skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically the battle to fight here is overcoming various regulations and restrictions on laying or hanging cables? A quest for a true hero.

The company, of course, needs to employ highly efficient, least-invasive, fastest ways to lay cable. But it's a serious power cable, it can't be easily snuck together with other existing cables or pipes, like it's done usually with fiber cables. Some technical innovation can belong here.
What, not a mole spanner?
They got approval to pollute the LEO of planet Earth? Who could you possibly go to for approval for that?
I got a newly home built 486dx2 in 1998, upgraded it few times up to original K6 @ 200MHz then replaced with K6-2 400MHz around 2000-2001?

Turbo Pascal 7.0 with hacked Delay to support faster CPUs was big (as was Turbo C++) up to 2000, at least in Poland. Those of us who targeted Windows often used Delphi, but all kinds of simple game development often continued in DOS mode till Windows ME/XP killed that path.
> Well if we built more nuclear, we’d have more power to run more A/C.

You don't get it. We are heading towards a world where, on a very big part of the planet (around the equator), it will not be possible for humans to survive outdoors (at some temperature and humidity, sweating does not work anymore, you don't regulate your temperature, and so you die).

> Degrowth means less food, less medicine, less power, less transport, more death.

You are describing "forced" degrowth (what will happen if we don't prepare our society to handle it). The idea is to plan it, and have priorities (so that maybe you can't take the plane every two weeks, but you can still eat and survive, hopefully without a civil war).
This makes sense. Even though I have installed obsidian I haven't used it. Have you used it with Hugo?
I’m guessing because Mario Bros 1 (among others) is deterministic? Ie same reason it can be speedrun so well? Monsters always in exactly the same spot if your previous frames inputs were the same.
Any Easter eggs in that firmware? :)
I implemented one of those for myself a couple years ago: https://s3.amazonaws.com/max.public/bestplates/index.html
It’s optimized for phone input, so put the weights of the sets you’re going for in like ‘135*225*280’ . I modelled it much more simply than this, a relatively straightforward Cartesian product of all possible plates with a rewards function that assigned a value to each combination!
> A reasonable interpretation, in my eyes, is that the training process is a black box which takes in copyrighted works and produces a training model. The training model is a derivative work of the inputs. It therefore violates the copyrights of a large number of rights holders. The outputs of the model are derivative works which also violate copyright.

What is the blackbox “limit” here? Is the mean value of all images in imagenet (which contains many copyrighted images) violating copyright? Is the character count of sarah silverman’s books? What about a prime number representing them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number?wprov=sfti1

Training is much more similar to a character count than an illegal prime in my view, and thus, is almost certainly going to be okay/found to be okay. If not, something like, 90% of all models used today had some component trained on copyrighted data of some form.
This is an interesting position to take. I’ve been back and forth with my N+1 about the utility of sync vs async comms to lead, and I can never nail down a result I’m happy with. Like, sync comms is effective for ladder climbing as you say. But it has failure modes in remote-first teams of ICs across time zones that async comms don’t have. Async comms inherently scale further, too. Maybe their reach is is greater but the impact is lower? I wonder how far recorded video gets. Then you have mentoring juniors - much easier to do synchronously. What’s the appropriate mix?
> We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.

I'm hoping that we start to see an increase in pro-family policies. A couple rough ideas to look into would be decreasing taxation (or giving refunds/payments) based on how many children a productive family has, providing financial support so families can buy homes, and promoting wage increases so a single income can support a family to allow one to work and the other to focus on raising the children.
I really miss the sound of my computer, a very mechanical machine, coming to life.
This thread is insane. Practically every member of the team that worked on this product is here posting.

We're putting the band back together!

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Speaking of fake news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/03/ho...
Wow, they cloned twitter so well I didn't even notice it wasn't a Twitter link
> How much work and knowledge of taxpayer funded NASA did SpaceX reuse.

Judging from the way SpaceX builds, fuels, and flies their rockets and engines, very-very little.

Their contracts with NASA and later DoD did, of course, play a significant role. But I suppose they were chosen on merit.
I will take the other side of this bet.

I don’t see this happening within the next 24 months.
The instructions have been there since 1978.

Nice if they're finally making them fast after 45 years, but most people's software has to run on older CPUs (and Intel CPUs) too.
For Perl-style grep there's also ack and it's successor ag which you might want to look at first.
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> AFAIK he didn't hack JSTOR. He downloaded papers en mass using a guest MIT account that had legal access to JSTOR.

Potato, potahto. Or, like kids these days say it, "corporate wants you to find differences between these two pictures...".

Fact is, from the POV of the legal system, "using a guest account that had legal access to" a system, but to which (the account) you didn't have legal access, would typically be seen as hacking. So is running curl in a loop, if it results in you getting sued for it. So is just guessing the URL (e.g. incrementing a user ID in a GET query param), if it lets you access things you shouldn't be able to.

Yes, it's not aligned with how technology works. But it is aligned with expectations of behavior, which is what the law is really about.
As a true 'jack of all trades' I feel that it's my duty to share these quotes, or the full version of widely used quotes.
> Earth has essentially unlimited resources in its crust, and with better technology we'll have access to more and more of them.

Just check how it goes with fossil fuels :-). Spoiler: definitely not unlimited, definitely becoming a problem (that Europe can feel economically since 2008).

> Sure, there's a few things that we need to figure out - like stopping fossil C release into the atmosphere

Yep, "just a thing" that makes the difference between life and death of hundreds of millions of humans. And we don't have any serious technological solution right now (if you don't believe it, ask yourself: are you an expert in such a solution, or do you just have faith that "someone else" will find it?). Degrowth is the only solution when you don't have that kind of faith.
I think you’re correct it’s main advantage is using it in facilitation workshops.

However, document templates are bulky, time consuming to complete, and more difficult to adjust. I think in the early stages of planning a business, the business model canvas can allow a little more flexibility in adapting your business model to suit new ideas, or overcoming unforeseen hurdles etc.

Also, without knowing the in’s and out’s of another business who might be your competition, you can use this model to map out another business to understand roughly how their business works and where they’re creating value without necessarily having all the inner working knowledge.
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That sounds like good old Waterfall to me. Or in its current form SAFE. 90% communication 10% code. And something like that is basically what it takes when you have hundreds or thousands of people working on the same product.

Making sure that everyone understands how to use your part (and that the overall architecture is at least coherent), in a big project, is actually more important than if that part is of high quality. And since communication is more important it's the seniors responsibility.

Sometimes I really want to go back to the junior years it was in general more fun back then. But getting to decide the architecture does have its charms.
Yes, thank you for asking! I've now added screenshots with feature descriptions to the landing page.
> From the dawn of times, people were writing.

Nit: before writing was invented, humans were able to pass knowledge over many generations via oral means.[0]

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-sea-rise-...
Bollix, professionals do not obsess but continue to explore

I've met a few truly practical experts and they spend more time talking about what they've just learned than children

A tool in their hands is never the same thing twice in a row

Amateurs are more easily distracted and expect reliability
I think this is about preparing for a post X11 future. As Wayland continues to mature, classic X will attract fewer developer resources. I think it will eventually start to suffer benign neglect, and stop keeping up with new hardware.
> Or, is WinMain just an idea from 30 years ago that didn't actually go anywhere?

I believe it is a leftover from 16-bit Windows, where (at least originally) it actually had to be WinMain. Although even there it all depends on the compiler and runtime library.

Windows 3.x had no console subsystem, so Windows applications had to be graphical; command line apps were DOS-only. Then Microsoft introduced "QuickWin", which was a wrapper which turned simple (plain text-only) command line apps into graphical Windows apps. In QuickWin, you'd supply the main(), and QuickWin would supply the WinMain(), and Windows would call QuickWin's WinMain(), and then QuickWin would call your main(). Windows NT introduced a proper console subsystem, and then Windows 95 introduced this bizarre abomination in which 32-bit console apps were supported, but their IO was routed via a DOS program called CONAGENT.EXE. So your Win32 console app would call some DLL, which would spawn CONAGENT.EXE in a DOS Box, and then there was some VXD which the DLL and CONAGENT.EXE used to communicate, so your IO would go via the DOS Box.

In Windows NT (and descendants), WinMain is no longer necessary, but is still (partially) supported for backward compatibility. I guess a lot of people stick with it just by reason of tradition. It does help communicate (to a person reading the code) that you are dealing with a graphical app rather than a console one, so maybe not totally useless.
Let me send a PR to the project with this addition.
But what if I read something that upsets me? People shouldn't be allowed to say anything that might offend my delicate sensitivities.
> racial/ethnical and cultural demographics would also look like the totally different

Why is this a problem?
Is illegal where? Certainly not over here in Finland.
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I've showed several "professional computer users", who sit behind nice monitors all day, my Quest Pro virtual screen setup. They've all said it's too blurry/font is too large/not enough screen space (which are all the same, from lack of PPD).

So, the Quest Pro is unusable to them, due to PPD. If the Vision Pro is actually retina, then that's good, but I don't think that's the only reason they wouldn't want to use it. I think comfort/bulk is a huge concern, especially since it appears to use the flesh of your face to support the weight, rather than a top strap. My Quest Pro is unusable without a top strop, for more than 30 minutes. With, I can easily do 6 hours. But still, the bulk makes me hesitantly put it on, sometimes.
It’s easy enough to do as a website. I posted mine in a comment in this thread
Just shut it down for real (after proper early warnings), so you save on compute and no one is confused about the state, and offer data retrieval for the grace period.

Brownouts are great for API changes, but not very useful before a full shutdown.
As a long time happy Ghost user, self hosting is far easier than most stacks, and I just configured a new self-hosted instance for a friend this past week (5.x). Aside from a bug with the Let’s Encrypt auto-config (I had to fix the path to the cert in the generated nginx config), it was otherwise an extremely straightforward process.

I used the mailgun integration for mail, which involved adding a few lines to a config file and typing `ghost restart`.

Self hosting will always involve some fiddling, but I’ve fiddled less with Ghost than almost every other thing I’ve self hosted over the decades. Maybe I’m just lucky.
do you even lift ?
I've followed the issue in the US since the early 2000s as an activist and policy expert.

I'm not familiar with the state of play outside the US, but the US is one of the stricter jurisdictions in this regard, for reasons that have mostly to do with sophisticated corruption.

I'm responding to the "for me not for thee" and the top comment about there being an inconsistency between the treatment of large companies and the treatment of individuals in this case.

Unless people are typically punished for downloading and using copyrighted content, there is no such inconsistency. They are not, so there is not.

Copyright troll lawsuits have been fairly public and widely covered in the tech press, and most criminal prosecutions come with a formulaic, gloating press release from the law enforcement folks responsible. So it's pretty easy to follow this stuff.
I think it was Visual C++ 2 then MS Visual Studio 4.0. MSVC 2 could target the Mac, IIRC.

Borland C++ was the "industrial strength" Turbo C and Delphi the successor to Pascal. Watcom was a cool option and I played with it after it was open sourced. Cool that you could target dos, windows 16/32, os/2.
Zero tolerance standards make it hard to tell what’s real. This reminds me of the asbestos hysteria of the 90s.
Now just imagine an AI that could help me, a blind person, play Mario, or Zelda, and such.
The game state and the heuristic need some extra information, since (spoiler?) Mario leaves the screen during the lead-up to the warp zones, and it doesn't look like it can account for that sort of positioning.
> Apples pricing structure is also annoying nowadays too. As soon as one specs out and bumps a laptop, one suddenly finds that they may as well get a different laptop, ie once you bump up a MacBook Air, you may as well just buy a Pro, until all of a sudden your £999 purchase idea has turned into £3000 and a debate about AppleCare.

Their pricing structure on basically all of their product lines is absolutely perfect from a capitalism/business perspective. They are so good at getting people to buy more than they need. It's impressive.
Cute, but the less optimal arrangement gets a better workout switching stuff around
>Microsoft originally used a KA-10 running TOPS-10 and cross assemblers for software development - This was before they had Unix ported to their PDPs (Xenix)- and then Vaxes? Ms Piggy? Oh do tell! A lot happened between 1979, and 1984, when Xenix was released...
There's a part that tries to recreate it: https://www.retrokits.de/index.php/hdd-clicker-hdd-sound-sim...
nobody can judge other's experiences.
> Excellent, so you're saying I'll be able to download any copyrighted work from any pirate site and be free of all consequence if I just claim that I'm training an AI?

Obviously not.

This kind of "So what you're saying is" exists to push the responders ideas, not the original speakers -- otherwise they wouldn't need to rephrase it so egregiously.
> Why do you consider that good? There are plenty of places on the internet where you can find disturbing content, why does it have to something you can just stumble upon?

Because what's disturbing to me is not disturbing to someone else.

Because, just like when I walk in a city, I run into interesting and surprising and occasionally things that test my sensibilities.

This is good because nobody can decide on my behalf what I should find disturbing or not.
Nothing is forever but this totally discounts the primacy of C++ across tech stacks. Rust and any other language leveraging LLVM is depending on a healthy C++ ecosystem. Anything to do with GPGPU is aggressively C++ based, the entire HPC segment is pivoting hard towards C++ (Kokkos, SYCL), and it’s likely orders of magnitude easier to rewrite the entire Linux kernel in Rust than it would be to rewrite chromium in Rust.
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Actually unpopular opinion: Existential risk from AI.

I think people think "AI is overhyped" etc, but there is a difference between there being too many low value AI startups right now (a bubble) and whether a few top labs will produce an AI that threatens humanity.

Even if it's a ten percent chance, it's a huge problem that we need to address.
> Everyone that has tried the Vision Pro has said the eye and hand tracking is flawless.

Context of the interaction is important. I've seen this mentioned with selecting, but not with doing something like picking up a 3d object. I don't recall seeing this use in any of the release footage.
Common decency.
I haven't used it with Hugo myself unfortunately. I have used it with the regular git clients for readme.mds with the git plugin and it has been decent there.
They could legally train the models in Japan, yes. Whether they could then use that model outside of Japan would be (and, possibly related, whether it would be considered a derivative work in those locales) would be ultimately up to the courts.
> You can currently download any copyright work from any pirate site and be free of all consequences, and this has always been so.

No.

By virtue of "download" of a file, you are making a copy of it which is in violation of US copyright (and lots of countries.

You're unlikely to be sued or prosecuted for it, but that doesn't make it legal.
Bluntly, the people with the power to stop you from doing so. For SpaceX, that means the US government via the FCC.
Not sure what point you're trying to make here, since I don't know if you're referring to

(a) the initial, intuitive belief that basketball players who had made several shots in a row were more likely to make the next one
(b) the analytical analysis that disproved a, which no doubt stemmed from the belief that every shot must be totally independent of its context, disregarding the human factors at play
(c) the revised analysis that found that the analysis in b was flawed, and there actually was such a thing as a "hot hand."
> The problem is you swallowed the “capitalism is evil” pill and now you’re confusing everything.

I think the problem is that you don't realize how bad the situation is, given the state of science today (which is pretty good, to be honest).

I don't care about capitalism. I'd say I care about living in peace and having food. Where we are going now, I am not sure I will have that.

I don't support living worse lives, I actually support living a better life. But I still have quite a few years to live (hopefully), and with most people thinking like you, it seems like my life will gradually get worse.
If you have to lean on fear of appearences instead of skill and determination, hang it up now kiddo. It's a losing game of chicken.
Is the fact that I can only read the first of 16 tweets a sign-in required thing?

Here is my attempt at reading it. https://archive.is/laNGl
I don't think it would be too much to say something like a low-end VPS on AWS or Digital Ocean for a personal blog is too much, which would end up running somewhere between $5-10/mo depending on resources/automated backups. At 400 euros, though, they're quite a bit beyond that. I'm a bit curious what their cost per page-served ratio looks like.
About a year ago, I worked on a similar tool, using the same rustdoc-based idea, [cargo-breaking](https://github.com/iomentum/cargo-breaking/tree/zdimension/r...), but since cargo-semver-checks was released around the same time and used a better general approach to change detection, we never bothered actually releasing it and ended up just archiving the repo
Wayland is a replacement for X11 in the same way that a tricycle is a replacement for a tractor.

They have thrown everything difficult out of the spec and only implemented the most trivial functionality around a security model which you must actively break to get actual work (like screen shots) done.

That Wayland is 10 years old and still barely usable should tell you how far software developers have fallen in the last 30 years.
From all accounts this is far more than just an incremental upgrade.

The extremely low latency in rendering courtesy of the dedicated R1 chip is going to take some time for other companies to replicate.
Not sure what your comment has to do with mine? I'm not debating whether or not X11 will stick around, or whether getting Wayland working on OpenBSD is a good idea or not. I was talking about the specific software dependency choices used for this rough port.
For one, you seem unaware what a tax write off is. Burning $100 for tax writeoff that saves you $20 of that money still means you lost $80. Let's ignore the fact Elon Musk has no such taxes, nor he owns the company by himself (he has massive co-investors and a $13 billion dollar loan).
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I want to use Siri in English, French and Russian, but HomeKit only lets you set names of rooms and devices in a single language.
Creating communes of tools and such is not "within free-market capitalism." It's individuals choosing to ignore the free-market imperative to make profit for common good. The sooner we deprogram people the better, but sadly I don't think we'll make it before capitalism destroys this beautiful world.
I've never heard of CS undergrad programs requiring a technical writing (TW) course, let alone many. Can we do a quick poll? Leave a comment with the name of the university where you got your CS undergrad degree, the year (or decade) you graduated, and whether or not TW courses were required.

EECS at Cal for example doesn't seem to require any TW classes: https://eecs.berkeley.edu/academics/undergraduate/cs-ba
Personally I think it'll still be a novel toy for a lot of people. But the big difference is it'll be on commodity devices.

This is already starting to happen. I have a Coral Edge TPU connected to a Raspberry Pi. Yes, it is limited, but considering the whole getup costs less than $200 and does stuff I couldn't possibly do 6 months ago, it is pretty amazing.

In the future, at least this aspect of it will be more commoditized. Edge devices will feel pretty much like they do today, but without needing a connection to cloud metal to do similar work. But we'll still have to verify its work all the time, because so-called hallucinations are not going away unless we program the models to self-check and verify their output.

What will keep this at a slow steady pace though, is that the cloud vendors really want everyone to use their services so they make money. So there will be some really souped up abilities that you'll still want/need to pay for through them.

But edge TPUs will be the norm very soon.
Yeah, I recognized the guy's name and know he hangs out here sometimes. Maybe we'll actually find out.