skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you're talking about. If you carry around a kitchen knife in public for no good reason, it's not a kitchen knife, it's a weapon. Likewise if you carry around a baseball bat and didn't just buy it or are on your way to a baseball game or to gift it to someone, that's a weapon too. Carrying weapons in public without a permit is illegal. If you're merely transporting the kitchen knife to a party to help your friend prepare snacks, that's clearly not a weapon even though you're in public and carrying a knife.

I've done medieval reenactment in Germany and used public transit in full kit with spears and swords and everything. I've been stopped by police a few times to check that they are indeed dull and blunt and therefore can legitimately be considered sporting or theatrical equipment but that shouldn't be surprising as it effectively looked like I was "open carrying" medieval weaponry for unknown reasons. Heck, the only times I was stopped were around the time someone robbed a gas station with a sharpened katana so I can't even fault them for being careful.
Extracting credentials from a piece of software to manually connect to a server without authorization in order to go spelunking is clear-cut misuse regardless of what data you find on the server.
Welp. Add Google Sync to the Google Graveyard
> AKA the monster that Bill Gates created

Yes, the monster what allowed every housewife to use a computer without obtaining a CS degree first.
Which paved the way for the residential Internet demand and in turn allowed the smartphone revolution.

> I have been saving Linux ISO's for more than fifteen years

Lists ISO for the previous Debian and Ubuntu. Sure, Zenlive is old, but why even mention almost modern and the most popular distros?

> Unfortunately, they cannot be installed years later because the repositories generally no longer exist!

Yes, this is a problem with any OS with network repos as the default source. It's way easier (most of the time) on 'that monster' because the program installers are self contained.

But this guy's method of backing up is... let's say unconventional.

> Perhaps a reader will point out a better method in the comments below

Whatever it could be for the OSes with the repositories? The world wonders.
Because for the user account, people use things like "hunter2". But app specific passwords are long random strings unlikely to be reused by the user for another site.
Just a minor point here: there are a lot of "states that imprison people for insulting public officials". Some of them in western Europe.
If I replaced HN, I would likely fill that time with some other low effort activity.

HN gives me insights into the tech world that I wouldn't get otherwise.

EDIT: This thread has got me thinking. What do non-HN users fill their time with? A lot would use some type of social media, a lot would spend time on YouTube or Podcasts. Others watch TV.
So what happens when you want to drive at a constant speed on the highway?
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On paper it predates it but Java was "industrial development ready" from day 1. Python 1 was barely used and it was more of an academic toy of sorts, it took Python 2 to come on the scene for Python to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Java.

I don't know the exact chronology of CLASSPATH versus PYTHONPATH, but I can tell you that CLASSPATH usage is pervasive and has been so from the start, for Java (I was using Maven 2 in 2007 and even then CLASSPATH was established, being also used by the Ant and Eclipse and other, older, tools), while PYTHONPATH is definitely not used to the same effect in Python, it's an afterthought.
I remember the era when third party clients for online services were quite common. Now consumers get stuck in the middle of various corporate pissing matches instead.
Turpor after great feasts and the ability to either winter and scurry under the snow - or move migrate away to greener pastures is what saved the day.
Will there be a "free plan" or paid only?
There are plenty of sites with old distros. I would like to point out oldlinux.org, because of the easy to remember domain and a smallish, but nice collection. Not a least it has Slackware 1.1.2, which will always have a special place in my heart.
The people who are closest to the problem of children’s safety online come to a different assessment as to whether the larger risk is predators or hackers stealing… their identities? Their credit card numbers? Just generically “reading their messages?”

And no, “they” aren’t arguing encryption in general is just bad. For example, I specifically mentioned that that’s not the case. Battling the strawman is your own rhetorical choice.
You are an old head. Thankfully, your memory is better than mine.
We may get to find out. Google blocked MS from developing their own YouTube app for the Windows Phone (by changing YT APIs in incompatible ways whenever MS made it, no less). If they want to attack Apple, they will probably do the same.
What's wrong with LGPL use? From what I gather, if you don't link Qt statically and don't modify Qt's source code, and your app's license doesn't impose restrictions that conflict with the LGPL, you are good to go. Most apps would fall under these criteria.
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You suck.
Bye
You can also have me-powered tax calculation and fill out all those forms manually.

For a lot of leaves, it's not a trivial amount of time. If that's your hobby, that's all good, but otherwise time is valuable and finite.
In Spotify’s case I would wager it has more to do with them not having a core group of empowered and capable iOS engineers. Their app still doesn’t support AirPlay 2 many years after it was introduced, a feature that solo developers like Marco Arment (Overcast) supported long ago.

I suppose it could be some bizarre internal political vendetta against Apple has led them to be unwilling to invest in improving the iOS app, but that seems like an odd strategy.
I'm nearly 40. For technology, 15 years is a long time.
> ceded heavy ground

Calling attention to this specifically, because do we want a single 'Google' to have foothold on every ground? Innovation needs a healthy dose of competition, after all.
No, not robots.
>There’s 5 decades of genres that have developed since 1970

Which is neither here, nor there, because those "5 decades of genres" are not represented in the current top 100 for the most part. Formulaic, cookie cutter, 2024 songwriting and production is.
5x LLM Throughput with SGLang and RadixAttention
I've made a DeepShulgin but need somebody with some spare GPU cycles to do the 'big crunch'..
>Nor do they allow any kind of anti-robot verification.

This is a feature.
Japan Justice Ministry begins relying on AI to translate laws into English
You imply that this is widely known that images contain your location, which tbh is a very disconnect assumption of the general populous.
It is a response, in a way… it says that Beyonce too earns little of her income from streaming sales, just like the small fish do. It says that while there may be something unfair about streaming rates, it's not as unfair as the small fish think, and… does it imply that it's therefore okay? Not sure.
My definition of EDM is electronic music. You know, the ones where vocals are more just another (optional) instrument than the main thing driving a song.

But if you want something like Fatboy Slim or Chemical Brothers from '10s (similar level of complexity vs mainstream appeal): Duck Sauce, ZHU, Rufus Du Sol, Tchami, Peggy Gou, maybe some Disclosure. If I'm not limited to just house music, then add Flume and Kaytranada to the mix.

As someone that grew up on this music in '10s, I'm sure I'm gonna view these artists with the same sense of nostalgia a couple of decades from now.
What successful product have they launched since 2008, when they embraced DoubleClick’s management culture? Ads bring in a lot of revenue, scaling with the general internet-using population growth, but they also seem to have made Google’s management incapable of thinking about products which are not immediately, wildly successful at selling tons of ads or harvesting data for ad targeting.

It’s fortunate that they’ve been able to sustain the ad business but the billions they’ve spent developing new products nobody wanted to use had given them the air of decline, our age’s IBM where they have a lot of existing users but few people expect a new success even if the finance guys reliably get fabulous bonuses.
Developers have made it clear they are too busy supporting recent hardware, don't have time to support >15yrs old stuff.
That's the impression I have. I remember a little over a decade ago when the population at large was completely hyped about all of the world changing technology we were going to see coming from the moonshots at Google X. The excitement over Google Glass, the mystery over the Google barges. Eventually, people started wondering when these hyped up products in development were going to actually become products[1]. Not it seems people have forgotten about it in general, and the exciting stuff is likely to come from other companies.

I don't see people commenting on this a lot when they lament the former Google. There seems to be a lot of personal reasons why people prefer how the company used to be run - it was fun, we spent lots of time on side projects, the company had free stuff all over the place, it felt like a fun college and not a job, etc. But little reflection on how productive the company was being.

I do wonder sometimes if a Jobs (or maybe an Altman or Musk) is more valuable than people realize. People like to say, "But those people don't even create anything, they're just taking credit for other people's work!" But just letting smart people gather and work on pet projects doesn't seem to work particularly well either. Maybe having a headstrong product oriented person upstairs is useful/necessary.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/technology/they-promised-...
Single command to self-host open source LLMs on Mac, Jetson etc. portable
I used to believe this too. It’s completely true, but only a half truth.

It doesn’t matter how awesome you are, because in most cases employers are viewing the world as a bell curve and targeting the large population in the center. Being supremely awesome in your skills and capabilities moves you far away from the center of the bell curve.

Most employers realize many of the people in that swollen center seriously lack the fundamentals and adapt the environment accordingly, such as lowering barriers of entry and lowering minimally acceptable quality criteria. That is not the environment a top skilled developer will strive in.

My goal moving forward is to work in jobs with higher barriers of entry, preferably some manner of institutional barriers.
Initially I had the same thought: I'm not using their services, how can I break TOS? But this explains it. If a device cannot be controlled locally and need their cloud connection to work, it's in a high risk of becoming e-waste at some point of time. That's why I would never pick such devices.
Org mode is actually a great lightweight markup format - much more standardized and rational than markdown. I maintain my knowledge base on it using org-roam. Org roam forms an easily searchable and navigable web of information. That includes everything from bookmarks and cheatsheets to daily journals. (I think obsidian does the same with markdown, but I haven't used it).
Their successful products are vertically-integrated to provide a walled "convenient" experience to users. You use an Android smartphone to open their browser, searching for stuff and viewing ads, using Maps to find the location of businesses appearing in the ads. The rest of their contributions are welcome side-effects that have enabled running that software and hardware infrastructure.
YES, atm our plan is to have FREE option there.
"...tried and failed multiple times to install it onto the Precision M20's "hard drive" (actually a micoSD card on an IDE-to-microSD-card adapter). Every time, the installation looked successful. I even checked it with Gparted, which showed that the partition had been created, made bootable, and data had been written to it. Then, when I rebooted, no partition existed!"

Some MicroSD cards fail in a "Read Only" mode where they pretend to accept new data, but don't actually write anything.
> NetBSD intentionally supports old hardware

So does Linux (486SX is the minimum supported CPU), there is nothing inherent to NetBSD about supporting old hardware than the developers wanting to do so.

> Now why someone wants to run current software on museum-piece hardware is quite beyond me though.

I can think a lot of reasons, e.g. keeping them useful. While there are many things that old hardware cannot do, there are things it can do as long as there is software to provide the functionality.

AFAICT the article isn't asking writing new software that runs on the old hardware, it is asking to let existing software that could run on the old hardware remain accessible.
> I would rank them still at medieval time set in modern era. Most of the people still at village naive-like state especially outside of Bangkok

This description applies also to a lot of places in EU. It is better not to.generalise.
Use gpt-X as a tool to do your job even better and take on more responsibilities.

"AI" tools are at their heart productivity tools. Use them to be more productive so you can focus on higher value activities.
In a situation like yours, let the recruiter know your situation ahead of time* and they can help coordinate adjusting the interview process to accommodate a different way that you can demonstrate your capability to succeed in the role.

I think it's not reasonable/fair to other candidates to give a literal "second chance somehow", but it's entirely reasonable to adjust the format of the first chance to allow a non-neurotypical candidate a reasonable chance to succeed.

* I suspect you probably already know to do this; this is not meant as "advice to you" so much as "here's how it could be made workable and fair if that was the situation".
This is just not true. Reading is necessary but hardly about as important. If you are lucky and get a good text, the exercises guide you to "invent" the important parts of the theory. Otherwise its just definitions and theorems, and its up to you to make your own examples to gain an intuition, which to be fair is closer to life outside of a classroom.
KeePass considers letter runs and common words to lower entropy. So “pass word pass word” fits the scheme above but demonstrates lower entropy.

The examples in their docs show that a run of characters “aaaa…” only has an estimate of 7 bits:

https://keepass.info/help/kb/pw_quality_est.html

Obviously the estimate is wrong when the password will always have a fixed length and a randomized character set. But KeePass doesn’t know that “pass word pass word” is following set rule. Perhaps parent commenter ran the calculation on an example with a run or common word within it.

You’re right it’s 75 bits for the format used by Google here.
Yeah asking questions on slack or sth feels so much more like you're imposing on people than just saying sth out loud or shadowing someone a bit organically in person.
But what does a confidence level even mean for an LLM? "Truthfulness" would be limited by the original training set, compounded by the fact that the LLM loses context when effectively compressing the original dataset down to the LLM's final model.

A confidence level could be helpful to know how much competing data was considered by the LLM when predicting each word, but it would say nothing of truthfulness or even accuracy relative to the original training data.
I've reached forty and recognize that if I won't put my own time or money in to something I shouldn't ask someone else to do it for me.
I agree with you, which is why it's interesting to see the court divided based on its typical conservative/liberal line.

To me, it's fundamentally about the separation of powers. Why, in this case, should the executive branch be given the power to interpret ambiguous laws, when that duty normally falls to the judicial branch?

The response seems to be that the executive branch has some special expertise that makes them better suited.

But courts routinely call in expert witnesses; as Justice Alito pointed out in the hearing, there are methods for resolving ambiguity when Chevron does not apply. So I could see a ruling that basically says, "Sure, we'll make use of the administration's expertise -- as testimony, not as a substitute for judges."
I thought exactly the same (lack of self-awareness), only instead of "lack the capability" I though "lack of time".
Not every distro has to support old hardware (since the maintainers have limited time to work on it themselves, or whatever other reason they choose), I'm sure there are distros around that do.
Respecting other's time and not expecting them to work for you would be a insight that come with age/experience, not from youth.

Maybe you are proving me wrong here, both old and expecting people to work for you for free?
Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick
anyways...
Same, I took several of his classes in the late 90’s at UD. I remember him fondly. RIP
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Something I find interesting is that IMO, flight simulators handle ATC better than real life. In MSFS Obviously there isn't a human there but all messages are displayed as unambiguous text and you are able to choose various reply options based on the context.

ATC is way too complicated to completely capture in a decision tree, but the text thing seems like a no brainer, ATC/pilots should be able to deliver messages via text that is easy to send/receive so that your runway clearance and such is right on your HUD or nav screen. I don't see any reason for the ambiguity of radio in this day and age with the exception of emergencies where you need to comminuicate long specific details quickly.
Because we’ve seen the technical artifacts? For example, they released their work open source and we saw the quality. What’s your point here? Redis, when released, was a single person effort, for example.
Any decent 3rd party client does this already. Take for example, thunderbird or k9-mail - major open source ones. Even Mail (from Apple, macOS) does this. What else you need? Sure if you use mutt or ALPINE read the related forums for help.

while anyone can criticise any large company one should do it for the correct reasons.
Usually the only ones complaining are Linux users.

The rest enjoyed the games, to the point that Flash is being brought back thanks WebAssembly, with Unity and Flutter as spiritual sucessors.
A middle way exists between "keys to the kingdom" and "no input".
Why are Japanese houses not insulated, despite hot summers and freezing winters?
I think you're mistaking popularity with power. Big Tech is less cool, but 7/8ths of humanity are under their umbrella.
I mean, if I had all the power in the world and I didn't want anyone coming to take it, I'd probably give everyone free drugs to keep them happy/content.
It's shameful how far we've gone down this path. My university is using Microsoft Exchange and they refuse to allow IMAP access even with Oauth2, only allowing you to use proprietary protocols. So far I've only seen Evolution and Thunderbird working (with a paid plugin for the latter). I think it's a means to exert control on your email usage. For example, most sane clients do not show images by default, which prevents various types of tracking pixels from working, whereas Outlook doesn't do this afaik.
> I still have my 386 and 486 somewhere: can't I install, say, a modern Debian on these?

As others already said - no.

And even if you find the one what would install... 5 years ago I installed Centos8 on x301. Despite having an SSD (I replaced it while 1.8" were still sold) it's completely unusable in Gnome. Yet it run fine under Windows 10. So...

> Even much older stuff. Are these really gone forever?

Quick search usually yields the results if the CD/ISOs are still available. Otherwise you can check archive.org, r/datahoarders

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X301
> They most likely just downloaded openstreetmap database and spent nothing. Do you have any source that the logical and easy thing is not what they did?

Yes, openstreetmap's data was WAYYYY better than Apple Maps at launch.

In central London Apple Maps had such bad data that some of the business listings hadn't existed since before Apple Inc was formed as company, which were certainly not problems in openstreetmap.
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> Mammals being already small and nocturnal is what gave them an edge during this evolutionary "funnel" (and presumably the ancestors of modern birds had similar features).

Conspiracy theory: Birds are not real, they're actually dinosaurs.
IMO I felt that battle was lost couple of years back when my wife was pregnant with our youngest. We were looking for CDC guidelines on covid booster for expectant mothers. The website mentions "pregnant people". That's when I felt discourse is evolving to cater to the edge cases.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...
Laws of API dates and times (2013)
if i remember right something something webkit restrictions
We write away the status part of our syncs. Just write it down, we don’t need to hear it.

One thing we used at the last two companies I worked at was what we call SWATH—something I invented for reasons of corporate judo.

It’s 5 simple true or false questions that gives you a score. Answer them in order, atop when you answer false. Your score is the number if true answers.

It takes most people 2 seconds to do, and is a kind of health check. They’re very basic questions.

Other than that, we have a shared agenda that people can add items they want to talk about to. Work related or not.
Meet a worthy candidate for the next Ig Noble Prize.
Aside from getting rid of unnecessary regulation, letting everyone who can work remotely to do so is a great way to bring down house prices in most in-demand areas.

Way too many people are forced to move into big cities simply for work, even though they really wouldn't want to. It's bad for them, and bad for those who actually want to live in those areas, but can't afford it.
I think the main problem is because the reward from your innovative ideas being successful was not tied to the team members own rewards. Startup founders get crazy rich or get nothing so they will do their damnest to get their ideas to deliver value and capitalize their value.

All the researchers at Google still keep their jobs and salaries if their ideas/projects fail. And if they succeed they might get a promotion and a bonus, maybe, and probably only the top people behind the idea/project.
If you want an easier startup using text based todo lists and notes then I recommend Easyorg, https://easyorgmode.com.

Its agenda supports searching on time which is handy.
Getting older has consequences.

Flying isn't cheap, the average private pilot is just under 50, and with the prices of planes, fule, maintenance, and storage costs add up. And that's after you've already dropped over 10K just to learn how.
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This was southern Europe. Looked like mostly street/sidewalk parking as far as I could tell. Certainly lots of cars--not a lot of scooters.
I think if anything the author is asking for the opposite. Stop actively breaking things that already work. Inaction
Meta funded some of those apps.

Meta developed the Netflix one in-house for example.

I doubt Apple would offer that.
Maybe it was already said, but I have a weird bug where system said last answer is incorrect but in the overview it still says "100% correct".
It's a shell game to increase property value to pump the nominal asset holdings of the company. "See, this office is in demand and worth $50 mil" (WFH price: $5 mil)