skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago, some researchers at Xerox PARC hacked Barney to be an interactive interface, to the amusement of many.

Here is a longer writeup:
https://dourish.com/barney/index.html

And an excerpt:
Using the Barney Protocol Stack, we built a number of applications for Barney. Some were simply feedback applications, that would tell you the progess of activities such as printing your document. Some were monitoring applications that revealed the state of other systems, such as the current network status. Some were communicative applications, such as one which allowed two people to communicate through "Barney semaphore".

So far, getting Barney to say things he doesn't already know how to say still eludes us. We know he uses LPC encoding, but we don't know how the LPC information is striped across the transmitted packets. So for now, our Barney applications can only say things that Barney already knew how to say on one of his applications. The up-side of this is that Barney is always in character; he'll say "Super-dee-duper" rather than "print job accepted". The down-side of this is that it's very hard to find instances of Barney saying negative things; so he'll say "Please try again" (the most negative thing he has to say) instead of "your stupid printer messed up again".

You can read a paper about this work that will appear in the CHI'99 conference https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/302979.303021.
Haha.

Understanding software based on it’s origin story is definitely one overlooked aspect.

Most developers could t hold themselves back for a year or two to see how much of a framework boils away or can be generalized more elegantly. It’s one of the best lessons I’ve ever learned.
So a quote from a movie is your counterargument?
Yes.

I typically load the bar so that I get my desired weight with the fewest number of plates. This keeps the weight slightly closer to the center of the bar and slightly more stable, also light plates have a tendency to wander around more than heavy plates (Except for deadlifts, I typically don't use clips in case I need to dump the weight).

Optimizing the changing of plates is not really of any interest to me, like you said the whole point of being at the gym is lifting weight, and as far as warmup sets go I never use anything but 45 and 25 lb weights until I get to my working set weight.
I think this ultimately just reflects on a certain generation of software that we're still using - a 1990's, Unix-ish, graphics-oriented, Internet-capable stack.

I don't think we're staying there, either. C++ is very long in the tooth. Most people looking for a C++-like thing now gravitate towards Rust(with a little bit of deviation for stuff in roughly the same ballpark like Nim, D, and sometimes Zig). And many of the old projects are looking towards migrating to new languages as well. It's just a matter of the critical masses shifting.
Same, and I'm not a senior engineer. Plot twist!
The video strongly implies that the conditions for 1201/1202 alarms might, or might not, lead to a crash. The take in the video is that they got lucky both in sim and reality.
The reason why we learn about North Korea almost exclusively from the Western sources is because it's a totalitarian dictatorship that suppresses information. You can check out their media online and see for yourself that it's full of propaganda.

We don't get tourists from North Korea because they aren't allowed to leave the country. We don't talk with North Korean people on the internet, because their access to the internet is tightly controlled.

There's no grand western conspiracy to suppress information about NK. It's North Korea itself that does that.

I know that on HN many consider blind contrarianism to be synonymous with rationalism, but seriously...
My prep classes in high school were worth about 200 pts. _Massive_ difference when applying to elite schools.
There may have been a spike in interest in Twitter around October 2022, when Musk bought it. And this is now coming down to the "usual". But I think it's not just that. Would be curious to see trend from last 24 mo as well.

This is the CEO of Cloudflare BTW. He wouldn't post this as bait for the likes. I believe at the very least he finds this a reasonable and telling trend.
> ... IMO doesn't constitute fair use, because the intellectual property of the artist is their style even more than the content they produce

You're essentially banning satire here, though. There's plenty of folks making a living as cover bands or impersonators. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's definitely not outright outlawing imitation.
This GitHub user account has a wealth of other PDP-10 stuff:

https://github.com/PDP-10

The Panda TOPS-20 distribution:

https://github.com/PDP-10/panda

TENEX, or TEN EXtended, the OS BBN made for the PDP-10s they extended to have paging virtual memory:

https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex

Muddle, the language Zork was originally written in:

https://github.com/PDP-10/muddle

Two different Zork codebases:

https://github.com/PDP-10/zork-1

https://github.com/PDP-10/zork
While I’ma proponent of free information and loosening copyright, allowing billion dollar companies to package up the sum of human creation and resell statistical models that mimic the content and style of everyone… is a bit far.

Fair use is for humans.
https://arthurcolle.com and https://arthurcolle.substack.com/

Mostly coding related, some Rust stuff. I am trying to be better about publishing stuff that is interesting. Here is a good one:

https://arthurcolle.substack.com/p/ab2xy-chatgpt-language-tr...
> Information wants to be free...I'm glad Elon bought Twitter because it allows for disinformation to be exposed and discussed.

Is this the same Elon who disallowed links to competitor sites? Who announced that the term "cisgender" would be classified as hate speech? Who suspended accounts for criticizing him? Who closed the site so it could be viewed by logged-in users only?

I understand advocating for free speech, but seeing that vision realized in Elon's management of Twitter requires willful blindness.
Copyrights shouldn't exist, but

> LLM weights, and the datasets are "fair-use" or whatever other silly legal justification.

Would just be a carve out for the wealthy. If these laws don't mean anything, everyone who got harassed, threatened, extorted, fined, arrested, tried, or jailed for internet piracy are owed reparations. Let Meta pay them.
For hotel rooms, an HDMI adapter can usually get you hooked up to the TV. It's usually better for movies than work, though, and sometimes the TVs are so locked down you can't get it to read the HDMI in.
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism
If you want to buy an iPhone with minimal interaction, just use the website or app, for in store pickup. Takes no time at all!

I will agree that it’s ridiculous for customers to have to wait for an appointment to buy a watch band, which I’ve seen. There were several employees standing around at the time, inexplicably.
> I for one am quite happy that AI folks are basically treating copyright as not existing. I strongly hope that the courts find that LLM weights, and the datasets are "fair-use" or whatever other silly legal justification.

I would be very happy if either a court or lawmakers decided that copyright itself was unconscionable. That isn't what's going to happen, though. And I think it's incredibly unacceptable if a court or lawmakers instead decide that AI training in particular gets a special exception to violate other people's copyrights on a massive scale when nobody else gets to do that.

As far as a fair use argument in particular, fair use in the US is a fourfold test:

> the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

The purpose and character is absolutely heavily commercial and makes a great deal of money for the companies building the AIs. A primary use is to create other works of commercial value competing with the original works.

> the nature of the copyrighted work;

There's nothing about the works used for AI training that makes them any less entitled to copyright protections or more permissive of fair use than anything else. They're not unpublished, they're not merely collections of facts or ideas, etc.

> the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

AI training uses entire works, not excerpts.

> the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

AI models are having a massive effect on the market for and value of the works they train on, as is being widely discussed in multiple industries. Art, writing, voice acting, code; in any market AI can generate content for, the value of such content goes down. (This argument does not require AI to be as good as humans. Even if the high end of every market produces work substantially better than AI, flooding a market with unlimited amounts of cheap/free low-end content still has a massive effect.)
I believe the World Bank keeps some metrics on tracking SDGs (sustainable development goals). Googling "world bank sdgs" yields results.
Transferring data with many colors of light simultaneously
Anything by Vladimir Nabokov, to me the best prose stylist in the English language. Not too far below is Gregory Maguire, of "Wicked" fame (it was a book before it was a musical).
‘World’s largest’ drone delivery trial to start in Blanchardstown
If not under an NDA, what are they using to represent the super-bright reds and greens? Lasers? And, more interestingly, the super-greens and super-blues that are very dark and highly-intense?

(I worked for a printing house and I know that some colors are outside RGB and outside CMYK, so they are printed as spot colors. There is a ton of Pantone colors you cannot mix, and must add from special one-color cans, like the Reflex Blue. Some customers want them badly.)
For "LLMs" read "corporations" (it's not the LLM trying to argue that copyright applies to you but not them) and this seems... possibly ok?
Because LLMs are not people. They are nothing like people; not in construction nor behaviour.
Clicking the logo just toggles dark and light mode. Lol which designer thought of that?
> Do you think an actor is lying while they act?

If they're acting in an ad, I assume so.
Up until step 7 and 8 it is the standard shoelace knot. The end of step 6:

> Unlike the “Standard Shoelace Knot”, don't pull it tight just yet!
Extra points if they dress as a bat.
YCombinator might be closer to our modern age Harvard.

Admits on merit, provides brand name & money & networking.

Produces great results overall
Implication here is that poor kids should need willpower, personal initiative, and self-discipline as teenagers, but that rich kids shouldn’t.
What I don't understand is: if this is a standardized national test, isn't school supposed to prepare their students for it?

Every time SAT is mentioned it sounds like it's completely separated from US schooling.
See also https://geoblaze-gsoc.vercel.app and the underlying libraries it uses, which also do range queries on GeoTIFFs.

I'm super interested in this space, including in helping financially support some projects. I already emailed Ted about this, but would be happy to chat to anyone doing this stuff. My email's in my profile.

(Luckily this is niche enough I'm not worried about my inbox blowing up....)
I don't think making humans comfortable is the goal with respect to AI. The goal is to actually solve a problem. Performance is second. Human comfort is a distant third or beyond.

When AI can reliably solve a problem without significant negative consequenses from time to time, it's a win. How humans feel about the method is effectively irrelevant.
What Sort of Bicycle?
emulator integration is https://www.libretro.com/index.php/api/?amp=1 (warning, f’ed website) and the clojure wrapper (by OP) is: https://github.com/phronmophobic/clj-libretro/blob/67f186e87...

really cool!
There's a difference between "information wants to be free" and "Facebook can produce works minimally derived from your greatest creative work at a scale you can't match". LLMs seem to aggregate that value to whoever builds the model, which they can then sell access to, or sell the output it produces.

Five years from now, will OpenAI actually be open, or will it be a rent seeking org chasing the next quarterly gains? I expect the latter.
Deep space experts prove Starlink is interfering in scientific work
The problem is, if you rely on tools - and a constitution is nothing else than a tool - you will end up developing a reliance on that tool. And all of a sudden, that tool breaks, and you're fucked.

Democracy must be fought for every single day, and for that matter so does all progress. Democracy isn't something a society automatically converges to and which everyone loves, it must actively be maintained or someone will come, sow mistrust and preach "easy" solutions - and then you wake up and your country isn't a democracy any more.
These nuclear boosters seem like a real tight-knit community.

This guy used to work for the folks telling lies about wind farms affecting whales.
Not special per se - they are normal spoons. But some spoons are much better than others for spoon bending tricks.

You could lump-sum them into the dollar store variety, that are not as thick and sturdy as expensive ones, but look reasonably the same.
In Germany if you torrent stuff (without a VPN), you're very likely to get a letter from a law firm on behalf of the copyright holders saying that they'll sue you unless you pay them a nice flat fee of around 1000 Euro.

It's no idle threat, and they will win if it goes to court.
If there's evidence it's not disinformation. Not all false claims are disinformation. And if the evidence is mistaken, you need to provide evidence for that claim. You can't just assume a priori that any claim about a link between vaccines and cancer must be false.
Yes, mostly... sometimes a profitable company needs to grow faster than it can organically to capture enough of the market and you need outside investment.
Maybe taking debt is the right idea, sometimes it's not.

It's not common and it's a great place to be in (it's easier to price your company, and to bargain).
I believe you had the luck of never taking part on the extremely demoralizing exercise that is somebody deciding on the next steps for the software, writing it down and passing alone to somebody that will manage the development of that written thing; at the same side, some developers come, get the written down, non-negotiable decisions, and make their best on creating that stuff, fully aware that their continuing employment depends on satisfying the letter of those acceptance conditions, and the salary amount must be justified every time by delivering that in a market-competitive time.

In a feature factory, the developers do not get to know if there is a roadmap or not. It's not of their concern, and the competitive nature of the bids ensures that they won't have time to think about it anyway.

I don't think that this arrangement is even possible for hired developers.
From your multiple comments on threads it seems like your ego is strongly attached to your code - if you truly never, not even one time, derived value from a code review, either you always choose to work in toxic environment/s or you're not willing to accept feedback or defend your "coding style" well enough to align colleagues with your opinion. I desperately miss code review feedback at this point in my career after excellent engineers made me question my strong beliefs and empathise with theirs helped me build my path.
> Good quality news can make you understand what's going on in the world so you can be at the edge when you plan for your future.

So much FOMO. I subscribed to and read a once-a-week article which summarizes the world events that week. Focus of the article is important catasthropes to avoid, kind of. That's enough for me.
Where can I buy them with Fednow?
Honestly for me it falls into "generates a lot of YouTube content, but is of dubious practicality" category. Tesla valve also belongs there. Can someone give other examples?
This is absolute nonsense. Young people are overwhelmingly pro affirmative action, and none of this has damaged Harvard’s rep at all.

For STEM students it was just never as good a choice as schools with more developed eng schools.
The US Constitution certainly isn't modern or flexible enough to definitively protect (users of) E2EE. There are arguments for their protection, but none is ironclad (like "this is speech that is protected" ironclad). I'm not saying the Bill of Rights was wrong in its time period, but it would be more appropriate to lay out fundamental principles that must be upheld, and protection for E2EE (users) could then be derived. There's some of that already, but not in a clear and comprehensive manner.
> “challenging our relationship to the truth“

I’ve seen a lot of great illusionists who never claimed to be doing real magic, and they were no less entertaining or mystifying. We don’t need to give up on respecting truth to enjoy a bit of fantasy.
That’s not an answer to the question posed.
He's pressuring for results with an external example. That way, he gets less of "we cant do that".
If books aren't under copyright protection and they're entirely legal to download, I agree that this lawsuit has no merit.

If that's not what you're saying, I don't understand your point. Is it the difference between the phrases "would be" and "could be," or even "should be"?
This isn't disinformation, its a well known issue. How does it feel to propagate disinfo yourself?
> I am personally of the opinion that the central bank is irrelevant

The economic history of the US (which was one of the last industrial power to addopt a central bank) is against you on this one, especially the period between ACW and the creation of the Fed in 1913.

The purpose of central bank isn't to set up price control on money (which it doesn't, btw) it's to make sure that commercial bank don't have liquidity issues.
One of the things I absolutely love about my current job is not having to use agile. I didn't realize what a massive waste of time it was at my last two jobs because I'd never experienced not having to use it. If I switch jobs in the future, I'll definitely try and push management/product to try not using it.
LLMs are built upon neural networks which are modelled upon how brains work

can you explain to me specifically how they're different?

can you explain to me how they're different to the degree that making an analogy between the two is "disingenuous to the extreme"?
Tester here. After some months of working out the kinks, this phone and OS pair are working great. I strongly recommend (if you are okay with a so-so camera).
"Free software" is somewhat confusing, as is "open source". Unfortunately, I think the terminology is made out to be way more important than it is by people who are deeply involved on free/open source software. I don't belive it's possible to get the average person to care.

Thay said, "freedom software" makes it sound more ideological and will be offputting to many people - see freedom fries, freedom convoy, etc.

Maybe Community Software?
While I agree it's not terribly useful if it pops up whenever an app that uses a deprecated API starts (or something similar), I assume Sonoma is, right now, targeted at developers that will be happy if they learn about their usage of deprecated APIs before the OS is launched.
Adam Savage is also creating content, and you have to nod to the people most likely to be consuming content at times.
Exactly, never happens. It's a threat parents and teachers tell school children to try to spook them from pirating but it isn't financially worth it for an author or publishing company to try to sue an individual over some books or music downloads. The only cases are business to business over mass downloads where it could make financial sense to pay for lawyers to sue.
Many legal concepts used by courts has no legal recognition in the law texts. Much of legal practice are just precedents, policies, customs, and doctrines.

Parent comment mention music synchronization rights, and this concept does not exist in copyright. Court do occasionally mention it, and lawyers talks about it, but in terms of the legal recognition there is basically only the law text that define derivative work and fair use. One way to interpret it is that court has precedents to treat music synchronization as a derivative work that do not fall under fair use.

Using textbooks in training/education is not as black and white that one may assume. Take this Berkeley (https://teaching.berkeley.edu/resources/course-design/using-...). Copying in this context include using pages for slides and during lectures (which is a slightly large scope than making physical copies on physical paper). In obvious case the answer is likely obvious, but in others it will be more complex.
Derren Brown (and surely quite a few others) love pointing out that this is an industry where you tell your audience you are going to lie to them, then lie to them.

It's entertainment.

Uri was flat out lying, and refused to break character, basically turning him into a charlatan.
There's still a similar pattern in sports - the initial entry-level outlay for a variety of individual sports is $x.

And the enthusiast price is similar across very different sports.
I could hear disks spinning up just looking at that page.
That's silly. A constitution is just a piece of paper. It has no inherent power. It's the institutions put in place to enforce the constitution that give it power. If those institutions rot, the constitution will not protect you. As we've seen time and again.
Not entirely fractal, just third-order! Fourth-order would likely not be sturdy enough though.

But cool, while also practical.
One is a person, the other is a computer program.

Legally quite distinct! Note that nobody is even seriously claiming we have an AGI, there's no Star Trek discussion of whether an android is a person. Everyone agrees this is just a computer program.
But does it start nearly every reply with "As an AI language model…"?
Have you tried GPT-4? Haven't seen it hallucinate once out of the 100+ questions I've asked it.

The one mistake I've seen it make was giving me the wrong pin number when asking it to read a datasheet via a plugin, but even then it was a real pin and I wasn't using core GPT-4.
https://archive.ph/kkHN4
Ask HN: Is there a need for distributed systems/infrastructure consulting?
I don't know much about consulting, so I wanted to ask some of the more knowledgeable folks here. Are there companies out there that would need consulting services for things related to microservice resilience, load shedding/balancing, and/or other things that fall under the L7/RPC networking umbrella? Think along the lines of retry storm prevention, fair rate-limiting, etc. "Backpressure stuff".

I've run across so many of the same problems at various unicorn/FAANG companies and as I've become more experienced I'm curious if there's a way to leverage this experience other than continuing to be a "staff+ engineer" at another Facebook/Uber/Snap/etc.

Thanks in advance for any advice/comments.
> I'm not sure I agree. Eventually your garage is totally full of exactly the right tool for some job or other and you can't find anything because there's tools in the way.

Frequently it means you can do the thing at all.

I will not use my snap ring pliers again this year. Or probably next. But I am never throwing those goddamn things out because trying to do tasks that require them, without them, is impossible. And I will not get a lot of forewarning when my planer decides it's time to blow a bearing.

But they're $10 snap ring pliers from Harbor Freight, not $50 Knipex ones. Get the tool to do the job, worry about the nicest tool if you do it every day.
For a beginner a $500 instrument is way overkill. An affinity squier, yamaha pacific, or a variety of epiphones are available for half of that, and are more than capable for beginners.