skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 90s, early 2000s, in Australia, there was an ISP called Dot, IIRC.

In an attempt to be edgy, their website was at:

triplew.dot.net.au

"triple w dot dot dot net dot au"
I use speedify to channel bond wifi and mobile when the wifi is not super reliable. It works great when walking around outside and eduroam works for 20m at a time.
If their answer is anything other than "eclipse", then they failed. There was no follow-up question to see why theh felt that way. There was no real discussion on strategy or reasoning. This is a trap.
US Steel isn’t even the biggest steel producer in the USA. That would be Nucor.
VSCode has excellent git and github support (especially with the GitHub Pull Requests and GitLens extensions). In my workflow, it has surpassed anything Magit had to offer. While I still use the command line git extensively, I've come to rely on VSCode for a lot of the more complex contextual information available when editing, resolving merge conflicts, staging, and contextual git history available in popups.

I always leaned on emacs due to its versatility working in remote environments on the command line. I still use it occasionally, but for me the feature that finally made me switch to VSCode as my main daily driver was the remote SSH plugin. It's a game changer and the best remote IDE experience I've ever had. Then Copilot came out and cemented the change.

I think in general emacs and vi users learn to live with the UX and legibility issues of the software. I find vscode to be better at that. It strikes the right balance on a lot of things, in particular I find myself learning new things faster and with less frustration because the shortcuts, commands, and contextual information are more intuitive and in line with my expectations.
Ah, so that’s what I’ve been experiencing. I suppose if I don’t make a hasty return to Windows 98 at 1280x800 it’s probably over for me.
Yes. Via the new age verification laws which require any site with a considerable amount of 18+ content to verify their users are 18+. This has passed in a few states. Leading Pornhub, and some other porn sites, to block access from those states.

The age verification laws are written pretty broadly and could be used to target a wide variety of content. Not just porn. Anything the state deems 18+ would require age verification.

These laws are facing some court challenges. If we're lucky, the laws will not survive.
okay, fine.

what about introspection? What about what is considered mentally healthy or not? what about how it affects others around you? If you have past experiences or trauma or other orangic or inorganic neurological or mental issues having a "flat affect" can be "wrong". If what you're feeling isn't helping you, how would you know that there's another way unless you get help?

This sounds defeatist and if you peek just a little behind the curtain this can lead to all kinds of "bad". IMO.

Just imagine the worst thing you can that someone could think, and then they say "it's okay, it's just how i feel, it's not right or wrong." I get that we shouldn't gatekeep or police thought, but obviously this isn't some "universal truth"...
use something like Browserbase?
Quality does suffer as the hours drag on, but quality suffers more when you hand off a case (which can be quite complex) to someone else. The tired but experienced-with-this-case doctor still does a better job than the rested doctor who is brand new to the patient's case.
Yet stealing property that isn’t real estate is criminal.
Strongly recommended blog post: ‘“No inventions; no innovations," a History of US Steel’ by Brian Potter

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-inno...
boost is just awful. Don’t use boost.

templates are totally fine for basic containers. Much better than C macro shenanigans.

The world is still looking for a “better C”. Zig, Odin, Jai and probably more are all trying. Of the three I think Jai is the closest. But it’ll be awhile.
The upscaled versions also screwed up the camera focus blur by artificially removing it, and unnecessarily took out the film grain. Even leaving the grain and blur aside, the texture of the objects depicted is also getting seriously screwed up, with unrealistic looking smoothing and weird places of heightened contrast unrelated to the original scene.

More generally, automatically second guessing the artistic choices of whoever originally color graded the film, for the sake of adding narratively gratuitous features like HDR or extremely high resolution, is a nasty thing to do. There might be moderately more dynamic range in the original physical film than there was in a digital copy; if so, by all means try to capture it in a new digitization while trying to match the visual impression of a theater projection to the extent practical. The "AI" features demonstrated here are incredibly tacky though.

People put in charge of making new versions of beloved artworks need to have good taste and exercise some discretion. Art from different times and places looks different due to changes in both the medium and the culture, and we should enjoy those differences rather than trying to erase them all.
I use markdownload extension for Firefox. Seems to work pretty ok.
Nice! I did something similar a while back, but just for substack :)

One example --

URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/zirp-software-eng...

Sanitized output: https://substack-ai.vercel.app/u/pragmaticengineer/p/zirp-so...

Raw markdown: https://substack-ai.vercel.app/api/users/pragmaticengineer/p...

(Would be happy to open source it if anyone cares!)
https://archive.today/8Dy4D
For now?

I am pretty sure that at one point China was an ally and Japan an enemy. I think.
So, this: https://xkcd.com/435/
If you understand the systems that manifest a mental illness then you can treat it more directly with medicine, you can test for the mental illness directly with physical sampling. We've already seen this shift from psychology to medicine with the invention of anti-depressants. Less people are seeking counsel from psychologists and instead just getting a prescription from their doctor. While the systems and even antidepressants aren't fully understood we have seen the shift away from psychology due to advances in treating the physical biological system. Simply projecting this natural trend to its limit is not reductionist IMO.
(We do not appear to have an 8% clearance rate).
Mullvad and Proton at least have had their no logs policies court tested so I believe their claims.
Of course practicing doctors and nurses are going to swear up and down that it isn't true. They are the perpetrators. Ask any person who has had to spend time in a hospital recently, and watch your "de-bunked" turn back into a "re-bunked." These jokers can't even keep the charts straight. It is fast-food-tier service for a life-and-death commodity.
Apparently, Hyperion was never technically "bankrupt" but is in a state of reorganisation (whatever that means)

https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php?option=com_...
Shades of Monty Python's "Tis but a flesh wound."

"Stopped"? Methinks the Graudian is just a little too quick off the mark to actually have some solid information about this.

Let's just wait a week or more and re-assess whether the attack was actually "stopped" or not.

Rule of Thumb: The faster the media come out with something, the less likely it is to be true.
Is this open sourced anywhere by any chance? Are you using GPT to do the conversion, or just doing it yourself by ways of HTML -> Markdown substitutions?
You said this with such confidence I had to look this up, because I am quite familiar with the types of plants referred to as “nitrogen fixing plants” such as legumes. But here’s the answer for anyone else curious:

“Nitrogen fixing plants don't pull nitrogen from the air on their own. They actually need help from a common bacteria called Rhizobium. The bacteria infects legume plants such as peas and beans and uses the plant to help it draw nitrogen from the air. The bacteria converts this nitrogen gas and stores it in the roots of the plant.”

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertiliz...
Looking at the figure caption, it appears to be relative to the simulated temperature without doubled carbon dioxide concentration and AMOC breakdown.
How is it safer? Because of destructors?
As the joke goes: Emacs is a great OS, only lacking a decent text editor
It seems there's a cult following of pseudo-intellectuals/dev celebrities who all seem to have only worked at "faang" like companies. Everything about it is a bit weird.

In this case, the one named like prime number, seems to spend extraordinary amounts of time waffling on about nothing in particular on twitch streams with a relentless torrent of energy, and then this feeds the echo chamber of their fans.

Nothing of substance is touched on more than briefly. I am not really sure what the point was of this whole article and guest appearance.
And I’m pretty sure if Japan became adversarial, there would be a breakup triggered on national security concerns.
Without a doubt. The other one is absolutely exhausting to listen to.
No i don’t jest. Coasting and rest-and-vest have a completely different vibe than quiet quitting. The former is more like “fuck it”, whereas the latter is more like “fuck you”.
Vivaldi does this if I recall correctly
What I Observe: Simple RAG is Fading, but Complex RAG Will Persist and Evolve - Involving Query Rewriting, Data Cleaning, Reflection, Vector Search, Graph Search, Rerankers, and More Intelligent Chunking. Large Models Should Not Just Be Knowledge Providers, But Tool Users and Process Drivers"
We already have really good client-server confidentiality (and integrity) assurances from the wide adoption of TLS/HTTPS. Wrapping that in a VPN doesn't buy you all that much additional security. Maybe a little bit of DNS privacy and being able to mask your IP address on torrents, but that's all that comes to mind.
Yes this sort of thing! There was one posted on HN back where the speaker says, in the middle of other context fairly deep in, recognise this number? 3.14159265358779323846264338327950288419, and then shows that it isn't actually Pi, (one of the digits is swapped, he may have swapped a different digit to me). Nice joke because is reminds us to challenge assumptions too!
Until Windows stops treating its users as the product it’s hard to imagine going back. I understand they are going to testing ads in the system menu and with the invasiveness of clippy 2.0 aka copilot I’m too old to put up with bullshit. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to a different kind of abuse from Apple and don’t need any more crap.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-window...
I'm surprised the post doesn't mention a specific type of risk which is out of your control.

I'm not well versed in options lingo, is there something to describe this scenario?

You join with a very low strike price, such as $0.05 and get a lot of shares, let's say 200k to keep the math easy. At that strike price the value on paper is $10,000.

Then a liquidity event occurs before your options vest and now instead of 200k shares @ $0.05 you have 3,333 shares at $3.00 because the valuation of the company changed. You still have $10,000 in options.

The issue now is you've taken a huge loss in the multiplier effect. Having a stock go from $0.05 to $1 is a 20x jump. Hitting that would yield $200,000 in value.

But the odds of $3 turning into $60 is so much lower, but that's what you would need the stock to hit to yield the same return in the end.

In the end, over time you tend to get less stocks at a higher adjusted strike price with no real-world opportunity to exercise. Sometimes even if you have vested options you can only exercise a single digit percentage of your total shares so the total cash-out value is the equivalent of 1 day's worth of pay even after years of vested options.
Microsoft never cut off the long tail.

I'd argue they explicitly do the opposite. And that's why they could take back clients who went with alternatives - because they have a strategy where they can offer something from small office to multinational corporation, and have tailored packages and strategies at all levels.

And the problem with VMware is that to reach the scale where they are going to play ball, you're probably going to have the parts integrated already. Not a transition from small scale stuff where VMware integrated platform used to turn heads as migration path. Hell, at the scale Broadcom wants to only play there's no migration tooling available - and most is being built now to migrate away.

When you reach the scale Broadcom wants to focus on, you're going to have significant infrastructure spend already - and the CIO might get asked heavy questions regarding migration cost and time.

Frankly speaking, Broadcom strategy is one that does not admit new clients.
It's becoming so complex that it will stop being called RAG. It's just an application that uses an LLM as one part of it.
Thank you for adding some real info!
Vercel!! Watch out for you bill now this is being hugged. Hopefully you are not using <Image /> like they pester you to do.
The overlap of commonality does not mean a lot, a professional association is not a union, a union is not a professional association.

I think there is unstated subtext perhaps in your criticism. To one extent, a unions job is to care about its members. It is _not_ the unions job to care about anyone else. If the union acts in the interest of anyone other than its members, it is not doing its job. I think that criticism is more of a definition almost. The seamstress union was not created to care about the CEO and managers, but seamstresses.

It's hard to say a bit whether union benefits always do come at everyone else's expense. I'm reminded of the argument against $15 minimum wage. According to
one third of business owners in 2021, it was going to cause layoffs. [1] That did not happen in Seattle where that was tried, instead the data shows: “Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance appears to have delivered higher pay to experienced workers at the cost of reduced opportunity for the inexperienced,” [2] Despite the data, there is still the claim that mass layoffs would be necessary.

I think this perhaps dovetails into the debates of trickle-down (AKA supply side economics) vs bottom-up economics. Be what it may, not everything union is good, yet you can still thank them anytime you have a weekend. [3][4][5] I'm just saying, be cautious when painting with a broad brush. The idea a union helping its members will always be at everyone else's expense strikes me as an anti-union talking point rather than something grounded in firm data. Could be true, but without citation showing that to actually be extensively true, I do not take that statement at face value.

To be sure, the _only_ claim I'm making here is that a union and professional union are not the same thing. I'm super skeptical of all these other claims/statements being made and am not really willing to accept anything on face value here without evidence, particularly broad generalizations. The points I raise I think bring some refutation to those generalization, which does not mean the inverse is true, but simply that those generalizations are neither helpful nor informative.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/10/one-third-of-small-businesse...

[2] https://fox59.com/news/heres-what-happened-when-seattle-rais...

[3] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/sep/09/viral-imag...

[4] https://www.unionplus.org/blog/union-made/eight-reasons-than... (this source is very biased)

[5] https://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/workday/weekend/8hourday.html

edit fixed citation links, one was missing. Added more citations in support of claim that unions are to thank for the weekend (please correct my history if wrong, my point is that historically, in the concrete, unions have done some really good things [assuming you believe not working an average of 102 hours per week is a good thing as was the case for building tradesman in 1890 [5])
traffic enforcement probably doesn't (strongly) correlate with traffic fatalities. One is a revenue generation stream, the other is just probabilities.
I think that's probably true. You have to dig to see what's good about Emacs, and to get past the initial "this is so alien" impression.
https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase
Anyone who has browsed through one of these personal VPN services - or even a DIY VPN from a datacentre IP - for more than about 10 minutes will have experienced the increase in captcha's.
In the late 1990s, the AMA lobbied to reduce available residency positions and residency funding.

https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope...
For the last 80 years.

Things will probably change someday, but not anytime soon.
> With horrible grammar

Ah, the days before ChatGPT!

On a more serious note, do you think there will ever be a way to stop ddos attacks once and for all?

While all threats are bad, ddos is the most lame type of attacks there is; no special skill or knowledge are needed, just load a script or, heck, pay someone who'll execute it for you as a service.
I'd be interested in seeing the code, I love working on tools like this
Did you think I was claiming the corporations themselves were hoarding the wealth? Did it not occur to you that I was referring to the corporations as the tools of the shareholders? Do I really have to be that explicit and include misquotation alerts for every possible idiot?
If it's any solace, I've had something very similar happen. An idiot was jogging near 4th and King, and a car jumped the light after the left turn was red and the walk lights came on. I had trained myself to wait and look, but he went on till I blocked him. He was annoyed at first (reasonable), saw the car go by, but never said sorry or thank you.

I never put on headphones till I was inside the train, as a rule of thumb.
There is no hint of passion. It is just formulaic decoration. The only interest for viewers would be in the clothing styles, which would track trends in Rome, and so need to be painted over frequently.

Comparisons to Hummel are more appropriate than to Caravaggio.
I like bwrap, but I dislike Flatpak because it leads to obscure dependency management.

AFAIK, in a scenario similar to the xz hack, it is hard to verify whether all apps are running compromised / patched versions of xz and dependencies.

In contrast, regular package managers solve this problem pretty well.

Therefore, I want bwrap or similar sandboxing + Nix / Guix.
Nice. This is 404ing: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-cloudflare-achieved-55-...
Well, not useless, but still not fully explaining to me why Nvidia/Intel/etc are investing billions (trillions?) into AI.
I believe RAG is a temporary hack until we figure out virtually infinite context.

I think LLM context is going to be like cache levels. The first level is small but super fast (like working memory). The next level is larger but slower, and so on.

RAG is basically a bad version of attention mechanisms. RAG is used to focus your attention on relevant documents. The problem is that RAG systems are not trained to minimize loss, it is just a similarity score.

Obligatory note that I could be wrong and it's just my armchair opinion
citation needed for the failings of their ROP mitigations. I don't use openbsd for the security, so I don't pay much attention to that side of things. But the one that stood out was where they removed all rop gadgets. which sounds pretty good to me.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-rop-paper.pdf
The latest research suggests that the best thing you can do is RAG + finetuning on your target domain. Both give roughly equal percentage gains, but they are independent (i.e. they accumulate if you do both). As context windows constantly grow and very recent architectures move more towards linear context complexity, we'll probably see current RAG mechanisms lose importance. I can totally imagine a future where if you have a research level question about physics, you just put a ton of papers and every big graduate physics textbook into the current context instead of searching text snippets using embeddings etc.
In the 80s and 90s there was a lot of hostility to Japan, because they looked like they might surpass us economically. They were even the villain of some Tom Clancy books.

Now, the fear/hate is aimed at China, same reason.
Someone I met moving into a new co-working space died last week at work.

He was working the night shift at the front desk. We'd exchanged hellos and goodbyes a few times, and got to the stage where we recognised each other and would refine our greeting slightly at each repetition.

I figured we'd ended up chatting more and would get to know each other.

But then he had a heart attack.

I feel grief, in the sense that I no longer inhabit the universe where we got to know each other. There's a loss involved.

But I didn't actually know him.

I'm also more aware of the grief I'll feel in the future and I'm reminded how death can literally come at any moment.

It does feel like a strange liminal state, though.
AI: Fed on water, energy, hype, stolen and crap data
https://twitter.com/Tuckerpete/status/1569478529892646913
A nice personification of the common man from G.K. Chesterton, like uncountable others we will never hear about outside our own real life circles.
In days of yore, the Arts Degree was always considered as 'The Marriage Course'.
I was genuinely asking, and not getting any answers I decided to research it for myself.

I didn't find anything particularly compelling, but I did dig up this gem of an article about how deep learning was hitting a wall and "we are still a long way from machines that can genuinely understand human language" exactly four days before GPT-4 released:

https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/
I think if you have a big enough time of use differential, and you have significant use during peak pricing, you can justify a local battery system for peak shaving and get backup power 'for free' or vice versa.

12-24 hours would have outlasted any outage I've experienced, until I moved to my current place, but it has a propane fueled whole house generator (and low utility rates with no time of use component; i haven't attempted the math, but I'm pretty sure running from my generator is way more expensive than utility power... OTOH, I've had many utility failures and only one generator failure (12v battery failed due to charger failure))
The thing that bothers me is that we've had these things for so long, but no one does any actual research about them, so we still can't say that we know they don't work, but only that we don't know that they work. And "we don't know that they work" doesn't really convince people who say "thousands of years of tradition say that they work, and my great aunt was healed by it".
I'm referring to Perl, which is another product in the same market (unixy command line applications) and has the same pronunciation.

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion

> Trademarks don’t have to be identical to be confusingly similar. Instead, they could just be similar in sound, appearance, or meaning, or could create a similar commercial impression. Here are examples of trademarks that were found to be confusingly similar.

> These trademarks are confusingly similar because they could be pronounced the same way, even though they’re spelled differently.

> Your mark -- T. Markey

> Conflicting mark -- Tee Marquee
People read the guidelines...Flagging is not for stuff you disagree with...
What on earth did I just read... I can't tell if there's a point between all the slang or if this is a Terry Davis situation.
My gut reaction is that either people are moving data to another of their locations, in which case they have disks they can ship with regular transporters, or they are moving to the cloud, and they can use the cloud's transportation service. I might be wrong though!
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