skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason is that SV works on connections, and people are afraid that they won't get their next round or that sweet job if they rock the boat. Also, we're mostly all dudes, so therefore more vulnerable to false allegations on this topic. Also some overlap with culture-wars and pushback against the perceived excesses of the MeToo movement.

Hypothetically, if a little girl were molested by her older brothers, how should she proceed in order to satisfy your sensibilities?
Seems to me this would be exceedingly difficult considering right now there only about 5000 of them.
You're underestimating the power of LLM's.

I'll address two of your points as the other two stem from this.

They can't backtrack that's purely just design and can be easily trained there's no need to simulate at random until it gets the answer, if allowed to review it's prior answers and consider this, if often can reason a better answer. Further more breaking down problems. This is easily demonstrated when looking at how accuracy improves when you ask it to explain it's reasoning as it calculates (break it down into smaller problems). The same for humans, large mathematical problems are solved using learned methods to breakdown and simplify calculations into those easier for us to calculate and build up.

If the model was able to self adjust weightings based on it's finding this would further improve it (another design limitation we'll eventually get to improve, reinforcement learning). Much like 2+2=4 is your instantaneous answer, the neural connection has been made so strong in our brains by constant emphasis we no longer need to think of an abacus each time we get to the answer 4.

You're also ignoring the emergent properties of these LLMs, theyre obviously not yet at human level but they do understand the underlying values and can reason using this value. Semantic search/embeddings is evidence of this.
This seems like a big step forward in terms of running specific use-case trained inference locally, right? At least given current hardware generally deployed in business.
Why have I not read this before it seems like the most obvious reason for all of this
Because many people start learning in one of the industry incumbent, not necessarily good by design languages.

Java, C, C++, python, Javascript, go...

As a second language is a quite different selector than after education in language design or excursions to functional programming.
I've never tried it personally, but Nvidia has support forums for users experiencing bugs. They have a support script to collect additional information for reporting problems
I'm a new vim user. I've been using the vim motions for 2+ years in Intellij. I use intellij at my work. But for my personal projects, i've been using Lunarvim.

What I've realised, I can get in the zone much faster when using neovim. Instead of Intellij. I think if I get to the point that I have my own vim configuration, it would feel like something really personal. I use Lunarvim & Zellij and it's awesome.
Why would they want people using an ad blocker to even use the site that much though. They’re denying them revenue while costing them. I mean it’s great as a user but as a service there’s not really much upside.
U2:

Countries and regions where the U2 is known to have operated.
Some of these were friendly, somewhere hostile, some were
at a time of war,

The Soviet Union,
China,
Vietnam,
Norh Korea
Cuba
Afghanistan
Iraq
Poland
East Germany
Malta
Cyprus
Egypt
Israel
Indonesia
India
Horn of Africa

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/29/archives/us-spy-flights-o...
There is a group of folks that had learnt these features via Rust, and for whatever reason always praise Rust for "inventing" them.
Most of the population of Vietnam, lives in a few major cities.
Windows players prefer to complain on twitter :)
> moving files isn't stored in git

is there an intuitive and enlightening explanation as to why it is this way?
How did these amazing artists that no one really listened to get their CD in the store?

I think there is a lot of hindsight bias here. The internet made shelf space unlimited, and artist that used to toil away in absolute obscurity now have a shot. I don't think we're talking about those who would have had a CD on the local store shelves, we're talking about those playing at random bars in their town.
The underlying point of the post seems to be that it is better to ask the user to do more work, than the developer.
Probably not, but why would you be worried about them and not the feds?
Apple values feedback?
The rich and powerful always have ways of protecting themselves. Whether they choose to avail themselves of those services is another matter.
Indeed - from my understanding, they have to "guess"timate which strains of Flu will be prevalent in a given year, if they get it right, fantastic - if they get it wrong, lower effectiveness. Of course, it's not really a guess so much as an educated assessment.

Having said that, as an asthmatic I've had the Flu vaccine every year for the last 20 or so years, and knock on wood haven't had Flu since. I also had the multivalent pneumonia vaccine a while ago, so fingers crossed!
> If this is actually in any way real…

If it’s real, it must be exaggerated, as Johnson only was in office for 5 years and 2 months (November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969).

Because he withdrew from the 1969 presidential campaign on March 31, 1968, it also was long known he would be gone by the end of that year.
To date, the most I've done is add a "nag screen paywall" in the app that presents a monthly subscription as an in app purchase. It's not enforced (yet), so it's more of an "optional" thing as crazy as that sounds -- but you're right: gotta start enforcing that, and soon.

FWIW, over the months, I've rationalized not enforcing it because I tell myself, "Need to get a small quorum of active users first, because the monetization won't really matter or won't add up till much until then...I need to find some signal from users and don't want to obstruct yet (yet)."

And even as I type that, I sort of believe it, but at the same time, I know it's not the best way.

So yeah, it's essentially free right now for the small number of users who use it. I'll probably learn something important if I enforce the paywall on that small number of users.
Hm, it feels like all of these except for number 2 and the last one can be solved by appropriate interfaces and documentation.
Even better, and TIL. Thanks!
I would guess it's somewhere in the middle, but with most of the bug reports going to whoever's maintaining proton rather than the developer.
Researchers obtain promising results against capacity loss in vanadium batteries
Hospitals in the USA are not super concerned about patient outcomes at the administrative level. Everyone just wants to be middle of the road “good enough” to not get sued for negligence. There isn’t really any incentive for doing better than that and it costs a lot to be better
Java enums are also quite powerful versus what C, C++ and C# can do.

They are real objects, can have associated data and methods.

So if they are surprised by Rust, haven't learnt Java properly
I just asked myself then and got the answer, "yes, it's a modern fetish". By using "whiteness" as a disingenuous blanket term for "in-group" a whole range of issues bearing on social dominance are obfuscated: wealth/poverty, caste, tribalism, religion among them.

It's marginally insane that the abuses of any non-pan-European group anywhere in the world get passed over in near-silence in the US. Who cares, for example, (to pick randomly from a long, long list) that in the recent past northerners in Kano, Nigeria went door-to-door seeking out and slaughtering anyone from the wrong region and wrong tribe? You'll never hear of it in US schools, no one cares in the slightest. Apparently only "whites" can be held morally culpable for evil actions of a dominant group.
I thought the author addressed that point:

"But this assumes that slow-to-upgrade users can have negative effects on everyone else. If one user can't have a negative impact on other users, then you don't care if some users are slow to upgrade; they're only hurting themselves."

There's still the support issue, I agree. If a customer paid you money and they are on version n-10, they still expect support.

> Plus, if there was anything about your service that leveraged unique algorithmic improvements or some other proprietary tech, it is now at the mercy of anyone with a decompiler and sufficient time.

This is a valid point. My answer would be: it's all tradeoffs, but if your secret sauce is so valuable that it would be worth decompiling and can't be protected with decent pricing, license terms and lawyers, run a service.

There are plenty of technologies that are not worth decompiling for your average business customers.
you don't need git add? no git status? i take my hat off to you, sir!
Could it be that the "good internet" is just not a place for non-technical people?

Certainly when I consider what the good internet was circa 1995, it was not friendly unless you were technical.

And today, when the geeks have had enough, they launched all these fediverse products. I love this. It reminds me of the old days of the internet. I don't even visit any of the legacy enshittified sites any longer.

But this isn't something the rest of my family will do. For them, it's not a better experience like it is for me.

And when you have places like Kagi doing their small web search, looking for the good old days where people hosted their own sites (like I do), what they are doing is catering to us geeks. Non-geeks have just as much time and inclination to do that work as I have to replace my own roof.

I don't know if there's a solution other than we have our good stuff over here, and they can have that stuff over there.
Sometimes gradients are small but meaningful, if you constrain them to too few bits / degrees of freedom they'll be unable to backprop successfully. This can hamper training and therefore results quality.

You can also think about it as compounding errors - at any one weight index the bit values might not be too meaningful, but cascaded over a lot of tensor multiplications they will be.
Ok whats you're problem that you want to see addressed?
I mean hospitals already have a tremendous amount of radioactive equipment so the ship has already sailed about having the skillset to safely manage ionizing radiation and hyper-hazardous materials, so why not set up an industrial food irradiator in the laundry system to sterilize things?
A Defiant Volcanologist Survived 5 Eruptions While Living on Mount Vesuvius
Everyone works 40+ hours a week for pieces of paper that intrinsically are worth nothing
The total revenue of CDs sold in 1999 (Peak CD) was $938 million.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186772/album-shipments-i...

The best estimate for the number of adults that same year I could find was 191 million. Let’s say 200 million to include some teams.

That’s nowhere close to 10 to 20 CDs.

I can’t find a citation. But I’ve seen other places that people were spending $65 a year on music before streaming and iTunes
Webb Space Telescope spies precocious 'teenage' galaxies
There is a very good article by GitHub: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-commits-are-snapshots-not-dif...

TLDR: Think of commits as snapshots, not diffs, and you'll be fine.
My family members are doctors and I'm always cognizant of where I am in a room relative to my male family member's neck tie.

If there's anything "difficile" they brought home from the hospital any day in the last few weeks, that's where it lives.
Is this entire article based on the Reuters news that came out yesterday? The news that amounted to "Two guys in the alley told us some stuff, but we can't verify any of it" This feels like laundering news; all the "We weren't able to confirm the truth of these statements"' have been removed.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai...
> Seems like developing games for linux is harder.

This is not because of some property of Linux, but mostly because of game developers' unfamiliarity with it. Sure there's some issues with window servers but if you're building a game using any mainstream engine or even simpler frameworks like SDL that shouldn't be much of an actual issue.
> Also, it's not so difficult

Heh, was that an attempt at sarcasm? That's super difficult to do from memory, at least for me. Maybe I'm not as good at memorizing things as you are.
> It's all fun and games until you hit version n+1 or n+2, and often realize how slow many customers are to upgrade the library.

How is that different with services? I don't develop services, but I can imagine that before breaking the services, you have to poll with your biggest customers and you don't break until they are ready to move to the new version. The alternative I can imagine is to keep providing the old services with a grace period (e.g. /v1 will be available until dec next year).

What am I missing?
I think this is the one thing I feel BitKeeper does better than Git. Git can get confused about where a file came from, for moves but especially for copies, and so the version history ends, even if you ask it to try and follow along. BitKeeper, on the other hand, keeps the moves and copies as part of the history, so you can always trace it through to the origin of the file, no matter how circuitous.
Libyan desert's yellow glass: the origin of these rare and mysterious shards
Exactly. I've never run into a situation where there was even a choice.

Is it something that relies on a private database, queue, massive processing, dedicated hardware, shared state, something geographically distributed? It's a service out of necessity.

Or is it just a bundle of quickly executing code? Then it's obviously a library.

I've never seen anybody try to turn leftPad() into a service.
the ml method doesnt require you to know how to solve the problem at all, and could someday presumably develop novel solutions. not just high efficiency symbolic graph search.
AI under copyright and closed source is the biggest threat; all this bulshitting about AI risk is absolutely ridiculous.
Isn't it funny that the least funny people always complain about their inability to make jokes anymore?

Plus the misattribution of watered-down safe products from corporations as being because they're "pc or driven by diversity" instead of driven by profits and avoiding controversy because it would hurt their bottom line.

It's like saying that babies are to blame for bad children's programming.
Or "Linux users are mostly developers and thus are more capable of filing good bug reports."
Terraform Modules for Gitlab Runner Orchestration
On that topic, I love this article from Stripe (in 2017) about how they version their APIs: https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning
Terraform modules, newly released by puzl.cloud, provide a practical solution for orchestrating your GitLab runner fleet, addressing a gap in current GitLab functionalities. Explore the documentation to understand how these modules can streamline your CI/CD processes, especially in case when you have to manage more than dozen of runners.

Join our new Discord server to discuss the various DevOps topics https://discord.com/invite/wt8GzF8aG4
When I think windows versioning I think more along the lines:
11.01A ==> 11.02A, 11.02A ==> 11.03A, 11.03A ==> 11.04A, 11.04A ==> 11.05B, End of life window 11, windows 12.01A, etc

Then marketing say give them prettier names... Also the public can't know we are shipping alpha/beta quality production as production releases (Remove those tags). Finally can we add a few more ad slots and microtransaction features?
This shows that we lack good abstractions over storage.
> You don't have a realistic understanding of the situation. Rail links are limited,

I do have a realistic understanding of the situation, see for example this article from back in 1973, Le Transsibérien [1], published in the French Revue Défense Nationale. It's basically a French lieutenant-colonel who took the Trans-Siberian Railway and who came back with some lived experience and with some statistics. Back then the Trans-Siberian alone was responsible for 9% of the internal rail traffic from the entire world, I'm pretty sure that 50 years later and with a doubling of the rail connection between European Russian and the Far-East Russia the stats are pretty much the same, if not better.

Like I said, I know that rail is a little more expensive compared to sea transport, but nothing that can't be dealt with given the context of a world war.

> why not point upwards and get back Siberia

Not every big country on this planet has the same natural resources-focused imperialist views like the Western countries have.

Forgot to mention about the Trans-Siberian, supposedly the Soviets built the 2-lane railway bridges at some distance one from the other, meaning one lane from the other lane, so that an aerial bomb attack taking out one of those railway bridges wouldn't have taken out both lanes at the same time. It's small things like that demonstrate the strategic long-term thinking of some societies.

[1] https://www.defnat.com/e-RDN/vue-article.php?carticle=1454&c...

Later edit: Sorry, meant as a reply for the above poster, HN should implement a "Delete" option sooner rather than later...
"Threats"

Which threats exactly did he ignore?
Have the KPIs, but stay aware that they aren't objective and complete measurements of individual performance, thus keeping the entire revision and verification of reported data.
Please enlighten me. How do you know that?
I got lost in the article: is surface prep just longer exposure time or is there no way to kill it on a surface now?
Just remember its not out of altruism. It's very beneficial to Valve to be able to eliminate their Windows dependency. I will say, it is good when incentives align for the benefit of the consumer.
that's my list too, pretty much (+ the obvious `git add` and `git status` others have mentioned)

I throw in a `git reflog` once in a while, and the other day I patted myself on the back for my first use of `git tag -a mytag -m "This is my first tag!"` followed by `git push origin mytag`. I felt like god

now as much as I hate Xcode, its UI for looking at all my current changes and staging them by blocks of line for commit is like a superpower. as a solo developer working on brand new code, not all of my lines of thinking follow very atomic git commits, so it's nice to separate, say, some refactoring code from some actually new functionality when committing changes
In early Rust, the keyword was `tag`. In order to improve familiarity with C++ programmers, bikeshedding raged between `enum` and `union` for years before finally landing on the former.
Sam Bankman-Fried's Life Behind Bars: Crypto Tips and Paying with Fish
It's a great headline that feeds right in to the rest of the OpenAI drama, which is undoubtedly why it's all over the place. But I'm with you - where are the details?
In Scala there's Future.delegate for turning sync failures into failed futures. Seems like something equivalent should be possible in Javascript.
Because I don’t appreciate it when a model has blatant democrat/anti-republican bias, for example. The fact that chatGPT, Bard, etc are heavily and purposefully biased on certain topics is well documented[1].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-politics-of-ai-chatgp...
Amazon still sells MP3s
Bugreport for headline

Linux users provide more and better bug reports. Which helps developers improving overall quality.

I still wonder why Valve didn’t provided Counter-Strike 2 earlier for Linux. The average user of Windows doesn’t know where and who to reports bugs. System tooling for reporting bugs on Windows is also less advanced.

Developers of closed-source applications historically avoided to provide open bug trackers. The literally trained their users not to report bugs. In best case there is a forum. Most of the time only an E-Mail address is available.
Show HN: I made iOS app that converts any speech into clear&structured text
Hello!

I left my job, gathered with friends and focused on creating this iOS app. The idea is simple: it turns speech into well-structured clear text which you can save as a note.

It's not only transcription. We used OpenAI tech, fine-tuned prompts, trained it with our texts, and added one-button rewrite options.

Recently, doctor was gaving me recommendations. I switched on my app and got bullet points of his advice.

Any comment would be super valuable, guys!
Thank you in advance!
I don't think that they should release for a platform they can't test.
And 95% of those reported software errors affect windows and Linux both.

And fixes to those defects benefit both OS users.
I think openreach requires all their customers to use pppoe - certainly I've had it with both BT and A&A
bring back hanging
> Increasingly, those retools have resulted in more and more people working in jobs whose societal value is dubious at best.

This implies to me that in the past more people had worked in jobs with good societal values which would mean it was better for them I assume, and better for society. So I’m genuinely curious when that was and why. It sounds like a common romanticized past misconception to me.
TBH my last flu vaccine was something like 25 years ago (I am not antivax, I am just too lazy to get it) and I had "true" flu (not seasonal colds or covid) precisely once since then.

My doctor friend doesn't get flu vaccine even when recommended, because, to quote her, "in my line of work, I was already exposed to everything ten times at least". She works as an ORL expert in a big hospital, so she is constantly staring down some sick throats.
The right to be forgotten is a very recent invention and very much not universally agreed upon.
> On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had located and killed Osama Bin Laden. The agency organised a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Abottabad, Pakistan, in a bid to obtain DNA from the children of Bin Laden, to confirm the presence of the family in a compound and sanction the rollout of a risky and extensive operation. Release of this information has had a disastrous effect on worldwide eradication of infectious diseases, especially polio.

> On May 16, 2014, the White House announced that the CIA will no longer use vaccination programmes as a cover for espionage. The news comes in the wake of a series of militant attacks on polio vaccination workers in Pakistan, with legitimate health-care workers targeted as being US spies. The attacks have forced organisations such as the UN to suspend polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan, and have severely hampered anti-polio efforts, with parents refusing to have their children vaccinated. News of the vaccination programme led to a banning of vaccination in areas controlled by the Pakistan Taliban, and added to existing scepticism surrounding the sincerity of public health efforts by the international health community.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
> We’ll always hit “Reject all” if we have that option though in absence of a “Reject all” we’ll do what you’d do otherwise and hit “Accept all”

Huh, often if Reject All isn't available there is a customize option that's basically the same thing. That's very different from Accept All.
It only seems circular because you're being pointed back to the beginning of the argument, instead of the person breaking it down barney style for you to shift the goalposts.