skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not if the oil is warm. if its cold where you are use a block heater so your oil is warm to begin with. then you can idle no problem, and get the cabin up to a human temperature
I've experienced this also many times, especially US-centric sites seem to block access from EU countries. I guess because of the GDPR.

I also can't access this site from Germany.
I swear, if Amazon was kidnapping people off the street and grinding them up to use the slurry as machine coolant, there would be people in threads like this saying, "Well, they could use water, but it's 25% less efficient which would increase costs, and at their scale those costs would be larger than the value of the lives of the people they're grinding up, so I see where they're coming from."
On that last, beware the law of unintended consequence: that penalty would serve as a deterrent against making offers to visa users in the first place, if the company had no route out of it once offered.

It's the same idea as European worker protection employment laws compared to the US: they sound good, but the effect is that companies have to be slower to hire when firing is that much harder.
Augmented intelligence is what we've been doing with computers since their inception.
On the synapse side of things, have yall seen a big performance difference when running it on python 3.11?
> someone doesn’t like them

AI art is literally working against what Kickstarter was made for.

AI art is about putting together the work that artists have done in a way that isn't technically theft (well it might be the law is very slow about reacting to this thing and you can't go after someone for copyright violation as a class action lawsuit)

If someone wanted to pay artists to create a brand new collection of art to train AI on that would be fine. However the reality is current AI art is all farmed from publicly "available" images. (Copyright law currently allows you to display images for public consumption without worrying about those images being re-appropriated, AI art bypasses that)

> Let bad ideas be rejected by society

Except society doesn't understand what is going on and explaining it requires expert testimony. Of course you can discard those complaints by just making shit up and sound nearly as convincing.

> Because inevitably they don’t represent everyone

Kickstarter didn't say they were doing this for everyone. They explicitly said they were doing it to support artists. Artists haven't universally called out AI art as theft but a ton have.
The DNC does not apply to companies you have a business relationship with - only cold calls.
By all means do test these things. I think you'll find in the majority of cases that the patterns are illusory. People routinely make up explanations for what they think they're perceiving—and to be fair, it's almost impossible not to—but those are almost all false. If you did find a real pattern, it would be interesting to know about.
Do you know anybody running GotoSocial? I'd love to try it, but I don't see that many servers in the Fediverse yet...
After seeing this post my opinion has finally clicked over to "you're a shitty manager".

You're imagining a managers job is to ensure quality. That's a tech leads job. And QA, if you have them.

You're imagining yourself as Gandolf with the staff of perfection screaming "You shall not pass".

That is not your role, nor has it ever BEEN your role.

What's worse is that you're implying that you cannot manage teams working with tech you yourself have not worked with. This means you cannot manage projects that are in rust, lisp, perl, ruby, python, GCP, or any other technology that you yourself are not both familiar with and an expert in. When your company decides to move to the cloud and they choose GCP but AWS is the only thing you've seen, do you recuse yourself?

And when you hire a developer with 5+ years experience in GCP, HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN QUALITY?

The answer is you do it the same way the non-technical manager does it.

What you're not understanding is that your developers are BETTER THAN YOU at their job.

Just yesterday we had an interview with a senior manager who is being hired to take over the three teams I mentioned in another post that I regularly work with, 3 teams that have 20+ year developers on them. I gave him a thumbs down based solely on the fact that when he has someone who isn't performing up to expectations, he starts reviewing code. I do not want that for these teams, or the senior developers on them. Furthermore, I know if we hire someone like that, they will leave. I know they will because _I_ would leave. Furthermore, this department is in a bit of a political fight with another technical department. Them leaving means this department automatically loses that fight.

The problem with shitty managers is that it can often be very difficult to fully quantify their effects on the organization because any single instance of it can be very subtle.

The question is, how do you quantify a managers output?

And the answer is you do it the same way a non-technical manager does.

You don't need to be able to read code to know your Toyota should not force accelerate on its own.
What's really on the brink of being lost are the commercial X environments that aren't preserved as open source. Things like the brown Motif theme on Ultrix workstations and early B&W OpenLook are effectively gone.
I’m really sorry op, I hope you could find a job in Canada soon
“Surprising” refers to journals, not universities. It’s completely unsurprising (albeit unethical) that universities take the easy way.
Idea for Most Efficent Charset
I need to patent this.
In the olden days, we all thought that bluey-greeney-grey "bobbly plastic effect" background was just the shit.

Mine was kind of bluey-purpley-grey.
They're a $10B+ company now. Incredible, isn't it?
Nowhere to the degree as Windows or Linux. MacOS updates are very fragile and almost guaranteed to break software.
Related to this, there is a gofundme campaign going on which promises to hire lobbyist against these technologies in Washington.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/protecting-artists-from-ai-techno...
Are you aware of the paradox of tolerance?
I didn’t notice the author, almost took this in good faith, then I got to this banger:

> After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles

these people are delusional
Start following the blog example Ruby on Rails tutorial on the Ruby and rails guides but at the same time try to learn the Ruby language more deeply than rails books introduce. There are few good Ruby books but I the most complete resource to learn Ruby deeply that I have found are the few excellent courses on it on pluralsight, especially the two courses by Alex Korban. Unfortunately pluralsight is a paid service but you could sign up temporarily for a few months to learn what you need.
Also there are a bunch of really good Ruby language presentations on Ruby central on youtube
aws is the ibm of cloud. As a CTO, I'm beholden both to my cofounders and our investors. I'd rather spend my energy defending or pushing novel engineering practices or directions for our tech stack rather than going to DO or hetzner. also AWS is huge and their reliability is damn good. Plus its relatively easy to get in contact with a real support engineer when shit its the fan. When you have a lot of customers depending on your software to "just work." That premium is worthwhile.
I'd like to see some links to possible cases of this. Bots should definitely not be having that effect on HN, and if it turned out they actually are, we would instantly prioritize working on it.
NNT is an interesting metric that people were very sanctimonious about when I was at university, but has rightly lost favour.

This is because NNT is actually a terrible metric for any treatment that reduces risk over a long period, including the most important outcomes like mortality.

Imagine a drug that halves your risk of dying of heart disease. Heart disease kills 1 in 4 people in developed countries, and so realistically it would be a no brainer that everyone middle aged or over should take it.

If you did this in a randomised controlled trial, you might recruit 1000 patients, and randomise 500 to this new drug and 500 to placebo. If you ran the trial for a year, you might find 1% of the placebo arm died, and only 0.5% in the control arm. This demonstrates a risk reduction of 0.5%, or a NNT of 200.

An NNT, by conventional teaching, is underwhelming.

Is this the right way to think about it? ABSOLUTELY NOT! The high NNT is a consequence of a low event rate, NOT an ineffective therapy. In preventative medicine, where everyone will EVENTUALLY die of something (and 25% the thing you are looking at), it is the RELATIVE risk reduction (50% here, not 0.5%) that matters.

It's different if you have a single one-off therapy, where all the benefit will have been delivered by a certain timepoint, at which you measure the NNT. But for a lot of medicine it is not that simple, and the NNT sucks.
That's true for everything. And yet we still do… everything.
Can I try?

You decide to print pamphlets for your protest after a colleague is fired when your boss/admin/whoever found out she had an abortion.

You ask the printing press to print pamphlets for your legal, peaceful and just protest. They say no, they'd rather not be involved in that sort of thing.

Do you still support this idea that businesses should make careful judgements about each client versus a general policy of neutrality?
Ok, well here's my trip report.

Clicked on Hank Green's link from his Twitter profile. This is the only way you'll ever get me to sign up, by linking me to content, I'm not going to be googling to sign up for mastodon just because. So wherever I land better have an easy way to sign up.

There's a create account form right there, super easy stuff. I was ready to agree with you. After creating the account I didn't appear to be logged in. Checked my email for a verification link, nothing there.

At this point both the Log In and Create Account button don't do anything. They just refresh the page with no error. An hour later I tried again on, same issue. Realized I should check the spam folder, and that's where the verification link is, with a big red scary UI. The email is from "trumpet" which I don't recognize myself.

I click it, and that makes it so the log in button actually logs me in.

This wasn't worth it to find out if I want to have a mastodon account. Simple fix though, the UI should tell me to check my spam folder instead of making the login and create account buttons do nothing except refresh the page.

edit: There's more. I try to go back to it to check it out again and end up at mast.to which directs me to some foreign website, takes me a while to figure out it was mas.to that I signed up on. I decide using the browser maybe ain't it for this, so I install the iOS app instead. It wants to know which server I signed up on, which luckily is the thing I just worked out. I type mas.to to find my server in the iOS app, frankly a concept I shouldn't ever have to care about if you want me as a user, but OK. And all I get is a pop up that says HTTP 200 OK.

I'm stuck again with zero indication of the error or how to progress. This is bullshit.
It doesn’t really matter though. If the CCP blockades Taiwan it just declared economic war on the west.

Will China be able to guarantee continued oil shipments safely reaching China? Food? Can China afford a slow economic burn while it blockades Taiwan for ambiguous gains?
https://archive.vn/3Hw3v
I guess it wouldn’t help for me to recapitulate all of the arguments made by bonzini, who actually was involved in the 11,000 lines (down from 15,000 thanks to switching to Meson). He made his arguments very cogently and you apparently either don’t understand them or don’t care to listen.

Clearly there are people who think the position isn’t idiotic, and there are large projects which decided that Meson was a great choice and chose to migrate to it. This means that Meson is fit for human consumption.
Speaking personally, my relationships have lasted longer when a friendship evolves into more, than when I've jumped headlong into a relationship with a stranger I met online.
A larger corpus.
- The flaws in AI become more evident even as models become more powerful. Basically AI algorithms learn patterns, not abstraction, limiting reasoning in fundamental ways.

- Understanding why AI makes mistakes continues to be a black box.

- AI, despite fears, will enliven culture through DALL-e etc .

- We will be in a golden age of science and tech, not so much in fundamental discoveries but in successfully moving away from carbon based energy. Incremental improvements across a vast array of problems with create powerful synergies.

- The problems with globalization are with us for the foreseeable future, leading to increased trading among allies, less with non-allies.

- Labor unrest will increase everywhere.

- 60% Ukraine wins, 35% stalemate or increased fighting, 5% nuclear use.

- If the Ukraine situation stabilizes the stock market will take off.
I’ve been trying to read these Twitter files threads thoughtfully, and maybe it’s just a sign of the current average level of comfort with government involvement with social media platforms, but I’m generally not seeing much issue with the stuff being revealed.

the worst thing about this particular thread seems like the govt agencies talking to Twitter about foreign influence are overreaching a bit (eg asking them to look at Russian oligarchs’ troll farms for promoting anti-Ukrainian spam).

but I don’t see a problem with the FBI/CIA/etc having regular discussions with Twitter about potential threats, influence campaigns, etc.
Maybe it's a higher bar to lay off a brand new employee than to rescind an offer letter. But I don't think that's a given. It still may be good advice in the current climate though.
Toward the docs point, nowhere in the Nix manual do they spell out the FHS acronym. It's just the Linux derivation of the standard Unix filesystem structure, something that I never knew had a formal name (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) or centralized authority.

That kind of re-emphasizes to me that regardless of the value Nix might offer me, I'm not and probably won't ever be the audience for it, because if it assumes I know that well enough to recognize it by acronym then it's going to assume I know a lot more than that. I can look forward to a few months of Googling and tangents just to get a grip on its fundamentals.
Worst part is that even if you are efficient startup you are not going to get government contract because of red tape and also to get such contract you have to know right people.

Then even if you get such contract you probably stop being efficient - because of red tape and lack of incentives to still be efficient because money will flow either you are efficient or not.
Depends why you left.

If you left on good terms, because you wanted to develop your career and your employer understood that. Jobs for life aren't a thing anymore, no one can seriously expect their employees to faithfully remain loyal until they get made redundant.

Hell it could even be good as it shows that the op is serious about moving up.

Now you could be right, but the op still has options to get out in that eventuality anyway.
Silence and ableism are what we get from artists. We're still in the kneejerk reaction phase. "Having to do it yourself" is an awful precondition for art and expression.
We're seriously still doing this? https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/12/the-core-argume...
Patently untrue. The myth of the cessation of learning during the Middle Ages has been thoroughly debunked, repeatedly, by modern historians. The learning never stopped, and the entire period of the Middle Ages was full of scientific and philosophical inquiry. The "rediscovery" of Greek learning did not begin with the Enlightenment, but during the Middle Ages. One would better describe it as the runway which set the stage for the explosion of learning due to the creation of the printing press.
This all operates under the assumption that both AI-generated and AI-assisted art is not art and does not come from an artist nor will it help artists.

As a photographer, I disagree on all those fronts. As a photographer who likes to edit their photos with surrealist elements that can't be photographed - such as portals to another dimension, aliens, or anime characters - I'm doubly mad that the art I'm creating is suddenly not considered art because I'm using an AI to generate art instead of stealing the art.

In the digital mashup scene stealing art for digitally editing is quite common and nobody really bats an eye as long as the digital editing is 99% of the work. Copyright is constantly ignored by the scene for the last 20 or so years that I've been a part of it. (renders, C4Ds, fractals, stock photography, etc.) Think early 2000s forum signatures. Almost all of the graphic art from that era was made using stolen art to digitally mash together and few people cared it was violating copyrights to not use exclusively permissive CC licensed works.
Otherwise it's just sparkling government overthrow.
- Tragic assassination or suicide of a major tech figure (probably prompted due to either another huge tech downturn, or victim of culture war).

- Many countries in the 3rd world that significantly depend on wheat and oil import start to feel the real pain from the Ukraine situation leading to revolutions. Probably Egypt or Jordan will be top of the list.

- Russia, China or US (probably two of them) see their leader replaced before end of 2023.

- Huge political momentum in UK to rejoin the EU as people riot in the street due to cost of living crisis. Jeremy Corbyn & Nigel Farage launch a new party (each!).

- A major bank other than Credit Suisse collapses probably due to major fraud that was hiding huge loses from market volatility that were taking place in 2022.

- India economy suffers due to covid cases increasing.

- Major discovery in astronomy lead to serious questioning of standard models in physics (similar to Michelson–Morley experiment, we have long been due one) or biology (if it is to do with aliens).

- Apple postpones launch of iPhone 15, Tim Cook announces departure date and appoints successor. Amazon spins-off AWS as a separate company. Facebook announces a complete revamp of blue app. Google sells DeepMind or merge it with Google Brain and reduces significantly AI recruitment.
The lecture seems to be the more off-putting bit from what I've seen folks complain about. Having to signal before doing work is probably not great either, but that is kind of how American society works these days. That said, both the signaling and lecture don't derive from the machine - they're manifestations of the authors.
exactly, that is a safety issue, vs the risk to manufacturers of telemetry loss if your phone isnt always on.

it shouldnt just be ~possible~ to remove a battery, it should be expedient, as in, push a thumbnail into the slot and pry lightly, or similar to FRS radio batteries [push on a catch, lift battery out]
As I said, in the worst case, they can always find someone else to lay off.

There are countless other ways they can compensate for the cost of hiring him. A couple quick examples are delaying promoting and giving a raise to some people, or removing another open position they were looking to hire.

The result of not just sucking it it up and doing the right thing here, which was to actually hire him as promised, is 1) a terrible public image affecting future ability to hire talent when people are weighing Amazon vs CompanyX, and 2) increased chance that future new hires will read about this kind of bs behavior and not think twice about accepting an Amazon job offer and then rescinding their promise to start employment, at the very last moment.
i dunno.. as an engineer, with every project i've jumped into, among of the first ideas to tackle code rot was usually a total rewrite of some key parts, agreed upon by all the other external engineers.. is it usually a good/practical idea? probably not, but if you have a huge piece of organically grown garbage, taking few steps back and entertaining the thought "how would we do it now, knowing what we know now (and what all these people have learned the hard way)", does not sound like the worst of ideas.
Perhaps because there isn't really a starting point for this?

Different people use nix for different things, perhaps a bit differently (e.g. whether they use flakes, home-manager, what channels do they follow). Each language has their own way of building packages, and different 'framework' in nix to build for them (usually about how to pull the dependencies in a reproducible way). And there are things that readers are expected to know such as basic shell scripts, paths, etc.
BREAKING: tech companies usually cooperate with law enforcement and government when requested. Data shows they are more than 100 times more likely to continue to respond to requests when paid.
We rate-limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

I'm sorry, I know it's annoying, but it's one of the few (crude) software tools we have to try to dampen the decline of the site. If you build up a track record of not doing that, we'd be happy to take the rate limit off. I took a quick look at your recent comments and am still seeing some of those (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34118788).
Can't the myriad keepass app(s) themselves get compromised?

I don't think there is a perfect solution, today lastpass, tomorrow another. I guess you trade control for convenience.
I merely clicked the link.

I am on a VPN at the moment as I am traveling in Asia.

Even so, while paywalls are my #1 complaint, US-based sites who stonewall EU visitors is my #2. All they have to do is not collect data and then they don't have to worry about GDPR. Blocking EU visitors is a cop-out, and one that hurts them more. We can probably live without their "news". They're just losing eyes and traffic.
See, antinatalism for probably a first principles reproach to the standard belief.
Decently written article, with the flavor of Hunter Thompson's 1972 presidential election reporting.
I've found that a ton of older books published as ebooks were clearly just OCR'd and then not thoroughly edited. Definitely frustrating.
The people trying to minimise every intelligence agency working with every tech company on behalf of the Democratic Party are the same people calling this a dangerous far right conspiracy theory not long ago.