skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description of the Pleiades as "seven sisters" in Australia and Europe is a similar case. People used to think it meant the story had been carried so long, and so far. But 50,000 years seems to be too long.

That said, it has been tens of millennia since a seventh star could be distinguished. People today count six, but it is described as seven most places.

And, the story of the husband who visits the land of the dead and fails to retrieve his wife really was carried all the way to North America. That is probably "only" 15,000 years, from one of the later waves of migration.
An Atlas of Emotions
Another example: https://twitter.com/QuantumYakar/status/1765421908483538971
> I’m sure the errno state is not checked at every line, as it is a trivial human error to leave that out

While writing code it's trivial to ask yourself if the next statement will include a call to a function which is not defined within a compilation unit under your control.

If it will, then you lookup documentation for that function to determine what it expects and how it can fail. Most of my functions which interact with such functions look like long sequences of this:

/* close the file */
ret = -1;

do {
errno = 0;
ret = close(fildes);
} while (0 != ret && EINTR == errno);

if (0 != ret) {
perror("Error");
goto off_ramp;
}

I've caused plenty of bugs in my career, but I can say with confidence that 0 of them had to do with ignoring/skipping proper error handling. You have to do so intentionally.
It was a good ride folks ...
> - be easily ported to different hardware architectures, which then never actually became relevant

Commercially relevant, perhaps, but it has remained technically relevant: The NT Kernel has historically operated on lots of different hardware architectures and continues to run on a small variety today. The ARM port is still active and a living branch even if total hardware sales are fewer than projected and Microsoft ceded most of that hardware space commercially when they gave up on Phones.

> - have a much more sophisticated and elaborate security model than those filthy unices (and now we're getting sudo on Windows, because 30 years later, it's still too complicated for anyone to use as intended)

That "sudo for windows" still leverages the elaborate Windows ACL model. It's not like they are also porting Linux kernel security on top of Windows. They just realized that both "RunAs.exe" and PowerShell's "Start-Process" have more complicated CLIs than necessary for simple UAC cases and decided to copy the CLI arguments of a well known CLI.

> - allow fluid switching between different userlands, be it win32, OS/2 (RIP), Unix (RIP), and anything else you could want in the future! (except no, you're getting VMs now)

Turns out users don't actually want to switch userlands on the fly and when they do VMs feel more right as an abstraction?

More (RIP) than OS/2 or the various attempts at POSIX userlands, Windows 8 actually tried to deliver a truly modern userland as a wholesale new experience, failed spectacularly. Switching was fluid and felt good if you enjoyed the new userland (which had some extraordinary, noticeable benefits in bootup and power/battery usage and other things). Coordination between the two userlands got really good in 8.1. The final lessons that seemed to come from Windows 8 was to never try that again because users hated it and didn't understand it. (I still lament how much of "didn't understand it" was so much more of a failure of education and PR and marketing and incidentals more than technical problems. There was some great technical appeal of a chance to move from win32 to a userland that was greener [both as in pastures and ecologically].)
> Agreed; feels to me that people here is underestimating malice on the Internet.

I don't think we do. We just prefer to put our trust in algorithms and verifiable data sources. It's not like Google et al are the pinnacle of altruism, there have been cases where the promoted results are faked copies of the actual site you want to visit, fooling less computer savvy users to install malware.

The trust is put into the code, same principle as reproducible builds. It doesn't matter where you get the source, as long as the checksum matches. This way the censor side of the problem is solved.

That leaves the spam, which isn't really solved by the big corporations either. Last time I used google I got 2-3 pages of the same auto-generated bullshit on every technical search term I tried. This could be fixed by having the main index limited to trusted sites at the expense of discovering new content. The latter can be handled by opt-in indexes. If the goal is to index everything users could have their own filters for sites they don't want.

If you really want to spice it up allow me to maintain my own query function (dangerous and potential exploit yes) that I send to the nodes and I can handle my own ranking.

There's nothing that makes a distributed index more unsafe than one run by Google. If every query picks 2 random nodes and compares the results I would trust that query more than current Google execs opinions of what I'm allowed to see.
Nice to see search projects are still popping up. After a move, family life taking over and me getting more interested in Unreal Engine, my poor search engine is now more of an experiment in seeing how well it runs while basically on life-support maintenance updates I do. Starting to think I honestly should just take it down and save my $50 a month I spend maintaining it.

But I'll post it in a hacker news comment and maybe you all will give it enough traffic I can get excited about it again, lol

https://www.unscatter.com
Just a reminder that Apple's anti-steering practices, which the European Commission has a problem with here, were found to be against California’s Unfair Competition Law and the Supreme Court of the United States would not review the case despite appeals.
Do you have a legal citation for this assertion?
That's not what GP is saying? The point, as I understand it, is that pretty much all formats that can't be processed in a single trivial pass have to at least be sandboxed w.r.t. their time and memory usage. So just because a format has more surface-level power doesn't necessarily have to do with how prone a processor is to security issues.

Indeed, my takeaway from your LangSec link is that formats shouldn't have complex grammars that leave holes open in parsers, not that formats can't represent powerful semantics. If you reach an exploitable hole in the parser, then you've likely already lost, short of the parser itself being sandboxed. Meanwhile, a TM bounded in time and space is just a finite state machine, not unlike all the other state machines in a typical processor.
Doing one doesn't prevent them from doing the other. It gives them more data about you to sell, while limiting the dataset to gullible rich people who think that you can capitalism yourself out of the problems of capitalism (the prime advertising target demographic).
This would be great these days if the fact checkers hadn't already outed themselves as propagandists as well.

Good luck finding truth in the forthcoming miasma of Old Internet.
Can you offer a weekly option?
Finally some good news!

I would love to see a city or building try this in the US
Your other comment is nested too deeply to reply to. I edited my comment reply with my response but will reiterate. Educate yourself. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The discussion is about LLMs not AI in general. The question stated "LLMs" which are not equal to all of AI. Please stop spreading misinformation.

You can say "fact" all you want but that doesn't make you correct lol
Every engineer of a company of this size says the same exact thing.

IMO more about growth of the engineering teams that lead to any specific culture deteriorating.
It's amazing to me that I knew classmates playing this game in high school..and it's still around. A few even failed their senior year because they were addicted to this game and would play it non-stop instead of going to class.
> Verstappen happens to be a phenom.

Max is great (just like Lewis), but it's generally accepted that Red Bull's "secret sauce" is the car, and their engineering team (specifically "aero").
And if they can’t say that (ie when it’s not true), they will intimate that you might be out of compliance, and hope you’re worried enough to just pay more anyway.
This seems spurious. Flagged for verification.
Are you aware of the Monroe doctrine? Cuban missile crisis? Can you imagine the US reaction if Russia placed missiles in Canada or Mexico?

Mearsheimer explains the perceived threat aspect very well: it doesn't matter what YOU, the Americans or any outside observer thinks. What does matter is what the Russians think,
and they've made their thinking on having Ukraine be part of NATO very clear.
NTIA AI Open Model Weights RFC
> Earlier last year, it made changes to the Oracle Java SE subscription model, basing it on a per-employee metric many said would increase costs for users.

Would running Java under Corretto 21 change this?
I think it has more to do with Linux becoming more viable on the desktop for the average user thanks to web apps and Electron. Developers can drive some trends, with them typically being the one in their group people go to for advice, but if developers alone haven’t tipped the needle by now, I don’t see that changing, especially when so much development these days isn’t being compiled.

Last time I setup a Linux box I was pleasantly surprised I could get a lot of the stuff I was used to, thanks to Electron. While I prefer native apps, having an official app that has feature parity to Windows and macOS will always win out, and I don’t think the average user even knows the difference.

The biggest weakness of Linux on the desktop going mainstream always seemed to be the lack of commercial software. That’s where OS X shined with developers. It was a Unix system that could also run Photoshop and Office, without hoping Wine worked, or relying on converting file types to maintain compatibility with the rest of the world… and hoping that worked.

The more native apps don’t matter, the better I see Linux doing.

I think his has also helped Windows. I remember several years ago trying Windows again for the first time in a long time. It felt mostly the same has 15 years prior. Looking around for app recommendations, and it was the same stuff from 15 years ago with the same UIs for the most part. No one was adopting the changes MS was trying to push. Electron comes along and now developers are putting their app everywhere, when for a while it seemed like it was mainly phone, macOS, and web. Windows and Linux users were seemingly expected to just use the web apps. While Electron may technical be the same under the hood, having something local for often used and mission critical apps is very nice.
Fun fact: those movies are just easter eggs thrown into our timeline by future ChatGPT
What if we rotate pairs every day?
Epic is learning the lesson that Nvidia had to learn. Apple holds grudges. Honestly, it was idiotic of them to expect anything else. Maybe they thought that they were more Samsung-like and after being a huge pain to apple, life will resume normalcy. Apple needed Samsung. They do not need Epic.
But what is the incentive?
And in french with "non ?" at the end. Often pronounced "nanh" (english), "nan" (french). A more familiar form of "non".

On va prendre de l'essence d'abord, nan?

We're going to get gas first, right?
It’ll also be interesting to see how these privacy regulations interact with “Proof of Humanity” (POH) schemes in the long run. For example, if POH becomes a fundamental security precaution to do financial transactions [1] would you be opting out of most of the modern economy?

Edit: If my memory is correct, Worldcoin claims to have a “key” that was generated using your retina, but the key is not associated with your identity. You can then present the key to a third party who can verify with Worldcoin that you are human, but not a specific person.

[1] Imagine a bot that could impersonate you and drain your bank account, for example.
That’s very gracious of you. Thanks.

How do HNers take advantage of your offer?
There is one. LLMs are only non-random because they use an RNG. If you use a seeded PRNG then you get deterministic behaviour.
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Which Epic Games account would you prefer they use, the American one?

If you want to talk about cowardly behavior, we should discuss Apple's anti-steering policy. At the root of this brouhaha is an indefensible double-standard that Apple cannot sustain in a fair market.
Skip tedious tagging in favor of this simple but robust AWS account strategy that makes neat, shareable reports quickly.
That is my superficial understanding as well but if we are both correct, what is the point?

One of the only (dubious) advantages of crypto is that nothing ties a wallet to a person, or a wallet to another wallet unless they interact. How is WorldCoin better than just having a bank account that you have to go into a bank in person to set up?
what sort of compatibility does RS-232 doesn't represent if not electrical or logical?
I love Apple, they enabled me to turn from a waiter to a startup founder to a sold startup to a Google employee to a lifestyle I could never have imagined or gotten otherwise.

I was writing iOS apps when it was iPhone OS, and there wasn't an SDK.

I don't recognize these sniping negative off-topic comments that have become a regularity on articles about the App Store over the past 3-6 months.

Way back then, we were extremely suspicious of the 30%. And we had no idea that would metastasize into, inter alia, not even being able to mention there's another way to pay.

We never, ever, in a million years, would have imagined ads in the Settings app, for all users, pushing you to sign up to be billed for Apple's competing service(s) that don't have to pay the 30%.

Or Apple saying they they needed 30% from payments for real-life services, like say, concert tickets.*

I accepted the "it's an appliance and safety is paramount and people could do payment scams" argument back then.

We're 15 years past, and there's plenty of scams on the App Store proper.

I don't fault Apple for this, like all gatekeepers, the scale got far past what anyone imagined and it's an impossible problem.

If Sony was requiring 30% from every video producer played on your TV, and they couldn't even mention there was a way to save 30% by simply calling a toll-free number, it'd be obviously wrong at some point.

Certainly now.

That's where Apple is.

* there is an exemption for 1:1 services. There's absolutely 0 rationale for that, leaving me to guess that it is because 'concert tickets' are easier to bully in the court of public opinion than 'taxis'
The key thing is to learn from this experience.

I made the mistake of trusting Airbnb about a decade ago. Never again.

As they say: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... can't be fooled again.
"a specialist advisory company helping clients deal with Oracle licenses"

I would (naively, I know) imagine that if you need to hire a third party to help you sort out your licenses with a vendor, you would do whatever it takes to get rid of that vendor. It's almost as if Oracle wants their customers to ditch them the first chance they get.
SRI hashes the decompressed resource
Here's my problem with it.

F1 is a sport for elites + billionaires, but even the racers are all incredibly wealthy/fortunate nepo babies. It's one of the most inaccessible sports in the entire world. It takes an average of $2M+ for a person to enter F1 as a driver.

Imagine if every kid in the US alone had the privilege/fortune to race carts/cars since they were children, growing up immersed in the scene. Now imagine the equivalent of the US basketball or football system, where hundreds of thousands of kids start the sport young and are gradually filtered out all the way up to college and then pro leagues, ensuring the absolute best of the best are ultimately selected.

The F1 candidate pool represents a rounding error in comparison.

Sure, the drivers who make it are great. They started young and they worked hard to get there. But we're fundamentally BARELY penetrating the global potential here. The greatest possible drivers in the world will statistically never enter the sport. They won't even be able to afford a ticket to watch F1 in person.
[dupe]

More discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200

And yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600172
A few years ago, my then-employer (a smallish company, < 150 employees) had to deal with an Oracle compliance audit. I was shocked at the time to learn that there are companies (like Palisade Compliance mentioned in this article) that specialize in Oracle license compliance. We made it through just fine (in fact I believe we managed to get a small refund!), but having been through that (though not in any way directly involved), my take is that no one should ever do business with Oracle if they can possibly avoid it.
It’s beyond laughable that the company didn’t better address these concerns beyond performative press releases without the need for regulatory intervention before rolling out in any jurisdiction, let alone the EU. Whatever one’s opinion on the privacy implications, it’s a simply embarassing business* move given the number of countries with data protection legislation (and/or active regulators).

* or whatever motive one wishes to ascribe to the mix of for- and non-profit entities involved in muddying the waters OpenAI-style
And for my immature moment of the day, the above comment was comment #69
A walled garden is difficult and expensive to maintain. In Apple's case, it also requires a constant battle against the public interest, because they've carved out various niches in domains that intrude on interoperability, consumer rights, privacy, censorship, surveillance, tax evasion, child slavery, and so on. If they cede ground, they lose money, so they develop and execute strategies that minimize or mitigate loss in conjunction with maximizing gain.

Apple has no principles or ethics or morals to which it is bound; it's governed by an optimization algorithm that pits the profit incentive against the constraints of resources, legislation, and their public image.

Apple's only as effective as the humans who execute their assigned roles within the overall algorithm, so the organization is subject to the usual human weaknesses and foibles.

Pride. Arrogance. Bullheadedness. Complacency.

If these weaknesses infect the culture, spreading across many roles, then many things can degrade and spin out of control. Apple is just as mortal and vulnerable as MySpace, Yahoo, Sears, Blockbuster, or any other big company or institution.

Without the advantages afforded by the unsavory, unethical, and unprincipled aspects of their business, Apple might not be able to maintain their walled garden effectively. Apple's particular variety of golden goose may not continue to be compatible with the markets in which it currently dominates, since much of the regulation, litigation, and legislation will focus on Apple's effects on the world.

Lots of things could happen outside their control that would kill the golden goose. Lots more things could happen if they fall prey to human failure modes.
you may or may not be aware that when he headed vpri, they did some substantial research into some of the other important ways to organize software, including things like array languages, david p. reed's work on spatially replicated computation, and cooperating communities of specialized solvers. in this talk, he also mentioned gelernter's tuple-space architecture, though you may have missed it. he definitely isn't arguing that oo should be the universal way to build everything, much less smalltalk; he's lamenting that no better paradigm than their research prototype has emerged since then

however, i do agree that there are some advances made since then that he doesn't fully appreciate, things like the importance of free-software licensing, roy fielding's work on architectural styles, recent advances in formal methods and functional programming, and the web's principle of least power
By default, yes, but that can be disabled by anyone with admin rights (which is also default for standard user).
It's a crime in Japan to pay protection money to Yakuza. It seems to be working. They are a shadow of their former selves.

You can mitigate adverse consequences. Punishments for child kidnapping used to be severe, but then abductors would just kill the hostage since they had little more to lose. Today's sentences are next to nothing to encourage surrender.
You didn’t read the article.
> With all the things on a phone that are constantly switching on and off, connecting and reconnecting and disconnecting and moving, etc. etc

Could I trouble you for an example? The only regular connection changes I can see are networking changes that are managed at a different layer, or things that are user-level applications.
Used to work there due to acquihire (throwaway acct since regular can out me).

Engineers were walked through how to interact with clients; don’t say this or that because of laws and treaties. But also to listen for customer language that suggests a customer is cheating Oracle; let Oracle know and they will send the lawyers.

It was a very paranoia driven environment.
Hi! Sorry about that, HN Launch way more stress on our system than we expected. Working hard to get back to reliability.
There are loads of stores in Spain offering to "create art" of your iris by taking a high-res scan and blowing it up to make a canvas print. They sprang up overnight a while back and as far as I know aren't fooling anyone.
> At least historians of our era will have terabytes of rumors in Facebook/Twitter to examine. (Or will they?)

I'm almost certain they won't. IIRC, Facebook and Twitter are very resistant to scraping. Eventually they'll shut down or pivot, and all their existing data will go poof.

Plus people think about social media differently than newspapers. Newspapers were an open public record, and some effort was always made to archive them (e.g. the local library binding them into books or microfilming them). Social media is this weird amalgam of public and private, that people are more jealously guarding from the public.
Maybe, but that seems unrelated. As a consumer living in the EU it's good to see that effective antitrust is a thing here. Which BTW historically the US was very good at. It at least in principle enables more efficient markets.

That we have an issue with entrepreneurship and bureaucracy in Europe is true, something that should be improved, but that is not achieved by enabling monopolies.
I've spent a good chunk of my career in realtime audio/video conferencing and am now working on APIs for B2B SaaS, thanks ;)

I also know that user experience of any application suffers a lot when latencies are high. Your point seems to be that there is lots of software that doesn't care about its user experience (mostly because the people making buying decisions are not the people suffering from those decisions) and that's a fair point, but I don't think that is a great business strategy for any software business.

Of course there are lots of scenarios where latency literally doesn't matter at all.