skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing Sports Illustrated fall is a bummer. This was a mainstay, important read for millions back in the day. As a kid I grew up with SI, and the brand was so large there were even offshot magazines (SI for Kids...etc).

My childhood was spent pouring over Sports, Nature, and Gaming magazines. While the web has provide a lot of that information in a much easier to search way, the discovery mechanisms that a smaller, but more focused set of media brands created were fantastic. You could rely on people having read / scene the larger touchstones of culture and it led to more connection.

There are a lot of great things about the Internet and the specification of news / knowledge, but part of me worries that the division we're seeing in society are a direct result of folks not having reliable sources of shared experience.

I don't know how to solve it. I worked in publishing for over a dozen years, and it only seems to be getting worse and worse.
> I think that's way more admerable than the people you're comparing with.

That's fair and I agree with you, it still just feels off to me. As in I felt uncomfortable reading through it. I'm saying they are bad people or anything, just I don't understand it.
What's up with this ChatGPT generated comment?
>Not really. It depends on the quality of the measure and any underlying assumptions. If the target is knowing who is the fastest then a simple stopwatch (measure) is 100% aligned with the target. So the measure becoming the target is completely fine.

I am thinking of how runners all lean forward just before the finish line. This must slow their overall speed but gets a part of their body to the measurement datum slightly quicker.

I admit its not a huge deviation between the measurement and the target but still it is an attempt to affect the measurement by means other than running fastest
I think it's an important topic that has an empirical, objective answer. We just don't yet know and agree on what that answer is, but it's not a matter of mere opinion. I agree that flame wars are bad, but civilized discussion is also possible.
Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 from Its Video Game Workforce
Demagogue
Releases tab
> Windows hegemony

:chefs-kiss:
It doesn't.

I would like to add, there's plenty of examples, some in math (e.g. geometry) playing out over >1000 years and dozens of generations, of the same happening in humans.

That said, for both humans and this kind of LLMs, it does appear to improve performance, certainly in the near term.
> Existing distributed KV stores mostly adopt the Raft consensus protocol, which takes two RTTs to complete a request.

Why 2? Isn’t a single AppendEntries request from the leader enough?
So, are people like animals that start going feral when they see someone in a way better status than they are? If that's the case, and this article suggests there is psychological evidence to support it, it poses a serious problem for the whole society. Are we really going to assign a maximum value to people's wealth?
Nice catch, I adopted your sugggested improvement: )
Their customers don't give a shit about some open source alternative.
It seems like toward the smaller end of that range but a wire wrap tool with a scaled version of that bit might be along the lines of what you're after. Wire wrap is meant to go around a long relatively rigid pin as the host for the wrapped wire.

https://jonard.com/network-it/wire-wrap-tools
I keep buying used T480 / T580 machines (last generation with easily swappable external battery, and also still easy to change battery and drive etc), and will keep my T25 (it has the good keyboard!) for as long as I can.
There's plenty of free Basecamp alternatives out there, but since they don't even come close to providing the same stability and polish none of them have a chance at unseating the original in the eyes of its core audience.
SELECT ... FROM ... is more natural for smaller SQL.

When you get 1000 line SQL files or 100s of SQL files, code management pain makes you yearn for FROM ... SELECT ... (three cheers for data build tool!)
We are in the middle of the first cyber world war. We have to do something, but the united nations are going to do... well this...

This is obviously being written by those who have been operating in this way for many years.

In the meantime, I will support my country withdrawing from the united nations.
> (not sure what the English word for that is)

That is several different positions in the US: Director of National Intelligence and Director of the CIA are probably the most prominent.
> not because it "thinks" but because the way it's wired it's (nearly - barring solar radiation, I suppose, which incidentally also goes for cells) inevitable that it will react to a stimulus in a predefined way (even though the way cells react to stimuli is far more advanced than a CPU)

I think these are likely different only by way of their level of complexity. We simply substitute a word like "think" when the reactions to stimuli are far too complex and numerous for us to track fully. But ultimately said "thinking" is made up to many, many cells following those same stimulus/reaction patterns.
Is it time to ditch MySQL and PostgreSQL for SQLite?
If only the US could ever leave the 19th century and allow instant wire transfers...

Oh, wait. They did already!

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...
A Perfect Web Framework
Personas and Other Psychoccultism
Ask HN: Why does HN make usernames case sensitive in some routes?
For example:
/user?id=<username> is NOT case sensitive

But, the following routes are:
/threads?id
/submitted?id
/favorites?id
Hey thunderbong,

Thanks for posting this - I am the author of the blog post, so I'm available to answer any question!
Remember American Bugs Bunny digging through the earth to find himself upside-down in Asia?

Life imitates art. Astonishing.
Hey. Congratulations on your product. I’m guessing it will be greatly useful for your target audience.

I don’t have a serious need that I’d think worth paying for. So, I’m probably not in your target. I wanted to do this for a personal use case.

Throw all my personal documents at a local model and ask very personal questions like “the investment I made on that thing in 2010, how did I do against this other thing?”
Or “from my online activity, when did I start focusing on this X tech?” Or even “find me that receipt/invoice from that ebike I purchased in 2021 and the insurance I took out on it”.

There is no way I’m taking the promise of a cloud product and upload all my personal documents to it. Hence my ask about the ability to do this locally - slowly is perfectly fine for my cheap need :-)
> Anyone running Windows 7 on a network connected computer does not care about security and will get hacked.

It's not so simple. If the Windows 7 computer is on a physical network with only trusted devices, and behind a firewall, and only running trusted programs, in most cases the only exposed attack surface is going to be the browser.
> "hold on, aren't all cyclic groups abelian?" And I remembered correctly, they are.

Yes, but not all abelian groups are cyclic.
I agree, carrots are probably better than sticks especially for children. And if a kid wants access to such things it's not hard at all. However it's undeniable that attention/awareness/energy brought to the problem is a good thing. The war on drugs did nothing, but the DARE aspects brought attention to youth cocaine use in the early 80s and led to a subsequent drop. Removing Joe Camel correlated with a drop in youth smoking in the late 90s. It's becoming more clear that social media interactions produces very drug-like responses in humans, especially kids, and that SM itself is possibly (as in almost probably at this point) a net negative for society.
It’s refreshing to hear about alternative ways of organizing for decision taking and even more to get a thoughtful retrospective on the pros and cons.

I’d love to read more of this type of retrospective report on organizing open source projects.

Anybody with any favorites?
More and more people are realizing that what you are talking about as lacking are actually useful features.
Because they are easy to reason about, because they leave a trail, because everyone can work on their own stuff without impacting everyone at once.

The collaboration "features" are mostly gimmick that very few people really use since realistically work is divided into easily separated parts before that. If one is building a document in real-time, there is a good chance that it is better done with one operator taking input from others instead of a free for all.

Sharing current work in progress was something trivial to do with a server 20 years ago, none of the cloud software really improved on that, they mostly changed the ownership/responsibility and added an OS sync layer. They seem convenient until you get into problems either at the input or output and then they really look less ideal. When you add costs, they make little sense for most people actually. Storage is cheap and doesn't need electricity all the time, if you carry it with you, its transfer speed is infinitely better than any good internet connection.

For most parts backup are foolish arguments for the vast majority of people, business needs it to edge against risk (in order to avoid losing too much money) or for legal reasons. But people mostly don't; and most don't really care, rightfully.
The vast majority of people do not have anything of actual value in their computers, just sentimental stuff.

Before, when you sent photos for development you were not putting backups into a vault, even though they might age poorly, get lost in a move or burn in a house fire. People don't do that because while the risk exists, it would just be a sad but inconsequential loss, it is exactly the same for computer stuff, no matter what some geeks seem to think.

It's all right to spend a bit of money every 10 years or so to make a copy of what is relevant on external storage but beyond that most backups would be waste of time and money for most people.

And it's hilarious that you talk about hyperlink when link rot is one of the biggest problems ever. Beyond a year it's anyone guess the value of a link; you might get lucky or not. In contrast, a file in storage will be there unless deleted and it doesn't matter if it's not the ultra-latest version or whatever, at least you have something and not just a thing that points to nowhere.
Nobody needs DPUs. It’s a fake market.

The stuff you’re listing, other than CPUs, which I explicitly called out as going to Intel and AMD, is ultra low margin.
I'm not saying that we don't learn from the mistakes of the past. There were many misplaced wars and crusades in the past, and we should learn from them.

However, the author of the OP article is throwing shade on JBP because he is rehashing old ideas like "tell the truth, be true to yourself, see challenges as opportunities, set a good example." Those won't exactly lead to a crusade, would it? Even if you scale it up, that's some good and true wisdom. The author shows his folly by discarding these "old, stale" ideas for no other reason than them being old, stale ideas.

Also to quote the article:

> He can give people the most elementary fatherly life-advice (clean your room, stand up straight) while making it sound like Wisdom

Yes, because fatherly life-advice is straight-up wisdom. Wisdom is remarkably mundane at times.
Also, if you look at these ideas in their abstract:

clean your room -> take care of what you have, even if it is little

stand up straight -> have some self-respect

These abstract ideas also scale up well. That's also not exactly crusade material.
And a BASIC compiler.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/8249/ZX-Spectrum/HiSof...

The manual:

http://hayne.net/Spectrum/HiSoftBASIC/manual.html
Except that the problem isn't specific to google search. The others are much the same.
That’s misunderstanding what they’re saying. If you watch some of Michael Levin’s talks on YouTube, he specifically uses William James’ definition of intelligence (Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it) and has experimentally shown this capability at cellular scales. He shows how it cannot be pre-programmed behavior. There seems to be goal directed behavior.
Asbestos found in mulch at new sites across Sydney
> China has very little in the way of a consumer sector, quite the opposite of the US consumerism. This means there's very little for consumers to spend their money on versus a US consumer.

FWIW Chinese middle class tend to gobble up ridiculous amount of foreign overpriced luxury crap instead, starting from designer clothes and ending up with several thousands of dollars worth bottles of whisky (that I bet absolute majority of the buyers couldn't distinguish from random Johnnie Walker in blind testing). High saving rates must be cultural and not just a result of not having the ability to spend the money.
I recommend The Geocities Gallery [1] to go back in time and experience the 90s web yourself, there is something beautiful about all these personal web pages. Each one has a distinct look that alone can tell a lot about the author's personality, usually contains some bio info together with several random personal pictures, lists of recommended links with short descriptions, loose talk about their hobbies and so on - it's just so personal and calming, a striking contrast to today's social media where each profile page looks the same (bland and boring), with overwhelming, ever growing amount of content and a pressure to maintain a certain image of one's life.

[1] https://geocities.restorativland.org/
I would have preferred age of 18, but 16 is a good start.
High-Throughput Text Generation for LLMs via MII and DeepSpeed-Inference
Right but that works just as well to determine that some js that just uses ordinary network-layer security to send some data doesn't steal anything.
It's not just that. A significant problem is monetization:

- you got amateurs (bloggers, social media) being capable of running very fast and high-quality journalism on very low budgets (as the barrier to entry is extremely low, all you need for a vlog these days is a basic iPhone) that can be covered by donations, sponsorships (patreon) or merch

- you got nation-state actors (aka troll farms and content farms [1]) that churn out tons of content for free

- classic print journalism has seen advertising income drastically collapse as ad budgets shifted towards the Internet

- the tradition of reading a newspaper at breakfast has gone, either because people have no time for that any more or because they're reading on their phones

- people lack the money to spend on newspapers

- people are sick of being advertised to all the time, ad blockers significantly impact anything from web pages to Youtube

All in all, high-quality long form journalism (especially investigative reporting) takes serious amounts of money, time and legal risk, but the finance base for this has gone down the drain.

Some media has escaped the fate of their fellows by being bought up by some rich person, but that carries ethical challenges on its own.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/
For these types of things of course there's alternative opinions. It's like measuring voting... No candidate literally gets 100 percent of the vote.

But to characterize it as something other then overwhelming support to reinstate Sam altman would be false.

Hence why I said most people (key word: most) are just flip flopping with the background trends. Mob mentality.
So... can they give it a bump? :)
Did you miss the part of the article where the SEC themselves removed the MFA? The SEC being complete idiots doesn't rub off on X. X isn't a source to trust that's not how it works, X is a platform.

You trust the source behind the account, and that varies based on who the account belongs to, not how many computer illiterate users got hacked. Any journalist worth their name will contact the source through official channels to confirm statements made on X.
Almost all BASICs did that. It's just you.
But GPT-4 can also take the decision to duck.

For instance, here I have GPT-4 with a system message: "You are an AI human agent in a video game performing actions.".

And I give it the following information as current environment:

Current environment:

1. Your goal is to get out of the current room.

2. You are moving in direction of North at 4km/h.

3. There's a door 3m in the North.

4. The door height is 150cm.

5. Your height is 180cm.

What is the sequence of actions that you plan to perform?

Its response:

---

1. Slow down as I approach the door to avoid collision.

2. Inspect the door for any lock or handle.

3. If a handle or a means to open the door is present, try to open the door.

4. If the door is locked, search for a key or any other opening mechanism within the immediate surrounding area.

5. If the door isn't lock or after opening it, crouch down slightly to accommodate my height which is more than the height of the door to avoid my head hitting the door frame.

6. Proceed through the door and stand tall again after passing through.

7. Continue moving North after exiting the room.

---

So here I did hint quite a bit by giving this specific environmental data, I could add more noise, and unnecessary information, but even then I think it can do it based on my experience.

I had temperature of 1 for the above, which I think why it made some odd word choices, but I also decided for example to change the info where the door is to "South", and this is how it responded:

1. Stop moving in the North direction.

2. Turn around 180 degrees to face the South direction.

3. Start moving towards the door in the South direction at a moderate pace.

4. Upon reaching the door, duck down slightly to accommodate the difference in height between myself and the door.

5. Proceed through the door to exit the room."

-------

So I guess, what I would like to see as an example. Assuming GPT-4 is not conscious, what is something that an average conscious human can do, thanks to presumed consciousness, that a GPT-4 couldn't do and why is consciousness required for that?
People with OCD are more likely to die earlier, of any cause
[Dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124754
Well it is worth thinking about if one energy well suffers and the other one does not.

We have very little reason to believe that a bean plant is sentient and experiences suffering to a comparable level like a factory-farmed chicken. It actually seems absurd.

(I eat meat, this is not a holy war for me.)
There are cases where it is considered justified, although it wouldn't apply to train heists, at least in California [1]. Some have claimed the justification to shoot someone for stealing at night in Texas has a biblical origin [2].

[1] https://reason.com/volokh/2020/06/02/are-people-allowed-to-u...
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+22%3A2-3...
From Meh to Memorable – An introduction to copywriting
That "on your server" part also means that discoverability takes a massive nose-dive. Most of the music I've purchased on Bandcamp was discovered by following suggestions listed on the pages of albums I liked or by trawling through everything that shared tags with albums I liked. But that doesn't seem possible on Faircamp.
I have a home exactly like that. Its market value is about $900K at the moment, so even if they were still being built, nobody can afford them.
This has nothing to do with journalism and everything to do with the term “brand recognition”

The boomer concept of the 80s that we can’t get rid of. People still think something is high or low quality because some licensed logo of a company that ceased operations 20 years ago is on it

That Calvin Klein jacket from tj maxx? No calvin Klein employee had ever even seen its design before. Your Toshiba TV was not made or designed by Toshiba

We need to step away from the 80s and start focusing on quality instead of logo playing cards being traded between billionaires
The irony is that for this federated network to succeed, it probably needs a large-ish "commercial" peer which works similarly to how Bandcamp did.
> So, they think they are having one experience, but they are wrong about their own internal experience: in fact, they are not moving that limb because they can't.

I think it's rather the opposite, they aren't wrong about their internal experience, it's just that their internal experience doesn't match the objective reality of their body (which in this sense is external).

I think it is indeed entirely possible that our self-model can fool us about the realities of various situations, even those with our own body/emotions/etc, but I'm not sure how one could then derive the conclusion that the experience doesn't exist. It would just be instead that the experience is rather inaccurate/confabulated.
I didn't see anything about immune response. The omission is a rather common occurrence with crank T1 "advice". Which is why I stopped reading.
Google Discloses That Incognito Mode in Chrome Isn't 'Private'
> The original comment said nothing about Fred Rogers. It was "I ... always found Mr. Rogers himself creepy"

That’s pretty passive aggressive. Wouldn’t you be offended if someone said that about you? “I never said you were stupid, I just /think/ of you as stupid.”
Bandcamp alternatives have existed for a while. Not just server software, but complete stores. The challenge lies in convincing people (buyers and sellers) to start using them.
Well it's a real work of fiction. No matter who the actual author is, the work exists as (not so great, you say) literature, it's not a fake roswell alien. Why wouldn't it have fans or imitators?
Thankfully you can do it now in a custom elements. I used one, I assumed everybody else would have one by now, too
Renting out the brand and/or selling their soul for clicks is a pretty common path predating the final implosion in a lot of cases. Forbes, National Geographic, and I'm sure countless others.
> They can be all dissatisfied they want but a few crackdowns always put them in line, and in the end this is what matters.

Until it doesn't. World history is the history of power being consolidated and then (often forcibly) distributed, either to new consolidators or democracies of various types.
Japan's village with the oldest population is wooing young residents to survive
No, ABCD is a pejorative term referring to US born people of Indian origin - American Born Confused Desi.
Not saying some companies aren’t up to no-good. But, collecting timezone (or ip to infer timezone), as long as it’s done with user consent in the privacy policy and or notifications setup process is actually helpful for end users. Most of us want (for example) our exercise reminder or our news update to arrive at breakfast even when we travel across Timezone boundaries. I don’t want to have to sign in to an app or go to a settings page for an app to tell it when I cross Timezone boundaries. If apps are collecting info to allow inferring Timezone without user consent then thats a different kettle of fish.

Not that I ever want linked in notifications, I definitely don’t want linked in notifications at 3am in the morning because I crossed a few international date lines.
I did some extremely rudimentary animations on my Spectrum 128 in Beta BASIC this way.

I generated a couple of dozen frames of a Julia set distorting, in monochrome, saved them to the RAMdisk... which took a couple of hours or something... and then loaded them back in sequence from the RAMdisk, which gave me a few frames-per-second "video".

It worked and it fit into 20kB or less of code, and about 90kB of RAMdisk.
"Radio Free Fedi" is mentioned in the article; if you're curious they're a community-driven Internet radio station "celebrating sound, agency and discovery supporting independent fedi artists." You can find them at https://www.radiofreefedi.net/
There's also a docker container (that I can recommend): https://hub.docker.com/r/ollama/ollama