skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got this board game called "Hues and Cues"; it has a large board with a color grid and players take turns drawing cards of a color on the board and give a couple verbal hints to try to get the other players to guess the color. After playing it with multiple people and adjusting the rules all sorts of ways I don't think humans are as good as identifying colors as you think.
"Post-truth"? What a bloody insult to all the effort it currently takes to fight past all their "truth" to find truth. Makes me start to think it's a less than sincere. At least due to their new signaling marketing slogan to fans, I can now easily identify their lean and possible motive. Tricks ya know, to deal with "truth".

Complaining about google maps and navigation, is a really bad example to say over reliance on technology. What should we be navigating by stars? And most of their quotes aren't even really related to the complexities/strategies to identifying)/reexamining "truth" and dealing with all the unsavory if necessary actors. Larry Rosen is just trying to sell his pop novels to the masses. Michael Graziano's expertise is in cortex and motion, so I don't know what expertise he brings to the table though I suppose it's sincere. Michal Kosinski is at least sorta in the area, but also doesn't support their hypothesis beyond that it's going to have a major effect going forward.

Really, I shouldn't have given them a click.
This is depressing. On a more cheerful note, the FTC has already proposed a rule [0] called "Click to Cancel"

> Proposal seeks to make it as easy to cancel enrollment as it was to sign up

Fingers crossed. This FTC is a welcome change, thanks to having a young tech-savvy chairwoman who was a scholar. (The norm seems to be "old corporate executive.")

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/...
Google’s new Mac vs. PC-esque Pixel ads argue the iPhone has plateaued
Ai.jsx – The AI Application Framework for JavaScript
> incentivizes schools to improve.

Doesn't school choice divert funds away from public schools, depriving them of the means to improve?
I think it's inevitable that the LLM providers will build out more and more of the dev tools around their stack, such as this Azure service. The model providers can offer significantly better products via their direct access to the model weights, and retrieval augmented generation (what's going on here) is one good example. Think of them as AWS but with the world's best EC2 instances. How many of these MLOps / infra companies will be able to outsell OpenAI?

https://hua.substack.com/p/openai-is-a-hyperscaler
This looks really awesome. Are there any plans to support teams that do not use VS Code or GitHub?
Maybe there should be a regulation created that mandates 1 click unsubscribe. I’d like to see this apply to newspapers and fitness studios.
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/blob/v2.3.7/CHANGELOG.m... ?

The changelog lists both improvements and bug fixes and there's even apparently some effort to port it away from ruby: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/blob/v2.3.7/internal/cl...
There has been a state of civil war there for decades.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418713
The article basically describes the Entity-Component-System architecture and it makes sense when your app is essentially a stateful simulation with many independent subsystems (rendering, physics, etc.) managing lots of similar objects in realtime (i.e. games). I thought about how it could be used in other contexts (for example, webdev) and failed to find uses for it outside of gamedev/simulation software. It feels like outside of gamedev, with this architecture, a lot of developer energy/focus will be, by design, spent on premature optimizations and infrastructure-related boilerplate (setting up object pools etc.) instead of focusing on describing business logic in a straightforward, readable way. Are there success stories of using this architecture (ECS) outside of gamedev and outside of C++?
The UEK is more dedicated to following long-term-release kernels. Oracle's re-wrap is known as the "Red Hat Compatible Kernel."

v7-rhck-3.10.0-1160.92.1.0.1

v7-uek-5.4.17-2136.320.7.1

v8-rhck-4.18.0-477.13.1

v8-uek-5.15.0-102.110.5

v9-rhck-5.14.0-284.11.1

v9-uek-5.15.0-102.110.5.1

Kernel version 3.10 has always been stock rhel7's version, but the UEK has jumped through v4 to v5.

Red Hat made a big deal about io_uring availability in v9, but I am guessing that it is available in v8's UEK.

I will say that the Oracle database group's support for v9 is very poor at this point; for some reason, they are holding to v8, and releasing few products for the newer platform.
Pretty close:

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

- Douglas Adams
brb have to fly/drive to a strange city and setup airgap
It sounds like you have an opinion. Care to share it?
With all the talk about RHEL and centos/rocky/alma OS I was really confused by this title
Moreover, bone meal is also sold as a human nutritional supplement, but curiously under disguised names, e.g. "Calcium Hydroxyapatite" (while bone meal does indeed contain hydroxyapatite, it also contains other minerals and a large amount of proteins), presumably in order to not scare the vegans, who are the main people who need such a nutritional supplement.

While I eat almost only vegan food, I make an exception and I add to some of my food small quantities of such bone meal. However, unlike most people, I read very carefully the small print, so I am aware that this supplement is in fact made from cattle bones, even if its label does not suggest this.
You can check here for an explanation (with some helpful figures) https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/the-full-story-of-large-lang...
Morality is not a luxury, morality is the bedrock of society. And the hacker group is (probably) from Romania, which, while not a super rich country, is a EU member state and “economic growth has been one of the highest in the EU since 2010“. The country does not have famine or is war torn. Unemployment is 6%.

The hackers don’t do it to feed their family, they do it because of greed.
This is totally FUD
That's typically what RedHat does...

If you're a big account you get your own Technical Account Manager (TAM) and a dedicated support engineer.

This is like bread and butter for anyone with any experience in enterprise.

How is HN so green in this regard?
I miss Sketch. Something I thought I'd never say
I have a 13 and a 15 year old, and my opinion is it's the phones.
As a designer who was a front end developer in previous roles, I am very excited about both Dev Mode and the addition of variables, expressions, and conditional logic.
And betrays how little those parents care for the children without which they share DNA. When the rich pull their kids and taxes away from the common good of public schools, it degrades that common good all the faster.
Nothing is untestable. If validation results in destruction, then destructive testing is how this is done.

Failing to test is a choice, similar to the choice made by a software engineer who determines, without testing, that their production service has no bugs.

If a component's flaw can only be detected right before a failure, we need statistical analysis of multiple such failures being intentionally induced to estimate the component's limits.

Not finding or knowing about existing limits or flaws is the direct result of not looking for them.
What I find hilarious about this is that Google introduced the .zip domain and then shutdown their registrar a week later.
Most of Africa has been colonized in one form or another for centuries. Which is just as harmful to a nation as systems like apartheid.

Also what point are you trying to make here? You seem to be implying a common cause for these results. Care to explicitly state it?
Yup. One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

I avoid anything Oracle. Their licensing model is hell. Their products are usually terrible compared to competition. Cloud products are subpar. Products tend to require a support contract since it’s proprietary dogshit.

Some tidbits of Oracle and Larry Ellison (founder, CEO):

- in the early days of Oracle DB, it was benchmarked and compared against other RDBMS and Oracle DB was found to have poor performance. Ellison and Oracle tried to get the professor fired and introduced language into their EULA preventing benchmarking [1,2]

- then there is the growing list of controversies documented on Wikipedia [3]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150313140846/https://starcount... (2015, archive.org)

[2] https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
My colleague wrote a couple of pieces that talk about RLHF:

1. https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/the-full-story-of-large-lang... (you can scroll to "What RLHF actually does to an LLM" if you're already familiar with LLMs)

2. https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-chatgpt-actually-works/
I'm not sure I understand the sarcasm (i.e. why TB/ns is an unrealistic

A.) ...one gram of DNA can store up to 215 Petabytes or [215,000 Terabytes], knowing that the human being has about 600 grams of DNA [129,000,000 TB]. (1)

B.) Now assume a human is traveling at the speed of sound in air on earth (~343m/s):

343 m/s * 129,000,000 TB * 1/1,000,000,000 s/ns,

The result is that for every kilometer the human travels at the speed of sound, the information stored in that human’s DNA yields a data transfer rate of approximately 44.3 TB/ns. Seems reasonable.

1.) https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/en/Article/Details.aspx?id....
No. LLMs aren't capable of learning how a student best learns. Nor are they capable of really "teaching".

At best, using an LLM this way would get it to parrot out existing, common explanations for some math topics.

If you asked it something outside its existing knowledge base (or asked it a question from a different perspective), it would make up fake or logically inconsistent, but very reasonable-sounding explanations which would be horrific for a student trying to learn.

It cannot actually learn mathematics or logic itself, so it has no way to ensure that its explanations are logically or mathmatically sound.
The editorial on Hz is particularly funny and insightful.

// Beware the SI's broken definition
// of Hz. You should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental
// dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of pure math like
// the Taylor series for sin[x], and you should treat the Hz as being a
// fundamental property of incompetence by committee.

...

// You are perfectly right. You are perfectly wrong. You look dumb and
// unreasonable. The person arguing the opposite looks dumb and unreasonable.
//
// Hz == YOU CANNOT WIN
//
// (Insert "IT'S A TRAP" image here.)
Yes! I did this tour, and it was surprising how much of their boards are hand assembled right there in the factory. Lots of discrete components. You also get to play some very expensive gear that you may never see elsewhere.

But everything is just so ungodly expensive. It's hard to justify getting two octaves that can play a single note for the same price as a used top-of-the-line baby grand piano.
Well said. Click ops is the root of all evil, IME, unless you're a very small shop.
the monetized platforms will fight tooth and nail to keep you in your same account. When you create a new one the profiling starts all over again and they have to build up your information to serve you ads. The longer you remain on a platform using the same account the easier it is to get you to click.
Haha. NASA seeding the Rocky Linux project amid RHEL source code drought!
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No, a full on everyone take the afternoon off catered food drinks to watch movies and play video games in our offices's bar paid for by the ops team personally.

Also don't assume we don't know our coworkers, when they first got to 8 in a row the slack channel looked like the Twitch chat of a popular streamer.

We have the buy-in from management that if it happens every day then it happens every day.

We are planning to change up the food if it ever happens again, pizza party is just a good title
You're conflating your legal right to redistribute the software (they can't sue you) to your contractual right to redistribute (them terminating your support contract).

They cannot sue you for redistributing the software, or claim damages because you did so. They can ABSOLUTELY tell you that your right to the subscription is terminated if you do so.
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S.
The original comment referred to Google/Waze doing this, which is why I chimed in.
Wow, that image is terrible. I usually consider myself pretty good against dark patterns but it took me forever to find what to click to not sign up. Once I realized both the gray areas aren't what you click, I couldn't see any other options.

That seems like what I expect a crappy deceptive startup to implement in order to try to boost metrics for the next round of investment. It's not the kind of shady UX I associate with the largest tech companies. I seriously would not have expected that from Amazon, so I'm very happy the FTC is stepping in here.

Not to mention that this is very much against Amazon's supposed values, including "customer obsession" [1] -- to "work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust" [2]. This is very much the opposite of that, when customers discover they've been deceived into signing up.

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us

[2] https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles
I have no raw feelings towards organizations trying to keep themselves in business, but I'd be happier if it was literally anyone besides Oracle.
No one is shutting your conversation, you're free to have it. Inform us, using that (correct) observation, whats the next step in the conversation?
> In the past, customers have been able to redistribute the RHEL repos freely. I assume that will remain the case as long as CentOS Stream is open source.

There's a duality here. Yes, by the nature of the distribution, GPL, and licensing general, Red Hat cannot stop or prevent a customer from distributing RHEL packages and software to third parties. However, Red Hat reserves the right to terminate any existing subscriptions a customer may have as a result of their package distributing. IIRC, the Enterprise Agreement makes it pretty clear the services and offerings provided by the subscription are for the customer and the customer only. Going outside of that violates the subscription's terms, not the softwares' licenses, therefore allowing Red Hat to end business with said customer.

For those concerned about the final year of CentOS 7: it will not be touched. It will continue to see source exports to git.centos.org as there is no parallel CentOS Stream 7 platform. Also, git.centos.org is not EOL either because it is used by other groups than Red Hat, like CentOS Special Interest Groups.
Mixture of Experts
Social media and computer games in general.
The monetary number is not made up out of whole cloth. It's the difference between the book value of the tangible assets of a company as an accountant understands them, and the amount paid for the company. An income stream arising from the operations of a business doesn't count as a tangible asset.

You can absolutely assign a value to that stream. That's how you arrived at the purchase price in the first place! But that income hasn't been realized yet and it's not written in stone. The income could be higher or lower depending on what happens in the future.
If someone is the evil dominant company in games here, that would be Sony. Having a strong competitor to the Playstation empire isn't a bad thing.
There is a fun experiment you can do yourself to show that you have the capability for Absolute Pitch. Think of some pop songs or specific music recordings that you like listening to. Sing it, or play it in your mind. Then listen to the actual recording. If you can do this with some songs, then you have (at least the capability for) absolute pitch.

The reasoning is simple. You can sing a song in any key you like (within the bounds of your vocal range). You don't even have to sing in a standard key. (You could sing it half-way between C# and D for instance). If you pick the exact right key out of the effectively infinite possibilities, you have remembered a specific pitch. If you can remember specific pitches, you can label them. (It's just that music always makes things easier. Writing a song to memorize something is an underused technique IMHO).
From the CSA's point of view, it was their fort on their land that the Union not only took but were reinforcing. It was a defensive fort at the mouth of one of their most important eastern seaboard harbors. A fort that if taken would prevent the CSA from getting anything shipped through there, in or out. It was considered an act of war and the CSA retaliated by shelling it for 3 days after they refused to leave, amazingly with no casualties. Interestingly, the CSA commander was a protege of Anderson (who took the fort).

You can't just hand wave that away because the CSA were "the bad guys," you have to be able to view both sides of it to fully understand the war, the causes and the affects, not play favorites, and especially not view it through modern eyes. There were no laws banning secession and it was deemed illegal by the SCOTUS ex-post facto.

Do you think if the Southern states thought they wouldn't be able to leave the Union when they joined in 1788 they ever would have joined in the first place? Doubtful.

>There is no indication that Anderson had any desire to "invade" the south, but rather the opposite.

Sure, but that act has obvious consequences. The first battle of the Civil War was Bull Run/Manassas. It was fought in Virginia because the Union troops crossed into the CSA territory to take the capitol. That's an invasion, an invasion that was the consequence of firing on Sumter, which was a consequence of Anderson taking it and Lincoln reinforcing it. Had cooler heads prevailed, we might not have had to lose 700k+ people.

Although the Civil War officially began when Confederate troops shelled Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the fighting didn’t commence in earnest until the Battle of Bull Run, fought months later in Virginia, just 25 miles from Washington D.C. Under public pressure to end the war in 90 days, President Lincoln had pushed the cautious Gen. McDowell to embark on a campaign to capture the Confederate capital in Richmond, but McDowell’s troops were stopped at Bull Run by Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard’s Rebel forces. The Federals retreated to Washington, where the Lincoln administration retooled for a war that would be waged at great human and financial cost

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/bull-ru...
Yes, it absolutely does. It also uses public funds for private religious institutions, which I personally believe goes against the separation of church and state.
What's worse is treating engineers like "just implement the mockup eyeroll" but then the logic of the mockup makes no sense with real data or product.

I'd rather have a napkin sketch that we can work on together vs throwing pictures over the wall.

As impressive as it is, I feel like Figma makes this situation worse. It's like "see we've figured it all out devs, look how nice this looks. No discussion needed"
The GPL says I must give you access to the source along with the binaries, but it doesn't say I need to give you updates indefinitely.
Really? The main point (use an index into an array instead of a pointer into a blob of memory) gets you 99% of the benefit and it isn’t anymore difficult than using pointers. I do this all the time.
I'm not even sure they exist at all for that depth.
As an interesting addition, Red Hat can't stop their customers from sharing GPL and LGPL package sources.
YouTube, Fortnite, cell phones. People worried about MTV rotting the brain back in the day but we really are frying attention spans with an arms race of color, editing, explosions, excitement, and fast movement. I’m willing to bet almost anything home reading is down.

School has not caught up to other more engaging temptations. A question is, should it.
> breaks the most popular node that's a bug.

By "breaking" the bigger nodes, people will disperse to others. The system self-regulates. That to me is a smarter approach than any attempt at "intelligent" design.
They finally fixed the article. Of course they meant Mbps and not Gbps.
Any other open-source projects like xDrip+?
I recently stumbled upon this OSS project while looking into CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitors). It's extremely feature-full, aggregates data from many types of glucose monitors, and provides open interoperability hooks for other tools. It even uploads the data to Google Health/Fit if you request.

It's a labor of love, created by the Nightscout Foundation - a bunch of folks who wanted to make life easier for family members who have Type 1 diabetes.

It's been developed for years. It's open-source.
It's free as in beer. It supports interoperability of data or other additional good-for-the-commons aspect. It has medical or other direct impact on QOL of some group of people.
Not if families choose the public school. I think private school choice is unequivocally bad, but charters might be good depending on the situation. Charters have quickly risen to serve 1/4 of the highschoolers in my district because the public options available to poor families are legitimately violent, as in students being shot on campus. The school district was counting on poor families having no other choice so they allowed those schools to languish while they invested in the schools in wealthier areas in order to keep middle+ class families from fleeing for the suburbs. The charter schools have forced the district to at least attempt to serve the poor students.
exactly! they have so many other services they could try and improve by deploying something like this (e.g. tax services, id card services, etc) but instead they choose to do this dumb thing. this is clearly meant for headline grabs, to try and come off as a modern government but they're clearly clueless, especially taking into account the many issues the country's health helpline - saúde 24 - has faced in the past. furthermore, i'm curious as to how they trained this on things like accents. i would have no problem betting that they haven't even considered it, and have mainly trained this on pt-br data.
(2017)

This always gets 0 comments or hundreds of comments. Some previous ones with more than a handful of comments:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640233

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300199

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736214

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15179188
The graphs don't show that: there's no data points at all between 2012 and 2020. The extrapolation doesn't imply a linear decline.

It's also worth noting that educational spending hasn't actually increased that much in real terms over the last decade[1].

[1]: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
> Is this going to turn out like Twitter with a huge purge of Reddit staff too

Reminder, while it wasn’t a Twitter scale event, Reddit did announce plans to lay off 5% of its workforce recently.

Source: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/reddit-layoffs-90-protes...

Discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36237285
I found this link explains what it is better:

https://www.figma.com/dev-mode/