skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No great fan of Trump but the case against him seems weak. The law should be there to prosecute criminals, not to have a go at politicians you don't like.
Maybe (I'm too lazy to check this out). But from what I remember only after GDPR those banners went viral in clumsy, annoying, not useful and frequently unnecessary implementations. Maybe it's because of hefty fines introduced in the context of GDPR.

My point is: Did it help fighting privacy issues? I don't think so. Did it harm? I do think so. Will it ever be somehow measured for its effectiveness and be taken back/changed to be more effective? I don't think so. So better get rid of it.
I think technically the process of oxidizing the hydrogen into H2O IS combustion hah
Cut the 'server hard line' and see who shows up!
> Then again, I am limited by my own imagination.

On that note, it seems clear these models will be disruptive in areas where we previously needed human imagination, and wrongness of outputs can be tolerated or iterated past.

I'd like to see a transformer trained on a massive dataset of MIDI-like quantized piano performances, so it can be my virtual personal classical/jazz/whatever pianist, or play a real mechanized piano at a club or something. Directed auto-composers (music) in general are most likely being worked on.

South Park probably wasn't the first to use some ML to assist in plot development for their show.

A nice ML model to do directed building architecture, ("give the kitchen more natural light" or directed interior design ("more playful furniture") would be very useful.

I've got a pile of ideas, really, but minimal experience and no means (network, resources) to execute. Now that I think about it, ChatGPT could probably synthesize many more decent ideas for ML applications, if so directed.
Every Day Is April Fool’s Day Now
Steam deck is pretty awesome
Yeah, the restrictions make sense for society but the truckers (annd trucking companies) aren’t the ones that want them.
> If it turns out that I'm not talking to real people then it doesn't make much of a difference because I don't actually perceive these messages as anything other than pixels on a screen anyway.

It matters a lot to me because the whole point of commenting here (or anywhere) is to talk to other humans, not just to talk to myself.
As a police officer you also typically have a high school education, and your idea of whether or not something is constitutional carries little to no weight.
Over 20 major cities cut or moved funding in some way by 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de...
Truckers get paid by miles, not hours.
By that accounting many BEVs aren't electric either.
This whole discussion about slowing down AI for safety wonders why this mindset didn't appear during the advent of microchips or the Internet, both of which have had arguably clear downsides.

Which voice is loudest now for the brake-pedal-wishers? "AGI will enslave us" or "everything can be faked now?"
I haven't heard about CoScreen last month. But last week we had a team which needed a solution for mob programming and I couldn't find a solution which had enough functionality to meet their expectations.

And now I've seen multiple posts and recommendations in a very short time.

Haven't had the time to test it properly yet, but so far I'm kind of surprised I wasn't recommended or found CoScreen earlier.

Keep up the good work! there needs to be alternatives
My guess is that this is not a criminal violation and the "best case" scenario would be a civil lawsuit which would end up being paid by the city.
You basically need an external keyboard because the built in onscreen keyboard takes up about half the screen and the resolution doesn't get scaled down. And there's only one USB-C port so you need to buy a hub to extend it to multiple ports (and the charger is USB-C so a C to A hub means you can't charge while using your keyboard) or a Bluetooth keyboard.
Joe Celko covers graphs in chapters 12-14 of Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties

as well as chapter 27 of SQL for Smarties, 5th

isn't ISO working on an graph extension to regular SQL? Can't seem to google it correctly
Conda has none of these issues. Its so easy to use and maintain dependencies imo.
I wouldn't bet on it. Innovation takes hard work, sacrifice, low pay, etc. - exactly the opposite of what one does in big tech. They might try out of hubris until they burn through that nest egg and retreat.
They aren't paid when waiting for loads though, and that eats into hours. So you can be stuck at a terminal burning drive hours while technically not driving.
Exactly, and loading stuff into memory is free, everyone has an SSD, and RAM and L1 cache are exactly as fast as each other \s.

But on a more serious note, I actually do care because I have around 4,500 packages installed on my system. If all of those were 100MB in size I'd have a problem.
I find copilot a much better booster simply because I'm much better at writing code than writing gpt prompts and it's much more streamlined.

There were a few cases where GPT/chat interface was better but I'd say it's 95/5%.

I'm hoping copilot x will be more streamlined. If it is it's easily >100$/month
Honestly your "idea generator" blew my mind. Would love to see a section that includes a larger catalog of prefilled prompts.

I'm thinking: What would a GPT project manager do? What would a GPT money manager do? What would a GPT logistics manager do? GPT Data Analyst, Etc.
I doubt that. They do have higher levels of relative power within their tight-knit communities. And for the most part, their instances of corruption would be investigated much less often, simply because there's no one there to investigate them.
This comment is mind blowing
Strasbourg when the whole European Parliament is moving there for 4 days 12 times a year.
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I understand the objections to "abolish the police" sloganeering because I think the alternatives of "restorative justice" and all that are pretty poorly defined (I say this as someone pretty involved in left wing politics).

However, it's increasingly clear that city police departments in many cities basically operate as unaccountable gangs that extort city government. LA Sheriff's Department has quite a few actual, traditional gangs operating within it. The NYPD routinely breaks the law when they feel like it. In Austin, the Police Academy training was found to be discriminatory and militaristic so the City Council created an oversight board, and the Police Department just doesn't let the board view trainings that they are supposed to.

Not to mention the constant police violence that they are rarely held accountable for, including the stuff from 2020 where we watched NYPD officers running their vehicles into protestors.

I don't know what the solution is but the status quo feels unsustainable.
Maybe I'm being too simplistic but this should be a characteristic of the implementation and not the language?

Then again I don't know much about the technical details here (when do you or don't you need your own runtime). It seems baffling to me with all the cruft and bloat in a modern windows install do you still have to install so many microsoft runtimes.
A Quarter Century of Mozilla
Many but not all states put conditions on such voting. As you might expect, the severity of a state's restrictions correlates with its political leanings.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-ri...
EndlessOS (started in 2017) is a distro based on debian that uses OSTree for an immutable root partition. It’s targeted at non-technical users and particularly suitable for not-always-online environments.

https://endlessos.com/
Wouldn't Athena be the service closest to BigQuery?
Nah.

I worked as a project engineer in a hydrogen fuel cell test lab for a few years. H2 is EXTREMELY hazardous. It can be ignited by a miniscule amount of energy (i.e. a tiny static spark will do it), and it has a very fast flame front, which creates an extremely energetic explosion. It's also the smallest molecule, so it's very difficult to prevent leakage, and it embrittles and degrades most steels over time. Additionally, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (the most common kind) are poisoned by anything NOT H2, so you can't add odorous agents to H2 to easily detect leaks, like we do with natural gas. H2's only non-dangerous characteristic is its high buoyancy, which means it dissipates quickly in outdoor environments, but in my opinion that is not sufficient to offset all of its other dangerous characteristics.

I would NEVER live in a building that had H2 stored inside (as in, inside a vehicle tank) or pumped in it, and I would definitely not trust the general public to use it safely.

It also has to be stored at either incredibly high pressures (as a gas) or incredibly cold temperatures (as a liquid), neither of which are conducive to large-scale, long-range transport.

But the worst part of H2 isn't how dangerous it is or how impractical it is; the worst part of H2 is how incredibly inefficient a hydrogen economy would be. See Paul Martin's excellent summary of H2 for a thorough debunking of the main H2 talking points.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distilled-thoughts-hydrogen-p...
Can you give some examples of companies that are commonly called 'tech' companies that you don't brief develop any tech at all?
Going meta for a bit: before you can use a tool to produce medical device software, that tool must be qualified for use. I'd really like to see what the qualification process for ChatGPT would look like.
Local law enforcement branches can be very corrupt, but don't have the resources to run a surveillance/police state like this.
Maybe also a silent reminder that many police officers will abuse every inch of power they're given?
This is literally why conda exists…
Why not give everybody $1000 per month if they enroll in a private school?
I think there are a few puzzle pieces to look at...

PC gaming Windows licensing is probably not significant to their revenue.

For now, most PC gamers still buy laptops/desktops with Windows, or build a desktop and obtain a Windows key.

Xbox Game Pass seems to be an important piece of their plan, because subscriptions are gold.

They release games that are PC and Xbox compatible (that might work on other systems, e.g. Linux). As long as Xbox Games is selling games, they are less concerned with how the games are played.

Giving up the PC Gaming on Windows part of their strategy does not necessarily have a big immediate effect on Microsoft. (But may be short-sighted in the long term.)
Meta-point: humans haven’t figured out a great way to incorporate LLM dialogue into their writing. Has anybody seen great examples of this?

To date I’ve only seen screenshots of LLM conversations, which usually get chopped up between screens and require a lot of effort to read.

The direction I chose for this article was to include most of the contents of the LLM dialog directly after a header and my prompts in a quote block. It made the structure of my article feel a bit awkward and long-winded, but we’re so early in the game I felt like I needed to include much of the dialog.

I look forward to a day where we reference LLMs with the ease of tweets, other websites, citations, etc.
I thought deciding what laws are constitutional or not falls upon the Supreme Court?

Wait, police get to choose which parts of the Constitution they want to enforce and which they don't? Right, police state it is.
I think what's astonishing about SVG is it was implemented in the early 2000s, then nearly forgotten. But it still worked in browsers and had a resurgence in the early 2010s. Partly because of the end of Flash, partly because of D3.js. That fallow period between 2003-2011 is remarkable to me, I'm surprised it survived it.

One history of this era: https://medium.com/siliconpublishing/the-fall-and-rise-of-sv...
Slowflake isn’t really an alternative if someone is switching due to costs. It’s generally more expensive for the same workloads.
I agree there have to be restrictions, the idea of speed popping truckers driving for days without sleep is not good for anyone. My guess though, call me cynical, is that bigger companies pushed for these rules. They help push our smaller players who are more burdened by paperwork and compliance. The source of most industry regulation like this is a desired barrier to entry.
Even better, there are lots of ClickHouse clouds! ClickHouse Cloud, Altinity.Cloud, DoubleCloud, Aiven, TinyBird...plus many others. This is the best assurance for users that prices for ClickHouse will stay competitive over time.

Disclaimer: I work at Altinity.
It's interesting to see GCP raise prices when AWS constantly do the opposite
> Now if only MSFT could also launch a portable console tied to a game pass subscription...

You can install windows on steam deck and use your game pass subscription.
> I think it's a bad ruling, but it doesn't say what people claim it does, and it also doesn't seem to apply particularly strongly outside of the District of Columbia.

Unfortunately Castle Rock v. Gonzalez was a SCOTUS ruling, which is binding nationwide, and it did in fact rule that the police have no duty to protect the public. Worse, the ruling decided that because police have "always" enjoyed broad freedoma (in Scalia's mind), any law which attempts to curtail police freedoms is impermissible. (If that sounds tautological to you, that's because it is.)

That ruling has been used as precedent by lower courts across the country to determine that police do not, in fact, have any duty to protect or serve the public, to prevent crime, or even to halt a crime in progress.
Right, but as you point out, these issues are hotly contested and actively debated. Yes, it may be a minority position at present, but so was the idea of not torturing cats for fun, not to mention abolition, back in the day.
You’re right, it’s not obvious. And perhaps to strengthen your point, countries with compulsory voting (e.g. Australia) don’t seem to show any particular skew.

Regarding the original point, Pew published some interesting stats on voter preferences:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-v...

According to this, progressives are a very small slice of the population, and nowhere near a majority even if you include adjacent groups.
Thanks a lot, we've just come out of private beta and the rewrite again so glad you found us now. Let us know how it goes!
I look at this as being more of a hidden blessing. The people I had been actual friends with, not just acquaintances, had no problems adding Signal. It was mostly for expat friends since in my part of the US we just SMS/iMessage, and we have group messages on Signal for the couple of mixed-location mutual friends. They still use WhatsApp for their other contacts but turns out this filtered for the people that cared enough if I were in their life or not.

Even after making the effort to keep up with the ones that only wanted to use WhatsApps, through email or regular text message, they couldn't be bothered. I guess I have moved into the point in my life where I prefer the quality of friends who wanted me around for more than being an extra body to fill out their party guest list (and similar).
That was a bit of a necessity. Users wouldn’t want their clock to reset when they swapped batteries, and you couldn’t be sure the machine was connected to a time server to set the time at boot.
>Only about 10 years ago I used to be a convinced European from Germany.

Hear, hear.

How many "accept all cookies" button did you have to press today?
I don't think "leaders" need to be SME's by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, I think it would hold them back because it's easy to lose yourself in the details.

I do think that they should have a basic grasp of the fundamentals of their field though, and most politicians honestly don't even have that. I don't want to put up walls to being a back-bencher MP, but there should be a bare-minimum barrier for entry for certain Ministerial positions, especially one like Technology minister. You can't have someone leading a team who needs every-single-concept dumbed down for them so they can only make decisions from basic abstractions.
> really just a much more comfortable experience than sitting at a desk or playing on the TV

Can I ask what types of games do you play?

I feel like the ones I play wouldn't be as enjoyable on the Deck than on a big monitor with a keyboard and a mouse. Especially for very long sessions. Strategy, FPS, ARPG... I'm still thinking about getting one to occasionally play JRPGs (FFs, Yakuzas, Personas...) and other story driven games that were originally designed for consoles (God of War, Red Dead Redemption, The Last of Us...). I guess it works great for this type of games and it would be more comfortable than playing on a laptop in bed.
The NYPD does do deliberately covert things including counterintelligence. No information one way or another whether that’s true in this case.
Check then for conda, which only asks you to copy and paste a shell command they provide for you and eventually say “yes.”
I have to ask why fly.io staff spend so much time blogging and catering to HN...
> I wonder why people say stuff like this. Are people writing code then just blindly shipping it to production?

Even if they're not, I find "scouring code I didn't write for potential errors of any magnitude" to be much harder than "writing code". I admit there's a sweet spot where errors would be easy to spot or where the AI is getting you unstuck, but it's not trustworthy enough at the moment for me to take the risk.
I'd suggest the BLIT series by David Langford

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm (the BLIT story itself)

https://www.nature.com/articles/44964 (yes, its a work of fiction)

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)
New Yorker articles are always way too long, and for this, about a designer, to have just one image of his work, I mean come on.
Editing Models with Task Arithmetic
Could be a hail mary if their growth is stagnant.
If you see any issues, please submit them through the post-session feedback dialog or to hello@coscreen.co. We're responding to every single report.
Thank you - these links are helpful.

From the above, my understanding is that they currently offer opt out for the paid subscription users only ("ChatGPT Plus").

Perhaps they may end up compelled by this case to add a similar opt out to the free version.

Or, possibly, to allow a free choice - where opting in and opting out are equally straightforward.
Yup, this. I found many ex-Googlers who just don't know how to count up. In the past, "we don't know how to count that low" was a valid joke, but, these days, it seems like a lot of young engineers don't really understand how things work beneath their feet. Every level from 1 to 1k to 1m to 1b is a unique problem, but these kids only learnt how to float above the clouds.
I think that's the point, this has been his personal obsession for more than a decade now, and so he's jumping at the opportunity to link it to the latest hot news topic without real consideration for how related LLM AI is to the AGI he's been writing and fantasizing about for so long.
I would offer similar sentiment for aerospace.
Congrats on 5.0 - CoScreen has been an integral part of our team's daily workflow for the last couple of years, and it's been wonderful to to be able to share feedback and see the product evolve into a better and better tool.

Having to share screens occasionally via Zoom feels so slow and clunky by comparison to the single-click ability for multiple people to share and interact with windows concurrently as the conversation flows. Can't imagine going back!
Sadly many people think of society as more of a competition than a collaboration. Of course it's both, but I certainly find myself happier when focusing on the gains we get from rising all boats instead of the gains I get from kicking the people climbing the ladder up after me.
Depends but in general yes. I have a relative who owns his own truck and finds his own loads. He gets paid when he delivers his load, so he's still incentivesed to go as fast as possible. Thankfully he's not as tech savvy to cheat the ELD
I couldn’t agree more. Google is killing Google by changing their search result criteria from “relevant & useful to the user” to “relevant & profitable to Google”.

The timing of ChatGPT is just an unfortunate coincidence for the team at Google that’s trying to squeeze more juice out of ad revenue.
Some thoughts come to mind. They are generally about prevention and recovery. The recovery ideas stem from the fact that, after all, git is open source. You can't get locked out of git itself.

From a person-to-person perspective:

- Keep trying with support. They say "we can't do anything" but anyone can do anything. It's usually a matter of getting the right person on the phone. That one tech said no. Try again; maybe you'll get someone who's better connected or more compassionate.

- Ask a friend to fork them into an organization that you can get into with a new account.

From a technical do-all-you-can-anyways perspective:

- Clone all your public projects out under a new account.

- Get copies of your private repositories from friends or coworkers. If some of these works are in production, perhaps you have access to them.

For the future:

- Leaving GitHub so this can't happen again isn't a bad idea. There are several alternatives. I host my own[1] gitea[2] instance. I can always just SSH into that if there's a problem. There's also SourceHut[3], which I quite like.

- For prevention, use 1Password[4] or KeePassXC[5] with Syncthing[6]/Dropbox. They keep 2FA data and protect you against this kind of loss.

Finally:

Sorry about your injury mate. I can't imagine. Nothing can be said there constructive; it is just the worst.

Maybe if it helps, one of the best, smartest programmers I knew hobbled up the stairs with a cane and typed with one hand because he had experienced a stroke. Our entire product relied on this guy, he wrote windows drivers that the software relied on. You got this.

1: https://gitea.io/en-us/

2: https://git.djha.skin/

3: https://sourcehut.org/

4: https://1password.com/

5: https://keepassxc.org/

6: https://syncthing.net/
Companies base their choice of tools on how easy is to find developers to hire, therefore Nim and other similarly young but very powerful/optimized languages (Crystal, Zig, ...) need many independent developers, who can base their choice purely on technical merits and personal taste, to use it and put it into their resumes before the corporate world can notice and add them into their list of accepted tools. It's a quite slow process though.
Not another illegality story but I remember in the first weeks of Toronto lockdown walking past a few unmasked police who laughed at me for putting my mask on as their group came near me, with one saying “Too late!” to me with a gleeful grin.
Pieter Levels's tweet [1] from earlier about two of google's biggest earners - search and maps - degrading over time had me pondering what google's response would be.

I guess ramping up prices across other offerings is one option.

[1] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1641759968394113024
I’d love a really good Nim web server option, too. Something lightweight but with enough to quickly build APIs, like FastAPI in Python or maybe Chi in Go.

Even if the speed wouldn’t do it for many people over, say, FastAPI, the static typing and less insane package and dependency management than Python, and lower friction/boilerplate than Go might.
Personally, I can barely stand the smartphone UI for a camera. The only good thing you have there is touch auto-focus, but I have that on the "proper" NX cameras as well, plus all the dials and knobs for quickly adapting to the subject.

The NX mini is a great little device, but it was badly marketed and priced, and its manual focus is utterly unusable. I so much wish that the mini2 would've been released before exiting the market!
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