skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because despite Wikipedia and sister projects being one of the largest web property, it is running on a thin budget and has starved engineering resources. As far as I know, the transcode code is maintained by a single employee (possibly as a side gig / on top of everything else) and the assistance of a volunteer.

For Motion JPEG a recent config change ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config... ) indicates:

> Recent versions of iOS can play back suitably packaged VP9 video and Opus or MP3 audio, with a Motion-JPEG low-res fallback for older devices.

So I guess it is there for back compatibility :)
Let me fix it now!
7.5 W is a bit high idle for N100, IMHO. Power supply is not very efficient I bet.
Both. It's both. We hate Disney because we love the public domain.
Right but it’s also debt that doesn’t need to be incurred, which puts people way behind the starting line, especially when the student loans come due and people can’t afford to pay for a house
I wonder how this would behave if trained on 1 trillion words like the LLMs.

Also, Is training a Markov cheaper that training neural nets? It would be a great way to cut AI costs if they could be made as effective as neural nets.

There is also an interesting post by Orange duck. [0]

[0] https://theorangeduck.com/page/17-line-markov-chain
Most of the ppl dont like the spacing, I will reduce the padding.
This whole discussion is about that you should expect and embrace this experience because while it’s possible to not end up in an organization like that, it… doesn’t happen often. This is the rare case where uni grading and real life are actually in sync.
It hits the coastline gradually as the waves propagate. But the first tsunami should already have hit Ishikawa-ken. However, there can be multiple tsunamis and the warning is still in effect:

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/tsunami/index.html?lang=en
It's justifying why the new hire gets more than their manager that is really hard.

It's also easier to book a high fixed cost than a high ongoing cost.
There are quite some of them around still. Right across the street I can see one in a barn just now ;)
some (most?) iphones use apple's private relay (akamai) in some capacity
It's a credit to the image's source, which is unrelated to ownership. They credit Getty Images for some public domain imagery as well: that is where they got the image from.
Yup, I do think so the icons waste the space. For hashtags of authors, jts wanna highlight it.
Donald Duck isn’t, and his Uncle Scrooge would rather abuse his workforce than animals.
Thanks for ur information!
> What had been proposed that would help with that?

It's a big question, and I'm not really familiar with the latest thinking of the copyright regime critics & reformists. Off the top of my head, some of the policy tools used in other similar regulation scenarios, where the aim has been to cap the windfalls for network effect winners, have been to install some kind of cross-subsidization / income transfer mechanism, for example to require media to carry a certain share of legislator decided content categories. Rolling back some of the copyright, patent etc extensions favouring IPR capital over creators and consumers is a boring but obvious policy action as well.

> Winner takes all is a function of popularity and network effects; how does it relate to copyright?

I don't know how to succintly answer this, it seems obvious to me so I'd have to spell out a lot of things about those 4 concepts and their interplay. But consider eg the negotiating position of an garage songmaker vs Spotify or book author vs Amazon and reflect on how the concepts relate there.
Same, but even missing the deadline was realistic.

Manager: This is urgent, fix it today.
Dev: Rush rush, miss deadline.

Manager: Ok no problem, let's move the deadline by a week just in case.
Let me change the link behaviour.
>Everyone I read made predictions conditional on aid

Ok and once the aid numbers were published how many of them predicted that Ukraine would end the offensive with less land than it started?

>If you’re seriously following this issue, stay clear of Yahoo! News and ad-funded sources. They’re mostly mouthpieces

Im obviously talking about what the mouthpieces said - what the average person on hacker news will have read and believed.

My sources nailed it. They made fairly specific predictions, most of which came true with a smallish margin of error. They've been predicting a Ukrainian collapse some time between mid 2024 - beginning of 2025 for the last several months.
Forest Elephants and Infrasound
This reminds me of Berlin/Fresco.

https://berlin.sourceforge.net/

I followed this project for years and it's still where I think we should be. X11 architecture with higher level primitives
Maybe that was expected actually
i just played doom for a solid 10 min, thanks for bringing back up good memories
For a more thorough exploration of Markov text generation, I like this article: https://zompist.com/markov.html
texting an iphone from the cli of a sun-sparc workstation truly felt like calling a fax-machine and getting something useful out of it
Jts wanna make it easy to read on mobile version.
poker bots have been around for as long as online poker has been. if you wanna get really sketchy have more than one bot on a table working together.

pokertracker has been around forever too, lets you keep track of how certain people to play so you can optimize strategy.
That attempt would be a little funny and desperate. It reminds me of apple's ham-fisted approach to thwart third party repair shops.

https://repair.eu/news/apple-uses-trademark-law-to-strengthe...
I was thinking the same. Am viewing this on a Retina MBP screen, so that might be influencing what am feeling, but this looks much better than I ever remember Windows XP being.
> Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?

I would like to know this too.
I should rename the subject to "Enhancing Mobile Readability for Hacker News"
“Turkey in the Straw”. Here’s an equally weird version

https://youtu.be/80AFN1L7_8Q?si=w2IU9ylyrcSLMJcr
For some people, before they get the hang of physical activity, they need tremendous burst of motivation or willpower to start moving their bodies. I am one of these people. I was more excited after my code got running than I myself did some running. This kept me sticking to my chair and fiddling with code. And, initial phase of physical training is not always comfortable or pleasant for a beginner. Benefits will only become obvious if one could persist through some critical threshold. Some people just retract again and again before they could easily "just do" physical exercise. I started to seriously consider exercising after suffering from years of chronic fatigue, which undermined my mind sharpness.
They’re there mostly because of safety regulations, not to serve drinks.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1872/under-what...
Not that I personally know of, but it did create (or empowered, because in a way it was already there) a new sort of anthropomorphization, of which this article is partially guilty of itself (the part labeled "LLMs are really smart, and also really, really dumb"). Some of us now think they know more about human intelligence as a result of that anthropomorphization.
We do need to clarify what our language means. Is this self-awareness or the hard problem of consciousness?
Somewhat similar, if you run program in new xterm with -hold parameter and it crashes, you won't see the segfault, you have to wrap it in parens.

xterm -hold -e './a.out' - no segfault

xterm -hold -e '(./a.out)' - will print segfault
That’s part of the reason behind hiring consultants - both strategy consultants who are brought in for their subject matter expertise and staff augmentation “consultants”.

On the other hand, I’m more than willing to accept my 35% lower compensation to have a full time job than I know I could make if I went independent.
your last sentence seems to imply that progress/superiority drives adoption, i can agree with the rest.
Thanks for being here over the years. The faces changed some, stayed the same some, but it’s good people and good conversation!

May you all have a happy new year, and many more!
The 50-character summary thing is bizarre. As far as I can tell, what happened is someone did statistics on summary lines, found that the average was around 50, and then louder people with strong opinions missed the word "average" and declared 50 as a maximum.

My hot take is that you should use exactly as many characters as you need to write a meaningful summary, and people who insist on using tiny terminal windows can deal with the consequences of their actions.
Trademark law only stops someone else using the character to represent themselves as Disney, or where is might cause confusion around that. A simple prominent disclaimer can fix that.

That's assuming Disney could ever register the trademark, which is not a given, no matter how often they use it.
Wow, I guess How to Drop Out is 20 years old this year.

I would've found it a few years later, in my early twenties. Definitely influenced me to try to prioritize free time and pursuing my own interests over a concentional "career". Hard to say if it's been the right choice, overall, but I've done okay.

I don't think the essay was ever meant as a piece of rigorous social or moral philosophy, more like motivational writing in the anarchist/anti-civ style of the day. Even less so after the author distanced himaelf from it and added the disclaimers. But I still think it has a lot of good points for people feeling out of place in midern industrial society. Especially the parts about purity va pragmatism.

Not sure if you still lurk HN, but: Hi Ran, and Thank You!
Doing a side by side. MM doesn't have visible front teeth, his ears are smaller and fully black, the silhouette is different. But the shape of the face and features, including where the shape of the black fur decends (at the widows peak?), the eyebrows, the eyes with white, all look quite similar. To me it's much closer to a modern Mickey than the original flat black and white.
The Mozilla foundation pays millions to its CEO [1] while reducing funding to Firefox development and Firefox market share is falling year after year, but hey, please switch to Firefox. Right. Let's face the reality: Firefox is dead and Mozilla itself is putting the final nail in the coffin.

[1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-...
Why Threads Are a Bad Idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297325

The problem with threads: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1631937
Guess it's different over in the states, but my boss said the cost to the company is roughly 2x the salary. This includes taxes (not income tax), pension and such.

So 1.5x would be a steal in comparison.
> When fixing a bug, add a failing test first, as a separate commit. That way it becomes easy to verify for anyone that the test indeed fails without the follow up fix.

I would genuinely like to know in what world this is useful advice. Maybe in personal projects or small teams or companies with a maniacal lead?

I just can’t imagine someone in a sufficiently large organization (which most companies hope to be someday) goes sifting through feature commits to get to the bottom of a failing test.
A collection of relevant RSS sources with an algorithm to check connectivity
I feel like the number of reviewers should be predicated more on how well the reviewers understand the relevant part of the code review.

Most code review tooling is too coarse in the sense that it expects a small number of reviewers to know the full context of the change or has too many reviewers that slow down things.

Tools to show relevant parts of the change to specific reviewers and potentially break apart a large change into smaller ones automatically will go a long way especially in large scale codebases or when team sizes are large enough that the full context is not understood by everyone on the team
Has anyone deployed and used a system like this here?

If so, what was its purpose and why this technology over others?
Ask HN: Technical and non-technical goals for 2024?
Mine is to stop and smell the roses more, survival mode is a real thing since COVID. that's for sure. From a technical standpoint I would like to dip into rust more this year, it appears to be the rockstar language these days. What about yourself?
A junior at BigTech averages around $170K. Are you really saying a high performer can make $1.7 million in compensation a year? I’m sure there are a very few that do.
That is the song he plays but after it ends, he adds 7 strokes that are not part of the Turkey in the straw.
Most people in the western world have way more computing power (and memory, and network bandwidth) than they would ever need. We as an industry have chosen to "borrow" that extra capacity through advertising and bitcoin mining and insanely wasteful webapps, but there's no reason we can't develop shared software, where the crawling, indexing etc all happens distributed - if StumbleUpon told me it will use 10% of my CPU to parse and index zero-knowledge encrypted data from other users, I would consider that a very good deal
I'm impressed/dissapointed that this is more responsive than my actual desktop environment...
You can use whatever credential society is willing to trust. Practically that’s a state-issued ID.

All I’m arguing is that we should extend the concept of your state ID cryptographically into cyberspace. Amd that it should be used for recovery flows where real identity matters. There’s nothing new here (society already works this way) other than the protocols and specs to agree on document and signature format, which is luckily something we happen to excel at managing.

None of your counter suggestions solve any practical problems. A liquor store isn’t going to simply “ask the user” whether they’re of age. They need more formal proof. Users don’t rent safe deposit boxes at banks, and even if they did that would be chained back to your physical ID anyway so your apparent solution isn't a real solution.

The dystopian worries are hyperbolic and mostly FUD. If a service needs your info and you need the service, you’ll give it to them.

Anyway mobile DL is already happening. I’d rather a state that I have at least a modicum of control over be the root of my digital identity than some corporate run email system than can evict me without cause.
"that were culturally or ethnically distinct, like much of Europe"
Other than religion I'd like to know what these cultural differences are? Serbs, Bosnians and Croats speak the same language which is very much unlike, say, French and Germans. Or even Slovak and Czechs. People of the UK are more ethnically distinct than people of former Yugoslavia.
we've come a long way in positioning interoperability as a differentiating innovation, thou
I am jealous, as people at my uni seemed to be mostly there for the cheap alcohol and parties and probably to avoid working. I imagined uni would have watercooler chats about interesting stuff. But the incentives aren’t aligned. For that you need niche programming language meetups! Or maybe PhD but I decided against that.
2024 Is Starting Out with an Avalanche of Video Games
Outside next to a building is the worst place to be, as debris can detach and fall from the sides and tops of buildings. If you're indoors, stay indoors. Furniture that can fall over or slide around is supposed to already be secured to the wall or floor, but you will probably want to cover under a desk or something, anyway, in case panels or fixtures fall from the ceiling, or glass shatters.

If you're already outside, stay away from the sides of buildings, walls, power lines, etc. You may want to walk out into the middle of the road (seriously): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2084030/
> I'd probably have to do some stitching to even get Emacs to autocomplete things in the terminal instead of or in addition to the shell running in it

I wonder what you mean. The `dabbrev-expand` command (bound to `M-/` but default) will complete the characters before point based on similar strings nearby, starting with strings in the current buffer before the word to complete, and extending its search to other buffers. If you have the sysfs file path in one buffer, it will use that for completion. You may need to use line mode for for non-`M-x shell` terminals to use `dabbrev-expand`.

> In my line of work (infra / automation) I may not write any new code that's going to be added to some project for later use for days, sometimes weeks.
>
> Most of the stuff I do is root cause analysis of various system failures which require navigating multiple machines, jump hosts, setting up tunnels and reading logs.

This sounds like an ideal use case for literate programming.
Are you using org-mode? Having an org-file with source blocks would store the path string for later completion by the methods described above (as well as document the steps leading to the root cause). You could also make an explicit abbrev for the path (local or global). The document could make a unique reference or, depending on how many and how common the paths are, you could define a set of sequences to use. For example "asdf" always expands to /sys/class/pci_bus/X and "fdsa" expands to something else.

Hope that helps or inspires you to come up with a solution that works for you!
Ask HN: What is your New Year's resolution?
What will you learn or do differently in 2024?
Happy New Year! Just as many people here have said already, HN is really one of the few places online where one can find thoughtful discourse devoid of flame baits. Many a times, I read the comments before even following the links if at all. I've learned so much through HN. I would say that not only technical knowledge but also my English has improved massively all thanks to this forum.
“US copyright law says the rights to characters can be held for 95 years.”

95 years ago was also about when the cinema and recording industries began.

Since then, I’ll argue, all recorded entertainment and theatrical performances have become “fixed” into our culture similar to how Plato, the Bible, and Shakespeare became cultural touchstones due to literacy and the printing press.

And now, as they enter the public domain, Mickey and others are becoming, for better or worse, an inescapable part of our common heritage.
In classical terms, out of pathos, logos and ethos, LLMs are logos. They discover metrics.

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

Neural networks are an optimization which exploits structure in sparsity.

Intelligence is not a black box.
They tried that, it turned into this metagame with reprisals where others would work together and gang up on you so it would end up being many against one. Basically step one was to find the sucker, step two is make it stick. If you had a rep for good grades then you were de facto the sucker. You could tank the group and hope to fair better in a reshuffle but it was a lemon market and the replacements would be just as bad and now everyone knows you have given your previous team members poor scores. People quickly learned to never do that. So part of the optimization was to present lecturers with what they want to see with only minor deviations between individual rankings, effectively a voting ring. Presenting a false projection of reality in order to metagame politics was accidentally good training for real world work - but it really sucks having to do the work of 4 people.

I’m sure if the lecturers cared they could have managed it properly but they didn’t I don’t know of any who did.
Not the compiler. We don't always know if a reference is null at compile time. Especially if we have hardware that can make references invalid when they otherwise might not be.
If I open the sim's browser, then type in google.com, I will get a message from my firefox nightly with a security warning about embedding a site within a site. However i click on one of the sim's browser links to google, with some chars after, I can surf the web in the sim.
Seems like a problem, no?
Live NHK World broadcast in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lYkdA-Gtw
these really powerful local tornadoes on land are uniquely a USA thing from what I have read as no where else do hot winds from the equator and cold winds from the poles meet directly like this over land
> It seems like a somewhat odd observation, is it really necessary to have another user to do this? I can easily switch between Gnome, i3, and Sway on my system

Ok, sure, it was just the first solution that came to mind. On mine logging in launches straight into sway. I think only in the first session (to allow recovery in case of some related issue) so I suppose I could switch tty and then manually launch whatever DE.

But to me I think the odd observation is that it doesn't need to be a different user if we're talking about still having to log in again anyway.

Unless you mean some kind of session saving, swaymsg exit, and then launch the other one? But then you have to maintain whatever session saving (probably different in each) solution and what have you really gained.
Proxmox is good for this. You can have a Windows VM with GPU passthrough. Then you can add any other VMs or LXCs to your heart’s content.
Porkbun about 10.37
Yeah! Benefits of small activities do accumulate and compound! One of my favorite exercise is the ballet elevé and relevé. These really can be done anywhere, even in a fully stuffed long-haul plane. Yes they can be huge help!
At least we stagger the transition across world time zones.
>if you want to reliably record file moves during refactors in git, you should do two commits: the first commit just moves the file without any changes, the second commit applies all the required fixups.

Yes this will record a file move in one of the commits but if you diff between before and after the two commits a file move might not be shown. When thinking about file moves in git it is worth remembering this comes from the diff tool not from the commits since the commits just show the state of the file system at the point it is committed.
We used it at Burning Man in 2023. Burning Man is hard on gear and a surprisingly busy RF environment. It was reliable and has a good user experience. I really liked it.
Personally, I prefer Windows 93:

http://www.windows93.net/
Tokyo here, felt a long and noticeable jiggle.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/movie.html

^ Also Japanese news broadcast livestream(s) for those who speak Japanese.
Statistics only matter when they make our case, yeah.

I know pretty well how Proton works.
the internet mostly works with lengthy markup languages, they compress well, no problem
If management is listening to the superstar and translating it to the team to support them it is great.

If management expect people to just listen to the superstar directly it’s terrible, as the superstar has no time to do the actual work and is expected to lead instead.

That is the easiest way to kill talent, and strange enough most people are encouraged to go this way to grow within the company.
Yup, I jts realize it... Cannot change the subject again
I feel this advice has some merit when dealing with oss projects, systems/backend or small teams.

It tends to break apart when working with large teams or when working on mobile apps where one can't just rollback a change easily after it's shipped. The descriptions need to be more detailed and capture lot more information.

For example, our team would require all mobile devs to add information about feature flags for each change to turn the feature off if things go wrong. This also places additional review burden to make sure the flag covers all the new code introduced and does not interact in a bad way with other existing feature flags
Understand.
For the next year I will dive deep in learning OTP and reading a lot of the source code (I’m an elixir developer, so probably mastering a bit more Erlang as well).

Also less lurking, consuming low quality information and publishing/writing more.
An open source SSH client written in Go is worth trying