skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Acknowledging the limits of science is not a negative attitude about science, but a positive one. A clear idea of the current limits of science (both theoretically and practically) is instrumental to pushing through them.

"The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn and know things better. But as for certain truth, no man has known it, nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter the final truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses"

Xenophanes via Karl Popper
Why does an "open letter" seem to warrant more attention than a random post?

And in the world of tech if you say "considered harmful" it's a similar thing - the label makes the message worthy of attention.

Hard to understand but that's the way people seem to work.
A million voices suddenly cried out "I told you so" all at once, then there was silence.

--an old curmudgeon who drives a 23-year-old pickup truck

Design the vehicle to last 100 years. Use standard interfaces from for the very few electronics that are necessary. Almost nothing should be more complicated that turning on an LED with a coin cell.
Github is going through the same enshittification as many other tech companies. Features are being made so that management can show their team is up to something useful.
Which comes from the same place that Microsoft Teams craptacularity comes from. The people buying the product aren't the ones using it. Computerized homework could auto adjust to be not too hard and not too easy, by changing the difficulty of the next problem, based on how the student did with the previous problem. But implementing that is beyond our capabilities, apparently.
One year and one product cycle in advance of being in violation of required changes isn’t exactly commendable innovation.

You aren’t wrong about being able to make money and claim the high moral ground while doing so…
Nice! I did a quick proof of concept for JPEG 2000 a few years back but it really needed the sophistication of your multithreading and SIMD work.
My cat is pretty smart. I bet he could do this too.

I pet him most of the time. My kids pet him half of the time. He hangs out with me more than them.
as sibling commented, i look at the Automatic-1111 stable diffusion "webui" as being exactly like you describe, where the "default" service is built in, but the API seems relatively straightforward enough that people have build electron apps and android apps that can talk directly to the python service behind. one of these days i'll actually code a useful mobile UI for my servers. Until then, the reflowing webUI works "ok enough" on mobile.

another one that i'd like to think has an open enough API is mastodon/fediverse, assuming they actually adhere to the activitypub spec, it should (should) be relatively straightforward to write a UI on top of the API. And it seems ok, there's quite a number of mastodon "apps", but less for stuff like misskey or pleroma.

I'm sure there are other contemporaneous examples, but suffice to say that some developers still care about this, today!
I don't know what that means - but when an individual or a company looks to buy out another company wholesale, they do in fact use the public market price, multiply it out by the full share cap, and then add a premium on top. That's literally how a buyout works.
I use command line for pull/push/new branch, VSCode for commits and Tortoise for archeology and merges. I just use whatever seems easiest for the task.
OkCupid had the best damn blog on the internet. They were obviously extremely thoughtful folks. I was genuinely sad when it was discontinued.
I also met my wife on okcupid. I wonder how many of us their are.
While I don’t use iTunes anymore and don’t plug my phone in to transfer, I’ve uploaded 400+ GB of Phish to Apple, and I’m able to download and stream it just as well as the latest Taylor Swift album. If I wanted to load my phone up with the whole catalog (still thinking about doing it), I’d probably plug my phone in. But I’m also more than happy to stream those shows and download my favorites. It really is my favorite service/product Apple offers full stop!
>or a malfunction of your Yubikey

Can't stress this enough. I had a yubikey nano that I literally never pulled from my laptop, that sat on my desk for basically the entirety of COVID. It just up and died after about 14 months. Fortunately, I had only set it up for testing purposes because I was worried about this exact scenario, and while I had a backup in my safe, had I been on my normal travel schedule that wouldn't have helped much.

The fact that it died after 0 abuse was a MAJOR turnoff for me ever proceeding down the path further. I'm sure my failure was a one-off but it left an extremely bad taste in my mouth.

I get a failure of a key that's on a keychain or being beaten up on the regular, but failure from literally just sitting in a usb-c port for less than two years is... not a great look.

I guess this might be an expected failure mode too, because their warranty is only 1 year for manufacturing defects.
Both of these points are wrong.

A business that’s shrinking but throwing off cash is with a lot still. Only the valuation multiple is based on growth.

Exponential growth is expected in startups of all industries, software only makes the margins and distribution easier.
> I don't know what that means

maybe we should stop here then
What's the model called? I think someone accidentally base64 encoded it.
Cost, mainly. Most flywheels use exotic components, expensive magnetic bearings, must work in a vacuum, etc.
It seems everyone is switching to Godot.
Just to remember free software was started because of printer driver.
Also see: "knocking boots".
Your sentence didn't make sense - just look up how buyouts work and how they're priced.
Antitrust laws prohibit anti-competitive practices generally, not just literal monopolies.
Same here, our high school physics teacher drilled that into our heads and 35 years later I still carry through units or do a separate calculation every time.
>It may present more fluent text, but if it doesn't know it's strayed from the source text and you can't tell either (because you don't understand source language) then you'll end up with error-laden pseudo translations.

I understand Korean. I've tested it there too and my evaluations haven't changed. It's better. A lot better.

That aside, nothing you've said here doesn't apply to NMT.

I'm going to be Frank here. You don't what you're talking about when it comes NMT and it makes this conversation very frustrating. You keep mentioning cons that apply to NMT as well.

Literally almost all SOTA NMT models (NLLB for instance) today are Transformers or some transformer variant (In fact this was the original proposition in the famous Attention Paper). They're just transformers trained for a translation primary objective.

Those cons of GPT, NMT inherit them too. They hallucinate, they can make pseudo translations etc.

>EDIT: Oh wow, all of your 107 submissions to HN from the 6 months your account has existed, have been about AI and LLMs.

So ? That's what I like to do. Is this some attempt at an ad hominem?

The 2nd paper I linked is about document level translations.

>The entire industry hasn't released an LLM solution yet for translation (excepting the rewording mini features). What makes you think you know more than those on the ground?

Training and inference for GPT scale models is extremely expensive.
The engine is the medium gamedevs work in so it does highly effect the types of games they even think about designing.

For instance the kinds of games made in RPG Maker vs Threejs vs Unity vs Pico-8. So by having more engines we'd get more types of games because the different constraints of those engines would impact the games developers will make.

Hence like I said the engine is the medium.
Ethics is not something that requires written laws to understand. Acting ethically will avoid fines and penalties, but that’s not the purpose of acting ethically. Ethics is a superset of good laws. If laws were the only way to understand ethics we would be unable to define ethics, as you are getting at.

Here’s a good article from London talking about the grey area argument and where it leads and how to counter it at your company.

https://www.london.edu/think/business-ethics-black-white-or-...
Support for Works with Nest Ending
I have been thinking about this. Why no record all keystrokes. Then checkpoint where you are whenever you desire. These days AI could describe any arbitrary span of code changes.
Our infra team decided to deploy v12 in the last year... But only for GitLab. We are still deploying with v9.6 for some other new projects.
Everyone calls it Twitter.

I think they will as long as it exists.

Millions of companies have branded signs and webpages with the
little bird logo. They ain't gonna change that. There are millions
of brochures, menus, pamphlets even textbooks with the name and logo.

Musk lost control of Twitter the same way that Google long ago lost
control of the verb word "google" as a trademark via common usage.

No doubt that infuriates him, and it will be fun to see what happens
when he cannot force the world to say "X" and is defeated by the
popular will to just keep saying Twitter.
Your users don't want Discord, in particular. They want something better.

Unfortunately, "user login" is an expensive cesspit of failure.

Discourse would probably be doing better if they actually ran a login provider rather than outsourcing it all.
I wonder what changed that allowed them to have a better update policy. AFAIK the time horizon was capped because SOC vendors fail to update drivers for legacy products.
You said you work at Google, so open the docs for network QoS. Find the section explaining the difference between AF3 and AF4. Does it still use the "captive" verbiage? Or have they rewritten it to sugarcoat that some customers are locked in with Google products, and they cut costs when they recognize that?
Did you get a point from that? You're better than I
I was not happy when Google acquired Nest, and I resisted switching to "Works with Google Home". Now it looks like I have no choice.

Any alternatives to Nest for smoke/carbon monoxide monitoring?
Hydrogen's critical temperature is cryogenic. There's no keeping it liquid at any pressure if it's warmer than -240C
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359250

B lane swimmers are less friendly than A,C, and D at least anecdotally
I'm skeptical, they don't have a track record of supporting anything long term unless it's ad related...
Maybe you can't play the same game (I haven't tried) but it is definitely possible to let your kid play other games. I have this very setup with my son and it works. An other advantage to this setup is that you can select which of your games to let your kid play.
Then what is wrong with a business offering a payment plan?
Thanks for the links. I had thought the Mirai was discontinued, but it looks like it's still in production.

Regarding the tanks - they appear to be high pressure, but non-refrigerated and non-insulated. It would seem pressure alone keeps the Hydrogen in liquid state - if that's how it works.
IMO the problem is more the arbitrariness of the change than the specific fee structure. It applies to games that are already in development, it applies to games that already shipped. Even if it's strictly legal to pull that rug (I have my doubts), no one wants to build a business at another company's whim. Everyone is wondering if Unity just turned X% of their customers into sharecroppers, who's the next Y%? For indies that will be an especially acute concern since they have very little leverage.

Better fixes in no particular order: a grandfather clause, delay the new fees, fire the CEO.
There's a framework Chromebook. It's on last gen and not entirely high end, but close enough.
It provides more privacy and security than normal Debian.
Agreed. The good news is that so far most (all?) of the enshittification-oriented changes have been easy to ignore. Gamified badges? Who cares, I never look at the profile any way. Feed of bullshit recommendations? Who cares, I never look at it. Now, it probably is still a bad thing, but as a daily GH user, it hasn't impacted me much so far.
Until they decide to change their mind
Awesome, I didn’t know JetBraind has a product in this segment. I already use their IDEs and am a big fan. Pricing model is great too!
If you listen to Frances Haugen's testimony, you see that it is very much deliberate.

There are probably thousands of psychology grads that went to school, hoping to help people, that are, instead, designing dark patterns.

But they are probably making a lot more money than they would, helping people.

Evil pays cash.
Your employer offers it, and you use it, because the government specifically carved out a tax exemption for it. Without the tax benefit, there would not be much reason for an employer to provide you vision insurance rather than the equivalent cash.
Wild foods and grocery shopping in the great outdoors [video]
Another one for https://killedbygoogle.com/
Right, but Qt abstracts that interaction so KDE code doesn't have to care about it. The person you're replying to never implied X11 wasn't involved, just that it was abstracted away.
Ooh, you could have gone one further and done hertz-per-diopter.
If it's a ref somewhere then it'll just be a string of the hash deadbeef style. Just open the file up and change it to another commit hash or just delete the ref completely.

Try something like:

grep -r "1cae71a9" ./.git/

And see if it comes up somewhere. My guess is that it's a ref for some old branch pointing at a commit that isn't around.
How to get attention in the music business if you’re a third rate commentator: rail against whatever is obvious, and use big statements that mean nothing but people can get behind. That’s much easier than working out the nuance of the business.
I've effected positive change in the companies I've worked with in the past, so I guess I know firsthand of anecdotal counter-arguments.
"The biggest looks I get is when I go to somebody's house and ask if I can pick their weeds."
It's for this reason that I eventually decided upon pencil+paper secrets in a bank safety deposit box, which can be backed up or even split up in a 2/3 fashion for things super critical.

The yubikey ends up being solely for convenience for less important things(it's easier to press the yubikey physically than it is to bring out my google authenticator app and copy/paste a TOTP).

Agreed that the article goes into extreme technical depth from a security/cryptographic perspective, whereas losing/breaking/being_stolen is actually the vastly more likely scenario.
Show HN: SlackRevert, a Firefox extension to revert Slack's new design
Assuming the house is paid off keep it and live off your $400k. That should last for a very long time. You won't be paying income taxes, can probably get free health care. Wouldn't be hard at all.
Think about it this way: The current market price represents the amount the shareholders who least value their shares would be willing to sell them for. As you want to acquire more, the price is going to go up, not down.
They have become more viable thanks to higher efficiency motors/power components and magnetic bearings, among other things. The biggest drawback is still cost, which is what we're tackling.
iNaturalist strikes out on its own
Ask HN: Displaced in Maui, working on a 'crazy idea'. Any words of wisdom?
Maui is way too reliant on tourism. I believe we could support a startup ecosystem here that spans agriculture, finance, tourism, real estate, and wellness.

Why couldn't it? Does anyone have any better ideas?
Oh Lord. There are lots of early teens/late oughts laptops out there being used today. Non-power-user laptop specs haven't really changed that much since then (4G of ram and 500G of storage) and normal people don't actually care about their processor or graphics card.

I was shift lead for a SIEM team when lockdown started and the number of 2009-2011 era machines that got pulled out of a closet and brought online when remote work started was staggering.
you folks are clearly much smarter than me: i barely have time to make snarky comments on hn next to all the other enjoyable stuff i do in my life, nevermind actually purposefully dig into informational rubbish for reasons of misplaced curiosity
The phrasal verbs are often completely idiomatic and make no sense at all.

"Do someone in"

"Come across", "come forward"

"Back down" "back up"
Agreed. Turns out the best backup medium is paper: print out the secret bits and store them in a safe. The paperkey tool can do this and QR codes can make it really convenient. I even added binary decoding interfaces to zbar to support this exact use case.

https://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Paperkey

gpg --export-secret-key $KEY | paperkey --output-type raw | qrencode --8bit --output $KEY.png
zbarcam --raw --oneshot -Sbinary | paperkey --pubring $KEY.gpg | gpg --import

Not every key needs to be backed up. Signing keys are ephemeral, losing one is inconsequential. Losing an encryption key means it'll be impossible to decrypt data later so backups could be interesting. The master key should be kept permanently offline in a physical safe.
Am I misunderstanding something here? This seems like a racket scheme! (As in a "shame if some 'hacker' on 4chan were to 'install' your already shipped game a million times a second racking up our new fee... unless you do what we want" type of extortionary deal.)

Has anyone called the FBI about this?
This is what I'm doing right now, but the issue is that it'll only work as long as the order in the taskbar and the window manager list stay consistent. I like to manually reorder my windows in the taskbar and that makes this approach break.
Boost Xpressive has had static/"compile time" regex in C++ since the mid 2000s

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_83_0/doc/html/xpressive.htm...

A performance comparison would be interesting.
Yours is a common reaction. Even many indiedevs (in the gamedev discords I am in) could not believe the implications. Unity's policy is so silly it is hard to believe.

Unfortunately, the leadership at Unity does not agree with you.

Unity's core selling point was a pay-per-seat fee with no royalty. Hence a decent number of big productions went with Unity over Unreal. Now Unity wants more money, and thinks said big productions are "free loading". It is as if an all you can eat buffet decided they should charge for entry plus per plate. "But a lot of customers come in, pay one fixed fee, then eat a lot of food" said the employees of the all you can eat buffet. "Other restaurants charge 20$ a plate. We are simply asking for the same.", said the employees of the all you can eat buffet.
Git could be a lot better in a lot of ways, particularly from a developer experience perspective. I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen a meaningful successor.

One example is how git will deceive you and tell you you’re up to date with your remote (e.g. origin/main). What it means is that your local branch is up to date with its local concept of remote, and makes no statement guarantees about the actual state of the remote. Which is really a nonsense concept that does not need to exist.

Similarly the whole concept of needing to specify “origin” at all is a bit bonkers and does no favors. Why is it that I can pull from a remote branch, commit some changes, run ‘git push’ and git has no idea what branch I want to push to. Another example: if main is a protected branch, don’t let me accidentally commit to it locally. I could keep going with the examples but I won’t.

And yeah you can forgive all this by quibbling that git was written in a time when internet access was not ubiquitous, and of course all these decisions make sense because x, y, or z advanced edge case for advanced users only, and I’m a shitty engineer because all of this complexity secretly makes my life better and I’m just too simpleminded to appreciate it.

Really though, if you rewrote git from a principles first approach (with developer experience being one of those principles), it certainly would not look like how it looks today. There is too much complexity, too many ways to do things, and too many bad decisions around defaults. Treat it like a proper distributed system, perhaps even backed by a real database. It’s not special because the data is code. The fact that it’s treated as such is the reason it feels so weird.
> Which is why it took off when computers became accessible; and continued growing with even further ubiquity.

So things like FPGA prices going down over time or being available to hobbyists via cloud providers.

> Cool, so we're back to bottlenecked accessibility.

Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can contribute, all they have to do is send an email to the project maintainers. It's obviously not as good as everybody already having the hardware, but it could be good enough to actually make it happen.

> Not hobbyists.

The model would be that there is a public repository with a design in it, anyone can contribute, and then every year or two they do a freeze and a production run which anyone can buy including the hobbyists who made contributions.

It feels like your argument is that Debian can't exist because a hobbyist doesn't have the resources to build a whole operating system. One doesn't, but a million of them do, especially if they can start with a basic design released by a major corporation or university or government.
Almost all internet algorithms seem to converge around maximising time spend on the app in question. A dating website simply doesn't want to be too effective, as you would lose two customers every successful match. Similar to the approach used in slot machines, you want to give the illusion of winning, but I'm reality only provide moderately succesful matches rather than perfect ones.

Of course there is a human element too. Dating sites give the illusion of choice, and a result a lot of potential matches aren't realised on, as the partner is good looking enough.
I feel a twinge of guilt whenever I see things about how OKC got crappy.

Not that long before the acquisition a certain jackass brought in as a consultant (ahem) happened to point to OkC as the leading competitor against the acquiring company's properties specifically for mobile.

Sorry everyone...

If it makes it any better, I've had to use the product since then too, and suffered alongside all the rest of you.
Unclear why you were downvoted, it’s in the name: Limited Liability Company, PLC, Ltd etc.
Can you locate a source specifically for a vehicle like the Toyota Mirai or one of the newer big rig trucks using hydrogen?

Everything I come across seems to imply they are using high pressure (10,000 PSI) but no talk about insulation or refrigerant. I could be missing it somewhere...
I don't think this changes the enormous benefit of not having to build your own engine, specially for indie games. To me this is encouragement to avoid situations where you can have the rug pulled out from under you, i.e. either go full open source or have a better license agreement than Unity was offering.
I gradually figured out what activities, supplements and foods reduced my susceptibility to fatigue and pain and then repetitively used them until I got to a point that I was no longer susceptible to fatigue within the bounds of what I consider a healthy fulfilling life so that I can now convincingly pretend to myself that I don't have cfs. I'm no longer staring into the abyss. I can't run a marathon or do too much mental grunt work but I can just make a modest living, go for a 40 minute zone2 run or 3 hour hike, be a parent, sustain a relationship and keep some friendships going. In the midst of cfs I could only really be a part time parent with support, everything else stopped and I had no certainty that it would ever start again.
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