skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or cherry-picked their examples from many attempts

even if that were true, is it really a defence?

> It said AI tools have to incorporate copyrighted works to “represent the full diversity and breadth of human intelligence and experience.”

that sounds like an appeal "our product isn't much use if we can't violate copyright"
Before that in 2007 the same issue was addressed by Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko: https://youtu.be/uF534zmxa9c?si=AzSm-0e-W0YQHES1
I really appreciate this work, thanks to it I was able to recover all my levels I had made for mm2 before I sold my switch years ago. I didn't have any level codes, all I had was a screenshot with one of the level names, so I had to filter the whole dataset by level name and luckily that level popped in there (I was afraid Nintendo would have deleted my stuff since my account was inactive for so long...). Then I was also able to get my uploader id from that single level record, which allowed me to filter all other levels I had made. You guys made my day :)
Anything about foreign policy, IR, and aerospace is reddit-tier. Probably more subjects too but they are out of my area of expertise.
It is right there in the title. The application is "Liquid Nitrogen Cooling". /s
I would add that gold plating, in the software engineering sense, is also a form of being stuck. You may be telling yourself you're doing useful work, like making the code prettier, or lifting test coverage up from 98%, all the way to 98.5%. But in reality, you're just buying time until taking on the next real new task. Because new tasks are scary, and require extra determination, and thus energy (and remember, you're tired!), before you have conquered them to a point of comfort, where the gold plating soon looms again. Rinse. Repeat.
Video? How quaint. Why not simply translate the latent representation of concepts.
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I got fed up with manually drawing project structures every time I needed to document. So I thought to myself: "I need to automate this." And voilà! I developed the perfect extension for Visual Studio Code (Draw Folder Structure). It's super fast, fully customizable, and instantly turns your project structure into a Markdown visualization. Ideal for documenting and sharing with your team.
> I believe that there are still a lot of interesting, non-commercial websites out there.

Surely there are more than ever. Just difficult to find, as you say.
it is the centralisation of visitor count widgets, guestbooks and web-rings on geocities
Social-media ate the traffic. A 10 minute video of someone typing on you-tube will capture more views than a well formatted website. Thus, people just started gleaning other peoples static content into low-effort media. These days there are bots that automate this process to make garbage content.

Perhaps you meant to ask "why has the signal-to-noise ratio dropped on the modern web?"...
They are always "ready" and they block when you use them.
Even laser beams spread with distance, and these are vast distances.

How do you imagine focusing "any transmitter in the galaxy" to converge at a distance of, say, 200 light years?

Any rough calculations on the method, focusing array size?
Related reading: Picked up a copy of a book called "We Got Blog: How weblogs are changing our culture" in the university library a few days ago, published in 2002. An nostalgic and interesting, albeit rather random, semi-curated collection of blog posts from prominent, mainly US, bloggers. Tells the story of Blogger too.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/928428.We_ve_Got_Blog
Even if we never leave our system, it's at least possible that we could build a Dyson Swarm or something similar around our own Sun, which would make it look like a strangely -- possibly unnaturally -- occluded star to distant observers. We've spotted one of those already, and we still don't know exactly what we're looking at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star
Next step: airliner full of ejection seats!
> Do ants comprehend humans? No they don't. Ants can comprehend only other ants. By this logic we can interact only with civs that are similar or same as us.

That doesn't follow. Just because you can represent intelligence as a number doesn't mean it actually is one. Plus ants don't make any effort to understand us.
“Begin. The rest is easy.”

It really depends what you do. Usually yes, after you just start, more ideas are coming in faster than you can implement them - but you also have to know when to stop, when you are going into a dead end.
Archived version if anyone needs it: https://archive.is/5sxo8
I am from Austria, and here you can buy water in cans. It's not common, but lately, there are 2-3 brands that offer canned water, which you can find in a normal supermarket.

On the other hand, I've never seen water in cartons in my life.

But both cans and cartons are also lined with plastic on the inside, afaik.

I was seeing "When Chinese Industrial Espionage Goes Wrong" [1] some months age, industrial espionage related to the inside coatings of the cans. Quite interesting video.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ojlJoM0FE
My Iphone 12 recently spent a full night in a gutter during a rainstorm, water rushing over it. It was completely fine, didn't even seem to bother the hotspot.

Wonder how my warranty's doing.
It's often a modeling issue. Modeling languages are so abstract and general they give up a part of the problem's structure.

The most famous example is the pigeonhole problem, when given to SAT solvers. Definition of the problem is: I have n pigeons and m pigeonholes, with n = m + 1. Can I put all n pigeons in a different pigeonhole? The answer is obvious to a human. If I have 20 pigeons and only 19 pigeonholes, I won't make it. But even state of the art SAT solvers will fail at solving this in a reasonable amount of time. Because of the way the problem is represented (a conjunction of boolean clauses). With just a slightly more expressive modeling language (such as pseudo-boolean representation / reasoning), you solve it with the blink of an eye.

We humans are efficient because we recognize the underlying structure of the problem. You'll solve the pigeonhole problem in a split second. But if I encode the problem in CNF (the language of SAT solvers) and give it to you without more information, you won't be able to do it anymore.
We have a labelmaker in our hackerspace. The box containing it has a label on it "Please do not print unnecessary labels". Below it is a label reading "ok". :)
I think you touch on something correct. It's not that the websites are gone. It's because the used to be readers has been caught in echo chambers and new trends and can't seem to understand that they are the ones who changed.
> will just confuse users. “Why can’t I type text here??” It’s often better to allow mistakes but also offer immediate explanatory feedback if something is incorrect.

No, it's better to prevent a mistake and offer immediate explanatory feedback why something is incorrect. For example, the answer to "why can't I type text here??" would be a message explaining that no text is allowed, only numbers.
The problem is that in practice, you don't have complete information, and the information you have is slightly incorrect. You also don't have a complete model, and the model you have is slightly incorrect.
Having run Oracle RAC, MySQL circular replication, Postgres replication since 9.X, Amazon RDS, and others in production, I can say that Oracle RAC was the worst experience.

We had to provide our own active / active storage backend, and fabric. If there were any hiccups, the entire system fell over. The horizontal scalability was nice, but if you caused I/O saturation on the backend, you'd end up knocking over the entire cluster due to shared components. Several times, the entire DB just "broke" (this was a couple scenarios, one where the DB was using 100% of CPU, one where the DB was frozen, and not allowing connections, and things like hung queries that couldn't be stopped), and it required restarting the whole cluster, for which there was minimal tooling.

Perhaps SQL server is better, but that comes with an entirely new ecosystem, and other problems.

My biggest thing is being able to crack open the DB, and look at the source code when it breaks. In this, the likes of Datastax Cassandra and Cockroachdb are great, but I wouldn't call them "proprietary" by any means.
Yes but from the big picture perspective Unity does get paid by bigger companies for features which trickle down to users.

On the other side Godot does not have this bandwidth so at the moment you have to bring your own engine team for your own needs. And because of that many "unsexy" features are not as good as they could be.

That said, I see a lot of movement and the Fund raised significantly in the last months. And the fact that stuff is open source helped me so much compared to Unity where you might have documentation but the feature just doesn't work and you can't figure out why..
You can see the other examples posted in the sibling threads. ChatGPT handles gendered nouns and correctly deriving genders for articles from context.
I agree with you that the PR has been even more disastrous than the pricing change but it's hard to not see this hard turn of business strategy as a short term brand squeeze. The change of CEO and layoffs at the same time are also hinting to that.
Tell him HN can be full of self righteous "know-it-all"s so don't take the criticism to heart.
If you are only joking tell him welcome to our corner of the intenet, he'd fit right in with the self righteous and know-it-alls :)
> At cryogenic temperatures, even older architectures not optimised for it can hit 9 GHz. An optimised modern CPU could probably run at well over 10 GHz, which is a big performance boost for legacy single-threaded code. Cooling and “overclocking” the CPUs would be cheaper than rewriting the code.

When it will work, yes. You just need to take into account that some material characteristic is temperature dependent. /s
tl;dr: Author author reflects on past experiences and expresses a desire to prioritize and cultivate more moments of fun. Author encourages readers to embrace and seek out opportunities for fun in order to maintain a fulfilling and balanced life.

My gripe: Author ignores responsibilities of being an adult. Author is 25 and ignores their privilege.

Try having kids, or a mortgage, or struggling to maintain friendships, or dealing with your a loved one's ailments. Life is hard, sometimes you can't make time.
What a magnificent search engine, love it. It brings back those wandering days of link clicking reading about people and their passions. No stupid “and here’s where you sign up” and annoying things like that.
what a great concept to project onto procrastination as a whole
The "old web" is one of the cases in which people forget about absolute numbers and focus too much on relative proportions.

There are more independent websites than you could ever visit in a lifetime. Who cares if they "lost" to the social networks relatively speaking.
Nope https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965250
I'm not really sure what you're trying to communicate here, but: the average person likes watching/listening to other people talk. Maybe the über cyborg AI gods of the future will communicate directly with mental models, but for everyone else, the only thing that is better than video is probably a hologram, which is basically the same thing taken to the next level.
Exept of cause that it creates a bunch of giant for profit gatekeepers manipulating the content stream for maximum profit(for the gatekeeper).
> years of largesse

The American worker has never had largesse, even the tech workers like ourselves, the largesse is and was and will still be going to the capitalist class. You're basically saying that we must accept that we're meant to live shitty lives where we grind and grind for very little gain while the capitalists and founders thrive on our labor. Reality is reality, but the whole "we can't complain about this" message you're sending is part of what's keeping us here. We should be fighting for the fruits of our labor.
I’m currently a mid-level SRE engineer cornering the senior level. My goal is to reach the principal/distinguished levels.

I’ve found myself in the I told you so moments in my team and have had an informal heads-up about a promotion. It’s too soon to even be talking about this, but I hope it gives you enough context as I’m looking forward to you advice because your last comment was really really good. Thank you for taking the time.

I’m not in Silicon Valley or any other tech hub, I’m in a small country in Africa and want to put a dent in the engineering world. A cliché I take very seriously :).
> Our goal is to develop AI tools that empower people

Proprietary software does not empower people.
I would really like web3 to go back to distributed networks. Fediverse and all that. I guess cryptocurrencies fit in there too; I guess web3 would have its light and dark side. But decentralisation would be a nice theme.

TikTok isn't really fundamentally different from the stuff we consider web2, is it?

(I actually think imposing these artificial "generations" on web evolution is silly, but if we're going to do it, I'd prefer to use it to steer it towards something positive.)
Meh. Something like textsfromlastnight has probably been replaced by a subreddit, and I like it better that way - no custom CSS to get in the way of me reading it (the same reason that Facebook won out over MySpace, IMO - you don't actually want all of your friends' pages to look different, you want the design to be something bland that gets out of the way). Yes, these things used to be their own websites and now they're largely not. But usually you wanted the content, not the website, and that's easier than ever to get at.
The C standard library makes no performance guarantees. Besides, scanf is awful and should be avoided wherever possible.
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> the same reason that Facebook won out over MySpace, IMO - you don't actually want all of your friends' pages to look different, you want the design to be something bland that gets out of the way

100%. I had the exact same impression at the time.
Brandt gave a talk about this at the CPython Core Developer Sprint late last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSHIpEQRjs
And the few pages that stop working probably weren't good for your time management anyway.
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I’m not. Downsizing or going retro that is.

I buy what I need to run and operate my life and business.

But only that.

I try to avoid buying extra things because I want to treat myself or because I mistakenly believe it might make me happy for more than a moment!

Curiously I get the same feelings from investing and making trades that I do from purchasing items!

So when I think I might buy something, I just invest that money instead! Even small amounts of money!

But no, not downsizing or going retro anything. Instead of denying myself things or time with my iPhone, I do other things instead.

It’s not about what I do, it’s about what I’m not doing!

And if I’m not doing enough of the positive things that are good for my mental health, then there is a problem.

Denying myself my iPhone doesn’t fix my underlying problem. Problems are fixed by positive actions.

YMMV :-)
How did you arrive at "almost a decade"? There's been VR stuff since at least the late 1980s. On the flip side you could say it wasn't "a thing" until just a few years ago. Or that it isn't "a thing" yet.
They should throw the obfuscated code into chatgpt4 and see if anything meaningful comes up now.
That would be octillions of light-years...
I would like to add: "Live up to expectations" in a sense that there are so many Websites or UIs there, that most users have some sort of expectations, on where to find the menu, how to go back etc. How this and that buttons should behave.
Even though, you might have a great idea, it might just confuse the user, if it is totally different than what the "standard" is.
Luckily our book will also be available in hard copy so you can digest all that hard-won knowledge in an offline manner :)
I suspect it needs rather large qualities of air. Ie. Cubic meters per second.

It's gotta be a modified engine that lets you extract compressed air.
To "live DJ" there's the extremely famous https://virtualdj.com/

To create prerecorded DJ sets https://www.mixmeister.com/

Been using both for at least 10 years, love them both.
This response by the authors to the reviews to me looks like they didn't really understand the objection:

> First, it's worth noting that different reviewers sometimes gave opposite critiques of the paper, e.g. Reviewer erh8: The conclusion in this paper is questionable... It contradicts to [1], which shows that Transformers are Turing-complete Reviewer bz3o: The main claim that transformers with finite attention span are not computationally universal is both somewhat obvious and previously already stated

If I'm reading the reviews correctly, the claim by both reviewers was that transformers are actually Turing complete, but one reviewer added that they're "obviously" not Turing complete if you restrict their memory a priori (which I would agree is obvious). So there isn't really a contradiction between the reviews.

From briefly skimming the paper, this does look indeed to me like researchers which aren't really familiar with theoretical CS trying to handwave their way into something that looks ground-breaking. But while you absolutely can get away with vague-ish description in a more experimental part of CS, you absolutely can't get away with it in computability theory - that field is rigorous, and basically maths.
> What's missing is the culture of "anonymity" where everyone was pretty much just a screen name

It seems that the society at large wants this. 4chan has a horrible reputation in the outside world. Reddit's reputation is improving hand in hand with the tightening of their content policies.
Yeah, I also like the idea of linkposts. I read some bloggers who make regular linkposts with a bit of personal flavor, and it's one of the nicest things about the web today.

Another maybe related question is, where have all the social networks gone? It used to be that people wrote about their life on the internet and other people read it. But now it seems everyone's trying to craft their online presence to maximize attention. For example Instagram is no longer a social network, it's a self-promotion network. Getting likes is not socializing.
I find it pretty cool that you went through the length of publicly announcing it and everything for something that everyone else was doing already. That does show some integrity in face of "let's just make it work" people.

None-the-less, as a web developer (which I am less than 5% of my programming time, probably less, so I'd rather not lose my hair over adjacent stuff) this has been extremely frustrating to debug in the past. Would it be possible/make sense to show maybe a small yellow (i) as like a 8x8px icons at the bottom right of the lock to show that something's up? And then if the user clicks "more information" on the "secure connection" (which I believe is deep enough to be more power-user/developer-centered) show a yellow line saying "you're certificate chain's broken dude"?

I haven't hit this issue in several years, and it's unlikely I will hit it again because I'm now systematically using caddy as a front which will do TheRightThing (or so I hope), so maybe my comment is out-dated/irrelevant, in which case, feel free to ignore me.
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Very nice simple puzzle game!

I think the game would be much more enjoyable if you have curated levels rather then getting them randomly generated.

Also it seems that my progress is lost whenever I refresh the page.
I'm slightly alarmed by this, not just because of the decline of literacy and the slower speed of transmission, but the stronger charisma effects through voice seem to me to be a driver of problems. That seems to be why there are so many terrible influencer cult leaders.
It's a full computer virtual machine architecture. Pretty impressive.
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Backup air reservoir?
I don't know where you get that idea from. But humans has been reading for thousands of years. And on a cognitive level reading is superior to video or sound. Tons of evidence has been based on that premise.

It has nothing to do with young people and a sudden change in human patience. If your young ones are impatient of they read something is disturbing them, but it's definitely not human evolution.
Given how much money he has dedicated to philanthrophy, regardless of reasoning, I am sure he is happy with the wealth he continues to have.

Also, hindsight 20/20, and you might see the diversification play out more in the future once the AI bubble bursts. for instance, see the farms he owns https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27451374
I think it's all just decreasing neural plasticity and having more routine you need to break.
> training data is NOT the model. there is NO text from any website in any LLM model.

The model is a (lossily) compressed form of the training data.
Yes. Although you can block a lot of stuff (I run a pi-hole and put my connection through it via a VPN when I'm on the road), the bigger issue is really the content itself is being warped by what you describe too. Take Threads, to which I've recently moved in preference to Xitter. It's quite clear that whether conscious or not, a large section of people on there are playing for followers, making stupid controversial statements to get attention because that's how things work now.
> which is an enormous number of people

While that may be, I think it would make sense to describe the project in a succinct way on the first page a visitor lands.
You can get a pretty high quality PCB built at Bay Area Circuits in Fremont, and assembled at Sierra in Sunnyvale. The speed is marginally slower than JLC, the cost is marginally higher and quality marginally lower than Compeq. But, you can drive there, and be on a first-name basis with your supplier.

Given the extreme efficiency of international shipping logistics, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect any given metro area to have competitive world class manufacturing of every type. The cost of real estate alone makes it hard to compete.
> Their sales share of the market and as you mention, their profit share of the market keeps increasing, so even on that alone, why would a bean counter decide to drop them?

Apple at the moment doesn't have any marketshare in rugged, "out in the field" laptop computers. Obviously if any company can brute force an entry into any market it's Apple, but they would need significant investments into third parties that hold potential customers hostage to Windows, and Apple Just Does Not Do That unless the third party in question is a direct supplier of theirs.
Good.How about ten drones ($200k) and ten interceptors ($30m)? Is the cost of the economy still greater? Alright, let's up the numbers. Forty drones vs forty interceptors, $800k vs $120m. Do the numbers still work for the US? Like, would Yemen gladly pay $800k to kill an american vessel? I guess yes. Would it be economically effective to spend $120m on a protection of said vessel? Perhaps not.

So, at a certain number between one and forty drones the economy stops making sense.

This is what happens here in Ukraine as well: russian drones are cheap and readily available, while interceptors are expensive af and quite scarce.
It strongly depends on the circumstances of the firing, but it's not uncommon to see 'gardening leave': you are technically still employed for an extra month or more, but all your access is revoked and you're basically forced to stay home. Generally it's a good time to start applying for other jobs.