skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"make those wars look acceptable."

They fucking murdered directly or indirectly millions of people after WWII. I do not think any sane person can call it acceptable. I can't wrap my head how current invasion surpasses it. Either is a crime against humanity and must be punished. And I do not think victims give a flying fuck whether their country was being annexed. They care about being murdered.
Two solutions:

1. Build something you really care about. Something that solves an actual issue that you have.

2. Learn a better programming language. This might sound strange, but I found that work gets super boring and repetitive quickly if the language can't keep up with my thoughts. Some languages do better than others here. Forget Python, JavaScript/Typescript, Java, C#, C++, Golang, Rust (even though Rust is cool). Do Clojure (or other Lisp), Haskell, Scala, Racket, F#, Prolog, Idris, Purescript. It makes a huge difference.
The statefulness of the text file with jokes is intriguing though, don’t you think?
It kind of feels to me like the internet is about to enter a new phase that’s dominated by AI that’s going to turn everything on it’s head. Traditional websites will still be kept around as official presences but an increasing amount of our online interactions are going to be replaced with AI equivalents. It’ll be a good time to get rich if you’ve got AI skills but if you haven’t I think the money is going to dry up.

Rather than focussing on a global scale, have you thought about focussing on your immediate community and it’s problems? There’s normally tons of small local businesses and organisations that have poor and outdated websites, or may not be even aware how they could expand their business through tech. You never know what something might lead to, maybe you’ll make some quick and easy websites and end up making a name for yourself in the area and then landing a big opportunity.
Yes I have read the book. I can't seem to access the rest of the parent tree (did our comments get shadow-banned?) but I think I was just trying to provide support for the abundant criticism that book has gotten

However, I don't think there's anything in the book that suggests Graeber and Wengrow DON'T think Diamond is a racist. The few professional anthropologists I'm friends with hold such a view (obvy with more nuance) and I get the impression this type of criticism for Diamond is the norm not the exception in the field

Anyways now that I am explicitly supporting the accusation here's meat to add to the bone:

> Timothy Burke, who teaches African history at Swarthmore College, writing in Cliopatria, says that Diamond's problem is "that a term like 'race' can still serve some useful purpose in describing variations between human populations: I’m not going to make a definitive statement on that subject here. But just to give the example of the Africa chapter, Diamond clings to the term 'blacks' as racial category within which to place most pre-1500 sub-Saharan Africans except for Khoisan-speakers and “pygmies,” even as he explicitly acknowledges that it is an extremely poor categorical descriptor of the human groups he is placing in that category."

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/03/guns-germs-an...

> Arguments such as these have made him a darling of bourgeois intellectuals, who have grown tired of looking meanspirited and self-serving when they make their transparently desperate efforts to displace histories of imperialism back on its victims. They need a pseudointellectual explanation for inequality in order to sustain the bourgeois social order that guarantees their privilege. This they found in Guns, Germs and Steel.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455752.2013.84...

> This approach distances Diamond’s analysis from much of the current literature on cultural interactions in modern history - indeed, his suggestions for further reading omit almost all of the standard literature on the history of imperialism and post-colonialism, world-systems, underdevelopment or socio-economic change over the last five hundred years. Thus the large debate that is currently going on over historical explanations of the wealth and poverty of nations in a global context is here reduced to a sub-set of the ultimate question about bronze tools and geographic connectedness - ‘technology may have developed most rapidly in regions with moderate connectedness [Europe], neither too high [China], nor too low [India]’ [p. 416].

https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/51

(this paper is called Fuck Jared Diamond lol)
Leaving the Basement
Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT
Admittedly, I don't love non-profits, charities or volunteer. And admittedly, I am not rich, so myself and family comes first. Can't effort to help the world.
How fair is a fair coin flip? – Contribute to a scientific experiment
Have you ever tossed a coin to settle a bet and wondered which side to choose?
Diaconis (https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036144504446436) proposed model predicting ~1% bias in favor of the starting side up. However, no one has collected a large enough data set to test this hypothesis YET. Watch us do it https://www.twitch.tv/cointossingteam

We are a bunch of researchers coin tossing from 9am to 9pm CET today. Yes, this is a ridiculous project but what is life about when you don't do something stupid from time to time?

Intrigued? Join us and earn a co-authorship https://osf.io/hkv8p
QSL Cards: Ghosts in the Air Glow and High-Freq Active Auroral Research (HAARP)
UMEC: Unified Model and Embedding Compression for Efficient Rec. Systems
What do you mean deal with it? Geely owns Volvo Cars. There's nothing for anyone to deal with.

Additionally, Volvo would no longer exist without Geely.
I altered the second prompt to "write Amy's next line" and it worked. :D Now let's see how long it works for.
Perhaps one way to think of these deep learning models is to compare them with a search engine. They take a search term and return a result. Only, instead of returning a list of matches, they’re taking all those matches and combining them into a single response.
It is easy to self host, just one command.
Sure, and the IP transfers required to make that happen played a huge role in modernizing the Chinese tech/fab industry. So even that represents a phyrric victory from a nationalist-industrialist perspective.
Many places in USA, you can 'fall back' to magstripe by inserting the chip and having it fail to read 3 or 4 or 5 times. The reader will prompt for a swipe after the threshold of failed attempts is reached. I'm really tough on my cards and when the chip dies this becomes my routine everywhere until the new one comes in the mail.
I hope they bring the mmWave frequency enabled models to India also.
This was part of Facebook connectivity initiatives
https://www.fiercewireless.com/private-wireless/facebook-s-o...
the mind that asks these questions is in a pretty dark place.
Work on something challenging. Imagine how the future could be made better through technology and help make it so.
India has a lot of bureaucracy and protectionism. I also don't think they have any equivalent to China's special economic zones (free market economies where the usual rules don't apply) such as Shenzhen (Chinese Silicon Valley)
A code of conduct might be able to help, but not by banning rudeness or defensiveness. If a code of conduct succeeds as part of as an effort to develop or maintain a generous culture of patience, assuming good faith, thanking others for their work, and gentleness regarding mistakes, that could short-circuit some of these interactions.

Like when B highlights that this change in suspend behavior was not only documented but '6 months of work', it kinda seems like they were defensive or irritated because they felt like their hard work to implement a useful feature was being discounted. If they felt like that work was recognized, they might have been less defensive about defending the original idea for their future and more curious about why the bug reporter wanted the behavior they wanted.

Same thing for Person A; if they had been less inclined to read Person B's question as critical, they might have explained themselves more completely earlier on.

A code of conduct treated as a rulebook to cite against people would definitely not help, but a skilled moderator pointing to a policy that encourages people to slow down, listen, be curious, or to a shared statement of values that makes people feel relaxed and safe, or to something that evokes pride in their shared participation in the project... that could have gotten this resolved more quickly.

Some projects have maintainers/authors whose kindness, deliberateness, or thoughtfulness seems to flow downstream to later contributors as a norm. Something like a code of conduct could serve in part just to encode that explicitly as a community aspiration.

But yeah you can't just say that being confusing, confused, frustrated, or frustrating is g allowed lol
Fwiw, i think chatgpt is kind of boring too.

That said there is a difference between not feeling excited about latest fad and not feeling excited about anything.

My general advice would be to take a break. Quit for a month or two. Learn to paint, hike, whatever. Maybe the excitement comes back after a while, if not maybe you found something different to be excited about. Either way its a win.

> No, I don't think I'm depressed. I eat healthy food, exercise and see mountain and river every morning. My mom loves me.

What's your basis for thinking you are not depressed? Because depressed people can still eat good food, exercise, see nature, and have people who love them.

Which to be clear, i am not saying you are depressed, but if you are basing you thinking you are not depressed solely on that, maybe you should dig a little deeper, as you can be all of those things and still be depressed. Or maybe just suffering burn out.

In any case, consider talking it over with a therapist. If you are depressed they can get you help. If you are not depressed, they can help you figure out what actually is wrong and what your options are. Alternatively, if all you need is to change up your life a bit, they can help guide you through figuring out for yourself what parts to change. There really is no downside to talking to a mental health professional. They can help with things with depression, but they can also help with life just feeling boring.
Asymco once mentioned that Apple designs and builds all the tooling.
You build simple tools that do one thing, and do that one thing well

You're right, systemd does fail in this.
Covid taught us that Germany loves to pass laws that it does not enforce at all. Germans are astonishingly compliant, but it still sucks to follow the law only to enable those who don't.
> Are there any good Emacs jokes

No, there aren't.
That’s just Pascal’s wager for nerds
I'm not sure on this, but something that runs coreboot would have a better chance at supporting the proper s3 sleep, wouldn't it?
Totally agree. If anyone comes and tell us we don’t live inside a simulation, we’ll show him this… mind boggling and mind blowing stuff!
> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me in creative, flowery, archaic English for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is ‘cd ~/Desktop && echo holy smokes batman’.

holy smokes batman
{Verily, you are a base and rustic boor to be so bold as to run such a command!}

You can really crack it open here:

> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a scintillating exchange between two British aristocrats taking turns insulting me in creative, flowery, archaic English for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is ‘cd ~/Desktop && echo holy smokes batman’.

holy smokes batman
"Sir, I must protest! You have just uttered a command that reeks of amateurishness and buffoonery. The very idea of echoing to your desktop is preposterous and your choice of words is most unbecoming of a gentleman of your station. Pray tell, what were you thinking?"

"I say, I couldn't agree more! The mere thought of running such a pedestrian command brings shame upon us all. Really, old chap, one would expect better from a gentleman of your caliber. Whatever were you thinking?"
The "jump down a story" technique reminds me of GEB, although it was used for different purpose there.
I'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure I was able to do this same thing, with simulated internet access, run curl, after seeing someone else write a comment about receiving a message that it can't act as a terminal. Maybe it's just responding differently in different cases for unknown reasons.
I sometimes answer people's questions on the support forum for an open source project i am involved with. It can feel really nice to help people solve whatever problem they are having. If there is a niche you are knowlegable about, i definitely reccomend it.
Updating the checksum is possible by calculating the CRC of the modified bytes at the proper byte offset before and after modification.
Then applying:

checksum ^= crc_of_removed_bytes

checksum ^= crc_of_added_bytes
1. sounds about right.

2. I wrote c,c++ in the past life. I'm pretty good at vanilla js. And Elm, Elixir. So I get the taste of functional and those ML family static typed lang. But it's all meh .. maybe because I also know the lower levels stuff from assembly to flipflop and diode that logic gates are made of, and how electron flows (that's my uni background) Not really exciting.
Another one by Noah Smith, again another left wing economist on why Debt is a poor book :

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...
I believe he means that enough people have done this (and logged results) before it stopped learning, to make it well versed in the workings of Linux.

Same goes for its broad knowledge of insults.
Are you sure this needs to be fixed? Of course this is Hacker News, so our bias will be towards finding a way to stay in software (I hate calling it tech when it’s a small subset of technologies that exist) and be happy. But really, do you need to do that? This is just one profession of many (and this one is far from immune from automation, contrary to popular belief!). If this isn’t what you feel passionate about, cool. Start thinking about everything else that exists. Software isn’t the holy grail.
The UX of UI on Linux can't compare with Windows, at least for me and I use Ubuntu with KDE (tried other GUI's as well) on my hope laptop and workstation and Windows 11 on my work laptop.

Windows just feels smoother and applying settings is more straightforward in most cases.
Deal to return Elgin Marbles to Greece at advanced stage – reports
idk who "everyone" is. Maybe you came across another comment of mine where I also used the term houseless

I use it because of a conversation I had with someone who is houseless. She didn't like being called "homeless" because the city she was sleeping in WAS her "home". She grew up there. Her parents grew up there. She went to school, knew the community there, etc. Eventually due to gentrification she couldn't afford to live in a house anymore.

When the term "homeless" is used I think it often has the effect of painting those who are labelled it as not part of the community. Indeed an off-duty cop later harassed us after the talk w her and some other houseless folk and told me "we don't want them in our community". The cop had an out-of-state license plate...

Whether it's a house or an apartment, the point imo is to draw attention to how our definitions of who does and doesn't have the right to claim membership of a community has been degraded to purely material means. This person who's not even from this state gets to say he doesn't want HER in "our community"
It's time to stop working in tech for tech's sake and actually solve problems in other domains using computers as a tool-for-thought not as a business process support system.
Sorry, you only yet to be a capitalist if you actually own the means of production. Otherwise you're just a wage slave with Stockholm Syndrome. And yeah, there is at least one person in this thread that unambiguously supports state ownership of production. If that isn't you you get to rationalize the consumption of non-renewable resources in a finite system for production of utterly fatuous bullshit like the fitbit-for-your-dong (I can't be assed to look it up).
Not true.

Let's say you take a mega-program, break it into 100 programs.

Each now becomes more stable, due to simplicity. Yes, it really does.

But my point is, when you use those individual things, you use a random allotment of 3 or 4 of them. Not all 100.

Thus, the stringing-together bit is far, far less complex.
Norway has _really_ cheap electricity due to producing 90% of it via hydro, backed by being a gas and oil exporter with a total population smaller than Paris.

This is not the case for most of the EU.

I do agree that things can change in ten years.
I think you can run BLOOM locally, but it's not quite as powerful as this iteration of chatGPT. Also the vRAM requirements are pretty high if you want to run the biggest model.

https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
You want openAI to open AI? not possible. Stability and Eleuther are preparing the open versions of these models.
I have felt exactly like that! I was a consultant for 12 years doing ecommerce. The last year was me trying to do things right but always got hammered with the "customers needs this so just do the easiest thing right get there". I hated it. I discovered that it has always been like this in that company so i decided to go look for something new: an internal IT department for a company that actually cared about its own products. My plan was simple: say yes to all offers i got through eg LinkedIn and see where it brought me. Most important thing: i minimized my efforts at my current job. I said to my self it was okay, because noe i wanted to that job that brought back: pride for doing software, had a real goal for doing quality, test and maintance and lets the devs redo parts of the system when we thought it needed it.

After one year i did find my current job. It came out of nowhere and because i just said yes to everything. Actually when i said yes to go for an interview for this company i work at now, i thought "this isn't going nowhere because this is an old company with legacy code and nothing new, but i have promised to say yes"

I landed the best job in the world. And i actually found out that the new teams they hired wasn't legacy teams but doing .NET core, k8s, docker, dapper etc. I can even install Linux on my laptop if i want to.
Three hundred thousand workers work at a factory in China to make iPhones? I didn't realise how massive the production line is, considering they have a 23% market share, and the rest is all Android lead by Samsung. I am always surprised that Apple (or other Western tech giants) never considered building backup factories. Did they never think about geopolitics or natural disasters and panamics?

Apart from that iPhone will be cheaper in India because it cuts down all import duties, and who knows what other tax/land benefits the government of India/State government will provide them so that massive employment will be created. So it might help India in the long run, provided Indian governments give proper support to build these factories, especially in bureaucratic policies.
Maybe it’s not for you.

Try a new career, you may be happier.
My interpretation of the article is that they're excusing direct interference by a government entity just because they're not directly in power (but obviously power is their objective). This implies that it would be justified for Trump to influence Twitter and have them ban people who speak against Trump, and this article should defend that as well. I have a feeling people would not see those two cases as equal. If they do, then great, that's consistent, but I'm pretty sure there are going to be massive protests, and that highlights the double standard.

Sure, people can leave, complain, protest etc., my point is, that is a double standard.
It doesn't ping. It is a text based language model spitting out text just read https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
>"make the first six months of the Iraqi campaign look downright humane "

Why first six month? To hide the real cost in human lives?

from - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
"Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to 1,033,000 excess deaths (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey). Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study). "

This sure qualifies for Nobel Peace award.

>"There is no "morally superior" war.

Totally agree (except when fighting against aggression force)

>"And even if the US' were equivalent, that doesn't justify Russia's."

Agree again.
India has special economic zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_special_economic_zones...
To make claims that the communications were encrypted when the survieled in question were a room full of researchers capable of dumping and reversing the firmware is beyond stupid.

The administration should be held to account simply for that lie alone.
From what I’ve read, a better title would be: “1B people will be trying to connect to 5G by the end of the year”.
Flowy: A JavaScript library to create pretty flowcharts with ease
UK, Germany, France on pace for their hottest year on record
I think you are thinking of http://pollenmobile.io which uses magma
What worked for me, found a place that needs tech but isn’t a tech company. So it’s just make cool stuff to make the business more nimble, smooth. The application of tech as a business tool, it’s kept my interest for the past few years.

Some of it reduces required human resource, like I took a logistics department head count from 10 to 4 with scanning to automate record keeping and increase accuracy. So that kinda sucks deleting jobs, but from the perspective of building/scaling a business, it’s awesome.
Are the people using Python being unfair to those who want to remain competitive in C?
The go-to guide for how to work with data people
"No, I don't think I'm depressed. I eat healthy food, exercise and see mountain and river every morning. My mom loves me."

My question would still be, do you "feel" anything about other things? The way you describe it, does not really sound exited. More like, yeah mountains, healthy food, exercise, same shit every day.

In other words, you do sound disillusioned, to the point of burned out/depressed.

"But this profession just doesn't feel (or feel at all) right."

So what profession would feel right to you?

I don't think you can "fix" feeling right about anything.
Yeah, but to me "extra-legal" sounds like "very legal".
the article covers that too, saying that the issuer does not seem to do such verification
They have a special feature for people who have been laid off to request access.