skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my APL compiler, April

Oh, I have to try this! APL is in the family tradition, I literally learned it from my mom. Probably the first programming language I sincerely enjoyed! I sure do miss the glyphs. Mom uses R now and often notes some things used to be easier with APL…
> ... internal combustion car would have an engine where the bar hits ...

I believe you forgot the word "most" in front of that phrase
Correct

a tide of hatred turned against him

Musk correctly reacted by withdrawing and not wanting any of this

you can keep the social media and deal with your hatred yourselves or your therapist
I was held at gunpoint after getting too close with my camera (which wasn't that close actually, much more than 8 feet, more like 30-50) while recording an arrest in Mesa, AZ. I was the one who actually called the cops on the dudes that were threatening a guy with a bat. Would prefer to leave it at that as it wasn't a good experience.
See earlier discussion of the outage itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026637

And Cloudflare's view of the impact:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-c... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32029360)

There's a Wikipedia article which will hopefully include details and links on cause / post mortem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2022_Rogers_Communication...
Geoffrey A. Landis, "Prospects for Solar Pumped Semiconductor Lasers," Paper SPIE 2121-09, Laser Power Beaming, SPIE Proceedings Volume 2121, pp. 58-65, January 27–28, 1994
Well good for him. Daylight savings time is moronic.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We've already had to ask you this, and you've unfortunately continued to do it. We want thoughtful, curious conversation here. If you want to say something about what you think meritocracy is or isn't, that's fine, as long as you do it in the intended spirit.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
Not the parent, not just cash, but capitalism literally means capital is (political) power. Just because you don't bribe police officers with cash that doesn't mean your political system isn't corrupt. In the West we just find it more comfortable to talk about lobbying and public-private partnerships instead of calling it what it is.
That was a stupid order that would never survive scrutiny under prior-restraint doctrine. Specific performance is something different, though... I can't think of any constitutional problems that might block enforcement of that.
The guy has 15X more money than god (using the Vatican's wealth as a proxy).
The billions of dollars of infrastructure doesn’t exist for no reason! The regulations and difficulty of starting a bank or mortgage company aren’t there for the hell of it!

Name the specific parts of mortgages that you believe should not exist and that DeFi eliminates.

Should we not do income checks on homebuyers to ensure that they can reasonably be able to pay the debt?

If they can’t pay their debt, what happens to the home? Is it collectively owned by the smart contract? How does that work? Where does the deed go?

Speaking of the deed, what if there’s a bug in the contract? Are we really going to pretend that these contracts have the force of law and a house can be stolen because someone wrote a bug? Or are we accepting that we can override the contract and none of the benefits of “smart contracts run[ning] forever” are real?

How should a smart contract value a home, to determine if the loan is adequately backed? If the buyer wants a $1m mortgage on what is actually a $10k plot of land, they can default and the contract (?) gets (??) an asset two orders of magnitude less than the check it wrote.

Hand-waving “well every real estate transaction will also be on the blockchain with perfect metadata so AI can make that decision” is not an answer.

How does a DeFi platform prevent money laundering? Should it not? This requires people! And regulations!

This is a tiny slice.

But we cannot pretend that any of this makes sense without thinking more than one layer deep. Which is really the problem.
Be better if it were only chrome.
This is fantastic, I've been enjoying myself thoroughly with Dall-E 2 recently and similar to this love trying to imagine how the training method / training data must have led to the output. It's truly amazing times we live in, but it will take a lot more work than people 70 years ago thought to get to a level of polish.
Levine is suggesting that they don’t have the balls to enforce those penalties.

And by history, he may very well be right.
> Years ago software was just distributed...

Well it's not years ago, in general most languages have been centralized around a single large index, which gives many advantages but also some disadvantages like seen here. This has been great so far since they've been benevolent, but in cases like npm (which I'm most familiar with) the non-profit Node Foundation joined the private company npm inc. giving it basically exclusive rights. Previous node and npm inc developers have tried to make alternatives, but unfortunately the reality is if you want to publish a JS package today and want anyone to use it, you should use npm.

> Maintaining an index is not free

No, it's indeed probably very profitable when npm was sold to Microsoft, since the npm owners fought tooth and nail before to keep it private and not part of the Node Foundation.
Blog: Moving a running DietPi system to a USB stick/disk or an onboard eMMC
The Raspberry Pi family typically boots from an SD card plugged to the system. To avoid SD card lifetime issues, these systems can run from an connected USB resp. USB disk stick or – on some Pi derivatives – from an onboard eMMC flash memory.
Lifetime issues may occur from the fact that the number of write cycles to SD cards are much lower than to USB sticks/disks or eMMC. Additionally, systems often boot quicker from USB resp. eMMC compared to a plugged SD card.
Photos of SBCs with different block devices attached

At best, you can start with the USB device resp. a removable eMMC card) by flashing DietPi directly to this.
In case of an already running system, there may be the need of moving this running system to a different location: This blog describes how to move your system to a USB stick/disk or to the onboard eMMC.
The EU's position is exactly the opposite. The EU recently voted to classify nuclear energy as "sustainable" to speed a transition from coal.

https://www.livemint.com/industry/energy/gas-and-nuclear-pow...
I’ve been using zed for a week or two and it’s pretty good. Not ready to replace vscode in my day to day work, but it’s close. Soon I hope.
Arturia has a fab CS-80 recreation as part of their V-Collection. It has poly aftertouch. My physical Roland V-Synth to play it with via MIDI only has a single aftertouch channel -- but the CS-80 is still my favorite of the collection. The default preset alone is amazing and playable for hours.
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I don’t understand how shopify is predatory. Shopify isn’t a merchant processor, they don’t hold merchant funds. Stripe is the merchant processor for shopify payments. They are the ones that froze the payments. Freezing money has no benefit for Shopify.
> I responded with an email restating that the First Sale Doctrine makes such a request both nonsensical and illegal, and asked a few more questions.

The rest of the thread notwithstanding, this is not what First Sale Doctrine does, at all!
Good old social engineering.
> Could it be that the younger folks are less inclined to acknowledge the existence of objective truth than older generations?

I tried to ask this part in the conversation. It was their belief that no one producing media demonstrates any interest in trying to be objective. They expressed a belief that no individual or organization ever even attempts to do so, that agenda is ever present. This expression seemed to imply that they believe it is possible, but that no "they" can be trusted to attempt do so.
But you don't have assigned seats on German high-speed trains. It certainly happens (although rarely) that trains are so full that some people need to stand
And, in particular, GPT-3 will be very easily misled by plausible-but-incorrect inputs -- like programs written by amateur developers. I definitely wouldn't trust it to find subtle logical errors in a student's computer program, for example.
Did anyone think he would actually be allowed to buy it? Twitter, as a weapon for propaganda and a tool for information collection, is too important and powerful to just let someone like Musk do what he wants with it.
i was speaking legally
It's not enough to state that the human mind is a pattern matcher as pretty much everyone of the "scale is all you need" crowd does. You have to prove it too.

Otherwise it's just a variant of Russell's teapot.
retired general who was consulting.

And the "what is a woman" comment from the most recent Supreme Court confirmation isn't so long ago as to be forgotten already, is it?
The linked article says that GMO crops produce higher yields and use less pesticides than non-GMO crops.
> I disagree on not using the cli for installing things

I think that it depends on who the target audience is. For myself, I heavily prefer the command line for literally everything. But if the goal is for Linux on desktop to be beginner/non-power-user friendly then I agree with the parent comment that you should be able to do everything without opening the CLI.

For me, I will always be happier with CLI tools. :)
It is.
https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/sites/default/files...

1ml of sea water will contain billions of phages, but its pot luck if you get the right strain.

Another thing not mentioned with antibiotics is man y are penicillin based that when metabolised become penicillamine which is used to treat copper toxicity or Wilson's disease, ie it makes the liver dump copper out of the body. Copper is needed to produce Interleukin-2, a naturally occurring chemo drug, most effective when injected into tumours, but having naturally high levels circulating can be helpful as a prevention measure.

Creatine when metabolised becomes creatinine which in sufficient qty can kill gram positive and gram negative bacteria. If you get 3rd degree burns, the muscles catabolise to release creatine and then the creatinine helps to keep bacteria at bay with the wounds.

It probably also explains why the US military are reportedly the only one's to use copper sulphate to debride battlefield wounds. Even the WHO dont recommend using it! Copper sulphate will dissolve skin though.

Vitamin D also increases creatinine, and because creatinine is used for estimated glomular filtration rate kidney tests, high levels of creatinine can make you appear to have various stages of kidney disease. Medical lab tests (human and veterinary) can not tell if you are supplementing so dont get an inaccurate diagnosis.
A correction/clarification since writing the parent comment: publication of packages requires an authentication token, and does not require an interactive 2FA challenge. Generating a suitable token for package publication, however, does.

(that implies that a naive implementation of '--2fa-signed-packages-only' flag would mean 'packages that were published using tokens that were generated by a 2FA-authenticated user; possibly a subtle distinction, but maybe worth mentioning)
Shopify has operated as their own payment processor for a few years.
In each case you’ve listed the companies are clearly guilty. You’re proving my point for me.
I use Vim as a secondary editor, when I need to quickly edit a file in my terminal or over an SSH session. I'm not interested in it replacing my primary IDE.

If you're going to disable the mouse and the arrow keys and really commit to the home row, more power to you. That is probably the best way to master Vim. But I think a significant number of people looking at Vim tutorials have never used the editor, and I think they deserve to know that there is an easy way to make the editor more comfortable and more familiar.

Someone down-thread used a metaphor to say 'the best way to learn a new language is by immersion' which is something I would agree with. But opening Vim for the first time feels like being dropped into a foreign country where no one speaks your language. Imagine how frustrated you would be to find that the people there actually do speak a language that you know, they're just refusing to understand you because you haven't issued the magic words, "set mouse=a"
I bought my dad a System76 desktop 4 years ago and he’s been plugging away ever since with nary an issue. He’s not tech literate. He uses the browser and runs an update every once in a while when prompted. It’s been great. I’m fairly certain he’s never opened the terminal (on purpose).
1. Not a General; he’s retired doing consulting.

2. His comments had nothing to do with abortion.

3. He did not lose his side hustle for dunking on the First Lady on Twitter one time. These kinds of things are the excuse not the reason.
What? Elon is trying to back out of the deal, not Twitter.
You aren't actually serious, are you?
A buddy of mine works at a startup doing exactly this: https://www.advocat.ai/

Unsure if they use GPT-3 specifically, but the core idea is the same.
Even if you prove it, it's not useful.
This is a tricky one for me, and from what I can see... others too.

My initial reaction (and what I feel is common for others) was that this is overzealous -- 2FA is something everyone should already be doing.

It's somewhat like being upset that your poor hygiene came up while donating your time to the local soup kitchen. Your acts are good, but perhaps you shouldn't be handling/dispensing food.

I totally understand the fears of centralized power for these indexes. I think others (like myself) are just getting hung up on what lead to this consideration

There's something interesting with their picking and choosing of who gets policies, but in this case... it's fine in my opinion.

The most downloaded packages have the largest blast area, this might stop some explosions - so it's worth it [if you care about your users].
That would almost certainly be a breach of fiduciary duty to the minority shareholders.
Long term high-fat diet expands waistline and shrinks brain
What would be highly beneficial is for the AI to understand changes so when it spots an old pattern in my code, it could suggest the new pattern. I'd pay for a Copilot that did that.
This is little more than a book blurb which does little to characterise or describe the book let alone advance a meaninful discussion on its titular subject.
I'll switch to self-checkout when they pay me to do the work, perhaps by giving me a discount on the groceries I'm buying. Otherwise, the store's employees can continue doing their jobs.
Good luck with that. I don't think that these things are fixable. They're basically giant grammatical confabulation engines. When you want grammatically-correct random noise, great. Don't fly a plane with them, please...or at least not one I'm on!
Or just prevent driving entirely after curfew/to areas where illegal protests are being held/if there is a warrant out for your arrest. Once your car taking orders from someone else is normalized, anything can happen.
I considerated this option but then realized that both sides, the api/services and the uptime checker will be in the same server then any problem impacting the server itself will leave offline the monitoring
Yep, IOMMU support used to be one of those features Intel used for product segmentation, eg. disabling it on the -K overclockable CPUs while leaving it enabled on the counterparts with locked multipliers. Thunderbolt is what forced them to stop playing that game.
I think it’s called the shiny ball syndrome, common to many startup founders.
Windows is the same way. But even worse, since instead of a broken machine, you’ll enroll in some bot-net. Someone who knows enough to be dangerous in Windows starts downloaded and running random executables from the internet when things go wrong.
Would you be willing to post a picture of your setup? That sounds insanely cool.
> Anyone in this space should really check out alternatives.

Please quickly name your top three. Then we can check the veracity by seeing how they get dissected by HN pundits.
Nobody is trying to stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter except for Elon Musk himself.

Twitter, the banks lending him money, and the other investors Elon lined up are all trying to make the transaction go forward.

So the answer is clearly that yes, Elon musk is "allowed" to buy Twitter if he actually wants to. He may even have to buy it based on the agreement he signed even if he no longer wants to.
I've thought about posting an AskHN about simple infrastructure for some time but I'm not sure how to word it to attract as many responses as possible.
History says that these people likely reside in impenetrable bubbles. The idea that he is so special as to avoid the court system sounds a bit like “let them eat cake” as there is no bread.
Unless we can find a way to stop or reverse aging that will never happen. And if we can it’ll be much longer than 120.
I think what they're saying is, you can quickly understand the contents of a file by having it summarized for you audibly. Versus having each token read out to you. Then you can locate the part that you're trying to program faster.
A very nice Android slide rule app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.DigitalSli...
That’s not a case of normal depreciation - I’m not sure people understand what the word means due to the responses here.

You don’t say that your oil painting has depreciated because it was damaged in a house fire. Property in Detroit has been ‘damaged’ by social decline.
We use far more variety of inputs than GPT-3.

GPT-3 has more textual training data than any human could read in a thousand lifetimes, but we base our judgment on much more than that.
Neovim is pushing the text editor space like nothing else.
Hold on. Russia went from invading a neighbouring country less then 5% its own size on 4 fronts, which we all deemed plausible and likely a success within weeks, if not days, to being relegated to engaging in artillery warfare like it's 1922 over a fraction of the initial front line and territory it was 5 months ago. Ukraine who has a fraction of the armed forces and materiel are receiving materiel, yes, but they are unfamiliar with it nor did they have had time training with it.

Russia went through its supply of modern materiel in the first weeks of the war and is fielding old tech and are only able to keep some momentum because of said artillery warfare, because it's both ruthless and destructive as well as low in technical requirements. They are in addition having to reconfigure their economy for total war over what is a fraction of a far smaller neighbouring country which was utterly unprepared and one of Europe's poorest.

The West sending some of it's military surplus is far from doing everything they can.

Russia having some minor gains recently is very much a matter of winning the battle but not the war. The only way they keep that up is total self destruction, which is not winning.
I think Dropbox/OneDrive have some form of lazy local syncing. As far as I know, though, there is no automated pruning of local copies of the least recently used files, but that sounds like a cool idea.

If you just want pure cloud storage that acts like a local disk, Azure File Storage containers are mountable (at least in Windows). I'm sure there is a FUSE driver for other cloud storage providers.
Elon is the force against himself. No conspiracy required.
If users see the problem it is too late. You will be seen as unable to keep the service up and the service will be seen as flaky.

Also, the Holly grail of monitoring is to be able to remediate the problem automatically - this is pretty hard when users are reporting it.
Couldn't other shareholders sue the government for tanking the stock and essentially "stealing" value from them?
what does this accomplish that buying some open compute platform based x86-64 servers in whole-rack quantity does not?

Or a bunch of the the 4-servers-in-a-single-2U-package setup from Supermicro?

And then interconnecting them by your own choice of 100GbE switches at top of rack.
Perhaps it's just a general sense of disillusionment, but I've come to see that "court orders X" and "X happens" are entirely orthogonal. I will be personally surprised if Musk pays a single cent.
Isn't this what lawyers are for? Seems like he's just spinning his wheels trying to get through at the customer support level.
> I’ve worked at companies like this and it brutal on employee morale. People just leave.

Who cares? If you think you're going to win, it's just Elon causing his future employees to quit. It's not going to affect your payday of $54.20. Similarly, no other buyers will make lower offers. Those are, by definition, worse than just suing.
He meant fixing the output(s) not the model that produced them.
This is why I try to mismatch manufacturers in RAID arrays. I'm told there is a small performance hit (things run towards the speed of the slowest, separately in terms of latency and throughput) but I doubt the difference is high and I like the reduction in potential failure-during-rebuild rates. Of course I have off-machine and off-site backups as well as RAID, but having to use them to restore a large array would be a greater inconvenience than just being able to restore the array (followed by checksum verifies over the whole lot for paranoia's sake).
There are almost no communities left in the world who do not at least use a manufactured mechanical device to create fire every day, and even the production, sale and distribution of those devices has some significant and politically relevant implications to our world.

I don't think the eyes only world exists anymore. You're absolutely free (I hope) to try to ignore the rest of it, but you'll interact with it regardless.
The types of error made by the model in the article are exactly the sort of error that I (senior engineer / decade of experience) would make if asked to describe how something works and I didn't want to spend too much time on the details. The difference is, I can usually give a decent estimate of how sure I am of something, and know how to zero in on the truth when it's important.

Maybe a confidence level for a given explanation, along with some sort of "here's where you can go to learn more" would be useful? No idea if language models would be good at that kind of meta reasoning.
I agree that in a sense it’s probably only a matter of degree. However, take for example its explanation of the xm modifiers, where it only explains the x, but gives the impression that it explains both modifiers. It doesn’t seem to have any awareness that it provides an incomplete and potentially misleading explanation. It would be interesting to see how it reacts to “What you explained is only the x, what about the m?”.
Rotterdam won’t dismantle bridge to allow Jeff Bezos’ superyacht through
I make my living as the developer for a few large e-comm businesses that all use Shopify and it works really really well. I never get why people (devs especially) call out whatever feature they think Shopify should have without realizing that pretty much anything you could want to do is enabled by their API.