skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we will have to handle more outdated browsers soon, now that Chrome dropped support for Windows 7/8 and older Androids.
> profitability be damned

Currently, Tesla makes each car with a profit of almost 10k USD. That is insane compared to competitors, VW is at 973USD. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-teslas-unrivaled-pr...

It was really bad in the beginning, but now it's stellar, second only to Ferrari and other luxury cars. I don't like the guy, but this is not just luck.
Perhaps they call it X because of what comes after: why?
> In LaTeX you can have actual boldface letters, so you should write a boldface letter R to represent the real numbers and so on.

Almost [1] every single student absolutely hates that notation in scripts. Bold is used to draw attention, it should not be abused as being part of the variable/type. Just use the proper symbol.

[1] And I'm only saying "almost" to account for the possibility of there being like 5 super weird people on this planet that think otherwise. I don't know a single person who thinks this is a good idea, even the professors writing their scripts like that think it's stupid and are only doing it due to some nonsense fear of it otherwise not printing correctly due to one single bad experience with a shitty printer in 1950. Or maybe there's some other historical reason for this, but in 2023 I'd classify not using the better notation as malicious.
> I don't believe the nature of LLM is to hallucinate. It's instead a side effect of how we train them. We train them to guess, to be close, but not to be correct necessarily.

Thoughout this comment you speak about LLMs as-if they're animals, or real physical objects. An LLM is a formal model which is just to generate a sequence of tokens maximally probabilistically consistent with a corpus of historical text.

A digital machine running a LLM program is a physical object which necessarily generates text based on "guessing" because that's the algorithm it's running. LLMs are "guessing algorithms", all of Machine Learning is -- it is dumb brute-force analysis of conditional probability.

> GPT4 is roughly 40 times smaller than a human brain

This doesn't make any sense. GPT4 is an abstract algorithm with no "size". The brain has 10^{big number} cells, and GPT4 can be specified with a single real number. Is that the comparison to make? No, both comparisons are incoherent.

A physical device running GPT4 can be given a "size", but it would again have nothing to do with a brain.

LLMs arent living things where we can "measure their size" and "train them to know, rather than to guess". They are just the equation, `max P(answer|propmt, historical_corpus)`

A machine running GPT4 is just an electrical device generating text according to the rule given above. There is no sense of "training it to do something other than guesswork", and no sense of "size"
Sure. + in particular is super common since 2008 when Google introduced it as a way to alias emails in Gmail.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
Remember when Facebook was a product of Facebook and not a product of Meta? I don’t know what road this is going in, but maybe the plan is for the product to be called Twitter, and keep the company distinct from it.
Except like 90% of the comments here completely ignore the fact.
Great!

Any thoughts on Appflowy or Focalboard? (Source: https://atlas.scoutflo.com/?q=notion)
This is silly. Astronomy and physics perfectly explain the tides. Just because there's another belief system that also claims to explain the influence of celestial bodies on the earth, doesn't mean I need to believe in it to explain the tides.
Europe Is Stockpiling Chinese Solar Panels at Record Levels
It's still somewhat true. Desktop CPUs have hardware acceleration for things like video decoding, mainframes have hardware acceleration for things like encryption / decryption, compression / decompression, fixed-decimal arithmetic, etc.
Understanding Zlib
> What people don‘t seem to take into account here is that Elon was forced to buy the company due to a binding offer he made but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on.

My understanding is that manipulated numbers would have been a legit reason to exit the deal but it turned out that Musk couldn’t provide that and thus was forced to go through with the offer. Am I misremembering?
That is not at all what looking at their financials say. Twitter was a very profitable company which over hired like crazy in 2021. This could have been solved without gong crazy like Musk did. Just do responsible layoffs.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/delisted/TWTR/twitter/ebi...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/delisted/TWTR/twitter/num...
Wait....is this a glitch in the matrix or something?? How did LA muster to get this going, ahead of most other states?!?
ASLR, PAC, etc are trivial to defeat for an experienced black hat / red team.

I'm not even talking about memory safety. That's just one class of exploits. There are so many more to choose from.

This vuln isn't that dangerous. It requires a special circumstance and trust. Other vulns don't require those things.
Dragon (dictate/NaturallySpeaking/professional/whatever they are calling it this year) has the ability to do this in conjunction with their official browser add-on, but it is an absolutely miserable product otherwise and I would not recommend it.

I can say the words "click reply" and this message will be sent.
> Today, IBM is the only mainframe manufacturer

AFAIK Fujitsu still manufacture mainframes
Thanks. Just reduced the size of the images quite a bit
Yeah, any complaint/presaging about imaginary internet points gets an automatic downvote from me.
It's more about owning your data.
Doesn’t Google have a trademark on X?
The sycophants are one thing, but he's gone off the loon end himself for extremely personal stuff as well such as the names of his children with Grimes.
The R&D (and probably all) expenses and difficulty involved in SOC board manufacture and design are orders of magnitude lower than the R&D expenses, difficulty, and gatekeeping required to design and manufacture that very same CPU.
With the little experience I have, I can see that capturing and promoting true quality is legit harder.

But yes, you're exceptionally good at this. Super impressive! Thank you, again :)
When so much at work has changed, why can't we shake presenteeism?
You are correct mostly google search does not work any more.
Supposing that’s true for the sake of argument: Where?
Returning to First Principles: Disciplined Problem Solving
Can Language Models Teach Weaker Agents? Teacher Explanations Improve Students via Theory of Mind

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09299

TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing

https://huggingface.co/papers/2307.10373

Need to see code for second one.
It’s a common misunderstanding: because something is the dominant technology it must be good in some way. The history of technology, not just computers but all technology, repeatedly and consistently shows otherwise.
> I don't think he had any talent

He has a talent: self-promotion.
“Thou shall not kill” is far different than “Capricorns love bunnies!”
>Which is to say, don't think in terms of inviolable rules - that's useful for engineering the system, but can sabotage your ability to understand the system - and think instead in terms of what is possible and at what rate you expect it to happen. Then try multiplying that by 8 billion

Notice that the above have nothing to with statistics. It's just handwaving based on the "with 8 billion people trying, anything is possible".

>Think about, say, professional gamers. Are they skilled? Doubtless. May the winner of a match be decided by the RNG? Definitely. If we're talking about a tournament of the best players, they're going to be pretty evenly matched, and it becomes pretty likely that luck will determine the winner.

That has already shifted the goalposts, to "luck among the best players" as opposed to "he just got lucky".
Imagine being the world's richest man, even for a little bit. I would imagine that does some stuff to your ego.
Steve Jobs single handidly killed Apple's presence in the early PC market by taking his project (handling the development and launch of the first Macintosh) and commandeering it into a monster project.

What was meant to be an affordable alternative to the Apple II, became under Job's supervision a method to take control of the Apple line of computers. He ended up making a less feature-rich Apple II, which rivaled it in price, killing the idea that the computer could compete with other cheaper computers on the market.

All to stroke his own ego.
* There are millions upon millions of Twitter-branded social media icons on the web. Almost every notable website has one.

That kind of brand exposure is literally priceless. Throwing is away is absolutely bonkers... it's just next-level idiocy.

We might be witnessing one of the greatest branding mistakes of all time.
You're joking, right?

Browsers haven't ever been safe. There are competitions every year to find new 0days that break out of browser protections, and every year multiple are found. And those are the vulns they'll tell you about.
Really appreciate it! Unfortunately I don't at the moment. Big fan of RSS as well so I get the sentiment
"kill a platform" is an overstatement, isn't it? I follow several dozens people at twitter and they are all there, posting regularly as before. Honestly, I didn't notice any degradation of twitter during Musk era. There is Andrew Tate shitposting now, and for a few hours twitter logo was changed to Doge, but what else?
Some people just like to see the world burn. Move fast, break things. Like my bank, ATM, pharmacy, shipping mgmt, hospitals, paycheck services, utility grids...

And then in 5 years someone can rewrite it all again because something else will be cooler and my code will be technical debt.
This law was passed specifically to allow Aryeh Dery to ignore the terms of his plea agreement and serve as a minister. It's not related to the Jewish-Arab demographic balance (which, within the 67 borders, is about 85-15).
Coincidentally, the end of that sketch is how I feel about the platform now:
"I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any further as I think this is getting too silly."
No it worked haha. She avoided you. I doubt you would have complained had the sign been a match
If I was in California and had kids I would simply abandon them and then foster them so they would get free tuition.
Except I never abandoned my copy of Far Cry 4. A better analogy would be a book on a shelf. I may not complete a book I bought 10 years ago but I may revisit it anytime.
In business, it works more like:

Get one coin flip right => get 10 flips for free.
Just to note simple does not mean less complicated [1], easy is an enemy more often.

[1]: https://youtu.be/LKtk3HCgTa8
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal or financial advice. Many service providers will allow pre-paying a credit to the account but if you want any kind of promise then I think you would need to reach out to them, set up a business account of sorts and get a contract that agrees to your terms in writing reviewed and signed by lawyers. The account should be set up in the name of a trust or business. Pre-paying may be important if you suspect funds may be seized. Even then that does not stop the business from going bankrupt which in most countries would nullify that contract unless the bankruptcy judge determines that some law requires the acquiring company to honor your contract which is unlikely and assuming the email provider is acquired and not liquidated. You could probably also pay a money management company to pay your bills from a legal trust which vary by state and country and have all your bills route to them. I am basing most of this off the myriad of chapter-11's, mergers and acquisitions I went through during and after the .com bust which led to some fun arguments with vendors.

Be sure to set up limited power of attorney with your lawyers so they can manage your email account. Set up forwarding to route emails to them as you won't have access to a computer or phone. If a prison had a shared terminal then the warden and staff would have access to your emails. Probably best to keep that between you and your lawyers. And/or set up email rules to forward emails with specific subjects to your lawyers. It would also be important to discuss all of this with the lawyers that would be involved in discussions with the sentencing judge so that for example the lawyers may be able to visit you with a laptop that has offline copies of emails as cell service may be blocked. Expect this to ultimately be paper hard copies.

As for specific companies it is probably best to research the founders, board members, financials and company history of several providers. It's hard to predict which tech companies will still be around in twenty years. Even golden children like Amazon could be replaced by a new golden child but that is a much bigger topic.
I probably don't know enough about Sparta then. From what I thought I knew before your comments, I learned that they took the "teach kids to be fighters" to the extreme and they had the longest "education" period of any city states around them, mostly focused on skills for battle. Supposedly the old men were involved in this education, the kids were training, the men were fighting, and the women were supporting all of this. So that's what I was basing the thought of this type of society probably making it less likely that you have a bunch of scribes or other types of jobs being done that would be more likely to leave stuff written down.
x.com was a company he founded early 1999. He wanted an online bank. Wikipedia page on it is informative.
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I'll subvert this and say that any religion and atheism aren't rational. Ignoring the case of supernatural compulsion, a given person has ingrained beliefs/values, as well as a personality, that drive what they accept and don't accept. Strictly trying to achieve rationality embodies the scientific method, but science can't prove or disprove anything, ultimately. Beliefs that fill the void there are beyond rationality. A belief that is heavily debunked by science can be considered irrational. Just keep in mind that science isn't perfectly capable.
Scripting in Java Revised
Reviving an IBM RS/6000 Workstation
Oxide could probably be considered a "modern mainframe" if you squint. The architecture is of course much different, but server CPUs from the likes of AMD are gradually catching up with the purpose-built stuff in raw power and I/O capabilities.
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It only has power level control up to the limits for ISM devices on its operating frequencies. Its license is only valid for antennas with specific gain.

You technically can overwrite its firmware to turn the radio into some general purpose software defined radio transmitter but that's not how the device is licensed and sold.
> Remember hyperloop?

An idea, not a company

> Remember boring company?

Still a company.

> Remember solar city?

Acquired by Tesla, who remains a major supplier of residential solar panels.
Looks like Ford argued for it in 2009 and in 2010 didn’t take it. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/59862-rejecting-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Icon:_Alan_Mulally_...
Good discussion and an okay diagram in this thread

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/43338/how-do...
> Serve your API at api.example.com, never at example.com/api. As your API's usage grows, it will expand beyond your website/dashboard server and need to move to a separate server or many separate servers. You'll want to be able to move things around by just pointing its IP somewhere else rather than trying to proxy things from your dashboard server.

This makes a rather specific assumption that there is no L7 load balancer or the like in front.
"When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything." (attributed to G. K. Chesterton)
When reading your original comment, it sounds like you're saying that the solution is to avoid undergraduate college and leverage connections to immediately get a job. While that might work for people with those connections, how is that a solution for people without connections?
There are no articles to confirm that it was losing $4m a day prior to the acquisition. This is a number that Elon put out (post acquisition) to justify layoffs.
I don’t get it. Are you saying the Macintosh was a failure for Apple? Or was Jobs right, whatever his motivations may have been?
> Few would argue that it works better now than before

Maybe in the social circles you stick to, but there are plenty of /other/ people (i.e. more than a "few") that are quite happy that the 80% of employees doing their jobs were let go. [1]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394
Indeed. I think one potential cure to what most people here recognized as the enshittification of the internet would be if people just blogged about things that interested them, regardless of whether some third-party thinks the topic(s) merited.
The reality is that the hero likely never existed.
Here’s a recent-ish Changelog podcast with one of the few professors who teaches about IBM mainframes and COBOL and is part of the Open Mainframe Project, https://changelog.com/podcast/524
It sounds similar to the division between “math” and “maths”. It looks wrong depending on where you grew up.
Well yes that's my point. In the long run it worked out for them... but only after years of intense non-profitable investment that would not have happened in a more conservative investment climate where higher interest rates prevailed.

There would have been other places for investors to stick their money.
Tweeting was like googling, or photoshopping. It demonstrated market lead on a linguistic level.

I guess this kind of rebranding must be very appreciated by competing platforms.
He certainly had his wallet involved with some interesting things but I think it's a stretch to say he had any beneficial hands-on involvement.
That's the trick. It's about feelings of certainty, not actual measurable reproduceable predictions.

Most long-lived divination methods are very vague. Anything providing concrete predictions is easily proven wrong and discredited, only the vague survives.

But people rarely take ambiguous answers for what they are, and instead interpret them into something more certain.

And this lets divination exploit all kinds of biases. On top of the regular old confirmation bias, whenever the interpretation turns out wrong, people don't write off the divination method, but assume they merely "interpreted it wrong" (and often, the vagueness means they can retcon an interpretation that is true), and worse yet, assume that now they're better at interpreting so next time it's going to be a correct prediction.

Observe how little the personality tests actually say, they're just as ambiguous.
...which leads, of course, to the question of whether, with the application of a suitable sum of money, one can get one's chosen logo added to the unicode standard.
You're looking at it from Musk taking over twitter, which I agree with, chasing away users is easy.

The conversation was about X being built from the ground up and attracting new users which is much harder.

BlueSky only started gaining traction after Musk started pissing people off, doubt prag would have done the same.
Codepen in a URL
Certainly. A good reason for a migration is that we are in a place where we need to do something major--whether that's modernizing the software on the mainframe that isn't doing the job, moving everything to new platform(s) (including potentially cloud), or some combination of the two--the latter being a pretty common strategy these days. At that point, just adding more duct tape is probably the wrong approach, at least in the medium to long term.
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Sorry for the late response.

The short answer is because I don't like meddlers, especially not ones with legal authority.

Consider that perhaps I want to build my dream home, but my neighbors use the HOA or town council to try and keep me from doing what I want with my property because they think my preferred home style is ugly. In my mind it's the same principle as me wanting to block dense housing because I think it's ugly.
> try to arrest the free-fall

Important to remember that he is the one who pushed the Twitter car over the cliff into financial free-fall with his leveraged buyout.
I'm not sure how much water the multi tenant HA argument holds, these institutions are already doing that on AWS / Azure / k8s for the more modern apps. Rewriting all the old crusty COBOL code might be a different story.
“A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives”

By McPartland and Small.

Moving on from cannabis sativa indica and cannabis sativa sativa to cannabis sativa indica Himalayansis and cannabis sativa indica asperrima depending on distribution from the original location of the extinct ancient cannabis wildtype.

Following this new classification, I believe there’s a third undocumented variety in North East Asia.

If anyone else has noticed the samesameification of cannabis strains and is wondering what the path forward is, this may be illuminating.

https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/46700/
My partner does very technical systems hacking on z/OS. They have a huge problem hiring new programmers. His colleagues are all well over 65 and are inevitably retiring (or worse). It seems like a real problem for the future of the platform.
> Notice that the above have nothing to with statistics.

I was suggesting a thought experiment. I thought the way you were approaching this was rigid, I was encouraging you to see this as more of a scientific phenomenon than something rote.

It was just a suggestion, it's your business if you don't wanna take it.

> That has already shifted the goalposts...

Just trying to give you an example where both luck and skill matter. No goalposts were moved. I was responding to your objection, wherein the goalpost was, "does the existence of luck imply the nonimportance of skill?"
Mostly statistics operations on simple lists, a decision analysis tool and financial planning.
Disasterous.
This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform.

Dying platforms are often the result of negative network effects, superior competitors, and self-centered founders who believe early successes make them brilliant business leaders and experts in everything else they touch.
If sub-generational slang can come and go in a single-digit number of years, I think the population at large will have little problem forgetting "Twitter" and "tweet" as general terminology. The verb "to google" has stuck around because Google is still around, though I'm sure there's some threshold of time where terminology gets passed down and sticks (velcro, kleenex, etc).
> or that we was just there to provide the money and bask in the glory

The "raising money" part is the inarguably most important part of any startup. Given enough money, you can ride through absolutely anything - and the kind of projects that Musk provided with money always need a crapton of them: Tesla to even have a tiny chance at surviving against the established behemoths, and SpaceX because (prior to them) spaceflight was something for rich developed nation states only.