skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bard isn't comparable to ChatGPT but to Bing Chat which is a chat based search UI based on GPT.
No, I don't think so. I have no evidence they are the same. I'm part of the people that pointed out that 'free speech absolutist' banned accounts that never posted CP, and barely made fun of a burning car, for political reasons.

Corporate does corporate things. If Twitter was nationalized, 'rules for me and not for you' would be outrageous. Right now? If anybody is surprised it's their own damn fault.
Switching from a German to a US Keyboard Layout – Is It Worth It?
What do you mean by "control the network card"?
The UK has taken such a nosedive recently that news of rejoining Horizon Europe (something they have had for many years) is met with wide celebration.
I'd rather just run a Linux vm inside MacOS if I felt a desperate need to do so in an already Unix OS.
>Why deceptively package the javascript as an app when you can just put it on a website?

A desktop app based on Electron-Chromium runtime has more integration options with the operating system. E.g. file system access, taskbar/Dock icon and notifications, runs in the background, etc.

If a developer were to create a 100% pure web url app running locally on https://127.0.0.1/foobarapp.html -- ... they'd quickly run into browser's limitations. For example, the sandboxed security model won't let the Javascript inside of foobarapp.html iterate all files of the local file system. And Mozilla's new filesystem api isn't really available yet: https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

Not sure if there's any "deception" here. Developers just want to write desktop apps leveraging their existing Javascript knowledge instead of learning C++/C#/Swift for each platform and trying to manage feature parity in separate code bases.
I for one, my phone has been on the silent mode for the past 6-7 years, can’t remember last time my phone had a ringtone,
There is nothing exploitative when evaluating these two options:

* Patching the binary locally without its source code to do what I want it to do

* Submitting a patch upstream to an open source project

and arriving at the conclusion that the latter is preferable.
Also from the same article:

WSL GUI apps now have Windows snapping with the keyboard
So this is WSL2 version 2.0.0?
I would even go a step further and say Web Apps are better than platform apps (including wrappers like electron) for most simple applications.

Many apps are free, do not do heavy computations or need to look fancy. These apps should all just be websites imho. That normally serves all the needs of the app creator and it works across platforms. As a user I have a safety benefit (as I have more control about what websites can do, e.g. via browser settings and extensions).
Modern browser APIs should leave me with a similar feature set (home screen icon, notifications, peripheral access, ...)
So are we fine keeping it that way and not addressing core performance issues because it's convinent for making simple 2D games?

To be honest, I'm surprised how dismissive parts of the gamedev community can be about improving performance of their game engine. That was a huge complaint from Unity and you'd think people would be interested in not repeating those mistakes with Godot.
Aside, how to pronounce van Gogh's name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2YU87AqDcU
Without the gravity you don't have the (same) resulting turbulence?

I have no clue how fast the temperature equalizes or how long it takes to scorch milk at different temperatures, but I heard about this as a kid and made the following thought experiment.

If I pour the milk first and then put in a single drop of tea, the milk at the surface of the drop would receive some flash heating, then equalize pretty fast to an average of their temperatures and then as the water turbulences away the resulting temperature would barely be above that of the original milk.

If I pour the tea first and put in a single drop of milk, the relative masses would equalize the temperature of the milk to pretty close to boiling, and it's gonna require a lot of drops before the milk cools down again.

Thus the time spent at higher temperature seems longer in the latter case. Assuming it matters for things like protein breakdown, and that those changes can affect the taste, then the question becomes: how slowly do we have to pour our tea for this to matter? I suspect I don't pour anywhere near slow enough.
I am seeing many ads in simplified chinese, fwiw. Never once pre-Musk, so this is big. I think the opposite, it's cozying up to CCP and wants to be unblocked in China. Big market. Second biggest for Tesla, too. He won't risk both by alienating the party. When values are up against financial interests...
Unity founder says fcked-up company prepares to backpedal
Play it with seasoned players. You’ll quickly get a sense for the Meta. It’s not tank spamming, I can promise you that.
I have one with almost unlimited data plan, other for my phone calls/texts.
Eh? The UK has 'rejoined' as an associate member, in the same way that a number of other countries are associate members.
> Why deceptively package the javascript as an app when you can just put it on a website?

Because they appear separately on the user’s task switcher. Honestly there’s not a lot more to it than that. And users do appreciate being able to switch to e.g. Slack specifically rather than switch to their browser then find the Slack tab.

You can do all of this with progressive web apps too these days, but every time they come up in HN people crap on them, so… shrug
> Schemes like Horizon Europe make scientific research easier in similar ways.

Roads allow any vehicle anyone built to work on them. Having EU-specific roads that cars built in the EU can easily drive on, while other cars require significant modification, would be a better analogy.
> I'm honestly surprised the Chromium team hasn't already addressed this with the Electron team somehow by now

Well, a solution might be to share the chromium "vm" across all electron app, but maintaining compatibility will be horribly difficult so, no I guess.
Also event dispatchers. I've written switch statements for various event systems that need to handle 60-100 events. You can easily get to hundreds of lines without things getting unreadable.
Well, it could also mean that the same number of bureaucrats take longer lunches.
I think they mean this feature:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/109878-search-bing-notep...
> Around the speed of Java and Go in some cases, which are compiled.

That is quite the claim, I wonder if you have any data to back that up. As it goes against everything I've seen.
you solve it the same way you do with iOS and Android - an LTS release with careful deprecation of APIs.
My former PhD supervisor almost immediately started looking and returned to Germany, and most of the other staff in the department who were European have since left to go back to continental Europe. It was such an own goal.
Ask HN: Now That Phillips Is Enshittified, How Can I Run My Phillips Hue Lights?
For those of you that don’t know, the Phillips Hue app will soon be requiring you to sign up for an account to control Phillips Hue lights. Previously, they sold a Zigabee router specially for the use case of local control over WiFi, which is why I bought overpriced Hue lights over their cheaper competitor to begin with, but I guess that sweet data stream to make an AI based on light switching patterns was just too tempting.

The real kicker is they’re billing this as a “security requirement”, as though adding an additional cloud boundary to my threat model, all for a set of fucking light bulbs, could possibly increase my security.

I hate the future.

Now that my ranting is out of the way, how can I continue to control my lights without the proprietary app? I know they’re Zigabee and thus it’s an open standard so it should be possible, what are my options?
On the host side you need to port forward from a non-static IP (`wsl hostname -I`) and deal with Windows Firewall. On the guest side you need to get sshd working (I use systemd, which comes with additional problems you need to deal with, e.g. systemd-binfmt config when running a Windows executable). It’s somewhat complicated and very poorly documented.
Quick aside for Go developers.. I had trouble getting ChatGPT to emit code that used generics prior to this, and now it does so quite happily. Since 1.18 landed in March 2022, it makes sense, since there were a lot of blog posts about the feature in the September 2021-January 2022 range about it.
I was not aware of this, and found this very informative https://en.harzinfo.de/pure-nature/the-forest-calls-initiati...
If C bindings were slow because the underlying code was made to bridge with Python bindings, I would complain too, to be fair. Doesn't mean removing Python support is the perfect solution, but at some point that performance hurts everyone.

(not that that should be an issue due to python being able to directly output C code, but you understand the point).
Yeah good luck getting any long lasting air superiority if you have S400s less than 100-200 miles around. And there are newer models in the pipeline with better reach, although they may be as useful in this decade as Armata.
> For a web app the speed of the language is rarely the bottleneck anyway

I think there’s some selection bias in this; the apps that get built as web apps tend to be the ones that are not bottlenecked by JavaScript. For exceptions that are pushing the limits of performance, you’ll more often than not find Rust/C++ compiled to Wasm in the stack.
Agree, electron != web-app.
It's a native application that I need to install on my local machine with a platform specific binary. A web app can be accessed immediately from any browser on any machine with network access.
The scheme is designed to help members, the scheme doesn't care about non-members just like you don't care about non-customers or people you don't know exist.
Vegetables are an inefficient delivery mechanism for most nutrients, you have to eat huge quantities to meet quotas. I don’t see the point of them.
Democracy is only meaningless to those who don't appreciate the privilege of living in one
The EU still keeps science as a hostage for political games. Think about, who looses when you prevent science from happening? All of society. This is very self-destructive.
Such a big update of 4 months. Why not more than 4 months?
As a German living in Denmark I often wonder why we Germans don't do it a bit like the danes .. it's just a hop over the border and ask them ;_;

Also if you change to a different bank or want a different "main" bank account both your monthly payments and wages get applied to your new bank account without you having to inform anyone.
You really should take benchmarks with a grain of salt, but:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

There are others as well like:

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/go-vs-jav...

That being said, the specific performance characteristics isn't really the point. Even if you accept JavaScript and Go being similarly fast (same order of magnitude), JavaScript uses way more memory (which I'd argue doesn't really matter, but it's worth mentioning) and the DOM is the main bottleneck in the browser, so WASM won't save you completely there.
Since you know more about this subject, I have a question on this topic that I've wondered for over two decades.

In 2001, I did a month long exchange program to Thailand. A group of eight Canadians stayed with eight Thais, and the year before they stayed with us. Incredible program.

All the Thais, as you mention, had nicknames. But many of the nicknames were English words that weren't really used as names in the West. I lived with a guy named 'Knight'. Another guy was 'Farm'.

Were these names Anglicized versions of Thai nicknames? Or were the actual nicknames just sometimes pulled at random from an English dictionary?
It doesn’t have cgroups. That is the problem. I think if they implemented that it would be the ideal developer platform.

Docker / Podman for Windows is much better than macOS equivalents currently.
> 5 seconds later, the thing I wanted appears

Is this an intrinsic attribute of all web apps, or specific to an implementation?
As an interim solution, I just wish everyone with a stand-alone app that runs on Electron would let me open it as a tab (E.g Morgen), even though more often than not, the team behind app X would also nerf it's usability if run in a tab (e.g Spotify - can’t sort playlists).

If there is no such option, I just drop it.
The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics
I agree generally, but dcat has been really easy to implement. There’s really only 10-20 required fields and they are all pretty useful and you already know them anyway.

Someone did a good job, I think, in setting this up to be functional and address the main issues that government catalogs should accomplish- what data that the people paid for are available?

It’s also understandable through the json scheme if you’d like to skip the pretty easy to understand web site, https://resources.data.gov/standards/catalog/dcat-us/

My biggest fear with us-dcat3 was that it would be incompatible with 1.1. And this page says it won’t be, so I’m staying optimistic until I review.
Why would they even IPO if they are bleeding money as fast as they were? Was it one of those SPAC pyramid scams just to get fresh money from people?
Will update the docs. But it is easy:

FX_THEME=2 fx data.json
I've never heard of that happening
Headsets Delayed into 2024
I think the EU can survive just fine with associate members and similar non-full members who do things like pooled science funding.
Interesting. All in like 1h. Also might be less relevant for AskHN, since the idea is to comment / discuss the topic. Surprised that there is not a more effective solution to this.
> At least 44 NBA players are set to earn more than $30 million in salary for the 2023-24 season, according to ESPN, while only 36 S&P 500 CEOs earned more than $30 million in 2022, according to the AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch.

Looks like only one NBA GMs is paid over $10M.
> imagine a barkeeper throwing someone out for a misbehaviour that has been communicated to them

Its absolutely correct to do it. While she was working at a bar in the caraibeans, my sister spotted a guy slipping something in a drink. The person who did it and both his friends weren't convicted (the police is useless and very 'assertive' towards victims there, especially women), but barred from all bar and restaurant owned by her employer
Using Kagi's FastGPT I was given a reference to a two-week-old HN comment.

(Which, it turns out, I'd authored...)

I'm not sure if that's part of the training database, or something which turned up as FastGPT conducted its own Web search. But it was surprising in at least two regards.
It's also what happened to Slack. It's culture was completely killed by the Salesforce acquisition and the old employees they have left are all disgruntled.
Why would you want to review individual commits when the same lines can change from one commit to another? It seems like more work. Personally I want to see the final list of changes when I review, and not waste my time with intermediate stuff.

I know some people are diligent about using rebase to present a clean commit history, but that's rare in practice in my experience. And it's incompatible with devs who aren't skilled at git.
My experience with Bard has gotten better and better. I have been using it regulary for Code generation and other work. It does work wonderfully but at times it spits out bad code. I enjoy finding new punk rock or other old bands. Also I have cancelled my copilot subscription.
For the longest time it didn't work in Europe and it was a pain to turn on VPN just for this. But I just checked and now it works. It even knows the town I am in. I will play with it more.
Compile to typed assembly language?

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/
I still don't see how that is retroactive. The TOS changed, but I only accepted the TOS how they were when I paid my license. So the new TOS do not apply until my contract ends. That is the law (at least here in Europe)
Google uses GPL software all the time and links it to proprietary software all the time. Since it runs on their servers and is never distributed, this is perfectly fine.
Nothing. That's pure FUD
If only there was a way to coordinate everyone at once to say “we’ve had enough” and to switch all at once. But it seems people are trapped in the network effect of platforms they hate because leaving Twitter means losing followers.
NIEM is much more complex is was trying to have semantic exchange vs this is just cataloging and doesn’t do much with being able to interpret and use data.

NIEM was really complicated to implement, and I think that contributed to limited use.

DCAT is for cataloging and describing datasets and I think is used pretty extensively (I think google was using it when they would scrape and then describe data in their data commons project, among others).
Correct! Oxford was founded in the 11th century, with Cambridge lagging behind and not getting started until around 1200.
Thanks. This feature is described as optional for 3rd party apps and a claim is made that the information is not sent off the device. Assuming this is true, I take back my criticism about the policy being invasive.
If you believe the land under a city of 15M people has the same value as that same amount of undeveloped land, I'm not sure how to begin with an explanation.

You even slipped into your own reply: "Your land now has tremendous value."
There were discussions on this topic here, just 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332126

The hivemind consensus among most popular recommendations was to have a nickname field, followed by a full name field only if must, and don't try to validate names, Asian or not. Which is btw exactly how most social medias are built right now.
Hang on a minute. He is accused of having had an "emotionally abusive and controlling relationshp" with a 16-year-old when he was 31. That is not the same as rape. The age of consent in the UK is 16, and 16-year-olds are legally sexually active all the time in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66831593

Brand has also not been accused of passing along a girl to a known pedophile. He is accused of having joked about sending his assistant to Jimmy Savile, on a BBC Radio 2 comedy show in 2007. (The BBC did not fire him for that.)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/17/russell...
NOAA numbers at https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/torn/STATIJ21.txt which I've filtered to the relevant outbreak:

# DATE TIME-CST COUNTIES STATE DEATHS A B C D WATCH EF LOCATION
-- ---- -------- --------- ----- ------ ------- ----- -- --------
08 DEC 10 1905 CRAIGHEAD AR 1 1 - - - WT552 4 01P
MISSISSIPPI AR 1 1 - - - WT552 4 01P
PEMISCOT MO 2 2 - - - WT552 4 01H 01V
LAKE TN 3 3 - - - WT552 4 03P
OBION TN 1 1 - - - WT552 4 01V
09 DEC 10 1935 ST CHARLES MO 1 1 - - - WT553 3 01H
10 DEC 10 2030 MADISON IL 6 6 - - - WT553 3 06P
11 DEC 10 2050 GRAVES KY 24 24 - - - WT552 4 09M 09P
03H 03U
HOPKINS KY 15 15 - - - WT552 4 12H 02U
01M
MUHLENBERG KY 11 11 - - - WT554 4 07H 03M
01P
CALDWELL KY 4 4 - - - WT552 4 02H 02M
MARSHALL KY 1 1 - - - WT552 4 01H
FULTON KY 1 1 - - - WT552 4 01M
LYON KY 1 1 - - - WT552 4 01H
12 DEC 11 0110 WARREN KY 16 16 - - - WT554 3 13P 03U
13 DEC 11 0320 TAYLOR KY 1 1 - - - WT561 3 01M

Total: 89

See the link for column definitions.
Steam (or Valve) for matter makes games?
I don’t see how. Remember, if JP Morgan moved their HQ out of Manhattan, that leaves room for others to move in. Maybe some other business would profit more than JP Morgan did from having an HQ in Manhattan, and would pay the higher land–value tax that comes with it. Or maybe more people would move in instead, looking for life in a busy urban area.

Of course any random change could result in NYC dwindling away and not being able to pay it’s bond obligations any more. We don’t have to posit a radical change in how taxes are collected to imagine that, we just have to look at Detroit. The whole point of a bond is that when you purchase one you are betting that the city will still exist and still be able to pay the interest on the bond. That’s never guaranteed though.

And surely the pension holders would be fine, since those obligations will be funded from investments NYC has made whose performance is independent of its own revenue.
The link loads correctly for me in an incognito tab. Maybe it was something temporary when you tried? Nitter also does the job.
> I'd like just to say thanks for all the longstanding efforts of FSF and GNU.

I'd like to extend your thanks, by explicitly thanking Richard Stallman for his important role in creating both those organizations. The man deserves a lot of praise and respect.
> If the triune brain model was completely false (as stated by the caricature of "brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile"), it would not be straightforward to even identify the neocortex -- how do you know it is 'neo', what is it a 'neo' of and so on?

I don't think that the intention of the article is to say it's completely false. It's that there is no neat evolutionary separation between the different parts of the brain. The "reptile" brain in humans is not truly the brain of a tiny reptile. We inherited a similar structure, but it evolved with us just like the rest of our brain.

The same goes for the tiny reptiles we see today, their brains also evolved alongside them. If we truly had a tiny reptile inside our brain then logically we could simply study the behavior of tiny reptiles if we wanted to study that part of the human brain. Which is probably the kind of misconception the authors of the article want to refute.
Opera isn't even Chinese; they're from Norway: https://www.opera.com/about
What do districts have to do with it?
Those are microbenchmarks, and as such are misleading when it comes to evaluating JIT-ed languages. They also don’t involve ever touching the DOM, which is a major source of slowdowns in real-world JS apps.
They began making Starfield years before MS bought Zenimax
> Networking improvements are a consistent top ask for WSL, and this feature aims to improve the networking experience in WSL! This is a complete overhaul on the traditional NAT networking architecture of WSL, to an entirely new networking mode called “Mirrored”. The goal of this mode is to mirror the network interfaces that you have on Windows into Linux, to add new networking features and improve compatibility.
He didn’t get booted from YouTube because of his content. The YT terms of service say they can take action based on the person’s actions. Whether we agree with the rules or not YT has those rules and they own the platform, they can accept or kick off whomever they like.
This is something that still leaves me stumped about LLMs. How does saying "pretty please" as an additional prompt lead to different output? Should this be implicitly added to each prompt?
Yes there is, because the for-profit organisation making you sign a CLA for your contributions is effectively using your free labor to suppress wages of its employees.

Doing free work for an employer is always parasitic with regards to its employees.

You have a third option here which you didn't list, which is forking the project into one which is working in favor of the public; removing the CLA and giving each contributor shared ownership of the project.
Your contribution should then be made to that project.
One downside of that aspect of WSL1 is that you can’t get any network interface statistics at all. For instance I have a program running in WSL and I want to report network upload speed while it’s running, and WSL1 simply doesn’t expose that.