skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could give you similar polls for China, too. That is billions of people. Who cares what they think? How about who cares what YOU think! You’re in a media bubble and not seeing any other coverage around the world. You’re being told what to think and say, and all the mainstream media is in total agreement and no dissent is allowed (with the glaring exception of Tucker Carlson’s prime time slot on Fox, which otherwise proves the rule).

Literally everything you’re saying is just parroting CIA / US establishment talking points word for word, just like in every other proxy war against Russia (Afghanistan, Syria).

No there isn’t “just one side” that unilaterally began this conflict. Not even close. And the rest of the world outside the media bubble you’re in realized it. That’s billions of people who realize NATO expansion is responsible. Western leaders too:

There was a war going on in Donbas since 2014 for 8 years before Russia invaded. Russia negotiated Minsk and Minsk II but it was never implemented. USA fomented a revolution in 2014 and Ukraine’s new government was using cluster munitions against civilians in the Donbas as early as 2014:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/20/ukraine-widespread-use-c...

This wasn’t “unprovoked”. Even in mainstream Western Europe many leaders clearly warned Russia was being provoked:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KqE7UTptgGg

And still say now that it was provoked by NATO:

https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/World-News/2022/06/14/italy...

I could go on. I could cite experts and leaders in USA and in Europe all of whom say the war was provoked and there is more than “one side”. They say it was very easy to avoid:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OF5oPNjMZw4

But it won’t make a dent. You won’t care what billions of people think. Or what leaders think. Or what experts think. Because they’re all wrong. You in your media bubble have it right: the causes are super simplistic and only one side is at fault. This is fed to you to justify ANY LEVEL of escalation, up to and including the destruction of the entire world. It’s pretty ridiculous and scary actually. But the US military industrial complex has successfully co-opted most of its mainstream media to make sure only one narrative is allowed in the minds of most people. This has been a phenomenon that already was honed with other issues, such as vaccine hesitancy immediately prior.

We have seen proxy wars happen (in Yemen for instance, an incredibly destructive war), we know how they occur… one side foments a revolution, the other props up the counterrevolutionaries, and both sides funnel weapons to the region for years. One side bombs the country and the other delivers weapons from afar.

No thougutful person thinks there is “one side that attacked in an unprovoked way” and so on. Especially in this case, where Russia is defending its security against being surrounded by a hostile military alliance led by its geopolitical enemy, while USA simply went around the world 3000 miles away to bomb countries to the stone age to prevent, I dunno, communism I guess.
I thought the libreddit instance I was using was down and then I went to another instance, then another, …, and another, and finally thought “maybe Reddit is down?”
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Looking for feedback on my project to teach python by writing code that interacts with a Minecraft World.
If your business requires thousands of people to still not make profit maybe - just maybe - your business sucks and you shouldn't be in it?
Well then there’s 4:

The regulators failed massively, allowing banks to mask their duration losses. Obviously this needs to change, but they probably need to fix the other banks first (that are still hiding their losses).
Lately, my response to calls to censor 'this one thing' is 'ban everything' and skip all the baby steps. At least then people will immediately realize what is actually bad about word prohibition.
The Rails console is somewhat clunky but manages to deliver most of the value of a Lisp/Smalltalk REPL.
That runaway-wise AI doesn't happen fast enough to save us and this planet from ourselves (including from pathological intermediate AI scenarios)
De ezt rosszul fordították magyarból, nem fordították rosszul franciára. Szerintem ez a vígjáték megfelelőbb:

https://youtu.be/mh_ePgI4n3Y

;)
Net energy is the crucial difference. One generates carbon emissions to make carbon based infrastructure last longer, further generating emissions, while the other actually displaces them.
I agree and actively try to stay away from A.I as much as possible. But there is one reason it’s a good thing: humanity is doomed even without A.I, so maybe creating a new being that is better than us will save us.

Let’s take for example the fact that earth is likely to become inhabitable in a few centuries / millennias. The only thing that can save us is unprecedented technological advancement in energy, climate, or space travel. Maybe humans won’t be able to solve that problem, but A.I will. So even if we lose our jobs, it will still be a benefit.

Kind of like wild animals are unable to solve environmental problems that would lead to their extinctions, but us humans, the superior species, are able to protect them (when we make an effort to at least).
Storage ain't free as well, someone uploads huge images
The crisis was created by the Federal Reserve in the first place printing trillions of dollars and then jacking up interest rate. That wouldn't happen in a libertarian system.[1]

It's not hypocritical to call on the people in charge to clean up the mess they created.

[1] Not to say that a purely libertarian system would be perfect and without other problems.
If you just want to argue against your imagination I suggest notepad.
Some people do actually seem to be that shortsighted. looking at peoples life and financial decisions, sometimes I get the sense that people have a hard time planning more than five years ahead, let alone for the next generation. that, and people have a strong tendency to engage in wishful thinking and generally underestimating the probability of unpleasant outcomes that could result from their own actions.
Saying a "compiled" spec is out of date may be technically accurate (or not, I don't have any idea) but if open, published documentation of the ratified extensions is on the web site, it's misleading to cite it as evidence that the spec is not open. And I know that the draft specifications are open for public comment prior to being ratified, so it's not a secret what's under development, either.
Legally, the expression of an idea is a form of property in the United States and most other nations (looking at you, Vatican City). Conceptually, the two questions ("ideas are/are not property") have been debated in the West for centuries. "We stand on the shoulders of giants" lost, and Fichte/Talfourd won. For better and worse, ideas are property.

>Curiously when we talk about science where there is no money, the knowledge is ownerless

USDA grant disbursements for ag science alone would make your eyes bleed.
Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
It's in the title of the article. HN guidelines for comments presumably don't apply to articles. (It wouldn't be good for me to call another HNer a 'tech bro', but we can discuss an article that uses the phrase, no?)
Yes, and government banking regulations seem to have been almost entirely focused on credit risk rather than duration risk because they were focused on the last crisis - banks were effectively actively penalised for keeping their money in higher credit risk but lower duration risk investments like corporate bonds instead of minimal credit risk but high duration risk ones like long-term treasury bonds and government-backed MBSes. There's been an entire wave of articles in the left-leaning parts of the press blaming this all on libertarians and corporations convincing the government to lift regulations created in the wake of the 2008 crisis and causing a repeat of it by doing so that just completely ignore this distinction.
Banking in the US had quite a few surprises for me. Often masked as 'for security' when it's anything but. A few examples spring to mind.

1) Chip and pin took the US forever to adopt. I've heard arguments that this is because chip and pin is 'insecure'. Insecure compared to a signature or magnetic stripe? Really?

2) SSL certificates. A lot of the retail banks use the cheapest grade SSL certificates. No extended validation. So you don't get that reassuring green padlock. No idea why. Something about compliance I read once. Bizarre.

3) ACH payments take three days to wire. Again, I've heard the argument for this is that it helps security as it gives you a chance to cancel the payment before it finally completes. More plausibly though, I think it helps the banks generate fees. Granted, it took legislative intervention in the EU to get this right, but clearly it's a net win for the economy.

A lot of people buy the arguments, too. Banking in the UK/EU is like living in the future when compared to the US.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot about cheques (checks). The US still loves a check. The banking equivalent of the Penny Farthing.
I as a user on the other hand don’t want a browser to host “applications” that have arbitrary access to a folder on my file system. I’m okay with it having implicit access to locked down folder if the operating system makes it impossible for any file in that folder to be an executable and if when you double click on that file, it can only launch the web page that saved it. The latter is to prevent web apps from saving files like bash scripts, macros, etc that can be easily executed.
Compilers traditionally don’t taint users code with their own license, seems this one does.
32K of Context in Your Pocket
I’ve never thought the term had anything to do with masculinity - unless it’s the toxic kind.
I love this comment because I only read the above, started thinking about how I would do it, then was like "ah! I'll reply...", and then saw it and changed course
To me the TIL is that there are now desktop intel processors that support proper ECC. This no longer being a Xeon-only feature is really neat.
It's not quite the same. When the children inherit a business, they usually have to do real work to keep it. Incompetence eventually destroys it. When the children do it right, a business keeps on existing and creating some sort of benefit to society -- it keeps on doing whatever it does, employs people, etc.

Meanwhile there's no effort involved in collecting royalties from your father's work, and no social benefits are provided by it.
Can you move to GitLab? GitHub is purely proprietary which doesn't match the spirit of FOSS. At least GitLab is open core.
Why should it be allowed? It discriminated based on gender. Or are you ok with that when it's against men?
How much does GPT-4 cost?
> But for how long?

the subtitle of the web era
I'm referring to all BCIs although right now I wouldn't be surprised if Neuralink is the most visible example. But I'm using BCI as an umbrella term for any technology whose input is the brain's electrical signals and whose output purports to be your thoughts, regardless of whether or not that interface is surgically invasive. Given that all surgeries carry risk and that all implants have challenges regarding host compatibility, getting that kind of tech to the point where the graze of a finger on an innocuous surface is enough to ballpark "thoughts" (the back of your phone, a public terminal, the door handle to a store you're walking into in order to complain to the manager...) would be the wet dream of any company and government that hoards data like money.
Genuine question, is it common practice to have code explained with sentences? What are some examples of use cases where you would need that, instead of simply looking at the code?
This comment read like the intro to some kind of dystopian movie.
Thank you for your comment!

I hadn't come across Qdrant before, but I will definitely check it out. Although I've been experimenting with milvus.io lately, these vector databases weren't on my radar when I first started exploring embeddings.

Langchain looks incredibly fascinating too! At first glance, it seems like it could be my go-to library for prototyping. I appreciate your suggestion.
Try mentioning Neuromancer and hear about how many characters have eyes like "mirrored glass".
> Nail polish remover, like non-ethyl alcohol, is likely to be adulterated

Not if you buy the stuff that literally says "pure acetone," e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Onyx-Professional-Acetone-Remover-Fas...

I was going to suggest that the only "adulterant" likely to be in something labeled "pure acetone" would be water from the air, but Stack Exchange suggests differently: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/54341/acetone-...
I use FitNotes[0] which seems to do most of what the Strong app does and I don't think it needs "online" except for the optional cloud export.

[0] http://www.fitnotesapp.com/
Slauth.io (YC S22) Is Hiring another technical co-founder
At least they opened up the product. It's available for anyone paying $20 per month and soon via API. Historically, most products of that kind were just aimed at large B2B. They announced partnerships with Duolingo, JPMorgan and a few others but still keep their B2C product.

Not defending their actions, but it's not that common that new very valuable products are directly available for retail users to use.
Yes and Google Docs is not nearly as good as Office or even Apple’s iWork suite.
Can we please not?

Humanity wasted close to 50 years optimizing compilers for one garbage language. Wasted unimaginable efforts, money and developer hours... and all could've been avoided if the same people dedicated a fraction of those resources to language design.

Same thing happened with Java. And now the existence of a well-developed compiler became an argument in its own right in favor of choosing a bad language.

There's no need or reason to try to make Python run faster. It's a trash language. At best, it deserves a credit for being funny 30 years ago... but that had worn out pretty fast. Now it's just dumb. Improving its compiler will be again a resource sink for the programming community that, in the best case, may hope to produce something of value by accident, independent of its main goal...
This is definitely the case in our company:

"Many large companies can’t use products like GitHub Copilot because of the security and privacy risks, so we’re building a self-hosted version that’s fine tuned to the company’s codebase."
Yellen has always been too quick to fold, and we saw that in her time as fed chair. Wall Street and silicon Valley insiders know this, which might be why they immedieately tried to put their PR campaign's focus on her (rather than Jerome Powell, who is a little bit steadier at the poker table).
New doctor?

I think you mean, new lawyer.
It depends.

If Company A wants a bank account with x% interest and instant access to all their deposits at any time (which might be impossible to provide)

and Company B offers them such a bank account, wagering that they won't use that instant access at the same time as everyone else

who is at fault?
"So we thought, let’s take Python syntax, semantics, and libraries and [...] Codon currently covers a sizable subset of Python, it still needs to incorporate several dynamic features and expand its Python library coverage. The Codon team is working hard to close the gap with Python even further".
In my experience support will gaslight you into thinking it is your problem. I had a Hetzner server that was shutting off at random hours several times per week.

I showed them the sudden loss of power events in the logs. "It must be a problem with your OS modifications that we don't support".

OK, I wiped the machine to the stock image that you provide and it's still having power loss events. "Sure, we'll run a stress test for a couple minutes ... stress test passed OK, it's still your fault!".

The events happen randomly during the week, a stress test is not going to show that. Can you just move me to a different physical machine? "No."

This was over the course of several days, when I had an event coming up that I NEEDED the server for. I ended up going back to Azure and paying 10x the cost, but at least it worked great.
GPT-4 hired a human to solve CAPTCHA
Capitalism would get your bank and their depositors bankrupt, end of story.

It was the USSR that were using heavy machine industry to finance and subsidize unproductive companies, leading to monopolies and corruption.
What was it back in 2014 when Yellen of FRB exempted them?
I’m not asking for that. Some people are and I don’t support it.
You yourself just explained the reasoning as to why they would think that and seem to agree as well, not sure why you'd call it stupid.
I can physically pull the plug.
Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it's still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed.

Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line of decisions that are clearly being made because they can't work out how to build a business around what is at it's core a nice UI for Linux containers. My hope is that before the inevitable shuttering of Docker Inc another organisations (ideally a coop of some variety, but that's probably wishful thinking) pops up to take over the bits that matter, and then hopefully we can all stop trying to keep up with the latest way in which our workflows have been broken to try and make a few dollars.
If your bank is willing to take on excess risk in one area, it's reasonable to assume that it's also willing to take on excess risk in other areas.

The very fact that it was catering to startups was high risk behavior.

And let's not pretend that extending loans to 15 year old "startups" that have never made a dime in profits and have no clear exit path was a sound business.
I am by no means an expert.

The bailing out was needed due to risky behavior.

The risky behavior was enabled by de-regulation starting from Clinton. (Most de-regulation related systemic flaws today can be traced back to his admin)

"Tech bros" support this de-regulation. Any regulation is govt. overreach. "We know how to handle our shit" attitude all over the place.

Yet when the downside of the risk comes, it is govt. money that bails them out.

Regarding your last line. How much of your stuff (something that is fungible, like money) needs to be actually be in the unit while the storage company can loan out the rest is the question. There can be more of the stuff in circulation than there are resources. As long as not everyone is asking for their stuff back, the storage company can keep juggling balls in the air.
>Thiel and friends are very much anti-regulation

Anti-regulation on the business side, their political donations show they are very much into regulations when it comes to people and ideas that aren't "typical" and or "straight".
They have a pretty good track record in code hosting (15 years), why would they ruin it for containers?
They told you, it’s a low quality article!
So the market was expecting the investor to exceed their regulator limit? That doesn't make sense. What am I missing?
"At the time, the two founders of the company [Sergey Brin and Larry Page] felt that they had too many products," explained Winer. "And they wanted the company to get rid of some of the products.

"This is a very difficult thing for a company to do because they have users and people build on these products. They build systems out of them and people inside the company use the products. There are all kinds of reasons why once you put a product out there, you have a commitment to keep running it.

"But the founders said, 'No, we don't have that commitment. We're going to learn how to kill products.' And so they went around the company and they said, 'Look, which products should we kill?' The only one any group of people could agree with was Reader. So they said, 'Fine, we're going to delete Reader and we're gonna see what happens.' And that was the end of that."
So that's a good thing, right? :)
Has there been any work on making these centralised public repositories distributed?
Just did this yesterday, it was surprisingly easy. I used the HashiCorp Vault secrets plugin for GitHub and pushed containers via GitHub Actions, so for me it became more secure than storing and retrieving a docker hub API key.
For legal research, lawyers already use third party sites like Westlaw. You can do legal research without giving up any confidential client information.

I just asked GPT-3 a research question that took me hours of searching back in the day and it returned the single seminal case for that topic immediately. As long as the lawyers then actually read the case and make sure it's right, I don't see why they can't use it.
Gitlab have been increasing pricing heavily recently, especially in storage-heavy areas such as containers.

I don't think they're likely to be a cost-effective differentiator against what Docker are now charging.
yet its the language of choice for several people who are domain experts but not programming experts. It's doing a job for non-programmers who have to program. until a solution exists that does better, python is going nowhere.
Stating those people are overpaid doesn't negate the fact that dev is incredibly well paid position with luxurious work conditions that people manage to complain about while being bad at it.

If you accept the premise that we should mock incompetent divas shareholder and CEO, then you should accept the premise we should mock our own community.

Plus a bit of self-deprecating humor is good for the soul.
OpenAI Reveals GPT-4 Demo
iirc gitlab's free tier has a storage and bandwidth limit which applies to the container registry too. That makes gitlab a no go if you want to share containers widely.
Also, non-floating solar panels could completely power thousands of cities.
I will say this and I am being absolutely honest.

I am surprised there is so little anger.

I can offer an explanation, but I am not sure how accurate that is. As I tried to explain to my friends in different industry what has, apparently, happened, their eyes quickly glazed over. There seems to be a lot of confusion floating around and no clear 'bad guy' to blame ( I have a pet theory about this, but this may be a bad time to introduce it ).

<< if they didn't already have an axe to grind!

Absolutely correct. Based on what I heard so far, adherents of each political spectrum in US went to their respective corners with their specific talking points. Super annoying as it only adds to the confusion ( its not like we have a systemic risk on our hands ).
The existence of two apps that spent countless man-years implementing their apps to run in the browser doesn't make them a good example. Same goes for VS Code which inevitably comes up in these discussions.

Figma literally said they had to build a browser inside the browser: https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
What training data? I thought ML was all about the training data and AI was magical combination of logical gates!
This begs several questions -- one of which being, "what is intelligence, then?"
Just an idea like that : deploying a quick k3s/k3d with a PostgreSQL operator like CloudNativePG might help you to take away some of the maintenance overload.
funny how this presumed causation only goes back to 2021
There's no option to chose for better insurance otherwise I'd already have taken. The next best thing that's available is pulling out the money before everything goes wrong. Making better choices is the best insurance.