skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, to those who replied. I stand corrected!
Why is it that most "chat/conference" apps become horrible sooner or later? I still remember when teams used to be an OK app. It even had a Linux desktop client. I remember when slack was actually fast, I remember Skype out being more reliable to make phone calls than my mobile/cell service. Today slack is extremely slow if you add few organisations to it (but at least you can add more than one). Teams has deprecated their Linux desktop client and the only way to use it on Linux is via chrome, but wait, if you use it as part of office365/sharepoint you need to use Firefox for "some" sharepoint links. So essentially you need 2 browsers at all times. Chrome for teams (screen sharing and video), Firefox for some sharepoint links.
Also https://g3rv4.com/2022/04/using-shamir-secret-sharing which includes a link to an easy-to-use SSS tool that can output shards as QR codes.
Teams is so weird, “ Number of org-wide teams allowed in a tenant” is limited to 25.

So my company can only have 25 “general” teams.

I think it would be neat to learn the rationale behind some of these settings.
Sometimes I wish we had fresh clean slate OS.

Not the baggage of DOS or Unix... Something modern and sensible without insanity of either system.
Not a Firefox-specific issue; I don't see it loading in Chrome either.
>The central motivation for this directive is to prevent American investors from inadvertently bolstering China's technological innovations that could enhance its military capabilities and potentially compromise U.S. national security.

Do people naively believe this?

This is simply because China has a chance to overtake the US economically and the US is doing everything it can to slow/prevent this. Anything "military" related is simply an excuse.

It's all and only about economics.
Not a hoarder but I do feel a little twinge in my heart if I see someone throw away plush toys or other things with faces. :-)
Right. But turning two things which are bad in different ways into one doesn’t seem to accomplish much besides limit whatever choice is left.
Yeah, that was oddly non-specific. How can being at the company's office ever be "private"?
Well, no. Chlorine is unsafe. Cardboard is just not nutritious. They're different categories.
Puppy Water, Beauty’s Help
What's wrong with Qubes itself?
The standard response to this is that the above is commiting the multiple stages fallacy:

https://arbital.com/p/multiple_stage_fallacy/
Generalize is seeing common principles, patterns, between disparate instances of a phenomena. It's a proper word for this.
Can you name off the top of your head the last 3 significant privatizations?
Strict error handling in JavaScript with a functional try
I spent 3 months in South Africa, primarily in Cape Town. Visted Mabu Vinyl, but sadly did not purchase anything (was backpacking, so traveling light). Owner was lovely.

The documentary is not exaggerating the fact that Rodriguez was immensely popular in South Africa. Heard his music playing on iPods in bars, young 20 somethings that not only listened to him, but so did their parents.

The movie does exaggerate his disappearance. Rodriguez toured Australia, so he knew he had some popularity.

A few years later, I met the owner of Light in the Attic records, the reissue label that repressed Rodriguez's albums. They acquired the rights before the documentary, and even they were amazed at the popularity of his music after the movie. He told basically that Rodriguez paid for his house due to the sales.
This seems pretty useful for companies generating images at scale. Are you at all worried that generative models will get so good that you don't need to check for deformities?
"One of the best things you can do for yourself is having enough money" yeah, no shit. Except many (or even most) people can't.
Yes, recently upscaled research for my iOS app. Have made a pipeline for fact extracts from various sources, including some sentiment analysis. Would have taken me years to do it manually. Will mainly be value adding for end user . Not directly client facing since this is done offline and shipped as data into the final product.
As someone who grew up in a household with a parent that is a compulsive hoarder and having researched this from the perspective of long-suffering family members, I feel I can speak on this.

People who were born in the war era and experienced hunger and other shortages in supplies have had the “waste not want not” mindset drummed into them from birth.

Throwing away something that “might still be useful” is illogical and psychologically painful to them.
Couple that with available storage space and you have a recipe for what we in the “modem” disposable society now call “hoarding”.

“modern” western society has be trained by consumerism to throw away things that no longer serve us. It’s what drives the economy. Planned obsolescence. Things designed not to last beyond the warranty period.
To the “normal” (indoctrinated) consumer, throwing away the glass jar “packaging” their pasta sauce came in is perfectly normal.
But 100 years ago, throwing away a perfectly reusable sterilisable food container would have been insane.
It’s our modern abundance and disregard for the true (environmental and human) cost of the natural resources used to make everything that means people think it’s OK to throw everything away.

Sadly, these people take it to what is - to them - the logical conclusion: they keep everything including broken or junk items that they might someday fix and use again.

As an adult I’ve fought hard to be a an anti-hoarder - some might call it “minimalism” - but actively donating old clothes, recycling broken electrical appliances and selling anything of value that I no longer need/use.

But I totally understand the psychology of keeping things that might be useful.

What is a “prepper” but someone who is hoarding materials (food, medicine, weapons, land, etc) that might be useful in the event of a zombie apocalypse. People that society looks up to - like Bill Gates, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel - to are hoarding resources. We just don’t call it a “disorder” when it’s a billionaire.

Note: I’m definitely not suggesting that this is not a compulsive disorder for many people. But it doesn’t start out that way. It starts with people saving useful things and gradually slides into keeping junk because the line between useful and trash becomes blurred.
Yes, the extreme cases need professional help.
Two Garbage Collection Improvements Made Shopify Storefronts 8% Faster
>increased Russophobia

Where in the world is there any "Russophobia"? The far-right in the West and around the world loves Russia and Russians.
I had a fair amount of stuff until one day someone who knew where I lived started threatening my life. I packed my car and left that day.

Liberated of most of my possessions, a few months later I accepted a friend's offer of a job in another country. I'm almost certain wouldn't have happened if I'd still had all that stuff, and I'm very glad it did.

(I was not a hoarder. I could only have filled a small moving van. But even that amount of stuff had a strong inertial effect.)
cloudflare: 863 down / 57 / up

ookla speedtest: 940 up / 750 down
Stable diffusion most likely don't do it, but even static model that as an input takes embedding of all your historic prompts + current prompt would get progressively give you better inputs as you use it.
> advertising money is the only way to make anything on it

Only?

With remarketing and a decent conversion rate, using Wordle as the hook to get more NYT Games (or digital all-access) subscribers seems like an option.
hahaha, that's great. thanks for sharing
earliest days of MS-DOS when it ran on a 086 or 286, back in the early (very early) 90s.

About a decade off: MS-DOS was running on 8086 in the early 80s.
By now the two have diverged enough that switching configurations between both is an issue. Vim is still much more widely available (installed by default) than Neovim, which makes it the obvious choice to maintain your configurations for if you don’t specifically care about Neovim features. Furthermore, additions like Lua support, while pragmatic, make Neovim feel less organic to me.
On the other side of the comparison, I think Italy is a lot more capable than many people give them credit for, so the comparison is not quite as damning as it may first seem.

On just one axis of consideration, Italy has a blue water navy with power projection capabilities roughly similar to Russia and India, surpassed only by the United States, the UK and France.

I think Italy also ranks higher than most anglosphere laypeople would estimate in terms of GDP and scientific output, although this is hard to pin down since I'm talking about layperson perception. Basically, I think Italy is more relevant and capable than people generally give it credit for.
There was a rumor I heard on some forums awhile back that at one point, ad tech companies wanted to kill uBlock Origin so bad that they were willing to offer a few million dollars to take it over, and gorhill stood tall.

If this is true (and its a huge if, again, I heard it in the context of a rumor), just makes them more of a stand up developer!
Yeah, it makes no sense. It considers a 105kg clean and strict press "novice" level
> It's easier to maintain one codebase than to maintain two forks.

Not necessarily; if the two codebases are maintained by groups of people with incompatible ideas about how the code should work and what it should do, then keeping things separate is much easier.

> If development of vim dropped and neovim was nominated as its successor, I'd think most vim users would be just fine.

Agreed; they don't diverge that much from an end-user's perspective.
Air pollution linked to rise in antibiotic resistance that imperils human health
This is pure gold. Thanks, you made my day! :-)

Also, you might be interested in this: https://youtu.be/1NqRbBvujHY?t=2236
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
GDP seems like a very questionable, and likely misleading, measure to me, even for Western nations.

For example, Canada's inflation-adjusted per-capita GDP has supposedly increased over time, yet for many Canadians, the standard of living is now noticeably lower than it was (or would have likely been) two or three decades ago.

In terms of production, Canadian businesses and governments generally don't seem to have become more capable and productive, and actually seem to struggle now with the sorts of fundamental work that they managed to pull off in the past. Many common services and products are noticeably worse now than in the past, in terms of cost, quality, reliability, delivery time, and so forth.

GDP is a metric that I can't trust.
Statistical learning can typically be phrased in terms of k nearest neighbours

In the case of NNs we have a "modal knn" (memorising) going to a "mean knn" ('generalising') under the right sort of training.

I'd call both of these memorising, but the latter is a kind of weighted recall.

Generalisation as a property of statistical models (ie., models of conditional freqs) is not the same property as generalisation in the case of scientific models.

In the latter a scientific model is general because it models causally necessary effects from causes -- so, necessarily if X then Y.

Whereas generalisation in associative stats is just about whether you're drawing data from the empirical freq. distribution or whether you've modelled first. In all automated stats the only diff between the "model" and "the data" is some sort of weighted averaging operation.

So in automated stats (ie., ML,AI) it's really just whether the model uses a mean.
No migrations and no MySQL were my blockers. I guess we're almost there.
I nominate your post for this years Nobel prize in literature. That's a pretty epic description of your mom's situation.
India’s gig workers need urgent social security
>Even though we have access to deep digital forensics on our employee's virtual desktops

Yeah you say that and I believe you just like I believed Sergey, Larry and don't be evil.

Don't collect it at all. Collecting anything private is like having to handle toxic waste. Just don't. You can't control it, you can't guarantee security and you don't know what could happen if you're bought out etc etc. You just can't possibly trust all possible future managers about which you know nothing.

Just say no.
"Anyone with "software engineer", "developer", or "programmer" in their job title should be given full benefit of the doubt"

No one gets the benefit of the doubt, and certainly not programmers. You get more leeway with what we'll allow, but not free reign. Most programmers aren't HN level.
> IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate

This is rather condescending take considering that all of the web standards were set and adopted in US for the rest of the world..has any country other than us created a major brand new browser from scratch? Even most of major us based browsers are rip offs of each other, except maybe netscape —which isnt major anymore. IE based on spyglass, mozilla on netscape, brave and edge on chromium.. which itself uses modified webkit, which came from open source KHTML … ‘invitation to copy and duplicate’ seems to be the norm here, no?
It wasn't banned entirely, it just wasn't permitted to travel at supersonic speeds over land (or, IIRC territorial waters) which limited its appeal for destinations not on the east coast. This overland supersonic ban was not just imposed by America either. Also as airports and their airspace became more crowded, sometimes the landing slots allocated would add flight time so some of the benefit of crossing the Atlantic so fast was lost there.

It wasn't as popular as envisaged for other reasons too: it turns out that people aren't as willing to compromise on comfort for the faster flight time anyway, people who could afford the luxury were more likely to spend the extra on comfort rather than saving time. This kept prices high because there was not enough demand to expand the service which might have dragged prices lower, rounding off a vicious economic circle. Prices were also inflated by the fuel requirements per passenger flight hour, both in general and because the craft was not fuel efficient at sub-sonic speeds.

Furthermore: at least one of those accidents was due to the craft's design and therefore its safety – the one out of Paris in 2000. Though the flaw that caused that to be possible (part of the fuel tank being exposed while the landing gear was down, allowing debris, in this case parts from the planes own front tire in turn damaged by hitting other debris on the runway, to compromise it) was later mitigated that was a real killer for passenger confidence on an already struggling service.

Having said that about the accident, IIRC Concorde does have one of the best safety records of any aircraft overall when considered against total passenger flight hours, much like flying in general is statistically safer than other forms of transport despite individual incidents tending to be worse.
The term probably arose from the naming, starting with the very first one: Soundtracker (1987) on the Amiga, obviously a play on the word soundtrack. From there we got Noisetracker, Startrekker, Protracker, Fasttracker (MS-DOS) and so on.
Probably. I'd guess using some fertiliser can't be bad either, maybe not overdoing it?

I live in Thailand & my girlfriend got a farm. She does use fertiliser (poo from pigs, I sometimes have to carry the bags). And she avoids pesticides and herbicides, so we can eat more organic.

Buying veggies and fruits at the local markets in Thailand will contain many pesticides - not great for long term health I'm sure.
>Is it a disorder if there’s no downside?

Well, no. But it can get to situations where the declutterer does not have a pen but needs a pen, so they buy one, and then throw it away. But when they next need a pen...

Or situations where they harm their interpersonal relationships, by throwing out other people's treasures/belongings or not having enough furniture to host them, etc.
Sure, which is easy for us (here on HN) as we possess skills that are sought after. But even you have to realize that most people aren't in the same situation, nor in situations where they can just sit down and learn stuff like that. In addition, being poor tends to make you more poor, as everything is working against you. But it might be hard to sympathize with that reality unless you've experienced it yourself at one point in your life.

Life is wide, really really wide, and it's a shitty experience for large swaths of the population.
Just let your coworker/friend swipe in for you. If they can't tell otherwise, does it really matter?

*Not financial advice
Seems like I went down a similar path. Emacs user, brltty, digital display, the shebang, but not necessarily together :-)

Maybe my experience will be useful to you. Do it for the plasticity.

a high level writeup is here: https://github.com/whacked/cow/blob/main/learning%20braille....

can talk separately in more detail, although for my purposes the code parts are pretty minimal. Brltty does a good job, and so did eBay for me when I started.
Not directly related to the post, but still feels somewhat relevant.

Back in March I used a bit more elaborate multi-step prompts for GPT3.5 to generate amusing pictures and published a gallery [1]. However, I eventually reached a point where changing prompts did not consistently improve the final results. At the end of the day, the quality of images are only as good as the training dataset, and GPT is a black box.

For something different, to test whether it is possible to "compress" visual content specifically for GPT, I ran another experiment. SVG, being a verbose format, takes time to generate a detailed image, and it also becomes expensive over time. I translated a subset of SVG elements into Forth words [2], which has a nice synergy with GPT tokens--this allowed me to progressively render pictures and produce smaller outputs without sacrificing much in quality.

Finally, I training my own GPT2-like model on the QuickDraw dataset [3]. It's not surprising that a sequence transformer can be trained to produce coherent brush strokes and recognizable images as long as there is a way to translate a graphical content into a sequence of tokens. That said, I found myself with more questions than I started, and trying other ideas now.

[1] https://drawmeasheep.net/pages/about.html

[2] https://drawmeasheep.net/pages/gpt-forth.html

[3] https://drawmeasheep.net/pages/nn-training.html
I don't think Ubuntu was particularly relevant for the first few releases. Ubuntu became a trendy sensation when they started doing these things.
If this IS a case where the title of a channel is used as a SharePoint folder, I’m surprised there isn’t some standard way to escape specifically these strings? I know it would break compatibility for applications that rely on these magic device files, but SharePoint should NEVER actually want to speak to COM1. Weird to me it isn’t handled already in SharePoint!
Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?
Anyone else having problems lately with archive.is taking you to a captcha, you solve it and then it just keeps redirecting you back to the captcha over and over. Happens to me in chromium, a friend just tried in firefox and had same problem.

Today is happening to me on a link from another thread which was to https://archive.is/gwuFp
One line of code which is specific in what it catches:

// Either foo or someError will be defined
const [foo, someError] = itry(someFn, SomeError);

Instead of nine lines which feel like they are working uphill against the language: dealing with variable scoping issues, deeper nesting, and footguns like forgetting to re-throw.

let foo;
try {
foo = someFn();
} catch (err) {
if (err instanceof SomeError) {
// do something with error
} else {
throw err;
}
}
// use foo
> essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside

It's just a restriction imposed on SharePoint folder names bubbling up. Nothing fancy.
I've noticed that any video that is 10:XX minutes long almost always is useless

They're probably reaching some YT threshold to have more ads show on it
Lego describes LEGO Icons thusly[0]:

> Spend quality time with premium LEGO® sets designed specifically for adults. From wonders of the world to movie magic, intrepid space exploration to pop culture icons, luxury cars to architectural masterpieces, there’s a LEGO set waiting for you. So unplug, unbox and unwind. This is your zone.

Concorde specifically has a recommended age rating of "18+" [1].

[0] https://www.lego.com/en-ca/categories/adults-welcome

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/concorde-10318
Tree-shaking is orthogonal to minification tho.
Uniquely American problem. Are you actually serious?
The lack of a place where you can hourly rent top of the line hardware from AMD is the biggest weakness. Nobody is going to buy and run a MI210/MI250 at home.
Do you see the difference between "a guy" and 20% of the population?
It seems you have a perfect excuse for the short period.

"Relocated, family were unhappy, have made a difficult decision for my family's sake."
I suspect the real value is more from an architecture and caching perspective.

Architecture as in you may have multiple GPT instances being prompted to look at a problem from different angles: "Analyse the problem as a pessimist", "As an optimist", "as a mathematician", "an engineer", "a philosopher", etc.

Caching, as in determining what you can store from these outputs, e.g. "give a numeric 1-10 score of what you think of this product as a LGBT-friendly conservative from the Midwest", etc.
I ran the test from Austin, and it showed the test server as located at the Dallas Airport. I wonder how they decided on which landmarks to represent each data center.
This has been going on for about a decade now. This alone has caused me to remove myself from Google's products and services. They have unilaterally made the internet worse.
The interesting thing about this to me is its repeated sampling and reporting of a statistical profile of the link. Showing distributions for latency and speed, not just a single average. Really helpful info on less-consistent connections like Starlink.

Example screenshot here: https://postimg.cc/bDTyy8BM
I have a friend who’s required to do 3 days in the AWS office, buuuut… Amazon hasn’t re-opened the building he’s supposed to report to. Like he has a desk assigned in a closed building.
At least in EU that clause is not binding, if you sign the handbook (or a contract) agreeing to it, that doesn't give the employer permission to do it - there are multiple precedents with GDPR fines for employee monitoring despite doing what you proposed.

Putting it in your employee handbook means acknowledging (in writing) that you have an illegal, prohibited policy, and getting employees to agree to it doesn't make it permitted.
I bet there is another vulnerability here, although they also seem to blacklist % and ..
If my country suddenly becomes Russian or China occupied territory, them having my search history is very far down my list of worries.
Back in the day there were some 4chan bait threads to the same effect (make your own crystals!) and some kid actually died (apocryphally of course)
Upload results are off for me. I have a 1gbps down/up fiber.

With this speed test, the results are 900mbps down, 400-500mbps up (ran a few tests to confirm)

I tried running fast.com, speedtest.net, google speed test and verizon speed test (I'm on AT&T), they all show ~950mbps down and up
LLM powered Chat is the new UI
Pedophilia and child porn involves people who cannot consent, so no. Funny how that's the one that folks reach for though isn't it? Mandating that relationships are consensual isn't equivalent to anarchy. It's exactly one of the rules you're talking about.
Agreed, AMD needs to get their high end cards into more schools. Short of that, they need a place where people can rent them by the hour (and give discounts to schools).