skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already have experience building nested dropdowns and reactive search bars with Express, Liquid Templates, and Tailwind.

This is a completely different sense of enjoyment, try to build a reactive modal element that displays a form in it where there is reactive value from the server.
With the standard, retro compiler as used in the 90s Developer Pack example, the compiler will assume you're calling the ASCII methods unless you manually configure it to use Unicode by default.

During modern Windows development you should probably default to wide characters, of course.
> the actual output exe doesn't actually use the .NET framework for anything at all

except for runtime environment initialization, JIT compilation, and execution.
The width is defined as CHAR_BIT >= 8 (C11 5.2.4.2.1p1).
The size, sizeof (char), is always 1.
If Amazon used these techniques to hire its warehouse workers, it won't wither and die a bit.

We software engineers are used to be in high demand and somehow short supply, even now when it's taking me more than two months to find a new position. In many other industries supply noticeably exceeds demand, and people would go to great lengths and jump through really silly hoops just to get hired.
> So, if the plaintiff can prove the content was pirated, then the use of that content downstream is tainted.

Has that been tested in court?

This is quite an interesting case.

Obtaining the book in the first place[0] appears to be quite a clear case of copyright infrigement.

The question of whether a work derived from the book is infringment is pretty complex, and there's a wide range of tests that get applied to determine that.

But is it necessarily true that if you obtained the original work via copyright infringement and then created an otherwise non-infringing derived work, your derived work is nevertheless infringing due to the provenance of your copy of the original work?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36659041
>the point is, currently NO ROAD is the Autobahn. thats not a balance, thats censorship.

If you think this is true, you're not looking very hard.
However, tech companies will often not have your physical address--unlike your bank. And I'd probably block phone calls from some tech company I was a customer of.
I think this will be a bigger issue than some people think. Maybe there's a market for 'clean' training data that doesn't include potential copyright claims. Just public domain works. We'll know it's an AI because it talks like a late 18th century/early 19th century writer?
3 emails over six months is pretty lousy notification rate. At minimum, something sent the month of the shutdown would be appropriate. More ideally, would be an aggressive notification push of increasing frequency the closer to the shutdown period. Was there any notification of the shutdown in the admin panels? The person with the ability to migrate data may not be the person receiving the messages.

EDIT: Also, does the company have a Sales team? Why is that not a top line item for representative to contact those who have active service in the region to emphasize the shutdown? Or was the Sales team similarly in the dark about the messaging?
About what it looked like in 2021, plus some conversational assistants and some more chatbots replacing customer support that we'll come to hate. Re 2021 I mean lots going on but less sexy and not the topic de jour for the hustlebro types. Focused on realistic incremental applications. Presumably there will be some new take on NFTs or ICOs onto which the hype crowd has churned.

Also way more red tape.
Do you really only use one warmup weight when lifting heavy?

Let's say I'm squatting 325lb / 140kg. I'll usually do 5/reps empty bar, 5 reps 135lb, 5 reps 225, 5 reps 275, then 3-5 "working" sets of 325 (3x5 or 5x5).

Do you think all those intermediate warmup reps are a waste of time?
[2008 me] fell in love with the "it just works" and "an actually usable GUI plus Unix under the hood" and "they actually sweat the small stuff" [...] [By 2018, say] The user-annoyance-factor difference between modern Windows and macOS is very slight.

Could not have said it better myself.
I'm hugely skeptical of all the recent claims that combustion cars are nearly as clean as EVs because of tires.
We get an email address because we need to contact our customers. After that we make best efforts but if people can’t respond to vendors they pay money to, we’re really at a loss. I realize that shutting down a region isn’t good. It’s not what we would have preferred, but we had to do it for the business. And we made an honest effort to contact all customers to help move them.
Are you referring to slippery slope? That doesn't apply here since there's no small step that is causing them to believe the models will continue to get better.

What about Moore's law? Observing trends and predicting what might happen isn't a particularly new idea. You're not the only one, but I find it odd when people toss around the fallacy argument when a trend isn't pointing their way in an argument. I'm sure you use past trends to inform many of your thoughts each day.
> This can be done efficiently via, eg, Dijkstra’s algorithm, but since this is such a small graph, we can also easily enumerate all 36 paths and sort for efficiency.

Brute force enumeration for small problem instances is pragmatic. For larger problems, Dijkstra's algorithm would certainly work, and would also work for more general problems where we're given a graph containing cycles.

For this barbell plate problem we could also exploit the acyclic structure and use bottom-up dynamic programming: maintain a table tracking the cost of the cheapest path to each node, and an auxiliary table tracking the predecessor node or incoming edge per node where the cheapest path was attained, then fill out the tables "bottom up" (or left to right per the diagrams). Less general, but it dodges the need to do a bunch of work maintaining a priority queue of partial paths.

Another fun connection is to the Viterbi algorithm - a completely different real world application to barbell plate optimization - decoding a sequence of noisy observations and trying to reconstruct the most probable trajectory of unobserved states - but the abstract mathematical model & way to attack it computationally is very similar -- construct a DAG, a solution is a least-cost path through the DAG (ignoring all the problem-specific details going into the definition of state spaces, transition graphs, edge costs, etc). c.f. "The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (2017)" from a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35897851

edit: i guess another connection is the knapsack problem mentioned in this post -- it can also be framed as a least-cost path through a DAG, and computed bottom-up.

For this barbell plate optimisation problem, the acyclic structure comes from the monotonic increasing sequence of goal weights. For the Viterbi algorithm's problem of inferring a most probable sequence, the acyclic structure comes from each observation being ordered by the observation time. For the knapsack problem, there isn't really a natural problem defined ordering of item take/leave decisions, but the decisions can be sequenced in any arbitrary fixed order.
So am I but it's still an appeal to authority, and not a valid argument.
i suppose in this modern age of ssd drives, we won't have these pleasures anymore. sad? perhaps.
They uploaded an intentionally misaligned LLM to a website for sharing LLMS. Alignment is an actively researched topic for most models.

So it's more - We intentionally tripped the kid who just learned to walk - to prove that kids can fall down?
But it's only that way because Reddit placed limits which goes against the "let the internet be grimy" hot-take. Back in the day there were subreddits that would rival the depravity of /b/.
It's a tautological argument: The current energy mix is 90% fossil, it takes energy to make solar panels, therefore solar panels are made of 90% fossil.
Ah, don't mistake many of us collectively romping through the piles of outdated software and hardware with rose-colored goggles as something like that.

Nostalgia trips aside, I certainly wouldn't be eager to trade my three-decades-refined tooling and easy access to answers so readily. That old shit broke all the time. It may have been fun then, but I wouldn't want to return to days of squeezing kilobytes of RAM via autoexec.bat and config.sys tweaking, or agonizing over the perfect combination to keep my IRQs straight across all of my ISA slots.
That's not what's going to happen.
You're missing the bigger picture[1]:

Numerous questions of law or fact common to each Class arise from Defendants’ conduct:
whether ChatGPT itself is an infringing derivative work based on Plaintiffs’ copyrighted books;
whether the text outputs of ChatGPT are infringing derivative works based on Plaintiffs’ copyrighted books;

It's not a simple case of "you used our copyrighted materials", it's "you're infringing on our copyright by producing works derived from materials that you used."

1. https://llmlitigation.com/pdf/03223/tremblay-openai-complain...
Step 1: is it a review?

Step 2: is it on Amazon?

Output: If Yes and Yes, over 50% probability it's fake.
Same. If I'm in a rush I just preorder. Apple has the easiest purchasing experience I know of.
Paul: I'm surprised you didn't do a scream test. Not everyone is going to see those emails and even those that do may not understand what they are reading.

Internally at my company we always do scream tests as part of our EOL process because we know we can't reach everyone, even our own employees.

https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/microsoft-uses-a-...

Fun story: my mortgage got sold last year. Not the first time. I got emails from the old mortgage company and the new mortgage company about the sale, but I skimmed them. I got letters via USPS from the old and new mortgage companies, but I mostly ignored those because 95% of what mortgage companies send me via USPS is junk. So I missed the fact that my automatic payments didn't transfer over. The new mortgage company let me get four months in arrears before they finally FedEx'd me something overnight. That got my attention. I was like: you guys should've FedEx'd me this in the first place. For all they knew, I wasn't getting their emails or letters in the first place because nothing had been sent signature required.
As a likewise amateur woodworker, this resonated - up to a point. When I started in the hobby, I spent a lot of time in the accumulation phase which mostly consisted of buying cheap or second-hand tools to unlock specific capabilities. Just having a table saw (even a cheap one) allowed me to build a lot more pieces, more quickly. This is a seductive step, as each new tool (router, bandsaw, jointer, etc.) earned me a whole new capability and new options.

After the initial excitement, I settled down into the optimisation phase where I started learning how to get the best results out of the tools I had. This involved a realisation that just having a tool doesn't automatically confer mastery with it, and that you need to put in the time. IMO this is the step where you learn the value of a "good quality" tool, i.e. you identify any friction or frustrations with the cheaper tools you have. You also identify which ones actually get used, therefore which ones are worth the upgrade.

I feel like the optimisation phase blends slowly into the "mastery" phase over time: you switch over to thinking about design instead of execution, workflow optimisation instead of "how will I build this", shop organisation instead of having as many tools as possible on hand. Mastery is the decision (conscious or otherwise) to get the best out of your tools, rather than having the right brand.
The same way Disney borrowed heavily from the public domain only to shut the door after themselves and lock it up for decades. We as a people benefit from not having gatekeepers lock up our cultural heritage in the name of fetishing money. We are nearing a point where copyright will be ignored and the gatekeepers left fuming and unable to extract rent anymore.
C11 3.6p1 byte "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment"
This doesn't track for me. Lots of people forecast, rightly or wrongly, events much worse then we've ever experienced: catastrophic climate change, apocalyptic nuclear war, immentiment economic collapse, etc. So no, I don't think we are somehow limited in our imagination to events that we've already observed to happen.
In addition, people are still hacking older versions of Windows [1], they're just not filing CVEs.

That's because there's little value in doing so, and as that article shows, it's also very difficult to, due to the tiny attack surface. The exploit shown there requires things that people wouldn't normally do (or even find it easy to, due to NATs) even with a newer version --- like exposing a share over the Internet --- and there have already been plenty more exploits found in the file sharing code of newer Windows too.
Torrent sites worth being on are invite only.
The article suggests a different tire material, but this wouldn't do anything about breaking dust.

There's been work on active capture systems, e.g.: https://sciencebridge.de/en/brake-dust-collector.html

Whatever the technical solution is, the primary problem seems to be regulatory, as these emissions aren't regulated at all.
More and more of the digital world, from the internet to what applications our devices allow us to install, is about filing off the edges and rounding all corners to make the world safer for the common denominator and i don't have to like it.

And as the digital world increasingly invades and influences our realities and experiences the importance of not only serving the common denominator gets more important, not less.
This has not been my experience at all. I walk in (or make an appt beforehand for the sake of convenience), tell the what I want, plop down my credit card, and I am out of there in 20 minutes tops. Super smooth, professional experience.
Those are just the ones you will see from a random sample of job postings. There are many others out there that are not posted at any given moment. If you don't believe me just talk to any data scientist who has worked at or does work at a bank.
For me it's built in as a senior software dev, no extra compensation. But, it's 3 or 4 one-week shifts a year because everyone is in the rotation. Usually nothing happens. We are a small company (< 150) and we run a public marketplace website, so someone has to do it.

If either I was in a more junior position, or the on call issues were very frequent, then I might feel differently.

I don't know your situation, but I would ask: what has changed? Is the product turning out to be less reliable than expected, or has the previous arrangement for support failed somehow, funding cut etc.?

In a previous job we built projects with 18 month dev cycles, and then went into a 6 month session of intensive support, basically being on call every day. But we always knew that going in.
That tickled me too. It's like saying that walking is a warmup for sprinting.
> > But I really don't see how you could prove OpenAI did that

> It seems pretty easy to prove that, since they admitted it in public.

Can you highlight/link to where OpenAI have admitted this? As far as I'm aware, OpenAI are still secretive about their training datasets.
Yeah, that ADHD one was jarring.
>The user-annoyance-factor difference between modern Windows and macOS is very slight.

You’re still wearing the rose-tinted glasses. MacOS is not able to (natively):
1. Allow the trackpad to scroll “natively” and a mouse to “normal” scroll.
2. Scale for an external display without a specific PPI. The PPI is so high there’s only a couple monitors that support it on the market.
3. Display crisp text on a non-high-PPI screen (as above).
4. Allow the user to edit or remove the horrendous mouse acceleration curve.
5. Allow users to select minimized windows with Alt+Tab.
6. Allow users to snap windows.
7. Etc etc.

I’m stunned I can’t scale stuff on my 4k monitor, adjust the mouse, or be productive with alt-tab.

Gorgeous hardware, but wow, I’m stunned you guys (and girls) can use this seriously.
I’ll be honest, I’m one of the people that needs instructions for Apple products. I’ve been buying them online — each time becoming frustrated with the lack of instructions and the assumed knowledge necessary to use them.

Oh, you didn’t know that there’s actually two different places to swipe down at the top of the phone? Everyone knows about that, you idiot!
Why 2018?
It’s the best size of machine screw
I don't use Reddit outside a few niche communities that unfortunately have a presence there, but disturbing content (as in genuinely disturbing, not merely porn and dead people) broadens one's horizons.

Here are some disturbing things I've run across that I'm glad to have seen:

The Wethouse, a documentary on an alcohol-allowed hostel for alcoholics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5wNsfKo84

Putin's essay "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians": en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 (it should be obvious from the literal kremlin.ru domain and the fact it's by Putin, but you want to read this one critically)

/r/deathgainers, a community of fetishists literally eating themselves to death and being egged on by other fetishists (no URL because it probably got wiped out in the drama and because it is actual porn; see also pro-anorexia communities, which for some reason tend to be banned while deathgainers are allowed)

Blindsight by Peter Watts, a hard-biology science fiction novel that raises questions about how we think: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

The disturbing parts of the internet are more worthwhile than the Skinner boxes and can encourage more personal growth. Certainly if you're only a little concerned about the amount you drink, watching The Wethouse will change that; if you're sitting there in July of 2021 and not too worried about whether Russia will start a land war in Europe, reading Putin's essay and its echoes of blood-and-soil will change that too; if you eat too little or too much, seeing the fatal effects can be a wake-up call.

Many moderation policies would block some or all of those, though The Wethouse and Blindsight might escape. I'm glad to have seen all of them. I'm not sure whether I would have, if I had to explicitly go to the designated deviant zone and wade through thousands of gigs of porn to find them.
Well, it's not exactly perfect because I was in the mood to simply buy a basic Air, until I was pretty well talked out of it by sales staff, so instead of an easy £1099 in the till, in their attempt to turn that into £2500, they got £0. That isn't good business.

Also, the tedium of nowadays knowing that all the products will be bumped in spec in 9-12 months means that instead of excitement, buyer's remorse has already kicked in before reaching the store, for the savvy consumer midway though the product cycle. Again, not the result effective capitalism should be going for.
Toasting twenty years of Raymond Chen's blog. Cheers!
Why do customers believe that they don’t need to read their emails?
Yup. I remember once with my desktop trying to figure out why it took like 10 seconds to access the D drive. I listened and could hear it trying repeatedly to whir up before it finally did. I don’t miss the tech but I miss the ambience.
Previous big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657540
I always hated that stereotype too. Those older people were the ones to design our current processors, operating systems, and the internet and web itself. The people who sent man to the moon would be nearing 80-100 years old already.
This isn't completely new, similar issues came up with search engines and this may be seen as 'transformative'. But there may be issues with models that happily reproduce copyrighted texts in their entirety along with other novel issues like models that hallucinate defamatory things or other such problems.

Still, I doubt this particular genie can be stuffed back into the bottle, so we'll probably see a lot of litigation and work on alignment, etc. along with new types of abuse.
Apparently not; see https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2022-year-in-review/ (Social Media Services section)
Im not convinced thats true in all or even most cases
Look, I think communism sounds great, but the problem is that it simply doesn't work in practice. In other words, it has been tried, it just doesn't work.

To see why, you can categorize the forms of government as so:

- Monarchy/Dictatorship: Power in the hands of one, one person is authority
- Oligarchy/Republic: Power in the hands of a few, aristocrats are authority
- Democracy: Power in the hands of many, majority is authority
- Communism/Anarchy: Power in everyone's hands, everyone is equal in authority

In reality, society only works when there's a power hierarchy; it's the natural order of things. The more you equally distribute power amongst people, the more dysfunctional/less orderly/more bureaucratic society becomes.

In particular, notice all the forms of government (except for communism) has a way to settle disputes without resorting to violence. For example, in Democracy, you settle disputes by voting, where the majority wins, and the rest don't get their way. This ability to settle disputes without violence, is what makes us civil and what makes society a society. Without it (such as with communism), you are in complete anarchy, where raw might/ability (eg successful violence/persuasion) is the only thing there is left to settle disputes. Thus, those who wield it typically end up becoming the "authority", and is why over time, communism/anarchy will naturally change into one of the other forms of government.
Sure, but most people wouldn't be able to on their commute as the US doesn't have enough money to build tracks in cities these days as "fair value" for eminent domain would be simply too much, at least in the USA. Taxpayers would never want to pay for it, especially since public transportation always has to be subsidized.
Twenty minutes sounds like a long time to walk in, get something you already know you want, pay, and walk out.
There is a big difference between win9x and modern battle hardened OSs that were sitting on the modern internet for a decade. As the parent points out for windows, and its similar for linux, the security exploits are largely in _NEW_ code being rewritten rather than the code which is being tossed, hence the recent huge privilege escalation bug in the linux kernel last week.

So, yes its planned obsolescence particular when random buffer overflow/etc kinds of bugs get found in these older OSs fixing them isn't some huge lift for ms/whoever since most of the time its just a one line fix. And in the cases where the bug exists across multiple versions, its likely because its old untouched code so fixing it in the newer OS also fixes it in the older ones if someone figures out how to `git cherry-pick` or equivilant.

I've said it before and I will say it again, the major OS providers should be on the hook for security fixes for the lifetime of the product its been licensed to run on. That means if I want to play games on a 25 year old computer, i shouldn't have to worry about whether some 10 year old bug means I'm going to be exploited the second someone passes an image over that exploits a bug in the jpg decoder.
I have tried this, and also using e-sata, though not as a daily driver, and it does work, but as you say it can be a bit wormy to setup; bios vs gpt partition table, efi vs legacy bios support, disk numbers can change depending what other disks are on the machine, etc.

One other problem is that boot-from-usb is usually not enabled by default so you have to fiddle with bios boot order every time.
Authorities can also miss the obvious like the rest of us. So still needs a proper argument (even if it's just "No, it's not shown in XCode, go check and you'll agree").