skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another article by a bitter socialist about capitalism.

As Churchill put it so well, capitalism is the worst economic system - except for every other one out there.
Gaza is 2.1 million people.

Hamas armed members are estimated at 15-30,000.

That seems more like .8%, not 8%.
Ooh, this is definitely something to play around with tomorrow. A split-tunnel on my phone would be nice!
I'll be curious to see if Typst will at all have the lasting power of TeX. If it doesn't for whatever reason (maybe the authors get bored of it in a decade?), OP will certainly have to look back.

TeX is essentially hermetically sealed, device-independent software, all the way down to how the curves of the fonts are constructed. It's in some sense better than open source: all of the code is written in a precise, expository manner, than can be understood by any computer scientist 100 years from now. It can be purchased as a literal and markedly beautiful book, typeset in itself. It has virtually zero dependencies. It has been around now for ca. 50 years. It has a vibrant and passionate community of users. It's in the workflows of academic publishers.

TeX is a beacon of truly long lasting, unkillable, maintainable software.
Failed Seattle trucking firm Convoy sued over layoffs, may be selling off tech
I'm a pretty private person myself but I hardly see the issue here. The friend hasn't been named, we have no idea who this person is.
We really need to ban arbitration in contracts of adhesion. Arbitration has a role to play in contracts where both parties genuinely agree to it, but in a take-it-or-leave-it situation, they should not be allowed to be imposed by the contract author.
This is funny because everyone uses the same tests to evaluate different models. One example is the Hugging Face OpenLLM Leaderboard. [1]

The problem that this "paper" is making fun of is that any model can score very well on these tests when the content of the tests themselves is used in the training of the models. Here is one example of this happening with a 13B model that scored way too high. [2]

In reality, when reviewing test scores, it's difficult to discern whether a model has been pre-trained on some specific content that is related to the test, or if the model has been trained in a way that produces novel emergent abilities not seen in other models. [3] This means that LeaderBoards and test scores for LLMs provide a low-confidence metric for what the propose to be testing.

The paper's title is itself a continuation of the phenomenon where papers are named after the landmark paper "Attention Is All You Need". [4] A good example of this is the "Textbooks Are All You Need" [5] paper that propsed pre-training in an incremental way, similar to how humans learn, produces novel results.

1. https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

2. https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682

4. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

5. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
See, here's the thing:

By and large, we don't especially feel the need to block ads that aren't interfering with us. Back when Google's ad business was fairly new, they did simple text ads that stayed out of the way, and they made plenty of money on it.

If that was what the vast majority of ads were today, I probably wouldn't even bother with an adblocker.

But these days there are pop-ups, and pop-overs, and pop-unders, and autoplaying videos that follow me as I scroll the page (and which, on mobile, hide about 1/3 of the content I'm there to see).

And even if I could deal with those annoyances, there are vast swathes of ad networks today that need to be avoided at all costs, because they host drive-by downloads, page redirects, and every other kind of spam, scam, and malware you can imagine.

We didn't start this war. The ad industry did. If they had been content to make a decent profit while enabling other websites to do the same, we wouldn't be in this mess. But they just had to try and squeeze every last drop of attention and money out of us.

So, we will fight for a right to block ads. And if giant chunks of the web end up being financially unsustainable because the ad business collapses entirely, that is not on us.
I guess the underlying meaning of the sentence was "some small percentage of the app users are...."
I think there is an important point here that might be missed, that is that self awareness is an important piece of leadership. Especially the point that "even now he tricks himself into not thinking about the hardest things." Because to do the job requires operating under existential stress. I have seen that stress destroy CEOs.

I've shared this before but I was in well performing publicly traded startup as the dot com crash happened and the CEO became effectively catatonic. I reached out to Scott McNealy because I knew when Sun had hit hard times it's leadership hadn't responded in that way. And Scott told me that how people respond in extreme stress is unpredictable, as a result his strategy was to try to create points of extreme stress for managers to get a sense of whether they would become a rabbit or a tiger. The folks to tended toward rabbit were moved into jobs unlikely to encounter extreme stress and the others could move into the riskier (but often better compensated) jobs.
Ask HN: If you went back to 2021 with the knowledge you've today, what'd you do?
Yes, and my microwave oven with integrated grill can do alot of things that my cast-iron skillet cannot. Problem is, when out camping, there is no power outlet for the microwave, and I'm pretty sure if it gets hit by heavy rain, or if I wash it in a stream, it will be broken afterwards.

For much the same reason, robots are much better suited to do exploratory work on Mars, than humans.
TailCall: High-performance API Gateway for GraphQL back ends
And it never fails to capitalize brand names and suggest them over normal words...
> That looks like the type with nickel flakes to me

I agree. It's a night and day difference versus the magnetochromic viewing film. The monochrome film doesn't reset itself after the field is removed,[1] and the contrast is not as good.

I bought both types on Amazon a few years ago. The specific magnetochromic film I bought at the time disappeared from Amazon (along with its vendor) shortly thereafter, but it seems like at least one seller has the same kind of product again.[2]

[1] I suppose this might be useful for some applications, but I dislike the "ghosting" effect.

[2] https://www.amazon.com/CMS-MAGNETICS-Green-Magnetic-Viewing/... ("Olive Film" variation specifically)
Many thanks. Looks really promising. I tried TeavM two or so years ago and faced problem because my Java veriosn was newer than 14, if I remember correctly.

Now with this new release, things look great, at least for some time :D
A self-driving car that can park in a remote location to recharge and won’t behave like a great ape? That fixes the few disadvantages of cars.

Mass transit in batches has its own major disadvantages, and I’d prefer to obsolete it than have to settle for it.
It's a two-and-a-half-page paper with about a page and a half of total text with an obvious joke title, absurd and obviously joking claims in the abstract, and names the model "fictional". This is all before you even click through to the PDF!

If it takes you reading the whole paper up to the point where the author explains the joke to realize that the paper tagged satire is satire, I mean, I'm not sure paper-reading is for you. There are unmarked papers out there that aren't even satirical, just wrong!
I think the concept of a file as a bag of bytes is a leaky abstraction. That model is fit within the context of file system implementations, which are concerned with allocation, but unfit for high level file usage, which is concerned with interpretation. Anyone who has written code for handling file uploads knows that identifying a file format happens on a best effort basis, and it’s never 100% guaranteed to work. Even attempting to check if a file is a “plain text” is not guaranteed to work at all times. File extensions cannot be relied upon, and trusting a magic number prefix is also not good, as it can be easily tampered. Hence the bag of bytes abstraction forces the development of context-specific conventions, thus exploding the complexity in the transactional information space. If we account for the Web and APIs, HTML and JSON are probably the most prevalent file formats. Imagine attempting to develop for such ecosystems using files without embedded metadata, e.g a separate payload for <head> and tag attributes — it doesn’t make any sense. My point is: metadata _is_ data, and I disagree completely with the author in regard to side-channels being “where metadata is supposed to be”. Perhaps for _file-system specific_ metadata, sure, but for file-content metadata, hell no. In the end, because of this abstraction, the trust level upon a file’s metadata after the file is transferred is practically zero. I think that consistently structured data _objects_ with embedded and verifiable cryptographic signatures would be a better fit for the interconnected world. The fact we rely so much on webpages and their associated internet domains as a means of structured context and provenance hints at the importance of objects and signatures.
Artists who perform earn money by performing not by restricting others from re-viewing a previous performance.

Artist who create unique pieces are not worried about re-prints.

Writers who connect get followers who will pay for there next word.

Artists in the past needed a patron and we have providers today who do that
To add, if you have a model that's too large for the dataset, you end up in a situation where it just memorizes the training dataset and performs poorly on the test data. That's why GPT works so good, you only pass the training data through it once, and there's so much good training data that it works in spite of the model being absolutely massive.
> Even for source code, the US does not offer copyright to programs that are simple enough to have effectively one way to accomplish the desired function

I think the fact you use the word "function" here is extremely telling. Writing code is obviously in a closer intellectual domain to designing a car engine, than it is to drawing a picture.

Maybe you have ground to stand on when talking about things like code golf which could be analogous to poetry. But no, the vast majority of code is not the product of artistic expression. It is the product of functional desires.

Not sure why you're trying to make an argument about trivial software. The same is true about trivial art: draw a black square on a white canvas. Good luck claiming copyright for that.
Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury
The UK is a bizarre circus.
It's okay but not ideal.

Otherwise anyone connected to WiFi can snoop on traffic.

Unfortunately my router, switches, AP and NAS don't support HTTPS either :'(
Would this hold up in court. I've heard those forms you sign that waive your rights before going to e.g. a haunted house don't mean anything if you get injured.
Let's not pretend copyright and intellectual property is somehow grounded in reality or logic. IP laws will have to get updated for generative AI - what that looks like will be determined by interest groups in play and legislators.
The secondary markets law. What a lot of people and a lot of libertarians don't realize the contract law can and is regularly used to undermine the private property rights
Technically they're gatekeeping because of a read ability problem.
I used to give descriptive names to directories that would each carry a main document, and associated materials like references, diagrams, etc. Since the directory already had a descriptive name, I used to name the main document like "-- paper.docx" so that it stays on top when sorting the files by name.

However, realizing the problem you have mentioned, I started giving descriptive names to the main document also, in most cases by re-using the name given to the directory, still adding the leading "--".
> I would pay very good money for a hackable noice-cancelling headset.

https://pine64.com/product/pinebuds-pro-open-firmware-capabl... ?
Having the initial pass specify the public key that it accepts for updates would be sufficient. Having an association with an Apple developer account doesn't help for the updates problem at all AFAICT.

The only reason I came up with for the blessed-by-Apple requirement I came up with is selling fake tickets. There is no way to tell (with or without that requirement) whether a pkpass file with a "ticket to concert X" is actually legit. So, one can try to combat the (potential?) problem by responding to complaints of fraud by revoking the corresponding developer's account. However, that doesn't seem like a solution either: developer account are probably way cheaper than how much you can gain on fraud before you get caught in that way.
RIP, Dean. I miss the days of this kind of ethos being central to the web.
Thanks. I apparently "ran out of free articles" despite not going to Wired.com in years.
That is also sensationalist—usage of the app ToC has nothing to do with being harmed by their food, employees, condition of property etc.
I'm not following the logic. Lebanon is much larger yet Hezbollah also embeds rocket launchers in with civilian infrastructure. Ukraine is vast yet cities are getting bombed all the time and are used as cover. Would you suggest to Ukraine that they should refrain from attacking Russian soldiers when they're in a city?

Is your theory that if the Hamas had more land on which to place rockets they fire at Israeli civilians then they would take more care to place them ("operate out of") away from civilians?

To answer your question, they're not supposed to "operate out of" anywhere in the first place.

Israeli civilians and cities are under more or less constant attack or threat of attack.
New York State Prisons: How to Avoid Rape in Prison – Men's Orientation [video]
I don’t think the OS knows how many dB’s come out of the other end. My Boses act differently with different Bluetooth chipsets. On Linux I have to do 150% volume to hear much of anything
Wait, Dean passed?

Man. What a throwback to the TextDrive days.
Oh, we had Tang in France in the 80's but it was often eaten (by children like myself) before it made it to the glass.
Mechanism(s), it's going to be highly polygenic & mediated through many pathways. I don't see it as needing to be any more inherently mysterious than appendicitis: it's all cells doing very complicated chemical stuff in long causal pathways, in the end. 'Appendicitis' need be no more 'direct' or 'simple' than 'alcoholism'.

For example, I expect that I have a very low genetic risk for alcoholism - no family history, and drinking more alcohol than a beer or two makes me miserably depressed. There is surely some sort of neurochemical explanation there, something something GABA depressive neurotransmitter positive reinforcement of alcohol-avoidance behavior yadda yadda, but the net effect is the same: I'm not going to become an alcoholic. If you could trace it out, it's not going to look any more mysterious than some appendicitis explanation starting with an immune-modulating SNP affecting T-cells modifying risk of random hepatitis virus infecting the appendix and triggering an autoimmune reaction... or whatever it is that is between 'SNP variant #123' and 'developed appendicitis at age 14'. It's all cause-and-effect, atoms-and-void, in the end.
I played a few hours a few years ago, and it felt reminiscent of Cube World during its beta phase. It sparked my interest in giving the editor a try.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of lol.

It all depends on the implementation. A $2.6 trillion dollar company could probably rummage up the spare change to buy and measure the most popular earbuds/phones -- but why do that when you can

if (volume>14) alert("You're killing your hearing!")
If you're interested in this topic, I can recommend his book on the subject of food production: Regenesis — Feeding The World Without Devouring the Planet [1].

It tries to look at food production as a global system, the successes it's had in terms of making food more affordable and avoiding global famine, but also the damage it's causing to climate and biodiversity, and possible ways forward given the constraints of making food production sustainable without creating mass starvation.

I will also say that many groups of people don't like the conclusions. Many farmers and meat eaters don't like the idea that livestock farming at the scale needed to support modern western diets is fundamentally unsustainable. People who believe that eating free range meat means that they've made the clearly ethical choice may be surprised at how that works out over an entire population. Many non meat eaters are uncomfortable at the argument that just hoping people switch to vegan diets is unlikely to work in practice. Many environmentalists don't like the conclusion that the best hopes for a way forward involve more technology, not less.

I'm not sure he ends up betting on the right horses, but it seems to me that the substance of the book is well thought through, and hard to disagree with without falling into the "let them eat cake" trap that's called out in this essay.

[1] https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317018/regenesis-by-monbiot-...
I didn't know what a Capsule Communicator was, I thought it was a piece of equipment used by astronauts in their space capsule. But it's a role if the ground crew; the person who is responsible for communicating with the astronauts.

Knowing that, the article makes more sense. Mission control has to send audio to transmit and also turn the transmitters on and off. They do that all in one data line (phone line) using these tones.
If you don’t feel like memorizing it, you could also store it on your phone in your password manager of choice.
The computer knows what it's sending to Bluetooth and it knows some model identifiers from Bluetooth. This could be implemented well. But I agree, it probably isn't.
Not sure the intention but I still don't see how debugging config in docker is inherently different than native.
>Would it be possible at some point to have voxels the size of a pixel? And would it benefit for example path tracing, physics and other things?

The answers are yes and maybe. There are people who are working in that direction. See this, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ptH79R53c0
The output looks great. For a resume though, you'll definitely want to export it as with minimal formatting to .docx, test it with a few ATS systems to see if it can be scraped correctly. Even then it probably didn't matter much as a lot of automatic accept/reject decisions are currently based on AI scoring.
Early in YT history you could leave a video page open and it would buffer an entire video. Was great on slow connections, but buffering a 10 minute video versus buffering a 10h video way certainly different in terms of server load.
Amazing that Textpattern is still around.
And I don’t have to download it, copy it to my phone, make sure the mp3 metadata is correct for the song, and I can view the lyrics, and easily share the song with a friend, and make a playlist. I have a 50GB collection of MP3s on my desktop from my teens and 20s that have been collecting dust because I just use Spotify because it’s convenient.
> (I originally claimed "+0 + -0 = +0 vs. -0 + +0 = -0" which is incorrect)

Specifically, (-0.0) + (+0.0) = (+0.0) + (-0.0) = +0.0 (assuming round-to-nearest-or-even). OTOH, (-0.0) + (-0.0) = -0.0. This has nothing to do with +0.0 == -0.0 for comparison, addition just is commutative outright[0].

0: Pedantically, I'm not sure IEEE-754 requires the specific choice of which NaN you get when you do `some_nan + a_different_nan` versus `a_different_nan + some_nan` to be commutative, but it should.
Php/fi !!! ;)
Most of the "don't do X it's too hard" is just $corp who wants to sell their preferred solution trying to convince you to buy their SaaS equivalent of a Bash script.
No need to call it insane so many times, please keep things a bit more civilised.

And maybe next time read the article before you continue to comment on it, because this is not my "insane view of the wording of the law". This is how the European Commission and the Irish privacy regulators (Google Europe is in Ireland) see it. Quoting straight from the article:

> "In early 2016 I wrote to the European Commission requesting a formal legal clarification [..] Specifically whether the deployment of scripts or other technologies to detect an ad blocker would require consent (as it is not strictly necessary for the provision of the requested service and is purely for the interests of the publisher). The European Commission sent me a formal written response agreeing with my position that such activities would require consent."

It's fine if you disagree with these laws, many people do. But it is how the law currently works as confirmed by the people that wrote the law as well as the agency that enforces it.
Open source projects are made and managed by software developers. Not by graphic designers, not by UI/UX experts. Developers will make something that works, that scratches their itch. But it can take years if not decades for a project to actually look polished, be easy for a casual computer user to use. For most open source projects, the way to contribute is "make a pull request", which usually involves more programming than a design person can or wants to contribute in order to make things look good. For a project to be user friendly, it needs people besides software developers working on it.

See, for example, Mastodon and Lemmy. They're excellent federated social media, they should replace Twitter and reddit. But I heard someone say the word "Federated" at a bar last night while describing them, and I pegged them instantly as a software developer. Federation? Choosing an instance? Casual users glaze over. Without a dead simple onboarding process, they will never replace corporate social media.

As a long time Ubuntu user, I get annoyed at the way they've moved towards kiddy proofing a number of things, but I can tell they're doing their best to make it usable by more casual computer users. It's still not 100% there, but it's way closer than it has been, and it's one of the most user friendly distros.
I believe OP is referring to OSI licenses as being open source. Wg-easy uses a simple but proprietary license.
Thank you. I normally like over ear headphones, but I'll definitely consider going that route
Plenty of people use audio to fall asleep - be it relaxing music, white noise, nature sounds, podcasts, talk radio, boring speeches, or whateverelse. Not everyone likes the same sleeping audio as others sleeping in the same room.
> Time will tell.

Indeed. A year ago, Twitter / X was predicted to completely collapse 6 months after Elon bought the company followed by bankruptcy afterwards.

We have given the predictions enough time to manifest and they haven't. Had the layoff not happened, the company would already be bankrupt much earlier.

Articles like this [0] did not age well.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
There are 'canary tokens' that you can add to your dataset which are supposed to be respected by self-regulating scrapers & responsible ML practitioners to grep them out before doing any training. How well it works is unknown, of course...
Clipper-accepting agencies in the SF Bay Area will have this next summer too.
> It's especially useful, I think, for discussing and thinking about philosophical or controversial issues that do not have right or wrong answers.

I like the idea that there are no right or wrong answers in philosophy. I have been enjoying dissecting Schopenhauer’s thoughts on hedonistic utilitarianism with chat gpt