skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny is when you ask that same question of a tech startup they simply say growth is what matters not revenue.

CloudFlare has been losing money for ages. I use it but seemingly everyone is sure it'll last forever.
Really, among people under 25, a lot of them see "the phone" as the computer, and treat using desktops as a burden any time it happens.
I don't think it's the same. I have been a Windows user all my life. Bloat and bad UX changes is one thing, but this is the first time I feel like I am having to actively fight the OS against showing me ads and dark practices like changing user preferences unbeknownst to me.
So, you're saying that losing 21% of their OS market share by actively pissing off their customers shouldn't be seen as a problem? OS stagnation would be an improvement compared to what they're currently doing.
> One day the clouds will fall, and your site will be with it.

...what?

S3 launched in '06 and is coming up on 20 years of being a thing. At this point it's had a stronger/longer lifespan - and will likely continue to do so - than pretty much any of the old net hosting sites.

OP was clearly just asking why bother using something like this over <insert your choice of host here>. The only real answer is that you want to do something different - and that's totally fine.
> Wouldn’t its very reliable high prevalence across a wide diversity of today’s gene pools strongly suggest an early, not late or isolated, origin?

There are plenty of things which are common across a wide diversity of today's gene pools that, as far as we know, were rare in the past.

For example: Type II diabetes, Dental caries (pre agriculture), or Cancer.
I'm going to assume that what they're trying to imply is that some sizable share of genetic information is shared across all humans and the information that is typically used to separate us into racial and ethnic categories is a very small subset (imagine some genetic 'knobs' for hair color, skin color, stature, morphology, etc). Their argument seems really fucking stupid when you consider that we share an estimated 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees.
I really don't see how it's just "write good code." In fact the opening line is about removing code being better than writing more.

Maybe it boils down to KISS but IMO it goes deeper than that. The lesson that code is a liability not an asset is not represented in either "be good" or "be simple."
Why do people on HN always assume people create projects for capital? Lots of cool projects are simply hobbies (and they avoid the enshittification cycle that way, too)
I'm always surprised by the creativity of these personal websites. The web is so utilitarian and marketing oriented that I forget that a web page is a blank canvas ready for artistic expression.
That's not true though, the UNRWA is the organization that holds the list of people that Palestinians demand to be allowed into Israel. Despite that those people have little connection to Israel, they were not born there, and have never been there. All they have is some ancestor who lived there a long time ago.

> I mean, if a humanitarian aid organization provided services to people but not to their children, that seems like it would be a pretty big problem, no? I'm baffled how you can think that providing services to children is a bad thing.

At the very minimum they should hold two lists: Actual refugees and poor people who might need help.

But worse, they are perpetuating permanent refugees - because it's against the UNRWA policy to pressure host countries to give citizenship to people who were born there, if those people are registered with the UNRWA. The country in turn is quite happy to let the UNRWA pay for services for them.

The easiest way to understand this is to compare to the policies of the UNHCR. There are no permanent refugees with the UNHCR.
NATO countries excluding US depleted air munitions within month in Libya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some...

Also, artillery shells is much cheaper way to deliver precise and fast strikes in urban environment compared to running aircrafts, so maybe such plans are not effective if this is really the plans.
Could you share the code for some of the custom threading macros you created? Looks very useful.
Also, MS’s primary audience for Windows is corporate IT departments and to a lesser extent established ISVs, while Apple’s primary audience for *OS is end-users.
You track it in your shared expenses app (e.g. Splid). When you enter an expense, you enter the amount, a description, and the persons in the group who are splitting that expense.

For example, let’s say Anna, Bill and Josh start a group. Anna buys groceries, so she enters the following transaction: 30 EUR, groceries, paid by Anna, applies to {Anna, Bill, Josh}.

Then, Anna, Bill and Josh can all see (on their own phone) that transaction in the transaction log, and they can also all see that Anna’s balance is 20 EUR, and Bill and Josh both have a balance of -10 EUR.

Then, let’s say Bill and Josh go for coffee, Bill enters: 10 EUR, coffee, paid by Bill, applies to {Bill, Josh}. Then the balances become: Anna 20 EUR, Bill -5 EUR, Josh -15 EUR.

So the nice part is that because everything is synced, everyone in the group can easily add transactions and see the transaction log and balances, all from their own phone.
A warning for anyone who is using local keychain: Don't. Either give in to iCloud keychain or use a different secrets manager.

If you're using a Mac with a T1 or T2 security coprocessor or Apple Silicon, your local keychain can only be decrypted with a key stored in those chips. Your backups are useless. I figured this out the hard way when an Apple depot repair for a failed display flex somehow ended up with my logic board getting replaced as well. After reimaging from backup (SSD was integrated on the logic board), the keychain was unreadable and I lost several accounts without recovery options. AppleCare's response was, well, you should have backed up your files, even though I had...
More processing power does not make a model better. You can train models on CPUs with same result based on same model architecture and dataset. It'll just take longer to get those results.

What makes models "good" is if the dataset "fits" the model architecture properly and you have given it enough time (epochs) to have a semi accurate prediction ratio (lets say 90% accurate). For image classification models I've done around ~100 epochs for 10,000 items seems to be the best certain data sets will ever get. There will at some point come a time when the continued training of the model is either underfitting/overfitting and no amount of continued training/processing power would help improve it.
>> but the constant stream of record breaking abnormal weather

How do you even know what is normal weather? Can you specify an exact time when you think the weather was normal?

>> Do others here feel similarly?

No.

>> Do you think these trends are reversible?

Reversible to what? Like it was 50 years ago or 5000 years ago or 50 million years ago?

>> Is technology the solution? Something else?

People have been living anywhere from freezing arctic to hot arid deserts. We seem to be good at adapting to our environment.
I mean, we buy them and start learning?

Famous last words: how hard could it be?
Why is having even bigger market share so important? Android has bigger market share than iOS too yet iOS is the more profitable one. Microsoft cares about profit first, not unprofitable market share.

Not saying they're right or wrong, just saying it seems to be working for their bottom line as Windows is less relevante towards that as the PC market has been in a continuous decline anyway in the last decade.

Fighting to capture more % of a declining market seems like a fool's errand, when they have bigger fish to fry now.
iOS has a “feature” where wifi and Bluetooth will switch itself back on after a set period of time if you use control center to turn it off. If you use settings it behaves as you would expect.
That's something I've noticed over the years. More and more of Windows debugging and configuration is happening on the (various) command line terminals. You're even starting to see it with official Microsoft installers.
If you want to call context "memory", then sure, but that's not what anyone means when they say the word. We don't build our world model fresh with every sentence someone says to us, nor do we have to communicate our complete knowledge of conversational state to another human by repeating the entire prior conversation with every new exchange. It's obviously different in a fundamental way.

> My bet is on learned world models because I’m not convinced there’s magic in our physical world.

You don't need to bet, and it has nothing to do with "magic". They quite literally have no ability to have a "world model" -- it's just a text generator, producing tokens. There's no working set memory, other than the text you pass into it. It should hopefully be obvious to you that when you write, you're not simply emitting one word at a time. You have a complete mental model of whatever you're discussing, stored in working memory, and it's persistent. We also update that model with every interaction we have.

The point of my post was that as soon as you take on a harder problem than simulating language, the lack of intelligence slaps you in the face. It turns out that understandable, coherent free-text responses is not magic, and the surprising result is that human language is regular enough that you can statistically simulate "intelligence" with a few hundred million free parameters.
You’re on to something with that last example. The idea that those two pointers can’t alias is one place C has diverged from my understanding. Of course they can alias. Which is why I wouldn’t naturally write that code, I’d write:

void f(int *px, float *py) {
int x = *px;
x = 1;
*y = 2;
if (x != 1) { /* dead */ }
*px = x;

If I put in a dereference, I expect a dereference to happen. Not dereferencing the pointer when I wrote a dereference operator seems like going too far. If they aren’t supposed to alias, but they did anyway, the code should do the wrong thing, in a way that makes sense based on the code I wrote.

I’m obviously just a holdover from the 90s, but it does seem we’ve leaned too far into hidden assumptions that the compiler thinks I share, rather than doing what the code says, or a simplification of what the code says.
Yeah, chatbots are still dumb, and "safeguards" even more so.

I am still surprised you are not familiar with @lru_cache when you want to write about decorators in Python.
Steve Jobs adopted no 'bozos' policy – best managers those who never wanted job
Not sure of the specifics, but I can guarantee you are not listening to your customers enough. This is the make or break hurdle for most businesses.
I dunno man, with Steam on linux and most of the major game engines making porting easy (or at least moving in that direction) I have very few reasons to stick with Windows anymore. At this point it's basically Photoshop and Fusion 360, otherwise I'd abandon it completely. If they lose gamers, I think they'll have a real issue.
That's the beauty of static websites, you don't need to care. If it was full fledged stack-enabled apps for an important function then yeah, sure.

With static, if it dies tomorrow you take the raw html files and move it elsewhere. Sure, it's an inconvenience, but it's the same as to why you don't use a second hand eBay server for commercial piece of kit. I learnt that the hard-way.
Yes agree. I started using Linux (Gentoo) as student 20 years ago to learn LKMs programming, and with my main Desktop being Windows currently, I give a new try to linux distros every year. I see Linux distros improve year after year, but they are still light years away from providing a good user experience. And even if I don't agree with many Windows 11 updates (like the cumulating number of services required to run user interfaces, the taskbar which can't be moved anymore, the bloatware by default and so on...), Windows still provides a better & smoother user experience overall. Even Desktop multitasking experience feels better engineered in Windows, probably because of a better Desktop processes timing.
Obviously not. I’m saying China wouldn’t be able to make use of their unlimited government funding and rare earth minerals without stealing innovation from the US.
Is there a plotting library that uses webgl? I am only aware of Plotly that uses webgl for some of the graphs.
A number of people really want widgets of some kinds - little things showing information like the time, or CPU clock, or battery left, or music playing.

The problem becomes that A) people really want different presentations of information, B) something tiny and satisfying in the corner isn't as easy to justify as a big improvement, even if it is, as a big flashy thing, and C) some people get very upset at anything doing this at all.

Look at how people got super excited about active desktop backgrounds, or how people used media players which turn into tiny widgets displaying pretty visualizations and a little bit of information.

People want widgets, but getting a consistent design that many people will use without introducing so much complexity that most people will never bother is hard.
What’s happening in somewhat poorer (BRICS, say) countries? Surely they’d be price sensitive enough not to pay for a Windows license if suddenly it has a (widespread) reputation for being less user friendly than Linux? (And this cohort would eventually become the majority of computer users over time… where would that leave Microsoft?)
They cloned the Debian git repo, https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/fdk-aac , and used apt source directly for pipewire. Not sure why the split approach, but it does look like they are relying on a Debian source of truth.
The so called, and very badly named, "Right of return" is what you want to look up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_return

UNRWA registration puts people into that status.
None of the doctors I've known have been overtly religious. None of my small sample of 3 that I know personally are religious. A quick search and everything about it seems to link back to one survey of US doctors in 2005.

The US is a very religious country compared to where I live, and it got me wondering if maybe the relationship is inverse - you're more likely to become a doctor if you're from a religious background. After all, it's a very well respected career and as Father Ted stated, the intelligent child would go off to train as a doctor and the stupid one would become a priest "your brother's a doctor isn't he Ted?"
The last Windows 10 LTSC version (22H2) only has support until 2027, only two years longer than regular Windows 10.
Store-bought pleasure, the opiate of the elite?
Sometimes.

No idea what you're getting at here, though.
Consumers are increasingly pushing back against price increases – and winning
I suspect Apple Silicon is still in a league of its own and worth every penny compared to Windows laptops.
They pirate it?
Yeah, I get that completely. In those cases, video games are a comparatively harmless thing for children with no supervision to opt into.
> I hope that more people switch

It's reached a point where it no longer really matters. Linux is good enough, usable enough, and supported enough, that getting more users won't change much. It might actually be worse if a lot more users, with a lot of wide-ranging needs and demands, switch to Linux. At least, I am happy with the current state of Linux usability, and no longer care to evangelize the benefits of being free of a walled garden and adware platform.
That's what I was thinking, but now I'm pretty sure it doesn't even need crazy algorithms like that.

1. align the image stack. not trivial, but a common task.

2. take several cross-sections, in both dimensions, and have a human draw a line along a specific layer line

3. linearly interpolate these lines into a surface.

4. for each pixel in each output layer, set the value to layers[l + offset][x][y], where the offset was calculated in step 3.
Arguing that pedophiles would not be problematic if there was legalisation of sec work is an absurd notion.
>> I personally believe we're doomed.

Our ancestors survived ice ages.

>> I've voted for green parties and politics my whole life.

You are part of the problem why we are burning coal instead of using nuclear power.
The bill specifically requires that an anonymous age verification method be provided, and lays out some pretty solid requirements on what the third-party age verification provider must do, including not retaining any PII after the user's age has been verified [0].

[0] https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/er/PDF
Not everybody has access to it. Somebody needs to deliver it to the masses.
What do you mean by paid in blood? Who's blood?
I think it's not the GUID, but the fact that referencing the GUID is the only way to get at the functionality any more.

Yes, your devices and various other underpinnings have GUIDs, but very few of them _only_ surface the GUID as a referent to the thing in a place a user would have to access it.

Similar to how, if you could only get at this by doing "rundll32 shellex.dll LoadOldPrinterSettings", the issue wouldn't be a function named LoadOldPrinterSettings, the issue would be that it's making you reach into a DLL to invoke a function by hand to get at it at all.
Was that really a good thing? Active Directory in enterprise environments keep the hackers happy
Mainly because

- There's so much existing software for Windows on x86 computers that it may not be feasible to migrate to MacOS or Linux.

- Windows does improve sometimes, and security updates are important. There's nothing forcing anyone to stop using Windows, like if it were abandoned.

But just because it hasn't happened so far doesn't mean it won't. MacOS market share has risen. Windows used to have 85% market share, but now it's 53%, and MacOS accounts for 31% of US desktop systems.[0] Perhaps that's just because the desktop market shrank, though.

Maybe in the future, 64-bit ARM Macs will be the standard workstation like Windows PCs, with a minority running Linux on their Macs instead. I don't like that future, though; as much as Windows sucks, at least they don't try to limit user freedom to the extent Apple does. If Windows stopped being profitable to continue for Microsoft, I'd hope another company would rise up and sell their own operating system.

[0]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3695172/statcounter-da...

edit: It was 53% when the article was written. The statistics they link say it's now 64%.
9 Rounds of AI-Powered Code Reviewes in Azure DevOps
And you can sudo/su on the remote.
It used to be back in the day. From the time web devs have come in they are the most social nerds with slick hair and bending over backwards to do leetcode group of folk.
what makes it better than Anki? The community, email reminders, etc., or something core to the spaced repetition?
> Yes, but that's just a particular kind of tree, where each node only has one child.

Yes!

I’m personally building a SSB data structure that forks into a tree, forking to allow writes from each new writer, to allow multi-device writes! It is a multi-writer append database that behaves like a CRDT.

It’s a blocktree, not a blockchain. Which is also expressable as a merkledag.
>A few talented but not unique engineers should be able to make a web browser.

From the ground-up? No. They stand on the shoulders of many, many smart people. Countless.

In your scenario are you expecting them to write an HTML layout engine from scratch, their own javascript interpreter, and CSS engine? Would they create their own SSL encryption libraries too? And all the code in between for image, video, and audio playback?

Sure a few talented coders could import a full web browser engine that already does all that, and slap some buttons on it and call it a day. I'm not really sure where you're trying to move the goalposts to, so please define where you think the goalpost is.

>The fact that the WWW is an important communication network means that it should not be difficult to make a tool that accesses it.

Making up your own facts? The "WWW" is a very generalized way to call something that encompasses many different technologies. The "WWW" sits on top of the HTTP protocol, which sits on top of TCP/IP, which sits on top of various hardware layers, etc... So which part of that is supposed to be so simple anyone could recreate all of it??

The HTTP protocol is as simple a part of any of this as it gets - you do know how to create a full HTTP request yourself, don't you? All the headers? The exact byte sequence needed and the right carriage returns in all the right places? Sorry but "WWW" doesn't get any easier than the HTTP protocol, and most people - including programmers - don't have a clue how it works.

>It is bad that almost everybody’s access to it is gated by a massive ad company.

Except that isn't at all true. People are free to use the services that they want to, including install whatever web browser they want. Nobody is forcing them to use Google's Chrome.
Printers have been this evil hellhole of driver support for a decade or more, compared to other devices.

These days, I print so little I either stop at my local library, where printing is free, or I pay a pittance to print at a shop. It would take me a decade or more to pay off a printer when pages cost $.10.
> Who brought up the "west" in this context? and why is it so important?

Because the "west", with all its flaws, created the scientific method, also shortened as "science".

Trying to explain science while excluding the Greeks, or Roma, or France, or UK, or Germany, Sweden, Spain, USA, etc... is a total nonsense. Western societies are the standard measure to compare anything related with science, because they were shaped by science.
> The answer you give for the statement "What is $x" is going to be highly dependent on who is answering the question.

I assume you meant asking rather than answering?

> An LLM doesn't have the other human motivations a person does when asked questions, pretty much at this point with LLMs there are only one or two 'voices' it hears (system prompt and user messages).

Why would LLMs need any motivation besides how they are trained to be helpful and the given prompts? In my experience with ChatGPT 4, it seems to be pretty good at discerning what and how to answer based on the prompts and context alone.

> Whereas a human will commonly lie and say I don't know, it's somewhat questionable if we want LLMs intentionally lying.

Why did you jump to the conclusion that an LLM answering "I don't know" is lying?

I want LLMs to answer "I don't know" when they don't have enough information to provide a true answer. That's not lying, in fact it's the opposite, because the alternative is to hallucinate an answer. Hallucinations are the "lies" in this scenario.

> In addition human information is quite often compartmentalized to keep secrets which is currently not in vogue with LLMs as we are attempting to make oracles that know everything with them.

I'd rather have an oracle that can discriminate when it doesn't have enough information to provide a true answer and replies "I don't know" in such cases (or sometimes answer like "If I were to guess, then bla bla bla, but I'm not sure about this"), than one which always gives confident but sometimes wrong answers.
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Ah, thank you. I've updated my comment. Still, I maintain that it creates a new restriction, since some kinds of erotic writing would meet all three bars, meaning that websites are required under the bill to either place an age bar, or moderate all user-generated text everywhere for such content.
The UX designers reportedly use macOS and want to make Windows look more like it. Management uses Windows Enterprise which doesn’t have the ads. Everyone who cares about pre-8 Windows installs Open-Shell.