skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow so just like all the outsourcing nonsense that first started in the IT industry (and failed) and then crept into all the other industries (and are subsequently failing now) it was all done by stupid MBAs who couldn't think ahead past one quarter. The way that you explained the phenomenon makes me think that there is a business opportunity to capture customers by providing world class service.

Auto companies are relearning why it does not make sense to outsource anything that a customer sees or touches. That is your profound knowledge and any supplier that is incentivized to maximize cost per unit will not care one bit about providing anything more that the minimum needed to get the contract. The customer suffers until one automaker breaks the mold and start to differentiate themselves by building in house and having a tighter feedback loop to provide the best quality.

Here's how it went down at Tesla straight from the horse's mouth. I remember the skeptics thought he was crazy for bringing this in house but it seems to have worked out.
[1]: https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=357
Watch out with Discord and 3rd party clients. Their policies suck here and people have been banned for it already https://twitter.com/discord/status/1229357198918197248
> like a Paperclip!

So it begins. The paperclip maximizer will be very real, and it will be led by none other than Clippy himself.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
Is that a better use of capital than investments to grow the business?
Great!
I still need to look into how to limit memory consumption. Fuel works well enough for now, but there might be an option to limit execution by time, not just instructions.
Do you mean that much through the chimney or in the home? And what does that translate to for health outcomes. A gram of particles small enough to enter your bloodstream could actually be a lot for all I know.

And I ask about the chimney because fireplaces have been shown to impact neighbor health as well so it’s not just about getting it outside and it’s all good.
The education system is moribund. During Covid, I thought we'd see the flipped classroom shine, and a revolution in education. Instead we got children chained to Zoom or Teams and attempts to replicate traditional classrooms remotely.

I wouldn't be surprised if my grandchildren are still doing the same bullshit in 20 years.
There’s just something fun about having your bubble burst.

I think most people (including me) think the tech was too primitive. This is what I think computers were then [1]

Ultimately, I think bad ass people banded together and worked their butt off to pull off a stretch goal.

I wonder if I romanticize engineers from then or there are similar folks today.

[1] https://youtu.be/gwf5mAlI7Ug
I completely agree that the horizontal junk across the top of GNOME is a horrible waste of space. But...

> For a long time, the looks of macOS, and therefore the looks of elementary OS fascinated me. I found the dock elegant and the black bar at the top a needed bad.

> At least until I realized how wasteful this desktop paradigm is, as most of our screens, including TVs, laptop screens, and computer displays are horizontally wide.

Surely he knows that the dock can trivially be set to be vertical, right? Right?

> The top panel in macOS makes at least some sense due to their well-implemented global menu system. But what about applications that do not have menus? In that case, the top panel is just in the way of content.

Almost all applications of consequence have menus in MacOS. I guess a few /Applications/Utilities programs maybe...
That's ridiculous! "Romantic" dancing, my foot! I hesitate to think to what Iran would sentence Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze
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Is having that much L3 cache useful for anything other than gaming?
To clarify, since people seem to think so, he wasn't the particular person fired, just an example. Another example is Rob Pike, who was L9 when he retired in 2021.
How expensive is it to attach a couple of space-rated external cameras to a modern satellite? This wouldn’t eliminate the threat but it would certainly remove the uncertainty. Presumably once you recognized the threat, then defending against it couldn’t be the hardest problem to solve.
https://archive.ph/ll68Z
>worse program readability is not a true con. Any codebase can have positive or negative code quality, generics do not make this worse.

While true that generics are not necessarily going to make programs harder to read, it's also not very interesting to talk about theory.

The question which is answerable is, "on average, were go programs easier to read before the introduction of generics". The interesting point is what actually happens, not what could.
For myself this was something that varied depending on subject area and or author. I'd guess under 1% because I use to use google heavily for hours a day. Of that 1% or less, new topic interests or research of course accounted for a bit more than half in my estimate, the rest over my time on the web while using google, much of those sort of searches is due to written works by what I refer to as Fluff Bunnies - the journalists or article author who turned an informative paragraph into two pages of fluff full of whatever strange new terms and expressions fills the pages - when it's a field that I'm fairly confident in but have never heard such terms before.

Last two or three years I use DDG predominantly and only use google for quick texty description stuff attached to youtub link ... searcher give very little these days, but still do just in case.
Yeah I was just trying to give an example of the kinds of things you have to do to get the title. Things like "invent the computer".
Oh boy...

Well here's some basics about the law. Broadly speaking, a trial requires a plaintiff who makes a claim of a wrong allegedly committed by a defendant.

In the United States, which at the federal and state level (spare Louisiana) follows English common law jurisprudence, there are two kinds of wrongs: Private and public. Broadly speaking, public wrongs are committed against "the community", while private wrongs are committed against an individual.

So if we're talking about say, Stable Diffusion, we can reference the actual claim of the private wrong being made and the details of the case. The plaintiffs are some artists. The defendants are some companies who created a ML model. The claim is that they were wronged for copyright infringement, DMCA violations, common law and statuary rights to publicity, etc. For copyright infringement, the defense will attempt to show that SD is fair use and their reference Sony v Universal, Google v Authors Guild, Baker v Selden, ABC v Aerokiller. The plaintiffs will argue it's not fair use while also attempting to show the damages to the marketplace for competing works. There will be strategies on both sides for the other claimed wrongs. I don't see anything that the legal system can't place mainly into existing frameworks while also adding to the existing corpus of case law and helping to further define what is and isn't considered a wrong for future courts when it comes to training ML models on published works.

So I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say about Uber, AirBnB or Facebook because those just sound like a lot of political opinions as they are not legally framed. If you and other people want representatives to write new laws about social media companies, ride sharing services or short-term rentals, well go right ahead!

IMO, no new laws are necessary for the two "high-profile" (hah!) cases against Stable Diffusion and Copilot. I'm also pretty sure that the defendants will successfully prove to the courts that these tools are indeed fair use.

Politically, I would want my representatives to argue against legislation that would change such an interpretation!
Ehh I am pretty sure that every "last, final, pinky promise" deadline for Windows end of support has been extended multiple times. I believe Win7 support was finally scheduled to end 2023-January (as in today).
Of course, but in those cases, you should make sure that your initial seeds are random. It seems like in the older Go cases, the initial seed was fixed. But, if you wanted random numbers, you could have used your own (truly random) seed.

I don't really see an issue with either default, so long as it's documented and you can use a fixed seed if you'd like. I personally like needing to set a random seed explicitly. But then again, I learned about using random number generators a long time ago when this was always required, so what I think is obvious is probably a surprise to many (as shown by this stdlib change).

The only downside about this new change was that in the old way, if you needed a cryptographically secure random number, you had to explicitly call those functions from the stdlib. The choice should have been deliberate, but people don't like to read documentation...
Was telling my little kid that some people still believe the earth is flat. She immediately brought up:
- haven't these people used aeroplanes?
- we can see how the timezones wrap around
- what happens if you go over the edge if the Earth was flat.
- we can the Earth is like a marble when we look at it from space (e.g. a satellite)

It truly boggled my mind how the flat earth theory can be plausible in this day and age.
With companies getting hacked left and right, I'm curious to hear how you manage to break through privacy/security concerns that I imagine would pop-up in a prospect's mind when they realize you're doing everything on the cloud.
Wrong headline of bad article. Better article: [1]

The case is Underwood et al v. Coinbase Global, Inc. The decision doesn't seem to be visible online yet, short of logging into Pacer.

It was a weak case. The plaintiffs claimed that Coinbase was operating an unlicensed securities exchange and selling unregistered securities. They're probably right. The SEC can raise the unlicensed securities exchange issue, but has so far not chosen to do so for crypto exchanges which actually do what they say they're doing. The unregistered securities issue should have been raised against the issuer of the token, if there is one. Coinbase is just an intermediary here. Unlike, say, FTX, which issued its very own crap cryptocurrency.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-01/coinbase-...
Reminds me of God of War 2020
Cats have known this all along.
I don't care for fixing my formulas. The formulas I write are fine (possibly thanks to Excel's brevity and immediate feedback). The hard part is writing them in the first place.

I would love a model that would translate natural language like "Sum up A1231 and upwards until you hit a blank cell".

That said, this model is a useful stepping stone in showing what's possible with limited resources. I am happy people are working on it.
I've been hoping (without good reason apparently) that Google Fi accounts would be harder to social engineer and SIM swap. Since we all know it's impossible to get a human at Google to talk to you, I figured an attacker would have to take over my Google account in order to compromise my phone number instead of the other way around.

Is there any info on how the attacker managed to do the SIM swap against the Google Fi victim?
Remember when Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco took some stock business photos to promote their movie? I think Uber even used some of those to promote Uber for Business when that first launched.
Ehhh... You'd be surprised.
Can you name one language that this is true for?

Also, this looks like a clear violation of Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Not that I'm calling compiler devs stupid, but like languages (and systems overall) do tend towards increased complexity over time. This is the default trend no matter the subject. It takes clear, agreed-upon goals and hard work to keep that from happening.
For comparison how TimescaleDB does it:

https://www.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algor...
You know taxes can be viewed as socialist because it's a wealth redistribution system. Same with social security, Medicare, etc.

Not everything "socialist" has to be extreme.
We're definitely living through a William Gibson book now.
Agreed, and I would add the problem that without human artists taking the time and effort and skill to create art, these 'AI' would have nothing to feed off of. By destroying any living an artist could make by reproducing shoppinglist amalgamations for cheap, we are disintegrating the last small platforms for living artists . We're disrespecting the dedication and skill it takes to create art by pretending that a computer can create art as humans do.
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By opposing it, you further prove it IS counter-culture
US is in an even more dire situation if not for Mexican immigrants. There are also other issues with accepting immigrants though.

I think for China, they will relax their immigration policies more when they need more workers.

For example, right now, the GDP per capita in China is around $12k/year. Let's say they reach $20k/year but they're running out of workers. At $20k/year, it'd be very attractive for people in nearby less wealthy countries to immigrate there for work.

I'm guessing people from Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, etc would want to immigrate there in the future.
The default setting of max_ptes_none is also problematic.

On a stock kernel, it's 511. TCMalloc's docs recommend using max_ptes_none set to 0 for this reason: https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/master/docs/tuning.m...

(Disclosure: I work on TCMalloc and authored the above doc.)
I agree with you.

It’s going to get wild.

It will improve very rapidly, from openAI and other. The competition will be incredible this year.

I think we are headed for a complete replacement of human work very soon.

Those who can use AI will become manager of an army of programers, writers, etc.

We will be able to do much more, quicker too.

Then we will have more robots to do physical things: self-driving, farming, cooking, cleaning, etc.

Limiting factor will be silicon chip production and robotic production.
Performance is way better for me on 11 than 10. Even on an unsupported cpu.
See my other reply, I counted them all a few years ago
Who were you in the Essex Mud? I was playing at about the same time as the Wizard Gorpli.
The businesses have bought the politicians and that expense is just included as cost of doing business these days. How would you enact these changes given this reality?

We just saw a multi year effort to enact right to repair get destroyed by the stroke of a pen in NY state. There seems to be little to no hope.
Nice Try IRS.
There are plenty of evidence that the activation of ipRGC inhibits melatonin production.

My question was about the "ratio of yellow photons to blue photons".

Fun fact: Blue light can stimulates melanogenesis in dark-skinned individual (type III and above) [1], no UV required. This process is mediated by an Opsin, like our vision.

This is a somewhat recent discovery (~2010) and the physiological effects are still largely unknown. Most studies on the subject are concerned about hyperpigmentation and oxidative stress.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...
Ah I see, good to know! Thank you for that. I searched the web and apparently it's part of the "Login Screen" plugin https://runelite.net/blog/show/2018-11-22-1.5.1-Release/
I often perceive luck to be the combination of opportunity + skill/talent (in the sense that you have the skill/talent to take advantage of the opportunity that comes your way). I find that a lot of people like to chock up the success of billionaires or whoever to luck (in the sense of random chance). My older brother does this often and used to tell me about how Bezos was lucky and Bezos' parents gave him $300K to start Amazon, the implication being something to the effect that anybody given $300k can build Amazon. Then my brother had a windfall stock trade where he made $250k, I told him he can try to build the next Amazon, and he ended up squandering everything on bad stock trades and business decisions. I guess his luck ran out?
Now we need all the toxic people automatically flagged and fired.

Or even better... moderate people by cutting off their mic: "Please stay on topic", "Don't interrupt others", "Don't ignore other participants", "Please answer the question", etc.

An AI meeting moderator would make work so much better.
> A hn populated by chatgpt bots would be close to valueless, even if they produced output indistinguishable from the median commentor.

Instead of median, what if the produced output is indistinguishable from the 99th percentile commentor (meaning, "genius" level commentor)? Would it still be valueless? In what sense?
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Quick and dirty solution: find the optimal position for the valve(s), mark where they are relative to their base, and open the valves to that position each time
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What do you mean about liberal bias.... Reality is by it's very nature unbiased. It just...is
Hello, I'm the author, and this is my attempt at explaining why just slapping a "link" property in your JSON response doesn't make for a REST-ful architecture.

I think this should be considered good news for JSON API developers: they can set aside REST, HATEOAS and all that noise, and just focus on building good, rich data APIs.
I loathe to say you must be doing something wrong. I mean objectively it really should not be the case! There is literally a ton more you have to write and do for the same thing in Rust. You get runtime safety and performance as a benefit, but those are not benefits in rapid prototyping.
Kudos Vijay ! Good exposition of Climate change. Look for who is making the money and then you get it, always and every time
I’m not so sure you would love that. Mastodons and mammoths are thought to have been rather ferocious, much more aggressive than modern elephants, and probably would not hesitate to attack you. If you are around one, you’d better hide fast.
I booted Windows the other day and was greeted with an unskippable screen advertising a bunch of stuff I don't need like an Office 365 subscription, OneDrive, connecting my phone, switching my default browser to Edge...

The only way to get past it is to hit Continue and click through like six ads one by one, finding the hidden skip button on each ad. All this under the guise of "let us help you get more out of Windows!" as if they were not forcing me to run a gauntlet of ads before being able to use my computer. Talk about dark patterns. This is not even the first time it's happened on this machine.

I already use a Mac for work, so maybe it really is time to let go of my Windows-only PC games, install Linux, and escape Microsoft's orbit.
The author sure does work pretty hard to absolve individuals of having any control over their destiny. If your parents were wealthy, that's luck. If they loved you and cared for you when you were young, also luck. But after you're an adult, if you have enough grit to go accomplish great things, that's luck too!

So don't feel bad if you're not a self-starter, don't feel like you need to keep trying. Accept it as bad luck, and accept your fate.

Was this written by someone lucky?
Great, now I have to read a bots meeting notes to confirm "that's what I meant".
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I love a making fun of both Microsoft and Kingdom Hearts double whammy.
GNOME is garbage made by people who really really wish they were working on tablet UIs but weren't good enough to work for Apple or Google. They repeatedly show disdain for the user base and their product is nigh unusable without extensions they provide no guarantee will continue working version to version.
This sounds very complicated to me. It seems like a form of meta programming. It doesn’t excite me. If you can work it out from the code, why do you even need the comment?

Maybe it’s because I’m old and stupid, but I think that simplicity, efficiency and correctness are virtues, and I find it difficult to see how this qualifies.
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Get with the times. Windows 2000 Professional is the ticket. Even 2003 Server and 2008 server (IIRC) could practically be run as bloatless versions of their corresponding desktop versions, with way less fiddling.

If I really had to be running a Windows desktop today the first thing I'd do is look if there's a viable server edition. Wikipedia tells me that Server 2022 will be supported until 2031.

Not that I foresee having to do that anytime soon but would still be curious to hear if people are still doing this and if it's still the way to go.
Future prediction: Vercel acquires Netlify.. Especially for the Netlify admin feature where a user can create pages in a WYSIWYG editor and save them in Git. Pretty much would make Wordpress obsolete at that point in my opinion.

Don’t hold me to it, just an educated guess.
Oh, good, someone saved that.

A Rust replacement for the QNX kernel would be useful. It really is a good OS. Much better suited to real-time and embedded than Linux.

QNX started out closed source, went open source, went closed source, went open source, and went closed source again. By which time third party developers were totally fed up with the company. GCC, Eclipse, Firefox, and Thunderbird all ran on QNX at one time. Around 20 years ago, you could run it on the desktop. I used to do that when I was working on a DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle. I could run the real-time vehicle software on the desktop, hooked to a simulator, without it missing a scheduled even while a browser was running.

I once told one of their sales reps, "Quit worrying about people pirating your product, worry about people ignoring it."
> The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:

ESM is only even a thing for EOL'd LTS releases, the title is wrong and misleading.