skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. In one past job we had an issue with a large well-known semiconductor company who were very angry at us for releasing a version of the software compiled on RHEL7 despite RHEL6 having been out of support for a long time by that point. We ended up having to spin up a VM and compile them a bespoke version using an old enough version of glibc that they could still run it.
The Web 1.0 world was different then. Wired and Forbes (our distribution partners) licensed our engine and mailed out Cats as a way to take their “lost” content like audio interviews and photos, aka too many to print, to live online forever. Wired magazine didn’t even control their digital property at the time. We were the first team to tie all of this digital and analog together when the Internet was dialup and WiFi didn’t exist.

We had a second technology that decoded audio tones on TV that we launched with NBC to let your PC “follow along” with what was being shown. That pre-dated Shazam by a decade.

Too many things are missed in the story, but the big thing is all of the money raised was from strategic partners like Coca-Cola ($10M) Y&R ($5M if Ford didn’t like the demo, $10M if they did) and on and on to $205M.

My favorite Easter egg was we were the first Internet platform to look at the location of your scan via IP address to give more relevant data FOR you. E.G. for Coke if you scanned a can in Texas you’d get Six Flags offers vs Atlanta where you would get an offer for SeaWorld. This was a decade before Waze or even Google thought about location, through their purchase of ad networks or other companies.
I set up fingerd on my server, but it seems like you can't configure it to hide some information about your (the IP you logged in with, full name or user and email, etc.), so I decided to remove it. Would be cool if there was a more configurable p2p type protocol for discovering restricted info about other people on *nix systems
I think that's an optimistic view, but even if it's right, it will be years-to-decades of semi-chaos before the laws are updated appropriately.
I would love for this to work with my Google Voice number, instead of the number from my SIM.
It removes all of the YouTube ads. If you don’t like ads embedded in videos, don’t watch videos from creators who take sponsorships.
Glad to hear it! Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. You can make issues on the repo for anything that is confusing.
Safety Systems
If that were true, Amtrak wouldn't be leasing railways as it's nationally run. Railroad companies like Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, own their rails. They own their rolling stock. They own their locomotives. They lend you, the business person, a rolling stock to load and ship to where you need it to go. There it will be unloaded and sold/shipped by truck to final destination.

Rail companies own the right-of-way AND the rails. They control what runs on their rails, who runs on their rails, when they run, etc.

It's quite something to think that 97% of the rail tracks in the USA are privately owned.

https://public.railinc.com/about-railinc/blog/who-owns-railr...
Hi!

Can you elaborate on what in particular on the VA site that causes serious harm to the people it's meant to serve? I'm happy to bring it to the team or if you don't feel comfortable with stating it here, please bring it up to the open source website for va.gov.
https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-websi...
There is nothing in the defence of a party that uses lies and populism to gain power in the hopes of people not wanting to do the obviously wrong thing. You play stupid games, ...
> Generally I'm not part of the crowd that wants to send CEO's and management to jail for what are ultimately just bad business decisions.

This attitude is rare. Much more common is wanting to send them to jail for deliberately breaking the law -- or presiding over widespread flouting of the law by other management. E.g. The Wells Fargo cross selling scandal created literally millions of fraudulent accounts, and nobody went to jail.
Report claims to reveal identity of Russian hacktivist leader
Saying "mod on stack overflow" is much like saying "editor on Wikipedia".

Where these other community members who had the close vote privilege? Or an elected moderator that had a diamond in their name to designate that?
On-premise is a sales & tech support minefield. That's why SaaS vendors don't like it. No matter how well documented an on-premise solution is, the customers won't read the docs and when something goes wrong the customer will be unhappy and blame the vendor. And unhappy customers are bad for business.

This is why consumer electronics products have those stickers that warn you you void the warranty by opening up the device. It's because nobody wants to deal with those customers who open up their device, break something, and then demand a replacement because the product is defective.
For me it's just a logo with an empty "Loading" bar, Firefox 120 with strict tracking protection. Likely not worth my time debugging.
In context, something like: Julia won't take over because someone will make a sufficiently performant JIT for Python ?

(Name dropping ancient language implementations was confusing to me, and I'm ancient.)
There ought not be any juddering since that is an artifact of a varying frame rate rather than a static frame rate, nor should you be "literally seeing nothing". You might be more visually sensitive than the average person, who seems to not care about these things. It reminds me of my spouse, who is really good at detecting motion at night where I see nothing, almost like a super power.
HTPL is what I immediately landed on too. Talk about confusing beginners!
“ The AI Alliance is focused on accelerating and disseminating open innovation across the AI technology landscape to improve foundational capabilities, safety, security and trust in AI, and to responsibly maximize benefits to people and society everywhere.”

Sounds like a lobby group is all it is
I think the major things that drive anti-trans people crazy are laws, regulations, and policies compelling speech [1], and creating mandatory mixed-sex spaces [2] and competitions (we're still in an era where women have to fight for rights such as sports equality [3] and lactation rooms).

While Pew doesn't get into the question you're asking, it's research results show how widely people think on the issue [4]. A breadth of ideology facilitates polarization and craziness.

For pro-trans people you probably have a silent majority, but the crazy minority [5] will range the gamut in motivation.

[1] - https://www.insider.com/california-court-says-legal-to-misge...

[2] - https://www.archdaily.com/984280/designing-around-debate-the...
- Search for "Hesitancy is a significant hurdle behind the widespread" to get to the point where they start discussing this.

[3] - https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-11-01/stat...

[4] - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/america...

[5] - https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-trans-rights-radical...
So you're saying companies shouldn't do acquisitions?
I just hope everybody knows that "on-prem" means about 10,000 things when it comes to installs and integrations. And that's why small b2b teams should focus on SaaS first. You don't want to build 10k versions of your product. Just one. It's easier to iterate to get to PMF, and to maintain once you reach it. When enterprise customers ask for on-prem, that is sometimes a signal that they a) want lots of consulting professional services (sometimes free), and b) are not sophisticated customers. You want to serve the laggards last, once you can take cash flow from a more efficiently sold product and adapt it to idiosyncratic environments.
You’re my people. Well done! We created Make Magazine and Maker Faire to celebrate this good behavior!
I use sftp and sshfs-win for my gemini server so I can edit my gemlogs as text files with vs code and have them update immediately on the server
They would ban Ghost AIs -- They need non ghost guns or you wouldn't be a State
if you don't have traceroute:

tracepath -m128 bad.horse

works just as well.
I really love my steamed hams
I want to believe. Really I do.

Most recent app I worked on used Mantine for a base component library. Having such a large collection of drop-in components made the app come together very quickly. Performance matters but a well built react front-end for a solid MVP is performant enough.

I haven’t seen a vision like this for the stimulus/htmx world. How do you import components?
The audiobook version was also just released today:

https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Essential-Char...
Same thing they always do. Write letters. Crappy ones.
Scarlett's Wikipedia describes her first as a workers' rights activist and second as a developer [1]. To the first, I see a long history of complaining with little other than personal publicity to show for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Scarlett
> a few years ago there was no way to unlink iMessage

Deregistration[1] has been supported since November 2014.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042
I think the drama would have come to him either way, the US has been extremely divided so he was ripe for cancellation when covid happened.
Considering Windows 95 didn’t have drivers sorted yet, especially true! Mainly we did it for Macintosh support.
Why would someone own their home through an LLC if it wasn't an investment property? What difference does it make if they live there?
“Everyone” may be overly broad… just about everybody with any technical inclination knows yes, but for many years now the overwhelming majority of smartphone users have not been particularly technically inclined, and as such I would not expect most of them to be aware of the security and privacy implications that come with use of the various messaging services.

With that in mind, I’d say that most messaging apps don’t go far enough to make that distinction clear. Any app handling SMS or any other unencrypted messages should have ever-present, readily visible warnings when conversations aren’t encrypted.
But they are not wrong though are they. Perhaps the 'evil motives' might be more subconscious or even class conscious than overtly articulated in the minds of the actors, but the goal is the same.

What do you expect us to do? Sit and equivocate while the Republic is reduced to what will be effectively a slave state?

I spend a few years in the US before returning to Europe. The first thing I noticed on my return, that I was viscerally aware of, right in my stomach, was that nobody was afraid.

We are not asking for communism, just a clear eyed judgement on what has been going on since the end of the 70s.
I'm in a big city and that is certainly not the case. I can submit preferred locations but ultimately there is a very opaque selection process and there is no guarantee made other than a seat somewhere in the system. I know some families who were on a waiting list for years to go to a school in their neighborhood (less than a half mile walking) and were only able to get in this year because of seats opening up due to city exodus.

EDIT - to add, what does this solve in the Cambridge, MA situation where the entire district has removed advanced Algebra?
For now, but it's not over.

If not this time then the next. Just the fact that the commission was allowed to propose such a blatant privacy invading law is enough for me to know that privacy is not a something that the EU is serious about.
After my gaming computer started rebooting (probably needs a new power supply in order to hit peak power draw), I tried out my new M2 Pro for gaming again.

I've been using Codeweavers Crossover to play games that are Windows only, and it's been surprisingly fine. I never fixed my gaming PC (for gaming, at least) and converted it to an at home server. It's been a couple months now. I just lent a friend my GPU.

Epic Games doesn't seem to work, but you could always use Legendary for those titles -- I just don't have any titles on Epic that I want to play.

I'm hoping in one of the future updates that Crossover can activate macOS Sonoma's Game Mode for the games running within Wine, because I assume it'll improve performance even more. I'm also having a bit of buyers remorse -- I didn't plan to use this for gaming, and now I'm wondering how much better an M2 or M3 Max would be for more demanding titles.
I’m hoping the official term of art is either a clusterfuck or a fuckfest?
That's more "the experts had a (wrong) opinion on something" than "the experts overlooked something obvious". They didn't overlook it, they thought about it and came to a conclusion.

And if by "many years ago" you refer to a period where software deployment was mostly offline and through physical media, then it was indeed painful and risky (and therefore expensive). The experts weren't wrong back then.
… are you telling me there’s 2 BF PS compilers?
in your bubble
Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels
Not everything should be on-prem, but some things should be. Access control comes to mind
Replicate raises a $40M Series B
The exact figure is likely to be a little skewed by that, but I don't think it's enough to matter. At least, I rarely see anyone using Firefox anymore, when a couple of decades or so ago most people seemed to be using it.
On prem can mean self manageable to a small or large degree.

You can also sell a managed on-prem setup where you set it up and maintain it in the client environment.

It’s not a huge pain in the ass as long as the software is reasonably designed to be multi-tenancy as well as multi server. For serverless architectures creating an internal service provider to route to your serverless (or theirs).

A lot of non prem can be made easier by ring azure friendly which in turn has some ways to get on prem easier.
Sorry for any confusion, my comment was meant to refer to the linked paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17035

I think it’s valid work, but the original tweet seems to call a prompt based paper into question.

At least enough to clarify where he would stand on an example like this.
drives around any coastal city and looks out the window yep that tracks
Android phones are free? I have to buy the phone no matter what, so I don't see that as a differentiator.

I don't want multiple ecosystems that don't interoperate at all. I don't want to give my private conversations over to an ad company like Facebook. I like iMessage because it adds features without taking. I don't worry about what app I need to use depending on who I want to talk to, I just send them a message and move on with my life.
Or I could use magit inside the best implementation of the vi standard.
DR-DOS must have already been on the brink if some code in a 'beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1' finished them off.
We were a sign of the future of the web and where we sit today with smartphones and what is capable today. It’s a time capsule.
So long as you're willing to pay full price for a loaf of bread after we make that move, and you're willing to understand that no-one owes you said bread, and that you will starve when you're unable to afford it.
Herodotus is also a good read.
Our company does this and it has become a competitive advantage allowing us to get into customers that would otherwise be out of reach. Pretty much every single current offering is SaaS-only so if you want a modern product on prem we're essentially the only game in town.

Operationally speaking we built the products from the ground up to be available either way (at the time, it was a less contrarian take). The resulting cloud architecture is not multitenant (just high efficiency, orchestrated shared hosting). "Multi single tenant" I think they call it these days.

I think its an extremely pragmatic albeit unpopular choice for a B2B SaaS company.
I guess not everyone knows about it, but someone does offer it. On tesla.com you can order a car in about 5 minutes including the time it takes to put in your email and choose a password.
Yeah, maybe it will make some improvement for Android people, who are the majority of the mobile market.

For iPhone users, they'll still be some non-blue bubble people who lack the E2E[1] and tight iMessage app integrations that are popular among iPhone users these days. At least until governments possibly intervene.

1. E2E insofar as not carrier-accessible (unlike RCS), which is a bit of a hot button issue in the US, post-Snowden/PRISM. If carriers have access to RCS payloads or even metadata, they will most definitely harvest it for marketing purposes, as well as ship it off to the US government.
It is literally reported here in the same story. Just need to actually read to the end:

"Apart from HIghlander, Microsoft also tested an underwater data center way back in 2015 as part of its Project Natick off the Pacific coast and then two-year tests off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, in 2020. While the company touted multiple benefits of the approach, it has not proceeded with newer projects in this direction since."
That's a lot of silver. 50 talents could be up to 1800kg in silver.
When I worked for a big enterprise company writing simulation software, we did quarterly or bi-yearly releases, but the defense clients wanted to run their own verification and validation tests generally, so they maybe upgraded once every 2 or 3 years.

When I went to work at a University as a research software engineer, a particularly memorable incident was a research group getting very angry that we were upgrading the cluster to CentOS 7 thus meaning the ancient version of COMSOL they were contractually obliged to use in a contract with Rolls Royce would no longer run at all. We ended up getting something working using Singularity but it was very painful.
Funny that the article focuses on huge corps for on-prem. I work for a non-profit and we deploy stuff to hardware in Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan... You can't assume the Internet works and if it does, it could be a 1Mbps VSAT connection.

Needless to say we don't have a Fortune 500 budget. When I see a nice, affordable app that says "and here's a Docker image!" next to the SaaS options, I am like ( ˘ ³ ˘ ) ♥
This is very circular -- yes, that's true.. and because it was so difficult everyone, vendor and customer alike, moved towards SaaS hosted offerings.

There has to be a name for this argument-type: A leads to B, and those who seem to know only B start arguing for A because they don't remember why A lead to B in the first place. I see this all over the place.
I live in SF so not sure what you're talking about
If your outcome is defined on a continuum, then the expectation value is the sum of product of (probability of some event times the outcome value of that event).

Fair coin flips have 50/50 odds. If we say that you get $100 if it comes up heads, and $0 if it comes up tails, then the expectation value for the money you'd have afterwards is $50=0.5*$100 + 0.5*$0.
If it was an unfair coin with 30% odds of coming up heads, then your expectation value is $30= 0.3*$100 + 0.7*$0. And so on. The fact that the outcomes are dollars or damage percentages is irrelevant to the calculation.
If only there was an encrypted chat service, that works on multiple devices, has a single identity across all of them, etc. Oh well, guess we'll all have to buy iPhones to use iMessage.
I think it's a lot more nuanced than that. Should we, as a society, allow companies to lock people into platforms, and discriminate against those who have decided not to fall prey to that lock-in? Especially when avoiding that lock-in (which is often a passive financial/economic choice, not an active rights/freedom one) actually causes social and emotional harm (the whole "green bubble bullying" is a real thing; yes, I think it's dumb too, but what we think is irrelevant).

Personally, I think the answer is "no", we should not allow that sort of thing. Profit is not the most important thing in the world, by far.

Your car analogy falls flat, as is the case with most car analogies. No one would expect to get free service at any garage, and that is unrelated to the topic at hand. You can go to any garage, and they're mostly not model specific; even when they are, there are plenty of third-party alternatives. (And this is why locking down car hardware/software such that only the manufacturer can provide service is a garbage practice that we should legally disallow.)
Is there a formatted PDF version available? That would be equally useful. Thanks.
Google may pay less for search placement on Firefox if all their users block their ads.
AND a several orders of magnitude larger investment in tech writers, and manual "How can my customer break this software" testing.

When I worked in shrink-wrapped software back in dark ages the documentation writing team and a very extensive manual QA department where each the same size as the development department. Think people trying for DAYS to find out why out of 100s of thousands of active users, a few dozen reported being able to launch 2 instances of the main window when that should not be allowed. (Fix: Race condition in the "double click" handling code with a window of a few milliseconds)
I think part of it is that some people say a person is 20 petaflops of compute

So if we have that much compute power already why can't we just configure it in the right way to match a human brain?

I'm not sure I totally buy that logic though, since I would think the architecture/efficiency of a brain is way different from a computer
Seems the artifacts are released this morning. Including the huggingface https://t.ly/LRJrq and github https://t.ly/81zVT @ukuina
"San Fran is 100% going to end up like Detroit."

While Michigan and California both have had historicals booms and busts, I'm not sure the economic comparison is apt.

Detroit lost much of its manufacturing base, particularly automotive. The Bay Area is still doing reasonably well with software and biotech among other industries. It's also a gateway to Asia. Maybe if Google, Apple, the Chinese economy etc. all collapse, SF will collapse as well, and who is the mayor probably won't matter.
> And ultimately, having an on-premise version unlocks certain industries that will simply not buy SaaS under any circumstances. These are specifically security critical industries like Defense, Banking, Insurance etc. - all of which come with sizable software budgets.

You're putting the cart before the horse. The only places still making money off of on-prem installations are charging a premium for it. If a big government account comes up and offers to pay you extra for a special service contract, you're going to do it.

I get the appeal to developers of just throwing out a self-service experience with minimum commitments. But it's not a good, sustainable business model on its own.
Aptera hasn't delivered a car yet.
China is forcing it's manufacturers off Official Android domestically. Perhaps HarmonyOs or similar ends up with most of the developing world since Android for export phones won't be the best bang for the buck. That would put a dent in Google's ability to push API updates and further deteriorate their ability to push Google services instead of common AOSP interfaces with developers targeting a wide market.
Check our Orca. IIRC, it's a technique that aims to encode additional logical capabilities into smaller models by having larger models generate step-by-step solutions to various problems. This doesn't just make them speak more like GPT-4/3.5, but is supposedly making them think more like it as well.
And?

I don't get the complaints in the comments from the link you posted: As a customer my understanding is that it does not matter. You buy their product, if they had to charge VAT but didn't it's their problem and liability, not yours.

I am thinking that, realistically, if they have no presence in the EU/relevant country and are not too big then (1) there is little relevant tax authorities can do and (2) they may be considered small fry, anyway.
It's finally happened. You literally have to drink an authentication can on camera to stay in their program and get paid.