skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't against regulatory oversight.

I was mentioning that it's a system as flawed as everything else if you just expect it to work.

Also I'd like this kind of direct life threatening decisions to become criminal charges (not just fines) for the ones signing them off, please, including in software regulations.
We need a keurig filament stat!
We clearly need namespaces for product names :)
> a “commonsensical definition” would be “something that is not very scientifically supported, that masquerades as if it is already very scientifically established”.

Does this actually sound like a definition of pseudoscience to anyone? If you think about homeopathy and ancient aliens or whatever, does this address the core of why we think those are "pseudoscience" as opposed to just wrong, even confidently wrong? I don't think it does. IIT is probably wrong, and its proponents should probably shut up or at least show more humility, but "pseudoscience" is the wrong label.
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Yes of late my experience has been that Amazon is pricier or the same cost but rarely better.

Or for non well known branded items, just drop shipped stuff that you could get on aliexpress cheaper…

Only if I could convince my spouse to cancel…
I am quite confident that by any measures Poland is a net beneficiary of EU; and as a citizen I am quite happy about that situation.
Its only 6 months in for GPT4

I think open source things will match gpt 4 in a year or a little after. OpenAI will need additional models or competitive advantages at the same clip they’ve been doing. This is going to be very expensive for them.

What I really predict will happen is that late 2024 hardware refreshes (being worked on since mid 2023) will prioritize everything related to accelerating LLM training and output

More RAM to different chips, different busses, different coprocessor architecture that we currently call GPUs

and this will lower the barrier of entry enough
It's easy to be open when you have a money printer by practically having a monopoly over PC gaming.

If competitors are just as open they no longer have a competitive advantage and are essentially just helping improve Steam.
And another note.. Free-to-play apps with IAP could benefit from learning about how it works in the gaming industry. I highly recommend the Gamecraft podcast from the incredible VC Mitch Lasky

https://www.gamecraftpod.com/
I'm actually from the UK. Is this the grade system people normally refer to - like they say they're grade 8?

I meant more an algorithm to determine the difficulty. Things like tempo and how much your fingers would need to move. But equally, I could probably just cherry pick some easier pieces far quicker
If this is more important to you than all the things I have listed above then I don't think Kagi is the right search engine for you.
Google Analytics has forsaken us. Where do we go now?
It was more of a reaction to how smug and condescending you came off as, but no I don’t agree with your interpretation of the original comment, which I interpreted as making fun of HN yuppies as opposed to a comment about society. I don’t know how or why (I really doubt Big Weed ™ is astroturfing the orange site) but the way people on HN chomp at the bit to defend weed and other drugs but decry alcohol for being “evil” feels distinctly robotic and manufactured.

That aside - the more I think about it the more I don’t understand how you could look at such a globally distributed and diverse product as alcohol and think its consumers can be easily stereotyped. Not even months ago in America there was a boycott of a massively popular brand of beer on political grounds; how very sheepish of those consumers!
I don't think that happens. You might lose access to features and multiplayer, but not the games you own.

At worst, you cannot buy more games or gifts or trade your items. But you can still download the single player games you already have.

EDIT: Generally it seems account suspension is possible, but that usually means they noticed something illegal or extremely suspicious activity.
Oh come on. Computing was designed since day zero to be an completely open to all connections and possibilities.

So now you want to regulate in security, for a device that was never meant to be secure in the first place?!

This security business is a racket. If you wanted computers to be secure, you would have designed and sold ASICs from day one.

You can't regulate software without also regulating the hardware.

The UK locks down privacy laws and now you guys want to "secure and regulate software".

The internet, no more. Offline is the only way to program, and keep software in-house.
You ignored the first paragraph of the article that says you can pay for an ad-free option, which would qualify as “raising prices moderately” to me.

Odds are near 100% that Amazon has been running Prime Video at a loss since it started. They spent $16B on content last year. They can stop producing so much content or they can find ways to make more money. Either way people will snark about how greedy they are for not running a service at a loss forever.
I think the question boils down to what is fair use in these situations. I actually think it would be useful to have a public effort to build a pan humanity model that claims fair use for public benefit and consumes all productions of humanity.

What specifically hurts OpenAI is the monetization and commercial benefit from other people’s work. They also fall clearly in the space of civil claims of copyright violation, if not criminal (however the use of models to produce copyright materials is likely criminal infringement). (IANAL, but a law professor friend made these claims to me, YMMV)
Interesting, thanks. Do you manage the DB yourself or do you sync it to customers' existing DBs? Does this play nicely with pg_graphq?
There's tools like Act[0] that tries to solve this, but this has been an issue with CI systems since they were invented.

[0] https://github.com/nektos/act
This feels a bit like the dicta on 12 Factor: rules handed down from a presumed authority without any discussion of the tradeoffs. Engineering is tradeoff evaluation. Give me some discussion about the alternatives, when and why they're inferior and don't pretend like the proposed solution doesn't have shortcomings or pitfalls.
You "own" Half Life 3 in some timeline.
Not OP but multiple code bases may refer to the same flag by a different constant. Having a single string that can be searched accross all repos in an organization is quite handy to find all places where it's referenced.
Most people I stumble upon wearing logos due it for signaling.
The logos send signals like "I can afford this", or "I'm into sports".
As a side effect, they're walking billboards for the brands, but that's just that: a side effect.
Giving GFWL less excuse for being as bad as it was. They'd witnessed Steam's early problems, yet repeated them (and added more besides).
It's America, so lower your expectations :(

Although, the first Shinkansen model had a max speed of 130mph, so one could say 125mph is bullet train speed.

Now, that was in 1964, and the second model (1985) topped out at 137mph, and the current series (introduced decades ago) are around 180mph -- but again, expectations.
Warning Signs of Transformative Progress in AI (2020) [pdf]
Awesome to see that the git history is preserved! Thanks for doing this-- I've seen a few of these kinds of merges where the easier route of squash-and-forget was taken and it's always a bit disappointing.

As for external contributions, well, you have at least one (incredibly minor) external contribution that I'm aware of. I'm sure that person is happy to see their commit survived the repo transition!
I don't know anything about Valve's future plans, and I don't know anything at all about that toolkit (it was announced after I stopped working on Wine). My gut feeling is it's unlikely. There was a lot of incentive to target Linux with this tech, even though it's a smaller market than macOS, because you can control the whole stack and do cool stuff like SteamOS, which is what allowed the Deck to happen. On macOS, all you can do is sell stuff to end-users, where you also have to compete with the Apple store, which is owned by Apple, who also make the OS. Apple has also shown they're a bad partner for game companies (nuking 32-bit support; crummy OpenGL support; no Vulkan support; shaky record on OS updates breaking stuff). My experience is there's generally a lot of bad feelings and skepticism about Apple and macOS in the gaming industry due to that record.
You can read more about it here https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/changeStreams/

My feeling is that database needs to be built with replication in mind from the get-go to have something like this work well.
> I was the creator & lead dev on Proton for its first 5 years (2016-2021),

Wow, than k you. I know it takes a village, and it’s always a team effort, but still thank you. My windows PC is gathering dust now. I only use my Linux laptop and steam deck now. If a game doesn’t run on Linux, I just won’t play it anymore.

That’s a huge change, and I really appreciate it.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.
This is fascinating. It's such a common (mistaken) usage in the tech world, Dictionary says it's derived from the premise of a building deed, so it's not completely off.

I wonder if there's a term, similar to "backronym", when the singular form of a word is derived from casual mutation from its plural?
1 is a number.

0 is also a number.
> It seems to be skipping past the use-cases and assumptions

This is a great feedback. Our intention was to describe how such a system work at scale, but I see we could do better in this section, thanks!

Do you have some use-cases in mind?
IME searching for the name of the flag name and getting 1 result is less helpful than 15 results that directly show point-of-use.
re: motorcycle gear: Rev'it has some pretty neutral branded options, but not inexpensive... I've had good luck with the quality and fit.
But you wouldn't tell your kid: we are going to visit your paternal grandmother, right?

That is the distinction I tried to make above between academic and everyday language.
No one is ignoring it, and the US Government has done everyone another favour on this score. Years ago in the late Bush / early Obama administration, NIST required that all federal government agencies have IPv6 at the border. Federal government money is not to be sniffed at, and that had the effect of forcing a number of vendors to add IPv6 support.
A few years after that, it became that the federal agencies needed to have dual-stack IPv4/IPv6.

About 18 months ago, the requirement came that federal agencies are required to be IPv6 Only, dropping the dual stack. IIRC they have until 2025 to do that. This has the neat effect of forcing all vendors to make IPv6 a first class citizen. The extra little fun from this is that it applies to the military JWCC contract that all the major clouds have been trying to land. The timescales of JWCC meant that initial offerings are pretty bare, but that won't be allowed to last.
> to make money it helps to insert yourself between people and something they may want or need. this is how pretty much every business works.

I disagree. They’re not the same thing. Most businesses will provide solutions to a need, or at least facilitate getting you to the solution for a fee.

The social media grifters are doing something else. They’re finding people with a need (or tricking people into thinking they have a need) and then trying to capture that person as a follower and, eventually, a revenue stream while delivering little real value in exchange.

The prototypical social media grifter like this has a lot to say and a lot of strongly worded opinions, but the end game usually involves something like hiding the “real” answers inside of a paid course or paid community. They spend years building a following on social media and then suddenly they’re selling a course for $1000 per seat. They only need a few hundred of their million followers to convert to make a decent amount of money. The content is usually so-so or recycled from other books and courses. Often purchasers are so embarrassed about having paid $1000 for it that they won’t complain online. If they do complain, they get dunked on by other social media users who were smart enough to see the grift, so they delete their complaints.

I’ve followed many people on Twitter who started out doing good work on indie projects or small startups, built up a following, and then pivoted into selling courses and educational material to their followers.

An alternative grift is to build up a following and then carefully walk the line on “offering the opportunity” to invest in their newest business. A handful of their star-struck followers will be knocking down their door to hand over their cash. You see it a lot with real estate and self storage business influencers.
We did the same. We were early adopters of unleash and wrangled it to also host long term application configuration and even rule based application config.

The architecture of unleash made it so simple to do in unleash vs having to evaluate, configure, and deploy a separate app config solution.
I think you missed their primary foundation point

> Unlike Linux, which can require some expertise to run on out-of-date computers, anyone can install ChromeOS Flex and get back to work on their rejuvenated hardware in less than an hour.
Isn't that just programming? That's not much different than saying you forgot a bracket and had to make another commit to make it work. Granted, it would be nice if they had some linter.
I didn't flag/mod the comment, but I think it errs towards conspiracy theories.

I'm not American, and I understand the American government does evil things sometimes, but it also does a lot of good things for its citizens. It builds roads, keeps the skies clear, funds education, health systems, sues tech giants when they go too far, tries to manage the speculation/money markets, etc. To say "undeniably often working against the best interests of its citizens" is very hyperbolic. Most would probably argue that the government does not do enough, even conservatives (ex: controlling abortion or bathrooms, not that I agree).

The news are also not there to demoralize you, not as a primary objective. Anxiety and negative news do sell ads. I find public radio such as NPR do a wonderful job of balancing point of views, giving the facts, and provide some hope by explaining the underlying issues and possible solutions. Where I live, public radio is the only non-ragebait media that constantly puts pressures on whatever government is in power, and explains various points of views (while admittedly being more centrist editorially, angering both hard-left and hard-right).

I totally agree however with doing whatever it is you are good at, and that's a way to work towards improving the world.
I try to find clothing that has no logos or logos that are easily removed (Eddie Bauer, for example). It's a pain, though.
You don't own games rented on Steam. Sage!
I think it's an impedance mismatch between the feature people want -- "logical load balancers" and the feature they're offered "physical load balancers."

How nice it would be if you could just create a bunch of load balancers and all that actually meant was that it was just adding config profiles to a single physical load balancer and kept
them truly isolated? Right now it's really annoying because load balancer config is global state and everyone has to
either be kind neighbors when adding themselves to it or manage them top-down.
But if they had a cheaper support model, the large corporations would also pay less, and they'd make even less money overall.
Not to mention: support engineers are expensive, and researching tickets take a lot of time.
Log level configuration is a cheap solution in this case.
Ask HN: What has made structs and interfaces popular nowadays (e.g., SwiftUI)?
Did the hardware change to make structs preferable to classes in more case?
I value ma data, that's why I don't keep important information in random chats. But I digress. If you care about losing your history, the proper solution is backing it up, right? Signal does support that.
Yeah I was in the same boat. I came from guitar, so had some level of dexterity. I couldn't use beginner tutorials that show you what note to play, because they were far too basic. But then with sheet music, I'd spend 90% of the time counting EGBDF - and getting it wrong a lot of the time too!
Developers don't get much sympathy from users over Valve's store policies precisely because Valve cares so much about the users.

Epic makes a big deal about digital storefronts only needing a 12% cut to turn a profit, but Epic isn't turning around and investing that money into things that make the platform better for everyone like Valve does (Steam Input, Proton, Workshop just to name a few things).
Danny Elfman and The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo were called New Wave, too, as I recall.

I talked to a French Horn player who's actually played some of his stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenada_Schizophrana

coming to San Jose!

https://www.dannyelfman.com/upcoming-events
This route has a higher chance of completion than the infamous SF-LA route.
In countries with restricted internet (for example, Iran and Russia), there are issues with CAPTCHA availability issues affecting users of Proton services. Proton CAPTCHA helps bypass these issues.
Go for it OP, the more browsers the merrier! :^)
Extension adds the famous YouTuber MrBeast to every thumbnail
Yeah, the fact that you can’t realize your example still rounds to zero is kind of sad, honestly.

Nobody has been cancelled randomly, and I genuinely pity people who go through life fearful such a thing could happen to them.
What about the second part of my post, where the LLM has NOT been trained on the specific meter, but it does have some "concept" (maybe not the right word, but bear with me) of what meter is, so the human prompter can say "write a poem about subject S, with meter M" and get something in the style of that poet, without having been trained on it... sounds like you're OK with that scenario?

Full disclosure: I think I probably disagree with you on some points you've made in this thread, but I'm not going for any gotchas right now, I am just trying to map the contours of what you think is OK and not OK. We're all sort of flying blind on this stuff, so getting a sense of what others are thinking is really important in my mind. Appreciate the engagement.
Thanks for sharing. I have seen systems grow in to thousands of flags, where most developers does not know what a particular flags do anymore.
True, and if anything I'm arguing for exactly that, keeping danger to a moderate level.

It's just that doping is only one way, so ignoring something like this which seems likely to cause lasting damage because 'destroying the body for sport is not unusual' is a bit weird when on the other hand athletes are subjected to incredibly invasive surveillance to avoid the temptation to use even the tiniest amount of substances.

I honestly believe that some forms of doping are less dangerous than professional sport per se. This isn't the fairest comparison but far fewer cyclists died of EPO than by trying to descend too quickly.
For most of this era, I find it helpful to think in terms of the Angevin empire, not England.
It's just rude
Oddly, I think the problem in general is with the LLM itself. We are still in the hype stage but we need to get to a better stage where the LLM is smart enough to understand and switch context, search and retrieve from the right place. Ultimately what we're trying to do right now is help the LLM do something it should already be capable of.

Ironically I think google already has the right idea. Remember when we use to have to use "+" in our searches and "and or"?

It's gotten "smarter" over the years and the user literally just writes a conversational query and google just returns results. That's where we need to go.

Side note, I think this is one of the reasons they'll be a heavy hitter in the ML/AI space. because they're already doing this. It was just a business decision to not release their own GPT.
So Prime used to be free content plus two day delivery. Now it seems like delivery routinely takes 3 to as much as 10 days. What am I getting for the price of Prime?
Agreed. I've actually been criticized at several positions for a big "manage_transition" function that is basically either chained if statements or a switch. Either is fine as long as you keep it linear and organized. Both can be terrible if you don't do those things. But, most alternatives can get unwieldy for the same reasons.

The worst is when someone refactors it into a "modern" approach and then proceeds to break the general flow of the state machine again and again.
> Content is a concept that I've come to dislike

I think that when people started unironically calling it "content", that was the writing on the wall that we're going down a bad path.
You can see Proton CAPTCHA in signup and login processes on our websites. You cannot see them in isolation.
We use Github Actions and we just don't have any issues with it outside the first time we set it up for each repo. Then we make 100s of commits a week and it does its thing and our work goes live a few seconds later. That's why I love it.

Could things be better? Of course; that's how software is--and this should resonate with most folks on this site. But just because some product isn't infallible doesn't mean we can't love it too.
Ask HN: Is there a cheap file server for downloads
As it relates to Akamai's Download Delivery service to host files for downloading. Is there a less expensive, yet reliable way to host downloads for global customers?
Any open source tools that can help here?
Not even close, zlib had one. (Search for "FDICT" from RFC 1950.) What Zstandard did was a CLI to automatically generate a good enough dictionary from sample inputs.
It's more how bad the state of things is regarding Linux binary compatibility...
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation!
> And learning to use some of the more advanced control features of the system goes a long way to fixing that.

I need to take the time to do that some day. I’ve seen people swear Factorio was playable and fun on the deck, but the controls were just always too much of a struggle to get working in a way that worked for my brain.

I could play, but I just couldn’t get it smooth enough that the controls got out of my way.

I’d love (and hate) to have Factorio playable on the steam deck.
So a chief executive from a competitor is unhappy with the safety features of the reactor.

Do you have a less biased source?
I found this (old [2016] but still relevant) blog post expanding on this at https://hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern/ which was very useful for describing type-safe state machines in Rust.
FWIW, in the US, H&M is known for fast-fashion, garbage-tier clothing. I've heard the brand is better outside the US, though.
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to use any automation that you can’t also easily and quickly test locally.
It's odd seeing Counterstrike because I haven't really done gaming (and certainly not FPS) since Counterstrike was a free mod to Half Life.

Wikipedia tells me that "window" of time was a year or two
If you're on an iPhone, landscape is definitely the better way to use it. I should advertise that more. Looking up flowkey, they have a video in landscape, and their screenshots are in portrait - I might look at doing something like that