skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do support for software developers.

I used to joke that anyone claiming to be a "Very senior VB developer" was basically saying, "I don't know how computers work".

While it was a funny way of blowing off steam (and indeed senior VB devs didn't seem to know things like calling conventions or static linking), therein lies the miracle of VB. People could make business applications without having to know that stuff.

Often enough, they had VB devs for the frontend, and the heavy lifting done in *.dll's written by more hardcore C++ devs. I guess it worked out well enough that way.
There are already many standard build specification formats: CMake, autotools, Meson. For each, most distro's package managers can build the software with very little configuration, e.g. Debian's debhelper will cover most standard build systems and Gentoo has eclasses that you just need to inherit in a package. I'm not sure that adding another makes things easier.

Configuration options will need to be specified manually if you want any but I don't see a way around that as they are both package-specific and also something where distros want to differ.

For dependencies there are usually language-specific registries and pkg-config for C/C++-land. Some distros (e.g. RPM-based-ones) already support specifying dependencies by the pkg-config names or library SONAMEs. There is no distro-agnostic way to specfy your dependencies except for a README as far as I know - this would be something worth specifying.
It's disheartening to see that people have grown increasingly paranoid about the authenticity of online content, suspecting that everything might be written by AI. This is just how I write!
Which shall be known as "The Luddite's Letter"
They could've just made them out of carbon fiber composites before /s
I disagree. It is still quite trivial to reasonably exchange information without anyone being able to eavesdrop on it.

Authenticity isn't important if the message content can be verified. It can even pose a danger. People like to attack the messenger, especially if he has a point.

Don't know about your devices, but mine do not put me under surveillance. Smartphones are critical, but even those are controllable. If you are in public you won't know, but otherwise you can be reasonably safe.
Exactly, this list of Ponzi Scheme red flags is from Investor.gov[1]. While certain aspects of the crypto ecosystem may fall under these red flags, most don't, or don't apply to the coins/blockchains themselves.

> Many Ponzi schemes share common characteristics. Look for these warning signs:

> High returns with little or no risk.

Some new shit coins and many NFT projects absolutely make these bullshit claims, but it's well, well known that there's risk by speculating in crypto at this point. We've all seen multiple 80% drops in bitcoin's price (or you can with a simple look at the 5-10 year chart). It's no secret. People speculate in it anyway for other reasons.

> Overly consistent returns. Investments tend to go up and down over time. Be skeptical about an investment that regularly generates positive returns regardless of overall market conditions.

Except for maybe stablecoins (which we found out this past year aren't exactly stable), no crypto coin can claim to have consistent returns.

> Unregistered investments. Ponzi schemes typically involve investments that are not registered with the SEC or with state regulators.

This part is true for many crypto coins, and the SEC is going after them now. Bitcoin itself seems to be immune to this by having no centralized component to it, which is unlike most other coins.

> Unlicensed sellers. Federal and state securities laws require investment professionals and firms to be licensed or registered.

Most exchanges are either licensed and registered if they operate in the US, hence their KYC measures.

> Secretive, complex strategies.

Yeah, some algorithmic stablecoins are like this (at least the complex part), and you've seen most of them collapse at this point. The rest are pretty simple coins for the most part, and many of them have completely open source code, so there's nothing secretive about it at all.

> Issues with paperwork. Account statement errors may be a sign that funds are not being invested as promised.

You can't really have an account statement error on the blockchain outside of a 51% attack (which is arguably not an error, just creating a new consensus), although some of the companies that have sprung up around it add obfuscation that can lead to possible account errors. Banks can have account errors as well, though.

> Difficulty receiving payments. Be suspicious if you don’t receive a payment or have difficulty cashing out.

This one can happen at exchanges, but the blockchains themselves still work and you can transfer with others directly, assuming you have taken your crypto off of exchanges ("Not your keys, not your crypto" as the saying goes).

[1]: https://www.investor.gov/protect-your-investments/fraud/type...
Glad to see this article.

I've been running Xubuntu on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th gen with since 2016 with no issues. Totally wiped Windows from the beginning. The only frustration I have is when using a non-hidpi external screen I have to change the dpi to match what the external screen is capable, so the laptop screen effectively becomes very small.
You can't really be 100% postgres compatible without borrowing a lot of implementation
Yeah I was using endeavoros which was basically vanilla arch with an installer at the time.

https://old.reddit.com/r/EndeavourOS/comments/wygfds/full_tr...
Sodium-ion batteries are approaching lithium-ion battery density. Researchers think they can reach and surpass lithium battery density, but that seems unlikely.

Until that happens we should switch to sodium-ion batteries for stationary uses, such as in homes an businesses and leave the lithium-ion batteries for portable usage such as vehicles and portable electronics.
Dark Basic Pro: BASIC dialect for creating Windows applications and games
New coverage never explicitly mentions this, but there are two camps at odds with each other:

In one camp, we have people at organizations like Microsoft/OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and maybe Baidu that have successfully developed and trained large-scale AI systems with hundreds of billions to trillions of trained parameters. People in this camp are not too worried about societal risks, but I wonder if it's because to them the rapid improvement in AI capabilities look like a shiny rainbow with a big "pot of gold" (money, fame, glory, etc.) on the other side.

In the other camp, we have people at other organizations, including every academic institution, who have yet to develop and train a large-scale AI system with hundreds of billions to trillions of trained parameters. People in this camp are writing open letters about societal risks. These people sound sensible, but I wonder if they're worried because the rainbow is protected by a giant wall, and they see themselves as being outside that wall (e.g., they lack the budget).

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EDITS: Replaced /pot of gold/ with /"pot of gold" (money, fame, glory, etc.)/, which better reflects what I mean.
Thanks, I just hope this is sustainable. I like newsletters and the site design is simple and basic.
I hope there's some way you can set up like a monthly contribution of like $1-$5 to pay for some of the hosting/API costs.

The main concern though for me is long term vision for the site. I'd really like it to stay user/community oriented and hopefully the users can pay for the costs with donations/contributions.
You can't have distro specific policies using this methodology.
> Babylon 5 went even further than most shows today. It had one giant narrative arc over the entire series... I don't think I've ever seen another show that did quite what B5 did.

I would say _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ did this as well.
Sadly for the cause of lolz, the subreddit where folks would trade tips about eating "high meat" and reassure each other that intestinal parasites are "totally natural, like our caveman ancestors had" went private a while back.
I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora when Canonical started pushing snaps 4 years after the auto update debacle that's also mentioned elsewhere here. Couldn't be happier.

Key differences I noticed:

- apt vs dnf

- Intalling on a new computer.

Would totally recommend.
I have not had any problems with the newer CH343.
See this tweet by WCH Technical Director Patrick Yang: https://twitter.com/Patrick_RISCV/status/1516015859877093376

WeAct Studio makes a beautiful compact CH343P adapter that comes with USB-C.
Yes, but being the faster foot shooter in the room doesn't cut it either.

Smartness isn't wisdom.

AIs are, at most, producers of synthetic smartness.
Yes, we take this very seriously at Kraken. We're even trying to launch a full-reserve US bank! :-)
New Proposed US Bill Restricting National Security Threats (Patriot Act v2)
Well I paid for it 20% of the price of new, 6 years old with 90k km on it. Even if I had to invest another 20k into it on repairs (which I wouldn't and I won't), its so much better value than new ones. After 1.5 years and 20k km, seems like aircon died (getting it fixed soon) but that's it.

I'd never buy a new car, price/value compared to used ones is ridiculously bad, not grokking who does that unless its like 1-5% of their annual salary. Even then its just throwing tons of money away. Electric cars seem to me much worse in this, hopefully this changes over time.

So no ultra expensive cars, you can have it for the price of really basic new cars (if I ignore maintenance but this can be managed by not using official repair shops, which is good idea anyway since they just love swapping whole expensive blocs instead of fixing actual problems). On top of massively better crash security, comfort, proper fun driving etc.
> except thousands of common herbal remedies are replaced by patent medicine with legal controls, because $MONEY

Except they are not being replaced? Just like in the good old days™ you can still get out and collect the herbs you're looking for. It's just that nowadays we know that component X of a herbal remedy actually does the job so you just buy that in tablet form (or whatever) instead eating of the whole thing.
I haven't tried AlloyDB yet but I've found most of GCP is this way. I've had to perform several Cloud SQL db migrations this year because storage will auto increase (due to ephemerally high tmp_data) and cannot decrease.

Lots of other rough edges with their other services. I have to believe that Google doesn't dog-food their own services.
https://www.radbasic.dev/ <--- also an interesting take
Neither NSDAP nor Hitler as an individual ever got a majority in a free federal-level election. Hitler lost to Hindenburg in a presidential election 1932. In the Reichstag parliament election of March 1933, which was shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg, and which one can't really call free at this point due to violent suppression of the political left, the NSDAP still only got 43% of votes. They only got a majority of seats after they managed to remove the KPD seats through violence and arrests, and then quickly made a vote to make the Reichstag irrelevant for making new laws (with help of other parties as they needed a two-thirds majority).

But yes, they were met with little enough resistance from the conservative establishment that they could execute their power grab.
How often do distribution maintainers actually audit the package source code?
In a lot of ways, having this be based on k8s provides a lot of flexibility and independence, and with k8s there's much less friction to providing computes with high locality relative to applications/users application code.

It's also the case that by staying with k8s we can take advantage of existing operational tooling, experience, and work, and can focus or development time on the important parts of this problem: runtime scaling, scheduling, and virtual machine management and not on cloud provider APIs and management.

In short, k8s gives us options that we like for the future, it's shortening the development cycle, and only getting in our way a below-average amount. At the same time--for the most part--we're building this with reasonable abstractions that would let us reuse our existing work if k8s becomes more trouble than it's worth.
Honestly I would expect candidates to use their AI Whispering skills to forge their resume and credentials. That's the whole point, isn't it?
I think he means globalization. All those cultures were probably homogeneous to some extent in their own isolated bubbles. The thing that changed was near-instant global communication. When most people in each society had full visibility into the standards/cultures of other societies, their definitions of an ideal society converged based on the new information.
Makes sense since it's not in their managed infra
Because I want to know if I'm speeding—and if so, by how much—without doing math calculations in my head. Or even without having to look closely enough at the speedometer to be able to parse the numbers. Mentally, that process is a lot slower than looking at where a thing is pointing.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but in many/most/all scripts, wouldn't there be a subset of characters in unicode for which you don't need to worry about unicode ambiguities with respect to combining characters?

For prose of course it wouldn't be acceptable if you can't use your full language, but this is a filesystem, and we're talking identifiers, not prose. We accept that for a wide range of everyday things — I don't think many people are getting worked up about web forms not accepting their phone numbers when entered in Latin numerals.

Using bytestring labels sans normalization is just the rational choice, and actually quite accommodating. People _can_ use their natural language. If you can encode your prose in bytes, then there you go, that'll be your filename ;-) and if you can't remember what diacritic-combining strategy you used when you created the file, and can't manage to fopen() it anymore by typing out the filename, use a file picker or search. And then, perhaps, go "that was a hassle, I'll avoid those fu͝n͜n͏y͝ sq̧u͜igg̶l̢įȩş for my next filename, computer are stupid" - not the end of the world, not the worst outcome.
> battery benefits of Linux

In my experience, battery life under windows is far superior due to more mature drivers. I'm lucky to get 4hrs out of my Framework laptop (with the i5-1240p) whereas Windows nets 6+. And that's with a 6.x kernel that has 12th gen support (I'm running Fedora as per Framework's recommendation). My old XPS 15 had much better battery life but a similar drop (percentage wise) running Ubuntu.
Forget countries?

How will you stop me?

I have models on my local computer. I can and will use them. They will get better.

You don't put tech genie's back in their bottles, that's not how it works.
> you can stop at a charger and top-up. It's a small battery, it doesn't take long

the problem is scaling.

gas takes on average less than a minute per car to top up the tank (gas pump emits ~0.5 liters per second, my car tank capacity is less than 30 liters), if a battery charge requires say 15 minutes (I actually don't know the real number, but I have a feeling that it's usually more than that) that's 15 times longer waiting times and 15 times less capacity per station.

Or more stops.
You are delusionally ignoring that the issue is with calling blended animal protein a flour.
You make a good point, but I think there's a qualifier that convergence in this case is convergence to mass-market appeal. Everything looks the same because that's the aesthetic that most appeals to ~75% of the population. What's missing is that there seems to be an increasing lack of alternative designs to appeal to the other ~25%.
Are you aware that shortly after the initial publication of SOC8, WPATH issued a set of changes which removed all lower age limits that were previously recommended, including for irreversible surgeries?

See https://web.archive.org/web/20220919141138/https://www.tandf... for the detail of their correction notice.
I had read some books on kindle here and there over the years,but recently switched over to full time on the kindle. And I must say, there is a distinct pleasure in carrying multiple books with me, and switching between them at will. I have been trying to replace bouncing around apps on my phone with bouncing around books on my kindle and it's been very enjoyable. Reduces pressure to finish any single book, and a lot more freedom to bounce around!
Nope, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to work. That docker (or anything else for that matter) didn't output any errors when starting a container just made the whole thing difficult to troubleshoot as well. When specifying `--gpus=all` the container just refused to start and docker daemon would hang from there, until I forcefully killed it.

I also had the feeling that even if I fixed this issue, that wouldn't be the last of it, so I just went back to where I came from where I can easily troubleshoot issues and understand all the moving pieces. I guess WSL2 is a bit too much magic for my old brain.

For the record, I tried to use Arch Linux in WSL2 with a RTX 3090ti
"Human: you seem to remember the context of the chat, how many context you keep, the most recent previous output, or a few conversations

AI: I generally remember the last few conversations and I'm also capable of keeping context in longer conversations."

I don't think there is a way to feed context back to the script efficiently, maybe need a local database or a queue of certain length to sustain the subject. To mimic the web-browser experience at terminal.

the real magic for chatgpt vs old chatbots is that it maintains context, how to keep that via API calls is something I do not fully understand yet. Need read the API reference I guess
Of course it's just class names, what I mean is that if fewer people used React and more used Svelte/Vue they would feel less need for things like Tailwind or CSS-in-JS.

My argument is that React is actively bad for writing HTML/CSS, and therefore people came up with clunky solutions to get around those limitations. Certainly Tailwind is more than just a solution for React, but a large part of its popularity is due to it.
Lab food presents itself as non threatening because it's not generally accepted. But if it gains a significant majority the vegans will be calling for natural meat to be banned. It's best to stop it before it gains a foothold.
I may be misreading this comment, but it feels a little stuck up. Arch is created for Arch developers. This is well-known and they have never hidden that. The wiki states as much somewhere in the installation guide. That the distribution turned out to be useful to many others is purely coincidental. If you tried it and decided you're not one of them, no need to pour shit on devs as if they owed you something and didn't fill their part of the bargain.
This also seems like it was generated by an LLM, hah.
The claim is in the quote itself, in their use of the expression "as if" ...

You could also call it a baseless rant.
The Aptera can get up to 40 miles per day from its built-in solar panels in California sunshine. A lot less in London, England. It can get that much because it's twice as efficient as a Tesla Model 3.

Aptera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiH-Y-HOvE
The jobs are to engineer prompts, not engineer an AI model. Although I think the pay is too high given the large number of people who could do the job.
My recollection of the Android universe is that not all updates are equally available/supported leaving devices out of date. Is this still the case, or has the provider/devices/OS ecosystem improved? Also, what is the install rate of these updates? Just because an update is available does not mean that it is deployed.
I havent really tried to use monitors in VR, but is it possible to read small text on what would be a monitor possible? With my pure guess, I imagine the resolution makes it difficult to read unless the monitor is massive in the world, which im not sure is something I would enjoy.

Not saying its something that couldn't be improved, id just be interested in hearing from someone that has tried it
White House statement expressing support for the bill:

- https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

Related prior HN comments:

- https://hn.algolia.com/?q=RESTRICT+Act
Very nice of you, thank you.
Got it, that all makes sense. I know its certainly got to be an improvement, I guess I just thought it was more qualified an improvement than it is! Even if still highly tied to geography I guess.

We should definitely take what improvements we can get!

(Also, sorry for injecting stupidity into the discourse in general. I didn't mean to anger people or say something wrong.)
You're looking at Cloud AlloyDB sounds like? If you deploy AlloyDB to GCE (instead of locally, etc) you can provision a smaller instance than that. 2cpu(shared core)/4GB memory with a 20GB boot disk (AlloyDB takes up ~13) would run you $26/month before network/storage costs.
It's also quite anglocentric, I'm sure it would be quite difficult to translate the word "sext" into latin or navajo and would also result in a long, complicated explanation.
It is convergence when evolved independently. Like how different crustaceans evolved into "crab" [1].

If everyone is under the same feedback, like the London wobbly bridge [2], it is more like reacting to external force, for a lack of better term

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31615200

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge%2C_London#Re...
It's not really what I would want on the desktop, but I did mess around with it a little and it's pretty interesting. Next time I need to set up a server for something I think I'll probably use it.
The window XP. The ricing, the stickers, the business / quirky users, everything is so on point. I'm saving this, thanks you.
Why?

In 16.6ms a modern processor will execute about 128 million instructions. We need to locate about a screenful of text and/or cat pictures. We need to perform layout and then render it. The amount of work being done is not very much, or very difficult. The resources available are luxurious.

What part of the problem is it that makes it an unrealistic target?
paranoid zuckerburg shill.
The thing we need last year is regulations enforcing ethical behavior and transparency. What data were the models trained on? Did you have permission to use that data for that purpose? Where is your form, naturally working without third-party trackers, in which people can request their data to be removed from the training data and the learned model (hoho, that will be a challenge!)? How can people check, whether their data is in the training data? And so on.
I think VB was such a smash hit not because of the language but because the ease of writing a quick GUI for Windows, there wasn't really anything quite like it at the time. Other GUI builders existed but were harder to use and not as well integrated.

The appeal of VB lives on in WinForms with C# as the backing language. Initially MS tried hard to keep VB.Net around as a fully emancipated partner but it turns out everyone just moved over to C#.
You went from:

> sorry but how is this different from just democracy

to:

> But where did you get that this happened

Which seems like example of moving the goal-post.