skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fervor from the medias yes. But from the people? Did people really line up to buy an Operating System? At the time of the release it is not like there was a lot of software ready for it anyway. I remember our first pc with Windows 95, we only used it for browsing, most of the time we would boot to DOS to play games and make music with Fast Tracker 2 and Impulse Tracker. I think we were even preferring a DOS CD player to play music because it had lots of fancy graphics effects reacting to music. Can't remember the name of the player.

It is only during the win98 era that we really started to use windows apps on our family computer and even then it didn't last long for me as on a pentium 90 overclocked at 100Mhz it was slower and less productive than using a Linux distribution.
Yep. My digital multimeter causes cancer, only in California.
I assume if you're based outside of EU you were paid as a contractor? In that case you can start a legal dunning process (gerichtliches Mahnverfahren), that's actually surprisingly easy to start, most municipalities provide it as an online service. The court will ask you to provide some proof of the unpaid services you provided and send a court order to the company, most companies crater after that and pay. Once you have an enforcement order (Vollstreckungstitel) you can start the debt enforcement process (Zwangsvollstreckung), an official court agent will seek to retrieve the debt from the company then, going as far as seizing office assets and even cash in the founders pockets (it can be quite humiliating). As I said, it's a surprisingly easy process to get started and it's really intimidating to most companies as any legal action might lead to being publicly documented and tainting the credit score of the company, it can even lead to court ordered bankruptcy filing.

If you were actually employed you need to take the company to the labour court (Lohnklage), given how difficult it is to employ someone who's residing outside of the EU I imagine this to be even scarier for the company, so they should be very willing to settle their debt with you.

Again, the key point is to plausibly threaten and possibly enact these measures. This is not legal advice.
There are a lot of solutions to those annoying popups, but changing your browser shouldn't be one. https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu & https://hellogoodbye.app & https://privacybadger.org
This is a formal property of a function, called an injective function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective_function
> Just one more war machine that got repurposed for civilian use.

Already in 1928, Edward Bernays' book on PR and marketing was named Propaganda.

Another interesting point is that the term propaganda comes from the Latin "propaganda fide" (propagation of faith). Nowadays it seems to just be called evangelization in the Vatican and elsewhere.
Is that a bad thing? Isn't a large amount of computing research paid for by the military?
The faster the idea of intellectual property dies the better off we are.
It's Almost Just JavaScript™ :)
I have the same problem occasionally, and I think you’ll find that you’re not alone, and (probably, hopefully) not getting early on set dementia.

I have observed that it gets better the more often you call people by their name. I.e. practice…
Refact Code LLM: 1.6B LLM for code that reaches 32% HumanEval
We’ve finished training a new code model Refact LLM which took us about a month. The main use-case is for blazing-fast code completion with fill-in-the-middle, additionally, the model could reply to chat prompts.

It has much better performance than all of the code models of similar size, and almost reaches the same HumanEval as Starcoder being 10x smaller in size.

With the small size, it can work with most modern GPUs requiring just 3GB Ram.

You can try self-hosting it in Refact https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/ and get a local fast copilot alternative with decent suggestions.

Weights and model card https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/Refact-1_6B-fim.

We would love to hear your feedback!
Indeed. Any apology at all would be better than this non-apology
I remember site visits more than anything else from elementary school. The newspaper printing presses and the local tv news station really stand out.
In school we visited the local newspaper. There was nothing interesting to see because the printing was outsourced. Two dozen people sitting in front of computers (CRT grayscale monitors), conference rooms, some print-outs on the wall. We got featured in the next issue and all I remember is how uninspiring the afternoon was.
VALR launches Bitcoin payments at grocery stores across South Africa
VALR Pay is now accepted as a payment method at ALL Pick N Pay grocery stores across South Africa.
I remember Hurricane Katrina shutting down lots of online services, and directnic battling to stay online https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/05/prov...
What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?
I listed two easily found examples of gold’s buying power increasing from 1970. It will and has always maintained value better than fiat. It’s never been about cyclical inflation, but about long term devaluing of floating currencies. I wouldn’t expect gold to be a hedge against currency that was pinned to the value gold.

Weimar Deutschmarks, Venezuelan Bolivar, Mexican Pesos, Hungary, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, etc. etc. are a few examples in the last hundred years where it would have been better to hold gold than cash.

Are productive investments going to be more profitable than gold? Absolutely. Gold is not a productive asset and will not produce anything. That’s not what it’s for. It’s specifically for not investing over long periods where a fiat cash position would lose about ⅓ of its buying power per decade (in terms of current US Federal Reserve Notes).

Look at a chart of gold from 1970 to today and add a trend line from just the lows[0]. Even if you would have bought at the peak in 1980, the buying power of your gold would have been effectively unchanged (the dollar value would have tripled). At any other time, gold has handily beat cash.

Any financial consultant is absolutely going to steer you away from gold because it can’t make them recurring revenue. It’s always going to do worse than the stock market over the long term. That’s not what gold is for. It’s an alternative to a long term cash position.

I’m not saying put all money into gold, but having 1-10% of assets in physical gold is not any worse than most people’s much higher allocation in bonds.

0 - https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...
That's going to depend on what is fermented and how. E.g. malt vinegar tends to make me wonder when I showered last, and the smell of the air in newly opened yogurt has been a little off-putting ever since I had kids.
Tenstorrent has an 8-wide RISC-V core available for licensing:

https://tenstorrent.com/risc-v/

...But I am starting to get suspicious of Tenstorrent. Maybe they have some customers using their designs privately, but I never see any of their hardware used in public.
Any one know the status of this lawsuit?
Personally, I’m not sure that is as far away as you’re saying. You might not crank out an AirBnB competitor, but at the low end of the market I do wonder how far Agents are going to get us.

I suspect something interesting is going to happen the price point of tailored individual LLMs running full time drops below the threshold where modeling an existing business unit’s org chart as a collection of interacting LLMs becomes viable.

Can you have a Director of Engineering LLM managing a pool of project manager LLMs and platform engineering LLMs and system administrator LLMs and infosec LLMs and software engineering LLMs and frontend engineer LLMs etc.

Can all of those LLMs create organizational plans, give each other guidance, self correct each other, give each other feedback, and work towards a solution?

For the low end of the market, can you create a software engineering organization with one well compensated Lead Engineer/CTO managing a huge collection of LLMs as a business unit? Or will the error rate compound making the ultimate output of the business unit just noise?
kubespray is not good advice unless it's changed massively since I last used it in 2020 or so.

Imagine a 3 hour Ansible-playbook execution, which randomly failed on different tasks, most of which got fixed by hitting <up><enter> until it applied...

We switched to RKE, which runs even on our bigger clusters (nothing mad, maybe 40 nodes) in a few minutes and works perfectly..
I think it's more than fair. C++ doesn't have this problem at all, bounds checks are in the std library in debug mode only. Rust and Julia make it very easy to take the bounds checks out. They don't need 'liquid types' or any extra complexity then a single keyword and even that is a little quirky.

Also if you are accessing a data structure out of bounds, that's a show stopping bug that shouldn't ever happen. That should be something that is prevented ahead of time, not recovered from. Tanking a program's performance to catch bugs in released programs is a bold strategy to begin with.
I don’t think it’s a theory. He certainly tried to use the precompiled macros in service of this pre-RFC: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-sandboxed-determin...

Relevant section:

"Someone else is always auditing the code and will save me from anything bad in a macro before it would ever run on my machines." (At one point serde_derive ran an untrusted binary for over 4 weeks across 12 releases before almost anyone became aware. This was plain-as-day code in the crate root; I am confident that professionally obfuscated malicious code would be undetected for years.)
Could you elaborate on the pros and cons?

I've been using Svelte for about 3 years now and haven't found any big scaling headaches.
You're still mixing HTML and CSS with JS, which is way worse if you ask me.
I have visited wastewater treatment plants in two of the cities I have lived in and I honestly think such a visit should be required for everyone--young and old--who lives in a house or apartment serviced by a municipal sewer. It is eye opening to see what happens to every drop of water you flush or wash down the drain, and especially to see what kinds of things make it into the wastewater stream and to the treatment plant. The tours are often run by folks who actually work (or have worked) at the plant as operators and are quite knowledgeable at all the processes in play.
There's a fascinating family of old believers who escaped to the Russian Taiga in 1936 to escape persecution, with the surviving daughter living there to this day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
"which threw almost half the world's population from the wrong side of the iron curtain under the bus."

I am one of those people. We didn't get to choose, but most of us hated the regimes that ruled us. I am fine with their portrayal as prisons of nations, because that is what they were. No need to whitewash Communism.

The Soviet empire was brutal and evil, and I am not at all surprised that a former KGB thug now started the biggest land war in Europe since 1945. It perfectly fits the imperial mentality of the Siloviki [0], who all made their early careers in Soviet armed forces and secret police.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silovik
How so ? Copyright was introduced along with the print press to protect the works of authors. When you buy a copy of a book it's not exactly private property of the author that you buy, is it ?
As a college student in the environmental sciences, I toured an awful lot of facilities and parks.

Outdoors, we visited national and state parks, national forests, wastewater treatment ponds, community farms, private hobby farms, ranches, zoos, renewables projects, and more -- from both the visitor's side and also from a behind the scenes perspective, talking to the employees and owners there about how they work.

Indoors, we went to aquariums, landfills and transfer stations, sewage processors, high efficiency refrigerator manufacturing shops, private net-zero energy homes, schools, museums, city councils, public meetings, arboretums, barns, and whatnot.

It was a good swath of the parts of society that touch the environment and outdoor recreation, and profoundly shaped how I view Americana and rural areas in particular. No longer were they globs of indistinguishable wastelands, but filled with interesting (if sparsely populated) peoples and functions that operate largely beneath the radar, unknown to most of the country. That was especially the case after having spent time in the Silicon Valley tech and strip mall bubble.

Most places in my experience would be happy to organize a group tour like that if you just ask nicely (I ran a few). Totally worth it.
NASA's Crew-6 returns after 6 months at the International Space Station
https://matt-rickard.com/archive
I went to a STEM summer camp in Switzerland where they took us to see a variety of industrial sites including the Turbomach generator manufacturing facility, the Gotthard tunnel when it was under construction, an optic fiber connector company, a nuclear power plant, and a few other places that I cannot remember. The visits had a profound impact on me and inspired me, in a large part, to pursue engineering.
I was in high school, and an older friend's dad was a Microsoft partner, so he'd get shipped CDs of the latest build. I was popular at school for about 5 minutes when he gave me a copy that was one build behind current ('cause his dad didn't need it anymore)
Win95 sale started at midnight on the release day. I recall going to a local Fry's Electronics store (out of business now) roaming around and at 12:01 am grabbing a box of the upgrade. I still have the box and its contents. Full version was too expensive for me back then. There was a big pile of Win95 boxes at the entrance of the store. A local TV crew was there interviewing people about the new OS. I came home and upgraded Win 3.1 and by morning I was watching in amazement the screen savers. There was one of an airplane flying around the screen.
Hi dang,

Thanks for your feedback on this. While it's true that the monthly threads haven't received a high level of activity, in absolute numbers they've made a significant impact. Thus far these threads have helped 44 founders in their search for co-founders. That's 44 potential startups that could make a meaningful impact.

We've had some previous talks about having these threads less frequently, perhaps that could be a good compromise?

I believe that these threads align well with the spirit of HackerNews, which is all about promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.
That's kind of like asking any variety of, "Can X videos make us better at X?"

Absolutely, but the more relevant question is if a particular cooking video or series, out of the vast set of "cooking videos" will make a particular viewer a better cook.

Probably not. I'd suggest a few questions to determine if that's true.

What is the specificity of the video? Some "cooking" videos only pretend to be about teaching cooking but they're actually about something entirely different. I love watching old episodes of Iron Chef but I don't expect to learn anything practical. Some cooking shows are about a particular aspect of cooking; a video on cooking with Spam won't make me a better cook because I don't cook with Spam. A video on how to make cakes look attractive with fondant won't make me a better cook because I like food made of food ingredients rather than construction materials.

Does the author know their subject matter? Many videos tell you stuff that's just plain wrong, or even dangerous (don't make popcorn on a soda-can stove with methanol or it could blow up in your face).

Are they level-appropriate? When I left for college, my mom gave me a copy of "How to boil an egg". I got a lot of benefit out of that book but something similar would be useless today. By the same token, years later, we got a lot of great information of of Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Bread Bible", but it wouldn't have helped me at all as a freshman with a communal kitchen and minimal cooking ability.

There's also the question of what the viewer is going to do with it. You can watch videos all day long without getting any better at cooking. If you want to get better at cooking you primarily need to cook. Some videos may aid that effort but even the best ones will only help to the extent that you're willing to implement what they teach and practice it.
(Also not a lawyer and not giving any legal advice here.)

Some of the points may be true, but it is virtually impossible that these uses are fair.

Here are some reasons:

1. While the content may be old, and the production quality may not be considered high by today's viewers, these factors are not really relevant. The quality of the reproduction of the works, meanwhile, is good enough that they can be effectively viewed; while these may be less marketable than a copy made from a master, this is more than faithful enough to serve as a market replacement for the original (and thus infringes).

2. The current overall market value of the works is irrelevant. The question in an infringement suit is not whether or not there is a market for the work; it is whether or not whatever value the work could have is affected by the re-used version being used as a replacement. A popular work may have a greater market value than an unpopular one, but copyright law does not protect works based on popularity. Even if the actual market value of the original is near zero anyway, this does not make giving away free copies a fair use (since that destroys whatever market value the original could have).

3. The work has not been transformed in any way. The reproduction is faithful (to the extent this was technologically possible). The copies tend to be of the entire work. The purpose of the work (display for viewing) is the same as the original purpose; there is no transformation.

The channel here is reproducing the original works in their entirety. These copies serve as a good substitute for any copies the original copyright holder could be making and selling/licensing. This boils down to the question: do these copies fulfill any demand there might be for the originals? The answer is yes. This is not fair use.

The question of whether or not a copyright holder strictly enforces the copyrights — in many cases, they don't — isn't relevant; they remain valid.

Now, for a lot of people, this seems unfair. The original works are often not available on the market. A lot of people think that non-marketed works should be able to be copied by non-profits for the public's use. But that's not something the law allows.
How the World’s Largest Selection of Tinned Fish Ended Up at a Pa Tomato Farm
> Is a "brain transplant" from one LLM to another a thing?

At least it's a thing for vision models and was also used to train OpenAI Five (the dota AI)[0]. So it probably applies to LLMs too.

[0] https://cdn.openai.com/dota-2.pdf (page 2)
I remember seeing this on Overclock.net back in the day!

However, as an adult I just don't enjoy video games in the same way. Wish I had a SWE salary that could support a build-out like this!
I personally think it was likely/almost certainly the case. That doesn’t change the fact that without sufficient actual evidence it remains “allegedly.”
I was humbled and inspired by the creativity and resourcefulness of some prison inmates. There's a Youtube channel[0] where they recreate "dishes" that can only be sourced from the commissary or leftovers from a provided meal. Ones I saw included: Laffy Taffy, ice cream and a breakfast burrito. I now look at my small kitchen in a different light.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nWOkoNQWM
While you are right… the point of many of these videos is building audience, not documenting a technical reality.
or "the one that can be piped to `sh` by default" ;-)
> It is valid thing to point out for a critic. Just like unrealistic physics or one dimensional characters are.

That presumes that Objective Good and Evil are somehow just as unrealistic. That's very much debatable, though I'd not be surprised if right here on HN people can't see that.

> Objectively angelic vs evil was extremely common setup in cheap literature. It is easy to write and people used to consume tons of it. Be it detective stories, adventures, westerns, goodly good vs badly bad was common.

Yeah, so is grey and grey morality. Hacks like GRRM make bank with objectively bad people on all sides, and it's tauted as 'realism'.
How-to improve search results with machine learning
This x100. I actually like cleaning up while cooking because it uses up the dead-time while waiting for something to cook, where I would normally let my ADHD brain take me out of the kitchen to do something else and then burn everything.
wow that's a name I've not heard of in a while. Didn't they release Back Orifice and other butt name related, ahem, "remote management" tools?
> My issue with all of this is that vanilla is better than any framework.

Vanilla JS is an abstraction over something else which in turn an abstraction over another and so on...

So your problem here isn't really with abstraction/magic/complexity in itself.

You like a 5 layers cake, you think it's just perfect, a group copied the recipe and added a layer because they want to add another flavor.

They didn't ruin your cake, they just have different taste.
Most front-end devs already use a translation layer - Typescript. So I don't understand the need to draw an arbitrary line between what can and cannot be used to make a good web application.
Argos Train – open-source NLP model training
I think this is an oversimplification. The concern about entrenching the positions of big tech companies is, I think, genuine, and I do believe it's important to find ways to foster competition and opportunity for smaller players. Possibly the law needs to evolve and/or there need to be licensing solutions for this content that work both for creators, and for those looking to train models (and, in some sense, licensing payments that are "means-tested").
Apple’s software will never support DLP and other invasive Corp spyware so I think there will always unfortunately be a need for the latter.

E.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-11/the-plot-...
Sample sentences like those in the OED are pretty much the textbook example of fair use.

They are obviously transformative (the whole "dictionary" part), copy factual information (use of a word, not what the sentence itself is saying), are not substantial (one sentence out of many thousands), and do not impact the original work's value (nobody would buy a dictionary instead of a novel because it contains a sample phrase from that novel). The OED cites its sources, which also strengthens its case.

Compare that to AI, which is more than happy to write a short story to the prompt "Write a story about Bucky and Captain America falling in love, and living happily ever after in a mountain cabin." (Transformative? Maybe. Factual? No. Substantial? Yes. Impacts value? Yes.) Works like the AI's output have been dealt with in lawsuits like Salinger v. Colting, and it simply is not allowed. The big question right now is: what about the AI model itself?