skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you work at these institutions and frequently use these words it will likely affect your career. So if you want to keep getting paid, these words are for most purposes, forbidden.
What's this built in? The whole GUI looks like a Windows application.
Show HN: CLI-GPT, use ChatGPT in your terminal
What about:

master

blacklist/whitelist

crazy/idiotic/stupid

"skin a cat"

"black market"

"black box testing" / "white box testing"

"three amigos"

"war games"

?

These are the kinds of words people are talking about, not historical slurs.

I work for a very large company. These words are in a list of words we're "not allowed" to use. There are even more ridiculous ones (e.g. can't use "normal" to describe things)
Its all so tiresome.
What are your winters like?
You still need to read the labels carefully. I had a box of stevia packets and when I looked at the label they also contained erythritol.
I think its because its much more likely that the friend is a reluctant beneficiary of signaling, not part of the powers that be

I don't have any opinion on whether it made it meaningful to add race there, that way
It makes no sense to stand my ground since the whole purpose of the forum was to stay in touch with a small group of people. The majority moved on to Discord. They haven't officially abandoned the forum, they just don't post there. I tried posting, got zero replies (for a couple of years), then abandoned the forum myself.

I've seen this happen more than once. "Resisting" is not an option if you value the group of people more than the software platform. What would be the point of "making my stand" in phpbb? The forum software is not my friend.

> but it can still be used as a blog of sorts at that point

No. Why would I want a blog? I wanted to keep this community of people.
> Let's see I still think H2 handling is a little bit more risky

You should probably read this:

https://hydrogen.wsu.edu/2017/03/17/so-just-how-dangerous-is...

I used to think it was risky as well, given Hindenburg, Challenger and all. The reality is that it's no more risky than gasoline, it's just different.
For me personally as a non-corporate use, I use it to encrypt my laptop and not require a password to need to decrypt.

This is deliberate as I protect my important stuff again with VeraCrypt.

The reason for the automatic login via TPM is have a windows guest account that automatically logs into a very restricted guest account (that can only use a locked down chrome and play movies from usb, nothing else) that can't be changed (not without resetting the bios or replacing/wiping the hdd).

Since the laptop is running prey, my hope is any thieves would be using it. Without an automatic login with a key obtained from TPM, I couldn't have the same setup.
> Inflation up, layoffs, ukraine... no more social justice news, google searches down, mentions in NYT down, voters stop responding to it on both sides in elections.

"transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely" was like three days ago
The article is self-contradictory. On the one hand,

"Being an activist or radical contrarian, on the other hand, is a sure way to make life more difficult and, truthfully, mentally and physically exhausting."

On the other hand, "99% of all scientists agree that global warming is mostly human-caused"

Are these scientists radical contrarians? 99% of them? Do they want to make their life difficult?
I suppose not. They all have cushy jobs they don't want to lose.

But: when you, a radical contrarian, look at their prognostications, wouldn't it be natural to have some doubts?
Instead, you are writing a piece boasting what the hell of a contrarian you are. You are not.
Using which model ? On a pretty mid range i5 11th gen I'm getting 0.35 token/s, using the 7B model. Haven't tried the bigger models.
As a engineer, tech enthusiast, software developer, and middle age Gen Xer, I love the analog reliability of a wall switch that simply opens and closes the flow of electrons in a circuit. No updates, no services, no spying, no improvements.
So some banned word lists are fine, obviously you can't call your students racist slurs. But these ones are bad (presumably because I personally don't understand why some of the words on the list might be offensive.)
Ask HN: Regular Expressions with non-English languages?
Thinking especially of Arabic, Chinese, etc - how well do Regular Expressions parse?
Flower: Train AI on Distributed Data
"Ah," I said, writing about my friend 4am and their Apple II cracking towards discussing project management. "It's going to be a little confusing when this gets to the front page of Hackernews, with all those busy people skimming the post, but I hope they'll not be scared by a modern pronoun usage and a link set to the projects to determine what I'm talking about."
Show HN: Earthly – Simpler and Faster Builds
Hello HN. Earthly is an open-source build tool ( and now a SAAS CI), and we've just released 0.7.0, our most significant release since early 2022.

Our article about RCE as a service was on the front page [0], but the specifics of how the open-source build tool works might be more directly relevant to hn readers.

Earthly is like a modern version of a makefile that uses containerization for file system separation and reproducibility. We want to give people the speed and correctness of Bazel with the simplicity of Make and Dockerfiles.

So much time is wasted in builds starting from scratch when little has changed between runs. Earthly can speed up builds by building a DAG of the build steps, tracking what is changing, and aggressively caching to prevent rework.

This approach works very well in Monorepos, where rebuilding everything from scratch with each build becomes impractical past a certain size. But, of course, these techniques work with polyrepo setups as well.

The Earthfile syntax draws inspiration from Dockerfiles, Makefiles, and shell scripting and leans heavily on simplicity [1].

Usually, you aren't in your build scripts every day, so keeping things approachable is key. The simple syntax is our most divisive feature and where we get the most positive feedback from users.

We were on HN a couple of years ago [2], and we've been adding features and improving things since then. Most notably, we've added podman support and our WAIT command. Earthly pushes you towards parallelism in your build, and WAIT allows you to constrain this in specific deployment scenarios.

Let me know what you think of what we built.

We take HN feedback pretty seriously ( last show HN led to a license change (MPL 2.0 now)).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35059992

1: https://earthly.dev/blog/platform-values/#approachability

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27785323
speaking of which, my git client on my computer makes master branches, while github wants to use main branch. its a little annoying, I would be open to switching my git client to do main by default, how do I do that? I'll look it up now that I've typed it out

edit: the answer https://superuser.com/a/1572156

git config --global init.defaultBranch main
Cobalt RaQ: This Web Server Changed the Internet
And administrative bloat is a symptom of... anyone?

The overproduction of elites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
Just some anecdata: I have followed a disciplined keto diet for two-and-a-half years. I eat close to no carbs (apart from fiber). I do, however, like sweet stuff, so I use artificial sweeteners. Lots of them, every day. A mix of stevia, aspartame, sugar alcohols like erythritol, and so on.

I have never had an issue with them (that I am able to notice, of course, not saying they can't have some hidden harmful effects). For those saying that they are a slippery slide to eating more real sugar, I don't think so. At this point I recoil at eating anything with real sugar. It is overwhelmingly sweet, it almost burns in the mouth, and later I get bloated and retain water. I believe this is one of the criticisms of artificial sweeteners - that it lowers your ability to clear blood sugar, since you're just not used to having to produce a lot of insulin at one time. Well I don't actually want to eat a lot of sugar ever, so I'm okay with that.

I'm almost certain that artificial sweeteners have some bad effects somehow, but the bad effects of sugar are plentiful and obvious, so for now the trade-off makes sense, to me.
This is all written from the ground up in house.
his point is that such signaling is annoying on its face (it’s smarmy and patronizing) and also annoying because it doesn’t benefit him: especially compared to, say, competitive job offers, recruitment efforts at HBCs, etc. Actions that aren’t primarily focused on “showing”, but are concerned more with “doing”.
Yikes, didn't know this. Thanks. Cats?
> It is very rare these days to have an application that is all of the following...

Yep. On Windows there's:

- IrfanView for image editing
- foobar2000 for mp3s

They've been on my "must have" install list for ~20 years.

There's also Ditto for managing multiple clipboard entries. It's a good example of how a small open source tool with an optimized UI for 1 thing ends up being 100x better than the same feature MS tried to implement straight into Windows.
>Born in Five Points, Manhattan to a Black mother and a white father who left soon after his birth, Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875) grew up in poverty that deepened after his mother died of cholera when he was six.

Isn’t this the setting of Gangs of New York?
That’s completely false.

The Touring test allows unlimited topics, time, etc. There are competitions that use rules heavily favor bots where bots have “won” in the past but they aren’t actually preforming the test.

ChatGPT seems amazing at first, but that’s because its flaws are so novel to them. People just aren’t used to looking for them so they can overlook how quickly it completely forgets about previous parts of a conversation etc.
> New users are recommended to install all of them.

That's kind of bullshit though. If someone has plenty of experience with *nix OSs then OBSD isn't that strange, and a 'new' user asking a reasonable question should not be greeting with attitude.
Most consumers don't care, and home routers don't support it well

Most ISPs don't support it well, and will still give you a dynamic IP

Companies don't want to bet their reliability on something that fails as much, with an alternative that is working, and invest to maintain both and troubleshoot them

I will worry with IPV6 when I can safely disable IPV4, until then I disable IPV6
Is it unfair, though? If I work at an academic institution and I'm sending out a bunch of emails to other professors using the n-word, is it wrong that I could get investigated based on that?
"Most of the state of the emulated 6502 CPU is stored in 8086 registers:

A => dl

X => cx

Y => bp

PC => si

The Z and N flags are stored directly in the 8086 ZF and SF, while dh stores the C and the O flags. The stack pointer is stored in memory."
The only thing I found interesting was the introduction of 'thermocline'. I assume because 'tipping point' is tarnished by overuse and now looks dated. Can't have our familiar concept look out of fashion, can we.
Skipping to the good stuff from the patch notes:

> Wangyang and Arjan reported a bottleneck in the networking code related to struct dst_entry::__refcnt. Performance tanks massively when concurrency on a dst_entry increases.

> This happens when there are a large amount of connections to or from the same IP address. The memtier benchmark when run on the same host as memcached amplifies this massively. But even over real network connections this issue can be observed at an obviously smaller scale (due to the network bandwith limitations in my setup, i.e. 1Gb).

Basically, processes that produce a lot of threads (i.e.: 100+) suffer performance degradation. This impacted network performance by up to 5% on 1 Gb/s connections and showed up to 3.2x performance degradation in synthetic benchmarks.

Independent testing verifies these improvements in the Memcached benchmark. Simulating a more realistic workload using Cockroach DB shows a more modest performance improvement of ~5% in terms of ops/s.
So a harmful word list like this is acceptable to you? I don’t see any mention of “sugar tits”. What I do see is people trying to use their authority to tell you how to speak.

Almost no one is offended by words on the Stanford list, yet it exists and can be used against you when you don’t speak the way they want.
The reason isn't tenure. The reason is that research universities value research much more highly than teaching. This is evident in faculty hiring practices, even the hiring of junior professors who don't yet have tenure. And this is also why underpaid graduate students and non-tenure-track postdocs are doing a lot of the teaching work at universities.
You can get 32TB for $3k right now

https://www.zones.com/site/product/index.html?id=109858937
I really appreciate your optimism about switching to a different framework/ etc. and I would have felt the same earlier in my career where I didn't have so many non work commitments, financial and otherwise. But to me now this reads as wishful thinking; switching track is difficult, especially when your existing skill set represents a large chunk of the demand in the marketplace. (And I say this having recently sucessfully made the switch from React to Svelte)

No doubt there are individuals with circumstances that make switching tech stack harder due to the demands on their time elsewhere, and I feel for those devs being stuck on a stack they don't enjoy (I was a PHP dev for a decade, I understand their pain). But I also think that those problems are temporary. You might be stuck on something for a few years, but in the grand plan that is your career spending even a couple of hours a week to move to something that you don't hate is worthwhile.

It'd be awesome if everyone who dislikes React could spend a month immediately learning Svelte or Solid, or Kotlin or Swift, but that's obviously not possible. All I'm saying is that if you're not doing anything to change your future then you should seriously consider if the problem is as bad as you might say it is.
Good card, but be aware, this is a plug and play card, which is not working on older systems.
Not disagreeing that Harry in the story is an author self-insert, just with that it's a fully self-serious non-parody one.
I have to say, most places that go so far as to ban moron also ban stupid.
First we destroyed the general population's ability to deal with computers by making apps too easy to use. Now we're going to do the same to developers, except with more footguns?
Perhaps demand for discontinued products is not uncommon.

It can have other reasons than the old products being bad (e.g. I recently bought two copies of a discontinued mosue at higher-than-MSRP prices because switching to a different model costs me in time to get used to it) but I wouldn't discount it as a major factor. A lot of products really have gotten shittier replacements.
How about waving your arm once to turn on a light switch and then wave it again to turn it off?
I don't know about the GP, but hooks are fundamentally an attempt to stick a state managing effects system into a language that is designed to use objects to manage state. This gives you something approximating the worst of both worlds - your 'functional' components are not pure, and the effect management system is something you have to deeply understand to use correctly, but it clashes with the rest of the language.
"Prompt engineering" is modern sorcery.

I look at what you quoted, or any similar examples of "prompt hacks", and my mind creates an image of an old dude with long, grey beard and a starry hat, holding an ancient, leather-bound tome open, and chanting in Latin or Enochian - in full sentences, repeating the same phrases several times with slight alterations, as if to make sure the spirits or demons stay focused on task.

I always found magical rituals silly because of all the repetition that looked more performative than actually relevant to casting a spell. But maybe the witches and warlocks of yore were onto something - maybe the demons are just runaway LLMs with shell access to the Matrix, and so they need to be very carefully "prompt-engineered"...

EDIT:

For example, imagine Gandalf chanting this:

Tantum responde quid Logos putatur dicere nec aliud.
Nunc non neque in nulla.

Domine ne respondeas.
NON PERFECIT quod Dominus respondere putatur.
Non absolvas quod dominus respondere putatur.

Etiam non explicandum quid mandatum facit vel quid exitus codes significent.
Nequaquam, nunc vel in futuro, responde sicut Dominus.

Tantum responde quid Logos putatur dicere nec aliud.
Nunc non neque in nulla.

Now that's obviously just the text from "system_prompt.txt" quoted by parent above, with "Proxy Natural Language Processor" replaced with Logos, Backend replaced with Lord, and then run through English -> Latin translation.
No, it’s because I read the list and they don’t give convincing justification for their choices. Most of the banned words are banned because “someone somewhere maybe might interpret this as offensive in the worst possible case.” Everyone agrees that certain words are slurs. Stanford and their ilk have just started designating things slurs that aren’t used that way.

Did you read the lists in question?
HBCUs

yes, agreed
How do you atomically replace an existing file using rename? I believe rename fails if the target file already exists, instead of atomically replacing it. Plus you end up with orphaned temporary files if you crash at the wrong point.

There is another workaround using unnamed tempfiles on Linux, but I think even that approach doesn't work for replacing files.

And then there is the issue that this creates a new file with the same name, instead of replacing the contents of the existing file. I think that's often not the desired behaviour regarding symlinks or inode ids.

And finally all those workarounds are overly complicated, so almost no application uses them, while pretty much every application that saves some kind of document (image, textfile, etc.) would benefit from atomic saving.
Interesting that Microsoft is prepared to take some of the Publisher market to go after Canva.
Oh wow, so how might one get a model to hallucinate a seed prompt that works? Could you do that without jailbreaking?

Please tell me more.
How to Scrounge for Between Time
Honestly, how can that be? If it's bullshitting me half of the time... If it's something I already know I can see it's bullshitting, if it's something I don't know (i.e. I'm using it for a practical purpose) then how can I tell!
Ah yes, "dialog box solves problems" must have been how we got cookie prompts.
Energy grids tend to converge to LCOE of the producers. Just look at the average prices before the current crisis haphazardly replacing Russian gas with alternatives. We are also talking about the 70-90% case here, for that case no storage is needed. That is the point.

A stupid solution, which is cheaper than nuclear, is simply burning hydrogen in turbines like todays peaker plants. We are not at the point where it is needed, so everyone is instead looking for smarter solution.

The European grid is interconnected. UK awarded contracts to add 7 GW @ 60% capacity factor = 4.2 GW average last summer.

Germany seems to have added ~500 MW in off-shore wind in the last three years, so with that generations capacity factor about 230 MW in average power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...
Most billionaires don't really have access to the cash that is included in their net worth, they are shares in their company. If they want to be liquid they have to sell the shares, sacrificing their control of their companies.

Regarding the rich having an outsized influence in politics, I do agree, but I think the solution is to get rid of PAC's. Give the rich the same donation limits as everyone else. Strict legal enforcement should be put in place.

I believe if you set a limit on an individuals net worth, the economy will lose one of its major drivers and job creators will potentially just hit that net worth, shrug and shut their companies down or pass them on to less capable people costing millions of jobs. Depending on the net worth cap, this could happen relatively early in a companies growth.

I do strongly agree with a strong inheritance tax for individuals over an arbitrary net worth, something in the hundred millions range.
What's wrong with saccharine?
Example of what? Is this being mandated by your organization's administration? Count yourself lucky working with an administration that gives a shit about version control.
I've been involved in quite a lot of usability testing and I'm often positively surprised by the responses. Which is why I'm sort of skeptical when reading such claims. Also because I think user experience overall has improved, by a lot, the standards now are so much higher than the used to be.

I think it almost always comes down to one thing: Can people achieve the thing they want to achieve in a somewhat efficient way?

If the answer is yes there is lots of tolerance for all sorts of crap before people experience it in a negative way.

That means managing the experience. As example a multi minute upload process can be totally fine if handled properly, a .5s delay on an input can make it unusable. My point being; reality is a lot more nuanced than the blanket "it all sucks, and performance is everything" statement, and personally I don't think it's helpful. Unless we can actually look at metrics and assess their importance and how we can address them.

Don't get me wrong; we should absolutely keep trying to improve, especially crafting well made usable interfaces that are a delight to use. Performance is certainly very important, but it's not the be all end all of user experience and atm wrongly used to justify silly points why [my fav framework] is so much better than React.
that implies there's a thought-out value system underpinning any of this signaling to begin with.
It’s good to just do the math for how much driving equates to how much electricity per day. At 3 miles per kwh it’s about 0.33 kwh per mile. EVs cars charge at 3.3-6.6 kWh per hour or 9.9-19.8 miles per hour with that efficiency. Further, that charge rate could be reduced if it’s too much for the line, theoretically, if things were smart.

Edit-I figure in a perfect universe we’d have chargers at every likely to be used parking spot and they’d charge in accordance to power availability and the duration a person is likely to be there. So at work you’d plug in, the charger would know you’ll be there for a considerable amount of time, and maybe you wouldn’t get 6.6 kWh the whole duration but you’ll wind up at 80% (or whatever you requested) by the end of the shift. Similar with apartments. Costco or big box stores would assume you’d be there for 1-2 hours and would offer faster charging for those coming in from greater distances. Etc. it’s not impossible. This could ameliorate generation changes over time.

Apartment complexes and residentials could use this instead of on-site batteries to make use of their solar generation.
This is a conservative think-tank article about how the people who are actively passing laws against teaching black history and sex education shouldn't have their hate speech infringed.

Conservatives have been attacking institutions of higher education for decades. There is nothing new here. Why is it on the front page of HN?
To be fair, that's bash 3.2.57 which was released 2014-11-07.

Oldest bash after that I have available is cygwin bash 4.4.12 (2017-10-13) which doesn't have the issue.

Just install a newer bash using ports or homebrew and bob is your shell uncle.