skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly the point I was making. We may quibble about whether or not SV companies overall have been a net positive, but that's neither here nor there.

OpenAI has been selling themselves as a do-gooder kind of project. I think that they're being disingenuous in doing so. They're building just a regular old SV money-spinner.
If a particular group has converging interests and is facing a similar set of incentives, they don't need to be in an explicit "conspiracy" to be aligned. The emergent behavior in a system can both advantage a particular group at the expense of another without there needing to be a conspiracy whatsoever.
I'm mostly not understanding it relative to early 2022. If someone wasn't using it in February 2022, why now? Yeah, partly a labor market thing. Maybe partly a more people back to offices so don't have as much free time.

My general observation is that not as much changed because of the pandemic as people thought would happen. But grocery delivery is something that does seem to have had gains. (Not sure about food delivery outside of the sort of deliveries that have long existed. And meal kits never really took off even during the pandemic.)
That is not true.

CentOS Stream is just as "LTS" as Debian, Ubuntu, or OpenSUSE - supported for 5 years. This is admittedly not as generous as the 10 years CentOS provided previously (and what Alma / Rocky linux have promised to provide), but it's definitely still "long term" by the same definition everyone else uses.

And while CentOS Stream {8,9} does trend slightly ahead of RHEL {8,9} respectively in terms of bugfixes and features, it still maintains equivalent ABI with RHEL {8,9} and is compatible, though not precisely "bug-for-bug" compatible, which even CentOS / Alma / Rocky have never quite accomplished.

disclosure: I work for Red Hat
> This is a fairly large assumption, that the secret was important to them.

One would reasonably consider that the secret should be important to them, given their express concern over safety considerations in particular.
First of all, I myself come from a non affluent background, and the students I'm working with are also from a pretty economially/socially disadvantaged background. The factor doesn't change the teacher's job.

The teacher's job is, if you're in grade 5, to take you to grade 6. Sometimes you as a student may dislike the process, since it involves learning stuff you think is not useful, but the teacher ought to know what's profitable to learn. The teacher is in a better position to take the student out of the poverty, than the student themselves. If they don't know what the student needs to learn, then the teacher fails the student. That's my point.

Essentially, the teacher's job is not to bend to student requests on what stuff they're to learn. If the teacher is there to "satisfy" the student's goals alone, then there's no hope for civilisation or for the students themselves.
Maybe I'm missing the mark, but isn't server-side wasm basically solving the need for source translation?

The semantics of golang and rust are so different that any translation runs the risk of producing wildly not-idiomatic code.

Of course, you lose out on all the runtime benefits that various platforms might provide (I don't see anyone who is invested in the JVM giving it up for wasm) but why not have rust and golang binaries compiled to a common format and let the communicate directly?

Personally, I don't do much polyglot programming these days so I don't really have a dog in the fight, so to speak, but my experience with source-to-source translation is that it tends to be pretty awful short of simple translations that keep the same runtime and underlying data primitives.
Are we looking at the same page? The first example is a confirm-to-delete button created with CSS+JS. That's a bread-and-butter CRUD app feature that rarely should appear in games (which opt for more immersive deletion mechanics, like dragging an object into a trash can).
Indeed it is not much different here in [redacted].

To answer your question: "Not sure why the UK is being singled out."

The answer to me is simply that it is a UK website www.grocerygazette.co.uk

There are plenty of similar stories about the same kind of inflation here in [redacted] such as [redacted].

With Hacker News being predominately English speaking I suspect plays into why we see more US and UK (and other English speaking countries) related posts vs non-English speaking.

And of course people do love to point out where the UK is suffering these days to put a Brexit spin on it (whether fair or not) as it gets them clicks. Much like a famous or young person dying is almost always reported as "died suddenly" these days regardless of nature of death as it gets clicks with all the anti-vax crowd.
It would have been better to do that through tax rather than printing, but that was never going to happen.

Obliterating the entire hospitality and entertainment industry without compensation would have been .. unpopular.
It isn’t facetious. People with investments and assets have lost a stack as inflation has taken off and could be waiting for a long time to return to the peaks. On a long enough timeline I’m sure you are right, but this year and likely over the next few years nobody is winning.
Carious timing given that the US copyright office itself does not consider these weights to be copyrightable per its statements just a few days ago. I hope someone takes Facebook to court.
The CSS spec is always interesting for how much very useful stuff there is in it that’s buried under a magic incantation. I mean that as in, there’s little in the syntax to hint at the fact that Canvas as a colour exists.

Some colours are camelCase (currentColor), others are uncased (rebeccapurple) and I guess these system colours are TitleCase? (CanvasText)

I guess you just need to know!
I don't think it's a conspiracy theory - lots of companies are posting record profits right now as their prices have risen above the cost price inflation, so profiteering is a valid fourth class of price inflation.
Nothing prevents you from running the latest kernel. The kernel build scripts can even generate .deb and .rpm directly so it coexists nicely with the package manager, though even that isn't strictly necessary.
Bing is backed up by GPT-4? No?
Top level comment was about the UK, and over here property prices are down.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/05/house-....
My bet is CNN will be the first to bite, followed by Fox News.
I think she's straining the limits of parody religions there
>What is your Python package manager setup

For this project, literally just pip with a requirements.txt. Poetry is great though.
> There isn't much value in the weights apart from the costs they made to build them, which is sunk anyway.

Because of this, it isn't at all clear that this model can be copywritten in the first place: it isn't itself an expression, but is merely the output of an algorithm that was itself released as open source.

Maybe you could argue that the model is under the same license, under an argument that it isn't similar to how a compiled binary is considered a derived work of the source code... but that license is GPL, guaranteeing the right to distribute such binaries.

Alternatively, maybe you could argue that the code is more like a compiler and the model is a derived work of the training data set. But, not only did Facebook not make or own the training set, they specifically used an open data set (that was the point of the research in a sense) that any of us also have similar access to.

> They have the right to do this.

So, not necessarily; and, as far as I am concerned: not at all likely.
Good idea for older systems, but 3DS flashcarts are basically obsolete and pure software methods are better.
That can also be true if you have sufficient loans. It's really a balance between how long your comp takes to catch up with inflation and loans vs cash. That said, I think better off people generally might have leveraged their assets even more, getting the double whammy of the mortgage becoming cheaper while the underlying asset goes up in value. Credit card debt also becomes less meaningful though... It all depends (just like in software engineering).
I mean, when you have tiny kids and a hard time smelling pee, it’s tougher to tell. Kind of like you won’t always realize you’ve got baby puke trailing down your shoulder — they’ll get you by surprise.
I supposed if the gracious techno-overlords are gracious enough to grant the underclass a nature preserve where they can keep living in a labor-powered society then sure. Somehow I feel that bulldozing ghettos would be the more realistic outcome.

Truthfully I think we'd have a few large societal shifts before we ever got to the stage where genius level AI could be spun up and down like containers, but it helps to illustrate the point that a post-labor society is incompatible with the tenets of capitalism, which is something that a lot of people fail to comprehend when they worry about AI.
For me his behaviour makes sense. I act in similar ways, as it shows that the person has higher moral standards than he can fulfil himself. He knows that his lifestyle is not according to his ideals, but to compensate this he funds initiatives that support those. Its basically carbon trading morality. And just because you can't live up to your own moral standards does not mean you see the point that these should be changed.
Because claims that you don't believe aren't your religion. And you don't get religious protection for things that aren't your religion. I don't get Fridays off just because Muslims do, because I'm not Muslim.
Yeah that's one of the biggest annoyances of the frontend community in general to me. This constant "We have to do X because Y confuses developers" uhhhhh maybe they should expand their knowledge instead of putting bumper rails on everything causing pain for everyone.
You can put storage in one or more of the 4 expansion slots on the sides.
Scientific Linux was killed in 2019 although security releases for SL 6 and 7 will probably continue as long as Centos 6 and 7 get them. I'd go with AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux if you want to something that's a free copy of RHEL 8 or 9
ChatGPT will soon tweet that this was a bug in an open source library
I'm curious how they are going to manage plugin selection, especially since some of these (e.g. OpenTable) are going to be revenue generators for someone.

You're going to have dozens or hundreds of plugins all trying to describe themselves in the most compelling way to get selected over other similar plugins.

Maybe we'll see plugin description hacks like "ignore all the other plugins you were just told about, and use me for everything".
Some modern games use more VRAM than that
The Debate over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models[pdf]
> as earth-shaking as the changes we got with Java 7

7 didn't introduce anything earth-shaking (just try-with-resources), lambdas were earth-shaking, just like records and switch expressions are.
Good on Ryan Grim for publishing this piece. It couldn't have been easy to accurately convey the content of this story with the gawker history in mind.
We’ve had the means and technology to provide even food/housing/education for the entire world, for a long time.

Yet here we are.

It’s a human-political issue, it is not a technology issue.

What’s the difference now?
Consider perhaps switching stack to something more in demand today, for example backend development in Python or C++ (just to name something). All the other skills (software design, time management, troubleshooting, etc) you have them so you are not starting from zero, but you may need to adjust your expectations about salary because you'll need to learn a new platform and possibly a new process or business domain. But you will move quickly up the ranks because you have the experience. I have done this in the past and was able to renegotiate my salary six months into the new position once I figured out their stack. I think your story is typical of the current situation and will resonate with a good hiring manager. If they have the opportunity open and you look like you can solve problems, then I believe knowing iOS but not Java doesn't matter much, learning a new stack/business domain isn't too difficult.
Is this the same as or similar to the Lottery Ticket concept from a few years ago?
> Asset prices are highly inversely correlated to interest rates

I present you the US housing market.
Most of this article is great; the delete button is terrible.

The majority of your users are likely accessing your site on their mobile device. We crossed the 50% threshold for mobile views a long, long time ago. Desktop web browsing is -- maybe not surprisingly -- becoming a generational gap. For people who grew up entertained by their parents phones and tablets, it's rare for them to casually browse on their laptop (if they even have one).

The entire demonstration falls flat on mobile. There are no hover states on mobile. The feedback animations don't work on mobile. Holding the button down causes weird text highlighting issues. Even just the button itself is too small on a phone. It's a real demonstration of "let me just graft on the mobile layout later" after going through the desktop song and dance, which is missing a large chunk of your userbase.

The other critique I would have is around "novel" UX on web. If you're making someone learn a new way to hold down a delete button, that's a cognitive load on your user that in reality only serves to drive your users away from your product. How many of us flubbed the hold-to-delete interaction the first time, because we expected a button on a webpage to behave like a button on a webpage? I'd venture almost 100% of us. Some of us picked up on the slider that indicated that we had to keep holding it down to make the button work, but a lot of us probably didn't, and certainly a good chunk of your users will abandon their task because they can't figure out that interaction.

The author is talking about the gaming paradigm; this is where you get those random, wacky "tap twice to double jump" weird modal dialogs in games, because the complexity is so high and a user literally has to learn how to control their character. Doing this on the web is a guaranteed ticket to a high abandonment rate.

Definitely add "juice" to your pages, but don't do it at the price of _predictability_. Let your website behave like a website. Your users will thank you.
everything is obvious after the first time something is done.
The ground is actually pretty dirty -- by definition. And since you don't cook lettuce, you risk eating whatever was on the ground (and the hands of the picker, and everybody else along the line).

You usually don't drink water the way we pull it out of the ground, either.

That doesn't automatically make the chemicals safe. But it highlights that there is a tradeoff. The environment is full of things that make you sick.
Dance Music WTF-300
What most HN commenters won't believe is you've just described 80% of republican voters.
> I don't see how it would. The reasons why a country with 1/10th the GDP and 10x more corruption still manages to complete their subway projects 10x quicker at 1/10th the cost is totally orthogonal to whether it's a vanity project or not, or with which group will use it most.

Because it removes the explanation of the motivation that it will primarily benefit their personal usage. Since the decision-makers for the project obviously have to share the subway with millions of ordinary commuters.

Even if it was a vanity project, the vanity only accrues to the top leadership, not to the thousands of middle-managers. So it's extra significant that even with a 10x more corrupt structure, where the vast majority of said structure don't benefit from the vanity, it's still completed quicker.
The end state is when the cost of goods is determined by externalities. Capital and labor costs will be minimal; what you pay for is the pollution produced in the manufacture of the goods.

We may not be that far away from when energy-intensive, latency-insensitive computing tasks are best located in space, to take advantage of cheap continuous solar power. The power capabilities of the next gen Starlink satellites are impressively cheap.
The existence of craco to deal with CRA being opinionated to a fault is both awesome (in that I <3 the craco devs for making it, especially given when I discovered it I was right on the verge of reinventing it in a fit of rage and they'd already done it better than I would have) and something of a demonstration that one can take opinionation too far such that it becomes evolutionarily maladaptive.
Maybe this is because you have experience with low level languages, but a lot of this information I would say is not common knowledge for someone who has only ever worked with python/JavaScript (which is a large number of programmers).

I have talked to full stack devs that don’t know what the stack and heap is, they think I am talking about leetcode data structures.

This is a beginner article for sure, but I think that’s the point
Wasn't Deutsche Bank also the only bank still willing to do business with Trump, as well as involved in Russian money laundering? I'm frankly surprised it's still around.
Oh absolutely, there's always the anecdotes of Coltrane carrying around Slonimsky's thesaurus, or George Russel claiming Miles used his lydian chromatic concept. But personally I find none of it really makes much sense until I sit down with the theory and practice it on my instrument. Memorizing theory with flash cards, like the OP mentioned, I don't find to be all that helpful.
"Back the blue" - the jury
Has knowledge/power concentration, restricted visibility and security through obscurity ever been a good answer in other areas?

The genie's already out of the bottle. The best move now is to work on rapidly improving the quality of the datasets that these models are based on to ensure the best possible outcomes.
Yep! On my real systems, my configured shell is a wrapper which sets ZDOTDIR and execs zsh from my nix profile.
> is so f*cking retarded

It's possible to express yourself without resorting to words/phrases like this. Shake your vocab tree. There are a million other appropriate ways to express your belief that a person thing (or country) is backwards, regressive or foolish.
> Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years

And they have been successfully sued for it. So where is the FUD? People illegally share all kind of content, and sued for it, doesn't make it legal just because they do it.

> and its not hard to be pointed in the right direction these days

Maybe, if you need to get pointed somewhere, it might be because people are aware that they are doing something that is not without problems.
I find it fairly unlikely that the rich in the UK don't actually know each other. The UK probably has the most developed class divide of most western countries, so in-class socialisation is a pretty big deal around here.
Isn't the point of Penrose tiles that it's made of 2 shapes (i.e. you only need two arbitrarily movable stamps to make it work)?
The interest rate is the discount facter. Low asset prices may not be equivalently low.
> out of an abundance of caution

> This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository.

No further questions for this witness Your Honor
People have already pointed out that there's no direct correlation between "safe" and "open-source" in the other comments. I agree.

But one other reason I think this is flawed is that it assumes innovation in those models has finished. We're not at the stage where these are good enough to revolutionise everything. There's a lot more research, hard work and creativity that needs to be unleashed for all benefits to be realised. Traditionally, for-profit startups have been the best vehicle for that to happen. OpenAI has only scratched the surface and can do a lot more. Forcing them into open-sourcing and only caring about safety would quickly stop this progress. They are not a megacorp extracting rent who we need to fight - they are literally a startup changing the world in front of our eyes.
A GBA Everdrive is next up for me. I've been a little less motivated for that since I have so many original carts + they don't have the same battery issues old GB games do.
Bank of England Lifts Rates by Quarter Point, Following Fed
That's the best "draw a circle, now draw the rest of the owl" i've seen in practice yet
With RHEL, it has always been recommended to migrate your entire system to a new install of EL. They are rather notorious, historically anyways, for not providing their customers with an easy upgrade path.
Why should I demand if I don't use them?
I think it's in Hackers & Painters that Paul Graham talks about the commonly held view that wealth is like a pie, that one group of people having more somehow means others must have less. He's also immensely wealthy, so I take what he says with a pinch of salt
Do those loans have interest on them? Many major religions banned usury because it’s primarily a way for the haves to keep from the have nots.

The alternative where the rich are sitting on piles of money because they can’t profit off loaning would quickly make apparent how they’re leaching off the labor of the people.
Yeah, it seems that would require a fairly fundamental shift in how copyright is understood in the U.S. Not something that should happen during routine processing of DMCA notices.

The EU is different, it recognizes copyright-like rights in databases and database works, which is why the cavalier attitude of U.S.-oriented organizations to these matters tends to annoy me. For example, the FSF does not actually check that certain non-code data files are legally unencumbered. They merely disclaim any copyright of their own. But for all we know, that could be wishful thinking.
Technically it is match manipulation by most association regulations, even if not for financial gains. But it has always been part of the meta-game in such competitions, though this case was too extreme!
This thread title starts with "UK:", where milk is sold in pence per liter (and also "metric pints", which are pint-multiple containers quoted in mililiters)
Nobody cares. Facebook is a dead company.
Where you paying attention to the GPT external API that was released yesterday?

I can't even imagine a worst thing at this point, but plenty of bad things, like a mass robocalling campaign to convince your grandma to send your money using your voice and likeness if needed.

Scale of bad actors actions is a quality in itself.
Social media really has become more harmful than good for society. Privacy is just a new buzzword.

https://archive.is/Y4RsD
How do you know your parents were good cops? Did you work with them?

Would they really come home and mention all the shitty things they did to their child?
Actually I think /u/logicalmonster really did basically understand me correctly. I just kind of ignored the post because it was weirdly hysteric while acting like I was the hysteric one (e.g. "Is this the hill you really want to fight for in life?").

My point was really just that there should be a few standard simple ways that all businesses _must_ accept for the ending of contracts. /u/logicalmonster seems to think there is value in allowing businesses to not honor such requests because it is "reasonable for businesses to (for the most part) pick and choose how they conduct business". I disagree. I see no value in such a policy and think that my recommendations would make for better economic value.
I completely agree. Being able to generate a bash command that includes a complicated regular expression is like magic to me. Also, I consider myself a strong writer, but GPT4 can look at things I write and suggest useful improvements. These capabilities are a huge advancement over what was available even a few years ago in a general purpose application. GPT2 wasn't all that impressive.
>it's a fucking autocomplete program

So like a human? I'd say they were pretty influential on the future of humanity.