skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the reference to the Arthur C Clark quote

(It's weird that this comment was upvoted twice, now down voted twice)

This is the quote I'm referring to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

It's the third of his 3 laws
Support, speaking as someone who for a while built a cottage business out of providing it for stuff I didn't build.

It has several flavors, but there are some common themes and causes. Developers simply like writing code more than they like writing documentation, and they like writing documentation more than they like maintaining old codebases. Meanwhile, software vendors of all kinds have universally decided that they shouldn't be spending any money on any form of technical support that comes with a heartbeat.

Down in the home and small-business markets, there are a lot of people that get absolutely screwed by this. New software comes out, something tries to auto-update (or the user is forced to update), something goes sideways, and ... that's it. Stuck. Nobody to call. Some really sharp Google skills once upon a time could sometimes find an answer, but even that's thoroughly rotted out now.

So if your small business has your entire customer database in an old version of Quickbooks running on the office PC with Windows 7 configured by the last tech to stop complaining about updates, and then one day Quickbooks refuses to launch and displays instead an obtuse error message ... what do you do? For a while, you could call me, and for several years, I mostly enjoyed building a business out of fixing these sorts of things (and helping people navigate the sometimes very tricky update process so that this wouldn't be a recurring problem).

Unfortunately, software kept getting worse, documentation kept getting harder to come by, Google kept getting worse, everything kept getting converted into subscription SaaS (which meant that most of my answers started becoming, "yeah, that's just how it works now, I can't do anything about it, yeah, it sucks, yeah, lots of other people are complaining too, no, there's nobody you can call, sorry"), and I never felt good charging a lot of money for getting people out of bad spots.

I eventually noped out of this in favor of relaxing for a while in a slightly less hopeless part of the industry, but there's still a huge, under-served market of people who are getting hosed by sociopathic technology and would pay someone just to make it work again.
Where I studied, every classroom had a blackboard and a projector, with the rollable white screen just above the board. When you show slides, roll out the screen. When you need the board, either use the portion beside the screen or roll up the screen if you don't need it at all.
how about ray tracing and playing RE 4 on your phone ?
Why is the recommended javascript way of doing it

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

rather than

var fs = require('fs') // (or the appropriate ES6 incantation)

?
Same in India, what makes it worse is the taxation. You end up paying $1000+ for the $799 iPhone. And $1000 is a lot of money. You can live a comfortable life in a tier 2 city with $500 a month. PPP adjusted, $1000 in US is around $4000 in India.

In fact, someone proved that it is sometimes cheaper to fly to and back from Dubai and buy a pro model from there than buying it directly in India.
AI can be a big part of tomorrow's societies, obviating the need for democratic bureaucracy even. However what begins as open source ends up coopted by the big corporation.
‘Cryptoqueen’ Sidekick Greenwood Gets 20 Years in OneCoin Ponzi Scheme
We didn't have a lot of homework. Only needed to take home a notebook and sometimes a book
The Hitler example and Twitter poll seems poorly phrased.

If I'm stranded on a desert island with one other person, I'm going to want Man Adolf to help me knock down coconuts and build a house and just make conversation to stop me going insane. Retributive justice would be the last thing on my mind.

Perhaps the author's Twitter followers skew differently.
One thing that's not mentioned in this article is that credit card companies will sometimes make last-ditch "clear your debt at a discount" offers before passing your debt on to a collection agency.

This happened to me many years ago. In the wake of the '08 financial crisis, I'd lost my job abruptly and decided to go travelling.

I'd accumulated a balance that was fairly substantial for me at the time (on the order of $10-15k, IIRC) and had been struggling to make the payments. I'd probably been 2-3 months behind on multiple occasions over the course of a year or so when a letter appeared that essentially said "we don't like you and we're going to close your account and pass your debt to a collection agency. However, if you pay off a portion of your balance in 4 monthly payments, and don't miss any of those payment dates, we'll wipe the rest."

I don't recall exactly what the discount was, but it was very substantial. In total I only had to pay something like 30-40% of the balance that I owed, so it was a very good deal. I'm not normally one to skip out on my debts but this was a huge relief to have a chance to be free of that debt: I pulled a lot of strings to make those payments on time!

True to their word, they wiped my entire balance and closed my account, and I never heard from them again (nor any collection agencies).
Check the stores. I remember seeing old cycle products still for sale the week between announcement and the release date.
Not necessarily true this time but you might get lucky.
https://archive.is/M82P2
> Bike consistently beat out everything in any locale they work in.

That’s absolutely not true and I say that as a massive cycling advocate. There are countless journeys in London which are fastest by public transport, especially since the coming of the Elizabeth Line.
IMO this has so much to do with how Apple advertises the App Store. They were able to get people to spend some money on apps, which was a HUGE improvement over no money at all. But then, instead of managing to get people to pay higher upfront prices, they heavily supported a race to the bottom and micro transactions, which inevitably resulted in freemium games that felt like casinos.

Unfortunately that isn't just true for games but also for apps. I wish Apple had focused more on building a healthier App Store ecosystem.
>I assume you mean "dropped" as in posted

Yes, "dropped" is a highly overloaded word, but one definition is:

>set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else.

so it may be a stretch to call it slang. saying that news "drops" as it is unloaded onto the public makes sense.
Are there any interesting details about the intranet search products?
Previously worked on the intersection of ML and Material Science (specifically batteries). I think the link to osium-ai[0] tells the story pretty well. Material science is plagued by long, expensive, exploration phases - even in places you wouldn't expect them. ML ends up being really good at cutting the expense of these phases by >50% by making you just a little smarter in your exploration.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/osium-ai
> it gets a million installs.

I highly doubt many/any(?) games os Gamepass or Apple Arcade were created using the personal edition (after all they already have a 100/200k per COMPANY revenue limit. would MS really pay less than that for any game and you have zero sales every else?)

On Pro you’d only have to worry if your downloads went significantly over a limit. Which is concern in this case, just relatively a much smaller one. In any cases it seems to create some false incentives for fixed fee developers (unless the publisher agrees to pay the fee which would be pretty reasonable)

IMHO so far the biggest issue with these pricing changes seems to be that they are way too complicated. It was unreasonable for them to expect that most people commenting online would bother looking at more than a single number (or would understand their current pricing model for that matter)
> There are good answers given the history why this particular instantiation of Israel is a problem

Give us a few, I'm interested.
If you're curious what it says, I put the Russian text in a translator:

> glory to Ukraine!
> rel 20200126 15:15
> rel 20200126 15:46 added ubuntu 19.10 【thanks russkis】
> rel 20200127 02:46 removed upx, crashes often, unpacked version only now

The bracketed text is written in Ukrainian
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make... basically everything we have will go to waste at some point. That does not mean we shouldn't reduce waste in the mean time.

I'd wager that a large majority of iPhone owners already have USB-C cables from some other product. But even if there is a small increase in wasted cables for 2-3 years as people acquire new cables, it will easily be offset over the next 5-10 due to reuse across multiple products.
To me the key "gotcha" of all these "productivity" metrics is that they are not measures of overall civilizational-efficiency against the entropy of a hostile universe. No, they are based on how attractive the situations are purely based on the employer's perspective under unstated bargaining assumptions.

In other words, all those man/hours of time wasted in traffic and gallons of fuel burned are not considered a "cost" in th model, because employers usually don't reimburse those, at least not directly nor immediately. Employees eat those costs, and while the employee-market may eventually demand higher wages to cover them, it's a gradual process and not something captured by quarterly short-term thinking. (Plus for some companies it's a feature, to push stealth-layoffs.)

So employers are seeing think-tank reports declaring that "in-office employees are +10% more productive", while being unaware (or uncaring) that those are offset by asking those employees to sacrifice a even more in uncompensated hours/fuel.
The chase in mad max furry road: your eyes are always where they are supposed to be, even if it the scenes are total confusing. The best example is the part with the motorcycles.

You might rewatch it with this idea in mind. It is not great storywise but it is greatly done in this regard
You can use recursion in COBOL, you just have to write your own stack first. But I agree, it’s definitely more limited than other languages.
Who is Angel Guice? California based actress who was violently arrested for Angel Guice for resisting arrest and refusing to sign a citation
I think it is meant to be sarcastic.
A fairer comparison would be that in that universe the url would be:

https://github.com/4e4e9133-bcdb-45b9-8dfe-9e951846e3c6

or even

urn:uuid:4e4e9133-bcdb-45b9-8dfe-9e951846e3c6

with the right infrastructure.
Exllamav2: Inference library for running LLMs locally on consumer-class GPUs
As an aside every time I come across a Raymond Chen article I remember this post from Joel Spolsky - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

I remember very distinctly this quote about him:

> The only person in the world who leapt to my defense was, of course, Raymond Chen, who is, by the way, the best programmer in the world, so that has to say something, right?

So in my mind I've made the connection that Raymond Chen = best programmer in the world since then haha.
Which lens/lenses do you use with your XT-4? I am in the same situation, I have an iPhone but while the photos it makes in certain situations are better I would prefer the XT-4 in other situations, if I have the camera with me that is.
You are getting a lot of troll replies, but it is actually interesting to think about.

The waste is uncaptured value. It is some part of your software business's domain that is just too hard, expensive, or requiring physical intervention to encode the process in their system. So the business never chooses to build that feature. This leaves some part of your business's problem domain unsolved. Potentially someone else smaller could come in and try and solve that problem and capitalize on that wasted value.
People who want to suffer (it’s a common enough feeling) often do so because they feel they aren’t good enough.

And when a really horrible person gets comeuppance we rejoice and when a great person suffers, we do too. Well, except for Will Smith.
> I never digged into the question, but why is it used, what benefits did it provide over the UNIX unlink behaviour?

How do you defragment/move files that are unreachable on the file system? How do you shrink volumes when you can't move files that need to be moved?

Edit: Actually, hmm... as I type this, I suddenly recall you can also open a file by its ID on NTFS. And you can enumerate its streams as well. So presumably this could work on NTFS if you loop through all file IDs? Though then that would make these files still accessible, not truly unreachable.
If I contemplate some criminal act, various unpleasant potential consequences may occur to me, and I may decide against that act "for fear" that those consequences should come to pass. However, "fear" in this sense is rather different from say the fear I feel if I'm held at gunpoint during a robbery. The latter is real suffering in and of itself (as evidenced by the fact that if the "robber" turns out to be friends pulling a prank, one may rightfully be angry at the friend), the former arguably is not "suffering", at least not in any significant, weighty way.

In any case it's possible to generate much clearner counterexamples to consequentialism in the same vein as Kaplan's but without any knock-on societal effects. Imagine a man breaks into a woman's house while she's asleep, and sexually assaults her (1) without her awareness, (2) without causing any physical injury or giving her any disease (3) without her ever discovering that this had taken place. By stipulation, the act made no difference to her, physically or mentally, over her whole life. A consequentialist would be hard put to say why such an act would be wrong, given that it seems to cause no negative consequences, and often need to resort to saying some decidely non-consequentialist-sounding things, for example by making up abstract, symbolic 'consequences' (such as: "the act caused a violation of a moral norm") to yield the intuitively correct result.
> Also Unity games were mod unfriendly

That's got nothing to do with Unity. A game being mod friendly is 100% a dev decision.

For an example look at Cities: Skyline, lots of big mods and it's a Unity game.
1. In “The origin of political order” Fukuyama takes the point of view that the emergence of the western state depended on suppression of extended family ties, since those formed an alternative power structure.

If one were to punish not only the individual but also his family, I would think that inner family loyalty would in the end be strengthened.

2. In to command and persuade Baldwin asserts that punishment is most effective if it is ( in principle ) accepted by the punished. In Modern society punishing the family lost likely would not be accepted.

Also interesting the wiki article ( English ) about the concept in German law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippenhaft
This really annoys me. Instead of working out new ways to get rid of stupid things we created, we stop making stupid things like this in the first place. Granted the knowledge is applicable to non-stupid things, but we need to start asking if disposable technology rather than just materials is really something we should be doing on packaging.
An Introduction to Packet Filter (PF) – FreeBSD Foundation
> is that actually a thing?

Probably not, I’m not a fan of these changes but most people seem to really over exaggerating because they don’t understand how the new (very convoluted) pricing model works.

The $.2 install fee (only for users living in “rich” countries) seems to be there just to incentive developers to upgrade their subscriptions to Pro which offers much higher revenue/install limits and lower fees above them.
How does the (in democratic societies) generally accepted principle in dubio pro reo fit into this? Your assumption would predict that societies that adhere to that standard can not function, because even if everyone is convinced of the guilt of an accused murderer, he can not be punished without formal proof and that might not be available.

I think this idea of required punishment to retain social stability is stupid and is not relevant in praxis. Prevention of crime and support for victims, as well as establishing the truth and encouraging sincere remorse from the perpetrator are much more powerful forces for social peace. In terms of practical social functioning, rehabilitation of criminals is much more valuable than punishment, which is why most democracies at least aspire to this ideal.
I really appreciate what I can do with .NET and I don’t do much care for the language that I need to use. Yes C# is nicer compared to Java and C++, but after many years with Haskell they all are nowhere nearly as ergonomic and expressive, which is fine. I’ve tried F# a couple of times but couldn’t get used to the OCaml like syntax.

Anyway, I favor productivity way over ergonomics. And my .NET apps are very robust and very easily deployed. Everything is perfectly well integrated. No surprises. Almost no sharp corners left. The DX is superb. The performance is great. It’s so easy to run. Time to delivery is good. And the most important bit - I don’t need to keep all the hidden Java traps in mind. JVM with its many implementations is an amazing piece of tech, but in my experience it appears as something overengineered and requires too much maintenance and fine tuning. Just like Spring, Hibernate, and many other components of a typical Java app.
Check out this project https://hackaday.io/project/184810-usb-c-cable-tester
I’m probably missing something but why is an uninstaller allowed to inject code into explorer.exe? That seems like a massive security flaw?
Have you seen the work Matrix and Element have done on p2p.

https://arewep2pyet.com/

I have high hopes for this, its slow in development but its a difficult problem.

If they can get it to work it can reuse the whole rest of the ecosystem.
My third-grader here in digital Sweden started "Sloyd" woodworking class this month. Thanks for sharing these links.

The kids all have their own iPads in the classroom but they seem to be used very sparingly, mostly for extra drills occupying kids who finish their handwriting-heavy schoolwork early.
The global automated feeder systems market is projected to reach USD 15.03 billion by 2029, according to a report by Data Bridge Market Research. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.13% during the forecast period.
Kind of mind blowing. A light in the tunnel for the reproduction crisis?

What specifically have you trained your coding LLM on? Is it lora or something more advanced? Have you created a corpus by hand specifically for training?
Do people really wireless print from their iPhone? Not once can I say I've wanted to print from my phone.
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From the arxiv.org paper:

"We introduce MADLAD-400, a manually audited, general domain 3T token monolingual dataset based on CommonCrawl, spanning 419 languages. We discuss the limitations revealed by self-auditing MADLAD-400, and the role data auditing had in the dataset creation process. We then train and release a 10.7B-parameter multilingual machine translation model on 250 billion tokens covering over 450 languages using publicly available data, and find that it is competitive with models that are significantly larger, and report the results on different domains. In addition, we train a 8B-parameter language model, and assess the results on few-shot translation. We make the baseline models available to the research community."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04662
The Problem with Software Development
Who is living in all this hedonism?

Every person like me (white collar middle/upper-middle class) is extemely aware of their health, regulates choice of food severely, lives a disciplined life. Every poor person I know works two shifts or has a secondary occupation to make ends meet, and is one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.

Now, I have known few uber-rich who live in hedonistic ways, but the number is extremely small. All of us are living an extremely self-regulated lives.

Where are all the hedonistic people I keep hearing about? I am seriously asking.
For those of you still following this story, the flight plan that triggered the chaos has been identified!

https://chaos.social/@russss/111048524540643971!

> Tonight we were wondering why nobody had identified the flight which caused the UK air traffic control crash so we worked it out. It was FBU (French Bee) 731 from LAX/KLAX to ORY/LFPO.

> It passed two waypoints called DVL on its expanded flight plan: Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, US, and Deauville, Normandy, FR (an intermediate on airway UN859).

> https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/FBU731/history/20230...

> Credit to @marksteward and @benelsen for doing much of the legwork here.
In a world where our third places have degraded this is not surprising. I am walking distance to an Oakland hacker space and I love their social nights. Of course I love having friends over to my place too, but a good third place is lovely.