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My case for learning AWK is if you spend any significant chunk of time in the terminal (sysadmin, DevOps, data eng). Notwithstanding any other scripting languages you know.

CLI world is full of bespoke text interfaces. AWK is the tool for dealing with those programmatically.
Nice job, did you post the code somewhere?

It reminds me of a project I made once, in a similar mood. There was a specific newspaper publisher that was destroying news content and burying it in a sea of not only ads, but really bad typography, navigation, and so on. I made a bookmarklet for a PHP app that would clean it up and present it in a given theme.

Over time it gradually broke, but it was a fun learning project. Thanks for sharing your project video.
The line should be drawn wherever parents, teachers, and librarians choose to draw it. Politicians should not be involved. Top-down meddling has destroyed public education in USA, and this is just more of that. At some point we should stop making public schools worse.
Love the comedy club near me because they take away your phone at the door – I'm always surprised how many times I instinctively check my empty pocket during the show
Maybe not standard definition but I view a library as something that can be swapped out of a project with low-medium effort.

If I build an app on React, there's not much chance I'm ever going to swap it out for anything else, thus it's a framework.

If I use Twilio's JS library for sending SMS and then decide to swap to a different vendor (or a different library for the Twilio API) that's fairly easy with the right design.
What about options? He might own options.
Yes. Outsourcing engineering to LLMs is like building bridges based on structural integrity in minecraft. The real product here is just a "language calculator", that also does "code generation" because it makes financial and PR sense. That people even believe these models can be novel makes one look to the way this thing is marketed.

It's also a good time to really take our heads out of the sand and re-evaluate how we expect people to learn civil engineering if their only teacher is a minecraft world. You might get some people that are perfect in minecraft. The rest will be hopelessly stunted. Pretty soon it'll pivot to materials engineering to figure out how exactly a minecraft block adheres to a surface because we lost the original irl way to build a bridge.
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Those problems affect cloud providers too.

BTW modern CPUs support the creation of RAM-encrypted VMs with remote attestation, so you can lower the trust needed in the targets by a lot. That said there are lots of companies that are known quantities, have verifiable brands and may even be considered more trustworthy than the big clouds in some cases because they're local firms.
Coding Is the Easy Part
OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
Love that scene.

Can't seem to find it - but some time ago there was a short vid on why the price of bananas world wide was a good litmus on the shipping/economic trade - it went into detail on how banana prices could be used to measure certain stress points in global trade... I cant seem to find it though.

However, in looking for it I found this, which is kind of interesting:

>>"Are there more international laws on the trade of bananas than conventional weapons, like AK-47s?"

>>"The short answer is astonishingly, yes. The global trade in bananas or banana plants is governed by at least three binding global agreements and the non-binding, though strictly adhered to, Codex food code. The arms trade is not governed by any binding global agreements."

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https://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/comparing-bananas...
It's using the energy of radioactive decay, not of a fission chain reaction. Where ChatGPT actually made a mistake was in ignoring the fact you can't get that energy out quickly enough. 1 gram of u-238 will release 19 million Calories of heat over the course of its existence but that will take many billions of years.
Can't wait to live in a world where ChatGPT sells stuff. We'll all be so helpless, with no idea whether the subtle advice about what to buy is the actual advice or purchased by an advertiser.
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transformer and adapter are two of the new "ai terms" that grind my gears
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That's an implicit lock.
Probably not from any of the big labels at least, so you couldn't resell your Beatles' album download.

Physical media makes it easier to do things but those same things aren't without issues just because they originated on physical media.
Met Museum Kicked Me Out for Praying to My Ancestral Gods
> Will everything be a chat interface soon?

That's my personal nightmare. I hate chat interfaces for most things.

> Will voice then replace chat?

OK, that's even worse!
I am pretty sure I have seen it on Ubuntu also.
I will be happy to provide value higher up instead of dealing with this frustrating problem. I want the answer, not the code that generates the answer. I am writing that code now because it does not exist yet. So far, I have only had ChatGPT give me answers that can be derived from existing code. Regardless, I look forward to it being smarter.

(My intuition is that ChatGPT, like all technologies before it, will end up making more wealth and more jobs possible.)
A system call has even more overhead than the lock prefix!
Living in the UK, yes food prices are rising. But I work for an NGO whose main focus is in East Africa and I've been tracking food inflation there and seeing 200-400% jumps over the past three years.

Perfect storm of the lack of available fertilizer, wheat shortage and poor growing seasons over the past five years is hitting everyone. I don't see it geetting better until the world adjusts; swapping to alternative crops and producing nitrogen fertilizer at country level.
RockyLinux is by the guy who did CentOS, and seeks to follow it's principles.

Scientific Linux is no longer a thing, essentially; from wikipedia:

> In April 2019, it was announced that feature development for Scientific Linux would be discontinued, but that maintenance will continue to be provided for the 6.x and 7.x releases through the end of their life cycles. Fermilab and CERN will utilize CentOS Stream[4] and AlmaLinux[5] for their deployment of 8.x release instead.
Reasoning I've heard for this is since they backport complete subsystems and features from mainline kernel over the years, it turns into a frankenstein and it wouldn't resemble the origin version. So it doesn't matter if they'd used LTS version or a non-LTS one.
At least where I am this is the case. Milk and milk products are at record highs, with some products nearly double what they were at the beginning of last year. Yet the milk companies actually cut how much they pay producers. Prices for energy and fuel are around the same as the end of 2021.
Argentinians be like: Oh yes, 18%, that is horrible.."
When you noodle around in the market "to do what's right", you end up creating a new set of problems down the road when the expectation of getting bailed out becomes part of the market's future calculations.

See: FED keeping rates low for over a decade leading to complacency at banks who assume if things get really bad, FED will pivot rate hikes and they'll get bailed out again.
In Montana, It’s Youth vs. the State in a Landmark Climate Case
https://archive.ph/ERTt8
well I mean we're doing it to them too. it's not paranoid to assume large countries are engaged in just-barely-sub-causus-belli levels of shit against each other.

But that doesn't make trying to ban or force the sale of tiktok anything more than a depressing/transparent sinophobic propoganda exercise.
Yeah and owner would have to have SWE on payroll to continue having it working. It's why people migrated to a more general, albeit sometimes also more confusing apps/platforms.
thanks!

> Nice job, did you post the code somewhere?

No, but I can do it.

> Over time it gradually broke

I feel this could happen to this app also, but since I made it only for me, it is ok, i guess.
If I was a three letter agency, which I'm not. I'd be interested in conducting a covert operation to glean data on Github repositories, sort of like a mass-code surveillance tool. The likes of this idea sparks my curiosity - but who I am kidding, this could never happen. GitHub is a secure and reliable corporation owned by Microsoft.
They already shut down the Wii shop, I think with about $4 of my credit on it too. If I had a Wii U, I think there was a way to migrate content and credit, but I don't have a Wii U; thankfully, they've moved away from the Flooz model of buy credits in fixed amounts before you buy content with the credits that many of the consoles were doing. That they're keeping the store online for redownloads is a nice touch though, but for how long?
First, because margins are razor-thin as it is. Second, because it's a mature market and penetration pricing is not profitable.
The law in question (in MO) does not deal with text descriptions, but only images, so unless it was a illustrated Bible, it would not apply. It also exempts sex education and science books.
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Of course? I'm not really sure what the original question actually is if you know that users benefit from caching the results of computationally intensive queries.
I would note that while I am generally bad at it, you have to craft what you say to humans to get the response you want as well. I think the thing is that natural language can be extraordinarily more expressive than a formalistic method for abstract concepts. The prompt engineering I’ve seen are basically natural language instructions that are precise and cover many edges to constrain and provide sufficient context, but would be really difficult to encode in a formal language because they’re still very abstract concepts. They read similar to what you would tell a person if you wanted them to, say, behave like a Linux shell without having them ask any clarifying questions or leaving too much ambiguity about what you meant. Expressing what “behave like a Linux shell” means in a formal method would be very hard because there’s an awful lot that goes into those concepts. Additionally chatgpt is seeded with an originating prompt that sets the tone and behavior of the responses. A lot of “prompt engineering” is dampening the original instructions from the context for subsequent response. In the example of a Linux shell, you don’t want it explaining everything and apologizing all the time and what not - a Linux shell takes commands and outputs results in a terminal, it doesn’t apologize that it’s a large language model and not really a Linux shell - and that behavior originates from the original prompt that’s opaque to the user of ChatGPT. If you engineer the prompt right it’ll stop apologizing and just print what it computes as the best output for a Linux command in the format it expects is best representative of a terminal.
Interestingly, it seems like even those products seemingly not affected by price inflation have taken a hit over here in the UK. In addition to that, we've also seen:

1. Products offering far smaller portion sizes than before, likely to an even more ridiculous degree than what was happening with things like crisps and chocolate already.

2. The taste and quality of a lot of food items getting worse (probably because the original ingredients got more expensive/became uneconomical to use).

So even products that stayed the same price seem to have suffered recently.
kpatch has been around for like a decade from Red Hat, I think suse has something similar, ubuntu has a Livepatch service.
Yeah, failing to see how TikTok is any different or worse than Facebook or Google. Could someone enlighten me?
I understand where you're for: patching things for some at the bottom doesn't help produce more.

But focusing on the alleged producers while fleecing the people in the middle (who are not the lower end either) is equally bad.

The people in the middle get high taxes, no real possiblity of ownership, no benefits of the bottom (state help) or of the top (the top just increases their own margins).

The top lobbies government and sets an unfair advantage for themselves, making the whole alleged democratic representation a farce.

The government should be more frugal with their won bureocracy and corruption and lower the taxes for the middle and bottom. The pretende that increasing conditions to the top will drip down is demonstrably false. It's mostly a rigged game, depending on where you started.
> Are the politicians pushing for this from rural areas?

Predominantly.

> Seems like either they are serving their constituents, or they'll be voted out next time?

It satisfies an immediate vengeance, but is very "cut off my nose to spite my face" for rural Missourians. In 10 years when the "drag queens in libraries" moral panic is long forgotten, these communities will lament the loss of their libraries.

Your question is deep, and gets to the heart of why we even bother electing representatives in the first place.

If reps are only there to channel the emotional state of their constituents, then what's the point of having representative democracy? If representation does not come with some expectation of leadership, then representation is a poor proxy for public will with no upside. If elected officials have no moral responsibility or practical expectation to lead -- and are just reactionary automata -- then get rid of the politicians and do everything via the ballot box.
What are the typical policies for getting more stuff produced?
Yes but let's acknowledge the less magical reality - a big part of the magic of chatgpt is its willingness, not ability, to make stuff up and deliver it with confidence.

If chatgpt gave errors or some other bad experience instead of smoothly fabricating fake answers, a lot of the magic would wear off.

For savvy users this doesn't matter. The utility is off the charts and you can mitigate the risk of being lied to. But let's not pretend this is cost free. There is a huge externality in the form of shadow scrambling reality for millions of people who don't realize it's happening.
Given the hardware/energy need to train it be nice, to have a legal document that said something like this model has no warranty, it may be a break through machine or a hand grenade. Use at you own risk!
I remember the trend away from Perl, but it's a great language. It just became unfashionable.
Perhaps a gluten free bread or some other special type?
It's speculated it has same number of parameters, but more compute and is multi modal.
Weirdly i think film reviews would be hastily deleted by the Jannies as "not-uk".
Hook up the chatgpt shortcut to siri and boom problem solved.
There’s more than one way to do regulation. Data, source code and APIs can be made openly available by means of regulation.
If Let's Encrypt needs to revoke the certificate prior to expiration (for compliance or any other reason) ARI can let a client know in advance of the revocation. The client can then renew early and avoid a disruption in service.

Clients that renew based on ARI can also help Let's Encrypt avoid disruptive load spikes since ARI signals can spread out renewals.
This is such a bad idea. For large systems/companies there are management platforms.
You might be a rarity here. I've never heard of anyone using the menu key, and most don't even know what it is.

I'm honestly kind of curious how you use it. In my experience, almost anything on the menu it opens has a common shortcut
Sure. But there's a more immediate impact to fossil fuel supplies in the UK than an increase in demand. An increase in demand from an increased money supply is likely a contributing factor, but not the sole cause that elevenoh4 says it is. Has fossil fuel demand even fully bounced back to what it was in 2019?
And that's your prerogative to actually parent your children and keep an eye on what they check out and what they're doing online. However, pushing your values onto the community at large because you're worried about your middle school child knowing what sex is.

The books these conservatives want to ban aren't porn, they're complex stories about complex topics that your kids may have to deal with themselves. If you don't want them reading that stuff do your job as a parent.
No, the rebellion against Britain.
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Funny anecdote:

Jeff Bezos was interviewed in Pay Pal days after making many millions, and as they drove across the GGB, was asked why he was still driving his beat up honda - he said "Why, just because I have some money? Its still a good car!"

FF 2020: Jeff Bezos builds worlds most expensive yacht, and is having a municiple bridge dismantled so it can pass through, and local residents want to throw eggs at it as it passes by!
Not that I'd agree with them, but I don't see the inconsistency: cutting funding of libraries is smaller government. The question of whether school book bans violates the First Amendment is a contested one, and has some interplay with the current pushes on left and right to control what is available online. Basically, it revolves around whether you think determining what content is in a school library is censorship, or just one of the functions of government. The U.S. Supreme Court was divided on it the last time it came up. https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/27/does-the-first-amendmen...
Org-novelist: a system for writing novel-length fiction using Emacs Org Mode
I think the idea with localized access is that reads coming in after the initial commit can hit a nearby db instance, rather than the single global instance.

I agree with you about horizontal scalability in general though, the data isn't being partitioned. I guess read heavy loads can be scaled.
> Based on what do you say that?

The research on both training and prompting such actions, and actually messing with implementation of the latter. (And, by “not hard”, I don’t mean “there wasn’t considerable work to figure it out”, but “its a tolerably solved problem with plug-and-go solutions that Google was among the players doing the foundational research for with earlier models”; Bard doesn't do it now by choice, not Google facing any barrier to doing it.)
I want something I can't get somewhere else. Being able to make my own modules is cool but there's simply not enough slots to even match my current ultraportable, let alone give me room to experiment.
Talk about incentives... In the NBA, the commissioner could fine a team for resting players. This was because of a game where a team, the San Antonio Spurs, which was full of older players and was doing well enough in the standings, wanted to give their older stars a rest due to the back to back schedule, but the league didn't want this. The Spurs were incentivized to rest their players & avoid injuries because it's a long season. However, the game happened to be on National TV and the league and its media partners are incentivized to have both teams' stars on the court!

See also, tanking (which is really hard to define) for a better draft pick. It's funny to me to accuse bad teams of losing on purpose...

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2735734-nba-reportedly-p...
That's new. HN didn't have that for the longest time.
> but unfortunately it is the policies intended to help them which actually cause most of the problem.

In the US, the Fed is not concerned about the bottom. They're solely concerned on the top. Check the numbers, zero interest rates did *not* trickle down. Instead they helped further increase the income inequality gap.

To blame to poor (read: the powerless) in any way, shape or form is, at best, misinformation. Worse it gives those responsible a free pass.

"I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back."

Leo Tolstoy
I started as a programmer right during the dotcom crash - it sure felt like that.
What a ridiculously bad idea. :-/

As an anecdote, MSI's dragon center utility bricked my motherboard trying to apply a BIOS/UEFI update which required me to use the flashback recovery method and wait in terror for about 15 minutes to see if I would have a working computer again.

After that experience, I will only use the usb thumb drive + booting into BIOS/UEFI method for applying updates.
> Also, why is that button called pi?

The pi permits access to a commonly used computer security system called "Gatekeeper" sold by Gregg Microsystems, a software company led by CEO Jeff Gregg.

Gregg is connected to with the "Praetorians", a notorious group of cyberterrorists linked to recent computer failures around the country.

Once the Praetorians sabotage an organization's computer system, Gregg sells Gatekeeper to it and gains unlimited access through the backdoor.

https://youtu.be/pXPXMxsXT28?t=14
The primary funding source for MO public libraries is local property taxes.
The API, API docs and the pointer to them are all fully public.

The user who deliberately hacks their way into using a test plugin and sees bad results is going to see bad results but that's not a security problem.
It’s not uncommon in many football (soccer) leagues because of the points system and the fact that it’s far easier to force a tie in football than most other sports unless it’s the finals.

Teams might force ties or even loose on purpose to hack their ranking for various reasons including to either face off or not face off against a specific team at a future stage.
And what's good of having high GDP like Ireland (neighbour to UK) if then there's no housing and prices are insane and people who don't already have a secure situation are screwed and have to leave anyway?

Why do tax reliefs and strategies always benefit the big companies with lots of lawyers.

Lower the taxes of the common folk. Their interests are not being met, but those of the lobbyists.
Would you consider releasing a graphics module “riser”? Since PCIe-is-PCIe, I would love the option to just connect a desktop GPU directly (no eGPU TB chip involved), even though I have to bring my own PSU.

I currently use a TB3 eGPU case and the massive overhead and OEM bugs are slowly making that real PCIe link worth it.
All countries have customs checks, to check that incoming goods conform with regulations, applicable tariffs are paid, etc.

Except countries in the EU, which has a common market that made such checks unnecessary inside of it. Of course there are still customs on the outside EU border.

So if you leave that, and your borders are now not internal market borders anymore but your and the EU's external borders, you're going to do more customs checks than you used to have. In both directions.
> But sure, this system that obviously had a huge impact on how the country developed, how power structures were purposely designed, and how freedom even worked, TECHNICALLY wasn't the primary reason for rebelling, maybe

No technically about it. Though you're right about the rest.
I don't know how I didn't know this, but today I learned from nickdrom on TikTok that you can type in the name of anyone in congress to see which (social media) companies they invest in:

https://www.capitoltrades.com

Is it any surprise that they want to ban the tool that not only is the biggest competitor for their investments - which pay them hundreds of millions of dollars - but also tells its users where to find the very corruption that they try so hard to cover up?