skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a_bonobo.... I think you're digging in the right vein here, but to perhaps to make the point clearer we could separate the discussion into two:

In an AI laden world

1) How are artists relevant

2) How are artists fairly compensated

I believe the answer to 1) is as you say, simply in the word 'new'. AI functionally remixes toward a mean. You can improve the impression of this with exquisite sources or more nuanced algorithms, but the result is always, literally, average.

I believe that an artist works out of an authentic story that is much more than the sum of their influences, and is uniquely their own. This story is the value proposition that is offered to an appreciant - it is an expression of identity that rises above the noise, and that can be joined. Mechanisms of payment have changed with the gyrations of technology, culture, and power since the concept of 'art' was birthed. But as long as there is a distinctive story in an artist's work, I believe there will always be a path to compensation.
The vast majority of use cases for databases are trivial. For every esoteric, optimized to the max, bleeding edge kernel parameter tuned environment, you have 10,000+ CRUD apps that do little more than primary key look ups on vanilla btree indexes.
I have rarely seen a CEO speak so candidly about their company in public. Kudos for doing that.

You are drinking koolaid, though. Look at the comments. A lot of them are spot on.
Actually I think I use gradient descent in a lot of situations.

Consider the act of adding salt to chicken broth for example but I can quite easily think of dozens of other things.
Ousterhout developed RSI in the mid 1990’s and started programming with Dragon Dictate.

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php

About 15 years later, Tavis Rudd developed his system to program by voice.

https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

Now here we are a decade, or 3 decades, later. Damn, the future sure is taking its time.
If it's anything from JetBrains, enable power save mode (ctrl+shift+a → power save mode → enter), it will get you 90% there with a single "button".
You’re saying we should judge things on their substance as a whole, and not by superficial details?

Persuasive! I wonder if we could apply that insight to any other field of endeavor…
Exactly. GMO seeds are a best case for patent protection, in the same league as new drugs.
So, the elegant way to solve this would be to use an Elm i18n library and just use ports to get the users region instead of formatting every single string.

I understand that it is hard for a software developer to accept that these things need to be reimplemented, but it also seems to be a natural consequence of "up-typing" an entire eco system.

I studied formal techniques for PL. A large portion of the work was in reimplementing existing things in Coq, HOL, etc. Not particularly interesting, but necessary to reach a mature ecosystem.

I do undestand that this makes it a no-go for a lot of people until these things have been implemented. This is also natural.
A company is trying to map America’s cell networks using mail trucks
No I don't, but I do have uMatrix with scripts not loaded by default. So that might be it.
Kubernetes does not innovate in the Area of Storage. In fact it does not even adopt any interesting concepts from HPC.

Each database container is attached to a single disk volume and they are not fungible.

There are ways of moving beyong this model, but you have to innovate at the API layer.

For example Microsoft Service Fabric, has reliable collections and queues. Its a single Dictionary and queue accessible by your application that is partitioned and replicated with your application. It scales with your application and always writes to local disk.

Why I am unsure of merits of this implementation, I imagine we need something like that to trully have good approach to databases in the new paradigme

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/servi...
That's exactly what i do with FreeBSD and Poudriere.

I have a hetzner server that compiles ~all packages (ports) 24x7, optimized and customized for home and the business machines (Laptops, Servers(x64 and arm64), Workstations and jail-templates(x64 and arm64)) for two FreeBSD versions 12.x and 13.x RELEASE.

Then on the machines i point the pkg-repo to it (the hetzner-server) and install it as binary pkg's ala ArchLinux.
That's a very good point. I love the "the best solution to your problem is to realise you don't have a problem" mindset.
Google Cloud seemed to be in a forever beta state. It was not uncommon to find out that the sdk version I was using was no longer working so I had to update it and of course the new version had different flags with different configuration files. Just a like start-up/beta product. The worst part was if you got caught in a locked-in/proprietary product(i.e google datastore) because there was no way to get out without massive costs(i.e you can't install google datastore on a compute instance)
pandas.read_csv() says hi - https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_csv...
Agree. Most obvious example being people’s self evaluation of attractiveness relative to their evaluation of another person’s attractiveness. That said, pretty easy to tell if someone humble, pragmatic, etc — just by engaging them.
You aren't hearing me acknowledge those things because I have not agreed to enter into a relationship with you where you coach me, or frankly one where you have any involvement in my personal life whatsoever. I am not interested in having that with you, so please do not presume.

This is a forum for hackers and entrepreneurs. You are an entrepreneur who has run a string of dating startups. I am informing you about the preferences which exist in this market. You believe these preferences to be wrong. I think there may be business advantage for you in recognizing that those preferences are real and not wrong.
I can't conceive where this would be useful, could you expand on this?
So, your objection to patents is that they are enforced when violated?
> And generally my answer to all of that or both go and python is be consistent to yourself and to the codebase.

That's nice but not everybody thinks that way, and when the project gets big enough inconsistencies get introduced everywhere so there is no way to be "consistent with the codebase" unless you impose consistency via a style guide (and ideally a linter, so reviewers don't have to be the one performing style checking)
You nailed it.

The same goes with coding. SO and github are good. Everything else is pretty much garbage.
If you’re in wartime, microwave oven door safety interlocks are out the window.

The mesh of the door can be simply cut out, or the interlock microswitches pressed down with dowels or tape.

The article you linked shows that there’s frequency drift over time with a microwave, and that different magnetrons have different spectrum profiles.
I run into the same issue you do, and I just paste interesting links into Apple’s notes app since it’s convenient to use across my devices.

Personally I’ve found it useful to just scroll through it time to time to refresh my memory on what I’ve read/watched/listened to.

Maybe not the most ideal or fancy solution, but it works well for me, even as my note has gotten longer and longer.
For me the most interesting thing was that generally Republican men and women are measurably more satisfied then their Democratic counterparts.

Is it because Republicans generally value family values and staying in stable relationships more?

Also another interesting thing is Gen Z relying on Friendships rather than online dating to find their partners.
I think we have a generation fed up with algorithms and how shallow online partner selection can be.
I see others have already mentioned software I use for categorisation, i.e. Google Keep, Obsidian. If you like bookmarks and/or you want to organize and tag yours, I've recently found raindrop.io
Yeah, I feel way too many people mistake "we can't cover 100% of everything" with "it's not worth tightening the bolts". Strange conflation but a very common one indeed.
Their clickbait-optimized recommendation engine is still a major problem, though.

The main landing page is such a shitshow. The feeling sticks to you no matter what after that.
I'd like something like a long-form Mastodon server, with a way to organize content with keywords kind of like Drupal's taxonomy tree (keywords can be arranged in trees, and tags produce feeds of articles, so an article tagged with a specific tag also shows up in the more abstract tag feeds).

https://www.drupal.org/project/taxonomy_tree

It would also need to be useful for posting high resolution cat pictures and videos (or whatever), to replace Flickr. Mastodon shrinks and clips images, and I don't know how to make it a large full sized stream of image posts. Is that possible somehow, or is there a special version of Mastodon oriented towards photography or simply cloning the best parts of Flickr?

And it should not only make it easy to embed youtube and other videos, but also easily publish and incrementally enhance time-synchronized multimedia and link enriched transcripts and commentary on videos, with synchronized time scrolling and searching.

Maybe even a time based discussion tree that starts by importing the chat transcripts of live broadcasts, and lets you reply to the real time comments with later comments, and insert now top level comments later at particular points in time (or segments of time).
i just want to program some cool shit
https://old.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_we...

Loads fine.
Would an Ai large language model that interacts successfully with the live coding debugging environment to capture a software bug and render it harmless until the programmer returns be an innovation worth having everywhere?
It can't be proof of ownership if it's all of those things because ownership is decided by eg judges and not what's written in a random database somewhere.
Is there a shortage of alcohol?
The Art of Futuring
I don't really understand what people want out of these LLMs.

You deliberately and specifically ask for an essay representing the beliefs of a specific conspiracy theorist, and you get it. OK, that seems correct, but this is presented as a problem. Is it that we're supposed to want to create a world where people are not even allowed to read false information when they ask for it?
Some of those maps show the original Zork that ran in 256K of 36-bit words.
Novel phishing campaign takes screenshots ahead of payload delivery
And note that this farmer would not have successfully obtained glyphosate resistant plants just by spraying his field, in the absence of the contamination. If it were that easy, GMOs wouldn't have been necessary in the first place.
its also a really soft take. i prefer peter thiel's recent address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4rc7npiXQ
I read most of Paul Graham's essays and the core theories I associate with him are:

1: As a founder it is more important to be competent and productive than to seem competent and productive.

2: It is an advantage to trust your own competence and ignore common practices.

3: It is better to build something for real users than for imaginary users.

4: A great product is more valuable than great marketing.

They still ring true with me. But maybe I am biased and just remember the thesis that I agree with.
No fruit juice then.
Get Zork instead of Dungeon. It's closer... it is the original concept.
Normally I use this one https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/pxlet-book... After installing it, when you browse a webpage, you can right click and find the bookmark option on the menu.
Just wait until some ML produces a half convincing Frozen 5, 6, 7, 8.
This is when the big guns from Disney come out...
My hope is that someday people will be able to open bank accounts and transfer money online without revealing their deadname to the bank, having it shoved in their face in bank websites and emails and phone calls, and doxxed to everybody sending them payments for purchases, or even a $1 donation over Ko-Fi.
Code style and code formatting introduce so much friction in modern .NET and Java development teams, that despite any advantage these might have due to their ecosystem maturing, it's more efficient and sane to avoid these languages altogether.
" [...]

2.5.4 Decision

Avoid mutable global state."

This style guide touches both pros and cons then states the decision.
I always roll my eyes, when I see some "documentation" like that. Usually such a community has some overly strict pre-commit hooks you are supposed to use and tons of tooling as well, but the quality of documentation is still bad. Then people lean back and think, that they have good documentation now.
I also started about that time and left it about 2 years ago. I've only reinstalled once during that time. But even on stable portage version these blocks are hell. Especially when you don't feel like toying with it for like a year and then it turns out that upgrade process requires packages versions which are not in the portage anymore etc.

With all but the most popular hardware you are pretty much on your own. It usually drops down to getting some debian drivers and understanding your system. It's all doable, but it's time consuming.

Still I don't think any distribution comes close to being so well organized and nice overall. It seems to take security seriously. It's just too bad that it became so unpopular. It's really hard to use it to a full potential without becoming a contributor nowadays. Which is fine if that's what you want to do but there are times when you want your OS to be your tool not your hobby. With more popularity it could be a very productive tool.
In Linux you can use xsel to grab the url and put it in a tagger using one shortcut, then add tags or comments.

As you can see, the harder part is using what you have tagged. If you have a custom menu that you do searches with, it can show matches, and if you keep a history of searches then more frequently used links can be seen first.

You can do all sorts of things with tag hierarchies and other stuff that a browser won't do, so tagging is often saner than thinking of how to make hierarchies using folders in a browser.
You can always expand AI as "Artificial Idiocy"
Genuine question. Isn’t HN what you are looking for then? What else would you need from a blog?
> But then compiling everything seemed so wasteful in terms of CPU time and power in the end.

Is there a solution to cache the build artefacts and/or share them between a fleet of machines?

(inb4 nix)
Main issue I see with advice given is that it’s focused more on identifying list of potential context to launch instead of acknowledging that every new cohort based on a significant change to a product or service is potentially a new launch and that compiling various reasons to launch is generally meaningless. Said another way, every new significant variation based on real customer feedback is your next MVP (minimal viable product) with the goal of reaching PMF (product market fit) — where PMF is ultimately the true MVP.
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Qdrant (https://qdrant.tech) is an open-source vector search database. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more.

We are looking especially for DevOps engineers to build our cloud solution. The company is incorporated in Berlin; the team is working remotely.
wonder if there is an estimate to quantify what “eventual” means as a function of the variables of a peer ecosystem … e.g., the number of nodes, the frequency of updates, etc. …
Yep I do the same. From time to time, I move all my bookmarks to my notes, adding a title as a description, and removing useless bookmarks. I use a classification.
It helps keep the bookmarks somewhere and kind of organised, but is very hard to search for.
Nice - another Elsevier paywall-ed article ...
So we can expect conflicting advice and maybe even some backpedaling in a few days?
Inform6 it's very powerful. You define the actions objects, and it does it very well by default. Objects have atributes (openable, stackable, decoration...lots of them) and you can even set the library messages on these actions after being done (or before).
My personal solution to this is YAGNI. In very rare situations I visit chrome://history and search, if it is only a couple of days old.

But I do sorta like the idea you hint at, of a 1 click "add to my web" with its own personal webcrawler. I'd give it a try.
I use a self hosted instance of the Shaarli bookmark manager : https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/
Neither is life, it eventually kills you.
If it is emitting its value by light, as you move away or closer to it, it's value will shift up/down (red/blue shift), and it's rate of 'ticking' will change up/down. You can't prove that something far away happened in the past or the future using your construction.
Platinum-gold alloy is the most wear-resistant metal in the world
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201802...
Source: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
You couldn't really play any games from the 80's without graph paper. To get anywhere beyond the house in Zork you needed to map out where all the paths in the game were. Same thing for Bard's Tale II (one of my favs). Generations of kids sat in front of their old Commodores making maps (and I guess some of us with art talents made them better).
Is the gender equity theory of fertility a cope?
I agree with you, but read what I said again and understand I'm not suggesting dating friends of friends or known social circles.

You need to date kind of "anonymously" (to avoid exactly what you are talking about), but with people that have similar interests. So in short form I'm talking about meeting up with people of similar hobbies or interests (rock climbing, board gaming, going to raves, whatever)
> That time has past, and now having humans in the team only make the AI worse.

Making human-AI teams win sounds like a new challenge where AI could contribute.
I was baffled to see this outrage leak into my feed. I follow some developer accounts and several tech and nature related hashtags, but people keep boosting the posts related to this story. It’s a shame, I hoped that Mastodon would offer a good place for discussion between humans, and not the Twitter-like experience.

With regards to the game itself, it is impossible to find any objective information about gameplay or performance online, and all the usual tech publications, including gaming subreddits and forums are either boycotting it or published scathing non-reviews. Any over what?! Looking at the player stats on Steam, the game is enjoying a massive popularity. I think it might be the first time a media product was too big for the outrage crowd to cancel
Why Elon would have fired me
When he bought Twitter, Elon Musk asked programmers to print their recent code contributions and basically fired the ones who had the fewest pages to show for. Quantifying the work of a programmer is tricky, but it will never be about the number of lines you wrote. Let me tell you why.
Yes, distcc. But builds are a pleasure with so many cores nowadays, there's also niceness options so even on the old machines you didn't need to suffer.
Norway: large hydro resources, low population.
Costa Rica: 80% hydro.
Scotland: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-56530424 says that renewable met 97% of energy demand, which does not mean that clean electricity was produced when it was needed in Scotland. Considering that this means the country could run at 97% of its production potential with only RE is what I consider "creative accounting". (the article does not lie but interpreting it that way is mistaken).
Uruguay: only 31% hydro, that's more interesting.
New Zealand: 55% hydro, 13% geothermal.

So except for Uruguay (which does look interesting), most countries mostly use renewable dispatchable sources which are perfect. But not all countries have the hydro potential / population ratio of Norway. We should use hydro as much as we can but we are limited by geography; once everything that can be used is we are stuck with nuclear, wind or solar.
Maybe Uruguay could be an example of country that manages somehow with mostly solar/wind; I need to look into it. Thank you.
> To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption. The new WHO statement clarifies: currently available evidence cannot indicate the existence of a threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol “switch on” and start to manifest in the human body.

The headline is not accurate it looks like. The article states that we don’t know if occasional drinking is harmful. And it makes sense we don’t know, because you can’t do an effective longitudinal study where you compare very light drinking to no drinking because the expected effect size is small and all the confounders will muddy the water.

Toasted bread and cinnamon are carcinogenic but I can’t imagine a WHO headline asserting that “no amount of cinnamon is safe for your health”.
How would LLM revolutionize everyday life?
I mean the key problem is surely that most readers don't want to pay to read blogs, so you can't really fund a large business from it. Medium has 180 employees apparently, which tbf is less than I expected. But still, it's a very simple site. Really it should be "finished" and running on like 50 employees at the most. You could then probably find it by relatively reasonable advertising instead of paywalls. Or potentially charge authors for features like image hosting.
There’s a ton of other things you need to fix.

As a writer, seeing random people (bots?) highlight my article to death, making it essentially illegible, was a show-stopper for me.
Which is a good language for the web
Also relatively easy to spot hosts like this if you know how — though platform oddly doesn’t actively ban users doing this.

Honestly, I don’t think a lot of users understand how potentially dangerous some online services are or for that matter, how to manage or recognize risks; not to mention platforms generally hide their risks, since it impacts user engagement.
I have submitted PRs to Github repos that had proper, strict code review in place. That was as closest I've gotten to code mentoring
Your refutation to this is he was born in 1959? That refutes what part?

Was he politically involved during the Vietnam War, atound Vietnam issues? Yes. Enough so that the Times wrote an article about that specific nine years ago https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-vietnam-protester-to-h... .

So what else in his age makes it not a small thing? That he cooperated with the American intelligence community back then? If he was some random teenager I guess it would be no random thing. However, his father was defense minister of this NATO country. Him spying on the student peace movement and relating details to his father and whoever his father had dealings with is the accusation. He certainly did a complete about face on the US military - or did he? Maybe this was his inclination from the beginning.

Incidentally NATO had a massive intelligence operation against the Norwegian student anti-NATO movement which was in the papers a few years ago.

I'm sure you had no clue the papers talked about his importance as a supposed anti-Vietnam activist years ago. I'm sure you had no idea his father was defense Minister of a NATO country. You're attempting to "discredit" the article by seeing a date, knowing none of these details, and deciding it discredits the article.
> Newfoundland

Labrador, where’s the station was located, is a lot less densely populated than Newfoundland.
I upped the niceness years ago and barely notice that updates are running nowadays.
Saving you a click: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...