skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Google knew how to kill a competitor's messaging platform they wouldn't be starting two new chat apps every year. I don't believe that Google decided to pick XMPP because it formed an actual threat; rather, XMPP was open source, freely available, and had a whole bunch of code all ready to go. Why invent your own if there's a free, documented protocol already out there?

WhatsApp picked XMPP as a basis for their messaging infrastructure when it started out. It never even bothered to federate with XMPP, but the technology still worked. XMPP's miserable state isn't some evil Google plot, it's a lack of user interest and a failure to effectively market the protocol. Unlike previous attempts, WhatsApp actually took off, easily overtaking Google's own fledgling messaging service, because it knew what people wanted: "chat without SMS charges". This left some space in other countries where SMS was essentially free, but nobody managed to capture interest in XMPP there either.

I know one XMPP client that everyone agrees is somewhat usable, Conversations, and it looks like development and design stopped somewhere around 2014. Absolutely nothing stood in the way of XMPP taking the place that Line, Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, and all the others, but there was simply no interest in making a good product out of a federated service.

Matrix is trying again, with big companies using it instead of IRC, and it's struggling to survive in a world where Discord looks better and works better.
I could trick it into providing code blocks and snippets, very small though. And you have to really converse such that it comes up naturally. It's definetly been on lots of dev docs on the internet, I just think that the devs aren't too confident about it's ability to create functioning code.

It outputs markdown codeblocks but is bot made to handle the rendering.
> no vision written down anywhere

Shouldn't this be a deck of cards?!

I echo your sentiment. I also agree the Anki is a bit of a morass. A streamlined UI for creating Anki cards could be nice.
Travel app for creating and sharing travel experiences
Single thread performance. My 13900k opens most things instantly, and it's a noticeable difference compared to even a 12900KS
Will any LLM API be able to achieve a real “Google like” moat over the next decade?

It feels like the switching cost is low enough to transition one API to another for marginally better performance or cost.

Maybe “being in bed with Microsoft” IS the moat…
It's different if you say all standards, but if you only want the government to fund standards relative to government, then no, it's not different.

It would be pretty sensible for the EU to pay the USB consortium enough money to make the standard free for all EU citizens - I think that one is already free but you get the idea. Especially because the EU wants USB ports to be mandatory on cellphones.
While melting the wires in your walls. How much juice would that pull when under full load?
I don't see how inflation favors debt holders. That money you lent out us paying back at a fixed rate over time. Meanwhile, inflation means rates continue to rise, meaning your loan return looks worse and worse. Sure, it's better than doing nothing with your money, but I don't think debt holders are winning in a high inflation scenario.
Ugh that "rule" has resulted in more terrible PowerPoint presentations than any other.

"Hi, today I'm going to tell you about 1+1... 1+1=2... So what have we talked about? I started by telling you that 1+1=2."

So much waffle.

The best presentations I've heard don't do that at all. Yes they start by setting the context and goal of the presentation, and they end with a solid conclusion. But they don't have a table of contents at the start that people tediously read and then exactly the same thing again at the end.

You might argue that that's not what it's meant to mean, but that is what people hear so it's bad advice.

The best advice I've ever heard for presenting was from a stand up comedian who was teaching how to present well. His basic advice was to follow the classic Hero's Tale. Set the stage. Something goes wrong. You triumphantly overcome it.

You might think that doesn't apply to technical presentations but you'd be surprised how often you can fit your story into that framework.
It's likely that we add the ability to import from Anki, I'll also add the ability to import from other services that act as flashcard repositories. I've seen a few of them in my research.

However, the project is more focused on giving individuals the platform to create their own sets/import from elsewhere, rather than hosting a large repository.
Can you please elaborate why point 2 does that? You can never prove others have consciousness, no matter what they say (I'm not saying they don't).
Money means everything in a world where safety nets are fraught with disdain.
Er, no, it wouldn’t - the point is that you’re taking something that resembles a real world spec and interpreting it into code. You’d be surprised at how many people stumble on this despite how basic the solutions are.
> Analyzing an opinion piece through the lens of previously expressed opinion pieces is anything but an ad hominem attack.

The problem is that original poster did not provide any actual analysis or reason to support their assertion as this is not a famous or well-known enough person (at least within HN) to know automatically what their other opinions are on other matters. For this reason, I stand by my statement that this is just an attack on the author and not the ideas the author is communicating.

> It's the only possible way to understand an opinion piece.

No, the only way possible to understand an opinion piece is to read the text while keeping in mind what organization decided to publish it.

Let’s be honest here: this statement is just a ex post facto justification for the ad hominem. Perhaps a you’ve heard it’s cousin, the classic “no offense but, <something offensive>,” or even, “I’m not racist, but <something racist>.”
You know there are OS beside Android and iOS?
Oh I didn’t realize this wasn’t OpenAI (the one everyone knows about). I was surprised they’d consider releasing their models and assumed it was to pre-empt some regulation.

I predict they get shut down in no time. This is too confusing to consumers.
Eric Partridge ("You Have a Point There") disagrees. Single or double, quotation marks are inaccurate if the words are not strictly quoting.

Before the age of widespread international computer-mediated communication, authorities generally agreed on a rule of starting with one and alternating to the other for quotations within quotations. Many agreeing that starting with single quotation marks was the U.K. rule and starting with double quotation marks was the U.S. rule; with the U.K. switching to double quotation marks for quotations within quotations and the U.S. switching to single.

One U.K. authority that I have from 1985 describes U.K. use of double quotation marks in primary position as "fighting a rearguard action" in the U.K., with only The Times sticking to it. Everyone else used single quotation marks primarily, back then.

However, the influence of CMC has put a lot of pressure on the then U.K. habit. Today, after decades of Usenet, Fidonet, the World Wide Web, et al., the top articles on BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66007017) and The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/24/wagner-troops-...) use double quotation marks, and the pendulum has very much swung the other way, with the U.K. norm of the 1970s now being the rare exception.

However, the rule of switching for quotations within quotations still holds, and headlines quite often still use single quotation marks, even though article bodies will use double ones for the same quotation. This latter is observably the case on the BBC News and Guardian sites right now, to use the same examples.
Probably impacts the poorest countries the most since the last mile portion of food is a lower proportion of their end user price.
Wow, thank you very much!
Yeah. Because in capitalism you need to have a way to make money if you want to continue existing. Therefore all the developers who exist have ways of making money. It's not rocket science.

In not-capitalism, there's a possibility this might not be true. Open source developers MIGHT NOT need to earn a living doing something else.
There’s a big difference between a doctor or lawyer and programmers. Doctors and lawyers are licensed professionals who quite often have their own business. Most programmers are employees doing what they’re told by their bosses. A plumber is much closer to a Doctor or lawyer than a programmer.

There are some programmers who are not on retainer but are consultants. These types typically tell clients what can and can’t be done and the clients typically respect their opinions, unlike butts in seats programmers.
Except that it encourages banks like SVB to specialize instead of distributing depositor risk. I can imaging a scenario where specialized bank failure can lead to contagion where it wouldn't if all banks distributed risk.

E.g. The companies keep their payroll funds in Industry Payroll Bank (IPB). IPB fails the same way SVB did, and suddenly everyone working for the industry companies are short for a week on their pay. A bunch of these people bank with Local Bank and Credit Unions (LBCUs). Instead of getting expected deposits suddenly many of their depositors are borrowing from their lines of credit.

Now probably, given the short-term nature of the contagion, the LBCUs can survive this by temporarily borrowing capital. And at the very least, if they did fail, it would probably be due to liquidity instead of being underwater, so shouldn't hit the depositor's insurance funds much, if at all. But maybe there's a scenario I can't think of in which something like this could be bad.
I will be following your project closely. I’m sure plenty more will too! Lots of room for improvement on git, and sure to garner users!!
Not just food, but energy and machinery as well.

And North Korea does have imports, mostly from China.
GitHub Topic: Image Upscaling
Why only sell production locally when you can export for hard currency?
Taxpayers as such are not going to pay one dime to cover what would otherwise be losses to depositors at Silicon Valley Bank. The FDIC bills the actual cost of deposit insurance to banks, not to the federal government. It is a cost of doing business, and not a particularly large one either.

No one should expect bank fees to change very much to cover losses like this. Borrowers might have to pay slightly higher interest rates and that is about it. Compared to the other causes of high interest rates it is hardly worth worrying about. Rounding error territory. The prospect of severe losses to uninsured depositors in the event of a bank failure is a much worse problem.
Except every investment becomes high-risk. Businesses cannot make financial plans/projections because of the uncertainty created by the same inflation. Depending on the inflation percentage, the furthest you could plan ahead could be up to a couple of months. Would you make long-term investment in an economy where companies cannot predict what is going to happen in the next 3 months?
I think more of the russian people.

It's one thing to trick them to believe Ukraine is full of Nazis, it's another thing to claim bombing Russians is protecting Russians.
You probably value your time more :) As someone currently unemployed, my time isn't worth much, and I look forward to having something productive to actually work on.

Even when I was employed full time, my skill set definitely wasn't worth anywhere near $2000 a day lol.
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Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?
A full 3rd or more of the time when i try to tap on the "new" link at the top of HN, i accidentally tap the "jobs" link with my average-sized fingers because my phone wraps HN such that "jobs" is directly below "new", with like 3 pixels of gap between them.

Similarly, the links across each post in the list, along with the near-microscopic "up" arrow, require teeny tiny baby fingers to tap reliably.

Certainly no tiny babies are using HN, so... please, HN, fontSize+=2 for the links! :-D
I’m not a lawyer but from my understanding of trademarks, that doesn’t matter.

If it is confusing to consumers then it infringes. The genius is in “OpenAI” the actual company getting that name. And it’s just a name. They have no obligation to open their stuff.

If these guys said OpenSourceAI or OpenModels or something then it could work.

But IANAL. I just play one on the internet. :-)
Does it matter? Employment is an increasingly short term relationship too. I don't care if my employer survives other than they survive long enough to get into a lifeboat.
Yes and it also penalizes people who want to plan ahead and save. At 10% inflation year over year what is the point in saving for a nice house that might take you 8 years to save up for.

What you describe benefits people who overextended themselves and got lucky. Not really the thing i care about encouraging
I disagree with the GP’s approach of defunding education to improve education, but I’ve seen the culture that accretes from checklists and expensive security appliances.

Everyone involved correctly comes to the conclusion that the company’s security policy is purely performative.

The people that care leave. The people that don’t care about securing the system implement the useless checkboxes and put the standalone box in the correct room (and might even plug it in), then get promoted.

FIPS security certifications are the poster child for this. There’s basically no way to get a securely architected system certified, so you end up adding vulnerabilities and (in the best case) a configuration parameter like the old “enable FIPS certification (default off; do not enable unless you are required to do so)” button from windows.
> the world described by the Monopoly game is not a fun one

Hell, it's not even a fun game :/
I've been meaning to switch home manager to flake mode. This will be helpful, thanks.
> The (sequential) distribution of digits amongst sorted numbers is tiny

This is why 10^80 random lists gets reduced to only 10^36 sorted lists. However, 10^36 is still very large with respect to the size of the model.
i still prefer this over leetcode which requires a much larger investment

also put a copyright/license on the code you submit. publish it if you don’t get the job.
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Basically, the difference is that you merely reading code doesn't create a derivative work that we can meaningfully look at. Yes, it gets stored in your brain but your brain re-encodes all that knowledge in a way only it can use. We're still quite a bit away from brain uploading at the moment, so that's not a meaningful avenue to discuss right now.

An LLM on the other hand generally works off of a model that was trained first, and that model can be saved to a file and read out later. As a result, it's a derivative work that we can examine, copy, share, modify and do all the things with that we generally attribute to something being a Work. The question on if binary output from a program can be copyrighted is somewhat unclear, but from what I've heard legally (not legal advice, I Am Not A Lawyer), it seems to be the case unless you explicitly say it's not[0].

There's a few other things to consider like how you, as a human, can make the conscious decision to avoid specifically replicating GPL code that you've seen if you're not allowed to use it (whether that is by restructuring the code, doing the same techniques in a different language, or the heaviest example which is clean-rooming it). AIs don't have the ability to make that distinction (and to my understanding due to how they work, the only way you can meaningfully avoid it is if you ensure that the entire model is compliant to avoid the AI going off on it's own tangent and making the decision to include incompatible code.)

From a more practical perspective - Copilot will happily spit out and apply the wrong license to Quake IIIs fast inverse square root algorithm function. It's GPL licensed code but it IIRC claimed it was BSD licensed? That alone would constitute a violation and it'd be weird to not point at the people who trained the model that allowed it to make that choice.

To be fair, right now a lot of this is up in the air and all we have to go on is kinda wishy-washy guidance from copyright offices (which is mostly just refusing registration on the basis that a copyrighted material has to be made by a human, not by a machine). There's a couple of ongoing lawsuits specifically about Copilot that are still pending and from what I last heard, the judges aren't very impressed by the defense of GitHub/MSFT/OpenAI. The approach also greatly differs per country/governing body - Japans government has for example given blanket permission for non-commercial AI training, while keeping a strict eye on anyone trying to use it for paid services, while the EU is passing legislation that seems to mostly lean towards "it's copyrighted, that's now your problem to get in line with it", without outright saying it yet.

[0]: This is the main reason why for FOSS, the Creative Commons License usually is not seen as a good pick outside of assets, because it can interfere with distributing compiled versions of your code.
I find it fascinating how this story isn’t flagged but two perfectly civil discussions on what’s happening in Russia were.
Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default

Will it fail gracefully and quickly when firewall rules do not permit Go to make outbound connections? If I give it a tcp-reset will it stop trying? Can I set an environment variable that says to never try in the first place?

Why would I want this? Simple. I want to know that a set of applications and libraries at specific versions have gone through Dev -> Security Audit / Code Review -> QA -> Load Testing -> Staging -> Production. Bug fixed? No problem, rinse and repeat the QA process.
This is why I'm happy to live in the EU.
One simple question I ask is to count the words in a string. It's a warmup question and a way to get the candidate comfortable with the format of the interview and the optimal workflow (discuss requirements, propose an implementation, flesh it out in pseudo-code, translate pseudo-code to something that looks like code).

You certainly don't need rote for that, the algorithm is trivial for anyone who did well in their introduction to programming class.

Either the candidate "gets it" in about 10-15 minutes, or struggles for 60 minutes.
Is it really a "nitpick", though? People always trot out the argument that inflation helps people who hold debt, but I would think that the era of lenders irrationally handing out long-term loans at low fixed interest rates would have been over many decades ago, no?
My point is you can't really distribute a binary which targets it or rely on its effects. It's not common enough yet.

And autovectorization is nice, but explicit SIMD intrinsics use usually wins if done right.
> Floating rate debt holders can get burned pretty badly in an inflationary period.

So, it is the change in inflation, the raise, what makes it bad. If you ask for a loan when interest rates are at 15% your house price is going to be lower than when interest rates are at 1%.

So, you are right that "an inflationary period" as "increasing inflation" may be bad. But, maybe, the problem was that interest rates got to 1% . Such low interest make that just getting to a low 5% you are paying x5. Print more money, keep interest rates at 10% and unless they go up to 50% you are not so bad as people is nowadays.
Disagree.

Monopoly without rule modifications is nearly unplayable.

Specifically, the monopoly dynamic.
I think this is the more interesting link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/01/msg00010.html
I’d add in some variance of coastal/inland and urban/suburban/rural environments, which can reveal a lot of differences within a single state.

I see tons of online comments generalizing about California or the West Coast (I’ve been guilty of this generalization myself), but after living here for the past 8 years I’ve learned otherwise. I will also refer anyone who wants to lump the whole coast together to Oregon’s legacy as a self-proclaimed “white state” [0].

It turns out that making accurate generalizations about millions of people is hard, and if you’re committed to doing it anyways then you’ll just end up with cliches and platitudes.

[0] https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/racial-h...
Decentralization is a zero-sum game
Well it needs to be somewhat reasonable for that to work. It might not matter much whether money has a half-life of 20 or 30 years, but if it becomes 10 days or 1000 years then that is a quite significant change in the way that money works.
NK imports almost all their calories. The problem is at the start of COVID they shut down all imports into the country and that has made survival nearly impossible for many people.
As a kid working in a fast food joint, whenever someone would notice a bus of any sort pull into the parking lot, the cry of "bus!" sent everyone into oh-shit mode. I imagine a cruise ship pulling into a small tourist town dock is similar but much larger.
They are isolated but they do import food, mainly rice and wheat products, from China and to a lesser extent Russia (according to Wikipedia).
I actually loved it, but moreso for its quirky production choices (cinematography, lighting, etc.) and the interesting attempt at a directorial style which could be described as a cinematic-Shakespearean mashup. The stories were pretty good too, I thought.
I'd imagine that comes partially from risk assessment. Is the risk of a highly negative interaction worth highlighting the rules infraction? AKA, is it potentially worth my life to tell someone they aren't following the rules.
Just type (… as HTMLInputElement) and be done with it. It’s really not that hard.
Those things can both be true to an extent. You can have a market economy without democracy.
Definition:

Consciousness is those parts of the workings of the brain that are available to introspection.

End definition.

People so love to throw all kinds of babble under the heading of consciousness, so there's scant chance that people will agree on any kind of definition, let alone this one.

But it's what I've been using, and I find that it makes all the supposedly hard questions about consciousness very simple to answer.
When I read or listen to Muratori, I almost certainly agree with most of the substance of what he is saying. It's just that he has the most disagreeable way of making his point.

I think it's helpful to think of nearly all the content produced by Muratori and Blow as a branding exercise. They want you to think they are enfant terrible style geniuses who represent the vanguard of the profession. As silly as their strawmen are, this frame of "civilization is in decline because it fails to recognize my unique genius" is much more silly, and makes each video/rant seem both one note and self aggrandizing.
leetcode costs you at least 20 hours per month and you don’t create anything you own
But you don't know for sure what things

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458211
The default way zypper (the package manager) updates installed patterns is to include every recommended package in the pattern.

For example, if you update the pattern "gnome", it will by default reinstall cheese, even if you uninstalled it before.

Thankfully, they thought about this and there is a flag you can use (--no-recommends) to avoid reinstalling all recommended packages.
It really is a minor annoyance, but I understand it could be annoying for new and inexperienced users.
I think this is the link. Not 100% sure though, is this correct?

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper