skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you want out of life.

* If you want a medical device, it's a problem.

* If you want a fun game or piece of social media, it's probably not.

Over time, we'll know the contours a lot more. A lot of engineering came about purely empirically. We'd build a building, and we'd learn something based on whether or not it fell down, without any great theory as to why.

I suspect deep language models might go the same way. Once a system works a million times without problems, the risk will be considered low enough for life-critical applications.

(And once it's in all life-critical applications, perhaps it will decide to go Darknet on us. With where deep learning is going, the Terminator movies seem less and less like science fiction.)
Would love to get me a bot that will automatically write test coverage and mocks for me.
I use wine to run steam when the steam Deb file for some reason just didn't work .

I only use steam to chat though
I don't just want cookie isolation. I want cookie obliteration.
>Here's an idea: pay prisons a meaningful amount when people coming out of them stay out and/or get jobs. For example, a bonus each year for five years.

I get that you see financial incentives to prisons as the solution. However, that doesn't really solve the problem. Because it's not the prison or its administrators who deny housing and employment to those released from prison.

Which is why many folks (myself included) support "Ban the box"[0] laws.

Unless and until the societal stigma of incarceration (or even just an arrest -- both are public records) is satisfactorily addressed, this issue can't be solved. And certainly not with incentives to prison administrators.

[0] https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/ban-the-box-...
What’s the point of replacing one corporation with another (especially if you have to maintain the server yourself)?

Host it on cheap hardware at home, with plenty of RAM and CPU. If the power is off for 15min, that doesn’t matter for personal use.

As a plus, you can host it in plaintext (or at least, load the LUKS key), so that applications can index your data, allowing a lot of cool stuff. You can lock it in down more strictly, tailoring it to your specific environment.
How is this not a straightforward example of capitalism? This site is privately owned, therefore it is free to flow in the capital market.
Secure Cloud Workspace with VSCode and Tailscale
> turning a chunk of HTML into JSON for example

I haven't done exactly that, but based on similar examples this is likely very vulnerable to hallucinations.
There is also Google’s closure compiler that can compile java to js.
No joke, mspaint from winxp. It's still my go-to pixel editor.
haha, I have heard that it does; but my Hunchback of NotreDame looking self would never know!
=)

jk, I do benefit from white privilege and with a name as common as John Smith I am sure I pass many other unseen/unknown-to-me hurdles.
Colleagues is conspicuously not tribe-specific though. If you want to build an us-vs-them (which is beneficial in a lot of circumstances), you may want a label that helps separate your teams into an "us" that's distinct from the "thems".
That is a matter of ideology. The natural rights doctrine you're using to claim rights cannot have limits up to the right of someone else is mostly an artifact of Abrahamic religions and is not founded by much in the way of logic.

There is no hard reason why socially adequate housing cannot be considered a right.
Ah yes, another case that will likely just end in a $xxxM fine.
This is the worst communication planning I've ever seen. They plan to to migrate features to GA4 (apparently) but have already set a date to sunset with no:
- On par features working or even with a release date on GA4
- Migration plan for the clients
- Any reassurance that continuity will remain

They seem to be burning the ships for their internal team to gain speed but at the same time they are giving a bad message to their corporate clients. Now everyone will look for alternatives and they will lose a lot of trust from their clients.
i would rather say that a* is an optimization of dijkstra's algorithm

they both solve the single-pair shortest-path problem in digraphs with nonnegative arc weights

a* which explores nodes in a different, better order thank dijkstra's algorithm, but can only be applied in cases where you can compute an admissible heuristic

that makes it less general than dijkstra's algorithm, which works to find shortest paths in any digraph with nonnegative arc weights, not just the ones where an admissible heuristic can be computed

any problem you can solve with a* can be solved with dijkstra's algorithm (usually more slowly) but the converse is not true

now, in a sense, a* with an inadmissible heuristic such as h(v)≡0 is 'more general' in the sense that it can emulate dijkstra's algorithm and also do other things; you could say that a* is a class of algorithms of which dijkstra's algorithm is one
I also found NextCloud UI for filemanagement to be rough. I have opted to use Mountain Duck and am quite happy with how it works. It's definitely much faster and more reliable for uploading.
depends, are you looking at brazen bribery or collusion? or some 'free speech' activities like campaign contributions?
It's pretty irritating that in the presence of clear collusion and abuse inflicted upon general consumers of things like eggs and motor fuels and insulin, the administration spends its limited enforcement capacity this way.
I like the idea of "performant, content-focused websites" but the website itself hosting Astro doesn't really feel performant. When I scroll down it struggles on my quite powerful desktop computer.
Afaik it's more of a general push by the new heads of the FTC & DoJ's antitrust division.
hahaha so true, I didn't have time to fix it
> Subscribing to either the Yearly or Monthly option will give you access to all of Ivory’s features. If you cancel within the 7-day trial period, you will not be charged by Apple. If you cancel anytime after that you will be able to continue using Ivory until your subscription expires.

> If you choose not to subscribe, Ivory will still work but will function in a read-only mode where you won’t be able to Post, Follow, Fave, etc.

Interesting.
You are unlikely to successfully hire better developers after getting rid of 7% of your workforce. Better developers will stay away.
I completely agree with you and the need for a fully integrated solution with great visualizations without hosting additional tools that aren't purpose built! Unfortunately there are very few SIEMs that get this right today..

Here's how we are thinking of it. We think it's important for a successful security program to first have high quality data and this is why we want help every organization build structured security data lakes to power their analysis using our open source project. The Matano security lake can sit alongside their SIEM and be incrementally adopted for a data sources that wouldn't be feasible to analyze otherwise.

Our larger goal as a company though is to build a complete platform that allows a security data lake to fully replace traditional SIEM
-- including a UI and collaborative features that give you that great feedback loop for fast iteration in detection engineering and threat hunting as you mentioned. Stay tuned I think you will be excited by what we are building!
>One question that bother me is does it really matter? If AI-generated content is on par with Human-made or even better does it matter anymore that an AI generated it?
> If an AI had written Mozart's Requiem would it lessen its interest, its beauty?

I think it's about intent. Art is interesting and beautiful to us because there is an undeniable human intent in creating it and a vision behind it.

ChatGPT and DALL-E are pretty cool but I think until AI get it's own intent and goals it's pretty fair to try to separate human art and AI art.
Good Question. However this is 100% ChatGPT. Perhaps it knows that Weird Al intentionally misspells words in his work, hence it has intentionally introduced this typo. Which makes this type of AI even more awesome.

--edit

.. weird:

I asked ChatGPT if there is a typo in this poem. This is what it responded with:

Me: Does this poem have a typo? https://random-poem.com/weird

ChatGPT: It appears that there is an intentional typo in the first line of the poem "Weird Al, oh Weird Yankovic Al" instead of "Weird Al Yankovic". Yankovic being the surname of the artist, this addition can be seen as a playful and humorous way to refer to the artist, and give the poem a personal touch.
How reliable is it? Have you encountered any tests that did not have the same result as on real Windows?
Everyone using a Steam Deck, and almost everyone using Steam on Linux, is using Wine to run their games. It is shipped with the Steam client these days.
Valve's Proton is a fork+bundle of Wine. Proton is widely used, and works fabulously and often seamlessly to play Windows games on Linux, to the degree that Windows games often work better on Linux than they do on Windows, and Windows games often work better on Linux than the Linux versions of the same game.

I would guess that the number of Proton users is orders of magnitudes higher than the number of vanilla Wine users.
This is exactly how Tweetbot worked in later years, iirc.
I love Kysely! I use it for a couple of production applications and it works quite well. Type support is better than Knex, and Kysely is really lightweight so I can use it in my projects without being concerned about performance issues.

Really, when you look at options like this, you start to break them down into 3 distinct categories:

1. Raw adapter usage - writing SQL. Performant, but can get tedious at scale, and weird to add types to.

2. Knex/Kysely, lightweight query builders. Readable, composable, and support types well, but a step removed from the performance of (1). Some would argue (1) is more universally understandable, too, although query builders make things easy for those more-familiar with programming languages than query languages.

3. Full-fledged ORMs like TypeORM, Sequelize, Prisma. Often require much more ecosystem buy-in and come with their own performance issues and problems.

I usually choose 1/2 depending on the project to keep things simple.

I have pretty much had no issue with it so far. The only thing that I would call out is that you _must_ run a migration initially to set things up, or your queries will hang. This has stumped me a few times (despite being obvious after-the-fact). It also interfaces really well with postgres, and has nice support for certain features (like jsonb).
Progress has been slow, but dealing with Google is a completely bipartisan issue. We've moved really far: A few years ago, the FTC was chaired by a guy who wrote Google-funded studies claiming Google's monopoly was good, and Google reps visited the White House some 400 times during the Obama administration. The revolving door between Google and the federal government didn't stop turning for several years straight.

Now both parties see the threat (albeit for differing reasons), but the federal government needs a lot of time to build a case like this, and Google is extremely adept at stalling for time.

During the EU investigation, Google waited every deadline to the final day, then asking for more time multiple times, and then finally on the last possible extension day tor respond would come back with a bull~~~~ one page "we don't think we broke this law" statement. They know the fine won't be nearly as big as the profits so they're running out the clock as long as possible. Every lawyer there knows they're crooks.
Last mile internet access is a pretty big must-have, as well.
If it was "a little bit", I agree. Their business plan is a few bucks shy of $500/user/year.
That is a wise method, thank you so much! There are tabs I want to read in my array of open tabs - which I don't get simply because in few moments I need to scroll to them, I get distracted by some other tab!
Have you heard of Quarto?
If they built condos that were greater than 2000 sq ft regularly, that might be an attractive option.
>Take a look at any "tough on crime" or "conservative" politician, and the majority of then will say stuff to that regard.

It's not just the conservatives. HN will happily argue for disproportionate punishments for "risk of life and limb" type crimes in which there was no criminal intent and nobody was harmed. "Anti-social" crimes or "crimes that make a mockery of the system" (turnstyle jumping, vandalism of public property, stuff like that) are a pretty close second.
Thanks, this makes sense.

I think my reduction and your quibble is really a matter of semantics. It's true that the genome doesn't contain explicit coordinates for every feature of every cell. But at the same time, if you start with the same DNA, you get the same morphogenesis, and if you start with different DNA, you get different morphogenesis, so i would say the morphogenesis is very much encoded in the DNA. It's just that it's in a highly compressed representation, and the decompression machinery includes the laws of physics!
The administration change indeed has a lot to do with this. New chairs at the FCC (Rosenworcel) and FTC (Sohn) have a much more antitrust bent than in the past.
The layoff announcements are connected if you take it that M&A in big tech has been out of control for years, but it's tangential.
Doomsday Clock hits 90 seconds to midnight, its most dire prediction ever
You could create a local HTML file without a server for it.
Sometimes Dropbox does, but mostly it seems to figure it out.

Sync thing on the other hand creates a conflict almost always.
The last time I perused the ToS for my ISP, it disallows this sort of thing if it's commercial in nature. This specific use may not be against ToS from my perspective. For the record, I selfhost a containerized instance of nextcloud inside a virtual machine on a hand-me-down 2015 iMac. It works just fine and no issues with my ISP so far.
HN is my `ping google.com`, first thing I check whenever I connect to a new wifi connection (or when I hear my partner complaining that the internet is down).
Doomsday clock is the closest to midnight it has ever been
My ISP accused me of running servers (I don't) simply because I used too much traffic.

I send 100% of my traffic VPN encrypted and I pay an extra $50 or $70 monthly for "unlimited" data transfer.
I would go further. Prison should only be used for violent crimes with a high degree of intentionality.

It's been said that if you asked someone to design a process to create more criminals, they would likely invent prisons: mix as many skilled criminals, with random unfortunate individuals, so that they can share their knowledge of criminality, and have to fight to survive.

Prison is bad as a deterrent and is terrible at reforming criminals. The only thing prison is good at, is keeping violent people off the street. There's absolutely no reason why non-violent offenders should be in a prison, give them any other punishment instead.
How would “the government raiding your house” access the data in the NAS without first shutting it down (assuming network access is authenticated)? And then they would need the encryption password when booting it up again.

(Ignoring the fact that the government might have other means to make you cooperate.)
It's annoying to build. Their moat is they did the annoying work of finding the team that's willing to put up with building it.
for a single person, sort of. for a team, with multiple people, multiple on-call schedules, schedule overrides, etc, its so much nicer.
I was neutral on google, they seem to be very low key, so they fly under the radar.

Then I started to see their little ads tricks and the story on how they "acquired" google maps aka terra vision and yes , wouldnt put it beyond them to use every trick in the book they can get away with.
Because that's always a possibility! Not thinking that way is why company after company seems make the same mistakes.
As an experimental neuroscientist that has recorded fairly extensively from brain organoids, I would advise that these are HIGHLY underdeveloped cultures. When patch clamping, I had to depolarize neurons in a human brain organoid to -25mV to trigger action potentials (normally -60mV is sufficient; healthy neurons resting membrane potential is -70mV) Despite imaging organoids for hours with light sheet—a functional imaging technique that allows for observation of nearly all neurons in the organoid simultaneously, I did not observe any spontaneous action potentials, only diffusive waves of calcium activity.

Of course, not all organoids are created equal, and the protocols around extracellular matrices are improving constantly, but for folks interested in systems neuroscience the organoid field is still too underdeveloped to ask interesting questions around functional activity.
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It's about both prisons and jails. From the article:

> The proposed changes follow a nationwide trend of prisons and jails moving to stop incarcerated people from receiving physical mail. Prisons in Pennsylvania stopped physical mail in 2018, and prisons in Massachusetts started sending incarcerated people photocopies of original letters. Last year, prisons in New Mexico and Florida adopted similar changes, and Texas has also limited in-person mail.

Obviously it's a bit more relevant to prisons where prisoners tend to stay longer and are more likely to receive mail.

Also, none of this shows that the article has anything to do with police department corruption.
Glorified tech support for scientists? No thanks.
I'd love to do this offline, so I could feed it all my mail. Am I right that it's still going to be a while before we can do that? Or perhaps with a less good model than GPT-3?
Proton (based on wine) for games. Can't say I really have any other uses these days since most other things either work on the web or have been ported or have much better free software alternatives.
No, simple here, too ("Can you write a guitar tab for a folk song?"). I suspect it's like the code generation - good for 10 line functions, bad for writing a Photoshop clone.
I feel this way about self driving cars as well. Its like even 10 years ago, the capabilities they have today would be considered mind blowing, yet they receive so much hate because they aren't yet adapted to all situations. Its baffling to me, every time I watch a video of one I get all giddy and I am like we are living in the future! Yet even from tech circles, they get so much criticism because they aren't 100% there yet.

Its just a mindset I don't understand. And on places like reddit there is definitely some astroturfing going on or at least some definite "camps" that don't like SDC technology, but on HN AFAICT its been genuine disdain. So weird.
missed Yahoos :P
Pagerduty doesn't have a big moat, either. They've just cut loose a bunch of people who know the intimate details of how to build a product exactly like theirs, ripe for the plucking by a competitor who knows they have a business with healthy margins.

Looking forward to more competition in this space, PD is not as cheap as it should be.
Sounds awesome, care to share?
This feels like largely an issue of societal norms. People leave their cars sitting all over the place and nobody complains.

For sure there are places they shouldn’t be left, like right in the middle of the sidewalk. But maybe the expectation of every scooter being in a dock is too extreme.
I think the opposite (we write the specification, bot fulfills it) will be more fruitful.
Facebookers scanned much better, at the very least.
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No, those are better than what my friend draws, which are more like ghastly appendages. The examples you provided are at least recognizable as hands. But again, I don't understand this focus on hands, specifically. You're looking at this picture and saying: "See, it doesn't understand hands? Look how many fingers there are!" I'm looking at this picture and thinking: "Wow, it perfectly understands fingers. It understands how light subtly diffracts when hitting skin. It perfectly understands how veins peek out beneath the skin and how wrinkles look."

I think you're getting way too hung up on the number of fingers. It's clear that the algorithm could do a better job with hands given more training data. There is nothing special about hands. So, if you're right that it doesn't understand hands, then this lack of understanding stems purely from a lack of training data. In which case, I think it's fair to say that it understands the other things it has sufficient training data to draw well.
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Games! Or more specifically, game - with dxvk I've been happily playing through my GoG DRM-free copy of Cyberpunk2077 and combined with Steam+Proton for other games I have no need of my Windows partition anymore. I'm planning on removing it entirely when I have a free afternoon to redo my partition table (I use NixOS too, so if I save my userdata I can rebuild the whole system easily).
> "Why do we accept that a human understands the concept of hand despite drawing hands poorly"

We use hands, recognize hands, some of us can draw or sculpt accurate representations of hands, we can talk about aspects of hands such as grip and fingerlength. All of these things encompass the idea and physical instance of "hand" in much more than just the artistic sense.

Also, we certainly know when we draw a hand poorly. Unless we are children, or have a brain condition. And if we are children or have a brain condition other adults wouldn't say that we have a good understanding of what a hand is.

Perhaps the AI knows it's drawing hands poorly. Perhaps it can't communicate this to us. Even so this should be in the code run somewhere.

> "while simultaneously saying the AI draws hands poorly because it doesn't understand hands?"

For two reasons:

1) The AI is just drawing. Even humans draw many things that they don't understand. If we draw something that we completely don't understand (such as through random scribbling) we don't even call it a representation. It's a fluke. I used to scribble and then trace images in my scribbling (if possible). Often I ended up tracing things that looked like a child's bad drawing of Donald Duck, but once, without having to trace particular lines at all, my scribbling was a perfect seeming of a rose flower (with some minor additional flourishes). I recognized the rose flower, but I certainly didn't set out to draw it.

2) I'm assuming the AI wasn't trained on medical and other information pertaining to a hand, the way humans are (even if the training isn't formal). It is trained on images. At best it is trained on images of discrete parts of the body, but this only allows it to understand the shape and relative position of each body part, at best. Not to understand the body part.

Ultimately it would take something looking at the code run to determine whether or not the AI brings an understanding of the concept of "hand" into the literal picture. If all it's bringing is #1 then it's not an understanding of "hand".
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The majority of jails in the US are run by county sheriffs or local law enforcement. The majority of prisons are run by the states.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460478
Lots of open source options out there: https://jayaj.medium.com/top-10-yellowant-integrations-f2e52...

And in a volatile macro, you may be loathe to drop talent you'll need again, so might as well have them roll something and maintain it versus outside spend. You can always migrate back to a SaaS vendor when the coffers/pipeline is more robust.
Being online doesn't change basic social etiquette.

People are giving you stuff for free, they are not forcing anything on anyone. Even if you don't enjoy their stuff, be polite and let them have a good time with people who do like it.