skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly that’s incredible. Is there anything close to it in the Linux world?

Yeah, this is similar in spirit to what Flatpak and Snap do. The latter even uses SquashFS images it mounts for every package.

I have a feeling, though, that this is more similar to Distri¹, where the package manager is a bit more traditional. That is to say, packages are fine-grained (not packaging large runtimes into single chunks, like Flatpak and Snap) and there's not as much special tooling as Flatpak has for redirecting inputs and outputs, sandboxing, etc.

Distri also eliminates all hooks and triggers from packages, leading to super fast installs, which is pretty cool.

> Or I guess, I’m not an expert, that’s what NixOS is trying to solve?

From the article, three key features highlighted are:

> - Immutable system directories
> - Rollback to previous states
> - User-managed packages separated from system packages

And, going by those criteria: yes. NixOS and GuixSD are two Linux-based operating systems which meet all three criteria today. One key difference is that Nix and Guix don't require namespacing at the filesystem, since they install everything to those wacky store prefixes with the leading hashes. Put another way: /boot/system on Haiku is a mountpoint, but /run/booted-system on NixOS is just a symlink, even though both serve the same function².

But spiritually I'd say the basic idea (avoid dependency hell through lightweight package isolation) is similar and so are the results, at least in terms of capabilities.

PS: If you're interested in another example, RedoxOS' package manager also has a very similar design to Haiku's and Distri's, IIRC.

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1: https://distr1.org/

2: Because NixOS allows you to switch to a new system without booting it (i.e., it lets you upgrade without rebooting), it actually has two symlinks here: booted-system and current-system. The current-system symlink rotates as soon as you switch configurations, but booted-system gets set only on a new boot.
> I know life-long meditators, 30+ of years disciplined practice who sometimes take psychedelics.

I'm not dismissing spiritual practice, but psychedelics are entirely incidental to it and can be a snare for the unprepared mind. What's "profoundly healing and helpful" is always the spiritual part, not the means used to achieve it.
This is all in the US...

For works made after 1978, copyright begins when the work was created. Updating the date on copyright notices doesn't actually change that, and there's no such thing as a "renewal".

For work made before 1978, copyrights can be renewed, but you can't just update a copyright notice and call it "renewed". You actually have to file something with the copyright office.

If you want to start the copyright clock over again, you have to change the work enough that it is considered a new copyrightable work. How much of a change that has to be is a bit of a gray area.
Even without AI the systems have become VERY COMPLEX, hard to extend and debug. It is much harder to get started for newbies than it was say 25 years ago. If AI is software 2.0 it will be EVEN MORE COMPLEX. I guess that Software 2.0 must be something which will reduce complexity and not increase it...
China has strict rules on what kids can be allowed to do online. Different rules in different countries means companies sell different versions of products, this isn't some grand conspiracy.

https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog/s/zp43DhzwanDApoPCIg...

> If you are a real-name authenticated user under the age of 14, you can find that you are already in the youth mode when you open Douyin. You can only use it for 40 minutes a day, and you cannot use it from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 the next day.

> In the youth mode, we have also prepared wonder-ful content for you, such as novel and interesting science experiments, exhibitions in museums and art galleries, beautiful scenery all over the country, historical knowledge explanations, etc.

(Source that that's a legitimate press release: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/19/22682219/tiktok-parent-by...)

Edit: Forgot to clarify that Douyin is the name of TikTok's original Chinese version, so these quotes are from their press release.
AI told me to do it.
Apple's customer service is really unrivaled in the computer repair space. I had a similar experience with my MacBook Pro in the past, my display stopped working, dropped it off at a store and picked it up a couple days later. They had replaced basically the entire laptop sans the plate on the bottom.

Tried getting HP to fix a monitor with a defective port and was going to have to ship it to them at my own cost with no estimates of the repair time or cost. I just went out and bought a Samsung.

If you have the time and knowledge to repair your own computers like the author it can be a fun hobby, I also have two custom built PCs, but I don't do work on them for a reason.
> No matter the answer, you have to tolerate errors.

We already do that in manufacturing. Physical parts are imperfect and we design with such variation in mind.
It's a good exercise to try to spot when you're accidentally spreading disinformation. We'd all be better off if we took a second before posting something we think we know, to ask: wait, is this a real thing or is this bullshit?

Here we have the idea that you can do the secret handshake incorrectly and thereby invalidate what most countries view as an automatic right (copyright usually doesn't even require any notice) and that adjudicating judges would shrug and say "Sorry, you used parentheses: my hands are tied. They're free to copy you", based on some random book from the 90s that was likely also full of bullshit. Does that sound right to you?
Interview with sci-fi author Ray Nayler about AI, symbolic systems, and writing
I feel like the biggest impact will be for authors who have an existing body of work... you can train the model on your writing and generate new text in your own style. What takes days could be done in hours.

I'm sure the same could be done for editors... train it on annotated text (original + corrections), use it to generate new edits.
Ok. Now do Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Instagram.
1 year worth of runway? Why not start hacking on a revenue generating indie project to 1) beef up your skillset and 2) extend your runway. Who knows, you could apply to YC with it!

A few of the popular buzzwords to start a project with: Next.js, Prisma, Supabase
This is actually enough to power the laptop and trickle charge! I’ve had a M1 Pro and now have an M2 Air plugged into my weirdo USB-C monitor that only provides 15W power(!), and unless I’m heavily compiling all day (like change-compile-change trial-and-error), the laptop does slowly charge. Even on the heavy use days its never actually run all the way down.
It reminds me of the "code generator" phase we went through a decade or so ago. At least then we could see the "code generator" code and adjust it when it produced dreck.

I'll also note that the next hardest part of programming is troubleshooting "in production" whether a Web application, in an embedded device, or running on someone's machine. Is the "AI" going to help there? Are we going to even be able to fix those problems when doing so could make the code we don't understand fail in another way or hit the wrong side of the performance tradeoff the "optimized code" entailed?
Future historians poking their fire with post-historic twigs in a post-nuclear apocalypse: “what were they thinking?”
Yes, Not only is it a visualisation of a SHA256 hash of the public key, but it's hard to turn the visualisation back into a SHA256 hash itself.
> not feeling that I've learnt something properly unless I felt I could teach it to someone else.

That's always been my gold-standard as well.

In presentations, I should be able to ask an intelligent question. If I can't do that, either I wasn't engaged enough or the material wasn't accessible.

In my own work, I should be able to teach someone else, or at least write a tutorial. I find that writing down an explanation forces me to research the boundaries of correctness, not just find a happy path down the middle.

In teaching, I should be able to know my student and what they're already familiar with, and draw accurate and useful analogies between that and the new material. I should be able to anticipate how analogies might be misinterpreted or overfit, and couch them in caveats as needed.

Ideally, ultimately, my student should be able to meet the same standard. But this will require work on their part and is not my sole responsibility.
"We need more Software (LOC)! Hire a thousand code monkeys!"

...

"WTF! We have so much technical debt! Fire the code monkeys and replace them with AI! We need more Software (AI)"

I'm sure this is going great.
Maybe if I have ChatGPT write my docstrings as sci-fi my colleagues will actually read them.
Reverse-engineering the interrupt circuitry in the Intel 8086 processor
I don't feel a comparison to DSLs works here at all. If you are just using plain human language, is a comparison to DSLs apt?

The point of DSLs are to provide a deliberately limited-scope language optimised for a specific problem or problem domain. LLMs that use general human language is like the furthest opposite of a DSL - its the broadest scope language for describing any problem, and they try to solve them all.

Also, few popular DSLs are truly blackbox in the sense chatGPT is - many of them have exposed source or even line-by-line debuggers available. There are a ton of other reasons this doesn't make sense to compare.
I appreciate that!

My plan is to connect the SMS service to a self-hosted endpoint. The first test app was a grocery list manager that adds or removes items and returns the whole list on command.

I find text messaging convenient and wanted to leverage it as an interface.

Edit: I love learning and acquiring new skills even if they aren't immediately useful. It's part of a compounding knowledge process I started years ago.
"Tough on crime" policies don't actually lead to less crime. If they did, the US would be among the safest countries on the planet.

Seattle, which is "soft on crime", is a relatively safe city with lower rates of violent crime per capita than Phoenix, Des Moines, Denver, Corpus Christi, and more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

But getting back to my original question, I seriously doubt "tough on crime" policies in Redmond were implemented to help the homeless. More likely, they were implemented to keep poor people away.

My theory is that most people complaining about homelessness in cities like Seattle don't actually care about the homeless people. What they care about is that they have to see homelessness. So long as homelessness isn't visible then it's not a problem and whether that's done through charity or relocation or incarceration is irrelevant.

But I hope I'm wrong! I'd like to believe people aren't that cruel, so if Redmond has a solution that is compassionate and helpful I would genuinely love to know what they're doing.
On the bright side, he did avoid spending $200 for the 16gb RAM upgrade.
The problem with passkeys IMO is they typically aren't portable between devices, and if they are, they will have some of the same problems as passwords. A long passphrase will probably have the same threat profile as a portable passkey, but with an easier implementation.
There is in fact a conventional vaccine for Covid, but most people are not aware nor do we have access to it. The inventors did not patent it but made it a gift to the world. Buy hey, money and "do as I say". Oh it's called Corbevax.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast...

> Someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family members, perpetrates 91% of child sexual abuse.

Don't believe everything you see on TV.
> What matters is the percentage accuracy. A black box with a 10% failure rate is better than a fully explainable system that fails 20% of the time.

That's not true at all, it depends on the use case.

What actually matters is the desired percentage of acceptance.

For many critical path use cases you'd much rather have something fail twice as often but understand why it failed so that you can correct the issue and resubmit the input. Error observability is an important feature that's taken for granted in many systems. It all depends on what the system is used for—how important it is to be able to get to correct results, and what the consequences for failure are. The biggest danger of neural networks is in people that don't understand this nuance and apply them in a blanket way in all systems.
This will make a great money laundering pipeline for criminals. Orange jumpsuit man might just turn a new leaf and become a bookworm.
It’s been the situation for years, I drove 30 miles for a zero like 6 months after they were released. I bought an A because the B was sold out in 2014.
I love WeWork as a customer now.

I joined in Poland and now use it when traveling around the USA.

It's great. I used to work at Microsoft and I loved that I could travel around the world and work from offices all over. That was awesome for creativity. Now our startup can do that, thanks to WeWork.

I don't know Adam Neumann's story. I do know my own though, and know that when you have success, watch your back, people will come with daggers.

I wouldn't judge someone who built something great, for making a billion dollars. You never know what kind of daggers in the back he took. I for one look forward to seeing what he builds next.
Most are, modal is a very different offering where it's $0 when not in use. They have some other very interesting ideas like charging you for CPU time rather than wall time.

It's a newer business so I guess you should factor that risk in though.
It's odd to me that Apple has never offered a 24h turnaround (or cross ship) higher tier support package. This was a hold up for businesses using Apple machines for a long time. I guess enough employees started requesting Apple machines eventually getting businesses to offer them anyway.
Honestly just interview around. Worst case it’s some practice and interesting conversations.
The problem is the exact opposite of what the article claims. The problem is that TikTok learns that a user likes jailbait and feeds that user an endless stream of it.
Opening past mental wounds is often like massive invasive surgery, requiring immense skill, plenty of observation afterwards, and a lengthy recovery.

Unfortunately many councillors and psychologists are barbers, butchering people’s minds, or infecting them with hokum.

The worst I have ever heard of was getting a bunch of troubled teenagers together, a session getting them to share their horrific experiences, then sending them home with zero concern for the consequences. I mean, you are already struggling and then you need to process other people’s stories of rape, family violence, and worse. Or you need to face whatever Pandora’s box demons you have shared. Ouch.
Maybe, many of those natives leaving every year do so because of the extra competition with the immigrants: bringing people over causes lower salaries and higher costs of housing.

What's worse is that, those leaving presumably are capable of making it in "better" economies. So in pure GDP-per capita-producing terms, you just exchanged some natives for worse performers.

That's what happens when you're not in the top of the totem of the immigration market.
If you were from India you would read his name as car-pathy (Lord of Cars)

cf.
gana-pathy (Lord of the Ganas)
If Linux would like to bulletproof then they would implement ZFS Boot Environments that FreeBSD has with beadm(8) or bectl(8) tools.

With ZFS Boot Environments you can change any aspect of the system/upgrade everything/change packages and even leave system in totally broken state ... and just reboot to one of other Boot Environments that you created earlier - once you 'got it' how awesome and useful that is - you will want that everywhere.

Some more info here: https://is.gd/BECTL

Regards.
Is 30 MHz Enough for C-V2X?
That’s cool.

I’m personally looking forward to when I can use a ChatGPT yo build my own ChatGPT and make tons of money out of it too !

It’s pretty interesting because soon absolutely No business will be safe. All tech, most apps, everything can just be stolen as fast as ChatGPT can write it. I’d go as far to say as ChatGPT itself is vulnerable to this ? Am I wrong ?

I’ve been working on a startup and I’m actually really evaluating if it’s worth the time now. I mean it could be stolen pretty fast. Not sure how to reconcile it all yet.

Make my an app which is functionally the same as Netflix, then write the deployment code so it runs on AWS. Ha.

Microsoft and Open AI will may benefit a lot from ChatGPT, but it might eat itself too.
Activision leak details Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 2023 roadmap
Doing some little bits of smaller work for smaller companies can help get the CV moving again.

I've had gaps, and done that - find bits of work that are a few days or a few weeks, then it's easier from there.
Not as a lie detector, but to detect whether the underlying mental state is actually present. It seems almost certain that if someone is experiencing or has experienced a state of supreme bliss and is recalling it, that has to pretty visible on fMRI, as compare to someone who has never experienced supreme bliss and is just saying they have.
Yea, aka how engineers working on safety critical or high reliability stuff already have to think.

Assume your software has a probability to fail or have bugs or gets hit by bit flips or unreliable hardware. There’s a whole field for dealing with those kind of things that typical web devs haven’t had to worry about as much.
Based on what I can achieve with GPT in a non-Python language as a junior junior developer, I really see almost no limit to what an CS educated experienced mid developer could achieve with GPT and Python experience.

Yes there is a lot of hand-holding and guardrailing but still, it's kind of insane.
That’s the No Self realization. I only had a brief glimpse of it, including the weirdly simultaneous panic. It did not happen during a meditation session, and it was brief.

I remember a podcast interview with Adyashanti about this. A lot of people experience unity consciousness first before no self, but some people experience no self first. He mentioned about someone he knows who experienced that, and had it for years, while also having to care for a child.

On reddit, I read someone stating that psychedelic can break someone, and it happened to him. Lots of people responded by saying things, and he was telling them, no, literally, there was something that broke and there’s no coming back from it.
Could you imagine a scenario where what is happening in the cartel controlled areas is putting pressure on the non cartel controlled areas and that pressure results in the police behaving the way that they are?

In other words, do you think it's possible that the cartels are responsible for the shitty police behaviour in the rest of Mexico?
at this point yes, TikTok's has been better at it and others have been playing catch up trying to replicate it and its interface. For example, Instagram's Reels are like TikTok's, except Instagram's users are split doing a dozen other things, while TikTok's users are only doing the "reels" like feature and associate TikTok with that.
I think your job doesn't sound very nice - needing at least 1 hr to decompress, having to stay late because something "came up". Dunno if cycling to/from work would help with de-stressing quicker? (of course, cycling may or may not be feasible where you live). Certainly being stuck in a traffic jam after a hard day at work is no fun either. I'd rather spend longer on public transport if that means read a book, message some friends, even chat to a friend in person that does the same run. WFH even if only 2 days a week, is a game-changer, if you could achieve that. Working 4-days weeks is another big game-changer. I do that and its totally worth the salary hit. Seems a great shame if people feel unable to have kids and/or a social life just due to the demands of work. People also aren't going to be productive employees either if they're unhappy because of that. I think people need to push back against their employers, and the irony is, by doing so they're actually helping their employer because burnt-out people are not useful. But to have the nerve to push back, or switch jobs, one may need some money saved up. Which is very do-able for reasonably frugal people on tech salaries. I hope you manage to get to a better situation somehow :)
There are services to identify LLM output, like GTPZero and a classifier from OpenAI, but they aren't very reliable even at this early stage in the development of LLMs—lots of false positives and negatives. They'll likely be useless when the tell-tale signs they rely on are ironed out.

https://gptzero.me/

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-...
Show HN: nix-search-cli: find Nix packages from the CLI
We need clear guidance from community leaders that giving social-media-enabled-phones to kids is a “bad idea”

Those not in my tech-circle know-how are unaware of all the research showing it’s a huge net negative to give a 13 year old girl these devices.

I feel like our culture of not telling other people what they should probably do even when it is in their best interest is going to backfire…
Of course. The problem began with AIM and BBSes and continues on today's popular platforms.
It's incredible to see how this site turned from valuable feedback in the comments to well...this.

Half of the comments making assumptions that you can not make on the data provided, the other half seems to be IF Crusaders trying to justify their own "healthy" eating behavior as if their life depends on it.

Here is a very simple thing to do when you don't understand a paper or how to interpret it. Send the Authors a mail and ask politely if they could help you understand their work better. There are multiple E-Mail Addresses provided from the Authors.

Seriously "I feel great when I stop eating by 2 PM" is a fun comment, but feeling great and being healthy are not exactly correlated.

I climbed Everest once and my body started dying at about 26000 feet, it felt amazing, still I was literally dying.

Maybe I should just take a break from reading HN comments, it's not like it used to be.
I've tried a couple of apps that promise to create children stories based on ChatGPT and while it works (-ish) for short stories I think the only way to get a better and longer output that is decent enough to warrant publishing is to be very hands on with the prompts, at which point I'd argue it's possibly considered real creative work and ChatGPT is just a (very powerful) tool, not a full-blown substitute for a writer/author.
I don't think that's the right term. Eternal September refers to too big of an influx of new people for the current members to inculcate with the local manners, morals, and attitudes resulting in a degradation of an existing culture. Amazon authors are already too diverse and dispersed to have a singular culture. This is more like mass production meets content creation or an assembly line for knowledge work.
For the vast majority of your layman use cases, passkeys are perfect because the switch rate between ecosystems is low. My mid 90s grandmother is not able to use a password manager, she's just not capable. Same for my mid 60s in laws. Passkeys fix this for them. If your use case requires heterogenous ecosystem support, it might make sense to wait for your preferred password manager to have passkey support (to have an independent sync fabric).

Worst case scenario, you have multiple passkeys per service identity/web property, one in each sync ecosystem (if the relying party supports it). Still better than passwords! If your SSO provider does't support passwordless/passkeys, loudly complain to them :) Azure Active Directory supports it, I have worked with a team to implement it.

(great post btw to the Teleport folks, both content and visual appeal)
And Terry O'Quinn as the eccentric millionaire aviator inventor.