skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember that when e.g. Ubisoft wants you to be comfortable not owning things...

Ubisoft took that profitable tactic from media companies (who have been wildly successful at using it. Who even questions the fact that music is licensed?) who ironically got it from software. I can’t remember who got the idea first, but Microsoft used the licensing model almost exclusively and that model hit the market hard to take away individual rights and give those rights to the companies. I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone on HN that those long “Click to Agree” documents are almost all licenses but there are people out there that don’t know that there was a time those didn’t exist and tangibly owning things was a core value of western culture.
Do caffeinate next!

That reminds me, I have a half-written implementation here:

https://github.com/AustinWise/caffeinate
Well you see, adding the name of a consumer device to a list of prohibited items is easy and costs nearly nothing. On the other hand, unfucking inter-jurisdiction cooperation and rooting out organized crime from the ports is hard.

See also:

- banning various types of (previously) legal firearms vs cracking down on illicit handguns being smuggled in over the border from the US

- banning purchase of property by foreign owners vs addressing supply

- banning single use plastics vs buying a goddamn oil pipeline for billions of dollars rather than cutting oil extraction subsidies

etc. etc.
This benchmark is really an esoteric performance comparison, because the AWS SDK isn’t monolithic anymore and you can only include the packages you need (assuming you aren’t using a minifier and tree shaker to reduce the parsed code anyway). It was only a monolithic library back in v1 and they’re on v3 now. For most use cases, you only need to load a small subset of the AWS SDK. I have certainly written node lambdas with only a few hundred ms coldstarts using multiple aws SDK libraries bundled in (secrets manager, dynamo, s3, parameter store…)
I just opened Facebook.com and it took more then 10 seconds time to first content paint, and it isn't because of slow internet. I've worked on more than one FAANG external user facing site fixing stuff to get median initial page latency to be below 5 seconds, so I think your "this will take _seconds_" emphasis is kind of funny.

Internal business crud apps often take multiple seconds on every click. Even a minute for an employee to start an app that is then snappy would be acceptable for practically any internal business usecase if they can just leave the tab open, and there's no technology reason why python wasm interpreters would need to be that slow.
And yet, cannabis is legal.
I disagree. Deeply interested in the idea of biology but not interested enough to work on biology puts you firmly out of the Spinoza category.
If I'm interpreting it right, no, it's not the same argument. It sounds like she said she basically checks if it's been talked about in Science besides as an existing paper. Seems reasonably for a publication to consider it's own standards of publishing as good enough.

Science reporters are probably, hopefully, scientifically literate.
You're confusing addictive websites and social media as one and the same? They're not.

Hacker news isn't social media. Facebook and Twitter are. It's pretty easy to see why.
That's still MASSIVELY more complex than "Next -> Next -> Next -> Done"
Forgot to mention Shopify as well

https://shopify.engineering/javascript-in-webassembly-for-sh...

And Bun of course :)
The author does not own Petal Pro nor is he affiliated with it in any way.
When the hardware crashes (or before battery depletion) a warning pops up stating `30 seconds before shutdown` while passing through virtualized surroundings.
damn, the world really is small
When the competition is called "ChatGPT", maybe the naming isn't as important to normal people as we think?
Side note that I've always found interesting: sudo is almost entirely maintained by one dude: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors
Unless the tool is absurdly priced, this is a great deal for Lowes.

You get good will for your brand, and a person who is very happy in your store at that moment.

Simply Brilliant.
This war never took place but that the story was passed down to future generations implies that the narrative has a deeper meaning or intent. There has been plenty of pontification on Numbers 31 over the millennia!
Good job government *facepalm*
The social in "social media" doesn't mean discussion. It means sharing personal media and creating bonds with people. i.e. socialising. Hacker news has no means to do so.
This really goes to show that no matter how legitimate a viewpoint (Microsoft is into EEE), there are always people looking to pretty unintelligently bandwagon.

Yes, we know. Internet Explorer, yada yada. Beyond the ridiculousness of the notion of sudo specifically being a target for MS, the notion that MS, or any company of its size, is THAT single-minded, is absurd.
Let this be a lesson to people who never put up a fight over things like DRM, privacy, etc.

Once you give up control, you never get it back.

Sony is deleting things you paid for fair and square and there is nothing you can do about it.
It's not chaos that the current court thrives on, it's corruption, grift, and baldfaced power grabs.
fwiw Python also has pattern matching: https://benhoyt.com/writings/python-pattern-matching/
I took a Scheme programming class where we did tons of stuff with continuations. I got obsessed and wrote all kinds of weird code. I even started using continuation passing style in Python. It was a dark time. Looking back, none of that code makes any sense at all.

When I think back to my days of mucking around with call/cc my main emotion is relief that I’ve forgotten how it works. It’s a load off my mind
pixel is super easy for me to understand at least, and has been consistent for like, forever. 6 is the "standard" model, 6 pro is an upgraded model and the 6a is the budget model. including the fold in this argument is irrelevant as its an entirely different product.
The article claims that Seattle is strictly North/South/East/West, which is incorrect. The downtown area (the oldest part of town) has 3 different grids, one is NSEW, and the other two are at angles near 45 degrees.

I don't know how much of the other claims of this article can be trusted.
> General rule is that mortgage shouldn't exceed 30% post-tax

This is where you went wrong. 30% rule is pre-tax (gross income):
https://www.chase.com/personal/banking/education/budgeting-s...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/always-use-the-30-30-3-rule-...
Joyriding still deprives the owner of his property, even if temporarily.

Piracy is more like retelling someone a book you've read than joyriding.
They try but people in Sydney keep rotating it back.
Yes. Heavens forfend if they had to do the job they asked to be elected to do.

In short, good. How many here can even map the entire list of all the agencies and corresponding rules, recommendations, and guidance that has the weight of law.

<< It will cause chaos and disaster if congress has to make regulations for every little thing.

Free people pull in all sorts of directions. Its going to be ok.
> The question the turning test was posed to solve is when does a sufficiently smart computer become sapient.

Yes, but it's a test for humans to interpret and judge. What kind of nonsense is it to think it should be used for an animal? A possibly sentient computer is going to be programmed to communicate in one of the human languages for obvious reasons, and animals don't have that luxury. I can't see why you would think a Turing test would be relevant to a discussion of animal sapience at all.

> What on earth is your "standard" definition of sapience?

Whatever Merriam-Webster or Oxford give.
If you'd like to use sudo, it's available in Linux.
this doesn’t track with my experience. every time i’ve posted an elixir job we had at least a couple dozen qualified, experienced candidates and a fairly diverse applicant pool.

you just have to post where they are. i strongly recommend the newsletters, the jobs channel on the elixir slack, and elixirforums. all great resources.
Does Altman want to build specialized AI chips?

Can he compete against Nvidia?
After long 40+ years Windows has caught up.
You can also boot the normal installer, hit Shift+F10, run regedit, and set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig\BypassTPMCheck to 1.
Quartz – PKM Oriented SSG for Markdown
I think it's a threat response. When you enter a different area your mind spikes for a moment as you (un)consciously scan around, and whatever thought you were tenuously holding is in jeopardy of getting pushed out. Watch a cat or dog, particularly those that spend a lot of time outdoors and don't take the world for granted; when a door is opened for them they'll step in, stop dead, look around, sniff the air, listen, and then get on with their business. Evolutionary wiring.
Blizzard Voice Effects Artist on why they left Blizzard
Lack of installable PWA support is squarely on Firefox. At this point, I think they're the only remotely major browser that doesn't have it.

And yes, there is an extension for that. Which is unofficial, requires you to do hacky things (such as installing a whole separate Firefox runtime), and still doesn't fully support things like notifications.
>I recently bought a new (cheap) TV that runs Google TV. On day 1 the interface is laggy and bogged down with piles of shit upon shit that I don't want.

I got one of these too. It's fantastic: I love it! Well, compared to the competition anyway. The reason is simple: GoogleTV is Android, so you can install Android apps on it. Specifically, you can install SmartTubeNext, a FOSS YouTube viewer that blocks ads and includes SponsorBlock. You can also install Jellyfin to have streaming access to any media on your PC or other server.
They ask themselves the difficult question for every anime: which character will be voiced by Vic Mignogna.
Obligatory Peep Show clip: https://youtu.be/LMFBLJY9eW8?si=8uMPnYH3QH0OV8dp
By your definition Hacker News would be anti-free because NCSA Mosaic 1.0 can't render it. Youtube didn't add anything to block IE6, they simply removed all the non-compliant hacks that barely kept IE6 working as long as it did. IE6 can't render a website of purely standards compliant code. They didn't fake anything. If you went to youtube.com on March 13 2010, the day they deleted the IE6 helper hacks, the videos wouldn't play.
If I remember correctly Thursday was the big one if you've got enough connections to buy and rate. Saturday was an easy one too but rarely gives you enough momentum to stay on the list into the following week.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, we talked about it over drinks so my memory is hazy. I just checked his site and he doesn't mention the service. I think it was a word of mouth thing (maybe because of Amazon ToS?).

Looks like # of sales/hr on that first day is one of the biggest factor (plus Kindle purchases vs paper): https://scribemedia.com/how-to-become-amazon-bestseller/

^not my friend I just got curious
> So why doesn't the government get in and break apart that monopoly that is Chrome, today?

Wake me up when the government finds the gumption to break up any of the monopolies that are begging for it. Google is but one of dozens that should have been broken up before now.
Whats the purpose of UAC then?
The Felix Klein Protocols [pdf]
I'm a private pilot, but I can't think of any flight critical systems that could really be impacted, especially since the Flipper Zero is very low power. I suppose that it could affect cabin systems like on-board purchasing or seatback entertainment. An unlocked android phone has very similar hardware and capabilities.

This is in no way an endorsement of fucking around with one on an airplane, or even off an airplane when used without the consent of the target.
lol no, it was not intended to be a humblebrag.

i’d love to say you were correct, and if it was a tech acquisition you might be right. in our case they were acquiring our customers and goodwill primarily. the app was sunset a year later.
Makes me think of the Google wavenet voices that pre-ceded much of this.

In the interim, this might be an understandable safeguard before elections while a clearer path forward is discovered.

I wonder if this will inspire the film industry with opposition to generative AI
Huly Platform: All-in-One Replacement for Linear/Jira, Slack, Notion
Piracy is frequently more difficult, yet better quality. Let's face it: using torrent search sites and dealing with a BT client isn't as easy for your grandmother as just using the built-in Netflix app on her TV.
If only the russians planned some mission to mimas, we'd have a budget in days.
I think that's the problem is that it's different on a case by case basis.

For example, a book I bought for Kindle on Amazon was recently taken off the store. But I am still able to download and access the book. It sounds like in this case, it was a locked down streaming situation that's going away because the company is simply merging into Crunchyroll and this is kind of a dangling thing they don't feel like bringing over with them.

I'm not sure what the solution is - you could argue that the people who bought the physical media did so with the expectation of being able to also stream it digitally. But it's not like Funimation has the ability to just be like "Here's the video file, go ahead and download it" - even if they had the will to do so they likely don't have the legal ability. But they do retain access to a physical copy and of course, could just rip it. I think there is copy protection for DVDs and Blurays but that's long since been cracked. Not ideal from a legal/consumer rights perspective, but from a pragrmatic perspective it's the easiest solution (actually easiest would just be pirating an existing rip online likely.)
yep, you’re absolutely correct on this point. there were technical reasons why i undertook the effort and why i chose elixir, but the truth is that the correct business decision would have been to keep going on our original stack.
>If anything I think the expectation with digital files is that yes, of course I will still have my same MP3s from 20 years ago, ripped from CDs I own, in another 30 years.

Remember to re-rip as lossless (e.g. flac) while you still have those CDs.
https://archive.ph/VO8iY
The term "mainframe" has never included Vax's. Not sure why you're trying add it now. ;)
Try having a conversation with one of them after the dance by learning admiringly about their life.
Gemini as a zodiac sign: "Smart, passionate, and dynamic, Gemini is characterized by the Twins, Castor and Pollux, and is known for having two different sides they can display to the world. Expert communicators, Gemini is the chameleon of the Zodiac"

Which is pretty on the nose for an AI project. A chameleon with two different sides (good/evil?) and expert communicator
If AI is smart enough to take my job, AI is smart enough to radically alter society, and I have something like UBI and/or much bigger things to worry about.

Imagine the uproar if the majority of the white-collar workforce suddenly has their livelihoods at risk, including many in the upper-levels. Possibly even some CEOs, if all a richer CEO needs to create a competing product is to pour money into a code generator and wait <6 months. When small groups are affected nothing happens, but we're talking a sizeable percent of the population in nearly every field, nearly everywhere.

Also, does this AI run orders of magnitude faster and more efficiently than a human like GPT4? Can it precisely and effectively control robots that perform manual labor? Can it control adaptive military equipment? White-collar disruption, huge on its own, would pale in comparison to the impact of any of these.
As another commenter mentions it's seemingly the same phenomenon as why 'memory palaces' work for memorizing arbitrary things (among other similarly effective mnemonics) and this article suggests something similar is also occurring unconsciously for random thoughts and gets disrupted by such actions.

Such spacial-based memory triggers I've also seen demonstrated by magician/skeptic Derren Brown, where recall of the participant is manipulated via location-based touch or gestures (both for remembering and forgetting things).
Public shaming: it's one of the few avenues that work against the likes of AWS.
>Craftsman owes me a torque wrench; they promised a lifetime warranty.

Did they? I have two Craftsman torque wrenches from the 1990s when they had lifetime warranties on tools, but as I remember, the torque wrenches were specifically exempted from this.

A better example would be a Craftsman socket wrench.
The ones I've seen are like a987dfc429be@icloud.com.

Same with Private Relay: here's one of mine (with one character changed) - 2he5rs923s@privaterelay.appleid.com
Cycle of frameworks:

Young dev: it is way too complicated to do something as simple as a todo or hello world app. You have to configure a dozen settings, install 10,000 dependencies and fiddle with too much stuff. I'm going to create a framework that is simple, lightweight and easy to use.

Time passes, framework becomes popular blogs write about how framework X is the future. If you don't have 10 years in framework X you can't get a job. People start using it for things features get added to accommodate needs. People argue saying it's necessary it fits the demand. Framework X becomes a gigantic bloated monstrosity, development slows as useless bureaucratic leeches posing as developers create a "foundation" to "shepherd Framework X towards a bright future." At this point usually the creator leaves or is driven out.

A young developer comes along and says to himself "it is way too complicated to do something as simple as a todo or hello world app. You have to configure a dozen settings, install 10,000 dependencies and fiddle with too much stuff. I'm going to create a framework that is simple, lightweight and easy to use."

The Wheel of Development turns, and frameworks come and pass, leaving defaults that become best practices. Best practices fades to srandards, and even standards is long forgotten when the problem that gave it birth comes again.”
> you can use it directly

Because of a poor design choice in an otherwise well designed platform (at least in the case of Deno).
yeah in this case it was a ruby/rails/react/angular frankenapp that was very much guided by a big ball of mud pattern.
Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft in 2014, since then MSFT share price has 10x'ed, from $300Bn to $3.3Tn, making it the most valuable company in the world. He turned it around from a 30% drop in value under Steve Ballmer. Global cloud marketshare has Amazon AWS at 31% and dropping down from 34%, Microsoft Azure at 24% and climbing and Google GCP at 11%. Microsoft has transformed their business offering from "Office in your datacenter" to cloud-backed Office apps accessible from any device, Office apps in a browser, in Teams. Microsoft took Teams from 20M users in November 2019 to 1.4Bn users in October 2022, used by 91 of the Fortune 100. Microsoft got the jump on Google with OpenAI and integrated it promptly into Bing, Edge and M365 offerings.

If that isn't company leadership worth paying for, nothing is.

> "Hey, at least Firefox stayed in the game"

Not according to other people in this thread:

- "As a test professional at the time, one of the most discouraging things I saw after leaving Mozilla was Firefox dropping off all the test plans I knew about when [FireFox market share] hit single digits. I’d poke at that decision where I had influence, and would basically get back a response that “Firefox is dead, just look at the numbers.”" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39309843

- "At the last company I started, a b2b saas, as of 5 years in, there were under 10 logged-in pageviews from Firefox. Ever. It's dead; the coyote is 50 feet past the cliff; and we're just waiting for gravity to appear." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39309564

(and I'm typing this from FireFox, although on my work machine I'm moving to Edge because it's good. Click a link in Outlook, the link opens with Edge and the sidebar opens with web Outlook open showing the email I clicked on to reference, for one example. Vertical tabs for another, I stopped running TreeStyle Tabs in FireFox years ago, though I no longer remember why).
UAC still isn't a security boundary, but rather a defense-in-depth measure.
>Do LLMs have logical rules built in?

Handcrafted by humans ? No

But it's still possible to learn such rules from the data in an effort to complete the primary objective (predicting the next token)
In how many instances though? This sounds like premature optimising. We are not all Stripe; many companies making millions, but not billions, would have an easier life without doing more work or paying a fortune to niche saas companies for these type of things.
A few years ago I started buying old second hand CDs for as low as a few cent a piece. I rip all in flac. I have 10TB of music.

Yes it is not the latest album and it is some work to rip and organize, but I think it makes me enjoy the music more.
> Nobody does what you describe.

Counterpoint: I've never heard anyone do what you describe. Therefore no one does it, even though you've just described to me who does.

What exactly is the threat in using a local admin account? I can't think of anything you could do that wouldn't show a UAC prompt. The entire point and purpose of UAC was to prevent malicious elevation without the user's knowledge. I'm really not sure what you accomplish by adding a password to UAC prompt the user wouldn't have read either way. The end result is the same.
Another tidbit about Melbourne (I'm a fan): while most of greater Melbourne orients ~8 degrees clockwise of true north, the Hoddle Grid right in the middle and South Melbourne instead orient ~20 degrees counterclockwise of true north, in order to align with the adjacent stretch of the Yarra River.

Naturally, as a lifelong resident, I lean 8 degrees to the right when reading any map.
I think their point is in physical space, dozens to maybe thousands of people (if there's a lot of people around you, I guess?) can easily interrupt you at any given moment. With phones and things like Slack, hypothetically anyone near a phone can interrupt you if you're near your phone. Which people usually keep near them.

I would say depending on how bad someone has it they could get 1 to 3 spam calls a day, I assume if someone was getting consistently more than that they'd use a screener to lower it. That's a significant amount.
my market was exactly this; tied to the start of the semester, if i missed shipping a feature my next shot at getting it used in production was months away. and basically if we missed the fall season it might as well have not even happened.
> There is nothing wrong with locking knives.

I'm fine with them.

> Stop trying to justify this ridiculousness.

I haven't tried to.
Yeah totally! Just not my preference.
> I can leave my food in the oven too long and I will not be surprised to find that it is burnt, but I will definitely be disappointment that I ruined my meal.

Wading deep into the philosophical weeds here, my instinct is saying that's not an apples-to-apples scenario, because each term is being used in connection to different sets of events. For example, "when I realized my alarm hadn't gone off" versus "when I got home and opened the oven door."

Perhaps the easiest way to illustrate that is to imagine the opposite scenario, where all discoveries and all self-analysis occur at the same moment in time:

1. You ask someone else to bake a pie, let it cool, and deliver the result to you later in the day.

2. A few hours later, an opaque and airtight box arrives, on time. (No clues, no warnings.) You still anticipate it contains your favorite pie.

3. You open the box to discover a blackened stinky mess!

4. At this moment you are experience both surprise (in general) and also a specific sub-type of surprise which is disappointed surprise.