skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 2000 might be the actual peak. It took the good parts of Windows 95 and 98 and combined them into something quite excellent.

All downhill ever since.
> I wrote this for a different community (filled with semiliterate sophists), but this is absolutely huge and could upend huge swathes of understanding about the last two thousand years.

Surely writing an essay isn't a good way to convince them if they're illiterate? Maybe they can use TTS.
Assuming this isn't an attempt to mine cryptocurrency on it :), here's what I did:

- Turn the Docker image into a Firecracker VM, I stole the idea from Fly.io [1]. Add all the trimmings like jailer and stuff, don't give it any network interfaces

- Run our own shim as PID 0 in the VM, which sets up a bunch of things to make the environment hermetic (time set to 1970, etc), and does some stuff with eBPF to monitor usage by the child process, and also enforces 1 minute timeout

- Run the jobs on a parent VM that doesn't otherwise have any privileges

- Copy images pixel by pixel (for raster images) or remove all the shady parts of an SVG that we don't otherwise trust

- Other general defense-in-depth stuff, validating request/response sizes, minimal privileges on separate services, private networking throughout.

[1] https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
It's a tough issue, but I believe that there's a need for some sort of regulation.

Joe Rogan has mentioned a few times that people are using a deep fake of him to sell penis enhancement products.

Should that be ok?

What about character assassination stuff? Should I be able to make a damaging deep fake of a person I'm competing with for a position, post it to YouTube, and then arrange for a link to be sent to HR?

Should I be allowed to make a deep fake of a rival for a romantic interest, putting them in a compromising position?

I'm not sure what the solution is, and I'm not a fan of knee-jerk legislation - but in this case I understand the need for something.

I believe in self-ownership, protecting my rights to my own image and voice seems reasonable.

Of course, as always, the devil is in the details. As others have posted, this could end up being messy in court - how similar does an image need to be to be considered a copy? How do you develop objective standards for that?
> They just have the best one at this particular time

That is the moat. For developer platforms, it's all about building mindshare and adoption. The more people who know how to use OpenAI, the stronger OpenAI's position on the market. It doesn't matter if there's equivalent or slightly better models unless they start to fall significantly behind (and they're currently well in the lead).
There is a good reason to have a light source on the top: it's the natural position of the sun and of most artificial light sources.

Then it could be straight from the top, but you only get one side lit and furthermore it's not very natural as it happens rarely.

Then it's only two choices, from the left or from the right. A coin flip? Actually no. Top left lightning has a long history for some good reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-left_lighting so we could say it's the only professional and safe choice
This is a waitlist so nobody can actually use it, so shouldn't be Show HN?
You're probably right. But FWIW it's not even to the halfway mark yet.
Show genuine interest in a project, be better at meeting deadlines (by overestimating) than others, show social skills most in tech are weaker at.

There are many edges you can have compared to most tech folk. Why not try using ChatGPT to begin some python and html coding and make some things you can get excited about when showing people?

You don't need social capital for a more entry type role, so don't overthink this
That should be ‘loses’ rather than ‘looses’ therefore you get no points for incorrect usage.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/lose-vs-loose-usage
Should I hire 10 Software Engineers or one x10 Software Engineer?
Related submission from 9 days ago:

One Revolution per Minute [video]

(254 points, 155 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736853
It seems odd to use the term “departing Flexporters” as the identity of those employees who are being let go.
An open-ended roguelike game written in Kotlin:

https://github.com/gilmore606/Thundarr
Prop Pagers
OHTTP encapsulates a complete request, so the 1-1-1 mapping isn't right. The target can be any resource, but it generally should be on the same host/origin as the gateway. The gateway sees the request and the response, so there are very few cases where you would trust it to handle requests for any URL.
ParadeDB and pg_bm25 offer weak consistency. pg_bm25 doesn't slow down transactions for indexing, and like ElasticSearch it becomes become eventually consistent shortly after (typically at most a few seconds, altough your mileage may vary based on the amount of data modified in the transaction(s)).
Once in a while you hear something you never heard or thought of before. This was one such time, and I cherish those moments that seem to become rarer and rarer. It is not that I know everything, but on a shallow level I have heard about a lot. This especially goes for history. When I was young, I did not have much continuity in my understanding of history. I knew some events here and there, but mostly there were voids in my knowledge. Over time, I have filled in many of the voids. Not to some deep level, but to a level that when someone mentions something in common contexts, I have usually heard about it before. It is always possible to go deeper, but I would like it better to learn more breadth-first so to say.
What about all the tutorials online that have taught countless people countless skills? Did that just never happen?

If I understand, the core argument in this article is that there is a social layer of learning. And that's probably true to an extent, but how does that completely dismiss the value of self-directed learning?
> I still don't know how you get the code of a lambda from and to git ?!?!),

I have this setup myself, let me dig it up and will reply in a later post
NY officials announce legislation aimed at protecting kids on social media
Yes you can use it. Put in a brand, click the "analyze" button and you will get the report that shows "when, where, and what Redditors say" exactly as advertised. There is an additional paid service (notifications, competitor analysis) currently on waitlist, but you can still use the tool as-is right now.
*STDERR
Step-by-Step Restoration of a Rare 1995 IBM ThinkPad [video]
I use Uber in SF all the time, and while it's absolutely more expensive than it was during those go-go years, it's actually an even better experience than it was before (specifically on how fast it is to get a driver near you).
They will enforce it the way copyright is already enforced. If you use a fake face in your film no platform will be able to host it.
> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee

Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google.

Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!
The point he was making was that 1970s Soviet Russians had more access to information in practice than Americans today, which has nothing to do with whether or not Russia allowed it. I don't think "both countries tried to censor but only the US was successful at it" is the gotcha you think it is.

On another note I don't know exactly what you are trying to say in your top-level comment; Chomsky has said "when [Lenin] became the leader he didn't waste much time and Trotsky helped him in instituting a uh a pretty repressive regime which wasn't Stalinism but all the basic elements of Stalinism". Is that what you are referring to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q_2A_RoonI&t=304s
Especially when you call the new units the same names as the old ones!
Anyone know if it affects Caddy?
Also took the good parts from Windows NT. I loved using Windows 2000. I remember being really mad when XP came out and it added all the colourful and curvy GUI elements - felt really dumbed down.
Yeah, came here to say this. My BIL is an educator who started with TFA and then stood up a charter school with KIPP before going into independent schools.

Obviously and predictably, his startup charter succeeded -- wildly! -- but, to hear him tell it, a charter dropped into a struggling district absolutely will. It just does so at the expense of the district, because it pulls away the kids with motivated, supportive, engaged parents.

Turns out: motivated, supportive, engaged parenting is one of the absolutely best predictors of student educational achievement. Who knew?

So, sure, charters hurt districts, but the takeaway isn't just educational policy. It notes how intersectional these problems inevitably are. Poverty is going to make it super hard, for example, for a parent to be as involved and engaged as they might be with more of a safety net.
"We are currently active in The Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, United Arabic Emirates, Hong Kong, Israel and Portugal. Due to company regulations, service and warranty we do not ship Quooker-systems to countries where we do not have a local office."

Sigh...

Do you know anything available EU-wide?
There's way more than enough room for both given how many million UIs get made. I think more time should be spent wondering why cross-platform toolkits aren't good enough. It's kind of lazy to point at the incumbent and say it's their fault for some reason.

Or framed this way: your dream exists and it's called Qt and can be used to make some absolutely fantastic applications[1]. What's deficient about it and why?

[1] https://musescore.org/en
I watch those occasionally. I couple weeks ago I happened across some South Korean movie that was their own version of a Tom Clancy war thriller. It was horrible but fascinating(1), and I would never have sought it out on my own. I like the stumble-upon factor that channels give you.

(1) Fascinating in how it depicted other nations. South Korea as competent protagonists who are threading the needle in a dangerous world, North Korea as a broken relation who needs to redeem themselves, China as a looming threat that can still be diplomatically dealt with, USA as clumsy good guys who have lost their way, and Japan as just horrible villains.
Seems kinda lame that you created a new account just to make this comment. Maybe instead of being mad that a mouse ate your food, get some proper food storage?
https://github.com/TME520/TiMiNoo

A virtual pet for Arduino: Feed, cuddle, clean and educate your own unique cat

2 mini games, 7 food types, friends visits and presents, one button action, no sound, no death.
As a European I never really got what "jaywalking" is. We just cross the streets whenever we want and whenever it's safe. It's not allowed on motorways off course, but they usually have fences, so you can't do that anyway. In some countries you need to use a pedestrian crossing if there is one within 20-50m.
I was not aware Trello is considered a failure.

BitBucket and Hipchat, for sure.

OpsGenie, until the really bad way they handled an outage last year, it was, sometimes begrudgingly, widely used, recommended sometimes even.

Trello, on the other hand, seems like what everyone wants to use but no organization seems to want to let people use. Everyone that uses Trello seemingly, likes it
I wish I knew about this sooner! They also have it for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...
Not a lot of unbiased news right now. The media won't talk about the history of this issue because it might look bad for our ally, the right is using this to attack their opponents, and the left won't draw the line between being pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas. The entire debacle is a truth-free zone, unfortunately.

Though, this isn't unique to this conflict, there is always a fog of war, but the dissonance from all sides is pretty severe right now.

Personally, I recommend focusing on helping those caught in the cross fire, regardless of what side they are on, and worry about understanding everything that's happening later when we actually have better intel.
The first meme dump.
Wow, great feedback. Thanks!
Someone else suggested something similar about the main menu and the right sidebar. I can't quite picture what that would look like but I'll definitely experiment with it. And on merging the left and right sidebars, I have considered that but couldn't really figure out a way to make it work - I don't want people to ever miss the action thats happening the left sidebar.
Everything else makes total sense to me - agreed on all of them. Thanks again for checking it out!
I do miss those clear buttons and input fields.

I cannot tell you how much my 70 something year old Mom gets confused trying to figure out what's clickable vs not on modern apps and OS.
Shred Crew helps skiers and snowboarders find friends and share rides, so they can get up the hill more often.

https://shred.willsmithte.com/

Right now, it's just a web landing page. I have a mobile app prototype I'm testing with some people, especially focusing on the Vancouver area.
I agree with the choice of Windows 2000. The reaction to Windows XP was that it was too videogamish with its choice of colors and bezels. Then it lasted for so many years past Vista and in part Windows 8 that it became the reference Windows interface. Then the flat UIs mimicking the web and also the 80s with simple elements (we couldn't do complicated widgets back then, not enough pixels.)
Training Courses for Investment Banking, Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and Quants
Aha! Try http://www.earsmith.com. Looks like I never finished properly configuring the domain, and also never switched to HTTPS. It's been a while. :)

Uhh, I should also mention that I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on mobile.
There is such an easy solution here: Amazon divests their logistics operation -- the warehouses, airplanes, and delivery trucks. They become a common carrier with a published price list; amazon.com and all the sellers on Amazon become customers of this logistics company. Probably a lot of ebay sellers too.
I am thinking, are external bookmarks storages widely used? And which ones?
I have never heard anyone blame automative manufactures for the use of getaway cars, nor have I ever heard anyone in that industry vocally minimizing the problem of vehicular crime to avoid some commercial inconvenience. The nearest thing I can think of is manufacturers ignoring the legal requirement for front license plates in their designs.

https://www.sfgate.com/cars/article/Front-license-plate-cars...
They're teachers in Mississippi =/
I must be missing something. It's a pretty normal function. Just call it, then walk through the struct and get the value out. It's like 3 lines of code. Why is the debugger involved?

I suppose the one complication is you have to cast sockaddr to sockaddr_in but that's all documented
The claim here is that the military families are /so much more stable/ that it explains their kids (collectively) performing better than every other state in the country.

Obviously the military provides some sort of economic lower bound. But it also applies a pretty harsh upper bound, and has all sorts of other effects that you would expect to push the mean down.
https://github.com/AWSary/AWSary-iOS

iOS open source app that is an AWS dictionary and a logo repository’s for people drawing AWS diagrams.
> It's becoming a bit like transfer news in all of our favorite sports leagues.

Except engineers don't have a union nor contracts like athletes, so:

* When layoffs / mass firings happen, engineers don't get guaranteed money

* The comp of the top 1% doesn't pull up the bottom 99% (not nearly as fast). Much of the bump in SWE salaries in the past 5 years came from the uncovering of the Apple+other co's no-poaches. The $1-5m retainers Google was offering in 2010-2012 to keep G from jumping to FB look now like peanuts.

* Engineers at competing companies have no say over each other's comp. It takes actual offers for salaries to rise instead of Eng being able to pool the salary data and stats and determine who's Big Head and who all are the 10,000 underpaid SWEs.

Moreover, the glamour of the "transfers" is pretty tightly contained within the author's bubble. A lot of people in AI-adjacent fields still don't even know what Pytorch / Tensorflow are.

Important historical context the author leaves out: Hinton accepting $35-40m for his lab to do deep learning at Google is what set most of the initial benchmark. Many stories out there where Hinton broke his NDA, here is one for example:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/cade-metz-geni...

It's important context because there's so much arbitrage of private info in AI, you can't take posts like the author's at face value.
I'm picturing people crawling home from the neighbour's dinner party in an effort to satisfy the authoritarians.
https://github.com/travbid/catapult

A sort of Cargo/NPM/Poetry for C++.

I don't have a lot of confidence in Conan and I see people struggle with CMake. This project combines a lot of ideas from both of those and hopefully makes things easier by basically combining the two into one tool.

It has some overlap with Meson but I didn't like particularly like Meson either.

Build recipes are written in Starlark - a subset of Python with a focus on immutability also used by Bazel and Buck2.

It can currently generate build files for Ninja and MSVC. There's no reason it couldn't also generate for XCode and Make I just haven't done that yet.

It's still at a proof-of-concept stage as I test out ideas.
I think self-directed solo learning on a computer is how a lot of us ended up in the tech industry.

I was learning a heck of a lot more outside of school in the late 90's, teaching myself how to make websites, than I was learning inside of school.
Framing the situation as kids being "left behind" feels disingenuous if not outright inflammatory.

Many European systems have been thriving for decades with different school options for different students, based on interest, aptitude, etc. We'd be far better off as a society if we had one classroom for the 8th graders who read at a 1st grade level and one classroom for the 8th graders ready for Infinite Jest. The curriculum and instruction could then be tailored to the needs of each group. Instead, we lump them all together and end up with an outcome where the majority of the students are underperforming their potential.
Generative AI gives Degenerative AI a bad name.
The main motivation seems to be elimination of social/media consumption. I typically only use the smartness for maps, Uber, HN, and the occasional puzzle game or youtube video when I'm killing time waiting. I was completely fine if I forgot my phone at home all day, back when I used to commute to the office. People who know me, know that I'm not 'always on' so it isn't a problem.

Another good reason could be for utmost privacy. Not perfect but I keep location services disabled except when I need to use it, then turn it off right after. I started doing that for battery life so I can go days without charging and it just became a normal habit.
do they make much money? and what sort of moat do they have?
It's definitely not enough to be just an average "AI researcher" to get this treatment. This guy (Nathan Lambert) is from a top RL lab, with a strong RL publication record, an expert in RLHF, which is extremely hot right now, and with a recent experience creating RLHF pipelines at HuggingFace (one of the top AI companies). So he's probably in top-1% of all people looking for AI research jobs currently.
That is a good point, and that is probably the one time I would say that they should not be allowed. Openly threatening people, even a broad group, with violence is absolutely wrong. I could see that being the case where I would say no, those protests need to stop.
Look at automakers: there are varying levels of luxury / craftsmanship. There’s a video on YouTube [0] about Rolls-Royce wherein among other things, they’re shown checking a dashboard insert to sub-mm precision for the even height of embedded diamonds, and rejecting the first attempt. Weeks of work gone, thanks but try again.

While Apple is certainly not on the same level as that, the point is true craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail does still exist in consumer goods, and can be handsomely profitable.

[0]: https://youtu.be/ZcFrFjl-RQs
Isn't there already legislation around this? Random people can't use Micky Mouse to sell penis enhancement products either. Seems like the same laws should apply for deepfakes.

Also, fabricating incrimination emails or writings is defamation. I assume making a damaging deep fake would also apply.
I often wonder how different personal computing and programming would be if we kept using Scriptio Continua or the particularly awkward Boustrophedon where every other line is written in the reverse direction.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
He doesn't do the mobile/console ports himself.
Is there a reason that this isn't covered under existing Personality rights (which are, admittedly patchwork in the US[1], but do generally exist in some form throughout the union)? I can't make a video game with Brock Purdy as QB, without paying, so a deepfake of him playing football is probably also covered?

1: Indiana has the strongest in the US. The name, image, likeness, signature, photograph, gestures, distinctive appearances, and mannerisms of Woodrow Wilson are still protected in Indiana (100 years after death, and he died in '24).
Self directed learning like this happens within the social constructs in areas where people are very interested at a time or have a specific need. My understanding of the article is that is more focused on the general approach to learning, where the social construct, and help, support, even understanding where compared to others you are, is helpful.

These self directed platforms can be useful in certain use cases but can’t replace the base education system with classrooms.
Patched in 2.7.5: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.7.5

I think it might also require a patched version of Go.
Or when Dyson screws their batteries in and makes them part of the handle on the older models, then offers batteries that sensibly slide in on newer models as an upgrade? Meanwhile, all my Milwaukee M18 batteries sit in a drawer in the garage while the stupid Dyson one that is a different voltage charges and only lasts about 7 minutes (not an exaggeration) due to age / high power draw. You can get adapters for M18 batteries that work on Dyson V8 models, but not the newer stuff that has >18v batteries.

enter ebikes, stage right

I really dislike owning a dozen products that have the same damn rechargable lithium cells inside that I cannot move batteries between in any realistic or practical fashion. Even laptops and Teslas used to use 18650s! It's infuriating that there is zero incentive for companies to develop any kind of modular interoperable rechargeable battery under our current economic system, leaving us with only the trite solution of "just don't buy any modern electronic device, then".