skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ours had PS-2s on a token ring network with a TUI to get to the word processor etc but it also had a “drop down to DOS” option that the teachers didn’t know about.
May 20, 2022
Even the very wise cannot know all ends.
I understand the different need being espoused here, but I think it paints with an overly broad brush.

My company is what people would colloquially refer to as a startup, although it is by most formal definitions an established company (more than five years old, profitable and self-funded, no external money, defined product and stable customer base).

Under the US SBA classification we are a small business by revenue, and we have three people.

Little frustrates us more than sophisticated features being locked behind enterprise packages, because we tend to select toward enterprise feature sets by default. We are small, but we make it a priority to do business in ways that most small businesses don’t focus on. This has been wonderfully successful for us because we have the kind of customers who will ask “how do you manage backups, and why should I trust you to do that?”

We can answer those sorts of questions with the same kind of robust architecture people expect from much larger providers. We can point to adhering to the 3-2-1 rule with three different copies of customer data (one production, two backups) maintained in three locations managed by two (legally distinct) clouds/data centers, each at least 500 miles apart, two of which are resistant to ransomware attacks (the backups in S3), all of which are protected with hardware MFA. We have a fourth copy as a failsafe in the form of rolling VM backups made every 24 hours, saved for approximately 7 days.

That is in large part due to using S3.

Sophisticated feature sets are extremely valuable for us even if we aren’t an enterprise. They allow us to put our money where our mouth is.
It indeed does, but it must generate a token per loop, and can thereby solve some linearly complex problems, but it cannot solve harder problems.
I think it’s underblown. If more people were properly horrified about how much more needless work it causes the DB server, the network, and the client to do, they’d burn it with fire.

In my experience it’s the biggest culprit behind random system fallovers that “work on my machine”. Well sure. Your test page load only resulted in 8 round trips to the server with a hidden O(n^2) in-process merge. The same page on the fully populated prod server required 137 round trips, and it still fails under load even though you can’t physically fit more RAM in the thing.
Yes. Ilya is as useful as Google’s AI folks. Smart yes, cannot deliver a useful product to save his life.
I also got in trouble for playing Leisure Suit Larry in 6th grade computer class.
IP. To some extent liability. But really IP. It is an asset. Releasing source is giving away the asset. That's it. That is the reason.

Doom's code was released because Carmack had a materially different view of IP.

If you look at "open source/open core" threads for enterprise/non-game software, you can see the mindset.
I'm still confused why Windows 11 is even a thing, as Windows 10 was advertised as "the last version of Windows": https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/what-h...

Actually the source I linked lays it out pretty clearly:

> That (in)famous statement was actually spoken by Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist at Microsoft, whose job is to get developers excited about developing for Microsoft Store, at the 2015 Microsoft Ignite. Nevertheless, the technology media blew it up, and soon everyone was accepting it as gospel. But it never was.

But still, I just want stability. Also the lack of support for older hardware - I just built a PC four years ago and am being told its not good enough for 11? No thanks.
Nah: If anybody was actually holding Musk "ultimately at fault regardless of anything else", we wouldn't be talking about settling a product-safety lawsuit, but instead about a criminal trial for manslaughter.

Since that's not the case--and I don't think anyone has even suggested it needs to be--we can safely infer that there's already a high degree of nuance and splitting of different levels and layers of responsibility going on.

At the end of the day, "operator error"--even drunken operator error--is not enough to automatically negate all safety flaws.
And if he had just been a passenger and the driver was sober?
All of it is only as ironic as Alanis Morissette
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon considers it just. Most people consider it just that a revolutionary technology owner is being held liable for their actions, even if they are nearly a decade afterwards.

Regulation for big corporations are more like suggestions these days, so this may even feel "fair enough" for Elon in retrospect.
No, you're attacking something without even reading it.

The "bipartisan coalition" in the Senate is determined to spend $32 billion (just a downpayment, for sure) is not planning to do what you want. They want to hand out money to a lot of universities, NGO's, and bureaucrats. In your terms, they want to deliver the clean water.

A "regulatory framework" would be something like the Dodd-Frank bill, or Sarbanes-Oxley. Maybe that's what you want, but it's not what Schumer is pushing.
One answer I haven't seen yet is that the makers and the owners of the game are often different people.

The makers of the game might have creative sympathy or want to inspire future creators.

The owners of the game want to protect and defend their property.
That argument flows in both directions. Why defend the guy if you don't know "how everything went down"?
A lot of the US East Coast rich and famous have some extremely foul smelling skeletons in their closets: https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/31/opium-boston-history Something they don’t teach us in school.
I'm not sure what you mean by a hedged position. How can they possibly hedge a posisition like $120M of STG tokens?
Trial and error. Guitar meticulously tuned to concert pitch, with attention to the 12-15 fret area, then compare against versions of the track slowed down by all available factors in audacity from around 0.993 to 0.998. (The stretch tool doesn't take more digits, stupidly.)
Those who care about preservation and community development do. Others don't care or their bosses don't even understand the idea and don't let them. They might think spending on lawyers to ensure opening the code up is handled correctly is an unnecessary expense because they only understand expenses for profit.

TL;DR: it's a non profit endeavor, and most of these companies don't grok the concept.
Intel isn't a GPU maker?
It’s hard to compare with houses 30 years ago when, per square area, they are more technologically valuable, much larger per occupant, and the demographics surrounding the houses has completely changed.
> the latch apparently has a manual actuator, but how to use it is not obvious at all, especially in an emergency.

The result of prioritizing design over function — and in this case, safety!
So, I have a couple CS degrees, but due to a series of unfortunate events, basically 0’d out of industry pretty quickly out of uni, now years ago.

I just went through rustlings, and then this, and found both quite good. Rustlings is a little more gradual, perhaps, but basically just lists book sections to read for each problem set. This has a small outline of concepts for each exercise and is less reading.

I’d recommend either or both…and I found them both to be pretty accessible. Rustling is a slightly broader survey of topics just due to the reading. This is maybe a little quicker to the meat of it.

I don’t think either will give you 100% fluency in the borrow checker, but both will get you close enough to flesh out your understanding afterwards, and to make picking through readings more efficient afterwards.
Can't we sue the people who ran safety tests and regulations on the car to let it get on the road like that? Or the onus is on Tesla and this was a freak accident (manufactured wrong) they should have caught after design?
The kitty protocol not supporting your stupid made up usecase does not make it non-comprehensive, despite your claims.
Can you make cool explosions with this. I was looking at spelunky 2 and was wondering how they made the bomb simulation to loos like lava.
And now it looks like they will fold under Sam and Microsoft still will be able to scoop up the talent and tech.
We need to remember why we're electrifying the grid to begin with. To reduce carbon emissions and prevent a climate catastrophe. If we're not objectively moving towards that common goal, we must reconsider our strategy.

"30% of electrical generation" is a strange metric to celebrate. Electricity is only 1/5 of our fossil fuel consumption and by far the easiest to tackle. Also consider that electricity demand, fossil fuel consumption, and carbon emissions all increased during the same time period as our relative gains were acheived. Great for anyone invested in solar tech, net negative for the earth and her inhabitants. The atmosphere only cares about CO2 concentration, not our intentions.

What are we celebrating then? We can do much better.
Do kbd-macros in elisp for automation count?
ditto this. I bought a random linux book with a redhat CD. My first linux experience. I went through college with that distro on my desktop PC.
Those are not small enines in mining. Smaller than non hybride but still large. Trucks are not common yet, and trucks using the full power an engine can provide most of the time.
There's quite a few around the web.

Or just do `apt-get|dnf install caca-utils`
You had the answer there before you dismissed it -- the board agreed to bring Sam Altman back before resigning because of massive pressure campaign that involved 90%+ of employees threatening to resign, and Microsoft (which has OpenAI's IP rights) offering to hire them all immediately. This included the company's key leadership. The organization was unraveling overnight. This was far past the tipping point of "a few disgruntled employees might leave" - there would have been no OpenAI left to preside over.
are you asking me? I'm not the one with the government program.
Yes, I give TX full credit here. However, you'll note that Texas uses way more grid electricity than California, so in terms of load served from battery California is far ahead and will remain that way for several years barring changes in strategy.
> Vox Populi, Vox Dei

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1593769469741932544
That's an interesting statistic. The prospect of being "house poor" isn't particularly enticing to the younger generations either. And your bank actually owns the place until you've paid the last cent anyway. Couple that with the general precarity of the job market, and you probably won't be putting that down payment even if you technically could.
Damn, just a programming oversight? You don't need colors to get a lot of these effects. Maybe I'll fork it.
> Sam didn't inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company

That seems exactly like the kind of thing you would keep to yourself just to see the looks on their faces when they try to kick you out.
I don't know about the older Model S, but in my Model 3 the mechanical door opener is completely blank and unmarked.

I love my Tesla but that company is horrible with making it apparent how to open doors. My passengers never know how to get in or out.

Worse, look at the Cybertruck... I swear their next car will only open the doors from the app.
has been happening the whole time. Of course it has.
you're the only one talking about water.
> (Is this why the classic meme of classically-trained performers not getting along with jazz artists? Because the jazz artists won't stay on beat, and this irritates some perfect-pitch-like "out of tune" feeling in the classical musician?)

I think you’re getting tempo, pitch and time signature mixed up. Jazz musicians are excellent at staying on tempo. Staying on tempo is so important in jazz that when I was young, we had to earn the right to practice without a metronome. At the highest levels, jazz can be mixed with jazz because the tempo is solid enough.

Jazz though uses some time signatures that are hard to visualize. Once you’ve played them for long enough they become second nature but they’re likely the hardest part of learning to play jazz. Those time signatures are also common in classical music. Getting time signatures mixed up can sound absolutely awful and that’s a hard thing to fix on the fly unless you know the musicians extremely well (though then the odds of playing the wrong time signature are quite low). Learning to improvise is an entirely different can of poisonous snakes but in an ideal setting you wouldn’t start improvising until you can play.

Pitch can be a problem, but it’s easy to hear and correct on the fly.

As for classical and jazz musicians getting along or not, when I grew up the usual transition was classical to jazz. When jazz was first being invented, there were some racial issues between (generally Black) jazzbos and classical heads. But when I was growing up, we were all band geeks and had a lot of mutual respect for each other.

One thing I’ll note though is that music communities (much like software communities) can seem very toxic to outsiders. If you want to get good, you learn to take and give very direct feedback. It’s a problem when you have a very gifted musician playing with beginners, but amongst musicians of the same calibre, it’s a really warm, loving feeling.
It does have a --no-color flag.

That being said, there are some environment variables that could be referenced. I'll add this one to the list for a future update.
Thanks for this feedback! The intro was meant to take some weight off the article, which sounded maybe a bit too serious, rather than an intriguing read. But point taken. The idea behind inversions was to show that the original quote makes sense if you try to understand what it might mean, but if you do the same exercise with a very opposite meaning, you can still try to "understand" what the author had in mind and contemplate some made-up wisdom. I.e. that the quotes don't carry that much information and that a lot our cultural context of what we take for granted is a bit hand-wavy and leaving lots to guess. But point taken, will try to avoid such games, or make the intention clearer in the future.

With the word "learn", the meaning I get is not really "to attain such ability" (which is natural), but "to get accustomed to doing". And "to let go" or "not to let go" may be also be understood as "give up" vs "don't give up", as opposed to the suggested rumination of the past.
That is not a correct use of ironic.
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I had the same question. What do you do with user data? Are my commands, output, or other data sent to your database? I work with PHI so have to be careful with tools like this. At the same time it looks incredibly useful and easy to use!
I think the "coup" framing is supported at least by Helen Toner's claims in this article.

> "We were very careful, very deliberate about who we told, which was essentially almost no one in advance, other than obviously our legal team and so that's kind of what took us to to November 17."

If that doesn't sound like a secret coup, I don't know what does. Like, yes, it is their job to hire and fire the CEO so it's not really a coup, but when you do your "job" in secret instead of in the open that's the vibe you give off.
It’s hard to relate to how that could happen nowdays with concise compilation processes and source control. But in times where compilation may be finicky, undocumented, and involve manually copying (via physical disk) from devs’ computers to a single computer for manual compilation, it’s easier to see how it could happen.
This is very silly. The world has solved this and it’s markets. Before, mindlessly ambition people would take over countries and start wars.
IPsec (Internet Protocol Security)
To me, anything posted on the internet to more than yourself protected by some form of authentication is public. It always has been this way.

The whole idea that you can dictate how an image you shared online without terms, is used, is hilarious.

"This Instagram image is mine, no one can share it without my permission!" always makes me chuckle.
There are many investments that need guaranteed payouts every month (like pension funds). Mortgages are very valuable.

Checkout this post about mortgages for more details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403221
> As staff threatened to quit and speculation swirled that Microsoft may poach Altman's team from OpenAI and hire him directly, the company's board brought back Altman as CEO less than a week later.

To me, this is an important part of the story too, which Toner doesn't go into. I wonder why?
He delivered it to Microsoft. Nothing Open about OpenAI.
Or are corporate owned.

A good friend bought her Hell's Kithen flat (read: condo unit) from a Japanese company. Years ago I had another friend who worked for a company that had a sizeable place in the Village.

Anecdotal, but probably common enough.
It’s a good option, but you can’t give users a reason for the failure. They might even assume your service is broken.
> fully autonomous weapons

those would be a matter of an international treaty, like chemical weapons and land mines. None of that is covered in Schumer's $32 billion.
I don’t see the added value of posting a venturebeat link rather than linking directly to arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12130v1
There’s a lot of text in the link, but not on the subject in the title:

> However, the remainder of the report, including the exploration of the merchant situation, the semi-managed model and Temu’s profitability, is a premium offering exclusively for our paid subscribers,
So we now have a lying psychopath in charge of the most advanced AI, and no safety team to blow a whistle.

I don't think legal restrictions on AI or AI research are plausible, but perhaps we should have some licensing and psychological, ethical requirements for people owning and directing AI development.
robot firefighters? i'm sure some companies, like boston dynamics, are working on that
What if you realize that the board is wrong?
EPA mileage calculation being shitty, isn't teslas fault, or Elons, suing for the EPA mileage not matching user expectations.

He's said some false shit and over exaggerated endless things, but the mileage really isn't the thing i'd be suing over.
Currently working toward this at 38, but my goal is to start building a team of individuals to create a research / design firm that studies symbiotic relationships in nature in order to discover and pair natural additive processes (think spider producing webs as one of these additive process) starting with bespoke pieces such as a spider woven glove.

This would help create buzz and intrigue with the objective to attract top talent and essentially the seed money to self funded a hybrid medusa that is studying "organic 3D printers" with the objective of being the "Manhattan project" size of integrating nature into the manufacturing process.
npm is misusing 426 Upgrade Required.

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#status.426:

> The server MUST send an Upgrade header field in a 426 response to indicate the required protocol(s) (Section 7.8).

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.upgrade:

> The Upgrade header field only applies to switching protocols on top of the existing connection; it cannot be used to switch the underlying connection (transport) protocol, nor to switch the existing communication to a different connection. For those purposes, it is more appropriate to use a 3xx (Redirection) response (Section 15.4).

If you’re going to talk cleartext HTTP and issue a client error rather than redirecting, 403 Forbidden or 410 Gone are the two most clearly correct codes to use.

Ignoring the mandated semantics and requirements of status codes is sadly not as rare as it should be. A few I’ve encountered more than once or twice: 401 Unauthorized without using WWW-Authenticate and Authorization; 405 Method Not Allowed without providing Allow; 412 Precondition Failed for business logic preconditions rather than HTTP preconditions; 417 Expectation Failed for something other than an Expect header. I think it only ever really happens with 4xx client errors.
how is GMO different from normal breeding where we hane no clue what mutations happen. Normal breeding doesn't even attempt toestudy for safety.

Yes the science should have been better done but the worst case of GMO is the same as everything else.
Sure glad markets solved that and we no longer have ambitious people in charge of countries starting wars.
I would help WikiHouse (https://www.wikihouse.cc/) project. It is a DIY-able CNC-machined plywood- or OSB-based house. I would like to make it more parametric and smart.

My pet project these days is "nothing to WikiHouse": DIY a minimally viable 3D printer, print a bigger 3D printer on it (e.g. Voron), print a CNC machine (LowRider CNC V3), and use it to cut the house sheets.
Did you miss the part where I said properly annotated training data?
> The number of database calls will scale with the volume of data retrieved, but the volume is data retrieved should always be small.

Isn't that the point? Repeated network calls will cause latency even if the data is minimal; the total amount of data returned will always be the same, so the "N" extra network calls are pure overhead. For applications where the amount of data is usually small, network calls will likely be the bottleneck.
Backrooms image was posted years earlier in 2011 [video]
It was just discovered that the original backrooms image was posted in 2011 – years earlier than previously known.
You mean keep redemption fees? Isn’t the redemption fee built in to the purchase price?
As others have said, there are multiple reasons:

1) they may not even have it. The source code for lots of classic games have been lost. By some estimates at much as 90% of pre-2000 source code is gone. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/saving-video-gamings-...

2) the game may use code from other companies or libraries or something that they don't own.

3) it might even be unclear who actually owns the source code now.

4) it isn't worth the time to get things straightened out. Nightdive studios tried to rerelease No One Lives Forever and the companies that might possibly own the game hadn't digitized the contracts and either weren't interested in the hassle or wanted Nightdive to pay them to take the time to look and promised to refund them if they didn't. https://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-...
A game is not only just source code, but also art design, sound, music, movie, etc,. These materials may be produced by some other companies, their contracts may not allow them to be published in public.
Wikipedia has a list. Not sure how complete it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...
Yep, we're pretty much stuck. Not really complaining, at least I have a home bought at a much lower price and rate compared to homes now, so my mortgage payment is quite affordable, but I really wish we had followed through with moving when we were looking at homes just before the rates started jacking up.

We waited a bit and it quickly got to the point where our mortgage payment would double if we sold and bought an equivalent home to what we have today (and we'd ideally want to upgrade a bit, we bought this intending it to be an affordable starter home).
They have the best self driving of any company in the world. What other car can you buy and send off to work as a robotaxi on your behalf? That is truly incredible and I never hear anyone talking about it.
Then you tell them so, in a meeting with all board members present, and argue your position in good faith. You don't lie to them. You certainly don't scheme behind the back of a board member you don't agree with to try to get them fired.