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> you build up your program evaluating it the whole time, without ever restarting

Maybe that description is incomplete.

Maybe there's a stack of mundane activities that are needed for that style to be effective.

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"Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this set of changes, you can find out what you have been doing. Also, you can use the set of changes to create an external file containing descriptions of the modifications you have made to the system so that you can share your work with other users.

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The storage of changes in the Smalltalk-80 system takes two forms: an internal form as a set of changes (actually a set of objects describing changes), and an external form as a file on which your actions are logged while you are working (in the form of executable expressions or expressions that can be filed into a system). … All the information stored in the internal change set is also written onto the changes file."

1984 Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment page 46

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...

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"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager." (page 500)

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment"
Nah. I own physical things by literally holding onto them. Keeping them inside my property to which only I have the keys. Defending that property by force if necessary. Government doesn't have to "let" me own anything, it merely recognizes and formalizes the de facto reality of things. Meanwhile we have these people with their made up delusions of ownership of ideas and all the contradictions inherent in that, and I'm supposed to pretend it's not absurd?

Whether or not the world conforms to their made up copyright reality isn't really up to them either. The simple fact is: information, once discovered, is infinitely copyable. No amount of lobbying is ever gonna change that. People are still gonna train AI models with "their" data and there's nothing they can do about it short of destroying free computing as we know it by making it so we can only execute software they approve. Surely you don't want that, fellow Hacker News user, given that such tyranny is the antithesis of everything the word "hacker" stands for.
What I think the source of surprise with is not primarily his age as such, but that he is a relatively junior service member in a role with no obvious connection to the material.

A more senior person with broad but not obviously connected scope of responsibility, or a similarly junior person with an obviously-related role, would be less surprising.
I think they’ve realized that as long as they don’t the licenses to the music itself, another company can always come along and eat it’s lunch (a la Disney+, Peacock, Hulu with Netflix. So they’re trying to raise the barriers to listening to “songs” rather than “whatever Spotify serves me”
Cool. Is that as far as it goes? Or can someone identify the largest lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?
> Why are you focused on the countertop pattern?

Because that's the one thing stated to have linked the suspect to the leaked documents.

> Are you assuming the match wasn't made by a human?

I'm making no assumption either way; whether it's a human or machine making the match doesn't change the match's flimsiness.
Also, do yoga practitioners in this thread also have wrist/hand pain when typing? Do they address this differently that general recommendations ie wrist rest, proper desk height.. ?
There's no universal cordless power tool battery because the primary industry (construction) just doesn't care. Guys just buy whatever brand they are locked into and do the job. One-off tools or tools where one brand is just way better tend to be both corded and ran off a generator.
You can unfollow friends to stop getting their posts on your feed. It's what I did to clean up my feed back when I still used FB. Made a huge difference in FB's usefulness.
I've built a software called Mino that creates a frontend for managing enterprise accesspoint deployments in student housings. Super niche. It allows the students to set up their own WiFi and it offers a backend system for the janitors that typically do the support out in the field.

I charge around between $20-30k everytime a new setup is created and for each customer I charge around $650 per month for the SLA. Additional development is offered at $155 per hour. Currently I have three different installations that net me around $2100 per month in addition to extra features here and there.

It took around 2-3 years before I hit $2k.
NYT/Bellingcat investigators*, not the actual team of investigators in the government who tracked the leaker and ultimately arrested him.

Just in case there's any confusion.
Why not?

Essentially, if I build and host a hobby site, it's my digital property.
You have the right to see what are the conditions to visit (essentially: fetch) it and if you don't agree, you are free to go.
You need an Elixir server process to run Livebook, so what is meant by "regular JS apps" that you intend to embed into?
The board state can be phrased as moves. This paper profoundly misunderstands the problem.

The issue isn't that associative statistical models of domain Z aren't also models of domain Y where Y = f(Z) -- this is obvious.

Rather there are two problems, (1) the modal properties of these models arent right; and (2) they don't work where the target domain isn't just a rephrasing of the training domain.
I bet any documents relating to planning for the Nordstream pipeline explosion were a lot more carefully controlled. These war planning documents were clearly distributed to a much wider audience, so leaks become much more likely.

It does also point towards a certain degree of disillusionment within military circles, the rank and file ar probably not thrilled about the idea of being sent overseas for another Iraq/Afghanistan style disaster, only in eastern Europe this time.
The Linux kernel took off after Linus receive the MINIX book, a.k.a Operating System Design and Implementation by Tanenbaum, which include the source code of MINIX. Until the arrival of the book Linus was playing "Prince Of Persia" on his new 386AT desktop.
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I was tired of wrangling rss feeds and various news apps, so I built my own system to gather video game news. What I found after building it was that it is much easier to read news when it's grouped together by trending video game. If it helps just one other person besides me then I suppose it was worth the effort, so I'm sharing here with everyone.
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That's going to be some fountain with that layout.

Or a weird pool in a resort somewhere, can't be that hard to make.
index_advisor is a project that almost made the cut for LW7. We decided to launch it as a pgtle instead to get some feedback before we (spoiler) probably release it in LW8

It uses the hypopg package to very quickly generate an index for each column referenced in the query and then re-run's an explain plan to measure the estimated "total cost".

If the expected "total_cost" reduces, we add the indexes to the list of recommendations and continue testing the remaining columns.

Its currently limited to single column indexes only but in a later update we'll enhance that to do more comprehensive searches with multiple columns in a single index
Wow, that's perfect! The apu4d4 [0] is exactly what I want, and only $168! That's basically the same configuration and price as a NanoPi r6s. And they have over 500 in stock?! Almost seems to good to be true...

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In Ireland, they used to show the actual value in flashing red when speeding, but getting the "highest score" became a goal amongst the youth, so now they just say "TOO FAST" when more than 10km/h over the limit.
> Other countries develop the same war kit, no one bats an eye.

I’m pretty sure that every single time a country has become a “nuclear state”, it has been a huge deal and dramatically altered the regional and global dynamics. Only 10 countries have ever developed nuclear weapons (South Africa giving up theirs, leaving 9 total today).

The US developed the bomb, and it was a pretty big deal (for Japan and the world). In response, the USSR developed one and nuclear holocaust became the focus of the Cold War; with the UK and France developing them as well to counter the USSR and China developing them to counter the US and “West”. South Africa developed them to counter Soviet backed Angola, then gave them up after the collapse of the USSR and the end of apartheid. India developed them to dominate Pakistan, and in response, Pakistan developed their own. Israel developed them so that it would never lose as arms race against a combined Arab country adversary (also part of the reason why they are so opposed to Iran becoming a nuclear state).

Several former soviet states gave up the nuclear weapons that the USSR housed in their countries after it collapsed, including Ukraine. If they had not, do you really think Russia wouldn’t have “batted an eye” about that when making its decisions to invade? The idea that nuclear weapons development has ever been anything but world changing is just not true.
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Perhaps it's time to call this synthetic intelligence instead of AI which has an implicit understanding of an alternative method to construct a human like AI.

What is clear is that on this earth itself we have cetacean, corvid, cephalopod intelligence which is wired very differently. Perhaps we need to respect the diversity of intelligences that exist and study this growth in LLM and adjoint areas as just synthetic intelligence.

Rebranding maybe could help drive a level of objectivity this conversation on ethics etc that seems to be missing
Can I use this on AWS RDS?
Once again, Elixir community takes something and brings it to the next level.

In my opinion Jose Valim is the Linus Torvalds of programming languages, but differently from Linus not only he is a 100x engineer, he's also one of the humblest and kindest person I've ever met (don't get me wrong, I love Linus, but he can be "too honest" at times and comes out as harsh or rude).

From Elixir came Phoenix, from Phoenix came Liveview, from Liveview we got Livebook, iterating from good ideas to quality products like it's an easy task.

Can't wait to see what's the next trick in their sleeve.
zero value add to a regular chatgpt besides some kind of web wrapper around it
"Investigation" in the tweet means NYT investigation (it was posted by NYT journalist).
Ok ... but .. it's not a photography, it shouldn't win a "photography" contest

If you bring a photography to a "realistic painting" contest does it work ? Or an helicopter to a f1 race ?

It's not the same medium, it doesn't matter if it looks good or if people like it
You can jump straight to search using {Cmd,Ctrl}-L the same as a web browser, but for folks who're not used to key commands the decision to hide the search bar is absolutely deranged.
Yes, exactly. Existing copyright law is adequate to cover that situation.
Alright...

What loss was being minimised to find F=GMm/r^2? Or any law of physics you like.
> But training an AI is really the same as me listening to the music. The problem occurs if I copy the music.

The trained AI model is a digital artifact that can be copied and distributed in a way that 'me listening to the music' cannot. The model contains detailed information about copyrighted content in a format capable of reconstituting infringing derivative works from a suitable prompt. It's 'really the same as' a huge content archive stored in a proprietary format with some lossy compression.

> The problem occurs if I copy the music.

Yes, I would argue that the 'problem' (copyright infringement) occurs when a trained AI model (essentially a big content archive) is copied and publicly distributed. For a hosted service, I would argue that the infringement occurs when the service copies and distributes an infringing derivative work in response to a prompt.
Yes. A tiny fraction of a percent of people (compared to the volume of smiths in the past) do continue traditional blacksmithing.

The results of their work is not IP though, which makes the comparison too weak to serve as proof that artistic works that create only IP will continue unabated.
Thanks, glad you like it
Pool-sized, for sure, but I think we're considering only nature-made lakes, no?

Maybe this is as far as it goes.
Very cool!

There was an article a while arguing that we humans are very early in this universe and that’s why we don’t see any other alien species.

There was a list of 7 steps that needed to happen for humans to exists.

I don’t remember them, but I think would be to cross check if all of them are on your list.

Edit: found the theory. It’s called Grabby Aliens and they use a concept called “hard steps” of evolution.
> Because that's the one thing stated to have linked the suspect to the leaked documents.

It is not. The title is editorialized, and the twitter post is referring to a NY Times investigation.

The FBI got the leakers home address directly from Discord.
Reminds me of when Garth Brooks went on a crusade against used CD stores selling his albums without him getting a cut. After the predictable blowback, he claimed it wasn't his income he was fighting for, it was all the small indy artists he was protecting even though the bulk of used CD sales were of mainstream artists like Brooks. Eventually he realized no one was buying that excuse and he dropped his opposition (or maybe one of his legal staff explained first sale doctrine to him).
Same here. In my experience, pizza parties mean a break from work accompanied by free food. I guess this just goes to show that some people will complain about anything -- even if you don't like pizza, what's wrong with getting an extra break from work with management approval?

Now, some companies do have after-hours holiday parties, but those generally feature a higher level of food than pizza -- also booze.

Those aren't nearly as common as they were years ago, though (too much liability from the booze factor, I reckon).
Weirdly aggressive response. do you think technologies like gpt were developed without any academic input?
Stating that 2k/month is not enough income for "most places" is ridiculous and rude in a way too. Was an unnecessary comment.
Also, IIRC, many smaller projects using autoconf have copied in a bunch of boilerplate feature tests that they don't need, like "is strncpy available" "is snprintf available" "does realloc NULL work". As you mention, each one of these tests generates and compiles a minimal C file, and not in parallel.

(And each test generates/defines a HAVE_SNPRINTF etc macro that your code can use to adapt based on available features. But if the project isn't as big as curl or git, it probably doesn't really adapt to all possible old and obscure systems anyway, so there's no point to 100s of such tests.)
There is very little incentive for someone to believe that there is a better place to live than the one they're in and all the ego stroking to believe otherwise.
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Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, which is designed for distributed multi-process concurrency, right? Why would this be advantageous for interactive data analysis work, which is typically done on a single node? I don't quite understand the use case, hoping someone can explain.
What primitive creatures are you referring to? I don't know of any non-human creatures that can do anything close to what GPT4 does with language, but at the same time even very primitive creatures can reason in ways it's not clear that GPT4 can.

I find interacting with GPT4 feels very different to interacting with either humans or animals.
> Why not just google it? Theres always a blog or stackoverflow question to copy snippets from.

I don't get these questions.

20s vs 2m is meaningful in a problem of 10 steps.

> What keeps me away is that unless youre already familiar with a topic you wont catch errors

True, but often the cost of errors is very low and feedback instant.

> The command it suggests might not do exactly what you wanted.

An example is it gave me `make --with-out-foo` when I needed `--without-foo`.

I simply removed the `-` and went on my way after seeing the error.
That seems fair, it is an interesting idea.
They also weirdly broke something that made it reliably play. Pre-spotify it would reliably play the first X seconds. After Spotify sometimes it would play less than that, which made it harder and less reliable.
I'm interested what fdej thinks about this one. arb has recently been merged with flint under his maintainership and is getting some generic rings wrapper and more interfaces with other languages. But maybe its focus is more like algebraic things like modular forms and less like tensor libraries for machine learning and GPGPU.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fdej

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054520

https://arblib.org/
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Here's a good one you can add: https://www.wired.com/2010/01/ancient-seafarers/

Somebody got on a boat and ended up in Crete 100k years ago!

(Also you forgot the ice age, heh)
It's actually pretty common for folks in their 20s to have access to this within government work. Getting a clearance isn't particularly hard, so long as you have a job that sponsors you. That would include military work
No.

RDS has a strict list of approved extensions. (Since AWS is on the hook for the system stability, security, replication, etc.)
> Government doesn't have to "let" me own anything,

You seem to be confusing possession with ownership.

Ownership is the social relationship by which you exert control independent of immediate possession, but you’ve just described how you can maintain possession.
I understand we're talking about a massive scale, both in terms of numbers and geographic distribution, but... you are telling me that in a capitalist country you've got this tasty resource that is a burden to society and nobody has figured out how to turn this into a food supply chain?

I'm dumbfounded how in a country with more guns than people this problem can't be quickly brought to an equilibrium.
From a quick skim of that (and also some other coverage), my first two impressions:

- This kid's emotional age is too low to justify anything resembling the the security clearance that he seems to have had.

- Sending the FBI's "special forces" and armored car out to pick up this kid was a stupid machismo waste of resources. Two grannies and a golf cart would have been more than enough to do the job.
Ah, tx. I saw the first part, didnt see the 2nd one.
But those artists with a true impulse to create still need to eat, pay for a place to live, etc. How exactly does that work?
Is it not two different people? The dumbshit who shared the info with his friends, and then someone else in the group leaked it to the public. At least that's the impression I got so far.
The standard in US civil court is preponderance of evidence, not reasonable doubt. You'd have to go further then making an assertion (by bringing in an expert witness or something) but you don't necessarily have to prove something definitively. You just have to make the more compelling argument - you have to present evidence that it's more likely that your position is correct.

Since the hypothetical AI company wasn't able to produce anything in it's defense, it lost.

IANAL
> You can see a line from the floor just below to the right of the marking.

I can't see any such line in the leak version of the splotch - whereas you can see the shadowing from the edge of the counter in the Instagram version. It's readily apparent that this is not the same splotch - even (especially) after (as I mention above) rotating the splotch to line it up in both versions.
So worst case scenario is just more of the same. I'm OK with that.
If you ask people to generate a "Christmas wish list" and don't like the result you tell them thanks for their input but unfortunately you can't get them everything on the list.

You literally asked for a wish list and framed it as "congrats it's Christmas" then fired someone.

This absurd behavior follows right on your assertion that interviewing and hiring people is hard and expensive. I guess not so hard nor so expensive that you would fire someone for filling out a wish list. This would be akin to disowning my kid because she asked for a pony.

You frame startup employees as overworked, overpaid, underperforming, gossipy, disloyal boobs who are going to quit when anything better shows itself. Since this seems to happen a lot, your apparent "solution" to retain them is to invest in office furniture that can always be reused.

This "solution" seems to me to highlight a problem you have with your employees rather than a solution to retaining them.

Best of luck though.
From https://supabase.com/blog/dbdev

> dbdev fills the same role for PostgreSQL as npm for JavaScript, pip for Python and cargo for Rust in that it enables publishing libraries and applications for repeatable deployment. We'll be releasing the tooling necessary for third-parties to publish pglets to the registry once we’ve collected some community feedback and incorporate any great new ideas. Our goal is to create an open ecosystem for packaging and discovering SQL.

How does https://pgxn.org/ fit in this ecosystem?