skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4/5 managers from my career fit this description.

I've had 2 managers who were better than this, and they were prior programmers who still understood the code but had moved up.

The best managers are good coders who realize that by directing they can actually accomplish more across many areas than they could have as a individual contributed.

But 4/5 are disconnected paycheck collectors who need to be told stories
It's apparently routine to tase someone who runs from a traffic stop because they had a minor warrant that wasn't being actively pursued. I think it's fair to say neither shooting them nor beating/choking them is routine in that situation; there's no real public safety argument (if this person was a danger to the public they'd've been pursuing the warrant already). At some point the actions that this tool is enabling are doing more harm than good.
Racket has more didactic origins but I’m given to understand its a good albeit slow general purpose Lisp. Common Lisp is basically the kitchen sink programming language and with a good compiling implementation like SBCL it’s possible to write high performance code. Clojure is the Lisp that you’re most likely to get paid to write. It’s as performant as any JVM hosted language.
When you get away.
It's the lesson of JavaScript as well, famously.
Here it is: https://open-assistant.io (https://projects.laion.ai/Open-Assistant/)
If you're using a modern web server like nginx, then you have to really do something wrong to get hacked serving static files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

Watches, wines, designer anything not made by AI. Check out episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation with regards to exploration of ideas of value when goods come out of a replicator and experiences out of a Holodeck at zero marginal cost.
Seems like you're changing the subject.
To expand on this. There is an art to making a believable threat. Somehow, Sidney is good at this art.
I would argue it is much easier now. There are a ton of distributions who are catering for this use case, yunohost is probably the most well known one, but there are a lot more if you look on the awesome selfhosted list.

I would also say that if you only want a static site the OPs setup is almost overkill. Just install caddy and a dyndns service. Takes care of the certificate for you and is super simple to setup.
> what's wrong with Kipling all of the sudden?

You're kidding me, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
I suggest reading the military history of dictators.
Aaand that's how you end up with data races.
This isn’t directly related, but I stopped having dreams in my 20’s. I’ve only had a dozen in the past 20 years. I can still conjure up images of things and daydream but I don’t dream at night.
Is no one remotely worried about this? I'm not saying I'm worried about this specific incarnation of Bing Chat, but is this not a huge red flag for what's to come?

I mean, let's just take a moment to be thankful that Bing Chat isn't that competent... Even if these users are prompting the AI to have a hostile response I think what we've learnt over the last several weeks is that Nick Bostrom and others were 100% correct to be worried about the AI control problem. It's honestly amazing that despite Microsoft and OpenAi trying so hard to neuter these AIs how difficult that is proving to do.

Given that we know Bing Chat is able to access the internet, is pretty good at writing code, and that Microsoft seems completely unable to control the responses, we should be grateful that we're probably still a few years away from an AI which could do any damage...

But all the pieces for something much worse are in place here. The fact that no one seems worried that we've connected this schizophrenic AI up the internet and are more concerned how this will impact Microsoft's / Google's bottom line is genuinely confusing to me. How much more of warning do we need that we're heading in an extremely dangerous direction here?
The system makes sense in well-planned (dense, accessible) cities. Most American cities -- indeed, most cities designed primarily after the invention of automobiles -- do not fit this definition.

A classic XY problem. The issue is not the cost, it is what the built environment demands.
is this service worth using and paying for ???

anyone use it?

what are your thoughts pros & cons
The author stops at an intuitive leap before developing the idea into something easily put into practice.

Actually doing what the author describes is often impossible except in an intuitive way. How could you know a priori which decisions might have big impacts? On a project of any complexity you need either deep specific experience or a very accurate working model of the entire project. You aren’t likely to have either.

This has been previously covered in depth, even in software, although of course it could possibly be improved.

Painting the bikeshed is one example: http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/
If they shoot a dart because they don’t plan to chase me right away it implies I’ll get some good distance before they catch up. I have maybe a few minutes.

It will also be obvious you have a dart if they suddenly decide to not chase you, now that it is a known technology.
>'"Culture war artifact" is not a real term. I've never had what looks like a reasonable combination of three words come up with zero hits in a search engine.'

Is this really your barometer for discussion, that all grammatical phrases must first exist in Google search results for them to be considered valid self-expression? If so that's pretty out there.

There's a wonderful irony here in that this a discussion about a Megacorp validating people's identity and here you are telling someone that their words are not valid because they haven't been validated by some other Megacorp.

The phrase "culture war" itself wasn't in use in English before it was used in the title of a book in the early 90s [1]. There were no search engines then.

[1] https://archive.is/TS6mn
At my first tech job, the programmers' office had a shelf of manuals. (I was not then a programmer.) At the next, every new version of Oracle produced three or four feet of manuals for the shelves. A brief stint at another contractor's offices in Virginia showed a real library, by which I suppose I mean that they had copies of IEEE and ACM journals and books by authors I had heard of.

My office at work has an assortment of books, mostly ones that I bought. I don't know of a tech library there.
It seems the market for highly customised quiz-winning applications was much smaller than expected.
Looks like it even survived the Hackernews frontpage hug of death?
I never received an email, but just today received spam on an email address only used with namecheap. You might want to check your logic for what was impacted.
Why do you think Rust has been such a success?
I don’t think the models from those time periods work today.
The article talks about how they're not even really working in European cities, despite being less spread out and more amenable to cycling options.
If a balloon really is operated by someone attempting to spy on sensitive military installations, it makes financial sense to shoot it down. It's cheaper to spend 400k on a missile than to have your adversary learn something they shouldn't.
Is this the best marker of Elisp being written? Perhaps I don't get what this is analyzing, but I suspect that it is the newcomers that write the least Elisp, and my impression is that packages are popping up and updating much quicker as of late
We can green Mars? I hadn't heard.
You're driving home with your girlfriend and daughter and a police officer pulls you over. You are licensed to carry a gun, and you have your gun in your car. If you drive off you're evading police, and guilty of a crime, and if you don't you get this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile.

I am not saying "you should always run from the cops". What I'm saying is that "there's nothing to fear from cooperating with the police after not committing a crime" is also not true.

The police are responsible for creating an environment in which a sizable portion of the population have a very real fear that any interaction may result in harm or death whether or not you did anything wrong, and so the decision to run may seem "wrong" but it is not unreasonable.
Likely there was a recent quick fix.
> If you ask specifically about the discrepancy it will usually deny the discrepancy entirely or double-down on the mistake.

I have had the exact opposite experience. I pasted error messages from code it generated, I corrected its Latin grammar, and I pointed out contradictions in its factual statements in a variety of ways. Every time, it responded with a correction and (the same) apology.

This makes me wonder if we got different paths in an AB test.
> with a declining user base

user base is growing 1.75% YoY
Why is the media reporting every LLM troll attempt as if it's something to be taken seriously?
The breakdown of public order to the point that bike/scooter theft is rampant and normalised seems like the real issue here. Police apathy seems like a big part of the problem, but fundamentally how do we solve that?
Did not Einstein win his Nobel prize for explaining Brownian motion in classical Newtonian physics?

That is, did he not also have to master the existing material of the day using the woeful tools of the late 19th and earliest 20th century?

He had neither the internet nor Anki cards to help him learn anything.

I do not think the problem is one of low-hanging fruit
Use an actor model language -- by far the sanest way. Message passing is intuitive to human experience.

1. Elixir (Erlang)

2. Scala/Akka

3. Pony
Oh I agree with that. LLM doesn't give you better search - better search {index, ranking, SEO-tolerance, ...} gives you better search.

To me, Bing chat - although imperfect - augments search positively to fill my specific needs.

0) I don't see half a page of ads before the first real result, disguised to look like real results.

1) The interface is clean and noise-free : it takes away a huge context switching load I incur when going into individual results (which for most searches these days, is the top 3-5). I just want the content summarized, with no ads, in a form my brain is used to.

2) I can ask follow-up questions with context, again without ever leaving the interface. Otherwise, the follow up question's answer is often on another website.

3) I can ask more creative questions, which is not really a 'search' feature. Something like 'write a snippet of code'. You can try "unique_ptr in rust - show examples too" and it gives me a passable and concise answer. It presents two options, but to get what I exactly want, I can ask "how to use Box?" as a follow on.

4) It's vastly better at 'connect the dots' queries - see my other comment please.

One underrated feature is the 'next query' suggestions - I can use a single click instead of typing out 'one more example' or see more subtle examples by clicking 'how can I use Box for recursive types?'.
Both zerohedge and Snowden are sources that you should basically never be listening to. They are intensely unreliable and Snowden’s essentially a state mouthpiece for the Russian government at this point.
Yes your right, I typed the name into google to get it to autocorrect for me (I hadn't had enough caffeine yet) and google autoco-wrecked me instead.
Any one of those accounts is sensitive, even if you just had one it should be protected. But also, in matters of policy we don't really care about someone's character, we care about how it impacts everyone.

Since everyone has a phone now, that means technologically illiterate people are using them for whatever their authority figures tell them to. They trust those entities, and perhaps they shouldn't, but that is the reality. Any policy that doesn't cater for the reality is bad policy.

Smoking is a historical example, at one point doctors, movie stars and media all told you smoking was good for you. Now, decades later, health policy has to take into account that people smoke. Maybe one day down the line there will be regulation on companies as to how they influence people to use their devices, but for now we accept that people put sensitive info on their phones.
I think it will be fine. There are billions of people on the internet already, each of whom can do crazy things. At least with this centralized entity incidents will be fixed.
Bing Chat can't take you to court or publish your information on a http server, for two things?
You might be misinterpreting. His nomenclature is misleading, but he doesn't mean "2x", he means "2X", where X is the number of companies. That is, you give 1 million € to 10 companies, and the one winner makes you 20 million € (20 times what you invested).

He's saying you are guaranteed to double your money in 5 years, which for most investments isn't easy. Or maybe you understand this, and mean that a VC firm needs to target even better returns than this to stay cover their costs and stay in business? Possible.
I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop. Just the basic idea of say hosting a static-site/blog on a VPS with a cryptominer that could pay for itself would have been a game changer - but was probably just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities. Instead we're still stuck either having to sell our traffic/info to Google/Microsoft, put up ads, pay for it out of pocket. The entrenched players won

The hacked site boogieman felt overblown (and from what you're saying it sounds like if would have died out anyway). I'm sure it happened, but at least personally I never once came across it. Or if I did, then my CPU spun a bit more and I didn't notice. No real harm done.

More fundamentally we're now in territory where the browser vendors get to decide what javascript is okay to run and which isn't.

Anyway, it's just complaining into the ether :) it is what it is. thanks for the context of the market forces and antivirus companies
I am no supporter of the USSR nor of planned economies in general, but at no point were rulers in the communist party of the Soviet Union informed by their scientists of the effects of increased emissions, and then decided to double down on fossil fuel, and engage in a mass disinformation campaign to keep increasing pollution at the cost of our climate. I’m sure they would have, but they’re government collapsed before they were able, so, so far the climate crisis is a uniquely capitalist problem.

As for Poland, it is thoroughly a capitalist country. All of the largest coal mining companies and energy companies there are publicly traded (although some, including PGE is majority [58%] owned by the state). It is safe to say that Poland’s continuing carbon emissions are more then happy to continue under a capitalist rule.
None of what you are saying makes sense. Why do you think any of this is true?
Yeah, most water is fit for consumption. It takes as a pretty huge amount of pollution to have a meaningful impact on humans and dilution is a powerful mitigation.

The pipes taking it to your tap and added chemicals are a much higher risk.
Ownership sure saves a lot of time for the computer when it runs the final binary.

For some software (eg browsers, operating systems), time spent making our programs correct and fast is worth the effort.
It’s true, but performance has honestly been great. It’s still quite responsive over ssh under load.
A new conception of software freedom: free from the constraints or considerations of reality. Where it’s not the code that’s unsafe, it’s the thinking about and addressing its safety that’s harmful. Kill your gods but don’t let the compiler ever figure it out!
What about if I want the headless browser to look exactly the same? Why should we make a distinction between humans and machines?
Thinking about this question, I wrote down a list of twenty names—von Neumann, Tolstoy, Curie, Pascal, etc—selected on the highly scientific criteria “a random Swedish person can recall their name and think, Sounds like a genius to me”.

This is not even wrong, never mind less.
> I thought high-speed chases were often about getting a dangerous driver off the road

High speed chases create dangerous driving.

Unless the reason you're pulling someone over in the first place is 'The guy is was driving like he's in a high-speed chase, before we turned on the sirens', the safest thing for the public is to just not chase. It's not worth killing a bystander over.

A 'Don't chase unless the public is actively and acutely in immediate danger' is generally the best policy.
I mean people do that with cars too, and I don’t mean public parking, they drive their shit up on the sidewalk and park, park on cross walks and drive down bike paths and do donuts in the park. drivers generally don’t give a shit ever. But people mostly leave them be. So I think the answer is easier. People throw scooters in the river because it’s easy and fun. Anything that is left around near a river and is light enough to throw, somebody is going to throw.
That fits audiophile discussions to a tee. :)
I don't like a lot of things in C++, but one thing worth praising in particular is std::format

std::format specifically only works for constant† format strings. Not because they can't make it work with a dynamic format, std::vformat is exactly that, but most of the time you don't want and shouldn't use a dynamic format and the choice to refuse dynamic formats in std::format means fewer people are going to end up shooting themselves in the foot.

Because it requires constant formats, std::format also gets to guarantee compile time errors. Too many or not enough arguments? Program won't build. Wrong types? Program won't build. This shifts some nasty errors hard left.

† Not necessarily a literal, any constant expression, so it just needs to have some concrete value when it's compiled.
> Homelessness in wealthy countries in an issue of drug addiction and mental health, not inability to build housing

I’d argue homelessness is heavily tied to an inability to build housing, but that’s a regulatory failure (zoning and building codes) not a market one.
Honestly a basic VPS is a lot easier to me than running a physical home server. Dirt cheap, never have to worry about power failures, dust, heat, home ISP being shitty, etc.
It has not a success. Just aggressive ads.
That's a specific case of the more broad rule of "small is agile, large is cumbersome". It also applies to private enterprise. A small company of 10 can do in a week what takes a company of 1000 a month to get approved.

The larger something is the more paperwork is involved, but also the more factors they have to consider. National government can't put in individual rules for every single water body in the country. They need general rules that cover broad categories. Such rules are a lot more complicated.
I did not realize that the Iraq War was "19th-early 20th century imperialism"

Nor the mid 1970's
The Fornjot folks are working on a new kernel:

https://fornjot.app/
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086608
It would work the other way around I think, steal someone's phone then look it up on the database. But you're right, it's not the vector I would be most worried about either.
just use $4 per month vps? I used a $10 vps as I also host lots of other stuff other than a website.
A month ago, the obvious interpretation of the headline would have been that a Bing employee threatened the student. It would have been ridiculous to suggest that Bing Search could threaten someone on its own. But today, that's exactly what happened. I find that quite remarkable.
Exactly. You could buy a local device and then run a manufacturers update and suddenly you have a non downgradable online device.
They wasted $500,000 on a missile when they could have spent billions on balloon force.
And the Wire too.
I'd learned "basics of hardware" by programming old CPUs and MCUs in assembly and machine codes. No I did not have CS background. Masters in Physics instead.

Memory management in C was too high level at that time ;)
All the big tech companies are using Rust in one way or another. What other recent language can claim that?
FYI, Caddy has a DDNS plugin https://github.com/mholt/caddy-dynamicdns. Works with any DNS provider that has a Caddy DNS plugin which you'd typically use to solve ACME challenges, but instead it will set A/AAAA records.
Home schooling, hanging with brilliant people, free to pursue your own goals.

That's the models, right?
The Next Hot Housing Market Is Out of This World. It’s in the Metaverse
Goodness gracious, five grand, only 3 drive bays, and that's without drives? My whole AMD machine (motherboard, RAM, PSU, NVMe SSD, case - basically everything except for the HDDs for the bulk storage) costed me slightly less than $2k, and I've surely overprovisioned.
Ok I'm not going crazy. We... I mean maybe I still am... But that isn't part of it! So,yes... Was utilizing it for some React work and in the last couple weeks had even remarked to some other folks that it seems to be much less successful with answering questions I ask that are code related and the code it outputs seems to have degraded quite a bit.
Bing didn't. The AI did.
And for the record, he threatened to hack the AI. You threaten to assault someone, don't be surprised when they threaten you as well.
Another idiotic fearmonger article.
On most servers, programs are not doing drastically new things. That really isn't the issue you make it out to be.

The developer applying restrictions ahead of time can't, by nature, mitigate the types of bugs that things like SELinux can protect against.

You really have no clue about what you're talking about.
That still doesn't explain how the hyperbole is dangerous.
No he's not. That's exactly the point my original comment made. You have missed the point.
Then we need to ensure that manufacturers are not allowed to say 'free' when they mean something else.
You could deconstruct humans the same way. It's all biological cells with DNA which weren't even designed for anything but just evolved with natural selection. This species of apes started speaking only very recently, in evolutionary timescales, and the DNA was definitely not designed to do anything that humans are mostly doing right now. Nobody is guaranteeing anything, most of these apes actually suck at math extremely hard. They only gained awareness into the existing structure in the funny sounds they make recently.

But hey, things can just work and the golem can overcome it's creator or surprise it. All of the things you said don't matter.

The writer of this post is just another ape sitting with his phone in his hand making funny gestures on a touch screen. He got to the point of communicating with you after hearing similar apes make similar sounds, somehow connected those sounds to funny shapes as a little ape, and then learned to click those squiggly shapes as they show up on his "phone" in belief that another ape somewhere will recognize them.

Some apes do this so that other apes will click a triangle. But you can't guarantee that other apes really mean what you think those squiggly lines really mean, or that they aren't all doing it for the triangles.

Those triangles really are a mystery, given the design of those apes didn't have any evolutionary reason to seek triangle clicking.

To make my point instead of writing more squiggly lines, if you deconstruct something and then don't understand it, that's on you. Things can just work, they don't owe an explanation to you. If you have good explanation of when they work, I'm interested. If you don't, that's only reflecting on you.

I also try to heavily imply that if you generalize a human to an ape and then get astonished at the sounds he make, maybe that was an over generalization that missed something important.
The ends do not justify the means in this case.
The shooting had nothing to do with the university that sent the email; it was in a different state and likely didn't impact any of the students directly. Nobody would have cared if no email at all had been sent.