skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The United States is far from the only place where harsh words provoke outrage, rightly or wrongly

Elsewhere in the world, only retroactively - in retellings, in legends, in K12 history lessons. The nice, patriotic fiction of good person saying something, galvanizing the population, and then large changes happening.

> It's actually a cultural and historical norm.

It's not. Broadcast media are barely 100 years old. The ability for any rando to broadcast thoughts outside their direct social circles exist for less than two decades.

Randos telling other randos within their social circles that they want bad things to happen to public personas - that is a cultural and historical norm. Nothing ever coming out of it, except maybe said randos landing in shit if the word reaches the public personas - that too is the cultural and historical norm. For such talk to be an actual danger to anyone else, and especially the subject of discussion? That is a very recent historical and geographical aberration (or rather, I suspect believing such talk to be dangerous is the aberration).
> it is both fair and reasonable to ask questions about its utility.

What questions, though? How do we know that these questions are well-calibrated for the long-tail cases that end up being valuable centuries later?
Same in the US: politicians get an exception from the Do Not Call list and similar. Complete garbage.
The A1200 at least will actually function without -12V, but the audio will be bad.

I had crackly audio problems. I swapped the A1200 motherboard (a few years back when they were still fairly cheap on eBay), and still had the same audio problem. Only then did I investigate+repair the PSU issue.

Recently built a replacement Amiga PSU from a MeanWell PT-65B board in a 3D printed case. This USB-C option would have been neater and easier (so long as it puts out enough power for a PiStorm as well as the Amiga)
Love love love that album! Eno is just cool because he was constantly thinking about the context for his art as well as making beautiful music.

Him and David Byrne did an album called "My life in the bush of ghosts" - I was reading Byrne's book about it and he was saying it was constantly asking 'how would someone who has never seen or heard a guitar or piano be played... approach it? Is strumming arbitrary, could it be percussive?'

Eno just ebs with cool
It's a direct continuation of Franz PhD thesis in '94 [1]. (I note I know need to keep my URLs stable, as it turns out one of the references to SDE in that Wikipedia article is my own summary...).

I think there are two reasons it didn't catch on: The first obviously being Java, and the sheer amount of mindshare Sun was able to get for Java very quickly.

The other is that Oberon had gaps. It's a very austere language. And while all of those gaps can be plugged - Franz himself proposed extensions, as did other students of Wirth - without someone putting in the effort to create an Oberon version with sufficient expansions to appeal to business users, the way Sun did with Java, that the underlying technology was interesting didn't really matter.

I'm a big fan of the concept, but it's also more complex in some ways, even though a crude implementation is also potentially very simple. E.g. you "chop the compiler in two", and unlike a bytecode compiler you get a tree to work on. At the same time you can apply other JIT techniques - part of the work on SDE meant reconstituting the dictionary used to compress the tree on loading, and while doing so, if you generate code during the process, you can also directly reference the generated code to use as templates for a patching JIT and insert those templates directly into the dictionary.

"One day" I hope to get time to explore SDE more, because it seems JIT's have gotten so far down the bytecode path that we're missing out on seeing what else might be viable.

Franz own later research shifted a lot towards Java, but his students have interesting work in the JIT space too. Especially Andreas Gal, and his work on trace trees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_dictionary_encoding
That's a true emotional rollercoaster!
Project ideas for Golang, Kubernetes, Kafka and gRPC
These are some of the technologies I saw a Senior Fullstack Developer role requiring.

Golang: Sets the standard for efficient backend development.

GCP: Guides the team in scalable cloud deployments.

Kubernetes: Crucial for leading complex system management.

Docker: Ensures consistent application deployment quality.

Kafka: Leads in building real-time, event-driven systems.

REST and gRPC: Offers diverse and efficient API solutions.

Event-driven Architecture: Directs the development of
scalable, responsive applications.

Frontend Knowledge: Bridges backend and frontend efforts for team synergy.

Event driven Microservices

I don't sit with Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, gRPC in my own hobby projects. However, it would be fun to get to know this tech stack in an upcoming project. Do you guys have any suggestions of projects that I could to that utilize this tech stack?
It reminds me my childhood and how the pieces were nice and easily maintainable.

I would propose two improvements (sorry if I missed them)
- Add filtering for items with a picture only
- Allow to a user to browse a category (without necessity of searching)

Well done ;-)
Name one.

I had a Trident 9660 with 1MB VRAM and I never had to use a 4bit mode.
YouTube disabling embedding would be fucking insane.
I agree; I probably wouldn't go as far as "extremely disturbing." But at minimum it's pretty lame and cringe. I want our leaders to be held to a higher bar, and the head of YC should be above this stuff. The sad thing is that it feels fairly in character with what I've seen from Tan in the past.
On second thought, you are probably right and /u/RagnarD was indeed genuinely asking if I was being ironic
You sound like I offended you. Are you a narcissist?

Nothing like a good ad hominem to try to make a point, eh?
> Either Google has a better model which they disguise as Bard

Why wouldn't they use this model in bard then?
Anyway this is easily verifiable claim, are there any prompts that consistently work at lmsys but not at bard interface?

> fine tuned on GPT-4 data to sound like GPT-4 and rank high

This I don't get. Why would many different random people rank bad model that sounds like gpt4 higher than good model that doesn't? What is even the meaning of "better model" in such settings if not user preference?
This is a really tone deaf response considering you're commenting on an article where people are interacting online yet feeling lonely.

My point was that they are talking about people who feel lonely so go to Tiktok. That's not socialising.

That's great that you use chat to organise your gatherings, but that just repeats my comment.
If you buy a phone in any place of this planet and then go to its app marketplace, you will likely see twitter as one of the most popular apps on it. I cannot seriously continue this conversation with someone who considers that to be same as some local city newspaper no one seen.
The Boeing problem is management and easy to do better than. Penny-pinch less on safety and inspections and leave everything else alone.

I've never seen someone say they could do better than air traffic controllers themselves. If this is about paying more and hiring more people... that's also something the average person is capable of handling.
The Political Preferences of AIs: When probed with questions with political connotations, LLMs tend to generate responses that are diagnosed by most political orientations tests as manifesting preferences for left-of-center viewpoints – 11 political orientation tests, 24 SOTA LLMs
I remember Philips from when it was a synonym of quality and advanced technology. After being burned many times in the past 10 years, I just said enough is enough and won't ever buy anything with the Philips brand again.
> my experiences in Oberon-2 (I work with it)

really interesting that you work with something as niche as Oberon! :)

Can you talk about who is using Oberon, for what, and why?
I still selfhost a libreddit instance for search results but no more browsing
This is a very good point. Would be lovely to see a) representative survey data on this for countries, where available
b) the aggregate results from the websites that do offer this to humans (like political compass.org, which is one of the tests they do).
VSCode server won't start: "Waiting for server log "
It's way too conventional to be plausible, at least for me, it could perhaps be a giant psyop, why would the CIA confirm anything about what was leaked? This sentence says it all
rd = rs1 * rs2 + rs3

It's no different from parsing if/then/else. Provided one assignment maps to one opcode, it's unambiguous.
Gzipping the JS stream is conceptually very different, though. With Juice's approach, the intent is in part that the compiler gets to do any amount of additional work before serializing. What is shipped is already "half compiled", not just serialized as a tree. It's closer to an intermediate representation in tree form than just a representation of the source syntax.

Today, with a lot of JS toolchains involving source-to-source transformation first, that could in theory achieve much of the same potential of modifying the original input, and lowering some things to a simpler subset etc., but just compression isn't the same.

The size reduction is pretty much a nice bonus with Juice rather than the point - the dictionary encoding matters because it means the decode gets similarity measures "for free" and can generated patchable code segments for partial subtrees that will be subsequently referenced.
No clue if this is actually what publishers mean by that, but there's plenty of people self publishing their work online - fan fiction probably makes up the majority of it, but there's plenty of original work out there as well.

I'm not sure writing a web serial necessarily translates to ideal novel authorship, but it does at least suggest someone who can attract readers and meet deadlines
If developers could price apps differently for the cheap Vs expensive iPhones, they would.
UFS on FreeBSD is still maintained bz Kirk McKusick, the inventor of soft updates. It's the other BSDs that have trouble as they can't rely on Kirk's expertise.
A lot of very big companies use Bitbucket, it's just a lot more cost effective than Gitlab/Github.
To be fair, there were plenty of 3rd party YouTube clients on Windows Phone that they didn't block (I even payed for one). They only really didn't want an official YouTube app to exist on Windows Phone, and the same will likely be true for VisionPro (even assuming that Google wants to try to bury VisionOS like they did with Windows - which is not clear yet). And a payed YouTube app will obviously have a tiny install base on any platform, so they don't really care.
Many Amigas also have a Raspberry Pi inside them these days, for the PiStorm accelerator, which increases the +5V current requirements a fair bit.
Why Moving to the US is Overrated [video]
Would love to see you turing test an AI poet.
There's a whole generation of us who started coding on mIRC-scripting exactly for that reason.
> dreary darkish gray base color

It's a matter of taste and back then, you could change it to whatever color you liked. For me, it that darkish gray was too light and I switched it to an even darker gray.
Are you also aghast about Tupac?

Oh my this rapping is outrageous! Mr. Tupac pull up your pants and clean up your language young man!

And Gary isn’t a rap artist anyway!

Well isn’t he?
Thanks for repeating this.

Seems like most people fail to understand that LLMs (as they are implemented these days) are markov chains by definition, regardless of how much "better" they are compared to "Dissociated Press"-style markov chains based on lookup tables.

> A Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which *the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event*.

Is the process calculating a probability distribution over "next token", based on a bounded-size context of "previous tokens"? Yes? Then it is a markov chain, by definition.

It's like saying that a "human" is not an "animal", since it is so much "better" and "capable" than (other/usual) animals. The more you argue, the more I'll be convinced that you either don't know what the definition of a "human" is, or that you don't know what the definition of an "animal" is (or both).
> Jim Cramer recommended getting in on Meta around 220 IIRC and then it dropped over 50% and he cried because on his recommendation people lost half their investment.

Wait, someone actually traded on Cramer's advice? Please tell me this is a joke.
> Apple did the right thing by blocking this.

In order for a specification to become a web standard, it needs two independent implementations. No single organisation is capable of blocking it – it means that Google couldn’t convince anybody outside of Google to implement it.
I thought that Starlink always "landed" to a base station back in the same jurisdiction? I think relaying through space could open a regulatory can of worms.
I think most people log in to YouTube specifically so YouTube can see what they look at and show them more content like that and sync across their device, even when they don't have Premium. Yours is a tiny tiny niche use case, even among people who would pay for a YT app.
I used the database to identify some of my old hardware from pictures, it's pretty neat!
Why not? Sounds like a good idea if 'randomly' isn't taken too literally.
It punishes property owners for creating artificial scarcity through excessive rent.
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As the user of a Phillips Resprionics AirSense 10, I have a few thoughts.

1. The breakdown of foam is inevitable over time, maybe it should have been easily replaceable.

2. You can have my CPAP when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. I love my CPAP. It keeps me alive, and I'll swallow some foam to keep it.

3. Why isn't there an inline filter someone made to attach to the standard slimline (or heated) tubing that catches the foam chunks? Standard care instructions would be to check and empty it daily. If there is foam in it, immediately replace the foam piece (which I already said should have been user replaceable.) Maybe the foam WAS the filter, and such filters will always break down over time, especially in a device that gets tens of thousands of hours of use blowing humidified and heated air through it.

4. If a more expensive piece if foam would have fixed this, the idiot who did not demand such better foam should be called out publicly.

5. CPAPs save lives, and I think some mortality is expected/allowed if it gives better performance in trade.

6. There may soon be a shortage of these machines.
I was asked to review a multi-cloud architecture proposing to add several code repositories, multiple cross-cloud ETL pipelines, scalable big-data clusters, several and web and API apps -- with API management, of course! Some, but not all of that, was to be hosted on multiple Kubernetes clusters.

All of that for a project being implemented by one developer to generate one report.

My alternative solution was adding a single index and a PowerBI connector to the existing database.

They didn't like that and went with the original approach.

I didn't hear back.
Nah it's pretty clear. You are pretending to transcend an American political issue, in a debate where your opinion don't matter in the slightest, but failed and simply took a pretty tired position.
You just know the people that brought this up internally at Philips were told “it’s not that simple, we can’t just…”.

Why is every CEO that held the reins during this debacle at Philips not in jail right now for manslaughter?
Could you explain? Never been exposed to fraternities or Google.
IIRC there are modern enterprise wi-fi APs that sit in the rafters, and form star-topology laser relays between devices.
I'm typing this reply on this

https://junocomputers.com/product/nyx-17-v3/

which I use for DVD watching every day.
Ah, I see. I wasn't saying that he says nothing further about this attempt in the rest of it, just that the fact that many previous attempts have failed gives us no useful information about this one.
Question is whether it will be able to run Amigas with accelerators inside? That usually required beefier 6A PSU
so all the governments i listed are just using a bogus paper and just change their many decades long policy of providing unrwa with money? you are into conspiracy theories i assume?
In capitalism everything can and is reduced down to some costing indeed. We don't have public schools and art classes because it's nice, it's because an educated society as a whole has a much higher economic output and you need someone to design good looking products which will sell better. I wouldn't say I agree with the process, but you can't ignore that it's the underlying reason for almost everything our society does.

On topic of LLMs and diffusion models I doubt they're really having that much of a positive social impact, I would bet that in the long run they'll automate more of the jobs humans would like to do compared to the ones we don't, and erode trust on a global level. But the economic gain is undeniable so we're doing it anyway. Automating all work would be a good thing in an ideal world, but in practice it's the one thing that still gives the lower classes some leverage over the capitalists and a world where the average person is expendable and unemployable isn't good for society.
What would be your ethical business model alternative to maintain YoutTube's staff, engineering, energy bill and hardware costs? Just to break even.
Because nobody is allowed to wear hats and other head coverings in Congress.

They made a special exception specifically for her on religious grounds, which is a violation of the government's Constitutional requirement to treat all religions equally as a part of guaranteeing freedom of religion.

If Congress had instead changed the rules so everyone can wear hats and head coverings that would have been fine, but that's not what they did.
New EU rules encouraging consumers to repair devices over replacing them
> Cars like the Honda Civic or Volkswagen Golf have an excellent safety record, outclassing many giant SUVs while still having relatively small A-pillars and large windows on all sides.

The A pillar (and B and C pillars too) on a modern Golf or Civic is humongous compared to the first-generation Golf and Civic. You either just forgot what those looked like, or you're too young to even have seen particularly many of them.
Australians need to understand that for as long as they cannot investigate the war crimes of 'their' defense forces, their government will remain corrupt and corruptible to an extreme degree. The Australian people do not have oversight of their military - only the sovereign does, we must ask permission - and in that set of circumstances our government is simply not functioning in our interests, and will not do so in any other regard until that situation is addressed.

You cannot expect a government whose crimes are covered up by a foreign sovereign to be willingly subservient to the people they are supposed to serve.

The Australian government do not serve the Australian people, period - they serve foreign interests, always.

You can see this in every single sphere of Australian governance.
Former CIA hacker sentenced to 40 years in prison
I didn't buy the hardware, but if I had, I would quibble over the extra $5.

No, seriously. I would.

Here's the basic problem:

* I wouldn't mind spending $10 on something which I know I'm using.

* Most apps sit on my phone unused. Most are horrible. I have no idea before I buy whether it's good or horrible for me.

* I often don't mind spending a buck or two on something to see if I'll use it. $10 is right above that threshold.

* No apps do a decent free trial. I'm busy, so one of the 30-day things doesn't work for me. I'll install it, and when / if I get around to using it, the trial is already done. My life doesn't revolve around the app. Likewise, many apps will limit functionality to where the free trial is basically an advertisement, and I don't see if it's something I'd use.

I think what would work for me (n=1) is:

* The app is free for the first 40 hours of actual use. Or perhaps some annual quota.

* Continuing using it beyond that costs e.g. $20 for something simple like a video player and e.g. $100 for something complex like a video editor.

That aligns incentives right too.

For a video player, I don't think I'd use one without the option for an ad blocker. I'm not getting Youtube Premium no matter how cheap or expensive it is, since I don't think it'd be unethical for me to do so (it's a bit of a broken social contract by Google). That's another story (and I'm not trying to push my values on anyone else).
Unfortunately on iPhone you can't set some messages to unknown sender and some spam calls seem to be in known senders
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense
That’s not how it works because it is more flexible and sensible to do the translation of a physical key location to a logical function within the OS. While fancier keyboards do allow alternate key maps and macros, your basic standard keyboard is just a stateless matrix of numbers (scan codes).
Any hardwired button state handling or latching diminishes straightforward programmability on the OS side.

Understand that you can configure any modern OS for any arbitrary keyboard layout regardless of what type of keyboard is connected. The keyboard itself has no concept of what is a capital letter and what is a lowercase letter, it’s just buttons. This makes sense, because at the end of the day touch typists don’t really care what is printed on the keycaps. If I want to use Chinese (eg pinyin), Japanese (which is a cluster of layouts), or Dvorak on a US keyboard why should it matter? This can be handled easily in the OS, the keyboard is dumb.

And the concept of uppercase and lowercase as it would apply to a QWERTY layout doesn’t make even make sense for many languages.

When you press the physical caps lock key you’re just sending a number just like the Q key or something. The OS decides what to do with it. I have virtually no use for caps lock personally so it’s a control key.
Using it as a dual purpose key for input method switching is not uncommon.
More generally another reason for not baking in functionality in the keyboard is provision of accessibility features such as Sticky Keys and Filter Keys.
Absolutely. He's an indie product hacker who we could all learn from.

"oh, he's entirely reliant on the platforms!"

Meanwhile, his cap table is himself, he does quite well, and doesn't owe anything to anybody.

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