skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to make this kind of argument, you need a stronger basis than "So much worse than that, because they go online and simp for the company after doing it". I don't think it's a close call to refer to that as snark or flamebait.

> the second someone brings up Tesla-- Mods show up to enforce "civility" and pass out bans to anybody with 'wrong' opinions

This is entirely illusory. It feels that way only because you have strong feelings about $topic and are more likely to notice the moderation cases that feel wrong to you (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). In reality, the distribution is more or less random. We have zero interest in moderating Tesla topics or any $topic more than any other, and we don't care what your or anyone else's $opinion is.

Literally the only thing we care about is people posting in the intended spirit of the site: thoughtful, substantive, curious conversation, as outlined in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you had expressed your opinion in that way, I'd never have replied; and if you had expressed the opposite opinion in the same way, I'd have replied the same way. As a matter of fact I have no clue what your opinion even is.

As for "civility" - we haven't used that word in many years and it doesn't reflect how we think about moderation at all.
With fixed hardware, you're always planning for max workloads.

The systems are scaled up for the "Black friday" sales event.

With cloud, you will plan for the steady state and just boost it up when you need to.

The anti-pattern is usually that when on-prem hits 80% load, some engineer is usually tapped to weed out all the slow code to push past procurement delays.

While in cloud, people just throw more hardware at it and ignore low hanging performance problems which are costing them money (& unlike the on-prem, fixing it will immediately reflect in the budget the next day).
> your cable bill, your airline tickets, your credit card, your driver's license, or your knee injury without interacting with some kind of AI support agent.

For all of those things except the credit card, I can physically go to an office and talk to a real human being. I doubt that will stop being possible in the next couple of decades. I hope, anyway, because that's my fallback plan.
Not sure! My particular team was working on features upstream in the KDE Plasma desktop. The packaging / Arch-based distro was done elsewhere. I also left the contracting company before the shipping year, though (while still involved with KDE otherwise today); it's possible there was more intra-team comm later on.

All I can offer you is speculation: Maybe just something no one's gotten around to yet? Also, I think desktop mode and its use cases are probably a lot more popular than anyone expected.
Beware, those tend to be ballasted, for mounting on a light roofing structure you really want something that isn't ballasted.
I'm happy to take feature requests or PRs, btw, there's a ton of low hanging fruit here. one thing I want to add is the option to commit the results to a github repo so you can still say you're doing gitops. obviously with a force push straight to main.

I also barely understand how kopf works and i'm not that great with python, so if someone wants to clean up the code for me that would be great.
In the US that's not possible because you only deduct charitable gifts if you itemize, and you decide that after the tax year when you file. Your employer can reduce your pay and give a gift on your behalf, which is essentially the same thing.

Although usually the best thing is to donate stock with high gains to avoid future capital gains tax, but you have to understand a lot of tax rules to realize that's a good idea, and there are plenty of extra forms to file at tax time.
Like everyone else, he's right sometimes and wrong others.
80 years is a very young profession, still. How long have their been lawyers training in university programs? Doctors? The answer is in centuries and so you'd expect a lot more supply/demand equilibrium.

How many times has that automation resulted in the business saying "great, things are easier" instead of "great, that's quicker now, let's do more things with the time we freed up?" I've only seen the latter, which just breeds more* need for more automation.

You can see it in how much software the average business employee used 40 years ago vs today, even halfway through your timeline.
You can transcribe all spoken words everywhere and keep the model up to date? Keep indexing new data from chat messages, news articles, new academic work etc.

The data is not finite.
In France a small startup named Cohome has tested the concept several years ago. It unfortunately didn't last long but the idea is great. I've had the chance to use it and it was very nice.
The issue is that freelancers can't pay much on these kind of services as they often have limited means. The other issue I believe is that there are more people willing to go to someone's place than people willing to share their place.
"Just as tractors made farmers more productive, we believe these new generative AI tools are something all developers will need to use if they want to remain competitive."

Yeah it also put a lot of them out of jobs. At least the tractor doesn't steal people's work to resell it, it's just a tool.
Firmware needs to know CPU-specific details (it needs to be able to program the memory controller, for instance), so skipping (or inverting) the real mode to protected mode code in the firmware is just another step in porting to a new platform.
My mom got tricked into installing an "emoji pack" that would make her phone give her constant notifications for a gambling website. She doesn't know she sideloaded an app, but that's what happened.
As far as ACH goes, the same way they did it 30+ years ago. You don't need to be technology inclined to perform ACH transactions. NACHA was around in 1974. The ACH network has existed for most of its history without any notion of the modern internet or our current digital world, and most of it still works "offline"
OpenAI has gone from open-sourcing its work, to publishing papers only, to publishing papers that omit important information, to GPT-4 being straight-up closed. And Sam Altman doesn't exactly have a track record of being overly concerned about the truth of his statements.
Steam Deck sold about 3 million units; Playstation 5 about 30 million, X-Box about 20 million, Nintendo Switch about 130 million. Steam has about 120 million active accounts.

I mean, it's successful I guess, but also not exactly taking over the world.
Smaller % of training data doesn't necessarily mean lower quality.
There was another startup called jumpstart targeting the same age demographics a few years back before they rebranded.
This essay fundamentally misrepresents "strong opinions, loosely held," and is therefore misleading and useless.

-- that's a strong opinion, loosely held. Let me explain:

The word "strong" in "strong opinions" doesn't mean what the author thinks it does. For example: "toxic certainty" and "overconfidence". That is not what "strong opinions" means here. In fact, the author alludes to the correct interpretation later when they say "The idea of strong opinions, loosely held is that you can make bombastic statements, and everyone should implicitly assume that you’ll happily change your mind in a heartbeat if new data suggests you are wrong." Emphasis mine.

Putting it plainly, "strong" refers to the position being taken. "Tesla makes a good electric car" is a weak position. "Tesla makes the best electric car on the market, no one else even comes close" is a strong position. Note that in neither case is my conviction in making the statement in evidence.

"Loosely held" is contradictory to the expressed descriptions of "toxic certainty" and "overconfidence".

So: the point of the saying is that people should stake out positions of significance without worrying so much about whether they have firmly researched and can support those positions. In a general way, the expression is refining the expression "for the sake of argument."

The article then goes on to reasonably criticize the actual idea by suggesting that it is an ideal rarely lived up to in practice, and offers a solution (stating that you are not 100% certain) that actually reinforces the actual point of the original saying.

So the title should be something like "Strong Opinions Loosely Held is the Most Abused Idea in Tech -- I'm 90% Certain of That."

But this is all just a loosely held idea, I'm happy to be dissuaded.
In all fairness, Comcast is the worst. I don't think their customer support will ever be anything but nightmarish regardless of whether or not they use automated "agents".
Four jobs ago I worked on a search engine for a large national sales company. They'd sparingly ran TV ads. When they ran a TV ad their traffic would 10x immediately then a mild smooth increase over the next month or so. Would it have made sense for them to operate on prem machines that could handle their peak capacity, when they only needed their peak for hours per week?
There's a well-maintained Lutris script[0] that's probably your most painless option. It's also possible to run it with Proton/Steam if you put in enough elbow grease, but... you've probably got better things to do. My only other advice would be to put in the work for getting Wayland to run so your framerate is as smooth as your GPU says it is.

I hope my last comment didn't come off as too hostile, it's a great time to experiment with Linux gaming now that the Deck is moving units! :)

[0] https://lutris.net/games/overwatch-2/
Not in the week view, which makes it super annoying - I often want to move/copy events from one week to the next, and I can't do it through drag and drop, because (like almost every webapp out there) Fastmail app doesn't understand interactions like "scroll by one day only" and "if I drag to the edge of the canvas, it means I want you to scroll it".

Month view, yes, has this nice continuity you mentioned. It also has a ... I can't pin exactly what's wrong, but I almost always get confused which month I'm looking at, because the month name label above the calendar seems to often be off by one month relative to what month is visible on the screen. But the bigger issue is, of course, that in a monthly view, you can hardly fit any useful amount of events.
Well yes because doing that substitution changes the meaning -- you're saying something fundamentally different in the latter article. It's no longer a piece about how a particular aspect of tech culture which got a foothold among the majority (white men) where that behavior not only doesn't reflect poorly on them, where a black man might get called aggressive and woman might get called bitchy, but is actively rewarded because that confidence is, sometimes mistakenly, used as a proxy for competence. And taken from a systems perspective this aspect of culture accidentally and through no ones fault created a prisoner's dilemma that forces group decision making to a local maximum instead of a global one. To write the same article about black people it would require a very different history and cultural context.
And those charges were dropped -- they weren't found guilty.
Nice work!

Other posts in this thread are touching on it, but graph layout and layer segmentations are where you could improve.

Screen real-estate is the biggest challenge when visualizing large amounts of code.

Similar to maps show different detail levels based on aspect ratio and zoom, you can decompose your "features" (mapping terminology) based on level, i.e. packages->modules->functions->code

OP, have you ever used Gephi? I used to build static analysis tools for viz of large-scale codebases. Taking a bit of time to export analysis data into a Gephi format (GEXF in my case) really helped.

In Gephi, you can play around with different layout algorithms (peep the plugins). This may help you select a layout algo or combination thereof to help render tons of data in a human-friendly form.
If the government is investing in you they might have a lot of surplus gear you can use for a reduced cost. And it's attractive to tell police forces that they don't have to train marksmanship on a entirely new platform for your device.
Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories
they don't have a monopoloy but they are not far away from having more power then when they had a quasi monopoly

the mono in monopoly is in the end irrelevant, what matters is the power and ways you can abuse it. In the past you mainly got that with being a monopoly or duopoly but by now you can archive it by being "just" competitive with the best in a sector, and doing so in docent of areas and slowly integrating all of that into each other
I mean, you can get 6packs of lower receivers as a civilian for like what amounts to 30 bucks each.

They are not expensive.
> I usually use Mosh

Mosh as in "mobile shell"? https://mosh.org/

> Would you suggest I try slime-tramp?

I don't know yet, I've just started trying it out.

What made me want to try it was that I could use GUI Emacs to connect to emacs running on a different machine and still have full access to all the emacs keybindings.

So far, the downsides that I have encountered are that M-. and C-c C-k (slime-compile-and-load-file) don't quite work. The work-around would be to visit each file using the remote path and re-compile them so that the running Lisp image can map what's in the image to a path tramp recognizes. Then M-. and C-c C-k should work.

To recompile, select all then compile (X-c X-p C-c C-c) works, or I think C-c M-k also works. Not a great solution if there are a lot of files, though.

IIUC the problem boils down to M-. eventually calling (xref-find-definitions) which is an emacs built-in, and I think that's why the tramp paths aren't translating until a re-compile is done.
It might be a little late, but I hope datasets start incorporating patent texts as well:

1. It's a large corpus of technical knowledge;
2. The language is written by experts in a field and reviewed many times, and
3. They have technical drawings with labels and references in the text

The only downside I suppose is that sometimes patents are written with "just enough knowledge" to get it granted but not too much to give away the secret sauce. That's not really that different from many scholarly papers though.

To give a size of scale, the granted patent texts of 2020 (without images) is about 160 GB of data, and we have digitized grants going back to at least 1970.
Tail includes the fluke (flat lobes at the end) but starts before that. We know this because pelvic bones of cetaceans are still vestigial and can be found around the "second third" of the body or so. So we know where the legs would be located and after this is all tail. Tail muscles do the bigger part of the work.
Awesome-Movies
Stupid question: which jobs port Linux or other OS or other sys software for a majority of their time?
There is plan to have 25% of assembly by 2025. Foxconn is building atleast 2 plants and Winston is also expanding.
If someone has that attitude then they are not "weakly" or "loosely" holding their opinion and I'd further argue that they don't even have an opinion and instead just "want to be right". That is an implementation of "I don't give a fuck what's true, tightly held".
Shouldn't it be called ChaosHappens.
not intentional. i'll fix that
How about usurped?

If we want to involve fire, I’m not sure… freer, more open societies seem to result in better productivity. Maybe there’s some analogy about burning a workshop to have a big bonfire.
On HN I think we expect better, which includes the courtesy to not question each other’s earnestness, and to challenge people’s positions and not their motivations.
Something kind of funny (but mostly annoying), about this announcement is the people arguing that OpenAI is, in fact, working on GPT-5 in secret.

To my knowledge, NFT/crypto hype never got so bad that conspiracy theories began to circulate (though I’m sure there were some if you looked hard enough).

Can’t wait for an AIAnon community to emerge.
>Officials in Ireland, Canada and the Netherlands have called on China to shut down similar operations in their countries.

So we are politely asking the Chinese Communist Party to stop spying on us, rather than closing down these outposts ourselves. Is this a sustainble/durable option? Our open systems are simply a vulnerability for daring autocracies.
I’ll admit my opinion is out of date and wrong.

As an iOS user who doesn’t care to give my mobile device any thought at all, Google has a long way to go to overcome the perception that behind a thin shiny veneer, the Play store is like Mos Eisley.

That and seamless shared clip boarding keep me from leaving the ecosystem.
It could also be argued that there's financial incentive to just saying "giving us more money to train bigger models = better AI" forever
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1647372603907280896
My point wasn’t about the market share, it was that you decided to be condescending about not having relevant data, and then you also failed to provide any :)
>> since it is possible to keep recruiting to a very high standard even during exponential growth via spending exponentially more resources

Since when? You're assuming the pool of employees available to recruit is infinite which is clearly not true.
Frankly if you are eating anywhere other than McDonalds at an airport you are paying fine dining prices for the absolute bottom tier food. It's so frustrating when a day of flying means either carting along meals for a day or spending $80-$120 for two people.
They can call themselves editorially independent all they want but they know where their paychecks are coming from. It feels entirely like a thou doth protest too much situation.
don't for profit corporations operate under the same sort of rules. maximize profits at all costs.
bubble sort /s
Correct, no government should extrajudicially prosecute suspected dissidents - neither within or without their borders. My issue is that this is frequently framed as America being a victim under threat, and not a serial aggressor.
Half the time when my computer doesn’t “work” it is because I am using it to deal with outdated banks and credit cards. Today, I was trying to pay 2 parking tickets. First one went through just fine. Second one failed with invalid zip code, even though I was using the same one. Turns out that since I have different mailing and billing addresses, it was randomly picking the one to use.
>> I was well into middle school before I learned I didn't know how to pronounce a lot of words, but by 5th grade I was reading at a college level.

> The way you've written it here, you were not fully able to read until the fifth grade. That is ... problematic.

I don't really think that's what they're saying here. They wrote "by 5th grade I was reading at a college level". They have the classic "I read a lot so I read words I don't know how to pronounce" issue. That's different than "not fully able to read".

>> I read really fast, I can glance at a word and read it long before any sort of inner voice could catch up and mentally pronounce it.

> This is not exceptional for an adult.

Sadly, I think that it is. I looked up US literacy rates for this thread to validate my memory that they were something like 98%. I learned that not only are they 92% at "level 1", but only "[f]our in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences" [0]. I know this isn't exactly directly responsive to reading speed or whatever, but this is just to say I had a much rosier picture of US literacy in my head and maybe you do too.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp
Lawyer here, still trying to wrap my head around all of it -- but it seems as if what may be different here is the extent to which all of this is practically "open-source" or even "literally free, as in freedom and cost etc" (i.e. generally and widely available REGARDLESS of what the law says)

And then coming second appears to be "companies and whoever who seek to make money, and intend to make some sort of legal restriction part of the biz model."

I have no answers or even predictions here except "this is gonna be interesting."
You only have to enable the setting once, but you probably did change the "Allow apps downloaded from" setting at some point in the past.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491
IIRC someone at Intel once said that Dell is the “best friend money can buy” in an internal email that came out when Intel was being investigated for anti-competitive practices.
If something is funded by a government and employs folks, they will feel obligated to agree to some official government position. Even in germany this is observable.

Insofar I simply don't share your view, but this is fair to me. I can agree with your last sentence, it would probably be better this way.
I'm not sure if it counts, but my favorite vampir-esque movie/show/whatever was Midnight Mass. It was such an interesting take on the core ideas.
California also has the reverse limit on electronic filing. If you make more than a certain amount, you have to mail in paper forms.
I just had GPT-4 try to add my ssh key into a docker image to run git clone - which would work but would leave my private ssh key in the final image!

And it's suggested fix had the same issue!

So yeah idk about trusting it more then as an assistant - its too good at making incredibly convincing (even working) solutions that have massive security/other issues.
I'm waiting for the AI that can take my picture and convert it into a 3D model.
Homogenization begets vulnerability, vulnerability begets destriction.
The propaganda against encryption is in full swing.

My expectation is that all NSA CNSA[1] encryption standards are backdoored at the implementation level (by the NSA who uses Suite A for its own communication and I suspect military communications outside of that in weapons systems that can fall into enemy hands)

I guess the propaganda is driven by FBI and law enforcement agencies.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_National_Security_A...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_A_Cryptography
I have ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexia… and not to mention that I am on the Autism spectrum.

https://css-tricks.com/hmtl-css-and-js-in-an-add-ocd-bi-pola...
“Search engine for 3D printables”
"Most abused" is a good way to put it (maybe it's not the most abused, but that's just pedantry). Certainly this idea can be abused and I'd be easily convinced that it is being abused but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
That's a HUGE assumption. I'm not some idiot neophyte who just migrated from a dumb phone yesterday; I've been running Linux since 1995. Debian 12 does not function on my Ryzen 7 5700G + Biostar B550M + RTX A2000 system-- it's nothing exotic! Neither does the stock Arch kernel, nor linux-rt, but linux-amd and my custom kernels do. I got it going, and I got VFIO passthrough working as well, but it took effort as well as knowledge normal users can't reasonably be expected to possess. Expecting people to buy based on an HCL is not reasonable, and that's half of why it will never be the year of Linux on the desktop. (The other half is the desktop being a dying breed, sadly.)
Hm, all right, I'm guessing that huge models as a business maybe are over until economics are figured out, but huge models as experts for knowledge distillation seems reasonable. And if you pay a super premium can you use huge model.