skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be frank, all of those four are all exhibiting monopolist behavior in different ways. Google just is the worst of the lot from an antitrust perspective.

Googles problem is very much that they have an open policy of launching new products and axing it without regard for the existing userbase when it doesn't become the standard. They're so large that any individual user falls to the wayside in those metrics. Out of all of the ones on that list, Google is the most openly consumer hostile version of this stuff because they do everything the others do and are in a far more instrumental position for the average consumer. On B2B they're horrible because Google just... is the legitimate ad market these days. Like, if Google doesn't want you or if you don't like Googles rates, that's it. There's no real general purpose ad network that's comparable to Google that aren't niche startups or can offer comparable rates. The lawsuit is about the latter in specific though.

Apple just is your traditional walled garden setup. Only that which exists in the Apple garden is allowed on Apple and their market share is annoyingly large enough that it means Apple basically morally polices the mobile market. - not being on apple devices might as well mean that you don't exist as a mobile developer. That said this dominance isn't exactly by market share (worldwide anyway), but moreso by the fact that the Apple userbase is in the niche of "trendsetters" (or in other words: trendy younger people and your boss have iDevices, which are the demographics that disproportionately matter for popularity).

Microsoft is just getting a bit too comfortable after they lost that lawsuit in the 2000s and is just doing what they did back then. They need to be reminded why they lost that suit. Out of all big tech, they're probably the smallest fish to fry given they're also easily intimidated if the EU is any indication.

Meta is... well, it's mostly a privacy nightmare with some hints of a walled garden (fucking WhatsApp) and similar moral policing as Apple. They're only slightly less bad than Google because their brand is seen as so toxic that people not having a Facebook/Instagram account isn't seen as a social failing (which given they're a social media network, that matters).

Kneecap any one of them and it'll do a net good - they're all bad but they're bad in different markets. Google going down won't suddenly make Apple or Microsoft more powerful, they're in different fields. (And the Meta ad tracking machine is only on Meta products, afaik Meta doesn't sell general site ads.)
Very cool! I have a similar project that uses DNS instead of a path parameter https://serv.from.zone but smolsite is much simpler.
Thanks for the feedback! I answered this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37417643
Japan launches SLIM moon lander, XRISM X-ray telescope on space doubleheader
That’s not how you save face. Genuinely, if nobody said anything about this anymore, basically everyone would forget about it. The privacy nerds that would remember this 6 months from now would be utterly politically immaterially few
The Internet is self-explanatory, but what's happened to open source software?
Either way, it still speaks to the maintainability of these modern replacements, many of which are personal projects.

tools like ls or grep are certainly showing their age, but that has also been their strength. The POSIX ecosystem comes in many flavors but I can always depend on it.

It’s not like I can ever expect to shell into any arbitrary system or container and expect to have exa/lsd/rg or any of these nice replacements available to me. My tooling needs to be somewhat more portable.
Author of ripgrep here.

It's worth pointing out that while exa uses the term "modern" to describe itself, fd and bat currently do not. And I can say with certainty that ripgrep never used the word "modern" to describe itself. I didn't like that strategy even back in 2016 personally, and specifically tried to avoid it.

With that said, to try to argue the point more directly, I do think this is a somewhat shallow concern. It's unclear to me how much predictive power using the word "modern" to describe a piece of software is. I don't like it because it's vague and its meaning is somewhat of a moving target. But broadly speaking, it does convey some things: non-POSIX, does bolder things in the name of user experience and maybe some other stuff. It's a pithy signal. But I'm not sure it has much to do with "staying power."

Presumably coreutils has staying power because there is purportedly a specification covering their behavior (kinda, not really, lol) and organizations responsible for maintaining them. So if you want staying power, stick with the stuff that has a high bus factor and is well funded. That's totally fine.
That isn't a metaphor; maybe you mean irony.
Yes, I directed it. It turned out well enough, and it had a decent run on the festival circuit. As someone who grew up watching NFB shorts, it's kind of nice having something in the archives.
Still in fedora repos.
Not deprecated for me, haha.
How would we know to recognize an antipattern without reading them?
I'm slowly becoming of the opinion that legislators should be punished for creating laws that are nakedly illegal (against the constitution/human rights that have been agreed upon). I don't know what can of worms it would open, but it's getting tiring when politicians just ignore the public and push forward with laws that then spend 5 years in court battles to eventually be struck down. But for those 5 years their bullshit law is active. Eg EU data retention act.
insisting on simultaneous and equal action really is suggesting we do nothing.

Nobody is insisting on _simultaneous and equal_ action. Obviously that is not realistic.

But in an industry as volatile and dynamic as tech remedies do need to be applied in somewhat close order to have any claim to fairness.
Agreed. I don’t understand the trend for abstracting away the best possible human interface.
And yet a few layers deeper, a lot has changed. The bill is dead, and anyone who wants to revive it knows they need significant political capital to do so.

Politics ain't tech - a non-binding agreement that signals "we're not going to do this, at least for the next 3-5 years" is a win in politics.
The product is interesting for an individual! However, my company will not accept product that are charged per user. I am based in Hong Kong, and often in Asia, we are hiring with engineers working remotely from Southeast Asia, due to a very low pricing per head.

It would be better if it's a total cost. In this way we could just put it side to side with our cloud billing.
Fleng 16 released – now with graphics support and a much improved PCN front end
I welcome this change, greatly. The world of software engineering is an awful shitshow of cowboys, vulnerabilities, amateurism and mud balls. The metaphorical well barely contains any water, it’s almost entirely piss. It’s disgusting and reduces the reputation of the work good engineers can actually achieve. More regulation is a good thing to weed out the amateurs from the professionals and to bring some value back to what we do.
Magnetism may have given life its molecular asymmetry
I'm over here in my little corner of the world pumping my fists reading your posts in here.

>religious attack-dog attitude I often encounter

This describes it precisely. I'm sure it's partly rooted in a long history of disingenuous arguments starting in the same way, particularly those that jump from something that has any scientific basis at all right to full on metaphysical or spiritual explanations.

I'm sure it's also rooted in much of the same psychological underpinnings of evangelists allowing for thought tinkering at the edges of scripture but protecting the tenets of their faith quite literally with their lives.
Don't be dense. Look at the thread you're in
Wiki link says that there is a lot of evidence against these just-so stories

In any case, this isn’t how science is done. You’d be laughed out of the room if this was tried in most areas of life, including detective work etc.

Now, let me refine my statement. Non-rigorous scientists have done this a lot throughout ancient history, and it has produced a ton of false theories with apparent explanatory power. The four humors. The theory of spontaneous generation. The luminiferous ether. Phlogiston. Have you studied the history of science and why people believed these theories for centuries, when they were so wrong? In my opinion, it should be required reading in school so people can see what mistakes were made in the past, to at least be aware of the patterns.

Even the age of the earth, until radioactivity was discovered, hovered around 100 million years because of dogma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

However it is exactly the sort of thing that adherents of, say Marx or Freud’s theories, use. They see “confirming evidence” everywhere, and all they are doing is concocting narratives which are fitting every observed case into their framework. They add details that perhaps weren’t there.

But if after a century all you have is just-so stories, many people will call that pseudoscientific. It’s fine to admit you don’t know, but shaming skeptical people into submission — like a sister comment does — betrays the insecurity that adherents of neo-Darwinism should probably feel if they are intellectually honest.

> maybe. what is it?

Well, we don’t know what can fill the gaps in our knowledge. But people who adhere to this or that school of thought insist it must be what they believe, and often their passive-aggressive tactics seem similar to each other.
Yes, you did. Back then I went to their github page and I found no mention of x86. Now I see it is there. Great. I'll give it a try.

Also I see something much better. The same guy behind llama.cpp authors a universal ml library that does cpu quantization. I wasn't aware of that and it is far more impressive than running a couple of chosen models.
ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per Scanner
Eh I've been a part of a bunch of class action law suits and I think the most I've gotten was a 10-20 dollar gift card? The only time I've started arbitration a) my problem got fixed almost immediately b) I walked away with an extra 1000 dollars (which probably could have been more but again I was lazy and instantly settled)

IIRC I filled out 1 online form and had previously sent 1 copy-paste demand letter.
>vandals (heroes?) were spray painting the cameras, then parking for free.

Why would they be heroes for unfairly preventing others from using the parking spaces?
> The bigger picture of why UK is hell bent on surveilling their citizens, communities is that the number one problem is that governments are losing control over society.

I suspect theres a bunch of things going on.

They've come down so hard on recent protest movements like Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, etc because as you say they feel like they've lost authority and they want it back. National-scale surveillance is a way to remind everyone who really runs the country, and who just does as they're told. The uk has almost always been governed by essentially the same elite group, and they have a lot of experience of keeping it that way. Not by Spectre-style secret meetings, just by convergent overlapping objectives.

I think part of their fear comes from seeing how popular devolution has been in the UK. And partly how successful the EU has become, hence brexit. Theres also a part of the tory party that wants to nope out of the ECHR jurisdiction, and this kind of legislation potentially sets-up a fight with the court that could be used as a pretext for withdrawal. Some of them undoubtedly also simply see the potential to make some money from a surveylance society.

I also suspect they've finally woken up to the climate-related crisies that are now just down the road and they've decided that a more authoritarian society is the only way to keep their position at the top.

> Off course the whole point of democracy is that governments should fear their citizens, rather than vice versa.

Err... nope. Can't build stable societies on fear. The "whole point of democracy" is how to negociate the divergent desires and opinions of the nation's citizens.
That kind of fine-grained permission scheme just gives a false sense of security if signups are open to the public—that HR department would just sign up for another account and avoid linking it to the company.
> I imagine AIX/*BSD people still do.

Quite true for many in the macOS subset of BSD
>what finally killed it was broadband and cable.

And information. I remember telling so many people that aol was not 'the internet'. Most swapped over to a local isp...with vaguely similar cost but very, very open.
Of course, then they all went and jumped on facebook.
Ah, understandable.
The arbitration DDOS attack is literally the only positive thing I can say has come from the explosion of arbitration provisions in consumer and employment contracts.

Otherwise, consumer arbitration is a shitshow, a kangaroo court, a mockery of the idea of justice. Arbitrators’ livelihoods depend on the repeat business of - you’ll never guess - corporate defendants. Their award stats bear this out.
TurboGP: A flexible and advanced Python based GP library
Ah sorry, I skimmed the article but missed that paragraph! Why do you think the demo went nowhere?
If you can reason about f and g that doesn’t mean that you can tell anything useful about f o g, so no, this is a factually incorrect statement. Sure, if we have a separate unit of functionality, write a function for that. But that’s no silver bullet - complexity is unbounded.
Not sure what your point is.

It seems that you have beef with the language so you extrapolate lack of maintenance of one project to whole ecosystem?

Is that right?
"A neural network layer is just a matrix. Why abstract that matrix and learn it?" Well, because it's not your job to figure out how to hardcode delicate string or floats that work well for a given architecture & backend.

We want developers to iterate quickly on system designs: How should we break down the task? Where do we call LMs? What should they do?

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If you can guess the right prompts right away for each LLM, tweak them well for any complex pipeline, and rarely have to change the pipeline (and hence all prompts in it), then you probably won't need this.

That said, it turns out that (a) prompts that work well are very specific to particular LMs, large & especially small ones, (b) prompts that work well change significantly when you tweak your pipeline or your data, and (c) prompts that work well may be long and time-consuming to find.

Oh, and often the prompt that works well changes for different inputs. Thinking in terms of strings is a glaring anti-pattern.
into to-scale models

What does this mean? Why would scale matter in a 3D model when you can scale it however you want in two seconds?
Any company that builds a messaging system then inserts ads into it under the guise of a DM notification is complete trash and has zero respect for its users. Also completely unprofessional from a site that purports itself as a site for professionals.
By 1980s standards, maybe. In their wildest dreams, the soviets couldn't have imagined the access and leverage most western governments have today.
having www. is a nice quixk way of saying "this is a website address" without having to say it.
> And yet a few layers deeper, a lot has changed. The bill is dead, and anyone who wants to revive it knows they need significant political capital to do so.

> Politics ain't tech - a non-binding agreement that signals "we're not going to do this, at least for the next 3-5 years" is a win in politics.

What on earth are you talking about?

The bill was passed by the Commons and then will be passed by the Lords and then will become law.

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
My practice of spirituality mostly involves studying phenomena like the one you were experiencing as you wrote this comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion)

Perhaps now you can respond with some memes, then I can check where they fall in the distribution of responses from prior applications of this prompt.
John Socha, Creator of Norton Commander
Maybe get a bit more info before encouraging pitchforks... was it an employee of Bank of America or First-Second Bank of Boise? Most people will likely agree that they get random views all the time. This may be entirely coincidental. The footprint of the bank would provide some context.
One of the US’s biggest assets is its trust-ability. People around the world clamor to do business in the US, and creating outsize demand for the US’s currency because of it.

Obviously, the people of the US can choose to reduce that perception, but there are tradeoffs. See Somalia and their currency’s purchasing power at the other other end of the spectrum.
This should be classed as an attempt at violating human rights and possibly other violations.

After all this worthless bill cost millions to develop and if people knew it is not workable, then they de facto defrauded the tax payer.
>I am convinced there is only one way ... a socialist economy... In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.

There you have the problem. Things are controlled by 'society itself' and practical decisions such as who to hire to do what for how much have to be made by humans and we end up with iffy corruptish politicians doing that.

Maybe a way forward would be to have an AI make the decisions. At least that could be open source and non corrupt. I'd vote to give that a try providing you could vote it out again if it screws up.
People bitch a /lot/ about the hallucinations AI produce.

They're definitely a problem if you're working in academic or engineering fields, and it'll probably take a lot of work to make them less so.

However, I think the hallucinations have kind of been helpful for the limited use I've had of chatGPT: Getting bored/writer's block and asking it to help generate some ideas I can play off, based on a limited description of the situation and context. There's no copypasting involved, but holy crap chatGPT already outperforms most "Talking to another human being" experiences I've had for the same purpose.
Yeah we now support 1.5M devices with our community network and enterprise network. And the most successful ones sent the least amount of data. Here is a list of all the supported devices: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/device-repository/
Elections alone don't make a democracy. Fair and free and secret elections are necessary but not sufficient for a democracy.
Free press, protection of minorities, free speech, separation of powers, fundamental rights are other parts I think are necessary for a liberal democracy.
Maybe they would at some point send an email offering to turn off these annoying notifications with a malicious URL?
Police radar defeaters.
India could put a craft on the moon for that.
I got online for the first time with Prodigy. I opened the Prodigy browser, hit the Prodigy start page, and navigated around from there. I didn't realize there was more of the internet until I got a book called something like "100 free cool websites".
Awesome, thanks! Looks like it's only one alternate number at a time, but that's probably enough for spam.
I very much like if Apple adds "Hide my number" option to iCloud+.
How is this different from any other programming language?
I used firefox without any issues, but today was the first time I tried to make a call instead of joining a meeting. The site said that my browser didn't support that (meetings work perfectly, so that's obviously BS) and that I should use edge or chrome.

So edge and chrome are the only options. Still better than having audio stop working in almost every call and constant crashes.
In Dutch probably the most frequently used German loan-word is "uberhaupt"; it's probably used in the same connotation as "anyway" is in English, as in, "I wouldn't want to do that anyway".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
Beware any company where leadership compensation is not linked to performance
Ah no, you are not. So the idea is the colors should start converging together to a stage where they are indistinguishable from each other.

I haven't yet added a stopping condition yet, working on it :)
Pou was (is?) paradoxically one of those highly popular games that noone has ever heard of - with half a billion downloads on the play store back in 2014+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pou_(video_game)
> Way back in 2009, Chicago’s inspector general confirmed that the city had sold out for far less than the lease’s value. A report by Bloomberg Business said CPM stood to earn about 10 times what it paid over the life of the contract. Any way you slice it financially, Chicago got taken to the cleaners.

That’s approximately a 3% annualized return on investment (1.03^75 ~= 10). EDIT: Nope. See downthread.

That’s really not bad at all, especially if the vendor has to pay to administer, maintain, and update the meters.

I wonder how the IG got the idea that effectively selling a $10B 75-year taxable bond for $1B (in a year when high-grade muni bonds were yielding over 7%) was remotely a bad deal. Unless I’m missing something, this is a fantastic deal for Chicago and its taxpayers.
As a game developer, should I be thinking about reducing branches in performance critical loops?
I use TextNow for those times that I have to give a number. https://www.textnow.com

You can't use it for certain 2FA situations, but it works for Craigslist transactions or when some business requires it.
Texas Teeters on Edge of Blackouts as Demand Squeezes Grid
Again, it is not fair to think this is a complication specific to Haskell.

It is fair, because other languages have a single keyword or setting instead of a whole 'type system' with fancy labels that introduces lots of complexity for something simple.
I can't say I've found anything particularly wrong with it in the last 40 years.
> in the dying days of a flailing Tory government, that simply makes you a mug.

TBF let's take longer view than the incumbent freak show of throwbacks
and incompetents.

> "spycops" scandal, and the abuses of PREVENT,

Do please give the podcast episode I linked a listen. You'll
appreciate that we took that precise case (the Bob Lambert case) as an
example for discussing mission-creep and the impossibility of
containment of digital privilege or other special powers.
Anduril acquires drone company Blue Force Technologies
No, its not random, its whatever fits the best
I had the same thought.

The “inertial hump,” the learning curve, is going to be like 30 minutes, if you take 15 of those minutes to eat a sandwich.

If you want to reduce it even more, do this:

1. Install new tool.

2. In your .bashrc define some flag combinations that make it even more like your use of old tool, with similar-sounding aliases or even ones commonly used for old tool.

3. Now in the unlikely scenario that new tool goes away, you’ll still be current w old tool from those lookalike commands.
I hate giving out contact info now because of this kind of thing.

Once I verbally told a counter employee my phone number and immediately started receiving dick pics. There were only two other people in the waiting area but it could’ve even been the employee, who knows?

Now I never say it, I’ll write it on paper and take it with me afterwards, but maybe I’ll start saying “I don’t like giving out that info, but if you must have it, I’ll make a trade: I’ll give you mine and you give me yours.”
Wild unfounded speculation is the definition of negative value commentary
Some find foot even sexier. They are called podophiles.
Call for Discussion: New Project: Babylon