skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My impression was that he cares a lot more about financial success and his personal image than he does making great work.

Well, that's not the way he sees himself, from the article,

> People have appreciated the work my teams and I have done and have expressed it loudly and affectionately. I may or may not deserve accolades, but I've been lucky enough to receive them and I'm grateful for all the kind words and well-wishes I've received. Maybe it's just my ego, but what I consider to be my successes have nothing to do with reviews, sales or revenue. Success for me is connection with players (and not in the data-collecting way some of you may be thinking). I've had people send me handmade plush toys based on characters in my games. I've had people send me artwork they were inspired to create. I've had people tell me a game I worked on helped get them through chemotherapy. Autism. Cerebral palsy. I ran into a young woman at Disneyland dressed as Ortensia, in a homemade costume, before the character was a star in the Disney firmament. “I started my company because of your game,” I’ve been told. And “I changed the way I thought about design because of a game you worked on.” Now those are success criteria that have kept me going, even when things got tough.

What he seems to care about the most is that his work has an impact on the players in some way - which I think is the goal of many artists.
At first glance, I thought this was another Linux distro with a custom window manager, not a new operating system. But it is its own operating system! It's got a custom kernel and everything. Built from scratch, indeed.

I'm always impressed when people build their own operating systems or browsers from scratch. Few of them will attain widespread adoption. That doesn't mean they aren't valuable though. Kudos to the developers.
As long as the population of the planet continues to grow we're going to need to grow the availability of resources.

If anything improved productivity and efficiency is going save the planet from the current status quo.

Better productivity comes about through competition in carefully regulated markets[1].

For example, Shoichiro Toyoda deciding to compete with incumbent car companies by using resources and energy more efficiently.

Calling those that want to compete to find a better way to do things "generally sick in the head" isn't really helpful.

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1. Regulated farming for example doesn't use DDT any more even though it's cheap and good at killing pests. It's far too damaging and poisonousness tso we force farmers to find alternatives.
> but it’s still cheaper than doing llama2 yourself

How you calculate this? Unless you're factoring in acquiring the hardware, you can usually get away with outsourcing the training of llama2 to rented hardware, and then run it on owned hardware, so with lots of executions, using llama2 locally should most definitely be cheaper in the medium to long term, compared to paying for the training + execution of fine tuned GPT3.5
I own seven, at the moment. One is an IBM Model M buckling spring keyboard (1983, needs a PS2-to-USB adaptor). Two others I use daily, including the Das Keyboard (Cherry MX Blues) I'm typing this on.

My latest is the Launch Heavy with Kaith Brown keys that arrived yesterday (with a new system). It's replacing a gaming keyboard I've had for more than a decade.

I'm not even "in to keyboards," I've simply been using computer equipment at home for so long that I have them around.
I don’t think that’s right.

As soon as developers have other options for distribution (that is cheaper), that’s what they will use. Look at Epic for an example. I used to play Fortnite with my kids on my iPad, but can’t anymore. So, my choices from the App Store will be more limited.

That’s both illustrative and damning. Developers will leave and consumers will be less protected. And I’m not really even thinking about malware, but dark patterns like uncancelable subscriptions or surprise in app purchases.
Whoa buddy.

That’s a hell of an assumption.

1. Manufacturing does not happen in America anymore.

2. The proliferation of counterfeiters does not allow dropshippers to scale to a meaningful size. Everyone is game to Alibaba.

Within our industry of paper goods, our manufacturers have to get their parts and raw materials from overseas.

The larger FBA mom and pops will design and market their products here in the US using American workers and have them manufactured overseas completely or in-part.

The impact of Amazon’s monopoly power on American online product businesses is less jobs that pay well.

- Less accounting and bookkeeping jobs

- less marketing jobs

- less design jobs

- less seller fulfilled packing and logistics jobs
Graph analysis is impressive (last example) - https://imgur.com/a/iOYTmt0

Can do UI to frontend. Seems to understand the UI graphical elements and layout, not just text
https://twitter.com/skirano/status/1706823089487491469

Can describe comic images accurately, panel by panel - https://twitter.com/ComicSociety/status/1698694653845848544?...

Lots of examples here also - https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/16sdac1/i_just_got...

It's Computer Vision on Steroids basically.

Multi-modality is pretty low hanging fruit so i'm glad we're finally getting started on that. Imagine if GPT-4 could manipulate sound and images even half as well as it could manipulate text. We still don't have a large scale multi-modal model trained from scratch so a lot of possible synergistic effects are still unknown.
The "vertical" example looks contrived in JavaScript, but if that's your thing, I think it's OK.

But please don't promote antipatterns from languages that actually have a pipe operator (like Elixir) such as the '''concat("!")''' where the previous implementation's version using an operator is much clearer and more idiomatic.

I see a ton of Elixir code where people shoe-horn things into a vertical pipeline where the "normal" code would be a lot more readable, for example invoking '''Kernel.+(2)''' instead of just doing '''my_var + 2'''
I tried it but unfortunately it also disables media control (pause/skip) from the keyboard in other applications.
The high cost of overspeeding on Indian roads and the silence on the issue
Solving CAPTCHAs at the moment is more inexpensive using humans than using GPT-4 API.
Yeah, those pesky contributors...
The struggle is becoming easier over time. Windows 11 ads are getting more and more prevalent while I've personally had less and less issues playing Linux games, to the point where I haven't had to really even think about it lately.
The EU claims to be pro-privacy and pro-competition internally :-)

I don't even know where you got that angle wrong, the EU CAP is renowned as a protectionist measure, and it's a core EU component. It's just an example.

> You can bet GDPR would not exist if Silicon Valley was located in the Rhine Valley.

That's your assumption.
Linux is doing more than “just fine” and is in no way similar to OpenSSL.

This individual wasn’t robbed of the opportunity for a contribution. He received credit for his contribution via a reported-by flag. It’s a tiny patch — all the work was in identifying the bug, which is what he received credit for.

He did something valuable, and has every right to write it up, but clearly has limited understanding of the development process he’s participating in. It was wildly inappropriate of him to of put anyone on blast in response to this.
To hide the fact that it is all crap and that uou don’t really want to read any of it.
A new architecture that doesn't rely on trust of other people would be ideal. If that's possible, I'm not sure.
SunGlacier – Devices which can produce water for deserts
What about VSCode? Seems like almost all the devs I know use it, regardless of their feelings about Microsoft products otherwise.
Vizro looks nice, as does Evidence (mentioned below). I think it's good to remember that these types of apps often don't exist in a silo. It would be excellent to be able to integrate them into a larger platform (Django app, etc) to create a less disjointed experience for consumers.
Sure, I have a wooly jumper. And I've been known to count them. For eating, I prefer pre-butchered meat.
Ask HN: How do I find a job where I can coast?
I've grown tired of working at tech companies (e.g. FAANG, wannabe FAANG, and wannabe FAANG startups) with arbitrary deadlines and CEOs and directors that are breathing down my neck. I'm happy to do work but I don't want pressure. I don't want to shoot for a promotion, IPO, or acquisition. I just want to punch in and out and make an ok salary.
See also: `antiscope`, an experiment in subjunctive programming

https://github.com/MillionConcepts/antiscope
My only remaining smart device is an off brand smart bulb on my front porch. It is set up to turn on at 6PM and off at 6AM. It disconnected from my network years ago, but has kept working great nonetheless. I think of it like a Mars probe going about its business. :-)
So why some from Sweeden and Finland are against NATO?

Are they afraid to be pulled into USA wars ?
Firefox was amazing by the time Chrome was released.
Google survives by selling advertisements, essentially making the web worse.
It's pretty clear that's not enough to succeed.

Written from Firefox.
> countries don’t make decisions. Individuals (that are mentally capable) make decisions, within their economic framework, and the result emerges at the national or global level.

The economic framework, including rules, regulations, incentives, and penalties, amongst others, are set by government (“the country”).

Also, if government decides to employ and find AI, that already pushes things in a certain direction.

So yes, while individuals decide how to use AI, it is very much governments that have tremendous capacity and interest to bend and accelerate or decelerate its adoption patterns.
I've been following (and tempted by) someone on faceboock (lcdfans / Jackyzhang - http://www.cnmod.cn/ ) who has a business of rebuilding x220 / x200 series laptops with modern hardware - the latest I've seen is a "X2100" - an x210 with I7-10710U and 13 inch 3000X2000 IPS...

One day if I have and extra few $k that I'm willing to risk I may ordering one...
In ML's defence, trying to understand econometrics as a newcomer is horrendous. Also, STATA.
Writers Guild Strike to End Wednesday
> The bounding box coordinates returned by GPT-4V did not match the position of the dog.

I suppose it just doesn't take image dimensions into consideration, and needs to be provided with max dimensions, or prompted to give percentages or other absolute values instead of pixels.
https://twitter.com/cto_junior/status/1706289820702490839
Im shocked at how good this is. The world is truly going to change
I've used shutup10 [0] successfully to disable all the Windows 11 annoyances and security concerns it has.

[0] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
> Does it matter if Apple isn't competing on every single area Google has a hand into ?

That is shifting the discussion.

> To get back to the original point, Apple has a browser, and the means to raise a case against Google being too dominant in the browser space.

Yes, they could
Having a VGA port is such a waste of space
X230 seems like a better option to me, you can replace the k/b with a 220 keyboard.

But even though they're built like tanks, these 220/230s are getting old now. Given a choice of old X series thinkpads, the x270 makes more sense - still very decent build quality, modularity, etc, but pretty much better everything. The X280 has soldered ram and other undesirable changs.

For T series, the T480 seems to be the sweeet spot.
> western traditional cooking esthetics where we want tasty but subtle [in America]

It means BBQ?
O&O ShutUp10: Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
reddit discussion at that time (2022) with the author replying to critical comments. There was quite some pushback:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/swwdt3/san_...
Yes, mostly the reason why I switched from openbox to fluxbox back in the day.
I was very confused when I booted a Windows VM the other day and a mini Freddie Mercury appeared in the taskbar’s search box.[1] Turned out that it would have been his birthday, but it’s an odd thing for an OS to do.

[1] https://mastodon.social/@robinwhittleton/111011217374727839
I am amazed how far ahead Telegram always is in terms of UI/UX and features.
A person who argues about things in a group is usually someone who cares very much about getting the credit for being right.

The “amazing what you can accomplish” quote is about doing things indirectly and without ego — the opposite of pounding on with upfront arguments.
There was that open house at the local vocational school where the stand-out was a pet rat at the animal science department which seemed so intelligent and social. (Or was it the PC building/retro computing lab where they built 586 machines with VoodooFX graphics cards?)
"Masses controlling the ballot box" is far more complicated than most people understand.
Agree and the next big step may well be human computer interface. Speech is starting point for input. At some point output will change also and if think it out longer term perhaps a future where instead of reading information we install knowledge, including the stored memory of actual experience. If I want to do pottery, I could think this, download the experience and then be competent at it.
While originating in Marxism, this thought is also exposed by Libertarians in their critique of government. Giving too much power to the government is basically the same as giving power to elites and thus it is a move against freedom.
Bun is using JavaScriptCore voluntarily because it’s better than V8 for their needs.

I think both WebKit and JSC have merits of their own and are installed by default, so I don’t think they are in existencial danger.

That said, since iOS is not a monopoly, I think Apple has the right to do whatever it wants with its platform and the security, privacy and battery life concerns are valid.
What's the outcome for the kid? Can the system even do much to help with the child's medical condition? If not, it's irrational for people to take their children in for examination; there's no benefit and you risk being accused.
Spotify now using AI to clone podcaster’s voice into Spanish
Hash Based Trees and Tries
I switched to Ubuntu five years ago and it's been a fab experience.
It's exactly the same. It was a sudden upheaval of the established way to make a living. Not even very sudden. And responded to in the usual low-thought primary manner (except for a few places like Denmark). Few frames got broken, but lots of strikes no doubt contributed to accelerate the process even in cases where it shouldn't have been economically optimal.
You act like that's settled fact. It's just your opinion.

The opinion itself isn't the problem, it's when you want to hurt an out-group that it becomes a problem. Personally, I despise a bully, especially am adult one.

On your opinion, it takes no account of edge cases. Occasionally, humans are born with XXY chromosomes. Occasionally humans are born with both male and female genitals. Occasionally humans are born chimaeric, with different DNA in different parts of their bodies. It's biological fact that the distinction between male and female is blurry.

We're on HN, I expect you already know this. If you didn't know this, then, you're one of today's lucky 10,000.

Either way, your opinion is not based in fact. I take it you'll be a little less rigid on this topic?
I never heard the term "arena allocation" before. I always thought it was called "bump pointer allocation" since all you do is add to (bump) a pointer. One useful trick when designing a bump allocator is to allocate word size bytes (8 on 64-bit) extra to store object headers in. For example, if you store objects' sizes in the header you can iterate all allocated objects and you can often also reallocate objects in the middle of the arena without having to free every object.
In my experience, it's mostly the less experienced use it. It's electron shovelware, with horrible typing latency and memory usage.

No matter how hard MS wants to push it, those don't change. If I need a text editor I use one, if I need a full IDE I use those. This Frankenstein abomination has zero purpose.
None of the images loads for me, but works through cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
In the UK there is also "hogget" [1] which is a halfway house between lamb and mutton. Our neighbour raises mountain sheep (mainly because they are hardier and don't need as much help to give birth) that are smaller than commercial sheep. As a result, they weren't really big enough to eat as lamb but were very tasty as hogget.

[1] https://www.salterandking.co.uk/blogs/news/what-is-hogget
So how exactly is a blind user supposed to be able to tell if the AI is hallucinating? How dangerous is this going to be?
I've seen people make this point before, usually with the sentiment that even geniuses can be quirky and wrong.

Even if it might be right some times, it seems to drip with hubris. My first thought when someone infinitely more intelligent and accomplished than I am holds a surprising viewpoint isn't "huh, why aren't they as smart as me on this?". It's more "what am I missing here?"
It's a configuration file parser and task dependency engine that tries to guarantee idempotent updates by keeping a record of the current state of your deployment and only running update tasks if your configuration doesn't match the deployed state. The dependency engine also does some topological sorting to automatically run tasks in dependency order, in parallel where possible, without you having to imperatively specify any kind of ordering.

The configuration files themselves are intended to be written in HCL or the Hashicorp Configuration Language, which was created for Terraform and offers some built-in functions and types, but it will also accept json, which is intended more for when you programmatically generate your configuration. They recently began supporting writing your configuration as Python or TypeScript as well, addressing complaints that HCL is close enough to a real programming language that you often wish you had a real programming language.

The state is tracked either in a local file or a remote file, and the file is json. If remote, you can add authorization and locking depending on the remote storage provider.

The meat of the work is not really done by Terraform itself, but by providers, which are plugins either written by Hashicorp, by infrastructure vendors, or by the user community. The configuration files define resources that consist of variables that end up getting passed to these plugins that then construct API calls to request the real infrastructure providers do the provisioning. You also get "data" resources that just query the infrastructure provider rather than asking it to provision anything.

As for why you want Infrastructure as Code, effectively the same reason you want anything as code. Why write software when you can get a computer to do just about anything with shell commands? Because you can reuse, share, make far better reliability and consistency guarantees, and the code itself provides somewhat of an audit trail or record that should reflect the behavior of your resources. As long as your administrators actually use it, you have a clear, readable record of how everything you own was deployed. It can be put to code review before changing anything. You can use your regular peer review/pull request process to implement separation of duties.

Terraform is somewhat of an industry leader. Hashicorp is the company that started out with Vagrant and also makes Packer, Vault, Consul, Nomad, and some other things, but all of their products are pretty widely used and have a lot of developer mindshare. They're not the only game in town, but as far as Infrastructure as Code tools that aren't locked to a single cloud provider, there's really only Terraform and Pulumi that I'm aware of and have seen actually used in the wild.
Oh wow, I'm completely fucked as a front end developer.
> I love the idea of all application windows being able to be moved into tab groups. Are there window managers that do similar things?

Haiku Stack&Tile!

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html#stack-ti...

A long time ago I implemented something like it (the stack part, not the tile part) in Awesome/Lua, so that floating windows could be tabbed together. Code is lost though. It was a bit too buggy anyway, pushing Awesome to its limits.
Another edgy soundbite to further pump up the AI hype-mythos.
If true, this is wild.

I suppose a human could spend 10 seconds per Captcha, so they could do 360 per hour. Add some overhead for not being operating at peak performance every minute of every hour & call it 250. Let's say you can hire someone for $2, that works out to a bit over a penny per Captcha.

I don't think OpenAI has published pricing for GPT-4 Vision yet, but if we assume it's on par with GPT-4, and uses only 1000 of the 8000 possible tokens to process an image that's 3 cents per Captcha.

Doesn't seem completely unreasonable that at-scale humans may actually be cheaper than LLMs at this point. My mind is a little blown.
Thank you very much for the feedback!

We are definitely taking these points into consideration.
It would seem they have protected against brain damage though?
I switched to linux 23 years ago and it's been awesome
It is hard to build.

AMD uses cpack deb/rpm generators; and the build process requires random things in path (some built from git checkouts of other projects). If you want to create standard deb or rpm build script for building in distro build infra, or inside mock, for rpm-based distributions, the cmake build actively makes steps to make it as difficult as possible.

There used to be a talk titled something like "How to make distribution maintainers hate you" (I cannot find a link to in now); it seems that ROCm developers have seen it, took it to their hearts and then wrote several new chapters themselves.

That's building. Do not even think about testing.

There's a reason why it took distributions years to package it (still not done completely). The upstream project was like student projects, thrown over the wall once students stopped working at it, including the build "system".
There are many other species here on earth that have intelligence (problem solving skills, tool use) and culture (locally shared behaviors, dialects).

Some may be more intelligent than us but less able to put it to the domination of their environment. Orcas and sperm whales for example have brain sizes that outrank us by several kilograms, and brain-to-body-size ratios that are comparable to ours. Neanderthals themselves had larger brains than us too. Crows have smaller brains but have problem solving skills on par with 7-year-old humans.

We are far from being the only complex thing on this planet.
If you exclude Western Europe and simply ignore Australia and New Zealand you’ve abandoned any reasonable conception of “the West” altogether.

Regardless, cherry-picking even such an incredibly gerrymandered “West” ignores the entire point of the source: the human population in prison has risen faster than the human population itself… pointing to minor improvements in the world’s largest prison state and what remains of the ex-Soviet gulag system states while ignoring considerably larger regressions in, for example, a nation colonized specifically to be a prison does nothing to contradict that fact.
side info: Buying a Windows 11 Pro license currently costs $199.99 USD

https://archive.ph/I8V1w
NDRIs were great at causing me brain zaps. So much so, that I could not meditate for more than a year after stopping the medication without reaching a brain state that caused similar brain zaps. Fortunately, that has long passed.