skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are way overthinking this to your detriment.

Do something like this: https://christitus.com/windows-11-perfect-install/

And avoid too many registry tweaks or other unsupported hacks as they will likely break security updates or the Windows system itself.

If you need containers, Docker Desktop + WSL works great.

Or run Linux and use Windows in a virtual machine for the specific things you need Windows for.
I am starting to feel like Python is becoming C++

I looked up PEP 695 mentioned in another comment.

What do you think?
I also like to do this, and I think it's absolutely wonderful for having a conversation. I've never seen a downside to this and I've never had anyone who didn't have something they wanted to share.
I was taught typing on electric typewriters in junior high, and yes 2 spaces after a period.

Which is strange, because my first typing experience was on Apple IIe's in grade school. I don't recall any typing instruction back then, so probably my double space habit comes from the electric typewriter instruction.
It's unclear why the researchers believe that when a dog doesn't learn the names of a bunch of toys it means that they can't.

There are lots of things people are able to learn today that they "couldn't" a few years ago (programming, math, reading). How are the researchers able to tell that the limitation lies with the dog and not with the trainer/household?
A few people mentioned they miss his writing, so i thought it was worth pointing out he still writes occasionally: https://dvorak.substack.com/ though it's less technology focused..
Stress is good for canabis plant, however, I agree with you that growing quality pest free weed requires daily attention.
I have grown extremely strong weed before the Canadian legalization and the method I used to maximize thc production consists of constantly stressing the plant. It was a combination of topping¹, super-cropping² and stem splitting³.

1- During the vegetative phase cut the top of the plant, wait a few weeks and repeat.

2- https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-bigger-cannabis-yields-...

3- https://herbiesheadshop.com/blog/cannabis-stem-splitting-all...
they spent those 3 years redesigning the UI 20 times.
I use cast iron almost exclusively (the exception being enameled cast iron). Linseed oil (not boiled linseed oil, which has toxic additives!) makes for a great low stick surface if you are willing to put in the time. Add a thin layer, bake it to the smoke point and repeat. Lasts a long time and makes cleanup and frying eggs much easier.
I have money please..
Thank you! 30 days has indeed felt like an accomplishment, and I'm looking forward to getting through the rest of this.

I've done a significant amount of processing and have a good therapist now, which has helped me deal with the sleep somewhat. New tools and new habits make a big difference.
In an open market of ideas, critiques should always be welcome. Pigeonholing critiques of capitalism as automatic support for "socialism" is the opposite. Capitalism is basically a first step towards sanity, not some panacea.

For example, you go on to bemoan authoritarianism. But a corporation is an authoritarian structure, and your critique most certainly applies. The redeeming bits are that they're generally smaller scale than a country, and that there is often a higher level power structure that can moderate its worst incentives. But the same obtuse aloofness/politicking/groupthink do apply, as caricatured by the linked post.
the dates are vague, while the point remains, because trying to remember things clearer i did livecoding at toplap in brooklyn 2004-2005, and i wasn't a pioneer. but also i'm talking artistic trends, something could've happened prior to it becoming part of bigger whole, but then evolved as part of the whole that it itself has brought about.
Thank you! Great games! Super nice execution! I love it!
Lithium in smaller UPS is mostly stuck in a marketing gap at the moment.

Generally lithium UPS win in a 10-year TCO, but SLA wins in up-front costing. Which leaves us with two issues - most consumers look at the sticker price not the TCO, and no-one wants to market their products as "Our lead acid offer only /looks/ cheap, until you see what we charge you for consumables!"
The problem isn't the bank verifying that the USB stick is clean; the problem is that the bank is distributing info in the exact same way that APTs would try to compromise an important target.

Hyperbole, but it's like a bank employee calling you from an unknown number and asking for your email password so they can make sure their communications about your mortgage application don't go to the spam folder.
If a dog can learn 100 toys, then they can learn 52 cards, and maybe play some poker.
Thats the PSAT and is not used for any college admissions that I'm aware of
Memorizing 100 names for things might seem like a big deal, but I guarantee that all dogs have memory for 100+ smells associated with things. They would call us stupid for not being able to remember the smell of more than a few dozen objects. My point: don't judge intelligence based on how well an animal can replicate human behavior. Each of them can do things that make us look like the idiots.
This guy got famous for doing just that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

I think he even broke up with his girlfriend through letters in which he pretended to be someone else (if I remember correctly).
For me, the biggest difference between print and ebooks are:

- I just won't carry around some door-stopper printed books, so I am less likely to read them in printed editions.

- So much of what I want to read isn't in print anymore.

I am in the habit of writing in the margins of print editions as I read, but I haven't started doing this for ebooks. One sometimes remembers the place on the page and page in the book, the smell, the tactile experience, but I can't regard these as real criticisms of ebooks or true benefits of printed editions.

In my experience, having a digital copy of the book is, often enough, the difference between reading it and not reading it.
For reference, 192kbps mp3 is considered "transparent" for most people. 320kbps mp3 is considered by many experts to be essentially indistinguishable from lossless in most cases.

AAC is a more advanced codec than mp3. An AAC file with the same bitrate as an MP3 file will have higher quality audio (that is, closer to the original). Depending on the type of audio being encoded, you might be getting double digit percentage improvements [0] in quality over mp3. So the "very high" quality setting on Spotify is indeed very, very high quality.

[0] Which is to say, AAC produces files 10%+ smaller than MP3 for equivalent fidelity
i went and googled the link. Here is the link for those wondering

https://www.noagendashow.net/
Whenever I run a training session on the history of ML people are shocked to learn when the maths were first developed for things that are reported as new on TechCrunch.
The software is open source. The hardware is proprietary and protected by patents.
I know a lot of people chide Google for being behind OpenAI in their commercial offerings. We also dunk on them for the over-protective nature of their fine-tuning.

But Google is scarily capable on the LLM front and we shouldn't count them out. OpenAI might have the advantage of being quick to move, but when the juggernaut gets passed its resting inertia and starts to gain momentum it is going to leave an impression.

That became clear to me after watching the recent Jeff Dean video [1] which was posted a few days ago. The depth of institutional knowledge that is going to be unlocked inside Google is actually frightening for me to consider.

I hope the continued competition on the open source front, which we can really thank Facebook and Llama for, keeps these behemoths sharing. As OpenAI moves further from its original mission into capitalizing on its technological lead, we have to remember why the original vision they had is important.

So thank you, Google, for this.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCRZkSQ1CE&ab_channel=RiceK...
I bought insurance online. Some days later I got a super dodgy email telling me I should sign up for an online portal.
The link was a mess and linked to a different insurance provider.

I called my provider.
Turns out the actual insurance is handled by a sub-provider that works for a different (major) insurance... WTF
Yeah I'm specifically interested in this because I'm in a lot of local telegram groups which I have no patience to catch up on every day. I'd love to have ChatGPT summarise it for me based on a list of topics I care about.

Sadly the cost of GPT-4 (even turbo) tends to balloon for this usecase. And GPT-3.5-turbo while much cheaper and more than accurate enough, has a context window that's too shallow.

I wonder if Telegram will add this kind of feature also for premium users (which I also subscribe to) but I imagine it won't work at the current pricing levels. But it would be nice not having to build it myself.
Genuine question, if you are satoshi and not insanely media shy, what would be a real concern for not divulging your identity in 2024?

You are rich enough to manage any security, tax or legal hits that you need to manage.

Furthermore due to BTC being completely mainstreamed, the credit you will get for inventing btc would be epic.

The least of it would be noble prize in economics. You will literally be a living cult leader like no other in history. Think of all those BTC fanatics finally meeting their leader. See the way Elon fanatics follow Musk and multiply that by 100.
Sure, and React is the best way to show a message in response to an input in a web form, right?

Let me tell you some news, they just launched an integration of this new HTML <form> thing with javascript, so you can have JS listening to inputs and displaying information anywhere on the page. Cool, isn't it?

Ah, but the sad part, again, is you don't get to download an unnecessary library for that. It comes baked and activated into all browsers by default. It doesn't make your resume shine, either...
"26.8% fewer search steps than standard A∗ search"

So, slightly better than A* which is far from SOTA on Sokoban (https://festival-solver.site/).

What is impressive in this paper? Why is this on Hacker News?
I used to think so too, but the case for Len Sassaman is similarly strong.
> but I will appreciate it if you could share the link with startups struggling to grow and/or micro-SaaS products.

Why not use your own product?
Canadian Government paid $60M for one app
Recology Trash Service Still Disrupted 3 Months After Hack
The HN post title appears to be one of those "thing is equal to itself" statements, but the article has a lot more nuance.
The value of his publicly-known wallets are well into the tens of billions. Yet Nakamoto has not cashed out.
anything with kernel level anti cheat is a non starter unfortunately...that being said games shouldn't be doing that anyway
I got a chance to talk to one of his aides once and I learned something interesting. One of the differences of Wyden is simply in the number of aides he has. The aides are experts in a particular domain and play a significant role in Wyden's decision making. So they said one of the big problems (this was his CS aide) is that most senators don't have an expert(s) who are well informed on tech and such so they are not even able to make informed decisions. It was just an interesting part of the process I didn't know too much about before.
I heard that Satoshi was Hal Finney (from a good friend of Hal's). Looking at his personal site, guess how many spaces there are after a period:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney...
It’s baffling. When APC first added native USB support to their Smart-UPS series, they chose a standard USB-B port. When they introduced “SmartConnect” a few years ago, this port was replaced by a USB-A port which requires a non-compliant USB-A male-to-male cable for monitoring. The only ‘good’ reason I can think of for this change is that someone realised that these new cloud-connected UPSes would be easily bricked by some bad firmware update (since apparently that’s a feature now), and wanted to use USB thumb drives as a recovery mechanism, but I have no idea. I think even though they have a built-in Ethernet port now, one still needs to buy their network management card for non-cloud remote management, so it could just as easily be another attempt at some weird vendor lock-in.
The story claims $100K to hack an X account and a $200K-something package to hack a bunch of other social media.
> Rainbow vacuum cleaner

There was a wave of this in 90s and 00s but in Poland. In my eyes parents signed a loan for "Mercedes of vaccum cleaners" for an amount of over 2k USD. Average salary back then was something below 700 USD. Fuck this American scammers. Eat shit and bankrupt Rainbow. Rest of the above were occuring as well. People were looking at the west with hope and sympathy, while the west came over with smiling brutal extortionist rape fest.
Thank you for the kind words! I think it’s mostly to reduce complexity during training. Here’s an excerpt from page 9 of the Mamba paper:

“We remark that while the A parameter could also be selective, it ultimately affects the model only through its interaction with ∆ via A = exp(∆A) (the discretization (4)). Thus selectivity in ∆ is enough to ensure selectivity in (A, B), and is the main source of improvement. We hypothesize that making A selective in addition to (or instead of) ∆ would have similar performance, and leave it out for simplicity.”
I've seen a few videos on YouTube of cats trained on these push-down language buttons, mounted in a hexagonal pattern, on a mat laying on the floor. The cats press a button and the button plays back a word which the owner has recorded.

I'd like to see more testing out of it but the cats seem to be rather expressive. They pick the same button, so at least they are consistent in their wants. They have a few verbs in the mix, it seems, not just nouns.

I wonder how dogs would do on these buttons.
Firefox on Linux because touch-pad gestures for forward and back navigation don't work on Chromium browsers and also Firefox gives me a nice vertical tab setup with Tab Center Reborn + custom userChrome.css

A tip I found recently in about:config

browser.compact.show=true to bring back the compact layout option, results in very good use of space on laptop along with vertical tabs and also Firefox allows the vertical tabs to be moved to right side which is nice.
Totally. The second I experienced totality, I instantly understood how it would have been a religious, cosmic experience for early humans who didn't have a scientific understanding of what's going on.

Imagine just going about your day as normal and all of a sudden the sun does that.
That’s the whole statement right there and it’s akin to many other linked but unflagged X posts: brief and without much context. If you want to see the context, you start digging. That’s how this stuff works, not only for my link.

But I see, now it’s not the paywall anymore, now it’s something else entirely.
I'm following up here just because of your comment. I've thought about this often but I've run into a few problems:

1) This tier of work is roundly invisible to almost everyone in the field. Many in the field are so confident in their knowledge of 'how things work.' that they simply can't accept the real 'in the room' realities of whats going on. Often engineers most of all, who are often deceived by their executives on the real goals. Are you and eng? Have you ever had that feeling of being gaslit by your VP? Yea you probably were, and you didn't know why.

2) Even at that level, I had a limited picture and a good extrapolation of what was going on in other rooms, but nothing I can say fully factually

3) No one wants to know. People love the just-so stories of these companies and really genuinely seem to get hurt/be in denial when they are faced with the reality that they are made up of ultra-selfish, shark like people with very little invested in the consumer, the company, or really anyone else. It's a game played to win for personal satisfaction. I've found that most people, simply cannot accept this.
There's a reason why infosec is hard and why there's a hiring shortage.
id.me

Still can't believe it

Best hope the government of Macedonia remains friendly I guess
I wanted to respond to this because there's some truth to it. However, I think the mechanism of action is more layered and the outcomes varied so that both can be true.

So, yes, there are a lot of new video games because it's easy. It's also true that the most aggressively marketed and therefore quite popular games are bad. Mobile games now make up over half of the gaming revenue. This is a problem not of volume but of incentive. These popular games have created a cycle of [heavy monetization > more ads > more popularity]. They exploit people. This is a problem but a different kind of problem.

On the other hand, the indie games on steam have never been better. They're extremely creative, and fun, and they invent. They riff off each other. And most new things in gaming come first from here. The only thing not healthy about it is the lack of money they make. These games are so cheap that they have a hard time paying the developer's rent.

Platforms and cynical games with better marketing and monetization have stolen their lunch and poisoned their audiences.

The point is that bringing down the barrier of creation did allow much better creations. However, marketing and exploitation ruined a lot.

I won't go into it as deeply, but you can imagine the same pattern played out everywhere else.

YouTube has great content and would have more if it was more discoverable. It's hard to find because the algorithm made for maximizing marketing dollars suggests things that we don't tell the algorithm we want but what the algorithm thinks will keep us watching. It resists helping us. Because marketing money.

With these new generative models, we can imagine decreasing money needed to create but we will all compete for the same finite source of attention. Like with games, the good stuff will still be there, but it might be hard to find.

A positive sum game (creation) turns into a zero-sum game (attention auctions) with negative externalities (ragebait, mobile game addiction).

Those that control who gets attention will be able to soak up all the gains from the positive sum game. It's already been happening with app stores and google ads. And there's no reason it shouldn't soak up all the margin gains.

The enemy is not bringing down barriers - that's the good stuff. It's reining in marketing and attention platforms so that we can all benefit from these creations instead the benefits being greatly attenuated and, in some cases, made negative but the attention gatekeepers.
I'd love to see this be usable as potentially a mower and or vacuum/mop with different swappable components.
Yeah good point. Guess they are just doubling down on young people staying down bad.
> “After years of tech workers being pampered, of ‘bring your whole selves to work’ and ‘work from anywhere,’ executives are now overcompensating in the other direction,” he says.

> “Tech industry job interviews have, of late, reached a new level of absurdity.”

This is funny. I wonder if with lay offs a whole bunch of people are finally realizing how abusive the tech interview is. Ive done 3 job searches and each one has been horrible, leaving me multiple times considering switching careers.

The one I just finished at the end of last year didnt feel any different process or expectation wise as the one I did 6 years ago. The only difference was it felt like there were less openings and more competition. But the actual interview it self was the same, just as horrible as it has been.

I used to give interviews for a team I got promoted multiple times with, I couldn't pass the interview they were having me give. They didn't change it though.

> Another worker complained on Blind that preparing for LeetCode questions requires “hundreds of hours” of preparation: “Why are we expected to do the coding Olympics for every company that wants to interview you?”

Cracking the coding interview came out in 2008. 14 years ago, none of this is new.
As someone with dysgraphia (more info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia), I often find the discussion about handwriting both amusing and sometimes disheartening. I understand that handwriting may help some people learn better, but I have found many other effective learning methods. It was liberating when I first managed to get my school teacher to accept printed homework. I'm not keen on articles that label handwriting as the "best" method, mainly because I believe there are many other equally valid approaches.
Maybe I think that the user experience of Git sucks balls and have no desire to learn it at any level beyond the bare minimum. Maybe I use better systems like Mercurial or Perforce or anything designed more recently than the last 20 years. Maybe I think that Github is a pox upon the planet and their promulgation of the One True Workflow(tm) (pull requests) is an abomination brought about by technical architecture limitations of Github.

I use Git only because other people force me to use Git. Otherwise, I use something better.
Worked there, never had the time to touch OSS
I thought it was funny the references to scammy mail order colleges. Little has changed since the 30s.
I was at Nvidia's GTC conference in 2010 and my friend who was with me suggested that we should buy Nvidia stock. I was sceptical as I felt it was highly likely that Intel, which had so many more resources, would soon release a superior product, and so didn't invest.
But people are not asking Apple to install their apps for them on their own iPhone. People are only asking Apple to stop preventing them from installing apps. After you pay for the iPhone, it is yours, after you leave the physical Apple Store you are not in their store any more.

If McDonalds sent someone to my house with me after I purchase a Big Mac, and tried to stop me when I wanted to put some of my own condiments in it, I would find this creepy and controlling behavior very weird.
Hal's personal site has two spaces after a period.
It is still available.
Can't we send the AI to meetings instead?
This highlights why it's so important that any secret that gets committed must be rotated. Simply removing it from the git history isn't enough, because it can still linger, it's just harder to find.
How do you power a PC off this setup? Mine has a C14 inlet.
If it makes you feel better, the Rainbow and the Vector get lots of non-immigrants, too.

And some people swear by the Rainbows because of the water feature.
Exactly why I flagged. I am interested in hearing the story, not the teaser to the story.
You know, though I am not sure of how well-known it is outside of tech circles.

I agree with the second point. Facial recognition for demographic stats seems kinda reasonable if it's anonymised properly, but people don't like their photo being taken without knowledge of it.
I'm pretty sure you mean aide, not aid.
I'm assuming you mean learning how to program as a profession, but it's a difficult question to answer. It relies on so many factors, both in terms of the "market" you're in, as well as who you are as a person. Based on the average person that tries to become a professional programmer vs the average person that tries to become a professional poker player, I'd say it's considerably more realistic to become a professional programmer.

But again, if you want to find out just play the game and see how you do. Find stakes you can beat and try to move up.
After I leave the McDonalds "store" with a Big Mac, I can have their food with outside food/drinks. After I leave the Apple Store with an iPhone, I cannot use my phone with outside apps.