skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have bank accounts in 3 different countries and none of them have any fees either.

What they have thought is redundant documentation of my funds that guarantee I won't be SoL when the building burns down with the paper ledger in it like this bank here.

I really don't understand this fascination or even admiration for outdated ways.
> be a 60 year old software engineer now you would have to have started in 1984

My uncle is a 60 year old software developer, but he started writing software much later in life.

He started off in EE working for Sperry, went with the divisions wherever they went and switched over at the ripe old age of 47.

His previous work was all about state machines, so is his new work.

So "40 years of experience" isn't the same as 60 years old developer.

There's more of the EE/Physics grad turned software developer around than people who wrote software in the 80s.
Would you have accepted "the Weimar Republic was burned down by the Nazis" as a more literal metaphor?

By the way, as a natural born quibbler, I upvoted your post.
A bunch of the comments seem to be of the opinion that "using LLMs in S/O" === "LLM answering questions"

But that isn't the only task available for fancy auto-complete. Eg. The LLM could help novices make better questions, or include more/less context in an answer, with the person still being the arbiter of truth.
Has there ever been a case of a company the size of SO deciding that, given their skills and culture, they’re just going to wind the company down rather than try and compete in a new technical arena that they’re entirely unsuited for? I’d respect that.

I don’t know if what he’s suggesting here makes sense (I tend to think no), but I’m automatically a little skeptical of the typical response to a serious threat: “no way, y’all, this is actually good for us!”

Imagine google coming out right now and saying the future of AI is search ads.
The statement is absolutely true but the people who have bought into the Woke Mind Virus nonsense are going to cry about it anyway. And then they will use some other statistics that they think will be a justification for making racist statements without understanding why one thing is racist and the other thing isn.
“ That's what a patent is though. Protection for the idea, not the implementation.”
So in theory an evil corporation could patent popular design patterns? Can a company patent the decorator pattern?
Something tells me the people who installed FB's shaddy VPN via sideloading weren't exactly what's I'd call "competent users".

FB complained about lost revenue from Apple locking down tracking so if $X is what they make per user via the official app store and $Y is what they make on the sideloading app store then there exists $Y-$X = $Z where $Z (or even $Z * some number) can be used for "customer acquisition" to convince people to switch with the goal of making more off them in the long run.

"Get $5 in FB Credit if you download this app", "Get access to this cool new filter if you install this app", etc. No, people here on HN won't be swayed by that but a good number of people will.
> Like, for most of the time I’m using it, Copilot saves me 30 seconds here and there and it takes me about a second to look at the line or two of code and go “yeah, that’s right”.

I've never used Copilot but I've tried to replace StackOverflow with ChatGPT. The difference is, the StackOverflow responses compile/are right. The ChatGPT responses will make up an API that doesn't exist. Major setback.
Amazon EFS now supports up to 10 GiB/s of throughput
> -) I worked on the Steam Deck as CTO of one of Valve's contractors on the project. Glad you like it.

Not who you're responding to, but I am extremely grateful for the work that was put to make gaming on Linux possible.

I may not own a Steam Deck, but it's development allowed me to switch entirely to Linux without looking back.
FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony
It's proportionate to the perceived need and perceived resistance. This is nowadays basically just Uyghur and Hong Kong, where the civil religion of the areas refuse to be completely assimilate. If Taiwan were to be successfully invaded, there would be massive repression until they would be broken.
How does one "just link against the code in addr2line" ?
Transformers and AI will discover that 98% of human expression is just a rehash of something else. That 2% of original expression will become 50x as valuable instead of getting lost in the noise. This may lead to unpredictable disruptions in the extreme regularity of human behavior as people start to realize how boring and unoriginal everything they've ever thought and done is.
> Thing is, you can't trust what you find on stack overflow or other sources either.

Eh. An outdated answer will be called out in the comments/downvoted/updated/edited more often than not, no?
Search engines didn’t show me quickly enough how to view the battery cycles of my Mac.

ChatGPT gave a perfect description
> especially with Nvidia.

How so? I'm using Plasma's Wayland session on a 3070ti and have very few complaints. The only issues I've seen are some weird Java GUI apps and that GTK4 text rendering issue that just won't go away. None of the "stuttering that you don't get on windows" that you're citing, I can count the number of dropped frames in most titles on one hand. Did you ever give Wayland a proper try?

> Until all games start releasing native ports

Why? Win32 is covered reasonably well with Wine, I see no reason in my experience why a completely-native runtime is required. It's certainly not needed to get the vast majority of Windows games running on Linux.
No, you wouldn't, because theft requires mens rea.
>... Griffais says the company is also directly paying more than 100 open-source developers to work on the Proton compatibility layer, the Mesa graphics driver, and Vulkan, among other tasks like Steam for Linux and Chromebooks.

https://www.theverge.com/23499215/valve-steam-deck-interview...
I think you’re probably right about them not actually using this but the implications of the capability are more interesting. There are potential privacy issues that could be troubling if not managed well, but it also has the potential to reduce the number of dangerous pursuits.
If I were to guess as to the motivations of those who downvoted, it'd be because of this statement:

> Just cover the canals as cheaply as possible.

Covering the panels as cheaply as possible is probably not worth the cost. Covering the canals with something that produces energy tips the scales to make covering worth it.

Then there's this part:

> And then put solar panels where it makes sense to put them

I agree with that, and wouldn't consider that worthy of a downvote. But without an explanation of "where it makes sense to put them", it's not very constructive.

Your reply, however, is far more constructive. It probably doesn't makes sense to cover every possible square inch of canal without considering the costs and benefits, or without considering the costs and benefits of alternative solutions.

Keep in mind, the idea isn't only to produce energy. It's about reducing evaporation and maintenance of uncovered canals. Covering panels with just about anything other than solar panels helps reduce evaporation and maintenance, but that's it. If you can cover it with something that can produce energy, then the cost of covering the canals can be offset by the energy produced. Emphasis on "can", because as you point out, it's not as simple as slapping panels down and calling it a day.
The only thing this seems likely to hit is the ground.
loose opinions, strongly held:

"I'm not sure. And I'm pretty sure you aren't either. Let's try some prototypes."
That's Jonathan Livingston Dolphin.
I look forward to this, not for potentially sketchy third party apps but for my own apps. My phone is the computer, camera, etc. that I always carry with me and I'd like to be able to write my own apps, both for experimenting and for my utility. Just sideload them, no developer program, no yearly license fees, write in languages of my choice, have a VM on my phone if I want.

If nothing else, imagine your own AI assistant that you know respects your privacy because it only communicates with your home server, or fits completely on your phone.
This is basically a NERF gun. In the vanishingly unlikely event that you need to, you can file a claim for damage to your vehicle.
Valve is a relatively small company. They have absolutely fantastic in-house talent (gamescope, for example, is a Valve development and an important innovation of modern SteamOS), but they also have quite a few contractors and projects/teams they support.

(Disclaimer: I worked at a contractor on the Steam Deck for a while, working on the desktop mode.)
Yes, it is a cost. I would argue that it's a reasonable cost of doing business, personally, but it is a cost.
Game Pass is honestly the only thing keeping Windows installed on my gaming computer. If there was a way to use it on Linux, even if it was a bit hacky (or, say, didn't allow multiplayer), I would switch immediately.
> The net present value of over-canal solar exceeds conventional overground solar by 20–50%, challenging the convention of leaving canals uncovered and calling into question our understanding of the most economic locations for solar power.

From my link in top comment.
Show HN: Nde: a Neovim IDE layer you can instantiate in one Nix command
Also, school curricula in the US are all based on grade year... which spans almost a whole year of age within a class based on enrollment date cutoffs.
Yea but it's not a company shoving hostile features down paying user's throats.
Users deserve freedom with their devices regardless whether you think they should have it.

The internet is valuable because it is open and free. Meanwhile the appstore complies with authoritarian regimes.
The article and your comment reminds me of Joe in Elan School: https://elan.school/18-back-in-the-day/
It has also helped me hundreds of times.
Basically every Android device for starters.
I would suspect that the company is too small to train their own LLM from scratch. But Stack Overflow probably has too much traffic to just pay for something like the ChatGPT API and built something on top of it. I'm not sure how many good options there are in between, can you realistically create your own LLM for this kind of specialized area without the kind of resources OpenAI/Google/Microsoft have?
Those tables are often wrong. That can cause all sorts of issues and a big reason why Linux tends to have sleep issues and why windows modern standby exists. When that happens you're either maintaining workarounds on the kernel side or patching the acpi table yourself (terrifying, see this example [1]). The hope is that the end user will eventually apply firmware updates that might not exist for months or years. With device trees, the kernel applies a patch and it rolls out with the next update.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/XMG_gg/comments/ia9x6c/fusion15_lin...
Wait what? The Tabasco pepper literally originated from Mexico, and it's named after a state.
No, the AI can only replicate what some other human figured out before and wrote down. Right now LLMs aren't really creative problem solvers. Therefore he needs a bunch of idealistic/stupid/unaware devs to keep sharing novel solutions that can be used to improve whatever AI he wants to have and sell it to companies which will fire those same devs that figured out those answers.
"Crooks' mistaken bet on false marketing claiming end-to-end encryption and offshore hosting by 2 different European communication networks that ended up shutting down due to police raids in 2020-2021" is a better title (or I guess just summary at that point).
> (you can use gpt-3.5 if you don't have access to gpt-4, but the results aren't as reliable

How reliable are the results GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5?
This was the logic Brex started with when they first introduced their corporate cards.

The rolling window started wrecking havoc very quickly. For instance, we gave all employees $300/month budget for parking garage. However, on some months they would charge the card on 5th of the month, on another at 11th, etc. It was literally unusable and we left for another provider (later Brex also went back to calendar days).

While this might not be an issue for your application per se, the real world operates on calendar days. You will quickly run into situations where 30 day rolling window not only doesn’t work but is explicitly causing problems.

My 2 cents.
Meta AI is on fire recently. Segment Anything, Animated Drawings, and now DINOv2... all in a single month!
I read this and if I understand it, someone wants to add some kind of automatic key exchange kind of like what happens with 'https:' ?

Please do not do this :)

One comment I agree with from a linked article:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/65874.html

>It takes all the problems associated with HTTPS and makes it SSH's problem also. This relates also to the reasons why OpenSSH refuses to accept patches that implement SSL/TLS pki and instead implemented their own CA model.
In my experience they just enjoy the free ride while traveling towards open sea. Like a skater hanging from a pickup. They save a lot of energy in the process probably.

They seem also to enjoy to watch the humans while doing that. One of the few wild big animals that will freely approach humans and look you in the eye.
If your definition is focused on javascript slingers, ok. But it’s been ~eighty years since WWII and the Top Secret Rosies and Bletchley Park. Business and govts got the on board with automation early.

Population has vastly increased as well, which affects all professions.
FWIW, many of the non-tech people I know gripe about the same user facing issues that come up on HN, including poor Google search results. They just don't post about it on the internet and might not even know that there are alternatives.

I would bet that a good chunk of users don't know that you can change the default browser or search engine, or at least don't think to do so. They might not like the UX, but they have other things occupying their focus and muddle through a bad experience with their phone or PC, just like they do with many other mediocre interfaces throughout the week.
I have used LLMs before to understand broken English. Being able to read someones words without stopping every few lines is a major benefit to interlingual communication.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1647999551964323844
Online discussion happens at the edge of what is known and that is where AI learns from. Yes, humans talking in a scrape-able way is needed for the future of AI, but there should really be some way for the teachers of AI to get compensated for their efforts in improving it. If Stack Overflow trains a model on contributor data it should not call the contributors community, but investors with proper compensation.
AFAICT so far "FreeBSD" is the Unix of choice for gaming, since it powers Playstation 4 and (apparently) 5. too.

In quotes because the userland is, of course, heavily modified and proprietry.
Silly title. Nietzsche wrote “Become Who You Are” about 150 years ago. What he meant was to accept life’s challenges as if you had invited them. Not to compare yourself to others. And, ultimately, to make each decision in your life in such a way that, if you’d be asked to live that same life again and again, with nothing changed, you’d say hell yes!
I did a cloud migration from a local datacenter to GCP and DB latency was the big issue for us. Latency from our DC to GCP was ~10ms, so an average page load with 10 queries added 100ms overhead which was mostly unacceptable.

Big enterprisey applications like this would love to only be doing 10 queries, 30+ is much more likely, and I bet they won't be moving from 1 DC to 1 cloud region, so 10ms is also unlikely. Back of the envelope suggests more like 1s of additional latency.

That would barely work for a big enough OLAP deployment, with all sorts of varied consumers, let alone OLTP.
It's a jelly! Casual/adhoc coworking at someone home... http://workatjelly.com/
With an aversion to technology, i really wonder how this bank supports electronic transfers like ATM, ACH, wires etc. Is there a core banking system running?
Ya good point. This Thom Hartmann video popped up in my TikTok feed today and explains where the anti-public-education movement came from, as the primary way to destabilize self-governance (democracy) to continue the status quo (classism):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHOVxjMIDA

The title may be political, but the subject matter is not. This is the kind of stuff that we used to learn in civics and social studies, which have largely been eliminated from the curriculum. Which can now be thought of as stuff like critical race theory.

Some examples of the Big Lie -> hidden truth:

* job losses due to immigration policy -> actually lost due to education spending cuts, misaligned incentives around outsourcing and tax cuts incentivizing the wealthy to keep their money instead of reinvesting it in growing their businesses

* crumbling infrastructure because nobody wants to work anymore -> actually due to loss of tax revenue because the wealthy are only taxed at 1/3 to 1/2 their pre-Reagan administration rate

* national debt because we spend too much on woke social programs -> actually due to spending more on our military than next dozen countries combined, because any non-capitalist economic success is viewed as a threat to US white/male/wealthy hegemony.

Of course the other party has its own issues. But I would argue that it hasn't had significant power since JFK, which left us in this flip-flop era where it primarily plays defense, since the loss of certain basic rights is so unthinkable that it takes vast mobilizations to stay ahead of the threats.

In other words, sabotage is a much more lucrative policy than building bridges. Which goes along with the status quo's endorsement of cheating via control of the media, judiciary, etc.

Now that mobilizations have failed in the face of stuff like the Roe v. Wade repeal, I predict that big political changes are coming in a Fourth Turning (I haven't read the book by that name yet, by William Strauss and Neil Howe).

The parties may switch sides on certain key issues. The older generation will probably find itself suddenly stripped of power, as the younger generation decides that it no longer wants to pay retirements, after a lifetime of stagnant wages and ever-increasing rents/student loans/etc. Young people may find that they have more in common with friends overseas speaking different languages, now that universal translators have arrived. Nationalism may fade after a last-ditch effort by elites to crush the proletariat beneath authoritarian fascism. And so on and so forth. So many bastions of the status quo are set to fall like dominoes should any fall, that a huge global propaganda machine works tirelessly to prevent any and all progressive wins.

Admittedly I have blind spots around failures of the left. I want to emphasize that I'm more interested in learning what those are, and raising the quality of life for the middle class, than supporting them outright based on ideology and my own biases.
It sounds like he’s suggesting that AI will open up a huge new pool of amateur developers, and those developers will need a community to turn to to know how to leverage AI.

But that kinda ignores the impact that AI will have on the concept of the SO community, or whether they’ll even be a need for it.

I honestly think his take is a misread of what kind of “community” SO has. My use of SO has always been 99% functional and borderline mercenary. I’m not getting to know anyone, I’m not building relationships, I just need a question answered. There’s nothing sticky about this community other than it being a good place to get those questions answered. As soon as AI can do that, I’ll never return to that “community”, and I’ll miss it as much as I miss Yahoo Answers.
The problem is if you solve the problem of not needing the community by training an AI on community content, your community will leave and then you're out of training data. AI is impressive, but I'm unconvinced it can answer truly novel programming questions.
Because you asked a question? Or because someone else did?
That CBC is funded by the government is true according to the article itself:

> CBC/Radio-Canada is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all Members of Parliament. Its editorial independence is protected in law in the Broadcasting Act.

The "funded by government" tag, taken by face value, simply asserts that funding is provided by the government. Which is true, repeating myself: the article itself states this.

It is not the tag "state affiliated media", which - unsurprisingly at least to me - is defined as:
[...] outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.

I do like this tag - to see directly if some media is funded by a government, whichever it is, because it could explain biases and lead me to research other, potentially conflicting but unrelated media outlets which are not funded by the same government. I can't grasp what's wrong about that.
I've always been a big fan of the Strong Opinions Weakly Held thing because I thought of it more as being a proxy for being decisive. I've been on too many projects or had life experiences where everything was mired down in endless equivocation and hair splitting. Why argue about what color to paint the bike shed when if one color is truly a problem repainting it later is low cost to fix.
> The corporation is governed by the Broadcasting Act of 1991, under a board of directors and is directly responsible to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage. General management of the organization is in the hands of a president, who is appointed by the Governor General of Canada in Council, on the advice of the Prime Minister.

> The CBC's 2021-2022 annual report revealed it received almost $1.4 billion (70% of its funding) from the federal government.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporat...
I usually use Mosh (instead of SSH) and have a nice Emacs setup on remote servers. If I am using an iPad Pro instead of a laptop, I have Emacs on remote servers configured with Mosh to accept virtual mouse clicks (by tapping the iPad screen) to jump around source files and scrolling with screen gestures. This might seem awkward, but it is not.

For Common Lisp, running Emacs on a remote server instead of slime-tramp has always been good enough. Would you suggest I try slime-tramp?
Huh? There's plenty of open source LLMs. Pythia, GPT-NeoX, GPT-J, GPT-2, BLOOM-176, are ones I can think of off the top of my head. Pythia is the best performing one IIRC.
Thank you for making it dope! I love my deck.
PCs are far more functionally standardised than embedded systems. And in fact modern PCs do use something similar to, but in fact far more complicated than, DTs - ACPI tables which not only contain static data but also callbacks to let system firmware do some of the work. Even on a PC there are still many things that are not on discoverable buses but I2C or SPI.

The only reason it seems simpler on PCs is because the ACPI tables are supplied by the hardware vendor so they're mostly invisible to the end user. But that only works because they're mass produced and the variability between different manufacturers is fairly limited. Microsoft and Intel specified what the system firmware must do and enforced it through certifcations. Most PC firmware is also only tested for the case of booting Windows and Linux often emulates bugs...

The same wouldn't work for embedded systems which need far more flexibility.

Yes some ARM systems these days use UEFI and ACPI but that is for server hardware which is basically a PC where the x86_64 processor has been replaced by ARM and it is desired to have it otherwise work the same.