skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's a sort of exaggerated paranoid thought. But like these things do all come down to scale and some areas of the world definitely could have the amount of compute available to make dall-e level quality full scale videos which we might be consuming right now. It really does make you start to wonder at what point we will rationally be able to have zero trust that not everything we watch online is fabricated.
Because a lot of this code would be put into closed source software, which is against the licence and would prevent people from exercising the right to study how a program works.
Not to mention that Yandex does it in Russia because the law forces them to, while Google does it happily just to maintain the political status quo, of which they are a part of.
Stomaching the feeling of using ’90s-era technology.
> one has to wonder what's real and what isn't.

And whether it really matters. That's the bigger question.

I think, for most of us, it does matter. But we're not sure why and
what a loss of human reality would really mean.

For a few who wholeheartedly embrace it there's some resonance with
the psychedelic/60s creed that sees this as some kind of "liberation".
Yeah I like Numbers but it’s not as good at the other tools relative to MS, and sometimes I’ll just end up using Excel because I can’t do what I need in Numbers. It’s certainly the weakest of the three IMO.

I like how you can create multiple tables on a sheet, but the graphing is pretty average and the data tools are not as good. I haven’t had need to use it recently but the new addition of pivot tables after all these years suggests I should give it a go.
Many licenses requite attribution, which would be hard to track.
>They're proposing removing most of the nicotine from real cigarettes, too.

This must have been imagined by people who have no understanding of drugs whatsoever. Lessening the content of nicotine is likely to make people smoke -more-, I'd wager, inhaling more tar/cancer inducing substances in the process.

When the first e-cigs hit the market, most of the commonly found ones were things like the Joyetech eGo and eliquids that were frankly, unable to provide the necessary amount of nicotine to truly replace cigarettes. I found myself using the device far more than I smoked cigarettes, although it's probably still not as bad. A few studies proved that it's not just in the mind, people who vaped with those devices didn't have much nicotine in their bloodstream.
Modern e-cigarettes with high power delivery, or low power combined with nicotine salts, satisfy me much faster and I don't feel a craving all day like I did with the eGo.

Removing the nicotine but keeping the cancer stick has to be one of the dumbest thing I've ever heard of in my life. Absolutely insanity, this is just going to make people burn more cancer sticks to satisfy their craving.
Thanks for the great feedback! As you mentioned, before being able to apply multiple Goggles at once[1], we would need to define precedence rules. It's technically possible, but then we would also need to figure out some UX around it, etc. In the meanwhile, and although this might not be the most convenient, it is still possible to combine them and host them separately.

The idea of having a separate Goggles aggregator was also mentioned yesterday; imagine a site when you can click a few check-boxes of Goggles you like, then get a new link with the combination of all of them (you could then submit this link in Brave Search to use the aggregated Goggle).

In any case, applying multiple Goggles at once is something we have discussed internally, we're not yet planning on adding this but feedback like yours is super valuable for us to decide on the next steps.

[1] https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/faq.md...
That's exactly the link I was about to post! Adriano Celentano is a genius. :D

I love the idea that languages have a certain phonetic sound even if you can't understand them.

To me the original article read like someone speaking English with a heavy Dutch accent. Sometimes when I watch foreign, to me, Dutch language TV if I sort of "squint" I think I can understand it.

That might just be though that Dutch is close to English and that I watch a lot of Belgian cycling events so know the subject a bit.
It would be nice if 7-zip added support for the new Windows 11 context menu. It requires that each context item is registered to an application and gets removed when the app is uninstalled, instead of the current free-for-all. [1] There's a fork, NanaZip, that adds this and a few more features, although the way it's structured makes it a non-trivial patch. [2]

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/07/19/extend...
[2] https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
Tough pill to swallow. Microsoft's actions don't seem fair, but fighting them with copyright could weaken fair use:

https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...

There's a good argument that demanding copyright protections on scraped datasets and short snippets is a double-edged sword. It could harm search engines, distribution of news, and non-commercial ML research too.
I'm concerned too, I don't think I was offered a polio vaccine, ever.
If you run any (Debian-derived) system for more than 5 years, you will run into plenty of these issues. They're always subtly different (the thing that breaks is not the same), but it will absolutely break somehow.
Sorry, I'm confused.

Does this new book incorporate 'trendy politics'? If someone knows, please tell.

If it does not, this is one of the most exciting bits of news I have ever heard. If so, then the opposite is the case.
If you have to use a build system, you're not a user.
> And rather have a working economy, where the problem of ID independent of government is solved

That sounds profoundly stupid. You mean like the credit rating agencies that provide credit worthiness identity, but where you have no control of how and with whom they store your data? So how would that work, how would the companies providing that service make money and how could they prove your identity? They'd still need to use government info like birth certificate/drivers license to verify who you are, but they'd have a profit motive. Of course that sounds better than the government, which doesn't need to sell who you are, providing an identity service.

Why have a useless middleman trying to make money off you?
So ... the whole world is a harbinger household for Google products?
I think you're coming from an anthroprocentric perspective and behaviorialist paradigm, where natural processes are understood in the lens of humans and human actions ("The focus is on the efficient production of useful goods in ways that require minimal maintenance by letting other creatures do all the work for you"), and the reason someone does something is because it benefits themselves or other humans ("without that core benefit nobody could do it even if they wanted to and have a viable farm").

The ethical principle of "Fair Share" isn't just about the yields the land owner has, but also the yields other inhabitants of an ecology have. For people who are motivated by stewardship, for example, humans obtaining benefits is not elevated into its own thing. As an example, some of the Native tribes would say something along the lines that when you plant, one is for the plants, one is for the animals, one is for the birds, one is for us. It is certainly not about maximizing production efficiencies for the benefit of humans alone.

That motivation and attitude shapes the way someone views and experiences their life, and their place, and in turn shapes how we go about caring for land, caring for people, and fair share.

I know I'm cheating here a bit. I'm using the work of Carol Sanford to identify world view and paradigm, and that way of thinking through these things are not spelled out in the original works of Mollison and Holmgren. Sanford's work on regenerative paradigms and living systems world view goes a long way towards sorting out the different ways people approach things in the permaculture community, and is generalizable more broadly than food systems.

Regeneration is a characteristic exclusive to living systems. It's not something that can be approached from a world view that everything is a machine, or the paradigm that one can control behavior through incentives and disincentives. Only living systems can regenerate. It's the broader paradigm from which "your food (and other resources) produce themselves" comes from. Living systems are capable of growing and adapting on their own; they are nested -- so that is you and I, within larger living systems of family, community, organization, ecology. It is because of regeneration that "food and other resources produce themselves".

My point in all of this is that there is a diversity of motivations and views, and the view that "without that core benefit nobody could do it even if they wanted to and have a viable farm" is not as universal as it sounds like. "The core reason to do permaculture is that your food (and other resources) produce themselves" might be your core reason, but it is not true it is the reason that everyone in the permaculture community applies permaculture.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted. Yes, ASICs (either analog or digital) that have some model hardcoded in would probably make it feasible, but it won't be programmable which is the interesting part.
Ivermectin is an amazing drug all around. Very safe and useful in so many circumstances. It’s a great shame that it got politicized, first by people who took it unnecessarily because they didn’t trust the establishment, and then by the media and politicians, who badmouthed Ivermectin in order to dunk on the first group. Very sad.
For me, important differences are how the cursor behaves when moving around, and the effect of backspace. I like consistent movements, i.e. always one character position per keypress, and therefore prefer spaces.
Connected-Up-Brains
Funnily enough only Israel has made that culture shift, but I don't think people like Haredis very much.
This is exceptionally expensive for what you get.
Did the scan find the process if they changed the variable names, for example? Or is that considered a differing snippet then?
Yeah the tone of LOTR is oppressive, reserved, alien, post apocalyptic. I read the novel many times as a kid and loved it, so I hated the 2001 film. Imo visually it was perfect, it literally looked like the books did in my imagination. But in every other respect it was completely off, especially the overall tone.
The 2nd biggest issue for me was the music, they had a great opportunity to do something interesting and alien with the music, but nah its just generic hollywood rousing adventure music that never stops playing.
Death is a trip – how new research links near-death and DMT experiences
Google just sells content other people wrote.
Unless every invention is gonna be AI generated (which is kind of a scary situation), intellectual property still needs to be a thing (otherwise people won't have incentive to invent, it'll just be stolen from them).
> Who defines "fundamental human rights".

The United Nations do. Why?
As mostly an engineer (though I've spent time as a tech/team lead and engineering manager in the past), I think you've missed the point.

Most of the things will not need to be "scaled" at all. Ever.

As an engineer, I mostly struggle to come up with a simple solution while accommodating all the crappy, leaky abstractions in the rest of the code: that's the hard part of the job. And 20 years in, I still wonder why people think it's smarter to introduce seventeen layers of abstractions for things that have one or at most two implementations, but that's what they do.
> Shoes are this way for a lot of people, in that some of us can keep a pair of shoes long enough that the next fashion cycle has happened and you can't find anything like that again.

Try working from home. It's guaranteed that by the time you need new shoes nothing resembling your current shoes that you know and love is available any more.

Same for a lot of other clothing items that you only wear outside.
You probably were, it is part of the mandatory course administered to children (at least it was/is in Central/Eastern Europe)
I remember writing a Markov chain random text generator. I wonder what real world uses there would be for the rand command...
1. You most likely agreed to that by using GitHub.

2. Copy&Pasting Code by manual search exists.

3. This is just a smart tool so you don't have to figure out yourself what to copy&paste (in the best case) and save a lot of time.

Sometimes I truly wonder how people can genuinely be upset about things like this. What is broken are copyright and patent laws in the 21st century.
FFS..for fucks sake
Copilot sells the service of finding the code that makes sense for what you write. Would be better if it could correctly attribute the source(s) though, I hope they will solve this problem at some point.
There's a corollary to this imposter syndrome phenomenon that I have always found very useful to me, especially when I find myself inflicted by it, sitting in front of a computer - not knowing whats going on or how to fix something: "if it involves a computer, a human was involved on the other side - and if they could understand it, so can I. I just need to think like they do."

I suppose this is, as applicable to any technology really, just that my personal experience has always been that adopting this mindset with some thorny computer problem has, almost immediately, dissolved the imposter syndrome and replaced it with a student syndrome. And when you think about it, being a wilful and mindful student is how you get out of a lot of these kinds of situations ..
cgroups v1 had some issues:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0492

and:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0185
I tried brython but it fell at the first hurdle (I can't remember if it was xpath searches on the DOM or some XML manipulation in python), so I gave up. I'm sure it's better now, but the whole concept of binding Python abstractions to JS objects underneath felt a but clunky and it leaked a lot. WASM is definitely cleaner, if obviously slower.
As China shuts out the world, internet access from abroad gets harder too
What products do you use? I use iOS, Duck Duck Go, Fastmail, Neovim + markdown + git for nearly all my docs, Brave and Firefox.

YouTube is the one Google product I haven’t been able to drop. Odysee isn’t there. As I write this, though, I realize that I mostly use YouTube as an inexpensive music service. I could easily switch to Spotify or something else, and probably will.
Link to paper (it’s Open Access): https://oa.mg/work/10.1177/0022243719867935
An accredited investor is one who has a certain amount of wealth, apart from their main residence. The SEC lays down the definition.

You need to be an accredited investor to invest, as an individual, in hedge funds, private equity, and some other similar things.
I thought the same thing but Numbers is basically unusuable in most scenarios where you need to use a sreeadsheet. You're better off using Google Docs/Sheets in the browser.

Luckily I had an old Office 2016 Mac license lying around. MS made it incredibly hard to find the download "Office for Mac is no longer supported", but I did manage to dig it out in the end.
Have you ever worked with small city governments? Usually the people in charge of IT were assigned or put there, not because they have or know any IT skills. Not to mention where and how would they put a 16T backup drive in something newish and back up everything.
Small actions make great leaders
Twitter itself used to be very usable. You used to be able to just open a link to a tweet, that was just rendered as HTML. Replies in thread below.

Now it loads the SPA, you get a spinner, 1/5 times the API fails to load the actual tweet data. If you're not logged in you get bombarded with signup popups. Cookie banners come up from time to time even if logged int. Instead of the replies to the tweet, you get other supposedly related tweets as in replies, you have to click "Show more replies" over and over to load more of the fucking thread you opened.
>Those graphs don't impress me at all, because I remember what it was like and see what it's like now.

This is about as anti-science a stance as you can take. Why believe data when you've got your lyin' eyes?

Climate change deniers can use the exact same argument, so how do we get anyehere?
I don't think so. A human-verified, tested and maintained code is obviously superior to a snippet blindly copied and mixed by a statistical system.
In my experience lambdas are a lot easier to write with strong types and related tooling.
I don't think that something like CoPilot is what most GH users had in mind when they published their code. Also, licenses exist (which CP demonstrably doesn't give a shit about).
That's a lot of people to dehumanize with a single swift no true Scotsman.
There are many differences between those acts of thievery or inspired creation however you might call it. But there are many similarities too. Fascination with the original is one. Desire to own it in one way or another is one too. Differences are in the skills, the means, the result, what was stolen and financial success that came out of the act.
Interestingly, energy use actually declined during the first year of the pandemic (I know for sure in the US, and probably globally). You can see it here for Texas, https://findenergy.com/tx/#overview , in the annual production graph, which is the state with the most production in the US. On a national level IIRC, it was approximately -4% from 2020 to 2021.
Completely out of topic: she lost me at "pronouns".
This is my experience also (10+ years with Clojure).

Macros extend the language. I don't need to do that often. I think I've written a dozen macros in ten years and deleted all but one of them.

My current codebase has two macros, one I wrote and that only supports some repetitive behaviour in a test namespace.

Clojure's super-power is solving problems on the JVM and in the browser with one language consisting of well thought out datastructures and a suberb core library of functions that operate on those datastructures.

That, and great host interop. And Instaparse, which is a delight!
That quote applies to any creative work. Be it code, audio or video.
Botulism is inhibited by acidity. Get the ph low enough, I want to say 4.6 or so, and it just can't live or grow.

In grocery stores here in the US I can buy pickling vinegar which is 9% acetic acid versus 5% for the normal stuff. Regular old 5% vinegar is around 2.5ph.
Disk makes no sense considering RAM is pretty cheap. But even then RAM is way too slow (and the communication overhead way too high). You probably get like a 100x slowdown or more.
Indeed. What "everyone" can use is a ~$200 smartphone, so there's a ~300x gap to be bridged.
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
Dead Poetry Society
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Appsmith.

First of all, thanks for trying out Appsmith and doing a security review. The link you pasted is actually an out-dated installation script that we used to use only for tracking if a user is facing errors during installation. This script has been deprecated approx 10 months ago. We should probably remove it from the code base as well to reduce confusions. Now, you can spin up a Docker container directly without having to go through any shell script.

Having said that, Appsmith doesn't track any PII data from an installation. Any & all telemetry within Appsmith is strictly opt-in. You can disable this as well when setting up Appsmith or any time afterwards. Please check https://docs.appsmith.com/telemetry#disable-telemetry for details.

We understand that security is paramount to users of Appsmith and thousands of teams use Appsmith to interact with sensitive data. Hence, we take data security very seriously. If you have any concerns about our security practices, I'd love to hear from you at security[at]appsmith.com. We will aim to fix any such concerns immediately within the product.
> I've ever had Linux become unbootable due to ext{2,3,4} corruption in probably 20 years.

systemd can put your booting in an infinite loop instead, true progress.

Or, at the other end, systemd causing an infinite loop preventing shutdown.

Not to mention the pain in between.
I think I still have not understood your argument. Are you saying that you are afraid that AIs will become too powerful and cause unemployment, and therefore we should regulate them now before they do so?

Many people are worried about this, which is why there is a lot of debate about minimum income programs. However, at present, what Copilot is doing is similar to what Google does, and it is certainly not going to replace devs any time soon. Personally, I think we should exploit technology to its fullest, and the only reason we can have this conversation is because in the past, we haven't given too much consideration about the mailmen, secretaries, delivery workers and everyone else who got displaced by our use of the internet and similar technologies. We merely adapted to better exploit them.
I assume if you force the file system to allocate inodes you are likely to have a less fragmented file than if you create a sparse file that gets inodes assigned over time when each part is used.
>because nobody gives a sht about art created by AIs. And nobody will.*

You'd be surprised. Especially if people don't care/are told/whether it's "created by AI or not".

Whether in "high art" or lowly pop, "generative music" (and fine art) has long been a thing. And people do attach to it (e.g. to Brian Eno's generative works made by rule based systems he programs).
This isn't how a language model works.

It's SO frustrating that even on HN people still fall for this naive and incorrect analysis. Pasting bits I've said before on this topic:

Language models do not work like this. They can copy content but usually that's for something like the GPL language text.

Generally they work on a character by character basis predicting what is the most likely character to appear next.

This very rarely results in copying text, and almost never rare text.

Mechanically it has learnt both syntax of language and how concepts relate. So when it starts generating it makes sentence that are syntactically valid but also make sense in terms of concepts.

That's really different to just combining bits of sentences, and it gives rise to abilities you wouldn't expect in something just cutting and pasting bits of sentences. For example, few shot learning is mostly driven by its conceptual understanding and can't be done by something with no way to relate concepts.
People have an innate desire to invent and create. This is why so many people do it for zero extrinsic reward. Hell, this is the case for almost every musician. They are fed a pittance in streaming, only a bit more than most OSS developers get.

This intrinsic motivation is more normally "farmed" by investors who capitalize and capture the IP value for themselves. This actually has a detrimental effect on innovation.

Doing away with or watering down intellectual property protections will just take big meaty chunks out of the stock market and partly equalize wealth distribution.

It'll probably spur innovation too - historically it usually has, but preserving the existing social order takes precedence over that which is why a lot is invested in persisting the myth that it aids rather than hinders innovation.