skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your criticism seems to be less about ads but rather about certain products and services that use ads for distribution and their messaging.
I think being a CNCF project is better than not being one. It gives it more visibility and structure and thus is less likely to be abandoned.

But sure, unfortunately if not enough different companies and individiuals are maintaining stuff it gets abandoned.
There are other transformers that have been trained on chess text that play chess fine (just not as good as 3.5 Turbo instruct with the exception of the "grandmaster level without search" paper).
Yeah right, legalized bribery means the elected leaders have priorities other than citizens.
Someone argued user_list, user_count, and has_users are clearer than users, users, and users. Will you argue the opposite?

The original Hungarian notation was a less readable implementation of the same idea. The Hungarian notation most people hated replaced functional types like count and index with data types like unsigned long. And used them everywhere.
For https://github.com/raphamorim/rio
i think this has everything to do with the fact that learning chess by learning sequences will get you into more trouble than good. even a trillion games won't save you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number

that said, for the sake of completeness, modern chess engines (with high quality chess-specific models as part of their toolset) are fully capable of, at minimum, tying every player alive or dead, every time. if the opponent makes one mistake, even very small, they will lose.

while writing this i absently wondered if you increased the skill level of stockfish, maybe to maximum, or perhaps at least an 1800+ elo player, you would see more successful games. even then, it will only be because the "narrower training data" (ie advanced players won't play trash moves) at that level will probably get you more wins in your graph, but it won't indicate any better play, it will just be a reflection of less noise; fewer, more reinforced known positions.
They do already, and big companies have already been fined for not offering them, which led to some smaller parties adding them. See here [0] for a list, amongst which was Microsoft getting a $65 million fine for not having an easy opt-out on Bing, or $162 million to Google for the same thing. Noncompliance should be reported.

[0] https://www.cookieyes.com/blog/cookie-consent-fines/
been shamed too many times, man. Moral failing itself became just a button people try to press in my brain. Often very dishonest people. So, welcome to moral learned helplessness, and damn the moralizers.

ALSO: thinking means changing your mind, which often exposes you to being called a hypocrite
Once there was a lecture at Yale, and Serge Lang, a frequent loud critic of bad notation was in the audience. There was a function Xi, and soon it was joined by its complex conjugation. Then they were divided. Serge Lang walked out.
Indeed. Try to write Ξ sloppily using connected strokes and you'll end up with something vaguely like ξ.
Woah, we just speedran "low information is racist" to "poor people are stupid", I've never seen anything like it.
I was using an LLM to help spot passive voice in my documents and it told me "We're making" was passive and I should change it to "we are making" to make it active.

Leaving aside "we're" and "we are" are the same, it is absolutely active voice
Thanks for all the extra information.

I think we've reached the point where it really does hinge on exact details which we don't really know the answers to. And while yes, we are commenting on an article about supposed anti-competitive behavior, the article doesn't actually describe the specifics at all, and courts get things wrong all the time (and overturned on appeal).

I mean, AcmeShop is free to list their items on Marketplace as well and compete with boosted ads in cases [0] and [1], and like you say, "maybe, maybe not" their ads compete on bids for [2] -- I would assume they would if Facebook is maximizing profit.

I don't see any evidence that Facebook is obviously or necessarily abusing its position, but it's not like I could rule it out either, specifically in the case of [2] -- it seems like it depends on the exact ad selection algorithm they use.

In any case, I can't keep the conversation going any further, but it's been very informative having this exchange. It's been a great back-and-forth, so thank you!
Then lawfare is the most effective tool 99% have to keep your otherwise-relatively-unbridled power (and mine, actually, if you're calling top 1% "wealthy") in check. The alternatives are much messier and make our lives much shorter.

And to be clear: you're right. None of the things Jones did were crimes. If they were, he'd have been in criminal court. Civil court is for restitution of wrongs between individual parties and resolution of disputes. When the strictures of law are broken, criminal court is involved; when someone is wronged, civil court is involved. And make no mistake: you can wrong someone with words. It is not a violation of one's freedom of speech that if a party goes around telling everyone you cheated someone out of a million dollars and you didn't, you can sue that person to (a) compel them to cease to lie and (b) make restitution for the damage those lies did to your reputation and opportunities. This is an old feature of the American judiciary, at least a thousand years old and inherited from England... And it's there because the alternative is more crime (because if you can't be made whole when someone's wronged you, you must logically take steps to prevent further harm by doing ill to the threat).

The legal system handles more than crime. Nobody's "been bad" in every divorce or an estate settlement. And when someone is harmed by another individual in a way that doesn't have a specific stricture against it, we have civil courts to make the harmed person whole.

(I'm a lot more interested in talking about Jones than Trump. Trump is a separate case entirely... For example, he was in criminal court, he was charged with falsifying business records, a crime because it strikes at the process of truth that the law depends on to regulate business, and he was convicted of doing so. Trump's circumstances are different enough to Jones's that there isn't any productive discourse to have in lumping them together. If you disagree with the criminal process of the courts of the State of New York, you are welcome to your opinion but you can discuss it with someone else. I hope the first question they ask you is what makes his case special as opposed to the other people in New York who were found guilty of NY Penal Law § 170.10).
Yes and no. Generally blackboard bold has come to denote particular number sets while bold usually refers to vectors or matrices. There are a handful of traditionalists¹ who will use *R* for the reals or *Z* or even Z for the integers, but the trend toward blackboard bold is, I think, definitely where things are going.

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1. I would put Donald Knuth in that category, given his choice to not include blackboard bold in his original inventory of characters for Computer Modern, but that might just as much have been a choice based more on limitations of the computing systems he was working with at the time (or his needs for typesetting The Art of Computer Programming which were the primary driver of TeX).
> They work best where we need them the least.

Au contraire. I hate writing boilerplate. I hate digging through APIs. I hate typing the same damn thing over and over again.

The easy stuff is mind numbing. The hard stuff is fun.
Case by case basis is the point of civil courts.
> Obviously EU directives and laws apply in EU

The EU designed these regulations to be viral and compel the world into compliance. The world does not need to comply, and largely does not. Multinational corporations with physical presence within the EU need to comply - but nobody else does, nor should they.

> read the directives and implementations yourself, then get back to me.

So we're arguing this down-thread of an article claiming our fuzzy European friends wasted nearly 600,000,000 hours last year clicking "I Accept" over and over? Seems like a well-designed regulation that's totally working super-duper well for the EU. Totally cut down on cookies!
Saying you don’t need to worry about GDPR if you don’t keep PII is the “nothing to hide” argument. There is still a cost to demonstrating compliance that goes beyond complying.
You as well. The first year is hard.
Businesses are stupid. More at 11.

Yay capitalism.
It did though? You don't need a banner for actually legitimate use (session Cookie, settings, etc)

The things they're calling legitimate use just isn't, which is why they need banners.
> Website operators have a right to study how people use their website just the same as a brick-and-mortar operator has the right to study how customers navigate their store isles.

This can be done without a cookie banner, as long as no PII is collected for the purposes of that analysis.
You're being intellectually dishonest, the argument was never that he did not have "perfect memory of all his text messages," it was that in discovery he claimed he searched for and found _no_ text messages pertaining to Sandy Hook, when in fact the evidence accidentally revealed by his own counsel showed that relevant messages did exist, and were retained. A perfunctory search for the term "Sandy Hook" should have turned up those text messages, meaning he either lied about performing the search, or (more likely) lied about the search not turning up anything. Either way, abuse of discovery.
> The best engineering minds have been focused on scaling transformer pre and post training for the last three years because they had good reason to believe it would work, and it has up until now.

Or because the people running companies who have fooled investors into believing it will work can afford to pay said engineers life-changing amounts of money.
My definition of fraud doesn't begin and end with what the current law says.
Well yeah because the "naughty things" are totally allowed. Can you blame them for trying to make money legally, and most people would say fairly morally (most people in the real world; not on HN).

I think 90% of the blame lies with the EU. They had experience from the cookie law that this would happen.

It like... say you would rather people didn't drink alcohol in pubs (because of all the scary violence it leads to). You can

1. Ban alcohol in pubs.

2. Allow alcohol in pubs.

3. Allow alcohol in pubs but only if people recite the lord's prayer before every purchase.

3. is obviously a dumb choice, yet it's the one they chose.
This is fairly similar to how Interface Builder in Xcode works for macOS and iOS apps.

Like others have said, it works well until you need to support different screen sizes, layouts, animations, touch interaction, etc.
Why is Swift interop needed for that?
C/C++ are first class citizens in Apple's toolchains, and Obj-C++ interop has been a well supported thing for 25+ years.
Thank you for perfectly exemplifying the tendency to ignore reality while you are hyperventilating.

My primary issue is economic security for all. My polical priorities could rougly be described as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

What you completely seem to have missed while you were hyperventilating, or you are purposely misrepresenting, is my claim that things are not likely as bad as you are still crying about.

Soda was one example of many: obesity is perhaps the biggest current challenge in chronic health care, in America. A while back, a liberal NYC administration went so far as to try to tax soda for just this reason.

But by all means, yell at me more online based on your own strawmen. It's entertaining.
Can you try increasing compute in the problem search space, not in the training space? What this means is, give it more compute to think during inference by not forcing any model to "only output the answer in algebraic notation" but do CoT prompting:
"1. Think about the current board
2. Think about valid possible next moves and choose the 3 best by thinking ahead
3. Make your move"

Or whatever you deem a good step by step instruction of what an actual good beginner chess player might do.

Then try different notations, different prompt variations, temperatures and the other parameters. That all needs to go in your hyper-parameter-tuning.

One could try using DSPy for automatic prompt optimization.
Whether you write bold R, Z, Q, C or blackboard bold for these number sets nobody at all is going to be confused – they appear in both ways all over the place in books and research papers – and if you mix ordinary bold R, Z, Q, C next to the blackboard bold versions of the same upper-case letters in a single document then your friends should tell you to knock it off.

As for "where things are going" – this has been changing extremely gradually over the past 60 years. If the trend accelerates maybe you'll stop seeing both variants in wide use in about another century.
Hah no way. It would seem like a reasonable interpretation.

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I don't know what to do, I'm always in the dark
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Once upon a time, there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
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You're assuming that HN cares about ghost jobs. They don't.

They make money by growing startups and selling them, not by respecting job seekers.

So, why would they put any difficulty in the startups' growth? What's there for them to gain?

In the end, it is "caveat emptor". It's the responsibility of job seekers to evaluate if the posts are trustworthy.
No, that’s 63 :)
Nah that’s the tethered bottle caps
After multiple warnings and lawsuits, sure. Conform to the rules if you don't want the fines. But these companies are so big and rich, they'd rather break the rules and risk a fine than give up on their sweet data. And even if they get sued, they have armies of lawyers - still cheaper to spend millions on lawyers than pay a hundreds of millions fine.
Windows Forms didn't use absolute positioning for everything. You could anchor things relatively to other controls or components. You would test how things behave when you maximize and resize windows, similar to how Devtools tests reactive designs now.

If it were a very simple window or dialog that always showed the same amount of information, you would disable maximize, resize, and position it absolutely. This allowed you to add "reactivity" incrementally instead of forcing everything to be reactive up front.
An inflation puzzle of the 2024 election
Ouch! I have 20 days uptime and 3.2GB of memory leaks!
I keep seeing this misinformation going around, and it has been going around since almost day 1 of when the directive became known. I'm not sure where it's coming from, or who initially thought it worked like that, but judging by the comments in this submission it seems like a ton of people are very misinformed about how these things actually work.
The "More Accurate Consumer Price Index"
I don’t buy it. Android has amazing Constraint/Motion layout that adapts on screen size. Instead of improving XML tooling they’ve decided to follow latest fad and created Compose.
Ads/tracking didn't destroy the web per se - besides the performance impact - but did/do destroy people's privacy.
Previously (105 points, 7 days ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42082177
New Media Is Leaving the Old Guard Behind
Global Wellness Industry Is Now Worth $6.3T
They should make a video of Jones actually eating his neighbors.
The cookie banner has nothing to do with first -party vs third-party.

The cookie banner is required depending on the purpose of the cookies, not the party setting them.
> After all, Open AI and Microsoft are still trying to create a 100B data center.

Yes - it'll be interesting to see if there are any signs of these plans being adjusted. Apparently Microsoft's first step is to build optical links between existing data centers to create a larger distributed cluster, which must be less of a financial commitment.

Meta seem to have an advantage here in that they have massive inference needs to run their own business, so they are perhaps making less of a bet by building out data centers.
> At GopherCon 1993, it was announced that Gopher servers would need to pay for the privilege of using the protocol... Well, that didn’t work out. People were angry and many felt betrayed. They weren’t quiet about any of it either.

> If one were to attempt to identify a single failure of Gopher in competition with the web, it would be the licensing costs. No such fee existed for the World Wide Web.

This, a thousand times. I watched as this happened. The instant that announcement was made, gopher was finished. Gopher might have lost later as HTML kept adding features, but by the time those features were added to HTML, gopher had already lost.
You can't use a self-hosted Gitlab because you can only use a "trusted publisher".

There's no hard technical reason for that. It's mostly that PyPI only want to trust certain issuers who they think will look after their signing keys responsibly.
Classical music is relatively standardized. Roman numerals to indicate position are standard practice for all string instruments (I remember learning this as a beginning bass player as a kid). You will sometimes see Roman numerals used as a means of identifying chords relative to the tonic of the current key, but that’s uncommon and the notation is a bit different than the position notation in how it’s placed on the staff (if it even appears on the staff and not in a harmonic analysis).¹ I’ve not seen the upper- and lower-case distinction in roman numeral notation I learned somewhere which uses cases to distinguish between major and minor in any classical music harmonization texts, but I may have just paid insufficient attention.

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1. I have a vague notion that it might show up in figured bass once in a great while, but I could be wrong.
It's not complex. It's simple. It's greed. It's absolutely ridiculous that we as a species put up with all of this nonsense because we have a faulty foundational understanding of what is and should be normal. The brain rot that we've subjected ourselves to is absolutely ludicrous.
I can't believe any of this made a difference in privacy. There is ZERO chance that the law can be enforced here. I've worked in few startups in Europe, no one understand their obligation, let alone the consequences from third party services.

This whole cookie banners, and GDPR in general, is as good as literature.
I absolutely loved VB3 thru VB6!
> Send one probe per solar system. If two probes meet each other, have them pick a random number to decide who flies off to find another solar system or into the sun.

I don't think there would be enough probes for it to be unusual that none have landed here, given the size of interstellar space. I may be wrong, but if I am, we're back to the Fermi Paradox and it's essentially the same problem. If they should be here, they should be everywhere.

>So, saying "some don't resemble self-replicating probes" doesn't really invalidate anything?

I'm saying none of them do.

>It seems like this is difficult to know what it would present as?

To reiterate, being a probe, it wouldn't likely have pilots or crews, and the current UAP narrative mentions "NHI" (non-human intelligences) and "NHB" (non-human biologics), and the broader UFO narrative of course has plenty of aliens.

One could, I suppose, suggest that the probes for whatever reason also replicate crews within themselves, but that seems to be stretching the premise beyond absurdity to me. At some point one has to assume there are limits to the capabilities of this model, otherwise it's essentially magic.

Also to reiterate, the model of self-replicating probes assumes slower than light travel. If you have faster than light travel (assuming that's possible) you don't need self-replicating probes. Both the current UAP narrative and the broader UFO narrative involve craft traveling faster than light, across dimensions, through wormholes, etc. And as far as I'm aware there isn't any report of a UAP or UFO replicating itself as one would expect.

So it isn't necessary to know what, specifically, self-replicating probes would present as when none of the details reported support the presence of self-replicating probes over any other possibility.
Interestingly it also downloads Java for the antlr grammar support.
Legality of Drug Checking Equipment in the United States
That is dumb. The EU already knew this was the likely outcome because we already had stupid cookie warnings from the previous law.

Regulation exists in the real world, not in some fantasy land where companies do what you want.
Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid.

I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%...) as a kid in my primary school's bookshelf. I remember the code was written in BASIC and my family didn't really own a computer back then.

Fast forward a few years later I saw this "Visual Basic" thing and thought it would be similar ... it was, but only sort of. I had no book to learn from at first so I remember clicking through every single menu and button available to see what it did. Then I remember using our dialup to download every possible 3rd party VB form control and throwing them in a Form to see what they did. I don't know why I found this entertaining enough to keep doing it.

Eventually by copy pasting and changing stuff I was able to write some basic "homework helper" programs: calculate the area of a circle and stuff like that. Soon after I tried to look up tutorials which taught me basic win32 programming to do things like have an icon in the status area next to the clock, and then hiding my window to run in the background and make annoying sounds so I could build a silly little prank program to install on my friend's computers which was fun but often would fail because they were missing some .dll file which wouldn't fit on the same floppy.

It could be frustrating at times but also I feel so blessed to have lucked myself into learning programming this way and my parents pretty much just letting me do whatever I wanted to this expensive device that probably was not a small thing for us to afford at the time.

Even tutorials felt more fun at the time, it'd be "hypnoMan37's windows registry tutorial!!! HEyyeyeyy Guuyzs :-)))) gzgzgz to my irc channel #blabla on EFNet! so first you call RegistryCreateNewKey32(...." because god knows I did not have an MSDN CD either.

Learning via a code camp feels way more efficient but also so much more dry in comparison. I wonder if there isn't a substantial cost to boring the newbies to death.
Thanks for sharing. Watching your mom deteriorate like that must have been hard, to say the least.
Goldtouch Ergonomic Keyboard
So remove the consent exception against tracking? Simply make it illegal, banner or no?
> Part of the problem is that the law didn't seek to distinguish between tame first-party tokens and the really naughty third-party tokens

Maybe I'm an outlier, but ideally I don't want them collecting any "tokens" without my consent. I don't care if they're first party or third party or birthday party. I should be able to browse web sites in peace without some company collecting anything. If the web site doesn't work exactly the way I'd expect because I did not provide that consent, then that's on me.
Of course it does, your resume is a critical part of selling your skills & services to employers. Want to close faster and for more $$$? Demonstrate your value prop in the terms they know and care about.
Correct headline: User-hostile websites waste 575M hours of Europeans' time every year.