skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little weird, but it was documented.

PHP is nothing if not amazingly well documented. This is more than I can say for a lot of languages I have worked in cough Ruby cough. I work pretty heavily in Go these days and even it’s docs leave me wanting in comparison sometimes.
Judas!
> I've updated around 25 sites for an old friend (she's more into the design/content part, not the dev part) and made good money with that. "Stupid" work nevertheless, would've preferred to do something better than run a PHP 8 linter and see where it breaks

Exactly. It's work for our engineers but not something to get excited about. Plus you need to explain to the client why they're paying $1000 for something called "PHP" which they have no concept of.
I can't generalize, but could point out to the contraction of venture capital investments, for example. Does that mean "dwindling economy"? Maybe not, but it does constitute some type of signal.
Layoffs are counter inflationary though?!?

What form is this profiteering taking? Are you accusing oil companies of profiteering? Or other company's that are increasing prices or what?

Are you really discounting price increases due to the war in Ukraine? Do you not know what gas prices are in the rest of the world? They've at least tripled here in Europe. That isn't down to QE. And tripling gas prices very definitely leads to higher inflation.
Also:

“It all started with an enquiry from a nurse,” Dr Karl Kruszelnicki told listeners to his science phone-in show on the Triple J radio station in Brisbane. “She wanted to know whether she was contaminating the operating theatre she worked in by quietly farting in the sterile environment during operations, and I realised that I didn't know. But I was determined to find out.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/
Amazing how something affecting 10-15% of the population still has no cure.
> Personally I would think that a bridge should be able to handle "A passenger car and a truck with trailer loaded with lime were on the bridge when it collapsed".

The Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority seems to agree. https://www.nsia.no/Road/Investigations/22-441?iid=35881&pid...:

“Checked according to the recommended calculation methods in today's current regulations for the design of wooden structures, the degree of utilization in the connections on the relevant diagonals was around 200%. That is to say, the capacity of these connections was half of what they should have been when calculating the bridge's failure limit state, where safety factors for both loads and strength of materials were taken into account”
> Microsoft bought Mojang not specific property of Mojang.

[1] says "When licences are acquired as part of an asset transaction, the contracts are taken over. In that case, the selling and buying parties need the cooperation of the licensor. This cooperation can take place before or possibly after the takeover. If the licence is not transferable, there will in principle not be a legally valid transfer unless the IP right holder in question gives his consent to the transfer of the licence."

Do you have a link to suggest that these definitely-are-lawyers are wrong in this interpretation?

[1] https://www.blatterlegal.com/en/intellectual-property/transf...
Your original comment made a big deal of a poem-writer being able to incorporate unique words that you gave to it in the first place. No, that's not very interesting.

Writing a "4-line humourous poem" is also trivial. I'm sure my four year old could manage it. Praising a machine learning algorithm for this, that took over 10,000 Exaflops to perform its training routine seriously demeans human ability.
I thought it is way too much, and not at all in line with the feeling of mc. Cringe is the word the youngsters use AFAIR.
What does "don't need" mean?

The solution is to have employees at least have some seat at the table for this process. How are layoffs chosen? How are severance benefits chosen? We are currently seeing generous severance benefits at most of these companies, but absolutely nothing guarantees this. The solution is that when the CEO wants to lay off 15% of the company they go to the employees and say "okay, we need to lay off 15% of the company, let's work together to find the best way to do this."
I feel your pain cousin Drupal!
Of course by now your hatred for Russians is of the same species as nazi hatred for the jews, but you will never admit it to yourselves.

You are hating people who were dispossessed, humiliated, and dehumanized by you, superrace.
The point I was replying to was that OP screwed over their agent, which is not fair.

Your point that OP would have been way better of if they did let their agent handle it from the beginning was made quite clear already:

> Looking back, I can see that I should, at this point, have handed the conversation over to my agent, Charlie, who negotiates my book deals with publishers, and who is a complete darling, and good at this sort of stuff. But I got stuck. I think I thought that bringing in my agent would potentially mess up this pure art relationship. Maybe he would be too ruthless, and it would all fall apart! Of course, now I can see that it would have had the opposite effect; Markus and I could have talked art, and Carl and Charlie could have talked money, and everyone would have been much happier.
>Being educated just makes you sad and single :/

"Is it better to have been born:

1) Normal into an Intelligent society
-or-
2) Intelligent in an Insane society?"

[I want to attribute this quote to A.Huxley..?]

I'm personally leaning towards the former. If they let me back into the Matrix, never, I want among averages.
Vinyl is still quite present. Most “old” experiences are still around.
What would you recommend? Looking for a more robust and streamlined solution to build small(er) pages...
Advent of q 2022
For me, the sessions are generally the least interesting part of conferences. I do like recordings being available--as it means I don't need to worry about missing things I want to see. I can always catch up (though truth be told I mostly don't). Not everything is about most efficiently ingesting data.

That said, I do appreciate being able to watch sessions here and there from events I wouldn't normally attend anyway.
It started with Synology, I'm not sure I like the world where docker runs on anything.
Perhaps this writer has confused ChatGPT with GitHub Copilot.

The purpose of ChatGPT (as stated by the devs) is to help improve the ability of AI agents to participate in conversational dialog. In other words, they're trying to make a software agent that can take chat calls for support and stuff like that.

Copilot, on the other hand, is (sometimes) tasked with writing code from a concept or comment and -- even more often -- used to "autocomplete" some line of code you are already typing, or to suggest the next line of code that's most likely to appear in a sequence.

NEITHER program, however, is capable of solving any new problems or creating any information -- such as information about how to write software that does something which has not been done before.

Both ChatGPT and Copilot (and all other LLM software) is only capable of spitting out the next most likely word based on what you have typed and what it has analyzed in the past. Therefore, neither program will be able to offer us any new ideas or solve any new problems. Neither program can create software architecture nor perform debugging.

Having said that, many companies will pay for ChatGPT because it's a nicer and faster chat agent than the ones we have now -- even better than many of the human ones for support-type tasks. And Copilot is a fantastic timesaver that I gladly pay for because it often does suggest the next correct line of code based on my own typing.
>You pee on a metal sheet? Fascinating. Does nobody wear shorts in Sweden? ;-)

Average bar urinal: https://www.sweppomn.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/14800038_...

Also yes, we do wear shorts, that's how no one sees that we've peed on our own legs :-).
OpenWrt upgrades can be made MUCH more convenient by installing extra packages that enable "Attended Sysupgrade" - check https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy... for more info, and please spread the word if you like it! :)
Roadblocks to Communication
I mean if you look at it from that perspective systemd problem seems to be "incompetent people don't like it"

We got group of clowns that repeat stuff like "but sysV is simple, init scripts are simple to make" and we have (...had, after migrating off) thousands of lines of init script fixes to prove that they are not that simple to get right, all replaced by few lines of system.

Then there is another group of clowns repeating "but it's too complex, we don't need all of the unit features", then proceed to put that features in separate app that works badly (monit), separate app that is just different init system in disguise (supervise, which is entirely fine piece of software that does it thing well), or just don't do anything serious with their systems in the first place.

I have plenty of complaints about many things in systemd but I won't pretend it didn't save us thousands of lines of code thanks to some of those features and made running more complex stuff trivial.

For example one of our is "wait for network -> download key from key server -> decrypt partition -> mount encrypted partition -> start the services". init.d version of that was... gnarly at best, and pretty fragile, it was trivial under systemd with nearly no actual scripting needed.
Ha, I also suggested Ada for the same reason. And also didn’t tell my wife why.

But we ended up not using it.
Very likely.

HN submission: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719983>

Algolia search for "blog directory" doesn't turn up the submission, but it does turn up in comments search, restricted to the past month, for those looking for search-fu tips:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...>
I think it’s fair to say it’s been surprising to many of us that it hasn’t had any major public issues yet. I speculate that changing it, adding features, upgrading deps, is now slow and difficult as all hands are probably busy keeping it just functional.
Your post isn't aggressive at all. It's fine.

If you look at machine translation in isolation you might actually be right. Perhaps we don't really need accurate translation at all, and translation jobs won't be missed, and having more-but-worse translation is a benefit of AI. But my point was more about using translation as an illustration of the impact of AI on an industry. In the case of translation there are maybe 5 or 10 percent of the translation jobs today than there were 20 years ago. Machine translation has decimated the translation industry. People are happy to have bad translations in order to save money. That is a pretty indisputable fact.

My point is that this is likely to be the case for everything that you can generate with AI.

If people will accept a slow, buggy, shitty app generated with AI because it saves them money then there is every chance that there could be 90% fewer devs in a couple of decades than there are now.

It's hard to accept as a dev. I'd wager that if you'd told a translator back in 2002 that a computer will replace them in two decades they'd have had a hard time accepting it too.
Revival of the Gomory cuts in the 1990's [pdf]
It was also the background music of the Sega arcade game "Pengo": https://youtu.be/6q3bNHvj92c?t=126
>Is the claim that these were all simply copy and pastes of something on the internet in their entirety? And that as such the internet already seems to contain essentially every permutation of everything I could ask ChatGPT, as to me this sounds highly implausible.

It's the training data supplied to GPT3 (as explained by OpenAI themselves), so yes, it is literally true. You are just seeing snippets of the internet, re-formed and regurgitated.

It can only do what you ask.
You are both pure love.

(In ten years, I will complain about you. I wrote you this poetic line because I thought we are friends)
Here that doesn't seem to be the case. If you look at the western approach to the bridge in StreetView (which is from 2019, the eastern part has imagery after the collapse), there is no weight limitation sign to be seen. As such, you would expect the bridge to be able to carry the load in the worst case scenario of both lanes being filled to capacity with heavy vehicles, so failing because of one single truck and one or two cars is really bad...
Staying alive. We don't appreciate enough how important that is.
I write PHP every day and I don't mind the language at all. It's not exciting per-say, but it's a good tool for the job. My real complaint is about how it's served via Apache and my real problem there is that Apache just depends on a lot of things being in the right place and it can suck for updates since it's harder to keep all things config in your repo. Docker is probably a fix for that, but there's an internal political battle there that I'd rather not touch.

I know this is contradictory to what some people love about PHP, but having a directory where everything is isolated and I just run npm start or my go binary or whatever is much easier to reason about for me, rather than also have to think about Apache's end.
It was very much mutual. Mojang seemed to have been of the understanding that they paid for more than just the work done and the right to use the poem in the agreed initial release of the game, which was a major misunderstanding on their part. IP transfer was not part of the agreement.

It is what it is, everyone involved probably learned some form of lesson, and I don't see why we need to create villains or victims in this story.

More fundamentally, it takes two to tango. Just because the perspective of Mojang is the more common one in the industry doesn't make it the more "correct" interpretation. It's very much a two-way street and it's on both parties to make sure they understand each other when things are not explicitly spelled out and agreed upon.
LOL.

Are you suggesting that a successful business with a small fraction of the overall market be treated like a proven monopolist? That's risible.
One of the people that worked on the helicopter works out at my gym. He's a cool bean.
Yeah, I've seen this project. Looks pretty interesting!

Although probably the most challenging data type to get right would be RGA, especially for text. Not to mention rich text :)

Sets and registers in the end are pretty straight-forward as soon as one understand the idea of causality, partial order, and arbitrary total order. In terms of the implementation there's also not a lot to optimize I believe, and at worst you could simply store a counter along with the value.

But RGA is a whole different story. Especially in the context of SQLite, which doesn't have default page compression, or prefix compression for keys.

Still, one probably could put together something similar to how Yjs deals with that, and store chunks of data as rows in a table.
Take off every Zig!
Care to elaborate? Has there been any instances of malware?
Yeah. I was in on early builds of Minecraft. I've never seen the end poem. Had no idea it even existed.

The entire post reads like really sour grapes from someone who believes his contribution is way more important than it is. He thinks he deserves a significant higher chunk than what he was paid.

He also acts like he has a leg to stand on and is magnanimously deciding not to bring the hammer down. No. He's going to get laughed out of the lawyer's office. It's not even going to sniff a court. I can imagine what happened.

Markus and Carl were talking with their lawyers about what was needed to facilitate the Microsoft deal. Mojang's lawyers notified them to cases like this, where there's an unsigned contract floating about. They said, get that signed so Microsoft doesn't potentially pull the deal over potential issues. Microsoft, in their due diligence, also had their lawyers combing over Mojang's contracts, assets, and liabilities. Microsoft came across this contract, meetings were had, they found out about the email chain, etc. And Microsoft's lawyers decided this was not an issue. So at that point, Mojang didn't care. Because they didn't have to.

Markus and Carl didn't tell this guy about the deal because it wasn't his business. He was an artist contracted for a bit of poetry. For all intents and purposes, everyone at Mojang considered their business with him over.
> My biggest gripe at the moment is the (very old) behavior of e.g. preg_match()...

Do you mean how you can have an optional out parameter to get more detail than what the return parameter gives for which group matched?

Personally i dont see anything wrong with that, but to each their own.
I think the key difference here is that it enabled root access to the host RouterOS, which is generally not something that RouterOS permits, enables, or allows. It's why the word "jailbreaking" can even be used in a RouterOS context - it's similar to jailbreaking iOS or rooting an Android phone, where the end-user is NOT meant to have root access to the device.
If only Kerberos had been adopted as an alternative to TLS for securing have to traffic... things could have been so different (at least for the purposes of an organisation wanting to enable secure communications between its own clients and servers)
> Is it the company's responsibility to employ people until it runs out of money?

To some degree, yes. Businesses are often portrayed as "job creators" that provide a valuable thing to employees (employment). Bosses do have a responsibility to their employees, just as they have a responsibility to their customers and a responsibility to their shareholders. Our society has just let one of these things balloon and balloon to take over the other two.
I never started, I went right from Debian 5 to OpenBSD.
Thanks. By that definition, optimism is just a bad thing.
Would you feel differently if it ended with “sometimes writing your own ideas down helps sharpen them and build clarity, even if nobody will every read or care about them”?
It's fascinating, I play video games with my wife. She's never been a "solo gamer" but a "social gamer" - watched and played with her big brother when growing up, then guitar hero and such, some arcade games. We finished firewatch, tale of two sons, neir automata, machinarium/botanicula/samorost, days of tentacle, overcooked,it takes 2, the recent Stray, etc etc together.

But she straight up does not UNDERSTAND a game like Sim city, or rim world. Why would anybody "play" that, is her perspective. It doesn't have a sufficiently, singularly clear narrative, flow, goal, beginning and an end. We talked about such games a few times and I have not really succeeded in moving the needle - not in her being interested in such games, but even remotely comprehending their existence or allure.

I guess it was my wife's friends that felt minecraft really needed an ending :-)
Complete with art! Looks almost exactly like a bar I go to here (in Oregon), all the way down to the blue walls and graffiti. But most of our establishments have regular toilets, by far. Another local bar has a pretty spacious bathroom, the requisite graffiti and such, but a lone lidless toilet. Concrete floor and a drain, too, which is good because it seems that drunk people like to use the open toilet as a challenge, to see if they can hit it from afar. They often miss.
My Airhead composting toilet has an inner door that's opened by a small handle once you are ready to make your deposit.
I asked ChatGPT to come up with an ending poem for Minecraft. Here's what it wrote:

Farewell, dear player, as you venture forth,

Leaving this world of blocks and pixels behind.

But know that the memories you've made here

Will stay with you, etched in your mind.

For in this game, we built and explored,

Creating our own little universe.

But now it's time to move on,

To face new challenges and opportunities.

As you go, remember the lessons you learned,

The friendships you forged, and the adventures you had.

And know that, though this game may end,

The universe itself is vast and ever-changing.

So go forth, brave player, and make your mark,

For the universe is yours to discover.
How don't they?
Seems like both the agent and the artist got scrod.

The epic-length post is like those movies that would've been 10 minutes if the people just talked with each other.

In this case, if the artist had just told the agent what they wanted, agent would've gotten to do their job, and artist would've avoided years of turmoil.
I wish they could tune down those bight LED back lights (and brakes and turn signals) I hate driving at night because of this.
Audi is particularly blameable for this.

I think they should be regulated the same way as low/high front beams.
A Psychologist Spent Five Years Studying World Cup Penalty Shootouts
I think a fairly good argument can be made that the design of this bridge was novel to the point of being negligent as per
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSPI0xkTifI
Yes, ‘Cocaine Bear’ Was Real. Here’s the Back Story
> it takes more and more fertilizer to get the same level of output

We've seen a 25% increase in output over the last several years that we've only been able to explain as being the result of climate change. It is consistent across a large number of farms, so it is not one farmer's change in management practices.
As someone in my 40’s, I’d like to point out that you can still do most of this stuff. Want to visit a construction site? Talk to the foreman and ask for a tour. They probably won’t let you do the work, but that’s a liability issue the OP neatly skirted past.

EDIT: Have a look at baremetal's response to this. Volunteering on a site may still be possible, if you ask!

Want to look at Yellowstone? It’s a natural park with lodging, tours and all that. Make a holiday of it and go visit it.

Want to listen to Vinyl? Barnes and Noble sells records and players.

None of this is remotely off the table. There’s just options now we didn’t have 40 years ago.
I hate that trend in modern services.

They just decide something's wrong with your account but don't tell user what, or why it was decided.
Starting a startup.

10 years ago, that meant renting an office, hiring cool people from your city and hang out with them every day.

Today it is more effective to work remotely.
2022 Was the Year Blockbuster Video Games Stopped Coming Out
No one is hiring software agents for poetry.

ChatGPT will be sold (and quite profitably) as a chat support agent for customer service and technical support questions. And it will do a great job at that.
I need to use PHP at work sometimes. After working in it for a while I still don't love the language and would never pick it for a project myself, but it's overall decent a few quirks aside, and I think a lot of people have built up a habit of disparaging it without actually knowing much about it.

That being said, one issue I've found is that while I can use VSCode for every other language, using PHP feels terrible if I'm not using a JetBrains IDE. I tried installing the PHP extension pack, but it was still leagues behind. Is there any guide someone can recommend for making PHP a first-class language in VSCode, or am I stuck in phpStorm?
Not a linux expert.

Skimming wikipedia it seems the main selling point of both Rocky and Alma is that they're binary-compatible with red hat, right? Could some experts clarify: if you want to be binary-compatible with red hat, why not just use red had?
I think you're mixing two very separable behaviors. They're using data from their tractors to train AIs (1), and they're locking the data away from their customers, including from their customers' own tractors (2).

First is pretty cool, second is pretty shitty.
> It's a bit better on 8.1 but in no way is WordPress ready for 8.x at this point.

WP Core is absolutely compatible. Its the themes, plugins and custom code (usually in functions.php) that isn't.