skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abandon POSIX and use the filesystem over userspace
I'd look into a document scanner for ease of use. They even have ones that auto loads, so no more waiting around. With that said, if you purchase a scanner, it probably already has proprietary OCR, and they have auto feeding ones for many documents. I foolishly bought one not knowing auto feeding was an option.
https://youtu.be/fi0ZhTFaW7w
I bought a brother 2 sided one since it had Linux drivers.
Technically FirefoxOS is still around: https://www.kaiostech.com/ . It's now an OS for feature phones. It's no longer owned by Mozilla but they did have a lasting impact, that's what I mean. And many of their throwaway projects have gone that way. For example Firefox VR browser is now Wolvic. https://wolvic.com/en/ . It's the great thing about open source, the work is not lost.

But Mozilla had no chance in the real smartphone market. If Microsoft couldn't manage to attract developers with their billions and dedicated hardware, Firefox supplying only the OS and no hardware just had zero chance to make it mainstream. It would have been relegated to the same position as Sailfish: A cool curiosity but not interesting enough for anyone but some hobbyists to develop for.

I don't think it was a bad idea trying: At that time the duopoly in the smartphone market was not as firmly established and there were other open projects like Ubuntu as well. They might have attracted a huge party like Samsung (after all, they did go for Tizen in the end!) and things might have worked out differently. But the choice to drop it was inevitable at that point.
Ballard wrote quite a variety of works from fairly weird, experimental stuff through books in the basically English world destroyed vein (of which Wyndham was probably the best practitioner).
Europe has an algorithm that, on such intersections, you have to yield to a car on your right-hand side. This works well until there's a car on every leg of the intersection, which is extremely rare (because, on intersections with such levels of traffic, there are road signs explicitly saying which road has to yield to which one).
I use an old version of iTunes on Windows and haven't found anything better, for the following reasons:

1. It has a taskbar player, which is a tiny strip of media controls which sits in your taskbar. AFAIK the only other player to offer this is Windows Media Player.

2. It has the best-looking (for me) GUI with the column browser etc.

3. You can use parental controls to disable all the crap like the store/videos/radio/etc. to make a very minimalist player.

The only problem I have with it is that older versions don't sync correctly with modern devices (iPod, iPhone, etc.) but there are workarounds for this using a virtual machine: https://www.tersetechtips.com/how-to-keep-using-an-old-versi...
> while being sanctioned

Sorry? When did Russia became dependent on the Western steel or explosives?
Long Is More for Alignment: A Simple Baseline for Instruction Fine-Tuning
Abstract: There is a consensus that instruction fine-tuning of LLMs requires high-quality data, but what are they? LIMA (NeurIPS 2023) and AlpaGasus (ICLR 2024) are state-of-the-art methods for selecting such high-quality examples, either via manual curation or using GPT-3.5-Turbo as a quality scorer. We show that the extremely simple baseline of selecting the 1,000 instructions with longest responses from standard datasets can consistently outperform these sophisticated methods according to GPT-4 and PaLM-2 as judges, while remaining competitive on the OpenLLM benchmarks that test factual knowledge. We demonstrate this for several state-of-the-art LLMs (Llama-2-7B, Llama-2-13B, and Mistral-7B) and datasets (Alpaca-52k and Evol-Instruct-70k). In addition, a lightweight refinement of such long instructions can further improve the abilities of the fine-tuned LLMs, and allows us to obtain the 2nd highest-ranked Llama-2-7B-based model on AlpacaEval 2.0 while training on only 1,000 examples and no extra preference data. We also conduct a thorough analysis of our models to ensure that their enhanced performance is not simply due to GPT-4's preference for longer responses, thus ruling out any artificial improvement. In conclusion, our findings suggest that fine-tuning on the longest instructions should be the default baseline for any research on instruction fine-tuning.
It's super frustrating! Someone says, "Something needs to be done about this problem, and X is something, so X needs to be done." Then if you say X will backfire, you're taken as supporting the problem. It's a real rhetoric challenge.
"R" wound up being a terrible name in terms of Google-ability and such, although it can be excused given that it was created in 1993. Csharp and Fsharp have no such excuse, though.
Incidentally, Raspberry Pis are also excellent WireGuard servers!
Complaining about the format of the submission is also against HN guidelines.
Could be easily implemented with windmill i think
Econ 101 explains those counter examples as well: Food has high demand but lots of competition and easy substitution (rice expensive? buy pasta). Housing supply is limited (by location but often artificially via regulation) and substitution is difficult (have to move).
I tried on iPhone, saw all the different apps that aren't Google, then re-read the announcement and saw that I should be able to see it in the Google app. So I load the Google app, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to access Gemini with it. Go online, find a news article with pictures, see that the 'switcher' above the Google logo does not appear for me, and then give up.

I can access it via gemini.google.com and I'm logged in to the iOS Google app as the correct account, no idea why I can't see the functionality on mobile. Oh well. Maybe I'll stick with OpenAI a while longer.
Isn't this what extensions do ? (i.e. uBlock origin)
The only thing required for that is a zip code. In any case, once you choose a location, it can simply save that preference instead of tapping your lat/long coordinates every single time. Just more data to sell to a broker down the line.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-workforce-update
dont see the problem here. you should be happy that your work inspired someone! and you got credit for it!
It's a finite resource that needs to be managed for the common good, and that seems as good a metric as any.
You seem to labor under the delusion that whatever is the current state of the caselaw is always the pinnacle of human moral development and doing anything any part of this vast (also incomprehensible and many times contradictory) array of regulations forbids, or failing to do anything it commands, is an ultimate moral sin because moral is whatever the local magistrate court says it is. I don't think it's the case, no matter how many ways of working the word "fucking" into a sentence you can demonstrate.

> They'd throw you in jail if it didn't cost so much.

They can throw me in jail for liking a tweet or wearing a wrong garment or ingesting a wrong plant. So what?

> You feel fucking guilty and you're ashamed of being an ass hole thief.

Thank you for telling me what I feel. How else would I find out? Please do tell me more about my feelings, I love it when people who know nothing about me still able to figure out everything about what I feel in each particular moment. They must be so smart and perceptive, it's a really enriching experience to interact with such people. My gratitude knows no bounds.
On the flip side, which large tech companies that have have an equally high velocity of shipping do this well?

Amazon?
I've been using GPT-4 to help me understand my MSc mathematics course and I've noticed this sort of stuff more and more as I start to look at the answers, always confidently written, in detail.

Way back when GPT was just fresh on the scene I had terrible anxiety about "what is the point of my whole career or even learning any more" but these days I'm much less concerned. I'll ask it something relatively simple, like "make a sentence out of words 'a', 'b', & 'c'" for it to reply with "'a' 'b' 'd' 'e'" for me to then correct it with "oh, you didn't use c" for it to then respond "sorry, here - 'a', 'c', 'd', 'f'" etc.

Definitely an amazing complimentary tool but when they say "can make mistakes, check important..." that's essential.
Sure, but Pitchfork rated it as 16/100, which is far from "eh, it's alright"
dropping anything goes xul was a large improvement in security. Extensions still have a lot of power.
>I doubt you'd need more than 40-50 to maintain their products

Only if you're certain they will never quit their jobs. In tech where the average tenure is supposedly 2-3 years, a large number of employees are hired to make key persons redundant, groom for succession, and to make sure key persons can offload some bandwidth to work on emergent issues. It's irrational to have billions of dollars of revenue (or even tens of millions) riding on a single person who can decide to walk away with 2 weeks notice.
This employer has a massive network with a bunch of guest networks (it's a hospital chain), so I thought they could just say there was no way to know whether it was employees or not. Of course, IIRC they just paid the ransom and added new restrictions on how employees could manage their work machines.
Demo of AI Accent Localization
Public schooling in the US is done at a very local level, so varies significantly across the country. Where I grew up, the 1 school in your district was required to accept you. However, some of the nearby districts would let you apply to them, and accept people on a case by case basis. For the most part, this let academically strong students go anywhere; but was also used to let families who move stay at the same school (including siblings who were not yet enrolled).

There are also charter school, which are a weird mix between public and private schools, that typically operate on a mix of applications and lotteries. Plus private schools that can enroll pretty much whoever they want.
Congressional budget gridlock leads to NASA JPL layoffs
You're probably right because we've left. I was a Firefox advocate for the longest time. I used Firefox since v3.0, and before that Mozilla and Netscape. I only recently switched over to Brave in the past year or two. I'm doing my part to switch friends and family over too. The only thing Mozilla has accomplished in the past 10 years was releasing Rust, and that was before firing the whole team.
Then it would be called C// or C/*
See this is the problem. You're already several "ah yes and you need to"s deep.
1. Zoning laws limit supply
2. Trickle down economics doesn't
7 years later Firefox still hasn't caught up to 2017 Firefox in functionality. Using ancient versions of Firefox isn't an option, so I switched to Vivaldi.
How Peter Thiel Attacked College Prestige
If that's your main reason have you tried vivaldi?
I'm delighted you enjoyed the piece so much. Honestly, I expected to get 20 views on the whole thing, as I felt like a crazy person researching this area for like 6 months. That collapsed in the belief I probably can't do much to help, at which point I just wanted to get it out there for anyone else in the wilderness.

I did speak to a few missile manufacturers facing the same thing, including DOD's lack of urgency, which I interpret as Congress' lack of urgency. In the nightmare situation of a hot war in the Pacific, that attitude would change on a dime, and I still think Operation Warp Speed is the primary example of how we would respond to direct threats. Similar to COVID, I would much rather deter such a situation with bold action now than wait until we're certain we'll need them, which will cost many more lives.

And I've heard dubious things on Replicator too, but thankfully, smart defense private money is going to truly disruptive dual-use tech that is autonomous, resilient, and ultimately attritable. That combination is the best answer for democratic countries that care about soldiers' lives vs. authoritarians sending human waves.
I mean, it's okay to leave it, (a) it's funny (b) it teaches them a lesson that attempts to track people are futile
I'm an engineer.

I have created some websites.

I have worked at an personalized ad startup (criteo)

I have read on crypto, own some.

Despite it I have exactly ZERO F** IDEA of what privacy means and entails in context to web browsing. Last thing i read was that 'anonymous' stuff were actually not anonymous, and that anyway someone could track you even across IP. And yeah also there's the NSA it knows anything about you anyway.

Could someone ELI5 ?
True! Actually, I have an ancient iPad that I’ve forgotten the pin for. I think I’d need a Mac to reset it. Fortunately the reason I forgot the pin is that I got a laptop and stopped using the iPad as my SSH client as a result, haha, so recovery is not really a pressing issue.
Demand and economic viability. Likely the usual explanation.
Disney is at risk of becoming irrelevant? And people are upvoting this take?

As if all the Disney Adults in the world are just going to snap out of it. As if all the children who love Disney stuff currently are going to grow out of it. In what world is this considered an informative and knowledgable take?

Even at its lowest point financially, Disney IP has never been irrelevant at any point.
I believe you’re thinking of Five Eyes.
I feel like Charles Shaw is an exception to that and cheaper in California?

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/trader-joes-two-buck-chuck-...
There was no IoT pivot. This was just a corporate play to get rid of the FxOS team. Ari got a nice exit package from doing that.
Every place I have worked at has remained seated for the "standup" because it's tiring to stand for that long.

(For those who aren't looped into the irony: the entire reason why it is called a "standup" is because you are supposed to stand up to create subtle pressure against long unnecessary meetings. Sitting down for a stand-up isn't just a quirky paradox of jargon-meets-reality, it is a fundamental rejection of the entire premise while cynically parroting the terminology itself.)
Message him on twitter and ask him to credit you more openly than sticking it in readme at the bottom which most likely is not read by most people. If he doesn't, reply to this twitter post adding your own comment. Legally, he may be ok if MIT license but ethically, he should credit you more than just sneaking in a readme fine print.
I have found remembering that both the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem are dependent on the independent and identically distributed assumption.

As an example, many computing systems are Markovian, which is memoryless with an exponential distribution.

So the second part of I.I.D. doesn't hold. But may be close enough for your needs.
To add to this list, there is also "Principles of Eventual Consistency" [0] for getting down to the mathematical formalisms.

In addition, Lamport's paper "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" [1].

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
PLWNPA seems like it could be pronounced "ploompa" or something.
I was hoping to learn some more of the digferences between VCPI and DPMI.

My limited and probably wrong understanding was: EMM386 provided VCPI, while windows or a dos extender layered DPMI on top of that.

I got the impression VCPI wanted to talk about individual 4K pages, and bigger memory allocations needed a for loop to modify each page individually, hence the multi second startup time of dos extenders: Give me 4k. Give me another 4k. And another 4k. And ...
Apple has been using + way before Disney. Apple care+, iPhone 6 Plus and I’m pretty sure they had another plus product or service in the 2000s or earlier that I’m forgetting right now. Edit: it was the Mac plus from 1986.

I’ve always associated “plus” with Apple, not with Disney.
Diaphragmatic Paradox
My internet connected computers were owned by a business. They were desktops inside my company's building.

However I dug more and I found this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape

> Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998

so either I don't remember well (maybe my company had actually bought some licenses) or nobody was paying no matter what. I remember everybody else and I downloaded Navigator from Netscape's site without having to go through any authorization process.
This is a great recollection. I was in high school in the early 80s, and I took engineering drafting because I wanted to be an engineer. It was all manual drawing lines, lettering, figuring out where to center your thing on the paper, no computers. I wonder when my school switched to CAD - I could have just missed your life story! When I got to college I was a CS major and we didn't have to do CAD or blueprints.
They've had several big box office fails, partially because the Disney+ has been cannibalizing those viewers (why go see it in theaters when I can wait three months and watch it on Disney+ for no additional cost?).

Also they've over saturated the MCU with a million movies and TV shows every year. People have just been burned out on it and they've only recently decided to cut back production on those and be more focused.
That's true, but some people also just like to ramble
> Data Used to Track You : Contact Info & Identifiers

That's email address and a device ID.

> Data Linked to You : Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Search History, Browsing History, Identifiers, Usage Data and Diagnostic

That's purchases made from the app, and info about how you paid for them. The search and browsing history are the search and browsing history from web views within the app. The usage data and diagnostics data are usage and diagnostics for that app.

Putting it all together, what they get are the email you gave them when you made the account, a device ID, location, and they can see whatever you actually do in the app.
You've been lied to... the truth about the Apple Vision Pro [video]
MIT yeah, I should have mentioned. I wasn't trying to say anything illegal was going on.
Because there are specialization that are important. Longer form audio generally requires a more robust set of controls for chapters, audio playback speed, timed skips and resume than a bog standard audio player. Not to mention that a podcast player is going to need functionality for finding new podcasts, displaying information both at a podcast level and individual episode level, providing some kind of way to 'subscribe' and thus download said podcast (for offline listening) or stream it on the fly.

General tools are great and I'm never going to argue that there should not be generalized tools (like say a VLC), but specialized tools are also great and should be encouraged where they make sense. To me the differences between listening to music and listening to audiobooks or podcasts are different.
Because it's an incredibly US-centric POV. Of course public transport will be unsafe if 95% of the population drives, leaving only the marginalized groups to use it.

You won't get beaten with a hammer in your car, you'll just be driven into by a 16yo on his phone or a drunk driver. Neither should be driving in the first place, but there are no viable alternatives to cars, so we've just got to deal with it.
There are few other "Gemeni" around this comment too (from other users).

Gemini means "The Twins", but why such name ?
> "Especially once you recognize patterns across syntaxes"

That's where my original point is - you can't do that until you have internalised (memorised) several syntaxes well enough that they drop down to automatic and you can step back and look at the patterns. If your attention is on Googling for how to write a list, it can't also be on the problem you're trying to solve. If you want to read Rust you're going to have to know what the ' does and what & does and it will be very slow going if you have to google it every time - but I'm not even sure you could google it, if you didn't have enough background to understand the concepts, and still pick it up on the fly. Say a Python programmer trying to google C++ "syntax" without having used anything low level, ever, isn't going to be designing a good C++ solution, at best they will very slowly write Python-in-C++-with-bugs.

Which raises a second point - spend some time in C# world watching people write Java-in-C#, they're both curly brace OOP languages but they are different and the runtimes and libraries and common styles and frameworks are all different. Step out to people learning Prolog and APL and "knowing the syntax" is useless, the ways of thinking and solving problems are very different to mainstream languages. You aren't going to recognise the Prolog pattern `foo(bar, Baz)` because it's not a function call and you can't google "what do the parens do" and make any sense of it being a term with a functor and arity which could be a fact or a goal or a data structure depending on the context. Here, learning/knowing just the syntax isn't sufficient to know the patterns. Or spend time with people coming from Bash to PowerShell and assuming the only difference is syntax, when it isn't.
The solution is simple - don't come back at 1 am, or if you absolutely have to, either move closer to your friends, or come back via a taxi.
iphones dropped in price?
My experience with Instagram Reels and Youtube Shorts and Facebook stories (and all the other things that compete with TikTok) is that it can still get its hooks in, but you have to invite it in. That is, if it doesn't immediately grab you, its not enough to open TikTok and idly doom scroll for 2 minutes. You have to consciously watch for 15 minutes before it starts to alter your brain chemistry.
Or in the US. I get the same "can't create images yet, here's a description ..." message. I asked Google where I am and it had the correct city that is very much in the US.

This is using Gemini Advanced.
True, but you're addressing some of the things I meant when I said US cities have very bad urban design.

The alternative isn't a yield sign, it's a redesigned intersection and likely a roundabout, or much smaller intersection, or similar.
This is a great question. A lot of it I can't quite put my finger on. It just felt off. Which makes it impossible for them to improve since it's not concrete.

I know for a fact one of the things I hated was that I was hoping to get vertical tabs working, but the vertical tab extension I tried at the time felt clunky and only duplicated the tabs in both horizontal and vertical. To disable the horizontal I'd have to edit a custom css file. This all felt very amateur hour. And I think I even went through the effort of doing so and it broke something else in the process (possibly my fault).

Admittedly I don't have a good solution for this even now in my daily driver (Ungoogled Chromium), so it's not a firm "They need to fix this." I think I was just turned off that a solution boiled down to "create a custom config file".
Done already, thanks
> Apple's software won't let you do that…

I believe that's incorrect: https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/transfer-files-itns32...

Also see: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/transfer-music-ipod-computer/
TBH, people routinely overlook the other two factors, supply and underlying cost.

Sometimes increases in demand can both increase supply and decrease cost.
> With this framing you could just as well say neurotypicals lack a theory of mind. Largely we don't do that because there are more neurotypicals than autists.

It's because NTs are the default, and Autism is seen as a (sometimes) harmful deviation that is still being investigated.
Do not like these types of books try all of them. However, Designing Data-Intensive Applications is just fantastic.
I get exactly the same error in Gemini Advanced. And I am very much in the US (and Google seems to understand this, it identifies my location accurately).