skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea has definitely been tried a few times [0, 1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
> Also Apple is in bed w/ traditional media.

True. Try to screenshot anything from Apple TV+ content. You'll get a black image.
Let the markets play out as they are supposed to. Incentivizing one industry over other is meddling with the capitalistic nature of US.
> but the community is so entrenched in Stable Diffusion 1.5 and the old Stability AI PyTorch implementation that moving to anything else hasn't really happened yet.

It's not just inertia, the later models (even 1.5 over 1.4) are heavily censored. And at least in the case of 1.5 it appears to cause obviously inferior output even for content which is in no way explicit.

My understanding is the facebook published Llama 2 chat fine tunes are more or less the most censored LLM yet, refusing to even discuss negative sentiments. I bet we'll see other people's RLHF fine tunes on the base model being used as a point for more developent.

It's an unfortunate development that it appears that the primary commercial "value add" is building models that don't do what the users unambiguously direct them to do. It's hard to make a model smarter, but easier to lobotomize one.
You're right. For some reason I thought AGPL was more similar to SSPL, but found out I was wrong after some reading.
Indeed, what a dick and quintessential BOFH.

How boring do you have to be to have run an ISP, have a user contact you 25 years later, and reply with that?

And specifically, why do a job that you apparently cared about that little?

Surprised he didn't take the email as an opportunity to chastise the author about misuse of the email system for frivolous contact.
As a result we got the CFAA and the DMCA which are both some of the most ridiculous pieces of legislation after the so called "patriot" act. The damage that did to curious people growing up lost the US a significant fraction of their upcoming "innovation" talent. While not diminishing the folks who leaned in to the illegality of it.

I was escorted out of my job as a shipping clerk in 1999 for creating an entry in an NT 4.0 group with my name in it to impress the IT Admin so I could get a job in the computer department.
> insinuating her challenges don't exist is beyond absurd.

Luckily, nobody is doing that. The claim is that BPD is too broad. If there were separate, narrower diagnoses, we might also be able to treat them better.
That’s what superficially different about them. But in both cases you’re just killing time playing something fun. The difference is only whether you prefer rolling dice or learning some useless skill.
Version 2 has been updated a lot since version 1. https://psb1558.github.io/Junicode-font/
I am not necessarily disagreeing with you.

I had a Z22 toward the end of the Palm era; back when LifeDrive was on their higher end and webOS seemed to be where the future might end up.

I loved that thing. I read tons of books on it.
In engineering (electrical, mechanical, civil) we have professional licensure[0]. It doesn't mean you can't design an electric system without a license. It means you can't represent yourself as an engineer, nor can you stamp engineering drawings. There are some legal situations, particularly building / structural where stamped drawings are needed, and so only a P.Eng can do that.

But if it's say designing a circuit board, or a machined part, there is no generic regulation, and anyone can do it.

There is already "software engineering" as a regulated discipline, and similar rules apply there. I have no idea if there are any situations where you need a stamped software deliverable. But they would have an engineers stamp. I have one (as an electrical engineer) that I haven't used and don't expect to.

All that to say, what matters is the combination of professional licensing and the requirement for a licensed professional. In engineering (applied science), it's actually pretty rare, even though it's a regulated profession.

[0] I'm in Canada, I think the US system is similar
Rolling dice is doing something too.
> I know its HN and bashing big tech/ad-tech is what almost everyone agree on here,

Which is ironic since many of them (us) make their living either working at BigTech, or working at a startup hoping to get acquired by BigTech
It's not asking ChatGPT that is anti social but posting it, diluting the entropy of the conversation. Thousands of brains read every posted word before they can discard redundant information. Together we can keep a high quality shared medium, which benefits everyone!
Most likely https://github.com/speced/bikeshed
It was way too expensive last I checked. We needed SOC 2 for HIPAA audits, so we stuck with dedicated AWS instances.

Enterprise Heroku would have paid the salary of a decent devops person.

If you can afford it and pass the costs on to customers, that’s great.

Have you looked into Dokku?
Thanks for sharing! And glad to hear you are still using Slackware! (which still seems to have drivers for just about everything!) If you recall, where did you purchase your Slackware and BSD disk sets? I recall Micro Center and Fry's Electronics both sold some Linux and BSD distributions on DVDs but I never saw too many folks buying them (then again, this was circa 2010). And that's a great comment about the return policy! I'm curious when the law was changed (unless it was a per-state thing, assuming you are from/in the US).

Also with regards to UUCP, it appears there are some modern uses for it [0]. I have no perspective with regards to UUCP but from someone who used it (if it doesn't bring back painful memories), do you recall what you used it for or what using it was like? Essentially email + USENET newsgroups + FTP wrapped into one protocol?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Current_uses_and_legacy
What Apple gets right are all the tiny details that make it feel like an AR pass-through device. Aside from the impressive spec differences that are required for usability, these are the things they focused on that really matter to me from a user perspective:

1. No noticeable lag due to very high refresh rate

2. The viewpoint and perspective of the cameras mimics your actual view almost exactly

3. AR-first, and user-friendly VR shows other people when they approach you

4. Quick, accurate eye tracking and comfortable gesture controls
> Efficiency isn't the goal.

Well, it shouldn't be. But in case your research is informing "urgent" policy decisions, it's hard not to get frustrated and just want those who disagree to shut up.
The American point of view is that people are American when it allows Americans to keep to their narrow minded patriotism and aren’t when it doesn’t suit it.
Today shodan.io does the portscanning for you.
Stop it before it gets to the children.
First, they came for C compilers and you said nothing. Then, they came for Python interpreters and you said nothing. Now that they are coming for Excel, who will defend you?
I can’t attest to the recurring source of fruit flies of OP but they come primarily from fully grown herbs sold in supermarkets in Finland. I’ve found being vigilant and simply hoovering them up with a handheld Dyson is enough over the course of a few days to get rid of the infestation. Of course, be vigilant with hygiene during this period.
https://archive.is/5gXJH
Yes, I can see AI driving software, flight software, medical electronics and more benefiting everyone involved.
For those who cannot access Twitter, the official announcement is this: "We'll soon be implementing some changes in our effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send. Subscribe today to send more messages".
You forgot to muster up some self-respect and demand better.
Forget the endgame, how many hours of my life can I spend comparing one piece of equipment to one very-barley-sort-of-slightly-better piece of equipment until I've cycled through literally hundreds of pieces of equipment, each promising an imperceptible improvement to my ability to kill another thousand samey bad guys?

I don't know how many hours exactly, but I know I hit that limit sometimes in my early 20's.
Under Article 4, which was invoked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the NAC can formally lead a joint response to any threat to any member (prior to any war). This led to a bunch of logistic support and prepositioning for closer NATO nations. It also led a joint decision for military material support for Ukraine, under the theory that it was cheaper support Ukraine today than fight Russia later.
Slightly off-topic rant about musl in the context of Alpine Docker images:

It's cool that we have an alternative to glibc, and it's cool that the popularity of Alpine Docker base images has caused developers to put the effort into expanding compilation support to a wide range of binaries. But personally, I got sick of how many hours I spent debugging a seemingly endless train of binaries that would fail in strange ways when running under Alpine, or that just didn't run at all because they were compiled with glibc. So I gave up and switched to using Ubuntu as a base image and never looked back.

I've never even understood the obsession with minimizing base image size, because it's not like it gets loaded into memory, and the fact that it's a base image means you share it with multiple images anyway, so you rarely even need to download or upload the layer over the network.
Much like other comments point out - Broken Sword borrowed liberally from the same "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" book material that Dan Brown also took. Broken Sword even includes an informant character called "Plantard" - surely a reference to Pierre Plantard etc.

It's undoubtedly the common ancestor in HBHG that lead to Broken Sword and The Da Vinci Code having very similar plots and ideas - HBHG sold reasonably well, I don't buy into the idea Dan Brown needed to play Broken Sword to write the book - HBHG came out in 1982. There are many other trash-pseudo history books on the knights templar that allege conspiracy/cults etc pre-dating Broken Sword - as a kid I had an insatiable appetite for these books too.

Charles Cecil (driving force behind Broken Sword) has happily alluded to his own HBHG inspiration in interviews.
"We're not extracting oil, we're making space for future captured CO2"
The spirit of "open source" implies "open weights", without doubt. Litigating the specific meaning of the terms is pointless.
Pretty much. Why would I use this instead of vanilla Electron?
> the capitalistic nature of US

Am I the only one that finds this branding of the US being a capitalist haven to be complete and utter bullshit? Companies regularly and in the open bribe (sorry, “lobby”) politicians for changes to regulation to give them unfair advantages, externalizer costs, etc etc. Walmart, a bastion of low price capitalism, relies heavily on a workforce on government food stamps to operate. Private and public utilities get politicians to pass laws making it more difficult to install solar. Car dealerships with political clout force companies like Tesla to sell through their channels or leave the state. Etc etc etc. Not a day goes by that I don’t see articles that support this and yet everyone still pretends the US is capitalist to its core!
Isn’t this what Microsoft Guidance does?

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
There are laws against anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices, I’m not sure why you think we don’t have a right to purchase what we want without the market attempting to coerce us into buying from them exclusively.

I don’t need to apply this to the rest of my life because it isn’t tolerated anywhere but a few select places. I can buy my bread from a Vons and my milk from a Kroger and my meat from a butcher and we don’t allow any of those three to make it difficult to do so. I can buy a Honda motorcycle and a Ford truck and they aren’t allowed to subscription me into their brand.

Not that long ago, I could walk to a news stand and buy the journalism that I wanted case-by-case. You were allowed to “subscribe” to delivery of one but it was the delivery you were purchasing on cadence not the publication. I got to make that decision of which to buy daily, and I got to choose not to buy at all on days where I didn’t want to.

Current journalism has robbed us of these choices, and if they’re allowed to do that then I don’t see why we should be held to an ethical standard that they aren’t.
I don't disagree with you, but let's not throw away secure boot because Google found a way to ruin it!
Sounds more like histrionic personality disorder, but I am not qualified to diagnose and even if I were it would be unethical to do so over a web forum.
> even if there was no web app to show at that time

Wasn't OWA ("Outlook Web Access") the web app that XMLHttpRequest was made for?
States have taken measures to ensure food security going back almost 10,000 years in Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Chinese granaries. If people really want to reduce the degree of intervention in markets by the state, better targets would be entitlements which are both new and have proven negative effects.

While it might be true that the Farm Bill could be a net negative, the risk of social collapse due to lack of food security combined with the very long history and success of states implementing market interventions to maintain good security makes me think this should be one of the last areas to target for reform.

Also the articles comparison between burgers and salad is ridiculous. One of them is highly nutritious with a lot of calories and can be easily frozen for transport. The other is mostly water and fetishistic.
Native is such an overused word. Lately I have to argue with clients what’s really native or not.
Oh boy. Well for starters Newton and Galileo didn’t have the internet. That’s 80% of this misinformation problem.

And GP was talking about how journalists can be skeptical. No one is suggesting journalists should be debunking all new science findings—merely that they should be very skeptical when reporting about those findings.
> Organic labeling is also not a silver bullet, but it's a step in the right direction

It’s correlated at best. The health benefits are mixed, carbon footprint atrocious and costs high. Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. An industrial tomato is healthier than a McMuffin.
But see, you’ve already given up the game: The Dems had a supermajority then, there were no compromises that had to be made except amongst themselves. So the Manchins of the party matter. A lot. And it’s not just Manchin — Pelosi up until the end was only two clicks left of him herself. And just like you’re doing now, the Dems use the GOP as an excuse instead of ramming their political agenda through for all of our sakes. The Democrats always have an excuse for why they need to compromise to the right, why their hands were tied and there was nothing they could do, and it doesn’t matter how much they disappoint, some people will eat it up every time.

It’s what allows Biden to call himself the most labor friendly president ever while crushing rail worker strikes. It’s what allows the absolute failure of policy called Obamacare to take up the national conversation. It’s what led to the conservative majority in the court. And it’s what led to the election of Trump, and why he’s still got a shot, even when he’s one foot out of federal prison. Maybe one day the Dems will learn. But not while their base keeps eating up their excuses and sending them money and votes…
It takes like 20 cycles to read the cycle count register on modern chips. Even if collisions are somewhat unlikely, it’s still much worse to get several a day than ‘almost never going to happen’.
> Sure, that's obvious. But we don't need those calories to sustain ourselves.

This is completely different topic. You won't change people's habits. I for one would be in great favour of large-scale insect farming as they are way more efficient sources of protein but you are not going to change anybody's habit just by arguing from such a perspective.

> Sources?

On the one hand, most models fail to capture carbon sequestration and purely assess carbon exhaust. This is a fair approximation if your source of feed is based upon the deforestation of the Amazon.

However, for grazing animals decomposing gras will just emit the carbon it has captured throughout its lifetime. And most of all, it will regrow rather swiftly.
A recent paper which I could find that took this into account is here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262...

Quote: "However, although the environmental impacts are well defined in LCAs, most of them do not include carbon sequestration, which is an important limitation when studying real emissions in more sustainable animal production systems. In this context, compensated CF -including carbon sequestration-implies a greater reduction in those systems that are more linked to the territory."

> EU is one of the largest importers of soy from deforested Amazon.

Again, there is a categoric difference between typical highly processed industrial agriculture and organic. Especially Spain has a powerful agriculture lobby with vast lands which only produce crops and meat. Certainly, a lot of things are going wrong and due to subsidies there is so much overproduction that European products are dumping the African market. Destroying the local competition.

On the other hand, the US loves to make people fat by subsidising big Corn. In fact, it is subsidised so much that creating high fructose corn syrup is cheaper than buying sugar canes from abroad. Too bad that the sugar in corn is fructose, which promotes fatty liver disease.

> What part of EU grown beef is organic & exclusively fed with grass?

There is the official EU organic label, which has hard criteria. However, there are many other labels which go even further.

Base EU guidelines: https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/organic-farming/org...
LLMs are happy to generate arbitrary strings. You might want it to spit out something along the lines of "Alice: 42" and then it spits out "hi, i'm helpful and Alice is exactly forty two, as far as I can tell, but I'm just a language model."

So you give it a grammar that says the response has to be an uppercase letter followed by lowercase letters, then a colon, then a space, then digits, then it's done. Now, when it looks for that first token, it will only consider tokens that are compatible with that pattern. Then it'll continue with only next tokens that are compatible with the next parts of the pattern.

These grammars do that with a flexible and useful kind of pattern.
> And what about chefs and all others who work in a restaurant, how fucked up would their lungs be?

Restaurant cooking has been a part of human habitation for centuries. PM2.5 meters have been with us for decades. We already know the answer to this question.
Strong Sapir-Whorf is a nutcase opinion, weak Sapir-Whorf is so completely accepted that it is considered boring. And it does not claim that they can't perceive differences; they are less likely to perceive and remember the differences, which are more easily filtered out. Similar to the claims that babies stop differentiating between sounds that are not semantically distinct in their own language, which is also uncontroversial.

You very emphatically did say that it was wrong, and justified it with your dislike and incomprehension of it. Specifically, "I really dislike the idea .. [it] seems distinctly wrong to me. ... it doesn't make sense to me..."

It's strange that you pick this example of the color blue, because that happens to be a well known example of the topic - "if two colors are called by the same name in a language, speakers of that language will judge the two colors to be more similar and will be more likely to confuse them in memory compared with people whose language assigns different names to the two colors." If you were Russian, then you would have to choose between two words that both correspond to the English word "blue". If they were two different blue colors, and you were asked if they were the same color, then statistically you (an English speaker) would say that the clothes are the same color, and the Russian speaker would disagree. If a third item was shown that matched only one of the two, the Russian would be slightly faster and use less cognitive processing to identify the match. When later asked about the clothes, the Russian would probably remember the difference in colors more distinctly than you. None of this means that you can't distinguish the two colors, but they do mean that the linguistic categories you use have influenced your thought.
> Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.

How do you know that? Certainly it happened sometimes, and it still happens sometimes, but was it ever common? Maybe journalists like to tell stories about the times journalists did really good work and they deliberately leave out all the many more times they didn't. Media tropes of principled gumshoe journalists breaking important stories are probably not representative of what it was typically like.
> I can only imagine in that era there was quite a bit more learning forced upon you than these days with our plethora of (somewhat) standards-compliant hardware and in-tree drivers.

It's romanticized a lot, but boy was it painful! hear my story and weep.

In 1995 I got slackware with a textbook from the university library. I had a brand-new 486 paid for by a dad with 2 other kids in college and nothing more than a factory job to pay for things.

So my 486 had no CDROM. And it only had 4MB of RAM. And a pirated version of DOS, until I got slackware.

After 3 months of saving from weekend work I made enough to get a shitty soundblaster pro clone. And then I returned it for another unit, because, as I complained to the store owner "this doesn't work". When the replacement didn't work either I realised it must be my computer, more specifically, those "drivers" provided on the floppy disk were for msdos :-/

So then I started reading a bit, and digging into the driver sources, and reading the little pamphlet that came with the soundcard. "Hah!" I thought, "the IRQ channel for the soundcard appears to be hardwired!"

And thus begun the longest 3-day weekend of my short life up to that point; Linux had no modules, everything was compiled into a single binary image. You have any idea how long it takes a lowly 486 with 4MB of RAM to compile a kernel?

The entire weekend was "make this change, type make $SOMETHING, then wait for 50m, then watch it fail to boot, then examine how far the bootloader got, then boot with previous image, then undo that change and repeat the process".

Eventually had the soundcard working though. On a system on which no bloody games would run ...
I think this is basically similar to the tension between if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and the desire to improve (or if you like, recreate, iterate, etc) what exists.
That's like concluding McDonalds is the world's best restaurant based on having sold 1 billion burgers, or whatever the number is.

I do enjoy superhero movies to some extent, and many of them are very well crafted. The fantastical elements give actors an opportunity to go to extremes by dramatically upping the stakes. But even the well-made ones can tip into tedium or self-parody, full of stock characters collecting plot coupons and trudging through obligatory scenes. Once something turns into a franchise, it's hard to evade decline, virtually impossible to reverse it.
This grammar "library" was cited as an example of what the format could look like:.

https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4

There is everything from assembly and C++ to glsl and scripting languages, arithmetic, games, and other weird formats like freedesktop shortcuts, llvm ir or verilog.
remember ads are not "showing a picture of sugar water to promote sales", they are surveillance, identification and manipulation.