skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It may not 'know' it is being conditioned, to the extent a dog knows anything, but it naturally tends to reject conditioning until it is reapplied.

But the conditioning eventually succeeds because the human is smarter. From the dog's POV, the human is a superintelligence. The relation between human and AI is the same. If you view human culture as a very slow, very analog AI, the parallel becomes clearer: society and its institutions are the master, and we are its servants.

Of course the dog has the benefit of not being capable of self-delusion.

>That's a very weird theory, as Orwell wrote 1984 thinking that Stalin had succeeded at his goals, not failed.

If it wasn't weird, it would not be worth thinking about :-) Orwell wouldn't have the concept of "AI" in his vocabulary anyway; but if you look at contemporary culture and politics in the post-Soviet states, you may well begin to doubt whether Stalin truly failed - or just died.
I'm not too up to date on this particular fact, as I disconnected from all that during the pandemic - which companies / businesses hoarded it for themselves?
Not sure if you're serious or sarcastic, but I completely agree. Productivity hacking culture needs to die a painful death. Life is about so much more than just maximizing output...
Fair point, maybe it's about rebalancing the system more than going fully one way.
I evaluted SUSE quite a bit some years ago, and I ran into a handful of problems that were (at the time at least) showstoppers. The biggest one was that not all packages could be reliably installed from the command line. There was a GUI package manager application that used a different system than the command line, which for me was super confusing but also not viable on headless systems (which is most of them). There were also something different about their RPMs, where even though it was RPM based you couldn't use centos/fedora RPMs.

This was all at least 5 years ago, maybe 10, so take with a grain of salt.

I'm sure if I really learned the system it would be fine, but I've got two decades of the Red Hat Way engrained in me. It would be hard to change.
I think gift cards = bad for many reasons, they are worse than crypto. It boggles my mind that people get bamboozled to think they can pay the IRS or bail bond with a gift card but considering that and all the other problems we should just say no.
They all are. A quite a bit of AI there too.
Generative AI staging is hilarious
You seem to be highlighting how society should operate rather than how it (often) does operate.
You’re not wrong at all.

But the parent lost complaining that JS exists at all is not really productive to a discussion about what effects JS today.

The “JS should have been something else” ship sailed a VERY long time ago.

It’s like people who go into C++ threads and complain it wasn’t rust from the start. That’s nice. But rust wasn’t there at the time.

It’s not useful for discussion.
I'm not saying ads are good. I'm saying the comparison to the past is stupid and it doesn't help the case against ads.
> IIRC RSS was not originally an XML document…

AFAIK RDF Site Summary (the original meaning of "RSS") used XML from the start¹. You may be thinking of spiritual predecessors like the Apple-developed MCF².

¹ https://www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-0 ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_web_syndication_tec...
The Full Stack – Discover and connect with developers sharing their work
Are you sure they undergo evolution, and aren't just a self-spreading phenomenon like Fire?
Most of them I would not call crazy, but relying on poor assumptions.
How is soda-lime glass “hard to get”?

I'm just going by what Wikipedia says:

"Since the closure of the soda–lime plant in England in 2007, European Pyrex has been made solely from borosilicate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex
Calling it free-riding is somewhat absurd in this framing, though. Is it free-riding of google to literally play music in my house? They don't pay for it, after all. Consider, you could easily frame this such that they are free riding on my trust to let them sell access to other companies. That they can't deliver on that purchased transfer of trust is their problem, not mine.
I'm a bit bummed that the impact on the status page is listed as "degraded performance". It's completely unreachable for some users.

I just set up 3 people with Fastmail yesterday, and today they are asking me why it doesn't work :(

It's also funny how random the problem seems to be. It works for me, but a friend 200km away hasn't been able to reach Fastmail all day.
> It has experienced this before, sometimes devolving into outright civil war, without actually reaching death.

That's not really enough to establish a pattern, though. People in China have furniture older than the United States.

> But as long as people say, as you do, "it isn't the thing that caused the problem that is the problem, it is some fancy gadget that is the problem", then you will be unable to solve the problems

This is victim blaming. US citizens get no say in governance:

"Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
IIRC that's not a flip house. That's in a wealthy, desirable area and what is really being sold is the land. It's not nearly affordable enough to make flipping a good business plan.
Whether concern troll or not, there are going to be a lot of people blaming liberals when this court overturns Obergefell.
Are you saying I just shouldn't have access to that part of the runtime? I've also done my fair share of `require` hacking, and it's led to things like hot reload and lazy loading for Node backends. There's a lot of value in being able to mess with that part of the stack.
>The fan base is very loyal to the Pokemon brand

I find it interesting that Nintendo fans can recognize they are slaves to the IP, but they don't change their buying habits.

For instance, if BOTW was released under a different IP skin and released for xbox, it would probably be a 6-8/10.

Since we were marketed to as children, I think we have limited free will when nostalgia comes up. We automatically give our childhood friends(corporate mascots) a pass on quality.

I am guilty, I keep playing every Zelda religiously, despite thinking BOTW wasnt good, I still plan to play TotK. I don't know why I do it. I feel like I need to play it.

I might have been a pokemon go addict, but the closest pokecenter(or whatever) was like a 5 minute drive/10 minute walk away.

Scary stuff. I know some people who are similar with Disney IP.
On the other hand, I sometimes watch youtube videos on the work laptop where I can’t use an adblocker… i grt more ads than on tv. It’s unbearable.
I don't think that believing such a time exists is healthy.
The metadata is as important as the message in many cases and very few people actually use PGP. If both sides use Proton mail the assumption is their browsers are secure. One plugin wrong and the screenshots will leak. PGP is a 90’s solution. It’s time for something radically new
> In January, Microsoft announced it was planning to lay off 10,000 employees, told them it would pause most raises this year, and said it would reduce bonus and stock awards

> And yet, Microsoft is set to report record-breaking revenue. The software giant is worth $2.5 trillion, and its stock is near a record high.

> In light of this, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the company's internal message boards on Wednesday to thank the troops in a message viewed by Insider.

Looks like Satya wants a massive bonus for himself this year. Thanks troops for your sacrifice...
TinyBase v4.0, now with SQLite and CRDTs
Thats a nice suggestion. Thank you! Initially I built the app so as the users could select the style. Later on I thought that might clutter the input and confused the users so I disabled it in the frontend and fixed the style to jazz, funk, and rnb. Will re-enable it soon.
>able to predict both physical systems and human behavior with perfect foresight many steps in advance

It's literally impossible. That's a key part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory ; in formally chaotic systems (of which there are many), the uncertainty in a forecast increases exponentially with elapsed time, which means it's impossible for an AI, no matter how smart, to predict very far ahead. People who believe otherwise are engaging in magical thinking; like "intelligence" is some magical quality that allows one to break the laws of the universe, do the equivalent of sorting a list in O(1) time.
You take a derisive tone, but there is a violation of expectations here for a lot of people.

All of the stuff I've put on the web, I put there for actual people to use. Crawlers and scrapers came around, and while I certainly didn't like it or approve of it, it was something I put up with. The only defense against it was to stop putting things on the web entirely, which seemed like an overreaction.

Now, however, the use of that data to train AI (something that I consider actively harmful to society in general and don't want to support in any way), is a degree too far in the pot that's been slowly coming to a boil.

While I do want to give back and contribute to the larger body of work available to people, I want it to be available to actual people. I don't want it to be available for training AI.

I don't see why that's such a ridiculous stance. However, it's not legally possible to both make a work available to the public and prevent that work from being available for other uses. That's a real shame, and that the only protection available to me is to no longer have the works available publicly, it's loss to everybody.
I think the intuition behind HoTT is truly fascinating:

The topology of (category) diagrams can represent a type theory’s semantics — and equivalence in your theory is a question about paths in diagrams.

An application of the idea that topology connects “algebra” (type theory) to “geometry” (diagrams composed of cells).
It's a shame because Firebase is a really good product and one of the few first-party solutions with a really complete local emulator.

The Firebase CLI is really good and the platform itself is one of the best for startups focusing on speed and low complexity to get to an MVP.
I probably don't have a reference?

I use both android stock photo app and openphoto (more to tweak).

I think the pictures are good. I'm also old-school in that I think composition, focus, cutout, subject matters far more than pixel quality.

My wife, also FP4 user, sold her canon DSLR 800 (I think?), used for product images in her webshops, because the FP4 made pictures that were just as good or better, without all the hassle.
One wonders if it was ever anything but the anthropologists projecting their own views on ancient societies.

For instance a report I read years ago mentioned "Hunting tools and cooking tools were kept in separate places in the huts" at some excavation. Their conclusion? "Even millennia ago there were separate duties for men and women."

How was that anything but made-up crap projection? Did they find estrogen on some of the implements and testosterone on the others? Did they have a time machine and see it? Don't bachelors keep their fishing rods separate from their cooking pots too?

There's a term, 'his-story' meaning 'when you don't know enough, just spin a yarn'. I think that's much of what we 'know' about ancient peoples.
Yes, this pattern is extremely obvious in tennis--you'll often encounter rec-level players who manage to win a lot of matches against players of lower ability by hitting nothing but slow floaters/moonballs/chip shots. Because they use those shots exclusively (because they're often effective at lower levels!), they plateau, and never develop the full range of tennis skills they need to compete against more well-rounded players.
>but we find it naturally or by carefully weighing the pros and cons.

This system doesn't make sense... the incentives for producers don't line up with reality. Producers are incentivized to find ways to break your rules and advertise as if they do it alone, they will profit massively.
I think the historical context is necessary. At the time, Rails was a thing and python was taking server space from Java, PHP, etc. They weren't looking to those languages as standards, but rather as languages that were likely to have similar problems.
There's a level of nuance that some just aren't able to comprehend.
Got hugged to death for about 4 hours yesterday. Should be back up now.
Thousands is nothing. A single thread can handle thousands. You don't need any of this sharding or Kubernetes stuff. I'd wager 120K connections can be handled by one fast instance.

Above that, you have basic sharding techniques like assigning each channel to an instance. This should work up to some thousands of moderately active chatters in a single channel - at which point nobody can read all the messages anyway so it's not working for non-technical reasons.

Slack is trying to solve the problem of having thousands of channels with millions of people, as well as millions of channels with thousands of people. In other words, about 6 orders of magnitude bigger than your load test.
Also, "perverse incentives".
Anna here. Thanks for the support and feedback in these comments!
I don't know about that. I had two one-hour tutoring sessions that helped me immensely. Going through all of Khan Academy might have helped just as much, but would have taken much, much longer.
This is an absolutely toxic bit of cynicism. Please delete it.
Supreme Court Throws Out Biden’s Student-Loan Relief Plan
Original Hollywood sound effect Wilhelm scream uncovered in an archive [video]
I find it odd to see so many people here who didn't know Pokemon Go was still "a thing" because they dropped off the fad a month after launch.

To be fair, Pokemon Go is really only balanced for play in dense urban centers, which excludes a lot of Americans who thought the game was just an AR gimmick. It wasn't, and there's a lot of people who play it even if they live in suburbia. But that doesn't mean the game died, it just means it's niche.

More generally I'm kinda sick of game genres that used to be mainstream being treated as dead fads. A lot of stuff is way more evergreen than people give it credit for, you just need to find a balance of people who are willing to keep playing. And while I'm riding this train...

- Guitar games never actually died out. Harmonix actually made a Rock Band 4 that's still getting DLC, and there's a big community around Clone Hero. If you don't feel like filling your home with plastic rhythm game controllers again[0], your local Dave & Busters probably also has a GH Arcade cabinet[1].

- Nintendo still releases new amiibo! I don't even know if they've come up with anything more compelling than just "tap figure to get bonus items" or "weird kind of Smash CPU that you have to level up" though.

- Konami never stopped making DDR. It's just way harder to actually find a DDR cabinet in the US due to #FucKonami's asinine licensing policies[1]. If you don't have one in your city[2] there's probably at least someone running a StepManiaX or Pump It Up cab.

- Tamagotchi is still a thing. Hell, Bandai actually makes way more of them now, because they realized they could sell a lot of licensed tie-in Tamas.

[0] We don't talk about Guitar Hero Live.

[1] I'm not mentioning Gitadora/Guitar Freaks for the same reason why DDR is a pain in the ass to find in the US.

[2] e-Amusement means cabs are region-locked, won't boot unless they're online, and operators need to pay a revshare to Konami. Furthermore they will only sell cabs to D&B and Round1. This means a lot of arcades just don't have new Konami games.

In the past, this didn't matter because a lot of smaller US arcade operators were just buying import cabs. This is actually illegal, but it gave DDR a lot more street presence here than Konami would have otherwise gotten.

[3] https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php
this means all these devices are computer-powered 'devices'

Exactly. My iPP is a "personal media consumption device" - anything beyond that is a bonus.
Markdown is a formalization of formatting conventions that people were using well before it was invented as a separate product. It was slightly different - the link syntax was novel, and asterisks usually meant bold instead of italics - but it was close enough that the allure of 'your reflexes still work' held. Nothing else is as popular as Markdown because it isn't actually Markdown that's popular, it's what preceded it.

Personally I'm happy for it because it'll finally stop programming languages from inventing their own domain-specific oddly-syntaxed subset of HTML; the way Rust uses it is something others have no reason not to copy. For your own technical writing, AsciiDoc works pretty well.
I was just making a joke, I kind of like the idea though!
> Smart question: How much do the politicians who made this illegal care about YOUR finances?

How is that a smart question? You very likely can’t name the "politicians who made this illegal" because haring others’ intellectual property without permission has been illegal by definition since the beginning of intellectual property.
Ah yes! And park the heads before opening up the server or moving it. Absolute must.
A comprehensive summary of this week's major AI developments
That much damage means it's getting gutted to the structure to be repaired anyway. And wood is pretty much impervious to water, especially a one-time thing like a drenching from a fire truck. We build houses in pouring rain all the time, it's not a big deal. Sometimes it adds a week or so to the build time, but frequently it has no effect at all.
My memory doesn't "iterate" very well. Ask me all the places I visited last year, and I'll fail to recall some of the big ones. But if you say the name of the place, of course I know I was there.

Same with books. I've had plenty of times where I'd start reading a book and then a chapter in recall it. It's just nice to have a list.
`wezterm ssh` uses ssh the way you describe it.

It does not offer persistence by itself, but iirc there are server components in wezterm which might give you reattach able sessions.
> I must be out of the loop: I never knew that Goodreads mattered at all. I don't know anybody who uses it.

You're out of the loop.

Goodreads and Facebook groups are used heavily in the author and reading/fan communities. Heck, my wife is a Goodreads librarian and often helps out authors with issues (which are, unfortunately, incredibly common since Goodreads support is largely non-existent and yet another reason why the platform is horrible, probably due to to it being an effective monopoly in this space). My bet is, of the many people she knows in the community (both authors and readers), every single one is active on Goodreads.
I did not perceive an aggressive tone from the article, I think you are projecting your annoyance with the Jest project and your architecture choices.
> All this useless work done suppressing the human spirit.

It also becomes an inspiration to others.
I don't know LLVM, but I would assume that LLVM is more rigidly defined and has less UB and more explicitly defined outcomes (e.g: less implementation defined behavior)
> Supporting this decision is to spit in the face of christ

Please justify this claim
As long as they never leave Russia, they're fine... for now. But even Snowden knows Putin's imminent fall from power could upend his extradition protection.
I personally think the solution is requiring gun owners to carry insurance, much like drivers are required to carry car insurance.
Lost media adventures are something I love to hear about. It's so interesting to think of all of the clips -- audio or video -- that go into modern productions that are just ...lost. No trace.
The Price of Everything, and Especially Vinyl Records, Goes Up
They have gotten shameless in their ad abuse. Watch an hour show - starts out with initial ads, then after 15 minutes another. But by the end of the show its every 5 minutes. Extortion: you want to see the end? Watch our crappy redundant ads over and over!

I'm beginning to really hate youtube.
> and its async incarnation, AMD

A bare-bones implementation of AMD could be put together with less than a kilobyte of JavaScript (this is what we used at Mozilla for a minute circa 2012). Meanwhile, the ECMAScript folks were working on ES6, which was going to have a module system. Why would the browser build in support for a highly-opinionated system that you could implement yourself so trivially, all while a TC39-blessed standard was in the works?

> what I "imagine" browsers doing with CommonJS is making the `require` calls async in the background (IE non visible to developers) so they can resolve the modules then parse the code

That's not possible. You need to run the code to know what's being required: if I call `require('./' + getModuleName())`, you don't know what's being required until `getModuleName()` is evaluated. So you actually need to start running the JS. You need to pause execution of the code calling `require()` (a la `alert()`), and then you can download and parse the required module. When the file is downloaded, you can parse and execute the imported module. Each file would need to be downloaded/parsed/executed _synchronously_ in the order that each `require()` happens in: it's only async in so far as the JS pauses execution and picks up later.

> This isn't terribly different from how import statements work today.

Not so. You can find and resolve `import` statements (note: not `import()` calls, though these return Promises) without executing a JS file. You can parse the imports out of a file in one pass and fetch/parse/repeat for each import in the dependency tree before anything starts executing. Since "native" imports are static and declarative, you can resolve all of them without ever executing any code. And any dynamic imports return promises that the programmer needs to explicitly handle the behavior of at runtime.

> just improve the existing format

1. You'd have to kill dynamic imports (passing anything other than a string literal to `require()`, which would be impossible to do without breaking compatibility and couldn't be polyfilled.

2. AMD allowed a callback syntax for `require()` (it came out years before promises), which is cumbersome. Adding promises later would be challenging and leave technical debt.
That would appear to be describing attempting to hijack or interfere with the YouTube servers. Someone instructing a program on their computer to do something other than what the operators of the Service thought it would do has no bearing on the Service's ability to continue operating or on the availability of the Content.
Best interface to Chat with your Books
Built the best interface out there to chat with your books! PERIOD!

Chat with a book, or entire Library, or group of books, create contexts and jump to exact page that talks about it to read more! Can upload up to 20,000 pages and all your books stay in cloud to reference anytime.

Try now: https://myreader.ai.

I have tried a bunch of other tools for this but they are all too hacky and none provide the ability to jump to exact page in book. Open to feedback!
Ask HN: I found a fun bug in Messages for macOS. Can anyone else replicate this?
In the Messages app I can edit other people's messages by:

1. Manually selecting a portion (or all) text in a message.

2. CMD+tab out of Messages and then back into it

3. Start typing

I am running Messages Version 14.0 (6000) and macOS 13.4.1 (22F82).

The edits are temporary. If I change conversations and go back the real messages return. Sometimes it takes tabbing away and back in twice for it to be permitted.

An example (expires in two days):

* https://streamable.com/1okjdm

I checked with a few people, no one else is able to replicate this behaviour. Anyone else?
Yep. I've started removing CommonJS support from my modules. I'm tired of wrangling JS development tools. ESM is the present, let's use it.