skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How a corporation can have an opinion?

I can give you that an AI trained to make a mixin of a lot of input texts and output a mashup of those texts, the output might not be the same of their creators. That said, it's known that AI creators/trainers can make their AI lean towards certain "opinions", as we saw recently with the case of Gemini and their understanding of diversity (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...).

Corporations can't do that. Corporations don't ask for everybody's in the corporation opinion and then do an aggregate with all of them to write a press release. They have some people choosing what to say in the press release that goes in the interest of the corporation.
Also it ties strong encapsulation with composition (slots) so it prevents easily replacing framework components like React by native components
The absurdity extends to keyboards as well. To get a moderately priced clicky keyboard with the type of switches and layout I was looking for, the damn thing has absurd levels of animated RGB ground effects that make it look like a party bus by default. (Patriot V765 with Kailh Box switches) I regret spending good money on a Mechanical V3 ASDF keyboard because it doesn't work very well, isn't comfortable, the quality is low, and after-sales support was nonexistent. I'm tempted to drag a Northgate keyboard with ALPS switches out of storage and adapt it to USB.
We as a society need to adapt to this new wave of influence on kids.

I think it goes without saying in this forum that if we try to ban children from using social media they will simply make their own. Any ban will only drive them into using it illegally or on a sort of underground scene.
Isn't communism supposed to be achieved through authoritarianism, after which the state "withers away" [sic]?
Good thing Claude's a massive step forward.
Controversial take: Most indiemaker projects and startups would probably be build faster if they just used the

<?php include 'header.php'>
Hello <?=$name>, how are you today?
<?php include 'footer.php'>

approach.

Afaik, https://twitter.com/levelsio still works this way.
> Nobody notices, there is no meaningful impact whatsoever.

In the article it's stated that the project was started by some poets.

The world would be a cold(er), dark(er) place if we took a critically rational knife to every tiny instance of emotional reasoning.

I'm probably as rationalist as they come with regards to death, but if we're being critical we should also ask if we're questioning someone's community gesture in earnest or if we're just building another quick soapbox from which to broadcast our personal philosophy. Or (if there's even a distinction), to justify our own self interest when affronted by what could appear to be a selfless gesture.
> Being exposed to shit on the internet teaches you there's bullshit on the internet, and not to believe everything you see

Maybe it taught you that, but there are plenty of people that grow up on the Internet who do not learn these lessons. Take a look at any conspiracy message board, group, etc.

Akin to saying something like, "let it happen, that'll teach 'em"

Unfortunately, not everything works itself out.
No, it's not. Where does it say so?
I don’t think kids should be on the internet (public WAN) alone at all, so easy for me. They could get larger whitelists over time as they approach 18—no sites where they interact with adults.
Out of topic but are we now back at the same performance than ChatGPT 4 at the time people said it worked like magic (meaning before the nerf to make it more politically correct but making his performance crash)?
Public got in exchange well rested worker closer to their place of work, and thus probably more efficient because of that.

How is that worse than the management having too much space in their office than needed or leather covered office chair?
recently shipped and it'll be complete when you can follow fedi accounts from Threads but my feeling is it will be much more restricted in that direction:

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/thr...
Hey logicchains, being a little bit aggressive today, aren't we? Is everything ok?
> The Alvin’s most famous dive, however, was its 1968 exploration of the wreck of the ill-fated Titanic.

That should be 1986?
These are the kind of opportunities one must take when they present themselves. Well done.
That's unrelated to the article. If the article was about "how to build SpaceX rockets" the equivalent comment could be "I bought some fertilizer and made my own rocket using PVC pipes".
LDAP, UofM, is better X.500. MIT and other schools were all connected over Kerberos from before, DoD? Hence the connection.
I was blown away when I installed OS X from the internet directly without downloading it and copying to a usb/cd.

Next time I was blown away with installs was when I unbricked my pixel phone from Chrome!
I don’t have a dog in the fight, but it seems silly to use “what FAANG companies are able to make their tools do” to inform decisions for smaller companies.
Sure, but nothing is stopping /bin/sh from doing stupid things with its argument list once it gets them, which from what i understand is the equivalent of what is happening on windows.
I grew up in Sweden, where strong alcohol is only sold in a state owned company and the same for gambling, so this probably make me have another view of this than people from other countries. I do believe that there has to be some sort of laws around how social media, or really "endless scrolling of content" is done. It's seriously addictive, I feel it myself, and just letting people "be free and choose what to do" results in addicts in real life. If people and society is hurting because of this, it would be good to fix it.

I think that an easy start is to require every platform that has addictive endless scrolling, or endless suggestions for what to watch next, to have a soft limit. After some regular time, information is shown that "you are on an addictive platform and taking breaks from it is good for your mental health". "Algorithms are made to keep your attention, often by making you angry and upset. Remember that this is easily fixed by stepping off this platform". It is basically a version of "smoking kills", or "don't drink and drive", but for the digital age. I think it is an easy thing to legislate (as easy as those things get), still allows people to be "free", and that could actually have a positive effect on the world.
But OTOH you can't really compare the fangs to other circumstances, they can boil the ocean with a new or old tech stack.
Yeah, Shadow DOM was definitely introduced as an immature technology with lots of problems. Nowadays there's also Declarative Shadow DOM[1] which allows you to create Shadow DOMs without JS. It alleviates some of these problems at the cost of introducing a few more of its own. It's like a drunken stumble with two steps forward and one back.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/declarative-shadow-...
I remember until win98, you could run a program called fileman or something that looked like a win3.1 file browser. That was my idea of retro back then..
I think these stories tend to be based on a bait-and-switch angle.

Minimum viable products only need to implement very basic functionality, just enough to get something out of the door. Limited tech stacks like Laravel/Django/Adonisjs can provide basic functionality, and sometimes a plain static HTML+CSS can serve that purpose as well.

Except that micro services are an organizational tool, which just so happens to have important technical traits. When you start to develop your MVP to actually do something relevant to your business, and you start to assign responsibilities and accountability to specific people running specific projects, you create a need to peel out functionalities and data sources and to isolate loosely couple them from the rest of the service. You start to have a need to have teams work independently and autonomously.

And that's where micro services come in.

There are plenty of system design exercises that ask you how would you implement Twitter, and the first iteration is a monolith with a RDBMS. It quickly grows beyond that. Why?
Interestingly, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is at the top of the LiveCodeBench Leaderboard: https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html

(GPT-4 Turbo with Vision has a knowledge cutoff of Dec 2023, so filter to Jan 2024+ to minimize the chance of contamination.)

In general, my take is that each model has its own personality, which can cause it to do better or worse on different sorts of tasks. From evaluating many LLMs, I've found that it's almost never the case that one model is better than an another at everything. When an eval only has a certain type of problem (e.g., only edits to long codebases, or only short self-contained competition problems), it's not clear how homogeneously its performance rankings will generalize to other coding tasks. Unfortunately, if you're a developer using an LLM API, the best thing to do is to test all of the models from all the providers to see which works best for your use case.

(I work at OpenAI, so feel free to discount my opinions as much as you like.)
AFAIK (“Seeing like a State”), that’s specific to the Leninist modality. I very well could be misinformed, but, the book mentions essentially a moment where democratic-socialism was co-opted by authoritarian communism (Leninism), so that’s what the world ended up with.
I don't want to be that old man yelling "oh, in my days!!!", but honestly, a lot, if not most, of the web "innovations" seem to make things considerably worse, and shadow DOM is a great example of this.

For instance, I used to be able to style archive.org old site and implement a dark mode, but then they had the brilliant idea of starting to use shadow DOM and for some reason extensions like stylus/dark reader simply don't work on shadow DOM yet, you can't change those elements, so dark mode does't work. And all for what? The funny part is that the old site front-end was just okay, no problem, it just worked.

Honestly, I just don't get why web developers – especially the ones in internet archive foundation, which really should focus on things such as accessibility – keep changing things that simply didn't need to be change.
Considering those goals, what about similar approaches using ESP32 based handhelds instead?

It seems it could have been a better approach without the possible legal issues of PS1 homebrew development.
Fully agree. This stuff doesn’t magically become interesting and relevant to HN just because some connection to a tech company exists.
You can build an arbitrarily tall building on a piece of land, allowing the price of the land to be split between arbitrarily many housing units.

Suppose that land is extremely expensive. A single acre of land is ten million dollars. How much is a housing unit? An acre is 43560 sq ft, so a building that allocates half the size of the lot to housing units could have at least 10 housing units of 2000 sq ft per floor and a 50 story building would have at least 500 units making the land cost per unit $20,000.

You can't get a 2000 sq ft condo in San Francisco for anywhere near $20,000. The difference is attributable to zoning and construction costs.

But it's worse than that, because if building tall buildings wasn't inhibited then the land wouldn't cost as much because the inability to make space-efficient use of the land drives up its scarcity.
> The team was told specifically to release the new terms on the Fourth of July weekend, when people were typically focused on the holiday, the employees said.

I think the public deserves to know the name of the person/people who made this decision (and maybe also the people who went along with it).
It's just little changed in theme/resource files, it boots straight to windows 11 for installer.

Before Vista, the installer process on NT had three phases:

1. Optional DOS phase to bring minimal NTLDR environment up

2. "Micro" NT without Win32 API that ran only NTAPI (NE format executables et al) applications in the minimal console support (with the characteristic default of white on blue). This would do equivalent of "minimal install" on unices to the target disk, setting up proper HAL.DLL, boot time drivers, and setting up registry hives.

3. GUI installer that booted from hard disk with Win32 subsystem enabled.
Your comment and the GPs aren’t disagreeing.
Yesterday's discussion on reddit's r/lambdacalculus:

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/lambdacalculus/comments/1byllqk/fra...
Wouldn't expect that to work at all.
Sorry, I was trying to summarise there because the points get repeated a lot. I'm not saying that all ID checks are easy to bypass, but that:

- a lot of people do not want effective ID checks, for a lot of reasons

- effective ID checks are not necessarily easy or even feasible to implement (this may vary depending on your region/government)

- there's a fair chance (some would say high likelihood) that any implemented ID checks are not effective

- ineffective ID checks can fail to do what they were supposed to do (age gating) while still having negative impacts (reduced privacy, more data to the datalords, lower barriers to law enforcement access to your activity, connecting government ID with day-to-day identity, etc.)
TBH, it could take more time to clone and tweak a micro-service architecture.

Arguably, they'd take another approach altogether in that case (keep some services in common and clone as few services as possible for instance), but it's still notable that they had the option to clone it wholesale in the first place.
Yeah this is like working for Google and launching "YouTube Texts" where some engineer removes all the actual videos leaving only the code for comments and calling it a new thing.
I assume you have the 1st gen one — I can only recommend the 2nd gen pro, I didn’t even originally want it, just got a good deal if I buy both this and an ipad, but I use the airpod each and every day for multiple hours, and I only have to think about charging the case after several weeks. The noise cancellation on the other hand is otherworldly.
I'm actually writing an argument against myself, because I'm usually closer to the "let's use the new shiny thing" camp. But that article is a nice reminder that the new shiny thing is not the only way to go and the "old, boring thing" is as capable if used right.
Good for the internet! Hope America follow suit and stop feeding more monopolies.
Any recs for a low-cost pair?
> then Russia attacked. Europeans are now firmly allied with US against Russia and China.

Trump said he would use Russia to destroy Europe, and was more interested in blackmailing Ukraine then helping them ward of Russian aggression. It’s no wonder Trump is so popular in Russia and hated very much in rest of Europe.
Not if we implement mandatory ID internet use and social tracking system. We could introduce it with Elmo, Kermit, and Fozzie, and call it "Sesame Credit"… waka waka!
> "Modern" today means "recently changed". Not better, not less bugs, just that it's recently changed.

That's what modern always means. Sometimes modern is good, sometimes it's bad; this applies to art, technology, cuisine, lifestyles, etc. Although on windows 'Modern UI' was a keyword refering specifically to the Tiles UI and everything that went with it. I think Microsoft has tried to forget that. If the term sticks, 'Modern UI' will become the same sort of term as 'Art Nouveau' that means New Art in theory, but means art in a style that was defined around 1880-1910.
I liked your privacy policy and terms of service. Simple and straightforward.
I mean all financial risks are on the publisher side since he has to print some books with his own money and be sure it can get some money back if it doesn’t sell.
And then Mark Zuckerberg called people who handed over their data "Dumb F**".
An excellent point. Abstention = social isolation, which for young people is far worse than exposure. Restricting your children's access is not an option (lets' be real, they'll find a way to circumvent your efforts anyway) and moving the burden of restriction from society to individuals is not fair.

So as a society do we let unrestrained exposure or do we take collective action? I lean on the second option, but I'm not sure what this action might be.

I'm on the internet ~30 years, I loved the total anarchy of the early web, the unrestrained access to all kinds of information - good, bad and evil. It's very hard for me to get behind heavy-handed regulation. But honestly, I feel oversaturated by the modern cataclysm of information. My bullshit filters are clogged, my defense mechanisms are failing to the point I let information flow through me without an ounce of critical thinking. I can't imagine what the effect is on young untrained minds.
To put this into perspective, my graduation project was porting a particle systems engine from NeXT/Objective-C into Windows/C++ using OpenGL, and using it for visualization techniques like marching cubes.

Nowadays on a modern engine, a particle engine is one item from a huge list of engine features.
It's pretty relavent, because the way he did the crime was incredibly brazen or incredibly stupid. Probably both.
I'm sure that as usual the higher res options will be available in the US only
That's a revolutionary idea! But unfortunately it's not good enough.

I am using Airbnb purposefully to avoid hotels and enjoy the authentic locations. I like to experience for a week how it feels to be part of that neighborhood. Hotels are all alike, no matter where you go. I would use hotels when I travel for work, but when I am with my wife I prefer a cozy AirBnb with a terrace and view.

At one point I was in Amsterdam and rented an apartment in one of those 3-window wide tall houses, they had a flight of stairs going straight up for 3 floors in a line at 45% angle. Interesting experience pulling my suitcase to the attic.

Another time I was in Tokyo in the Roppongi district. My flat was at ground level. An old lady (the proverbial "obaasan") was watering the flowers from the outside and took care to splash us with some water while we were sitting in the balcony. I also had to learn their garbage sorting rules.

That's what I am looking for, and I am not turning back to using hotels.
> is your "somebody" a person or a company?

What is the explicit difference between 1 person and 10 persons when it comes to their rights?

Explicit, I want to know what rights we lose as soon as "I" transforms into "we".
I remember connecting my Linux Kerberos client and having issues with clock skew, anything over 5 minutes would stop the client from working. But I did have a Linux machine which would connect to the school Kerberos and access network from my house instead of having to go to MU3NE, media unit 3 floor north-east. This brings back a lot of memories. I did still go, but mostly to hang out. Kinda similar thing people that go to the office do these days. I guess things don't change.
Microservices are risk mitigation. If you know what are you doing - Monolith is optimal way.

We use microservices, because we acknowledge that we don't know how final product would look like, and we mitigate risks associated with adding and removing unknown number of features.

Facebook was creating clone of Twitter, well known product, well known path. There is no need for microservices.
Can a 13 year old buy a gun? No. Can a 13 year old create a social media account (by entering a fake birth date)? Yes.

Since we know there are minors on social media (parents can be blamed to an extent), should there not be a fool-proof way of determining the age of the user before allowing them in?
So you want to ban all kinds of software forges, like for example GitHub? Or other regular coordination platforms for business?

I guess the definition of "social media" is not as simple as outlined above.
I think that the first lesson anyone whos signing on Reddit should be, to approach each post with a belief it is fake and is trying to see if it can deceive you. I know that for the hn crowd this sounds as obvious as the everyday weather, but not for kids with tech-illiterate parents.
That’s a terrible analysis.

I assume the “cost” were injuries added up through remaining lifespan through lost work, etc.

But you can’t do a cost-benefit analysis without counting benefits.

So let’s add up all the benefits and value created by table saws.
> They have some people choosing what to say in the press release that goes in the interest of the corporation.

Who are these people? Are they people or something that are not people?
It doesn't since the trend still continues as they explained in the linked article. 2020 is well past the crack wars.
For hosted solution, you'll find mailerlite is far better than mail chimp.
One could make that exact argument of cigarettes too. And see why it doesn't work in the real world.
Implement a List of Types in C++
I'm logged in and the link doesn't work.

So, thanks for the screengrab! I'm always a bit annoyed by people cleaning comments like this to move it to chat when stack exchange chat is so bad and somehow always has messed up timestamps.
yeah, nothing special about infrastructure indeed... They just reuse IG infra and build features on top of it. Mentioning Microservices is so non-sense here, just for the purpose of clickbait.
HN driven development! It’s so true.
But will all the Rust compilations in the world actually have an impact on global warming?
We did: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/beeper-joins-the-foundation/
Yes, that is the work "individually" is doing here – multiple realms (services) could collude to combine shards and attempt to extract secrets.

However, programmable HSMs, with verifiable software (e.g. via a key ceremony), minimize this form of collusion. The shards they hold can't be extracted by a malicious operator, at least without substantial effort (requiring HSM hardware vulnerabilities).
While 'goverment has a majority share in every company' is very likely not true, but CCP does have control over the the companies whenever they want.

They would force CCP member into the board and setup CCP organizations within the companies. Anyone who deals with China's companies would need to understand this. You are always dealing with CCP behind it
Hello, I use tab groups to be more productive.

Why, you ask, use tab groups instead of OS windows? The same reason you use tabs in the first place instead of OS windows, to have another layer in the toolkit. I don't want to have 17 windows kicking around for all 17 different topics I put on hold and treat like temporary bookmark folders till I somewhen use them again or declare finished. At time having like 500+ tabs combined (currently 220 - the plug-in even counts and is compatible with my TreeStyleTabs :).

Mostly I use it to keep tabs for tickets sorted, but I if there are topics/contexts not associated with a ticket I use it to track that as well. For example I have a tab group for breaks - I keep all the fun and non productive bits in there and later I can go back to work without loosing the sate of it.
As a friend of mine said "If you can't kid-proof the farm, you have to farm-proof the kid". Watched said kid drink from farm puddles, and lick feed bowls. Seems to have worked: She's headed to tech school now.
>the middle ground where almost all change happens: the collective aggregate result of cultural change

happened, past tense. That cultural layer, to a large extent enforced by various religious traditions both in the literal and civic sense, sometimes for better or worse is pretty much gone. Nowadays it largely is a binary question of legal action on the one hand or individual choice on the other.

If you tell people they need to make change within their community 90% are going to ask you, what community? Community with a capital C where people collectively enforce binding rules, rather than occasionally go bowling isn't much of a thing.
> extraordinarily cynical and depressing

You mean, like the reality humans created for themself to suffer in?