in 20+ expensive DLCs. Get a better business model Paradox, please consider condensing your DLCs into the base game eventually.
You might have a different definition of "serverless", but for me and many others it's "you don't have to worry about the underlying infrastructure". You throw your script/container, it's easy to invoke, easy to scale up to millions rps, or down to zero. Nothing to maintain or update outside of your own code. Useful for unknown or highly variable loads.

cgi-bin scripts have little in common with the above model.
I'm also seeing HN being sluggish. But I have crap Australian internet so YMMV.
But why did you downvote me? I just explained what the parent meant?
AI doesn't have a problem with bias. It is bias. It's how it works, it is its nature. I find it very interesting also that when faced with these biases, we think the AI is wrong, instead of looking at the society it reflects. There's nothing wrong with the AI. It's just an algorithm processing our data.

Also is it a fact that people of certain origin are overrepresented in given populations, classes and so on. The solution is NOT to turn a blind eye to this, or lobotomize the AI in order to conceal it.
A lot of people who don't follow the courts make the mistake that whatever ruling the USSC makes must necessarily be the final one on the entire case, without considering that the USSC often rules on specific issues related to the case.
Maybe he knows where all the skeletons are buried, so the board removing him would be to difficult (or they're not ready to pay his golden parachute/buy his silence)
I'm not sure if this is true, but if I were a creator and admin of a site, I'd assume I'm automatically a mod of every subreddit or subforum. It doesn't necessarily mean spez was specifically moderating that sub.
outages are incredibly common everywhere
>So, organizations that violate Facebook policies?

Please rephrase this as a sincere question.
You completely miss the point. The crypto key held by the EIDAS provider is not the weak link. They are very securely attesting ONLY that the signatory controlled a given email address at the time of the signature. If I can get control of your email address then I can sign anything in your name with EIDAS. It's worthless, as the signatory can just claim that their email was hacked. You might as well just rely on emails, as we do in the UK.
I wonder if its going to be ram bound like the old game. Every asset had to be loaded into memory with the old game. There were even mods that let you know how much ram the game was consuming on load. On xbox cloud gaming version however the game runs with zero lag, no matter population size, right up to the point you build too many network nodes and the game doesn’t let you build more.
1. That would be relevant if talking about mass adoption but for the enthusiast market, when people want something e.g. custom songs in beat sabre or to play quake, we are delighted to use Sidequest. I'd happily sideload any app that I could experience some value in using with a headset but it's only things like Google Earth that make sense to me. As far as I can tell, for something like a spreadsheet, learning a new keyboard shortcut is more world changing than what a headset can offer.

2. I just don't rate them. The magic of 3d headsets that differentiates them from 2D for me has been "presence". To stand in front of a massive temple in Skyrim or something and feel like you are there, it's special and can't be replicated in 2D to the same extent. As soon as you get into a focussed state e.g. a game loop churning out iron daggers to level a skill, presence doesn't matter. Your area of attention is quite small and having a headset on is just a pain in ass. 2d apps are in the latter category for me.

My basic rule of thumb is that if you don't already render the content in 3d on a 2d screen, "spatial" doesn't have much to offer besides gimmickery.
So the classic question, if Mojo does not have a GC and does similar Rust-like memory management, is it a systems language?

I know it was made for AI, but could it be a rival to rust/C++ in general? Seems like it could replace either of those.
There is a lot of fake/controlled activity and frequently this is leveraged against tech executives.
But step 1 is exactly the problem. I assume whatever production line makes my frozen pizzas looks pretty much like Zume's robotic pizza assembly line - except for the part where those are frozen and can be shipped from a single factory to a whole country.

Zume reinvents the whole process, but instead of freezing it they put it in a delivery truck and heat it up on the last mile. Which means the factory has to be close to your delivery area. Now, factoring in competition from all other pizza delivery services, how much scale can you achieve with that? How long until automation of these small-scale runs pays off? And how many sufficiently big cities are there to expand to?
I'm sorry you don't have enough places to talk to bigoted people online, have you tried TOR?
Hate groups are the problem, not how they express themselves online.

I find it odd that it's perfectly legal to be a group with illegal intent. That's the only loophole that needs to be closed.

If a group is deemed to have "intent to harm and endanger others" then anyone who affiliates themselves with them should be deemed likewise, and attended to.

So the issue is of pre-crime. A crime has to happen and speech isn't a crime (although censorship should be, we censor them instead).

But if members of a group have already committed crimes and crimes of hate, then that should be enough to legally impose restrictions on the group and its members, including those that haven't. Maybe not arrest them immediately, but monitoring etc should be perfectly legal (and maybe done already).

All any member has to do is unaffiliate themselves to free themselves from being high risk and attended to by law enforcers.
What makes it far better? When overwriting a full drive they are about the same.
Did they DDoS themselves trying to fake numbers to show that the blackout has no effect on daily active user counts?
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I wish there was a Usenet client for iOS that matched the beauty and usability (and accessibility) of Apollo.

I wish there was Usenet servers to back that up - which didn't carry the binaries or unsavory newsgroups.
> people who already feel disenfranchised about life feel when they can't even vent about stuff on the Internet and what that leads to.

Wow there. I think the who point of hate is you're taking it out on people? Hatred leads to violence and interestingly, much like violence you shouldn't use it as way to vent your frustrations. Much like how drunken husbands shouldn't go home and take out their frustrations by beating their family.

> creating further and further resentment and confirming whatever biases and conspiracy theories that many people already feel

I say that's a good thing, let the hate fester and consume the hateful without infecting others. It's like a disease that spreads from host to host. If you choose to be hateful the enjoy your misery or be violent and enjoy the consequences.

Name me one issue that requires you to hate people in order to resolve it.
the accusation of editing comments I believe to be confirmed as fact, everything else I am not sure of.
Typescript is completely open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) and all of its roadmap, planning, issue tracking, peer reviewing, is also out in the open (in GitHub Issues). It's about as "controlled" by Microsoft as Linux is "controlled" by Red Hat at this point.
Thank you! I’m trying but smh yeah this level of argument never ceases to surprise me. We need more women in tech, and we need to figure out how to collectively want to be considerate. Good luck in your graphics research & career! I really mean that because mine is full of luck, and I might not have made it if I’d had a non-stop stream of small discomforts. Graphics is super fun though.
Many groups advance hatred. From the right, there are groups that hate transgender-advocacy groups that do youth outreach. From the left, the feeling is reciprocated.

Depending whom you ask, these groups are either hate groups or "saving our youth".
Exactly! Lots of people treating internet traffic like a on/off switch for each website. But ultimately the traffic is people, and people act like a liquid in large enough quantities. They flow in other directions.
HN getting hugged, too.
All this means is that teams have to enforce readability. It's not good or bad, just a different shifting of responsibilities - and this is something that you still need to do for other languages, there's just more tooling (like flake8 and black for Python).

I worked on (and modernized) a distributed ETL system all in Perl some time ago, and applying the long-codified ideals of Modern Perl made it one of the cleanest codebases I've ever worked in.
old.reddit.com doesn't load, reddit.com will load but you can't sign in, direct links still work
Desktop Web, Mobile Web, and Native Mobile App all showing Major outage. AWS also showing issues via down detector.
I believe mixed use commercial/residential is pretty much confirmed by this trailer.

What's being zoned at 0:56 is green buildings (residential) with blue bottom floor (commercial). And on 0:19 the corner building next to the intersection appears to be one of those, some type of shop on the bottom floor, apartments above.