skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wrote this myself, although I did try to chatGPT-style it a bit. I thought the final third would serve to identify it as non-AI as it goes off on a tangent about isotopes...

> "The periodic table is a systematic ordering of elements by certain charcteristics including: the number of protons they contain, the number of electrons they usually have in their outer shells, and the nature of their partially-filled outermost orbitals."

> "Historically, there have been several different organizational approaches to classifying and grouping the elements, but the modern version originates with Dmitri Mendeleeve, a Russian chemist working in the mid-19th century."

> "However, the periodic table is also somewhat incomplete as it does not immediately reveal the distribution of isotopic variants of the individual elements, although that may be more of an issue for physicists than it is for chemists."

GPTZero says: "Your text is likely to be written entirely by AI"

Now I'm feeling existential dread... perhaps I am an AI running in a simulation and I just don't know it?
“Let’s put a pun in the headline, to make it pop”
For non-graphical computing tasks that require a GPU.
> it, if ChatGPT thinks the Python list object should have a .is_sorted() property, that’s a pretty good indication that maybe it should.

Yes! And when it hallucinates references for articles, often times those articles probably should exist…
I'm old enough to remember free AOL floppy disks. (I'm actually pretty sure I know where one still sits unopened in a drawer).

The free floppys were better than cds because you could wipe them and have a perfectly usable disk.
I'm not missing the point, I understood what you were saying and I flat out told you that the job listing was accurate. You just seemingly ignore that and go on babbling about your own idea of how our hiring process worked. It's like you live in a different dimension. Maybe take the portal back or something.
Oakland declares state of emergency after cyberattack hobbles government tech
You are right, probably not.
I think a lot of comparisons about oligarchy miss the point.

Sure America doesn't have an oligarchy as defined by the textbook. But that means that the textbook definition is inadequate. It doesn't take away the fact that rich families control politics in America using its various media, lobbying, and charitable instruments. The oligarchy in America is very much quid pro quo. You donate to politician (ahem, their campaigns, fundraisers and charities) and politician does things for you.

Sure America doesn't have an oligarchy that looks like Russian oligarchy. But American political system is also different from Russian political system. The rules of the game are different in the two countries. Russian oligarchs are playing the game according to Russian rules, American oligarchs are playing the game according to American rules.
The Cold Warriors 1.0 had the concept, Balance of Power.
It is worth noting that Meta is also in a financial death spiral, just like Twitter, so the comparison doesn't just stop there.

They've made a massive gamble on pivoting to VR to save them from irrelevance but that seemingly has already flopped.
It's cute, but the joke's on them: I don't really use Facebook for anything but marketplace these days. Cutting social media use has been a great boost for my mental health.
Nit: Django and all its required dependencies are pure Python. (It does have an optional dependency on Argon2 for password hashing, though, which uses C.)
You make a great point about how hard this may be to tune perfectly. I think the answer though is, "it'll be electronic and the app will guide you on which screws to turn, if any". Since we're at 12 speeds and going on 13, this is quickly becoming a difficult dance to perform even with current tech.
It’s hard to be worse than wrecking the world economy until central planning had to bail them out.
Nice to see they blame other generations while new generations don't get and offered close to advantage and opportunity boomers had. Now they lie because truth is we are in a generational wealth war not just between classes like it used to.
python -m pip install

then the 'pip' is running the same version as the 'python' command (I believe, can you check and comment latter?)

(you'd still have to check your IDE if you are not running python from the CLI)
Twitter went from an unprofitable business to a very unprofitable business. It may be comforting to call it a “media narrative” but facts are facts. Maybe they can somehow turn it around but I don’t see how.
People who pay for customer support probably expect to consume more than average.
The nuvinci hub is really interesting. I suspect it is not as efficient as a derailler at transferring power, but it is more efficient at getting power out of your body at the cadence you want. Some bikes pair it with a non-metal chain and it is very quiet.
So graphs? Which are matrices.
Yes, insofar as they have a defined semantics in terms of industry standards, in particularly exchange data meaningfully with conventional software.

From that point of view a system can also demonstrate "understanding" by the act of converting text into database records. Imagine a system that reads a newspaper article about a sports game and extracts: the teams, who won, where was the game played, what was the score? A lot of grounding is accomplished by normalizing "New England" and "Patriots" to "New England Patriots" or better yet <https://dbpedia.org/page/New_England_Patriots>.

That is, embedding in a formal system is an embodiment subject to the discipline of that universe as opposed to that of an animal in ours. If it were possible to reliably extract facts from text, humans would no problem applying logic and databases to ask questions like "how many cars are in the rental lot right now?"
You probably want conda if you're in this situation, as it basically solves for these issues (but doesn't have great docs for actually adding packages to it, unfortunately).
Come on, you know that the whole point is to be independent from gatekeepers, and walking towards real digital freedom.

Spamhaus is doing a really bad job. They just need to grow up and improve.
Interrupting:
I assume you are a wealthy, healthy person living in a wealthy, pleasant city.
If you compare a CEO to a normal person living a wealthy, healthy life in a wealthy, pleasant city, I think being a CEO is actually a bad choice.
Most parts of the world are so bad that for people who live in them, the idea that being a CEO is actually a bad thing sounds mocking or ridiculous, and it's hard to get past that.
I don't understand why pip doesn't do it like npm. Admittedly, I don't write Python code much, but "npm install xyz@1.2.3" simply installs to a node_modules/ folder in the current directory. Very easy to parse and nuke if I need to. I don't really understand how venv and its weird shell prompt are a better solution.
Great images of some old machines. Spending my life with modern CNC machines I'm always pleased to see machines of yesteryear.
The cloud era seems to exacerbate these kinds of issues. The only way to truly have "long term" service is to be a subscriber, not a "buy once" customer. If you're a part of their revenue next year, they're going to try to keep you. Otherwise, you're just one excuse away from being dropped.

The "right to repair" laws being developed might help here, but I don't know what this means for anything "connected to a service". If the service goes down, are there laws that say we need to be able to connected to something else? I'm not aware of much.

I mean, as an Arlo customer, I knew this was coming, but that's because I've worked in tech for over 20 years, and know none of these companies can operate a plan that looks ahead more than 2 years.

Ultimately technology is either subscribed, or "rented" for an undefined period of time. It's never "bought". It's gonna take some serious regulation to make that happen, and I'm not even sure how that will work.
Because AI-paraphrased copy/paste jobs and plagiarism are the future of academic writing!
> For example, the book outlines how in their thirties, many men enter the managerial ranks at work. Even though their primary occupational interest was not in executive functions but in their original work (e.g., engineering or accounting), men will often get promoted into being a manager. At this point, many men get stuck in a role that does not interest them.

Not just a problem in the tech industry! This is apparently a part of the human condition. That's some consolation at least. :)
Even if it was 20$/mo (higher than top yearly average), I'd consider it if it became a privacy service and focus shifted from the users to the product.
At least in the Dahl case, they're explicitly trying to change the tone of the works, and not just the "content" -- whatever that word is supposed to mean in the context of literature.

Everybody's family is different, but my childhood self would have been pretty disillusioned to discover my parents censoring books on my behalf. I really can't see how that's a good lesson for the kids, especially when you can just buy contemporary works that are as PC/woke (or not) as you want them to be.
python3 includes "venv". If you don't have an existing preference, use that.

python3 -m venv ../my-venv-dir # wherever you like
. ../my-venv-dir/bin/activate
pip install whatever

you can close your terminal and "rm -r" the venv dir, and no trace will be left. (or you can just "deactivate" and use it again later)
SciTE has been my notepad replacement for twenty years. I love its speed, simplicity, and lua scripting. I only wish there were an easier way to add syntax highlighting for new languages.
>rich people make stupid decisions. And stupid, in this case, means unproductive for the society/enviroment etc etc in general.

I completely agree but I think you've defined rich wrong. There's only so many multimillionaires and billionaires and most of their money gets plowed into business ventures (even if dumb ones), investments and other things like that that aren't too off the wall.

The economic volatility comes from the much, much more numerous hordes of upper middle class doctors, lawyers, techies and whatnot that are "post scarcity" enough that they can swing a fair amount of money around in pursuit of that.

When a large subset of them decides to do something, like buy toilet paper, or TSLA, or a second house or whatever, there's a huge effect and that's where you get bad tulip mania style volatility and economic patterns from. Nobody on food stamps and nobody with millions to their name lost their ass on beanie babies.
By this definition how does golang not have oop then?
Nowhere in the official Python documentation (where 99% of new python users are going to go) does it warn or even talk about Linux and Debian specific issues like only using apt packaged versions of dependencies. It wasn't even until recent years that pip gave a hint or warning something might break in those setups. The situation with Python on Debian has been pretty bad IMHO with a cloistered group of people saying the status quo is just fine because it works for them exclusively.
I’ll say reading the books to my kids, I can see the desire for some edits to keep up with the times. I have to censor a lot with my kids. Same with calvin and Hobbes.

It’s not that hard to make the edits yourself though and there is value in seeing the cultural changes.

It’s sort of like plastic surgery on an old person. Not fooling anyone but easier on the eyes I guess.
Yeah, that's generally my approach. Definitely don't freeze it in freezer bags though, as they stick together making it difficult to use it in the intended amounts.
> So the solution is?

Always use venv.
If I didn't have A installed and then I install B which transitively installs A, then I expect that uninstalling B will also uninstall A. If only one system is managing the packages, then it is able to do this. It will have a record of the things I've explicitly installed so it knows what dependencies are safe to uninstall.
Native speaker, I got it the first time. I don't think that has anything to do with it, it's just fully ambiguous and your bias will determine which meaning you land on first.
HN has multiple algorithms to prevent sink controversial topics and the like, and the removal of "How", "X ways" etc. could also be seen as editorialization.

I honestly don't see a way to balance the two interests, unless a voluntary opt-out to the algorithm (such as HN's /new) also suffices to comply with the new law.
My New Favourite C64 One-Liner? [video]
"Financial death spiral"

$120B in revenue, $20B in profit last year
hi, im looking towards a mesh network. is there a way to do it with these boards?
My hopes were to learn some geeky facts but the article did not deliver.

Blew my mind to read that they can be safely landed and reused though. That’s new information to me.

For geeky facts I found these pages:

https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/balloons.html

https://www.nasa.gov/scientific-balloons/types-of-balloons
Can we all take a moment to enjoy the sounds of social media's business model imploding ?
Thanks for the recommendation, yes it does seem right up my alley :) I'll give it a go
>> While pip alone is often sufficient for personal use, Pipenv is recommended for collaborative projects as it’s a higher-level tool that simplifies dependency management for common use cases.

There are many, but it recommends one. I don't think any reasonable person will actually go out and try all 7(?) of them.
Native app requires re-download to upgrade. There's no such need for web apps.

Native apps to me is just another kind of vendor-lockin.
> Back when we had Jenkins slaves, one of our devops guys set a pipeline up that pip installed different versions over the top of system packages causing weird intermittent failures everywhere.

Not everyone might like containers, but using them for CI seems like a good way to avoid situations like this, at least when viable (e.g. web development). You get to choose what container images you need for your build, do whatever is necessary inside of them and they're essentially thrown away after once you're done with what you need to do, cache aside. They also don't have any significant impact or dependencies on the system configuration either, as long as you have some sort of a supported container runtime.
Venv in a container is unnecessary ritual. It's a container, it has its own entire root filesystem...
What are rich creative tools? Do you mean something like Figma or Photoshop? Or are there other tools in that category, like tools for creative writing?
This is tangential but I asked it in another thread a little too late. But with the Fed's interest payments exceeding their asset income interest for the first time in history, does this effectively cause an increase in M1 like QE? The official charts seem to imply that the answer is "no" but I don't understand why.
Then you get to deal with conflict resolution, which is a rare dragon that is kind of confusing and sometimes has to ask the user which state they'd like to keep.
The first in local-first is relevant. These aren’t local-only apps that are unaware of the network (as is typical with native apps), they are applications that can sync data among instances and combine concurrent offline changes by different users.

That’s where the complexity comes in. Desktop apps have the same inherent complexity, they just resolve it by leaving it up to the user to email report_marks_changes_fina_final.docx instead of having the software resolve it.
Throughput likely, but how about latency?
Is there anything that can be done with GPUs being so fast to trade computer time for developer time? Like, would a point cloud or some other approximation be easier to work with?
In a gold rush, the guy selling shovels makes the most reliable income.

These models run on hardware. Pretty specific hardware.
Amazon typically isn't spending the lion share on user acquisition, it's plowing it into expansion and infra. Most recent issues/losses were due to a massive investment in physical fulfillment centers due to pandemic demand.
That's exactly what I do, and advocate.

I've been suckered to buy cloud-shit that I wasn't aware it was. When helping some family with a failed wifi/router, I got some newer Linksys router. Brought it over to them, and demands an online account with some app on the phone.

Looked online with my phone, and verified they went cloud only and no reasonable (non-ddwrt, etc) way to bypass it. I wrote "DEFECTIVE" in sharpie on the bottom of the router, packaged it right back up and took it back to the retailer for a refund.

I bought a non-Linksys/Cisco brand that didn't play stupid games. Changed the SSID, BSSID, and WPA2 config to be the old one, and finished the install in just a few minutes. It does its job and just works. Has been for like 4+ years.
Even human drawers might do all right, if they're selling physical drawings. People will still put hand-painted canvasses on their walls, just like people still enjoy an acoustic guitar concert, even if the guitarist isn't world-class. The authentic connection with a human being is where the art survives. If you're not an amazing artist, you can still be an authentic one.

But if you're just churning out commercial illustrations, then sure, an AI can do that now, or soon.
https://youtu.be/1it8-y4gWwg

Activist cast and crew. Especially Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick Sargent. No mistaking it.

Agnes Moorehead and Paul Lynde are gay icons from before anyone could be gay.
apt handles this by marking packages as manually installed. You and the author could both be happy with that solution but afaik pip doesn't currently store such information.
Interesting, though AFAIK a secure tunnel is only useful for a net.Conn, not an io.ReadWriter. What's the usecase for a "secure tunnel" over a bytes.Buffer?

btw, I noticed that the decrypt function reads a 32-bit message length and immediately allocates a slice of that size. That means an attacker can send 0xFFFFFFFF and cause you to allocate 4GiB.
Electronic shifting is everything I don't want on a bike.

- Another battery to recharge

- Proprietary battery format making replacements difficult

- Needing an app to make simple adjustments. Hopefully it runs and is still compatible after 10+ years of ownership!

Bike components are wonders of precision machining and modern materials but conceptually, they have a beautiful simplicity. Not to get too "give up programming for woodworking" but all of that goes flying out the window the moment you add a proprietary wireless protocol and closed hardware in the middle of it.
> You can imbue art with meaning and use art to communicate with other humans

Yes, but the moment you publish one piece the AIs will be able to crank variations on it at the push of button. So artists might think twice about publishing.
This definitely looks like it targets big pages and personalities. If that’s true then that’s really cheap no?

If it targeted normal users like me (I pay for twitter blue, for example) then it would let me do things like:

- set chronological newsfeed

- see less or no ads

That’s it. That’s enough to get me to pay
This is why I laugh when people here pretend that SV isn't also built upon copying, stealing, and cheating.
Yet they are still writing everything in C.

A well-polished turd is still a turd.
I'm Swiss and American. Comparing culture is difficult, but limiting it to willingness to adopt software for large enterprise and adapt the business, I agree with the assessment.

Ironically, the increased calcification of those large enterprise has lead in Europe, especially Germany, in markets where competition is possible, the very fast displacement of large enterprises by startups. E.g. n26
The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI
The founder's personal site (https://stephjohnphoto.com) also has (many) examples of ICMP.
Pinecil is $40 now. I got one and can't figure out how to power it, it complains about my power source. Is it picky? Any ideas?
> No. It has had numerous outages in the last 4 years.

That's just plain false. There was one major outage in 2019. Since then, nothing of note.
Twitter iterates like a startup and Facebook steals what works like a big old company.
No a lack of empathy here. OP was saying there is little difference between automating art and automating a bank teller. For factory workers, I'm not saying its a job that requires no training but it doesn't requires years of college and 40/60k in debt. Clearly the ceiling for getting a decent paid job to raise a family without massive time/money/education investments is skyrocketing but I didn't point that out in my post so obviously I don't care.

Honestly this whole "adapt" thing is a load of nonsense parroted by people who aren't immediately under threat and have nothing to fear. Who is going to adapt at 30/40/50 years old? How about people who just graduated art school? Go right back into college? Please.

Edit: For the record, I care about anyone getting displaced but not all displacement is of equal level. If highly educated/skilled labor is now at risk this world isn't prepared for what's about to come.

Edit2: Removed my mischaracterization comment. Was wrong to assume bad faith in this response.
It's also interesting how things like AWS Lambdas, Graviton, etc, are exposing all the shortcomings of the various pip install, venv, poetry, etc, approaches.

It's not impossible to figure it out, but you end up spending a lot of time to come up with something that works locally, within containers, inside a CI/CD system, and then deployed out across things like Lambdas, or non x64 machines.

Then, after it's all working, upgrading the Python version, or an extension that has C code, etc, repeats some of the hard bits.
Same here. Non-smoker, but I'm in my mid-50s and [I like to think] fairly healthy. I too found that trivial, with no prep. It might be a bit more interesting if it carried on timing after the 40 seconds were up and you hit another button, when you finally had to breathe... or there was some kind of "grading" or league table. As it stands, it superficially appeals to our competitive streak. But is so easy, it's a bit of a disappointment.
> I revoked sudo privs immediately for Jenkins (I didn't add them in the first place)

If you allowed sudo in your jenkins jobs you're morally barred from blaming python for screwing up the system.
And this is why my wife is in charge of canning - yes, these go through the pressure cooker, and I should probably have mentioned that!
I mean, humans can't distinguish AI written text either - which is why this tool was built?

I don't see how it will be possible to build such a tool either as the combination of words that can come after another is finite.
I've used various techniques for slow sync flash throughout my photography career. Worked exceptionally well for stage photography, night-time events, electronica concerts, and the like. Slow sync flash is when you let ambient light expose the film or sensor for a while, before you freeze the scene by activating the flash late. It really takes "painting with light" to a new level, though it's of course not the only way to use intentional camera movement.

Nearly all my photographs from such events use some kind of intentional camera movement together with a delayed or early flash sync. Slow sync flash is a delightful technique that you can be really, really creative with. Try it with double exposures, for instance, or with weirdly synced monoblocs.

I've seen great photos taken of dancers and animals in movement done that way. Moreover, this technique (if you've got it buried in your camera settings somewhere), sets you free to really disregard some of the holy tenets of photography, which is to never, ever move the camera, ever. Nay, in fact it prompts you to be dynamic and jittery, to lounge forward into the music, and let the final image really SHOW how great that moment really was.