skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen cable breaks happen, though not frequently. I’ve also seen chains break a lot more frequently, I know of 5-6 instances where it happened last year alone locally. All of these were a result of complete lack of maintenance as you point out, though I suppose it would be possible for a newer component to not show signs of wear and still fail.
I watched it recently, in the first episode he creates a hologram representation of the designer and the computer fills in a pleasant personality. The real designer comes aboard a few episodes later and is very cold and hostile. She also accidentally finds the hologram of her. They end up being friends in the end.
It's probably a short-term social phenomenon. We don't bother detecting mathematical output from calculators or spreadsheets; we just like that folks give us the right answer, even if they had easy tooling to produce it. However, watching someone do things the old way would seem bemusing. If you watched a manager notating all over a physical spreadsheet with a pencil (as was commonly done at one time) it would seem quaint or backwards depending on context. Likewise, waiting for someone to write a letter and taking more than 90 seconds because they didn't co-author it with AI might seem slow.
Galileo might be a good example to discuss in this context.
I agree, the problem is if you just 'pip install foo' on Debian, like 99% of python docs and readmes say, it instantly fails. Worse yet if you think you should just elevate to root and force pip install to work you can potentially break the Python install. It's a nasty footgun.
Yep, I'd consider paying more, even.

There's a reason their products are so engaging and sticky—they're enjoyable to use!

And they'd be significantly more enjoyable if you didn't have the Eye of Sauron watching you and trying to manipulate you at all times.

I'd pay considerably for that.
Section 230 says you CAN have editorial control over content and STILL not have liability. That selectively choosing what content appears is NOT your speech. It’s maybe a somewhat questionable reasoning, but it led to an internet where spam, hostility, nonsense etc can be filtered without worry or risk of consequence.

There might be room for improvement into transparency of what is and isn’t allowed. But as of right now, platforms are allowed to be arbitrary. Publishing algorithms would make it easy to defeat spam filters and anti evil filters. They are black boxes for a reason.
Well put. I love the phrase "you've been to those dungeons and they have been picked clean." And its unique to each person, it's like the dungeon gets picked clean for you or me, but may still offer value to someone going there for the first time.

I think the key is parsing throught it and figuring out which things are dungeons and which things are just me being jaded and cynical, and pushing back in myself for the latter.
I use my own link shortener when including links in images/gifs/videos. Easier to type out, especially on mobile. E.g. m8.fyi/darn and m8.fyi/pok
kids eat tide. Call me crazy, but I don't think assuming people make rational decisions is a good starting point for economics
I’ll make sure to keep that in mind if I encounter any ancient Romans.
Glad to see some interest. About the future, no one knows. But I can promise that I will keep working on this :)
FYI, f you look up camera toss photography you can see stuff that doesn’t really look ‘blurry’ at all. There are other techniques that result in ‘smearing’ but still retain a feel of nominal sharpness.
The shorthand that I have seen is that every actor in financial markets has a preference for cash/stocks/bonds/real estate/other things; the market equilibrium is when all of those preferences are satisfied. There can be dislocations to these preferences which cause "sloshing".

As an example - consider the sale of an owned house, where the buyer takes out a mortgage. The owner who sold now has cash, and the buyer has a liability (mortgage), meaning he has need for cash in the future. This type of mismatch can create excess liquidity (now, at the sale point), and the cash keeps moving until someone who needs to pay off a loan acquires it (cash gets "destroyed" when paying off asset-backed loans from the bank). In the meantime, that cash can go towards bidding up financial assets (until it finds the marginal need to service debt obligations)

This comment is the best explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858813

Also this article could be helpful: https://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/08/the-great-rot...
There's a large body of research into invisible text watermarking, so this would certainly be possible. Maybe the simplest to implement in LLMs would be to bias the token generation slightly, for example by making tokens that include the letter i slightly more likely. In a long enough text you could then see the deviation from normal human text characteristics.
Thank you for the links, that morefine one seems really nice, would need to get 2.5Gb networking gear...

I currently have a single 16 core/64 GB ECC Ryzen tower with ZFS that I'd like to break into a ZFS ARM ECC NFS server with a separate small form factor Ryzen or ARM compute cluster.
Simplicity is definitely part of it! But the value/price alignment piece is also important.

Take Hacker News. If they charged $50/mo, I'd pay that. But if HN charged $1 per homepage visit, I'd start visiting a lot less. Maybe once or twice a day, but not 20x/day. Both $50/mo and $1/visit are simple pricing methods, but my value is not the same with each visit given the homepage doesn't change much hour by hour. So maybe it's really worth $5 for the first visit of the day and 25 cents/visit after that, and thus the $1/visit system wouldn't work well (for me).
Pinecils are $26 on pine64.com atm.
>"...laid out in Nietzsche's first major work..."<

Now that you bring it up, does it help? That is, does dancing help you get laid?
Explain what caste you think the joke targeted and why please. I'm pretty sure largest reaction on Reddit was that it actually didn't target who you think it did.
App could block text-to-image AI models from ripping off artists
Which is basically the same advice. If you don’t already know what you want start with pip and requirements.txt and when you hit pain points: wanting to soft lock transitive dependencies, automate venv setup for onboarding, locking packages by hash, package caching, bundling Python itself with your code, etc. then there’s probably a tool out there tailored to your use-case.
I don't understand the "cycling is for rich people" argument where it's actually the case that people with low wages are the ones that overwhelmingly do not own a car.
>> And just because you understand how to build an AI and manipulate it, doesn't mean you can prove that one has or hasn't attained consciousness unless you're going to provide me with the "criteria to define consciousness" that I asked for in the original comment.

The question to ask here is why would anyone even think that an LLM has "attained consciousness". Who says one has? If we don't know what consciousness is, we certainly can tell who is saying that something is conscious, when they, themselves, don't even know what "conscious" means in the first place.

If I say that a rock has achieved consciousness -and, sure, there is ample evidence; for, look, see how it sits in silent meditation, staring at the starts and contemplating the mystery of existence? It must surely be enlightened- what exactly am I saying? I'm saying that a thing occurred, that I can't describe and for which I can't provide any evidence, because I don't even know what that evidence should look like.

So I'd basically be talking nonsense, like all the people who say LLMs have attained, or could have attained, or may one day attain consciousness, or whatever it is those people are saying.

Or, more prosaically, people say that LLMs something-something consciousness because they keep seeing those systems described as "AIs" in the press, and they know, from their experience with Star Trek and similar franchises, that "AIs" are conscious.

Someone called a thing AI and now everyone is wondering if that thing is really intelligent. Disappointing.
is that odd? it doesn’t seem surprising to me that Americans would think USA good EU bad
1: usually you can just run the binary by its path. tbh I don't fully understand why it doesn't always work, but it's fairly rare, and most of the ones I can kinda-remember may have been during install time.

2: due to 1, symlinks often work. It's how I've installed all of my custom python binaries. Otherwise you'll very frequently see python "binaries" installed by e.g. Homebrew that are actually ~5 lines of minor environment prep and then running the actual binary - that's the only reliable way afaik.

Bonus answer to 2: pipx looks pretty decent.
I don’t know about Linux these days, but Windows WDDM likes to have host-backed storage for VRAM allocations... which makes me wonder if using VRAM for swap could ever get you into a weird recursive state with allocations or swapping. It’s already the case that allocating VRAM on Windows can require waiting on swapping some VRAM to disk. What if that swap had to then go back to VRAM?
Perhaps. But the hardware isn't the issue here. The hardware works, but the company is no longer offering free software / storage. The customes need to switch to a paid plan.

While it makes a case for self-hosting your software that doesn't come for free either. Ideally, you get to control your own destiny, but not for free.

The lesson? Nothing is free. There's always cost / risk; hidden or otherwise.
Good. Now we just need to get pip itself updated so it refuses to run outside of a venv, and refuses to run unless invoked with "python -m pip" and we'll finally have something at least half decent.

And don't even get me started about how much better npm is at publishing packages, versus pip's refusal to add the same user friendliness.
I highly recommend that everyone should check out Chex Quest 3[0], created by Charles Jacobi[1], who is the lead artist for the original Chex Quest games. It's a compilation of the first two games with an additional third episode. One minor note is that it was developed to be run on more modern source ports (e.g. G/ZDoom), unlike the original game which ran a modified version of the Final Doom engine.[2]

Doom 1/2 has a very rich history and I love to see posts like these get attention.

[0] - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest_3

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Caf%C3%A9

[2] - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest#Engine
At Jupiter, Juice and Clipper Will Work Together in Hunt for Life
That's an easy way to track outbound links, they just track everyone clicking on their short links, although that could be said for all those services.
> but you can never have control over a service someone else runs

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
Right? With that article title you figure the author had written his own bootloader in Typescript then transpiled to Rust, ultimately cross compiling to his Arm64 target from a homebrewed x86 CPU fabricated in his garage.

For real though, what the author did is much harder than downloading and booting an official OS image from Pine. The article also documents all the successful steps and skips any missteps or debugging, making the process look very simple (not a criticism, I thought it was an excellent read). Maybe those missteps took place during previous projects, but suffice to say that you don’t make booting a non-standard image look easy without expending significant effort, at some time.
You seem to be correct, maybe I saw it on multiple websites at the same time. I found only one previous post. Sorry about that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237195
They're synonyms. The phrases "China's messaging" and "American propaganda" are also used in the article.
You're lucky. There are basically no small ISPs around here anymore. It's the cable company (DOCSIS) or telco (fiber, or DSL if you're unlucky.) Without paying for an enterprise grade connection, it would be impossible to get a BGP session through either.

I also have a /24 for myself. I've had it since the mid-90's, from the InterNIC days, predating ARIN. I've gone years without using any of the addresses. Currently it's routed to my home lab. I'm doing BGP through a couple VPSes, then tunneling it back.
Trading Flesh for Prison Time Is Not “Bodily Autonomy”
1. You can call it directly by referencing the venv python exe eg /pqth/to/your/venv/bin/python /path/to/your/script.py
I don't understand the climate change comment - not yours specifically, it is common. If POW blockchains are genuinely useful (perhaps indispensable) in this way, why does it matter if it "costs" some emissions to keep in running while also providing orders of magnitude more value that would go into... reducing emissions.
The second link is the major outage I'm talking about, yes.

The first one is indeed significant, but to call it an outage is a stretch. You're linking to some blogspam that is basically [copying the official statement](https://www.gsc-europa.eu/news/galileo-nominal-service-resto...). To link that without linking to the [follow-up explanation](https://www.gsc-europa.eu/news/further-information-on-the-ev...) is, well... Not exactly an okay move. In that follow-up, you'll read that only ill-configured receivers (that ignored satellite health) were affected.
It's not just the graph. Their revenues were growing rapidly at the same time they were basically breaking even: https://www.marketplacepulse.com/stats/amazon-net-sales-94

So their profitability as a percentage of revenue was actually drastically declining. All during a period where investors were grumbling that they should start giving the money back to investors. But Amazon was intentionally keeping their profits very low because they thought they had better things to spend the money on. This was not a myth, this was a strategy. A long-running one. See, among many articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/technology/sales-are-colo...
As long as you have access to a phillips screwdriver, you aren't stuck in the little ring - you can tighten the high limit screw to pick your one gear (at least from the higher ones).
If you have Spotify premium give https://getconcertmaster.com/ a try. It's a frontend for Spotify with additional cataloging features for classical recordings.
> Most of them will grow out of it eventually.

On the other hand, condescension is harder to grow out of.
Why cause yourself difficulty by drifting towards optionality vs. using the ops suggestion and using venv?

This topic gets posted to HN far too often - I'm starting to think people are deliberately avoiding venv for some reason, because otherwise it's a perfectly capable system for package management.
Yeah this code review isn’t gonna go great.
Regulated markets in a capital-centric economy serve, in aggregate, the interests of those who control capital, and therefore also drift toward monopoly. Liberals either don't understand this or are simply being deceptive by promoting the continuation of capitalism.
This is a great article and really highlights how to use chatgpt effectively. I see people, even on here, who ask it a very complex problem and then immediately discount it when the result isn’t perfect.
The Myth of Safe Plastics Persists Despite Risk of Disasters Like East Palestine
> There are ways to not use node_modules, by using newer Yarns for example.

My point was that if you use yarn2 in pmp mode, and you have a dependencies that depends on the node_modules layout being at the same level as package.json, than even if your package manager doesn't not need or use node_modules, it must emulate it so the dependencies can find their files.
I believe it's already a thing with a lot of companies.

I worked at a company that had restaurant delivery app, very similar to Uber Eats / DoorDash (but not in the US). ~10% of top spenders there got priority support.
People who buy an e-bike more than double their use of bicycle for transport. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192092...
No ads or tracking across all Meta platforms/pixels? I'd say that's worth $20/month.
And yet, it does not matter when anybody became aware, but when it became a real problem.

Further, one can make use of a service or product today, and still be happy that there are better alternatives in the pipeline. I am certain that is how many Tesla owners view their vehicles, for example.
The core problem (as I see it) is that Linux distros tend not to have any firm distinction between "system" packages, "user" packages, and "development" packages (which are a subset of user packages). The system package manager installs everything globally, while also being considered the only approved/safe way to install packages.

Languages tend to try to get around this by providing their own package registries and build systems to use them (npm, pip, cargo, etc), and developer tools often include some sort of sandboxing to avoid interference from the system packages (venv, bazel, cargo, nix develop, etc).

For user packages a tool like Snap, home-manger, Flatpak, or AppImage seems necessary.

Python makes the problems very obvious, especially since it has so many package management systems, gets used for system packages, and gets used for user applications.
> It also needs to not be some "DMCA Lite" contractual mechanism like Youtube's shitty ContentID system.

Why not? By my reading of the section you quoted, it stands independently from its parent sections; anyone who makes a legal claim of copyright infringement, or pursues action under the principle that such a claim exists, would seemingly be liable for damages if they're "knowingly materially misrepresenting" the facts of that infringement, whether or not in the context of a DMCA takedown claim.

Which, I mean, obviously; that's already the law, without the DMCA having to say anything additionally about it. If someone threatens legal action against you unless you do X, and you do X, and it costs you money, and then you find out it was a lie and they had no basis for their legal action — then you can totally sue them for damages, and you'll probably win. The DMCA just provides a very explicit basis for evaluating that particular situation without referring to any other bodies of potentially-conflicting case-law, so as to turn that "probably" into a "definitely."
Are you talking about the satellite navigation system that's been usable and widely used for about a decade? The one that gives location data ten times more precise than GPS (1m vs 10m)? That's a "failed copy costing billions to Europeans"? Really?
Maybe the "atomic CSS" part wasn't very clear—we just meant the concept of atomic CSS.

We love tailwind as everyone else in their right mind, but we're using our own flavor of the concept I started years ago: https://fractures.dev

On the why: We plan on having a lot of novel, one off interfaces, which TW isn't just right for. CSS is. We also don't have an frontend scaling problem, as I'm the sole developer here.
Except that not being able to block all ads potentially containing viruses makes THAT walled garden unsafe by design.
the comments basically boil down to "EU bad, US better"

Nothing stops the EU from landing a probe on the surface of Mars, successfully.
I think it might already be. A few times in the last month I've stumbled across sites with this offering when joining/subscribing (the names escape me now) and everytime I thought who would pay for that? Now you mention it clicked maybe it's a new thing?
Prepping could be making sure you have enough food to last 3 days, have an first aid kite, a plan, backup information documents in a second location or meet up location for loved ones. All sensible things your local fire department will advice to do.

You don't have to build a bomb shelter. You are more likely to run into a weather event compared to war. Don't ignore a basic prep.
The method to stop a (D)DoS is the same as it always was: caching and rate limiting.

Re: content scraping -- I was an indie web dev of a sort for a while and people always ask this question, and the answer is it's impossible to stop. Not even Facebook or big content sites like CNet or The Verge can stop it. At the bottom of it, you can just access the site in a browser and save the source. Content scraping is a rephrasing of "viewing content even just once". Stopping it is antithetical to the web and technologically infeasible.
Yes, this console has a retro profile but it also tries to be convenient for a modern user. Vircon32 screen is 16:9 and for most current resolutions you can use integer scaling (2x = 720p, 3x = 1080p, 4x = 1440p).
Perhaps question if this will remain?
I very much agree with James Coplien approach to unit tests:

- Keep unit tests that test key algorithms for which there is a broad, formal, independent oracle of correctness, and for which there is ascribable business value.

Though I'd say that for low-level code (without dependencies) there's basically no difference between unit/integration/e2e tests. They are just tests.

The only difference I found is that with unit tests people will also test implementation details. So it's still better to have integration test mindset even when your only option is unit tests.
If you already know, why ask?
Perhaps this wasn’t clear enough, but I was making an explicit distinction between dependency injection and dependency injection frameworks.

Dependency injection makes code easier to test, and I’m a big fan of dependency injection.

What I’m opposed to is the frameworks that automate (and often hide) the construction of the dependencies.

As someone else said in this thread “explicit is better than implicit”.
People are making it seem harder than necessary.

Just create a virtual environment and install your packages there.

Done.
Oligarchs used to run Russia. Putin has been eliminating oligarchs one by one, replacing them with (or making them) his puppets. There is no real oligarchs left in Russia today.

And guess what, this is a change for the worse.

I am not saying oligarchy is good, I am saying Bernie should get a quick update on what happened to Russia in the last 10 years.
Chrome sets navigator.webdriver to true when controlled by automation.

Until now, bots could simply use headful mode to achieve the same effect that is now made available through the new headless implementation.
It fails on false positives, but you don't often get false negatives, which might be enough at the moment for quite a few use-cases.

Also false positives are typically "this text is likely to contain parts that were AI generated" rather than "This text is higly likely to be AI generated" (which is what GPT-generated content generally produces).

When I've tried to prompt-engineer GPT to produce text that GPTZero will flag as negative it has been pretty tough!
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858691
Chrome is named after this :-)
Sorry, I cannot, due to a confidentiality clause. Most of my employer’s clients use Angular though, some exclusively. They’re mostly machine tool builders from Germany.

Also, as someone else already guessed, they also all use .NET. This is not a coincidence of course, even though there is no rational argument to be found (“they both use classes!”).
Does this mean you can't talk about philologists who lollygag while getting lollipops?
Is this response not proving his point?
Or they are investing internally for the future. You can plow lots of money into internal improvements for little to no growth in revenue, but at their scale saving just 1% more is a large amount of money. Not to mention a possible strategic advantage.
Zelle and Konbini are both also tiny dwarfs, that aren't really good examples of at-scale success, esp with anything that has any adjacency to tech.

I say this as an avid Zelle user.