skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd second the idea that this was not the major thing holding back adoption of the metaverse.

Frankly, even if they announced a program to give free Oculus headsets to anyone who wanted one, I still wouldn't want to start using the metaverse. Judging by the other comments on this post, I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way.
4. Spelling reforms have been introduced to amend the orthography to rationalise it and better reflect current pronunciation.

This is what some people advocate for English - entirely misguidedly in my view.
> It’s not the date you put in the letterhead. That would be insane.

Clarification: I put in the body of the letter the effective date I will be leaving. Something like:

"My final day will be December 12, 2018."

The date in the letterhead has nothing to do with it.
The Purpose of a Flame Trench at a Rocket Launch Site
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire
Slight hijack. I / we went through a very similar tech selection process for timeseries metrics (not logging) ~1.5 years ago. We looked at Druid, ElasticSearch, TimeScale and a bunch of others.

Main takeaways were: the SQL flavor and its aggregations in CH are amazing. Running on a single node for dev laptops is trivial. It’s crazy fast with almost zero tuning.

It does not surprise me at all the CH is powering new products and startups.

Note: hosted CH did not exist yet. We are using Altinity to run our cluster.
I'm regularly heating pans to 650f and above for searing steaks, verified with a infrared thermometer. Also necessary for good stir fry.

You start with such high temps because unless cooking with an extremely high btu heat source, the temp of that pan drops dramatically once food is added. This is also why you don't add oil until right before placing your food item in. Otherwise, yes, even high temp oils would ignite before reaching 650f.
There is also the other way, humans are laundering AI code, and making it look like they wrote the code, to register copyright to their own name.
Imagine if an automaker said "if you ever install a non-OEM part in your vehicle, none of our dealers will ever sell you any OEM parts or perform any service on it." Or if Keurig said "if you ever use a third-party K-cup, you'll never be able to use any of ours in that machine ever again."
The War on Passwords Enters a Chaotic New Phase
Literally the first line of the Wikipedia article:

> Mongols in China or Mongolian Chinese
If I rembember correctly, you could use the B drive even if you have just one unit. It was useful to copy files from one disk to another, even if you didn't had an hard drive as temporary storage
Seriously, let's get back good old honest model of paying outsourced indian programmers $2.50 an hour to retype GPL code or copy and paste it from Stack Overflow into our codebase.
I think you underestimate just how careful “real” businesses are when it comes to violating the (copyright) law. Any legal advisor at any corp will strongly advice against using code that’s generated like this, until there is clear legal precedent that it’s OK to do this.
Still waiting for someone to trick Copilot into ingesting the Windows source code and regurgitating snippets of it verbatim.
Yes, and 95% of the people in those civilisations were farmers and fishermen.

The old buildings, the wonders of the world, are both neat and in many cases big, but I wouldn't call them "mind-boggling"; Now, One World Trade Center in Manhattan, that's mind boggling. Seen it in person, it's of a grand enough scale that my normal distance cues like parallax didn't work and it became like a skybox in a videogame to my perception until I got really close.

I think, ironically, all those nice old bits of architecture from c. 1523 kinda prove my point: doing that with 5% of a population roughly 1/10th to 1/20th of todays in size, and one which didn't have power tools and mechanised construction equipment, means you could replicate all those things again by hand, one or two hundred times over and still have half the population be idle.
Very much so. Sea level has actually been falling on the coast of Greenland, for example, due to the gravitational effect of ice melting along with crustal rebound. But all that water has to go somewhere, and along low lying coastal areas like Florida, it will rise a lot.
What does "fielded" mean?
That's a good list of useful links. From my experience as a home owner in a high-risk area, I'd add some of the things which can make a big difference are often surprisingly simple. In addition to managing your own land properly, make sure you have a large enough water tank to support firefighters in protecting your land. We got a well tank five times bigger than our typical usage needs. Another key thing is to put your tank next to where a fire truck can access it easily and get the proper adapter installed so the fire truck can direct connect to your tank (it's not included in most).

We also widened the access road on our property to support larger fire trucks and dozers. Obviously, fire-resistant construction materials and techniques are a huge help and not all require extensive retrofitting. There are spark resistant attic air access covers which are easy to install. We needed to re-roof and remodel anyway so we went with fire-resistant roofing and concrete siding. It's also important to have non-cellular local communications because the cell towers often go out first (our community uses 2-meter handsets for emergency comms). Doing those things along with the fact we've cleared all trees and brush out beyond 300 feet and only have metal out-buildings caused our local fire chief to comment that if everyone did what we've done, protecting the whole region would be three times easier. We also have enough generator power (on auto-failover) to pump our own well water to wet down our house and surroundings. With that our house has a really strong probability of surviving with no external help even if our property is directly hit by a major wildfire.

Edit to Add:
I forgot to mention another key thing. If you live in a place like this, there's often only a single narrow public road serving your property and others nearby. Make sure you have transportation that'll let you get out cross-country if the road is blocked by either fire or heavy equipment. We have AWD ATVs fueled and always ready to go (plus they are handy around big properties like this). Between us and our neighbors we have a plan to get everyone on our road out without outside help - including a few elderly folk who will need assistance. Firefighters needing to rescue unprepared residents diverts vital resources from fighting the fire and clogs roads - which just makes everything else worse.
Having a blue check mark is an embarrassment now tho so I don’t think it will turn out like that.
"soft underbelly" is synonymous with "weak point" or "Achilles heel", it's in no way dismissive. If anything, it's the opposite of dismissive.
Seems odd to knowingly choose a candidate that will work to make the lives of Americans worse solely to keep seniority. In fact, doing so seems like you would be empowering a terrible person beyond a normal terrible person, thus ensuring the lives of Americans are that much worse.

Bonkers.
"get-a-byte, get-a-byte, get-a-byte, byte, byte" - Dave Cutler https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14150/how...

>Windows I/O weirdness. You really don't realize how strange it is until you

"can I get a wut... WUT?" - Developers, Developers, Developers

====

it's just hard for people today to understand what a revolution stdin and stdout was, full 8 bit but sticking with ASCII as much as possible. There was nothing about it that limited Unices from having whatever performant I/O underneath, but it gave programmers at the terminal the ability to get a lot done right from the command line.

The web itself is an extension of stdin and stdout, and the subsequent encrusting of simple HTTP/HTML/et al standards with layer upon layer of goop that calls for binary blobs can be seen as the invasion of Cutlerian-like mentalities. It's sad that linux so successfully took over that all the people who we were happy to let use IIS and ASP and ActiveX had to come over to this side with their ideas. No idea of which is bad, but which together are incoherent.

client server FTW, bring it back
Not particularly. This isn’t an actual observation, this is just an experiment that attempts to create some analogous phenomena.
Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

And animal agriculture is the biggest culprit of them all ... but suggest that people should switch to plant based diets, and even climate activists will want to stone you.

People are the primary cause of climate change. We all want it to change, but too few wants to change.
If I were American, I might respond to their, "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies" Act, with the "Mitigating Overreach Limiting Obstruction Nullifying Lamentability And Benefiting Everyone" Act.

If by EARN IT, they mean Americans should earn their freedom - which this government is using its own crimes[1] as a pretext for taking from them - that seems really just unwise.

[1] EDKH
Not in the USA, but it is in the EU and elsewhere.
Ignoring the fact that twitter blue hasn't actually meant that you are who you say you are.

I think this would be a good change. Like letting unknown people run ads has been a historically bad idea with people pushing all kinds of malware and etc.
Why does competition exist ever? I think there are trade offs for everyone to consider before they blindly assume one will be the better option for every use case forever
In Bard way.
For the right to call me about past business, and a guarantee I will help.
My "bull" case for Lyft is being acquired by Cruise. Perhaps in an acquisition Lyft could restructure enough to survive and Cruise gets a ready-install base of millions of riders (and human drivers for all the markets/conditions they can't automate).
It feels like you answered your own question in a way..

"Why couldn’t the regulators in Brunel's day have carved out an open-ended “unless otherwise demonstrated” around the use of iron structural members?"

The answer is partly in your statement: "regulation is, in isolation, neutral." Looking around at regulatory/ bureaucratic bodies, "in isolation" is rarely (never?) achieved. Satisfying ambiguous "unless otherwise demonstrated"-esque clauses that are enforced by unelected paper pushers is very much part of Brunel's concern.
Drivers vs. Everybody
Yeah, fair point. Sentry has added quite some features and increased complexity. Probably for good reasons like serving large customers. But still
Hardly, there are sets of axioms where 1 = 1 which already show this in exquisite detail.
I don’t think we’re as far off as you think
Brutal.

One thing I always wondered was why Facebook never started their own cloud services offering like Amazon did with AWS? They have the scale, expertise, and infrastructure to do it yet never have.

While a lot of large companies constantly churn through new product ideas to see what sticks, Amazon hit a home run early on with AWS, and Facebook could have easily started their own many years ago when it was clear how the market was developing for cloud.

Edit: Found previous thread about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667025
Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate
Lots of people are calling for WFH and legitimization of remoting. Alas, it seems to be a matter of monkey power, and the managers want you to burn tons of fuel to sit your butt in the chains they provide and smell his armpits from a distance.

shrug
Costa del Lex, Luthorville, Marina del Lex, Otisburgh... Otisburgh?! OTISBURGH?!!
Very average? How do you figure that? If you're paying top dollar, which Lyft did for most of its existence, you're going to picking from a pool of the top few percent. Even 1% of all software developers is many times more than Lyft's headcount.

I'm curious, who do you think is hiring the 10th percentile engineers? What are those people doing?
He's almost great. He still gets taxes very wrong.
Relevant: "Germany's 66.5 GW of installed wind is only producing as much as the 3 reactors that turned off last night used to produce." https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396
Easy solution: Just make it generate intentionally obfuscated versions of the same functions. Throw in some valid syntax that humans would never consider to use. Break up functions into smaller sub functions. If the LLM has intricate knowledge of the compiler used, it could even generate code which it knows will produce identical bytecode.

Now the only loser is the humans that still have to maintain the ugly code, and RMS can have his weaponized copyright and eat toejam too.
The way copyright works, it's a violation if it was copied, but it's fine if it was generated independently. In this case I would say it's a copy, but I'm sure someone else would argue differently.
A lot of people (in this thread and elsewhere) try to defend corbu as a visionary whose ideas were ruined by cheap construction of whatever, but it’s simply not the case.

Humans need nature and green space, that’s an easy thing to agree with.

But putting small amounts of green space in between everything (rather than centralizing it) is an awful idea.

Not only does it make everyone travel (probably drive) past the green space to get anywhere, it makes the green space worse by making it a pseudo space where it’s not nature (you still see buildings), but it’s also not useful civic space for the city.

He made cool buildings and his are some of the few brutalist buildings people think look cool, but he was just dead wrong on urban design.
and is a way to significantly reduce dependence on fundamentally authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela, etc.

One of the reasons France is like 75% nuclear generation was response to arab oil crisis in 70ies
Dji
Both. IMO you should have a plan where the user pays e.g. $7 and when the resources for it are drained, you start refusing requests until the throttle period expires.

It's extremely useful to prototype and experiment with a project and have it have a total budget that will not be surpassed.

One more idea: pay as you go. I pay $10, that turns out to be not enough, I pay another $20 and get immediately unblocked.
This doesn't really engage with my points. Yes of course programming a narrow chess engine doesn't extrapolate to domains outside of games. But my point is once a system can induce a self-play dynamic in itself simply from being prompted with the rules of chess, then this represents a significant qualitative change. I only chose chess for the irony of it wrongly being represented as AGI-complete in the past. None of your points are relevant to this claim.

The issue of how the human mind works is tangential, but its also not true that computer chess has no relation to how the human mind works. Neural net based evaluations result in moves that more closely match human expert choices[1], which suggests a similarity in mechanism compared to prior evaluation mechanisms.

>The problem with statistical machine learning algorithms is that they have to be trained to do one thing, and one thing only. They're one-trick ponies.

LLMs show the beginnings of breaking out of this limitation. People who argue LLMs are just another example in the history of narrow AI don't seem to have a strong response to the example of in-context learning. The straightforward understanding is that we're seeing the beginnings of true generalization. I have not seen a convincing argument that in-context learning is just another case of what we've seen before.

[1]https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ashton/pubs/maia-kdd2020.pdf
This is the point. It's a buzzword and the reality of a lot of popular services is that the service provider can likely already provide access to your data if requested to by a government.

Ergo, if this is a consideration within your threat model, it's an inappropriate solution. However, I am highlighting that EARN IT is no more a threat than existing service providers abiding by a court order, ergo the existing solutions likely aren't fit-for-purpose for some folks, depending on threat model.
China's foreign minister: Both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to China
Florida insurance costs were driven up, primarily, by rampant litigation and fraud [1], not climate change. With that said, insurers are starting to price in the realized risk [2]. Assuming built to modern code (post 2002) and elevation above flood and storm surge risk, homes in Florida are resilient to all but the most powerful storms (Cat 4, Cat 5). Of course, code will need to be revisited if housing must resist the occasional 200+ mph storm (primarily roof to wall attachment and roof shape, as well as shutters for doors and windows to resist impact [3] [4]; cinder block/concrete exterior walls are very common but not yet mandatory).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-22/fraud-lit... | https://archive.is/Njkww

[2] https://www.mic.com/impact/climate-change-is-ravaging-florid...

[3] https://www.floir.com/siteDocuments/OIR-B1-1802.pdf

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/21/how-to-build-a-hurricane-res...

(one of my properties is insured by the state's high risk pool at an elevation 90 ft above sea level)
I don't know if I'd call it underrated anymore nowdays that crt filters/shaders are mainstay in emulator community. Especially with 4k displays you can do quite a lot of tricks to get that CRT look. You have also products like Analogue Pocket that do incredibly detailed display emulation (although lcd instad of crt..).

https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/analogue-pocket-revie...

Some closeup shots of Analogue Pocket display https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogueInc/comments/rikszr/analogu...

edit: found also this lengthy article on setting up Amiga emulation with CRT shaders, which includes comparison shot with real CRT: https://blog.johnnovak.net/2022/04/15/achieving-period-corre...
This is basically swatting. Everyone could live in the center of some random group. And almost every day there's a new example of the police going to the wrong address and killing someone. We shouldn't have to defend ourselves from the police visiting us so they don't kill us in cold blood.
And its recyclable
they deserve their reputation
Unless I'm misreading this, it doesn't include passive fire mitigation approaches.

For example, for low-frost areas of California -- which is about half the state currently (expanding all the time), we developed models for planting bananas and irrigating with recycled water, producing a profitable crop yield and providing a non-flammable barrier at the wildland-urban interface:

https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/ediblefirebuffers-biorxiv21....
Email passwords are not for preventing impersonation. For one, POP3 passwords are separate from SMTP. Second, nothing in SMTP prevents impersonation… large mail handlers like GMail don’t allow it anymore, but you can put whatever you want in the “From” field. Things like SPF, DMARC and DKIM are there to prevent impersonation at the domain level for mail servers that want to protect their users.
free food always works
> As a side note: on modern Windows NT implementations the so called "registry bloat" is non-issue

How modern? I manage Windows 7 (transitioning to 10) machines that are used for QC in a hardware manufacturing environment that enumerate hundreds of devices (with mostly identical VID/PID) every week. We find that if we don't clear old devices out of the registry every so often, the enumeration time slows to a crawl.
This ain't /g/, anon
last i heard was no, they did not include their own code in the training set
Mark Zuckerberg works for the Board and Share price

That’s it

That’s the only thing he can do, he has no other options. There’s no world where he can focus on making anything other than more money forever and he has convinced the board that there is infinite money in the future.

Is he making the board happy?
Anyone talking about copyright in this thread without discussing a potential for how a court will apply fair use is talking nonsense and should be disregarded.
> but that doesn't change the fact that there are benefits to having women in visible positions of power, accomplishment, etc

So you're making the same proposal. You want to hire a woman because she's a woman. This is a massive disservice to female empowerment.

> There will be multiple qualified people for any job, and it is 100% acceptable to choose someone because they come from a historically underrepresented group, solely to increase visibility and enfranchisement of that group.

This is an absurd line of thinking. If two people truly are equally qualified, some immutable trait like race, sex, etc. should not be the determining factor. If you are ok with someone being hired for a job because they are a native american or a woman, then you should also be ok with someone choosing to only hire white men and asian men. Both of these scenarios are racist/sexist.
True, and that will cause a departure between companies large enough to worry, and all the startups that don’t.
Is This Waitlist UX/UI Overkill, or [Chefs Kiss]?
Atlassian Intelligence – Meet your new virtual teammate
Actually, every single written line of code is a liability. It doesn't seem very obvious when you're working for someone else and for a code base that was already touched by hundreds.

But it becomes very obvious if and when you start writing code for your own - a side hustle or a hobby project.

Therefore, striking a balance of well engineered code and productivity is even more unavoidable. If you over engineer and over think, you want make much progress but if you just keep making rapid progress without any regard to the engineering, you won't be able to do much engineering sooner or later.
The authors profile is even more hilarious than the article: https://nationalinterest.org/profile/todd-royal
Can't run lean. Its a 40% GPM business.
Captivating. I mostly had to listen to it as a podcast, occasionally sneaking a glimpse at the screen while waiting at a red light, and his descriptions were so precise and vivid I had no trouble following along. Love the documentarian voice and dry humor.
What a recipe! (took me so long to read parts that I forgot how fast it loaded)
Exactly! The best way someone put it - right to choose what to share and who to share it with.
While some counter-examples may be found, subsequent events have generally repudiated Brunel's concerns.
So... does that imply that it simply fails to cite where it's quoting from closed source projects?