skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If EU's safety is its problem then why are we not allowed to take an independent stance in any matter?

The EU pushed for sanctions just as much as the US did, you just don't like the outcome.

>As to the cheap resources, I'm sorry we didn't invade Iraq, Libia, Syria to get oil for pennies.

Well, first, you need a military to be able to do that. Second, we don't get oil for pennies anymore but we're not under existential crisis as to the future of cost of living.

>The EU bought at market price from Russia, what's your point?

You built a dependence on a country you're now scared of and that manages to get by without your money and that was a strategic mistake. The US has and is making a similar mistake with China. If the China situation pops off, it'll be the same thing here (and Europe is going to feel the pain of that because it's reliant on China for cheap tchotchkes too).
Okay, that section on chainsaws was brilliant, and is somehow the sanest part of the paper: the following text gets progressively crazier.
Corporate death penalty and mandatory minimums for executives/responsible employees?
I had the exact same problem and ended up with the same solution. I know people who have had somewhat better experiences backing up to something like a Synology, but the $Xk investment wasn't worth it for me without also needing it for big file storage or media serving or whatever.
I think that will actually be decided by IRS interpretation. I can’t imagine an administrative judge would have that narrow a view, given the way other assets are treated.
The people that could be theoretically replaced by AI text could already have been replaced by Fiverr contractors or Mechanical Turk workers, but by and large we don't see it.

If someone is able to delegate a task to a $5 worker or a 50 cent API call, and produce meaningful output, fine. But we have no such examples of tasks being able to be magically delegated in such a way that creates a cohesive, meaningful, broad whole publishing company and product together.

Nobody has used Fiverr to replace the NYT editorial staff with a paper that's just as successful. And I don't think NYT would find value in delegating their article creation to ChatGPT either.

Context, collaboration, high level planning, fact checking, deep understanding of market mechanics and sentiment, raw talent, etc, matter for writing news. I'm not even a fan of NYT or most modern journalism (I hate yellow journalism), but I don't think you can automate away an institution with a couple of GPT bots. I know everyone is breathlessly assuming that's the case today, but nobody is producing anything compelling.

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" as the saying goes. But for some reason GPT heads think that equation has been flipped. I don't buy it.
Again, I disabled IPv4 purely for testing reasons, to guarantee nothing was using IPv4 without me knowing it. There’s no reason to actually disable IPv4 as a fallback.

Over 99.999% of traffic through my home network is IPv6 now. The tiny remainder that has to use IPv4 does, without issue. 5 months on, and nary a complaint. Just works.

The world is ready for IPv6 as your primary, with IPv4 as the fallback.
But if the HN crowd runs their own servers, then the non-HN crowd could use them. Everybody wins.
US kettles aren't lower wattage just to spite the users, they're lower wattage because of the wiring in our houses.

Whether you can run two kettles depends on the age of the house (i.e. which version of the electric code it was built to) and which outlets you choose. If you want to draw a full 3000W the way a quick European kettle does, you can't do that on a single 15 or 20 amp American branch circuit. Now it is possible to mildly overload breakers for a period of time without tripping them, but this hardly a good recommendation.

If you want 3000w of electricity in an American house, just buy an 240v appliance.
When I'm working on a game, I create an incredibly simple version and iterate from there. By simple, I mean just a box on a ground would be considered a first version. Next version, added movement. Next version, added lake etc......

I also make sure it's default live so I can get continuos external feedback as well.
Do you have a source on that?

My understanding is that most cattle are finished on grain but most of that feed is distillers grains [1], which is an industrial waste from ethanol and biofuel production. The majority of cattle spend most of their lives brackgrounding [2] in pasture. They're not put on the feedlots until the last six or so months of their life to fatten them up for butchering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgrounding
No, win10
Chicago just did one of these moves last year. To move an old building out of the way for new red line track.
https://news.wttw.com/2021/08/04/time-lapse-video-cta-moves-...
Right, most professional writers (and editors) are working on commercial, not-particularly-creative content of one form or another. Ad copy, docs, internal training manuals, reports, powerpoints for the execs to read (LOL), memos, that kind of shit. Corporations and governments throw off an absolute fuckton of writing per year, a fair bit of it created, or at least edited, by writing & editing professionals.

All of that just got way easier to do. A lot of it can now be done by people who couldn't have, before, because a machine can fix their writing so it's sufficiently non-shit to be acceptable for many purposes. The rest, that still needs some decent writer or editor involved, is likely to see a huge increase in per-worker productivity, which will either result in similar levels of employment with far higher total output, or... in most of the people doing it now, having to switch careers.

My expectation is that we'll just turn editors into writers-who-also-edit—aided throughout by AI tools—and have non-writers take on writing as part of their job (see: what happened to secretaries—we're all secretaries, now) and most of the writers are going to be out of a job. I reckon this'll hit commercial writing (where most of the writing jobs are) and high-volume-low-value fiction writing (e.g. the romance novel scene, middle-grades shared-penname book series, that kind of thing) hardest. Ghostwriters, too—one who embraces AI tools and uses them well will be able to do the work of five or more who don't, so we'll need far fewer people doing that work.
I have been thinking about using the Erlang concurrency and messaging model for brower-based applications.

UI components operate in separate threads and communicate with the back end by sending and receiving async messages.

Back-end components communicate with servers using async messages, then publish results to front-end components.

This is similar to what Joe Armstrong was working on for X-Windows GUIs: https://erlang.org/workshop/2004/ex11.pdf
Yes the downside is the laywers get most of the money.

The upside is there is a big incentive for law firms to punish companies that stray from the law, which surely helps keep these companies more compliant than they otherwise would be.
No, because at 8 nines (99.999999%) you're responsible for the 310ms of downtime per year, aka ping time. 100% uptime would be all of Slack running in memory. See "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know"

https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
> The problem with going public is that performance is now measured quarterly.

The company I work for did not IPO yet either, and we still do performance reviews every quarter. So idk if going public matters much in that regard.
I mean 1000 x nothing is still nothing
Smuggle a Prolog in YAML somewhere, call it YAMLogic or anything else really which can’t be directly traced to it and watch the kids be amazed at what you can make computers do.

Only about 33% serious here, but… still a bit serious.
Maybe, but really we don't know what the shape of the curve until we actually find the limit.

I think you're right, but history has plenty of technological dead-ends, particularly in the AI/ML world
Your profile says all posts are composed by a LLM, are you a LLM? An autonomous agent?
I'd say wealthy people don't use the public option anyway/get top tier institutions.
I personally like that these days my biggest concern about a computer suddenly dying on me, or getting lost/stolen, or a drive failing is the cost of replacing it. Pretty much any important data to me is painlessly synced and it takes some amount stress out of my life knowing that I have basically no chance of losing data.
Something similar happened to me when I went to check the balance on a prepaid visa the other day. I got redirected to a bizzare URL and an ad riddled page. I had to do a couple of takes to make sure I was at the right place.
i don't mean to blindly +1 but this is the actual correct answer and i think it deserves to be emphasized
This war is catastrophic to Ukraine, but relatively costs pennies to western countries. They absolutely should continue armaments as long as Ukraine is willing to fight. Not doing so would mean allowing fascism and outright genocide to spread on European soil, and that would have an astronomical cost in the long run.

US and EU would be very, very shortsighted with their own interests if they didn't ship everything Ukraine wants.
What is XP in this context?
OpenSSF Boosts Software Supply Chain Security with SLSA 1.0
Ha! I keep asking on these threads for business problems being solved, and haven't got very far
That seems pretty wild to me too.
who defines your quarterly goals as a private company?
I'm with you, don't worry. I meant that standard normatively, not positively, and am in no danger of believing that most mass writings meet it.
I wish Amsterdam weather was also gezellig...
Unfortunately, due to the law of names, StabilityAI will in the future hit the same issue as OpenAI and do a 180, unleashing very unstable AI to the world.
Interesting. I've looked for sources on that and found a couple of sites saying that the sensitive period is 20-37 days after conception, but come up short of studies on anything later.

This webpage seems to suggest the risks are unknown after first trimester: https://mothertobaby.org/fact-sheets/thalidomide-pregnancy/

Same from this university classroom material (p.2): https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/life...
Try Midjourney
There's no reason to think those things will get better either, in fact maybe the opposite. The gains we've made against racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc were hard-won, localized, limited, and recent. At least in my country right now we're seeing a serious and so far somewhat successful revanchist backlash against many of them.

Whether the positive changes will stay as they are or continue to improve is unclear, they certainly aren't well established or uncontested.
No need to vote. The easiest way to reduce your overall population is to educate your female segment. See every country with a birth rate below their replacement level. This is not a value judgement, it just happens every time.
Yes, that is the case. If you’re building a warehouse, the wages paid to the construction workers are capitalized. The wages paid to your accounts payable are probably not capitalized with construction cost.
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> They got to maintain a leading edge in their respective parts of the supply chain and China

Long term mutually beneficial relationships with China are massive lies and they will slowly steal any tech you sell them until you're rendered obsolete.
So the victims would get six dollars each instead of four dollars. Wowza.
Issue to add support for these models to llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1063
> Do we do things like this for other technology or for other software?

Totally! https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident
"Si Tacuisses Philosophys Mansisses" is generally attributed to Boethius, not Wittgenstein.
No, you don't really need a smartphone. You want one. Slightly different thing. Nuance, you know.

Sure, you can have it, nobody is going to tell you that you can't. But be honest to yourself; nobody ever died of hunger for not having one.
It's a department at meta: Intellectual Rights Enforcement. /s

"Ire" is a synonym for "anger" or "wrath"
That there is no guarantee that the stuff will be available so, thing shappen. Also, just because futures are cheap, doesn't mean stuff is available now or in the near future. It only means the markets think grain will be plenty at one point, and thus cheap.
Photographers are still doing photography for the same reasons we always were.

People who want to take pictures no longer need to be photographers.

I think it’s interesting to look at, but I think the parallels break down pretty quickly. The decline of legacy photographic equipment and the reduction of skill needed to take photos is all about a rather technical skillset becoming less and less necessary. The smartphone also made many other legacy things irrelevant for most people.

Language and writing are closer to the core of humanity in a rather existential way. It’s less clear that reducing the skillset required to participate in writing is a net benefit, even if it enables the generation of more text by people who might not have done so before.

Smartphones make a photographer’s job easier and a non-photographer’s goals possible. I worry that the same can’t be said for language models and the end result is likely to be closer to a new form of illiteracy than it is to the democratization of a process that formerly required greater degrees of technical skill.

When painting broad strokes, I see the similarity. Drilling down even a little widens the conceptual gap quite a bit.
It's bad at fairly exotic topics and it's unable to admit that it doesn't have any understanding of the topic. It's wrong to generalize from this though. My experience is that its pretty knowledgeable in areas that aren't niche. I wouldn't recommend solely relying on it, but it has boosted my productivity quite a bit just by pushing me in the right direction and then reading the relevant parts of the docs.
Is that a bad thing? Should I attempt to make my boss unhappy?
Because it's a 3rd party, it cannot be non-compliant?

Seems like it's 1 extra click to disallow compared to allow, so yeah, non-compliant. Should be exactly as easy to say yes as saying no. In this case it's not.
Not an unreasonable take.
> Especially when NDP covers all of the features of ARP

... and more.

and lots of options with varies level of support.
Too many switch and flags to fiddle with.

Someone in IEEE need to publish a Current Best Pratice list and deprecate all other options.
Yes, it's tax evasion because the value delivered by those engineers is realized over multiple years? Which is why this old amortization rule is coming back into effect?

EDIT: Just my final reply - this law has nothing to do with COGS. I'm saying R&D is usually a category with multi-year amortization, it's only recently that an exception was made for political reasons.

You are arguing that R&D expense should always be expensed in year, which I assume is a product of not having seen what the normal world was like.

This isn't even a new law fwiw, it's not extending the exception to the existing law.
Then it's a shame that society has largely decided to discard as outdated longstanding philosophies whose tenets do teach the intrinsic value of each human independent of their economic output.

https://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/theogloss/imago-body.html

But pushing aside those outmoded ways of thinking did make it easier to sell people useless goods and services which can't fill the hole where dignity and self-respect could instead reside.

And on top we've built the artifice of "social" media (the most shameless oxymoron imaginable) producing sufficient anxiety ensuring that the hole remains unfilled despite all effort.

This is a frightening confluence.
"Hype" doesn't mean that there's nothing useful. It means that the benefits are being exaggerated beyond what the evidence supports.

I think that holds extremely true in the AI space right now, with people talking about AGI being right around the corner, etc.
> Even if effectively 0% of people hold extremist views (and I think that is a low number), they also commit outsized acts of violence.

Sure, that's true. But it's always been true and, AFAICT, will always be true. But they are such a tiny number of the total population that they aren't the gatekeepers to progress on big social issues.

There is a tendency today to give people like that the spotlight and to paint everyone the slightest bit on the other side as being of the same ilk. Both of these things are mistakes that give those extremists power they couldn't otherwise get.

Backing up, the context here is the notion of finding some middle or common ground instead of splitting into warring tribes. When we fall into the trap of believing that the other side is full of people that look like the extremists on the other side, it eliminates the possibility of there being a middle ground. The result is a deeper divide, utter despair, a lack of progress on resolving issues, and often more people moving to the extremes.

OTOH, when we recognize that the extremists are in fact extremists (i.e. statistical outliers), it's empowering and hopeful. The distance between your views and those of the vast majority of people on the other side is actually much shorter than the distance between your views and those of their extremists (and even likely shorter than the distance between their views and the views of their extremists). It really is a bell curve; don't buy into the lie that it's an inverted one. There is an abundance of potential allies (including the main ones that have a real shot of deradicalizing some of those extremists), most of those other guys are pretty decent people, and real progress is plausible.
> You think that all sw devs now are in R&D and not COGS?

Huh? I don't think that, that's literally what this law is doing. Moving all software developer expenses out of COGS and into R&D that must be amortized.

You're arguing what should be, and I agree with you. It should be COGS. If you go read the law (or... even the article) you'll realize that what should be the case, is not the case.

It has nothing to do with what I think!

> Since you’re so attuned to cash accounting let’s change up your example.

> I prepay $1mn in advertising cost for ads that will run over 5 years. I spent that cash now, but should I be able to expense that whole $1mn this year?

Umm if you're doing cash accounting, yeah. Haha. That's not the point you were trying to make though. If you're doing accrual accounting, no. That's a prepaid expense (asset) which changes to an expense over time as you incur it.

If you want to learn more about accounting, I have a website where I teach introduction to financial accounting topics at https://acct229.com. You might enjoy it!
John Denver was an experienced pilot who owned multiple planes with 2,700 flight hours. Unfortunately, on this particular experimental plane with an odd setup, just an hour or two.
NoSQL Isn't Dead, but It Left a Lasting Legacy: Semi-Structured Data Storage
Try to control it remotely with SSH and wake-on-lan. Not so reliable.
Wow this is impressive, any ideas why the first demo sounds a bit "hollow" like there is an echo? Thanks for sharing
A payout of 100 billion and then the company goes bankrupt. Or more realistically a company doing such egregious behavior would cause customers to stop using it and then lead to it drastically changing or going bankrupt.

But people constantly accept abuse and then forget about it.
The skepticism was waaaaayyyyyy off from a "healthy dose," for most of 2021 the standard line was something like "a billion doses of this vaccine have been administered and there have been absolutely zero deaths." Almost every patient who suffered side effects in the first year or so has a story to tell about their doctors insisting that--if it wasn't all in their head to begin with--it must have been caused by anything but the pristine COVID vaccines.

And that's without getting into the manufacturers rigging the safety results of the trials by e.g. yanking Maddie de Garay from the adolescent cohort after she was paralyzed.
> Huh? The "Macintosh HD" folder in Finder is /. Just drag it into your sidebar.

I somehow did not know this. I just saw Applications, Library, System, and Users and figured it was something else.

> As for hidden files, cmd + shift + . to show them.

Ah, that would be why I didn't realize "Macintosh HD" was /.

But how was I supposed to know this? I just went through all the menus and I didn't see any options regarding hidden files and no references to the cmd+shift+. keyboard shortcut.
Also, I still maintain that I can communicate ideas significantly faster by just typing them than by using a tool like ChatGPT.

But vast number of people don't get paid, for writing that communicates but rather for spewing words that vaguely cover a topic, writing that's a rewrite of already written policies in a different formats (FAQ versus Mission Statement versus etc) or marketing newsletters that want high-value adjectives put together in a plausible way. ChatGPT can apparently do all this. I wouldn't count on less people being employed versus more pap being produced but we'll see.
I used ChatGPT. Isn't it already based on GPT-4 since a few weeks ago? It's the "Mar 23" version.
If parents don't want their kids attending drag shows it's pretty easy for them to simply not take their kids, but that's not what's happening.

What's happening is that those parents are making a fuss about what other parents are deciding to do.

Telling other kids and parents what to do is a consistent position. Like forced identity disclosures in schools. It isn't enough that they would like to get notified, but every kid who asks to be called something different has to be disclosed, or if they don't want their kid playing sports with a trans kid, they would rather kick out the trans kid out than make choices about their own participation.
ChatGPTs strength isn't in solving new problems, but in helping you understand things that are already solved. There's a lot more developers out there using these tools to create react apps and python scripts then there are solving race conditions with USB 2.0.
Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner Revealing AI Creation
Yes in Our Backyards: On the need to build more housing
What would happen if after long period of inactivity the server become a “silent” device i.e. device that does not transmit traffic for extended periods of time because can result in a loss of service binding? These periods of inactivity, thus making the device effectively unreachable (for example for a WAKE-ON-LAN packet) [1].

The diagrams in the article are just gorgeous, can you share the drawing tools being used here?

[1] Shortest Path Bridging Architecture guide:

https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/docume...
> They didn't like early Minecraft, they only like Minecraft now, after 10+ years of development gave tons of interlocking features and mechanics.

i think you are dead wrong.
there is a lot of people just using the core of the game (previous the first alpha) to build stuff and that is just fine for them. past alpha (the survival mode) up to today i do not think it changed dramatically beyond some mobs and new stuff to find… the gameplay is still the same: collect -> craft [while surviving]
Nice. The Epic presentation at LDI last year was pretty good .
I feel bad for this Greg Rutkowski.

He's got to be the most cucked man on the planet.