skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm going insane with some of the takes here. The creator of the conference created catfishing accounts devoted to advertising the event, they advertised and sold their conference as being 'diverse' knowing full well that they're lying and the responses is 'oh, the poor organizer had to commit fraud to survive'? What?

If they're lying about whos going to the conference and speaking, then what else are they lying about? They've been doing this charade for years now. Regardless of your opinions on diversity I would fucking hope that people would agree committing fraud is bad.
Which is not the same as whether it can be done at all, it's more so that accuracy and epistemic humility are currently low priorities for early 21st century humanity.
Hard to read that and not hear him alluding to the fact that most of the United States is monolingual, and thus linguistically poor. Rural US also frequently exhibits the identity poverty that he talks about. He never explicitly mentions it. I think there's something to this, needs more thought.
He has a point though. Workplace is for work, not politics, religion, activism, romance, etc. that are not related to work.

Bringing religios, political or social issues at work could create unnecessary friction or even spark feuds. Better keep those separate, or at least very low-key, not public.
Technological poverty is two gold iPhones one in each back pocket of a
pair of $300 bedazzled bleached jeans.

It's possible to be surrounded by very expensive convenient magic,
drowning in it, yet to own nothing and be subject to abject fealty and
dependence. If one lacks the "digital literacy" (or whatever name we
give empowering language that opens wide horizons) then like Palahniuk
says, your stuff ends up owning you.
Show HN: Christmas Gift Idea Generator with GTP-3.5
In my spare time I built a GTP-3.5 powered gift idea generator.

Some ideas are quite good and I think this tool is very handy for people as uncreative as me when it comes to Christmas gift ideas :)

Additionally it also features a searchable database of different ideas that have already been generated.
There is no reason why both can't continue at the same time.
And if they don’t own a cell phone, chances are they have access to one somehow, like how many people didn’t own a dedicated landline but still could gain access, paid or by borrowing.
If you read the rest of the article, it seems fairly clear that one of the fake women advertised as speaking at the conference is a fictional persona created by the conference's organiser, and has been run as a social media presence for several years. It's hard to see this as an innocent mistake, in context.
ChatGPT's training data can be exposed via a "divergence attack"
That is really interesting, thank you for the information, I've been curious about this as well. In mathematical terms I suppose that would be the equivalent of fixed-interest loan with a fixed length more or less.

Also see special jew-elevators with a Shabbat-mode so that they always go up and down by every level so that you can use them without operating them, meaning that you can take the elevator on a Shabbat without tricking a gentile into pushing the button for you (1).

I was under the impression that Shabbat was on a Friday or Saturday. (nitpicking of course).

(1) So that they can go to hell instead of the jew, or whatever?
Having functions and procedures also made it stand out at the time.
I am very susceptible to the ‘Misapplied Genericity’ anti-pattern. When given a problem, my default approach seems to be building a solution which ends up looking more like a framework that allows you then to build the solution in it. For example - if I were creating a metrics dashboard, I would end up building a dashboard builder which I could then create my metrics dashboard in, rather than just ‘hardcoding’ the dashboard I need right now. Something I need to work on!
> I think that's quite an uncharitable interpretation of what's happening - Google doesn't really have bad intentions here imho...

OP didn't talk at all about intentions. OP talked about results.

> ...but with every tool you suffer from a conflict of goals:

Sure. But it seems to me that OP notices that Google's really, really bad at choosing the "Make it so that people who aren't working in a megacorp who can afford teams of dedicated tool wranglers can easily use the tool and interoperate with others who use the tool." option when presented with it.

And like, why would they ever choose that? They have zero need to, because they are a megacorp who can (and do) hire teams of dedicated tool wranglers.
Leaded gasoline was partly a business decision too.

One of the alternatives, which we use today is to add ethanol.

Ethanol had the business problem of being an alternative fuel in its own right, which competes with gasoline.
So we are all missing the point that the organizer LIED around and he's being rightfully punished for that?
Summarising things is lossy, and every piece of information we don't say might have consequences for the audience.

But we need to do it so that we can stop talking.
Almost all of the listed "antipatterns" are things that are bad by definition. "Don't do the thing too much or too little, do the right amount" is not a useful recommendation.
You deserve all that.

I’m not sure creating a new generation of angry orphans in Gaza will get you there.
How can you offer this rebuttal with a straight face, when your own post suggests the OP "just" finds religion.
Their economic policies are the same. Their moral legislation is where they differ and how they divide and conquer the voting public to remain in control.
that they care about increasing diversity of the spaces where they're invited to talk.

I suppose it also says that they trusted the conference organizers and didn't do enough legwork to verify the fake speakers weren't fake, but it seems uncharitable to blame someone for that. Most people would have taken the claims at face value.
> Starling-7B-alpha scores 8.09 in MT Bench with GPT-4 as a judge, outperforming every model to date on MT-Bench except for OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo.
Let's make even better. Let's use a roulette type of device with three wheels, one inside the other.

The center wheel is gender, the middle wheel is race, and the third wheel is underrepresented jobs in tech.

That way I can have a plus-one that is a gender fluid, Berber, truck driver.
As a counterpoint; I really like threaded posts like these. Each post in the thread becomes a kind of sub-heading or meta-paragraph which allows the user to disengage at well defined stops.

At the same time, it’s understandable that people don’t like it. The format has its problems, but I find I will read less of a blog post than a thread all else being equal.
Nice, love it.
>How is this legal that if I want to publish an Android app on Play Market and charge for subscriptions, I must use Google Play Billing and pay 30% to Google? This is insane

It's bad for the developer, sure, but what exactly is "insane" or "illegal" about it? They have created a product marketplace, and they let you sell there, and you must abide by their rules.

If you want to sell on Gumroad or similar services you also need to use their payment processor of choice, and give them a cut. If you want to sell on Ebay, you also need to use their payment processors of choice (and originally, iirc, you only had the option to use PayPal) and give them a cut.

And of course check the rules for selling your console game. They are 10x more restrive, and have been since forever. Not only you have to use the console markers marketplace, billing system, and pay a cut, for many wont even be able to do that, unless they accept your game.

The thing is, you don't "have" to sell in Play Market - even if it was the only marketplace for Android, it would still not be some basic necessity of life that you sell apps for Android. You could always find another trade, or sell PC software, or whatever. In other words, a marketplace for a mobile OS is not exactly a public utility.
Hybrid beamforming receiver dynamic range theory to practice
I'm more worried when spacex "pivots" to iron dome like products.

you will get a barrage of missiles raining down from space on top of some kindergartens because the autofire ai correlated a bunch of Toyota suvs moving to the same point with terrorists
Signs That You Are Vibrating on a Higher Frequency [video]
Thanks, you've just cured me of my Tesla envy entirely
"He also confirmed that speakers like him have rules for participating in conferences, including only joining inclusive speaker lineups."
> SSR, context and tasks are all separate packages, not in the Lit core package.

Splitting hairs

> The others are very basic functionalily for what you expect from a framework like Lit.

Indeed. Framework like Lit. These mental hoops and shenaningans lit defenders have to jump and go through to pretend lit is somehow not a framework and somehow different.

Literally the very first example you get on lit's own page show how invalid all those claims are: https://lit.dev/docs/components/overview/
You don't know if the conference would have happened otherwise.

And woke is not bad. Some form of woke are bad but I don't think having female speakers is a bad thing.

It is a sausage party and it's not a good thing
I have used it for 5 years for my business. Never any single hickup.
Isreal has been trying to keep their morals for decades using defensive measures. They constructed probaby best in the world air defense systems to protect their civilians daily. They could just send one rocket for one they were targetted by instead and Gaza would be inhabitable decades ago. So when they were rewarded for their restraint on 7 Oct with savagery I'm not really surprised that huge part of the world gives them now blank checkque to do what they believe they need to. Not to mention that what Putin did to Ukrainie softened the morals of people to "it's ok if it's for the right reasons".
FreeBSB and its cousins were not started from scratch but
descended from a stable UNIX.

Microsoft was really trying hard to win a huge contact with DOD
(If memory serves). They worked along with DEC for the contract
and planned to sell computers based on DEC Alpha + WindowsNT.
The POSIX compatibility subsystem was added specifically because
the DOD contact demanded such a feature.

Sadly (for them) they did not win the contract.

The DOD was not the reason Microsoft developed Windows but some
of the features and archtetures were in respons to features demanded.
Had family members on the Aegis design team... I got another UI disaster... y'all had a chance to end this insane twitter thread UX and you chose to continue it. Why on earth do people post content like this... how much effort do you want me to put in? all that extra energy clicking, making requests...
It's not at all fraud.

It's definitely shitball, dishonest, bad faith management... but it's not fraud.
Wrong, v4 was a very decent rewrite. It is not crap.
Good. We don't need every conference to be of top quality speaker or content wise, the same way companies don't always need to hire all the top tech talent - especially if it comes at cost of inclusiveness and diversity.
My favourite system to work on is one that I understand.

And everyone refactors to their own understanding and intuition.

And my intuition or understanding might not be identical or as advanced or as simple or insightful as yours. (EDIT: Your understanding that things are SIMPLE might be more advanced than mine, so I don't really understand it as much as you do.)

So we have taste in software.

I would rather not maintain a system that was built on quicksand, where dependencies cannot be upgraded without breaking anything.

One person's super elegant architecture is Not Understandable™ to someone else.
(Modern) mindfulness is a profit-driven monster, hiding the real thing
Modern mindfulness (with apps, programs, videos, EEG headbands, biofeedback) is a capitalist perversion of meditation, and most of us approach it the wrong way as a result, not getting all the benefits we could enjoy.
> Nextcloud Mail will evolve as it is, focused on being used naturally within Nextcloud. Roundcube will continue to serve its active and new users as a stand-alone secure mail client.

I don't think so, as then Web Hosting Panels would loose out. But, you never know.
I believe the 404 article said it was lobste.rs.
Likewise.

There is apparently an extremely unintuitive "Show more for all"[1] button at the top of the initial post.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/5l15SM8.png
Show HN: Multimodal Maestro – Prompt tools for use with LMMs
Multimodal Maestro is a Python package with utilities for prompting Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) such as GPT-4 with Vision.

Multimodal Maestro is launching with an implementation of Microsoft's Set of Mark prompting technique, outlined in the paper "Set-of-Mark Prompting Unleashes
Extraordinary Visual Grounding in GPT-4" [1]. Using Multimodal Maestro, you can generate SoM masks with ease.

We are actively looking to add more utilities for LMM prompts. We would love ideas!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11441.pdf
How does Seafile's chunking compare to git's packfiles which can store binary deltas. [0] While git conceptually stores full files that doesn't mean that the the actual implementation isn't more efficient.

[0] https://git-scm.com/docs/pack-format
The Persian Gulf, despite the name, is not Iranian territorial waters. Anybody can go there. Iran would be well within its rights to send its warships into the Atlantic Ocean, yes.
> Same as if you rob a bodega, you don’t expect privacy rights over the CCTV footage.

This comparison is inaccurate. The bodega wasn’t robbed. This is a media reporter asking a bodega for CCTV footage because they are investigating one of the customers.
It was also an unusual conference in that they didn't do CFPs; _all_ the speakers were recruited. Very odd setup.
i was curious, so i did a bit of digging:

https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/soju/

https://sr.ht/~taiite/senpai/

https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/
Its not just Tesla. Recent Jeep models have a digital speedometer with no analog backup. From an engineering perspective these changes just introduce needless risk of complex failure for no real gain. Surely the speedometer is not the make or break cost item on a car?
I'm glad the post states that Roundcube will stay an independent product.

Roundcube is on a whole other level in terms of stability and robustness compared to Nextcloud.

I'm also glad that the current Nextcloud client will be replaced, because it's not very good right now.
> A store is inclusive because everyone can enter it.

Just the ability to enter isn't what makes up inclusivity, especially for a conference.
It's about being as included, welcome and accommodated for as another group.

I remember an anecdote from a recent Kate Gregory (iirc) talk about the early days of C++ conferences, where it turned out the organizers just didn't think about renting woman's toilets, only men's toilets.
(Not to mention that this distinction is bullshit anyway, but that's a separate topic)
Hi, I'm the forum admin who banned Sizovs for suckpuppeting a few years ago: https://lobste.rs/s/s67tjc/don_t_learn_too_many_things#c_nfn...

I know this is pure whataboutism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism), but I don't have any duty to keep the secrets of sockpuppeting spammers; the forum privacy policy is short and unambiguous. No members have expressed concerns over me banning his accounts in 2019, in 2020 when he spammed us again, or me talking to 404 Media. As a responsible journalist, Sam Cole asked if I had evidence of his abuse and I pasted from my log, though I redacted the exact IP address.
I have to read a lot between the lines here so correct me if I misunderstand what happened. You ran a workshop, in the academic field, which tends to hire more women than men these days (your words). Your workshop still managed to be male dominated, despite being in a female-dominated field, and women complained about that?
> If someone's starving, I'll just gift them the money/food they need. I'm not going to set the expectation that they must return it to me. If I need to lie about the nature of the gift to ensure they'll accept it, so be it, but a gift's a gift, not a loan.

Some people would refuse that out of pride, so you might as well spare their honor and lend it to them in some cases, but yeah sure.

> On the other hand, if I'm loaning someone money, it's almost certainly related to some commercial venture, and I reasonably expect to be paid for the risk I'm taking with that person.

Wouldn't a more appropriate instrument for investing in a commercial venture be to buy shares in their company?
Plans to present meat as 'sustainable nutrition' at Cop28 revealed
The new one is pretty good
I'm pretty much self-taught so some of the terms you mentioned are new to me. I like using tabs to learn new music, I fail to see how what you're saying is related to that?

If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear I do that too, though I find it a time consuming process and sometimes just want to go by tabs.
That kinda seems feature-rather-than-bug honestly - I read the entire thing because I'm fascinated by UI/UX stories like this, and clicking to open each tab is nbd, but if it had been a topic I wasn't that interested in, I wouldn't've read it. Which means I'm less likely to fall into an attention-grabbing rabbit hole on social media.
Yup. Early in my career I was susceptible to this as well. Partly immaturity and partly business pressure (we need this thing now, and when the business adapts, we don't want to spend more engineering resources on it! make it work for the future!)

turns out that's nearly impossible, in most cases (businesses change)

I definitely take a more iterative approach now. There's a short spike window to architect the rough plan, get buy in from other engineers, and as long as we feel like we're directionally going the right way and we're not digging ourselves into a corner, we ship it.

Sometimes that has resulted in redoing things (we made a mistake in our thinking), but those redos are minimal compared to the weeks/months we may have spent over-architecting something
The mentioned iran-iraq war was conducted by then us-ally saddam husein on behalf of the us. The us where the aggressor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n4H_E8b-qmo
Israel is not a state with Christian morale, they are not a part of the "Western world". They have their own religion and morale, which are older than Christianity. Only part of holy books are shared between two.
TIL that the mineral dolomite is not named after the Dolomite mountains in Italy, but the other way round, the mineral being named after the geologist who discovered it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9odat_Gratet_de_Dolomieu). Which of course begs the question of how the mountains were called before dolomite was discovered, apparently "pale mountains" ("monti pallidi").
Also, lots of OpenAI fans and venture capital/crypto people are still on Xitter. It’s a special demography that makes it more an outlier.
His name is russian in Latvian transcription, and it would also be incorrect to refer to the unintegrated, very pro-russian diaspora there as generically "ex-Eastern Block".
Nominative determinism – Find work that fits your name
It also means you lose alot of freedom and privileges, including unlimited cell phone minutes and leisurely calls with your friends/family.
Trusting companies to do the right thing has always been humanities most shameful indulgence.

Having been lied to 20 times in a row and still trusting the 21st time is a sign of other problems. It is a good indicator of a populations submissiveness. Admitting to oneself that one has made a mistake investing a lot of money in a product, takes some guts most people don't seem to have. Same as admitting your oh-so-democratic government has obviously been corrupted by the same corporate elements.

The issue is admitting this leads to admitting one was a coward for tolerating it. That's why people double down on the most idiotic positions. I've seen flat earthers and corona deniers do it same as dieselgate apologists.

Unfortunately many of the top trading companies invest a lot of money into anti-regulation propaganda. It's the "trickle down economy" of the 21st century.
Study: Online consumers shy away from sponsored product listings
I guess CCTV footage won't go to media either, or do they?
You made it further than I did, since the UI is absolutely horrendous after the first post.

You can set up a blog on the Internet for free if you want to make longform content.
Vite 5 released, builds 2-10% faster
Accidents and incidents involving the V-22 Osprey
Speed analysis: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/vite-5-released-builds-2-11-fast...
PS @kmille I was missing sorting the table, so I took some code off of SO and made a pull request. It isn't using jQuery so it might break some code conventions you have, but I'll be glad to have the sorting feature if you can merge and deploy the new code! Again thanks for ideating and making this.
This is part of the current cycle of fragmentation. Twitter is no longer the centre, but it still holds certain cultural niches. Other niches have migrated to Mastodon or elsewhere.

I am personally pretty excited to see this diversification and fragmentation as it should help provide more niches for more people.
Nice to hear. After several (abandoned) attempts and installing NC from scratch it seems to me that Nextcloud matures well. I like the focus on hub/groupware. Still some details from time to time which annoy me (and probably could be improved). But in general, Nextcloud is great! And using AIO (all-in-one docker image) it's really simple to install and maintain the server. -- So happy to have a good alternative to the Microsoft365 offerings!!! I do think Roundcube found a good place.
Everyone seems to agree that this seems like a very high number. And I also found it shocking to the point that I think there is something being misinterpreted.

For one, I am not sure if 'making' 79 cents means that is the entire revenue, or just Google's 30%. Even assuming the former, it still seems unbelievable.

Maybe this only considers paid apps, or some other filter.
I thought google was keeping those for me
and I was wondering if it was Digg
> It seems you are only focussing and zooming in on the issues and limitations.

The question literally was: "Can you elaborate further on why web components are a half-baked solution".

Did I say anything about React? No. Did I say anything about lit? No.

Stop making up what you think people are saying and start reading and understanding what people are saying.

> And there are issues and limitations in any technology.

Yes. Yes they are. And web components are literally the only technology that after 12 years in development needs 20+ web specs to not break basic functionality that literally no other technology breaks.

This has nothing to do with react. This has nothing to do with lit. Read what I wrote and not what I think I wrote.

> if you like React

> framework like React.

> keep using React.

> combination with Lit instead of React.

Jesus Christ.

Literally nowhere was I talking about React or lit. Not a single one of my comments in this thread had anything to do with either.

And yet you keep arguing with the voices in your head that are telling you that I'm talking about React.

> It does take some investment to learn a bit about how Web Components work.

So go ahead and learn about how they work, why don't you? Or, rather, about how they don't work, and why after 12 years they still need 20+ new web specs to to the most basic things.

Edit: from now on I will disengage from this conversation and sibling ones, because it is useless and pointless.
This could have been an article worth reading, instead it is chunked in tweets (or whatever they are named now) on X. I'd be interested in the topic, but hate the reading experience to much to read it.