skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a TikTok account with ~100k followers and average 57k views a day. My TikTok profile is just a link to my website (a notion page). The notion analytics tell me that I get about 1 visitor a day - I'm not certain how notion analytics work, but I think I count as a visitor when I edit the site - so I might be averaging below 1 daily average actual visitor from TikTok.

My point with the above is to to emphasize the idea from the parent comment. Social media traffic, especially on a place like TikTok, stays in that garden. Very difficult to move viewers off-platform.
Whatsapp chats are encrypted, how can they be used to train the models? Also what kind of training can be done on Instagram data, is there anything of value there?
A close friend of mine growing up had a parent that worked at SGI. I'm not trying to start a holy war, but I just have to let it be known that emacs was the recommended editor at SGI. Just saying. Maybe other things contributed to the fall but, in my heart I will always remember emacs.
Good people make mistakes. Maybe the fired employees got really good severance packages? Maybe they were given introductions that led to immediate employment offers? I have no idea, but judging some one based on a tweet where they announced they had made a mistake that may have hurt two individuals is hardly fair.
That's a bit of an unfair comparison as Munich is a city, whereas Schleswig-Holstein is a state.

It's not very different from Bavaria or neighbouring areas such as Jylland or Lower Saxony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_states_by_house...
What's an example of what this would look like?
The server does quite a bit. Most of the features are covered here: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/guides/USAGE...

I actually did start out with just the CLI running locally, but it reached a point I needed a database and thus a client-server model to get it all working smoothly. I also want to add sharing and collaboration features in the future, and those require a client-server model.
It’s just a hurricane in the winter, no biggie. We would enjoy the snow and check out the surf (from a safe distance). I think you aren’t officially supposed to suggest the latter though.
I hoped the person used a firewall and/or removed ME forcefully for the second round.
As always with art, the answer is: it depends on what you think, feel like and/or are trying to convey.
Oh how I lusted over the Challenges, the Octanes, the Indigo2s of the time. It was a revelation when I finally was able to sit down at a console of an Octane (with two, count 'em TWO R14000 and a whopping 2.6G of RAM), tooling around in IRIX via 4dwm was so much more satisfying than today's UIs. It was snappy and low-latency unlike anything I've used since.

Later on, I was able to do some computational work on an Altix 3700 with 256 sockets and 512G of RAM spread over four full-height cabinets with the nest of NUMAlink cables at the back), at the time running SuSE linux and that was wild seeing the 256 sockets being printed out with a cat /proc/cpuinfo. Now the same capabilities are available in a 4U machine.

The corporate lineage story is also just as interesting as the hardware they made as well. Acquisition, spinoff, acquisition, rename, acqusition, shutter, now perhaps just a few books and binders and memories in the few remaining personnal at HPE are all that's left (via Cray, via Tera, via SGI, via Cray Research).

RIP SGI
I've read a bit about asset protection. The big problem I see is that how do you trust advice/strategies from any given advisor/attorneys will actually hold up, rather than simply being an expensive piece of paperwork that gets disregarded right as it's needed. Perhaps I'd feel differently if say I were in one of the few states that explicitly respected self settled asset protection trusts. But as things stand I'm somewhat salty that say even a straightforward LLC seemingly can't be relied upon to protect from the liability exposure of owning a rental property, when done by an individual. Meanwhile corpos have successfully convinced courts to create post-facto liability shields between business units that hadn't even been structured that way ahead of time.
Adding a possible example here to back Glen's comment. Larger render distance Minecraft servers, Bandwidth cost is un-predictable (Player movement based ex: Elytra, portals, joining) and scales squared! with the render distance.
Bach Forever
Some of the most damaging reactionary culture is being anti-nuclear despite it clearly being the best method of power generation alongside wind and solar. And the US is not alone in being stupidly anti-nuclear
It’s a good question what portion of our DNA contributes to the information processing and knowledge in our brain.

However, the first complex nervous systems came about in the Cambrian explosion, only about half a billion years ago. And we also don’t train LLMs by random mutation and selection, it’s a much more teleological process.

But to extend the analogy, we should be able to train a model continuously, and not have to start training from scratch for each new model. Although, maybe, that would require random mutations, and thus much more time?
The geology of the east coast makes earthquakes about ten times more intense (according to usgs) so this is similar to a west coast high five.
That's my read. And he's totally right! Plugins/GPTs aren't a good platform or product, partly for some of the technical reasons he mentioned, but really because they're basically a tech demo for the real product (the tool API).
Worked on a video licensing project for a cable company for six months, canceled after a merger. Worked on a tool for consulting companies to track their engineers expertise, canceled after I left. Worked on a voice assistant, canceled after ChatGPT came out.

There are a lot of dead ends in software. You get over it after awhile, just keep coding.
Literally all of his posts are like this. It’s crazy.

These two are more life-advice-y, but he also does some fairly deep dives on various problems he sees with scientific research (and psychology in particular), and his writing is no less entertaining.

In fact, one of his posts is actually about how he thinks scientists should make more effort to make their papers fun to read!

It’s fantastic, and I also hope to emulate it.
A couple years ago when I was looking for a new job, I applied to a handful of FAANGs, some decacorns, and...Slack.

Slack was the only one I got auto rejected. Every other place I did a full onsite loop for, and I got some offers. Except Slack. Maybe they're actively not looking for talent? I dunno. :)
The readme was obviously written with a LLM and it makes it so hard to read. High word count isnt a good thing
I've wondered about crowdsourcing that. Sousveillance. Don't think enough people would be interested, though.
That still feels like a chore, opening some text file, copying the right command, opening a terminal, messing around with input and output file paths..

I don't like interacting with command line parameters in general, it feels clunky to me, but I don't think there's a point in arguing about it since it is more of a personal preference
Yi-9B
From Vim to Zed
Also use safari on ios, I started typing my time zone (New York) is the search box and it pulled up and I selected it.
> You're getting hung up on details of code written by ChatGPT, you do realize that, right?

I'm getting hung up on what the author chose to publish.

The author asked,

>> do you want to know when something bad can happen in your program, or don’t you?

and then published some Python code and some Go code. Of the Go code he wrote:

>> Wouldn’t you know it, we have all the aforementioned errors handled!"

It's not some subtle gotcha, it's the point of the article and he somehow managed to demonstrate the opposite.

It would be like switching from garbage collection to C to make sure you remember to free all your mallocs, then showing demo code that's only a singular line change away from returning all its memory.
I used to live in a town where Comcast had a government enforced monopoly. Outages were regular, service was garbage, wait times for new installs were a month or more, and speeds were 20mbps. The town literally next door had great service, rare outages, little waiting, and gigabit speeds. Comcast didn't have a monopoly there.
I remember having a Personal Iris, at the company I worked at, and, later, an Indigo. We never used them. I think they were really there, to impress the visitors (They were in our showroom).

I remember the colors as being very different, from the photos, though.

The Personal Iris was a deep purplish-brown, and the Indigo was ... indigo.

Jim Clark sounds like my kinda guy. I made a hash of my teenage years, and barely squeaked in, with a GED, myself. It has all worked out, OK, in the end, though.
Counter-Strike 2 currently (4/5/2024) has 1,278,811 players and it's Friday in the middle of a workday.

The video claims the player count is down to 500,000. What gives?

The next most popular Steam game is DOTA2 with 617,923 players or half of what CS2 has. The facts don't seem to align with the claims made in this video.
> letting profits stay the same but giving an equal UBI salary to people who lose their jobs to this stuff.

We didn't do that with computers in the '70s (which are also "AI"); why start now? ;D
That's the curse of being a scientist: building and validating theories knowing that in the worst case you'll never live long enough to find out how wrong they actually are. Getting disproven is a lucky outcome. Please tell us if you think you have a better process to get answers to complicated questions...
> When you then use an AI model, the work done for those five bucks is replaced by work done for almost free.

In other words, you pay a few cents to big tech for a generator that only exists thanks to work real composers, singers etc who now get the grand total of 0$.
> You can tell this is fluff

What does that even mean? It's not a marketing page, it's just a simplified, introductory lesson.
Looks nice. One thing I’ve noticed is that media server projects seem to have a disposition towards C# specifically, which I find interesting. Is there a technical reason for this or is more of a big project setting norms situation?
Expensive, maybe, but I see child-care groups in downtown Washington, DC, fairly regularly--three-year-olds with a hand on a rope, grownups in front and back. I could walk in fifteen minutes past two day-care centers.
I mean I think they were ground breaking at the time for costuming and special effects. Many genre defining works look bad in retrospect because the genre has grown up since they came out.
Very memorable post about this happening at Bluesky, about being utterly unable to trust Postgres to keep doing what it's doing.

> Bluesky scaling lesson: Postgres is not a great choice if your data can be irregular.

> The query planner will switch over to a new plan that consumes 100% CPU in the middle of the night whenever its table stats flip the heuristics the wrong way.

> Postgres badly needs query hints like MySQL has!

https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3kn4v67wyjt2l
I wish I could hack that as well my friend, but I have to agree
> Google is limited to mainly Android users

https://www.appmysite.com/blog/android-vs-ios-mobile-operati...

Random link. Can't vouch for it. But US and RoW have quite different patterns.
I'm quite sure that the reason conversion websites are popular is Google. I don't know if they're just very good at SEO or search engines have a specific policy to favor web-based solution.

If you search for "mov to mp4", Handbrake is NOWHERE to see. The 10th result for me is a Cloudflare article explaining what's the difference between mov and mp4. The ~20th result is a book called Business Funding For Dummies (no shit). Handbrake is after these. The legend says I'm still scrolling trying to find where it is.

How is an average user supposed to know Handbrake or this FFmpeg WASM site?
You know, that’s actually a great way to look at it.

I think I feel like I can’t let myself excuse any slack, because I’m worried I’ll just start excusing everything — one day off at the gym becomes a week off, becomes a month off.

But I guess the point is that no matter how much you have failed, the toothbrush problem is always best served by you starting again tomorrow, no matter how many tomorrows it takes.
Is it possible to use PartyKit without Cloudflare? Such as hosting your own workerd instance? Is there any documentation anywhere for this?
Had exactly the same issue. Jellyfish was very opinionated, Plex doesn't care.
That one is easy: You won’t shock anyone if you show up at the hospital with dirty underwear. You don’t want a trauma surgeon to say that they have to page the neuro-chir. Get under a doorframe, and put your pants up when your head is safe.
Wi-Fi name was coined by a marketing company
Related - home loans to make buying homes accessible → higher home prices → now everyone has to get a loan. Same with college loans.
AMD to Open Source Micro Engine Scheduler Firmware for Radeon GPUs
Exactly. Handling and Acceleration are the most important factors at 200cc.

Acceleration because when (not if) you get hit/crash, you need to be able to catch up quickly.
To make matters stronger there are significant tax benefits (the public subsidizing private home ownership) and the US’s 30y fixed rate loan is startlingly good, especially since you have a refinancing option. The risk of these loans is again subsidized by the public.
Whats abuse is taking advantage of the fact that copyright law is complex and knowing that they don't know they could go after you.

I think we're in agreement that the current copyright system is a joke. It's too complicated and there's too many loopholes that can be exploited.
Fair point. Apologies for not mentioning that.
:’) glad to see something I contributed to still alive
I worked on the SGI campus as a consultant/vendor to them in 1999/2000 during the dot.com boom. I really wanted one of those 1600SW flat screens (everything was CRT back then), but they weren't really in use at the time.

One of the neatest things is that they let us (Trilogy/pcOrder) put together a sand volleyball team to compete in their company intramurals.

Their cafeteria was also top notch.
East coast geology (older, harder rocks) causes earthquakes to feel about ten times stronger than a west coast earthquake. This is felt roughly the same as a 5.8 in California. That's enough to be notable, especially at a shallow depth.
Infuse offloads transcoding to the client device, so you can use a low powered NAS with an appleTV for example.
That's not it. My hometown, which has slightly more population than Amsterdam, didn't suffer any damage to historical core during WW2 (so we have our pretty theater and low-key fancy 19th century houses), yet grew a massive multi-tier commie-block suburbs and incorporated surrounding villages with their owner-occupied single-story houses. In between those suburbs.

Soviets squeezed people into the cities and then gave them bare minimum housing there, yet people seem to prize them for it, while diverting all the resources from villages.
Is that deeper or shallower than usual?
Yeah, our reaction to this here is reminding me of what happens when Oregon or Atlanta gets an inch of snow. An earthquake (that is felt) is just not something that we experience often.

I remember when Atlanta got 2" and people were literally abandoning their cars on highways [1], whereas in the northeast people are out driving in blizzards.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/30/268720258...
Fictional Computers: The Three Body Problem
There's a few cases in the history of computers where it feels like the world just "chose wrong". One example is the Amiga; the Amiga really was better than anything Apple or Microsoft/IBM was doing at the time, but for market-force reasons that depress me, Commodore isn't the "Apple" of today.

Similarly, it feels like Silicon Graphics is a case where they really should have become more standard. Now, unlike Amiga, they were too expensive to catch on with regular consumers, but I feel like they should have become and stayed the "standard" for workstation computers.

Irix was a really cool OS, and 4Dwm was pretty nice to use and play with. It makes me sad that they beaten by Apple.
Yeah its great as a mirror. Simon Wardley's thread comes to mind. " Think of it like Myers Briggs or Astrology. Gibberish that is useful for self reflection. "

https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1717457831736103159
> How would owners possibly know that a compromised component has been added ?

Some will, some won't. They don't need you or some other individual or company or institution to decide for them they are too ignorant to decide for themselves where to go for replacement parts. If you're so worried over these problems just take the thing to Apple to have it repaired but leave open the option for others to get their own parts and repair it themselves or have someone repair it for them. The same goes for anyone else, it is not as if the option to use 'authorised' repair services will disappear.
Couldn’t this be addressed by standardizing around a protocol? That way client and server are decoupled and existing clients can work with new media server projects.
Sounds like an AI to me. People seem to conflate "artificial intelligence" aka smart like a person , with Singularity, aka "artificial omniscient god".

Just because it can't do everything any human could do or conceive of being done, doesn't mean it isn't doing things that humans do but rocks and even dogs can't.
Is there an AI restriction license?
I don't want my work used as training data unless paid. Otherwise I want it open.
Many groundbreaking research papers are written by researchers at Chinese institutes
And also Taiwan.

If I'm not wrong NY is not a very active seismic area. Is anybody checking the development of that weapon allegedly able to produce tsunamis that Russians promised to target NY last year?
Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition.

…but they’ll be fine with a ‘a big cold cyclone’ I guess ;)
I’m using Infuse as well, and it’s pretty amazing.
The main thing that Infuse does differently from all the others is that it always does Direct Play (in Plex parlance) so you don’t need anything powerful or power hungry to be hosting the video.

Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available.
I played with SGI machines in college and they felt like.. the future. I really hoped they would hire me when I graduated.

Incredible, though, how the relatively cheaper Windows NT machines and 3dfx cards and graphics software just killed them. I was a little sad when I wandered around the campus of an employer in Mountain View and noticed the fading sign that had what was left of the SGI logo.
I still maintain that this code is one line of fix away to satisfy your requirement of a proper OS exit code, which you didn't address in your comment.

And readability. It's quite subjective and I can work with both the Python add Golang errors.
If my eyes were closed I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between it and a washing machine running on a floor below you. I really only noticed it because my monitors were wobbling a decent amount.

> Is it even possible for someone a few houses away to experience drastically different seismic activity?

I'm not sure but there's probably variables around how sturdy things are (the foundation, floor, walls, desk, monitors, etc.). If I tap the side of my desk with the force of a golf clap the monitor wobble factor it about equal to the earthquake. I know in the US it's funny to measure things with weird units but that's the best I can do to associate the amount of force.
Posing a question at the end of a tweet like in figure 12 is a common Engagement 101 tactic to boost replies to a post and get it picked up by the algorithm.
NYC seems to have been taken quite by surprise by a storm last September.
Not a subscriber but enjoyed the video. Nice entertainment if bored. Feels pretty high production value. Don’t understand how it has anything to do being a VPN though
> This is the tell that present-generation LLM "AI" is not actually intelligent.

Agreed, I like to refer to it as collective intelligence because it's only as "smart" as what people have already published
> Eugenics by free market

That hit harder than I expected, for someone whose loved ones were crippled by primarily schizophrenia. Even two generations back, such people would be cared by family or community, but now they have practically no one. The system is working as intended, it seems.

Sad.
https://merveilles.town/@prahou/112217694585794119
They don't like it when you play by the rules.
quicklook is great. (I think something like it is built into nautilus now) Hitting enter to rename a file threw me so hard initially that I muscle memorised the f2 shortcut for other systems.
It can also direct play a lot of formats too though, because Apple TV boxes since the 2017 4K model have enough muscle for problem free software decoding.
One of my major tricks is to just wait before doing things. And ask If doing this should be done instead of that.

this helps to eliminate greatly this scenario.
Even ustwo can't really manage to bottle that lightning again. Their most recent title, Desta, is about working through your issues over a game of dodgeball. It's cute, but not exactly brilliant. It's hard to control, and worse, it has more of a "tell" than "show" feeling to its message.

Like with hit movies, it's incredibly hard to predict just what's going to attract people's attention. At least Monument Valley was cheap to build, which is one of its biggest wins.
Without getting into whether or not this technology that you're bringing up out of no where is the panacea to all the problems with seabed mining that we're talking about, what sort of mechanisms do you propose we use to ensure that the people who mine will use these safer technologies?
I still keep a maxed out Octane2 in running order for posterity. Occasionally logging in to it reminds me just how a desktop environment should feel. We truly have lost something since then.
We only know it's malicious in hindsight. If I was Lasse (original xz maintainer) I could have easily thought it was an innocent typo and that's the point. If it was more convoluted like zero-width Unicode character or misspelling of variable names, it'll be less plausible IMO.
I'm not here to argue about semantics. The first line of my OP said "options for the sake of options" and then "choices don't significantly enhance the core game experience". The comment you're replying to said "something along the lines of" to encourage readers not to get hung up on the exact wording.

I'd appreciate a bit of a more charitable interpretation of my responses.

Given the context, a more charitable interpretation would have been something like:

"solving NP-hard problems isn't good gameplay...*in and of itself*"

> Giving the player optimization problems is one of the fundamental pillars of game design.

Yes, but this is not what I'm talking about at all. I don't know how you're interpreting my position as being against optimization problems in games.

> Consider that Tetris is NP-hard. :)

Would you consider that the choices that make Tetris NP-hard significantly enhance the core game experience?

How about MtG or Hearthstone?

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> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Creators need to be compensated, absolutely,

I'm working full-time on this issue, just in the context of my own music project. Stay tuned!