skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a growing number of open source options out there. I was playing with Simon Willison's excellent llm cli tool this morning and tried out some models from the gpt4all project. One of the better ones come from companies like mistral which release their models under the Apache license.

Gpt4all has a UI as well that you can use with models running locally on your laptop.
"third-party vendors" on Amazon includes a galaxy of drop shippers that do little more than create product pages and let Amazon and the actual manufacturer sort out everything else between them, such as logistics, delivery, returns, etc.
OO and other paradigms are not algorithms. They are particular ways of organizing code. Any algorithm can be implemented with OO, FP, or plain procedural style. Objects can be closures. Loops can be TCO recursion.
> is there any motherboards out there for AMD64/X86_64 that comes without UEFI/BIOS?

Your computer needs UEFI/BIOS for hardware initialization and launching your boot process.

There is a open implementation tho, see https://libreboot.org/

> The Libreboot project provides free, open source (libre) boot firmware based on coreboot, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on specific Intel/AMD x86 and ARM based motherboards, including laptop and desktop computers. It initialises the hardware (e.g. memory controller, CPU, peripherals) and starts a bootloader for your operating system.
> Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block

I was going to write: You can’t write a comment with the text / etc / hosts?!

But I tried it and got the CloudFlare block page. That’s pretty incredible that a tech focused forum blocks you for simply referencing a common file on all Unix file systems. What state a sad future we live in.
> Our analysis shows that Bluesky cleverly capitalized on the conflicts between Twitter and two of its competitors, such as Threads and Mastodon. With a lot of overlap and association in usage with Twitter’s user base, Bluesky secured its spot in the competitive landscape.

Bluesky sent invites during the OpenAI drama. Their "popular" posts were about Elon. They missed their chance imo.
The problem is not that 30% is too high or too low, the problem is that it shouldn't be a % but a flat fee structure, like every other services ever.

If you have an app tomorrow that sells for $10 to 10k people you owe Apple $30k, now you manage to up your price to $30, same work same size same everything, but suddenly you now owe Apple $90k ? That's called a tax, not a fee.

Doing so wouldn't stop apple from having a separate, "pay 30% all inclusive" fee, and it wouldn't stop them from "if your app is free you have no fee" (beside the xcode sub fee).
Problem is behaviour cloning doesnt generalize, and even on tasks where you have infinite optimal data (solved board games) it yields lower scores than self play. (and still doesnt generalize to unseen states)

Sim to real, self play, and curriculum learning have yielded superhuman performances when done correctly in situations where they can be done. Behaviour cloning doesnt.
To this day, many of the C++ Builder libraries are actually written in Object Pascal Delphi's dialect from Borland.
Resolve definitely can crash on you too.
This only shows that users still don't fully own their phone.
As a user I don't care for the 30% cut, what I care is to have a centralised payment method and subscription system, I don't have energy/time to keep with different subscriptions in each service/app and knowing that there are bad actors, they will do whatever possible to make hard to unsubscribe (like a few years ago the NYT, where you could only unsubscribe by phone and was very hard even so). But if even when using third party payment systems they need to integrate with Apple subscription API and you can cancel/track in one place then I'm fine with that.
And it reopens the discussion about all its training on unattributed scrapped data.
This paper analyzed ~14,000 users and I'm wondering if that's a big enough sample size considering there are 350M or so users on Twitter? Is there a statistics test you could use to tell?

Or is the number we should compare 14,000 to not the total number of users, but the subset of people who actually migrated, i.e. left Twitter entirely and joined another social network?

Are there any estimates for how many people in total that might be?
I don't always manage to adhere to my own advise here. But talking to "customers" really solves this.

Half these customers can't be bothered by the edge cases that I've been poring over for nights. The other half puts forward edge cases that I've never been aware of. Some of which are critical to their work-flow. Many are implemented in mere minutes. "Wow. That saves us 30 minutes typing over prices, every day!".

As an engineer I love to find solutions. But as an entrepeneur I really must understand the problem and scope. that 0.1% edge cases is hardly ever part of the success.
I guess I can set my geolocation to Albania / Russia to evade the ads?

It’s barely possible to listen to music with Youtube nowadays, the amount of ads is astonishing.
> Those health freaks would do the right things why? Why would other communities not seek to stop or block them from doing what they are doing (these experiments would have at times pretty dire consequences)?

It's research and rediscovering a field. Of course they'd get a bunch of stuff wrong. That is how medical research works; people try things that don't work all the time.

And we're imaging a world with presumably no antibiotics. Nobody cares if people are accidentally killing themselves, death lurks behind every shrub.

> Why hasn't the internet brought insane advances in science if it is such a force multiplier for it?

... have I dropped into an alternate universe? The rate of scientific progress is unreal right now. We're progressing at a pace that is unparalleled in human history at a global scale. There is even a risk we'll obsolete the human mind this decade. Something has been force-multiplying scientific progress.

I suppose I should say technological progress rather than scientific, technically science has been slowing down since they've discovered most things. Maybe that was the point of confusion here. But the rate of knowledge dissemination is resulting in massive quality of life improvements that mean outcomes on the ground are improving in unreal ways. Look at the dissemination of things like iPhones for example.
> That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them

Some of the attackers on 10/7 were workers in Israel who would commute back and forth; their knowledge of the terrain was important in the attacks. So maybe the reason is, not to impoverish Palestinians, but a justified concern about security.
Writing the level editor for my raycaster is why I never wrote my raycaster
Maybe this needs an update to the post.

I am happy. My life is amazing in terms of health, fitness, diet, family life, where I live, travel etc.

But I am also without a driving force. It gives me a new appreciation for the athletes or musician who un-retires.
I saw this post hours after I finished a task where this would have come in handy. I had a bunch of HQ video clips from a professional Sony video camera that I needed to string together, with short simple fade transitions. The last time I did this(few years ago), I was using a Mac, and iMovie did the job well. This time, I was on a Windows NUC, and figured Windows MovieMaker should do the trick. Nope.

- Opening Movie Maker redirects to the Photos app, with a note that Microsoft Clipchamp has this functionality now and Movie Maker is deprecated.

- Install Clipchamp and see that its hilariously bad at batch-adding clips to the timeline. Adding 300 clips, one at a time, is a dealbreaker.

- Look up reviews for free 3rd party apps to do this on Windows. Find everyone recommending DaVinci Resolve. Fine. Install Resolve. Looks great. Import my clips, and get only audio. A quick Google search tells me that Resolve free version doesn't support importing 10-bit video. Welp.

- Let's try FOSS then. Shotcut is supposedly better than Openshot. Install Shotcut. Import all clips, add to timeline and export. Takes a few hours to export, displays a Success message and gives me the first few seconds of video, followed by a couple of hours of just audio.

- F** it, let's try Openshot. Hesitant because I've heard a lot of crashing happens, but what do I have to lose. Install. Import clips. Add to timeline. Let's me add transitions. Export takes a few hours. Gives me flawless output file.

Moral of the story: For occasional amateur video editing, Openshot is great.
I prefer population reduction by misogynists not getting laid, over mass starvation, climate change, plagues, pandemics, warfare, nuclear winter, and radioactive fallout.

Women who choose to not have sex with men who choose to hate them are doing humanity a service.
Companies like Amazon and Apple are free to set prices, but there are rules about being a monopoly and what that entails. Amazon is not a monopoly, it just has a dominant position. Apple has used technological means to make itself a monopoly.

Web apps are not a real alternative. Firstly, an app you can only use on a desktop is a non starter for almost every use case. So you need a mobile layout. Now, some features like background audio and video are not available as a web app. Some are less reliable like user sessions, timers, push notifications and offline behaviour. Technical innovation is not possible due to the standards based approach - for video calls you have to use WebRTC for example, for games you have to use WebGL. Some features like notifications, vibration, were delayed by Apple until users were trained to only accept native apps. There's others like battery status, Apple Watch, Settings pane that I don't know the exact status, but I'm sure App Store gets an advantage there too.
Yes,OpenStreetMap has
well shit. i welcome it. economy down the shitter, alternative is trump ffs.
I have a hypothesis that a lot of this is the result of hyper focusing on short term reward. Just think about how we measure a top exec's performance. It is often dependent on cutting costs and increasing revenue. Cycle through that a bit and if the previous person did their job well then they cut a lot of fat. In fact, they probably cut as much as they thought they could get away with. So next person comes in and they gotta start cutting more than fat. Of course you could go other avenues to increase revenue but cost cutting measures are the easiest and quickest.
Have to disagree. In particular with you subscribing him a dating strategy that works for you. Different strategies work for different people.
Make biochar, there are many guides on the interwebs.
Add continuously to you compost bin along with the normal stuff you put in there.
When the compost is done, add it to the garden.
“EU decides that goods made using slave labour should not be allowed into the EU”
I just signed up for your affiliate program and am going to make us some money hopefully. You beat me to it, I have been wanting to do something like this for about 8 years now.
Sign up to the waitlist to try our beta, we would make a latest release soon.
An Unexpected Journey: How my first game on Steam sold over 50.000 copies
Backstory: This game was made with a total budget of $0 (I even got donations from the prototype on itch which covered the $100 Steam fee). I've been programming for about 15 years and have been doing some gamedev for about 7 years very casually. This was my first time putting a game on Steam and selling it. When I came up with the game idea, I was actually only thinking about creating a little game for myself and maybe some friends.

Long story short, after posting some concept art to reddit, I deploying an early prototype on itch.io, which received over 1000 plays within 24 hours. The game then got discovered by SplatterCat (youtube, over 100k views) and from some content creators on bilibili (Chinese streaming platform, over 500k views).
Using this momentum, I could acquire over 30.000 wishlists before releasing the game into Early Access on Steam on 17.08.2023 which put me into the 'Popular Upcoming' charts.
I'm still actively working on the game and to this date could sell over 50.000 units globally.

Link to game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2205850/Dwarves_Glory_Death_and_Loot/
Object Pascal got most of those improvements, hence why it was hard for them to be adopted, maybe if a big OS vendor had picked them instead of C++, or later Java it would have helped.

At least we have some of Oberon ideas living on Go, which despite my usual rants, is preferable to plain C.
When the App Store was new, the web hosting for my indie shareware games was about 30% of their net revenue after the payment processor and marketplace fees.

The payment processor (cheapest PayPal (U.S. Accounts), most expensive American Express/Optima International[0]) and marketplace (Kagi[0]) fees were on top of that hosting fee, and cost anywhere from (1.9 to 5.0)% + $0.30 (payment provider) plus 2.5% + $1 (market place for ≤$25), which makes those two items combined also more than 30% for any item sold for less than $5.08-5.77.

Hosting fees are of course cheaper today, more so when bulk bought (I think more than enough to compensate for games today getting into the 100GB range when my shareware was 10s of MB).

I'd hope that payment providers are also.

But at the time, it looked amazing.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090903044400/http://www.kagi.c...
Show HN: To practice fantasy writing I crafted my own Diablo season lore
Just copy/pasting the same butthurt response, eh? Kinda lame.

Yes, Resolve is great. If you're not using it in Linux, at least.

IN Linux, however, I've found Kdenlive to be a bit rough, but completely reasonable for many medium editing tasks. Yes, it occasionally crashes, but not with any frequency where it makes it unusable. I haven't really lost much in the way of work when it does crash, either. Save early, save often. Etc.
> "...the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement (US) to include a link to the developer’s website that informs users of other ways to purchase digital goods or services."

https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

I'm guessing Apple were required to provide developers with Alternative Payment options and not 'a link to a webpage that informs users'...
>everyone is suddenly actually really researching their supply chains in the run up to new EU deforestation laws requiring this due diligence

How effective will that be on preventing illegal deforestation? A lot of illegal deforestation in the EU(Romania) is going on under the noses of the authorities which are complicit and help the local logging mafia get clean papers for their wood, and turn a blind eye to checks and help fudge reports as it's multi hundred million Euro industry thanks to huge demand from wood manufacturers in Germany and Austria who don't care how and where that timber comes form as long as it's dirt cheap and has clean looking papers. The logging mafia has no remorse to hurt or kill people getting in between them and their 7-9 figure revenues, let alone give a toss about cooking the books or fudging some traceability reports.

Your agri-food traceability software seem more as solutions the big wood consuming mega corporations like IKEA can use to say "look, the traceability software says we're complaint, m'kay", to get out of a pickle when being caught red handed with tainted raw materials. The exact same thing is happening with the "ethically sourced" cocoa and coffee beans, which is often farmed by the same slave labor.

Unless there's heavy policing by non-corruptible third parties, across the entire supply chains, and enough guilty people go to jail to send a strong message, traceability solutions and ethically sourced stickers don't mean jack shit as the paperwork can easily be fudged by system savvy people looking to make money.
I just bought an Oxi One midi sequencer and use it to noodle some music things, it’s super fun. All you need is a laptop or iPad and you’re good to go
Again, if you're against government regulation, then you haven't seen a company regulate a market.
That 15-30% going to Apple isn’t going to go back to app users. Don’t pretend this is all about developers wanting to give users a discount.
> Why assume they have loyalty to the CCP?

You answered

> They’re in California
Yeah, lots of interesting research there.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-...

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/15/8/1600
FYI, you read the parent far too literally. I think most interpret the example as an off hand illustrative example, not a literal one.
Modular languages are languages that support modules.

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

See "Languages that formally support the module concept include..."
Thanks!! I always try to imagine in my head where the sun will be before I book a ticket ;) Now this is more accurate!
More consistent results are great, so long as they're representative of the whole, which becomes decreasingly likely as the group of test subjects approaches a monoculture.
This is completely backwards. The reason we're now able to do this is that Java's access to low-level coding features has improved so much that the vast majority of programs using Unsafe are now able to get the same functionality and performance using new supported APIs, and without Unsafe's unsafety. That is a huge improvement. Even the small minority of Unsafe-using programs that will see some performance degradation will still be able to get all of it back — if they feel they absolutely need to even at the expense of safety — by using JDK internals.

This is a clear win for low-level coding in Java because today there's no way to tell if a Java program is unsafe as some transitive dependency may be using Unsafe even if it doesn't benefit the program at all. Offering full safety for (nearly) all while still offering maximum performance in special cases is an advantage for Java over other languages.
Your point is moot because Apple forces you to use its own app store, where using their payment platform is mandatory. If there were alternative app stores, I would have no qualm with this restriction. Let Apple's store compete with others, it will come out on top if it's really the best.

The larger point is this: in a free market, if you have a bad experience with a product (like NYT Cooking in your example), you can bring your business elsewhere. That's how it works, and that's what Apple is interfering with.
What if you do not link the the alternative payment option form the app? Do you still have to pay commission to Apple for purchases made outside?

What if there was a standardized way to discover these alternative payment links, so users would automatically go there to find a discounted price.
> like every other services ever

Apple didn’t invent a marketplace.

Please have a look how other online and offline marketplaces work and how they monetize access.

You can look at anything from Salesforce, Shopify, to Microsoft, Epic Store, PlayStation and your local Target store.

Hint - it’s not a flat fee structure.
Nowadays,

import std;
import something_with_templates;

int main () {
std::println ("Hello World");
something_with_templates::my_func("data");
}

Is also super fast.
What a wild take. Epic doesn't care about me either. What difference does it make? Are we supposed to judge if something's right or wrong based on who's doing it, rather than what they're actually doing?
Last I heard the Chinese had found a way of fueling their rockets with tap water. We're screwed regardless of their AI prowess.
What people don't remember about the plural-you reform, is that neither "du" nor "ni" were used very much. Instead, "Han" (he) and "Hon" (she) were used to address people of similar standing.
"A few years back, Will added a share house as a McDonald’s restaurant. It didn’t didn’t last long before it was removed by Google, he told Crikey in a phone call this week, but it appeared to fool at least one person. “A car drove past slowly with its driver looking pretty confused,” he said."

Perhaps he could not make the information available on the internet even worse?
There's no such thing as "involuntarily celibate", it's just another BS term in the fanfiction-as-science narrative of the typical hacks. I've seen men on Twitter who are literally married with children get called incels, just for having the wrong political opinions or even criticizing a crappy Marvel movie!

Anyone can get a girlfriend if they lower their standards enough, so in the end it's their choice, so it cannot be involuntary. The only way someone could be an incel is if they got thrown in prison and have no way to actually meet women, or other examples like this
There are several different attempts at Solar Punk Manifestos:
(As there should be in a decentralised non-hierarchal philosophy)

* From the short - https://www.solarpunkstudio.com/manifesto

* To the bright - https://www.solarpunkstories.com/our-manifesto

* To the metamodern (post-postmodern?) - https://www.joelightfoot.org/post/the-metamodern-solarpunk-m...

* To the Italian (in English) - https://solarpunk.it/what-is-solarpunk-a-manifesto/

I for one welcome our positive post-capitalist future ... if we can get it started while we still have a chance.
It actually is, there are plenty of services where you can pay 30% less if you go through their site instead of Apple's app store.
Soon we can all have the symmetrically faced, 169 IQ, optimal respiratory system, cancer/diabetes/neurological disease free super children that we want.
OpenProject 13.2 has been released with a OneDrive/SharePoint integration for file management.
Agreed, and not only do they not compare their model to Phi-2 directly, the benchmarks they report don't overlap with the ones in the Phi-2 post[1], making it hard for a third party to compare without running benchmarks themselves.

(In turn, in the Phi-2 post they compare Phi-2 to Llama-2 instead of CodeLlama, making it even harder)

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surp...
What makes you think I agree any more with any of these ?

But as a user I'm able to buy my pc games, my groceries or my music from another store. Apple prohibits me from doing that.
Using "will" and "should" in technical writing
If anyone proposed housing a million migrants here, we'd sooner build gallows for the genius with that idea than to break ground on high density housing. It's a wildly controversial idea, but you could just stop letting so many people into your city...

Cruising through the countryside at top speed to a larger town with the windows down and the radio up for an hour on the rare occasion I need something urgently is a pleasure compared to sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic to and from work, or crammed into a train with everything around me being suspiciously sticky and slightly smelly twice per day. We have what we need. You'd be surprised how little you miss the overwhelming number of choices and conveniences you have in the city. Anyway, I'm not that remote - I do most of my shopping online so everything is delivered to the door (albeit a day or two later than for you).

It's the look in their eye, or their nature and priorities implicit in their choices. Cities are utterly bereft of soul, spirit, meaning, purpose, culture, etc. Whatever they do have in these respects seems to me like a cynical parody of their true form. They will convene a meeting for consultants to identify an urban area in need of beautification, commission an agendered hippie to plonk some monstrous perverted multicolour sculpture there for millions of dollars and boast about it like this isn't an insult to everything pure, and decent, and good in this world.

The baked goods trading sounds really wholesome, I'm genuinely glad you have that.

Still, there's a good reason city-folk come out here for rest and relaxation while I dread going into the big smoke and get the hell out as soon as I'm done doing what I need to do.