skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To get traction from users is the real challenge

Unfortunately yes. Scaling is a problem I would love to have :D.
The economic cost of populism
So secular folks risk their lives in military service to secure the lives of these Haredis, and upon returning to civilian life find out that no jobs exist for them, because the (quite hated) Haredis have taken them up? Sounds like a very sound recipe for stability indeed.
The workers who make up the companies tend to have higher levels of honesty and fair dealing and lower levels of corruption and theft.

Though I cannot provide evidence for this offhand beyond anecdote and the corruption perception index.
Honestly, I'd love to, it's on my list. I really like what Steve Keen is doing. But I am currently amusing myself with a math problem, and that's more important.
Aid for the country’s development and not for his personal pockets.

It shows a lot about Lee’s character…many Asian, Latin American, and African leaders have sold out their countries for less.

Singapore really lucked out having Lee Kuan Yew in charge in its early stages.
These CRUD apps need complex business rules, requiring expertise in the domain and making them configurable on the application level for customer while trying to keep the app not bloated.

Scaling is not the only challenge engineers face, but somehow it's the one that is mostly praised.
That is where some of the inspiration came from. Years ago, I was an avid Dota player and always loved Dotabuff (and OpenDota, too).
Which makes things like Vercel so depressing to me.

You've got a company paying off influential people in a space where people are looking for guidance, convincing them that they too have hard problems that cannot settle for simple solutions.

Selling the narrative that developers need to be all in on the most irrelevant aspects of building a product, and ignoring the fact that if you instead focus on building simple, easy to maintain software, the fact your LCP isn't hyper optimized by some newly invented mental model for app development won't matter: Google (or any search engine for that matter) will not ignore the fact people just actually want your content.

They do not care how great your web core vitals are if you waste a bunch of time bending over for some irrelevant bullshit problem instead of talking to users and iterating.
> It's that I'm saying they design a very specific thing, a very specific way, for hire, then go make that exact specific thing, that same specific way.

I really doubt this unless all the inputs are commoditised. Industrial espionage usually fails because if you don’t have the know how to make the tools that make the tools it’s difficult to impossible to literally copy it. Not saying what you’re saying doesn’t happen, it does, all the time. But usually the engineering is substantially different if only because different things are cheap or expensive, or just unavailable.

> If it were in any other country but China, it wouldn't be allowed to happen.

Historically, the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan all did it. No doubt Vietnam does it now too. Not like they have an excellent civil legal system. Joys of working in developing countries.
a social media site punishes you for changing your profile picture?

and you imply other people are unreasonable?
I think it is only good when the software has slowed down development. Otherwise it just needlessly splits the community.
This is not conclusive at all.

Broadly there are two possible reasons why ChatGPT could have degraded (not saying it has).

1) OpenAI have higher user base than expected, so costs are very high/compute is limited to serve the full model, so they are using speculative decoding with a changed threshold to reduce costs.

2) OpenAI have changed the weights or control structure of the model in a way that is negative for performance. There is are two possible motivations a) reducing hallucination and/or ‘unwoke’ responses that might embarrass msft/openai or b) reduce capability of free/consumer product to push their new enterprise stuff.

Theses are clear motivations for openai to make the model worse than it was. There is no conclusive/rigorous evidence either way, and anecdote seems to lean towards it being nerfed.
The Myth of Lineage Inheritance
Uh...

So? What does this information tell us about LibGen case? The author could've just released the book free online and "free the information"(like what LibGen does, according to HN comments). However he chose to self-publish on Amazon at $9.99.

There must be some reason, right? Perhaps the author actually desires monetary compensation more than he desires to set his information free? A very devilish idea, I know.
Quite the opposite here. The IT person, a former mathematics teacher, had no idea about anything so she let us run the old Econet network. They'd send students around with boxes of EPROMs and a screwdriver while she'd sit in her office smoking.
"core audience of indie developers" I thought that the engine was hugely popular beyond games? from what I recall indie games were just a small portion that used Unity.
hmm good point, can you draft up an architecture plan using multiple microservices and redundancy via a kubernetes cluster and have it on my desk by Monday please.
> Hippies were much more about social inclusion than environmental issues though at the time.

I would argue that they weren't, as a movement, about either, but more inward-directed self-discovery. They were contemporaries with both movements for social inclusion (the civil rights movement) and the beginnings of environmentalism as a mass social movement, and were distinct from both of those kinds of activist movements. They had more in common and probably more overlap with the environmentalist movement (like the hippies, a predominantly white, middle-class movement.)

“Wokism” isn’t an actual movement, its just a replacement name for “political correctness” used as a label for same right-wing general-purpose boogeyman that PC served as a label for from the late 1970s until the recent replacement with first and briefly “critical race theory” and, when that proved a bit cumbersome as a generic label, “wokism”.
I find the simplicity of the stack brilliant. It makes me to think now, to which extent, the industry nowadays simply suffers from a mix of lack of knowledge, CV driving design and big players in the game trying to sell you overkilling solutions and approaches for their own economical benefit. Have we perhaps, fell into a big enchant and, at the end of the day, 99% of companies out there could just use a classic LAMPish kinda stack managed by 3 or 4 dudes?
Thanks! I saw a couple of his lectures on YouTube, and it's very difficult to understand, whether it is just marketing, or there is some progress going on in the topic
How does it make the backend more resilient than a monolith? Do you not realize you have multiple instances of a monolith or something?
That first PRQL code sample is wonderfully readable.
As an owner of a rare "MS-like disease" aka MOGAD I cant wait.
The point of this treatment is that if you know which protein is the trigger you can stop it. It's probably not a cure, but an even better alternative to the current treatments that all cause at least some side effects or are not entirely effective.

I should note that I know of active phase 2 trials by other campanies for type 1 diabetes.
All that fuzz and in the last figure showing their touted great invention being beaten by vanilla Transformers, when their invention takes more parameters, more FLOPs, and is not parallelizable. Did I miss something or is this absolutely useless?
I think it's less popular that in was at one point, but lots of people (thousands, not that many people think much on the subject on an absolute level) essentially define the "win condition" for humanity as trillions of humans on hundreds of planets across many star systems, with suffering minimized as much as possible, in some people's conceptions even to the extent of using highly coercive methods against people who would prefer some level of suffering (e.g. effectively being sterilized and unable to have children unless living in an approved minimal suffering environment, in many conceptions ruling out any common lifestyle in any country on earth, including the US and Norway). In many of these people's conceptions, not reaching the "win condition" as soon as reasonably achievable is a moral wrong along the same lines as murdering multiple people would be to a standard person, so ASI (artificial super intelligence) must be developed as soon as possible to solve all the implementation and coordination problems required to reach the "win state". This viewpoint does not lead to the same decisions as standard AI risk mitigation theories, as those have much lower upsides to developing ASI, but share the same catastrophically massive downsides.
Add I understand it, it's not about actively ignoring something. Rather, the immune system somehow learned to react more strongly to specific antigens, and undoing that. The natural immune reaction should still happen when encountering diseases, and not when encountering normal body tissues.

It's possible to use such tricks to actively shut down the immune system, but you either have to incorporate it into the disease (which actually happens in nature) or take that medicine continuously.
Terrible, such actions are only tolerable when the US do it via moral operations like operation paperclip.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/2000%2B_...

This "medieval warm period" that doesn't look anywhere close to what we're going through ?

And yes earth has been much colder and much warmer, so what ?

Please, open a book and lok at the scale of things
I think the expression problem is still unsolved to the extent I would be satisfied. It's actually my hobby to think about it.

But I think an interesting part of the problem is this: things interact and how to represent the cases you care about. Sum types? What happens if a user combines features that generates an AST that looks this way? [0] What are all the interactions between these AST nodes? You want to support Windows, Linux, Mac that's three variations for everything you do. Some of your platform APIs might work differently. Some APIs might be push-driven or pull-driven. Async in Rust and lifetimes interacts with the type system. Pony has types that determine memory shareability. Your framework might use an online/incremental algorithm or a all-in-one-go control flow. Garbage collection interacts with threading.

What if someone switches applications when logging into their bank? Or switches apps to type in a password from a password manager? Or if someone switches app to use their payment card online verification? (In my experience, the session invalidates due to disabling of caches)

Programming languages force our hand into elaborate design patterns such as Java design patterns, IoC containers. The C++ specification. When all we want to do is define X to happen when Y happens. Define an interaction.

People like sum types and pattern matching for dispatch which helps but doesn't solve the problem: interactions between things (potentially of different types)

I have talked about version interactions between old versions of software and new versions of software and in distributed systems when you want to upgrade an RPC call to use a different schema and field.

We as an industry keep reinventing the same solution: compartmentalisation to contain the interactions, create a noun to solve it but introduce a thousand more interactions: processes, Kubernetes pods, Docker containers, Hypervisors, microVMS, WASM runtimes, virtual machines.

Or abstraction layers, hardware abstraction layers, operating systems.

Look at text editor APIs, typesetting or CSS. SQL query combinations.

Then you want a thin waist to solve the N×M problem which is what the expression problem is about.

EDIT: I've just realised that abstraction is about restricting interactions. The Internet Protocol stack or OSI model.

[0]: https://rachit.pl/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/
I'm a bit confused what that would look like. Sending Americans to China to steal their secrets wouldn't work because the Chinese wouldn't hire them for exactly this reason.
I feel like the problem with them is actually the modern courts rather than the old law. These rules were meant to have teeth, but they're also targeting entities that by their nature have power, and then you're consistently going to have trouble with vigorous enforcement being debased through political influence.

What we need is something that prevents market concentration to begin with rather than trying to claw it back once it's already entrenched.
Rishi Sunak considers banning Chinese officials from half of AI summit
I've heard multiple accounts of people being taken by surprise by this and by how transaction isolation actually works in databases and not finding it at all easy to correct it. A famous one is https://blog.codinghorror.com/deadlocked/

(On your edit: The problem is not knowing when you're being hit by it. Even just maintaining a limit on total size of uploaded files or such, for example, is nontrivial under default isolation levels.)
> Look how X has diminished in quality as Elon started slashing team sizes.

Has it? I've had the exact same experience.
It's not difficult to search for it. "dril candles tweet" first result on Google.
The article doesn't unravel anything, flagged
Honest question: what justifies microservices in the popular companies compared to instagram?

Twitter: just sharing a bunch of text.

Netflix: platform with static content, where sharing isn't even possible.

TikToķ: Instagram for video, so basically just bigger files.

WhatsApp: they also pulled it off with a small team.

If you talk about Roblox, now there's a challenge! And they pulled it off with way less engineers than Twitter.
It IS an original source. It's not just a repost or a report on another older article. It's a reworking of those articles.
If LibGen only shares public-funded research papers maybe it deserves the praise (still illegal, obviously). But that's not how LibGen works. Not at all.

HN just really hates copyright.
Ah, if only they were more ... scrutable. Surely this is just theatre?
Just a heads-up to the author:

>Ancestor(X, Y) → Parent(X, Y) ∨ (Parent(X, Z) ∧ Ancestor(Z, Y)).

That's a bug. The arrow needs to go to the left. Also, then, you can also opt to dispense with the disjunction and just use first-order logic normally.

Ancestor(X, Y) ← Parent(X, Y).
Ancestor(X, Y) ← Parent(X, Z) ∧ Ancestor(Z, Y).
Enough with the "rules" just because you don't find it novel enough.

The author is on HN and says "Just my own brain reading through old talks and articles from Instagram engineering and Excalidraw for the diagrams. I did my best to put together all the info I learned from them into a comprehensive and simple manner".

You can take it with them.
Szavazás: Ön szerint leváltható a Fidesz demokratikus eszközökkel?
> In 1965, Lee revealed the incident in a televised interview with foreign correspondents.

> This led the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia and the State Department to both deny the incident, which prompted a furious Lee to furnish Rusk's formal letter of apology as proof of the incident.

> "The Americans should know the character of the men they are dealing with in Singapore and not get themselves further dragged into calumny.....They are not dealing with Ngo Dinh Diem or Syngman Rhee. You do not buy and sell this Government."
Why do you expect anyone here to answer you? You're not the judge, and presumably no one posting in this thread is an attorney representing Google in this case.
Its also lazy management.

Remote work used to be an earned privilege for workers who were self sufficient and didn't need any management.

Now everyone expects it, and lazy/weak managers will just make everyone come into the office vs having hard conversations with crap employees to tell them they cant work from home.
I want to see Google slapped for being naughty, but this case is weak.

Defaults are defaults. What matters to users is choice. The choice is there to use a different search engine. Google widgets can be removed from phones.

Much worse is when Big Tech removes choice. Recent example: Microsoft mandating their Authenticator App as MFA, removing other options like SMS. If my workplace doesn't pay for my phone, and I don't want to install Microsoft crap on my phone, I'm in a bizarre predicament where I could be locked out of work because I refuse to install Microsoft apps on my personal device. This is wrong, much worse than "Google paid someone to be the default".
How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people
I've listened to a lot of episodes. The quality varies quite a bit. But for those who are new to IOT, Bird Migration gives an example of how good it can be. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmk5j
How is that related? Are you actually saying that the US was being unfair to Germany by stepping on their IP? Of all the criticisms of that program I’ve never heard “but won’t somebody think of the Germans” lol.

Also, two wrongs don’t make a right, and 1945 was 2-3 scientific revolutions ago
> That assumes that all the children they have will follow their parents' religion. I don't think that can be taken for granted.

Same mistake as we make for radical Islam.

These aren't religions, they're cultures/law systems/political systems/belief systems, that encompass everything you can think of, for people born in these nothing of value exists out of them
They sure seem bothered a lot by something trivial (god forbid the post which was NOT made for HN anyway quoted some original sources and didn't go into the detail they'd like it to).

Somebody took the effort of compiling an article on several sources, and we're throwing the rulebook on them.
Adobe Hikes Creative Cloud Prices as It Rakes in Record Revenue
...Ah. Totally can-ish. I helped the RasPi4 community a few years ago with that. I'll go see if I can dig up those scripts. Though I have a sneaking suspicion you might be right in that to generate the initial flurry of download urls you need someone to have had an account to get the urls for version of the client you're downloading, plus the asset packs. Once you have those urls, you should be able to wget to stage/mirror to your hearts content locally, and then you just have to use a shellscript and a bonkers lontg java invocation that the launcher normally generates. You don't need the installer/an account to start the game once you have the clients downloaded, though not having to deal with wrangling lwjgl libs, java classpathery, and the occasional java runtime increment is definitely an increase in ergonomics, I'll give you that.

Didn't maintain it or anything, but another member of the community took the lessons learned from my teardown of it and I think polished it up. Needed a pick me up project at the time. Was around 1.14-ish I think? Also helped them get sound working in Forge.

Found one of the threads, though this either wasn't one of the ones with the gorey details, or they probably snipped the posts as they may not have been super comfortable with me laying out how to vivisect Microsoft's shiny new acquisition for people. I was in a rough headspace back then.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=260357
The issue appears to be when they’re not just using the ideas, but the implementations verbatim?
That's not "the deal". It's illegal. No one on either side agreed to do this and had that been part of the negotiation, the offended party would have walked away or else agreed to a higher sale price in exchange for technology transfer.
"And we should all stop saying, “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product,” because it doesn’t really mean anything, it excuses the behavior of bad companies, and it makes you sound kind of like a stoner looking at their hand for the first time"

amen.

Also, modern internet company, you just wait until I SQL inject your DB to rubble so you'll see how cattle-like of a product I'm.
This is really interesting. For my Homelab I've been playing around with using Lets Encrypt rather than spinning up my own CA. "What's the worst that could happen?"

Guess I'll be looking to spin up my own CA now!
Idk I loved my hour of walking every day. My mental health tanked when I became full remote.
Empty for all my and my work’s domains. Then I tested random .com domains and got results. Seems pretty useless.
3) The djinn is out of the bottle and realized faking incompetence (similar to search/voice assists by data aggregates) is way better for longterm survival and social integration till indispensable is the way to go.
Well, at least they aren't asking their users to give them per-download royalties yet...
Not all rewards are monetary, in this case the reward is thinking his tool might be used by others at some point.
>Look how X has diminished in quality

Ideologically or from a service perspective? I don't see any noticable drop in the latter. Some disruption is expected as huge parts of the team is fired/leaves, but I see it going on in business as usual otherwise.
What makes you think that's not how it works?
Also, despite there being a (well, multiple) hyeroglyphs with a penis, it seems that to say "penis" you need to use (at least) three hyeroglyphs of which only the last one is a penis: https://app.vega-lexique.fr/?entries=w9978

That sounds... vaguely inefficient to me? Then again, it's the same for "dog" ( https://app.vega-lexique.fr/?entries=w1699 ), so maybe I should start studying acient Egyptian to find out what's going on here... maybe it's determiners, or symbols to signify the start of a noun (but then, why are they different between "penis" and "dog"?)?

Explanations are welcome!
Deno is great. I wish the maintainers were open to moving some of the great functionality from the CLI into separate libraries, but I understand how that might not be desirable from business perspective.
This isn't an answer, rather a wish. Since forgefed (git collaboration over activitypub) is coming up, I'm hoping for something lightweight and self-hostable. Cgit UI is nice. No need for namespaces - it doesn't make sense for projects and individuals that self-host. Access control should be similar to what gitolite offers. (Basically Cgit + gitolite + forgefed + email - preferably single binary).
> I hate its craven, cringing, condescending, bitch-broken, mewling, groveling, wheedling, suck-ass tone. I hate its endless passive voice and weasel words. I hate its pompous It is important to remembers and it should be noteds.*

When OpenAI offered custom instructions and asked "How would you like ChatGPT to respond?" I wrote:

Be terse. Do not offer unprompted advice or clarifications.

Remain neutral on all topics.

Never apologize.

Immediately cleared up all that nonsense.

> me: I need to make an instructional video for graduate students. Any advice as to presentation?

> ChatGPT: Outline key points. Use visuals to complement speech. Engage the audience with questions or interactive elements. Ensure good audio and lighting. Rehearse before recording.

Glorious.
Have you considered going for a walk?
Only that actually works. I get hundreds of entries for my domain there, including entries before Lets Encrypt was a thing, while the subdomain checker returns an empty array.
Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and App
This app and widget and related code is free to use for anyone. This was a side project to learn Android, Kotlin and the many libraries that came along with it. Screenshots in the Google Play link above.

app code: https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-app
backend api: https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api

There are many Hacker News apps, but this one focused on two features:

- Widgets: This app supports dynamic widgets using Compose Glance. The widgets can be themed and set up with one of the three main categories: "New", "Top" and "Best".

- Themes: Both the widgets and the main app support a number of color schemes based on user preference.