skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is what we had in communist times in Eastern Europe. Absolutely everyone had a job since not having a job was illegal. It might not have been a useful one, or a well paid one, or the job of your dreams, but everyone was given a job to do, regardless of how pointless it was, even if you didn't pursue any higher education or vocational training.

You were always given something to do for the state, no matter your situation. That's why automation was so shit compared to the west in the '80s. Why invest in advanced automation to make goods faster and cheaper when you already have endless cheap labor you need to keep busy so they don't revolt, and you don't have much consumer demand for goods since everyone is more or less equally poor?

Granted, most people weren't terribly bothered by this back then, as most jobs, even the shitty ones, came with free housing from the government and free schooling for your kids. So as long as you kept your mouth shut, your head down, showed up to your useless busy-work job, and didn't rock the boat, you'd could have a pretty easy life regardless of your lack of skills or education.
Have you taken the time to read any of the reference material? Have you looked at any of the actual data? Are you aware of how CD with trunk based development works?

You're making assertions that imply you haven't considered anything but your own bias. Your question only works if you have no understanding of how these things actual function

The goal is to reduce the amount of time it takes for a change to land in production. Your eight hour work day implies you have developers only in a single location too, instead of the distributed work force most of us have now.

You seem to be (blissfully?) unaware of how high performing organizations operate.
No change there, then... :-P
That seems like bullshit to me, seems to me that homelessness is mostly a symptom of not having a house. You can perfectly well be addicted and mentally ill in your own home.
Are you Sydney ?
This is why I advocate not just tinfoil hats but tinfoil shoes that you change every time you leave the home.
He was much worse. An actual communist who closed down and locked up opposition media.
We aren't even clear about what the difference is between AI and intelligence. These are just loaded words with no clear definition.

Given that we don't even fully understand how the human brain works we can't even specify how close or how different these things are to the way we think.

Articles like this aren't really open minded. How can you claim AI is a mirror when you don't even fully understand the thing that it is reflecting?
Agree am from north and have friends from south who will visit me in the west and waltz right in with shoes on even on nice rugs like Rick James at Eddie Murphys pad.
Do we? Besides takeoff and landing, it is pretty common to take off shoes during flights.
Question is if its really that bad, the contamination.
If you would have the ability to zoom into your hands at at any time you would see colonies of various bacteria all over your hands. Is it really harming you? I agree though that a certain level of hiegene must be present.
The non-local and not end to end encrypted nature of this are my only turn offs. I suspect that's the case for a lot of folks. You seem like the kind of person that wouldn't go looking at everyone's notes for fun and profit but that's not enough of a guarantee.

Are you planning to add encryption at some point? You'd get at least 1 more user if you do! ;)
I ordered mine on June 2019. Still haven't received anything. It's seriously put me off buying anything else from Purism.
My recent solution to this problem -- for an entire static site -- was to use HTTP Basic authentication with CloudFlare Pages: https://github.com/garrison/cloudflare-pages-shared-password
Japanese I have met go as far as having an extra pair of slippers for walking into their toilet.

IMHO it is a good idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan#Toilet_slippe...
In most shoes-free houses I know we also rarely touch the floor, we have indoor slippers.
I said centuries, not the 1930s. Industrialization culture upended many tried and true practices that had been used for a millennium and not all of their replacements are equally sustainable, even if they are more efficient in the short term.

The best thing society could do for itself is stop obsessing over growth-seeking and find a way to live sustainably again.
Maybe other readers will be able to see that the example includes many different tests when things are declared and not initialized. The goto example specifically contains int i = 0, but users are less likely to run in to that one since it is goto.

Using an uninitialized variable is Undefined behaviour. Thats the point.
Wasting news cycles on the question "is Bing Chat sentient" is pointless, because the answer is completely irrelevant.

Let's agree for a second Bing Chat is sentient. Ok so what? Now let's agree that it's not sentient. Again, so what?

What is the real-world consequence of agreeing one way or the other? It's like asking "Is Bing Chat more like the colour blue or like the color green?" with people arguing for both sides. Again, no matter what color we ascribe to Bing Chat is completely inconsequential.

We should rather spend time making sure that the AI of the future will be democratized and not concentrated in the hands of the few, be it governments, multinational corporation, terrorists or whatever. But for this, "Open"AI would actually have to become true to their name.
my favorite way around this is command line:

oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'

same as any authenticator app but you don't have to take out your phone.

On a mac it's brew install oath-toolkit to get this oathtool executable.

Then I alias in .zshrc like:

alias auth_twitter="oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'"

and backup my whole .zshrc file with all the codes.
Yes, that is an annoyance. I think that Steam should put more pressure on developers to make old versions of their games available. I am glad that the software support is there (even if the UI is buried; it was originally intended to support beta–testing programs, complete with passwords to unlock the beta releases), and that developers sometimes use it, but I wish it was a formal requirement for publishing on Steam.
technical perspective, ignoring business perspective: resolving the bugs by writing tests is excellent advice, especially once a component is sufficiently complex. get regression tests in place first, so you can sense how may new unknown defects a "fix" for a known defect is introducing. Michael Feathers' book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" describes one approach.

somewhat political perspective: if the org doesn't value testing or software quality, wait until there's obviously a business need to lift quality. E.g. the CTO is saying things such as "constant defects in component X are destroying most of the value of our product", users complain that the Y feature keeps getting broken in successive releases, customers refuse to renew subscriptions or upgrade to a new version until Y feature works reliably. Then propose the plan to improve QA by setting up an automated regression test suite, to allow refactor-to-test of the offending code to happen in a controlled, low risk way.
When making autonomous helicopters the "project went so well, that the researchers decided there was no further work left to do on that topic."
It should be pointed out that a lot of people believe the hostage crisis was not just mismanagement or bad luck, but collusion between the Reagan campaign and Iranian leadership to delay resolving the crisis until after the election. I think it's now widely agreed that Iran wanted Reagan to win and extended the hostage crisis for that reason, and that Reagan's campaign had back-channel communication with the Iranian leadership; what's not known is whether he promised them anything.

Congress investigated and concluded that there was no collusion, i.e. that Reagan's illegal arms sales to Iran were unrelated, but unsurprisingly, many are not convinced. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_th... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis.
“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed.”

—Jimmy Carter

He seemed like a pretty decent human being; a rarity for that office.
>In a financial world, a bank should never print money.

Except banks routinely do "print money" (if you agree that credit and money are effectively the same). Even without delving into workings of our financial system, there are enough stories of banks making mistakes which erroneously increase their liabilities to clients. Banks simply revert such mistakes if they can or sue clients if money were withdrawn before such mistake was found. So it's much closer to fuzzy/eventual consistency.
I wonder if it's country-dependent too.
The Mesa drivers matrix – status of open source GPU drivers
It is powerful, but it's not predictable. It's thousands of monkeys on typewriters, where one eventually writes a meaningful sentence.
Lots of sound advice, I especially like the mention of lead-free solder not being bad at all and the pencil soldering iron. Some surprises though:

- the multimeter should not be an afterthought like it seems to be in the article.

- I now tend to recommend buying a logic analyzer before buying an oscilloscope unless you're doing analog voodoo. Most of the time you're troubleshooting why is that darned peripheral over whatever bus is not reponding properly to your commands. Even a saleae clone is fine for most hobby work and won't break the bank if you're not happy (but please buy genuine ones if you can afford them!).
Thanks for quick answers, all clear now!
These articles debating consciousness of gpt variants reminds me of the debate about what “colour” are your bits:
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

If the outcome is the same does it matter if the bits that constructed the outcome were “coloured” as Conscious or Not?

Then we get into the classic p-zombie debate which afaik has no resolution: because it’s private qualia you can never know for sure if your fellow human actually feels sentience or is just faking it. Even more so for a computer, right?
I thought he was going to do single-point threading.
>They would rather call a human with the ability to actually solve their problems.

Unfortunately a lot of humans in customer support are also failing to solve my problem since they have little say in the system, and are mostly meat based automatons following a script or logic flow chart they've been given. If your problem doesn't fall into what they've been taught to do, well, then tough shit for you, you might as well have been talking to an AI bot instead of the metatag getting paid minimum wage to take shit from customers angry at the corporation for failing to provide the service they took your money for.
In Japan it's common to rinse dog feet after getting back from a walk, if the dog doesn't have his own shoes.
Good callout. For the record, I was referring to paid work and official unemployment numbers.
Cruise has started aggressively scaling its fleet of driverless cars, that are currently taxiing people without a human driver..

I'm not sure if its some weird human psychology thing going on, but the amount of posts and emotional responses claiming that the current advances in AI are worthless is kind of crazy. AI is without a doubt going to change society, and I suppose that is scary, but we are only at the beginning.
And you downplaying AI in every single thread like it's something completely insignificant is even less compelling. Are you seriously not at least a little impressed with recent developments?
Nyc’er here. If you wear shoes in your house/apt in this city, I’m sorry but you’re disgusting.

On an average day, you’re standing on the subway, at work, on the sidewalk, and in public bathrooms.

You’re tracking all types of feces, urine, and who knows what else (every day is trash day).

No, just no.
And all that might take is adding a line of text.
Japan to grant residency to high-earning professionals after 1 year
Unfortunately, a lot of universities and companies probably consider that his handling of this debacle makes him uniquely qualified to come work for them.
Not meaning this as a flippant comment, but other than the obvious “eww” factor, what are the consequences of having more FIC in one’s house due to wearing outside shoes indoors?
Tip: Solderwick goes bad after while.
Tissue in a lab is not equivalent to a whole organism in drug testing, and what works in one may not work at all in the other. It's a step forward but it still has limited use
I don't think you can say he was in favor of communism, he was ultimately in favor of Chavez. That may have something to do with the fact that it's called "chavismo" and not "communism".

He did seize private oil companies for the state. He had a lot of propaganda with his TV program and whatnot, and bullying and demonizing opponents. But he was popularly elected. I think even your short sentence above is an exaggeration. (This is not my first consideration of the man. I've listened to him in his original Spanish.)
I have to beleive this isn't unique to NYC, unless there's some other correlation I'm not getting.

Just good practice not to walk around inside your own home with shoes that walked on who-did-who-knows-what outside your home.
Discussions `https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-695-type-parameter-syntax/2...`
FYI: Looking at the homepage and the video Firefox showed me a message that this website is slowing it down
No. Zbigniew Brzezinski said in a French magazine interview that they purposely baited the Soviets into invading Afghanistan to give them their own Vietnam.

In the late 90s, Zbigniew said that it was worth Al Qaeda’s rise by saying something like it was better to end the Soviet Union than to have a few pissed off Muslim terrorists.

Of course, Zbigniew’s partner David Rockefeller was accused of propping up Carter as the Trilateral’s candidate. There’s derisive articles about it in the NY Times.
How does Apple verify that the correct amount is paid? Do they audit Google's search finances?
What is the merit here?
Like a lot of skills / crafts to some extent you can trade hours of experience for dollars. You will probably learn more and produce better joints by melting $50 of solder than buying a $500 iron.

You "can" intermix real solder with lead-free but thats another skill type thing where you might be somewhat better off with one reel of leaded for rework. Assuming you get into rework. If you get into ancient Tek o-scopes you'll need solder containing a little silver, etc, there's an infinite variety to the hobby.

Some fluxes turn into a sticky mess and you'll rapidly learn you need flux remover, so there is such a thing as "too much flux".

One workholding tool you'll need if you get into thru-hole digital is a piece of wood the size of your pcb, you insert your sockets, place wood on top, flip over, wood holds sockets in place, solder away...

If you don't understand the specs and limitations of your instrument, don't waste money on it. Find a guy who's into the hobby and has hand-me-downs and get your oscope that way. If you don't understand why you can't run full bandwidth on a 1x probe or coherently explain why you need a high BW scope you're mostly wasting money. On the other hand I am spoiled by mixed-signal oscopes that can decode I2C and many other protocols "on the fly" pretty cool. Likewise with power supplies, if you know why you need dual outputs, then you need dual outputs, but if you're not into that aspect of the hobby... likewise DC output over 18V or so, or currents over three amps, if you don't already know why you need that, you don't need that.

I would suggest that "pretty much everyone" needs clip leads. You'll rapidly learn why some are unimaginably cheap and others cost $5 each, you can pay once for the tool or you can pay in frustration every time you use a tool LOL.

(edited to add WRT the above, you'll rapidly learn the difference between low cost and cheap. A 1970s HP solid state scope is very low cost, but not cheap, for example. And a noob will not be capable of doing work that would have been cutting edge in 1975)

But what do I know I only got started in this madness in 1980 by assembling a Heathkit AM radio kit, which still works BTW.
Is the Universe Infinite?
"I have never submitted a paper without firmly believing that the data were correct and accurately presented."

which is another way of saying... "it's not a lie if you believe it"

To give them the benefit of the doubt though, if they realized the data was wrong they should have requested a retraction. That they didn't after being requested to do so speaks a lot, to me at least.
Pulled this together per the request of a few friends. Let me know what you think!
Protect him from what, exactly?
It would be cool if cold fusion turned out to be real after all these years.
I mostly agree with you but sometimes through hole joints just won't wick all the way because of the extra surface tension around the pin on the opposite side of the pcb. Not a huge deal if you can access it, but if you can't, like under an electrolytic cap, it's a pain. Even with my metcal and chemtronics wick. Sometimes preheating the joint can help but I almost always end up just destroying the cap.
Yeah I tend to agree. Another way of looking at it is that consistency helps curb complexity, and complexity is our biggest nemesis. If breaking consistency is necessary, so be it. Sometimes it’s the only way forward, especially so for horizontal scalability. But at the same time, if we don’t have consistency within small units, we get circumstantial complexity for no good benefit.

As usual, balancing trade offs is better than following dogma, and within our current technological paradigm I don’t see any alternative but to minimize inconsistency for large distributed systems. Perhaps in the future we find something that eliminates a bunch of these problems altogether, but that’s not today.
^ This. I'm a BE dev, but occasionally do FE maintenance.
I wrote a few pages of Typescript with a young FE developer and it pulled in a ton of Babel dependencies on build which was literally 90% of the packed archive.
I still have no idea what they were needed for, neither it seems did the FE dev.
I just finished building a similar tool: https://utiliti.dev/private-note/

Currently it’s just for plaintext, but might allow for more complex things like the website.

The password is stored in the url after the # so it’s never sent to the server.

I was going to post this project after I build some more utilities.
I have been with network solutions for registration from the beginning and panix.com cheap-web for primary dns.

http://www.panix.com/web/

They are actual unix sysadmins and very easy to deal with.
I remember IPX over parallel... Actually I don't. I have no idea how we got it working back then in almost pre-internet times.
Doesn't Galactic Civilizations 2 qualifies ? (Maybe for not particularly high values of "experienced".)
Each task has the property to complicating over the time exceeding the capabilities of the one who solves it
Can you make your point more directly? I'm not sure what you mean.

Anecdotally, whenever I've failed at solving a problem myself through online/self-serve tools, I have _never_ been able to then solve it by being connected to an Customer Service bot - but I've had pretty good results when speaking with an actual human. If I'm reading your implication correctly that "nowadays Customer Support people aren't useful" - I disagree.
I think the obvious answer here is that AI does not have agency.

If you ask it to be a dinosaur, it will be a dinosaur. If you ask it to be a narcissistic teen it will be one and so on. There's no coherent personality behind it.

Because it is weights maximizing a probability distribution. And I don't say that with derision. It probably has learned circuits for many complex behaviors, but there's no agency. If it has agency you wouldn't need RLHF. You could just say "don't do X", and it would indeed not do X because it is an agent that can take actions / has a coherent sense of self.

The day we stop needing RLHF is the day I think we need to start seriously investigating moral questions.
I had the same question. The strains of bacteria in question are nearly universal and only specific serotypes cause disease; it's unclear that the E. coli you track around on the bottom of your shoes is any more dangerous that the E. coli you'll encounter by touching a tree or a doorknob.
I'm curious what happens if the layout of the room changes (somebody puts a backpack on the table where your coaster goes through.

That could even be some kind of multiplayer game mode where one person builds and another person tries to physically destroy your path in real life.
Sounds like an excuse.
Is that really that different to the "open office door" policy that Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard espoused in "The HP Way" for decades?
> Welcome to large companies (who may still get more people browsing from IE than populations of entire countries)

Would like more info on this and examples of the companies you're talking about. How are they turning a profit from the 0.25% of the population using IE.

> and government agencies (good government agencies cannot afford not to support a wide array of old, weird, and unsupported browsers)

How can they not afford to support it? I don't see how they're raking in massive amounts of extra tax income, political goodwill, or providing a huge amount of value by supporting old browsers. I've not been in a local library, in the UK at least, that didn't have Chrome installed. The only people left using IE are boomers and last time I checked they're the segment of the population most able to afford a new laptop but, predictably, least willing to buy a new one or learn more about computers. Or just generally do anything for the greater benefit of society but that's a whole other conversation.
Selecting office holders in a similar manner to how jury pools are picked from the general population would lead to having leaders who are on average of average intelligence. As much as our current system is dysfunctional, and we like to call most politicians morons, the vast majority of them, with some notable exceptions, are of above average intelligence. But our system also selects for lots of negative traits like sociopathy that would be represented at a much lower level if offices were filled at random. It would be an interesting trade-off to see how it turned out. Probably would work better with political structures like Congress or a state legislature with many members so the standard deviation of personality attributes would overall tend to be dampened. For something like the mayor of a city, you're one bad random selection away from disaster.

In regard to your mother, I believe we erred greatly in giving unnatural persons like corporations most of the same rights as natural persons. I'd favor a system where only those who are eligible to vote for a particular candidate could advocate on their behalf, in any form other than casual personal conversation. Same would go for lobbying politicians once they're in office. Only those the office holder represents would have to right to lobby them and it could only be in a personal capacity. Office holders would be free to reach out to whoever they wanted, but without the quid pro quo of campaign donations, the nature of those discussions would be very different. Under those circumstances, she'd probably be a much better officer holder than many of the creeps we have running things now.
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