skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git Docs... - https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-About-Version...

"...The next major issue that people encounter is that they need to collaborate with developers on other systems. To deal with this problem, Centralized Version Control Systems (CVCSs) were developed. These systems (such as CVS, Subversion, and Perforce) have a single server that contains all the versioned files, and a number of clients that check out files from that central place. For many years, this has been the standard for version control."

"...However, this setup also has some serious downsides. The most obvious is the single point of failure that the centralized server represents. If that server goes down for an hour, then during that hour nobody can collaborate at all or save versioned changes to anything they’re working on. If the hard disk the central database is on becomes corrupted, and proper backups haven’t been kept, you lose absolutely everything..."

"...This is where Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCSs) step in. In a DVCS (such as Git, Mercurial, Bazaar or Darcs), clients don’t just check out the latest snapshot of the files; rather, they fully mirror the repository, including its full history. Thus, if any server dies, and these systems were collaborating via that server, any of the client repositories can be copied back up to the server to restore it. Every clone is really a full backup of all the data...."
Unfortunately the site is broken over IPv6, which seems to cause some issues. Honestly since it's just a static site I should probably just blow away the server and restart it, but I'll do that at some point I'm not on the front page of HN...
Yeah, "let's see if I can overclock this a bit" was the first thing many people did as soon as they got any new chip. The 300A was notable both because of how far they could be pushed but also how it worked for basically all of them & not outliers.
One wonders if MSFT leadership will ever connect the dots between “hollowing out talent over the years,” “hiring freezes,” and “layoffs” to this outcome.

One wonders sometimes if that’s the goal.
This is a piece asking about authority, QANON, and the dangers the modern state faces
I have a vps with bare git repos, pushing via ssh. A selection of these has hooks set up to mirror all pushes onto github/gitlab/$platform, but these are write-only.
I’m pretty sure a lead pipe will hurt you if it penetrates your body. (Sorry couldn’t resist)
I think you meant "I dunno what's down..."
> I don’t think it’s actually reasoning about things at all

This is a huge leap. There’s plenty of humans who couldn’t do that, especially historically.

Stop thinking about reasoning as a binary question and think of it as a spectrum. Actually, not even a spectrum, but a huge multi-dimensional problem. ChatGPT does better at some reasoning problems than most humans do, and worse at some others. You clearly found one that it’s particularly bad at.
> We’ve identified an infrastructure change that has been rolled back and we are monitoring recovery.

From github status
It's the iron law of oligarchy. In democracies, politicians need to constantly justify their existence or people might question how their taxes are spent. If you're a sociopath after money and power (elected and appointed roles self-select these traits), you must reinforce a constant narrative of "solving" society's ills.

This pushing, forever persistent, accretes ever greater power to departments and their bureaucrats until the people have no say, and the highest elected offices have no say. Of course, the EU was initially designed this way, so you're fucked any way you frame it.
Wow, exactly none questions for cybersecurity. This is a skyrocketing problem, and we've all seen the headlines.
To be fair I don't mention those because I've never hard problems with them. That said there are definitely some architectural thing I don't agree with in regards to systems, but overall I am fine with it. I will also take the ini format over xml anyday. Though scripting may be more intuitive.

The different libc backend is a bit of mess though and it can be quite cumbersome to get good compatibility of programs between libc variants.
Yes that’s also an interesting facet of the language. IIRC it makes sense because of the Prolog ancestry, so it kinda-sorta looks like unification if you squint, but boy is it annoying.
Interestingly enough: on Page 27 the title is 'Chevy and GMC', on all following pages (and the index page) it's 'Chevrolet and GMC'.

Looks like someone accidentally used some slang, and nobody caught it. I guess 'chevy' is so common in the US that nobody noticed.
You can say "fuck". Not doing so just makes your comment less clear, and forces the reader to go "what's with the pluses, is it a keyboard issue? Oh wait, the commenter is just censoring the word 'fuck' here, which I as a reader know since since 'fuck around and find out' is a common English expression".
Part of Twitter's source code was apparently leaked by a disgruntled programmer
The even funnier thing is, Gmail supports standard mail protocols, and can be interacted with using just about any mail client, and Twitter has a billion custom clients for it as well. The problem is that Google is hiding the SMTP/IMAP options deep behind needing a 2fa and "app passwords", and all the others are actively rejecting or working against letting people create custom apps for the services easily.
There's no need for any of these companies to create any new software for any new OS, they choose to prevent people from doing so, and that's actively harmful in the current walled garden of an ecosystem we've created.
Xstate looks very interesting, certainly going to take a look, thanks!
I believe the smaller cache was the reason it could overclock so high; a similar story happened later in the Netburst era, when the ~2.4GHz Celerons could go over 4GHz with sufficient cooling and sometimes a slight increase in voltage.
Dumb answer: because SS and Medicare pay for "real" goods and services and have to interact with the main street economy, whereas FDIC acts in conjunction with the Federal Reserve, and the effects aren't seen by the public - the money isn't "spent" on something, it's just not _not_ there.

Also, the original statement is not quite correct - FDIC is funded by a special levy on all US banks, so while on principle it's backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US government, in actuality the money comes from the banking system itself.

Edit to add: from the article:

>The FDIC is funded by its member institutions through premiums and assessments paid on deposits. And, if ever needed, the FDIC can draw on a line of credit with the U.S. Treasury.

So, if you're a bank, you have to be a member of FDIC, or the banking regulators come and take your bank away. Being an FDIC member means you have to give them money, pretty much according to their whim (or they come and take your bank away). If that's ever not enough to fund a "not bailout", FDIC can get a loan from the Treasury, to be paid back from those premiums and levies on the banks over a period of time.
In my eyes the main issue is political standing, which we had very few.

When in France the RIAA equivalent came up with a plan to add a tax to all digital storage media, because it could be used for piracy, the tax was applied an we all ponied up. Why ? because they make money, deal with politicians everyday and make sure the wheels are well lubrificated when they need them to turn.

For a very long time the computer industry had none that, and/or wanted contents right holders on their side, with not enough negociation power.

Now I feel we're on the other side with Apple straight telling legislators to turn a blind eye because they need their semi-monopoly to keep printing money.
What? Unlimited texting plans in the US can be had for $15/month, if not even cheaper.
> questionably reliable flying cars for our minds
Windows is an OS. It shouldn't display ANY news.
Regarding Stage 2. Are you saying that ChatGPT's facility to recognize and process commands is derived entirely from training on supervised datasets and not hand-crafted logic? Can you point me to any reading on this?
The UK had quite a strong computing industry right up to the 90's - a lot of it got sold off or beaten by competitors though.

Although the UK still punches above its weight in computing.
One has to ask oneself... would this have happened without the Microsoft acquisition?
Everything is green now!
Man is not being used in a gendered manner.
> However, saying "degraded performance" when you know it's "down for everyone" is an industry phrasing thing that's irritating. AWS also has "elevated response times" when everyone is seeing 5xx errors, or infinite response times.

Another popular one is "elevated API error rates" when the error rate is 1.
What I don't understand is how _file explorer_ can be so slow. It's visibly lagging between directories, first-opening etc. That's a fundamental part of the OS. I believe there is so much phone-home going on that nothing on Windows is slick anymore.
In recent years, you can argue that bitcoin has acted as a canary in the coal mine. Bitcoins chart is pretty much the same as stocks (especially tech/growth stocks). It just moves slightly ahead of stocks sometimes.
Parents, for their children’s best interests, have a prerogative to control what their children are exposed to. Social media is absolutely within that domain. I’m inclined to believe anyone who disagrees with that principle is a potential predator who seeks to undermine that authority. Sexual preferences are fundamentally sexual in nature, and parents absolutely have the prerogative to gatekeep the kinds of content their children are exposed to, especially sexual content. Children cannot (and should not be) expect(ed) to have any real form of privacy while under the care and supervision and oversight of their own parents. If parents see their children on internet chats they have a right to be involved and snoop on the logs and intervene to nip bad ideas in the bud. They have a prerogative in influencing the upbringing of their children in every aspect of their lives. Children simply cannot consent to life-changing decisions such as having sex, or sexual reassignment surgeries, or taking puberty-blocking hormones (aka sterilization drugs also given to convicted pedophiles). This includes intervening when strangers on the internet are grooming their sons / daughters to convince them they are gay or trans orcc by whatever.
Of course, because linux targeted at non-tech users allows greedy publishers to do the same things as microsoft.

I used to think educating people was a solution, which it might be to some extent... truth is without regulations brought and enforced by people who understand the modern digital world and have the end users best interest in mind (lol), the cat will never go back to the box.
If greed means breaching a contract or doing something illegal then the term is not needed as more accurate language can / should be used.
and up again.
I asked GPT-4 to encrypt an input, and it worked?
System:

You are an encryption assistant. You encrypt an input using the HS256 algorithm.

Secret key: 98asdhfipa87sdf

User:

"Hello"

Assistant:

To encrypt the input "Hello" using the HS256 (HMAC with SHA-256) algorithm, we need a proper library or tool. Here's an example using Python and the `jwt` library.

1. Install the library (if you don't have it) using pip:

```
pip install pyjwt
```

2. Use the following Python code to encrypt the input:

```python
import jwt

input_data = "Hello"
secret_key = "98asdhfipa87sdf"

encoded = jwt.encode({"data": input_data}, secret_key, algorithm="HS256")

print(encoded)
```

Running this script will give you the encrypted output:

```
eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiAiSFMyNTYifQ.eyJkYXRhIjoiSGVsbG8ifQ._4zW5Rv_2Q1l5hFt5ZmW8Kw3YqDmxa-iPdHfPYW8nN0
```

Keep in mind that the output might vary slightly due to the encoding process, but it will always be decryptable using the same secret key.

============

The encrypted output validates on jwt.io which seems pretty surprising. Does this mean that GPT-4 has the ability to do these computations internally? What does that say about the general capabilities of the model?

UPDATE:

So, it looks like jwt.io actually changed the signature of the JWT when I copied in the secret to make it valid, which means that GPT-4 did not actually correctly sign it.

So... nevermind! I guess it's just base64 encoding the text and giving some random signature.
Germans in general are also highly reluctant towards digital payments, commonly citing "privacy" as a reason. However, the same people often have no qualms about using the - hilariously named - Payback loyalty programme, which keeps a record of individual consumer purchase behaviour.
> It is never another country's fault when you attack it, but you cannot claim it is unprovoked; Russia's claims regarding the buffer states have been clear since the end of the cold war, and their demands were well known to both the UN and the EU. They poured oil on a simmering fire, and now the house is on fire...

These countries are not "buffer" states for Russia to toy with, they are countries that have every right to join whatever alliances they want.

And you must see how unsurprising it is that they all want to join NATO when Russia views them not as their own countries but as buffer regions for Russia.
But this is not the point. The point is not to engage in meaningless or easy stuff only. The point is to recognize that you should not dedicate more than 8h per day because for many jobs (including software engineering) there are no deadlines or most are made by people that are not involved in the actual process so they are artificial limits imposed to make you fret.
Yeah it gives you a bit of confidence that the problem may not be something on your end. I don't think there's a perfect way to handle this, though.
This is pushing the problem out to an edge that can't really deal with it, i.e. everyone outside a controlled environment. Most people don't know anything about how their DNS cache behaves, and the server-side (where ideally the security posture should be controlled from as much as possible) can't have any influence over it.

If you start using other ways of using DNS, then you might as well not use DNS and instead develop something more suited to the purpose.
Have you noticed Apple news notifications on a loved ones Mac in recent years? Happens even without a paid subscription if I recall correctly.
Great, another checklist for folks to cargo-cult their own man-made bureaucracy.
Maybe that's a speciality of german-speaking government's, but I find questionnaires without clear intend dehumanizing and time-wasting.

> How hard is it for employees to get promoted?
> How hard is it for them to get fired?

What do you plan to take away from these questions? Would be more useful to atleast provide your good intentions on what you are looking for when asking.
Insightful, thanks. Answers a ton of questions swirling around my noggin for ages.
did you look at this?

https://replicate.com/afiaka87/tortoise-tts
> Nothing to maintain.

Never say never...
No. There is some evidence that a large flux of neutrinos can very slightly alter the rate of some nuclear beta decay (basically the decay which would release a neutrino can't if there are too many neutrinos already around it), but that won't do anything to trigger a nuclear weapon or nuclear plant meltdown. Even producing enough neutrinos to have a detectable effect at all would require a tremendous amount of energy - attempts to even detect such an effect on earth have been inconclusive. The only place in the universe where the neutron flux gets high enough to actually delay decay for a meaningful amount of time is in the core of a supernova, which is one way heavy elements are produced.
> I guess most frustrating to me was the request to format the code and fix the commit message as if it was on track, only to be rejected for "we don't want this in the first place".

Usually, those things are easy to check, almost a part of just triage where you try to cover lots of ground but just the surface. Takes small amount of time for the maintainer unless there is a lot of ground to cover obviously.

But unless they explicitly signal the change is wanted, I wouldn't (in the future) take that as a signal that the change in general is wanted.

As a tip, before trying to contribute any larger patches to FOSS, create a issue to ask if this is something they'd actually be willing to merge, if you chose to build it. Then you know for sure up front if it's worth spending time on.

> Plugins suck. There are a lot of people who will not bother to go that route. It immediately raises questions about what OS do they work on, do they cost money, how do I install them?

Personally, I appreciate the architecture of "small core - allow extensions" so I'm happy they don't expand OBS in that way.

As well, I'd appreciate it a lot if you made what you did into a plugin, better audio control is wanted by a large set of OBS and I know many do the piping outside of OBS to get a proper equalizer. So if you spend time on making it into an extension, I'm sure you'd find lots of people grateful for that.
The U.S. Trade Deficit Isn’t Caused by Low American Savings
having been on the other side a number of times at a site with huge amounts of traffic, very often things can be down for a huge percentage but our logs will still show thousands of requests succeeding a minute. so it might be working well but slowly for some while not at all for many
I am gonna have to strongly disagree, the major reason tech companies struggle in Europe is because of access to funding. Investors are way more risk averse and 'VCs' are closer to business angels than VC's in terms of level of funding rounds.

In the same way, for EU companies to really play ball and have access to US based VCs they at some point have to incorporate in Delaware or NY to be taken seriously.

The only exceptions to what I described that I have seen seem to gravitate around fintech.
Market becomes less speculative.
NVIDIA's top management may have had a vision but in coming years the competition will be rising exponentially in the AI/ML space as AMD+XILINX, INTEL and some potential dedicated AI hardware startups could become a big threat to dominance of nvidia. nvidia has just a GPU and they fully control it from the architecture to the whole software ecosystem that been built around their GPUs but AMD has complete ground up control over all the components like x86 cpu, gpu, xilinx fpga and they could be big challenger to NV.
Your two statements seem to be a contradiction - decision meetings should be public, but the meeting where you are getting a blowie from your assistant on the sofa in your office should be private?
seems to work fine for me...?
That's not neccesarily a bad thing. Once you release something you shouldn't be able to gaslight people by silently updating it - instead, release a new verson with a new torrent.
Have you actually tried it yourself? I’d recommend it. And I don’t mean just playing with it —- Try using it to help you build something. It’s much more efficient than googling and combing through stackoverflow. Hallucinations are not as common as you’re thinking.

You clearly can’t just take the code, paste it in, and trust that it works, but you shouldn’t be doing that with stackoverflow either.
Also posting here as a bookmark for the future. I'm pretty sure most SWE's are toast, I've been pair programming with gpt-4 for the last weeks and it is freakishly good compared to gpt-3. It's just a matter of continuing on current trajectory of progress and most SWE's will be completely obsolete within 5 years.
It was only named 'dynamic programming' because its inventor thought is was a more marketable name:

"I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesting question is, ‘Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?’ The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term, research, in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term, mathematical. The RAND Corporation was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word, ‘programming.’ I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying—I thought, let’s kill two birds with one stone. Let’s take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it’s impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It’s impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities”.

From: Richard Bellman, Eye of the Hurricane: An Autobiography (1984, page 159)
This is a better argument for the American public making in general poor choices and political parties giving them the kind of people they are apt to vote for rather than paying insufficient salaries.
Chess Cubed
In this case it is.

Lot of others posted are other models that people could use.
Is anyone self-hosting the enterprise version of github as a backup? Or using it as the primary source and then using the cloud version as backup?
This is great!

I also use https://pypi.org/project/django-zen-queries/, but Pellet might be better (Zen queries doesn't let you run any queries, which sometimes doesn't work).

Here's a screenshot for you:

https://imgz.org/i8XkiK2R.png
> the younger generation is hardly largely English-speaking

I agree. While I don’t have any direct contact with younger people, our fantasy stores went from being 50/50 English/German products to having 99% in German.
It's a strange feel with the vue world. There's a natural simplicity to it. While react often creates slightly(or a lot) complex entities that cause a lot of friction. Vue is often criticized for not being true js in the end etc etc but it doesn't seem to be important when creating something.
It was always so. A stalking horse for the ages. If SOPA and PIPA come back they'll be wrapped in a trans flag to ensure full compliance.
I've been using it for several years at this point and haven't encountered any memory leaks (it already uses so little).

As for widgets, I've had no trouble with that, there's quite a few fantastic collections and I've found everything I've needed.

Sure, stacks are not supported out of the box, but it is an easy thing to add if you want it. I think they are entirely consistent and bug free, as much as anything else - some specific apps might have an issue but you can also write a rule to deal with them as needed.

I'll take a completely customizable lightweight interface that I can tailor every aspect of every time, especially when it's so user friendly (for what it is).
How much do you need to eat and when? Do you eat the peal?

You can get green banana powder, but it was so incredibly bitter the last time I tried that I never went back.
I don't buy this. I've had unlimited SMS messages included for as many years as I can remember but pretty much exclusively use IMs. The media integration and things like that are just much better.
Yeah I don't even understand the point of this SlickGPT.
One time HN was itself down and that was a confusing experience