skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have consulted in this sector. An exec I met who has three decades of experience explained to me that software fit for purpose has to operate within these parameters:

1. The highest value exams (like lawyer licensing) can only be in-person proctored, not remote which can’t reasonably stop even moderately clever cheaters, and where any suspicion of cheating undermines the legitimacy of the entire exam.

2. No exam-giver wants to be responsible for the complaints they will receive if they provide the computers, since some number of people who do poorly will seek to blame the hardware, so exam-takers must be responsible for making sure the software works on their own machine.

3. Essay exams (like the bar exam) have to be the same day for all takers, because it is trivial to share meaningful information about the questions sufficient to give late takers a huge advantage. It is possible to use different questions on different days, but this creates major challenges for calibrating the answers fairly.

4. Large exam halls where thousands of people can take the exam simultaneously don’t have good enough wifi to hold all those connections, and even if they did, any blip would be a nightmare, so the software has to be able to work offline.
Many, many companies claim to be doing what they do for the good of all humanity - they would have you believe that any profit made is just a nice side effect.

Examples:

* Aon insurance - At Aon, we exist to shape decisions for the better — to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

* Nike - Bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world

* Glencore - Responsibly sourcing the commodities that advance everyday life

I don't really see any difference with OpenAI, beyond their name including some fluffy sounding loveliness.
... so they're Australian now.
Good. In practice the old system was taught in schools, but not really used officially. Except for people giving their names, where someones name is definitely pronounced as Shota, they would write it Syota. I just checked facebook and found quite a few people like this.
Francis Bacon was born in 1909. Really don't know how you can say this is recent times.
If the other employees had no idea then upper management did a terrible job. It's their role to communicate such events and strategies to face them so as to get the loyalty and the trust of everyone.
You seriously, unironically, link to the TV and Showbiz section of the SUN? And there I was, thinking Twitter would be the worst source I see on HN... At least it is not a TikTok short.
Again, what border? between which countries? is there an army on the other side? are you serious? The United States does not recognize the State of Palestine, and therefore there is no border is there? so these people where fenced into an area that is occupied by Israel. If they tried to get out, they were trying to escape their Concentration Camp.
Sure, euphemisms are an essential component of any kind of propaganda. To some degree, this includes legitimate campaigning in democracies.

What the Nazis implemented to a unique extent was the process of (re-)defining words in a specific meaning. This happened top-down and censorship not only acted passively (disallow certain publications), but the propaganda actively pushed the terminology and narratives to use by the media.

The recurrent use of seemingly harmless words in specific ways impacted the society much longer than the Nazis were in charge. Some seemingly unpolitical narratives have lived on until today. Fortunately, the (Western) allies realized that they needed to counter this after the war, but of course the denazification has not been able to undo all the damage.
funny you say that. I recently installed the latest vs community edition and initial startup and general performance has been very snappy.

I am running very little extensions but with hot reload enabled I'm blazing through work.
It's there a law that states that whatever values an organisation puts in its name are the opposite of that organizations actual values?

Seems like there should be, but I haven't heard of it. If there isn't I'm coining "Amarants Law" in this post.

Open-AI being closed is a decent example of this law. A far better example is any nation with the word "democratic" in its name.
Yeah Netflix definitely has a directing "style" across lots of its shows. Two things I've noticed are lots of shaky-cam shot as though someone's spying on the scene, when it's just the camera; and often a top down view from high up with loads of detail to showcase some visually impressive event, in mild slow-mo.
> You are by no means obligated to take an interest in wars on other continents.

The Americans who helped stop Hitler would like to have a word with you.
> Why does a practicing lawyer have more thoughts on programming than every CTO I've had a 1:1 with at a big company?

That one is easy! The sort of metacognition and reflection exhibited by the lawyer makes one a bad politician. Good politicians get the C-level seats.
The outrage stems from years of:

-OpenAI taking the cover of nonprofit status, when that was privately never their intent;

-OpenAI publicly claiming they were going to open source everything, when that was privately never their intent;

-OpenAI publicly claiming a moral high ground on responsible AI, when that is clearly not their priority.

Sure, I think Musk's lawsuit is a stunt, and sure, legally, OpenAI may have done nothing wrong but it shows they are at best disingenuous, to put it mildly.
How do you “prevent”? Throw employees in jail?

Last I check the Dutch have good protection for human rights.
Well then maybe we should avoid the term haptic button. I've definitely seen it refer to physical buttons. It wouldn't be wrong to use the term to refer to either, even if it's technically pointless for physical buttons, and I guess that's why people do it when it comes to the physical vs touch debate, to emphasize that specific property of a physical button.
I’m more curious about everyone’s take on the bikes themselves. What do you think about them?
> OpenAI's public statements about benefiting humanity and their actions, which reveal a profit-driven focus similar to Microsoft's.

Their reasoning is that not only are those things not mutually exclusive; it would have been impossible to achieve that mission without the capped-profit pivot. Which is pretty obviously true (and by Elon Musk's admission, "0% chance"). I don't think anyone could have had the foresight in 2015 that Chinchilla scaling laws would necessitate multiple billions of dollars. Like, everyone knew scaling was important, but not to the point that you could easily divine that a pure nonprofit would guarantee failure.

I also don't get the exaggerated anger at "hypocrisy" (or what some would call "changing ones mind"). If they renamed to XYZ AI, does that make them any better or worse than xAI or Anthropic on whatever measure you care about? They are yet another closed AI company. Ok? If being closed AI is evil, then one should be equally angry at their equivalently closed competitors. If being closed AI is not evil, then one should not be so angry at the alleged hypocrisy. My point is, hypocrites doing evil things are about as bad as non-hypocrites doing the equivalent evil thing, which means the disparate emotional reactions we're seeing are unreasonable.
Yes. Cable dimensioning and selecting fuses sure is something you can screw up. However, the way things are now, there's no way to have e.g. a consultant help where needed, so you're either paying someone to do everything, or you're completely on your own. (We need an app for that...)

Given that money is a finite resource, I don't see how this dichotomy is in the best interest of safety.
Because once they leave, Israel won't allow them back.
"And that's the end of your federal road money." - actually "Narrower, more winding streets, cobblestone, speed humps and other calming surfaces" are cheaper longterm(sometimes shortterm) for federal money, esp combined with the fact that in pedestrian friendly streets there are more businesses and more customers and as result more taxed money.

cars shouldn't be banned in cities, but env should be heavily redesigned to change priorities, like: pedestrian>bike>pub transp>taxis>personal cars. This is the compromise that works - cars are not banned, just less convenient compared to other methods and because of that car trips are faster compared to car priority, bc there are less cars on the road and less congestion, so ppl that actually need and can afford cars(and all related taxes) will have a more pleasant drive
A smart molecule beats the mutation behind most pancreatic cancer
Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 to be discontinued
I think it ia really funny, that Elon and Sam are at each others throat. Those two truely deserve each other.
nlp deals with imprecise languages (e.g. words can have different meanings) idk how it could ever be anything but subjective.
It is 100% true according to all the data we have. Girls are relatively better at language, boys are relatively better at math everywhere.

Look at Figure 2 on page 7, shows every country has a massive gap where girls do much better on reading and boys do much better on maths relatively. The only effect you see is that more progressive countries the girls perform better and better on both, and the less progressive girls do worse and worse until boys are about as good as them at reading but massively better at math, but everywhere you see the same trend of girls preferring reading and boys preferring math.

https://docs.iza.org/dp6338.pdf
But isn't it what the commercial rinse aids the article talks about are made of?

Doing stuff by yourself is always interesting, but rince aid is cheap, and according to the article, apparently harmless at the concentrations used in household dishwashers, so unless you want something specific, why bother?
Never forget. Ultimately, the only goal of a company of this size is to make money. That’s an obligation they have towards their shareholders. Other goals are marketing or, in this case, open-washing.
EU regulators seek details of escalating Apple, Epic Games spat
There is the whole legal labyrinth around for-profits being owned by non-profits. Whether or not OpenAI adhered to tjose, I cannot say.
Thanks internet stranger.
It doesn't matter. The important point is we are no longer being tied to Oracle for it.

Now the code runs in both MariaDB and Aurora in AWS.

We only pay AWS for the servers now.
This is because on the App Store paid apps subsidise free apps.

Apple may just end up charging the $0.50 technology fee the same way for all developers in the EU. Which would hurt apps like Deliveroo but at least would be fair to all of the app stores and satisfy the rules.

Because the EC, US etc have never that Apple can't charge a fee. And it would be extraordinary to see the impact on a number of businesses e.g. consoles if they did.
I get BBC Good Food as the first response, which is even better.
none of these examples say that we are not in for the money or profit and under an NGO

If you read the article openai says that they are not in for the money and then proceed to be in for the money. Also, Ilya says to not change anything because it will hurt recruitment.
"isn't" i guess?

thanks for the faithful comment thou
>for all writing.

sure, I'm going to have provide a lot more support for my various stories of time travel and gnomes.
Well after a year I still think I'm better with GPT-4 than with anything else, in particolar with its vision capabilities.
> I'm member of other communities and at least one person is talking about something not working on Wayland, but working on X11, so we still have ~2-3 (up to 5) years.

Thankfully I don't have to, I want shiny new software thanks.

> Remote connections comes to my mind, for example.

Nobody uses them any more.
I wonder, how does this approach differ from a unikernel?
Increasing salary with the inflation helps a lot. Doesn’t happen too much outside union jobs
I wonder if Sir William Wallace, a.k.a. Braveheart, would be considered a Terrorist or a Freedom Fighter. When England invaded and occupied and imposed ridiculous rules on them, should they have not fought back? How about the Potato Famine, how many of you know that this was caused by England INTENTIONALLY by shipping all the food out of Ireland to England. is Sinn Fein a terrorist group still? or were they so named because they fought an occupier?
‘United’ States?
If you think it is not about punishment or retribution you have not listened to what Israel's own leaders have said.

""I am personally proud of the ruins in Gaza. [...] every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did."

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1760548502348701804

What the Israelis are doing now is no different from what the Romans did to quell various rebellions, what the British Empire did in their colonies, or what the Nazis did to the Warsaw ghetto after the uprising.
At any point we are one catalyst event and few months away from civil and political rights as a subscription. Software professionals will be happy to implement the system for bonuses and public funding. Smartphone will be the enabler. Example - during covid the free movement within Schengen Area (look up how sophisticated and nuanced this arrangement is) was limited by vaccination certificate, which was... a PDF with qr code, or a screen within mobile app.
Or Ministry of Love and others in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-...
They settled out of court, Nikon started paying licensing fees. Was confirmed by Jarred on a podcast last year.

Maybe that’s what’s partially responsible for the acquisition - also Red struggling to get market share from Arri Alexa on bigger budget productions, and facing pretty stiff competition from lower priced cameras by Blackmagic, Sony etc
The backlash that OpenAI gets is the same as the backlash any entity gets upon becoming large and successful.

I cannot think of a single example of any company or entity that has been lauded after experiencing hypergrowth, regardless of the value of these entities provide to humanity, which becomes normalized and thus taken for granted in the public conscience.

I think it is in human nature to simply hate on anything that is more successful than ourselves. Perhaps it is jealousy, insecurity, pessimism, or something else. People will try to rationalize their hatred of <entity> but the trend is clear. There is literally nothing you can do as such an entity to consistently gain and keep the mob's goodwill.

It does not matter how many free services you provide, how much further you have pushed humanity forward, how many billions have come to rely on or even enjoy what you have made - all these are taken for granted (perhaps a testament to your success), and all you are left with is dissatisfaction/hatred from the public.

This is just a sad fact of human nature. See: tall poppy syndrome, negativity bias, expectation inflation, and the general impossibility of consistently maintaining widescale goodwill.
What's the carbon footprint of transporting the empty cassettes back for refilling?

What percentage of Bob's customers bother to do that?
Saying you did something when you didn't, or saying you didn't do something when you did.
but.... they say they are an NGO
Same here, bought all their issues since 1992, and there is an article from me on The C/C++ Users Journal regarding Gtkmm.

Sadly several moves ended up with me throwing them into the recycle bin, only keep the ones that were kind of top value to me and able to fit into a single box.

Have long learned that keeping stuff just for sentimental value isn't worth the extra space, and I own the DVD copies anyway.

Maybe I should have kept them to sell on ebay or something.
The current one's only been CEO for four years; the structural problems presumably are older. Like, they probably _should_ consider losing the CEO, but that in itself is not going to fix anything.
But the burden of proof rests on the army that attacks said protected site. They need to show that it hid or supported enemy combatants. And to date, no such proof has been provided. Show me proof of the expansive military complex with their large cache of weapons and hidden combatants and I will gladly shut-up.
If they live in a progressive society and says that existence of men who doesn't see that they live in a horrible patriarchy is proof that they live in a horrible patriarchy then yeah, it is not unreasonable to think they wont be happy without a matriarchy because that is where such thinking ends up.

If they have good examples of patriarchy and horrible things against women they should have posted that instead of saying that men thinking women have it good is evidence of patriarchy.
I think in a situation like this the outcome is pretty obvious. There's always people let go in an acquisition and if you don't sign the paperwork it just puts you closer to that group than to the other.
Understanding Meditation
One may wonder how meditation can help developers and entrepreneurs to perform better and get more done during the day. We all know how negative stress affect our personal life and that usually affect our professional life. Meditation can be one answer to increase performance and to perform better and handle negative stress so I have decided to write a series on the topic of meditation. I hope it will help someone.
Show HN: TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust
Show HN: TinyWasm - A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust

Hi HN! I'm excited to share TinyWasm (https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm), a WebAssembly Interpreter I developed for my final university project.

The main goal of this project was to deepen my understanding of WebAssembly and interpreter design. TinyWasm successfully passes all the official WebAssembly 1.0 tests and also includes features from future proposals such as like bulk memory operations.

Initially more of a research project, TinyWasm focuses on simplicity and portability. It has minimal third-party dependencies, a small codebase, and is compatible with no_std environments. It's now available as a standalone library (https://crates.io/crates/tinywasm), and I hope it can be useful for embedding into other projects and hacking on, especially because it's designed to be easy to understand and modify, while still being decently performant.

I'm looking forward to feedback, hope you find it useful!
Peer review is often touted as a highly rigorous process, but it's always been an honor system that relies on most of its participants being basically honest and well-intentioned. Once the element of cutthroat competition is introduced, those assumptions become far less safe.
> There isn't much point eating together if that sort of politics might come into play, the power differential is too large.

Historically, the value of eating with your men is that the men will actually follow your orders rather than just mutinying and killing you.
Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
It works more or less fine (if you don't care about the feature parity) on bleeding edge Plasma 6 and Hyprland, if you manually apply a bunch of explicit sync patches made by Nvidia a year ago that Wayland devs won't merge.

It works very poorly otherwise, especially XWayland apps and anything 3D - flickering, stuttering, artifacts, out of order frames.
> Thankfully I don't have to, I want shiny new software thanks.

That's a choice. I prefer uptime more, for example. I use boring technology to create fun things.

> Nobody uses them any more.

You should follow X2Go users' & OpenOnDemand mailing lists. They're very heavily used by some significant groups (e.g. scientists).
I wonder if they will stop selling overpriced SSDs now...
Doubtful Nikon will relax it, just use it as a cash cow to get licensing revenue (like Red has) or as a competitive moat if they stop licensing it
Europe's biggest 3D-printed building rises in just 140 hours
Thanks for chiming in. I do see your point - names have personal meanings that go beyond what they superficially refer to, and having that stripped away feels like an invalidation or a threat to one's identity and experience.

One the other hand I feel like there are some important differences. The Holocaust is still a recent and deep wound in the European psyche, and Antonescu was an enthusiastic and vicious perpetrator of it in Romania. Romania was the only Nazi ally that independently instigated the Holocaust within its borders. Hitler even praised Antonescu for putting in place much more radical policies for eliminating Jews. Anti-semitic policies continued well beyond the end of WW2 - while Germany invested in reparations and remembrance and rebuilding itself as a safe place for Jews to live, Romania was still outlawing Jewish organisations and bargaining with Israel to allow Jewish emigration for cash. There is still a small Jewish community in Romania, but from what I've read they have good reason to feel uncomfortable about expressing their beliefs openly.

The link that paganel provided is a report from the US embassy, advising US government and citizens on the status of religious freedom in Romania. Whilst it does reference specific city halls, it only does so via references to statements from the Wiesel Institute, a public institude established by the Romanian government to study the Holocaust in Romania. As far as I can tell, it's saying "the country's own national institutes having pointed out transgressions of its own constitution regarding religious freedom". This is presumably of interest for people considering tourism, business or diplomatic work in the country.
And all the studies done to understand those numbers show the difference in outcome is driven by tze social environment and esucation systems, and not the sexe.

You, of course, will ignore that I am sure. I hate it when the menoshpere invades HN, my last save place on the internet. If that continues, I'll just have to leave I guess.
You say "If you can't even satisfy such simple terms, it's your own fault." But you yourself fail to satisfy such simple terms as HN's Guidelines[1], which clearly state "Don't be snarky."

</metasnark>

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
a) Business names are never supposed to be taken literally. Apple is not a fruit company.

b) First amendment issues likely arise.

c) The word open has multiple definitions. It can just mean we are going to be open about certain aspects of our research. It doesn't mean open source or open models.
That's just because they invite it.

https://satwcomic.com/not-a-yahtzee

If Germany acted less neurotic, they'd draw less commentary.
I'd heard of this. Disturbing, to say the least, but not something that will frighten me away from the word "sugar" which is the root of this thread. Bone char was also used in paint, but I'm not about to decry the painters of old over it. Our modern alternatives are in place.
This isn’t rocket science. Israel has killed more than 13,000 children in less than 5 months. This is only counting the children. That’s almost 4.5 9/11’s in children alone. And our (Americans) taxpayer dollars is helping sponsor these war crimes.

Israel has one of the most advanced military and intelligence apparatuses in the world. And Palestinians are some of the most surveilled humans in the world. Israel knows where they’re dropping the bombs and the demographics of the humans who live there. No amount of gaslighting the international community and unsophisticated normies changes this fact. There’s no excuse for these war crimes and it’s an utter shame that the West, led by America, continue to allow Israel to use the tragic events of October 7th as an excuse to murder innocent Palestinian civilians (most of whom are children).
Nice, but what's the difference between this and AppImage?
so apple gave them green light _after_ breaking the rules and decided to go uno reverse after several weeks to red light the epic, because epic criticized apple, lol)
You jest, but python is the poster child for, works on my machine.