skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Debian Sid might be worth a try
The same goes for any billionaire with investments, which is pretty much all of them I’d imagine.

And those assets even if they’re not all disposable at the market price can be used as collateral without liquidating them.

So I think it’s still fair to say that Musk, etc. still have the greatest personal financial leverage available to them in the world.
> because their sales and distribution channels are controlled by a cartel.

...which is only effective because naturally-occurring diamonds are hard for the average person to get. If there could be a water cartel there would be, but it doesn't work because 1) you can just go down to the river/find some snow/dig a well/etc/etc, and 2) water is inefficient to move in large quantities. You could fit millions of dollars worth of diamonds in the space of 1L of water (maybe $10-$100 at cartel prices)
I'm not sure where you got anything to do with work from the parent comment. All they said was, "there’s plenty room to improve - especially for fathers." Which is simply saying that fathers aren't doing enough.
> The modding/custom server situation with Minecraft is so exhausting. I can't believe after all these years there is still no official modding or plugin API.

> So now we have Folia, which is a fork of Paper, which is a fork of Spigot, which I believe was originally a fork of Bukkit. Nice. I guess people don't want to upstream patches for some reason.

Time and effort you put into upstreaming patches is almost always wasted, either you get it included and then have to maintain it forever or it will get removed due to bitrot or developers will just say no and all your effort was wasted. Don't forget that developers might also want to share their opinions about you based on your commit. There is no better way to build community than saying that no one cares about you inside of it.
Fedora?
My reason to choose it was its excellent hardware support. Installed without any hiccup on any hardware I tried. That wasn't true for other distributions at that time.
You can still do user queries actually. But not search, tweets, or streaming endpoints under the latest proposals.
Because, once it happens in an environment, there is no more room for an alternate life form to arise. A new instance of life would have to compete against the established line and it is unlikely to survive that process.
For work, I use Ubuntu+i3wm.

Imo, when working with corporate environment with mostly windows, .deb distros are hard to beat for general availability of packages. It also just works (even if Firefox snap sucks)

Also Ubuntu is generally the most supported Linux distro from my experience.

I've used fedora for work, but it's often more friction to get something installed.

For example: teams dropped its .deb release officially not too long ago. A week later, some kind soul releases a snap with an electron wrapper of the webapp.
That's for CPU (and they only provide 7B and 13B).
You're missing self enhancing feedback loop it creates. Human hours are/were necessary to bootstrap.
Medical schools certainly acted like a cartel to keep the number of physicians low. But SWEs? There is no gatekeeping authority AFAIK. Unless you are talking about the H-1B Program.
>"But why can’t we support ourselves with AI, the thing that automated us away…? because the technology has been hoarded by the owners of technology."

The problem I think is that if for some reason AI "decides" not to support us any longer we will have lost the ability to do it ourselves. We are getting dumb I think. Obviously I have no data but I feel that back in say 70-90s wide public's ability to think and analyze was much better then now.

So yes do my job and feed me but make sure I do not loose some vital skills in the process.
I'm one of those freaks who use Unity to this day. :)
In the beginning Unity was rough, but the last version was actually quite comfortable to use.

At the moment I'm daily driving Ubuntu 20.04 with root on ZFS, but I'm debating really hard whether I should distro hop or not. I dislike Canonical's insistence on "snap", their advertisements in "apt" output, ...
But on the other hand Ubuntu gave me mostly a "it just works" experience on my desktop for multiple years. For a while I ran Arch on another system and had quite the opposite experience. Upstream broke dependencies at least twice for example, so a lengthy session of "how the heck do I fix this" ensued.
A song is generated from an idea, so is a skit you create on your phone as a video... A concept about how to decrease gun violence in schools posted from an individual's Twitter account is also an idea, that others may be able to read, but shouldn't take and repost as an idea of their own... The word "idea" is used to encompass everything from a corporate to an individual item posted online... In many ways, the original post is a record of the first time that idea is created, but somehow Twitter shows the most popular instance of a post, and not the original instance of a post on trending timelines... That's kind of contributing to the problem.
> with no accompanying increase in the power of the people to control them.

I disagree. Vehemently. This technology empowers anyone motivated to "skill up" on almost anything. Right now, anyone can ask ChatGPT to tutor you in literally anything. You can carry on a conversation with it as if it was an incredibly patient and ever-present teacher. You can ask it to quiz you. You can ask it to further explain a sub-concept. You can have it stick to a lesson plan. You can have it grade you. Want to know how image recognition works? How about lasers? How about (if you can find an uncensored LLM) bombs?

This tech just leveled up everyone, not just "those already in power".
> I'm afraid I don't have a lot to add to this conversation but I have to say I just love Tailscale.

Strongly seconded. In my last company we used TailScale in some medium-advanced configurations, and from the dead-simple basic stuff up though some of the trickier stuff it's just a joy to use.. It's making much better networking practices highly-accessible and I'd bet ends up making the Internet a more secure, better organized system as a whole.

They run an amazingly transparent engineering process, for example their issue page (https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues) is a model of transparent, responsive, involved open development. They embrace cool, modern, quirky stuff like NixOS (https://tailscale.com/blog/nixos-minecraft/). It's just generally really high-quality software developed with a very cool "hacker" philosophy.

TailScale is IMHO the coolest place to work right now, and something that almost any software company should look at if they do any networking.

If there's anything not to love, I can't see it. :)
I disagree with your argument, especially for point 1: these systems are massively constrained. The hardware they run on is fragile requiring massive amounts of power and tightly controlled environments. They don't have any means of replicating themselves (it can't run on arbitrary systems). The datacenters also have massive bandwidth between nodes - even if you could run 'it' on all the personal computers and phones in the world, it will likely struggle. Sure we can compress recent llm's down to being able to run on consumer hardware - but these things cant introspect, reason or adapt. They are completely static models and very far removed from anything agi. A lot of the progress in compute power in the last few years also come from changing representation: moving from foat32 to float 16 and more recently to float8. The silicon itself can only get so much better. It's not super obvious to me that we will have chatgpt4 like models on consumer hardware soon let alone solve true agi. Why don't we have true level 5 self driving cars yet?

We cant even figure out how to simulate a flatworm - and the connectome is solved.
Desktop FreeBSD won't improve unless people are using it
Ask HN: Is GPT-4 down for you?
The status page[0] pretends everything is fine, but I (and many other users[1]) haven't been able to use it for ~12 hours.

There was no official acknowledgement from OpenAI and I'm curious how widescale this problem is.

[0] - https://status.openai.com/

[1] - https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4-problem-invalid-url-post-v1-completions/128857/1
On the contrary, it is misleading. By framing the debate in terms of hypothetical potential future problems, you can deliberately discount current, concrete problems. See also FUD.
Efficiency is a function of the underlying hardware. Most graphics shaders would be comically inefficient if not for graphical accelerators. With this explosion likely ending up with an inference accelerator in every device, it should make it practical and efficient even if it's not the best approach.
...Some people like me do call those bans.
I think big jump in ai 'evolution' will be the competition part. Like DeepMind with alphastar. They got results by having different models compete, in multiple rounds to more 'evolve' towards a winning strategy. So far it seems like the news is with these single big models, but evolution kicks in if they start doing what is needed to survive.
Didn't you know that when you took the money?
For non tech people I just install Mint. Proprietary hardware support, an interface similar to windows, and it just works. Perfect.
Its easy to eat the other teams lunch when you have an unfair market advantage of 1 billion users none of the rest have access to.
This is answered in the disclaimer at the top of the post:

> YC are the ones who teach how important is negative feedback for improvement.
Whole long article in which no where were perspective immigrants asked about their sexual behavior.
Could we improve discovery of these indie sites via HN or elsewhere?

A standard tag for Algolia/web search could work, if any spam comments with the same tag were flagged.
mmm... to anyone who could read?

I mean, could you say why us troops are in Syrian oil fields stealing oil?
"Let's get to Canada" will be heard as calling for launching an invasion fleet across Lake Erie. But why bother -- it's a God-forsaken wasteland inhabited by hockey pucks.
My understanding is this is what happened during the Cambrian explosion.
I'm running bullseye on desktop and haven't found anything terribly out of date, but it was first released a year and half ago so maybe it will happen soon, and of course YMMV. I find that most local development is containerized anyway so how recent my desktop OS doesn't factor as much as it used to.
I'm part of that small community. It's a pain in the ass, but I guess I'm just going to get better at asynchronous scraping.
"Regain control and stay focused on what truly matters" is a pretty good message to stick with, IMO.
Bizarre thread. The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels run China origin fentanyl in California. It is an enormous, industrial scale operation.
>> I always had a huge feeling of indebtedness to my investors

With early stage, low capital startups, relationship is more like an employer.
"It can be two things."
This is piss-poor journalism.

> Big technology companies won a major court victory

Fact is, tech companies are not even party to this lawsuit. The people who intervened in this lawsuit (and joined the lawsuit as parties) were advocates who stood to lose their own right to work, and they are the victors here.

The loser is John Miano, a lawyer who finds plaintiffs to sue the government and rarely wins.
The real Azure and AWS is accessible in China, too. In fact, that's the easiest reliable way to bootstrap from "I'm in China and have no censorship-circumvent tools" to accessing the real Internet.

Just go to Azure or AWS and get a VM.
I've started keeping the receipts and boxes and marking the bulbs so I can get my money back under warranty if (when) they die early. Make it not worth it for the companies to skimp on quality.
Interesting development. Of course there are many legacy devices out there, hence the impact of the new guidelines might take a little while to be felt.
Ha, this is funny. I did exactly the same thing a few months ago, am now on fedora with KDE plasma (which finally added their version of fancyzones (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...) and it's all brilliant.
For self-hosted customers, Retool Database operates more like a front-end for your own DB (though we do require specific versions of Postgres for it all to work smoothly). Docs here: https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-database-self-hosted
Life arising many times in parallel ought to have given rise to multiple trees of life with mutually incompatible biochemistry. Yet, overall life speaks about the same genetic language, and most things work very similar to each other. Life could still have indeed arisen multiple times, however, it probably either merged or got supplanted by its competitors. Life is simply too pervasive to allow for anything else. It would also immediately out-compete any newly arising life.

There is some evidence that things like the genetic code, the choice of RNA/DNA nucleotides, and the set of the 20 aminoacids aren't really random. That would not rule out life arising multiple times, but the likelihood that it merged with other lineages would be even higher.

Short summary: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/why-these-amino-ac... . A more in-depth paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03781...
Flutter 2023 Strategy
You don't know if that is actually the case, the whole appeal, originally, is that you don't need this kind of handcrafting of features. Now, clearly, people preprocess their data all the time so that point is kind of moot.

However, if YCbCr was meaningfully better for the network, I think it would be pretty well-known as a preprocessing step. Also, the actual sensor data is RGB.
>if you were producing genetically modified embryos or human clones, would you be broadcasting this to the entire world?

You're broadening the subject a bit, no? The question was about cloning. It's quite possible (maybe even likely) secretive gene modification is already happening, but there aren't any chatter around cloning the way there's chatter around CRISPR etc.

I think the main factor is extremely low demand: The people sufficiently rich and megalomaniacal to consider this are fine with IVF and can easily afford it.

What's the point of (human) cloning really? Getting 'you' to live again? The result won't be "you" even if the genes were expressed identically (they won't be), and if you try to enhance the genes - a thing this type of people would want - than the clone won't even be genetically identical. Once you give up on genetic identity you have many other better options.
Are you lamenting the fact that humans are still of value?
Opioids have a long history of causing societal issues. That is my point. Society has a long history, and AFAICT, the social impact is positive (more productivity).
Is != ought.

Paranoid police states also need to understand system design. And they may be clearer about the conflicts between human nature and organizational mission than public comms allow.

Consider that the NSA built their spooky-STASI data warehouse of all communications anywhere/anytime/forever in Utah. Perhaps someone believes it will be easier to recruit for a culture of secret archives in Utah than in Maryland.
The TikTok Ban Is an Assault on General-Purpose Computing
Also it forces you to never get rid of the training wheels it seems.

Gut will never allow you to modify the history pushed to a remote repository.

Prompt me, sure. Disallow? WTF?

My standard work flow is that I have a branch for each change that I commit to without any form. I just use it to checkpoint myself. Yes I push those both as backup and to get CI to tell me things I broke while I keep working without having a full local build kill my machine from the load. At the end I squash, rebase and force push and then merge to master. In fact we only ever allow clean rebase "merges" to master, i.e. fast forwards.
Sorry - I didn't mean to make this a blue team vs red team thing. I think you missed the point.
We have clients solving this pattern using supabase (storing the client's credentials on supabase and then using RLS) and our open-source solution Windmill to solve this exact problem.
At my current job, that's what we would call a systems engineer / middleware management.
I don't know what "industrial partners" are but "YC partners will not do external intros" is not true, and a weird thing to say since it wouldn't be in their interest.
Perhaps EndeavourOS? I haven't done anything other than mess around in it, but it's Arch-based with some of the core applications (kernel, mesa/nvidia drivers, firefox, etc.) on a point release system.
OpenAI: Safety Best Practices
We agree! The UI can be really helpful to make quick changes to schema, data, etc. You can’t run the UI without a Retool account though. We have a self-hosted Retool that works with your own Postgres database that you connect to Retool. Docs here: https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-database-self-hosted
Do you know how much money the sales people in these organizations make on the backs of those engineers?
So AI is taking away BuzzFeed jobs? And people are scared of it? I wish I could buy this AI a beer.
> If you really want to use a keyboard, Tosh exists, effectively acting as an alternative front-end for Scratch https://tosh.blob.codes/

I really wish this was a bit more robust. I would like to use it as a bridge between Scratch and Python or Javascript, getting kids in the habit of typing things using syntax they are already intimately familiar with.

But the project is just a bit too buggy. I've had variables randomly not appear, sounds not import, etc.

This is in no way a criticism of the developer who created tosh as a passion project, it's just a lament. Tosh is so close to being a fantastic tool.
Isn't there a difference between running latest stable vs testing yet still not being stale? I'm not using linux desktop as a daily driver, my linux use comes in CLI-only form, so I'm just not familiar with why something isn't receiving "good support" in this conversation yet is being actively worked on to even have "tester" as an option.
My favorite language for teaching kids to code and which I taught my daughter starting around 9 or 10, is Ruby. Expressive syntax, easy to read, good introduction to objects. Her first real program was a treasure hunt game in the terminal, using classes, inheritance, methods, and conditionals, etc.

It didn't have the cute graphics side of things, but she learned all the concepts well (she now has a degree in engineering and being paid to write code)
Isn't that Fedora you're asking for? There's also https://get.opensuse.org/leap/, but packages may not be much newer than Debian's. They say https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ should be very stable, yet rolling. You get Btrfs snapshots automatically.

When Debian Bookworm comes out I'm going to, as an experiment, give it a go paired with Distrobox. I'll install my CLI and GUI applications via an Arch Distrobox. Stable base, rolling and portable apps.
Setup an anonymous company in Cayman Island, Singapore, Hong Kong or Russia might be a good choice I guess
I still think self driving was one of the worst places to start mass automation. It's a very high stakes scenario with human death on the line, and as such the law restricts innovation to near zero.

GPT-4 is already practical (I use it every day and it speeds up my workflow drastically in some cases), and most areas it'll assist in aren't regulated in any way. I don't see it making much of a dent in medical or law in the near term for similar reasons as self driving, but the rest ought to go way faster. It's not vaporware, shit works.
There’s a value somewhere in the horrors of untreated addiction getting first-hand visibility. The true cost of policing, prosecuting, and jailing end-users must be enormous, maybe it will rally people to demand those resources get put toward direct outreach to try to address the root causes of the issue.
Maybe it’s a feature, not a bug.
real harm: erosion of intellectual property, as AI projects peruse works, including those with licenses and copyrights, without any regard to their license or copyright.

and before tech bros clap for "IP as a concept should be destroyed anyway", keep in mind that this applies to your favorite free and open source things as well, the free and open licenses, the CC licenses, that also get ignored and just put into the AI blender and spat out "brand new" with whatever "license" that AI project decides to slap on it. it is actually a huge problem if projects decide to just ignore licenses, even those that are meant to be there just to share stuff for free with people while preserving attribution, and just do whatever they want with any work they want.
I am not saying PG is Shakespeare, PG is good in his field of writing, i.e. giving random(but useful) advice to wannabe founders who listen.
It's such a self own she handed over her phone without a legal fight or attempting to delete her totally unencrypted message history (of course another crime but it seems like the lesser from her legal point of view) with her drug sources with a phone apparently located in India.
Ooo big bold move!! Call me when you're on FreeBSD
That's pretty much in line with my observations as well.

It's not to say that accredited engineers are automatically better, or that accredited engineering programmes are perfect, or anything like that. Like you pointed out, there's no shortage of examples/arguments to the contrary. (Personally, my background is medical, so it's a bit different than accredited engineering programmes, but I also am familiar with those having been involved in a bunch of senate-level evaluation of programmes, etc, at my school.)

But I do think accredited programs have certain benefits, and that the software world should pay attention to what other engineering disciplines get right.
XUL Layout Is Gone
Cannot even remotely understand the logic in this getting flagged.

People are upset with the idea, that the mother and the fetus form a feedback loop, to ensure the baby is as large as possible, while still being able to exit the womb??

Yeah, horrible, flaggable idea. Even if one disagrees, what is the logic in flagging? "Ew, ick! Birth!"?!?

Bizarre.
Increase in Apple WeatherKit response times and number of 5xx errors
As many people conduct their life's work online, they shouldn't just feel that their ideas can be open sourced without credit... Especially by for-profit companies that want to use those ideas in their paid products.

We've already got thousands of musicians contributing their music to Spotify (A profitable company) for highly underpaid streaming, and many other content creators making high quality videos for many social media platforms unpaid as well, in hopes of going viral. As Ai threatens jobs, people should be able to find other opportunities for business by sharing their unique ideas. Our ideas should not be opened to being hijacked by companies just because keeping track of origins is difficult... Finding the authors of ideas should be important because ideas often generate the need for complete development and follow-up discussions.
Using DTrace to find block sizes of ZFS, NFS and iSCSI
The "I dont like this tweet" function is completely broken. I don't like blocking or muting, but I have to tell Twitter over and over I don't want to see certain people (including King Joffrey) but it never works.
Are there good video resources for Retool in general, I looked at some youtube videos and found mostly creating a basic database view with a form. Any more substantial examples?