skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure C++ is the most opposite you can get from being a toy language.
Typography isn’t set. It _is_ about legibility and therefore proper typography _is_ functional.

This site simply isn’t as legible as it could be. I am not suggesting it needs to be “pretty”. A monospaced Markdown file would be more legible.
Could Google Bard Disrupt Universities?
Step 1 Google collects a bunch of playlists. Bard classifies them
as "networking", split by sub-topic (queueing theory, congestion handling,
DNS, TCP/UDP, hardware types, wireless vs wired vs quantum, etc.)

Step 2 is for Bard to summarize each lecture and create a
1-page summary of the important points as well as a syllabus of
each course.

Step 3 is a use the lectures as reinforcement learning from human
feedback (RLHF) so Bard is able to interactively answer questions
about networking before, during, and/or after the lectures.

Step 4 is for Bard to create (or find) github repositories related to the
course as well as the whole subject of networking.

So now Bard IS the teacher.

Iterate by topic.

Step 5 is to have Bard create a "canonical version" of network lectures
that it has self-generated, curated by experts in the field.

Now you've disrupted all the Universities.

I suspect that a small team could have most of this working within the
next year or two using Bard doing voice recognition in lectures as well
as Bard generated voice, video-from-text to illustrate the lectures, and
even generate and correct homework problems unique to a particular
user's weak areas of understanding based on interactions.

Bard could be adaptive enough so that when I don't remember Little's
Law it can dynamically insert a quick tutorial at the point in question.

Companies could use such courses instead of resumes or interviews.
You need to show a passing grade for a course in their problem area.
People could easily transition from their current job to another job by
taking Bard courses that target the employer. Everybody wins.

Having deep control of youtube puts Google ahead of OpenAI.

Skate where the puck is going, not where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky
> In comparison, women from these backgrounds were much more likely to go into teaching, or a creative profession—jobs which are well respected but substantially less financially rewarding.

…who respects teachers or creative profession careers? Genuinely asking. Teachers are ragged on all the time (“those who can’t do, teach”) and creative professions are often mocked as well in my high paying circles.
It's a fair point and I partially agree with you. The reason why the images are this way is on one side because that's what the AI comes up with, which is clearly biased (but it took me long enough just to get to a photorealistic look). And on the other side because I think a more aspirational look will push you more than a strictly realistic one. If I see the muscled guy bouldering I think how I could become, and it just looks "easier". While if I see a regular person who can barely hold onto the wall I just think of how bad the experience might be and could end up not even considering it.
One of the best books on the topic. Super easy to follow.
Anyone testing GPT4, without having heard of it or other recent progress, would be flabbergasted to find out it wasn’t human.

One problem with the Turing Test we might have predicted: if people have context on how models have improved, they narrow their expectations to match.

But I suppose the Strong Turing Test is when a model is so much smarter than us, that it can convincingly hide its differences and superiority, even when we have good reason to suspect it’s an AI.
Actually, there's no need to be all US-only. It's only the finished article that can't be imported.
> Inclusivity […] Unfortunately. (Moderators occasionally unkill such threads if they see it in time, although it rarely sticks).

Why would this be described as “unfortunate”? For example tings like LLM:s being trained on flawed/biased data is a known real and unfortunate thing which can hurt already marginalised groups in society if used for eg. policy derisions.
Every once in a while a tourist steps on a landmine, caught totally unaware that all the rules they thought they lived under aren't slow moving and consistent, that they werent made to establish a fair and just order, but are in fact subject to change over night if it offers an expedient benefit to the one writing the rules, long term consequences be damned. I hope she gets her channel back, though I think its fairly obvious that her ban is just the collateral damage of youtubes/googles moderation standards.
CV: Corona Virus
Bluesky now allows now playing embedded media in the app
For personal ethos and governance reasons, I want Bluesky to succeed. With the combination of recently shipping public posts [0], and now shipping embedded media players, I feel like things are really improving.

Combined, these features allow media creators to use the app to share their creations with the world. That's a big deal.

IMHO, as just a user, they have been prioritizing features very well recently.

Please email username at the big G for an invite code if you would like one. I hope invites go away soon, but they are a small team.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38739130
A nice companion piece, focused on a related probem:

"An Efficient Data Structure For A Hex Editor" https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/btree.htm...
We generally think a person is a good person if we casually encounter one in a social setting.

When they want more pay or help/support, that is when people stop respecting them as much.

So they are respected when that respect is free to give out.
See my reply to a similar sibling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38775375
Indeed, my primary use case for JellyFin is to archive media which is likely to disappear. The obscure, the weird, the niche films and TV from decades past - not relevant enough for a DVD release.

Some of this stuff, I search for years before finally finding it.
A college professor or professional artist has a lot more social clout than an IT geek or a middle manager at a bank.

If your social circles go around mocking teachers, you should probably find a better social circle.
android mobile i only see a bg image and an icon, not sure what im.. meant to do?
European made wind still dominates European installs.

China supplies its own massively growing domestic market as well as others.

It's starting to make inroads into Europe, Japan and other places where politicians have sabotaged the renewable transition to the detriment of local manufacturing, but that's a relative recent phenomenon for wind, slightly behind the pace blazed by the same countries on solar.
The GPs point was that this ban is a drop in the ocean (financially speaking) for Apple. So claims of irreparable harm is a little over the top. Which is correct from a financial / social perspective.

You are claiming that from a legal stand point Apple are correct. Which is also true.

My point is that both arguments are correct. One doesn't contradict the other.

You touched a little on this when you said there's no room to play nicely in court. And I agree with that. That's exactly why statements like that are used in legal claims. But what you're failing to empathise with is why they're used. It's because it is "technically correct" to the extreme edge of reality. And that's why the GP scoffed.

Or to put it another way: the alternative would be Apple saying "yeah we were a little underhanded and this ban wouldn't affect the health of the company, but we'd like to appeal the ban regardless". That would also be technically correct but you're not going to win any legal arguments that way. So of course Apple are going to write the most dramatised version of facts that favour themselves.

The problem with being technically correct is that there are a multitude of ways one can say the same technically correct thing yet convey a completely different story.

So yes, you are right. But I can also totally see why some might scoff at the Apples statement when taken verbatim. Frankly, it is a bit of an absurd statement. If it were made in any other circumstance outside of a legal appeal, it would be a pretty absurd claim to make. Literally the only reason one can defend that comment is because it's a legal statement.

And hence why both parties in this thread are correct.
Women being allowed to work is hardly a centuries-old pattern.

edit: Given the comments and downvotes, perhaps it wasn't clear that I was speaking in the context of the article, which implies the ability to choose one's career. Women have "worked", but patriarchal society limited the work it would allow them to do. (and in most cases, essentially mandated they do certain types of work)
Not saying they aren't staged, but I still think reality is still a better option, e.g.:

https://www.pexels.com/search/bouldering/

https://www.pexels.com/search/grandmother%20and%20grandchild...

https://pixabay.com/images/search/scavenger%20hunt/
That’s true!
> This seems a pretty thin argument. Hiring some people who already successfully did it has a higher chance of success than hiring randos, even if they have to do a clean-room re-implementation.

That's... literally the argument. If the patent was obvious to a practitioner in the field, you wouldn't need to hire experts. And not just any experts, experts from the company that holds the patent in question!

Honestly this part of the argument seems pretty sound to me. Whether patents should have this kind of power on the whole is I think an excellent question. But given the system we have, as I see it Apple is screwed here. They're going to end up cutting a very big check to get out of this.
> Is there any room for a news organization that doesn't do this "keep the user on our website as long as possible" game?

Depends on what "any room" means. A website like that can certainly exist and potentially even be profitable, but there's always a ton of pressure to not do it. Even if you're profitable now, playing that game will make you even more money. "The meta" here is to spend the smallest amount of effort to produce the most content that's just interesting enough to keep someone reading it, and extract the most viewing time from that little content.

Judging by what the companies are adopting nowadays, it seems that they figured out that being reputable just isn't profitable enough.
I have been to a couple of hackathons as participant and as organizer. Some sessions where really good and some were really terrible. The biggest takeaway for me in organizing a hackathon is to keep in mind that technical people who participate tend to be rather competitive folks who put a lot of soul into their work. So if you have no fair and clear evaluation system and PowerPoint designs compete with code, frustration is sure to happen.
> sometimes lags on the simpler screens, like the settings tab and configuring the remotes' buttons

That's because there is no cloud storage or place to store those settings other than the devices (or the bridge) themselves.

You are not waiting on the app. You are waiting on a request and response to the device over Zigbee to save the settings, which is not an instant action.

Maybe they could just close the screen and finish the work in the background, but I like knowing it completed successfully.
imagine the conspiracy theories though...

"No you can't just fight cancer this way, that's cheating, drink this completely natural juice made from pulped fruits and vegetables that have been growing separately for 80 million years."
Paging George Miller.
Quasi-tangent: I was once hit by a coworker doing first code review on a new repo with "hmm...I'm not familiar with using Makefiles as a project management tool. So something something [don't remember] we should replace that." It struck me as weird because I don't see `make` as a build tool so much as automating shell script snippets you would/could type at the command line. From that POV I conceptually see Makefiles as like a `bin/` folder full of little scripts, honestly the main advantage for me being every command runs with working dir being where the Makefile is; no need to write a `set -euo pipefail; HERE="$(dirname "$0")"` dingleberry at the top of every hypothetical `bin/` script. And having incremental rebuild is sugar on top when it's possible to write :)

I don't see `make` as a build tool because I believe from experience that is where the road to hell begins. But it is convenient to have `make` call CMake/Cargo/pip/whatever. Plain `make` can build, `make test` can test, `make fmt` can auto-format... Even better if you alias `m` to `make` in your shell.
If we're going to discuss this, I'd like to keep things on point. My specific question was, how do you propose paying for this system of allocation when the entire premise is to eliminate non-trivial domain fees.

As a brief example:

mycattest123.com: $17.75 plus $23.99/y

mycattest123.cat: $13.00 plus $49.99/y
Governments should be too. It's probably the cheapest way to get the most justice done to "just" have things durably publicly archived, not to mention historical research, adminstrative utility and so on. An equivalent amount of other "spending on justice", e.g. by actually funding various agencies properly would cost hundreds of millions at the least. Not to mention it's an extremely transparent way to do it.

Of course, there's not much juicy pork there: even if they cared about the cause, a real government is probably more likely to throw a few billion at Iron Mountain and G4S via McKinsey to fail to get a tiny fraction of the utility.
Or to put it another way - the longevity of something on the Internet is the inverse of what you’d want it to be.
Are you sure? IT geeks are broadly understood to make bank, while professional artists get a lot of scoff as “so a barista?”. How much respect, genuinely, does a person who say does interior design for a living really get? In my experience, very little.
Is there any reason to use make over ninja and gn?
Nice one. Former feedity.com now charges a tiny fee of USD 41 p.M. for this feature :-(
The “unfortunately” refers to the preceding text rather than the following.

> However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Unfortunately.
For coronavirus maybe, because it's not much of danger for you in the first place, but those risks would be thousands of times more acceptable for cancer.

There are no side effects observed from mRNA CV vaccines that could be worse when compared to cancers with 1%+ mortality rate.

As a reminder you won't be taking it before the cancer, you would be taking it after the fact.
In theory I agree with you.

In practice, poorly ported web apps often fail in various ways. Things like content covered by the keyboard, or the layout breaking when you rotate the device, or random other stuff that results from a lack of testing. It's what happens when developers don't use the device they're targeting.
Office 365 has an API, but good luck convincing your organization to approve your app that works with this API.

I tried with 2-2 different companies that I worked with, but to no avail.
I just wanted a simple app that syncs some events from the work calendar to my personal one...
Sadly, I can't share details or the application domain.

I can tell you that we worked very hard to try and see if we could accomplish the objectives using forced air (fans). That effort involved laser-welded fins with sophisticated airflow management, techniques to break-up the boundary layer (which impedes optimal heat transfer) and powerful centrifugal fans. It worked well, yet it was large and sounded like a jet engine.

Ultimately, while still complex, fluid-based thermal management offered a far more compact solution that could exist in a room with people not having to wear hearing protection. In addition to that, with a fluid-based system you can move the hot side to a different room.
If there’s a negative externality to the fuel it should be priced-in, which is really all carbon tax is intended to do. You can still use gas but you have to pay for the environmental cost upfront. The carbon footprint of electricity usage would be taxed as well, but if it’s overall more efficient it would have a lower carbon tax.

Even electrical resistance heating is more carbon efficient than burning gas at home. This doesn’t even require a high-renewable grid - it produces less CO2 burning gas for electricity to run an electric stove than it does burning gas at home due to the efficiency of a modern gas power plant and the dreadful waste heat of a gas burner.
Me too! I first thought it's the actual title of the article. Love it
Not downvoting you. Just curious to know why? In my experience, as long as the Makefile is less than about 100 lines, it's the most useful workflow system ever. Because it's available almost everywhere. After about 100 lines, yeah, it is not great. And that idiotic tab character. I know the historical reason why tab was used. I wish they had fixed it to accept both tabs and spaces a long time ago.
This is an annoying feature which I have encountered. I know it is to calm heated discussions, but the ambiguity of the message is belittling. I'm not overwhelming the database; just tell me how long I have if you're going to put me in timeout for a few hours.

It isn't a frequent issue, but putting duct tape on someone's mouth when they're talking about something they care about does not calm them down, even if it achieves the primary goal.
> bar for side effects is much stricter for preventative treatments like vaccines

These vaccines are for treatment. They don’t prevent cancer. They treat it. They’re vaccines because they work by arming your immune system versus doing the fighting themselves.
Largely the same class of over credentialed idle rich. It's a very insular group, and they really only care about each other's opinions.

Values like these vary hugely group to group. For instance, journalists and academics think of themselves as very high prestige. Within their groups they are, and engineers and bankers aren't. The inverse is also true. It's part of the ongoing fragmentation of society.
I checked into those links, very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
stratechery has a reasonable explanation in one of the recent articles :

"That last point may seem odd in light of Apple’s victory, but again, Apple was offering an integrated product that it fully controlled and customers were fully aware of, and is thus, under U.S. antitrust law, free to set the price of entry however it chooses. Google, on the other hand, “entered into one or more agreements that unreasonably restrained trade” — that quote is from the jury instructions, and is taken directly from the Sherman Act — by which the jurors mean basically all of them: the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement, investment agreements under the Games Velocity Program (i.e. Project Hug), and Android’s mobile application distribution agreement and revenue share agreements with OEMs, were all ruled illegal.

This goes back to the point I made above: Google’s fundamental legal challenge with Android is that it sought to have its cake and eat it too: it wanted all of the shine of open source and all of the reach and network effects of being a horizontal operating system provider and all of the control and profits of Apple, but the only way to do that was to pretty clearly (in my opinion) violate antitrust law."

The key is 'unreasonably restrained trade' - Any OEM was eligible to use Android, but what google did was restrict competition by 'entered into one or more agreements that unreasonably restrained trade'

https://stratechery.com/2023/googles-true-moonshot/
I don't think Dang is advancing YC interests - I think it's just bog-standard astroturfing. Especially with the low vote count of most stories, it's not hard to make your story pop or disappear.
That was why I had the parenthetical there.

Yeah, it would cost them a boatload and introduce delays. Boo hoo, I feel so bad for them. /s
This does not appear to be a preventative treatment. It treats existing melanoma by inducing the body to produce antibodies against it, no?
The Nothing is eating the title.
exactly like my following sentence says ok, strange quoting choice

yes it a judge does that it moves into the existing process for any order or collections
The time lock is pointless then. This is what I meant by random crypto making it hard to understand.

This blog post would be simpler to understand if you started out without any crypto. If I were to write it I would start with the case of a single IRC server. Then explain a channel is a key and the topic is the value. The first person to register a key on a server can control the value. Then to expand this approach to multiple severs you introduce the idea of using a kdf of the key concatenated with the irc server's identity.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. The GP comment did a great job of avoiding this, which is what other commenters should do too.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note these:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Not free enough for anticapitalists!
> By that definition every single model that includes software will need to be opened up.

Sounds good.
I had a friend who used to say, if you want to get rid of a weed, treat it like a crop.
This is an amazing resource I’ve used for at least a decade whenever I’ve dabbled with OS development.
mRNA will eventually save the day for everyone, including for perfectly healthy individuals, but to me as a healthy 40yo person, with no known immunity issues, not overweight etc. etc. it is in my opinion still too risky to take just like that.

It's an interesting take. From what we know so far, the risk from taking vaccine is much smaller than from covid infection. You might counter this with highlighting the "so far" part, but keep in mind that many studies keep coming out with surprises not only regarding vaccine side effects, but also negative long term effects of covid.
> The cancer vaccine: Moderna and pharma giant Merck are developing an mRNA-based cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157 (V940), for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed.
If you get insurance through work, there is zero choice.

You are locked into you're companies decisions.

You may say, 'well you can opt out', but the deck is really stacked against you trying to go it alone.
This is one of the ways that employees are 'locked in' to jobs and become immobilized from seeking better jobs. The insurance is a type of 'capture'.
This is true across societies - there's so many more Indian or Russian women engineers than American or Swedish.

One of the greatest luxuries of resources is the ability to do whatever you want.
It is intended for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed, to prevent cancer from coming back.
You build another datacenter rather than make the existing bigger.
I do hope you get better and advising against ignorant support groups spreading misinformation is good, but it’s also stupid as all hell to suggest to others that they give up. Accepting that there are no answers is the same as lying down to die. There is always an answer and even if you or I won’t find it, the group pursuit for truth is a positive thing
And if you end up learning something new it would be an absolute disaster /s

I learn something new all the time when I explore new codebases or even less beaten corners of existing codebases. Only a tiny fraction of the time it is a new facet of the language.