skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well even if you disregard ideologies, just the legislations that are in place influence what the center of a position could be.

For example in my country our right wing government had made good on a right wing promise to increase the maximum highway speed from 120kph to 130kph.

Some years later however it turned out that the presence of highways contributed to dangerous levels of nitric oxides (edited from nitrogen) in the air and a judge forced that same administration to reduce the maximum speed from 130kph to 100kph.

Now legislation (and reality) has changed a right wing position from being "disregard the environment, prioritise economy and increase the speed" to "disregard health, prioritise economy and increase the speed". The same position was basically transformed into a more extreme position due to the circumstances changing.

I imagine that same thing holds for many topics. It sure feels a lot more extreme to advocate gun regulation when doing so in opposition of school shooting victims. I generally support the idea of gun ownership, but the shootings definitely forced me to have a more nuanced opinion that shifted my position from the conservative side to the progressive side.
Currently in the throes of stepping back my career dramatically as I realise two things:

1. I genuinely miss working alongside people (6+ years now of hybrid but mostly remote working) and by that I mean actually working things out together rather than either being expected to know, learn solo, or book people's time to learn from them

2. the pressure of delivering the best of everything in an ultra-competitive tech space

Currently applying for jobs 1/3 my salary from last year, having already taken a step back to a role 2/3 my salary and still not able to take the pressure. Hoping I find peace in being "ok" in an "ok" job so I can focus on living life again.

Edit:
Inspired by the original post - I've kicked off my own:
https://heathworks.medium.com/im-quitting-tech-kinda-chapter...
COL varies enormously in the US and yet even LCOL salaries are much higher than in the EU. I don't think COL is that useful when comparing salaries globally.
Well a point of evidence that disputes this: homosexual men have larger penis sizes on average than heterosexual men [1].This is the opposite of what you'd expect if EDC's are decreasing testosterone and increasing homosexuality.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10410197/
Just to prevent inevitable confusion, SystemV filesystem is different than SystemV init which you may be thinking of. SysV init isn't part of the kernel and while it's been replaced with systemd in many distributions, it's not impacted by this change.
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The Drone War in Ukraine Is Cheap, Deadly, and Made in China
> That's about enough to conclude all this doesn't mean much.

You list a common confounder, then skip over the section that says 5/6 studies that have none of these confounders find a decline. That's a fairly important followup.

> However, Auger identify six (of their original seventy) studies that they say are extremely well done and suffer from none of these potential confounders. They say five of the six still show declining sperm counts, and believe that the effect might be real (they say there is no evidence it is global rather than limited to these five regions but I think if an effect happens in five regions, and there is only one region where it is not happening, it is fair to wonder whether it represents a broader trend). I interpret their conclusions as very cautiously pro-decline-hypothesis (Fisch remains against).
jfc go look at a population chart that's broken down by country. If you think the idea of overpopulation is scary just wait until you're living in a world where you can't get your basic needs met because there aren't enough people to do all the specialized and non-specialized jobs that keep society running. Oh and by the way, you'll be in the most vulnerable group by then too so enjoy being forgotten about in the scramble.
Generalizing over the entirety of Europe is not useful, the countries and political positions are too diverse for that.

And at least in Germany I don't see anyone questioning universal healthcare. There are of course discussions on the details, but nobody is trying to abolish it. And while there are inefficiencies, the US health care system is even less efficient. So we would not save any money by making our system worse.
I hope this is humor. I really do.
You can’t compare salaries without also comparing cost of living. Which is significantly cheaper in many of the cities listed vs SV.

Also there already is a standardised EU currency. It’s even named after the EU: “Euro”.
The emphasis is more on the brute force. These testing tools are for a concrete method with concrete data structure (if not just one property) - so the "finding something I don't expect" does not apply.
I'd like to stress test the a system on highly unreliable data, from the too witty parses to the to the electrical thingies, like memtests bitpatterns.
Yes, I can unit test what I know, but in addition I want to know what I don't know:)
could you make a code example?
> So I might as well stay with my 8-year-old 5S and be done with it.

Have you evaluated the iPhone SE, currently in its third incarnation?
In my experience (from exams allowing full access to computers and the Internet (for information retrieval, not communication with other people)) you need to memorise the most important concepts and patterns anyway, or you will be too slow during exams. YMMV.
I absolutely love this. Thank you.
One data point is the Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) [0] experience in the UK military during Operation HERRICK [1], a.k.a. the Afghan campaign. The UK's military acquisition is notoriously glacial but when soldiers started dying because they didn't have the right kit a lot of things were suddenly acquired extremely quickly, for example electronic countermeasures against IEDs, new drones, body armour and a whole range of vehicles that massively reduced crew vulnerability to IEDs. The speed of delivery was partly achieved by cutting the red tape around acquisition, e.g. by not requiring competitive tendering if a 'good enough' already product existed in the market.

This strategy itself created problems for long-term through-life support of a suddenly incoherent vehicle fleet but in turn increased motivation to develop standardised vehicle architectures [2] to allow faster modular upgrades.

This approach isn't going to suddenly deliver a new type fighter aircraft in the timescales of a hot war with China, but it does demonstrate that at least one NATO acquisition system could be speeded up a bit. A current example that is being worked at the moment is how to ramp up supplies of artillery and missiles for supply to Ukraine.

[Edit] Things more generally have slowed down again, e.g. as evidenced by the UK's (failed and cancelled) Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme, a disastrous attempt to upgrade the British Army's primary armoured infantry fighting vehicle.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/standing-commitments

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-forces-operations-in-afghanis...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Vehicle_Architecture

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_tracked_armoured_vehic...
I think what the parent was trying to communicate (and what I'm thinking as well) is doubting your premise in 1. ("the model must be thinking beyond the next token").

Rephrase "The model is good at picking the correct article for the word it wants to output next" to "After having picked a specific article, the model is good at picking a follow-up noun that matches the chosen article". Nothing about the second statement seems like an unlikely feat for a model that only predicts one word at a time without any thinking ahead about specific words.
It's like imagining that a novelist is going to write a character so well that they will literally jump off the page.

That a magician will create an illusion so amazing that it will not just fool all who see it but the magician as well - that the road to actual magic is better and better slight of hand.
Air is mostly nitrogen, and that isn't dangerous.
I use an in-browser typescript loader (no type checking, just stripping definitions -> ~10x faster than tsc), fast enough for most personal projects I do recently
SS7 protocol is still vulnerable even though it's known since at least 2014 that it can be used (and has been in wild) for man-in-the-middle attacks. And we're talking of one of the core protocols of every cellular network in the world.

Security (and especially infra-sec) unfortunately just doesn't keep up with the real world challenges that well...
Sentimental “Education”
> * You think to be friends you need people with the same hobbies and interests.

At least in that point there is some truth to it. What activities will you engage in with people, if you do not share hobbies or interests? Activities will be quite limited, unless you discover some shared interest or hobby. Maybe your shared interest will be once a week sitting in a café and talking about your job. As long as it is a shared interest, you got at least something to do with the other person.

Socialization in many countries around the world is still very much having strong bias for men and women roles and interests. Without high awareness of this, it is also very difficult for parents to do anything about this. Children are usually not 24/7 with their parents either. They spend a lot of time in other institutions like kindergarden and school, where they usually face a mainstream bias.

This means, that quite often there is a trend for men and women to also have different hobbies and interests. There is of course overlap in many areas, but not everywhere. It is slowly changing, but it will still take a long time. Just to give examples:

When I studied CS, only 10% were women. Looking at biology and psychology for example, we have almost the opposite situation.
I think some Italian Computer Museum still has some machines available over SSH.
> I'm using an "Unified Kernel Image" directly through the EFI boot-manager.

I just recently switched all of my Arch boxes to this setup. The first was so I could enable Secure Boot on that machine, the rest just because it felt so much simpler and cleaner than Grub. Actually, the last one just stopped booting entirely with Grub but worked just fine with UKI.

> You can have more than one UKI around. You can, for example, have even one with a whole recovery system included in the initrd part!

Same! I was considering writing up how to do this for the Arch wiki since it’s handy and I couldn’t find any complete guides.
You didn't list any reasons why humans aren't algorithms, so I can't see it as anything other than rejecting that view a priori.

You reasoning completely breaks down if we accept that we've already given rights to algorithms (=humans) since the invention of rights.
Journalist “unsettled” after conversation with Bing
python runtime is great. bites back with the dependency versioning though
I don’t think comparing salaries globally is that useful per se. But it’s even less useful if you don’t factor in exchange rates and cost of living.
> As far as deployment, do you mean like how we came to build this? Or like how you'd actually deploy it...? Because that's really up to the program being built imo

I mean that deployment of Erlang code on a BEAM cluster is pretty simple, iirc. I wonder if you have a solution that handles that part as conveniently as Erlang/Elixir/BEAM.
Those in Europe, or better in England, may pop into the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge:
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

Nice place, I like it.
A favourite of mine is the wall sized CPU, The Megaprocessor.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43063/The-Megaproces...

They will have a Made in Japan season this spring! : )
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/70465/Made-in-Japan-S...
It is really great to finally see no build web development gaining traction. Ever since the death of IE there has been an opportunity for dramatic simplification of the web dev stack that is unserved by the major frameworks.

I did a talk about the topic of no build web apps recently. The slides are here for anyone interested: https://1drv.ms/p/s!ArEoTVF2ayv3lJg4oECZk2h5eN3I3Q

In preparation for that talk I’ve also adapted create react app’s default project into a no build template, including a variant with routing. That can be found in github:
https://github.com/jsebrech/create-react-app-zero
For something like SystemV filesystem support to be truly useful, won't we need a way to format drives using the original implementations?

If we just create the filesystem using the Linux driver, and validate it using the same driver, then what is achieved exactly? For preservation we'd still need access to Xenix systems and a drive of some sort that can be moved between the old system and a more modern computer.

I suppose disk images could be used, but that still seems like only a partial solution.
The united states are not so united that they'd be repeating the same lie from multiple studies/measurements. Also, to the benefit of whom?
If you drive like everyone is trying to kill you, which they definitely are, then whether it's FSD or another idiot makes no difference to you.
I agree, Mozilla has been on a very weird path since then.

Not sure Eich would have made a positive difference though. Brave's main claim to fame is that they took Chromium and added an ad blocker. At the same time, they dabble(d?) in injecting ads and crypto, to just name the shady things I know about.

I suppose there just isn't much money in building a non-compromising browser, and Mozilla is struggling with this pretty publicly.
I remember using the Minix filesystem on floppies. ext{,2} was a bit too heavyweight for a floppy. And UMSDOS on my MS-DOS6.22/Wfw3.11 FAT16 partition. And HPFS so I could mount my OS/2 2.0 partition (EMX on the Hobbes OS/2 CD-ROM was my gateway drug to Linux.)

xiafs sounded intriguing, but I never actually used it.

Of all the filesystems currently in the mainline Linux kernel, the most useless (surely) must be BFS (not BeFS) – https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/filesystems/bfs.html
Corporations are treated as legal persons to the degree that not doing so what deprive actual persons of their rights. Exxon doesn't have a right to free speech it's just that we can't deprive someone of their free speech rights because they work at Exxon.
What forced me to understand more fundamentals was actually studying leetcode. It led me to learn more about data structures, things like itertools, and other other algorithms.

Combined with a good book (eg learn python the hard way) it’s an approach that worked for me.
>It's like NIH maximalism.

UNIX was not an option for most people which is one of the reasons why NT killed the Unix workstation market and Microsoft software like IIS, MS SQL and Exchange was already established when Linux gained mainstream adoption.
I'm not quite sure I'm following you, sorry.

> Did I create a second consciousness in my mind called ChatJ? Or where does it live?

If you executed the same computation that would give rise to consciousness in another substrate, then I would argue you created consciousness, yes.
I don't think that consciousness is a thing you could point at but it's a property of this kind of computation. In the same way that "addition" does not live anywhere but is a property of a specific computation.

> And I obviously made it cry, who did I abuse here?

You didn't make it cry - the textual output just stated so. But if we had reason to believe that you induced a state of suffering here, you would have abused this instance of consciousness. And I don't think it's off track to think about the ethical implications of this, then.

By the way, I don't argue that ChatGPT is conscious or has emotional states. My argument is a general one.
I regularly get spam notifications from major/famous iOS apps. It's always an instant uninstall for me.

IIRC this used to be against Apple App Store rules but I guess they got relaxed for spamming existing customers.

Fastest way to lose me as a customer, TBH, is to disrespect my fiercely-guarded attention span with prompts to spend money while I'm busy being focused on making it.
Changing packaging is complicated, so we change the way we procreate? I must have missed the /s somewhere.

I have better solution. Don't let market forces dictate everything. Optimizing for the price does not work everytime.

Go back to inert/non-toxic materials (glass, paper, wax), or find new ones. Abolish poisons and plastics in our food chains.
But then is the heat also increasing in this linear fashion as the sperm count decrease?
The post has no methods section. So we have no clue what their data was, how they gathered it, how representative it was... nothing. I didn't find this particularly useful. Surely there is a group out there who's done a high quality (and ongoing) survey with reliable data on this.
man lsof
He exited OpenAI a long time ago, when something didn't go his way.

Now it's mostly Microsoft and Altman.
Do you have any more quotes from the left wing comedian Stephen Colbert?
I think what he meant to say was that "My reality has a left wing bias"
Missing a bunch of quotes.

“Journalist” “unsettled” after “conversation” with Bing.

It isn’t a simple conversation, it went on for two hours. Bing is search, even with ChatGPT bolted on. That the “conversation” might go off the rails by then is no surprise.

But what do you expect from a “journalist.”

That’s better than this “article” talking about the original piece. Which is here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-m...
Maybe one of these days all filesystems will be moved to FUSE, and Linux will have evolved from a monolithic kernel into a microkernel

Yes, yes, FUSE performance is nothing to write home about – but some people seem to think that io_uring might solve that. L4 is evidence that, in principle, the right microkernel design can perform about as well as monolithic kernels can
But what would "rectified" look like? Autism isn't entirely separable from the things that I think make me the person I am.
Well, since this post includes the UK saying "all the countries in this post use Euros" is plain wrong.

I think COL in itself matters far less than people think. COL difference is certainly not proportional to salary difference.

I don't think this is specifically for EU readers either. I think it's aimed at a global audience since they use USD and mention US roles as well as their data on EU roles.
Who knows, maybe the general AI and the robotics to enable it can't come sooner (This is sarcasm and I do not think we should worry, to be clear).
To me this is really getting at the problem in using the Turing test. You end up with articles like this that having a hard time surviving casual scrutiny.

Unless of course this thing was written by ChatGPT. If that's the case I'll be re-thinking the issue.
I don't really mind that they added a new interface for viewing short videos. Buy what I don't like is that when I get linked to the new player it is lacking tons of features for no apparent upside (you can work around this by manually fixing the URL) and your can't play then via Chromecast (but old vertical videos not tagged #shorts work perfectly fine).

Sure, add a browser for short vertical videos. But don't ruin the existing experience for no reason.
I had the weirdest experience recently. A tech stack with IIS on the front, Linux in the middle and MSSQL on the back.

I still don't get it.
Maybe the self-hosted is planned but I was just going on this line which uses the managed service: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...
This is all one big ad hominem
I have a bit of difficulty trying to understand what ASD means for such individuals as adults. If one is highly intelligent one can just spend time studying people to determine how they respond to situations. I don't really grasp why understanding people is any different from analyzing any other kind of system.

I wonder how many ASD diagnoses are made just because someone never learnt social skills properly due to circumstances or lack of effort/interest.
I really like Lit. It makes you in most cases write better reusable components, though you should still check all the properties to see if they are too reliant on some property.

We started using it because we knew it could be embedded into any other framework, we are using two others in the company. But are starting to use it for SPA also. Glad to see it growing quickly.

Thinking about possibly reworking our SPA to use Phoenix LiveView most of the abstractions are there already.
But then why is it less pronounced in the US? It doesn't seem random.
Converting Cloud Provider Regions into Country Flags
Something I'd be curious about is the empiric difference between groups.

Like religious people seem to have "no problem" having 5-10 kids in the US while seemingly every secular couple is going for fertility treatment.

I don't know if this is just how it seems, but it seems that way!
I'll take literally any country in Europe, the Balkans (where I'm from, a tiny poor shithole for lack of a better word) included over S'pore any day of the week.

I lived there for a while, and I could go the rest of my life without ever even thinking of stepping foot into that depressing hole of a country again. These cute stats people like to throw around are nice and all in theory, but actually living there is a whole other story.

Maybe things have changed in the last 7 years since I last lived there, but I very much doubt it.
You will always have tech debt, it's a matter of degree. Of course, you have to feel what the best ratio is for your project, which is highly dependent on circumstances, but you definitely want as little tech debt as possible.

But what does capitalism have to do with anything?
I hope this doesn’t affect DuckDuckGo
The simplest known forms of life - simple bacteria and archea are extremely complex. They have hundreds of different proteins, RNA, DNA, membranes, interacting in a million different ways. Humankind has been able to create multi-gigahertz processors, H bombs, complicated software systems, but not artificial living being from scratch.

It looks like there were bacteria on Earth just a few hundred million years after the planet formed a solid surface. On other hand next major steps in evolution - like eucariots and multi-cellurality took billions of years. Either early life evolution was extremely fast or life originated elsewhere and had much more time to evolve into bacteria and archea.

One panspermia hypothesis is life originated on Mars. It has a lot of iron, and iron catalysis a lot of the chemical reactions that probably made early life. Mars formed a solid surface about a billion years earlier than Earth. Also early on it had a magnetic field, that could protect a thicker athmosphere, that would allow for the existance of seas and oceans. So potentially life originated on Mars, took a billion years to evolve into bacteria/archea, which made the jorney to earth on pieces of rock, displaced by an asteroid impact (a lot of Marsian rocks fall down on Earth).