skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge pet peeve for me.

You’d kill your teams velocity if you did this for every PR.

I worked on a team once with… Perfectionist Petra. Petra would jump on an 1200 line refactor that was blocking the team and demand changes that would require it to be rewritten. Not changes that would save the code base from grievous error: Petra didn’t like the pattern used or didn’t approve of the design.

Sufficient tests? Check. Linted and formatted? Check. Does Petra approve? Big variable. I often wanted to tell Petra if they could just write the code out for me in a ticket so I could copy it for them. Instead I had to try and read Petra’s mind or hope they wouldn’t jump on my PR.

Sometimes you have to trust your teammate and not let the perfect plan interfere with a good enough one.
OpenAI doesn't allow write access to any file system. If you are recording posts to be reviewed, then you must necessarily store that information somewhere, at which point you will be allowing the AI to access some sort of data storage system, whether it be a file system or a database.
The flip side is that because the industry has converged on just a few embedded scripting systems (JS, Lua, etc.) we can concentrate our security hardening efforts on these few engines and benefit everyone. If PDF, like PostScript, were its own custom thing, it couldn't have been able to benefit from this hardening. In the end, JS was a fine choice.
Big in 2023 (499 points, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264725
So what is the suggestion at the end of the post? Did I understand correctly that a sandboxed-replica simulator with the fundamental training would harden the system design? Cool! Can you run the simulator based on the basic but complete input architectural drawing? I’d be curious to know if LLMs are able to go and abstract it all across the public network and come back with an attention for all possible known scenarios. Frankly, you can even serve the scenarios into financial forecast models to serve and move the right levers for appropriate actions.

These blind spots are exploits waiting to be discovered.
Arabic, Persian.
Can’t speak for every insurer but CalFAIR does. There’s been a large push to have homeowners install those improvements over the last five years but they’re relatively minor like clearing brush around the house and installing vulcan vents. They don’t give a big enough discount to justify the expensive improvements that would really help in this Altadena fire like installing concrete tile roof, stucco exterior, or an exterior sprinkler systems. That kind of retrofit would probably cost at least $100k for an old house like most of the ones up there. The minor measures don’t help in a freak event like these Santa Ana winds.
According to Wikipedia, it was intended for Bob, but wasn't actually used in it, and ultimately first appeared in "3D Movie Maker".
Some configurations have built-in 56K modems, but not all. I have never tested it under the hacked Mac OS 9. I would search the forums on macos9lives.com where the hack originates.
Docker will make it work, but is a heavy solution as it will happily take up GB of your disk. uv is a more efficient and elegant option.
The author's study is controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._McHugh
As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, I don’t think curing cancer is the bar for sober self-experimentation. “Noticeable amelioration of disease” is.

There is substantial regulatory burden that prevents US-based companies from doing what you suggest. In fact there is regulatory burden that prevents things that 99% of American voters would prefer, like having reciprocity agreements that allow you to take any drug that had already been approved in Europe. It’s instructive to look at the case of Halassy and notice how much reflexive resistance there is to even the most self-evidently good ideas.

To make things concrete, here’s a practical idea: write down everything you eat while on a medication and rate your subjective well being everyday. Look for patterns. If anything jumps out at you, try eliminating it and seeing if your subjective wellbeing improves. Is this method fool-proof and without failure modes? Of course not. Is the prior probability that you’re eating at least one thing that’s unknowingly contraindicated for your condition / treatment pair very low? Also no.

My model is that the rate limiting factor for spotting unknown contraindications mostly just individual attention / discipline, so EMH arguments are unresponsive to this factor.

Consider the following argument: if obesity were such a big health problem, why is everyone fat? Mostly because losing weight is really hard, which I sympathize with but don’t take as an indication that it’s impossible to do anything about it.

In fact we don’t even have to bring disease into it at all. I’m sure that if i did a systematic elimination diet i would find one or two common foods that really didn’t agree with me, which i could make noticeable differences in QoL by avoiding. Why don’t I? Mostly because I’m just too lazy, and I’m fine with copping to that. But i don’t think it’s crazy for someone to choose otherwise, especially if they had a higher upside.
How do you feel about the fact that "ciao!" means "slave!" (almost no one who uses the word "ciao" realizes the connection)
The term itself is not self-explanatory, and requires delving into its backstory for it to mean something coherent -- doing so reiterates the racist caricature at the heart of the metaphor.
There are many terms and expressions that have been (largely) dispensed with because of their objectionable history, and of course many that have not. Seems to me that this one should be.
I'm not advocating for constant nitpicking or demanding perfection. But somewhere between that and "PRs are too late for changes" is where most good teams operate.
I've seen people use it to learn colloquial French. I'll try othetr languages.
No ads? The majority of hn submissions are ads! Comments too.
Too bad there isn't an online version that anyone can take.
I agree no one seems to be saying that dark matter must be part of a quantum field, but my point is more to lament the overgeneralizing of “quantum fields” as a concept to explain unobserved things.

I’m absolutely a layman here, so apologies if any of this is misguided or flat out wrong… but its something that’s always gnawed at me about the constant tendency to “quantize” everything including gravity and dark matter… I’ll try my best to articulate:

Fields and particles are a mathematical construct we use to describe our observations. Quantum field theory seems to be a consistent mathematical framework you can use for particle interaction once you’ve observed the properties of the particles and how strongly force is carried, etc. But each field has to have its parameters set via observation; we don’t have a good reason why particle strengths are what they are (the fine structure constant doesn’t have an understood “cause”, for example.)

But my problem with this is that it can be so general that you can postulate a new field every time you don’t understand why something works a certain way. Like, we have the em field with photons, the weak field with neutrinos, the strong field with gluons… so dark matter? Must be another field with some new particle. Gravity? Must be another field with its own graviton or something…

It’s like string theory’s 10 dimensions… I certainly don’t have the expertise to understand string theory or why the extra dimensions are required, but something rubs me the wrong way if you can just postulate another dimension every time the theory is having trouble describing reality.

I’m not saying there aren’t multiple fields or that QFT is wrong, but I will say that QFT is a model we have that usefully describes parts of reality, and we shouldn’t confuse the model with reality itself. Some subset of the phenomena we observe can be described and predicted by it, but there are many phenomena that are not predicted by it (gravity is the big one.) I’m not convinced that the fix is to just narrow down the parameters of a graviton, but instead to accept that we simply don’t know if QFT and the standard model can ever be a truly unified theory of everything or if it’s just a useful tool for a few categories of phenomena. It’s possible that we simply don’t have (and might never have) a better theory.

So when we have a problem like dark matter, to say “maybe it’s a particle in its own field” can feel a bit like physicists going back to the same old well again.
>Locks out the local console, because RDP.

Windows is perfectly capable of hosting multiple sessions, Microsoft just wants to charge you double the cost of a Windows license per session on a separate server tier of OS license.

Of course, it wouldn't have saved the device if Microsoft had bent their rules for themselves...
It can be a challenge under DVI->HDMI. People have had more luck under DVI->VGA. It also can vary from monitor to monitor. There is a long thread on the macos9lives.com forums about this issue:

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7048.0

If you are concerned get a 1.25 or 1.42. The 32 MB of VRAM difference (the 1.5 has 64 MB of VRAM while the 1.42 has 32 MB) will not make a difference for almost any Mac OS 9 game. But yes, if you want the ultimate in terms of GHz and VRAM go for the 1.5. In some late '90s and early '00s FPS games it could be a benefit.
The concern isn't that it was JS, the concern is that there's a scripting system inside of PDF at all. Why? What? Form validation is a lousy excuse because forms themselves were a bridge too far for the format. Why do we need to be able to validate them?

I knew PDFs could be dangerous, but I didn't realize it was because they're intentionally designed to allow embedded scripts.
You've got to be kidding. As a regular middle class citizen my taxes are high enough already. There's no way I'll vote for UBI so that some slackers can sit around getting high and playing Xbox.
I'm also a non-native English speaker.

Blacklist is a word that stands out, an interesting combination like other English words or phrases and I had no issues with learning it. It's also a word with a rich history that doesn't seem to have had a racist origin. And because it was used since 17th century and is still in use, non-native English speakers have to learn it anyway.

"Master" was more legitimate as a target for change, but again, I don't think anyone had issues with understanding it. This is like when mother-father or male-female is used to describe electrical connectors.

And also, the bigger problem with changing "master" to "main" is that "master" was a standard and the change was painful. At work our branch is still called "master", any change won't happen soon, as people have better things to do (needing to reconfigure CI, plus red tape due to policies and ACL policies) . So now people have to be aware that the default can be both "master" and "main", increasing the knowledge one has to possess for no good reason. It's not like the change from "master" increased the quality of life for anyone.

Note that I have no issues with changes that are made for clarification. For example, in database replication, maybe it's better to talk of a primary database and of replicas, which seems more descriptive and aids learning. But I don't think many such changes were motivated primarily by the need to clarify, but by the need to sanitize the language and I disagree with such a motivation.
I really want this to be true, but Bob came on six floppy disks, far less than 30M.
I agree. It’s a part of all organizations. The point I was disagreeing with is that academia is exempt.
> I know a lack of social media meant that I have lost touch with old acquaintances completely

I think that’s a feature, not a bug.

Most of the life updates people post on social media are the best of the best, which is what triggers so much fomo and trying to measure up. That’s why social media makes most people feel worse about their own lives. (Not to mention all of the other garbage these platforms try to push on you that you didn’t even ask for.)

If these people are really important to us, then we’d find other means of staying in touch: text them, call them, invite them over (if that’s feasible).

And if enough people get off social media, everyone else might also realize they need to make an effort to stay in touch with others, instead of the lazy post of glamour shots for the purpose of internet likes and feeding the dopamine addiction.
Both Doom and Bad Apple in top four articles on the HN front page. This week is off to a good start.
I think the two main issues from this approach are increased battery usage on mobile devices, and accessibility issues with things like screen readers. I’d recommend giving Flutter a try. It is the easiest way I’ve found to make a cross platform app that works everywhere, and fulfills the two criteria I mentioned above
Man seeks to tame nature and is getting repeatedly humbled more and more these days, or at least should be
I can imagine that they are reminded of its original meaning, sapping any sort of desire to use the term. At least, that's how I feel about many of these "problematic" words.
Came here to say exactly this. The ”author” didn’t even bother to use a decent quality image generator. The first image I saw maxed out my AI slop filter and I stopped reading. Made me wonder how much of the article was written by ChatGPT.
Would you say that any time someone encourages good behavior in others that it amounts to virtue-signaling? Is encouraging good behavior bad?
fyi the pricing page has a typo for "Singel Sign-On"
Sorry, I havent heard of that one. Can you explain how it's virtuous?
I find a USB stick the most convenient and load some software on CDs.

No, Mac OS 9 is not based on BSD. Only Mac OS X+ is. No development tools come with it out of the box (unless you consider AppleScript). Programming for the classic Mac OS is totally different from Mac OS X+. There is the classic Toolbox with Pascal or C, Hypercard, RAD tools like RealBASIC, the slightly refined Carbon APIs, many scripting languages available, etc. But nothing out of the box that's not a separate install. Sorry, it's a big subject and don't want to get more into it here.
Yes, the Mac Mini G4 is an amazing machine to own. I sold mine. I am sad. I would like to have another, but the one I had was falling part and someone gave me like $50 for it. It is extremely versatile though.
Curious if you didn't look at F#? Seems like it would've been a good fit (perhaps except for the Vim support?)
Why not? WoW, for instance, could be a fantastic environment for online meetings & as a help desk/corporate hot spot. For example, a dungeon instance could be the place where all the attendees for a meeting could be allowed in & interact with each other while/after the event was over. The help desk would likely grab regular users as they would have a being of a sort to interact with. This could be done on a company-by-company level, or there could be many companies available in this way, with fast travel between them. It could be a double bonus if the visitors to the site could go on small quests while they wait, with some sort of reward system built in.
But how will people find out about it? Part of what we lost is the Google of back then when content was king. Can you rank a desktop-only website nowadays?
Back when I was first playing around with AI, I built a website where people could upload fine tuned GlowTTS and Tacotron2 text to speech model weights.

One of the first things users did was to emit the entire transcript of the Bee Movie:

https://youtu.be/0_ToJXHnVFQ?si=qfMNuJXAHW-hWSz5
Unless your condition is obvious or catastrophic, you're SOL with doctors. If they do not immediately know the diagnosis they either guess or decide you are just a complainer. Your description of symptoms means nothing. They do not research anything if they do not know it immediately. I have narcolepsy and was able to diagnose myself off Google after every doctor had failed. I finally went to a sleep specialist at Stanford and he confirmed with testing.
I mean, that's the sour way to put it. As someone kinda stuck in that sort of position now, I own a project and have been able to do very little of the work because I'm spending 90% of my time making sure leadership actually makes decisions so I can get the decisions my team needs in order to proceed. I'm spending hours in meetings with other teams to get them to prioritize our dependencies and data access needs.

If you're not lucky enough to have management that's exactly technically aligned to your project someone has to be managing up and paying attention to leadership or else expectations will be totally off from reality.
The FOMO is to get you to download the app, make an account, and deter you from uninstalling.

The real game is to keep you on the platform when you compulsively open it. You go in to check in on your second cousins, you stay to scroll through their TikTok clone or whatever attention harvesting algorithm is trendy currently.
I quit social media 12 years ago and it's been an amazing boost to my personal psychology and productivity. My life is 10x better without it. I've forgotten many acquaintances and gained many more, and forgotten them again. Life is like that, but the core group of people is there, and I'm happy with that.
There's no technical reasons why you couldn't but I'd be hesitant to give up accessible UI controls and all the other bells and whistles that come with web and app stacks, especially the UI controls because people know how to use them, software knows how to read them and operating systems know how to style them. You'll be much more "on your own" within a game engine.
Hegel is much more useful to read than sheep farmers. Specifically his master-slave dialectic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKz-HtOPvjE

Lot of people's survival is dependent on control of others. And inversely lot of people who are controlled are dependent on their masters to sustain whatever lifestyle they have. We are already used to this dynamic.

But Hegel shows us consciousness emerges through this interaction. He argues its a requirement for Consciousness emergence. As soon as you control others for whatever reason you also become conscious of your dependency on them.
I did the same thing. Now all I have is github, stackoverflow, and HN. I end up missing out on all sorts of things that I'd like to have been along for. I'm not about to go back, I think that being at the business end of somebody's propaganda machine was even worse for me, but it's still a significant sacrifice.

Which is why I don't think the way forward is for everybody to leave social media. It's just not going to happen en masse, that's asking too much. We need to build media which can't be owned. If we ask people to sacrifice something, it should be an extra few cents on their electric bill and yesteryear's phone plugged in somewhere and hosting their share of it.

I've only been exploring it for a few days now, but nostr seems promising for this kind of thing. The content is awful, just coin bro stuff, but as something to plug into and build apps for... seems legit.
This research seems to show that two X-rays can be identified as being from the same person, rather than identifying the person directly.

However, I have no doubt that AI could easily de-anonymize data fully given enough data points.
Fully agreed. I was thinking of something similar, only I was calling it "Right to execute", similarly to the "Right to repair". I'm buying a general computing device. It's ridiculous I'm artificially limited in using it for the main purpose of making shareholders rich.

Ideally I'd add a mandatory toolchain to that. At least a C compiler which should be able to target a device I own.
> There are 1000000 causes you could devote your time and make an active difference to people actually suffering this very moment, rather than [etc].

I mean, yes, there is probably a more pressing cause, a worthier cause, a more effective way to bring about change if the guy cares about the issue of colonialism or something. So what? There's always a worthier or more pressing cause or arguably a better way to pursue it than [x].

If you care about something, that's your cause. You don't need to justify it by establishing that your commitment to it accurately reflects its place in the triaged hierarchy of capital-i issues.

It's also possible to care about more than one thing at a time.

So if this is the guy's cause, that's fine. He doesn't need to devote himself to something worthier or demonstrate that the energy he expends on it is well spent.

That being said, his criticism of the metaphor and his prescription both strike me as not just nonsense but backwards. Providing historical context shows, if anything, that "cargo cult" as a metaphor is historically accurate, especially in the sense in which engineers use it: cargo cult engineering practices are those that their believers are convinced will help usher in some desired future, but the basis of those practices is sheer superstition.

And the fact that there is a story, in the context of actual, historical cargo cults, to be told about exploitation or subjugation is, again, an irrelevant, empty truism. Almost every grass-roots religious movement can be interpreted this way. And in areas that were under colonial or authoritarian rule, one would be hard pressed to find social and religious movements that don't in one way or another respond to those conditions.

So the author's historical analysis is sophomoric, like the guy has just discovered oppression and really wants to raise the alarm about it. The resulting prescription is empty, lame, and tedious.

Sanctifying the oppressed this way is also weirdly tone deaf and condescending. Nobody's asking us to protect the subaltern religious movements of southeast Asia, nobody's belittling them, and nobody cares, except the author, apparently, who for some strange reason is filing complaints on their behalf.
> java interfaces also have a lot of weird stuff going on with them.

really? I know java pretty well, and there aint nothing weird there.

C uses conventions to produce an "interface" (ala a header file with declarations). Java uses compilers to produce an interface, which i do really like. You can ship that interface without an implementation, and only at runtime load an implementation for example.

> You both have class/interface, but also public/private.

And these are all othorgonal concerns. A private interface is for the internal organization of code, as opposed to a public one (for external consumption). That's why you might have a private interface.
IIRC, the Tesla traffic visuals use Godot. The Rivian screens use Unreal Engine.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/spotlights/rivian-brings-...
One of the ways I like to tame nature is to get other people to pay for my home by making a government insurance plan that pays to rebuild my home if it breaks. In this way I am like a pioneer, taming Malibu with my $3 m home. Wagies need not apply. This is for men in the arena.
Sure, but which measure you pick is itself a gut feeling and biased. It's the easy way to miss people doing whatever sort of work that you aren't measuring that may be what's letting everyone else excel at what you are measuring.
My experience observing commercial LLM's since the release of GPT-4 is actually the opposite of this.

Sure, they've gotten much cheaper on a per-token basis, but that cost reduction has come with a non-trivial accuracy/reliability cost.

The problem is, tokens that are 10x cheaper are still useless if what they say is straight up wrong.