skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
this really sounds like a fun and promising way to make friends. I've seen it happen at universities with "tandem" partners (italian comes to germany and wants to learn german, the german wants to learn italian), but they usually leave after the exchange.
Maybe this will get people to finally sit down and do some thinking, planning, pseudo-code, etc. before diving in and starting to code.
Even big ones like REI are closing their last location in Portland: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2023/04/rei-to-close-its...
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Do you try things like make a set of unit tests and then have the LLM create methods that the tests test? It seems that there needs to be tight coupling and verification between what is generated and whether it actually accomplishes the task, and tests can guide this.
I think this is the answer for me. You kind of want friends, but at the same time you don't want to have to put any obligations or effort in and definitely don't want to feel forced to hang out with them.

I think we want the kind of friends who would be fine with a quarterly meetup for a fun activity, and little contact or obligation outside of that time.
I feel the same way. I’m confused as to the value it’s really offering. The LLMs themselves do all the heavy lifting and all you have to do is feed in text and parse output text. Very basic programming. It seems like a bunch of hype to me. I’d rather build my own and have transparency with what’s going on and how prompts etc are being handled.
If you’re seriously wondering what might be illegal, here is probably a good place to start to read the arguments:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/34-officers-peoples-rep...
Pretty good. Very happy with my job - not that previous ones were terrible, there were ups and downs, but current one comes very close to the peak. Otherwise got mostly enough of everything else I need.

There is a lot of doomerism nowadays about recession, AI supremacy, etc. but I don't listen to it too much for now while doing my thing to adapt. Limiting exposure to typical news outlets does wonders.

You?
Regular people. I've been, long ago, at college, before "woke" was coined I believe. To be honest the vitriol was over the top, I found it funny. Just my experience, not proxy for anyone else's.
And security issues. The downside of folks wanting to write software for your platform is that not all of it is good for the user.
oddly I was reading this story yesterday because someone linked to an item of clothes from a shop which also contained a silk code scarf: https://adversarialfashion.com/products/wwii-code-cipher-sca...

it's unclear from the images in the shop but the code isn't the circuit diagram-ish things but a table in the middle, which reproduces this, an actual SOE silk code:
http://www.jproc.ca/crypto/silkcode_chart_b.jpg

This is apparently a 'Worked Out Key' cipher, not a OTP as mentioned in the article, but both were in use due to Leo Marks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Marks#:~:text=Developments....

(in fact, here's a photo of Leo with one of these code tables https://www.historynet.com/was-this-the-uks-worst-spy-failur... )
This article was way too long for what it said. Not very crisp, one might say.
This world of Unix operating systems was way before my time (I got started with Linux in 2008). One dumb question I have is why does something like this exist in 2022? We have tons of other Linux distro's that can run any number of workloads, is it just a matter of you have all your legacy stuff on OpenVMS and it would be easier to stay on it? Or does OpenVMS provide some feature that you just can't get in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.
And what happens if your request modifies state but the response is not received?
without/before commerce one would link to similar websites as much as possible. Now those are called competitors.

I bet one could make a facinating ranking algo that groups sites by subject then sort them by nr of links to others in that group.

So the perfect SEO would be to have a blogroll at the top of the left menu with every related website in it.

i.e. 3 stores sell the same item. Nr 1 is the one linking to the other 2. Extra points for linking to that specific product page.
That's kind of my point, it's not natural that Microsoft is still around after how much negative they have done for the tech industry. Xbox is their golden goose. VIDEO GAMES?

Come on, let's not act like Windows, in its 11th iteration, is not a steaming pile of shit. I don't know how so many of you defend such a garbage company.
I'm french, and the source in french linked is not clear. The article is biased, the comments are saying it's from 2020, and I am pretty sure the french cyber teams would not throw a bunch of GPU to solve a password for a small case like his.

Who knows if he used a non encrypted swap partition ? A leaked online account ?
The guy complaining here doesn't make it very clear if its encryption was broken either, he's just over-interpreting the police reports by mentionnning some emails ?
The 1950s called and wants it's meme back. Seriously, though, the 50s promised flying cars, personal jet packs, moon bases, etc. They were so convinced cars would fly, they all came with wings on them =) Houses underwater was a thing they thought were right around the corner as well. It really reads like you just picked up a Scientific American magazine issue from your doctor's office lobby that's from the 50s.
Good information that deals with tagging issues that I have been thinking about and implementing for several years.

I have been working on a new kind of data management system that is designed to replace traditional file systems while also doing a bunch of database operations. It is an object store that makes extensive use of tagging. Nearly all file metadata comes in the form of tags attached to each file. Even its name is a tag, so every file can have multiple names (each object's unique ID is a 64 bit number).

The system is currently in beta and still needs work, but it can do some amazing things so far. It can create 100M+ files and attach dozen of tags to each one (there is a limit of 255 tags per object). Searching for all photos with certain tags, for example, can give you the results extremely fast. Even with containers with 100 million objects can give you the 100,000 that have a specific tag in just a second or two.

Tags have context. Instead of 'John' as a tag, you attach Person.FirstName = 'John' to photos of John or documents written by John. The whole system is like a sparse relational database table where each row/column intersection can have multiple values.

We are looking for more beta testers and anyone can download and try the software for free. Here are a couple short videos showing a few things it can do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLPNLHm9fIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw
> capitalism forces us to become resource-oriented

This doesn't ring true, if only for the simple reason that even sub-median wealth people are now much more materially wealthy than, say, a thousand years ago, even two hundred years ago or less.

The need for two income is a huge time & energy drain for families, making it difficult to socialize. There was a post-WW2 sweet spot where you could live well on one income, and you didn't have to have many years of education. The US peace dividend was part of it, but I think that regulations that limit the housing supply and cause inflation are a major impetus for people working more to keep up their lifestyle.
It’s kerosene and liquid oxygen. It’s not like they’re dumping hydrazine.
Thanks! The reason is because based on the research I did, I saw that trackball had a steeper learning curve and less usage preference overall, and even though vertical mice also have a learning curve, it seems to be lower. Plus, I believe it's easier to use optical tracking for other actions such as gaming.

I'm happy to be proven wrong though! How do you like your trackball? Do you get any pain on your fingers or hand after using it for a while? Maybe a product to explore as a second iteration if the first version goes well :D
Very cool. Reminds me of this PixiJS demo: http://filters.pixijs.download/dev/demo/index.html (it's actually quite fun to muck with the dozens of available filters!)
Let's say you have never deployed anything to production before, and you've worked through a tutorial in Rails or Django or whatever and just built your first web app, and it's 2018, what are your options?

There's the zoo of AWS. Maybe there's something there you can use - Lightsail came out I think in 2016 - but good luck trying to find it out of all the plethora of weirdly named services. Again, total beginner here, and AWS can be daunting even to experienced developers.

You can go with Linode or Digital Ocean. You would need to set up a VM with all the dependencies and make it secure. Oh and you'll need a database - should that sit on another VM? What about backup and restore? What about deployment? Sure, you can use Ansible, but that's yet another learning curve.

Render launched in 2019. Fly.io came out 2020. As far as I remember, there wasn't a competitor that offered the sheer convenience for the hobbyist beginner on the level of Heroku.
I seem to remember the Ranger being absolutely horrifying at speeds over 25mph with unstable road surfaces. Like wildly zigging this way and that.

Still a super fun truck.
I have a PC Engines apu2 board (x86 based) with a Mediatek Wi-Fi 6 card, running OpenWRT. Can do gigabit over Wi-Fi with PPPoE based WAN. If I had to get another AP it would probably be another apu2, too bad these are outrageously expensive now.

(should probably disclose that I am one of the devs that maintained the apu2 coreboot boot firmware)

My problem with APs running proprietary FW is that I don't trust them to be secure, even if the vendor does updates, you never know what they're doing in the background. E.g. some APs have a hidden secondary SSID for their proprietary mesh implementation. With OpenWRT I can set them up exactly the way I want to, using open standards (mesh, roaming) instead of vendor-specific crap.
Apparently this was an urban legend. Good movie idea but not accurate
Ubuntu is IMO far from the best choice. Even manjaro offers a more stable experience at times. Fedora is what i install newbies today.

Edit:// to be more precise I use Ubuntu LTS on servers because it's stable and runs everything. But as soon as we get graphical there are better choices
Aren't a lot of pension funds and such heavily invested in real estate?
Right now the taxes doesn't work at all. You just move all production abroad since it's then cheaper there. So at least I hope it will be better than how it currently is.

And even if someone will just absorb the cost and raise prices, someone will perhaps figure out a more climate friendly way of doing the production of a goods => can produce it cheaper because of less taxes => can sell to consumers for lower prices => other companies have to follow suit.
Glad that others are having the same thoughts as I was and I’m not just crazy or missing something big here. I am trying to understand why I’d actually want to use it vs just interfacing with the LLM api directly. For most use cases it is very straightforward and it is good to understand every step of the interaction rather than a “black box”
As farmers' jobs were safe because farmers can use farming tools.

These arguments don't track even vaguely. You are doing the equivalent of analyzing the future of solar power by assuming solar will cost the same in 10 years as it does today, and that each new watt of solar is matched 1:1 with new units of demand. Neither of these are sensible.

It may be that ML code tools never displace many people, or even that they supercharge demand, but you don't get to justified conclusions by assuming the future is just the present but with a bigger UNIX timestamp.
Maybe using two layers of encryption, so if one fails, then we at least have another one to be bruteforced as a backup? Also two implementations, from different operating systems (!), e.g. why not store the data encrypted on a server running OpenBSD, which is then encrypted again using Linux LUKS. So then both the OpenBSD and Linux implementations would have to fail, in order for the government to be able to decrypt it. Of course, using different, long passphrases for each.
Generative AI has already wiped out a billion-dollar industry
He was attached but not part of the SOE. Much of his claimed spec ops/spy work stemmed from exaggerations others made that he made no real effort to correct. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-dares-lies/

Not that it makes his service any less incredible or admirable in my book.
I'm thinking about the scanners I see in every supermarket in the USA. They're all very clearly one dimensional scanners.

I feel like supermarkets will just make us scan our shit with our phones and do away with large static scanners.
It’s like when you continually refine a Midjourney image. At first refining it gets better results, but if you keep going the pictures start coming out…really weird. It’s up to the human to figure out when to stop using some sort of external measure of aesthetics.
As close to none as possible, really - you're diluting probably a ton of kerosene in five and a half quadrillion tons of atmosphere. Plus it's happening ~150km up, mostly outside the atmosphere, so it's got a long time to dilute before it gets to anyone.
A person being killed and a person not being born are not the same thing at all.
I was joking that for most people, we can't do what the parent post wants, which is to learn from our mistakes. For people this often leads to burnout. :)
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You're making the mistake of assuming that somehow humanity is better off because our population is larger. There is no intrinsic benefit to a population of 8 billion, 4 billion, or 2 billion. None of those numbers are a population bottleneck in any manner. For comparison, bonobos have a population of something like 50,000.

Having more people doesn't improve the quality of life of those people. It's just more people.
I don't think this fear is entirely unjustified.

Some people have remarked about whether a good friend of mine and I are gay because we hang out 1-on-1 a lot. This is in California, BTW, where one might believe the current politics would discourage people from making assumptions.

It's a good thing it doesn't upset me, given I don't think there's anything wrong with being gay.

What does bother me, though, is how easily people will sexualize adult male friendships. Women are allowed to have close female friends and interact with them in ways where, if guys did the same, someone might think "bro, u homo?"
If they must go that route, I sincerely hope they offer a paid SKU in the traditional $100-200 range that dispenses with all of that. It's kinda icky, but if they want to offer a Pro version that's all clean and tidy for money, and a crappy, ad-laden version for free...I don't want to think of all the shitty bargain PCs people will be stuck with, but at least I'll be able to keep building a new PC every 8-10 years with whatever hardware I choose and include a Windows license as part of the parts list.

Make this ad-supported version a budget option for people who can't afford more and won't install Linux if you must hit that market. Just don't ruin the whole thing for those of us who will pay a modest amount for hardware and software compatibility.
Spotlight on the Mac has done this for like 15 years. You can search for files by content and metadata attributes[0]. You can even create "smart folders" that save the search parameters and show an up to date instance of the search when opened. The Spotlight search is also exposed on the command line with the mdfind command.

Spotlight uses the LaunchServices database of file type associations to give friendly names to file types but has a hierarchy of type identifiers[1].

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/narrow-search-resul...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi...
Large-scale mapping of canopy height at the resolution of individual trees
oh yea, the amount of outages we had in my last company because of weighted roundrobbin registration/healthcheck/watermark/latch issues were way more than anyone would guess
Maybe, there is plenty of fodder out there for #persecutionfetish but someone who is calmly like, "yeah they might hate me but I still don't wish them ill" feels pretty good faith. They can still be wrong but I don't believe for a second this person in particular would be like "and because they hate me I'm justified in x, y, z."
Can you go into detail? I'd really like to know what you mean by formatting, but more important is the error handling part of your criticism.
Tech scene is very unstable right now. It's unfortunate that you got laid off.

This seems like a great project. I have had a few days of intense wrist pain with apple mouse and keyboard.

I have started using an ergonomic keyboard from Microsoft. It has helped a lot.

Looking forward to your kickstarter.
Sadly it seems that the issues they're talking about persist even with each OS getting its own drive. I know I've had issues with that. It seems insane that Windows should overreach onto drives its not even installed on, but here we are.
Agreed and I hope so too. It sets the scene for others to adopt similar policies. The reality is that regardless of the current economic trends, we're in trouble in the longer term if we continue wrecking the planet.
Looks like they missed an opportunity to visit the Black Lodge and say hi to the Arm.
I like how this promotes on top that it's signed by "NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR IVAR GIAEVER", trying to give it some weight. He's head of Klimarealistene in Norway, aka "climate realists". And they have time and time again shown that they can't even comprehend the simplests of graphs.

For instance they still use this graph on the left: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERzEmzxWoAAedrS?format=jpg&name=...

It shows the change of ice each year (aka the derivative of amount of ice). They however keep using it saying "the amount of ice is actually increasing since 2012". While of course anyone can see that each year the graph is below 0, the ice is melting. Shown in the graph on the right. So what the graph is showing is that the rate of ice melting is a bit down, it's still melting a lot each year...

So he's either clueless, and not worth listening to. Or he's intentionally misleading, and therefore still not worth listening to.

And looking at the list of other signatories from Norway, they are almost all connected to our petroleum industry. How unremarkable. While I'm normally not trying to go after a person (I'd rather go after their arguments), the whole list is meant as one big "appeal to authority" by showcasing some doctors and others signing. Then I think it's only fair pointing this out.
I can't stop chuckling at the big "Sorry for killing most of humanity." I just picture a little robot-kid looking down and doing that little kick.
I've never understood exceptionalism beliefs in the executive class. Some common ones are greater productivity over 40 hrs of working, open offices, layoffs ...

Anyone know why these ideas persist despite mounting evidence? During lockdowns it was really non-PC / unpopular to be "against the science/data" but for some reason its tolerable in business?
Basically you expected Linux support?

So welcome to open source for the rest of us!

Was looking around for open source music sequencers a few weeks back but most competent ones apart from LMMS seems to be Linux only (And LMMS releases seems to have slowed down a bit recently). Sometimes you can compile stuff on Windows but 90% of the time for smaller projects it's full of gcc-isms, hardcoded paths,etc that requires a nontrivial amount of work to fix. I remember fiddling with NodeJS in the very early days, it kinda ran on Cygwin but that gave a bunch of other nasty side-effects.

Even on FreeBSD or osX it's often a bit of an uphill battle, if you're lucky stuff only depends on GNU Make, that's usually available on FreeBSD as gmake.. until that breaks because the Makefile tries a recursive invocations via a shell invoking make. If you're unlucky there is dependencies on systemd and ALSA or whatnot.

Anyhow, I thought Wine was pretty competent these days so running DX based stuff shouldn't be too bad?
With increasingly long inputs of 1's and 0's it is hard to even make chatgpt copy the string one character at the time. For example:

Prompt:

Can you write out this sequence 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 to the output, but write it one character longer each line?

Answer:

Sure, here is the sequence written out one character longer each line:

0
0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1

Note that this is missing a few digits from the end.

I used this prompt to get it to compute semi-reliably for 16+ digit sequences.

Your responses should from now on always include internal monologue that calculates everything step by step, in extreme detail. Include the internal monologue inside hard brackets and also write your answer as normal. For example:

Input: How many 1's are there in the sequence 1 1 0 1 1 0?
Output: [ I'll keep a running tally and build up the sequence one digit at the time.

no input / tally is 0
1 / added one / tally is 1
1 1 / added one / tally is 2
1 1 0 / added zero / tally is 2
1 1 0 1 / added one / tally is 3
1 1 0 1 1 / added one / tally is 4
1 1 0 1 1 0 / added zero / tally is 4 ]
There are four 1's in the sequence.

How many 1's are there in the sequence 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0?
Which is insane to think about given the hard open-source "engineer first" pivot Satya has taken the company.

It's like Windows team is committed to building the complete antithesis of that vision.
Doesn't that just give the attacker more targets to hit?

I know that under normal circumstances you can just write off the wildly improbable case of a hash collision, but when you're up against an army of GPU's I'm not sure I'd want to risk the possibility that `aaa` (or some other brute force candidate) collides with whatever urandom spit out that day.
Rapid decline
If you really believe they will be on Mars in 3 to 5 years, I publicly commit to pay you a dinner on the best restaurant of your choice, in the Olympus Mons district.
Heavy Turbulence on Flights Is Likely to Get Worse
I honestly had never thought hard about reversing the relationship and having workers pull. This point about no longer requiring health checks is a real "woah" moment. Thanks for expanding my mind!
It could be a means to an end. Finding safe bike routes to get from one side of a freeway/river/mountain to the other can be challenging. A few miles on a state highway shoulder aren't an uncommon requirement to make a longer trip feasible. If the diverging diamond isn't paired with a dedicated pedestrian crossing over the freeway then it significantly hampers bike traffic.
Where are you located in Canada? I would be shocked to know you got non life threatening medical care in any of the major cities.
You can always say "I'm busy", and then people go to the next neighbour they like. It's not that bad.

Definitely not a system that produces introverted city coders though