skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very far from a musk fan, and if you want to make the case that musk isn't responsible for Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink I think that's a legitimate argument to be made. But I don't think there's much argument to be made that those 3 companies are not advancing humanity.
Yes but mainline stations it's captive portal open wifi. I think it literally is called network rail free wifi or something.
Totally agree that it’s “vestigial”, so it’s just like the nonprofits all the other companies run: it exists for PR, along with maybe a bit of alternative fundraising (aka pursuing grants for buying your own stuff and giving it to the needy). A common example that comes to mind is fast food chains that do fundraising campaigns for children’s health causes.
I think it's not because of support, but because your comment is very strange and doesn't really have any relevance to the discussion.
Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited
I think everybody agrees it is a craft. Like woodworking - it is part engineering, part art, and a lot of experience.
Good argument. I do prefer bicycles.
People in the west walk with cameras in their hands all day - both in public and in private. I doubt it gives anyone pause.
A particular subgenre of trolling is smurfing - infiltrating places of certain interest and pretending to be less competent than one actually is. Could a test be devised to distinguish between smurfing and actually less competent?

Turing test is classifier. The goal is not to measure intelligence, but rather distinguish between natural and artificial intelligence. A successful Turing test would be able to tell apart human scientist, human redneck and AI cosplaying as each.
They do, though using it as training data for a model cuts against their privacy-first branding.

I don't see a way Apple engineers its way out of that -- but they won't need to if open source models are good enough, or if capable models remain accessible (e.g. not first-party locked).

Ironically, it looks a lot like the Maps situation again...
This is extremely interesting, but reading the article left me wondering: why are experienced underwater archaeologists not involved in this? The only mention of any seems to be DRASSM, French government archaeologists who presumably had to come over at great expense. In the two locations I've lived and dived there have been underwater archaeology societies (Save Our Shipwrecks in Ontario, and the Nautical Archaeology Society in the UK) whose would normally by extremely keen to survey a wreck like this.

I'll also point out that if you don't involve people with this training, you can do a lot of harm. Items that have been submerged for a long time, especially in mud, can degrade rapidly once they're brought into air. Archaeologists will typically have prepared baths to submerge items in once they're brought up. There can be a lot of information preserved in those wrecks: for example, one of our best sources of information about English longbows are the examples brought up from the wreck of the Mary Rose.

There's one massive red flag in this article that screams "this needs archaeologists involved": the fact that they took the reporter diving to the wreck. It sounds like this was his first dive. As others have pointed out, there is some risk of injury, even if they properly briefed him, since he's going to be too distracted by the wreck to focus on things like "breath continuously". But there's also a lot of risk to the wreck. Even qualified divers have a bad habit of kicking wrecks (and reefs) and doing damage.

There's also the fact that the only photograph in that article is take from the surface using a cell phone. I would not say that underwater photography is a priority for me, but even I have the kit to take photos while diving that would be a lot better than those take from the surface. So why don't these guys? Especially in 10 feet of water where the lighting conditions are so benign.
I agree with you.

But it was not what I was talking about when I was talking about useless direction and trying to solve non-problem.

The situation you describe is indeed a management and leadership failure.

But if you don't have management and leadership failure, you still have useless direction and trying to solve non-problem. It's just mathematical, it's just a feature of what happens when you work in a collaboration and have a group that implement the product and another group who owns it. It's not a judgement on the capacity of the devs: even the best dev will deviate. It is just because uncertainties always exist and the more you advance without realigning, the more you deviate.

Let's also notice that the devs realign, but the management realign also, refining their understanding of what is possible or not and so on.
Also, most of the robber barons of the early Industrial Revolution gave away all or most their wealth.

https://factmyth.com/factoids/the-robber-barons-gave-most-of...

https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/
So you have:

Wordpress.org which is directly controlled by Matt Mullenweg

Automattic (ie wordpress.com) whose CEO is Matt Mullenweg

and The WordPress Foundation which is run by (checks notes) Matt Mullenweg

Yet you seem to think we should treat all three of those entities (Matts?) as separate and independant
I've never had to sign a contract to eat in a restaurant. Are you referring to a specific restaurant?
> and Sam jumps in to brag

I never read that as a brag, but as a sarcastic dismissal. That’s why it started with “cool story bro” and “except I could never have predicted”. I see the tone as “this story is convoluted” not as “I’ll admit to my plan now that you can’t do anything about it”.

That’s not to say Sam isn’t a scammer. He is. It just doesn’t seem like that particular post is proof of it. But Worldcoin is.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
You can't "just ban" new dependencies in an ecosystem where they are so pervasive otherwise the ban becomes a roadblock to progress in no time.

Sorry I have a problem with "just" word in tech.
> What happened is that some kid phoned up helpdesk and said they were x and they had lost their phone, can you please help me to reset my password and 2fa (because the phone was nicked, its standard operating procedure right?)

Do you have a source for this?
RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features with Linux 6.12
> You're assuming that there is a qualified specialist in the area in question.

This is a necessary assumption, because you cannot be a specialist in the most fields. You can probably be a specialist in one narrow field, if you spend your life to become one.

> So even in this hardest of hard sciences, "seek help of a qualified specialist" doesn't actually work well as a strategy.

In my experience it works. The trick is to talk with the specialist, to lay out your understanding of the problem to them, to get their critique, fix your understanding and then do several iterations of this. If you really need to be sure that your understanding is adequate for the task ahead of you, you could try to talk with several specialists.

And in overall I have the same feeling of black-and-white worldview on your part. Trying to guess what is different between you and me I come to this:

Truth is not Real, it is Ideal. You cannot reach it. Any understanding is Real, so it is not ideal, it is not perfect. Any prediction is probabilistic. There is Reality itself and there is my limited understanding of it, and there is a vast ocean of information on how others understand Reality. This ocean of information is not the Ideal understanding either. So the crucial skill is to learn how to drink from the ocean a couple of gulps that will be enough for my current task. And it is not just my preference how to deal with the ocean, it is the only viable way to deal with it, because I cannot drink all the ocean. I can't even drink it faster than it gets new information, so even if I had infinite time to drink it, I would be able to bottom it up.
Good, I would do the same because it's a reasonable thing to do. It's easier to succeed as a for-profit.
Sorry are you advocating death as punishment for hacking a captive portal?
I wouldn't, especially not having looked at the VPN at first. It might expose you to even more attackers than could fit in your Starbucks
Find the files your looking for without their names, just by their content
Fair. I don't think I have the personal will to curate an allowlist :P
The monomorphic vs polymorphic argument is an interesting one. I think that you could explicitly get unboxing if you used something like CLOS style multimethods to dispatch based on the type, so that (add <float> <float>) would dispatch to the function that uses fadd on those operands. I never realized that you could use this kind functionality, multimethods or free monad interpreters, to write in-code optimizations that are conveniently abstracted away in actual code usage.

Edit: nevermind, that's also dynamic dispatch. You'd have to add static dispatch via macros or some external transpilation step.
ethically or legally? because they both matter, but they are decided in the court of public opinion and of law, respectively, but only one carries actual fiscal weight.
Once again, the UK gov refuses to pay more than like 30k a year for engineers and then plays shocked Pikachu when things aren't done properly.
People running ads in paper and public signs should just sue advertisers for anti-competitive tracking technologies as they have no way to compete against that.
The problem is the ecosystem split and the decades of man hours of churn caused in libraries and user code – that's time and effort that could have been spent on making those dependencies better.

This applies to both suggestions ("fork" and "don't use it").
Drop the "The", just "AI"
>I personally think that this kind of analogy is inheretenly wrong

Well, every analogy is inherently wrong at some level of detail. Find an analogy you think is appropriate and zoom in further and it will break.

No analogy, metaphor, or general comparison is ever perfectly isomorphic with the target. As a function of communication, the mark of a good one is if your audience understands.
If prices are negative, there will only be a market if sellers can afford (and are willing) to pay buyers the market price.
> Coming from Go, I was surprised that something like
>
> if let Some(x) = > some_var; expr(x) { }
>
> isn't a thing.

The same thing in C++17:

if (auto x = something();
expr1(x)) {}
else if (expr2(x)) {}

It's really neat to have the variable scoped to the if/else-clause.
I didn't had a degree, didn't had formal education.

But heck, had my software on the cover of paper magazines and was a recognized expert for a niche field of technology.

Smart companies hire for talent more than academic credentials or "years of experience". If you are unable to show your work portfolio from those years, there is really no evidence for people to judge your work quality in development.

This helps to distinguish between those who are developing software only as a 9 to 5 job, or those who love it and develop code on their free time as well.
I've seen multiple companies the past couple of years drop some really interesting projects to spend several months trying to make LLMs do things they weren't made for. Now, most are simply settling for chat agents running on dedicated capacity.

The real "moat" OpenAI dug was overselling its potential in order to convince so many to halt real AI research, to only end up with a chat bot.
Another post which is on the front page with fewer points and older / more stale time is "Writing Portable Rendering Code with Nvrhi" with 5 points from 3 hours ago.

To be clear, I do not believe that the HN moderators are doing anything wrong, but rather that Sam or his friends use a lot of accounts to flag anything bad about him, suppressing those posts.
> Cargo already take care of that if you use the same major version.

Most dependency management systems do that, but large projects often end up pulling multiple different major versions of (often very large) dependencies.

> 2) worse by forcing everyone to include the old deprecated dependency too!

Like I said I am no expert on Rust, but I assume that Rust can eliminate stdlib dead-code from the runtime? So unused deprecated features shouldn't be included on every build? Also deprecated features often are modified to use the new implementation under the hood which reduces code duplication problem.

> Bundling dependencies in the stdlib "solves" the problem by making new major versions impossible.

Yes, which is a feature. For example Go is very annoying about this not only on the stdlib. https://go.dev/doc/go1compat a lot of 3rd party libs follow this principle as well.

I bring Go a lot but I actually don't like the language that much, but it gets some pragmatic things right.

I am not saying everything should be in the stdlib, but I tend to think that the stdlib should be fairly big and tackle most common problems.
Still, one could say that no one wants a portaloo (mobile toilet) in their living room.
It kind of did. Back in 2008 or so I wrote a series of articles about multiplayer networking [1], which over time became suprisingly popular, but nothing much happened otherwise. Until 2014, when they directly led to Improbable [2] reaching out and ultimately poaching me from Google (at least for a few years).

[1] https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....

[2] https://improbable.io
I've seen this approach go a long way with languages that have a large standard library. Go and C# .NET comes to mind.
Battlemage engineering sample suggests there's some hope for Intel's GPUs
Yes, 1980s/early 90s tooling is mostly similar in the amount of effort it put into optimizations that are simply irrelevant today. And it still works, if you're a fat lazy enterprise that can afford much, much more horrible inefficiencies than those rpm/deb tooling inflicts on its users.

But that doesn't make it superior, or something to be proud of.
Generally, when you download a dev tool to run a tool on your own machine that is not pre-packaged software, it does not have a subscription cost. That is likely the source of confusion.

It’s unclear what service requires the expense on your side that justifies a monthly cost. I think explaining those benefits on the pricing page would help you a great deal.
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Wait.. Sam Altman also owns (or did own) ycombinator?
I looked up who Christian Slater is... I read that wikipedia list of big budget films he is in. I don't know a single one or have ever even heard of it.

Guess not everyone is watching films.
This protects your wallet's privacy, but as a user who needs to log in to their systems you can still be tracked, even if they can't tell how much money you had on some specific wallet.
Love it. stealing it for myself
Well I know for a fact that it did help me get noticed, a couple of recruiters reached out to me after reading some of my blogposts.

Other than that, I think that in general it implicitly helped me because I’m definitely better at writing technical docs and that’s a nice perk for a software engineer.
This is _so_ rich coming from Wordpress who offers a bastardized version of Wordpress themselves on Wordpress.com

I wish I had never given Wordpress any money.
Not one of these, but I tried on a small, Lithuanian, language. The catch is what the language has complicated grammar, but not as bad as Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian. I asked to summarise some text and it does the job, but the grammar is not perfect and in some cases, at a foreigner level. Plus, it invented some words with no meaning. E.g. `„Sveika gyvensena“ turi būti *atnemitinamas* viso kurso *vykišioje*.`
I called this 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560352

OpenAI is Microsoft's AI R&D spin-off and Microsoft means business.
The .com and .org user forums get a steady stream of posts from people who mixed them up.
Supacat MUV: Affordable military vehicle based on Toyota Hilux pick-up truck
Where do you live that this is the condo ownership model?

Generally, condo owners have an undivided interest in the land on which the property is built.
I think Rust's `async` has been a great success for commercial "sponsors" of Rust, because it increased the complexity of the language so much that it's hardly possible anymore to contribute to it without being full-time employed to do so.

The decision for `async` handed a lot of power to Amazon et al.
For profit it will be when it will be profitable.
This would have been the perfect time to change it, but maybe soon if not at same time as any official announcement.

It's hard to say if there is much brand value left with "OpenAI" - lots of history, but lots of toxicity too.

At the end of the day they'll do as well as they are able to differentiate and sell their increasingly commoditized products, in a competitive landscape where they've got Meta able to give it away for free.
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> And this is the biggest difference with architecture. Nobody starts building a house without knowing final design

I must disagree based on the number of residential homes turned into businesses, large scale remodeling, or tearing a house down to rebuild. All these fit well into the analogy.
Pales in comparison to the impact of ‘leadership’ saying masks are ineffective.

I remember we knew by June 2020 that it was aerosolized transmission which means the safest locations are outdoors in sunshine and which also means you could open schools with an air filter next to every desk.

The complete lack of stem education amongst decision makers really screwed us over.
Yes: non-profits usually have members, not shareholders.

And, most importantly: non-profit charities (not the only kind of nonprofit, but presumably what OpenAI was) are legally obligated to operate “for the public good”. That’s why they’re tax exempt: the government is basically donating to them, with the understanding that they’re benefiting the public indirectly by doing so, not just making a few people rich.

In my understanding, this is just blatant outright fraud that any sane society would forbid. If you want to start a for-profit that’s fine, but you’d have to give away the nonprofit and its assets, not just roll it over to your own pocketbook.

God I hope Merrick Garland isn’t asleep at the wheel. They’ve been trust busting like mad during this administration, so hopefully they’re taking aim at this windmill, too.
Well, he is the one that did most of the actual research and work, riiiiight?
SMS MFA is usually used to reset password so it's almost always de facto SFA. Recent Veritasium video says overtaking anyones phone number costs just hundreds of dollars
I think the people getting salaries are doing just fine
Altman Intelligence Inc.
Even from the west coast it's a 6 hr flight. Combined with time difference, it often means 2 days on travelling alone. Even worse for people in mid west or near west coast, which is the majority of where the population is [0]. For most people I know, Hawaii is a trip once every few years, and definitely not twice a year.

[0] http://dhmontgomery.com/2018/02/population-latitude/
WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after 'cybersecurity incident' | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656032
> You got any idea why people hate the concept of nested functions in C?

No, I was surprised to hear it.

> Why named named arguments test( a:4, b:3) instead of test(.a=4, b.=3);

Consistency with how static initializers work in D.
Interesting, I can't really think of anything urgent enough that couldn't wait 20 minutes for me to get home, bet we have different lives.
The theory is right but in practice none of this is really run by the public sector anything remotely difficult is just contracted out to the private sector and they go with basically the cheapest bid from a "big" company. In this case it's telent and they probably just brought a captive portal product (the cheapest, of course ;)) and it got hacked.
Mozilla rebrand takes from early internet aesthetics, aims to "reclaim the web"
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It did not.

I have an actively maintained website [1], but it never got me anything. In fact, I even removed GA from it, because I don't care whether people read it or not, I do it for my own enjoyment.

Same for conference speaking, I never got a single good ping out of it (in that case, I stopped doing it, I hate flying).

[1] bytepawn.com
In my case it definitely didn't (so far).

I'm not a prolific writer and the subjects are just what interested me at that point in time and I feel should be public. Unfortunately, there aren't many companies looking for experts in palindromes.

Looking at the websites shared here, it seems like web development tutorials and tips are the way to go if you want to get hired.

I, however, recommend writing about whatever gets you excited and you want to share with the world. Especially since you're happy in your current place.
> I would argue the exact opposite – literally _every_ house is built without knowing the final design!

The sheer number of houses that have additions, bathroom renos, kitchen renos, walls blown out, basements apartment added, second floors added etc. etc. makes their claim ludicrous on the face of it.

In software we are often taking an existing design and modifying for new requirements. The house analogy is excellent for explaining WHY one thing is easy but another is hard.
Any reasonable court would see right through “well we trained it for the public good, but only we can use it directly”. That’s not really a legal loophole as much as an arrogant ploy. IMO, IANAL
TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet
Can you give more information on this? I thought Cocomelon was basically just animated nursery rhymes?
They don’t have to seize the company. They are likely embedded already and can simply blackmail, legally harass, or “disappear” the uncooperative.
There is some reality to them - they are extrapolations of latest investment round. Say OpenAI had been valued at $100B, but some investors can be convinced to buy a 10% stake for $15B, then the company is now "valued" at $150B (10% = $15B => 100% = $150B).
Thanks Meta for inspiring me to work on my crazy side projects that no-one needs!
Sounds like your family is much, much richer than the general population, so your experience probably isn't super meaningful to other people.
I believe it's in the playback_frame() function via the % operator.
I never understood why people take non profit companies as more altruistic than for profit companies. The non profit doesnt mean no profits at all they still have to be profitable. It's just boils down to how the profits are distributed. There are plenty of sleezy institutions that are non profit like the NCAA.

Foundations and charitable organizations that pubically get their funding are a different story but I'm talking about non profit companies.

I even had one fellow say that the green bay packers were less corrupt than the other for profit nfl teams , which sounds ridiculous.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. You are right in principle that FLOSS apps can and do have telemetry/surveillance included. In practice, it's much, much less frequent than for any proprietary apps. If we go even further and make the FLOSS definition as strict as it gets (i.e., stick to FSF), then such problem almost disappears.

Does any other FSF-approved distro include Firefox? I guess Firefox should not belong to PureOS. If you read the criteria for the free distros, you will see that anything that downloads or even mentions nonfree software should be excluded. Even Debian was excluded for this reason, including one with only "main" repository enabled. Firefox mentions DRM and downloads it in just one click. AFAIK PureOS didn't include Firefox in the beginning, but the users demanded it.

See also: https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mo...

From the above link:

> Use a version of Firefox without the EME code

Oh, I found that Firefox in PureOS doesn't include the DRM part: https://forums.puri.sm/t/not-possible-to-enable-drm-content-....