skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, and nothing personal, but your comment is more or less coming across to me as "whelp, the inflexible delegation has spoken".

I go to great lengths to maintain a flexible mindset, to try to get the best out of a new approach. Hearing/reading someone trying to throw a shallow take-down of something they haven't tried doesn't read as "ooh that person is so cool I'm super convinced"... it comes across more like "oh, poor fella went and got his brain rigidized... and at such a young age".

But maybe you'll come around. Maybe people will come around and realize the ankle-deep hot takes are worse than useless and we can all get back to the good stuff.

On the other hand, I do have my own suspicions. At first glance it does simply sound like another layer of idiosyncrasy to jam into the memory hole, something that will certainly never be universally adopted and just add more hidey-holes to search for config files.

But, as I hope I made clear, I'm willing to give it a shot because I don't trust myself to have absolute insight into a thing after a couple minutes reading. There may well be aspects to this that I can't conjure, but will really like after all is said and done.
Definitely a good point. I hadn't even considered that it might have been intended that way. Lyrically, it has nothing in common. But I guess on a purely thematic level, he could be sarcastically implying they made a difference in his life.

I'm not sure what is required to qualify as a parody, so maybe that's enough.

...

EDIT: Based on one article I found, this might be satire (which isn't fair use) rather than parody (which is): https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/parody-vs-satire-in-copyr...
>... but is that just normal for a US police raid

Yes, very much so. They don't even have to be on a raid, they can just be on patrol. After the Global War On Terror started, many police departments routinely cosplay as military.
Yes, Reverb G2.
If all users requested their data and then pooled it together, we can build a simple version of DPR to keep things alive. And maybe even build it into a new/modern version. I've put together a quick google form to see if people want to try this plan https://forms.gle/2aGQtnQGw6SJCqVE7

Obviously there's much more content than user data.. but i'm sure we can keep it alive too
I am not so sure.
> suing for invasion of privacy and emotional distress
Hahahaha! Nice. Your comment just happened to be tagged as "1 minute ago" at the moment I read it… Could not have driven the point home for me more thoroughly than that.
The cost of tuition being ridiculously high means that students want to avoid getting expelled at any cost, because the financial hit is pretty damn big, you'd lose half a year to a year of tuition.

If tuition was less expensive, or free, students would be freer to not give a fuck about these ridiculous policies.
It's curious why Iceland and Greenland were left out of this Nordic alliance.

Is their lutefisk not good enough?
What alternative is there? Linux is a more minimalist OS than old-school UNIX, and libc as a userspace construct allows more evolution in that space (see glibc vs musl vs uclibc).

I could see an argument for small shims injected by a vDSO (AIUI this is what Fuchsia does), but clearly the 80s-style "libc is the OS boundary" is obsolete.
Less than the time it is taking and money Blue origin or for that matter SLS took.

Falcon 1 and electron are smaller vehicles in addition to being not 3D printed.

They had the runway and investor confidence to attempt a larger vehicle as their first
Why is this guy getting downvoted. I went to college in the mid-to-late 2010s and was in Greek life. We'd be inspected by our university all the time when we'd throw parties at our Frat's house and if photos of alcohol and stuff were seen by admin we'd def face disciplinary action.

You can agree or disagree with that all you want but at least that's how a lot of universities are handling alcohol and parties on campus. Blame overlitigious parents if you have to, it makes sense to be honest as no university wants to be on the hook liability wise. Look at what happened to Stanford after Brock Turner (which is also around the time Stanford became so overbearing about campus culture)
The Bing search engine is not bad. They even reconstructed the recommendation engine using their Prometheus model to return more content and less spam.

For the first time in over a decade I have changed my phone's default search engine. It is by no means bad.
I think inflation adjusted, even 00's macs are pretty much as expensive then as they are today. Apple shipped a handful of iBooks at the $999 price point, with the mid 2005 being the last for the 12 inch model. That's ~$1500 today.

The cheapest eMacs started at $799, with again the last model being a 2005 model, which puts you at ~$1200 today, or $99 cheaper than the current base model iMac. And the base model iMac back then was $1299.

Even the mac minis, the original came out in 2005 and base lined at $499 (~$750 today) which was for sure crazy cheap at the time. But that $499 price point didn't last more than one revision, and then one more appearance in late 2014 (~$630 today). So the latest and cheapest model mac mini is still more expensive than the base line M2 mini today in inflation adjusted dollars.

As for the upgrades, having worked for a reseller in that time frame I assure you the first party RAM and storage upgrade prices were ALWAYS ridiculous and it was standard for us to recommend customers buy their own RAM and install it later if they were comfortable doing that. I will grant that isn't an option anymore in the M series, so in that respect they are more expensive, but the actual costs I suspect inflation adjusted match the same pattern here. Sadly the way back machine doesn't give us access to the pricing configs for that time, but this review (https://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-mini-late-2014,review-2723....) says going from 4GB in the base 2014 mac mini to 16GB was a $300 upgrade (and was also not user serviceable). In today's dollars that's a mere $381. The equivalent jump today from 8GB to 24GB will run you $400.

So pricing it out, in 2014 a base line mac mini with a 3x RAM upgrade was ~$1,010 in today's money. A base M2 mac mini with a 3x RAM upgrade today is $999.

Inflation is a killer.
One of the more equalizing things about bullies, especially the adult variety, is they’re often non-thinking and inevitably hoist themselves by their own petard.

Maybe this parallel is obvious, but being the aggressor and seeing yourself as the victim is completely characteristic of some popular political groups and a certain warfaring dictator. They always seem to destroy themselves given enough time.
The benefits of having lawyers paid for by the union I guess. Their protection from consequences (or rather the inverse where you benefit from not being a good worker if you play your cards right) continue to be disconnected from the average person's job. Even when factoring in the unique circumstances of their job most of the worst stuff (and worst messaging) happens via this arena, even when in practice they don't always get taken as seriously by their superiors/judicial system as the police union reps take themselves.
Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Manifest
> Simple stuff like submitting a form to request plugin access fails

Oh shoot... I submitted that form too, and I wasn't clear if it failed or not. It said "you'll hear from us soon" but all the fields were still filled and the page didn't change. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed it submitted instead of refilling it...
If I read someone referring to "US Police" I would immediately consider some sort of federal US Marshals service or Secret Service. When we speak of police, we refer to their jurisdiction. Adams County Sheriff has jurisdiction in a county, obviously, not federal, not across state lines, only in that county.

Now I suppose if you're writing headlines for people in Kenya, you might specify "US law enforcement" but "US Police" is just sloppy writing. I didn't see it in the linked article.
Framework 16 laptop uses Dell Graphics Form Factor connector for modular dGPU
At a notebook-specific forum I frequent, a user has noticed that the Framework 16 modular discrete graphics solution uses a connector first used by Dell in its Precision 7530 and 7730 workstation notebooks, released in 2018. The connector is the array of gold LGA pads on the motherboard seen in the bottom-right screenshot.

Dell has been using DGFF ever since, in all Precision 7XXX notebooks and the Alienware Area-15m, to facilitate modular GPUs. However, Dell changes its notebook layout every two years, so these GPUs are not upgradeable after two generations (so a 7530 could be upgraded to a GPU in a 7540, but not a 7550, released in 2020).

It's going to be interesting how Framework adapts the connector for its own use. The cards are fairly high-powered; in the most recent 7770 (17" workstation), the RTX 3080 Ti card can draw up to 130 W.

Some examples of previous DGFF discrete cards are here[1][2][3][4].

[1]: https://imgur.com/aMal40L : Quadro P3200 (Pascal), Quadro RTX 3000, Quadro RTX 5000 (latter two Turing)
[2]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc3/... : RTX
[3]: https://dl.dell.com/content/guides/public/Html/precision_756... : new form factor for 7550 and 7560 generation
[4]: https://dl.dell.com/content/guides/public/Html/precision_767... : newer form factor for 7670 and 7770 generation
> The issue with their charging ports being changed frequently

iPhones have consistently had lightning since 2005

MacBooks have had USBC (compatible with all USBC plugs) since 2016

iPads Pro have had USBC (compatible with all USBC plugs) since 2018

iPhones are rumoured to join the USBC club
What am I missing?

> They even tried to abuse the USBC standard

When did this happen?
A user-mode library bundled with the kernel (like libc, but doesn't have to be libc) is the alternative to the syscall boundary. You maintain the library as the stable interface for the user, and let the syscalls change as you please.
You're not wrong, you have to be pretty invested to keep up to date with most technologies.

There's even a new crop of frameworks coming up now, like Astro, Qwik, Solid, etc. Plus a paradigm shift towards MPA and abstractions like server components.
Show HN: Browse, upvote and comment on HN from terminal with hnterminal
This hit home hard. Wondering if this is the case with giving advice as well ? In case of giving advice you are not selling a product but definitely selling an alternative path of action you would like there other person to take. And they will only take it if they understand you in the first place.
I thought it was legal to film police?
Oh wow, I didn't know a global .gitignore was possible.
Not a lawyer obviously but this is a home surveillance recording. You would think one would maintain the commercial rights to that.
> an overengineered, overly cumbersome hierarchy under that.

You put config files in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/app/whatever with a fallback to $HOME/.config/app/whatever, and data files in $XDG_DATA_HOME/app/whatever with a fallback to $HOME/.local/share/app/whatever - what exactly is over engineered or cumbersome about that?
I knew that this would happen. I freaking knew it. Don't get me wrong, I love the music that came out of the incident, but as soon as I saw the videoclip for "why you disconnected my video camera" I thought to myself: he's gone get sued for exposing them like that.
That's not what he said and not even what he was asked. He definitely acknowledged the dangers up to and including "human extinction" but wanted to make sure the question was couched in the right context.
> ... State :... if the data is unique for a given machine, the file belongs [to $XDG_STATE_HOME / $HOME/.local/state]

This statement is misleading/wrong. Like all other XDG stuff, it's not about the machine, it's about the particular user.

Also, why does the author consider the given positive example clean and tidy, when it has files .profile and .bashrc placed directly in the user's home directory? Following the rules, these files should be within the .config/ directory as well.
I was watching this earlier because of Reddit, and I was laughing but it didn't take long for it to also feel sad and creepy. It's so blatant.
It does mention it: “Stealing your money and disconnecting your home video security surveillance system…”
Sine qua non ad astra
Why AI won't replace programmers
Does the suit have legs?
Luckily if you’re a developer on MacOS, you can have that too! In addition to ~/.config and a million .dotfiles and .dotdirectories from decades of unixy tools! Truly a cornucopia.
In general that’s not a great heuristic to go by. In college, when I came across a bully who was much, much smarter than me it was terrifying. The lesson was avoid at all costs.
You know what's tough, is when you inherit someone else's finances, and they've signed up to things and you don't know what they are. By the same token, when you've signed up for a lot of things when you have a good income, and then years down the road, you need to clear up that stuff, especially what you don't use and what yields no goods or services.

I think it's a bank regulation now that all recurring charges must include a phone number for cancellations and inquiries, but of course that's like saying all spam needs an unsubscribe link.
Working in a larger company it's sad to see all the perfectly viable projects canned because they aren't billion dollar businesses. I wonder if there is a marketplace play here where companies can easily resell and offboard these kinds of companies rather than kill them off.
Any jurisdiction that has filed charges against him and has an extradition agreement with Montenegro. His country of citizenship probably has priority, though.

If he doesn't want to be extradited, he can delay the process for quite a while like Julian Assange did.
Invasion of privacy? After entering someone else's private property without their consent? Surely they will be laughed out of court!
End qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, and the all-too-frequent killings.
Journalist opens USB letter bomb in newsroom
There have been states trying to ban it
Yep, that should have been "extradite", not "deport".
+short is your friend.
That’s the same question people were asking 14 years ago when bitcoin made it debut, and unfortunately still today on this site.
> Time slicing significantly predates computers, and was quite well developed even when Erlang was analyzing it a century ago.

I mean its implementation in computer systems.

> What's surprising here isn't that time slicing works, it's that the same mechanism drives both the economics of large systems, and their ability to economically support bursty workloads.

That's not surprising.

> Clearly, I shouldn't have claimed this casual blog post was original research that had never been seen in any form before. Silly me!

That's not the issue though is it, that's your snarky strawman to deflect from it. Which is that its a lazy cliche title and it purports to be much more grandiose than it is.
An Eevdf CPU Scheduler for Linux
The level displayed is 0. Are you suggesting it should be higher?
Any reason to not just give things a quick wipe down with isopropyl alcohol, besides flammability?
Why would a city do that? To make you personally feel better?
I personally think there's also significant risks, but I agree. This will be copied by many large corporations and countries. It's better that it's done by some folks that are competent and kinda give a damn, because there are lots of people who could build it that aren't and don't. If these guys can suck enough monetary air out of the room, they might slow down the copycats a bit. This is nowhere near as difficult as NBC or even the other instruments of modern war.

That doesn't mean there can't be regulation. You can regulate guns, precursors, and shipping of biologics, but you're not going to stop home-brew... and when it comes to making money, you're not going to stop cocaine manufacture, because it's too profitable.

Let's hope we figure out what the really dangerous parts are quickly and manage them before they get out of hand. Imagine if these LLM and image generators had be available to geopolitical adversaries a few years ago without the public being primed. Politics could still be much worse.
It's frustrating enough to make a person seriously consider maintaining forks of all the FOSS things they use to fix this one bit of misbehavior.
Going to train an AI to write JavaScript frameworks.
Exactly. If you are capable enough to file useful tickets you are capable enough to read the code, run it locally, test out changes, tweak copy, etc.

You are wasting money paying people to write tickets and not read code.
I use slrn for reading news. In my .slrn-scores file, I don't have any entries that assign a score other than -9999.
OpenAI Chat Plugins
That's hilarious - the keystone cops suing him for "suffered humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment, and loss of reputation."

Gee, I wonder how one might have felt in that being the one raided, all to have the charges dropped.

Exactly what is wrong with the US.
Seriously? Quick reminder that prompt injection (including presumably 3rd-party prompt injection) is a totally unsolved problem for ChatGPT.

> OpenAI will inject a compact description of your plugin in a message to ChatGPT, invisible to end users. This will include the plugin description, endpoints, and examples.

> The model will incorporate the API results into its response to the user.

Without knowing more details, both of these seem like potential avenues for prompt injection, both on the user end of things to attack services and on the developer end of things to attack users. And here's OpenAI's advice on that (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/safety-best-practice...), which includes gems like:

> Wherever possible, we recommend having a human review outputs before they are used in practice.

Right, because that's definitely what all the developers and companies are thinking when they wire an API up to a chat bot. They definitely intend to have a human monitor everything. /s

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What is (no pun intended) prompting this? Does OpenAI just feel like it needs to push the hype train harder? All of the "AI safety" experiments they've been talking about are bullcrap; they're wasting time and energy doing flashy experiments about whether the AI can escape the box and self-replicate, meanwhile this gets dropped with only a minor nod towards the many actual dangers that it could pose.

It's all hype. They're only interested in being "worried" about the theoretical concerns because those make their AI sound more special when journalists report about it. The actual safety measures on this seem woefully inadequate.

It really frustrates me how easily the AGI crowd got wooed into having their entire philosophy converted into press releases to make GPT sound more advanced than it is, while actual security concerns warrant zero coverage. It reminds me of all of the self-driving car trolley problems floated around the Internet a while back that were ultimately used to distract people from the fact that self-driving cars would drive into brick walls if they were painted white. Announcements like this make it so clear that all of the "ethical" talk from OpenAI is pure marketing propaganda designed to make GPT appear more impressive. It has nothing to do with actual ethics or safety.

Hot take: you don't need an AGI to blow things up, you just need unpredictable software that breaks in novel, hard-to-anticipate ways wired up to explosives.

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Anyway, my conspiracy theory after skimming through the docs is that OpenAI will wait for something to go horribly wrong and then instead of facing consequences they'll use that as an excuse to try and get a regulation passed to lock down the market and avoid opening up API access to other people. They'll act irresponsible and they'll use that as an excuse to monopolize. They'll build capabilities that are inherently insecure and were recklessly deployed, and then they'll pull an Apple and use that as an excuse to build a highly moderated, locked-down platform that inhibits competition.
Raids are an excuse for bored cops to dress up and play with their toys.
Those who are quick to defend neo-nazis, white supremacists, neo-confederates, anti-semites, and the like seem to be welcome here. Why would you think the subjects of that defense wouldn't be as well?
It doesn’t look like it hits 1000 ppm. I thought anything under 1000 was fine and concern didn’t start until closer to 1500.
What's the story with AMD's Zen 4 / RDNA 3 APUs, are they coming out?
screw amazon, lets keep it ourselves! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35284510
13 years of SpaceX launches from Cape Canaveral
I'd say for windows, you'd probably want to define them as well since a lot of ports will use HOME, XDG_* and other non-windowsy environment variables anyhow.
Because I find it actually useful on doing things now.
Especially in your own house...

The funny thing is this is basically the exact same story for J. Cole's "Neighbors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfVWiXY3WY

Basically he moved to a new bougie neighborhood and the neighbors called the cops on him accusing him of "selling dope" (the primary hook of the 1 minute song). So he took his security footage and made a music video out of it

You can see the SWAT team members casually talking to the neighbors peeking over the fence too lol
> The amount of hashpower needed to create long chains of valid blocks would require deep investments into ASICs, on the order of billions of dollars.

You say “on the order of billions of dollars” like that’s a lot of money.

For significant national governments, it is not.
I only use Siri with the original Homepods. It has always been terrible. You cannot even tell it to start playing movies on the TV that you have already purchased from Apple itself in the TV app. It will start to play some random song or something.

I should be able to say hey siri, start playing <name of media> on <name of Apple TV>, and it should be able to start the TV and start playing it.
A Transparent Keyboard with Mag-Lev Keys That Sits over an HD Display
Having your home invaded can’t ever be anything less than invasion of privacy and emotional distress. When it is by people who are meant to uphold peace, it has to be that much worse. At what point would we call the behavior of police blatant instead of the artists response as blatant?
> Even this architecture may change optimal alignment requirements in future, which glibc would transparently handle for you.

Funny. “Optimality” is not a criticism I’ve ever heard levied often about glibc.
Doing frontend in this day and age is like doing agility with your dog. And people who've been doing frontend for a while are so conditioned that they see this as normal. "Why would want to just go to park," they ask "when you could do agility course? It's not hard, the are hurdles, yes, but it's fun and it's not really complicated once you do it twenty times."
In this form factor, the use of laptop grade parts is quite common. So, if you want a small PC, then you’re already going to be comfortable with this level of performance. In this case, reuse of a framework main board is a great option.
People with these IQs under 85 are generally not employable in some of the lowest end jobs available: warehouseman, packer, or package delivery. I'm not sure what jobs you're imagining that are simpler than those, but I think I'm going to agree with the data on this point.
Syncfusion is happy to roll out our seventh set of new .NET MAUI controls and features in the Essential Studio 2023 Volume 1 release.

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> He is the reason Google has a big AI effort (he consolidated a bunch of AI projects and bought Deep Mind, etc) before he decamped for Apple

I'm sure he's great but this made me laugh