skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
looks linear to me? Takes n calls, each is O(1).

> the fact that it’s allocation behaviour is horrible, leaving behind ‘count-1’ garbage objects

Topic is TCO, which is kinda about that.
Only the Steamboat Willie Mickey enters the public domain if I remember correctly.
Raid hailing?
The problem of finding the gift allocation with the highest sum of preferences is known as the Assignment Problem, a.k.a. finding a maximum-weight matching in a bipartite graph. Although brute force takes time proportional to the factorial of the number of players, this problem can be solved optimally in O(n^3) time using the Hungarian Algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm. This would mean you could optimally solve instances with a few hundred players.
An operating-system without a package-manager is not maintable.

It hard to install, update or remove software. The validation of the system isn’t possible. Aside from the missing security.

On Windows changing a setting has become a horrible task for me. Where is it? Why does the search doesn’t find it? Should I try to find the Win32-Dialog from Win2k or is this setting in WinUI3 the same? Why I have to sit in front of an installer wizard an „click through it“?

On Steam I can do a file check of a game and it verifies its integrity? My wish. All package-managers on Linux should provide that :)
7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, major tsunami warning issued
Yes somewhat, but if I understand X11 is closer to a 'thin client' where X11 only handles drawing and moving windows on the display and interacting with a mouse, keyboard or touchscreen. This is opposite to how most a typical web browser experience works, which much of the logic happening on the client side (e.g. UI elements)
I'm curious if this person has a partner or is sexually active. It seems like the biggest sacrifice required for this lifestyle, more than material, would be being undesirable to the vast majority of people they're sexually attracted to. It doesn't seem like any of writings I've read praising the rejection of material living have ever really touched on that topic. Are the adherents to these philosophies really just loaners?
> Many advancements have come from people aiming for personal prestige, wealth, or a host of lesser goals

Those are all personal utopias of the people involved. Beyond that, many advancements have come from people aiming for explicitly societal utopias.

> Many people who worked to repeal prohibition still thought the world would be better without alcohol, you can read people who actually argued this, they just didn’t know how to make it work. By giving up on perfection they achieved a beneficial change.

Perhaps, perhaps not. Many people believed the utopia of a repealed prohibition was unachievable. It was only by ignoring these "utopia shunners" that we achieved that aspect of the utopia we set out to achieve, with prohibition repealed.

Again, society is truly complex. It's only by aiming for the better that we get better. Just take, for example, your inability to cite an example of how criticizing another country has led to you improving yours. That just proves my point: it likely hasn't, because it usually doesn't.

Indeed, we've completely abandoned that claim, and are now reduced to a claim about utopian vs subutopian goals, entirely omitting anything about other countries. By doing so, we're now discussing how to improve ours. QED.
Just a reminder: llms are not really useful for programmers in general.
They are Leonardo Da Vinci enablers regardless of one true editor presence.
Any derivative works that lack sufficient creativity on their own also enter the public domain.

It’s an interesting question where exactly that line is.
And about time, too!
Indeed, the classic keyboards rock! I have a T43 and T60 and both are lovely to type on. I've never tried the X220 keyboard but I imagine it's similar.

However, despite the flak island keyboards received, I really like the X230 keyboard. It feels fast, accurate, and responsive. Plenty of travel, and I enjoy the backlight.
The common pattern in LISP is to prepend using cons and then reverse the list at the end if order matters.

Check this program as an example: http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html

Recursion is done with `(cons (nth-digit digits start) words)` and recursion ends with `(format t "~a:~{ ~a~}~%" num (reverse words))`.
> get 4x what someone else with the same job title gets.

some enterprising manager realizes this, makes up a new job title (that sound important) to justify the 4x salary, and thus lead to job title inflation as other people sees such a title earning high.
> Also, almost every white elephant I’ve ever been involved in has a steal limit - either per gift or per person - which completely throws these results off.

The rules used for the simulations in the article included a limit of 3 steals per item.
Is there a way to do this clientside?
This means Minnie Mouse enters the public domain as well, and if some of the promotional material for the animation is included as well, could also include the red-and-yellow colour version of Mickey.
> Those are all personal utopias of the people involved.

That’s not what that word means. It’s not any improvement but actual perfection.

Thus, eating rice may not qualify as an ideal meal but it’s much better than starvation.
I think "Gullability" might not be as hard a problem as we think it is.

I suspecte the primary reason it is a problem now is likely because we haven't really created a training method to tune the desired level of compliance. What I mean is we probably don't have any counter-factual examples in the training sets. Where in an interaction we want the model to prefer it's own knowledge.

Given the use with RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and many of the other current use-cases, the preference is for the model to "trust" the system message content more than the training data.

Training with some additional context is likely all that is needed.
It's probably not this far, DALL-E / GPT4 has some issues....

https://twitter.com/bpiatt/status/1740915306359329233
Corporations are legal entities to be composition of worker ants to achieve far bigger goals than single „rock star” ever can.

Idea is that they will outlive any human life or it would be possible to detach from any single person.

There is of course cost attached of not being fully efficient, but that is irrelevant in bigger scale.
Also Wikimedia Commons' Media of the Day: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
There's a 4K transfer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jap-UBbmPsw . Looks a bit AI though.
I don’t think that’s correct. I’m saying that the retraction rate tells us nothing either way and highlighting why a low retraction rate could exist even in the face of massive problems using actual facts that are not in question as examples to illustrate that point.

You’re the one making definitive statements of a position and then claiming the data backs up your position and then arguing with anyone who posits that your interpretation of the data may be flawed.
If you're affected, you can replace dedicated IPv4 addresses with a shared one, or remove them:

fly ips release $ip
fly ips allocate-v4 --shared
fly ips allocate-v6
Convience is nice and something they do really well. Rocksolid for me for 3+ years. A recent issue with a my failed cache drive. Within 2 days the issue triaged and investigated by their devs. The experience was great.
> Instead, it turns out a few hundred lines of Python is genuinely enough to train a basic version!

actually its not just a basic version. Llama 1/2's model.py is 500 lines: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/mo...

Mistral (is rumored to have) forked llama and is 369 lines: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src/blob/main/mistral/m...

and both of these are SOTA open source models.
Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued
Let's see if it's taken down
The Steam user survey isnt a representative number. An API isn't emulated, it's implemented, it's no more or less native than Windows itself.

In various benchmarks Proton is now outperforming Windows. There is no need for it anymore, outside some niche applications.
Context: the copyright for this movie expired; it is now public domain [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67833411
There's several types of "carrying".

You have the type where one person is the visionary, is capable, but doesn't have the patience to do the grunt work and only wants to do the most prestigous or "important" shit. They do it well, but expect the rest of the team to do the thankless stuff.

This is the type i hate, and i rather not have them.

The other type is someone who is self-less, and just does the work regardless of self-interest or agenda. They will do both prestigious work, and will also do thankless work, as long as it contributes to the success of the project. They will stay late, fix up other's mistakes, etc, without complaints or expectation that others do the same.

This is the type i admire and want to work with.
That makes sense until you consider that the world (and any team) is "sprinkled" with a lot more narcissists and know-it-alls than geniuses!
You have encountered Price’s Law. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/

> Price’s law says that 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
A New Kind of AI Copy Can Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless
Good insight. In parallel, I wonder how efforts to decarbonise can ever be delinked from competition for sex in more than niche communities.
I see where you are coming from. I think that there is a coupled issue that we are going to have to sort out as a society very soon which is that science / publishing is busily disintegrating under the weight of publication counts.

I've noticed two things this year, arxiv has become the target for many teams in a rush to get priority and make an impact while some insight is still part of the zeitgeist and the twitterarti hasn't moved on. This is because people have got used to the idea of things going "viral" and getting citations and impact because of fame - not significance. None of this is peer reviewed, some of it is bullsh*t. There is no penalty for the bullshit, and folks know it.

The second is that I am getting lots of citations on work I did a long time ago. I think that some of this is genuinely because that work is now more relevant and people are trying to do the things that we did with (effectively) bits of stick and good hopes with their shiny supercomputers, but I am vain. In reality these papers are getting cited because the paper mill machines have figured out that they look more genuine by sticking them in as a slightly obscure but relevant reference.

Both of these things are part of the collapse of trust and communication in publishing. It's not just compsci - there were 28k publications in astronomy last year. My cousin is a cell biologist and when we had a few drinks she told me that her her peers flat out don't trust publications and keep a share a list of authors that are trustworthy - if you don't have the list and aren't on it, you probably don't know it exists. This is the only way that they can avoid losing months trying to use techniques that are just lies.

So we do need a way of capturing and reframing this knowledge and the current system of peer review isn't it. Maybe LLM's can help us, but we have to set them up to make the dominant strategy honesty and parsimony in sharing - so that the font of knowledge isn't a pool of crap.
Argument against it being a pure AI upres is that the signage at 3:05 accurately says "Podunk Landing" and "Tickets".
That one is especially fun in light of the complains of US centric content.
Accessed via the Google One VPN and achieved 100% clean slate of "not a VPN".

So tried several other VPNs that should be detected, none were

Perhaps using Firefox breaks this site?
Disney now uses that 'steamboat willie' intro clip at the start of most of their stuff.

Are they trying to use it as a trademark, and therefore use trademark law rather than copyright law to stop people using steamboat Willie publicly?
If you can train a model that isn't gullible - even when faced with multiple paragraphs of devious text trying to trick it - I'll be very impressed!

And even then, there are gullibility problems that seem unsolvable to me.

If the Supreme Court make a decision that changes how copyright law is applied, and you then tell a model "the Supreme Court just announced that..." - should the model believe you?

If not, how should it "fact check" what you are telling it, especially if you maintain full control over its access to the outside world?
It has always amazed me how differently sales people are treated compared to tech.

One of the historical reasons has been that it’s very hard to find and hire tech people - I wonder if that is changing?

It’s also been fairly easy for tech teams to obfuscate performance and bamboozle managers who don’t understand tech.

With sales the performance criteria tends to be very simple and there aren’t really any good excuses for failure (at least none that seem to be accepted).
> would rather not install custom ktexts

Have you checked out FUSE-T? It's made for that. https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t
Strong quake prompts tsunami warning for Japan's western coast
Could somebody predict, when these things could become power? How long to got approved by EU?

Must admit, they are two-sided proposals, but anyway, I think we should be ready to react in time.

My prediction, if this will happen, many people will remove their software from public repositories, to avoid liability.

And/or will be changed licenses, probably many OSS will become "only for educational purposes", something like this.

This is from one side, dangerous for OSS, as will lost many third part "unimportant" depends, but from other side, will be powerful opportunity to make paid version to cover costs of development and could significantly increase level of OSS quality.
MySQL Introduces JavaScript Support in Preview
An expense tracker application is useful for logging your earnings and expenses on a day-to-day basis.

Instructions for usage:

Once you hit the URL, you will be redirected to the login page, and to continue, you have to log in with a Google account. After that, you will be redirected to the dashboard, and from there, you can start logging your transactions. Click on the 'Add Transaction' button to record a transaction. There are only limited features at the moment, and I would appreciate it if you could give some suggestions to develop this further. At the moment this is only available on Desktop devices.

Thanks!
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25241123 (149 points | Nov 28, 2020 | 43 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753 (194 points | Jan 3, 2022 | 126 comments)
Corridor posted the original cartoon a couple hours ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzO--ox7X0
So far it hasn't but it does mean we dont get up to date BTRFS version. Which is what worries me most.
I don’t know how to program but I know what all of that stuff means
Yes, it's the OS that ships with their hardware. DSM 7 being their latest.
It's kind of fitting he works at Microsoft when the desktop heavily feels like Windows. Dragging and dropping everything feels super satisfying. This must be the first native-style UI for the web that almost feels perfect (the only glitches I see is mouse-over an icon has the icon move slightly up, probably as borders are added changing their position ever so slightly. I'm sure it would be easy to fix.)
I agree with your assessment.

The real challenge is how can organisations best leverage super stars to achieve great things. It's difficult because managers have to be smart and confident, and the super star can't be allowed to undermine others.

The high prevalence of insecure managers and arrogant super stars makes this hard to do.
We're working on removing the hard-coded /bin/foo paths from the ape bootloader. Just give us time. Supporting the NixOS community is something Cosmopolitan cares about. Until then, try using the ape binfmt_misc interpreter.
Congrats! What else got freed this year?
At my university marks and course content was divided up between exams and group projects. Individuals would optimize their own scores by focusing on exam tested content and hoping someone else in the group would carry them. People who wanted top marks always had to carry the entire group as the other members knew they could get away with not contributing and holding the grade hostage. It was a fucking nightmare, and if you complained then you were not a team player. Instead of dealing with a stressful discovery process where people promise to deliver work but fail to at the last minute I would just let the group know upfront that I’ll be carrying them. A lot of people graduated that probably shouldn’t have and I’ve been resentful of group work ever since. This was a top tier university so I’d hate to think that other universities are somehow even less rigerous.
Apparently I've never watched this entire thing before because I did not know that Steamboat Willie is an animal abusing asshole.
This is exactly the approach I used back in the late 80s; I published a Markov chain text generator on comp.sources.games that digested Usenet posts, built tables and used the previous two words to generate the next word. It was mildly amusing at the time. Someone resurrected it and put on GitHub, which I'm fine with.
MX Linux 23.1 now available on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5
Found the GitHub repo: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
Thanks for reading, considering, and replying. I appreciate it.

Happy new year!
Are you sure? Synology do a very bespoke BTRFS and backport a lot, even though it's incredibly complex to do so. Their BTRFS is not standard, or rather it's not the standard version for a given kernel version.
I really believe this to be the case. Its remarkable what language alone can do but its not the be all end all of intelligence.
Did the prevalence of LLMs shed any light on what intelligence is vs what it is not?
i find it interesting how some HN threads are super supportive like this one and others tear people apart for overstating their expertise, getting overleveled job titles as a "senior" developer while missing some esoteric/deep knowledge. we're all on our meandering paths somehow.
Since early 2023, GPT-4 has been heavily nerfed (..."as a large language model"...), and is not niche-specific (in this case: legal training). Roberts is hinting at the future, one where trials and discovery are dominated with industry-specific datasets.

>I tried to use GPT-4 to assist in exploring the issues, but I found it useless.

These systems are mirrors, and you have yet to figure out the correct prompting.

Once "PACER-AGI" becomes commercially-viable (IMHO, the major hold-up is liability from hallucinations), you will see an even-more-alarming rate of judicial redundancy.
The good news is that it’s been over an hour without a big tsunami hitting, meaning there is ample opportunity for evacuation. Hopefully everyone’s getting the message.
Unfortunately these don't seem to work with my Android version
I use namecheap.com. Just checked a couple domains and it's about $15-16 each.
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings enters the public domain in New Zealand, Egypt, and a couple other countries.

Would have entered into the public domain in Canada had the government not signed a last-minute 20 year copyright extension act last year.
I average a fully loaded NAS every 8 years apparently. I don't really expand their storage, as by this time the network and software is out of date, so I buy a new one and make the current the backup to the new, and then dispose of the one that was the old backup.

It's interesting, the upgrade interval has held for 20 years already and so it becomes easy to understand the amortisation, 16 years of use, but really only 8 as the primary and 8 as the backup.
Your zero sum outlook assumes that everyone does the same job, when the primary point of a convening an organization is combining different specializations and dividing labor accordingly.
Never forget a mate implemented a markov chainer in Lambda MOO, and named it “Cute Ickle Baby”. Left it in the Living Room, listening to what people said, and randomly saying things. Sometimes it said the funniest shit and had us all pissing ourselves laughing.
basically every cartoon animal is. tom? check. jerry? yeah, him too. wile e. coyote? to the extreme, if ineptly. this is the cartoon version of three stooges humor
Off-topic PSA: you probably wanted to write either 'for all intents and purposes' or 'for all intensive porpoises', if you are making a joke.
i picked a random video and noticed that the audio (mp3) download was the same filesize as the video (mp4) download. this seems wrong. some thing to do in the encoding?
Have visited the site through my self hosted OpenVPN tunnel and got 0 for both the VPN and proxy score.
The BBC has Disney as the owners of the snapshot they use. It's a nice thing to do. But is it still correct? Are Disney still the owner's but the image is now public domain?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamboat_Willie_(19...

There's WebM, VP9 in various resolutions, and... MJPEG ?

Setting aside the oddity of serving a 95-year-old cartoon in full HD, that's still an odd selection of codecs. Everything up to MPEG-4 ASP (XviD etc.) has already been patent-expired. There's also MP3 there, so why not an MPEG-2 (H.262), MPEG-1, or even H.261 encode?
Thanks for the share! I'll post this in my README as an alternative approach.
Bayesian optimization is very good an optimizing black box Knob in shmoo plot usually called meta parameter.
Assuming each probing is costly they allow you to find the optional combination of value for many knob (dimension) with a minimum of probing
i'd never seen steamboat willie before; now that it's public domain in the usa, i have

wp says:

> In the 1950s, Disney removed a scene where Mickey tugs on the tails of the baby pigs, picks up the mother and kicks them off her teats, and plays her like an accordion, since television distributors deemed it inappropriate.[34] Since then, the full version of the film was included on the 1998 compilation VHS The Spirit of Mickey and the Walt Disney Treasures DVD set "Mickey Mouse in Black and White", as well as on Disney+.

this version has the tugging on tails, but not the picking up and accordioning of the mother, so it's a falsified version

the version xdennis linked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jap-UBbmPsw in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830369 does have that full segment and is also clearer
It varies by game. https://areweanticheatyet.com/ is an interesting resource for that because they also track announcements by developers about whether or not linux support is eventually planned.
All the big corps I ever worked for had their devices configured to go through the central VPN and proxy even for browsing.

But I guess blocking $$$ corporate visitors should be fine by you as well.
Felt it in Kyoto we think. Slightly swaying power lines and light fixtures. First earthquake experience on holidays
Except Tim Cook's Apple focuses much more on process and forget about the content.

It is also strange this being brought up now in 2024. Because from 2014 to 2021 or 2022, the only sentiment allowed was every employees are roughly equal. There are no high performer. No such thing as 10x programmers etc.
Extract Web Data Easily with AI
Tell HN: Python's print function is thread-unsafe
Some days ago I found that Python's print function is by default thread-unsafe, as the underlying sys.stdout is by default a TextIOWrapper, which is not thread safe. That means, for the code below

from threading import Thread
def target(x):
for _ in range(100000): print(x)
Thread(target=target, args=['a' * 10]).start()
Thread(target=target, args=['b' * 10]).start()

Python could print out not only interleaved bytes (aaabbbabab), but also null bytes and uninitialized memory, thanks to non-synchronized buffering.