skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth
>You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and stick-out teeth

I’m somewhat amused that wonky noses, crooked mouths, and stick-out teeth are fair game — but double chins? No, that’s fat shaming.
Hm. I've been doing quite well in this field for 30 years, and other than knowing git and having a github account, exactly zero of this applies to me. I'm not saying it doesn't apply to your corner of the industry, and I'm not saying that none of it is ever true, but it is far from universal advice, and definitely not a case of "if you are not willing to do all of that, then pick a different field."
Hypermail: Content-Based Routing on Email
Wait, was that popular? Now, I was mostly into the C64 and later Atari ST, with some insight into other platforms, but I don't think I've ever heard about an external MP3 decoder. On what's platform was this available?

The closest I can think of is the external clock chip for the Atari Falcon that allowed you to decode 44.1 kHz MP2.
Viral Instagram Scam, account Hacked – Any Recourse?
Well folks, it finally happened: I fell for one of those “Hey buddy I got a new album, click this link” scams.

The person quickly sent up an Authenticator 2FA. Beyond the shock/embarrassment of being fooled, and 19 stages of denial (“I’m a DEV! How dare they?!”), what I find absolutely bizarre is: The video verification doesn’t recognize me, no other recovery method seems to exist. Are there truly no options with Instagram to get the account back although my phone/email?
I've tried to convince artists to transition to the AI-augmented future, since October.

This comment is funny, "I've given the artists fair warning of 6 months that they're careers are over."

But the rest just want to pretend it doesn't exist, waiting till employers realize that they are no longer needed.

So when the employers fire the artists, who will replace them sorry? Will the C-level executives at my company be using DALL-E instead? How does it work? Would they just not hire a "creative assistant" who will probably hire other assistants ?

I've seen artist communities on multiple websites, in multiple languages. At first they tried to laugh at the AI. Now the AI has improved so radically so fast, they universally prefer to stick their head in the sand, and ban discussion of AI altogether, its all denial and rage.

I'd love to see these raging artist discussions? Can you link a few?
Old stuff is cool, but we shouldn't keep old things around just for the sake of it.

Old stuff tends to be harder to maintain, not meet modern expectations, be less energy efficient, be incompatible with newer things, potentially toxic or dangerous, etc.

If you plan to actually use the old stuff, then it will gradually wear out, and the expense of repairing a crack in a 100 year old thing tends to be higher than repairing/replacing something modern.
Except that when lots of new money is created (by the formation of loans) inflation is exactly what you get.

Ultra low interest rates are just a (not very) complicated way of printing money.
Founder of dreamphilic.com here. Based on our users I am seeing some trends:
1. Great artists are generating great prompts and thus great images because at the end it all comes down to your imagination.
2. I expected most users to be young population but what I see is they are mostly people of age 35 and above.
3. Creative people are enjoying it. People who are not good at using artistic tools or don't have access to those expensive tools but have good imagination can also see their imaginations come to life, thanks to AI.
Not all queues serve (soft) real time requests and not all queues are bounded (1). If the rate of incoming queue items is predictable but not constant (for example, average load in the weekend or at night tends to be lower for many systems) you can often get away with having enough capacity to serve the average load while using the queue as a buffer. This is fine if the work done is not time critical, like sending most types of marketing emails.

You might argue that a queue with many items in it which can still accept more items is not really "full", but it is clearly not empty either.

(1) Obviously all queues are bounded by the capacity of the hardware, but since most queueing software can persist to disk and/or lives in the cloud with elastic storage this is not usually a problem.
Libxo: Generate text/XML/JSON structured output in one code path
There are different version of "fine" here :)

Morally, it's definitely NOT fine.

It will probably have no significant bad effect on their business, iow, it is fine from a business perspective.

It's unfortunate, but likely true.
Interesting that people feel the need to use an MLA-style citation as if ChatGPT were a person. “Personal communication”?

This is a tool so copyright rests with the user (unless reassigned by some license agreement). That people interpret otherwise is concerning.
Regarding the "Genre" tag, Apple Music make that problem 1000% worse as Apple Music does NOT allow multiple separate Genres per track. When selecting multiple Genres, it concatenates the names into a unique Genre thus defeating the purpose of trying to tag a track with multiple Genres. It is the only musics database that I've seen do this.
It took many years until MP3 decoding on a stock Falcon was possible. While the machine was generally available, there was no MP3 implementation, and the belief was that it was impossible.
For the Pine family of SBCs I highly recommend installing Tow-Boot - https://tow-boot.org/ - on the SPI flash memory to allow yourself much better boot options, including booting directly from NVMe so you don't need to keep the MicroSD card plugged-in.
ChatGPT Is Not a Blurry JPEG of the Web. It's a Simulacrum
Thanks, didn't expect someone would sign up.
Should be fixed now (or as soon as DNS propagates)!
Wow, just wow.

is this one of those consequences of removing the humanity from our day to day lives?
We no longer know how to communicate with each other in meaningful rather than transactional ways?
Lessons Cheryl Hung Learned Working at CNCF
They may have some kind of metaphyiscal awareness, or not

Another option is there is some kind of metaphyiscal awareness everywhere, and it's only coincidental that objects of class "human" eventually convince themselves into believing that it's equivalent or highly related to their own thinking process. Unless we exclude this option somehow, AI can't be definitely seen as simply rolex, because it does that too.

Currently AI is discontinuous and passive, but is that even required?

without a comprehensive theory of consciousness it's parsimonious to assume they're not aware

This hypothesis creates more entities (one island of awareness per complex enough object), so why not the other way round?
Shimano’s three-pulley rear derailleur could revolutionise drivetrain design
By this logic they should not have electricity and water pipes as well.
Nice, good to see them acknowledge that a slightly better "pre-f9" rocket won't cut it. Doesn't say anything about their chance to succeed, but better than trying something that's essentially worthless even in the best case.
> Except you do lose out on best path routing / any other outbound TE, and you’re now restricted to rudimentary load balancing methodologies / manual prefix-specific hackery.

After 3-4 hops you're probably hitting a Tier 1 network, after which point you can basically think of the Internet like cloud icon you see in many diagrams, because your route choices are no longer really determining reachability, rather the choices of other people/companies are:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network

If you're talking about reachability of a network on another continent or the other side of the planet, your local decisions aren't going to much to determine the path.

The main thing to have locally for routing decisions is the ASNs/networks of the other customers of your ISPs: if Service A is also a customer of ISP #1, you want to send traffic for them through that service instead of ISP #2.

The other nice thing to have is the reachability to the closest IXP, as quite often many CDNs have connections to those.

Beyond knowing IXP reachability and other-customers reachability, I don't think there are many other advantages for a smaller entity on the Internet, so a full Internet-wide BGP is not needed.
much as businesses need to have pre-written Play books for disaster recovery steps, human resources responses, and other common business impacting events, it looks like response boilerplate and planning for shootings in schools in workplaces need to be planned and thoroughly documented well before anything happens.

he used to be a time when only natural disasters were the thing most Dr planners were concerned about, today cyber terrorism as well as a shooter coming into a room or more things to add to their planning list.
In that case it seemed to me that the Stockfish devs tried to get the maximum compensation possible but wanted to get the dispute over with.
There isn’t any gross disrespect in using ChatGPT that wasn’t already there in the torrent of these copy+pasted memos after tragedies.

The disrespect comes from corpos exploiting and indulging in these opportunities for moral posturing. Whether a dean or a COO in some company uses ChatGPT, Fiverr, or the cheapest intern they can find to write these ”heartfelt” messages, it’s really just as disrespectful.

A company is a tax entity, and it doesn’t need to posture politically or morally. Nor does it really care (or is capable of caring, as a tax entity) about these things. It’s interesting to see the outrage it causes when it slips out that companies don’t honestly care. As if they ever did, as if there is something natural about a legal entity having a sense of morality.
Absolutely, and any reasonable person would agree. The problem here is the veiled threats about pulling a move like the left-pad author or worse.

When the world found out OpenSSL was maintained by one guy in a basement they rallied around him and supported him. From what it sounds like, the author of core-js is threatening to blow up the internet by deleting his package or weaponizing it with malware.
Box64 Can Now Run the Full Steam Linux Client on ARM Hardware
This is the main issue. What was weird is that they didn’t take responsibility for what they communicated. Whether they wrote the message with a template or from prior examples or from GPT, they should be taking ownership of the text they send.
Spiky workloads, safely persisting data, decoupling components, and enabling asynchronous processing are all things that can be provided by a stack or a heap as well. The call stack in any given programming language is a good example of a stack for handling spiky workloads, for instance. A min-heap is more flexible than a queue for handling async/decoupled/pubsub stuff (and arguably more correct for many use cases).

The thing that queues are good for is enforcing order: when I get to the front of the queue and it’s time to do my thing, I have a guarantee that anyone who entered the queue before me has already done their thing, and anyone who entered the queue after me has not yet had a chance to do their thing. This is a useful guarantee for tasks that have an order dependence, for example database operations looking to guarantee consistency.
Old place used to call it being a rested racehorse. Sometimes you would have to race (due to an organizational failure). Generally there would be some extra PTO (paid time off) in exchange.

These days, we give regular status updates and if a deadline is gonna be missed, we either find things to cut and/or push the deadline. Sometimes a date can't be pushed and there can be a crunch. This is viewed as an organizational failure. However, not considered overtime because devs are exempt employees. Managers usually give some time off after.
I set up Proxmox on one of my Pi 4s (using an external SSD) and am quite happy with it. Runs four different LXC containers (one of which is a public-facing ActivityPub server for testing) and gives me zero headaches, so am currently looking for a beefier alternative that has a proper M.2 slot and at least 16GB of RAM...

I do wish that alternative boards had better OS support (especially the Rockchip ones, which tend to have weird kernel builds, etc),
I once visited a house nobody had lived in for 70 years. It had an occasional caretaker, but pretty much everything in the house was original and 70+ years old.

Normally when you see old things, they are old and worn out, scratched, not-really-working, etc. However because this house was pretty much untouched for 70 years, everything was still in near-new condition, working well, looking smart, etc.

There was even a record player, classic AM radio, gas powered lights (and some electric ones too), lots of kitchen gadgets for peeling every vegetable imaginable, etc.

It felt like I was living in a 1940's film!
I don't think we disagree. Artists help you turn a relatively short and vague description into a finished artwork. The clients usually already provide very little information in comparison to the number of decisions needed to complete the work (e.g. choosing composition, theme, style, colors, lighting, etc.).

Working from vague prompts is exactly what the current AIs do. Follow up questions and ability to do precise edits are likely next steps in the evolution.
It means lots of new money has been created by loan formation as interest rates have been so low.

Thus assets will see their price rise. Certain hot assets will see large price rises.

This will continue until interest rates revert to the norm (whatever that is) and correctly price risk.
Those loans or better we should say that new loan potential is up for grabs for everybody.
all your thoughts and answers are functions of your previous thoughts and answers only?

all your memories are regurgitated memories of previous memories?

dont be so hard on yourself :)
Good writing makes the reader feel smart. Bad writing makes the reader feel the author is smart. The former is harder than the latter.
This is essentially discriminating non-LGBTQ+. This will just trigger retaliation further down the road. We need proper education for tolerance of all sometime around age 14+ onwards. Not going full berserk redictionary everything on the planet.
GE Hitachi's BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor
Shakespeare’s Missing Smile
Genius! Gott love it when simple ideas create game changing improvement.

I have 168 tabs open and regardless of how hard i organize them, it's still a mess. I will give this a try today.
Interesting approach and could solve a pain point for us.

I'm not sure about the no-code rules however. Whoever is using it will probably need to know enough about the data-model, that they'd likely be a programmer. As a programmer, I've found code is faster than no-code. I could be wrong about who uses it.

Will keep an eye on it.
If the woman who sent this email had edited out the ChatGPT tagline at the bottom of the text, no one would have noticed anything.

The fact that she was willing to use ChatGPT in the first place is a sign of how much value her emails add to the university.

Her title, in case you're wondering, is "Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion."

It says something about how bloated the administrative staff is that an "Associate Dean" can be replaced by something like ChatGPT.
Not sure I completely agree with this. It’s true that errors are feedback, and iterating from them makes progress. I just think it’s easy to get stuck in an inefficient loop. You’re making progress, no need to think harder.

When I first started programming for actual money (an embarrassing number of years ago now) I remember the old guy mentoring me wouldn’t let me use a debugger. “You have to think through the code, the debugger is the last resort”. I didn’t agree, it just looked like masochism and bravado from someone who hadn’t had good tools so I should suffer too.

Now that I’m the old guy, I recognise the wisdom. Stepping back, thinking through the problem, and you can write all that code without the inefficiency “run” “error” “modify”.

Or maybe that’s just how us old guys think.
Isn't that market-based finance?

It appears that can be entirely divorced from capitalism.

Just because we have demand driven resource exploitation doesn't mean that all of the profit has to be provided to a small over-class.

Indeed, wouldn't it create a greater ability to follow demand if the wealth were evenly distributed?

(We might ask if making the human race into the perfect resource-exploiting parasite is going to work well for us long term, but that is a very obvious limitation that diverges from the current discussion.)
Working on a nodejs/electron app called "canvas" (code hosted on a personal gitlab inst for now), core functionality being organizing all your data into "contexts". A context is identified with a context url - fe customerA/projectP/reports, each url part representing a layer on top of your data, using roaring bitmaps and lmdb underneath. Switching your context to customerB/projectR automatically changes your tabs(socketio based poc ff extension), it also exports all your data(data/abstr/notes, data/abstr/tabs, data/abstr/files etx) as part of a webdav exported "virt" fs tree. While the concept is not new, paired with the cli iface the ux is a huge boost to productivity, witch chokidar based monitoring of downloads and desktop and minio/s3, my drsktop is finally used as a virtual work desk and not as a showcase for the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Stay tuned
What are all those huge cylinders on the rooftops? Each one has a brown cone on top. I see hundreds of them. Pressurized water?
AI has yet to completely replace people in any industry. I fail to see how it would replace an industry that creates massive, complicated code bases in 10 years. Let alone 5. All roads seem to point to AI assisted work. Programmers will move “higher level”. That doesn’t mean they become poorly compensated.
Working on a nodejs/electron app called "canvas" (code hosted on a personal gitlab instance for now), core functionality being organizing all your data into "contexts". A context is identified by a context url, fe customerA/projectP/reports, each url part representing a layer on top of your data, using roaring bitmaps and lmdb underneath. Switching your context to customerB/projectR automatically changes your tabs(socketio based poc ff extension), it also exports all your data(internally data/abstr/notes, data/abstr/tabs, data/abstr/files etc) as part of a webdav exported "virtual" fs tree. While the concept is not new, paired with the cli iface the ux is a huge boost to productivity, esp with chokidar based monitoring of the os downloads and desktop folders and minio/s3; my desktop is finally used as a virtual work desk and not as a showcase for the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Stay tuned
Until there is a widely available open source model of how the economic system works (here and now) people will go on beating about the bush in eternal cycles.

The elements for this to happen are actually there. We are not talking about a detailed replica with real time data, but a reasonably accurate model that includes all the public data from central banks, private bank statements, public market valuations etc.

With such a system the question "excess liquidity sloshing around" is a specific query with a quantitative answer, not an endless, low-information discussion.
Thanks, that was the submitted link.
I suggest you look into Roger Scruton's interpretation
of Wittgenstein's private language argument. I think it might go something like this:

You want an explanation for the sensation of the color red? Alright, I'll try, as long as you help me out: what exactly is the sensation of the color red? I need to have a good grasp on what we're talking about here.

Can you describe it? It's okay, take your time.

FIN
Dancing is stupid
> Every story surrounding gun violence already sounds like it could be written by ChatGPT. The same points regurgitated over and over.

Shoutout to The Onion for satirising that very point that you mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"No_Way_to_Prevent_This",_Says...
Clearly there are pros and cons of remote work. Let's not pretend one is better than the other in every way.
I am not sure what you mean by “umbrella”.
It depends on what the queue is being used for.

If a queue is just being used to decouple a producer/consumer pair, then "it should be [almost] empty" is a reasonable notion, assuming consumer/producer are compute bound and there's no fundamental reason why one should be faster than the other...

Which brings us to the other type of use where things are being enqueued specifically as a means of waiting for resources that are in limited supply: maybe just compute if these are computationally heavy jobs, or maybe I/O bandwidth, etc. In that case we expect the queue to often be non-empty, and there's nothing wrong with that, even if there's potential to throw money/hardware at it to get the queue size down to zero!
You'd think so eh, that would certainly be the case nowadays.
I wait when game from like Dark Souls series is released and all concept art is generated by AI, to me it seems such game will have no style consistency, it will look like game that is is put together from market place props (eg. cheap garbage).

Because AI can generate very good looking art works, I don't think it is all there in making compelling, consistent, and visually pleasing art, simply because there are feed back loops, between multiple people, from concept art to end product.
I work in a large code base where we've told all of the developers to use dependency injection frameworks.

We are now using a mixture of 3 different dependency injection frameworks, manual dependency injection, and instantiating dependencies in the constructor.
I started using blender again recently and the UI has major improvements, but mostly learning the shortcuts pays off big time (i.e. rx for rotate x, sy for scale y, gx for move x : in global space, gxx will move x in local space and so on).
Changing space key in the settings to pop up a search toolbar, etc.

My point being, each software has its own mechanics and takes a while to become productive at it. Blender has a lot of content online from users, with tips and tutorials, so it’s currently a good space to be, learning wise.

CAD support is lacking though. Glad linking CAD Sketcher here found more users willing to try it out. Hopefully it gets feedback/support, helping to its development.

Thanks
> I’m just getting the default route from both upstream routers.

If they offer the option, instead of a "default-only" feed from each ISP, you may wish to see if they have "default-plus-our-customers" feed: if Service A is also a customer of ISP #1, then why bother sending the packets to ISP #2 in the first place?

* https://support.allstream.com/knowledge-base/bgp-request-inf...

In general, at some point you'll hit a Tier 1 network, after which it won't matter, but until that point getting the connectivity to other customers of the ISPs could be useful. The other reachability destination to pay attention to would be of IXPs, where CDNs often connect to.

* https://bgp.he.net/

* https://bgpview.io/
What would you say is the best (but affordable!) way to solder SMT parts like this kind of connectors with small pitches?

https://no.mouser.com/images/marketingid/2016/img/163696678....

Last time I tried using the basics (Hakko soldering iron, with all kind of tips, flux, different types of solder...) I only got a bad soldering with lots of contacts between pins, and some other pins seemed to make a poor connection.

Also, as those are not very common parts, I could not have it soldered in a fab like JLCPCB and the like...
It's the sort of writing I could never do, because I'd be agonizing over every little thing and would make no progress.

Conversely, I'm surprised anyone at all read the email. Surely this has to be a scan the subject line and delete for most people.