skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure it's not their fault. It's not the current management's fault either, that's the problem.

It is the current managements "fault". They bought the company, all it's assets, all it's liabilities. They don't get to conveniently decide they get the company, but none of it's debts.

> They were promised that someone else would reward them.

They were promised Twitter would reward them, by people with the authority to make binding promises on behalf of Twitter.

> That looks like a problem coming from the first employer.

There is no first/second employer here. They were employed by Twitter before the acquisition, they were still employed by Twitter afterwards.
There was a website with summary of headlines from major news sources from around the world. Posted on HN a while back.
Tigecycline

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1426172/

is a new class of antibiotics discovered around 2005 that also works against resistant bacteria such as MRSA and VRE.

So while it is great they are coming up with new antibiotics, it is by no means the first in 60 years.
How are the LLMs rent seeking? they are clearly providing value that people want to pay for..
Old head here. CGI scripts fell out of fashion for the same reason that PHP exists: people wanted a slightly easier, more flexible way to write and update web apps. It wasn't really performance or security as much as the fact that C is annoying to write and debug a web app in.

> Modern application servers like Uvicorn, Gunicorn, Puma, Unicorn or even Go’s standard server have addressed these inefficiencies by maintaining persistent server processes.

PHP and Perl were doing this 20 years ago, slightly better / more flexibly than these modern app servers. Apache2 and mod_php or mod_perl would let you choose between a threaded or forked model and give you the same choices you have today. New languages are just more trendy so they reinvent the wheel in them, but it's the same old thing.

Another advantage of using Apache was you had a ton of modules, could use multiple languages to write different web apps in one "app server", and serve both static and dynamic content out of the one server, or choose to move static out to a separate array of servers to lighten load. Today you'd use Nginx for your static content and Unicorn for your dynamic, so there's more and different moving pieces to do the same thing, and you lack features in both.

And people today while a lot about platforms and want to run their own VPS just to serve a CRUD app. But you know what we used to do? Pay $2 a month to someone who managed a web server for us, giving us a /cgi-bin/ we could upload our code to, along with .htaccess files to control Apache. Totally managed server, with a management web interface, and all you do is upload a script and you have a website. No server to maintain, no operations, just pure web dev. Now, they were laughably insecure, and things like Cron jobs and persistent dynamic applications kind of didn't exist. But as they say for VPSes today "you probably don't need all that, you just need to run a basic web app" and a PHP or Perl script was good enough for 99% of the web.
Inherited 2M dollars and now 100K in debt
> Byzantine Tolerant Concensus

I was taken to task for mis-spelling "consensus"; I used to spell it with two 'c's and two 's's, like you. It was explained to me that it's from the same root as "consent", and that's how I remember the right spelling now.
I have a similar usage and need. I do have a uGreen USB hub that has a button on top that I use to swap between computers - but it does have a slight delay.

I also discovered logitechs k860 keyboard which has 3 buttons on the top for switching between computers. I use it with the USB receiver and a bluetooth laptop. No noticeable lag and works very well.
I feel you are mixing value capture with value generation. If GM produces cars with the same level of margins as Facebook or Google, things will be different. LVMH (Louis Vuitton Group) holds a value equivalent to that of Toyota, Volkswagen, and two-thirds of Ford combined. Louis Vuitton alone was valued more than Red Hat a few months ago. This doesn't mean that Louis Vuitton is more valuable than Red Hat, but rather that it captures Value more effectively than Red Hat.
Copyright holders do get paid for library copies, in the US.
Warner Brothers sued and won against Asylum for this very thing lmao. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockbuster
Yeah, now I’m suspecting something less malicious.

Speaking to support they don’t know what time zone the 514am timestamp is in. I think it’s likely to be UTC, which means it happened at 814am.

I have a two year old. I’m gonna chalk it up to him. If it was 814am it’s way more likely.

Still super weird cause the tv wasn’t on. But given the time of day, seems much more likely.
Well at the very least it would be an interesting court case!
The Sackler family owned Purdue Pharma, which created OxyContin and heavily marketed the drug. Many Americans see the family as partially responsible for kickstarting the opioid epidemic.

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

The family has been largely successful at avoiding any personal liability in Purdue’s litigations. Many people feel the settlements of the Purdue lawsuits were too lenient. One of the key perceived aspects of the final settlements was that there was too many victims of the opioid epidemic for the courts to handle and attempt to make whole.
I use iOS and can confirm that double tap on left or right side works to jump forward backward there too. I often use it when I watch a video and I miss what was said so I jump back a bit and watch again.
“Teh al al m is just leik a people. Check and mate.”
> Or if someone is willing to invest $10-20k they could have devices ready to sell in less than 2-3 weeks.

Can you elaborate on this for someone unfamiliar with production? How one come up with the number and such time estimation?
20% of workloads running on Windows should result in corresponding number of jobs as well but that's not what I see.

Most companies are writing software with software developed on Linux first and for Linux first (or Unix) and later ported to Windows as an after thought. I'm thinking Python, Ruby, NodeJS, Rust, Go, Java, PHP but not seeing as much of C#/ASP.NET which should at least be 20% of the market?

Only two explanations - either I am in a social bubble so don't have exposure or writing software for Windows is so much easy that it takes five times less engineering muscle.
ESA is an independent entity from EU.
Nothing unfair about it, the truth is everyone got that question wrong (because there was no right option available), so they didn't fault the test takers, instead just annulled that one and scored everyone based on the actual questions, it is as fair as it can be.

It does suck for the people who though they had that one right, it is distressing to be shown one score and then later find out that the real score is lower. That should have been avoided by having an official recourse window before publishing scores, so when problematic questions are annulled then people only see their actual final score (in my country a recourse window is standard for all public exams).
>We have no idea what the long term consequences are of this gene treatment.

It's mRNA for a start. So it isn't treating genes.
The load time improvements are amazing. Thanks to everyone that was involved. I've been using it locally for months now simply because of this feature and I had to update my "how to deal with compile-time" blog post (https://sciml.ai/news/2022/09/21/compile_time/) to basically say system images really aren't needed anymore with these improvements. With that and the improvements to parallel compilation I tend to not care about "first time to X" anymore. To me it's solved and I'm onto other things (though I personally need to decrease the precompilation time of DifferentialEquations.jl, but all of the tools exist in v1.10 and that's on me to do, ya'll have done your part!).
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Why not? We have multi-modal models as well. Not pure text.
Gigapixel scan of test takers retinas will be trivial in this fantasy world. Not that anyone wants to be in a cheating arms race, but it's been the case for centuries. The more easily accessible the rote information is (i.e. what the language models are decent at), the less important it will be on the test. Different scoring weights for different types of questions and more novel questions that don't appear in the corpus of study material.
Because it's a myth. Photographic memory isn't real. Check out the wikipage on eidetic memory. People that claimed it in the past were not telling the full truth. There are only a few examples of savants being able to recall specific things after one showing, but it's terribly narrow. Like being able to draw a horse you saw, but not human faces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
The author is a woman, by the way.
What are you going to do by learning how Game Boy architecture works, hack the planet?
I just looked up Benchling. My first impression is that it's enterprise software. You're not expected to just buy a license and start using it, and being the first user at your site won't gain you much over what you're using right now.

Where I think software like that gains its use is when you have multiple people working on similar research or processes, and trying to manage that kind of research and the data that it generates. At the extreme, I see job openings like this:

Wanted, quality control chemist for third shift...

On the other hand, I work in a "small lab" setting. I'm often the only person working on a project. No two of my projects resemble one another, though there are themes that progress through my work, and tools that I re-use and share. My choice of a notebook system, if you can grace it with such a description, is almost solely for my own benefit.
> That's the cheap hardware I'm talking about. What is in your hands is the most important thing of all because without it you can't serve your customers or increase ROI.

Yeah, but ... what is in my hands can be replaced in a matter of hours: just go out and get a new laptop at the nearest place!

It's even easier than that, because I primarily use Linux, there are times, in 2023, that I used a Core2 Duo with 2GB of RAM for days at a time on a particular project.

That's about 10m to pull the old laptop out of the cupboard, due `git pull`, and carry on working.
No. It is a technology that can massively accelerate human progress—I don’t buy the theory that OpenAI used NYTimes content that was not freely available to them. If you read all of the public internet you probably have lots of snippets of NYTimes articles. Regarding the reading of the wirecutter by a browser tool, I don’t know how much of it is available online without subscription (because I subscribe to the NYTimes), but arguably if it is available I’d expect a helpful AI to read it and other sources and give me a short recommendation for what I look for (and not the ads or sponsored links).
Here come the innovation sponges.

If this goes through then the models that the general public have access are going to be severely neutered while the ownership class will have a much better model that will never see the light of day due to legal risks and claims like this - therefore increasing the disparity between us all.
I initially used synergy at work between two computers and a coworker teased me about the security implications, so I found it very little effort to pipe over an SSH tunnel
That's because you are sharing contacts the hard way. I usually do the same, but ideally the process is automated enough that you don't need to type any of the contact details. In that case, the email should be automatically included with the name and phone number.
Even in the early 2000s I was writing (new) projects in perl, using the excellent "CGI::Application" module/framework. That worked with both old-school CGI, and FastCGI.

https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Application

Using that module gave a good foundation for structuring code in a maintainable way, and also providing test-cases alongside it.

One of the things I like about coding in golang is the strong emphasis on testing, but I'd say that this was also a big deal for people writing in Perl. Sure there is a reputation for line-noise, but CPAN is/was full of well-tested modules and extensions and I always appreciated the built in test::tap/prove support.

I like your comment about templating, it's something I'd never considered before. At the time I used HTML::Template, or some other module, and found it was "good enough".

At the time I remember bumping into a lot of PHP, but due to settings available to mod_php5 you'd find code that worked on one host didn't necessarily work on another host. That was something that was never a problem with perl. Though I suspect it wasn't so often that a site got so complex/slow that I had to resort to mod_perl.
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> It's not the current management's fault either, that's the problem.

Of course it is! Elon bought Twitter and all that came with it, including all the contracts set up by the previous management.

You could have an argument that if Twitter intentionally nuked their entire company between signing the deal and the acquisition date, the old management probably committed some kind of fraud, but that's not the case here; these bonuses seem pretty reasonable for a company like Twitter before Elon took over, to ensure the transition goes well.
> The original intent was to provide an incentive for human authors to publish work, but has become more out of touch since the internet allowed virtually free publishing and copying. I think with the dawn of LLMs, copyright law is now mainly incentivising lawyers.

And yet the content industry still creates massive profits every year from people buying content.

I think internet-native people can forget that internet piracy doesn’t immediately make copyright obsolete simply because someone can copy an article or a movie if sufficiently motivated. These businesses still exist because copyright allows them to monetize their work.

Eliminating copyright and letting anyone resell or copy anything would end production of the content many people enjoy. You can’t remove content protections and also maintain the existence of the same content we have now.
For Android users: Download Revanced and apply the patches you want (e.g. removing shorts)
guess your a Rust coder by nature
You don’t have to compile it to run it.
Mentioning for completeness, they do also have printable ncode pdf files of various flavors for download on their site. Others have had success with them, I have not.

Livescribe has a similar product line. No direct experience with it, so can't contrast and compare.
I don't think the parent implied that DEI is the source of all bad behavior, just that it's another avenue for bad people to get in.
Add GNU jitter to the list: https://www.gnu.org/software/jitter/
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The whole idea of "a dying media" is pretty scary to me. It indicates that some people place no value in journalism. To be fair, there are a huge number of newspapers who also place little to no value in journalism. I have a number of local papers who will report on celebrity gossip, but it's all auto-translate from somewhere and just posted without questioning, so you end up with random "news" about a person who is completely unknown in the country.

Real, and especially investigative, journalism is extremely expensive and it's not something modern AI is even remotely capable to doing. It might be able to help and make it cheaper, but you can't replace newspapers with ChatGPT and expect to get anything but random gossip and rehashed press releases. I do wonder why the New York Times believe you can.
Benefits of LCDs over OLEDs: less burn-in, can dim to low brightness without PWM (flicker noticeable with peripheral vision) or color degradation, no funky stuff with gray-to-black transitions, no limitation as to how much of the screen can hit peak brightness, no gray point uniformity or variance issues, etc.

From what I understand, iPhones are the best as far as panel quality goes, but even at those tiny sizes they are still full of shortcomings (see, e.g., https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-iphone-14-pro-max-displ...). Compared to a phone, my laptop’s screen is much larger, color reproduction is much more work-critical, and I stare at it for longer, so thanks but no thanks, I’ll stick with LCD.
Unix kinda still does the same thing now as before.

Future big ai models might be totally different in quality, and latency.
I used to use Synergy for this until switching to Wayland, which isn't supported. Last time I checked there was a project called RKVM attempting to do the same thing for Wayland but it was very buggy at the time. I should check again to see if there has been any progress.
I wouldn't be too surprised if any other "sphere" also has its Swiss front to sell neutral tech that totally doesn't support the mothership.

Switzerland is relatively consistent in offering equal treatment, so maybe it'll eventually turn out that some outlet or another is controlled and manipulated in sinister ways by China, India, or maybe the Vatican or Bhutan.
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This is awesome and it looks like the exact solution I've been looking for. That said, I'm way out of my depth when it comes to building this.
What would it take to get a step by step tutorial on how to build this thing?
I read through the readme, and there's some good info there, but a few things went over my head.

Never used a Pico board, only exp is with a Tensor board that came out a few years back.

Any further advice on where / how to get started with is would be appreciated?

Also great work, the transition looks super smooth.
And here I am thinking it'd be amazing to have an AI that can on-demand read me every novel ever written. It'd be even cooler to jump into a text adventure game of any novel and have it actually follow the original text.

I guess that clashes with our copyright world. (Is there hope of some kind of Netflix/Spotify model, with fractional royalties?)
I suspect they will crack down on that within the next few years.
I’m not sure Dijkstras quote had that much of an effect. Visual Basic was one of the most popular languages until Microsoft killed it.

Basic evolved to have blocks, scopes, procedures, and functions. Visual Basic is probably closer to Algol or Pascal than to the original GOTO-only BASIC which Dijkstra was complainig about. VB.Net has the same semantics as C# which means it is one of the most powerful languages available. But it is not really a good beginner language anymore.
Hey folks - this is a new product I had a lot of fun hacking together.

The color schemes are generated by GPT4, which does a surprisingly good job at putting together good looking combinations.

The schemes are then sent out to our X account, which has about 150k people interact with the schemes.

These schemes are then ranked by engagement. A lot of people ask if feeding in the top schemes into GPT4 improves the output, but surprisingly, it does not. At some point, I will probably look to build in some kind ML scheme generator to optimize for hits.

The best one raked in 2m views: https://twitter.com/colorschemer/status/1697855177016160431
Your project is practically an example for Teensy boards. I made this exact gadget 10 years ago :)

Ultimately my friend was explaining his 'mouse jiggler' vbscript and I thought 'how can I make this a hardware version' this led to a design and once you have a design it is easy to query google for design hints at the component level "usb hid microcontroller" "usb passthrough [teensy|arduino]" "usb init host controller [teensy|arduino]" "mouse path [teensy|arduino]" etc etc
They absolutely do hold non-Prime packages. But as the GP noted, I dropped Prime last year and have not seen any impact on free delivery times. They were holding back packages for me, even as a Prime member, causing 95% or more delivery times to jump from the two day estimate to the reality of over a week.

They gave up trying to provide 2-day shipping to our rural address over two years earlier during the pandemic, and they never restored that supposedly core feature of Prime. Given that behavior, I now see them for what they are: typical rent-seeking crooks.
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> I don't get this position, chicken and rice soup is not the most relevant result for the query rice but it is a match.

As I said, that is inconsistent with your simultaneous position that alcohol-free wine is not a match for "alcohol". Either they both are matches to their respective queries or they both aren't; there isn't a difference between the two examples. This is true from the perspective of dumb text searches, but it's equally true from the perspective of correct linguistic parsing.

That rice is part of the listed title for chicken and rice soup is a coincidence; the argument for returning it also tells you that you should return the same soup when asked for "tomatoes", if tomatoes are an ingredient in the soup.

Your "yes" and "no" examples don't seem to work. What rule excludes "licorice" that would include anything containing the raw textual string "rice" without regard to whether any rice is involved? Rice paper, rice cooker, cauliflower rice are all purely textual matches. Mochi is a purely semantic match!
I believe he was being humorous. Either way, I don't take it too seriously. After all, I also started programming with Basic.
> cable carried local channels from the beginning and local channels had ads

Cool, so we can both agree this is 100% non-factual, revisionist history:

> Cable TV once had the same allure: Freedom from ads.

Like, we're both agreeing that at the start, 100% of cable's channels had ads, 100% of channels had ads for decades, and throughout the entire history of cable the vast majority of channels had ads?

> What you're essentially saying here is that the vast majority of cable channels would _interrupt_ their programming to show ads.

I have never once made the claim cable would interrupt regular programming of OTA networks to insert their own ads. But, well ackshully, many networks did end up having cable override the ad breaks for the OTA broadcasts and run their own ads, so in a way this actually was reality for some channels in some areas at certain points in time.

What I have been arguing is cable TV, from day one and for decades every channel on it, had ads. That the majority of channels available to cable subscribers have always been filled with ads. That the majority of the first cable-only TV channels had ads from day 1 (TBS, CNN, USA, ESPN, Nickelodeon, AMC, etc).

The majority of cable-only TV channels had ads. Arguing otherwise is arguing revisionist history not based in reality but in your own fantasy dreamland.

> you're going to have to define many here because I don't think your definition and mine align.

I dunno, I'm seeing a few people making the argument that cable TV never had ads or was free of ads at the start, and I often find convention centers crowded of people arguing for the flat earth and personally know several moon landing skeptics. My experience is flat earth has more supporters than the "cable never had ads" group.

> That was not my experience

Ok cool, and many people also experience a flat earth.

> I once had someone correct me and say cable also has ads. I had to look it up and sure enough, it apparently does now.

You've absolutely made the argument cable only recently started to show ads. You've tried stating things like the Sci-Fi channel didn't have ads when it did from day one. "it apparently does now" makes no sense when you then also agree that the majority of cable has had ads since the beginning.