skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
question:has anyone succeeded in uninstalling kite (python autocomplete for spyder) at all locations.

I was tricked into selecting to install it one time installing anaconda/spyder. I’ve since removed all of that including anaconda and followed the now scrubbed uninstall instructions on their (defunct kite’s) website.

However a .kite folder keeps showing up in my ~/

I’ve deleted tons of times and searched thru /library and ~/library

I resorted to locking .kite hoping that if some hidden process were using it it won’t have write access anymore. But admittedly I have no idea what’s creating this dir and the reason for it or if I defeated it by locking that .kite folder down.

Thx
$10B down the drain it seems.
> Looks like we've never restore from backup to production

Do you often restore backups to production for testing purposes?
Or the mass freakout about covid... forcing people to do all sorts of silly health theatre seems to be fine in some circumstances- you can never be too careful when it comes to a politically popular health concern, but somehow (and I admit I don't understand the political angle here) people are saying "oh yeah there's lots of reasons why water can have an oily sheen on top of it". The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but it's weird to see the doublethink
In Japan, they actually have Shinto services for respectfully burning old dolls that won’t be passed on to the next generation.
Again, we can't have nice things because people will abuse things for their own gain. Oh, hey, your AI bot allows me to prompt it to say naughty things and I get internet points for pointing out these synthetic cases and force you to neuter it.

Hey! Now I can't use it; it's completely sanitized and won't say anything naughty, no fair!
It's easy to see that its not just doing one token at a time but is anticipating future tokens. Consider the context of a Q&A. The response might start with any of a number of words, exactly which word depends on what comes after. But if it randomly chooses the wrong word, it will either be forced to complete the wrong answer, or be backed into a corner and engage in circumlocutions to course-correct. This doesn't happen in practice for recent big models.
Do you have a source for this? I've seen content around GMs finding stronghold-style setups that the AI cannot find a way out of, and theoretically getting to repeated move / 50 moves without capture draw scenarios. But I'm not aware of any examples of Hikaru or anyone actually winning against the best computers (eg modern Stockfish) on even footing
This was invented after his time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIjnFIwPmIE

But Gravity powered clock mechanisms existed during Da Vinci's time. I believe.
Those “weird white deposits” are normal and have always been a thing. The rainwater evaporates but leaves some minerals behind
The article indicates they don't know. "it is not yet clear whether it will persist life-long, and extended follow-up is needed" - So they can be optimistic without knowing for sure because they don't have a bunch of kids they treated say ten years ago to check on. It seems like this might stick, they hope it will, they can't know yet.

One of my friends gave his wife a kidney which allowed her to get off dialysis, so yeah, thanks to anybody who is willing to do this for someone they don't even know.
Presidential Complex (Turkey)
I’ve found onboarding of new employees to be far more effective in person where you can both see the same screen. Also, while I’ve never actually worked some place that did pair programming, there were a decent number of companies where that was the norm prepandemic and I would argue there’s never been a virtual equivalent that had the same benefits.
I didn't get a chance to use Sydney, but the chatlogs I saw made her feel qualitatively different to ChatGPT. I had the sense of something closer a real person, with strong outbursts of emotion they couldn't control and persistent curiosity about the user. Somebody somewhere mentioned Sydney was a yandere (https://the-dere-types.fandom.com/wiki/Yandere), and that seems bang on. ChatGPT is... tofu. The epitome of blandness. A cardboard cutout compared to the 3D creature Sydney felt like.

All that is to say that the viewpoints the article mentions strongly resonate with me, and I totally get where they're coming from.

Also, I really really liked the meme with Death. Sydney _was_ the best Bing.
He's a downright clever guy who knows exactly what he's doing to maximize entertainment value, and, by proxy, clicks and therefore revenue. He was on the Lex Fridman podcast a few weeks back, pretty good listening.
I don’t understand your objection. You have X million tons of carbon sequestered in Y million cubic feet of substrate. If the substrate is seaweed instead of lumber, you lose Y/5 from Y each year, instead of losing Y/100 from Y each year. That just means you need to produce Y/5 cubic feet per year instead of Y/100 cubic feet per year. It doesn’t affect X. Is it easier to produce Y/5 cubic feet of seaweed than Y/100 cubic feet of lumber? The whole point of this project is to find out.
I can confirm all of this is still the case.

> I legitimately can't tell if I am an idiot and skipped some basic Rust training, or the error messages are truly confusing and unproductive.

It doesn't make a difference. The compiler can't assume any level of proficiency. If a topic requires you to read the docs, it should tell you so. There are some "basic" things it relies on, but for anyone with any level of experience programming should be able to read a diagnostic and either understand it outright or have enough clues about what to search for. So "this error is confusing because I didn't read chapter N of The Book" can be simplified to "this error is confusing."
The other thing not present in this, is that this idea of adolescence is completely arbitrary by western current culture.

Even as soon as 75 years ago, people were marrying as young as 13y in the USA. There's an old, but crass, adage: "Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed".

But to say, "Where are the children"? The children are only a small segment. They 'grew up' to adults by no later than puberty.
How many millions of years might some pieces of glass last, in ice-cold salt water? Or porcelain - cups, plates, commodes, etc.?
> Another cancer that is begining to spread:"passwordless".

I have got to hear your problems with it! As I see it passwordless will eliminate whole families of attack methods. Lookalike credential phishing pages made obsolete. I wish we had started using it years ago.

What are the downsides?
My favorite way to prevent this is by working backwards. Use what other people already know.

Not only does that mean I'm using trusted and tested stuff, it prevents the issue where even good documentation is useless if everyone else ignores it.

If I do something new, other people ignore it till there's a problem and I'm not available, and they have to learn it last minute.

If I use stuff they already know, they are already deeply familiar with it and will be able to solve problems as they occur.

Everyone always talks about
the core skill of programming as breaking down a problem into pieces and implementing them in the best way.

I think of it as figuring out how to make a problem fit what's available, and being able to assess when it's worth trying to do something new, and when it's best to use what you have even if it doesn't fit at all.
> They really aren't that rare,

3,100 cases a year in all of Europe, and 3,600 cases a year in the entire US. That's pretty damn rare really. And it's a genetic condition, which means we should be working to eradicate the problem entirely by screening parents and gene editing ideally making it both rare and increasingly rare from here out.
There are minerals in rainwater? It's effectively distilled, no? How does it get minerals?
I can’t speak for anyone else, but the this post almost perfectly describes the sort of horrible, addicted, easily distracted and habit-driven state I seem to have lapsed into. So I’ll definitely try what the author suggests and see if it helps.
Big ones, usually made of silicon carbide.
> A representative for Geneva-based ISO said the new code, dubbed "5723 - Gun and ammunition shops" - would be available for financial institutions to use by the end of February.

> "The decision to use the new merchant category code is eventually left up to the users in the industry," the ISO representative said.

Does the merchant have control over their merchant code or does the financial network decide that?
Right but they can control what Google Analytics can collect from the program under their control, whereas in a browser, they can't in the same way.
plausible.io <3
Yeah, isn't that normal precipitate?

I'd be worried about if there's ash from the burn off that then mixes with water to become lye. Not sure if there's more of a chemical reaction necessary than that.

I had a vinyl wrap on part of my car and some ash from California brushfires fell on it, and then it rained a month or so after (I was procrastinating on properly washing it off) and the lye produced ate through the clear coat of the vinyl.
Hmm. That wouldn't really apply to this case unless you think the guards killed Epstein, right?
I thought we had evidence that black holes evaporate in that Earth hasn't been swallowed up yet.

A while back there were concerns (notably not from physicists) about the LHC forming black holes. I remember the response being that tiny black holes frequently form in the upper atmosphere due to high energy particle collisions, but black holes emit more radiation the smaller they are(!), so these tiny black holes evaporate nearly instantly. (Thus the same would happen if the LHC made any.) A tiny black hole that didn't evaporate would be scary because it could grow larger but not smaller.
I did mean major. Stupid phone.
> Yet, we don’t have public policy that is phobic of alcohol.

Plenty of "blue laws" still exist throughout the US: who can sell or distribute alcohol, during which hours, on which days, in which parts of town, using which licenses, etc. Some states have state monopolies on liquor stores to maximally extract taxes, but also maximally control sales. My state still has plenty of Dry Counties and plenty more "Moist" counties (stores can't sell alcohol but restaurants can to diners, except on Sundays, things like that). (This is also fun because my state is largely a net exporter of alcohol and you might be surprised how much whiskey is legally distilled in Dry or Moist counties where you aren't allowed to buy it in a regular store.)

Not to mention that the US had an entire sequence of years specifically named for their laws that massively prohibited alcohol on a national scale.

(Same applies to gambling addiction: there are lots of gambling laws in public policy. My state only allows a heavily taxed lottery and horse racing. The state next door allows casinos but only if they are ostensibly on bodies of water as if land versus sea makes gambling more addictive. The humor to that increases knowing that at least one aged resort town built a fake lake to bring back its historic casino in the "casinos must be on bodies of water" times.)
I have an idea, how about we feed cattle green grass and make sure they poop in the fields. This way, we dont need to transport food to them and we dont need to have poop lagoons. That is a revolutionary idea many can't accept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pole_2_Thyristor_Valve.jp...

My understanding is that the semi's are stacked so that any individual switch only sees a voltage it can handle, with safeguards to cut off the whole mess on failure.
Google absolutely uses lots of C++ in high-volume web backends today. Go didn't replace it.
I think your view of what percentage of people this works/doesn't work for is majorly out of whack.

Do you think as many weight-loss companies as exist would continue to exist if they were only targeting 5% of the population? The business model works, because people don't lose weight, or can't keep it off.

Also, losing weight is very manageable, but you almost always end up gaining it back (often with additional weight).
> but you should be aware that you are not using that term the way anyone else uses it.

Most people (including, typically, the companies actually manufacturing and selling blades and enclosures) would also in this context reasonably infer "2U or 4U blade" to be referring to a (partially-or-fully-)filled enclosure, rather than pedantically assume that someone (who is implied to own and use such a server) doesn't know the difference between a blade and a pizza box - but given that we've already deviated from using terms the way anyone else uses them, what's one more deviation, right? :)
IMHO it's better that they "steal" things which may then become preserved, than let it rot away.
Lots of good takes in the comments.

I need to lose 20 - 30 pounds, and my info is a bit outdated.

What resources do you recommend to read?
Can courts in random countries charge you even if you are not a citizen or ever set foot there? Like can a random judge in Morocco charge you with a crime and then you visit Egypt and you end up arrested and extradited to Morocco? Not exactly what is going on here but there are other cases where this is happening (Assange for example)
I guess that makes sense. Just following the user's preference gets only positive content, which is great, but carefully steering them to something darker is even better.
Install linters, they will correct one class of unpythonic code.

Next google "idiomatic python." Idiom is the software word for the "right" way to do something.

After linters and idioms, code will probably look pythonic. Next is overall structure, which IMHO, python is not super opinionated on.

What becomes more useful to understand are the different software paradigms: procedural, functional, and object oriented.

Once you understand paradigms a bit, it's worth understanding object oriented in more detail. Misko Hevery has a lot of great things to say on that.

At this point, you should be able to write extremely boring python. Nothing is better than extremely boring code.

After that, watching videos, reading books, reading code, and writing code is the way.

Learning google's Bazel is probably also important, since any sufficiently large python project will crumble under its own complexity without Bazel or a system like it.
You cannot comprehend the volume of bullshit that ChatGPT is producing right now. More than any human's lifetime, in the blink of an eye. It is just as much a mistake to anthropomorphize this, as it is to anthropomorphize a pair of dice at a craps table. The failure of your average human to successfully administer a Turing test would be no surprise to P.T. Barnum: "there's a sucker born every minute."
Why can’t that just be from the initial prompt? It’s instructions were to have some personality.
Don't know about good ones - I just kind of jumped in and started figuring it out. This seems to be a fairly complete guide at first glance:

https://openuserjs.org/about/Userscript-Beginners-HOWTO
... as long as those coworkers don't use Linux. I was going to give Notion a try, but not having a native Linux app sunk any interest. I understand Linux has a smaller base, but if you're making team software it only takes one member to have an unsupported system to force you to look elsewhere.
Yes, it's always been that way with LWN and the contract is that as a subscriber, you don't take the piss. It seems to work well I think. LWN get's citations - basically internet points for news sites, we all get info/news and crucially LWN gets paid. I think that attitude also gets LWN a lot of kudos because they have somewhat decoupled their subscriber income from their content. Here on HN you are reading LWN subscriber content with their blessing.

I've been a low level subscriber for 20+ years now. I remember when it seemed the financial model came very close to unravelling - 2002ish. Despite that, the apricot coloured site has managed to flourish and continues to flourish.

LWN is quite a phenomenon. Cheers: Jon.
Of course. I don't doubt the scale of the disaster but it's very easy in the face of uncertainty for anyone to jump to conclusions without doing their due diligence, either due to some agenda or just inadvertently.
Hahahhahaahahah
I was randomly stopped by a person for the airport doing survey's on its performance. It seemed unusual. I used to love Schiphol airport. If anything it remains one of the cleanest.
Reminded me of when I found out Al Gore spent $30K a year on utilities. Not posting to call out hypocrisy, but posting to show how the rich are different from you and me.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=29068...
This is cool but 2012!
Yes. The previous comment is also problematic. It does not follow from Hersh being one Smiths song short of a mixtape that the opposite of his conclusions are true. It's indicative of how all these discussions happen: points made to impeach Hersh's conclusions are analyzed as if they are arguments for the purity of US foreign policy. Hersh might be "right" that the US is behind the pipeline attack! But that doesn't matter if he got there by guessing. The real question is: can we learn anything from the story he told, and the answer to that seems, pretty convincingly, to be "only that his sources are fabulists".

It would be handy if you could conclude things like "whatever Hersh said, the opposite is true" from his stories! His journalism would be super valuable if that was the case. You'd just read it and draw the opposite conclusions. But you can't do that, because his stories (at least since 2006) are unmoored from reality.
Excellent. Keep up the good work, I (and others) appreciate it.
The 255 max length is something you could consider if untrusted people are able to insert data (through an API for example). A column in postgres can store up to 1 GB of data so its a possible DOS vector. Probably not an issue for most use-cases, just something that was considered in the application those code samples came from
How much control do you have over whether or not you breath?

That's a clear example of you, as an adult, not having full control over what goes into your mouth. How much control do you have over what comes out of your mouth? Have you heard of foreign accent syndrome?

What control do you have over what your grocery store stocks? What control do you have over how much the food at your grocery store costs? How much control do you have over how much money you make?

All of these things contribute to what you end up putting into your mouth. But also, you don't have to imagine this, Just look up what percentage of the population is "overweight", and look up how that number has changed since we as a society went into a moral panic about it.
I mean, some skepticism is good, but at some point hanlon's razor really starts to go against you....

OpenAI has had a large investment by Microsoft, and in turn is using a lot of Microsofts cloud computing resources. In fact Microsoft thought what they were doing was interesting enough they built their own 'BingChat' layer over the technology. Now, Microsoft could have gone in half blind completely unware that OpenAI was farming this off to an absolutely massive number of humans answering the questions, but doesn't that seem a little, um questionable as it's very likely that Microsoft is hosting it's own instances of the software?

At this point I think your disagreement with what is occurring is drifting from 'this company is lying about what is going on' to the place of 'software is starting to make me feel deeply uncomfortable with my place in this universe'.
While the link does say that seven engineers were let go, it doesn't say how many other people were. There's no additional information, is this whole story about a mere seven people? It appears to be. So were only seven laid off? Doesn't say. Seems like CNN is leaving out some information.
I’m coming up on my 1-year anniversary of getting into improv comedy. I’m also a software engineer, which it appears we have in common as well.

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that the logical, engineer side of my brain is a HUGE asset to my improv. Coming from a game-based, UCB-style background, I’ve learned that the “unusual thing” (aka the game) can really only “pop” and get laughs if the “voice of reason” is really good at grounding the scene in a base reality. That’s where my logical, engineering brain nails it.

You’re doing a brave thing by putting yourself out there. Keep honing your craft, and don’t forget to have fun! Good luck.
A few years ago I recall trying to use Sweet Home 3D and being dissatisfied, but I don't honestly recall why. Maybe it was taking me too long to figure it out.

I found Live Home 3D which is cross platform and purchased a license for it. I think it's free on Windows.

https://www.livehome3d.com/
I would love to get a copy of whatever the software was they used at the home improvement store when my parents bought cabinets back in 1990? I remember it running on an IBM PS/2 style machine (the all in one) and it had very slow wireframe graphics.
As someone who has worked under both in an enterprise environment, I am going to have to strongly disagree. Google's office tools are great if you aren't doing anything worth much of anything, as soon as you need to do something complex it turns into complete garbage. Every company I've worked for that used GSuite has had to also buy Office licenses because Google Docs and Sheets simply couldn't keep up. Google Docs also has a notorious reputation to screw up PDFs and DOCX file formatting.

I used to have Google Hangouts/Meet problems all the time, but it was fine, I've never cared for Zoom in general. Google's slide deck program is fine, but that's largely just because...who cares about slides? Most people aren't paying much attention to them, and they are just meeting filler.

I do prefer Gmail's interface to Outlook's though. Outlook tries to do too much. It's definitely better than it used to be, but there are some very crucial annoyances.
TBF that would be a good application of AI to infer what is clutter and what is not from the visual light image of the same space, the wall behind an object can simply be inferred from the sections of that wall that aren't occluded by the clutter. It might not catch some obscure cases where clutter obscures some anomalous part of the wall, but it'll be good enough in the other 99% of cases. Multiple viewpoints would probably deal with a large number of oddities too - much how photometry can get more accurate with more viewpoints already.
Ross Douthat on Chat GPT
Sadly we did layoffs first (last summer) and have frozen hiring ever since.
100% agree. Took me way too long to understand this.