skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's.... I don't know how you even arrived at that idea of that being what happens? Are you imagining some kludged together perl script to hackily save the tarballs, written by someone who is then immediately let go?

What they're suggesting is basically setting up a cache for it locally in-between them and the "main repo" and ensuring the cache doesn't delete after x days and/or keep backups of the images they depend on.

If the package disappears, or the main repo falls over (cough github, cough), your devs, CI & prod aren't sat twiddling thumbs unable to work...

and if the package is nuked off the planet? You've got some time then to find an alternate / see where they move to.
Our organization currently caching all and every external dependencies we are using: Go, Python, npm and .NET packages, Docker images, Linux deb packages, so everything is contained inside our perimeter. We did that after one day our self-hosted Gitlab runners were throttled and then rate-limited by some package repository and all CI pipelines halted.
I have the Plus plan and it just asked me if I wanted to try it. And currently it is limiting requests for ChatGPT-4 and displays this in the UI.

"GPT-4 currently has a cap of 100 messages every 4 hours"
I would just avoid charging your phone at your friend's place or clicking his links.
"Waaah waah I get paid six figures to npm install and don't want to actually do any work but still want to be called an engineer"

Seriously it's pathetic. Stop making my computing environment worse just because you are too lazy to learn some desktop APIs
No, because Microsoft did already buy them?
I tried having chatgpt play tic tac toe with me, but it got it's left and right mixed up.

I imagine GPT4 is way better.
> Copyright law does not stop bad actors.

Yes it does.
Are there any non-peptide molecules that we know interact with the oxytocin receptor? Might be too heavy to have much smell.
Fair enough. It's a "what the market will bear" sort of thing in the end. I wouldn't be willing to buy a piece of equipment that required such an expense just to replace a battery, but I'm certainly not going to say anyone else is wrong for being willing to.

I just found it surprising that it was that steep.
Ah, this is fair. Where I view "flatpack install ..." as a negative, I do realize that most users likely view that as a positive.
Libraries and publishers have always had a love/hate relationship. I'm sure book publishers are no happier that their products are being loaned out for free than the MPAA is that movies are being loaned out for free, or the RIAA is that music CDs are being loaned out for free (all of these are currently done by physical libraries in the USA).

This has never been a real problem in the past, because libraries were limited by how much they could loan out, due to having a limited number of library staff, and a limited amount of shelf space.

The Internet Archive is also similarly limited, due to having a limited budget to hire engineers to scale up the platform to support more users, and a limited budget for digital storage space.

But it's enough that it really changes the equation, and I think that if the IA wins, we'll see less physical books printed, and the ones that are will have an increased price tag. I expect that the government will adjust the laws to keep the balance, somehow, however.
From all the information I've gathered, there is an unstated aspect to this.

If any number of HTM bonds are sold to cover withdrawals, then all of them must be revalued and losses realised on the whole lot.
To be honest though - there are no good guys here. They're all awful.

Google and Apple take insane cuts out of any money moving on their platform and while Epic uses predatory tactics to trap people into subscriptions Apple and Google do the same.
There are entire Wikipedia articles on the history of Labour's issues with anti-Semitism- I know, because my link to one was posted before your reply was. The issue is much more nuanced than what you or the person you're replying to are implying.
This is being worked on by SnowflakeOS: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/snowflakeos-creating-a-gui-foc... https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center
And here is the evidence for "No, it isn't actually 'thinking' it is 'parroting.'"
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357470
Its pretty easy to setup a Github Action that mirrors images to a private registry. We use this to mirror to GCP Artifact registry: https://zuplo.com/blog/2023/03/15/mirroring-docker-images-wi...
This is in sharp contrast to Roblox where a purchase attempt pops up a confirmation screen, a clear explanation of what you’re purchasing, what the cost is, and what your balance will be post-purchase. And then it makes you wait a few seconds before it enables the “purchase”
button itself.
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Maybe we all start hosting this stuff via torrent or something?
This is awesome. One improvement would be to have a preview of what it looks like on the all the major OSes. Bonus for mixing in non-English versions of the OSes.
The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing
The European big cities are much smaller than Seoul, which is 26M.

Cities in this size range in East Asia all have massive fertility issues (Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing)
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Which causes the aforementioned ballooning storage issue.
I work at company that uses the Newcomen engine to automate about ⅓ of the job of trained artisan laborers. Looking at the Watt engine those artisan laborers are now completely irrelevant. It's going to take years to build the supporting machinery around the Watt engine to completely eliminate those jobs, but today I am convinced that we are on the verge of massive unemployment. Today thousands of job types have just been made redundant.

What scares me is we are unprepared for the kind of change that a perpetual 20% unemployment rate is going to trigger.

Every new technology since the Industrial Revolution kicked off has been claimed to herald the elimination of millions of jobs and the dawn of permanent unemployment--and often they have eliminated millions of jobs, yet the permanent unemployment never comes. People in the past have always struggled to imagine the new jobs that will be created, and maybe we aren't any better at it.
I definitely don't have a lot of stuff lying around in my cabin. At the moment the only things visible in the cabinet are an electronic parking disc and a 12V two-port USB charger. If I encountered a clean car with the same interior colours as mine, I might not immediately notice it.
They absolutely care, you just don't listen because you are so self centered you think your opinion and needs are more important.

Users CONSTANTLY bitch about how slow the internet is, and people who grew up with microsoft office in school complain about how mediocre google docs is.
I feel like over the past few decades I have seen tons of news like this or that at least feels like this where there is some announcement about tangible progress that is made towards our returning to the moon -- some new prototype capsule announcement, a new unveiling of a rocket plan, the new suits, the "biosphere" stuff, etc. -- only to then see a published time horizon for the moon return which seems to always be "five years out." Any reason to expect THIS time around is different?
Bitcoin has, thus far, marched pretty much in lock step with the stock market. There's little reason to think that's going to suddenly change.
A Mission sandwich wrap is only 210, and there are more health-oriented brands out there. Even their low-carb line is only 80 calories.

https://www.missionfoods.com/products/original-wraps/
If you are counting beans as complex carbs that's a pretty easy statement to make. But most people are referring to whole grain wheat or wild rice or etc which are only a marginal improvements over their alternatives.
> Of course ChatGPT doesn't know what "bad faith" is but regardless it's almost performing on their level.

Its trained largely on the public internet. That it reproduces bad faith argument naturally and fluently should not be surprising.
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As others have pointed out, this is wrong. You generally by default use shared versions of whatever your system libraries are, which are packaged as part of a given nix release. Software can specify other, particular versions if needed. If you need access to the shared libs or some special libs in a dev environment you can specify that in the dev environment definition, and they are then available as usual. We use this, for example, so rust libraries can compile against the standard SSL library that comes with nixpkgs.
Central Banks allow us to pay each other and regulate banks to operate in the best interest of the economy by making 'good' loans. You are describing a gold standard or fixed monetary system. These systems have lead to deflationary collapses time and again. Without getting off of the gold standard as it was defined we would have never funded WW2 which was the larges money printing event in US history equating to 22% of GDP in government deficits.
>> Interpreting "printing money" to replace the more technical "controlling the size of the monetary base[1]"

These are different things.

Printed money is cash (or currency) and it represents a small amount of the total money in use, just under 3% in the UK. I don't have the figure to hand for the US but it's comparable, less than an order of magnitude difference. Printing money isn't a significant driver of the size of the monetary base, currency is (more or less) printed to replace the notes & coins that are guessed to have been lost or damaged. Talk about printing money, especially as a means to expand the monetary base, is usually misguided.

The monetary base consists of currency in circulation + reserve balances.

Reserve balances in the US, since March 2020 (Fed reserve requirements changed to 0%), refers only to the balance recorded in the account at the central bank for a given commerical bank (or other approved user of reserves). Reserves are money but they're a special kind of money that can't be spent in the economy. They're only usable by the central bank and institutions who are licenced to hold reserves at the central bank (predominantly commercial banks). They're not phyiscal (reserves used to include actual cash in the vault back when there were reserve requirements). Reserves, like most money today, just exist as rows in a DB on a computer.

There's an unlimited supply of reserves available to commercial banks (via the discount window), they are created on demand as needed from nothing by the central bank and charged at the discount rate in unlimited supply. A commercial bank today cannot run out of reserves.

>> the fed tries to tweak the money supply

The fed doesn't control much of the money supply, most of our money is created as commercial banks issue new loans. There's a common misunderstanding that commercial banks operate as intermediaries lending deposits, but they don't.
>I'm kind of starting to see what Guido is talking about when he says Python is a legacy language that's probably on its way out. Even in the interpreted world, languages like Janet and other newcomers are performing fascinating experiments, often doing more with less.

Wow, what a way to mischaracterize what Guido said.

His point was about languages evolving to be more abstract than Python or any of the ones you mentioned. Programming is going to become more and more abstract to the point where you will be able to program in natural language through speech. In the mean time, we still have to write code manually.

And look, there are plenty of valid criticisms of Python, but you are kidding yourself if you don't think its going to be one of the primary languages of the future. There is a reason why it has the 2nd most gihub repos (behind JS, because of hard dependency on it for web stuff).

And the simple reason is this: the vast, vast majority of applications don't need the fastest possible speed, its much more important to be able to develop fast, and have it be right. Its easier and cheaper to throw another EC2 instance in your stack rather than pay a developer to write stuff from scratch whereas in Python you can just import the relevant library for your needs and be up and running much faster, not only the short concise syntax used, but also the introspection into the running language because of its interpreted nature. And this allowed the snowball effect to happen, where developers could quickly write relevant libraries, which in turn allowed other developers to quickly import those libraries and write their libraries, slingshotting Python into a language that is used not only for bleeding edge ML stuff but to run backend web stacks with no issues.

And in the cases where you do need speed, this is where these compilers come in, and its a 100% valid use of manpower and money. Think of it as another library.

Every other language that focuses on things like static typing, whatever type of inheritance the designers think is best, memory safety, and all the other theoretical CS stuff completely misses the above point, and for that reason alone, it will never become mainstream. Rust is not going to happen, Nim is not going to happen, Julia is not going to happen, Scala is not going to happen, Elixir is not going to happen. Sure, there will be a significant amount of code written in those, but the popularity will never come close to Pythons. You may not like it, but you know this is true.

We have already seen this cycle happen with Haskell where functional programming was the next best thing. you would constantly see posts about it at the same frequency you now see posts about Rust, and look where Haskell is now.
Depends of the work you have to do.

If you code a website, fast api and django, the two most popular framework to do so, heavily rely on them to make you productive.
> I thought that was a myth of the past. Salt consumption has almost zero to do with blood pressure.

Not accurate. Salt affects different people differently. But for many people, it raises their blood pressure substantially, but only transiently, much like caffeine.

For most people the root cause of high blood pressure is going to be weight or lack of exercise, absent other risk factors. So if your morning blood is normally 100 / 60, then reasonable quantities of salt aren't going to raise your blood pressure enough for long enough to cause vascular damage. But if your baseline blood pressure is closer to pre-hypertensive or worse, then eating too much salt is going to raise your blood pressure enough to cause artery damage, and eventually heart disease.
I think you can infer industry from some of those, but mea culpa; you were focused on a different angle and it was my reading comprehension that was flawed.
50 Lawmakers to Introduce Legislation Repealing 2018 Financial Deregulation
Why would it need to?
>I'll add that if you can't easily afford a family house next to your office, you're not overpaid.

You are correct, though I will not say that underpayment per se is the problem. It's more along lines of housing is very expensive due to a whole combination of govt interference like taxes, inflation, regulations etc.
Sorry for only reading a bit at t he top, but languages often need their own library installers not because (all) OSes are failing the package deployment, but that some OSes that the language targets doesn't. It just takes one bad OS (though really it's windows/OSX) that can't have good package managers. Why do chocolaty / brew exist? Because the os vendors aren't interested in propagating software that's not making them money, direct or no.
The most superficial (and likely) reason to me seems to be that he uses haxx.se. I really wonder what kind of investigation they do. If they just start with Google, this one might come up immediately.
I found this article very shallow. It covers only spyware that are installed when a device is physically compromised.

I was hoping it would cover spy/malware that install remotely through many more infection vectors like clicking text messages. I guess NSO/Pegasus malware has this capability.

I barely use any apps and would gladly settle for a flip phone... I value privacy more than the ability to order food through my phone.
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I'd certainly prefer it if I could change the battery myself. I can, I have the tools for it but doing it will also cost me $49 plus the time to do it... it seemed worth it for Apple to do it.
I've been using the Internet since the mid-90s and have never heard of this blog. All I see in the blog is regime propaganda and nothing of interest. Are there older blog posts that were groundbreaking for their time that I'm missing?
Aaah, got it now - thank you!
> Profit motive above all else is fundamentally incompatible with the social engine that powers the open source community.

Its not. Freemium format works splendidly in various ecosystems, one of the biggest being WordPress. It enabled WP ecosystem to fund itself without VC or investor money and grow. Real indie growth. So its possible.

Without the funding from its own userbase to sustain itself, Open Source projects just flop eventually. Few remain if they are way too big or if they can get corporate sponsors. Thats not being 'free'. Real freedom is in Open Source being funded by its users without the unreliable mechanism of donations.
People also do not do that for real in the USA.

However, most of that is probably explained by the cash crowd trying to avoid taxes. Of course, if income taxes were minimal, there would be less effort to avoid it.

Also, cash doesn't show up when doing welfare checks against your bank accounts. To receive food stamps, you can't have more than $2000 in your bank accounts combined at any point.
Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta
For anyone that is curious, this is the paper that describes the core vectorized path tracing architecture in Moonray:

http://www.tabellion.org/et/paper17/MoonRay.pdf

Extracting sufficient coherency from path tracing in order to be able to get good SIMD utilization is a surprisingly difficult problem that much research effort has been poured into, and Moonray has a really interesting solution!
I'd like something that broadly prohibited any company that 1) acts as a gatekeeper for any third party services, or 2) offers digital "purchases" from blocking user access to their account without having to first prove overt nefarious actions that disrupt the service. And not some hand-wavy TOS violation, but it should be impossible to block someone more than temporarily without going through some kind of arbitration process.

If a company doesn't want to deal with this hassle, don't offer up "Sign in with Google/Apple/Facebook/whatever" (I'm talking about Google/Apple/FB/whatever in this scenario), and don't "sell" digital goods that are hosted online.
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That's a great clarification. Yes, the didn't march the entire distance. The war was very much a naval exercise.
While there is a sense in which the existence of nuclear weapons does tend to provoke a reflexive desire to further proliferate them on behalf of (some of) those who don't have access to them, the weapons themselves have no agency (and no prospect of such).

AGI would be a somewhat different kettle of fish, and there is little political will to limit the proliferation of its precursor AI technologies (some economic interest in limiting large scale hardware deployment within China, but that isn't the same thing).
Given the fact that the losses will not be realised unless depositors massively withdraw (i.e bank run), what is the role of media (including youtube, blogs etc) in this ?

If we didn't have a system which deliberately amplifies catchy headlines such as "banks are failing" wouldn't that bank run be avoided ?
Let's use Red Star OS. It's the best OS in the world. It doesn't have flathub integrated though, unfortunately.
Fed criticized for missing red flags before bank collapse
Presumably to stop from being undercut. Isn't this why we have anti-trust laws?
Executives cashing out their stock right before their company fails seems pretty self-evidently bad. Captains go down with their ships, they shouldn’t be the first people on the lifeboat.
See WW2 for insight.
I think they are using llama.cpp without any NPU/TPU patches. By default it only runs on CPU with support for various SIMD extensions.

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
But... ant hive does not posess any intelligence, right? Despite colonies of ants are able to perform quite complex tasks.
Two collapsed US banks were exempt from financial stress tests last year
I've always admired the Gravitas, but I don't really know how to play into tremolo in a way that sounds good at all.
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>you can still set permissions to use e.g. GPS all the time

It requires you to manually go into the settings to grant this permission. And as I mentioned it has a persistent notification. This is a part of Android 11.

>But it's also important to remember that the vast majority (easily 90%) of devices out there are running EoL'd Android versions

This is unfortunate. If want to have a secure device it's important to be using one which is still supported and is getting security updates. Else if a vulnerability exists an attacker can install spyware by using the vulnerability despite Android's security model.
What? Canada had one of the safest banking systems in the world and didn’t need bailouts in 2008? Now crypto seems safer, why?
The benefit of Nix is that you declaratively configure everything in a single file. And there's no reason you couldn't wrap a GUI around that. In fact I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already.
Ok, so as I understand it, you're considering having a living human write a new play and then put it through an LLM such as GPT to rewrite it in 'the style of Shakespeare'.

That is possible yes, but only within a limited interpretation of 'the style of Shakespeare'. It could only draw from the lexicon used in the existing body of Shakespeare works, and perhaps some other contemporary Elizabethan playwrights. It wouldn't include any neologisms, as Shakespeare himself invariably included in each new play. It couldn't be a further development of his style, as Shakespeare himself developed his style in each new play. So it would be a shallow mimicry and not something that Shakespeare would have produced himself if he had written a new play (based on a 21st century authors plot).

I personally wouldn't find that interesting. I acknowledge that you wrote only 'mildly interesting' and yes, it could be mildly interesting in the way of what an LLM can produce. But not interesting in the sense of literature, to my mind. Frankly, I'd prefer just to read the original new play written by the living human, if it was good. (I also prefer to not ride on touristic paddle-wheel boats powered by a diesel engine but with fake smokestacks.)