skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life imprisonment in many US prisons is actually worse than killing them quickly, because we believe we must spend a tech worker salary per prisoner per year to make sure they are stripped of dignity and comforts so as to make their imprisonments miserable. Imagine being put in a concrete cage with only dudes, you are literally regimented by force to someone else's early-morning schedule, it takes 3 hours of prison work to buy a bag of chips or make a 10 minute collect phone call to a loved one, your only escape is solitary confinement with nothing but your cloths, hands, and mind, and you are stuck in this building or others like it until you die.

Only politicians and judges should face that possibility, only because they wield the flaming sword of the state!
Since the move to Apple Silicon you are realistically never more than 12-18 months away from a new chip generation in a MacBook. An M1 is still plenty good for the vast majority of workloads, especially if it's an M1 Pro/Max/Ultra.

Actually probably the best thing to do is wait until the M4 machines launch then bag a good deal on a clearance M3.
> I was once suspected of shaking my nanny

Ah, by my nanny. I didn't understand this sentence at first.
How Twitter Counts Characters
You are absolutely spot on.
There are some seriously deranged people out there. You cannot just release them into society. I think you're looking for solutions to problems caused elsewhere.
Encrypt a file with “2000s era cryptography” (not too sure what that would be). The file contains instructions on how to unlock a sum of money.
I assure you that both sides have firearms in sufficient quantities (I looked up the statistics before I posted) such that if one side attempted armed conflict, it would end poorly and with smaller families at the end.
https://capitalpunishmentincontext.org/resources/casesummari...

> A proper remedy for claim of actual innocence based on new evidence, which is discovered too late to file a new trial motion, would be not federal habeas relief, but rather to file for executive clemency with the state.

https://www.pullanyoung.com/blog/dont-panic-over-shinn-v-ram...

> Shinn does not affect “new factual predicate” claims. If a witness changes their story 5 years after trial, you can still validly raise that claim both as a subsequent state writ and as a 2254 federal petition. Same goes for new scientific evidence, Brady violations, etc. None of those things can be characterized as the defendant's fault for not raising them earlier.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/01/arizona-d...

> federal courts should show enormous deference to the states, even when federal judges believe a state court is wrong.

These decisions seems more about federalism? I mean, if you want to blame someone, blame the involved state for not considering the exculpatory evidence. For example Barry Lee Jones is out now - but it is because of an Arizona judge, not a federal one.
The pronoun 'it' in that sentence is referring to tens of millions of different people in different centuries. It is absolutely silly to pretend that they're a single actor.
Deadline mode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LcvjE8Apmfc
Yeah, ICQ was peer to peer for online messaging as I recall in the say 97-99 timeframe. I think Yahoo was too. They'd fall back to server message passing, of course.

But this was just for messaging (and file transfer), not for presence/buddy list which was all server driven.

In that time frame, few had firewalls or NAT or two computers at the same location, so (server mediated) peer to peer just worked unless you were on a corporate network.
Yeah I was surprised to see it ran Android after watching the trailer showing a lady doom-scrolling on her iPhone before accepting the warming comfort of using the Daylight. Another trailer showed happy contemporary hippies in the forest, or their modern workspace with more plants than walking space.

I figured it was a breath of fresh air from modern devices because it was simpler in its capabilities. But if it's running Android it seems like you'd just be doomscrolling in black and white.
I would argue that the masses of people that flock to see the beheading also result in some stress towards the victim. But the fact that it is not a clean room beheading but a public one culturally dependent too ...

If we argue which type of death is more or less pleasant we've directly descended into not just the Middle East, but the Middle Ages.
If that was his real stance, and someone who does believe in up and down, I think he is burning in hell for being in position of power to stop, but went on to kill innocent people.

Also in subject of death row, recently watched rather good movie based on true events: Trial by Fire. Interesting how that case was based on pseudo-science and even thought the governor knew he still let Cameron to be executed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_Fire_(2018_film)
The exact same as if npm did it.
The comment I responded to made the statement that OAI behaved like the sea witch who literally stole someone's voice. That is not the case here, since Scarlett still has her voice and OAI only (allegedly?) copied it. Whether OAI violated copyright law is a different matter, but steal her voice they did not.
However, you can't boot off them, and they don't build anything to facilitate their usage as a boot drive, even though it's perfect for use-cases like these where the machine is ephemeral and its local drive doesn't actually matter.

They should have a feature where you can provide it an S3 URL or EBS snapshot when launching an instance, and the control plane would write it to the local ephemeral direct-attach volume on launch.

Currently if you wanted to do that you'd have to roll your own with a minimal EBS as your root volume containing iPXE or some other minimal OS that is capable of formatting the direct-attach NVME and populating it before passing control to it (via kexec/etc?).

But I guess since EBS incurs additional cost, there's no incentive for them to make it easier to move away. I bet that in aggregate they're making quite good money off mostly unnecessary EBS volumes that don't actually contain any useful data.
Your phone experience reminds me of how, at about age 18, I coveted a Sidekick so much. I knew that it had AIM built-in. Since SMS was too expensive for me to consider a replacement for instant messaging, this seemed to me like the holy grail of teen socializing. To be able to use AIM anytime, anywhere...I could only imagine how cool it would be, especially if all my friends had it too.

I finally got something exactly like that in 2008 (both with mobile AIM clients, and as SMS and iMessage steadily overtook AIM for the purposes we used IM for), but it strikes me as poignant that as an adult, it wasn't really as meaningful to me as it would have been as a teen.

I guess what I'm saying is actually, I kind of get why the gen-z kids became so terminally online. I would have availed myself of the ability to socialize, privately, nonstop day and night!
Seems likely that if they explicitly say they're supporting the PCRE2 syntax it is because they are using the BSD licensed libpcre.

Reinventing a regular expression system is very far down on the list of things I'd ever want to do. Those things are filled with dragons and require years of refinement to get the bugs out.
There’s a difference between a guarantee and warranty. You only have a guarantee for the first 12 months. The next 12, you have a warranty. It’s almost
Impossible to prove a warranty.
Ask HN: Should OpenAI give early access of their models to select companies?
Companies like OpenAI and Google give access to their latest and most powerful models to select companies and individuals 6-12 months before the general public. This means that those with the most resources get a significant head start in leveraging these advancements.

What do you think about this practice? How does it impact innovation and the broader tech community? Should there be a push for more equitable access to these cutting-edge technologies from day one?
Discussion [0] (64 points, 1 day ago, 59 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456644
I still remember the number after 20+ years. Crazy.
EasyTAG is great in the sense that it has sufficient set of knobs to digest all kinds of MP3 tags seen in the wild, and then convert them to the preferred format.
No clue why they're even doing this and not just sampling after the fact. There's no way they are gleaning anything useful that they couldn't more efficiency (and anonymously) capture.
Cayley-Purser Algorithm
You can use an electric kettle to boil water faster (probably safer) than gasoline.
Logan Marshall-Green - Tom Hardy
Dennis Quaid - Harrison Ford
JJ Feild - Tom Hiddleston
Gerard Butler - Russell Crowe
Mistral Finetuning
Yeah, I just don't want the wrong friend to accidentally see my dick. The state can look all it wants, if that's what its into.
> Anyone who has figured out something relatively profitable isn't telling anyone how they did it.

Corollary: someone who is selling you tools or strategies on how to make tons and tons of money, is probably not making tons and tons of money employing said tools and strategies, but instead making their money by having you buy their advice.
Nintendo is opening its second US store in San Francisco
completely agree with the aesthetics!

my issue with it that it looked so good, but the architecture felt wrong. in the part with the low ceiling, it felt like those blocks hanging from the roof were defying physics
And as a bonus, Outlook stops reporting presence!
We do agentic systems. We already optimize for these things. We route between different models based on various heuristics. I absolutely would not want that to be black box. And doing any sort of vector similarity to determine task complexity is not going to work well.

I would also not try to emulate DSPy, which is a massively overrated bit of kit and of little use in a production pipeline.
Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go
Hi HN, I’m excited to share Spot, a simple, cross-platform, React-like GUI library for Go. It is just a few days old and has lots of missing features but I'm happy with the results so far, and looking for some design feedback.

Spot is designed to be easy to use and provide a consistent API across different platforms (mainly Mac & Linux). It’s inspired by React, but written in Go, aiming to combine the best of both worlds: the easy tooling & performance of Go with a modern, reactive approach to UI development.

Key features:

- Cross-platform: Leveraging FLTK[1] & Cocoa[2], Spot works on Mac, Linux, and the BSDs with plans for native Windows support in the future.

- Reactive UI: Adopts a React-like model for building UIs, making it intuitive for those familiar with reactive frameworks.

- Traditional, native widget set: Utilizes native widgets where available to provide a more traditional look and feel.

Why I built it:

I was searching for a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Go that had a more traditional appearance, and none of the existing options quite met my needs. I then started playing with Gocoa and go-fltk and suddenly I worked on an experiment to see how challenging it would be to build something like React in Go, and it kinda evolved into Spot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In 2024, is there a still place for classic desktop GUIs—even with a modern spin?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and any suggestions for improvement. Also, contributions are very welcome.

Thank you for checking it out!

[1] https://github.com/pwiecz/go-fltk

[2] https://github.com/roblillack/gocoa
Time is limited, why waste time talking about a third when you've already decided against it?
Looks like the author posted it as a Show HN so I've re-upped that one and moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469592.
It’s a game of numbers. There may be 10^n opportunities for life potentially forming, with the average likelihood for life actually forming being 10^-m for each. The question is, is n (much) larger than m, or vice versa? We really have no idea, in particular with regard to m. It doesn’t help if n is 100 when m may be 1000. And the human brain is really bad at estimating such likelihoods.
I think you might have misread OP. The first quote you extracted isn't their description of the author, it's their description of what the author is conveying in TFA, and that's honestly a pretty accurate way to capture the piece. TFA's section giving the reasons why you might consider a microservice architecture basically boils down to "if you already have microservices, if you absolutely must use a different language, or if you're an irresponsible idiot". That's not the attitude of someone who is open to the idea that someone reasonable might make a different choice than they would.

What OP actually has to say about the author themselves is that people who write like that "usually have no idea what they are talking about", which is also absolutely true in this case. There are many tells throughout the essay that give away that the author has very little experience operating any type of system, microservices or otherwise.
As far as I can tell, Hamas couldn’t care less about people dying and is constantly winning in the international Arena. So I don’t think your quote is applicable in this scenario.
We metaphorically cut one head off the hydra when the root cause is various government subsidies (or lack thereof for healthier foods). And then as you say, thst head grew back disguised as new buzzwords.

Stuff is a bit better for gen alpha in school, but there's still a lot of work to do.
Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum – will it bring Egyptology home?
Yep,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer

https://marte.unican.es/
That turned out to be a doctored photo, someone had just changed the script to make a fake answer
I think the typical argument about tuition being an "accounting gimmick" is that it's the univerity paying itself for something -- does it actually come out of a budget, paid for by other students? (Unclear.) If there were no "tuition", would that money instead go to the student? (Unlikely.)

The question of whether senior doctoral students who aren't taking classes anymore should be paying tuition is a good one too! In the case described in the original article, though the student was in a masters program and quite likely taking classes—so not quite this scenario.
I think intuitively, properly designed things are well designed.
I genuinely LOLed, thanks for that! :) What a flashback.
Google AI: People should eat at least one small rock a day
Nintendo Announces Plans for Official Store in San Francisco
I assume you mean “the government.”

The number of people (not) involved makes no difference. The government should be accountable to its constituents.

Refusing to tell us the truth about St. Louis makes that impossible. It should tell us the truth.
When you don't have enemy, you are your enemy. This is exactly what happened in US. Putting the part that work actually been done in US fosters competition, and outsource will always benefit for big corps to kill of competitors in early stage.
> Who wins this attrition war?

The AI companies. Double. People paying to use their products. But mostly by gaining a lot of leverage and power.
Chat GPT does a much better job on this query
>One would suggest that if it is required that you use OEM parts to maintain your warranty status, then it is likewise reasonable to say the OEM is required to provide those parts with reasonable lead times.

I completely agree, and as I said, there should be recourse if they don't such as refund or replacement.

>And we should be enshrining that fact in law.

I'm a Brit and I think our protections here are better that the US, but sure. I suppose it varies by state over there too. I'm not in any way arguing there shouldn't be protections, I think there should be at least the protections I suggested, but maintaining warranty with third party parts of completely unknown quality or compatibility is a non-starter.
Saute of garlic and onion in a bath of gasoline should fix that problem.
Exactly! It's this huge elephant in the room and all we want to talk about is our editors and how Java is faster than Go or whatever.

I'm sitting in this meetings thinking "Guys, using XML or JSON truly, truly does not matter here. You have already wasted months on this shit and the value meter is still at $0. I'm telling you we can make this work with either Scala or 6502 assembly or anything in between. What matters is that we need a coherent vision, formulate actionable goals and work on improving our communication and keeping it there."

Maybe I need to go into management? (/s ?)
If they want to do research they probably prefer no AV. That said there are some no-op AV's that are specifically for tricking defender to shut off and not actually do anything
Hah, pretty much what I said, nothing gets truly deleted on an Apple without some extraordinary measures. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/apple-clarifies-ios-...
AI Is Not Ready for the World
I just thought it was a bad reaction to a change of diet. You can feel bad just from a few days of bad food. Can't imagine 3 meals a day for that kind of stuff.And ofc these were large portions for a (by BMI standards) very slight overweight man.
As mentioned in the comments, Google's AI stole this recipe from another AI generated site.

It's happening. The Ouroboros has swallowed its tail. This is not a drill. Sit back and enjoy the ride!
I saw the movie when it came out and had distantly interacted with Morgan while he was making the film (he was an acquaintance of an acquaintance). I don’t recall the movie ever being presented as “scientific” so it’s really interesting seeing all these take-downs of it for that reason. I remember it being a quirky “documentary” (more along the lines of edu-tainment) about this weird funny thing he did. It was wild that the film gained as much traction as it did, which I don’t think was anyone’s expectation at the time. So yes, it is 100% not scientific but I really don’t think it was intended to be.
This is mostly garbage.

I don’t know why a lot of people are treating using AI in an application like it’s this special way of developing.

Most of the concepts and tooling have been around for years.

Other than prompt engineering, (which can get pretty complex) the rest is just application development and design.

People should hire solid engineers, then teach them the prompt engineering. You will likely get where you need to be for most workflow gen ai stuff.

This isn’t applicable to fine tuning or making your own LLM
It depends on what kind of tech we are talking about. Making a truly good and flexible tech product is truly hard. There will always be someone arguing YAGNI at inappropriate moments, influencing design negatively in ways, that will usually never be overthrown again, because of the additional mindset of not wanting rewrites and mindset of not wanting to change a (halfassed) working system.
How We Fused DuckDB into Postgres
Take the sequence of prime numbers, with Earth = 2. ;)
And if you live in a suburb, plug your EV into an outlet in your garage. What’s your point?
For those who don't know it yet (https://xkcd.com/1053/): that's a quote from The Lord of the Rings.

(And IIRC, the character being talked about ends up being very important later on, so it was good that they weren't killed.)
What exactly makes Gaza that important
Ah, got it. Yeah, I can imagine someone coming to their conclusion if the only system they've ever worked with doesn't have any major components that aren't on the critical path.
It's an organizational pattern. I've seen it being used at very small companies to good effect. It matched their (dysfunctional) culture: islands, little communication, etc. Working on a monolith together is a nightmare if you hate each other.
Hmm... this is about PQ cryptography while I was expecting a status update of Ed25519 in WebCrypto which, sadly, is still available only via experimental platform flag: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_subtlecrypto_verify_ed25519
I think you mean Ken Thompson. I can't be bothered searching through youtube interviews but I'm pretty shure that on more than one occasion, he tells a story something along the lines of having a disk driver, some programs, and maybe some other components. His wife went on a trip and he figured it would be enough time to fill in the gaps and make a complete OS.
Until you realize that there's about a 5% error in the justice system and if you're unlucky you don't just spend a few years unjustly in jail, not you are also maimed for life.

People that don't realize that can just crawl back to their cave and live out the darwinistic dreams there. (Just speaking/ranting generally here now.)

> Who would have thought that cutting someone's limbs off as a punishment would result in nearly very little theft in those countries too.

Only people that don't read up on the science. Draconian measure affect crime rates much less than immediate negative feedback after the crime (which doesn't need to be draconian).
Or rather: If LLMs could give those guys an edge, there's no way they'd share their edge-giving LLMs with anyone, least of all their competition and the plebs.
Ah, completely missed the documentation being the demo, didn't want to sound that negative. There is definitely a lot of hard work put into it.
Nice work, please post this on Rust Internals forum so that the Rust folks can comment on whether it can work safely enough. And for the next part in the series you should definitely ask Amos/fasterthanli.me to let you borrow his Cool bear, so we can see what he has to say about this!
Google AI: August 24, 1995 was one year ago
Love mp3tag. And now in 2024 we can go one step further -- LLMs are the ultimate solution to finally tagging your entire collection consistently.
Bird's-Eye View to Street-View: A Survey
It’s interesting to see the give and take between google sheets and excel. Google sheets came on the scene shooting for total backwards compatibility and then proceeded to develop some really interesting innovations. Now we see new features emerging on both sides that are quickly replicated by the other player. Notably off the top of my mind:

* spill formulas - google first, now supported in MSFT

* # notation - MSFT enhancement to spill formulas not yet adopted in google

* regular expressions - google first, now in Excel

* check boxes - google first, now supported in excel

There must be others. I would expect competitive dynamics where each side tries to build extensions that can’t be replicated on the other side
Hot take: All these are terrible, but not because the camera makers suck, but because there's no non-sucky way to do the thing we all would want:

What we want: Snap picture, picture is sent over high-bandwidth link to phone

Analysis: Can't be Bluetooth, also it's foolish to assume most pics are in wifi range of an access point, so it needs to be Wi-Fi Direct, like AirDrop is: Able to be performed with or without the parties being ON a network. The parties just p2p transfer the file.

More analysis: What would this take? 1. The blessings of the platform owners, at minimum Apple and other handset makers, probably Google too. The platform owners would need to provide:

1. Ability to make ad-hoc wi-fi direct connections with your other devices. APIs etc
2. Ability to either have your app running in the background, or be automatically silently launched in the background, to receive the image and add it to Photos.

No such abilities exist. All the cheesy hotspot things that they're doing is literally the only way to achieve such a goal without the cooperation of gatekeepers like Apple.
Whatever you call it, if there’s apartment-level density, that’s enough for public transit.

If there’s an apartment in the middle of a field… well, then there’s lots of room for chargers, I guess.