skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but I think we need to distinguish between the people and the corporation, and stop thinking that the way we treat people (such as the Boeing executives) will solve the system problem. We absolutely need to stop treating corporations like people -- and I'm not talking about taxation. I'm talking about the way we think and talk about corporations the same way we talk about people.

When we domesticated animals, we had to be very cognizant that they were not people. For example, bulls are extremely aggressive and extremely physically powerful. You can allow a person into a room with a baby in a crib. There are exceptions, and they are treated as exceptions. With bulls, you do not allow them into a room with a baby in a crib, by default or by exception. It would be considered criminally irresponsible for a person to say, this bull is an exception, I've had it for five years, it's a great friend, and based on its past behavior I'm going to keep it in the same room with my infant child. You just wouldn't do that.

We have enough experience with corporations to know that we need to start treating them less like humans and more like a species of partly domesticated but still extremely dangerous animal. Based on long experience with them, we should expect corporations to predictably lie, steal, and destroy whenever it is in their financial interest. We don't need to get rid of them (we don't have any good replacement for their role in the economy) but should structure the way we treat corporations around our knowledge of their destructive tendencies.

Our long experience with cattle has taught us ways to protect humans from their destructive tendencies while still extracting what we want from them. We keep cattle out of our residences, we castrate most of the males, and we manage intact bulls in a way that ensures human safety while allowing them to serve their necessary functions. We design fences and other management technology with their aggression and power in mind.

It is long past time to treat corporations the same way. In many small ways we have done this, but always held back by the human metaphor. Corporations are in a sense made of humans, and we feel a sense of respect towards fellow humans that we then unconsciously, and with horrible consequences, extend to the corporations they are part of. We need to consciously and decisively put that behind us. You don't have to be cynical about humans to accept that corporations are greedy and untrustworthy. That is their nature. How you square that with the nature of the humans who run them is irrelevant, as irrelevant as bovine neuroscience is to knowing that we should keep bulls out of our nurseries. We don't have to agree about humans to agree about corporations and stop giving them free reign to wreak havoc in society.
Although this project is undoubtedly very cool, and maybe simplifies build processes by having a single binary, is there any other reason to use it? How does it compare in terms of performance, static linkability, standards conformance, etc. with musl and glibc? I’m curious because I’m picking a libc at the moment for my project.
Until they have an actual baby and don't have free time to spend maintaining large projects for free.
I think visa and Mastercard have the same behaviour even supported by the governments. You can’t add the visa fee to the checkout.
In the watch world sports watch means a tool watch, something designed for a specific purpose like supporting an occupation, military use, or while participating in a sport (mainly uppercrusty sports). Sports watches have taken over, and can really be thought of as everyday watches since people are wearing rolex submariners with tuxedos now.

Sport watches started with things like the JLC Reverso, which was designed to meet a challenge of a watch that could survive a polo match. The case includes a swivel that lets the dial flip around to keep it protected while playing.

Quartz watches upended watch makers across every price point, totally destroying the bottom of the market. The survivors moved towards mechanical watches as luxury items, and even the holy trinity of Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, and Vacheron Constantin had to respond. Audemars Piguet revealed the luxury sport watch Royal Oak in 1972 and there wasn't any going back. PP designed Nautilus in 1976 and Vacheron brought out the Overseas in 77. These 3 lines make up a huge chunk of the holy trintiy business now.
From TFA: "I hope you enjoy your DIY smart doorbell! However, now the time has come for me to come clean. This article was never about the doorbell! This article is about showing you how easy, fun, and cheap DIY smart home solutions are. ESPHome & Home Assistant are just amazing tools to allow everyone to jump in and create amazing things."
Key words like "epistemology" in the prompt. Chat GPT generally outperforms humans in epistemology substantially in my experience, and it seems to "understand" the concept much more clearly and deeply, and without aversion (lack of an ego or sense of self, values, goals, desires, etc?).
Yeah I didn't have any problems with this on Pop or Ubuntu. I guess its a Debian issue. I might end up moving over to a different distro at some point, but I finally have everything working on Debian so I am hesitant to switch right now.
I think that however flawed, capitalism might prevail here. If enough money was on the line, institutional investors might get actual permission to [hire experts to] enter the assembly floor and do spot checks. Not welcoming such a thing would cause a huge stock hit. etc.
I have had both freesync and gsync workingwith no fuss for literal years. First with a 1070 and then with a 6800xt. I have never owned an HDR monitor so I can't personally speak to how well that works, but apparently it works just fine on the steam deck.

Even if it didn't, the number of people for whom HDR support is a make or break feature is likely not very high. Non developers use linux daily with the steam deck. I set up my mom with my xps 15 with Ubuntu on it when her laptop mobo died. While she wasn't a huge fan of having to learn a new UI, she was able to use it without issue for facebook/email/netflix/taxes/online banking for a few months until a good deal on a replacement came up and I got my laptop back.

I don't think if you are objective you can call linux so far behind windows. They are on par, each has their own annoyances and strengths, but for the average person they are just web browsing machines anyway.
There's no such thing as a statement of fact when it comes to morals. And I say this as someone who believes in universal moral law.
Push-based MFA is a mistake for this exact reason. I don’t know why it seems every service opposes implementing pull-based TOTP, but it is strongly resistant to this abuse (since there are no notifications involved).
Is a health insurance a need or a want?
It's using a legit copy of windows and performing a legit activation, no exploits or anything. To call it piracy is the same as me telling you my pin and calling you a hacker when you login to my account, no? Microsoft could fix it, but they don't.
Without dealing with the morality, I think practically it doesn’t lead to good outcomes.

How will you feel when customers do the same, and try to get as much as they can for as little as possible? It’s free to buy an umbrella and then return it when it stops raining. Is that less ethical than surge pricing? It’s based on the same premise; their need for an umbrella now makes the umbrella worthless so they regret the decision.

It erodes trust in the market. It shows consumers that businesses are willing to capitalize on their inelastic demands, which encourages responses in kind. I would wager consumers find it less unethical to abuse returns or steal from price gouging vendors.

On a long enough timeline as a common enough practice, I think we all lose. Those frustrations become crippling market inefficiencies and both customers and producers are worse off.
I loved Symbian, because it was hackable. It had mShell and PyS60 that gave direct access to everything the system had. I remember backing up text messages and contacts using mShell.

I accessed a heart rate monitor via BT using PyS60. Both were pretty straight forward.

With Android, termux comes close.

I had a colleague who worked in Nokia, on a TCS contract. He explained how the team was devasted upon hearing the news that Meego would be abandoned and Windows OS would be used.

I was hoping for Meego/Maemo before 13 years, then Sailfish and then Ubuntu touch. I don't know if there is any hope of mobile Linux (not Android) anymore.

The problem is majorily a limiting hardware, than the software itself. We had a Sailfish mobile in India, but the hardware was very disappointing that evev if you could live with the limited software ecosystem, the hardware was not really useful.

I see the same trend with PinePhone and Librem.
Thank you for reading this essay and for your kind, thoughtful comment. This is different from anything I've written and it took me a long time to get to the point where I felt like I could share it with anyone. It means a lot to me that you enjoyed it.
The shit that would be heaved on both the equity and bond markets if the Fed hiked rates at this point is quite possibly Biblical. I'm not disputing that the pain is better now than later - and it may be the case here as well (I don't know, I'm a trader not an economist). My view is that rate hikes aren't really warranted at this point. Inflation is still high but many of the core measures are finally starting to show signs of improvement. The question at this point is whether the Fed can justify cutting this year or only in '25.

The other side of the coin is that if the Fed hiked now, half the country would be up in arms that the Fed basically assassinated the Biden administration. I think the Fed is not in the wrong of waiting a bit, at least until after the elections. Then if inflation starts coming off, well there's nothing for them to do, and if it doesn't, they can do it without so much fuss from politicians.

Hell, if Trump wins, he might be in the lucky position of claiming that he singlehandedly fixed everything and allowed the Fed to start cutting rates :D
Not as bad as buying a Ferrari: where you have to already own a Ferrari to be allowed to buy one.
The Fed runs several payment systems so in theory all the transfers sent through there could be a part of this leak.
for those who want related thinking i defined my list of table stakes features for blogs here https://www.swyx.io/the-surprisingly-high-table-stakes-of-mo...

across reader experience, author experience, and developer experience (for self maintained blogging software)
IDK, the original Doom was largely created on a NeXT computer, with everything different from x86 and DOS.

It was an explosive hit of DOS-based PC gaming market nevertheless.
Nintendo is a funny example here though, since they are notably the one major player which actually makes a profit on their hardware sales directly. They do also make a cut on the other games still, though.
“homage Birkin”

A knockoff? Is that what people are calling knockoffs these days?
I mean sure it's not using native APIs, but many developers are specifically targeting Steam Deck to get a Steam Deck Verified label and show up prominently on the Steam Store. So despite developing for Windows, they are doing QA on Linux.
FWIW I note that Google Translate offers no Old English, or even Middle English.
> Haven't been able to successfully run SimCity on modern hardware

I’m a bit surprised by this. Have you tried running the DOS version with DOSBox, or the SNES version with an SNES emulator?
CapCut: Free all-in-one video editor that allows you to make everything anywhere
> Reported to who?

Department of Homeland Security, I imagine. Probably the IRS too. Probably not the Fed, they can't really do anything with the data other than report it to someone else.
I do not believe this is true.

Windows 10 LTSC will continue to get security improvements at least until next year depending on the LTSC version you have installed and up to 2032.

As far as it not getting a new cut version after the 2021 one, I feel like that is just normal practice? Does Microsoft normally cut a new version of their LTSC version on an older OS when they are working on the next version?

Was there even a need for a new 10 LTSC after 2021?
Using lots of instruments in an Alda score
Looks cool, I have often thought that this was something that is lacking. Not sure if I've missed it but I think there should be a way to add a outlines while in outliner mode. Like, you can click to add a category or feed and you get a simple dialog asking you for the key information (like title, URL, category name).
I feel certain there have been multiple "ToS Watcher" services, that kept tabs and diffs of the bigger sites ToS pages, at least.

I cannot find any evidence such ever existed in a quick search right now however.
AFAIK, steam doesn't prevent developers from also allowing their games to be installed outside of steam (if so, then that's a problem).

It's the fact that there's no alternative to get spotify, etc onto your phone that's the ultimate issue. The security of the app store in an enourmous advantage, but they're using it to extract huge premiums.

Like it or not, our phones have become the primary medium we use for news, entertainment, etc. If it were me, I'd allow side-loading of apps onto the app store, but they'd then have zero access to your contacts, unique phone IDs, and strict privacy rules. Apple could still enforce malware via the apple subscription. Essentially, they can make it like MacOS, but not allow any unsigned apps.
I have a relatively recent Microsoft account, but at this point I refuse to even type it into my Windows computer. Given their user-hostile posture, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to have a keystroke logger listening for me typing my MS account into some other software. Then, it could pop up with "Surprise! We just upgraded your local account to this Microsoft account that we just saw you type in! Now you have to log in with your Microsoft account. Gotcha, sucker!"
I guess we're desperate to get to answer to the question of how dumb comment chains on this forum can get, and wherever everyone involved is either mentally or actually in the /r/im-12-and-this-is-smart phase.
Everyone in the comments seems to be arguing over the semantics of the words and anthropomorphization of LLMs. Putting that aside, there is a real problem with this approach that lies at the mathematical level.

For any given input text, there is a corresponding output text distribution (e.g. the probabilities of all words in a sequence which the model draws samples from).

The approach of drawing several samples and evaluating the entropy and/or disagreement between those draws is that it relies on already knowing the properties of the output distribution. It may be legitimate that one distribution is much more uniformly random than another, which has high certainty. Its not clear to me that they have demonstrated the underlying assumption.

Take for example celebrity info, "What is Tom Cruise known for?". The phrases "movie star", "katie holmes", "topgun", and "scientology" are all quite different in terms of their location in the word vector space, and would result in low semantic similarity, but are all accurate outputs.

On the other hand, "What is Taylor Swift known for?" the answers "standup comedy", "comedian", and "comedy actress" are semantically similar but represent hallucinations. Without knowing the distribution characteristics (e.g multivariate moments and estimates) we couldn't say for certain these are correct merely by their proximity in vector space.

As some have pointed out in this thread, knowing the correct distribution of word sequences for a given input sequence is the very job the LLM is solving, so there is no way of evaluating the output distribution to determine its correctness.

There are actual statistical models to evaluate the amount of uncertainty in output from ANNs (albeit a bit limited), but they are probably not feasible at the scale of LLMs. Perhaps a layer or two could be used to create a partial estimate of uncertainty (e.g. final 2 layers), but this would be a severe truncation of overall network uncertainty.

Another reason I mention this is most hallucinations I encounter are very plausible and often close to the right thing (swapping a variable name, confabulating a config key), which appear very convincing and "in sample", but are actually incorrect.
Besides "Link Previews", which other features are affected by your bandwidth?
Throttling and/or an exponential back off would fix this though.

If I hit no, it better be 5 minutes before the next one is allowed through. And then 15min, then 2hr, etc.

Fatigue should have been considered in both the server and the client.
The billions in agricultural subsidies, strict regulations, and non-tariff barriers that make it difficult for non-EU companies to compete suggest otherwise to me.
Probably the hardest CS undergraduate course I took was "Principles of Programming Languages" which was similar to this, and another course mentioned in this thread. Not sure if it was not taught well or was just inherently difficult. Covered programming paradigms (object-oriented - Java, functional - Common Lisp, and logical - Prolog), designing a language with an abstract syntax tree and then parsing and executing it etc. A lot to cram into one course I guess.
I have no idea what TFA means.
You may be interested in roc-lang.org, which does some of those.
Jain Raises $5.3B in Biggest Hedge Fund Debut Since 2018
Cool idea. Suggestion: side-by-side output.
I made this because I spend a lot of my time on a mobile phone at work.
I switch between slack, email and telegram in my daily work.

Many times, i make commitments to people - like, i will get back or i will follow up. But then that just gets lost in all the noise. I forget where i made those commitments.

So, i built this simple tool where each time i make such a commitment, i can just take a screenshot and share it with this app. the app will create a todo which i can mark as done later.

super simple app. do give it a swing :)

the other thing i wanted to share is that i thought this was a trivial enough app for chat gpt to make. And that's why i signed up to build this at 1am. i thought i'll be in and out quickly. I got chat gpt to write the entire code.

But ...

It didn't work. I spent hours debugging. and the errors were so small that i didn't spot it at all!

particularly this one :
I needed other apps to be able to share an image with this app.
On the android manifest, i needed to set a configuration called "android.intent.action.SEND"

but chat gpt gave me the code which had
"android.intent.android.intent.action.SEND"

I didn't spot it at all and went down several rabbitholes to figure out why the configuration isn't being set. I thought it was a compiler issue so i did several rounds of clean builds and decompiled the build to check the configurations.

It was a nightmare.

I gave up and went to sleep.

Today morning, i rewrote the app from scratch. It took me 30 minutes.
I still used chat gpt, but only for very specific mundane/boilerplate code. Everything else i wrote myself.

I find these AI tools to be incredibly useful to code, but i they are not able to build e2e systems. Even if they build something that's 80% there and i have to write only the 20% that'd be great. but i fear that's not where the state of the art is. It significantly sets you behind if you get it to write large chunks of code.
Yup. And ironically, the buildings are designed for one set of guests — the Olympic athletes — and if they had done their planning keeping the athlete's requirements as the primary criteria, they would have ended up with a far more climate-effective solution.

Instead, they have a cooling system that starts out as known-insufficient, and will definitely be unable to meet requirements in case of even normal heat waves, nevermind the what-used-to-be-outlier events that are now far more common. And, because of that planned inadequacy, hundreds or thousands of new temporary AC units will be built, transported, installed, and run at vast otherwise-unnecessary expense and emissions.

Building the initial system to meet requirements under any conditions found in the last two decades, and using modern AC technology that allows motors to run at variable speeds (vs compressor ON/OFF only) would be vastly more energy-efficient, and actually more climate-friendly.

Sheesh
EPA isn't the only governing body. It says right in their report the facility is being properly managed by the city of Santa Clara and the state of California.

Also, they weren't doing chip fab there. It was R&D for Titan and MicroLED. There's a reason she's litigating her case against Apple pro se and without any expert witnesses and other lawyers. She's a basket case who went from almost fainting one time to now saying she almost died. She scared a lot of people at work who live in the same apartment building with this: https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...
We all bought equipment thinking we were being poisoned. TL;DR, we weren't. I was on the bottom floor and 0000000000 VOCs.

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/03/19/apple-secretly-deve...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/apple-tech-layoffs-...
Nope, the proper lesson is to provide a secret (such as a 2 digit code) with the 2FA request that the authenticator must also present instead of just hitting "approve".
It's easy to infer which is normal based on one's experience of the world. The world would be very different if it were otherwise.
I agree. Perhaps I don't have a good understanding of "late-stage" capitalism.

I think that the current version of capitalism is "working" (very relatively), exactly because there is substantial oversight from the government and the media, and there should be more.

An open and fair marketplace generally seems to be good at improving lives at scale. But I don't understand why so many people have this idea that it is a fundamental law of nature, that if you remove government intervention it will naturally become a more open and a more fair market.

An open and fair marketplace is quite artificial and needs so much enforcement to keep alive. Futhermore, even if it is good in general, there are a huge number of exceptional emergent behaviours that are bad and require intervention.

We clearly see from history that without oversight, the economy does not become an efficient market. It consolidates into rent-seeking monopolies, often defended and expanded by violence, controlled by an elite with a self-reinforcing long-lasting hold on power. In other words, different flavours of Feudalism, not always focused on land assets.
SARs are reported to FinCEN, which is part of the Treasury, not Fed.
And yet several places do. “Menu reflects cash prices” and “tuition payment via credit card will be subject to a 3.5% fee” are 2 I got this week.
This is why people love to hate Elon Musk. Having a despicable character at the head of Tesla is the only thing that makes it possible for people to care about anything that Tesla or his other companies does.

Boeing would be huge news, and would be in much worse trouble, if there was a flamboyant bad guy to hold people's attention. Being dull is an important quality for corporate leadership for exactly this reason.
> The EU regulations will require them to do insane amounts of custom work building a public API

Apple are the biggest company in the world. If they wanted they could hire 1000 developers to throw at this, and it wouldnt even dent a single percent of their profit.

Apple could very easily do this if they wanted to, heck they could do absolutely anything they want with their money and clout, but they dont.
If you're interested in Gren, you might also like Roc — roc-lang.org. It's a definite descendent of Elm too, although not a fork: the compiler is written in Rust, the platforms (a fascinating and powerful concept) in Rust and Zig.