skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious to see the shelf life of this app. Very cool. Will have to test out. Although keeping at arms length in case ONE iOS update or android update nukes it.
This is a wonderful project. It highlights how silly Apple is. For those defending the existence of green bubbles, why don’t we swap blue with green then? Would you be okay with all your iMessages in that ugly green while your SMSes with Android friends are in calming blue?

I am typing this on an iPhone 15 pro max and I have several MacBook pros (M3 Max on the way) and everyone in my family has their own iPad.

I hate that Apple has created this thing where some folks ostracize others because they can taint your group chat with ugly green.
So the 21" NEC and Hitachi monitors still cluttering up my home lab might be worth something? I could never bear to dump them because of what they cost me new. They work well when I need a console on my ancient server hosts because they all do VGA.
Yeah, the HN link is to the "browser blocked" page directly. There was no redirect sending you there - you went directly there.

It's not clear if this page was intended to be public, or if there are redirects to it already (but are not actually active)
4 dead, 1 wounded, 2 uninjured chimps.
> I said yes to almost all the work I could get. My bosses loved me and I got raises/promotions faster than anyone else.

That culture of “hardwork = reward” is long behind us. Instead of being the “guy who reliably gets things done whatever you throw at them”, I advise on saving one’s sanity and avoid potential burnout by finding a friendly place where they enjoy and have power to make decisions(yes, place exists where even interns can offer decisions and make impacts) and focus on work-life balance more. We are no longer in the golden era.

Also, if one is smart enough to find the vein of the gold mine and settle there, one can learn more with balanced effort compared to working too hard or too much.
you don’t have to justify your assertions to me or anyone else, but make sure you can justify them to yourself. have a think about what you said and see how deeply you can support it. you don’t have to reply. you don’t even have to bluster and make accusations. just try and think about it slowly and unemotionally in your own head.

what agenda were you referring to?

who is being deceitful?

what are they trying to hide?

what were the primary tenets of Friedman’s capitalist philosophy?

don’t answer to me, just make sure you have solid answers for yourself
That's odd, my Chrome (119.0.6045.199) has 176 voices. Not all are English though.
Like others in this thread have said, we're just starting to explore the technology. I view it as akin to early CPUs like the 6502 which only did the absolute minimum to today's monsters with large memory caches, predictive logic, dedicated circuits, thousands of binary calculation shortcuts and more all built in. Each small improvement adds up.

From a software perspective, I've wondered for a while if as LLM usage matures, there will be an effort to optimize hotspots like what happened with VMs, or auto indexing like in relational DBs. I'm sure there are common data paths which get more usage, which could somehow be prioritized, either through pre-processing or dynamically, helping speed up inference.

Also, GPT4 seems to include multiple LLMs working in concert. There's bound to be way more fruit to picked along that route as well. In short, there's tons of areas where improvements large and small can be made.

As always in computer science, the maxim, "Make it work, make it work well, then make it work fast," applies here as well. We're collectively still at step one.
They aren't screwed, since apparently you can't make any changes to your account plan. I've been trying to downgrade from family to individual for a week and I keep getting an "oops...try again later" error.

You can't lose business when you don't let your customers change their plan!
It's an interesting question. I guess they are mostly sales or support people, which need to be scaled linearly to a number of customers, labels, artists, etc.

I guess people misinterpreted the parent's statement. Spotify had 9,000 employees and downsized to 7,500. I think downsizing to 3,000 is a quite reasonable ask.
Fun article. The Weasel Words technique is what I notice most in my day to day life. Here are two of my favorite examples:

1) Sales advertised as "Save up to x%"... This means the most you can possibly save is x%. Saving zero percent definitely is definitely a possibility! Hell, they could say a price increase is a savings of a negative precent.

2) On some diaper packaging it says "Guaranteed to prevent up to 100% of leaks!" I had to do a double take when I read that. Was it written as a joke? Because I had to laugh. A bare onesie with no diaper at all could make the same claim!
But what are the costs because looking back it seems they are well into the negative earnings per share.
I can go into the countryside and make noise all day. I don't see that there's a pre-existing freedom to inflict loud noises on my neighbors for no useful purpose.
They're all there! But HN paginates them, meaning you have to click the "More" links at the bottom to see them all, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517550&p=3 ... and so on

(There weren't a thousand though, rather around 500—unless there's some sort of catastrophic bug I'm unaware of.)
It's impossible to have centralized "democratic" interpretation of information. You need vote system and constant revision of text. Even though I think it's not possible to have universal interpretation of information. Point of view vary with many aspects including politics, religion, regime, actual available knowledge...
Examining Tether's Loan Portfolio
As the owner of the site previously known as twitter showed - once you are out of the hockey stick phase you could do with a lot less than anyone thought possible.
I had been under the impression that mechanised proof assistants were much too low level for actual mathematicians (like asking programmers to explicitly allocate functional units and issue slots?) so it's interesting news that Prof. Tao finds mucking about with them worthwhile.
My point is that event loop are not inherently superior to thread pools.

When you have a workload that is CPU heavy enough that you won't have more than a handful of threads of concurrency, using a thread pool will allow preemption, hence give you a better tail latency, etc.

It's all tradeoff, event loops are good for some work loads, threads for others.

So to make an analogy of my own, it's like making a race between an F1 car and a semi-truck. They are both useful and efficient motor vehicule, but they're not optimized for the same thing.
What sort of tradeoffs do you need to deal with that make Seastar inappropriate for your workloads?
Here's the BBC's revision guide for 16 year olds in England and Wales. Only one reactor type:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zyqnrwx/revision/2
Yeah, the only reason this is a concern and a problem sometimes is because of Apple greed. Considering how much they charge for storage, you don't go for the large version, and since everything is soldered then it might become a problem in a future update.

For example, Apple Watch series 3 cannot update without replacing the whole system for at least 3 years. In this case they didn't even sell more storage.

In the end, whatever; it's just Apple nonsense, better be done with them and look for hardware elsewhere than care about all this...
Well one response could be that people develop a habit of using the bathroom or shower in the dark or near-dark whenever they're not entirely sure of the motives of whomever might maintain that bathroom. And a market for stupendously overpowered porrable infrared strobe lights that clip onto the back of your phone case will form alongside it.

Whatever does develop as a response, one thing is certain:the victims bear the cost for defending themselves once again. thanks to an often overweening, at best misguided, and to be blunt, possibly self-interested motivation to protect the special interests of aggressors, predators and assholes at the victim's expense.

See also: people whose response to someone pointing out that many aftermarket ( and increasingly, factory stock) headlamps are becoming bright enough to blind other drivers is to tell them, with a straight face, to wear sunglasses or get their windows tinted, or look away. At night. While driving.
The code doesn't seem to use it, but I think it would be a misspelling by the author, as it's probably an integer code.
This is an amazing technical achievement and there is no world where it doesn't get banned.
2000 lawyers, 500 devs, and 500 admin?
Why does Cory Doctorow hate us so much, and why do we let him get away with this? We invite him to be the speaker at prestigious conferences, give him the keynote slot, just so we can all hear him lecture us on the evils of the companies we all work for, and that pay us so we can feed our family. Forget about Saudi Aramco, I the intellectual property lawyer thinks big tech deserves more mind shares in the big evil corp conspiracy. What needs to be done about this is what I can do about this, decades, I tell you, decades of refactoring intellectual/property/contract law.
> I am disputing that claim

You are entirely within your rights to say that the authors have assumed that openai is not lying about their models. They've probably also assumed that other paper authors are not lying in their papers.

You then say however:

> GPT is a closed source/weights, proprietary product that changes every couple of weeks or so.

And when I ask for evidence of this very specific claim, you turn around and say the burden is on me to show that you're lying. That is what is butchering the concept of burden of proof.

> If your twist on this issue would be true, then I would, by definition, have to accept everything that they claim as true without any evidence.

Absolutely not.
It’s a real thing: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13988
1500=17%? Why do they have so many employees??
Still not clear maybe, I'm selecting players with a 62% lifetime win rate so mostly players who have been good over a larger number of drafts!

Definitely not perfect data though, and agree that defining good in this context is hard -- a lot of the variance of "good" depends on how you play the cards either way. All good points!
For me, the reason I keep a Chromium browser around is because government websites sometimes just don’t work on anything other than bog standard Chrome.
I'm curious about what failure of budget or imagination meant there was no alarm to indicate that the outer door was open at the same time as the door between enclosures?

Surely it would be a simple and relatively cheap (low hundreds of dollars) to set that up. They had obviously already had done significant risk planning, so how come nothing for prevention apart from Standard Operating Procedures? the new funfair management team vetoing the budget? Zookeepers not thinking that way?
> Sure, but the government HAS to make that determination in a data-driven way.

They really should be hiring a pollster to ask people which browser they use. It might be a bit difficult for those who use the default, but it wouldn't be that difficult to ask a couple of followup questions (e.g. which device) to determine which default browser that is.
Thanks for clarifying that. Sounds like a training ground for the artists (until they are fully replaced by digital tweening.)
There are multiple motivations and resulting technologies there:

- “L3 Switches”, which in essence are routers that do not have discrete ports and instead have closely coupled switch. Alternatively the same thing can be viewed as switch with powerful enough control-plane CPU that it can do routing (pure L2 managed switches usually have ridiculously underpowered CPUs). This can be and often is combined with some amount of offloading the routing and even more complex upper-layer processing into hardware.

- things like Shortest Path Bridging, which uses L3-style routing protocol (IIRC it is IS-IS) in order to build L2 FIB tables for L2 switches. The idea there is to not only have (R)STP-like redundant paths for ethernet, but to use full capacity of such paths when it is available.

On the hardware level it is mostly about accelerating the fast-path, where the hardware FIB contains some cache of bit patterns seen in the received frame, where it should be forwarded and maybe how it should be rewritten. And packets that are not matched by HW FIB are passed to the CPU to be processed. In a “dumb” bridge (ie. L2 switch), such frames would be simply broadcasted to all ports.

While the general idea is the same, there is material difference in the silicon complexity between matching destination MAC of ethernet frame and matching arbitrary bit patterns somewhere in TCP header of IPv6 packet.
Summarizing the key points made in the article (not my own opinions):

Plasmid DNA is a byproduct inherent in a certain way of manufacturing vaccines. The FDA/WHO set a limit of 10 ng/dose of pDNA for vaccines due to the dangers that it can sometimes be incorporated into the patient's DNA and/or cause cancer. (For a bad example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_contamination_with_SV4...)

pDNA has recently been found in mRNA vaccines at levels far exceeding 10 ng/dose. How these doses got past the FDA scrutiny and into pharmacies is attributed to a change in manufacturing process to the DNA-byproduct process (away from the more expensive and time-intensive PCR process) happening after the safety data was submitted to the FDA.

A review of the data of adverse events following vaccination signals that there may be an association with increased cancer rates.

The FDA's response to the new information about pDNA being found is essentially that a)it's not the same pDNA that caused the polio vaccine scandal, and b)they don't have any concern and will not be applying more scrutiny than they already have to the whole ordeal
See also "I could rewrite curl": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
They should run some ads - they have a great product
Unproven AI face scans may estimate age for porn access in UK
Maybe it has to be on an SSD disk now.
Eh, much of the free carbohydrate content of sauerkraut has been eaten by the lactobacilli. All that gas that comes off it during fermentation doesn't smell much better than it would if you had fermented it in your colon instead, but at least it's happening at a slow rate and generally dissipates before being noticed.

Now, when I had kalua pork and (fresh) cabbage on vacation in Hawaii, it was delicious - but produced effects more like what concern you. For four days (!) I was a noxious chemical factory with a seemingly limitless ability to produce airborne products that probably would qualify as weapons under the Geneva conventions. Thank God we had rented a convertible, and I do feel sorry for those who were near us on the flight back.

It was at L&L, which apparently does have a significant presence on the mainland (though mostly West Coast) and a few non-US locations. Be cautious of that dish. I'm sure that if you ate it regularly, the effects would lessen (as they typically do for such things), but the adjustment period would greatly shrink your pool of people who want to be anywhere physically close to you.

Never noticed any ill effects from mushrooms, but I suppose we're all different.
RCS supports end to end encryption (it's on by default for Google Messages), Apple just isn't implementing it in their planned implementation of RCS. Google Messages does support a desktop app and you can link it to your phone with a QR code, so it can use a single identity for multiple devices.
I don't mean to insinuate they are like for like. I just mean Apple is starting to pick up scrutiny on interoperability which started with USB-C and I think the focus on this project is going to increase the scrutiny especially if Apple cuts it off.
Admin should take this HN link down IMO. The title is misleading, CNN is not blocking the brave browser. They do have a browser-blocked page, and navigating directly to that page does indeed show that pages contents. Without further information, the link title is completely wrong. There needs to be some demonstration that brave browsers are actually being redirected.
Maybe it's because I'm linux? (Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS)

Also I have 3 English only.
If Firefox goes away, we need serious anti-trust scrutiny on Google/Chrome.

To me they are in a similar place that MS was when IE got them into trouble.

They dominate PIM/Office tools with the google suite and design them to work best in Chrome. The only major difference is that Chrome is open sourced, but their software we need Chrome for isn't so that doesn't affect their moat at all.
What would you replace all the plastics
and polyester with?
They should have a "Chernobyl mode" where it CAN happen. Add graphite tips to the control rods (or whatever else was the problem)
Governements abuse people more than an economic system ever has. A corporation has never marched people to camps, nor have corporations ever imprisoned anyone for their politics. If I don’t want to deal with a corporation, I have the right not to — unless government forces me to.
> On-Prem has a whiff of the olden days. Of IBM mainframes, SAP and Oracle DBs.

Off-prem feels that way to me. It's "the mainframe" run by the off-prem vendor. I have a dumb terminal.

On-prem seems so much easier in today's corporate IT environments. Ship the Customer a VM. Use SAML for auth. Interact w/ clients over HTTPS.
Playstation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
Nature does not offer the option of “paying for the damages caused”. We cannot fix it or replace it like a fungible good. You either prevent the damage from occurring, or you deal with the consequences.

E.g. the damage to communities from being in isolated residences in unwalkable communities where kids cannot freely play outside has no dollar amount.
I think you are right in a way. The hard part of spotify is getting the deals and the labels and the users. It is not a technology marvel.
There are roughly 13,000 middle schools in the United States.

Creating a page for each one and curating it represents a significant amount of volunteer work.

The "not notable enough" is in place in part to try to limit the amount of pages that need curating.

Whether or not that's a good thing is debatable - but the allocation of volunteer curation resources are often stretched quite thin on sites that crowdsource their content.
Sigh.

I expilicitly said there is 1 (one) miniUSB cable available at my local MC co7nterpart, and it's not even a generic one.

Dock connector is rarer than miniUSB (I don't think you would argue that?) and the reason it is still there is probably because this is an old stock. As soon as the sales drop low enough it would be in the landfill, just like USB floppies and miniUSB cables in the stores near me.

miniUSB wasn't the best example but right now (and it was my point in the first place) it goes through the same process it did with all the serial and custom data ports 15 years ago.

You nd me wouldn't have trouble procuring miniUSB for a couple decades (cable box!) but overall their availability would decline and in 10 years an Average Joe would need to search if he would need to plug in an old WD Passport from 2005.

edit:

> No, that sounds like just what I'd expect from magnetic storage.

No, that is not what I expect from an hdd. I've seen mulitple failures in my life, that was quite atypical. Most drives from that era or dead mechanically or fine, but not that
Revisiting Persistent Bitcoin Criticisms [pdf]
This a play on the classic Dropbox/rsync comment?
The conclusion is missing. Normally the formula is:

"So much so that when {occurrence} {outcome}"

This has the occurrence (the inclusion of the topic) but not the consequent outcome - seems like some anecdote about that author not recollecting the clearly memorable topic got mangled.

There's a missing word later in the piece as well.
When you're over 50 and out of work the state won't give you food stamps so you could be forced to steal or die
All the browsers are probably counted as Firefox.

A better guidance would be to count based on engines (Chrome, Edge, and Safari are all variations on WebKit) and have a device preventing an engine monopoly.
That's a good point. It looks like the article hints at some success on that front. It'd be interesting to see what that means quantitatively. Interesting that this delta could even be used as a measure of the llm's value.

I'd be curious about the difference in success w/ drafts on a new 2/2 bear with a different name, and cards with a new keyword 'fizzbangitude 7' as well.
> Spotify exists in a space that is a complete commodity at this point

There is massive lock in since they have years of my music listening history and have the best recommendations around. I also share an account with 2 other people in the same boat where it'd be extremely disruptive to switch.

That's hardly a commodity type situation and what you listened to + how long per song has never been a transferable thing in the industry and music recommendation algorithms significantly fluctuate in quality (youtube only redently improving theirs thanks to Tiktok competition doing it better than them). Spotify is top of the field. The hifi (finger quotes) stuff like MQA they have coming soon means they'll be competitive with TIDAL for quality, and there's only 2 hifi options in the industry with large libraries.
It's not easy. Definition of toxicity is fluid. Also, polotical topics are regularly flagged, even though source information is reliable and solid.

I miss something like explanation/select of category if giving a flag. Without any explanation, why link is flagged, no one is learning.
One of the youtube video previews indicates both panels (17" & 19") are 1280x1024.
I guess you mean the auto-playlist/radio stations play the same 20 songs?

I've had same experience as parent, Apple/Spotify/YT Music are interchangeable but for a few exceptions in who got a license to what, in which case YouTube wins because of bootleg uploads (Mos Def's Ecstatic comes to mind, ain't nobody got a license to stream that, but there it is on Youtube)
Did anyone else read this as "Russell's Paradox of Ghostbusters" the first time?
If the contract mandated it, then the manufacturer could simply have filed a lawsuit. The fact that they didn't and did something in secret instead shows otherwise.
How is a map illegal?
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/about?tab=how-add-languag...
Astro 4.0
By doing a lot less than anyone expected.
Raspberry Robin's Roshtyak: A Little Lesson in Trickery (2022)
Did you watch the whole first season since I made my comment? Or why did you think somebody was going to be an alien in S01?
Is that a contractual guarantee, or more of a "trust us" kind of thing?
The proper reason to give for privacy is: I don't need to have a reason for privacy; you're the one that needs to justify violating it.
It can also be how difficult it is to support on-premise software installations especially when customers use leverage to keep from updating to recent releases that had bug and security fixes, etc…

I ran a SaaS and PaaS for fintechs and we had annual events where we had to hard negotiate with customers who didn’t want to incur the employee training burden for upgrading to newer releases with new features etc. Instead of accepting the rolling releases they would do one or two updates/year and we would stand up monolithic support programs to accommodate them. Moving away from this customer model was about headaches and release/support debt.

There are a lot of challenges with complex on-perm solutions that hosting-for-customers can alleviate. Staffing for every customer hosting variation gets unduly complicated — and impossible — very quickly.