skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
going to say something controversial here, but... if you go to the gym to lift weights and after that you end up doing all this mental gymnastic to allegedly save time you're doing it wrong. you are literally avoiding lifting small weights to load up your bar, when you are there to lift weights. I would challenge everyone to show me how much time they can save.

Also, if you want to save time AND if you have a super complicated workout that involves 30 different weights on the bar you are also doing it wrong. for each exercise you should have 2 weights: warmup and the weight you are working on.
work with a weight that allows you to do 5 sets of 5 reps (+1 warmpup set). Do: bench press, overhead press, squats, barbell rows. that is all. you will get the workout done in 30 minutes. Compound movements with a barbell are all you need (before you gang up on me, remember we are optimizing for time and the best return for the effort).
This allows Mozilla to trim away some of the cruft and have more time available to focus on actually improving Firefox for people living in this day and age. There will always be someone who feels left behind but to me this decision is a no-brainer.
And you still can't open multiple instances of the settings app at the same time. God forbid you want to check your network settings and printer settings at the same time when trying to troubleshoot an issue with a network printer.
Windows 7 is 12.9% of Firefox installs and the second most used OS.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
Sarah Silverman sues Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringement
Inside my head, the Unix philosophy + graph theory + High Output Management have combined into one monstrous beast. It sits on my shoulder and forces me to view all tools as a set of inputs and outputs. Worse, it insists some tools make other tools, and has strong opinions on when they're worth the investment.

For a meta-tool like jq, I put in an initial investment of time and get out a tool to solve your actual problem, in the form of a jq command. I can then use the command again and again on my data set. The size of the initial investment determines when using a command is worth it, but making an investment once reduces the cost of the next, so I am never quite sure when to invest.

The ability to put together pipelines of these tools and meta-tools is more important than any one tool -- after all, jq could be replaced by a python script, json could be replaced by toml, and so on -- but at the same time each tool makes up the pipeline. The path to mastery of manipulating a tree (or using a functional programming language) might be through jq and json for me but through xml and xslt (or F#) for you. Learning the tool, and particularly learning how it fits in the broader pipeline of tools in terms of its inputs and outputs, drives our mastery.
Yeah, they wont use a Rebel, but that's because a Rebel doesn't have several things they need to have, burst rate, dual slots, and things like that.
That serves as evidence that the model has seen the material, and the only way the model could have seen the material is if it was pirated.
Thanks for writing this up - it's helpful background. Glad you seem to be doing better.
Bear Blog now supports LaTeX
If they were fully committed, they should have turned the quotes into double angle quotation marks.
While I sympathise, this is clearly happening with or without them onboard. They’ll need to find ways around the problem.
If you're interested in Bevy + WebGPU in particular, they wrote a more extensive update on that section earlier this year[1].

[1] https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-webgpu/
this look adorable, I have an appetite to buy this watch now...
I like Influx, and have been using it for all our TSDB needs for ~7 years. It sounds like there have been a lot of shake-ups internally, all their hopes for Flux (the InfluxQL language) have been aborted. I'm wondering about how they're doing.

This situation doesn't seem like it is specifically them doing anything wrong, if indeed they did send out multiple notifications over 6 months. It sounds like it's caught many people by surprise though, which makes one wonder if there was a problem with their announcements of this change. Definitely seems like it could have been handled better than "deletion with no recovery" though, some sort of "shutdown, wait a week or month, delete" would have been better.
i've certainly crouched on the floor next to a server listening to the disks and trying to work out what the hell they were doing!
> Writing is reasonably easy and it's hard to get much better than you already are.

I can't fathom how you've arrived at this conclusion. Like everything in life, the only way you can know for certain if something is true or not is by doing it many times over and then seek feedback.

Until one writes and then shows their writing to many many readers, it is impossible to make such claim.
In what way?

If you keep your ordering consistent, and seed any random numbers you need, what's left to be a problem?
From what I recall I’ve only had to do it with brand new product categories which I think is perfectly reasonable.

I don’t mind the additional hand holding for a new category to make my myself familiar with it.
oh man, mode 13!!! I still have this line embedded in my head (Turbo Pascal 7)

mem[$A000:x+(320*y)] := color
How to Eat Dirt
> 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

I don't think that is accurate.

He had legal access to the account. The account had legal access to the service.

The argument was that downloading articles en masse was an _abuse_ of the service, which was a violation of the Terms of Service and therefore a CRIMINAL ACT.
Na I replaced the 2400 well before 2000. I simply stated that I had the 486x until 2000.
I read it the exact opposite way. It turns out that when you punish people with a decade in prison for lying, you can just operate on their word and verify later.

I don't need a system that never gives data to a malicious user. It doesn't need to be Fort Knox. It needs to be logged and audited regularly and for people who abuse it to be punished severely.

I'm sure there are lots of technical measures keeping my bank account safe. But, the greatest measure is that if you take the money the US government will throw you in jail.
My much older examples are on purpose.

Meaning "this is the case only on recent history? What about those examples from thousands of years ago".
The software developers who were maintaining X?

Perhaps you could show them how it's done, since apparently you can do a better job. They've certainly been clear that they're happy for anyone who wants to take over Xorg, yet no-one from the peanut gallery ever does.
> They also killed each other for land. Sometimes they starved.

If you don't, good for you. Don't think everybody has that chance.

> As for us, we’ve already emitted too much. If we merely stop it’s still going to be a bad century.

If we stop, it's going to be complicated times. If we don't... well we will have more conflicts for land (those that remain where humans can survive) and famines.
There are plenty of WWDC videos around with specific details on Hand Tracking e.g.

https://youtu.be/zNFpAQb9hAg?t=908
This post reminded me that someone used the fractal vise configuration to construct a very mediocre chair: https://youtu.be/e8pvjEHAt6U
It's a shame that more here don't realize that. Being able to communicate is paramount.
Your request for rigorous justification is selective.

"Rudolph Rummel estimated that the North Korean Army executed at least 500,000 civilians during the Korean War with many dying in North Korea's drive to conscript South Koreans to their war effort. Throughout the conflict, North Korean and Chinese forces routinely mistreated U.S. and UN prisoners of war. Mass starvation and diseases swept through the Chinese-run POW camps during the winter of 1950–51. About 43 percent of all U.S. POWs died during this period. In violation of the Geneva Conventions which explicitly stated that captor states must repatriate prisoners of war to their homeland as quickly as possible, North Korea detained South Korean POWs for decades after the ceasefire. Over 88,000 South Korean soldiers were missing and the Communists' themselves had claimed they had captured 70,000 South Koreans."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes#North_Korea...

The korean war was a shitshow on both the south and north korean sides but the south koreans were still better and the US was still on the right side.
There is such a language called D.
Yes, granted by the FCC.
It's quite possible for entities (whether AI's, corporations or individuals) to at the same time perform valuable and useful tasks, while secretly pursuing a longer term, more sinister agenda.

And there's no need for it to be "evil", in the cliché sense, rather those hidden activities could simply be aimed at supporting the primary agenda of the agent. For a corporate AI, that might be maximizing long term value of the company.
Let's take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written.

While it might be too disruptive to eliminate copyright overnight, we should remember that our world will be much better and improve much faster to the extent we can reduce copyright's impact.

And we should cheer it on when it happens. A majority of the world's population in 2023 has a smartphone. Imagine a world where a majority of the world had access to every book ever digitized, and could raise their children on these books!
With a phone or credit card, not one of their special cards?
Forget about whether spies are buying it for a second. This data is out there.

The real problem I see is that:
- The data exists
- The people involved may not have consented, or they consented when they agreed to a a EULA without really understanding it.

In general, it's not illegal to record in public. The only thing that's changed is that it's feasible to use facial recognition, license plate readers, etc. Whereas before, it would have technically possible but practically infeasible.
What are you basing this on?

I've played with code generation from AIs it works sometimes but confidently produces bugs and doesn't scale at all.

I think another giant leap is required to get to the point that humans are just tweaking. I'm saying we won't get there but what in the pipeline in the next 24 months that is going to get us there?
Hi, cofounder and CTO here. We notified everyone via email on February 23, April 6 and May 15th. We also offered to help migrate all users. I realize that it's not ideal that we've shut down this system, but we made our best efforts to notify affected users and give them options to move over to other regions. If you've been impacted by this, please email me personally and I will do my best to help out: paul at influxdata.com.
Don't drink too much of the AI kool-aid.
What's nice with all the filters people use is that human are meeting them half way.

Much harder to distinguish a fake person from a real person using a filter to look fake.
For those just reading the headline: Windows 7 users will be able to run Firefox until at least September 2024 through the the Extended Support Release all existing Firefox users on Windows 7/8 will be migrated to.

Newer web technologies won't be supported, but the browser will keep receiving security updates for another year.
Very accurate that Amazon does not pay us for the video stream that all of us neighbors’ Ring Doorbell produce.
What Unix Cost Us (2020) [video]
Unless you actually chew the cables, very little actual risk. I would be more worried about drinking water from a system still containing lead pipes. They still exist in a surprisingly large amount of places in the USA.
the "wordpress" button on your old-school $5/mo hosting's CPanel is right there my dude

right there

at any time you could have hit that button and spent a while poking around its immense collection of default themes and installed the "I do not like the block site editor, please give me the old editor" plugin and had a big, empty text box just begging for you to fill it with words, all the time you spent faffing about with jekyll and hugo and ghost and your custom style looking for the absolutely perfect version of the the same black text on white ground style that a zillion templates have been made of could have been spent writing blog posts instead

but I guess you gained some experience fooling around with the technologies underlying Hugo and Jekyll and maybe that was surprisingly useful in other parts of your life, and maybe that was better in the long run?

anyway, good luck putting words in that big blank text box you have finally perfected.
Well, productivity today is actually the biggest problem humanity is facing, if you think about it: productivity is directly linked to fossil fuels, which are not unlimited (that will soon be a problem) and also are the cause of climate change (that will soon be a problem too).

So I could ask it differently: why would you want anyone to spend a lot of effort keeping us in the direction that will globally make our society collapse?
10 years later is absolutely not "just getting started". We built Web 1 in 5 year and web 2 in 5 years, complete, with uncountable real businesses generating actual profits and user value. Web 3 has had far more time and far more money and people invested than Web 1 and 2 combines and has yet to demonstrate any real business or user value. What a joke. What a scam.
Hmm but isn’t that remaining 30% governmental overreach, socialism and baguettes that would erode our great nation?
Do the AI's need those things? I mean, they exist so that humans can understand their 10 million line code bases. Maybe something else will be needed, for AI's to understand their 10 billion line code bases. Something that we won't even be able to discern.
Java has intersection types.
It would take unusual dedication, plenty of space, and a huge budget for electricity and air con to run a KL10 at home.

I understand the attraction, because they were very popular with users - partly because TOPS-10 was relatively intuitive and could be learned by almost anyone, and timesharing was very much an experience of personal computing.

That was a huge deal when most computing still had to go through operators and other expert intermediaries.

TOPS-20 was more refined and tried to be even friendlier, with nice features like command completion.

Neither was at all UNIXy - a good thing IMO.
I picked Engineering as it didn't have any writing requirements. Now I wish I'd spent more time writing. It's a skill that I need and want to develop now that I understand how the world works better than I did as a university student.
From a YouTube video I watched, the bigger advantage of disks was the manufacturing lead time.

With carts, you had to know how many you needed weeks in advance, and were stuck with excess units if the game flopped. Whereas you could have a run of ps1 disks pressed and in your warehouse in two days.
Why though? Early internet nerds may feel like they have a hegemony over this domain, but it belongs to the public at large, made up of all types of people with varying levels of risk and criteria for what they deem is acceptable public discourse.

Not to mention the fact that one person's grimy is another's milquetoast, so what do you do about that? Moderation is the organic balance that resulted from years of trial and error.

I miss the old internet as well, but I know the internet is not just for the weirdos and nerds (anymore). Every road in the world does not need to be the Autobahn.

What would really be saying something is if people stopped using platforms they don't like. But that's like taking a drug user away from his dealer--they both need each other in a perverse, symbiotic relationship. It's not that hard to leave platforms anyways, teens have already mostly stopped using FB.

The most uncharitable bone in my body thinks that people who don't migrate off Twitter etc. like being the "cool" guy who doesn't like that stuff and having others around to read that. But I suppose that's just my opinion.
Yeah, Automobilista 2 or Flight Simulator 2020 are a joy on Reverb G2. Though I must say I was surprised how tiny Monaco felt which is probably a question of FOV.
Apparently you can't monetize a YouTube video that says the word "kill", even in the context of educational videos about wildlife ecology.

So you get serious educational content creators saying that a bird "un-alives" a fish.
Because in the beginning SMS support was important and the 140 character limit worked well with the SMS 160 character limit.
We've been doing some BSD cross work with Nixpkgs. A hope is that if we can extend that to NixOS too, and then it should be quite easy to checkpoint and share work like this for anyone to reproduce and pick up the baton on.
No one completely understands Linux. No one completely understands a software package like Siemens NX or CATIA. No one completely understands LLVM. Etc, etc, etc, and the world still goes around.

Having a “small language like C” doesn’t do anything besides move the complexity to application code and hide those details from the compiler. In fact, with sophisticated optimizing compilers and linkers, it’s impossible to predict what any random snippet of code in a large project is transformed into, assuming it exists at all in the final binary.
On one hand: should I pay copyright owners for the privilege of sharing what I learned, regardless of how I obtained it?

On the other: I am not supposed to share sensitive data, confidential trade secrets, or privileged national security intelligence that I learned without the necessary authorization.

Applied to an LLM, how would that work?
I think you’re both right at different levels: the only way a pariah site can survive is by being cheap enough that a few dedicated people can fund it – 4chan/8chan stuck around for years despite no sensible investors or advertisers wanting to be seen anywhere near them because their operating costs didn’t require huge resources. Sites like Voat or Truth Social, and now Twitter, suffer because they try to be like mainstream platforms but can’t generate the same kind of revenue.
Not OP, but I'll occasionally field wrong-industry requests if it looks like a good exercise. Reworking my resume into a visually appealing, project-oriented format was interesting and I enjoyed learning about info presentation.
While that might (or might not) mitigate one perverse incentive, there are lots more. It's important for policy proposals to take unintended consequences into account. What others can you foresee and how would you mitigate them?
That’s a shame, better give Mitchel Baker a pay rise.
The Old Internet was mostly populated by English-speakers who could afford Internet access and had the attention span to work through the process of getting online. The ratio of legit hackers to Septemberites was a lot higher. Corporations had only the vaguest impression of how to exploit Internet users for profit. Foreign nation-states didn't yet have gigabit pipelines pumping out propaganda and misinformation. Cyberspace hadn't been industrialized yet.

Most of the junk you had to clear out of your forum beyond the usual dick pill spam was Serdar Argic[0] bot posts, Time Cube[1] style schizoposting, or trolling from the likes of GNAA[2]. You didn't really even know what they were on about, most of the time. You never felt like you were censoring a legitimate opinion, deleting stuff like that, and anyways, nobody complained. We were there to talk about Star Wars Episode I, make "all your base" jokes, or try to get our Linux drivers working because Bill Gates was the devil.

If you got banned from a popular website, it didn't affect your life outside the Internet at all. (Nowadays, if you die on the Internet, you die in real life.)

Google had no trouble keeping spam blogs out of the page 1 results, but gave you some interesting links if you looked up "santorum". Half the Internet seemed to think 9/11 was an inside job, and there were some frothy arguments about it, but believing either way usually didn't affect the rest of your identity.

It was a wonderful and crazy place, but it was the product of a particular time. And even though I'm angry that the Internet is now just bland junk posted inside digital gated communities, I doubt lightning is going to strike twice. Look to the future, not to the past.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAA
There's no doubt, Prince Rupert's drop is useless. Just neat.
Just buy it as a gift, are they still going to force you to listen? Its starting to feel like time share seminars.
Arthur Blessitt
This is nothing compared to the millions of tons of lead buried in old plumbing and waste systems.

Unless you are going to be spending months of your childhood playing in the mud 15 cm from these cables, this is a whole lot of nothingburger. If there’s ever been a house on your block painted white in the 1950s your whole block is probably more contaminated than this.

The amount of heavy metal leachate represented here is tiny. The cables no longer in use should be pulled up where practical, left buried where it’s not.

The lead and copper salvaged will pay for the removal as long as nobody gets stupid and tries to turn it into some kind of scary thing.

This is a tiny amount of lead, probably less than the amount lost off of vehicle tire weights every year, and the risk to anyone who doesn’t ingest or bathe in the mud next to the cable, or drink water directly against the cable, is statistically insignificant. It’s nothing compared to the millions of tons of lead buried in old plumbing and waste systems under every city that is more than 80 years old.

Lead is toxic. But unless you are ingesting it or breathing it, it doesn’t easily enter your body. Removing this will probably cause more human exposure to lead than other mitigation strategies in the very few situations they are needed.

We should be spending our resources on PFOAS and other environmental contaminants that are actually impacting people.
I learn by doing. So If I want to learn something new, I give myself an easy(but trickier than whatever beginner tutorial exists) project, and just get on with it.
None of what you've just said justifies believing what the media or government say about North Korea, though, does it?
Apple looks like a tech company, but it's really a luxury goods company. When you consider it through this lens the magic falls away and it's just selling status.
Protip: you can't actually read my mind, neurotypical. It is your mind you are reading, not mine.

Please read up on some science.
Phone addiction. I know plenty of people that average 10+ hours a day of screen time. Teenagers are even worse. We have tons of worrying signs and for now we’re not doing anything about it. Unfortunately not a problem that’s easily solved and the algorithms are only getting better.
> I think the next bottleneck to reach AGI status is interfacing AI models with the physical world, where they can conduct scientific experiments and recreate consensus conclusions on their own.

Microsoft has published two research papers, one on robotics and ChatGPT and another on GPT4’s capabilities. They do call out that the foundation model can’t solve novel problems yet, but there is an expectation that the next model could.