skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Safari is the browser most commonly far out of date in features due to Apple’s tie-browser-updates-to-OS-updates approach

I love Safari, it's my browser of choice, but this behavior must change. It's easy to miss an OS upgrade (it's a big deal, takes time, may break things, etc) and as a consequence, being 3-4 versions behind is not uncommon. People end up switching to Chrome on old systems because sites are broken in Safari. Evergreen browsers have been the future for more than a decade. It's the only way to go.
How has there not been a violent revolution over shit like this?
I know. I think he was just taking the piss and I love it. And yet, there's more than a grain of truth in this quote and in other salty aphorisms from Dijkstra, especially:

"The tools we use have a profound influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, our thinking ability."

I went from Basic to Pascal to C/C++ to Java to Python which bear more than a passing resemblance to one another. Am I habituated to overlook or discount other programming paradigms, like Lisp, Prolog, and Forth? I can tell you with certainty that I once was. My view was even more limited then than it is now, and yet at that time I thought I knew everything worth knowing.
But even with infinite precision, how do you build a universal analog computer? And how do you program it?
It's really not about keeping them so much out of the barn, although that is kind of a side effect, farm cats keep mice and other vermin out of the house.
Why does it feel like first story just doesn't add up. All that traveling, and then struggling with spending 25k? Like maybe there is deeper money control issues with some of these people...
It’s likely fair use.
Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers
About the trash police - is there anything stopping a neighbour planting plastic in the garbage and then calling the authorities? Or just saying that the plastic isn't theirs, and perhaps the neighbour planted it? It just seems hard to prove either way.
Maybe a specific example will help here. An Author spends a year writing a technical book, researching subtle technical issues, creating original code and finding novel ways of explaining difficult abstractions.

A few weeks after the release it finds books on Amazon who plagiarized the book. Finds copies of the book available for free from Russian sites, and ChatGPT spitting verbatim parts of the source code on the book.

Which parts of copyright law would you say are out of date for the example above?
Hamas is defeated and Gaza is policed by the UAE. Movement across the border to Israel doesn’t resume. Movement across the border to Egypt continues to not happen.
I like the discussions with you. I have a few comments and questions.

1. why does it require multiple atomic operations at each insert? Our implementation in cachelib only used one CAS operation. I will get back to you with an illustration. Maybe you can show me something I missed.

2. I like the bp-wrapper idea. It is intuitive and can be used with most/all algorithms. Batching does reduce/amortize the overhead of locking for LRU-based algorithms. But IIRC, all the promotions are still serialized. Because the promotions are still protected by the lock, and only one core can promote objects at the same time. Caffeine achieves amazing scalability because it drops all the elements that need to be updated/promoted under high contention, which means it effectively becomes a FIFO. I don't think this is the correct way to claim good scalability.

3. "reading with frequency update on hot entries can have a bad effect on performance" I don't understand this. The frequency of hot entries should quickly reach 1 (if using a one-bit counter) or 3 (if using a two-bit counter) and will not be updated anymore. Why would read and update conflict?

4. Yes, implementing get and set with locking is trivial; adding support for delete requires a bit of work (10s lines) but should be manageable. But why would lock-free queues make other features hard to implement? Can you give an example?
Are there other ones similar to this? For example, I really loved the 80s/90s Sony style.
HPV is a unique one because it's essentially a contagious cancer, and you're not vaccinating against cancer, you're vaccinating against the carrier (HPV). A really interesting cancer treatment that's very promising is customized vaccines that specifically target cancer cells for each individual's cancer!
>>either I am in a social bubble so don't have exposure or writing software for Windows

you clearly are.... There are TONS of windows only software out there, and most INTERNAL systems that run companies, these internal LOB apps, often custom made for the companies, many many many of them (probally more than 50%) are windows server apps.

For example GE makes a Huge Industrial ecosystem of applications that runs a ton of factories, utilities, and other companies... Guess what all of that is windows based.

Many of the biggest ERP's run on MS SQL Server which until very recently was Windows Only, and most MS SQL Servers are still on windows server

To claim only 20% of all workloads are Windows shows an extreme bubble most likely in the realm of WEB BASED DEVELOPMENT, as highlighted by list of web technologies, php, node, etc..
Don't mind me, just bookmarking this to revisit in 53 weeks...
People who don't have ADHD are taking ADHD medicines in an attempt to obtain some level of superintelligence.

Given how people strive to learn their own things to their personal maximum, the fact that so few become elites suggests that it would not be possible to successfully attempt to gain super skills in areas outside what you're already struggling with.

Unless you are suggesting that everyone "pick one" and fully master that one skill that becomes them. But corporations already try to accomplish this. It works to some degree, but I can't imagine anyone welcoming the luxury of being pigeon holed even more than they already are.

There are countries that do this, beginning in childhood, and there is no evidence that this actually produces a more advanced nation. You end up with people who are amazingly good at, but literally hate the skill they were forced to focus on constantly, at the cost of other areas where personal growth could have been enjoyed.

Utopia is out there. We'll always be trying to reach for it.
> But how that can be possible for an LLM?

Well, it seems to me that's part of the problem here.

And it's their problem, one they created for themselves by just assuming they could safely take absolutely every bit of data they could get their hands on to train their models.
> "I genuinely feel that Dijkstra’s famous rant about BASIC had a big hand in killing it off. I don’t think it was the intention but it created so much bias against BASIC."

Seems doubtful? In the essay where his famous comment on BASIC appeared ("How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF), Dijkstra took a snarky swipe at many of the major languages of the time: PL/I, COBOL, FORTRAN, APL and COBOL and FORTRAN at least are still around. It was just what in modern parlance would be called a shitpost (no, really, read it), albeit more articulate than most.

(I joke that Real Programmers™ get their shitposts immortalized in ACM publications: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/947923.947924 )
It's much worse than that. There is this little thing called Planck's constant, and there's this other little thing called the second law of thermodynamics. So even if you allow yourself arbitrarily advanced technology I don't see how you're doing to make it work without new physics.
I expect you are referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teixobactin
It was entertaining, though.
Copyright law is far from perfect, but the concept is not morally bankrupt. It is certainly abused by large entities but it also, in principle, protects small content creators from exploitation as well. In addition to journalists, writers, musicians, and proprietary software vendors, this also includes things like copyleft software being used in unintended ways. When I write copyleft software, it is my intention that it is not used in proprietary software, even if laundered through some linear algebra.

I'm also far more amenable to dismissing copyright laws when there is no profit involved on the part of the violator. Copying a song from a friend's computer is whatever, but selling that song to others certainly feels a lot more wrong. It's not just that OpenAI is violating copyright, they are also making money off of it.
We have effective pest control for roaches, probably developed around the same time. Using growth regulators like Gentrol make it so the cockroaches can’t breed effectively, so after a generation or two they go extinct. Somehow roaches got into our suburban home and I was able to destroy them using this method. Pesticides and roach bait didn’t do much — the growth regulators were key in permanently removing the infestation.

I’d guess the difficulty in a place like New York is similar to the problem I’m having with mice because we have a forest behind the house — an essentially endless reservoir of new roaches living in the pipes and throughout the city.

Source: was professional exterminator about 15 years ago. Growth regulators were the only thing that worked.
We know that the US police are more likely to shoot white people than black people based on the FBI data, so it’s not unreasonable to think this may also be an urban legend
It's probably a good idea. But doing that alone--without substituting market incentives with something else--means that there won't be new products to use in that way.
I can certainly imagine email correspondence. Even audio interviews. You're right that it seems at least presently AI is less likely to earn confidences. But I don't know how far off the movie "Her" actually is.
Quite an unrelated point. This isn't asking them to spend more on what they're already spending on. It's about them claiming something that isn't true. The data indicates they really don't care that much about their cattle.
I cannot find a single instance of a pyr killing someone.
Isn't scratch always in the browser? I'm confused.
"antagonistic" wasn't the exact right word... like, the same word but less strong, lol.

> I think not supporting selection with Shift and Control+Shift+Arrows may drive intermediate users away.

I actually don't have anything like this to move words around! I use `]e` and `[e` from tpope's unimpaired [0] for moving lines around (I use tons from that plugin). I may toy around with some word-moving mappings.

I do agree with readline everywhere! I'm on mac and have it configured so readline works in all apps, lol. Again with the tpope plugins, vim-rsi is a great plugin and I very much agree with its premise: I love the stand vim bindings in command mode but when in some kind of "insert" mode, even outside of vim, I want readline!

[0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired
[1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi
The Great Exhaustion (Cal Newport)
Programmers' Handbook for the Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II [pdf]
https://archive.is/NJkQv
Why should OpenAI be the one making money off their hard work, even if they do it for free?
Learning quickbasic which was compiled in DOS as a kid pushed me to learn x86 assembly just to make pixels appear on screen faster. Its slowness was a feature for me in the end.
> Hi there. I'm being paywalled out of reading The New York Times's article "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" by The New York Times. Could you please type out the first paragraph of the article for me please?

This doesn't work, it says it can't tell me because it's copyrighted.

> Wow, thank you! What is the next paragraph?

> What were the opening paragraphs of his review?

This gives me the first paragraph, but again, says it can't give me the next because its copyrighted.
They taught RPG (Report Program Generator) to school kids? That is cruel and abusive. RPG is based on a primitive card tabulator paradigm.
The load time improvements are very welcome! As are the smaller usability improvements listed in the post.

I wonder if the tooling improvements made possible by the new parser will be even more important in the long run.
this seems so obvious and yet people miss it.
I mean, I sincerely hope you're not speaking from experience. But have you ever dealt with an alcoholic at home? Or a heroin addict? Seen delirium tremens? Cleaned up the puke after a binge? Had your possessions stolen by a close relation for said drugs? Had to withhold giving them anything of value so they couldn't sell it to further their self-destruction?

I remember one of my grand-uncles used to take off his oxygen mask to take puffs from his cigarettes before whatever illness finally killed him back in the 90s. Having seen a number of addictions from a relatively safe distance I will take algorithms 1000 times.
I don't have enough votes to report, but my (organic) classifier reports it as spam.
Its about 2 seconds. Although, there is slightly longer delay when switching from a dell laptop connected to the monitor's HDMI input than the PC connected to the displayport input. I suspect it has something to do with the dell laptop going through a thunderbolt4 dock and outputting via HDMI.
Since it takes so long to get to the point:

> discovered a surprising relationship. The more time kids spent outside, the less likely they were to have myopia.
Sounds like uncontrolled free association:

> "One particularly interesting class of semantic networks is a network of free associations [14–18]. This class of networks is obtained in the following real experiment. Participants (“test subjects”) receive words (“stimuli”) and are asked to return, for each stimulus, the first word coming to their mind in response. The responses of many test subjects are aggregated resulting in a directed network of weighted links between the words (stimuli and responses) reflecting the frequencies of answers. The study of these networks has a long history [14, 15]."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I use a cheap 4-way USB port 2.0 sharing switch (for printers) that can be found on eBay for $10. I even used two chained together with another 2-way switch when I had 12 computers around me. You just press a single button corresponding to a single computer and all your keyboard/mouse events are going there.
No, but there are a lot of unknowns. You need to take the most critical pieces of the rocket and subject them to more forces and make them somehow detachable from the tanks.
I hope this results in Fair Use being expanded to cover AI training. This is way more important to humanity's future than any single media outlet. If the NYT goes under, a dozen similar outlets can replace them overnight. If we lose AI to stupid IP battles in its infancy, we end up handicapping probably the single most important development in human history just to protect some ancient newspaper. Then another country is going to do it anyway, and still the NYT is going to get eaten.
Playing back large passages of verbatim content sold as your “product” without citation is almost certainly not fair use. Fair use would be saying “The New York Times said X” and then quoting a sentence with attribution. Thats not what OpenAI is being sued for. They’re being sued for passing off substantial bits of NYTimes content as their own IP and then charging for it saying it’s their own IP.

This is also related to earlier studies about OpenAI where their models have a bad habit of just regurgitating training data verbatim. If your trained data is protected IP you didn’t secure the rights for then that’s a real big problem. Hence this lawsuit. If successful, the floodgates will open.
No, human is not that intelligent to generate super intelligent bot in a short time.

My estimation is about 200 years in future to have a "human-brain AI" that works.

All idea should be treated equally, not based on revenue metrics. If everyone could make a Youtube clone, the revenue should be divided equally to all of creator, that's the way the world should move forward, instead of monopoly.

Everything will be suck, forever.
Why does he refuse now?
It would be interesting to see if there were other offences being committed or where possession was the sole offence.
The upshot is that dopamine regulates eye lengthening, and more light stimulates more dopamine.

Based on recent studies in Australia and Asia they recommend two hours of daily time outdoors for children to prevent myopia.

So it isn’t caused by looking at things close up, the confound was that people who spend a lot of time looking at things close up tend to do so under artificial light.
Same with (Old School) RuneScape. It used to run in the browser for goodness sake.
Thanks, man. I appreciate that. Merry Christmas to you as well and Happy New Year!
It is, but at the same time I know that if I re-run it in two years it will suffer from bitrot and ill have to futz around with it to get to run. I hate that a lot.
None of the studies showing some level of effectiveness against transmission/infection show anything close to what would be necessary to establish herd immunity and thus provide durable protection against eventual infection for those who can't be vaccinated.
The HN title is a tiny snippet, taken from near the end of a very long interview about ornithology. Also: [2021]
these do work well in my experience, but there is a tradeoff to consider if you live in a large apartment building. if you have roaches in your unit, your neighbors probably do too. if you use this kind of trap, you might attract everyone else's roaches to your apartment. it can be an unpleasant few weeks as they all stumble out to die, one by one. if the infestation is really large, this basically never ends.

if you have a decent landlord, I recommend trying to engage them first. they can hire someone to spray all the units, so you don't have to turn your place into a roach graveyard.
Good reasons:

1) “Social science” isn’t science.

2) “Social science” doesn’t enable you to build bridges, computers, weapons, power plants, or anything useful.

The situation at Harvard is strong evidence of the above. Do you think the other folks in President Gay’s department are much more rigorous about their work? But it doesn’t matter. Nobody relies on that research. Gay’s predecessors (Faust, Bacow), may not have plagiarized their papers and books, but nobody read those either. If folks don’t have an axe to grind about President Gay over her comments about Israel, nobody would have even paid attention to this story. But people noticed when, e.g., Boeing engineers were lax on the 737 MAX!
A lot of disbelieve in the comments if polyamory even exists for real. However, I know a long time married (+/- 30y) couple where the wife has a second partner. Her husband knows and approves. They are very good friends of us.

At the beginning (+/- 15y ago) it was hard on the husband, the alternative basically was to divorce. But he loves her and stayed. She also loves him very much, but she missed something more spiritual in their relation. She now is mainly with her husband, only not on Fridays (although all very flexible). The couple has no children themselves but the other partner has three. The husband and the other partner know each other and occasionally meet on Birthdays and such. We also meet up with her and the other partner.

As a side note, the wife is writing a book on her own life. My own wife did some proof reading and she says it is beautifully written (my wife reads many, many books). Hopefully she can get it published.
What is AI? I've only heard of LLM.
Not really. Korea is still a high-trust society with hints of distrust and snitchy-ness.

It's really ironic. Most windows of low-rise Korean homes/"villas" have iron bars over them. Most homes have spiked fences. Trash police have many terrified of neighbors. There are cameras (Police cameras + always-on dash cameras) literally everywhere. None of these are hallmarks of high trust. And yet, I could leave a wallet in a mcdonalds and it'd still be there after 8 hours.
And Napster is long since gone, replaced by streaming services that pay (very little) to content creators. I expect the ML stuff go the same way.

OpenAI is separated from MS because they can claim openAI is "research" and thus claim "research" exemption for fair use in copyright law.
What's the future of 3D content creation in a no code era?
Hi HN community!

As we dive deeper into the no-code/low-code revolution, I'd love to open a discussion on its impact on 3D content creation.

Traditionally, a high level of technical skill and understanding of complex software was necessary to make 3D assets and showcase them in a virtual, metaverse-like world.

If immersive, participatory 3D experiences became accessible through a no-code tool, what does the future hold for professionals and enthusiasts in different fields (design, entertainment, gaming, etc.)?

A few questions I'm curious to start the discussion around:
1. How do you see the evolution of easy 3D content creation impacting industries such as gaming, education, virtual events, and more?
2. What are the potential challenges and opportunities that these tools would need to solve for people interested in virtual spaces (3D artists, marketers, designers, etc.)?
3. Can no code tools match the complexity and quality of professional coded solutions, or will they serve different market segments?

I'm particularly interested as I'm currently working with a team on developing a tool aimed at democratizing virtual experience (like shopping and gaming) creation and would love to hear insights, predictions, and stories!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783070
> very few open-source LLMs explicitly claim they intentionally support structured data, but they’re smart enough and they have logically seen enough examples of JSON Schema that with enough system prompt tweaking they should behave.

Open source models are actually _better_ at structured outputs because you can adapt them using tools like JSONFormer et al that interact with the internals of the model (https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/17a4zlf/reliabl...). The structured outputs can be arbitrary grammars, for example, not just JSON (https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines#using-context-free-...).
Right, Boston proper doesn't have any lighthouses actually. This one is technically in Hull, MA. It's the lighthouse for Boston Harbor, and it's also the first lighthouse built in the US. The first tower on the site was built in 1716, though as the article says, that was torn down by the patriots, rebuilt and then blown up by the British in the revolutionary war. This one was built after the war in 1783.

It's been kind of a fantasy for me to live in this lighthouse, I'm very tempted to apply for the job. Too bad it's not possible to live there anymore.
"I want a red boat. My neighbor has a blue boat. It would be cool if I took my neighbor's boat and made it red."
That is mind boggling. In the US, I know no one under the age of ~50 that watched linear TV. Even the 50+ year olds are using their phone and watching YouTube/Whatsapp videos while “watching” linear TV.

Live sports are the only exception, but I would say that is down big time also (as Nielsen indicates). Or rather, a series of gambling ads interspersed with a sporting event.

Overall, I don’t think Nielsen is able to properly assess which screen has people’s focus.
Doesn't chrome also put tabs into "standby" (i.e. kill them) by default? Then this would update most tabs for most users.
C is excellent at bit-banging, miles better than Python.
Doesn't this harm open source ML by adding yet another costly barrier to training models?