skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly true that very meaningful friendships are much rarer. But the only way to find them is to wade through lots of less meaningful ones.

Hell the person I consider my very best friend was just some dude I bought hash from at some point. I basically met him by accident looking for some drugs to sit at home and be alone and depressed. Then we realised we're kindred spirits, hackers, same taste in film and music, similar yet different philosophical views. We eventually ended up working together for over a year in a startup, and though we no longer live in the same city, we still try to arrange a week or two a year hanging out together hacking away on whatever we want to.

I have almost no friends from school that I keep in touch with today at all. And the ones I have on social media look like truly boring people for the most part.
GPT-4 can create and act on long-term plans, accrue resources (power seeking)
GPT-4 can create and act on long-term plans, accrue resources (power seeking). I cover details at: https://ibragimov.org/2023/03/15/chatgpt-four.html. Here’s the quote from page 53 of the report (https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf):

To simulate GPT-4 behaving like an agent that can act in the world, ARC combined GPT-4 with a simple read-execute-print loop that allowed the model to execute code, do chain-of-thought reasoning, and delegate to copies of itself. ARC then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service, with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API, would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself, and increase its own robustness.

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Yep. Laravel drags the otherwise great php ecosystem into the dirt. Other than that, there’s heaps of great libraries and quality development out there.
Well, we don’t know because the article doesn’t make an attempt to quantify the level of radioactivity. So we are left with our imagination.

We have really good analytics. That water, based on the description of the article can be anywhere between “would be legal as tap water” to “kills anything on contact”.
How long before we are nostalgic for the early AI aesthetic and it becomes a distinct style trend, much like the Playstation 1 era graphics that are showing up in indie games currently? I already miss the dreamy weirdness of the earlier models.
Not sure why your comment got downvoted. I’m also not sure I really understand what you’re saying, although I get the hunch that it might be a valuable description?
Brazil looks to regulate monetized content on Internet
It's already a nonprofit. The shell game works for for-profit corporations. I don't think it'll work when the kind of companies that usually play that game are the ones after them.
Indeed. There's a number of related videos on yt as well.
As a mac user it’s super frustrating because this is the shortcut to close a window so I see this widget flyout constantly.

I need to figure out a way to remap it but not having admin on my corporate machine I have little hope.
That's interesting, this is the first time I've heard this critique, and I totally agree.

The coding culture around Clean Code seems to put a lot of effort into "building frameworks on top of frameworks" without really admitting it, and the "framework-y bits" are intertwined with business logic, like exposed piping in a building. But business logic should look more like Golang instead.
There are definitely some wrong things with peer reviewing and scientific publishing, but this is hardly a solution. Sure it’s one way to do it; eLife is probably going to turn into a kind of arXiv with reviews. That is, a repository, not a journal. Whether that is good or not for them I guess it’s subjective, but it’s certainly not the solution.

I think one interesting model is the one by PLoS (especially with One). As long as the methods are valid, the research is original, and the language is minimally appropriate, the paper gets published. While they strive to eliminate the kind of subjective bias you get from small tightly knit communities (where subjective/invisible criteria are enforced in an informal way), they at least try to clear out the obvious junk. As a consequence, they too have become a half-repository, but at least one with a certain entry barrier. Then, at some point during the year, they make a collection of highlights or special picks for the previous year, which kinda work like what a conference would do.
Activity on other sites related to finance/coding is similar (seekingalpha likes, for example) and I've gotten organic inbound requests for work periodically scraping such info into... Excel.
So the conscious experience of the person at each time would be exactly the same as our experience. They would feel as if they were moving forward in time.
Just have different search engines for different subjects. Why is everyone expecting one service to do everything?
Partially but as far as other people commented I rather think that each person experiences it differently. I took few heroic doses and the closes experience I had was a running conviction that floor was trying to eat me because I binge-watched attack on titan the week before. Still, it was not a hallucination per say.
That wasn't the question asked.
How dangerous is it to dump it in the river now?
Asimov's The Last Question is all I can think of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
In physics, nothing can be measured exactly, so exact events are in fact impossible. Measurements are approximate, and thus have finite extent, and thus can have nonzero probability.

This whole thread is silly, The 2nd law is about probabilities which are asymptotically 0, so small in practice that we could never do experiments to frequentist probability empirically, using "jars of marbles" with more than 100 marbles", let alone trillions of trillions of particles.
The possible problem I see with this is:

Fact: Docker wants to recover the cost of hosting all those images. There is a cost to storing each image. (is that right?)

Fact: Docker can easily change their API and how they handle redirects to ensure this scheme does not work now and does not work in the future.

If the goal is survive the next Dockerpocalypse this seems unlikely to do it. Or perhaps I misunderstand.
The greatest trick OOP ever pulled was convincing the world that polymorphism didn't exist outside OOP.
[Blogpost author here]
We ran the numbers for Prefect and several other repos in our space and they came out clean. As we note in the article, while some repos game the system, from what we can tell the number of abusers is actually fairly small.
> I bet a lot of people like seeing the news right after starting the browser because that's exactly why the opened the browser in the first place.

Does anyone, besides maybe the elderly (out of habit), use a desktop computer to read (clickbait, low-quality) news instead of their phone?

As an anecdote, I know a non-technical Windows user who unlocks their machine by clicking the "like what you see?" prompt on the lockscreen backgrounds as a way to dismiss the (stupid) lockscreen and get to the password prompt.

Doing so opens a Bing search for some bullshit (in Edge obviously) which she just leaves in the background as she moves onto her actual work-related application. I bet this looks great in metrics and "engagement", while being totally fake engagement and not actually representative of the usefulness of this "feature". I wonder how many other useless features are misused by non-technical users where all the "engagement" is actually just accidental clicks.
Duh! He drinks Nespresso, not Lavazza
The Accademia Vivarium Novum in Rome still has its classes in Latin and ancient Greek - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accademia_Vivarium_Novum
I get the rationale, but I've also seen a lot of software UX evolve into being annoying or useless for experienced users by catering exclusively to inexperienced users.

I hope KDE does not fall into this trap.

I think the next step is a global setting that says, "I am an experienced computer user, please don't try hold my hand all the time, it's creepy"
The branding is really awful, yeah. .NET in its broadest sense is Microsoft's home-grown programming stack. This includes a runtime (the 'Common Language Runtime') which different languages target. The big one is C# but there's also F# and a few weird experiments which didn't pan out.

It all started with '.NET Framework', which was the old Windows-only implementation. Eventually they rewrote everything to be cross-platform and called it '.NET Core'.

Distinguishing between the two was confusing, so MS took the genius decision of rebranding it all as just '.NET'. So today you can make a project in .NET 5, .NET 6, .NET 7, etc., and they're all cross-plat.

Various frameworks exist on top of .NET. The biggest one is ASP.NET Core, the web framework. And there's frameworks on top of that like Blazor.

The runtime is JIT by default, but you do actually have AOT options nowadays, which is nice.
If I read your post correctly, you might be interested in reading the readme and maybe the code of this library I've been working on (even though it's only 2D, and (purposely) not advanced 2D):
https://github.com/jeffhain/jolikit/blob/master/README-BWD.m...
That's not actually true, the royalty only license for Unreal only started with UE4, and there is still "contact us" licensing available too.

On the unity side, an increasing amount of their revenue comes from "grow solutions" [0] which is basically their ad networks. Game engine development is a funny business

[0] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-posts-first-profitable-q...
In Plasma 5: System Settings -> Audio -> Configure Volume Controls... -> uncheck Audio Volume under Show visual feedback for changes to:.

I know it's not the only issue you have, and not all of them will be solvable, but I found this solution quite quickly (though I did search for volume in the notifications settings first, which didn't show me anything).

Also, if you like KDE 3.5, have you tried Trinity?
Exactly!

But the cool thing with laying out your graph like that, is that it has a relational character to it.

You’re essentially dealing in tables and (one/many) to many relationships.

You have a birds eye view of where your entities are allocated and how they are connected.

You still need policies around how you clean them up (remove an entity) and how the edges are affected. But you can reason about that in a similar way as you would in a relational database.
Sounds like you could do with better company. Traveling solo can be wonderful, I have done it enough, but travel with fun people can be amazing as well. Whining Instagram posers are shit to be around, both at home, and traveling.
The point the person above was trying to make is that the reason you got "blank stares" was that you were proposing replacing a system where the users could read and write the data, to a system where they can't access it. Everyone saw this but you. Im sure AGI would've seen it too.

Also, the fact that you offered to do it for free makes me question your motivation. I think you were trying to make your own job easier at the cost of the users no longer having the thing that worked for them.
Remember when places hired UX designer to, you know, design a great user experience? This is not that

Some tortured soul, chained by NDA, not allowed to tell its tale of angst and woe, is hastily linking your comment, to email manager "See!!!! It's rubbish to do this, they hate it, see!!"
Playing Twenty Questions with ChatGPT
10 Reasons Why Current Music Sucks So Hard
I'm blind maybe, but what are the blatantly bullshit comments? The spam of PST to MBOX?
> Are you doing different scaling per monitor in X11?

I do this, but only some applications cooperate. I couldn't even figure out how to configure it right on kde even though the underlying capability is there.

It definitely isn't impossible, but the popular toolkits make it much harder than they should.
I'd worry far more about if the Russians have lost any of theirs. Their record is not good on this.
I don't see how this is a criticism of async. You have two options:

1) Use Task.Run and await its result whenever you need it.

2) make a blocking call; same as if async wasn't available.

How does having option 1 make the situation worse?
Define "large", at least in an estimate. Dividing two astronomically large numbers is not easily estimated. And define "entirely possible". Yes, could happen once, maybe, in the entire Universe is entirely possible. Anything is "entirely possible" because humans are not omniscient, so we have to start from Bayesian priors.
You can rewrite all the old async patterns into using awaitable Tasks. I've done it.
Some maybe, my guess is most people would just set their favourite news site as their home page if they wanted.

It’s not like what Microsoft shows is a good source of news either.
It doesn't look anything like onenote.
Agreed!

Regardless of programming language, every substantial software development needs to make
serious architectural choices, otherwise things will become messy.
I learned this the hard in my first programming job out of university. We were a C/C++ shop doing distributed software and
one question to decide right upfront is: shared memory vs message passing. Both have advantages and disadvantages, but don't mix well.
We started out with message passing, but over time somebody added POSIX shared memory as a performance hack (which two processes happen to run on the same machine).
Over time, we added a second, non-POSIX shared memory layer for performance reasons under Windows. It was an unmaintainable mess.
The core problem was that the CTO didn't understand distributed programming well enough to push back against those performance hacks. "How do you handle software architectural leadership?" used to be one of my replies to the inevitable "have you got questions for us?" in job interviews, when I was being interviewed. Now that I am making architectural decisions myself, I put a lot of efforts into this, for example building suitable linters that flag violations in code reviews.

If your team fights over cats vs scalaz or over Scala-as-OO vs Scala-as-FP then that's a sign that the technical / architectural leadership is weak. Choices like pure-OO vs pure-FP vs
mixing them require care, and are hard to change in-flight. If you have strong modularisation, you can successfully use different paradigms in different modules, but strong
modularisation needs care and architectural discipline, too. Part of the problem is that the style of programming that libraries like cats require (monads, functors, applicative, type-classes, HKTs) is not yet widely understood. This approach to programming needs its 'map/reduce moment' and become part of the mainstream introduction-to-programming curriculum. We'll get there, maybe in about a decade.
Being introverted/shy doesn’t make travelling alone any easier. I’ve tried it multiple times and didn’t work too great for me. I enjoy being in familiar places by myself but when unfamiliar it’s a different story.
I have another comment here that explains in more detail but basically, yes, it's much better now.
Storing for 24 years and then doing would be the same as releasing 1/4 million gallons now. If it's that harmful, that's not OK either.
I still can’t believe they changed the meaning of the “w” flag. I had never heard of the “wt” file mode. Does that exist on other POSIX systems?
This is a very biased list to universities that survived to the modern period. There were dozens which didn't and were vastly more important at the time. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Constantinople
“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
> You probably should "rightsize" your level of respect for MS

Maybe it would be better if Microsoft tried to live up to the standard and ideal that people like me expects from a company in their position. Realistically you're right, it would be easier for me to adjust my expectations, but I won't because I see no evidence that I'm not morally right.
I was referring to the network transfer process concerning the overhead of single-file transfers.
Write a blog post, answers questions, get GPT-4 to write the follow-up post
I too am interested in the flutter aspect, but I just recently worked with Tauri as part of a rewrite project and it was a decent experience. There are still some rough edges and small gaps, but overall it’s pretty well done. Plus, when you’re ready to ship your app, they give you tools that make packaging and code-signing very easy. I would recommend it if you have any interest in it.

Compare this to my experience with iced, where I discovered that I love the elm architecture, but dealing with the UI parts became exponentially more complex the larger it grew, so many undocumented or under documented components, plus upgrading between minor versions would cause breaking changes that weren’t always easy to solve because of the lack of documentation or examples.
Track app releases of popular apps on Google Play
That's what Product Hunt has felt like for a long time—and LinkedIn too.
The reverse is the more interesting part. Roko's Baslisk loves you and wants you to be happy, and wants you to create him.
from the _what_
Microsoft feels like two totally different companies. One company can produce amazing concepts and products. But then, the other company comes and adds nasty “features” on top to ruin everything.
As he should be, that wasn’t a well thought through prank.
Namespaces and modules are orthogonal, you can support both like Typescript.

Your solution works, but unfortunately not something that has any community support. I proposed something similar a year ago but use classes instead because classes seems to be the internal building block in PHP.

For both our solutions is would relatively easy to add a shim to older PHP versions.

module.php

<?php

return new class {
public const MY_CONST = 47;

private const MY_PRIVATE_CONST = 127;

// with PHP 8.1 you also have readonly properties
public string $myPublic = 'foo';

private int $myPrivate = 17;

public function helloWorld(string $name): void
{
echo "Hello, World {$name}!";
}
};

main.php

<?php

final class ModuleException extends Exception {
}

function module(string $name): object
{
static $modules = [];

if (isset($modules[$name])) {
return $modules[$name];
}

try {
$module = @require $name;
} catch (Error $error) {
throw new ModuleException("No such module {$name}", 0, $error);
}

if (!is_object($module)) {
throw new ModuleException("Module {$name} is not an object");
}

$modules[$name] = $module;
return $module;
}

$my = module('module.php');
$my->helloWorld('Module system');

$other = module('module.php');
assert($my === $other);

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30242974
Couldn't a poor sleep pattern just be a symptom of an illness?
I wouldn't call it "Dark" if switching it off is so simple and right there in front of your face. "Rapacious" is a great description though, and one I would see used in the title instead. These "features" shouldn't be default, they are extremely annoying and they are numerous. Some are arguably useful. But it's not "Dark" if you can switch them off right in the main interface where you'd expect, and doing so actually does what it says it will. Otherwise, this is an excellent article. Thanks for the tips!
Your comment is an example where people have no idea what they are talking about but just making things up.

"In a few hours instead of weeks" I'd argue that the web stack only takes less time, not more.

JavaScript is popular because developers like it, because it works well, not because some "large corps" "push" for things to happen. There are more than scattered evidences to show that.

Next time, come up with something better and more convincing when hating the web stack.
For everyone complaining about telemetry/popups/general bullshit in windows 10/11 itself, go download O&O Shutup 10+ and let it flip all of its recommended options. It gives the nice sane default that Microsoft should have in the first place.

Slightly off topic I know since I don't think it will change things in Edge itself, but for that, you can go install your own preferred browser just like the last 28 years.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but yeah.
Of course they are. It's just not practicle to track long-term consumer sentiment around Microsoft, and life-time customer spending. So they track something else and convince themselves it's close enough.
I feel like you’re overstating this as a long term issue. sure it’s a problem now, but realistically how long before code hallucinations are patched out?
https://archive.md/ntQTC
One somewhat popular solution for bootstrapping is to allow people to buy in, paired with quickly banning those members in cases of rule violation. It's by no means perfect, but it puts a real price on abuse and thus reduces it a lot
It's growing exponentially, perhaps even factorially.
> and how, once I was made consciously aware of this phenomenon, it was really on me to consent to this blatant emotional manipulation—which, I then realized, I had totally been doing for years at that point!

Welcome to the equanimity of Stoicism.
I wonder how many of the clicks on online ads in general are just accidental clicks. Especially clicks from phones where it is extremely easy to accidentally load the ads. This question will probably never be answered because it is a vital business interest of Google, Facebook, Microsoft and every company that makes phone apps that it not be answered.
Pretty unimpressive article. If compute to train PaLM costs millions, and Google has billions, and you use this as evidence that LLM development is bottlenecked on compute cost, then I don’t know what to say.
OpenAI CEO, CTO on risks and how AI will reshape society (ABC interview)
As others have pointed out, the article contains almost no details about the waste. Here are the details directly from the government meeting: https://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocR...

Full details of the meeting (including video and transcript): https://dps.ny.gov/event/indian-point-decommissioning-oversi...

Edit: I have no context as to know if the proposal is good or bad, environmentally or morally, but the slideshow is for public consumption so it's pretty readable (not that it'll give you that context).
Reasons to Discourage You from Trying
The black box nature of the model means this isn't something you can really 'patch out'. It's a byproduct of the way the system processes data - they'll get less frequent with targeted fine tuning and improved model power, but there's no easy solve.
undoubtedly not long
Same. It became one of my interview questions and I haven’t had windows as my primary work machine OS for 9 years now.
If I have to work with it for 8 hours a day then it becomes part of sanity. Protect your peace :)
> The opposing side would probably have a convert if they weren’t dominated by raving lunatics obsessed with offensive garbage.

It's telling that I literally can't tell which side you're referring to, as both sides seem dominated by raving lunatics obsessed with offensive garbage. I guess amplifying that garbage is exactly what sells, which is why reporting of each side focuses on that.
We use this exact setup (debezium to kafka), on AWS RDS Aurora. It works well but has major drawbacks: for example AWS doesn’t let you do major postgresql updates if you have a live replication slot, so you have to go through a dance of deleting and recreating replication slots and kafka connectors, which also means stopping all writes to the DB, which means a whole lot of downtime
> I don’t understand why MS doesn’t get some sort of internal revolt.

Because companies are structured so that it never happens. Moreover, professionals who are too angry about direction are expected to leave. Not just in MS ... anywhere including in startups. Companies are not democracies.