skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow related: I used to run both 3.11 and 95 over the same DOS 5 (?) installation. It's a less known fact that, although Windows 95 ran in protected mode, it was started as a DOS real-mode program before switching modes and, when it was run from a DOS command line, it shut down back to the DOS prompt, so I could run both Windows versions without completely rebooting. It was useful because at the time I was programming versions of the same program for both systems.

That means that Windows 3 was compatible with the newer DOS version that came underneath 95. If someone still has the software and wants to test it, IIRC the only thing needed was to edit autoexec.bat and have different directories for every Windows.
The lack of versions means this will die once the original developer decides not to give away bandwidth for updates any longer.
I'm convinced that excellent ICs equal excellent managers. Typically the type that do not want to manage. The tragedy is most managers /want/ to manage and can't IC for shit, so you end up with bullshit managers.
Don’t know about them but they surely aren’t the only ones. It’s a proper mess.
AWS do not define account IDs as a secret (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage...) but until now it's not been possible to do this look up.
I started a small hobby project. First with TypeScript and Modern Web Dev Server (https://modern-web.dev/guides/dev-server/getting-started/). I don't want bundling and for a while life was good. But then I had some npm packages that didn't support EcmaScript modules. I found a workaround but suddenly I lost motivation. I then thought, okay, perhaps time to change to Deno.

Half a year later I changed to vanilla Rust, trunk, Webassembly and some JavaScript glue code and suddenly a lot of things got easier. Of course as a Rust programmer it is easy for me. But I am also a JavaScript programmer.

This is just anecdotal but it really seems to me that the JavaScript ecosystem is so deeply flawed to burn out people. Let me list two main points which are broken:

- Types are wonky. TypeScript does a huge work to "fix" JavaScript and I love TypeScript. But TypeScript cannot fix the soundness holes in JavaScript. There will be always things that don't work out of the box.

- The missing dependency story. Node introduced CommonJS, but it didn't work on browsers. Browser just added objects to the browser's Window object. Later there are EcmaScript modules but too late. I wrote a hacky polyglot which does both UMD and EcmaScript modules, but I feel the polyglot to be brittle. https://github.com/nalply/modglot

I am still thinking about it, but I feel JavaScript could go the way of PHP. Still important, but too much a mess to be taken seriously. Perhaps in about ten years. I don't know.
Pretty cool. I'm hunting for alternatives to Netflix DVD. I've been checking out Café DVD as a possibility but haven't actually tried it - it might not have as large a catalog.
Another thing I've been meaning to try, but haven't yet, is hooking up VLC to https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x/wiki or similar, since, yeah, while DVD quality is pretty decent, for certain genres sometimes I do want a bit more luscious detail.
I'm surprised that the conservative/libertarian bloc was the first to complain. You'd think something like this would be a desirable outcome for capitalism.
YAS-QWIN (Yet Another SQL-Query Writing Interface)
It's a difficult pivot to make because it really is not the same job, one of them is still fundamentally about tech and the other is not.
Ivy, Netbeans, Open Office, Shiro, Solr all jump at me off this list:

https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?name

These are all projects that once were (more) relevant, however seem to have become rather niche (Gradle, Jetbrains/VSCode, GoogleDocs/Libreoffice e.g. for the first three are the dominant competitors).

Most of these projects (like the massive commons listings) are either used by some Java library somewhere (meaning their success/relevance is tied to the usage of Java), or are obscure enough that they are no longer used widely and so suffer from lack of interest.

There are gems in this list, to be sure, but if you just run into half-maintained projects all the time you're not likely to associate good things with the Apache name?
He's probably right. But the upside is this: Think about all the hundreds of little coding ideas (games etc) that you have in your brain or written down somewhere that would have taken years to develop and millions in opportunity cost to pursue. In the next few years those will probably be promptable into existence. I'm excited about this :) Even if it means code becomes more of a commodity.
Agreed. I didn’t bother replying because I thought it was obvious how they were wrong but as someone who has worked in condensed matter, the ‘simple systems’ claim is ridiculous.
Yep… I can totally prove this random pseudonym/anonnym is definitely the same one that has… never been used before because due to social incentives you want zero links between identities and thus the web of trust is just a sea of filaments floating loose in an ocean

An ocean filled with fish poop…

It’s so great I can definitively verify that this ID is something… but that’s absolutely fucking pointless if I have no way to judge if the entity or entities controlling it, connected to it, supporting it, or even associated with it (to consider potential future actions)… the goal was noble but the implementation completely failed because to succeed would have required the participants to build anchors in the real world of verifiable identities… and for all the value people get from day to day use of cryptocurrencies… the biggest value of crypto was in staying as far away from the real world as possible allowing such things as drug purchases and international money laundering and illegal gambling at a level low enough to evade legal enforcement services coming after the players (since obviously if they could come after the casino/house they would since that’s where all the money is)
>Average working hours were dropping for decades before Labor Unions became popular in the 1930s driven by the productivity gains referenced elsewhere in the thread. The trend continued unabated other than an increase during WWII even after Union membership peaked in 1980 and dropped for 30 years. It doesn’t seem that Labor Unions were the cause of this improvement trend.

Huh? The first labor union in the US was created in 1768. Unions were WELL established in the US in the 1930s. Did you think corporate owners were willingly giving back the time gained through productivity to workers? You need only look to China where they've had even greater productivity gains over the last 20 years and people are still literally living at their place of work and clocking in 12+ hour days every day of the week.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0113/the-history...
How do you beat https://www.aptible.com/?
in this example. SSE and staff is a huge leap. In my org's ladder staff and senior are non intersecting circles. So its all or nothing leap. There is no way to keep improving yourself and adding new dimensions if you don't think you can make that huge leap.

Not everyone is cutout for staff but everyone is capable of making improvements beyond senior. But job titles explicitly discourage that by tying pay to job titles.
Well, OpenOffice as I said. Cordova is/was a hot mess (with some nice pioneering features, just really not well maintained imo and felt like quicksand to build even a small app on) Then the sort of long slow death of Flex (now Royale?) Apache seems like where software no one loves anymore goes to die.
I think that there is an active company behind Superset called Preset.

https://preset.io/

I don't think it's semi-abandoned. I had a brief interaction with the project in my previous job, and I found the community and the company to be reasonably engaged and responsive.
They tried to say George Floyd wasn't murdered either.
> I didn’t know we have passenger trains.

Amtrak
It allows you to show what key signed a record. It doesn’t tell you what person used that key, whether they were acting in good faith, or whether they had the right information. If you want to know any of those things you have to pay real auditors to check real world status, and at that point you’re going to ask why you need to pay so much more to use a slow database which requires always-on internet connectivity when you’d get the same value from a Yubikey or iPhone’s builtin cryptographic primitives.
> why can’t we just dump a file of what we need to bill on S3, and have a CRON job pick it up and collect payment?

Sounds like an engineer with not enough experience. We all did thought like this once.

This is a solved problem. Don't roll your own queue / job system where you inevitably run into transactional problems. Use something like Airflow.

And mentioning S3 in this sentence has no value. S3 is merely a way to store the data temporarily. But using S3 immediately makes us not consider (more suitable) alternatives.
Part of me wants to say that British ships did not have "crows nests" rather "fighting tops", flat platforms for multiple people rather than the barrel-shaped crows nest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_(sailing_ship)
We don’t use punchcards anymore. Punchcards were not the source of value. AI assisted problem solving is simply a new interface to work through. I’m not convinced it’s better. Just another tool.
It is exactly how all of this works

In Canada, one of the main players in the space is INTRIA

https://www.cibc.com/en/cibc-websites/intria.html

They have an office full of people processing cheques, cash etc etc. In the old world, all cheques were processed by hand but in the new world, all cheques are processed by a combination of electronic imaging and MICR: people only look at the ones where tech processes fails. Which are a lot of them.

This area of finance is called "Corporate Cash Management" - a bit of misnomer because it is not just cash and is primarily electronic these days. It is essentially about the processes that need to be in place to physically and electronically move money around.

Here are some examples of what the biggest bank in Canada offers in this space.

https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/business/paying-and-receiving/m...

The do not explicitly mention cheques because that space is really well automated these days but it is mostly done really well by technology and most banks are trying to move away to electronic payments. But if you ask for it, you will get it at specially quoted per customer rates.
In my experience it’s not such a simple question. If you want to be able to speak in nuanced non-English and have it pick up on the intricacies, or have it respond in rich correct non-English, then it’s not the best model (Cohere recently released an aya model that I would recommend checking out if this is your use case).

If you want to be able to give basic commands and have the model reason about the logic behind your commands, gpt 4 is still the best, even in minority languages.
The President pardoning a turkey is an expression of meat-eating culture, not vegetarianism -- we eat turkeys; that's why the symbolism works -- and meat-eating is indeed the dominant culture.
(And I'm sure the situation would have been very different nowdays, with a google controlled engine dominating 95% of browsers)
so if aaron was still alive, maybe he'd have access to jstor again
Yeah I think this is just stray fire from internal-facing propaganda by these communities. This is what they tell themselves (mostly their youth) but it doesn't take much scrutiny for it to fall apart. I say this as a religious person who is prone to this self-perception myself.
Kellogg was a nutcase whose effect on US culture was much larger than people realize.
Ask HN: Do You Need a CLI Tool for Output Schema Fine-Tuning of Open Source LLM
Trying to gauge whether to just solve my problem or release the solution.

Who's deploying Open Source models and would like a simpler way to fine-tune the models out of HuggingFace / Ollama?

I was going to build a tool for me because I have a lot of Agent fine-tuning (and re-tuning) required. If there's interest, I can share my code / learning.

The minimum most of my agents from the 'base' models is training them on output format schema so they're more consistent.

I want the process to be simple enough that I could put them reliability in a build & deployment pipeline.

Vision of how it'll work:

(setup)
0. `pip install [newlibary]` & run a setup command on that library

(day-to-day usage)
1. '[newlib] create training_manifest.yaml' (or json, feedback welcome)

2. '[newlib] tune `model-name`' (name in manifest)

3. '[newlib] verify `model-name`'

When we verify we should be able to see the improvement in results on a set of verification tests.

I'll be using Ollama behind the scenes, we should, eventually be able to push and pull our new models to a store.
had the exact same thought
Rails 8 adds Brakeman by default to new applications
Whenever I visit Valencia we go there. My family calls it "the city of the future" (the Ciutat I mean). My daughter thinks one of the buildings looks like Darth Vader's helmet.
> Striking at the eSIM moment is a slick move, though

I bought two data eSIMs to cover my trip - each one only covered one specific country.

To my frugal mind it wasn't worth paying the extra to upgrade to a 'global' data eSIM just to cover the handful of additional places I was in transit through (and turned out I had ready access to free wifi in those places anyway).
I dont want to start a rant against Tableau. It's a powerhouse. It's a great superior software. But when it comes to optimizing cost and comparing the total cost of ownership and opportunity to stop paying for Tableau server license we voted in favor of Superset and mix of Reactjs+Echarts widgets.

https://www.tableau.com/products/server

If you have money, dedicated team of data analytics who are already familiar with Tableau - no need to torture them with other tools.
A better analogy would be him noticing that the fire extinguishers are past their expiry date, and calmly exiting the building on the basis of a slightly higher percentage chance that in case of a fire, the risks are greater.
Punk (in the conception of anyone born before the internet) is dead because bohemian degeneracy is mainstream. If we go by the standard of "being against the mainstream," today's punks would be people following the advice of the topless antagonist in John Prine's Spanish Pipedream [1]:

> Blow up your TV

> Throw away your paper

> Go to the country

> Build you a home

> Plant a little garden

> Eat a lot of peaches

> Try and find Jesus

> On your own

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwq0YoOy4g
I'm convinced that Juggalos are one of the only real countercultures in American society today.
At this rate I would be shocked if junior developers can't function at a higher level than senior ones with the help of AI in a few decades.

I'd be shocked if there are developers at all in a few decades.
There's no "pass-by-reference", never_has_been.jpg. With pass-by-reference what you're actually passing is a value, of a pointer. So you're "duplicating" a value: of the pointer.

What's the point of passing a pointer to an integer instead of passing the integer directly? You're just creating indirection and pointer-walking, which makes your code strictly worse.

Passing by value also prevents the function from having accidental side-effects of changing stuff outside it.

Passing by value allows you to save memory when passing things smaller than a pointer (like, say, an int in x86_64).

Every C/C++ programmer should learn assembly. It makes C trivial to learn, and would certainly have helped you analyze the reasoning behind stuff like this.
Has anyone else spent hours on understanding this and just accepted they’ll never accept it?

I completely get all the explanations but it just feels too weird.
That’s a sure way to end up with a global monopoly and no competitive open models. Things like mixtral on open side rely on companies like mistral existing.
US Used AI to Help Find Middle East Targets for Airstrikes
Oh interesting. I never would have thought AI would be used for this. Does it also find things like the meta "revised" tag or anything like that? Doing some Googling it seems like officially it should be "revision", but seems like it's very common to use "revised"
Stop Using LGTM Few for RAG
It is funny to note that “Punk is Dead” came out in 1977, but all the action in the article WRT punk is happening in the 90’s and beyond. The author acknowledges this in a way, though:

> the only visible instantiation of a subcultural franchise putting on against-the-grain airs similar to those of the punks and goths of the 1990s (who had all been thoroughly domesticated by that point)[…]

Anyway, I’m not sure who the “blue hair & pronouns” (as the author puts it) crowd is. If it is actually queer and trans people, I don’t think their motivation was ever to be counter-culture really: they are just intrinsically attracted to or identifying with the opposite gender, and would like to be mistreated less frequently for it. It isn’t a punk movement, it is one trying to get social acceptance.

If it is straight or cis people who are sort of associating with that culture, I suppose there might be some counter-culture aspect to it. But there’s also a strong element of just, like, authentic human empathy and allyship. I think that’s more important.
Right. Gemini Pro 1.5 scores 81.9% on MMLU and is also above in a few other benchmarks.
Available in prisons, god forbid it be available to the public!
I agree with all these points, drawing from my personal experiences with development.

Gemini 1.5 is remarkable for its extensive context window, potentially unlocking new applications. However, it has drawbacks such as being slow and costly. Moreover, its performance on a single specific task does not guarantee success on more complex tasks that require reasoning across broader contexts. For example, Gemini 1.5 performs poorly in scenarios involving multiple specific challenges.

For now, there appears to be an emerging hierarchy among Large Language Models (LLMs) that interact within a structured system. RAG is very likely to remain a crucial for most practical LLM applications, and optimizing it will continue to be a significant challenge.
Yep at least the /ideas pages that turn up on the page load are sorted by recency. You can also see the most recent /now pages by clicking the filter icon next to the search bar and selecting /now.

And we re-scrape all indexed pages every few days.

For now the search is purely sorted by relevancy (keyword + embeddings), but it yes would be nice to prioritise recent posts somehow. Since those are much more actionable.
So are S3 Crawler bots inbound that will be used to exploit and blackmail S3 bucket owners... via doxxing?

EDIT: isnt one of the S's "secure"....

Isnt it like THE FIRST S?!?!?!?

EDIT

I get it! - I forgot the three Ss'!

Shove it.
I don't get the argument that you should become a domain expert and that AIs will do coding for us. If AIs can code, they can code themselves into becoming domain experts. Why do we not believe that an AI that can code wont also be better at every single domain (or at the very least, code itself to become better)?

And once we reach that point, the questions become less practical about what should you learn and more existential. Thankfully I already went through my existential crisis and am at the point of not caring.
The air is thinner at cruising altitude, though of course thicker at takeoff altitude. I'm sure longer flights are much more efficient than shorter, but whether they ever overtake trains I'm not sure.
In late 1994, I downloaded a description of HTML, printed it on my Deskjet 550c, and then built a webpage on my free student account at UF.

By early 1995, my linked content no longer loaded.

Link rot was there from the beginning, except of course the phrase "link rot" had yet to be coined.

I don't miss the old web. There's infinitely more quirky weird niche information today...just go to Youtube. Or the front page of HN. The old web was so useless, hampster dance was a thing.

Good luck.
Slightly related - CloudFlare account_id and zone_id are safe to be public

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/issues/474

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/api-zone-id/355566

> The Zone ID and Account ID are not sensitive. Sensitive data like account API Key, Secrets etc. can all be revoked, rotated or changed. See the comment 36 below on the Wrangler repo: as per our security team, it’s completely Fine to have your zone_id and account_id public, the Global API key and associated email address should be kept secret.
What I've seen, is people stop shopping at the nearby supermarket and start shopping at Aldi instead. This only works because Aldi (unlike all the American companies) is actually competing on price. The price difference is very significant.
It costs nothing in the UK as it's covered under the National Health Service. Well - I say "nothing". All British citizens pay "national insurance", but it's effectively a regressive tax that's not based on the individual's health (as insurance would be), so some folks are effectively subsidising others. To give you an idea of cost, my NI contributions are about ~5.5% of my salary, but that also goes towards the state pension.

All that said, it's not a massive cheap free-for-all on medication - in the UK we've still got hospital/NHS trust budgets which have been iteratively slashed by a decade of successively worse Conservative governments, so generally the inclination is for the NHS to prescribe the (much) cheaper generics.
Or, when the humans running our countries forget that they are hallucinating reality and got us (which mostly doesn't include them) into a war yet again, killing thousands of innocent people.

This one single causal phenomenon underlies everything, yet we ~refuse[1] to examine it.

[1] Here I am kind of being hypocritical, in that I assume to some degree that humans have the base capability in the first place.
I happened to notice a couple of eBay listings for Teletype Corporation machines on eBay over the weekend. Odd that this comes up today...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226019318024

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226019320272
$500 drone calculates its position with camera, Google Maps
Arch Mission Foundation – Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth
Which conservative religious community(ies) are you alluding to? That could probably be considered a snarky question, but I really don't know which religions have withstood the prying eyes of modernity; they all seem to have been exposed as about as rotten an institution as their secular counterparts.

Perhaps the Amish or something like that? And of course, they have their practices that we would consider unsavory anyway.
Debunking persistent myths about protein
Boeing 737 Max backlog [1] is almost as big as Airbus’s [2]. If you are going to order a hundred planes you’re going to be waiting a long time regardless. Orders have been outpacing deliveries for years.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_order...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320neo_famil...
I don't know about ambidextrous (being able to perform a skill with either hand), but all the lefties I know are cross-dominant to some variety.

For instance, I hold a pen, fork, soldering iron etc. with my left, but use a mouse with my right.
The Monty Hall problem controversy is good evidence that evolution has ruthlessly constrained human intelligence.
I used to bjj in the mornings before work because my mentality was "If i've already been choked out, beat up, and tapped out then there's nothing worse that the day (or my boss) can throw at me." (ie, it's all easier from 8am on)