skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what would happen if this was applied to alpha code. Instead of generating 1 million codes for each problem during inference, do this kind of iteration during training and then generate less codes for each problem (or generate 1 million but hopefully better ones?).
You don't want to know how much you can ask when you are one of the few that can help a multinational migrate away from an old database system ;)
I’m baffled as to when this time was? Back in the day there was ICQ, Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger (and no doubt a dozen I forget).

Before the there there the proprietary networks (Aol, CompuServe and others) along with BBS, IRC, Newsgroups, etc.

I literally don’t remember a time in my life where messaging hasn’t been fragmented.
no, just a few irrational ones.
ba-dum-tis
Primarily Firefox, but once in a while a website will require Chrome, and for that I use Brave. Brave is better than standard Chrome, but like you said, the crypto garbage and useless features are frustrating.
I thought it was just me. What is causing that?
Could you link to a few examples of the most painful PR denials?

Isn't Terraform still considered one of the better cross-cloud automation tools?
I think you should spend some time reflecting on this take and whether it makes sense for a (presumably competent) adult to have posted it.
Debunking Eben Moglen's 2012 Prediction: How Facebook, Defied Expectations
I recently concocted a (conspiracy) theory that relicensing of HC projects is a ploy to get IBM (or some other company happy to rain on IBM's parade) to finally make an offer. Mitchell leaving the company features in the theory as well. Basically it seems like since at least 2021 HC leadership and/or investors are exploring exit strategies that will bring in the beeeelions.
It's very different. Your react components are organized in a tree that mirrors your DOM. If you're using React without an additional state management package, you need to hoist your shared state to a common ancestor, then prop drill it down to where it's needed. Nightmare. I'm advocating a graph that mirrors your subject domain, unconstricted by your DOM. Also, my graph is constructed from below, which feels very intuitive. Nodes specify who they want to read. You make no change to the node being read.
I expect both Apple and Google to heavily lobby against any kind of restrictions.
There is certainly a political element, when they tried doing cheaper missions they had two failures in a row which was really embarassing, even though probably if they had stuck with it it would have still worked out cheaper than using the low risk approach.

Mainly though if you design a spacecraft to have a 99% chance of lasting five years it ends up with a pretty high chance of lasting 30 years.
> I think it’s one app positioned to be the “American WeChat” in a few years if they don’t screw it up.

Yeah, not going to happen. Discord is turning in to a dog and pony show.
Yes, newsboat pointed at https://hnrss.org/newest?count=100

(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369946 for more details. Newsboat stores its state in a regular sqlite db, so I've since queried the db for stats and evened out my alphabetic splits)
The tweet is correct.

In fact, page 2 , paragraph 1 of the IRS doc you linked to actually uses some of the same wording as the tweet does:

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(1) Former § 174(a)(1) provided that a taxpayer may treat research or experimental expenditures which are paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year in connection with the taxpayer’s trade or business as expenses which are not chargeable to capital account. The expenditures so treated were allowed as a deduction.
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While I would agree that the tweet's wording could have been better - and your quote is clearer - the tweet above is not wrong.
Apology accepted. It's never too late to convert.
Yes, but Intel is still mostly vertically integrated and I think a lot of people are looking to see if they can compete without completely changing their business model.

Intel says this is built on their Intel 4 process, which is, as I understand, their own 7nm process: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/resources/c...
How is this a crucial question when they won't address "how is your technology thats trained from the internet going to survive in aa future where it produces most of the content on the internet"
I was using IRC at a library computer when I was 13. Now I am at Hacker News. Too late to fix now.
It's a compiler problem and there is no money in compilers [1]. If someone made an intermediate representation for AI graphs and then wrote a compiler from that intermediate format into whatever backend was the deployment target then they might be able to charge money for support and bug fixes but that would be it. It's not the kind of business anyone wants to be in so there is no good intermediate format and compiler that is platform agnostic.

1: https://tinygrad.org/
Years ago I was hiring a mechanic to look at a used car. Car and him were in a city a few hours a way, so I lined him up to meet me at the dealership.

Website and reviews went back years and had good reviews (which can always be manipulated), but he was so difficult to deal with over the phone. Was polite, but could not give me definitive answers even when it came to payments. i.e. I told him I could pay him cash or credit and it came to this 5-minute back-and-forth where he would not just tell me what he wanted.

Before I hung up on him, I realized if he has been in business this long he's got to be great at what he does because he is a terrible business-man.

I think I was correct. Guy put the car through its paces, checked everything under-the-hood, did the weirdest test drive I've ever experienced, and wrote up a thorough report. Even the sales-guy was like, where the hell did you find this guy (in an impressed way)?!?

7-years later and he was 95% spot on about everything...one thing he thought I would have to replace ended up being an easy fix instead.
No comment on the other half but why would that make you worse at investing?
There are companies (I've used Rochester Electronics) that both stockpile and manufacture legacy chips specifically for the long tail support situations.
> look at Apple's recent pushback against scanning private user data for CSAM

I don't think that's a good example, because Apple was very much in favor of client-side scanning until they encountered a popular uproar about it.

My impression of Apple is that they're very sensitive to privacy intrusions by anyone who isn't named "Apple".
This is relevant to a discussion I am having at work right now. I am not a fan of using a templating language as such to generate string templates, especially for a whitespace sensitive language.

I would rather use Terraform's Kubernetes or Kubectl module for this. Are there any pros or cons I should consider?

I think one of the key things I like about it is that Terraform will show me what it plans to change whereas Helm doesn't (last time I checked)
Excellent, finally in stable. Have been using Nightly and more recently Mull specifically for extensions like 'I still don't care about cookies', 'ublock origin' and 'dark reader' which make the web on mobile at all practical.

Firefox browser share is like 2-3%. Please consider using it, the internet will be a lot shittier without Firefox as an option, and it is the best option for privacy and ad-blocking.
In context of this article, it's most definitely a joke.
I've seen this play out on Discord too. When they rolled out the new "summarize conversations with AI" feature, I saw a lot of people concerned their data was going to be stolen for AI training as a result. I pointed out that they explicitly said this won't happen, and also that Discord's ToS is already vague enough that there's no guarantee your data isn't already being used for other purposes. The LLM fearmongering is powerful.
2001, when Adium launched. It pretty much had every messaging app that anyone was on.

I used it exclusively for years. It supported all those things (or I should say if someone had multiple ways to get to them, Adium supported at least one of them).
> whilst Arc has a companion app I don't like that experience.

They also just announced that they submitted a mobile version of their browser (at least that's how I read it) to the iOS App Store. It's not to be published until early next year, but I'm also very much looking forward to a better mobile app, not just the companion, although the share extension is downright fantastic.
If I had to guess, it's phrased like this since it's blocking their third-party cookie banner.
RedMonk and many other language rankings have methodological issues when languages are very similar. Many people tag TypeScript questions as JavaScript, repositories with large amounts of JS checked in are considered JavaScript even if they have complete TypeScript typings (see: Webpack), and so-on.

I think this is one of the strongest signals that TypeScript is the dominant way JavaScript is written:

https://npmtrends.com/@types/react-vs-react

The type definitions for React are more popular than React itself. Why is that? Even users who aren't choosing to use using TypeScript are benefiting from their IDE installing typings on their behalf, at a rate large enough to exceed the CI/CD systems and users running "npm/yarn/pnpm install" and only installing "react".

It's like this for other packages as well; but the sheer popularity of react makes the point well. Many, many developers are using TypeScript even if indirectly, it's what makes their IDE light up.
MITM, of course, stands for Martian In The Middle.
> While the spacecraft can still receive and carry out commands transmitted from the mission team, a problem with that telecommunications unit means no science or engineering data from Voyager 1 is being returned to Earth.

A probe going further in space than any other that suddenly starts sending back incomprehensible science data is a pretty killer start to a sci-fi movie if you ask me.
COBOL code is an interesting case, actually. One key reason why early computer languages were either verbose or cryptic is that they had very few standard symbols and punctuation to play with. It's why COBOL still has syntax like DIVIDE X INTO Y GIVING Z - you might not have a standard forward slash or divide symbol in your character set. Also why PASCAL (drawing from early ALGOL) went with BEGIN and END markers as opposed to the later use of braces.
Yup, had this job as an undergrad, too, in a national lab on campus. Standard process was something like rinse in regular water, scrub with detergent, spray off with de-ionized water, 5-minute dunk in aqua regia, dunk in more de-ionized water, then alcohol rinse and set aside to dry.

Wore butyl gloves and apron and a face shield. Accidentally raised my hands above horizontal once and didn't notice a trickle of acid over the edge of the gloves. Next time that shirt came out of the wash the sleeves were shredded.

Our aqua regia bath was also about 10 gallons, but it was in a WW2-era fume hood and it looked like it was made of some kind of metal in a concrete shield, that had been partially eaten away. One time a cockroach the length of my thumb fell into the bath while I was working - I heard the splash, and by the time I turned my head to see what happened, it was mostly just exoskeleton. I quit that job pretty soon after that.
They seemed exceedingly hard to use well but interestingly capable & full of promise. And they were made in a much more primitive software age.

I'd love to hear about what didn't work. OpenMP support seemed ok maybe but OpenMP is just a platform, figuring out software architectures that's mechanistically sympathetic to the system is hard. It would be so interesting to see what Xeon Phi might have been if we had Calcite or Velox or OpenXLA or other execution engine/optimizers that can orchestrate usage. The possibility of something like Phi seems so much higher now.

There's such a consensus around Phi tanking, and yes, some people came and tried and failed. But most of those lessons, of why it wasn't working (or was!) never survived the era, never were turned into stories & research that illuminates what Phi really was. My feeling is that most people were staying the course on GPU stuff, and that there weren't that many people trying Phi. I'd like more than the heresay heaped at Phi's feed to judge by.
Show HN: Calcium Imaging Pipeline Tool
OptiNiSt(Optical Neuroimage Studio) is a GUI based workflow pipeline tools for processing two-photon calcium imaging data.
A brief period (~2008-2015) when XMPP had momentum and federation was trendy, if incomplete.

Apps like Trillian, Pidgin (Gaim), Adium actually allowed chatting across many platforms on the client side. To some extent they still can, with add-ons.
USA specific — Americans pretty much universally use SMS messages, which ends up being iMessage for Apple devices.
> Still happily using Vault for now, though.

You should switch to OpenBAO.
Firefox android extension support went from "all" to like "5 chosen ones, but we'll enable all of them very soon" in mid 2019. How and why those were handpicked, who knows, clearly extensions weren't enabled by supported functions at the time. In the usual mozilla fashion that "very soon" turned out to be multiple years.
HACK (green silicon chip icon) is amazing 12/10
That’s a bit reductive. Lots of new closed models have come out since then too. And, chatGPT and DALLE (while closed) have both received consistent upgrades and remain competitive with state of the art.

I’m hopeful that you’re correct but it’s perhaps not guaranteed that the people with all the money wind up failing in this regard. And I say this as someone who makes open contributions in that space.
How much of the end to end process requires artisanal human touch? In some future day, is there a chance of tailored mRNA is industrialized to the point that we go from biopsy to vaccine as a standard course of care?
A tooling roadmap for Nim Lang
Thank you for this great write up that expresses the sorrows and pain a lot of us have been feeling.
As I mentioned in the previous discussion[1], users are going to have to put up with the system going down... and I just don't see that happening. From the article: "It was losing messages during the outage and never being entirely certain they had been sent or received. There was a gathering on Saturday, and she had to double-check with a couple people about the details after showing up inadvertently early at the wrong spot."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533775
You can't steal profits, it's an abstract concept.
The end result will likely be a few apps that do the legwork to beat the various messaging platforms into some common denominator feature set and give you a single pane of glass.

Unsiloing messaging isn't some quick fix. It would be like saying "we have all these forums like HN, Reddit, Twitter, SpaceHey, Facebook they should all share a global identity system and be able to be used all by a single app with the same APIs." Like we can't even make a generic ActivityPub client.
Needed to install pg/mysql using helm charts and needed to apply SQL schema.
And passing schema is so complex... (like write it into values file, but you cannot use any logic in values, so have an external script which would template values files). At least for the most popular Helm charts I've seen so far.

Kinda sad because it is trivial to do in Docker. And still possible to do in k8s with some configmaps.
Sounds good. Excited for this and all future Socket improvements!
Just tried it on an iPad; works great!
Yeah, that's silly.

Passing it through Google Translate works, though:

https://www-cnn-com.translate.goog/2023/12/13/world/voyager-...
>Intel spent more than a decade under Otellini, Krzanich and Swan. Bean counters.

It still doesn't change mistake in your original message.

>Gelsinger was appointed out of desperation, but the problem runs much deeper.

How much "much deeper"? VPs? middle level managers? engineers?

The example goes from the top, so if he can change the culture at the top, it will eventually get deeper.
Hey, give them some credit... at least they upgraded from fax machines a few years ago... ;)

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Edit: Less snarkily, I think there just aren't a lot of bleeding-edge tech people in civil service, at least in the US. Would you want to give up your cushy dev job to work for a huge bureaucracy at maybe 40% of the industry pay?

So you're left with bureaucrats/administrative workers who grew up on MS Office and Adobe Acrobat, and who can't easily switch to new tools even if they wanted to without a horribly complicated purchasing process.

Some other countries and small localities experimented with replacing MS Office with OpenOffice, for example, or Windows with Linux but I think most of those failed. Similarly, most government geographical services use ESRI software even though open-source ones have been around for a while. Sometimes it's a matter of feature parity, but more likely than not, only big entities like that are equipped to deal with government contracting and support.

Government moves really, really slow, and prefers to work with other huge companies under really complex contracts... it's antithetical to most software/web work. Nobody is going to jump through all those hoops just to get us a slightly more standard PDF form. If you push them too hard they'll probably just go back to paper forms and fax, lol.
> It's true that infalling observers will experience outside time speeding up, and conversely outside observers will see infalling objects slow down.

And the infinite passage of all external time is observed in a finite time by the infalling observer. All of the communication from the external observer is going to become a high frequency chirp at the event horizon, and the last message the infalling observer could send will take nearly an infinite amount of time to reach the external observer. And in the next instant of subjective time by the infalling observer they will be past the event horizon and unable to communicate any more.
I think the intended lifespan specification is quite real in that they advertise success as A, B, and C when they initially asked for funding.

It looks really really bad for NASA when it's a mission failure in terms of what its was funded for, the politicians start talking about budget cuts.
> Some banks are hundreds of years old.

Since the post is about a Swedish bank, it might be interesting to note that the central bank in Sweden was founded in 1668.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Riksbank

Kinda makes you wonder if anyone opened an account then and deposited a dollar ("daler" in Swedish), and let it sit and accrue interest for the family for 350 years.
Surely they wouldn't allow that?
"Nooooooo, V'Ger" was exactly what was my first thought. ( and just realizing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Pictur... was only two years after launch! Wow.)
Evidently that isn't the case.
There's a nice recent documentary about the team that keeps these spacecraft working and developing software updates, "It's Quieter in the Twilight" (2022):

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/
If you design so that it has a 99.9999% chance of working for 5 years it's going to work for much longer. It'd be very hard to design it in a way that it didn't.
When Ma Bell didn't let people use third-party phones with their service, the government made them change their ways. Why is the government letting Apple get away with the equivalent?
This is not correct. It’s been proven using electron microscopes that generic photosynthesis uses a quantum mechanical process inside every chloroplast. As a photon lands inside the microstructure an exciton hops through a superposition-network of chlorophyll molecules until it finds the low energy reaction center where it splits a water molecule into charged ions, used in further processing. This photon to ion process is nearly 100% energy efficient which would be totally impossible without the biochem exploiting quantum effects at room temperature.

I believe that it is very hard to capture these types of effects because measuring quantum systems impacts them, but I think (fully speculatively) it’s a matter of before we find more and more biochem systems that exploit quantum mechanical effects.
It's only jarring if the rest of the context is not all caps. Precisely zero people in the 80s complained that their VCR is shouting at them because its display is all caps letters.

Also in older computers, fonts were designed for all caps text. And it was fine:

https://www.leucht.com/photos-new/var/resizes/appleiie/30.JP...
it's Turing complete as long as the opposing player doesn't cast Force of Will ;-)
It wasn't a good documentary anyway- at least compared to the sequel, which explores the implications of large scale weapons (planet-scale), ship battles in hostile environment, genetic engineering, reincarnation, and brain-controlling mindworms.

Plus Ricardo Montalban!
there's 0 proof on this
If you can really keep track of 150 relationships, those 7,000 are close to 1,000,000 other people. If you say that at least 1 in 1,000 of people have delusions of grandeur, you are looking at a population 7 times bigger so that first answer that got voted down is the canonical one.
I am not downvoting you but...

> One of the key limiting factors to the adoption of augmented reality was the lack of available 3-D objects that you could then put into the AR space.

Is this true? There are so many assets. Problems with AR:

#1: All AR experiences are crummy.

#2: Delivery sucks. Phones are weak, the iOS GPU actually sucks, it overheats quickly.

> The majority of time and money spent for companies they were trying to get into the AR space was in sending catalog of catalogs to India, Pakistan, etc. for thousands of three modelers to create the 3-D models.

The money was misused on assets. You could cut the cost of generating assets to zero and nothing would change.

Riddle me this, #1 worldwide most valuable retailer per sq ft Apple has only 100 SKUs that all already exist as CAD models and the #1 AR delivery platform, why aren't they making AR product experiences? Because it makes no fucking sense that's why.

Show me in the autos vertical who is having trouble with assets. Nobody. Pixyz is great but so what? Autos vertical issues: #1 crummy experiences, #2 delivery.

Clothing? Who is having trouble with clothing assets? Virtual try ons make no sense. Who is buying $3 SHEIN cumberbumbers and cares about the fit? Nobody.

Some people working at a clothing company or a car manufacturer might express that they are interested in piloting an augmented reality orbit-around of some SKU... but that doesn't mean it makes any sense!

Show me a SKU where an AR experience makes sense. Please tell me real estate, introduce me to the San Francisco family looking to buy a home that is saying, "man, give me an AR tour." Nobody has ever said that.
Not only that, for a “first” (not sure how much of Larrabee was salvaged) discrete GPU attempt, Intel Arc is fantastic. Look at the first GPUs Nvidia and ATI launched.

It’s only when you put them up against Nvidia and AMDs comes-with-decades-of-experience offerings that Intel’s GPUs seem less than stellar.
right, I guess I was meaning normal as in people do it because there's no harm in it at all
Huh. How does that work with multimedia? Do US carriers not differentiate between SMS and MMS?
Adium was a total lifesaver on Mac since there was never an official MSN messenger client there.

Back then a lot of services also used XMPP but that has been readily abandoned - Slack used to do XMPP, doesn't any more. Google used to do XMPP, doesn't any more...

I suppose one reason for it is E2E encryption.
The Apple //e did just fine with 7×8 character grid. Even had descenders: https://urbanfonts-files.s3.amazonaws.com/samples/12479/b8bd...
Marketing Company Claims That It Is Listening to Device
Their messaging service.