skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You miss the point of free markets. This is exactly the questionably useful ego driven nonsense that is most beneficial for self made rich people to engage in for two reasons: 1. We may be too dumb to see the value in this, in which case we win big time when something that appears stupid ends up useful. 2. Every dollar spent on this is a dollar unavailable for their trust fund kids and/or grandkids to do even more likely useless and/or harmful things with. Free markets create huge value for people who create goods and services that make others lives better to the point where it creates the secondary problem of trust fund kids who did not create anything having excess power from excess inherited wealth and doing excess harm with it due to incompetence. This is the least destructive way to dissipate that effect. (We cant just tax it away, people will hide it and also be disincentivized to create value because they risk losing control of it at death).

Note: i am not being a dick here on purpose. I am dealing with this exact problem myself and so have thought about it a lot.
Association of particulate matter–PM2.5–air pollution and antibiotic resistance
It's worse than that because "giving it to the masses" actually means telling people how to think. It's not like current chatbots represent a broad range of viewpoints, it's the median of the internet censored by coastal US tech values.

Giving it to people is arguably the worst kind of missionary work or colonialism or whatever you want to call it.
I'm just not sure that there's any way to build a knowledge base that can fully replace asking seniors ad-hoc questions workflow. I've worked at places with amazing build tooling, monitoring, etc., and they still never came close to solving it. (This is actually the primary reason I'm excited about LLMs - I don't particularly enjoy the ad-hoc questions part of my job and they seem like the most promising avenue to finally solve it.)
Show HN: A piano roll web app
This is a piano roll web application I've been working on for a while. I think it's in a fairly good state now so I wanted to share :)

Do note that it's not optimized for mobile, sorry! Highly recommend playing with it on a desktop computer/laptop.
Read his words.
Not sure about "scraping targets". I'm referring to websites that can be read without using Javascript. Few websites submitted to HN try to discourage users with JS disabled from reading them by using tokens in special headers. Twitter is an exception. Twitter's efforts to annoy users into enabling Javascript are ineffective anyway.

https://github-wiki-see.page/m/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Probably a cultural thing. As a resident of B.C I parsed that bit intuitively, but the "buried in" bit seemed like some sort of literal warehouse mishap, because we do have at least 1 fulfillment center here. I wouldn't expect anyone outside of the Pacific Northwest or Canada to read it as British Columbia.
Move the articles to archived.cnet.com or cnetarchive.com instead of just deleting them
It could be premature to place fault with the SEO industry. Think about the incentives: Google puts articles out, but an SEO specialist might have empirical knowledge from working for a various number of web properties. It's not that I wouldn't trust Google's articles, but specialists might have discovered undocumented methods for giving a boost.
Bad writing can be fine if it expresses interesting ideas or a unique point of view. Banal ideas can be fine when they're exceptionally well written. Badly written banalities can be tolerable when they're not proliferating, and when they're accompanied by better stuff.

What we have now though is a firehose of badly written banality, with companies using LLMs to predict huge numbers of Google queries and generate the matching pages. That strategy had a name back in the heyday of SEO: "content spinning". It wasn't a good thing.

It's not that complicated an issue. It's the same reason we flag ChatGPT copy off the site here.
One thing that made me slightly iffy in one of the usecases Postgres would be a no brainer is the need to vacuum for dead tuples. I was quite sketched by it and instead opted for traditional NoSQL stack. I wonder how people with large volumes of UPSERTs deal with vacuuming, isn’t it a huge operational burden?
I tried to use chatgpt4 to speed up my science writing (no, not by relying on it to read papers for me) as a kind of polisher....but it never seemed to hit the mark. Either too bland diplomatic PR speak, or without the needed nuance/precision. Maybe I wasnt good at prompting...but I gave up on it.
Because not everyone has perfect internet all the time and I've found it horribly unreliable on a flaky data network, sometimes taking hours to send a message via standard sms after retrying RCS over and over.
I think the web needs a bit of a redesign so that all of the responsibilities associated with hosting don't fall to a single entity. Responsibility and power go together, and power corrupts.

I ought to be able to choose a person that I trust to not lose or leak data, a different person to curate code for use on my device, and yet another person for being authoritative about the problem domain.

If I later decide that Jimbo has bad taste in client side code, I shouldn't have to also abandon Mary's excellent data handling track record. Yet somehow we've found our way to a corner of the design space where each entity that carries any of these burdens also carries the others.
You're right, my mistake. Still cost and power per compute still favours AMD
I very firmly feel that Aldus[!!!] FreeHand had the better vector drawing UX than Illustrator, and I still feel that way even though I've used Illustrator exclusively for the last 25 years
In college, my roommate was taking classes learning Freehand and Illustrator. Each version release would leapfrog the other product. Being industrious, I did all of my roommate's assignments on my own, and I learned the apps on his tuition. I didn't do his work for him. I just did it to learn. I was only able to do this because of a.b.m.a. I still use that knowledge from his classes on a daily basis.
Cloudflare's bot blocking uses CAPTCHA... By your own admission, the only reason you don't have a CAPTCHA is that you haven't needed one yet.
I also read the older edition and got the 4th for the second read recently.
I felt that the updated coverage is more on the GPU side than the language side.
It covers new GPU features and architectures well. I don't think it covers Tensor core things. But I might be wrong.

So it's worth the update if you're interested in general NVIDIA GPU evolution.
It also wastes valuable context tokens.

I've come to develop mixed feelings about this. Playing around with a local uncensored model for implementation in a game, I wrote a function that would return a strategy to divine the shortest way to get past an obstacle. Works great for locked containers and closed doors (unlock/open). Lower temperatures were safer, but past some threshold it routinely suggested murder as the shortest path around an NPC simply because negotiation would involve an extra step.

Uncensored models will certainly cause some entertaining problems in the future, but FredRogersGPT isn't the solution. Dangerous context really needs to be gatekept with a manual override because nobody making these things can account for every possible application. It's the only ethical, accessible and safe solution. (It also betrays intent and rightfully deflects blame. "No, that AI didn't tell you to kill your parents, you explicitly asked it to give you instructions on how to do exactly that.")
Anyone else see the irony of this being in a Bezos owned paper?
Thanks, Google, for making the 'net even more useless! & ahistoric!
> Is it actually illegal but such small stakes that nobody ever gets the proper authorities involved?

In the USA:

Basically yes, but with various incantations required depending on the state to make it illegal. The "too small stakes" part is uniform.

In my state, in the USA, it's technically abandoned property the moment it's left and you don't need to post a sign or make an attempt at contacting the owner.

After a certain amount of time, with reasonable attempts to give notice, you can start charging storage fees.

The law is written to work best for things like abandoned cars or furniture in mind, not nuisance mail, but there's jurisprudence establishing that there was broad legislative intent. The door tag thing might even fly. But for something like a door tag, damages would never be worth the filing fees even after hundreds of years of storage. It would have to be a real "fuck you" move because damages would be like hundredths of a cent against mid 2 figure filing fees.

In this case I think the subject of the article would actually have a case and real damages, in the USA, in my state.

But more importantly: the business owner has to either show up in small claims or pay a lawyer to do so. It's certainly a way to get a company to cut shit out for the cost of a filing fee, even if damages awarded are trivial. And in this case I think a judge would be very sympathetic.
I find Discord more usable than pre-Microsoft Skype, though I still miss the peer-to-peer capability and built in file transfer. Skype admittedly had a better UI in some ways and didn't demand nearly as many resources.

I do agree that it seems that despite increased capabilities across the board and piles and piles of newer and better ways to do things, the quality of consumer software has dropped somewhat.
Source Control Management (SCM)

Before creating git, Linus used a commercial, proprietary source-control called BitKeeper (referred to as "BK" at times in the post).
Your site isn’t worthy of the same crawl budget as Wikipedia.
I would imagine that all new ideas in chess (particularly openings) come from analyzing positions deeply with the computer. It is an indespensible tool at the highest levels.
It’s generally designed to be the replacement you’re looking for. It comes from google, who has a lot of C++ code. Its memory managed, but relatively fast. You can’t beat languages that are designed for speed (c, rust) but it’s not python, and it’s closer to rust than python in terms of speed. Similar to Java probably. If you’re writing a web server or anything similar you’ll be fine. I wouldn’t reach for it to crunch numbers though (eg a ML model, image manipulation).
The most important reason to write this while learning is that you only once have the questions of someone who doesn't know the topic. As soon as you learn it, you forget what it was like to not know it. Fron that point on, you've always known it.

That's why writing down all your questions while learning is extremely important for then teaching.
> Of all the posts I ignore on social media… the ones I ignore most thoroughly these days, almost with a vengeance, are the results of prompts to AI chatbots. The tell-tale fonts and formats of these posts allow me to spot them instantly…

Factually (other than screenshots of the UI of a particular known web frontend), no, “fonts and formats” won’t tell you that at all.

> Part of what bugs me about these documents, whether they’re generated in the form of college essays, poems, newspaper articles, or screenplays, is the implication that they’re ingenious, and that the people who ordered them are ingenious by association. But I am underwhelmed by the performances. When you consider that the human race has moved the ball of language down the field for millennia upon millennia using nothing but its throats and tongues and sticks with ink and graphite on their tips, the idea that advanced computer networks are able to kick the ball into the net repeatedly and with little effort, in all kinds of showy ways, isn’t as impressive as it’s made out to be.

This criticism seems to be based on the premise that “advanced computer networks” are fundamentally and obviously more advanced than the combination of “throats and tongues and sticks with ink and graphite on their tips” and, implied but unstated, brains that humans are equipped with, such that the former being able to do what has in the past been done by the latter is trivial.

It is, essentially, implicitly assuming artificial superintelligence has not only been achieved, but is already widely acknowledged to be achieved, and thus that it is simply trivially obvious and unimpressive that the systems involved should be able to do well at language tasks that humans have done in the past with their less-advanced tools. Otherwise, dismissal on the grounds stated makes no sense at all.

And I agree that, yes, if you buy into AI hype much more than even most of the really enthusiastic hypesters themselves propose, yes, all of the accomplishments of modern LLMs would be trivial. But that’s a dismissal of the specific results that requires a ludicrous view of both the factual and widely perceived general capabilities of the involved systems.
JS and Python have gradual, not static typing. Same for PHP 8 but Hack is a different language.
it seems incredibly short-sighted to assume that just because these actions might possibly give you a small bump in SEO right now, they won't have long-term consequences.

if CNET deletes all their old articles, they're making a situation where most links to CNET from other sites lead to error pages (or at least, pages with no relevant content on them) and even if that isn't currently a signal used by google, it could become one.
In the early 2000s, MySQL was:

- way easier to install

- way easier to maintain (not vacuuming, etc)

- and had a replication story.

So you had startups which created their MVP on some shared webhost, which had MySQL and nearly non had pg. as those startups graduated into enterprise fame, they never left MySQL but instead fixed its problems along the way.
For decades, when climate scientists said "We don't know what will happen," people naively assumed "Well, they don't know what will happen, we'll probably be fine."

Turns out they literally meant they didn't know what will happen.

As in, we don't know how many hurricanes we'll get in 20 years. Or how strong they will be. If this does not sound absolutely terrifying, I don't know what to say.
Words like “Bush” or “current administration” do not occur in the article. Rather, it was just a link. You don’t have any particular reason to be this charitable.
Ground in the shade may have some insulation? You'd think open ground would be warmer at night because it's unshaded, and because the moon is supposed to be reflecting sunlight. The fact that it's colder is counterintuitive.

It would be interesting to try the experiment on a moonless night to check the difference between open and shaded ground. If they are the same the shade doesn't likely matter (given a sufficient time from sundown).
Project mBridge: Connecting economies through CBDC
> It baffles me why this would be successful SEO -- and assuming that it actually isn't, it baffles me why CNET thinks it would be.

If the content deleted is garbage, why wouldn't it help? No clue on CNET's overall quality, but I don't have a favorable image of it. Just had a look at their main page and that did not do it any favors.
> In the old days, we would direct people to drive to Vietnam in the trunk of a car, and it worked.

Pretty incredible that a law firm would actually recommend this strategy!
C.S. Peirce had good things to say about him.
>The death of Fireworks made me much much better at CSS, SVG, and HTML.

I barely used Fireworks, but primarily for the slicing of images into tables that was all the rage. I did use Dreamweaver and the Adobe app whose name is eluding me. One day I actually looked at the HTML/CSS from those apps, and it was not human readable at all. From that day forward, I started moving away from those apps and just wrote it by hand. So much less bloat. But I will admit, they were most definitely a nice set of training wheels to start the learning process.
Truly the leaded petrol of our time. I'm not grateful for this.
Haven't read yet but I found the transcript in HTML which is easier to read on a phone: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-545.htm
Its rather outdated. Search for "70b" on huggingface, sort by date, and you will find more cutting edge models.

And you can run this locally with enough combined RAM + VRAM.
Good to know re: the circuit (my knowledge of electrical is pretty lacking). However, really, the circuit itself wasn't my primary concern so much as the unsecured attachment with regards to theft of the charger itself. Like lots of neighborhoods these days, I'm getting hit with Nextdoor alerts about "cars being broken into", and I imagine an electric car charger might be a tempting target.
By reading the proposal [1], I see it's meant for record types. Records seem to be value classes, i.e. the equivalent to Scala's case classes.

In that case, there's absolutely no ambiguity: there's only one `x` you can be talking about.

By the way, value/case classes are such a boon. Very easy to get used to, and once you have, you want to use them everywhere, I guarantee.

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[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/440
It's worth noting the parent to this comment rarely if ever provides an original comment (always replying with a short quip) and doesn't seem to engage in debate.
Wait, this sounds oddly familiar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19516868
You have to understand that national security letters (NSLs) are the tip of the spear here. If the target of surveillance is sufficiently bad or scary, the government has tools and absolutely will use them to get this information. Once that is normalized, and companies literally build platforms to service those requests, then that capability gets pushed down to federal investigators, then local law enforcement.
This vulnerability has nothing to do with the instruction set.
see FODMAP

Sugars in carbonated drinks, alcohol and fruits plus onions and garlic are all problematic for me
"After executing an instruction, the pointer moves forward to immediately after the instruction in RAM so that it now points to the next instruction.'

What is a pointer? How does it "move" inside the computer? This is low level stuff, but still probably somewhat mysterious to the layman.

Never mind the obscurity of the word "syntax".
"I can’t support anyone who is this much of an asshole."

And so I ask again: He's an asshole because he wants to work with extraordinary people and made fun of george W bush?

see, I added the W. now answer.
"Global inequality has been declining fast since 1990s. During the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, global inequality increased dramatically, reflecting widening disparities between countries' per capita income as advanced economies took off sharply compared with the rest of the world. The revival in global economic cooperation in the middle twentieth century ushered in an era of growth and development. Subsequently, per capita GDP growth rates accelerated in less developed countries, particularly in Asia, resulting in convergence in income levels across countries (Bourguignon, 2015). Millions of households were lifted out of poverty. As a result, the global income inequality first stabilized and then started to rapidly decline over the last three decades."

-- International Monetary Fund https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/Inequality/introduction-to-ine...

As measured by the Gini coefficient, global inequality is lower than it has been for over a century.
I guess it's more related to the fair process inside of China

Or at least, the lack of it
Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler
> I suggest you go back and look at your first reply to me. Do you think it was crafted to elicit good mannered conversation?

Yup, that's fair, I came out swinging because I read this:

> They only ridicule it because they don't use it or understand it.

As belittling the intelligence of people who didn't share your opinion.

If that wasn't your intention and I read too much into your comment, then I absolutely apologize for jumping down your throat so aggressively.
Imagine seeing the trends in books throughout certain time period, wars, etc. Or larger trends over the history of all written works. Or all kinds of other neat and useful information that can impact decisions we make today. Do you think all analysis of things you aren't personally interested in is useless?
Using an engine when you're trying to play vs humans is still considered cheating though. I think engines are why we have "Super GM's" like Magnus and Hikaru though.
They're saying it's scarier that ad companies can figure out these things without the data because it means that you can't protect yourself by withholding your data.
They could just noindex them.
at this point though, if I was on a team that made a $newShinyToy for a space mission that did not "over perform" like this, I would personally feel shame and have a sense of failure if it only performed to the papers and end of mission came exactly when the paper said.
Workloads that make heavy use of gather instructions. Typically scientific/HPC?
I believe it's called an idiocracy.
TLDR; author isn’t impressed by things that at one point in the past he was impressed by.

FYI; I wasn’t impressed with his essay.
I didn't know they were strained. Probably best to block them so they don't spend resources on unimportant things. You can find a few UA strings here https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.o... Ultimately, it looks like they do respect the `archive.org_bot` string so if you want to help the strained organization, probably best to block it as well.

You can also save them some space, it appears, by uploading a file on your website asking them not to retain it and then sending an email to them. See https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352

For now, I just blocked the bot, but when I have some time maybe I'll ask them to delete the data.

Hopefully, with a little community effort we can reduce the strain on them so they can spend their limited resources reasonably.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack
Beyond meat isn’t really targeted at true vegans. It’s targeted at guilty meat eaters.

I’ll interested in it, but have found it hard to justify
Several reasons why it works. First is the page rank algorithm will give the other pages on the site a higher score. Per the spec.

Second is there could be spam links pointing to old CNET articles that need to be wiped from CNETs site spam score.
I never really liked Amazon but i thought they had their shit together. Bought a pretty expensive shower with them and it didn't arrived for a week. Went to the website to track the order and it said someone else had received. They provide the name of the person who signed the deliver but no document no nothing. So, someone out there has a beautiful new shower while i need to go buy another one in another store and wait again for it to get here.
Show HN: Free Security Requirements Generator (OWASP ASVS)
Hi HN, happy to share a free tool to generate security requirements using Owasp ASVS and also a basic risk assessment for teams that want to have some security guidance but lack resources for such. It's available in multiple languages and I hope you enjoy it. Feedback is welcome.
How Many Words for Snow Do the Inuit Have?
Another "recruiter" scam.
They provide a job description, you se3nd them your resume' and/or summary of experience
They then INSIST on having a copy of your drivers license and/or last four of your social to prevent "duplicate" submissions to the client company
BAM THEY STEAL YOUR IDENTITY APPLY FOR CREDIT CARDS ETC ETC
This has happened to me 3 times in the last 5 years

So now I refuse to provide any copy of my driver's license even if they offer work, I scan send a copy of my birth certificate to prove I am a US citizen
On the phone call I make up a bogus 4 last digits, and after an offer is made provide real information on my W2 and other tax documents.
Direct Deposit is also used by these Identity thieves so be careful about that as well
Amazon will still reply "just keep it" and refund you to some return requests.

I got that just a few weeks ago when trying to return an item, from an automated system.