skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> yet they[Valve] crank out new and innovative "products" every 4 years. So much so that they were essentially doing 90% of what Meta is trying to do now with 100x less people and budget.

Innovative products every 4 years? Lol, if Facebook waited that long at any point in time it'd have died.

Comparing Valve to Meta head-to-head is simply ridiculous. I'm not even sure which specific products you had in mind. Did you mean "Meta Quest"? Literally, each division within Meta is fighting in a different sector

Valve has been operating in the same market for 27 years and has consequently built a loyal and enthusiastic fan base.

Even if you believe Meta is directly competing with Valve, it's embarrassing for Valve, as someone in their position should be undisputed in their niche and have the market in deadlock.
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I feel like the author, and did like the author for like year now. And I know lots of people feel this way, and we're telling each other to like "learn math, man, coding is something LLMs be doin in 10 years".

Indeed, these ML/AI papers are indeed full of cryptic writing, but in essence they are not so difficult compared to like... understanding what a FSM is and how to produce a minimal automata it from regex (hey ML guys, would like to see you do this on paper!). The greek-letters-infused-notation is what scares most people, and you know what - this notation has its origins in pre-computing age. Perhaps ppl need a new notation, or like magazines should require math geeks to also provide pseudo-code for dummies.

I also note that lot of things in ML seem to be about algorithms really, and very much about how things are engineered when implemented. Then I love graphs, discreet math, et. and were surprised to relearn that stuff like Markov chains is something very natural to me. Then the linear algebra needed for ML is not so much also - matmul, diagonal matrix, eigenvalues, inverse matrix, Hessian... wait! that's a lot already. But not so difficult, it is basically a lot of definitions. And some of these were not in the curriculums back in the day. Like... my mother does not have any recollection of learning about median and mode in statistics, even though they (with my father) attended a technical (by nature) university in the 70s.

You know, I'm starting to realize that even our professors in the university back in the day did not fully grasp what all these things were about, because I remember them reading from educational sources, and also being very punctual about the material, which is not something that s.o. who groks certain domain is going to do. And only few of them gave some actual examples why all the math nonsense could come handy. Well perhaps they are to blame that we have to le-learn, or perhaps it is the natural thing to happen in this new brave world.
For 'dark' storage something in the style of AWS Glacier storage would probably do the trick from an environmental point of view. Drives can be filled and then left unplugged and only spun up when data is requested which apparently isn't very often.

I seem to vaguely recall that some of the glacier data was just put on Blu-ray discs and filed away. Seems like a viable solution and with the cloudesq abstraction it doesn't necessarily matter so long as it's being done properly.

Of course I suspect the environment is being used as convenient excuse to people with environmental policies.
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#!/bin/sh
ins(){ sed -i -e $2r/dev/stdin -e1N $1 ;}

# 084.l
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051760 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,5d;113,$d' > 084.l

# aol, bing, brave
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051797 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,6d;97,$d' > 84.txt

# duckduckgo, ecosia
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051851 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,4d;59,$d' >> 84.txt

# crossref
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051834 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,5d;111,$d' >> 84.txt

# f-droid, github, google
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051867 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,6d;87,$d' >> 84.txt

# google news, marginalia, mojeek
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051893 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,6d;95,$d' >> 84.txt

# mwmbl, pubmed, qwant
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051911 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,5d;100,$d' >> 84.txt

# scholar, sec, startpage
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051942 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,5d;82,$d' >> 84.txt

# tailsx, wiby, wikipedia
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051963 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,6d;78,$d' >> 84.txt

# yahoo, yandex
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051996 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,5d;78,$d' >> 84.txt

# youtube
links -dump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39052006 \
|sed 's/ *$//;s/[ ]\{7\}//;1,5d;88,$d' >> 84.txt

sed '785,810d;708,731d;631,659d;558,588d;485,512d;394,417d;
305,330d;207,250d;124,144d;67,91d;' 84.txt |ins 084.l 85

flex -8Cem 084.l
if test $(wc -l < lex.yy.c) -gt 32767;then # exceeds c89 limit, remove pedantic
cc -O3 -std=c89 -W -Wall -I$HOME -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy084
else
cc -O3 -std=c89 -W -Wall -pedantic -I$HOME -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy084
fi

strip -s yy084

sed '732,793d;714,715d;660,712d;589,637d;513,563d;418,491d;
330,400d;250,312d;145,213d;92,130d;2,70d' 84.txt > 84.sh
Was the client not authorized to access their data with the use of the password, which the application managed for them?

The password should have been a per-client password intended to protect the client's data from any foreign access, a key given from the service provider to the client in form of an easily usable application in order for the client to make use of the service.
Imagine being the head of the FDA. Given the variance in human bodies and how they respond to drugs, you really are bound to kill people. Even if you minimize it, there's still a "baseline" of deaths that you can not drive to 0.
Is it time for a new take on PiHKAL?

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

> PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story is a book by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin, published in 1991. The subject of the work is psychoactive phenethylamine chemical derivatives, notably those that act as psychedelics and/or empathogen-entactogens. The main title, PiHKAL, is an acronym that stands for "Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved."

> The book is arranged into two parts, the first part being a fictionalized autobiography of the couple and the second part describing 179 different psychedelic compounds (most of which Shulgin discovered himself), including detailed synthesis instructions, bioassays, dosages, and other commentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL
It's not like I didn't already cover that in my comment above...
With something like https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ for starters.

Or in German https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/ especially Surfen...,DNS...

And not doing it by downloading the 'normal' way, instead using https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ , otherwise you've got the unique 'dltoken', be it randomized, or not.

Or use the source, Luke...
It's not a myth. I had a successful 20% project when I was there and I was nobody special. I started an anti-bot system in 2010 and by 2014 it had become integrated into most of the top products. Last I heard there is a whole team working on it still, and there were also spinoffs.

That wasn't only a 20% project but a secret one! For several months I told my manager in daily standups that today was my 20% day, and that it was related to what the team did, but not what the project actually was. Everyone was cool with it.

It's possible that this was achievable only because I worked in an operational role. We had firefights that sometimes disrupted my ability to take the 20%, but you could partially bank the time and there weren't top-down imposed project deadlines.

I also used and experienced many other people's 20% projects whilst I was there. Many were small internal tools and systems that made working life easier but weren't the right size/shape to be staffed up as a full project with management attention, but some were products. At one point someone did a project that let you bid against yourself in the ad auction, to experiment with how to pay to remove ads. IIRC that was a 20% project. Google's early reputation for ML skill was established on the outside by Google Sets, a (for the time) astonishing demo that revealed Google was no mere fancy keyword matcher but had semantic understanding of words too. Pretty sure that was also a 20% project.

I felt pretty strongly at the time that the 20% policy was one of Google's secret weapons. The disdain and disinterest with which it's so often greeted outside of Google's walls is puzzling and sad, as is the quasi-myth that it didn't exist at all. I can believe that it existed to varying degrees depending on where and when you were, but, it's definitely not a myth.
I see you've attracted at least 2 downvotes. Never really gotten any insight into the minds of the downvoters myself - and in this case you can only be right. It isn't like the current wave of blog posts are talking about the wonderful place Google is in culturally. They're pointing out that Google - under the stewardship of people who've been at Google for a long time - is converging to the corporate culture mean.

If they're working at a company and they're just watching it drift to the mean, we can safely conclude that they're in it for the money. Nothing wrong with that, but let us not get distracted by razzle-dazzle on the side. People work because they get paid.
Using the original "rule of thumb" to estimate distance
You should look into it. I wasn't referring to canoes. Even then, you're wrong. Number of ships and ability to replace ships correlates to wins in times of conflict.
Parsing math notation has been a big weakness for me, especially with AI stuff. If I can see it in code, or at least pseudocode, stuff clicks much more intuitively. Wish there was a more efficient way to bridge that skill gap. Maybe condensing variables to single letters that have to be kept in mind just annoys me too much.
You remind me of my professor telling me not to complain about low memory. He then will tell me about how much he was excited when he could have a machine with 1MB memory in 1980s when he was my age.
this is funny. trump first goes against the wishes of the countries involved in decision making by violating the agreement with iran which iran was willing to honor but then they say iran is stockpiling.

why not accept the deal so that iran can be kept in check? as opposed to not accepting the deal and dealing with the fallout
> “Politics” is a component of brand value, but it’s got nothing to do with reach, which is falling through the floor.

I think reach was falling because of political pressure.

> I seem to recall you were arguing elsewhere on this thread that company owners should only care about the money a company makes.

I was arguing that the goal of a company is to generate profit. That should be the goal. If business owners do that or don't, it's up to them. And I am not arguing that Musk does a good thing if he doesn't have the profit as the objective.
SVG Spinners (CSS and SMIL)
Doesn't the university have network drives?
What about pornhub and onlyfans?

This is traditionnally the porno industry that leads in term of new tech adoption.
It can ruin the grass.

The main problem is the obsession with grass.
Yeah, thanks. I'd love to try to clarify this (I'll put this into our documentation as well ASAP) for anyone that may be reading this in the future:

Our model is not a derivative of Whisper but we do use the transcripts (and encoder outputs) in our data preprocessing. I am convinced this data cannot be regarded as a derivative of the (proprietary) Whisper training set. Whisper itself is open-source (MIT) and has no special TOS (unlike, say, ChatGPT).

WhisperSpeech itself is trained on mostly Public Domain and some CC-BY-SA recordings. We are working on adding more data and we will provide clearer documentation on all the licenses.
I don’t disagree at all, but it has been the next frontier for decades.
I am not sure if having Google on your resume is as impressive as it used to be back in the day. Their reputation is tanking every day. I used to love Google products, now I avoid anything built by Google (except Golang). Leadership change is long overdue.
I read up on it. In the case of blinatumomab, it is called Cytokine release syndrome (CRS), it's very rare to have a high grade (dangerous, life threatening) CRS and seems to be survivable and treatable in the vast majority of those rare cases.

In this review, it seems like only 2% of 189 blinatumomab patients got a grade 3 CRS (requires hospitalisation) and 0% a grade 4 CRS (requires ventilation).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142489

To me as a non impacted layman, the side effects of even one of the several chemotherapeutics one seems to get appear to be much more destructive, uncomfortable and scary than the well manageable CRS from blinatumomab that primarily appear in the first cycle.

Also looks like after blinatumomab, there are now also "Anti-CD19 CAR T cells" available which are even more effective (but have stronger side effects).

I hope I don't get cancer.
No not robots. Just programs running on your computer.
Outcomes of major wars were directly tied to domestic manufacturing ability. By not having manufacturing ability, the U.S. exposes itself to great risk.
Mark is always about one year late to the party. Funny that he always stays confident that it will just work like facebook did ;)
So he dropped his old goal of creating Metaverse? Seems like we are going from Metaverse to Metaintelligence now.
Same if you're building any OAuth-enabled client from source.

(Remind me, what's stopping me from extracting the client secrets from the compiled binary, and re-using them elsewhere?)
please tell me that how can I get question for practice in math of university level? most of textbook even don't contain answers of practice in the book...
48 KB on my case, in 1986, with a Timex 2068.

Later on I was kind of envious of my friends with an Amiga 500 and its 512 KB, until getting a 386 SX, with 2 MB in 1992.

Yeah, really understand where the professor was coming from.
That was to let governments know they are willing to write software to find files the government doesn't want people to have. Child porn is just the icing smeared on that turd.
I’d much rather have to redownload the same bytes a few times than have the program I need not work on my OS.
I definitely like being able to wfh some of the time and I think having to work from office some of the time is a good compromise. When people aren't forced to go people don't go. Even i don't go, and i hate wfh all week. Because once people stop turning up, it starts to be pointless to go. I'm going because i need ftf interaction with people. If nobody turns up its not even fun. Also I have terrible time blindness and if I'm not forced to be somewhere at a certain time I will never get there....

Anyyway, where-ever i've been though that encourages a few days a week in the office, everyone says the big days where everyone comes in and we catch up are fun. The wfh days give us balance. only a handful of people attempt to avoid coming in like the plague. Most people don't like having to commute all the time, but very few people hate going outside and seeing people at work like the wierdos that argue for 100% wfh online.

I have a colleague that takes like a 1.5 hour train to get in and we just went to the pub together after work yesterday, sometimes i let her stay over at mine so she can be in office for an extra day. I love seeing this person. If there was no mandatory office, we would not be friends. Last year I worked 99% remote and I barely ever spoke to human beings and I wanted to die. We are not made to exist like that. And I think the wfh crowd is way too skewed towards middle aged people with spouses and children. If you don't have that wfh ruins your life.
One thing the Vision Pro announcement has done is kick up some competition in the market. If the Apple Quest can get enough people excited about VR, we'll get better offerings from other companies for cheaper.

It's the sort of impact I wish Microsoft HoloLens had, but I suppose HoloLens was released too early for the technology to make sense.
My professional experience of environmental work is that true positive environmental impact is very difficult. In complex systems, unintended consequences are likely. Environmental problems often arise at the interface between multiple complex systems, further increasing complexity. For example, in a project I worked on, we organized for farmers to receive payments to build soil conservation measures. With the money they were paid, we believe it was mostly used for fuel, pesticides and fertilizer, all which carry their own environmental cost. So we’d solved one environmental problem, but inadvertently created another.

In another project I heard about, fishing communities were provided with better access to contraception on the hope that smaller families would reduce consumption pressure. A PhD researcher uncovered that actually smaller families increased their fishing activity as they wanted to boost the life chances of their fewer offspring. (Those results were swept under a carpet apparently).

I’m happy about this law reported on here as it will force some honesty about environmental trade-offs, and also hopefully apply to environmental organisations which have in the past been misleading in their claims about environmental benefits of their work.
So if we use paper is bad for the nature. If we resort to digitisation is bad for the nature.
It may be true for media formats, but I don't think its generally applicable like that. I doubt a mainstream tech CEO will stand up on stage to promote adult content as their early adopters in front of journalists.
Why single out on just cloud services? Unless you sign a contract for the future you can't be future proof. Everyone knew that Microsoft would do this specially after Google's move, but university liked their juicy 10TB storage which they got for free.

Honestly I don't have any sympathy for university expecting this for free when they could easily pay $5/student/month or some even more discounted price.
Yep. Bingo. I want to interact with human beings otherwise my mental health tanks. I don't want to work remote and I even less so want to work in an empty office. If the office is empty I'm not going there because its twice as depressing.
> Not all information needs to be remembered.

So that's where I'm experimenting with this stance: it's either useful and I'm better off remembering it, or it's useless and I don't even need to write that down (see my first comment in this thread).

> It's good to have a single place for all of that with the ability to easily move stuff from one place to another.

Why aren't our brains better places for this, provided we can retain the information? With SRS such as Anki, the cost of remembering the information on top of writing it down is negligible, and once I remember it, why would I write it down in some other system?
My M18 batteries have been functional down below 0°, and if you store them warm they can be used even colder.
Yea that's is exactly it and fair play. Eg afaik Netflix pays double digit percentage points for in app sales to Apple through their app. Why shouldn't they then question that if Apple want them to support a totally new UX paradigm.
What's terrible about const in C is you'll end up casting non const pointers to const ones all over the place thus blowing holes in the already weak type system.
Maybe, it’s better than Google maps though and that is what matters here
Didn't Microsoft just render hundreds of milions of devices useless (for Windows) a few months ago, to push for their TPM requirements?
About time. I've read horror stories of people moving out of cities during the lockdowns to escape their small hellholes, only to find out that their Zoom meetings are now going to have leaf blowers in the background all day.

It's one of those things where your "right" to own a gas leaf blower smashes into my right to not be forced to listen to it. You have a remedy - buy a quiet non-gas blower, and I do not.
I'd assume this kind of pricing negotiations between government entities and state of the art pharmaceutical companies is a deadly dance around how much money needs to be paid to the companies to incentivise research, lobbying and how much money a life is worth.

Yes, selling for cheap is better than not selling at all, but if the government entities keep being stingy, maybe next time the company won't develop a treatment for a rare disease at all because it's just not worth it...
They want the power to add arbitrary extra steps in the login flow.

For example, maybe they want to force the user to change a compromised password, or hand over their phone number, or complete a captcha, or accept a load of legalese.

You can do this without a webview in your application, but it usually means giving the user an URL to open in their own browser.
I’ve never heard of it. Just looking at the website it looks like it hasn’t been updated in the last 20 years.
Everything you said seems to also apply for developers and the staff that would manage cloud resources.

Lack of cost control or effective use of a cloud provider leads to spiralling uncontrollable costs.
Hell yeah; my Mk5 everyday drive will be 16 this year.
This is interesting as a symbol of how times have changed because YouTube was one of the handful of built-in apps on the original iPhone, before the App Store.

(For some reason the iPhone YouTube app's icon was an image of a retro cream-and-brown 1940s TV. I guess Steve Jobs just liked that design because it certainly didn't have anything to do with YouTube's branding and didn't look like anything Google would have picked for any product.)

When Microsoft shipped the revamped Windows Phone a few years later, the "app gap" was one of the main problems. High-profile apps like YouTube never became available on the platform because by then Google was busy promoting their own mobile OS.
Thanks, appreciate it! I probably would've missed it.
I still use Winamp and Milkdrop2 today and still have like hundreds of my own presets.
Super excited to get into Milkdrop3 now, especially with multiple audio sources and this new "double preset" feature.
Beyond security, it was an example of the inability to build.
"When others give you a thumbs-up, they may not be praising you, they may be aiming at you."
I also watched something on the Quest 3 using the Amazon Prime Video app the other day. It was a cool experience, but for now, I still find a TV better. This might change as the technology improves.

Which is why I find the choice not to release an app for the Apple VP odd: it has better hardware so the experience should also be better. Maybe it's because they expect the VP to sell a lot less than the Quest 3?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium#Nutrition
> Why do you restrict yourself to only knowing how to write webpages?

That’s just how the market is. If you want to build your app with electron, you’ll find mountains of skilled developers everywhere. If you use QT, you’ll either have to pay an absolute fortune for the 10 people that know it, or accept hiring people that have never used it before.
You wierdos want everyone to have to micromanage our own mental health like we're islands. Humans are social creatures with social rituals for a reason. We go mad without them. People shouldn't have to force themselves to do everything without any social support. (and i go to the gym 4 times a week with my own discipline so no im not incapable i just don't want to have to do that about everything ever)