skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people really go to video game shows? I mean, seriously.

I can understand conferences for books/tv shows, as you can discuss the story etc with other people, ask the writers about next books/shows etc.

does gaming lend itself to that? I wouldn't think so. But I am an old fart in my 40s so :shrug:
Only 15%? Maybe there is hope after all.
> For me it brings up Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson shite constantly, despite my refusal to engage in such content whatsoever. It just figures, hey you like watching video game content so you'll love these smarmy shitheads.

You can watch "adjacent" content—at least according to YouTube—and you'll be fed Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.

Even if you wanted to see that content, maybe that's as far as you're willing to go, personally. Too bad! You get even more extreme commentators.
This may be equally scifi, but for sensors I'm imagining small jet powered drones flying in formation a few hundred metres ahead of the passenger plane.

Given how slow and cautious the industry is (and for good reason), even if someone has been working on this for a decade already, I don't expect to see anything like that before 2030.
> Customers don't necessarily want a choice.

But that's not a requirement for something to be a monopoly.
Crying "noble savage" is more often deployed to deflect any criticism of modern life IME.
The black and white question is - would you rather be dead? To the extent that your life is valuable, enjoyable, and meaningful - none of that joy/value/meaning would exist if your ancestors "didn't screw."

This is a real question, not a rhetorical one, and its answer is subjective to your values and experience. If your answer is something akin to "I am indifferent to whether I exist or not" then your entire argument is logically sound. On the flip side if you attach value to what you have and are, then it logically follows that if you have the chance to "ask your ancestors to screw" - you would.

As for "casting aspersions" and "going after" - that's not what I am doing here. You do you. The more interesting question is - which should society value and which should someone emulate based on their own values. That again goes back to the question I asked. If a view is contingent on someone feeling "meh" about their own existence, it's not a very appealing perspective.
This isn't enshittification. This is a sustainable business bought by a greedy business to then squeeze dry their customers.
Austin is the really weird one, yes. I think they delivered 2+ million square feet of new space each of the last three years.
Looks like it is possible to download it locally, but as far as I can tell you have to manually copy all the various files from the Artifacts folder individually
I'm just surprised they aren't making you send a physical letter via USPS.

Some companies require that. Here is PayPal's process for example: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/useragreement-full#table-...
In huge number of cases the null dereference is not from accessing 0x0 but some offset to it (ie. accessing a struct member or array element that's not the first one). Of course in practice most of the offsets are below the limit where nothing is ever mapped (on Linux vm.mmap_min_addr and seems 64k by default for me) but it's still very possible to have such dereference to not segfault in C. That should not be possible in Go/Java (if it is, it would almost certainly be considered a bug in the compiler/VM).
Landlord walks away, bank eats the loss, FDIC steps in if the bank mismanaged the risk and fails. Is FDIC going to fail? Obviously not, the government and central bank will not fail.
For what's it's worth, I use mp3caprice.com to download zipped music. The prices are pretty fair and I don't have to store another CD on the shelf. The bitrate is decent and I can find albums that aren't available anymore. The bonus for me is, since I subscribe to Mojo magazine, I can Youtube new artists and if I like them, go download the music.
"closer to the literal hunger games than anything people do for fun"
Most of the automated bot accounts shut down because the API is now insanely expensive. The bots that are still working have deeper pockets than the rest and can afford to still operate. I miss the bots that can no longer operate. I don't mean troll-farm disinfo armies, I mean the humorous bots done for fun.
I'm used to corporate marketing speak, but damn this is impresively corporate orwellian. This is real copy/paste from TFA, not some parody that I wrote.

> Q: Why is this good for partners?

> A: The industry has already widely embraced subscription and SaaS, and many partners in our ecosystem have already developed success practices in this area. Subscription and SaaS models provide an opportunity for partners to engage more strategically with customers and deliver higher-value services that drive customer success. It also helps accelerate their own transition to a business model focused on annual recurring revenue.
The belt analogy, IMHO, does not transfer to programming in general because each field where programming is useful or extremely required has different notions of milestones.
If you want to force me into having a general notion of tiers for programming I'd look into the required non-optional courses for a major in computer science and there you have it.
I assume that training LLMs locally require high-end hardware. Even running a model requires a decent CPU or, even better, a high end GPU, but it is not so expensive as training a model. And usually you have to use hardware that is available on the cloud, so not much of privacy here.
What? That’s not even the same thing. I can install signal on all my devices. I can’t do the same with messages. It’s about device vendor lock in.
Agreed, unavoidably the various rags are a subset though?
Consider this:

struct pinsyscall entries[] = {
{ .sysno = 1, .offset = 0x1234 },
{ .sysno = 2, .offset = 0x5678 },
{ .sysno = 1, .offset = 0x9abc }
};

Now `nsyscalls` will be 3 and `pin` will be an array of 3 ints, initialised to `{ 0, 0, 0 }`.

When we loop through, we'll set:

1. `pin[syscalls[0].sysno] = 0x1234` => `pin[1] = 0x1234`
2. `pin[syscalls[1].sysno] = 0x5678` => `pin[2] = 0x5678`

Now when we come to 3, we'll find `pin[syscalls[2].sysno] != 0` since `syscalls[2].sysno == syscalls[0].sysno` - so we set `pin[1] = -1` instead of `0x9abc`.
> bad icons are far worse than no icons

Yes. Cars used to have words like "OIL" or "TEMP" or "BRAKE" or "SEAT BELT" in the dashboad warning lights. That switched to icons, probably as a cost-savings so they could use the same parts worldwide. But at a cost in clarity.

Now that most new car dashboards have programmable LCD displays or at least a message area, better/more descriptive fault descriptions have returned.
Interesting, so they are using single precision (fp32), so 2.7B x 4 Bytes = ~10 GB. With CUDA overhead and room for context, you would need at least 12GB VRAM. They could use half precision and half that VRAM requirement and save costs for everyone involved. Maybe there is a performance reason why they use full precision.
You have to remember that for some people porn isn't just about scratching an itch, it's plugging a much bigger void in their life.
There is a reason your hand hurts with pain after you touch a hot object. This teaches you not to do it again. This is just part of the grand experiment of the US--sometimes cities fail so other cities can learn/avoid the same mistakes.
It seems ffmpeg uses the mailing list patch way of doing "PRs", which is... well it is what it is. It doesn't help me understand the process unless I just go through all the mailing list archives, I guess.
> If a computer can do it adequately it should be done by a computer

Wasn't there recently some entirely AI "musician"? I'm guessing the person you're replying to doesn't see an ongoing need for musicians either.
Flagrant plagiarism on her dissertation too.

How could she have gotten so far in her career with that dissertation openly available?
> all of us, eventually, will become the old, sick, boring option.

And? As the french say: the young congregate in groups, older people in couples, and the elderly are solitary.

> ... high trust communities in which people felt safe leaving their doors unlocked and people really did look out for one another.

False dichotomy: you can have this and have small independent households (and have a high GNP). It just takes a culture (as opposed to Ms Perry's?) where people are, generally, considerate.

(If Ms Perry fears being lonely, I would suggest that avoiding making unsolicited comments about other peoples' life choices often makes one better company.)
More than 40% of consumers in Japan have fallen prey to 'dark pattern' sites
If you put the printed side up, the next print will be superimposed and make gibberish.
What is the context window?
Such an unhelpful answer. You assume parent is one of the ones casting votes for those politicians? You seem to assume that there’s even a politician on the ticket that’s worthy of the vote on this issue.
Let's keep in mind there are entire store fronts and even entire buildings vacant for +10 years (!!) in NYC where the rent or asking price not only didn't went down but up. (!!!)

AFAIK the bet was to buy these assets almost totally leveraged and then wait for the ocasional fool or rich sheik or hot hip company to buy/rent them.

If nobody buys them in years that's not the end of the World because the bank/investment fund is the one on the hook ( at least most of it ) and the city obviously doesn't want the prices to go down because that 100 Billion dollar budget needs these taxes.

Everybody knows it will blow some day, in the mean time everybody fights to keep alive until the hopeful payday comes... and the prices keep ridiculously high and "half" of comercial real estate is vacant. Is this post-modern "capitalism"?
> Doesn't OpenJDK install a SIGSEGV handler, and generate the exception from that on a null dereference?

I thought I had read that they explicitly don't do that, but I can't find it anymore. You may be right. I should have checked before saying that.

> (AFAIK, a lot of runtimes for GC'd languages that support thread-based parallelism do so anyway, because they can use mprotect to do a write barrier in hardware.)

That's true. I guess those implementations must do something more advanced than "throw a NullPointerException if the program segfaults," given their garbage collector runtimes also rely on that signal.
No surprise. The big platforms, Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo, have a lot of studios under them now that they all have decided it was better just to do their own yearly show.

And now there are quite a bit of similar showcases for indie and PC games that it probably not worth spending the time and money making a big show like E3 was.
Epistemic status: just some guy, override this if you get specialist info.

Lenders are going to take this into account. I imagine that commercial real estate lenders are realists though, and expect their debtors to exercise their right to walk away from deals that go south. So lenders may consider it primarily a reflection of the state of commercial real estate, and secondarily a reflection of those companies' ability to operate in a bad market, and a fairly minor update on how the debtor will behave in future deals (because they already expect this behavior).

Home mortgage borrowers defaulting is more unusual and may say more about the person, given that a high proportion of the population will hold onto their home even if the value of the home drops and the mortgage gets underwater. This expectation gets priced into the terms of the home loan. So an individual who's shown that they're willing to exercise the default option if the market turns has a different risk profile.
It astounds me we have some blatant examples of a broken system (ie nationalISPs) juxtaposed with many working examples (ie municipal broadband) and yet the FCC and the government just scratch their heads in confusion. More accurately, national ISPs have used their profits to erect legislative and regulatory barriers to competition such as states banning municipal broadband.

All of this is textbook capitalism: Enclosures and wealth extraction from workers to capital owners. Municipal broadband is a textbook example of the workers (ie the town residents) owning the means of production being better for everyone except the capital owners.

Yet as soon as you mention "capitalism" in a negative light people just shut down and reject any argument to defend a system they don't really understand that is exploiting them for profit.

In the very least, ISPs should be regulated as utilities. But that's still a bandaid solution.
Cook is not really a natural. He makes up for it by throwing in a lot of incredibles and amazings and it often feels pretty forced.
(US here) -- I remember to install light switches so that the up position is "on" because of a faulty light switch I had decades ago -- the spring holding the position was broken so that, over time, gravity would eventually make it fall to the lower position.

Having the lower position be "off" seems like a good failsafe for that sort of thing. I don't know if that's why the convention, but it is the mechanism that I use to remember what the convention is.
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You don't need to train the model on your data: you can use retrieval augmented generation to add the relevant documents to your prompt at query time.
Just some food for thought. I was paying attention to this more closely earlier in the year.

Here's the stock ticker for HPP. HPP is the predominate commercial REIT for the SF Bay Area: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NYSE-HPP/ They're down ~75% from ATH in 2020, but up 75% since ATL six months ago.

Also, keep in mind that commercial loans get divided into short-term/long-term groupings. A long duration for a short-term loan is 3 years and a short duration for a long-term loan is 5 years. So, there's this sweet spot between 3-5 years after economically-disruptive events where underwater loans created at the peak of the market start to get called. We're a couple of months away from the three-year anniversary of shutdown.

IMHO, the next two years will be very rocky for SF as devaluations become real and start to significantly undermine city taxes, but the last six months have implied that fear was overstated and/or early in late 2022.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next!
> At one point I had both an Apple and a Google Android phone.

What percentage of people do you suppose carry two different phones in their pockets? Is this something you reasonably expect the majority of people to do?

> Apple preventing other app stores on iOS is more like Starbucks preventing Peet's from coming into its stores to sell its coffee.

Just look at your own words. Preventing other stores is like preventing competitors from selling in your store?

Preventing other stores is preventing other stores. You can put whatever you want in your store, they put what they want in theirs, and the customer gets to choose where to get their app.

Preventing the customer from using the other store is the anti-competitive thing being objected to. It doesn't need an analogy, that's literally what it is.
Opus provides excellent voice quality at 10 kbps (less than 1/6th of what PCM uses at 8 kHz), at a latency of 26.5 ms, so it's definitely not a technical problem for HFP either.

There's always the risk of unknown patent claims, but the same is true for any other codec not older than 15 or so years.
You may be interested in two proof of concepts I've been working on. I work with generative AI and music at a company.

MidiJourney: ChatGPT integrated into Ableton Live to create MIDI clips from prompts.
https://github.com/korus-labs/MIDIjourney

I have some work on a branch that makes ChatGPT a lot better at generating symbolic music (a better prompt and music notation).

LayerMosaic allows you to allow MusicGen text-to-music loops with the music library of our company.
https://layermosaic.pixelynx-ai.com/
They manage to get it right on my bill, so it's not like they don't have the information handy, they just don't want to disclose it until as late as legally possible.
Who should one elect instead? (I'd prefer a general answer, rather than a specific one; it's a widespread problem.)
> A lot of news is just PR.

It seems like the distinction between PR and news as content is clear though, and their conflation is from being published together

> News become part of history but I don't think history is the integral of old news.

Certainly not; so my mental model can be amended:
History ~= integration(old news + X)dt

And my question then is what to use as X?
I'm not moving languages over memory safety and I'm not going to apologize for it either. I don't particularly like Rust and its not fit to replace C. If it replaces C++ I could care less and may even be somewhat supportive.
It is definetly being forced. We MUST return! Apes working together in the same location? STRONG!

I think it's one of the dumbest things ever to happen in corporate America and once this whole thing blows over everyone will say: of course it didn't work. But because shareholders something somethimg it was their duty to attempt it.
Ask HN: What open-source alternative is there for Canva?
I'm a power Canva user but I have a passion for open-source and just like buying local, I try to use open-source whenever I can.

Is there anything out there that stands up to Canva as an alternative?

Thanks in advance!
LLMs in the middle: Filtering social-media content in the browser using LLMs
Not by choice on the last point, nor is it good for them given the studies / anecdotal evidence of Japanese people with life-long friends being the happiest.

I have aging parents and friends with aging parents, and they become isolated, lonely, and desperate, and this isn't by choice.
> why would the secret service investigate a private sector company incident? At most, it should be the FBI afaik

The Secret Service started out as an anti-counterfeiting service, expanded into VIP protection, general national financial system security, and for a while general cybercrime, though the latter (outside of where it touched on the other Secret Sevice functions) fell away.

“We also protect the integrity of our currency and investigate crimes against the U.S. financial system committed by criminals around the world and in cyberspace.” https://www.secretservice.gov/about/overview
Scope issues, mostly. I'm left unsure of what products to expect, so I'm less likely to follow up/check in later on. A lot of time is spent on the analogy, too, which may mean there's not much substance to say yet. It may have been worth waiting to announce until they had something specific to present. I don't know! I'm just an outsider/random person's perspective.
Manhattan's real estate laws are pretty different from the rest of the country. They already allow more mixed use real estate than anywhere else in the country. I think it's a bigger hurdle for a place like California and especially San Francisco to overcome (even more so quickly).
A driver has a legal obligation to not drive a vehicle that is spreading debris on the road, which they are often doing and that debris often comes from their construction sites. There are places that use track washing stations at entrances and exits to prevent this.
There is also Rancher Harvester (https://harvesterhci.io/) which I think is a breadth of fresh air compared to VMware and OpenStack and then there is the Windows Server based Azure Stack HCI, too. In my experience, VMware‘s biggest moat is the vast support from software vendors. It basically is the default supported platform for almost every business application. This comes with well known best practices, many experienced admins, out of the box solutions from hardware vendors and highly standardized managed services. Most apps leave VMware for the cloud or Kubernetes but not another on-prem VM platform.
Thanks! We've had to internalize the lesson "startups can do one thing well at a time" :)

At first, it was a matter of doing discovery with people who we thought would find Bracket useful. These weren't sales convos, but pure feedback/discovery. From that process, we got a good sense of which roles face these pain points, and exactly what those pain points are.

Since then we've split our time between 1) writing content/distributing it in places people would find it helpful and 2) reaching out directly to people who would use Bracket. In the latter case, we really don't like generic sales campaigns, so we spend a good bit of time crafting each message.
I'd bet a lot more people would be willing to go into offices if they... had offices. Surely not everyone as there are other reasons not to want to go in to an office.

But a private room with a door and not having to hear/see/sit next to colleagues within arms reach would be a huge benefit. Open floor plans were just a race to the bottom ... well the bottom got hit now offices are empty. You can't just force folks to come in and accept the awful conditions because people will just say no now.
Totally. I’ve known credit card companies to pull the same shit—deceased was the only one on the account, call and try to get relatives to assume the debt, implying that they have to, and trying to shame them into it if that doesn’t work. I bet it works often.
According to the iPhone 'translate' app:

> In the newly released AI-related meeting documents by the Japanese government, which does not want to regulate AI, it is stated that using technology to disrupt AI learning with the intent of business interference could lead to criminal penalties.
iOS 17.3 to Include Stolen Device Protection Feature
I was only tossing it out there as a token example. You can manipulate the heap in a minor way if you continually request and free memory in irregular ways (called mem fragmentation). Fixing the size (might) be one step towards hardening the system against OOM attacks. overall, I'm just wondering why we can't make C++ safe by starting at the lowest layers, mem-proofing them, and working up from there (and limiting/discarding some features along the way if necessary).
I always thought that was a quirk of photocopier manufacturers. It stuck in my mind because the symbol makes no sense to me.

I didn't realize it was an actual standard. Still doesn't mean the symbol makes any sense, but hey, at least it's a standard.
Milliseconds Make Millions [pdf]
Agree, it seems like it’s insanely hard to back up a modern JS-enabled web page in a usable way that results in a single file which can be easily shared.
But it's true. Life WAS like that back then.
I think you're showing a lack of understanding of Spacex's fast development processes but as an aside the word cue (rather than queue) is used when we are referring to a sign or signal given by something or someone.
These huge landlords can leave units empty for years rather than drop prices. They need to be cut off from their near endless lines of credit that keeps distorting the commercial real estate market.

Only then will prices correct. It’s killing small businesses in the US. A modest retail business or restaurant can’t afford the $20,000 a month they want for a tiny unit.

Their control of the market is having harmful downstream effects on society.