skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it need HTTPS?

"encryption everywhere" is one of the stupider ideas that's come around lately. shared asset caching was a good idea, that was why there had been all that work done to support it. "Content Delivery Networks" would be far less important if we hadn't casually thrown that baby out with the bilgewater
I need to finish reading that book. But there's also Weiner's The Human Use of Human Beings which I think tries to address the human side of cybernetics.
SponsorBlock (https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock) to the rescue!
Norway upholds €5.8M fine against Grindr
Huh? That’s not true at all. I use my credit card at Costco all the time.
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Nice article and PostHog is one of my favourite startups to look for especially on the culture side. Your careers page and compensation calculator is a breath of fresh air.
Try now: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=g...

Not even "Messi" can beat the "dolar blue"
Ah, you're wrong, I should have linked an image. My bad!
Show me the countries (ok, even one country) in the world where people are happy that they are/were under communism. In other words, it's not selection bias when everybody holds more or less the same opinion.
What about the long term, the opportunity cost, the billions/trillions they are not making by helping someone else make it?
Decision tree is an astute algorithm for the problem of knowing which algorithm to use.
Yes, it's different for different patients.

It's also true that chemo treatment has gotten better over the years. Chemo 20 years ago was much harsher and it's not the same anymore. Advancements in pharmacology.
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> That investments are necessary is no sadder than that salaries are necessary for your work.

Well, that's also sad.

I just wanted to say it would have been nice if the community would have been able to get this working more easily. But clearly it's too much work to do it without some dedicated fulltimers.
I used to buy gold bullion as a sneaky way to get credit card points on the cheap (and then use them for first class flights around the world). You could usually do the trade profitably and quickly and quite safely with insured shipping via USPS. $50k at a time. It was a bit sketchy to have that much in bullion at home, and I quickly got bored of it.

The things you do when you're young…
I guess it could be treated that way, but it is just a chat network to me and many. I don't expect to scroll back to infinity and find old messages.

On IRC of course, you got X amount of history when you logged on, and that was what you worked with. It does feel a lot more ephemeral, more like a real conversation.
Could you list down some non popular digital service you pay for(i.e. not google workspace, AWS etc.) and how you heard about it?
He's very much not saying this, he's saying he doesn't want a small number of very large companies to be in control of whether or not his skills are valuable at market. This could broadly be construed as an argument against the entire cloud/SaaS/PaaS/IaaS market, but it is still a very valid criticism. Most IT people are in some way subordinated by massive companies, and free/open source software is an escape hatch on that, because there's not a relationship of exploitation or control between users and community projects.
But myh GDPR
Super fair. Longtime folks on HN learn to take every supposed insight with a giant grain of salt. When it comes to predicting what will change what, we’re all just wildly guessing.
A saltwater wedge is moving up the drought-drained Mississippi River
tru

still had to crack into a top ~300 website and shell it before wall clipping into archive.org's wp and shelling that too

i'm of the opinion most everything has been shelled. indeed i was probably not the first nor will be the last.
Since we are here, why "gold" and not the actual Spanish word "oro"?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=g...
I seriously hope the felling wasn't done for clicks on Twitch, TikTok or Youtube...
Knew him a long time ago. It's a very different thing not understanding what other people are, compared to bearing them ill will. Definitely interactively incompetent, but doesn't carry ill will.
Totally agree. Value is the most important thing if you are going to talk about yourself. It's not even like it's that hard to just try to be excellent to people and to users and share something worthwhile. But time and again, this is where people fall down.

Weirdly, google ads and GA4 are great examples of not providing value and not treating people or users well. And yet they cling on.
The difference between all of those previous deadly perils and the current deadly perils of climate change and ecological collapse is that the latter are already happening and unstoppable. It's as if (in the nuclear war scenario) all of those ICBMs are in flight and some of them have already delivered their payloads.
David Heeger's long Covid blog
He's eccentric, and most people would say that his social skills are subpar. But if you spend more than a few minutes reading his emails or watching him talk you'll realize that he is most definitely /not/ an asshole.
Ok, so that page itself is an ad for PostHog. Sigh.
Relying on an ad to convert a user is a big ask. Another approach could be to offer something high value to your target market in exchange for their email which you could then use to slowly raise awareness and convert users over a series of emails that offer even more value to them. That way you're greatly increasing the surface area of interactions with potential users while still genuinely helping them.
Looking at the Discord Status page (https://discordstatus.com/) it appears they had an issue with API errors.
Increased performance in case of this architecture style actually contributes to better battery life. The faster any one operation can finish, the faster the whole core can go back to sleep - remember, just idling has a very significant energy drain.
Sweden’s only option is to learn how to live with it. The criminal element shouldn't be deported. Should stay there and pay and be a witness to a new sweden were these issues are solved. Deporting them means letting them get away with it and potentially do worse things elsewhere, or spread resentment. I think an iron fist should be used in punishing those guilty and a soft and gentle hand towards those who are not. The society should also genuinely open towards everyone and accept that being swedish is no longer a blue eyed blond haired affair and never will be.

The UK appears to have succeeded at that despite and in-spite of all the issues. Take notes from this country, as in my view, it is the most open among european countries.
MacOS Firefox fine.
Cloudflare also just had an API outage preventing me from signing into their dashboard.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com
Who is saying "new taxes are coming" ?
Title has a typo: generic -> genetic
I always thought you were black.
Summer was very luckluster this year in UK. This is at least some solace.
I think the EU law on that is the "Price indication directive", and AFAIK, it's been around since 1998. (may have replaced an earlier directive, my google-fu is lacking)

I think the norm is to show whatever price you want, with some countries banning that for fairly obvious reasons.
I'm sorry, I really tried to read this, but it's.. hard. The author seems to live in a very different reality from mine and I'm having a hard time understanding her (?).

I do not think the author is wrong or anything, but the signal to noise ratio IMO is ridiculous.
> Just loading up it takes 5GB of RAM

Not taking it up is not utilizing the hardware properly.
This is really interesting. But it seems like it could make collisions more likely, and the better solution would be separate corridors for east vs west traffic. Are there really 5 bidirectional lanes?
I'll grant you that it's not a random sample and that there will be some skewness in opinions. But ignoring the wider context of the journey that these people must have made, and considering the nature of totalitarian governments, it seems to me that you're taking an obtuse position.
Octal is very commonly used in Ansible playbooks, for representing file permissions
How is nVidia abusing its market position when there is literally no alternative on the market? Intel was objectively hindering AMD but nVidia couldn't care less about AMD or any other competitor. Could you please cite something concrete instead of general hand-wavy "we will find something" arguments?
> we all play the game but nobody admits they just aren’t very good

I don't think that's common. Do you mean like in big corp where they use their deep pockets to make sure they don't leave room for competition?

In other cases, people just expirement in order to find the right channel, similar to this post, which ultimately depends on the objective and target audience. Then they focus their efforts there.
I am impressed by the tech, but appalled by the possibilities.

Where I live, it is already common practice for real estate 'agents' to photoshop the properties listed for sale to make them look fully renovated and furnished. When in reality the house is empty and in very bad shape.

This tech will make it even harder to judge a property without actually viewing it in real life.

I think we can no longer stop tech like this from being used in ads (because that's effectively what property listings are nowadays). The only solution I think is policies/laws that prevent real-estate marketplaces from showing fake pictures.

That all said, I think the author can make big money from realtors by selling this tech as a subscription model.
Who would you sell the bullion to to cash out?
Network, data-store and console kill switches aren't necessarily
designed to impede lawful investigations. Anything that involves
physical coercion might need to lock-down all terminals in a
hurry. Acting against a legal seizure is probably not on their minds
but larger orgs may have a fast response security team that can step
in if:

1) An intruder enters the building, maybe armed, and tries to coerce
an individual to do something on a console.

2) An insider threat is discovered and you need to hold the room for
questioning without letting someone slip out the back and delete all
the evidence.
Or had to crack open the vt320 and fix it with the service manual and a soldering iron!
I am not misusing the word. I don't know what their incentives are, but they are just progressively making things worse and more locked down in the name of "progress".

Bland, corporate, utterly inoffensive and lifeless "design"? Check.
Trying to remove theming from users? Check.
etc....

The only reason why they haven't succeeded like other OSes is because it's FOSS. But they really want to take away the user's choice, shift the Overton window, and pretend like things were always bad.
Isn’t that true for many or maybe a majority of formats?
NLNet is awesome ! :)
huh?

i'm an irish-american from maine. it's boring here
AI is def increasing the ratio of bullshit to quality info but this shit has been around for a minute -> https://www.wyzowl.com/youtube-stats/#:~:text=How%20many%20v....
And surprisingly there are real people giving more than decent answers in Quora on things ranging from relationships through electric cars to software engineering.

Who are those people is a good question, as I never met or heard of someone answering in Quora, and it is rare to see links to answers in it.
This sounds really cool. I already love cloudflare because of how easy they make it to compete with bigger companies for indie devs like myself.

Their pricing for their products always seems so much more affordable than something like AWS or GCP. I'm using R2 for storage for a client project, and from my calculations we would have to pay almost 3 times more if we hosted the files with AWS on S3.

I really hope they keep adding all the latest open-source AI models to their platform. If their pricing will be as cheap as they state in this blog post, then I would rather use this service than install models on my computer. To get a good inference speed for open source models on my PC right now, I have to let usage spike to up to 100%...
>It's 2023 and someone is still writing that?

Journalism isn't the profession it once was (if it ever was) from major corporations. They're just writing information they are fed by a source and spruce it up a little for views, maybe. There's no investigation going on anymore, there's no source checking generally, at least not like there used to be. The current business model doesn't allow for that in large organizations.
Fairly sure I still saw pneumatic ones sometime in the 2000s in Australia.
Discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498365
more like people like to exaggerate anecdotes for karma points
"With FLASHATTENTION (Dao et al., 2022), there is negligible GPU memory overhead as we increase the sequence length and we observe around 17% speed loss when increasing the sequence length from 4,096 to 16,384 for the 70B model."

"For the 7B/13B models, we use learning rate 2e−5 and a cosine learning rate schedule with 2000 warm-up steps. For the larger 34B/70B models, we find it important to set a smaller learning rate (1e−5) to get monotonically decreasing validation losses."

"In the training curriculum ablation study, models trained with a fixed context window of 32k from scratch required 3.783 × 10^22 FLOPs and achieved performance metrics like 18.5 F1 on NarrativeQA, 28.6 F1 on Qasper, and 37.9 EM on Quality."

"Continual pretraining from short context models can easily save around 40% FLOPs while imposing almost no loss on performance."

"Through early experiments at the 7B scale, we identified a key limitation of LLAMA 2’s positional encoding (PE) that prevents the attention module from aggregating information of distant tokens. We adopt a minimal yet necessary modification on the RoPE positional encoding (Su et al., 2022) for long-context modeling – decreasing the rotation angle."

Pretty exciting stuff. Getting close to GPT-4 hopefully soon!
Mid 1980s, trying to connect from one London University computer (at Imperial, a CDC Cyber?) to another (at Queen Mary?), to try some symbolic algebra package that was only available on a Unix minicomputer: spent a good 2 hours just finding the right terminal settings and configuration settings for all the intervening software. Left me feeling I would rather code what I could on an 8-bit 2Mhz 64K machine.
San Francisco Bay has had such a problem for decades. But that's simply because the inlets were drained by canals to satisfy the bottomless demand of LA.
> The real problem are mobile operating system.

I think it's deeper than that; I think the problem is mobile devices. The OS has to somehow paper-over the fact that there's no mouse, and that everything has to be done with finger-stabs on a 3"x5" screen. That doesn't work with the traditional desktop widgets, so a variety of OS-level widgets and Javascripty plugins is layered on top. But (a) they're not consistent with one-another, and (b) they're not consistent with the desktop metaphor (which isn't going to go away).

Basically, I don't think a phone is suitable for user-input of any complexity. It's a device for selecting content that you then consume passively. It can't be used as a replacement for a desktop. "Mobile first" sounds all very well, but nearly all mobile-first projects have the desktop portion permanently stubbed.
How so? No data is destroyed, just kept private.
I'm not sure that this is a teasing by definition of the article. Running away dog does nothing surprising for another dog. They just follow a protocol.
You would be suprised by the amount of stuff kept on paper in many offices. Especially by those doing shady things, such as aggressive tax optimization.

Having everything online also means that you're at risk of being hacked, whereas if it's in a locked room, you have a lot more control over who accesses the sensitive data.
I find the criticism of GNOME a bit weird - personally, I love its user interface because it virtually isn't there. It gets out of the way and when I do see it, it feels clean and well organised. I'm old enough to remember the windows-esque start menu type setups (which I know many DEs still use) and am a bit of a convert to the convergence mindset of GNOME.

To be honest, the only thing that bothers me about Linux desktop environments is that there isn't a simple way of getting a 4G dongle and using my laptop as a phone (calls, SMS, etc).
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I feel more bad about using this than a regular ad blocker. With a regular ad blocker it's blocking ads for which the lion's share is probably going to $facelessabusivecorporation, whereas sponsorships go 100% into the pockets of content creators who typically aren't exactly rich.

It feels less like downloading pirated music and more like sneaking into an indie concert without paying.
That's a weak justification to apply to prices listed right where the product is sold. Like, if one uses a sticker gun to put a price tag on a product itself.

I don't know of any US businesses other than waffle house that always include all taxes in the listed price, however.
Even negative discussion can be a positive signal sometimes, e.g. if it's someone complaining about the rough edges that they still use a product in spite of - because it still ultimately solves their problems.
A footnote to this is that ClojureScript bet heavily on the Closure compiler, at a time when, IIRC, it wasn't even open sourced. In particularly, it was not just a bet on the technology, but the underlying methodology, so ClojureScript was designed to produce a lot of JS that the Closure compiler would find easy to optimise. A solid and clever design, but a bet on the wrong ecosystem.
> It's a bit sad that such capital investment from a commercial party is necessary, but I can live with that.

People getting paid is a good thing.
> My social feeds are filled with ads for enterprise software products.

But what's the conversion; as the article (and many more anecdotes and articles and real life P&L's) shows, is that very many companies are just randomly burning money on ads without conversion. So that you see the ads doesn't mean they convert at all. Did you ever buy anything via them? Or even sign up or click one?

I'm not saying you are wrong or so, but it would be good to hear from a similar product to what this posthog company has who has experience and knows conversions.

I think enterprises often just buy enormous inventory of ads and don't really are on top of how they convert; when i'm doing competitor analysis (and I shall include tiktok/insta now), I click on many competitor ads to see what their landing is and their flow; at least 5% of ads I click go to a 404/500/dns error page. So these enterprises are paying for that click (and many more) but cannot convert because it's not actually working. So those are simply monitoring nothing and throwing money in the river for 0 conversions. Probably hired some company to handle the campaigns and seeing it as 'cost of doing business' not expecting much in return in the first place?
Who cares what's real if it's useful? We use all the times fictions that are not "real" but are useful, such as law codes, corporations, religions, etc.
Search wasn't broken Google needed a business plan and chose web ads. That is what broke search. The bifurcation of interests between selling ads and serving search results.
The car and ditch thing is still very common in the Midwest when it snows. I swear the pastime there is to hide in the snow waiting for someone to get highcentered in an u plowed parking lot given how many people appeared out of nowhere to push.
It could be random, it could be the fallout from an attack, but it interrupts our workflows and our days and so we discuss it because working from home means no more sword fights anymore
Absolutely. It is not common for the outgoing generation(s) to treat the youth like this. Theres maybe some tendency for the older generations to get opinionated about whatever. But past generations also knew when to bow out and enjoy their later years-leaving the frustrating stuff to the youth to figure out. What we see now is radicalism from rampant propaganda pushing perceived differences to the point of an Us Vs Then perception.
Charity is peak individualism. In real communal places helping those in need is handled structured and organized, not just hinging on individual decisions.
Read the paper?
The sad thing is that we know what and where the oldest tree in the world is, but it's deliberately kept secret so that idiots don't intentionally go cut it down for the lulz/views/likes/just because
> If you ask how I first noticed that something exists, then yes, an ad

Yes, that’s the point of a “branding” ad campaign - to drive upper funnel interest in a company/product.

They can also use retargeting to show the same people “performance” ad campaigns, which are meant to drive a lower funnel conversion like a signup, purchase, or even a demo.

Depending on the product, you can even use an organic discussion about your product as marketing material to get people to see the interest others have in it. Or market a conference or dev day where they show off its capabilities.

There’s a lot of layers to marketing, it’s not as simple as HN makes it out to be.
It's mostly a matter of engineering, Visual C++ has had the ability to change function bodies and continuing running from the point of a crash (as long as data wasn't badly corrupted) since at least Visual Studio 6 (Yes, back in 1998!!!).
Wow, to add insult to injury, that t-shirt calls RMS an "OS Liberator" as in "Open Source Liberator", not "FS Liberator" as "Free Software Liberator". That would really piss RMS off: he HATES it when you refer to Free Software as Open Source!

On the other (left) hand, I'd definitely buy an ironic t-shirt of ESR as Che labeled "Free Software Liberator" and ask ESR to sign it, just to piss him off and provoke him to threaten to shoot me, like he did to Bruce Perens.

The irony of Eric S Raymond threatening someone else for behaving "like that kind of disruptive asshole in public" is rich -- very rich.

ESR's Death Threat Email to Bruce Perens:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html

Bruce Perens Dead:

https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/10

Terrorismistic:

https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/terrorismistic
We're seeing this too in NL.
You're right. I guess one difference would be the part where the free software tell us "why".

But in practical terms, it is too complicated (ethics!), so all is down to copyleft or not, which I believe is what the parent comment was referring to.

Perhaps that's what we should be using: copyleft vs open source, instead of free software vs open source.
No, I guess that's where my age or echo chamber shines through; I don't know any developers using those platforms. My colleagues don't; most are > 40, but the 20somethings we work with also don't. That's just my experience, so it says very little. Like I say somewhere else, I'm curious what the conversion for tech products on those forced ad platforms is. Actual numbers.
Ditto, I can tell an app is flutter based on the slow launch times and inexplicable crashes. Example: McDonalds app
I see, therefore, I know