skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a question, only my best wishes as an early NAFO member.

You are in my thoughts, and not only: I have also been donating, flagging trolls, countering misinformation, encouraged politicians and done what I can but I still owe your people.

I feel I can admit this here without feeling I am bragging since this account is anonymous and will stay so. My goal by saying it is to say you are bit alone and also hopefully to encourage others to take small steps to help, like asking a politician, supporting civilians (or frontline heroes) by donating, flagging misinformation etc.
Never heard of it before. Don't really have a use for it. But still love the fact that HN frontpage brings these kinds of projects up sometimes.
It's worth pointing out that most of the best science happened before peer review was dominant.

There's an article I came across awhile back, that I can't easily find now, that basically mapped out the history of our current peer review system. Peer review as we know it today was largely born in the 70s and a response to several funding crises in academia. Peer review was a strategy to make research appear more credible.

The most damning critique of peer-review of course is that it completely failed to stop (and arguably aided) the reproducibility crisis. We have an academic system where the prime motivation is the secure funding through the image of credibility, which from first principles is a recipe for wide spread fraud.
If software development were a race, AI wins every time
Interesting point, I guess by "democratized access" I was thinking along a "state <-> individual" axis, but you're not wrong that in terms of nationstates there's better access across citizen groups, rather than just being concentrated in a few wealthy nations. I'm curious about how these weapons proliferated so widely, do you feel like it comes from improvements in their level of technological development? It seems like it could be explained more by geopolitics than "development" per se, although I could see an argument that weapons-sharing agreements are their own flavor of technology.

> Both are chemistry technologies, something by which we have absolute massively benefitted from on the whole.

But this is kind of my point. There isn't any such "thing" as "chemistry technologies", in reality it's only the individual technologies themselves which are "real". To talk about "the development of chemical technologies" you have to talk about both thalidomide and CRISPR together. Moreover, the history of this group of technologies (and the positive outcomes you refer to) are products not just of development but of the culture of safety and caution that e/acc wants to see undone. I can't see how a true empiricist could say "it's better to develop any chemical technology and release it to the public ASAP"; you've never had a true experiment and the whole problem space is full of edge-cases.
I see a silver lining here.

One of the worst parts about social media is image crafting. And it even seeps into real life on occasion where you see people at incredible locations spending all their time trying to craft some perfect pic to put up, instead of just soaking in the location or even really enjoying themselves. If anybody can [literally] image craft anything, then the entire point of online image crafting disappears, because anybody can now trivially fake anything.
Show HN: KReact, a Kotlin Redux-like framework for application state management
Eclipse OpenJ9 (previously IBM J9) is in active development and supports Java 21.
You made it even worse by quoting an urban legend and trying to pass it as personal experience.

Also, graphite shavings are bad for your lungs and they float everywhere in low gravity.
It works for me in Chrome, but in Firefox when I click the create button it just refreshes the page
Will keep happening because peer review itself, ironically, has no real feedback mechanism.
"The eight-legged essay was needed for those candidates in these civil service tests to show their merits for government service... structurally and stylistically, the eight-legged essay was restrictive and rigid. There are rules governing different sections of the essay, including restrictions on the number of sentences in total, the number of words in total, the format and structure of the essay, and rhyming techniques."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-legged_essay#Viewpoints
Extensions for DuckDB-Wasm
What was your point? An incorrect characterization of projections?
A couple agencies having certainly been flexing like that

The chilling effect may be more around the design tools market specifically

The case of Adobe is a bit different than anti-monopoly movements against other $T because the lack of 'serious' $100B+ market cap competitors here. So while say an adtech can have multiple big buyers in the $100B+ club, it's unlikely to see Autodesk, Corel, Canva, etc to do a $20B purchase here. AFAICT only Microsoft would sensibly be able to put its hat in the ring at high levels, made even more sane b/c the GitHub purchase, but even that was at $7.5B. So if there is no such thing as a decacorn in design tools b/c Adobe can't do big M&A, then VCs are only looking at exits at $1B, and funding + valuations get less frothy vs other markets.

All that starts mattering around Series A or Series B stage, as they look at how much $ they can exit at, and how big of a follow-on round the company can get with the same constraints. If a VC has a fund of > $50M, a pitch that cannot exit at above $B may break their portfolio design.
So, which company is Figma going to try to sell itself off to next? Atlassian maybe? I guess that Microsoft wouldn't be interested since they abandoned Expression/Blend/etc., Apple isn't in the market for web tools, and Miro is probably too small. So, Atlassian makes some sense to capture more of the developer audience.
Shrinking and laying off workers is rarely seen as successful. You can play games and look/stay profitable all the while the real story is far from it.

Success is typically seen as something that is improving, whether profit or market share. Shrinking while still remaining profitable sits in a more gray zone. I think most don't see this as successful, but I wouldn't call it a complete failure either, unless you consider selling a local company to a foreign company a failure.
Most people aren't like you FWIW; there's a lot of research that suggests consumers prefer higher fixed prices to lower variable prices. The trouble with PPV (even if it's much cheaper than something like YouTube Premium) is that now before I watch any video, I have to consider whether that particular video is worth watching. For lots of content on YouTube, that bar would be too high to clear. It's much more comfortable knowing I've already paid for the service and don't need to think twice.
values are changing.

there are new old.

it is all highly uncomfortable, but not all that bad.
I tried asking on another thread what Goodfellow rage he's referring to since all I could find was this: https://twitter.com/goodfellow_ian/status/113352818965167718...

If so, frankly I think it makes Mikolov sound pretty insecure.
Thankfully you can just keep submitting the same paper to different journals until someone is too busy to read it and just approves it blindly. The academic publication shitshow giveth and the academic publication shitshow taketh away.
What? I thought copyright would cover "*.human-with-carved-dog", not "specific.human-with-carved-dog". At least that's how it seems to work if you listen to some people. You draw a flower, nobody can draw a flower anymore.

This is the logical conclusion if you believe training on some copyrighted works and then generating different enough content would violate the original copyright.

If I remember correctly, just training on a copyrighted image without generating a similar image was argued in court to be copyright infringement.
Most cities and counties see the people of those cities/countries hire representatives to discover and report on the things that should be cared about that are not immediately in front of the average person going about their day.

If you alone feel you also need to duplicate their efforts, you may just have control issues, but if the need is genuine and shared by many then you need to rally the people to get the problem solved. Paying an employee to do nothing while you pick up the slack is a plain waste of resources.
I'm still not a senior, thanks to my horizontal/vertical moving across the organizations.

I'd just tell my young self to concentrate on the fundamentals and go as deep as possible. Be someone who does NOT need to suck up and "network" and can still find a job even in a recession. Be PURE technical; Don't be afraid to not get a hold on business; Abstract yourself away from business because that's something you are bad at. Maximize what you are good at instead of trying to be an all-round bucket.

Oh and not to get a kid when you are busy advancing your career. Maybe just not get married at all.
It seems they have rejected initial versions of the paper, since there had been later updates and clarifications based on the reviews. So it seems this was beneficial in the end and how review process should work? Especially since this was groundbreaking work it makes sense there is more effort put into explaining why it works instead of relying too much on good benchmark results.
> It could have been a form but some of the choices for which recalled products and how many of each recalled product would have likely made the form rather convoluted.

I'm not sure I understand how a chat bot is better in this case. This sounds exactly what a form is for, and you can have multi-step forms or wizards.

Incidentally, a ubiquitous feature in with forms that I seldom see on chat bots is the ability to return to an earlier question and change your answer.
But the Beer Hall Putsch was a (relatively) highly organized attempt by a militarized organization to a achieve some very specific goals (even though the coup attempt itself was a complete failure since it only took the army a couple of hours to stop it). It wasn't even necessarily such a big deal at the time, the nazis remained an insufficient fringe party for years (until the Great Depression hit).

It seems like you meant to start that sentence with "And" rather than "But." January 6 was organized at the highest levels of the executive branch, which is in command of the US military. We can thank our lucky stars that the executive branch was populated by bumbling fools at the time, and that no major economic crisis was in play. But these factors won't always work in our favor as Americans.

It's hard to avoid seeing a disturbing resemblance between the Brown Shirts and groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Enrique Tarrio and Ernst Röhm would have a lot to talk about if you locked them in the same cell. They were both betrayed by the personality cults they fought for... which, after all, were chartered to eliminate people like them.
Ah, fair enough - I know it's also in the COC - Rule 21.H for United for instance (no idea on other US carriers or European carriers), though United's COC in general provides some better answers to the question.

- https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.html#r...
Fly Kubernetes
This has happened already. It was maybe about 7 months ago and I believe it was a twitter link posted here. They took it further and streamed it to twilio to create a live phone call.
Makes me not feel bad about my own rejections when I see stuff like this or Yann Lecun reacting poorly on twitter to his own papers being rejected.
All I knew was what was reported in Dutch tech news. It looks like AVM won: https://www.heise.de/news/Rechtsstreit-um-gebrauchte-Fritzbo...

I just read up on the details, as best as I could with machine translation and my terrible German anyway.

Basically, a couple of thousand modems made for ISPs that got sold off after replacement ended up getting bought by Woog, which then flashed the latest official firmware for the hardware (which wasn't distinct from the carrier hardware in any way) into them. AVM didn't want them to sell carrier modems with unlocked firmware.

When I read about this stuff first, it was all labeled "custom firmware", but it looks like the firmware wasn't so custom after all.

Either way, AVM sued a company selling second hand hardware and now a tens thousands of perfectly functional modems seemingly ended up in a landfill somewhere.
> There are many organizations and industries that will not adopt Rust until it has a standard.

Counterpoint: rust is doing fine without those organizations and industries. Why change what is working well?
The democratization of technology can only happen if people broadly can afford the technology. Distributing the gains from technological progress isn't necessarily happening as a default/without effort. At the very least there is a question mark there (see, for example, Acemoglu's work).
Exactly, I don't think this project uses VAD for pausing LLM generation or interruptions in general which is key to good assistant interactions
> I notice a lot of hate toward JS, but honestly when I first stumbled upon it I felt like a dream came true; it gives you the power to create experiences and share them almost effortlessly

The complaints about JS are almost never about the concept of a programming language that runs in your browser, and the upside you describe seems to apply to any language that runs in your browser.
iPXE makes the client-side part of it manageable; the only drawback is having to walk through the open pull-requests on github for the patches you need to get it working, and possibly having to fight some buggy uefi drivers (usually solved with snponly). Also has the advantage of making it possible to do everything secureboot + over TLS with your own certificates, rather than classical PXE which is all plaintext.

For the serverside, there are several python projects on github which provide everything you need in one package, for example pybootd.
Also - let me put on the /e/acc hat for a second - I have a sure-fire way of accelerating AI. Remove all restrictions of selling Nvidia H100 cards to China! This will certainly accelerate the growth of AI, which according to /e/acc philosophy, will benefit all of mankind.

(I am aware of the saying that sarcasm and subtlety does not carry through Internet posts. So to prevent mindless replies to the suggestion made - I am not necessarily saying to remove those restrictions, I am saying if I put an /e/acc hat on, it seems obvious to me this would be one of the demands for removing any barriers to AI acceleration).
Just sue them. If it’s not enough money to sue them, let it go (and charge more next time).

Damaging their brand is just asking for a suit that costs you more than the unpaid invoice is worth.
even better, APUs. how about those vega APUs in everyone's AMD laptops and desktops?

oh, right, those are EOL'd, security updates only/separate driver package with a quarterly release cycle, even though they're still on store shelves...
The question is... who's going to smelt iron ore?

In fact I think it was the head of US Steel, who put it succinctly several years ago: Somebody has to turn iron ore into iron.
IMO one of the main things ChatGPT offers is the ability to interact with the knowledge of the internet without wading through ads and SEO spam.
Patents in question:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US10945648B2/en

They look identical to me btw? both files on 2020-02 and have title of "User-worn device for noninvasively measuring a physiological parameter of a user". From summary:

> light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising...

there are 30 claims and some parts of them seem to definitely be a prior art ("a storage device configured to at least temporarily store at least the measurement").. I wonder what's the real innovation is there?
Just personally I can see the virtue of multiple/different implementations. But the issue is building on top of gcc. The GNU toolchain is a dumpster fire, and I legitimately don't know how anyone can develop on it.

Not just ideologically, I mean literally - I don't understand how one sets up a development environment for GCC itself. I've had the misfortune of bootstrapping it a handful of times and it's the single worst behaved piece of software I've ever seen.
That deal had more to do with national security concerns being addressed and Broadcom's shitty business strategy rather than market share concerns.
It seems wrong/illegal that they can just "decide they're against the merger" and sink it by dragging their feet. Its either legal or not. I haven't dug into the details, but based on this one line alone it sounds like this is abuse of power.
This is the Postmodern Age. People have been writing about this phenomena decades before the widespread adoption of the Internet and before geniuses began penning opinion pieces about how it’s possible to believe untruths now.[1]

Which means that (in turn) you can’t just “log off” and be rid of the problem since it predates... logging off.

Neo thought he could just “log off” in The Matrix. But then then it turned out that the illusions ran deeper than first thought.

[1] Filter Bubble quacks et al
New L4S standard is poised to speed up your internet and reduce latency
867-5309 and the Poor Schmucks Who Owned the Number
The easy mistake to make with this type of data is to assume that any creator (or business like Netflix) would have a functional business model if they were paid "hourly" or by piece of content. Such a model would ensure the enshitification of content by enforcing pressure to create predictably "successful" content.

The alternative: Give real, predictable, support to creators and not content. Pay people to create.

Give them the opportunity to fail and support them anyways. If they keep failing, sure, stop supporting them. But at least give them a few chances.

This is why subscription models work: They provide stability and predictability. The problem with "microtransactions" is that it's all about commodification, which is the worst possible outcome for the creation of good art, reporting, and journalism.
Farfetch to Be Acquired
This is a very interesting read to me, simply because the timing was perfect with my reading of "The Religion of Technology" by David Noble.

In "The Religion of Technology" he argues that advancement through technology is completely meshed with religious myths (and not separated nor antithetical from religion), the redemption/salvation arc, attempting to become more divine through God-like powers we have gained through technology (nuclear weapons for destruction, AI for immortality).

It's a very, very interesting book from 1999 which feels much more contemporary than that.
The gov't might support an industry, but it should not pick winners in it.

Look at what's happening to GM, called Government Motors when they were bailed out, they seem to be headed down the same path US Steel is. Their thinking is broken
This is why analogies interfere with clear thinking and shouldn't be used as arguments. Usually it's like this. There's a superficial similarity between the two things being compared. Otherwise, those two things are very different, and the comparison is meaningless because of those differences. It's so banal and irksome to see this fallacy everywhere in discussions.
[Pure speculation; I don't work in the UI space at all, and at neither of these companies]

I wonder if Adobe is secretly happy about this. They were acquiring Figma at the peak of the market (for growth stock/startup valuations) because of the existential risks that Figma was threatening, due to their collaborative development UX.

But since then:

* Startup valuations have fallen. Ignoring regulatory concerns, a new acquisition deal today would be cheaper.

* Gen AI and Adobe Firefly are the new rage, and Adobe has probably captured back both mental and market share from Figma. And Adobe can now add collaborative features to Firefly, and it doesn't even have to be as good as Figma's to win.

So paying the 1B breakup fee is probably the cheapest and best option for Adobe at this time.

Meanwhile, Figma employees, expecting a big payout, are probably a bit demotivated at this point. And potentially, they might have been working on integrating into Adobe over the past year, so they might have even slowed down in their development pace.
Well, I take a different view. I don't place a high value on self-testimonials, such as one might find in the average CV. I rate a - er - developer on what they can do, as demonstrated by their achievements. In particular, I don't have much respect for recruiters who place any value on job titles as a guide to predicted performance.

I really am just a programmer; I have had tasks assigned that amounted to "architecture", in the sense of designing a complex system that involved networking, heterogenous processors and storage systems, and advanced terminals.

I was once assigned the rank of "systems analyst". I had no idea what a systems analyst was, so I looked it up. It bore no relation to the job I was doing; apparently a systems analyst was a person that traipsed around a shopfloor with a clipboard and a stopwatch, looking for inefficient processes and work-practices.

I've never called myself an "engineer". To my mind, an engineer is a designer who creates designs that are extremely robust and reliable, while keeping costs within "reasonable" bounds. I've never had a job that allowed me to indulge in that kind of work.

I'm content to call myself a "computer programmer".
The main motivation is having a GPL licensed, independently developed complete Rust compiler which is not dependent on LLVM.
Then you need to make it illegal to know of a breach and don't report it. This might give employees incentive to report their management illegal act of hiding a potential breach by obstructing internal investigation. Or better make the consequences of failing to secure system very painful and may put the company out of business. Not that 12 month of free credit monitoring for affected users. This will encourage companies to secure the data or better to not store what is not absolutely unnecessary because it is a huge liability. But of course governments like to access these data themselves from time to time.
No one can afford that.

There's a reason why a lot of forums went downhill and got replaced by Reddit... moderating them is a constant effort (and Reddit at least takes over the legally mandated stuff like CSAM, piracy and basic anti-spam), admins are tired of skiddies exploiting phpBB or whatever vulnerabilities the very second they get public, you gotta deal with trolls DDoS'ing you for fun, and also users are lazy because they don't want Yet Another Login (not to mention, Reddit centralizes notifications vs a flooded mailbox). And for blogs, the situation is very similar.
Are you ISO26262-compliant and your software is ASIL-A or higher? If no, why would you care about MISRA? If yes, how did you qualify a recent GCC?

Safety-critical automotive software development depends on tool qualification, which is often a lot of tedious work. There must be a spec, there must be tests, there must be proof that the tests cover the full spec, you must have a process to inform users about bugs. There is no free compiler which provides this.
Probably needs walls and windows too.