skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair point and I don't object with this comment being flagged but please notice that the parent one is calling me unreasonable when I try to be polite and provide thorough reasoning about my position on the issue.

Is that O.K. really? They don't even address me when talking about me, that's why I felt the need to reply with a bit of a sarcasm and emotional tone. I also provided a document by the United Nations to keep this grounded. I don't know how this is less substantive than the parent comment talking about me in a sneering manner.
Would anyone care to take the time and explain what Fish does differently to zsh or bash? I like hearing the HN perspective.
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I was impacted too: it seems certain payment methods in ApplePay are showing up as "expired" even though they're valid.

For impacted users the services that auto-renew are defaulting: in case there are other cards the transaction follows through in priority order, otherwise it'll just fail.

To check: open Settings.app->Your Name at the Top->Payment & Shipping
Climate change predictions look to have “began” around 10 years after the first patent for gas vehicles, but predate mass production by a decade.

There probably wasn’t widespread knowledge at the time of mass production.

Then ~70 years ago, vehicle and oil giants absolutely knew what was happening and got the wheels spinning on a massive propaganda machine that continues to thrive today.
Correct.

Part 1: easy.

Apply part 1 solution to example, works.

Apply part 1 solution to real input, works.

Part 2: hard to very hard.

Apply part 2 solution to example, usually works.

Apply part 2 solution to real input, doesn't work due to time / memory constraints.

But having to look at the input to discover a pattern that isn't explained as part of the instructions always irks me.
I did the HTPC thing for many years. Finally, I just got tired of the noise, heat, and occasional maintenance requirements of having a PC in the media room.

My recommendation: Get a tiny, quiet, privacy-respecting client (e.g. Apple TV) and put the media on a NAS that lives elsewhere. Depending on your preferred client UX, you may (Plex) or may not (Infuse) need a separate app to serve the media.
Due to the regularisation yeah they all start at the same rating. But you don't need many votes to start getting good ratings.

I introduced this method to Dyson for objectively calculating very subjective measurements (e.g. "how frizzy does this hair look?"). We basically crowd sourced it to other engineers.

I did a load of studies on different methods by ranking something that's sort of hard to rank but you know the answer to - I used 10 grey squares that only differed by 2/255 and you had to pick the brighter one.

Some other things:

1. I don't remember the exact details but there's a slight extension of the method where you give each user a "how good are you" coefficient that you simultaneously solve for. This helps eliminate people that vote randomly, and also inverts the votes of people that deliberately pick the wrong answer (as long as they're consistently wrong).

2. You can put confidence limits on the values very easily too since it's a MAP estimate. Actually I showed curves for each item - basically how does the model probability vary as you sweep one rating up and down a bit. People didn't understand it at all though.

3. You can calculate the rankings incrementally very quickly (details in the answer) which means you can show users comparisons that give the most information. This usually means you end up showing users endless difficult choices which can frustrate them, especially if it's a forced choice.

4. I never found a principled way to incorporate a "they look the same" option. I tried some ad-hoc methods and IIRC a "much better, slightly better, can't tell, slightly worse, much worse" scale gave the fastest convergence but it was pretty unsatisfying that I just used some as hoc method to add the results.

It was all closed source and I haven't worked there for years so the code is lost to the wind unfortunately.
By the commonly held definition of open, in the context of "open source", it is not open.

> You can view, use and modify the code to your hearts content.

The non-commercial clause of their license specifically prohibits commercial use, so we cannot use this source, and presumably the data that the source uses, to our hearts content.

The OSI has a definition of open source that clearly states commercial use is required [0].

Wikipedias entry on Open Source Licensing also stipulates that commercial re-use is required [1].

There is a term called "source available" which is more in line with your intent.

[0] https://opensource.org/osd/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license
How does that work? Like a cargo cult behavior is a ritual you do because you think it will bring about some good through unknown means. Disregarding commit messages is the absence of a ritual.
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Thank you for the kind words, and for helping me get an idea of how my writing is coming across, I appreciate it a lot!
I agree. And this is why I wish that the narrative wasn't "LLMs will make you faster", and instead was "LLMs will improve the quality of your work".

There are certainly times when you just need to pump out code that happens to be very easy to validate, and then you can actually achieve the 10x throughput improvement that so many like to claim.

But generally, reviewing code is going to be at least as hard, if not harder, than writing the code. If we view coding assistants as a pair programmer, the collaboration has a throughput overhead, but two programmers should produce higher quality work than one isolated programmer.
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In looking at this software, it seems like it will fit my needs, but I thought I would ask before I try it:
I listen to a wifi radio at night (ccrane model), but want to add my own stations. For example, there is a Neil Degrasse Tyson station that plays older episodes and Art Bell has one (that are obviously not live), but they are stations on the Internet that I can play from from my wifi player.
For example, I would like to download 100 podcasts of a blogger and then have station1 be a random stream of all of their shows. I can imagine that I have a few stations of my favorite bloggers. Automatic downloading of RSS would be nice, but I can download manually if needed.
Ideally if a stream has 0 listeners, it isn't using up my wifi bandwidth (I'll host a local home server) and only starts streaming once a connection connects.
I will be the only one listening.
Thoughts? Thanks!
Did he ever get one on his shoulder?
I did that too :) I learned that sometimes, I'd ship the perfect wrong thing. And to avoid that I'd ship earlier versions faster and get back to it after feedback.
> my memory of the world pre-smartphone was that newspapers and magazines were everywhere

May I add... Television!
he specifically said he doesn't care if what he does in the future is "less" in terms of views and reach
I tried running Netscape 4 recently.

It worked!

Until it didn't.

Where it failed was protocols, the old binaries know nothing of modern TLS, and the vast majority of the web is now using that even when there's just no need to, so the browser works, most things could still render, but very little works.
I looked at the picture of the elephant and thought infrasound makes sense.

The size of elephant ears would probably work better with longer wavelengths.
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Yes, a few people I watch do this and it's so helpful.

I wish more people out the time in, given how the state of AI is going I'm not sure when the auto generated subtitles don't differentiate between different people.
Any nation pursuing this would have been dominated geopolitically, militarily, and economically by those that just took advantage of cheaper and more productive use of combustion engines.
37C3 video shows hardcoded backdoor on Apple ARM chips
These guys show a hard coded backdoor into Apple ARM chips. It can neither be removed nor be patched

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1f6YyH62jFE
Why would a company RTO to keep the building's investors happy? They probably have different owners whose interests are at odds.

The real estate guys want the building full to maximize rent income, but the company owners want to minimize rent expense. They are min-maxing against one another.

Companies RTO because:

a) they are run by people who don't get remote work

b) they do something that involves being physically present

c) layoff-by-RTO

d) it's possible the government incentivizes RTO, but this is a short-term trick at best. RTO is unpopular with workers and most capital are invested in companies, not office buildings. All of those companies have a natural interest in minimizing rent.
The fsd is magic. Watching it make turns etc.

And for my S plaid, it will beat anything on the road. Any super car or hyper car, it will take in 0-60 and the quarter mile.

The sound system is extremely good.

And the fact that my car has a gpu with steam and wireless controllers is a very cool feature. Playing street fighter in my car on an 18” screen is extremely neat.
AI models have an amazing ability to approximately memorize any training data. It's just that that memorization is useless unless it memorizes something real as opposed to random (randomized ImageNet labels as a simple example).

So as much as I want there to be a fair use case here, the artists have a real point. If someone can break the memorization without losing significant validation/test set performance, that might go a long way.

But even then, artists don't want their style copied either, and that's problematic to me in that if a human does it, that's OK, but if an AI does it, it's not? Yes I get the ease of asking an AI to do it vs a 10K+ hours artist, but, well, more or less the same to me on a geological time scale.

In the next year, I'm hoping to Patreon/Kickstart project that offers two major funding tiers. Hitting the lowest tier means it will use AI to create assets, and hitting the higher tier will use humans instead. My response to this brouhaha is to throw the controversy right back at the people creating it in the first place and ask if they're willing to walk their fancy talk on this subject with their wallets.
SEO was a thing in the 90s, I know people who were doing it then.
It makes the assumption that in early 1900 people wanted or needed to travel far.

Did they? Even today, most travels are under 100km, often averaging around <60km a day for commutes and less for non commutes. Would that have been different then?
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that back then, when the car was replacing horse drawn carriers, on a very rudimentary infrastructure (no tarmac, no paved roads outside of City centers) it was even less.
This is very nice ! I’d love to see this for French literature too
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_LG8FDt51U&t=59

And I already have a subscription, right here!
>what if i spent that time on deliberate practice instead

Well yeah. What if I spent all the time I spent on various types of consumption on deliberate practice. I'd be some kind of wizard by now.

There's nothing specially bad about these kinds of video in that respect.
How? Your bank stores personal data covered by gdpr but enabling crappy secure systems is not the domain of gdpr.

Most likely this is caused by SCA another European directive that ruined our lives with extra security hoops (for payment providers) for little extra security - or even worse in case of voice password or security questions
You can still run old Netscape binaries on Linux/X11, if you gather the ancient libstdc++ against which it was dynamically linked.
He tried and AFAICT failed to do TV in the past — this is probably not a bad thing given how the tides have changed.

I have always found his patterns of speech interesting. Quite measured but untrained.

I've never met him but I know a few people who have and I'm told that he's exactly the same in person (at least at a formal dinner!) which probably tracks.
Yet again, Steve was right.
You mean that the fornt end devs aren't actually responsible for the rendering, but the browser devs are?

Would you apply the same logic to game optimization?
That's it's not the responsibility of game devs, and instead we can shift all the blame to the gpu sdk team?
No nvidia jetson (nano Xavier etc.)! Add it to your bucket list.
This is an exceptional use case!

Mr Beast talked about translating his videos to other languages to get more reach. This can be done for people with limited budget or just in general so people can watch videos without needing subtitles.

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw this incorporated into YT in the near future.
I use DBeaver, and I know I have received messages of this type when I try to run mutations without a WHERE. Maybe the author had previously disabled this check?

I also configure databases to be "Production" within DBeaver, which adds a few extra "Are you sure checks?" so that might be why I see the message.
The information super-trash-way, the data is feeding on itself.

We're heading back to the information dark ages. I don't know if I'm glad or sad, the pendulum is swinging the other way, where printed books or face-to-face learning, will come back in vogue to get vetted information.
There's a discord[1] where people can point you to the old flashing utilities and images. Some of the old members of NTC are around as well.

[1]: https://discord.gg/kq8GknJzrZ
Can't you just read the Twitter feed?
Share your work? ;-) Are you doing something like adding "arch/wasm"? I'm just someone who wondered about how possible it was on a rainy day...
It has a lot of sensible defaults out of the box, and the scripting language is less esoteric than bash. I'd go into more detail but it has honestly been nearly a decade since I switched, so I barely remember. From what I recall, you can setup bash or zsh to do most of the same things, but that requires addons or tweaking configurations. With fish you just get a sensible shell right out of the box.
I do agree that limiting scopes ahead of time would be a better overall solution. The problem is that for the next part of the cycle, when the idea of regulation to limit the financialization is being debated, it will be rejected because the immediate crisis is over. So I'd say it's appropriate to argue against the scheme at each turn, even though only one aspect needs to be reformed to have just system.

Also, aiming for better outcomes would be more important for situations affecting resources in the real world. But commercial real estate has to be one of the most abstract setups there is. The buildings will still exist. The tenants will still exist, still carrying out their business, making rent payments, and for the most part keeping up the properties. The only thing that changes is the paper ownership moves to the senior debt holder, and the more leveraged investors get wiped out.
uh, gonna have to push back on “ Microsoft has become the best OSS citizen in terms of engineering talent and funding,” Perlow said. “More than 40% of Azure are running Linux and OSS workloads, and most of its infrastructure doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft software at all.”

That doesn’t necessarily mean Microsoft are great open sourcers, it just means Microsoft software isn’t fit for service and even they know it.

Furthermore, Microsoft bought GitHub, and transformed it from the core focus on version control systems, to some “AI-first” copilot hype nonsense, except if you read and actually earnestly follow the fine print of https://archive.ph/vJwLS#selection-3467.0-3471.139 then you can’t use Microsoft GitHub Copilot for AI, and if you ask Copilot about this, they tell you to talk to a **ing lawyer. Excuse me?

Oh, “IANAL,” we all say, and rightly so.

Well, ok, let’s defer to King’s County, Washington Legislature, are they qualified to comment? https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.62&full=true

How about Department of Justice, are they lawyer enough to have opinions about Microsoft Noncompetes?
https://www.justice.gov/media/967286/dl?inline

Buying GitHub doesn’t magically make you a virtuous open source company.

Does not running your own operating system doesn’t mean you’re favoring open source? No, it means your operating system isn’t working well enough for you, the owner, to prefer it over the alternative, or be able to convince customers to use it likewise.

Training on open source AI code, then forbidding others to use your AI to make AI,

Even in light of obvious humbug and the AI will gladly assist with making AI, and

even if only like a few people notice or care about this heinous anticompetitive conduct, and

even if the company themselves don’t ever enforce their evil terms,

do ANY of these EXCUSES make it RIGHT for uncapped-profit Microsoft to argue fair use in supporting a capped profit company to train AI on copyright material, then turn around and unfairly forbid use of AI to make AI?

Sorry for the rant but, if anyone thinks Microsoft is a sincere OSS role model in this context, then please send me a bag of whatever you are smoking.
I got Netscape 1.12 working on an old Macintosh, and while it can't browse much by default, this[0] HTTP proxy makes the 'net much more accessible. I'm kind of surprised that proxies were supported so early in browsers, does anyone know why?

Also, if you happen to design a website with Netscape 1 compatibility, and you want to replace SVG images with GIFs only for Netscape, you can use the <object> tag like this:

<object class="banner" type="image/svg+xml" data="assets/banner.svg" role="img" width="487" height="180" style="pointer-events:none">
<center>
<img src="assets/banner.gif" width="244" height="90" />
</center>
</object>

[0]: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy
Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
https://archive.org/details/ComputerRecreationsMarkovChainer
Better quality: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamboat_Willie_(19...
And IBM is still around too. I don't know how many machines they make now, but it's far from bankrupt.
It is, it shows how little a country needs to maintain/develop nukes
>I'm not sure I buy his reasoning there. He said that he uploads a video every week which is a brisk pace. Why not a video every month? Every quarter?

Yeah, this immediately came to mind for me as well. There's nothing set in stone that his production has to be weekly. He could move to monthly, or whatever. It doesn't even have to be a schedule, just whenever the next thing is ready push it. Which, he did leave the door open to but he also definitely seemed to couch this whole thing in "I'm completely done". It is a little weird, but of course he's free to do it how he wants

Although, he's not quitting completely and retiring, as he is still going to do all the other stuff (podcasts, other channels, etc) so maybe he's just shifting into different types of content, which is fine
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> "the number of set prefix bits is the number of bytes"

Except when it's 1, because that's an invalid start, and except when it's 0, because that means the character is a single byte.

And it also means you're dealing with three classes of byte now.

Plus UTF-8 has more invalid encodings to deal with than a super-simple format.
I'm sure the performance wouldn't have been comparable to modern electric cars, but what if car companies in 1920 had focused on producing electric cars that had a shorter range with a lower top speed?

It's not like people were commuting 60 miles each way on highways in 1920, and I doubt model t's were actually normally hitting their theoretical top speed anyway.
Growth can now decouple from cities however. Whether they are run well or not is largely immaterial to the legions of remote workers who can simply leave or even emigrate but remain economically active at the same level or even higher.
Why not an error? How often do you truncate a table? Often enough that you can’t afford to type ` where true `?
Is that true? One's options are limited if all one can do is vote for representatives, instead of directly voting on an issue themselves.

It's helpful to distinguish between the side-effects coming from one's vote and the intention/motivation for that vote. (This is called the doctrine of double effect.)

I would be surprised if many poor people vote with the intention of giving tax cuts for rich people, instead of voting for a candidate who they feel resonates them for other reasons, where it is an incidental fact that this candidate will push tax cuts for rich people.
Icy Draw is a very good newschool ANSI editor, too. The developer is very skilled and he put together a great, feature rich tool in a short amount of time.

I'd love to steal some of the features from it. Icy Draw joins the many GUI ANSI editors, though (like Moebius and Pablodraw), and Durdraw tries to get away from that by operating using real escape codes and real terminals. We also seem to have a different philosophy on animation.
I'd imagine he hasn't been editing the bulk of his content for a while.
Interested in the geology and history of industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Alexis Dahl is a great informative source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3EE_jNDRg&ab_channel=Alexi...
Looking at the website and the examples, it's pretty clearly set up to make stylized anime voices.
Look at Google [1] and Meta [2], this seems to be in the ballpark. There are people with such high salaries, but they are very few and more than just high-performers.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...
[2] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/facebook/salaries/software-...
A fish user for the last few years here.
Fish is all about contextual autocomplete and zero configuration. It just works out of the box. It suggests completions as you type and the experience is very smooth.
Unfortunately the scripting language isn’t sh-compatible but it’s fine as you can still run scripts in bash.
Which is now calculated to be between 6 BC and 4 BC.
I just bought sheets of small stickers.
I'd say we are overlooking the willingness of humans to change, have less, or reduce their impact.

I'm pessimistic, but I doubt the human race can bring up the sacrifices needed to save itself from slow (or fast) annihilation.

We have the tech, the knowledge, the urgency and the funds to change. I'm convinced all that's holding us back from actually fixing stuff is social.
I couldn't finish this article but I wish the author published a book with all the articles. (I am less likely to procrastinate reading physical books :))
Keep making cool things :)
My only Microsoft machine, Win7, just lost the ability to play GTAIV (Steam stopped Win7 support in 2024, BOO).

But it is still my main machine for anything financial or government -related, online. Most "official" websites still allow login/connections — whether legacy (or not) I'm not sure... as I don't need "all the features."
Yesterday the website was down, now is up !!