skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that upgrades are the pain point. Every time I upgrade my phone the dread of sorting authenticator apps is real.
Cashier's checks from people you don't know or banks you don't know should always be considered forgeries until proven otherwise. They are easy to fake and the penalties for faking them are virtually nil; hence forgeries are rampant.

The days of cashier's checks being default trustworthy are long gone.
Or as Casey would put it: Discord is taking 3.7moo ("Moon Unit") to open. A Moon Unit is equal to ~2.7 seconds, the maximum ping time to the moon. Therefore, if Discord had their servers on the moon, nobody would know the difference.
Which means that everybody and their dog will implement it, instead of just the patent holder.
I wouldn’t worry about the connotation of a headline like this too much: hate isn’t good for you.

Just understand the information it conveys and move on from there.
Looks like I got some fans here ;) How touching!
>Humans can be sentient without language

How are you able to verify this?
Yep.. I much prefer 2000 lines of code in one function with very little calls. Easier to reason about, less bugs, easier to maintain. It's very easy to indicate when a new part is coming, just enter a big comment block of what you're doing.
X11 just had a different usecase. It was not meant for internet but for many terminals on the local network. Hence the proto design which didn't consider latency a potential problem.
I mostly stream to "dumb" devices connected directly to a display. I hate smart TVs. You can still use a remote and stuff by just opening `youtube.com/tv` in the browser and you can even use a remote/phone to control it.

For mobile you can use ReVanced.
https://mobile.twitter.com/taviso/status/1630695259935219713

Apparently some Ryzen models have no fixed microcode available. You can boot with clearcpuid=xsaves as a workaround, probably at some performance cost.
How does it compare to DeepL? And per-word human translation services like you'd source through Crowdin?
>This all reads like entitled driver behavior to me.

You sure? GP:

>Before the police showed up, an SUV showed up with some tow truck heavies with, no doubt, plenty of illegal weapons on them, just to spectate and make sure things went the way they wanted.

Sounds more like thugs engaging in predatory behavior to me.
Portal opened for complaints against decisions of social media platforms
The portal will allow users to appeal against decisions taken by social media platforms to take down — or retain — content posted by users.
to be fair, we had Keith Packard working with us at NCD during the mid 90's. it helped to have someone innately connected to X11.
Well, anything produced on the 7nm (W6800X) process loses to a top-tier produced on the 4nm (RTX 4090).
I would imagine that an editor chooses headlines based on their readership, would they not?

My judgement may be off here, but is a WSJ reader more likely to be a landlord or a tenant?
It's almost as if supply and demand is a real principle that exists and applies to housing. Who would have thought?

Seriously though, I find it baffling how many people are completely adamant that housing costs are completely fixed (usually by some kind of shadowy cabal of landlords), and are not subject to market forces whatsoever.
Reading the comments it seems like a lot of people missed this part.

> We can still try to come up with rules of thumb that help keep code organized, easy to maintain, and easy to read. Those aren't bad goals! But these rules ain’t it. They need to stop being said unless they are accompanied by a big old asterisk that says, “and your code will get 15 times slower or more when you do them.”

He isn't against organised and maintainable code, he just thinks the current definition isn't worth the trade-off.
> It puts quite a bit of pressure on desktop environment developers and it seems like they don't really care about many of the defined protocols.

The problem is that the existing protocols are missing key functionality that desktop environment developers need (source: I am one).

Want to list all the toplevel windows that are on a particular workspace so you can write a pager or taskbar widget? Nope, can't do it. The foreign-toplevel protocol and ext-worspace protocol (the latter of which has been in standardization purgatory for 2-3 years now) don't know anything about each other, so you can't do that.

Want to write a widget that lists windows and lets you do a bunch of operations on them? Well, you can, if all you care about is minimize, maximize, fullscreen, and close. If you want to pin/unpin windows, move them between workspaces, resize them, or move them around on the current workspace... nope, can't do it.

That's just two examples off the top of my head. Looking at the list of Wayland protocols, and then digging in to figure out what they provide shows them to be immature and severely lacking.
We had remedial classes at my university, with the same test-score-based selection system. Everyone had to take two English classes: ENG 101 and ENG 102.

Students with very low SAT/ACT scores in reading/writing needed to take ENG 50-something before moving on to 101 and 102. Students with high test scores could take an Honors version of ENG 101 that also fulfilled the requirements for 102 (so they would only need to take one class).

The problem was that the overall bell curve was so low. The students in remedial courses tended to be extremely low performers - learning disabilities, serious issues at home, or older adults who hadn't been in an academic environment in decades. Those students' writing would have basic grammatical and structural issues leading to unreadability, and ENG 50 was focused on teaching them how to form a sentence or techniques to memorize spelling. There were some downright heroic ENG 50 professors, but the students who made it into ENG 101 had passed a very low bar.

I don't know if the standardized tests have become easier over time. I took the ACT a couple times in 2014 and 2015 but I don't really remember it.

I forgot to mention in my original comment - I graduated in 2020.
Make JDK source code UTF-8
Or apartment rents fell after a massive cycle of aggressive rent raising after landlords got free of temporary rent control after the pandemic, and the most aggressive landlords lost their tenants to landlords who were less aggressive.
I think you're imagining a far greater degree of fine-grained control over what these models output than is actually available. These companies are just trying to implement a broad-based "don't say anything racist" policy in the hopes that their AI products don't say anything that make them look like a liability. They're not implementing a nuanced sense of ethics into what's still just an advanced text-prediction model.
The problem is I think you're also disagreeing with yourself in a way.

> That is not our job! Our job is to solve business problems within the constraints we are given. No one cares how well it runs on the hardware we're given. They care if it solves the business problem. Look at Bitcoin, it burns hardware time as a proof of work. That solves a business problem.

Cost is a business problem. It is a constraint. The problem is sometimes it doesn't feel that way because a lot of folks around you use bad practices and it's easy to horizontally scale things so performance is often brushed off.

Now that the era of 0% interest has ended, companies are actually starting to take a look at what they're running and... surprise! Taking even 10% longer to write quality, performant code can yield 2-3x (sometimes I've seen 1000x) improvements which means much lower cost.

> Some programmers work in industries where performance is key but I'd bet not most.

Because most don't know any better. Unfortunately this is a symptom of bootcamps, etc. that have created a lot of "programmers" that only know how to code vs. "engineers" that know how to build systems that are maintainable, scale, and solve complex problems.

In almost every company I've been at they inadvertently retroactively look back and realize how wasteful they were. In the ML world at least, it's a bit different I suppose because performance matters from the start.
>California is a model for what other states want to avoid doing.

Ah yes, having the largest GDP in the country and one of the highest in the world is certainly something to avoid.
Don't worry, the audience of the Wall Street Journal hates it as well. Whoever is renting loves it, though.
Notepad++.

Nothing Microsoft releases will even come close to the perfection that is Notepad++.
Just to play devils advocate - can you please clearly define the criteria for sentience so that it can be objectivly and impartially (ideally algorithmically) measured?

I think by most definitions that you could muster, I could bring you a sample of millions of humans (from the billions on our planet) that would not pass your minimum bar, and if your bar was low enough, then Chatbots (e.g. ChatGPT) would pass it. I grant that a moderatly smart human can still outsmart a chatbot, but that waterline is getting higher and higher by the day. Let us reconvene here in 1 year, I'd wager Chatbots will be indistinguishable from humans (i.e. full turing test passes)

I would also argue that if someone "has to do some reading into philosophy and social sciences" I submit that as evidence itself that the line is already blurring, and it's beginning to require deep domain knowledge to distinguish between human and machine
Tim Cook: “In the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields"

And that story repeats all the way up and down the supply chain. In WW II the USA was basically China- they had a thick supply chain from raw materials up, and could spin up factories because they had experienced people who could bring along new employees. We still think of ourselves as being that country but we're not, and a new serious war would play out with a very different script.
You must be American.

In fact, insane car and highway infrastructure is actually a luxury. Funny how roads just magically spring up everywhere and they are 'required to live' but god forbid a bus that uses that road, that is luxury. Public subsidy of car infrastructure is far higher then for public transport.

> coincide with bus/train routes

There is this thing called planning. They put public transport where it is actually needed. Its not like 'ohh luck, they just so happened to build a train here'.

If your country has a serious imperative of doing public infrastructure correctly, then the amount of people who can reasonably be reached is very, very high.

And good urbanism isn't just density. Look at some railroad towns in the East, they have walkable rural urbanism. You don't need a car to live in such places. Or maybe one car for a whole large family.

Sure yes, there is some people who that doesn't include. But lets be fucking real, most people live in cities or in suburban areas. Or in sprawl town loosely attached to some larger metro area.
I think this is a general principle that has been accessible since AI began. Having poor and extremely basic rules of thumb can be unreasonably effective. They might fall down in complicated circumstances, but having a "driving AI" that is just cruise control, solves so many cases of that problem.

Degenerate solutions to problems can often solve many cases.
Sure but GTK and the gnome world is highly politicized by RedHat. KDE and Qt are much further away from cutting X11 off. I see the case for Wayland but similar to X11 it is already showing its age in poorly conceived design decisions. Desktop sharing for example should be a first class citizen in 2023.
That's the fundamental problem with computers today: we don't own them anymore. They all run the corporation's code now and they're literally everywhere.

Funny how quickly an incredibly empowering technology became obscenely oppressive after they take the keys to the machine away from us. Sometimes I wish computers had never been invented.
Remote humans can't drive Waymo's vehicles. They can reach into the car's model of the world to correct something it misunderstood (e.g. car is confused by misplaced cone and thinks the entire carriageway is closed, actually only the left lane is closed) but they can't control the vehicle remotely at all. It's extraordinary to me how many HN readers seem to think that somehow remotely driving cars would be a good idea, but then I remember how many incredibly dumb start-up ideas get funded and it's less surprising.
Perhaps, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation was founded on the premise of putting tiny computers in the hands of children and hobbyists. So whatever good may come of selling RPis to Vodafone, it is not the good that Raspberry Pi was founded to provide.

This is a GPUs-in-the-hands-of-miners-not-gamers situation, but I think starving the educational community is a bit more venal than starving the gaming community.
That was 10 years ago; those then-students are now engineers. This is what success at equipping a new generation looks like - the transition of needing tools to do stuff with[0] and not just play with and learn on.

[0]"Industry"
That's a nice approach, and I envy you the environment you work in.

In my experience so far, it's typically the case that the 20 second DB query will annoy people for months or years - it won't get solved until enough people raise enough of a stink that someone finally prioritizes it. A large customer suddenly starting to make vague hints about bad performance is sometimes (but not always) helpful.

Some may say that "annoying, but not enough to make a stink about it" means it's fine to not optimize it. But I found that people can suffer a lot, and it doesn't mean it's harmless. People will adjust their workflows to minimize the frustration. When some of your "victims" are in-house users, the "not important enough" performance issue may be silently but continuously losing company money.
This seems like a no-true-Scotsman argument to me: either you're a subject-matter expert and you recognize the downsides or you're an absolutely clueless idiot evangelist who is responsible for everything wrong with society's hate of the current state of the subject-matter.

Let's test your theory. As a self-professed SJW, would you say that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are racist and xenophobic or is it just that their absolutely clueless idiot supporters have gone too far while Trump & Co. are just telling you the pros and (mostly) cons of letting (not the best) brown people into the country? I'd probably blame Trump & Co., but your framework seems to indicate that it's their evangelists?

Let's ask ChatGPT:

Would you put the SJWs at the top of the list were you looking for groups to blame for cancel culture going too far?

As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions or beliefs, and I don't assign blame or endorse any particular groups or ideologies. Cancel culture is a complex issue with many different factors and perspectives involved. Some people may argue that "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs) have played a role in cancel culture going too far, while others may disagree. It's important to approach this topic with an open mind, consider multiple viewpoints, and engage in respectful and productive dialogue to better understand the issue.

Would you say that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are racist and xenophobic or is it just that their absolutely clueless idiot supporters have gone too far while Trump & Co. are just telling you the pros and (mostly) cons of letting (not the best) brown people into the country?

As an AI language model, I cannot make value judgments about individuals or political parties. It's important to recognize that racism and xenophobia are serious issues that have a significant impact on individuals and communities. These issues should be approached with empathy, respect, and a willingness to listen to different perspectives. It's also important to recognize that political discourse can be complex and nuanced, and that different people may have different interpretations of what is being communicated. Ultimately, it's up to individuals to form their own opinions based on a careful consideration of the available evidence and perspectives.

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Does Elon stating something make it more or less likely to be true?
No, I mean a swtpm running in a hypervisor and presented to a VM as a discrete TPM.
Good advice in general, but there's additional information coded in the words chosen. It shouldn't be a surprise that the Wall Street Journal would see falling rents as a "crush" given it's readership probably leans more towards landlord than tenant.
Probably some. A house and an apartment you own aren't really comparable anymore as the appeal of urban living for professionals has declined, however.

Probably most likely impact is the decline on new apartment development and perhaps dilapidation of some of the stock ("if I can't get 3k/month for this place anymore, fine I'll charge 2k but I won't bother maintaining it")
I am sad that this article exists, let alone all this discussion. It feels like that sort of take that is put out there just to be contrarian and stir the pot.

I don't think I've ever seen someone say "a branch is a ref" with the intent to diminish the concept of a branch or the utility of it, or the special language around it's concept.

On the other hand, appreciating what git commits are, what tags are, what branches are, and understanding the "just refs" part of it, was vital to my understanding of git. This article feels like it argues against something that (1) doesn't exist, and (2) in the form in which it does exist, serves a vital role of exposing 'just enough' of git to help some folks understand the model enough to be effective with it.
Pw=per week? I ask because in the US rent is typically monthly
Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat
Letting Bing Chat view current websites can turn it into a tireless scammer. No direct prompt injection needed: An attacker can plant a comment on social media and let Bing Chat advertise, exfiltrate and scam for them.
No it didn't.

"Airfight is an early 3D graphics-based multi-user flight simulator, created on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Control Data Corporation (CDC) PLATO system in the early 1970s.[1][2][3]

The software was the first ever 3D flight simulator and the first multi-player flight simulator.[2] The first version was developed by Brand Fortner with Kevin Gorey in the summer of 1974.[4] After its release, it became the most popular game on PLATO until Empire became more popular. This software probably inspired the UIUC student Bruce Artwick to start the company Sublogic,[4] which was acquired and later became Microsoft Flight Simulator.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfight
Goes both ways I reckon. A lot of folks rent.
It's also very easy to mess up the performance due to architecture when using modern frameworks. For example: as much as SPAs are reviled, if you have a complex enough web application with heavy components, having it being an SPA might be better in terms of perceived speed than having it do a full reload on every navigation.

This is a mistake that I see far too many government and utility sites making.
Fortunately binary logging can be switched off and redirected to syslog on hosts where have control but can't replace the init system.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Journald_in...
> I've yet to see a single person who thinks these models are sentient demonstrate an actual understanding of how they work.

I'll go out on a limb and say that the software engineer who worked on google's AI probably had an actual understanding of how that system worked, but that didn't stop him
ah thank you! There was another comment:

"That is Yudkowsky's M.O. in that, like a 419 letter, he inserts a lot of garbage into everything he writes designed to drive away real rational thinkers because he is looking for followers for a cult that is some mash-up of L. Ron Hubbard, Teilhard de Chardin, and H. P. Lovecraft. That's the whole point of Sequences: the smart people realize it is crap, the not-so-smart people struggle with it and think it is profound."

I'm sorry to admit I thought it was profound :)
Yes, but if I'm making a website supporting hundreds of different APIs with different schemas and slightly different information available isn't really practical. Local providers aren't really a substitute for a single global source of weather data.
Yes, Australian rents are fairly universally listed per week.
They actually have physical branches here but last few times I spoke with them they fobbed me off for a bit then claimed they have had "account downtime" and that they could not service me because they couldn't handle anyone in Czech Republic. After which they dismissed me and serviced the next person. Cool company.
It's a wealth thing. You can observe the development live in countries with economies catching up to the more developed countries. The richer societies get in monetary terms the lonelier people get socially. And then depression rises fast.

Note that interestingly this does not affect the elites and mega wealthy as much as regular folks whose more traditional and social lifestyles are disrupted by all the development. The standard pattern would be moving from their rural places where everyone knows each other to a bigger city - in search of riches. Work an office job, live in a concrete box, have fewer spare time, don't really know the neighbors. Work more to pay off the mortgage, because those city properties are expensive. Work more to catch up with rising inflation and prices. Work, work, work...

In the end, yes they might be able to afford a car and iphones and a giant TV and holidays abroad. But all at a cost.
This happened to me. A guy mailed me a cashier's check and said his "friend" would pick up the item. I called the bank the check was drawn on; they confirmed it was fake.

I pretended I never got the money and the "friend" never showed up. Lesson learned. Now I only exchange Craigslist items in person, in the parking lot of a police station, for cash. And I test the cash with a counterfeit detector pen.
Using the Boot Camp drivers for Windows, anyway.
Wow! You must be against drivers licenses as well I assume, as they permit you to operate a motor vehicle.
OK but... computationally heavy code in Python isn't generally really running in Python. Almost all of it either calls out to optimized C/C++/Fortran (eg; Numpy which in turn calls BLAS+LAPACK) or do that or some other separate compilation (eg; what ML libraries do with XLA, etc. or cython).

Sure, python web servers are a thing. Heck, we use them a fair bit. But it's a deliberate decision from the start where it makes sense to use it for that purpose.
Interesting didn't know that, figured it worked like a home loan. Banks often have similar insurance requirements and/or PMI for home loans.