skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, as a CS PhD student I spend an enormous amount of my time on the subject matter listed. There are very few research areas in which PhD students can get away with ignorance of the command line, shell environments, build systems, version control, debugging, etc.

A common scenario is that I want to reproduce and extend some earlier research, and there's a GitHub repository for it that hasn't been touched for the last seven years, which was forked from an even older repository that some grad student hastily pieced together. And I need to run components of it on our high-performance computing cluster, where I don't have sudo privileges. So it's whole lot of moving things around between VMs and Docker containers, figuring out what to do about ancient versions of packages and libraries that are dependencies (especially everything that's still written for Python 2.7); either refactoring things to update it all, because I want to take advantage of newer functionality, or setting up some isolated environment with older releases of everything built from source.
I would assume "buy from publishers you trust" will still be a good strategy. Publishers can enforce some baseline of quality, where on-demand printed books is just a flood of things of every possible quality level.

Of course making sure nothing is written using ChatGPT is impossible, but you can make sure the reader gains something from reading the book (whether that's insight or entertainment)
That is bigoted speciesism. As long as the books are good - does it matter what generated them
Yes but you cannot tell exactly what happened without the light reaching you. Sure you can guess. For example, if you know the state of a star a few billion years ago, with no other information after that, you can calculate at what point it would become a supernova. But without the light reaching you, there is no way to tell whether it actually became a supernova or something else happened (eg - it got swallowed by a black hole etc.)
> And then there is electron. Slack is not the only app that ignores electron settings and doesn't run with wayland support

I wouldn’t be surprised if slack just ships with a much older chrome build that wasn’t built with wayland support.

Also, have a look at Gnome’s wayland offering. It is by far the most complete as of yet.
While some of the recent hype around AI may be due to VCs and the industry looking for the next big thing, it’s a bit absurd to think that AI orgs like OpenAI and Stability were holding back research and then only released it once the crypto bubble popped.

This article also misunderstands the differences between the various types of GPUs and seems to think they are fungible.

Large models like GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion are trained using cloud compute, most likely clusters of Nvidia A100s. No one was ever using those for mining because it wouldn’t have been profitable. Similarly, no large models are being trained on second hand GPUs used for mining.
Sure, it's an unending stream of things, but here are some recent examples from my history:

-Had it extract some gnarly string manipulation logic in a MySQL where clause into a function. It wrote clean, well commented code, and even explained what a regex did in a comment.

-Had it explain to me how macOS plist files worked, how to view them, how to edit them

-Asked it what some lines in an ssh config file did and it clearly explained it to me

-Dropped in some XML from a spring applicationcontext file that was doing something I didn't quite understand and it explained it to me. Asked how I would change something about it and it told me how, explained how it worked, and provided example xml

-Gave it a SQL Server CREATE TABLE statement and asked it to create the equivalent CREATE TABLE statement for MySQL 8, which it successfully did

My only complaint has been how sometimes the system has been unavailable. I now pay for the $20/month subscription and that has been resolved.
> Much of what passes for "journalism" these days is just stenographers feverishly copying the press-releases they're spoon-fed. Real journalism is a niche sector, and unless you subscribe to the exhorbitantly priced newsletters of the high-end analysts who are paid to work full-time studying the sector, what you're seeing on the news websites and in the newspapers is the product of PR firms paid to push AI. And you really need to ask who is paying them.

That's the money shot, right there.

I'm old enough to remember Walter Cronkite.
I can't wait to get home to see if I can use this as a preview in readme.md somehow.

For kicad projects too not just freecad.
Coal miners also do stuff like massively die in gas explosions and are kind of a poster child for labour exploitation. Wouldn't it be crazy if this line of work held the same prestige to hold in special regard?
Amazing to see this community coming together. We are having the first #LFW meetup @ 4PM ET Feb 28,2023 on our discord stage. Come join us https://lfw.dev/ (https://localfirstweb.dev)

We have an amazing lineup prepared for you, including @pvh you can find the details here:
https://twitter.com/founderYonz/status/1628846898898501632?t...
How long until AI can do the curation?
As they should be! I do not know why they are not already, but as I said recruiters can't seem to stop asking for them. But be assured that I won't mourn them once they are gone, and if ChatGPT gets us there faster then I am grateful for it.

Edit: on second thought, I believe "Editing ChatGPT output" might be a valuable job skill in the future, and maybe a good cover letter would give recruiters some signals in that way.
That’s all well and good. I still think the quote stands on its own as a great philosophy for how to approach scrutiny as a large business. Philosophy and execution are separate!
Could have done with a small guide to how the filesystem works and what XDG dirs are, and stuff like that. A lot of newbies trip on these while figuring out how configuring anything on linux works, because it's a very alien concept if you're moving from windows.
> I studied at a University that's by all measures one of the best in Germany and we had people from all social levels.

A cursory estimate of our very limited personal reality is hardly enough to draw any conclusions. Hard data shows that there is still a strong correlation between academic achievement and parental income, at all stages. https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/38/1/18/6335766

The best that can be said is that this correlation is weaker than in the US.
It was the first result when I put together the right search terms to find it and shows granted. Good enough for me.

If you can find any differences in the claims or figures I'd be interested.
That's not really true and the radiation sign is a good example of that. Even though it was a new symbol at the time, because it visually looked similar to the related phenomenon it was possible to find meaning in it without prior knowledge. Not necessarily the right one and that's a part of the point. If your icon looks visually similar to something else, people might incorrectly infer a different meaning.
It's okay to be prejudiced.
This is a great example of a concrete use case. It is well known that tutors are far more effective than generalized learning, and everybody’s anecdotal experience is that immersion is the best way to learn a language (suggesting that the interactive effect of tutors is at least as strong in this domain)

A quick Duck Duck Go search suggests that capturing just a fraction of this market is worth >>$1B. To me that feels categorically different than crypto, even if a few grifters are also adding froth to the space.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257656/size-of-the-globa...
Reach to do what? Signal is open source software.

UK jurisdiction ends at its borders. If they don't like Signal they can ban their own citizens from using it. I don't understand what possible "reach" they could use to stop Signal exporting its products globally.
Weirdly, I was just thinking about this earlier today. Years ago, Wine developers basically refused to add Wayland support. They told the Wayland devs that they'd stick with X11 and XWayland. Why? Because X11 and Win32 specify position windows in absolute screen coordinates, whereas Wayland positions windows relative to their parents. This broke some assumptions across the Wine project about positioning windows, and it didn't seem worth it to fix[0][1]. (And there may have been other issues. I'm not an expert).

Even when the driver was being developed around 2021, it seems like the Wine developers only begrudgingly accepted it[2].

Exciting to see this finally hitting upstream. Progress in desktop Linux often seems slow, but things are moving forward.

[0] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42284#c1

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19127952

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Julliard-Wayland-2021
Yes, they euthanized a bunch of chickens, and yet total egg output remained basically the same. So where did the inflation come from? Why are egg producers suddenly recording record profits?
Awesome project! I've been on the lookout for such projects ever since discovering uxn, I'll definitely have a look and keep an eye on uvm.

>The creator of UXN is a friend of mine and we chat semi-regularly about our VMs.

Does the discussion happen in a public place? If yes I'd be extremely happy to join in since I also got started with making my own system around a month ago, and it feels a bit lonely going on such an endeavor at times.

It's extremely early and I haven't really shared it anywhere yet, but I feel there is already the possibilty to play around with the custom editor I made, try to make little graphical programs etc.. If you manage to build it that is (I develop mostly on OpenBSD and also try to make it build under Ubuntu with gcc sometimes).

The source is hosted here for now: https://git.blazebone.com/pochi/

The README (in the about tab) should give a rough explanation of what it is, I also have a bit of documentation already.

>Another difference is that IMO, UVM is more approachable.

Very interesting choice, I did away with such assumptions and ran the other way, my system might feel quite alien/esoteric since I went for something that draws a lot of inspiration from Chuck Moore's work with ColorForth as well as his F18 chip.
Any awards for up-and-coming authors or best first publish for 2023 will be interesting
It makes me glad I fled to Linux years ago (after a Windows 10 forced, behind-your-back-after-you-locked-your-computer-and-walked-away-thinking-you-wouldn't-notice update restart made me lose some homework) and never looked back. ¦)
For a not-all-that-fun time, go to eBay and search on that.

there was one answer, and it was for a prank device to detect that.

Plus I got a box inviting me to select the vehicle type this was for. I took one, and got a lot of miscellaneous stuff having nothing to do with thioacetone.
The impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on global financial markets
From the proposed symbols in the picture down in the article, do you think the right most one would be considered meaningless?
I disagree with Charlie Stross's comparison of the hype surrounding AI applications to the cryptocurrency bubble. He suggests that much of the AI hype is driven by the same grifters and hucksters that were previously involved in the cryptocurrency market. While both industries have seen a surge in investment, they are fundamentally different. Cryptocurrencies were based on speculative investments with little intrinsic value, whereas AI has the potential to revolutionize many industries and improve human lives. Charlie's skepticism and pessimism towards AI startups seems misplaced, as there are already many successful AI applications in use today. While caution is always advised when investing, writing off the entire AI industry based on comparisons to cryptocurrency seems shortsighted.
Thank you for this link! Always wanted to read the whole collection.
In that case, blessed is me, because my Python projects are small-ish mutually independent modules ("probes") that only communicate using a specific JSON-based protocol over HTTPS.
For sure. Troll farms seems like they will be scaled up even more.
What I said in no way prevents us from guessing or inferring what could have happened using knowledge known to us. But they are all possibilities, some more likely than others - there is no way of knowing 100% which one of them actually happened without evidence or information in the form of light or radiation.
Cryptolockers at least give you a support email and let you pay to recover your data...
It is pretty authoritarian, heavy-handed and undemocratic, I just think people generally have trouble with that because Western countries are supposed to not be like that.

I mean were it a non-western country with this level of surveillance, in the open corruption, expectation to conform, number of unelected PMs, orchestrated suppression of political opposition, regulation of the press etc. we would have no trouble calling it worse things.

Source: lived there.
I jokingly say "chatgpt is the new crypto"
The conflict really comes from the fact that mastodon is not pitched as a social equivalent of subreddits to people but as a twitter replacement. This means people expect to talk to everyone.

But the preexisting fediverse culture is much more insular thanks to the transitive badness logic many servers operate on "your server let's its users talk to the bad people so we'll block your server and all its users". So servers get blocked if they let their users say positive things about cops, Rowling, investment, white people using the term thicc etc.

This had already led to fediverse being really three universes, which I'll call Leftiverse, Japaniverse and Gabiverse. The majority joined the Leftiverse because they're less objectional than the Gab people but this has led to a culture war which I think is ultimately going to end up with the mainstream fediverse splitting into the original Leftiverse and a more mainstream Centriverse.
> Signal says it'll shut down in UK

> At least Northern Ireland and Scotland will be spared. The Home Office legislative proposals, if adopted, will apply only to England and Wales

So… will signal shut down in the UK or just England/Wales?
PyCharm handles them really well and I am happy that I started with Python 3.11.
I don’t really follow classical music but frankly
I find a lot of buskers really really good. IMO the difference between mega star and random busker is a hell of a lot of luck (and dedication). On pure talent alone, the random lady outside Bond Street today could beat tailor swift.
I doubt e.g. Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others have been shipping >100 million laptops per year longer than this patent has been around with most, if not all, without the feature primarily because Apple was one of many (and not the last) to file a patent on their implementation of a common feature in the sound industry and they are now afraid of and upreprade for legal battles related to making laptops. More likely few just care about crappy laptop speaker sound enough to write a driver modeling each device and speaker combination for a significantly wider variety of shipping hardware. But I suppose it's impossible to know without asking every manufacturer.
I don't understand why this is a persistent issue.

AI is just another artistic tool --- like a paintbrush or canvas.
Meetings can be useful, but I suppose in that sense more people don't hold meetings. They hold gatherings which allow for responsibility to be diffused across multiple individuals. They hold sessions with no preparation, where no one is sure who is allowed to speak, or what topics are acceptable for a meeting. They don't think about their audience, and prioritize style over substance.
Do burr grinders make a difference?
>Of course, we shouldn't rely on chatGPT. It has give me wrong and insecure code before. However, its a nice tool to have around

You 100% should verify any code generated by ChatGPT - but this goes for any code found off the internet. I have come across bad Stack Overflow code committed to codebases before.
I imagine you could use an AI to write the initial draft. So imagine you are doing layoffs, you can tell GPT "We are [company description pasted here]. We are laying off 1000 people. Write a press release expressing how we are regretful to do this step, but how it will help the company stay competitive in the long term. Remember [legal requirements here]". Then that draft can make the rounds through legal and every other stakeholder, until you have a finished product.
This is very true, and what I do now. This doesn't work for all vegetables, but works really well with tomatoes.
> happening in real time

Not sure about calling this "real time". If you actually wanted to do something about it (like saving the poor, mysterious object), then any help you send will face a completely different situation from what we see now.
That, and the opposite of 'continue' (making this permanent change) being 'remind me in three days' or Google's 'not now' comes with this nasty implication that we're all just foolish users who don't know what's best for us and that we'll eventually come around to what we really want to do.

It really, really irks me.
This is the main reason I switched to Linux[1]. Online accounts, that are not in your direct control, shouldn't be connected directly to device sign-ins. Changes to the account, or the details of the account can cause loss of data and the ability to sign-in to your own device.

They are pushing more and more people into the perception of renting a experience rather then owning a device. Its great money for me to help people figure all this out though.

[1]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
> the cryptocurrency bubble took a bit over a decade to implode, but back in 2011 I prediced its demise within, yeah, 1-3 years

In 2011 crypto was only Bitcoin and the market cap was likely under $1B

Today the market cap hovers around $1T after a 75% drawdown.

OP points at the 75% drawdown and claims “I told you so”, while completely ignoring the rest of the graph.
It's funny to me, the length and level of detail defending meetings feels like the sort of meeting content people long to avoid. Paragraph after paragraph, major bullet after major bullet, all to say "there is value in meetings that you would otherwise miss." I can agree with some meetings being of value, but to your point, I think a lot are fluff, like the majority of this article.
The Buffett letters, and returns, get worse each year. To reiterate my comments on earlier ones, it's amazing that in this era of financial chaos, Buffett seems to be so uninvolved and get so little use out of his vaunted warchest & credit... There's nothing new here if you've read 2 or 3 of the previous ones, and it's astonishing how navel-gazing and hermetic it is: this could have been written in 2015 or 2010 or 2005, there's basically no way to tell other than from a few marquee names. Bring to mind everything that has happened in the past 2 or 3 years which is relevant to finance and politics and investing, which is a lot, and see how much of it you can find even the slightest allusion to in here.
sound cynical and most people think business cannot succeed if they do like this. but you can. you can build over $1 trillion USD market cap. company i referring to is Amazon.

entire amazon campus basically 1 h1b visa holder after another. everyone of them i worked with say they only dealing with abuse because need to leave country if they quit and they scare of get PIP ..amazon process led by manager and hr to fire employee
If you don't have real details on file, and you get UDRP'ed, you might not receive the complaint, and you'll lose by default if you don't respond.
Just when will our human civilization admit that Great Depression of 1920s was caused by rampant overproduction?
Here is the thing though. If all the perfectly good pairs of shoes were destroyed, the reported might have wrote an equally aggrieved piece about the shameful way these perfectly good shoes were not reused. Seems like they set up a strawman ready to be outraged no matter what Dow did.
If you look at my post history you'll find comments complaining about the shitty webcam and the poor software quality. I just happen to think the speakers are one of the best parts of this machine, and when someone compares them to a "cardboard box" I felt like hyperbole was warranted.

I'm not sure if the 14" sounds the same, I've never heard it.

Anyway, these speakers are the first laptop speakers where I don't hear any obvious distortions. I haven't done any listening tests, but subjectively these speakers feel closer to monitors (at low volume) than to other laptop speakers.
Reasonable thing to discuss since tons of people (myself included) here would say 95% of the time meetings are a waste of time. But maybe the “hot take” should be if meetings suck then why don’t we fix them. Maybe people don’t want to fix them they just want them to die? Slack definitely is a good replacement most of the time IMO.
Analysis of Willingness to Share Self-Produced Electricity During a Long Outage
Meetings are important and necessary work if the team does not have consensus about what to do next. Meeting is one of the avenues where debates can happen in rapid succession.

The time to arrive at such consensus should be short for well oiled, established team with high level of technical expertise. Even for less established teams effort should be put to reduce the time to arrive at a consensus.

Sometimes consensus are going to be wrong, but even wrong consensus are arguably better than ones that takes forever to make. Mistake can be corrected, drawn out process where everybody take forever to convince sucks morale and paralyzes work, and is indicative of cultural problems.
The reason why Chrome and Electron still need a flag is simple: Chrome still has a decent chunk of work to do before Wayland is supported to the same degree as X11. They had a lot of false starts: it took years before Wayland support actually got upstreamed in any regard.
Likewise for Electron. It does generally work to the point of daily-driver usability today with stable Chrome and Electron, but some apps are shipping old and out-of-support versions of Electron, so unfortunately it has become a bit of a waiting game.

Anyways, you can't actually do proper DPI virtualization for X11 apps because afaik there is no protocol for apps to communicate the scale that they are actually rendering at, so there will never be full support for mixed or fractional DPI in XWayland to the same degree that it is supported in Wayland. I'm not 100% sure there would be a point to making such a protocol at this point, since blurry-but-correct surfaces seems like an OK trade-off to keep things working in the long term. If you run real X11 with mixed DPI or fractional DPI, you get quite a range of potential failure cases depending on what apps you run.

At this point most of my screen is filled with native Wayland apps, and Electron apps that use reasonably up-to-date Electron (like VS Code), so it's rare to see a blurry window.
The different thing this time is that non-technical people are using ChatGPT and Stable diffusion.
What about hungarian language? It's like if it was created by some programmer or mathematician.