skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reticence to accept the term gaslighting clearly indicates you've never had to interact with MSFT support.
SOC2 compliance is a waste of time
Agreed. I actually think it might be too late at this point since it takes so long to turn the aircraft carrier.

Microsoft can't realistically deprecate/remove Win32, so all they could do is entice with new APIs. That will work for some games, but especially with the frameworks in place, they'll have to be really good to get people to abandon Steam Deck compatibility to use them.
Really digging the ideas here - thanks for building this!
Real analysis or other similar "proofs of basic things" classes usually fill this role.
"Gambling" restrictions in apps and media are never about the actual dictionary definition of gambling. They are about traditional visual and audio patterns. Does the app look like a casino game? If it does (but no wagering is happening), then it's gambling, and if it doesn't (but wagering is going on), then it isn't gambling. Raters probably have a list of checkbox items (icons typically associated with cards and chips, green felt, red-and-black color schemes, maybe certain sound effects), and if enough of them are checked, it's "gambling". If none of them are checked, like an anime-themed gacha game, then it's not gambling. It really probably is as simple as that.

It's just like "sexual content" ratings in TV and movies. It's not really about sexual content. It's about whether or not you show a nipple or genitalia. A show can have plenty of steamy sexual stuff but it's unlikely to be classified as sexual content unless it visually contains key checkbox items. Likewise, if it merely shows a body part in a non-sexual context, it gets labeled as sexual content.
If you're going to buy a laptop stand anyway and you have the choice between A) a plastic stand or B) this recycled stand, does it make more or less sense, in terms of environmental impact, to buy the plastic stand over this one?

> ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you.

This presupposes the economies of scale. One plane is not leaving South Korea laden with just one laptop stand and nothing else, and one delivery truck is not leaving the Fedex or UPS depot almost entirely empty save for one laptop stand destined for the consumer's house.
Are you really not capable of knowing what could be considered “lewd” and not go into that territory in polite company?
> Check the plug

I just spent a whole day trying to figure out what was going on with a radio. Turns out I had tx/rx swapped. When I went to check tx/rx alignment I misread the documentation in the same way as the first. So, I would even add "try switching things anyways" to the list. If you have solid (but wrong) reasoning for why you did something then you won't see the error later even if it's right in front of you.
Also a pager/phone going off incessantly isn't useful either. manage your alarms or you'll be throwing your phone at a wall.
X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously
australia is just giving up land and money to the US already without any pressure.
> But to accuse someone of "virtue signaling" is a political attack that requires evidence.

What kind of "evidence" beyond the content of the signalling itself it would require? I mean, sure one could make a detailed critique of the article to show why exactly it fits the term very well (TLDR version would be it tries to police the well-understood usage of the term that describes real phenomenon and is useful to prevent imaginary offenses) but it wouldn't be "evidence" - it does not introduce any new facts, only one's opinion. The only factual "evidence" necessary is the content of the article, which is already here.

> Is that not enough for you?

Not even beginning to be close to being enough. Winning would be going back to the times where you can discuss political topic without fear of your life being ruined and your livelihood being taken away from you. Winning would be where there aren't thousands of people actively searching to hurt other people for disagreeing with them. Winning would be not having dozens of people in a lot of corporations specifically paid obscene money for pushing idpol. Winning would be forgetting the meaning of the word "cancelled" that we learned in the last decade. Winning would be for the culture to change so that trying to hurt people for disagreeing would be shameful, not praised. We may have hope for it to happen one day, but we're not even close to being true now. It may take years or decades - just it it took decades for "woke nonsense" to take root in the culture - and may very well not happen at all, any election results nonwithstanding.
You know those guys? My friend and I used to come to tears to these during the old DubToons days. It's the only reason I know what a Middlesborough accent is. We still quote them!
Two of my children are Latino, and they have both told me: "Never use the term LatinX; it's what rich white people call us"

My suggestion that, since I am a rich white person, maybe I should start using it was met with an emphatic "no."
Now based on this thread, I’m very confused as to what Google is trying to ban or what the law (are they trying to comply with some law?) actually says. Balatro is not gambling, it has a gambling aesthetic but no actual money changes hands. Lootbox games are gambling, at least if we accept the idea that the things in the loot boxes have value; money goes in, and then you get something out with a random component to the value. But they don’t have a gambling aesthetic, they are usually wrapped up as something related to the game, right?

I could see Google wanting to comply with some directive not to “glorify gambling” or something along those lines. This would be independent of whether or not the games actually are gambling.

Anyway, I don’t think people are being willfully ignorant. I think they are just assuming Google is trying to regulate actual gambling. Not gambling aesthetic for non-gambling. But I have no idea what Google actually is trying to do.

I will note that it is pretty suspicious that the one type of gambling they managed to regulate is the one that doesn’t make them any money other than the first purchase…
Social Security Admin publishes a master death file containing a list of SSNs of those who have died. This is how institutions know to close credit, deposit, and brokerage accounts; they subscribe to and consume the file. Some copies of it have been uploaded to the Internet Archive when someone has obtained a copy (cost to obtain from NTIS is prohibitive for individuals, but reasonable for commercial customers).

Broadly speaking, right to privacy evaporates at death, and when the Machine is working properly, SSNs have no value once they have been marked as deceased in SSA's system of record (as that flows through to various gov and commercial systems to ensure benefits cease and next of kin processes kick off for anything of value).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Master_File

https://www.ntis.gov/ladmf/ladmf.xhtml
Running temperature of zero/greedy sampling (what you call "argmax sampling") is EXTREMELY common.

LLMs are basically "deterministic" when using greedy sampling except for either MoE related shenanigans (what historically prevented determinism in ChatGPT) or due to floating point related issues (GPU related). In practice, LLMs are in fact basically "deterministic" except for the sampling/temperature stuff that we add at the very end.
> Posting it to social media, then thinking if whoever doesn’t contact you to… what? “Sorry for your loss”? “My condolences” … hurts your relationship with that person?

That's not what anyone said, you're out here fighting ghosts.

> And if someone doesn't reach out, it will hurt the relationship a little even if I'm not conscience of it because when I think of people who were there for me during a tough time, the friend who never knew my parent died wouldn't come to mind.
That isn't an argument either. Emails have difficulties too, it doesn't mean a restriction on scale.
I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.
We need shelter, food and a place to cook our food.

We need to be healthy, so we need medical help and assistance.

We need education.

We need friends and communities.

We need entertainment.

We need hope in the future.
Wasn't Bryan Cantrill writing a book about debugging? I'd love to read that.
agreed, especially how everyone overlooks that Greenland wants to be a fully independent nation and treats their thirst for independence as wanting to be a US territory which can't even properly vote... wtf
Using his definition, it was peak performance.

I think a key tenant to wokeness in this framework is the emphasis on awareness/alertness relative to solutions.
This seems pretty much in line with my ideals for a make replacement, which is a project I have been thinking about starting for ages. The only major use-cases I have that don't seem to be covered are "tasks" in werk parlance that only run given changes in some "from" files, and just-once tasks. For both of these in Make I use empty files as targets, e.g. `make/foo`, which I `touch` at the end of the recipes.

An example of a just-once task might be running some setup script on dev machines when setting up a work environment. An example of a task with prereqs might be running a nix command to source things into the local environment whenever a `shell.nix` or other file changes.

I also wasn't able to immediately find documentation on what the available config options are (referenced in the language documentation). Is it possible to set a shell to use for run statements?
Related, I've noticed a lot of streaming services have began reclassifying the ratings of older movies and shows. So someone that was G or PG when released might be, like, 14+ on Amazon.

Maybe it's part of an effort to add consistency to old ratings (which were famously inconsistent). But more often it's that the ratings are being "adjusted" for modern sensibilities - depictions of smoking, drinking, bigotry, etc.

I have no idea where this new prudish attitude towards gambling is coming from, but it seems to be part of a larger cultural "vibes" shift.
This is the new reality of the modern world. Absence of war does not equal to peace. Hybrid warfare is here to stay and will become a part of the global world.
When Apple announced cycle tracking for the Apple Watch. You would be surprised how many people on HN thought that was a useless niche feature when it literally is something that affects every woman of child bearing age
> Xitter has become a fascist haven,

Uh no.
But then knowing what a person means with the term "fascist" is difficult to know.
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/e...

Censoring content, and removing users was done by Twitter and Facebook
as the behest of who was in power.

Now someone else is in power they lean towards them instead.

Under the current regime they removed users, censored content,
hired people to ensure politlca correctness.
All moving farther away from free speech.

The way it apeparsr to move now, that the same companies align to a new regime
is opening up speech.

If you have reached the conclusion that your political opponents should
not be allowed to speak, and that is the only way to keep free speech,

""
>Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.
-Noam Chomsky
""

"I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
—Voltaire, 1770

> Seems to have strong opinions on how things should run in the EU as well.

People in the US expression strong opinions about how other countries
or regions should be run is, for those who pay attention, just the way
things are.

When the US expresses strong enough opinion about how other countries
or region should be run they impose sanctions or arrange regime change
and even downright invasion.
To me this reads more like a mismanagement issue than an issue caused by a rewrite.
Do you think we don't remember your confession? Do you just think we're stupid?
I'd say engineers should avoid most metaphors, because the whole point of a supposed engineer is that they're precise. I've heard so many metaphors misused or lazily used by overconfident software engineers in the past few years ...
Though, say we finally solve chess. There's not always going to be a "why" the suggested move is the best. There might be heuristics, or even some set of rules in the end game or certain situations that a human's brain can retain to perfection. But for the vast majority of the game, the correct move is what it is, because that's what the computer says, and there's not much more you can do to simplify it.

Maybe a good proof golf game would be finding the least computationally intensive proof of tic tac toe or rubics cube or something.
Wait till they come with auto review/merge agents, or maybe there already is. gulp
What a shame, GOG only has the Windows version :-(

I'd love to buy the linux native version.
My problem with how the physics community is having this discussion is actually the converse of what you are suggesting: None of the existing theories explain every observation we have, and yet we are sticking to the same general frameworks that don't work.
On IRC since 1997 - even still in the first channel I joined!

Writing an IRC client is really a fun and rewarding exercise.

I also more or less started my career as a software engineer by maintaining a mildly popular Linux one, at the time.

Some things I learned ...

- A lot about shipping to real users and their pain points, since the devs are naturally accessible by IRC and you get to meet directly

- A whole lot about what makes a successful technology

- Equally much about tech warts, as IRC suffers from a fair number misguided early decisions and many years without functioning governance

- How incredibly rewarding it is to work on products that users directly "live their lives" in and that can help facilitate anything they do - it taught me to look out for jobs that have similar substrate-like qualities

Good luck with your project, I'm glad to see the cycle of renewal continue.
In Europe Copyright is the death of the author + 70 years, so until 2053. There is an exception to allow for copyright to lapse earlier if the copyright would run out in the original creator's country of origin first, to handle situations where American copyright for American authors will expire before European.

But Tintin will run out in 2053 in Europe because Herge is European.

In U.S however Tintin is public domain. You can use Tintin for things in U.S just don't try to go to Europe with it.

on edit: this applies of course to Tintin in the land of the Soviets.
While we are at it, WTF is with us as a society normalizing gambling behavior with places like Dave n Busters and Chuck-e-Cheeze and their ticket machines? That stuff is probably worse than gambling from the perspective of ROI.
I was assuming Heroku was tailored towards long-running/autoscaling jobs, and didn't realize it let you set up one-off dynos on a scheduler - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduler - which would be a perfect fit, I guess I'll take a look at their Eco option!

I was also not aware GitHub let you run actions on a schedule, that could also work - but I guess you have to use artifacts for the persistence?
No major AI advancements for 7 months? Guess everyone's jobs are safe for another year, and after that we're all dead?
Sandman and American Gods are favorites of mine.

Very sad to see this.
You've done a great job of tearing off from the actual topic in just the right subtle ways to make it seem like what you're saying actually makes any sense in the context of the blog post and the person you're replying to. Bravo.
There is a history of solitare and gambling. https://greatbridgelinks.com/how-to-play-canfield-solitaire/
This could be huge. IIUC this is basically an AI-enabled version of MyFitnessPal, which has like 200M+ users, but with a massively streamlined user experience. Great idea.
If I was born and brought up in modern social media, would I even blog?
There's a difference between your proclaiming "I am so much better than you!" and me actually feeling worse. If you baselessly proclaim that, I would not feel morally worse, I will feel annoyed. And behavior that annoys people around you is anti-social and must be publicly shamed so that there would be less of it and people would have better qualify of life.
So very tempting to put it to the task. Any takers? Try converting https://hackage.haskell.org/package/megaparsec to rust.
This is much more similar to the technique of obfuscating encryption algorithms for DRM schemes that I believe is often called "white-box cryptography".
> I understand how to read code.

Funny, I still have no idea how to do this after decades of trying. I constantly run into functions called doSomething that also do something else.

LP is absolutely not about teaching the language while teaching a codebase, and this is something LP does get right independent of my criticisms here.
I consider it more real because it’s more immediate. If we keep burning oil, we’ll be fine until we’re not, and we can hope someone invents a clever fix. If we stop burning oil, most of the country can’t function today.

What would be possible, certainly, is an increasingly harsh sequence of taxes and mandates to force the economy to decarbonize. I think we should do that, but it’s not something that a lawsuit against oil companies could impose.
I wonder if an LLM could make ”atomic commits” out of my N pending changes.
This is a strange argument, kind of like, "We can't defund the police, because look at all of the crime out there!" If there's so much crime occuring already, then what in the world are the police doing?

To an extent, crime can't be eliminated. You can't even eliminate crime by instituting a strict authoritarian regime, because power corrupts, and those in power become criminals themselves. That's why turning big tech companies into paternalistic device authoritarians doesn't work. The big tech companies have become massively corrupt, demanding a 30% cut of everything that happens on your devices, in return for what? Some low paid, low skill reviewer spending a few minutes to approve or reject a third party app submission? That's not security, it's security theater.

There were phone scams before there were smartphones. Before there were mobile phones, when everyone had a landline. There's no technical solution for crime and scams, much as tech people want there to be. Education and viligence have always been the only effective resistance. Unfortunately, the big tech companies don't want to do education; to the contrary, they want consumers to be eternally technically ignorant—despite the increasing importance of computers in our lives—because that's more profitable. At least with cars, we have mandatory driver's education.
WTH are Amazon S3 Tables? And why they are NOT useful for enterprises
Oh, yeah, this would fit very well inside the free tier - I haven't used R2 but I'll give it a look
This dump will give you the personal records of the rank and file. The “military” that you’re talking about is really congress and the president. It makes much more sense to go after the actions and communication of those folks than some grunts who gave their bodies shoveling shit for a chance at a future.
Data Engineering Concepts (Digital Garden)
> Are you really not capable of knowing what could be considered “lewd” and not go into that territory in polite company?

I’m pretty sure I both am and am aware enough of the line and its ambiguity to weaponise it against someone else if I wanted to. Add to that cultural variance in where the line lies and you effectively wind up censoring cross-gender discussion of gender-relevant topics.

I don’t think Graham is advocating for lewd jokes in the workplace, or suggesting the womens’ rights movements of the 60s were misplaced. He’s arguing against universally institutionalising rules of politeness, and being particularly wary of doing it one way.

> in polite company

Graham is arguing against the expansion of polite company to virtually the entire discussion space. In that, I kind of agree.
This is the same problem with the more recent Offworld Trading Company game. You can take a half an hour building a great colony, harvesting all the resources, building all of the goods, and so on, but none of it really matters. The end game takes about 60-120 seconds and it's all trading on the in-game stock market, resulting in a sudden "you lost" screen popping up even if you did everything else right in the first 29 minutes. Kind of a let down.
Tokyo museum offers visitors 'flashback' to defunct technology
Maybe I could refine it to, what motivates many people who are attracted to wokeness is an earnest desire to do good things. I do think good comes out of it, along with bad. But we can set that aside and refine the point that I don't think the majority of people who initially went along with wokeness were aggressively conventionally minded nor prigs. I think his essay would be more persuasive if he acknowledged that there is an earnest desire to do good mixed in with it, which makes it a thornier issue. Otherwise, people who were or are into wokeness who are not prigs, or merely afraid of running afoul of etiquette, will probably dismiss the essay.
Where are there data centers running WordPress exclusively? It runs everywhere. It's smeared across probably every shared data center in the world.

If WordPress was released today and had the sort of growth that AI has has, yeah, there would probably be considerations to spin up new power sources.

Saving 5% electricity per WordPress http request is a massive amount of electricity in aggregate.
Ask HN: Datasets for computer desktop usage, AI Agents discussion
Are there any datasets, with any labels or no labels, for people using their desktop computers to do mundane tasks like open applications, browse the web, interact with spreadsheets, etc?

I was thinking this type of desktop "screen record" data could be useful for training AI Agents in the future.

It seems the hardest part of getting AI to "just do work" on my laptop is being able to navigate different applications, copy and paste stuff, trouble shoot weird one-off interactions like software updates moving some buttons/features to different places, etc. Rather than trying to programmatically figure everything out from e.g. an excel API to do spreadsheet work.
New Meta policies okay using dehumanizing slurs toward LGBTQ+ people
You can't play 4K Netflix on Linux, period. Because of DRM. Before you say "this is just a Netflix issue" - you can't play 4K Prime Video on Linux either. Nor 4K Disney+. And many other services. Piracy is the only way to watch most 4K streaming content on Linux. You may have the most capable and up-to-date hardware on the market, you still can't.
but this is the thing Denmark did too, their is a sufficient large US military base in Greenland. When it comes to projecting military power to the north/east the US has no reason to try and size Greenland, like AT ALL.

This isn't about projecting military power it's about sizing Greenland itself, not just from the Denmark but the people of Greenland themself.
Are those other costs low in UK?
If this is the actual reasoning, it would be one of the few times where the West has actually gotten the tone roughly correct regarding Putin. Strongman leaders struggle to see strength in anything except other strongman leaders.
AI Mistakes Are Way Weirder Than Human Mistakes
It's close to Anoxia and Alexia, which are also "nice" choices to be known for.
Amen! Thanks for the link.
India stepped up first, as for some time now:

https://youtu.be/k-o8zYEEsik?si=ZNcl0nNQa5DVvGmq

Though looks like China might win the race.