skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what an LLM thinks of your explanation:

While there may be some superficial similarities between RFT and the functioning of large language models—both involve identifying and manipulating relationships between different elements—there are some key differences:

Context: RFT is about human cognition and language, with an emphasis on meaning derived from context, personal history, and cultural knowledge. Large language models don't have personal histories or cultural contexts. They generate outputs based on patterns in the data they were trained on, without any understanding of the meaning behind those patterns.

Understanding and interpretation: RFT emphasizes the interpretation of these relational frames based on context. In contrast, large language models don't truly 'understand' the text they generate or analyze; they simply identify and reproduce statistical patterns.

Learning: RFT discusses how humans can learn to relate concepts in different ways over time, based on experience. Large language models, however, learn in a very different way, based on exposure to vast amounts of text data, and they do not continue to learn after their training is complete.

So, while it's an interesting thought, RFT doesn't really provide a comprehensive or accurate model for how large language models work. The learning and generation processes of these AI models are fundamentally different from the cognitive processes described in RFT.
A smarter battle plan to protect the open social web
One big problem with all car seats is that after 3-4 you have to dump an expensive and still usable seat. And I mean dump, since they cannot be donated AFAIK. It would be great if the seat can be disassembled to be used for another purpose.
I'm in Seattle, my new-ish townhouse has a heat pump and it's never been too cold for it to be functional - it's worked hard some of the really cold+snowy days the last few years, but never to the point where it wasn't heating the house up perfectly fine.

I am not sure I would pay $27k for the whole install, but once it's there I've found it to be great. Extremely inexpensive to run and with all of Seattle's power being carbon-neutral, totally guilt free to set it to 68F at night during a hot summer day.
I don't get it, a big part of the opportunity here is that Twitter just shot itself in the foot by forcing everyone to log in. But I go to the Threads website and there is nothing there, just a link to an app. So I open the app and there's nothing there, just a login form. How does this help?
He said maths not CS. A lot of research mathematics has no application.
I know cygx already replied, but to be clear, function signatures have been available in Perl since 2015. They were added (as experimental) in 5.20, and are now enabled by default with `use v5.36` or later.

All new features must now go through an experimental phase after the smartmatch debacle. Signatures stayed in experimental status a little longer than most new features due to an unfortunate change with respect the order of function signatures and function prototypes. Provided you weren't using prototypes (which you almost never need) then they've been largely stable since 2015.

Most distro's under current support ship with at least Perl 5.24, so you can use them almost anywhere.
Because there is no PC maker that cares about quality. Everything is about price and "value", which generally means price for specs, regardless of how well one can utilize those specs or how well things work.
For me it was working in a company that had a process.

My first job as a programmer I was tasked with building a replacement for an existing system. I worked by myself, and was just told to ask if I had any questions. I reported progress once a week by giving a percentage complete- for the whole project. That’s it.

The next job I was supposed to be a consultant. But I was so clueless- I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Eventually I was canned.

Finally The got somewhere that had a defined agile process- I started getting work done and was even able to mentor some people. Then I flourished and now I’m pretty comfortable with where I’m at.

If it’s not going right, the position might not be a good fit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triflate

maybe?
Oh, surprising. Thought they would use the fediverse to get some content going.
> 1550 cubic meters per year

This is an interesting number. Recently, I saw complaints that green hydrogen is impractical because it would use too much water. But if all the per capita energy use in the US went to electrolysis, it would use about 1% of this water per capita (and, of course, green hydrogen would be only a fraction of total energy use, due to all the preferred direct uses of electrical energy.)
Becomming an old programmer.

Sounds like a joke but really, I felt super green until suddenly I didn’t. I didn’t really figure anything specific out, I’ve just now seen enough problems that I am confident I can work through whatever I run into.
What to Know about Threads
> Would you tell that to the Israelis if they couldn't afford it?

Yes? What else would I tell them, to pray for a miracle? If they don't have enough water, can't get water profitably and cannot even afford to subsidize water, what else is there to do besides find somewhere new to live? What would you tell them?

> without putting a massive burden on the society using it.

Yeah, in some places it will be necessary to subsidize water, placing a burden on society. But considering we're talking about water, that's obviously a burden that needs to be borne. Acquisition of water comes before literally anything else a population might want to spend money on. And if there isn't enough money around to acquire sufficient quantities of water, there isn't enough money to live there at all.

Israel has a strong enough economy, they can afford to make desalination work for them. You objected that they have to subsidize the desalination, but I don't see any sense in that objection. If that's what they need to do, that's what they'll do.
I haven't been able to post yet, it keeps failing. To be expected.

Not _super_ happy that the front page is pulling from people I don't care about but kind of expected. Curious how it'll adapt once people I want to follow start producing... threads?
I mean, you had a feeling it might be wrong, but did it anyway...
I mean you have to have an instagram account and instagram is already in the top 20 sites, so..
Dropping Support for PHP 5
I've been using an iPad Pro for coding for a year now.

I traded in a M1 MacBook Pro for it and don't miss it at all.

It's great if you use a text-based IDE or can Tailscale back into your home network and connect to VSCode remotely.

Aside from Tailscale, I use Screens to VNC into my Macs at home and Blink to SSH in.

I really enjoy being able to detach the tablet from the keyboard and use it for drawing stuff/reading/etc. Super nice during flights when you're taking off or landing and can't use laptops.

It's also absolutely killer for demos. I'm in presales. People LOVE hand-drawn demos or slide deck demos that you can draw on, since most people are very visual. I look like a goddamn magician every time I go from drawing "slides" on my iPad to firing up a terminal with ease.

(That said, iOS REALLY needs to support global external monitor resolutions. There is an API that allows apps to display at different resolutions, but users have zero control over that.)

The only things I miss are shortcuts for Mission Control (I use virtual spaces heavily) and screenshots (you can take a screenshot by diagonally dragging a finger from the bottom right side of the screen to the center, but that's tedious and so is the UI for handling the screenshot)

I tried this many years ago with the 2018 iPad Pro and was much less successful then due to iOS limitations.

All this said, I can definitely see people hating the experience. You can't do multiple windows (Stage Manager sucks and split screen is limited) and you can't work locally at all.
Writing a terminal emulator in Electron just seems like a bonkers idea to me. Heck, choosing to start a new project in Electron baffles me.

Any replacement terminal emulator has an uphill battle against iTerm2 and Warp. Making it Electron is needlessly hamstringing.
Speuler Alert
Henrik?
> Video codec encoding was such a mess for such a long time due to the issues with MP4 and all the patent nightmare mess that unfortunately took way longer than it should have.

Dude this isn't even wrong. It's just nonsensical and ahistorical.
> There is no "trending" section, which is surprising.

Seems like a cold start problem. I'd expect recommendations in general to improve soon.
In this case, working with our allies to enforce international sanctions.
Twitter Clone Threads Is Live
Yes, I know how to edit the config file. Jesus.

The problem with Alacritty is that there is no (documented) font fallback and the author's slept on that for a few years. The (main) problem with Kitty is that font selection via font_family doesn't work. The author says it works for him, with the font I was using, so I left it at that.

If by "better suited to your tastes" you mean is able to find fonts, then, yes iTerm is better suited to my tastes. I've a few ideas as to why the author wasn't able to repro the issue but no real reason to dig any deeper because iTerm works for me.

I've rotated through Fira Code, Source Code Pro, and now I'm on IBM Plex Mono. iTerm just works for me without having to debug anything or wade through an issue tracker.
Indeed, there was no choice.

Good thing we ended up with a small language that has easy objects, first-class functions, and compact syntax. We could have got something like ABAP were we really unlucky.
We're happy to license out tech.
>I had a junior on my team propose we switch our year old project to Next’s app router.

that doesn't sound like a big change.
Yeah basically built a competitor to Hyperscan without the proprietary Intel bits.

Quick notes: to scale past X regexes in the set.

1. Don’t make a single RegexSet. Create multiple internally.

2. Ideally colocate similar partners together.

3. Use the immutability of a RegexSet to your advantage by generating an inverse index of “must match” portions of each regex.

4. When you get an input to match, first check the inverse index for a “may match set”, then only execute the internal automata that may possibly match on the input.

The inverse index can be as complicated (FSTs, or all of Lucene) or simple (hash map ) as you’d like it to be. The better it can filter the regexes in the set the more performance and scale you end up with. And tune the sizes of the internal automata for your usecase for some Goldilocks size for extra perf.
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I wonder how many new users will get Instagram since Threads require Instagram account. I for example, did not had Instagram account before.
The Asian brands make products for the US market—often through subsidiaries that were originally US companies, such as Goodman and Amana. Basically stuff that complies with US codes and standards, and that US HVAC installers can fix without learning anything new. Daikin makes a ton of stuff they don’t sell in the US. Owens Corning makes high density fiberglass batts you can buy in Canada but not in the US.
For the modern age indeed.
https://troyshu.com/blog

Poetic prose about creativity and life. Infrequently updated.
Lol, I’m totally using this to describe memory optimization from now on. There’s a lot of software out there that needs to be more ozempic.
Absolutely. It should smash any preconceptions that traditions are either ancient or perpetual.

PS: I'm drooling at the thought of growing some tomatoes on my balcony: San Marzano, cherry, and beefstake. I tried to grow some hydroponically but it failed spectacularly as the equipment isn't sized for the volume of roots.
Sure, but that's turtles all the way down... any time you run untrusted code, you are making a risk based decision, usually based on the provenance of the code.
I guess I know what you mean, since kitty is decidedly more my bag than iTerm2 is. But while they have very different UI design philosophies, I think Kitty and iTerm2 have a lot in common in terms of that basic drive to make terminal emulators do things they never could before (even if that requires new extensions and/or clever tricks).

> I run `emacs -nw` on big remote servers and performance is top notch and now I have copy paste through kitty with OSC-52 escape codes

That sounds great! I'm still getting my feet wet with kitty. I should make a list of the special functionality I want to explore, including OSC-52.
Smartphones are now the primary computing device for 70-90% of people depending on what demographics you look at. Smartphones shipped last year 1.2 billion, desktops 70 million. That's about the long and short of it.
I know a bunch of people who live in these (buying the biggest house possible was The Thing To Do), and I tend to disagree. What I've observed is that you trade a too cold or too hot yard for enclosed space you also only occasionally use. Which you are paying to climate control, clean and fill with stuff so it at least looks like it's being used. The formal dining room you use once or twice a year. The 5th or 6th bedroom in a house with 3 or 4 people living there. Sure...more WFH offices these days, but I've seen so many 'gym rooms' that have become 'just put those boxes and other crap in there rooms' it's a bit of a joke now. The 'bonus room' whose door hasn't been opened this decade. Realizing that this or that part of the house smells funny because no one has used the 4th or 5th bathroom in so long to water has evaporated from the toilet and they're getting sewer gas leaking back. Less noise, tho, sure.
On regular Instagram, I quit using because 20-25% of my feed was sponsored posts. (Although most of my friends only get ads every six or seven, I got ads every three or four posts.) I would imagine it won't be long before they start adding more ads.
https://ellispinsky.com/

Very much a work in progress and hope to start blogging actively soon
How are the numerous conversational AI companies differencing themselves?
May be I am naive, but these conversational AI companies like open AI, Anthropic et al more or less do the same thing. They are extremely generic in functionality and so each of them strive to do everything. How are they able to differentiate? Even more so, all of them will achieve scale over time. What is the moat for someone like open AI? Is it that they are first and so have users? Enterprise users?
Sorry, I ended up reading too much today and left myself with no time to post before boarding a plane. I've bookmarked the page and will revisit it when I'm back home in a few weeks.

A quick one, though:

Ferry is indeed a verb. Oxford Dictionary provides a bit of colour, though, stating "a boat or ship for conveying passengers and goods, especially over a relatively short distance and as a regular service." We have a global shipping industry, not a global ferrying industry.

I'm not saying you're wrong in its use, but I am saying you're selectively styling your narrative in a convenient direction. I suggest you've done the same with "bureaucratic" -- while correct, is this word more commonly associated neutrally or negatively?

I've downloaded a few articles to read on the road, but for some of your queries regarding the case for holding off are reasonably described in the 2021 Economist article (https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/11/27/riches-lie-below...). Admittedly volcanic vents are sexier than boring abyssal plains, but the central theme remains: low understanding, decades to assess, experts are concerned.

Thanks for taking the effort to respond. While my own thumbing through notes hasn't helped my employer at all it's at least been an interesting refresher on the topic.

One last question, although I fully understand if you'd prefer not to answer. Do you own shares of TMC (or related ventures), and if not, why not? I've bought mining stocks on far less positive vibes than what you've described your own interest to be.

Best wishes.
I would echo the "I wish the split hadn't happened" voices but I suspect that the magic number of variants of an OS are around 3-5 and thats kind-of where we sit.

It always was (to some extend) a set: Bell vs Berkely vs Digital vs Sun vs "the rest" with things taken from each, and added back. Getopt, NFS, mods to the TCP/IP stack, ideas about virtual disks and filestores.

I may misunderstand, but I think there are "more" variants of Linux, but probably close to this magic number of really significant distros.

I drove FreeBSD as a desktop on multiple machines for decades. I now live in OSX but I continue to operate FreeBSD for research nodes on Dell, but with more debian in the mix now than before.

I'd love to try FreeBSD on RPi4 but what i read suggests it still has some issues in the uBoot and install area. I drive a 4 disk ZFS node through a jmicron USB-SATA bridge card, I need to be sure that will work before I can move but having adopted ZFS on Ubuntu the good thing is, ZFS variants apart, I SHOULD be able to do this transition without dataloss, assuming the controller chip works.

Up in server land I've migrated between Debian and FreeBSD for ZFS filestores multiple times. Its really easy.
Anyone building a search engine?
Putting mine here for reference as well: 12k for complete heat pump and air handler install using existing ductwork.
>Even if we consider "Wagner" to be "neo-nazi" with no evidence what so ever.

lol, I'm done.

Edit: Looked through comment history and it makes sense now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30731180

You're a joke, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Hooks solved a real problem and I have not heard a single experienced React developer say a negative thing about them.
Many instances have promised a schism from Meta, and if they do, they will be a smaller, and much more enjoyable federation. Most people are gonna want Meta, is the general concensus, and I do not disagree. I want Mastodon how it was two months ago, it was great.
There are plenty of forums that aren't Reddit. You're on one now.
> The library has an interest in Big Scary Warning because the US has an adversarial legal system which makes it easy for people to cost other people $$$$ on legal fees about stupid shit.

I think this is unlikely here. I would expect such a suit to get tossed out in the early, early phases because the plaintiff doesn't have standing.

Per Manuel LUJAN, Jr., Secretary of the Interior, Petitioner v. DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, et al. the 3 part test for standing is:

1. The plaintiff must have suffered an "injury in fact," meaning that the injury is of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent

2. There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct brought before the court

3. It must be likely, rather than speculative, that a favorable decision by the court will redress the injury

They almost certainly fail the first test. Making bootleg copies of stuff to sell is not a "legally protected interest".

They also likely fail the second test because having copiers available, even without signage, isn't causative of copyright infringement.

The third is largely speculative, but I would bet a case like that fails that too. I don't even know what law someone would sue under for "they failed to tell me what the law is". Citizens are expected to know what the law is (whether that's reasonable or not is another question), as evidenced by the many laws that don't require mens rea.

In all likelihood the way this goes is that person files a lawsuit against the library, the library files a motion for summary judgement, and the judge rules against the plaintiff before discovery even happens. The facts of the case are irrelevant, because even if we presume that everything the plaintiff says is true, the library wouldn't be liable.
Since at least world war 2
Great feedback. Thank you! I'll pass it on to the marketing team.
Web UI seemingly sort of exists, you can share links for example https://www.threads.net/@zuck
for normal user this is the only way to contact author.
Freedom of association is extremely limited once you factor in public accommodations. For example, even if I own a hotel, I can’t choose who can stay in the hotel if they are willing to pay in a lot of cases.
> No web app to boot ? Wtf disappointed no web ui yet but hoping that changes and changes soon

I f'ing hate typing on my phone compared to on my computer. Definitely a necessary feature for me.
Precisely, TypeScript only exists at compile time. Half their goals relate to this fact, which leads to constraints regarding what the language can achieve.

> 3. Impose no runtime overhead on emitted programs.
> 4. Emit clean, idiomatic, recognizable JavaScript code.
> 7. Preserve runtime behavior of all JavaScript code.
> 8. Use a consistent, fully erasable, structural type system.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
Wherever there's a complex chain of independent workers (a government plan checker, inspector, a planner, a surveyor, an engineer, machine operators, a landscaper, a drain layer, a lawyer, ....) then the reality is that unforeseen nuance and conflicting priorities are ever compounding.

It's ideal to have an uber-specialist, an experienced and respected senior overseer who knows the industry and the project inside-out in both theory and practice, dedicated to the project. That gets things going. It's also rare and expensive - there are a lot more development projects than there are such individuals. They are powerful cards coveted by successful owning developers.
I’m just sad that people chose Typescript to write a terminal instead of Rust. Totally wrong tool for the job.
No obviously about it.

I've seen people attempt suicide and had to drop out of their programs.

Doctoral programs are a vicious and cruel system to exploit high-achieving young adults.
Especially for a text based app, doubly irritating for them to effectively ban good keyboards.
I'm still a bit hung up on "it can kill all of us". How?
Also @zuck roasting Twitter:

> Anyone think this can become bigger than twitter!?

> It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.

https://www.threads.net/t/CuVZQsrJRcr
I find it hilarious how people just move from one billionaire platform to another. Humans, man…
Yeah I run WezTerm now but came from Kitty, which is indeed wild with the features.
I don't know how or where the rumor-mill started, but it's been suggested Threads (2.0) might not have ActivityPub inbox/ingress; you'll only be able to send your activity out to others, not get comments/replies/reactions in. So, this tweet:

> If you're wondering why this matters, here's a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.

This could very well be a lark, but... the narrow case stated here is only about being able to keep your viewers. That's consistent with the view that Threads wont really interoperate bidirectionally with ActivityPub, but will merely be able to syndicate out.
Working fine here, and they don’t have a web app.

Majority of people use their phone for this, and that’s who they’re targeting.
WezTerm [1] gets font handling correct if you want font fallback, etc.

[1]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/fonts.html
I find it almost easier to go straight to interaction prototyping with some of the new tools which make it really easy, like Principle for Mac: https://principle.app/