skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OP was talking about the academic/artistic elites, which nowadays seem more divorced from the general population than they used to be. And I think that has more to do with the internet than movie prices.

People who want to get into the "theoretical" aspects of a movie can go insanely deep very quickly, whereas the average person won't care as much. On one hand you have a bunch of nerds trying to make/recognize increasingly obscure references as our ability to remember and find things gets better, and on the other hand you have people who just want to see stuff get blown up.
- You can easily steal code - if you were working on a company laptop with USB device protection (can't connect drives to transfer without approval) and heavy website moderation (can't send code to yourself), leaking code would prove way more difficult. Compare that to just copy+paste on your personal computer. (ofc it's possible to steal from company laptops too, but you'll leave a very visible trail).
- You're a security risk if your computer gets stolen: with company laptops remote disable is an easy option, not so much with personal ones.
- Your dev environment can be radically different from others if the company doesn't install some software center (OS, dependancies).
- You can't guarantee your personal PC isn't compromised by virus software, again playing into possibly leaking code.

It's a liability to let devs download code to their personal computers. It's risky from both physical, and intellectual property perspectives.
I've been experimenting with alternative pipeline syntaxes.

One example is using Graphviz graph files as an execution plan for software deployments. You can see a graph here:

https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle/blob/master/docs/archite...

I wrote code with networkx to parse this graph dot file and then follow the plan topologically, spinning up packer, terraform, bash scripts, compilation and so on. It also executes graph nodes in parallel where it can.

I talk about it here https://devops-pipeline.com/

My problem with bash pipelines is passing data along and referring to previous steps' data. You kind of need to enrich the data that goes along the pipeline. In my use case, I need to pass along outputs from previous instantiations.
I use eshell for most things, but I do have to occasionally pop open an ansi-term.
That is the big fundamental problem of employer-employee relations. They hold more power and it's easier for them to organise with other employers without anyone being aware of it. The only way to balance that is for employees to also get organised. Or ban corporations, I suppose.
yeah people in my house hold are getting covid a couple of times a year and are constantly exposed to it at school and work and we are all vaccinated but dont take any other medications for covid.
The FDA approval of molnupiravir is shocking.

As you note, there absolutely is the risk of incorporation of the viral nucleoside analogues into host genomic dna and ultimately cancer.

of the two rodent genotoxicity / mutagenesis assays, only ONE passed. The other was equivocal. The FDA concluded that based on the short 5 day course, the risk was acceptable. This decision was, IMO, colored by COVID hysteria that still permeates many aspects of medicine and government.

The types of risks (genotoxic, but also viral mutagenesis) of Molnupiravir would never be acceptable or approved in any other context.
It's like trying to save money on matches.
For the 2400 baud dialup?
> very difficult to believe an interface with a full-screen app switcher, slide to unlock, and massive title bars and buttons compared to every other desktop UI is intended to be anything other than designed for tablets first.

If you take a note, Gnome development trails hardware development, it does not lead it. There is a lot of hardware features it still cannot use and which have much higher staying potential, ergo are much lower risk to implement than a tablet interface: HDR, fractional hidpi scaling, VRR comes to mind.

At the time when Gnome development was conceived, there were no tablets, no mass market for them, with the exception of tablet pcs, which were clunky and expensive and definitely not popular. What Gnome does with massive title bars and buttons is optimizing for a hardware that did exist then: higher-resolution, but not hidpi yet, displays.

Most software at the time was written for 96 dpi, but these displays were slightly higher (14" full hd is 157 dpi; 14" HD+ [1600x900] is 131 dpi, 14" WSXGA [1440x900] is 121 dpi). The kind of sizing Gnome uses optimizes for this kind of hardware, without having to support "proper" fractional hidpi scaling. So yes; it was cheap, minimal way to support popular hardware (and in a way contributed to a late real hidpi support). If you use Gnome on such a display, the sizing is exactly right; unlike Windows, which was tiny at these displays and was a cause why many mainstream users preferred the low resolution 1376x768 ones.

> All of these are touch-centric concepts and have no reason to exist where keyboard and mouse is the primary input method.

They are not touch-centric at all; did you ever use ipad or android tablet? Floating windows are not optimal for touch use. Tiling WM with a gesture support is much more suited for this use.

As a long time Gnome user, you probably learned keyboard shortcuts. What you consider missing there? Gnome is one of most keyboard oriented UIs available.
Bit of a strange one maybe but for my windows machine I've actually been using cmder (conEmu) with ZSH and over the past few years have been extending it with plugins to suit just right.

It's super fast supports everything I need now and couldn't work without it.
$10BN is enough for Microsoft to pay Sam Altman to say such nonsense in the name of AI hype.

We need another Stable Diffusion-like disruption for ChatGPT and GPT-4 involving open-sourcing the model and being a rather smaller model which can run on device to ruin ClosedAI's rent seeking.
This is really the core of my disappointment in Google: their poor handling of malicious SEO. Having humans go over shared site blocklists that people use to improve results, hand verify each entry, and remove those sites from Google results would go a long, long way.

I'm talking about lists like these: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/blob/mai...

It wouldn't take a small team more than a few weeks to get through these lists -- most of the work has already been done.

Alternatively, they could just let us add these lists to a first-party interface so we don't have to use plugins to achieve the same results.
Didn’t PowerShell on Windows try this and basically failed?

Well some people really like PowerShell but I didn’t see the concepts move over to UNIX side
If OP worked in big tech, he got paid really well. So he should have significant savings that will allow him to take a sabbatical year as needed.
Nice project! I'll take it for a test drive for sure. I can already envision some use cases for it.

Have you got any plans to support Go?

Disclaimer, I work for Synadia (on the NATS team) and with your permission, would like to reference that NATS is used here?
And how did it pick the facts out of these sources and compile it into a conclusion? That is a black box you will simply have to either trust or second guess everything it replies with. The first choice is naivety and the second choice is arguably a poor product.

A more honest "knowledge engine" would be one that did not draw conclusions but simply replied with the links relevant to your question, letting you judge the quality and draw your own conclusions to not have the engine carry that burden itself.

And then you are back to a traditional search engine again.
I agree, solving multi-platform issues is never fun. Most of it is just either a chore, or getting locked into a very constraining framework.
> I can’t believe we’re still doing the nutty antivax thing in 2023.

Expressing safety concerns and having a rational discussion about a new genetic therapy is not a "nutty antivax thing", and it is disingenuous and argument in bad faith to suggest that it is.
It’s weird ECC memory has become less and less common.

Relevant Linus Torvolds comments https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpost...
Do you have auto-commit on for your consumers? If yes, which tends to be the case for most basic examples, then you'll have "at most once" semantics, and you may experience unwanted data loss* should your consumers fail.

If not, then you'll have to manually commit the offsets and your consumer will have "at least once" semantics, meaning that you'll have to deal with duplicate messages (you should be designing idempotent pipelines, anyway)
Right below the announcement is: new mobile app available!
I wonder how that happened...
Worried in the sense that their products have the potential to be harmful. But yes, otherwise I am rooting for OpenAI. Why not? I don't have a horse in this race.
For sure, I just edited my comment to mention LangChain, which starts to get at that capability. Would be nice to see LangChain integrate with Trustfall similar to how it can integrate with Wolfram Alpha.
Nothing online comes at you unprompted from any platform (you need to subscribe or follow) yet it doesn't seem to be a valid excuse. Unless you are a free speech maximalist I guess.
> Thus, even limited users executing Docker commands are getting those commands fulfilled by a process with root privileges, a further security concern.

I would say: A complete security nightmare which make all kind of "smaller" security issues in other places (e.g. IDE) WAY worse and would put docker on a ban-list if the industry really did care about security.

Through then you _can_ setup docker without this vulnerability AFIK it's just not done by default in most setups and I'm not sure how hard it is.
Thanks.
Interesting username :)
I know several people in Europe who got Covid several times despite several vaccinations.
Yeah, I am really excited about Nu as a concept, but I think adoption needs to happen first, where enough people are saying “alright, screw bash script flavors”. I’d feel silly deploying it in a production workload.
It's painfully slow, but ChatGPT can convert noisy, plain text into JATS XML
> Mary was well-trained in the art of cipher by her mother, Marie >>>de Guise<<<, from a very young age.

Really? :-)
subpar here can mean harvested too late to be palatable, not that the mushroom itself had anything wrong
PHP obviously, I had to work with it for 11 years professionally.

Right now it's the worst scripting language on the planet.

No one in their right mind would start a new project using PHP.
Whoever commissioned this article has some serious trading strategy in mind for the next couple of weeks ...
Let's say I want to host it on Digital Ocean, Hetzner, or even a server that's sitting in my room. I want a family member to have an access to it too.

How do I keep it secured? How can I make sure nobody breaks in and access my photos?
what is GTP?
Though to be honest, eg Bash isn't all that great at composing programs, too. Especially when you want to handle failure.

Mostly shells are good at scaling downward, ie having relatively little syntactic (and brain) overhead for very simple things. Especially when you are ok to handle any failures manually.
A low point for sure, but given a pass because the ads are meant to be relevant to the search. In many cases the ad links would satisfy the search intent. Unlike youtube videos which put ads for Big Macs and other horrible things on random videos.

But why pretend ads won't infect "ChatAI" services:

User: "Find and read me a nostalgic poem from the 19th century"....

[processing]....

ChatAI: "Introducing the Chicken Mince Big Mac with Super Special Sauce Combo Deluxe Mega Pack! For a limited time only".....

"He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro’ the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day..."
>What is wrong with Netflix? (The "N" in FAANG, right?)

They are not like the other. I wouldnt include big entertainment company among technology behemoths
I decided last year to bite the bullet and learn Powershell. I think I will no longer have to wonder if there is a better option anymore.
Ok, but I think the transition from Transformers to GPT took a lot of hard work and insight, and the OpenAI research team deserves ample credit for it.
I wonder what will happen to any unwithdrawn user funds after those 12 months?

Localbitcoins has been around for a long time. I bet there are lots of wallets on there totally forgotten about with lots of bitcoins in. Quite a goldmine for someone...
Where and how you live certainly matters. If your neighbours have a noisy dog, working from home won't be as good an option. And of course there's a million other reasons working from home can be problematic, especially in small apartments with too many neighbours, or living in a noisy or distracting environment. Or it might be too hot or cold to work comfortably.

Of course it's also possible for offices to be noisy or otherwise uncomfortable, and you might not have any power to do anything about it. I guess WFH is a great option mostly for people who have a great home.
> the state of the art in access control seems to be to name your "secure" directory ¶.

Curious if this is a reference to a real situation that I missed.
Is there any plausible scenario where Ukraine did it, with or without help?
Blowing the smoke away is a great touch.

I miss that kind of thing - the closest we get nowadays is when things bounce or shake a little bit as you interact with them.

I guess this is what Gruber was talking about recently - stuff that wouldn't go on a spreadsheet of features but make you want to use the app just because it does stuff like this.
I'm a Linux native guy and I haven't hardly touched Windows in years but I still find myself curious about PowerShell. Is PowerShell even remotely suitable as a Linux shell? Is there any hope for PowerShell on Linux, it's an interesting take on shells.
I don’t know how to look up the stats with the Bank of England as well as I do the Fed to check, but here is a report[0] from the pandemic from S&P that suggests at least for the big banks in the UK there isn’t much difference.

Santander and Lloyds are a little higher than you’d see in the big banks in the US at 1.1 Loan:Deposit but NatWest, HSBC, Barclays, and Standard Chartered all sit in the .6-.9 range which is where banks in the US typically like to be.

Maybe your small banks and credit unions operate dramatically differently than your big banks but that would be surprising. It would also be surprising because the Basel accords make it pretty tough to meet your credit and market risk requirements without using deposits to fund loans.

[0] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
The owner of a simple hobby project like this, without SEO or sign-in or whatsoever, probably don’t need to care so much to protect his domain. If StackOverflow asks for his domain he can just give it away and set up the site at a new domain name.
How does it compare to oh my zsh?
This depends on the worker... if we're talking about a job that 'anyone' can do, sure... worker is replaced within a week, and the worker might need more than a week to find a new job.

But a professional in a small team, usually witha bus factor of 1? This means a hard time finding a new employee + months of training, while the old worker probably found a new job before they even quit at the first one.
I'm surprised that they attribute the decline in their performance to the "crypto winter". It seems like the success of a business should not solely depend on market conditions, but also on their ability to maintain profitability even during market downturns. It raises concerns about the sustainability of their operations unless the market is bullish.
The important magic is that carbon and hydrogen given enough pressure will form hydrocarbons (basically as dead plankton deep below the tectonic plate did), so doing it the brute force way is simple, but very energy intensive.

Split CO2 to CO and O, split H2O to H2 and O.

CO + H is syngas, used as feedstock for synthetic fuels.

Then using a metal catalyst (iron or cobalt for example) and heat and pressure good old "organic chemistry" does the rest, various hydrocarbons form (and water as residual by product). This reaction itself gives off heat, so at least this part doesn't need that much energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...
> "giving the option" is as good as forcing the users

From what perspective?

> third party devs ... will, given the option, force users to install unvetted apps

It is up to the users to allow e.g. Facebook application to install additional applications. No one, and especially no app, should be able to force them to do so on an open OS.

If you refer to predatory practices where an application would disable some of its functionality until an additional "unvetted" application is installed, then this is definitely an issue.

But it should be addressed by targeted measures against the offending applications and by educating the users. Not by taking away everyone's freedom.

In my opinion, the freedom of choice regarding which application runs on one's own hardware should remain with the owner to the largest extent that is practically possible.
Can someone tell me about what actually happened? Do they really need that much infra to simply allow people to meet in person and exchange money?
Yeah, I love some of the ideas of neo-shells but using zsh with oh-my-zsh (mostly because I've used it forever and have too much inertia to switch to prezto/starship) and I get most of those features without losing compatibility with the vast majority of shell scripts, guides or snippets I can find online.
It’s pretty fantastic, the trouble is finding a tutorial which isn’t a blog post that was written in the early 2000s using outdated syntax.
and you believe that right? jesus
The mileage lost due to carrying an additional bank gets covered by the additional bank, is this correct?
> When we get / do / have something REALLY want, the satisfaction will wane very quickly.

REALLY wanting things is, IMNSHO, indicative of not yet having reached a full level of maturity. I've felt the emptiness of the satisfaction of consumerism enough times to be able to suppress my immediate emotions and apply a thick layer of reality to it (generally along the lines of 'when the fuck am I going to have time to indulge in that, in amongst all these other things that I do with my time, I'd rather have the money than the thing sitting in a corner as another reminder that I have but one life to live'[0])

Also, focusing on the negatives is a choice. Bad things are to be moved on from, not to remain tethered to. (admittedly, this is incredibly variable depending on the psychological damage and susceptibility of the individual, but even so, one must always try to not let past negativity define the future).

Something I REALLY wanted, was to be able to rollerskate backwards (noticeably not a material thing, but a personal achievement / goal). Took me 18 months of monthly / weekly conscious effort and discomfort, but fuck, I can fucking do it, and look like a pro at least through an amateur's eyes. I'm telling you, that satisfaction doesn't wane! Not for me anyway. That's a fucking lifetime achievement for me, at my age, and I don't care if it would be two weeks work for a 10 year old.

[0]I've recently commented to my long-suffering better half that it feels as if we're trying to squeeze one and a half lives into one.
The detail and specificity do seem a bit more human generated to me.
Interestingly, this doesn't work on HN (and I'm glad for that). Announcements are off-topic and announcements for things that don't even exist and just want to collect emails tend to get very negative responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=concise.space
zetalyrae also correctly pointed out that much of the text is "handwritten but transcluded". Most of the code snippets that appeared in autoconf was originally written by hand and stored in reusable modules, including 100+ tests in autoconf. So overall the volume of code is still huge.

I guess it at least demonstrated the power of modularity. Almost nobody can understand it, but it still works...
I wonder if they could make the text smaller and make the contrast even lower? I don't think this passes WCAG accessibility guidelines (although I didn't check the exact size and hex color). Really disappointing that it's too difficult to read, because it looks interesting.
Little Tech has a nice human-scale, handcrafted feel to it.
I assume they've succumbed to law enforcement / money laundering pressures...
You might be in a bubble. There’s a great big world out there that doesn’t share the sentiment you see on HN.
The shutdown announcement says the shutdown was caused by "challenges during the ongoing very cold crypto-winter". Wish we had more details about that. Did the ongoing winter reduce income to make the service unprofitable ?
So there’s the answer: industry doesn’t care. Industry is all about ‘just turn off UAC, just run it all as administrator, just click to bypass the unsigned driver dialogs’ as long as it works.
The second string of NS2 is undamaged (but denied operation from the German side). In addition Russia there are several land-based pipelines from Russia to central Europe (only used for small volumes at this point - much below capacity).
Unfortunately while carbon offsetting might in theory be effective, in practice they've been proven to be.. terrible.

E.g. see here, where 90% of carbon offsets turned out to just be offsets on paper. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed...
we learn from the best https://elonmusk.today/
He's touching a current topic with the launch of Bing AI which many consider might be transformative. But yes, "we" should know better at Hacker News and separate the mud slinging from the news.
This smells suspiciously like they are having legal issues. Sad to see them go, during a hard time a decade ago I exchanged some Bitcoin change I had through their platform to make rent. Easy, anonymous and straight to my UK bank account.

I haven't kept up with the KYC laws, but no doubt it is not possible to exchange Bitcoin as if it were cash anymore.

Thankfully the new digital pound currency will revive the (black) market for Bitcoin & co. in a scale not yet seen before.
How about a smaller, more meaningful but still well-funded ML company like Anthropic
If I remember correctly their website already had disclaimers not to keep money in their wallets long term because it's meant for temporary storage only, and they charged interest on any funds just sitting there to discourage people from doing it.
Difference being in some countries they are unable to hide or criminalize sharing information on their hypocrisy — unlike the UK, which is not for the people, by the people.

Ignorance is bliss.
Lol.. “Mobile app now available”
And? The US used some heinous propaganda in its invasion of Iraq too - should we be holding Americans to the same standards?

Media Propaganda is not nearly equivalent to official state policy.
If I have 20% FF users and 70% chromium users, then I shouldnt deploy a feature which will serve those 70% and wait who knows how long till FF catches up?

Wtf.
I've always compared it to a sports car without a steering wheel. Yes it'll go fast, but you kinda have to wait for it to accidentally point in the right direction and then floor it. Meanwhile everyone on the outside is going "what the heck is this guy waiting for? he's got a fast car, the engine is running, just go."
When building own software and apps there always stands a question. Shall I use a ready-made solution like an SDK or API or shall I develop my own custom component? What approach would be more beneficial in the long run? What do I need to take into account to make the right choice?
>I want to leave tech, here are some alternatives I’ve considered

>all tech roles