skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm assuming this report was written by microsoft?
> In 2023 US democracy is falling apart, we are on the brink of civil war,

Both of these statements are bullshit. People voted based on terrible information 50 years ago as well (a couple of TV appearances for the “informed voter”).

The political discourse is shitty again, but we aren’t anywhere near a civil war. The discourse and violence back around the Vietnam war was far worse than anything today.
20x vs 28x worse than CO2 hardly proves them correct.
In the context of scientific skepticism[1], denier or denialism[2] is the correct label.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism
Does employee owned stock magically not go up in value because "reasons"?
Woah great! I’d love an Andy Pavlo review of it ;)
Can you provide some context? Curious what informs your thoughts on codecrafters' quality...
> A new study shows that their rapid vision may be a result of their photoreceptors - specialised cells found in the retina - physically contracting in response to light. The mechanical force then generates electrical responses that are sent to the brain much faster than, for example, in our own eyes, where responses are generated using traditional chemical messengers.

https://phys.org/news/2012-10-eye-mystery-insight-flies-fast...
Clinton, Biden, Sanders, and many others had platforms of mass free college education of one kind or another. At least some localities have free community college.

Biden, the only one elected nationally, proposed it to Congress but it was killed off by the GOP. Someone I was taking to at the time laughed about it and said to me, 'no way was I going to pay for the blacks to go to college!' (they were elderly and white). A shocking, revelatory moment for me. Sample size of 1 in that case, but that's widely theorized to be the basis of conservative rejection of providing any such benefits to Americans.
> How could it not be in the chart though?

In the specific case of the San Francisco, because notations indicating a probable seamount were not transferred from other charts when the chart being used was compiled; there is some lack of clarity on how much the failures involved are the responsibility of the command crew of the sub and how much of higher command, but its definitely a failure to appropriately use existing information, not a “the information did not exist” problem.

While the area was apparently not well charted, the responsible crew not using the information at hand (including information as to the the quality of charting data for the area) was also apparently at play in the Connecticut grounding.
I just really like cheese and yogurt and milk and other cow milk products.
To be honest, it would be awesome if the title could be change from "Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought" to "Methane is 20x worse than CO2 instead of 28x worse".
Thanks. You know more than I do about statistics.
Whoops! I originally had “does X”, then changed it to make it less abstract.
Why is that a prerequisite for intelligence?

Suppose we could upload + fully simulate a human mind. Now suppose that we chose to spin it up, run it briefly, then throw away all the state every time we wanted to interact with it. Would the choice to throw away the internal state mean it wasn't intelligent?

LLMs run in an autoregressive mode for inference. We can concatenate conversations, but choose not to because shit gets weird if you let them run long enough, and partly because there's a finite context window in the current architectures.

I'm not saying that gpt is intelligent, mind you, but that your argument is insufficient to show non intelligence: it's really a 'airplanes can't fly because they don't flap their wings' argument.
Nobody Told Mercedes-Benz About Elon Musk’s Price War
That's fair, since I could still run various more traditional vis and they'd be significantly smaller.
Google actually has a list of websites categorized as banks and financial institutions. Yes it does not cover every single case but that's a start.

Extensions are not malicious by default, but some developers are selling well known extensions to bad actors (unknowingly) who can change things.

In most cases you only need the extension to inject their scripts only in certain websites, not all.

Right now Chrome provides an option in each extension's settings "Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites you visit:" with an option to allow only when you click on the extension.

That config can easily be applied to every extension in Chrome's settings IF that was an option and add any extension to allow list by default on specific sites where you need.

Currently during extension install when the extension needs access to the all websites where you want to use it there is no option to select which website you want to allow it to be used on (the extension developer does not know where you want to use it so they make it to allow on all websites).
Gen-2: Text to Video
Current accounts in the UK are pretty much always loss leaders to lure people into the bank’s other products such as credit cards or mortgages. The margin on the CA alone is most likely negative.
https://archive.ph/7nGYq
I think the integration of LLM into software interface to accept natural language input is the real “prompt engineering”
Sandboxing still makes sense and is the right direction into a better Linux ecosystem. However the Ubuntu approach is flawed.
BBC Micros in the UK would be the in-school equivalent of this (although I don't believe they were given away), and the ZX Spectrum the home equivalent.

The fact that they couldn't do very much unless you learned to program them was a distinct advantage compared to the PCs that followed - which were used to teach Microsoft Office, not computing - and is why Silicon Valley is packed full of mid-30s-40s Brits.
CAN is multi-master so you could just have a device on the bus that hold the line active forever.
Suppose for X million dollars we can either:

A) Launch one rocket with a 90% chance of success

B) Launch two rockets each with a 70% chance of success

We should do (B) because it has a 91% chance that at least one of the rockets succeeds, and a 49% chance two rockets succeed--an outcome that is impossible under scenario (A). With the right telemetry, the 51% chance that at least one fails will give us valuable knowledge that helps us improve our rockets the next launch.

Of course, the calculus changes if we let failure-averse marketing people run our rocket company.
The EU is investigating options to ensure products are repairable for up to 10 years. Some product categories are already required to comply. See https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/shopping-internet/spa...

Fully supportive of such initiatives to make spare parts available directly or indirectly. Hopefully we see companies release designs after EOL/EOS dates that allow 3D printing (where feasible) in time. I've managed to extend the life of products (primarily my coffee grinder) by finding 3d printing designs online.
Otoh their allies, the climate change fatalists, might lose their "what about methane". (in reality they are usually not allies but the same persons, switching between denial and it's too late anyways some times even mid-sentence)
No you don’t. Community college is not that expensive, plenty of jobs offer partial or more tuition reimbursement, and if you get good grades you will have scholarships and grants available. You may have some need left over if you need housing but that’s where loans and a summer job come in. It’s not a free vacation to go to college and be housed there, need to do it with a plan. It’s simple to get a great education without needing huge loans. America is great.
It's actually the other way around. It's high enough to not be economically viable for anybody.
The legal theory is that Congress authorized the Secretary of Education to do this under the terms of the HEROES Act of 2003[1]. It requires a war or national emergency, so in this case, C19.

There’s a pair of pending Supreme Court cases on the Biden administration loan forgiveness that may validate or reject this theory within the next couple months[2].

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

[2] https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/02/bidens-student-loan-forgi...
Pencils and paper? What a waste, I used chalk on a slate tablet.
Yep. The government choosing to not price-differentiate based on obvious risk factors is not a "quirk", it's a willful blindness that has created an arbitrage opportunity. I'm a bit surprised that there isn't hand-wringing about these private companies causing adverse selection in the public student loan risk pool, but I imagine that this is a bit too complicated to explain to the article's intended audience.
Sig Sauer claim that it has an internal safety (or really, a couple internal safeties).

Part of the problem is that people are choosing to carry a gun that is 'ready to fire' (like, they want it live as they remove it from a holster...). It's hard for me to get into the mindset of a civilian that chambers a round in their bedroom as they get ready to leave the house, so I wouldn't want to try to speak to how informed their choice is.
17 year old you should be able to default on student loans and get a clean slate, like any other kind of debt. If student loans worked exactly like regular loans (e.g you could declare bankruptcy, they weren't subsidized, etc.) then no one would give 17 year old you a loan unless you were statistically likely to be able to repay it (i.e majoring in something with good outcomes at a half-decent university). AND schools wouldn't expect you to be able to pull out 50k/year, they would have to adjust tuition accordingly, and we wouldn't have this crazy university tuition inflation.

We're in this mess because federal student loans live in a bizarro world where they're not subject to any of the normal market forces, checks, and balances that make regular debt work well for society. They are handed out without any kind of real due-diligence, and have absolutely no incentive to be good investments.

If we want to redistribute wealth to invest in education, that's fantastic, but we should just give it in the form of grants, scholarships, or (only in my dreams) some free regional federal universities and technical colleges. Instead we tried to play with the market and got burned, which isn't surprising to anyone with who has studied economics.
I assume the answer is because it's much easier to hand out free money than it is to actually make structural changes. I don't think it's immoral to give out free money though.
I think it's just that government spending, especially in taxpayer facing environments, is under extreme scrutiny.

So you have companies trying to make it look like they're offering the most, but costing the least, and hiding those costs elsewhere (planned obsolescence)
Yep, there’s a reason I’ve stopped shopping at Amazon it’s simply more time consuming than going to the store in the first place.
My guess is that you don’t have children. Adults have the ability of discernment due to life experience. Children do not.
apt install zfs works just fine though? I’ve set it up in Debian many times in minutes, am I missing something?
The loophole that made cars in America so big
For a lot of people the filing fee plus the cost of an entire day off work (for court) is pretty steep.

Honestly, for anything expensive, I tend to use Amazon as part of the "greater source of reviews", but I order it as close to direct from the manufacturer as possible.
The Mi11 used it in December 2020. The S21 series used it in Jan 21.
I believe in freedom, free choice, and actuarially-fair risk assessments. If an English lit major is more likely to fall behind on their loan payments, then that should be taken into account when determining the interest rates on those loans.
>And then after a few years the updates stop coming from Google

yes, but that's part of the deal when you buy the things. it's frustrating as an individual user, but for large purchasers like schools it's a selling point to have guaranteed software and firmware updates going to a known date that you can trust. they'll be implementing a device purchase plan with a fixed lifespan anyways, so as long as they know the EOL is later than their end date, it's fine.

and fwiw, my old chromebook that's been EOL for four years still seems to be working fine. it's slow AF, but it works.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
Somewhat related [1] he's running for U.S. Potus.
Edit: removed comment.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-self-funding_...
Yes it is. It’s a protected term in Canada and they have software engineers.
Not a good source of input, but I've had a Chromebook for the last ~8 years that has no cracks or broken anything. I've only had to replace the SSD once in the entire time it's been running near 24/7 as a home server and auxillary PC with GalliumOS.

Then again, it stays on a shelf, but it hasn't had any mystery developments in play. Maybe the screen has washed out a little but that's it.
Or you get a diploma for that, and you are a bona fide engineer.
> before they acquired Sun anyway.

This is the one that really burns me. There was a moment there where Oracle could have re-licensed ZFS, gotten it merged directly into linux, and had the best file system for their Linux distro. They even did it for dtrace! Instead, whether it was because they were so attached to their own pet project or other reasons, they just did nothing and now we get to live with the consequences forever because they don't own all the copyrights on OpenZFS so they can't even change the license on it now if they wanted. (Strictly, they could relicense their own Solaris code for ZFS, but that would be quite an effort to rework and leave us with two incompatible implementations.)
Isn't the issue here that the vendor is not committing the fraud?
I don't normally think of Node and CPython as in the same performance bracket.

Regardless, you can do some crazy things in Node. See these notes about Node and MySQL:

https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/...
That’s almost certainly the cause. This is copilot working as intended.
I like the idea of making self sufficient
app systems like this, especially on old hardware. But I have a dumb question: how do you get the files out of it if you have no networking/drivers?
What I've seen is to plan to replace 25% of client systems every year. With a little variance, this seems about right.
I haven't heard of him objecting to the Sun origins of ZFS, but he has warned people away from ZFS on the grounds of Oracle's litigious reputation:

> And honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it's ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL'd.

> Other people think it can be ok to merge ZFS code into the kernel and that the module interface makes it ok, and that's their decision. But considering Oracle's litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there's no way I can feel safe in ever doing so.

> And I'm not at all interested in some "ZFS shim layer" thing either that some people seem to think would isolate the two projects. That adds no value to our side, and given Oracle's interface copyright suits (see Java), I don't think it's any real licensing win either.

> Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me.
> This is just his compensation for last year.

$218M of it is a stock grant on a 3 year schedule, so no, it is not.
Article Worth of Knowledge Is Stretched into Book or Course
I concur, but in retrospect, the curriculum even twenty years ago was learning locked-down pieces of software in a locked down environment. The usual "ICT" consisting of using Windows and learning the absolute basics of Word, Excel, and Publisher. Maybe they'd let you go on Google for 30 minutes once a month via Internet Explorer.

Anybody who has more than a passing interest will go "but what about x?", e.g., "how do they make games then?" or "how do they make movies then?" or "how do I write an app then?". Most kids weren't and still aren't interested, but the ones who are, will beg, steal, borrow or buy yesteryear junk to fiddle with.
GitHub now allows enabling private vulnerability reporting at scale
A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground
Have they fixed raid 5 yet? Last time I checked, they said "we don't care" and declared it stable.
I personally switched to btrfs years ago due to it being (anecdotally) more resilient to power outages and forced reboots. With ext4 it would sometimes result in corruption but btrfs so far has been rock solid. Not a big deal of course but 0 corruption per year is proportionally infinitely better than 1.
Personally I prefer ReiserFS, it has always been a killer file system in my view.
Correct, they aren't politicians. They don't engage in the business of politics: campaigning, winning elections, building coalitions, interacting with constituents etc.
I realize you're just trolling, but science is quite settled that anthropogenic climate change is a real ting.

Minutae about whether methane is 28x as bad as co2 or merely 20x as bad remains to be settled. Please don't exploit people's good faith interest in getting the exact truth to advance bad faith claims.
What is the point of making this comment? What does it add to the conversation? Are you just looking for commiseration? Do you get some satisfaction if you then find a loony on the socials having their field day?
Chalk on a slate tablet? What a waste, I just burned several chunks of wood in a particular way.
12,000 Googler’s fired this year and somehow the Googler with the lowest skills/bills ratio remains. At least he took full responsibility for his failures as a leader while handing out pink slips.
Is this just a "monitoring" platform, or does this also intend to make use of Clickhouse as a "log analysis" platform ala Mozilla Hindsight?

Which is to say: is there some obvious hook-point to add watcher jobs (as Clickhouse stored procedures, maybe?) to process correlations in the inputs to the system? (Where by "watcher jobs", I mean things like "create a record in a table if a user makes requests across endpoints A, B, C, in that order — with other arbitrary requests from that user in between — in a five-minute sliding window, at some point within 12 hours of the user's registration.")

Using a DB as a log-analysis system would be pretty great, if it was practicable, as you'd be able to correlate present events with events from the distant past (or with statistical aggregations of all of history up to the present), rather than having to build your correlations only from what can be buffered in memory.

But most log-analysis platforms need extremely high event-processing-job performance to scale — Mozilla Hindsight, mentioned before, is a rewrite in C+Lua of a previous system (Mozilla Heka) where the fundamental bottleneck was the Golang runtime. I'd be curious to know whether Clickhouse sprocs/triggers/etc have been tuned to function at that sort of scale...
Flexing your muscles was a weird myth I hadn't heard before, but it's not hard to trap a mosquito on your skin by stretching the skin with two fingers. You have to find the right grip, stretch the skin quite hard and not let go.

It takes some time, you will get a mosquito bite from it, but it doesn't end well for the mosquito which you may or may not find satisfaction in. It might help being young and a bit bored.
ZFS was never the default in Ubuntu
It’s almost as if, get this, it’s not a problem, let alone anywhere even remotely in the vicinity of a problem of the scale and magnitude you claim it to be.

It’s almost as if people in 2023 get by fine with spaces in their filenames whereas you seem to be stuck squarely in the 1980s.

I know, it’s a crazy idea. Those kids and their insanity. /s
Many dot matrix printers were boustrophedonic.

Also how I mow my lawn.
I don’t think he was comparing to the yearly cost of textbooks but more comparing it relative to a single textbook (which students have multiple). The key is cost per student for their most critical piece of equipment, and one far more capable than a 30yr old textbook, $66 isn’t bad at all.
Great initiative! I was wondering if you could kindly provide me with a comparison of how this initiative compares with Langchain? Additionally, I have observed that there are numerous libraries available along with GPT, however, none of them seem to be production-ready and seem to be intended only for hobbyists. Would you kindly elaborate on your plan to address this issue? Thank you very much!
What you’re describing is the first step of enshittification ( https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys )
What makes the Cobalt unacceptable?
Isn't real?

You write about people who sling PHP or Javascript spaghetti?

I have engineering degree in computer science (I think it is mostly thing in eastern Europe, you have bunch of electronics, math, computer architecture to learn), I worked on automotive software which is I have to say fairly regulated. Where you have to care for things like ISO or MISRA standards in your code.

I don't mind people calling themselves "software engineer" even if they whip up front-end - but I do mind if someone calls "software engineering isn't real".

;)
Unlike CO2 the influence of methane on atmospheric warming (in W/m²) has not changed during the last 50 years. I appears there is almost zero impact on climate change by man/woman-made methane. Am I a denier by pointing that out?
Essentially yeah. R&D at Intel/AMD/NVidia is 9-5 work.

TSMC and SMIC are different beasts entirely. They push way harder on the gas and never let up.

A lot of ex-TSMC are at SMIC now. They aren't doing cutting edge nodes for now but expect crazy things out of SMIC in 5-10 years.
Yes. There's some flexibility in there, though I haven't got enough experience with it yet to see whether that is a way through a ceiling or just a source of additional confusion.

Isadora has GLSL too, and a JS actor which is nice for stuff which gets tedious to patch like a calculation with more than one operator. I have used that one a couple times.
Soo "unit sales". Is this by weight? By volume? By calorie?
Because I was in a hurry and I don't have unlimited time, while providing info about the past that I already have was still valuable for the point
The heading should just be “Methane 20x worse than CO2”.

There is no need to mention previous thought, most people had no previous thoughts.
Home distributions are very much not the right place to look for raid 5. That's small server territory.
why is this modded down? This is factual.

Crypto is trading a lot, but on CeFi.
A company may want an outdoor outlet and for some reason, end up putting it on the same circuit that powers the door locks. The building has backup power so there's no risk of the door becoming unlocked if the whole building goes down but what if that single circuit goes down (like from a wire jammed in the outdoor outlet)? The doors would lose power and the UPS wouldn't kick in so now the doors are all unlocked.
You also have to take into account the case of a fraudulent reporter.
For things to be durable for kids they have to be built differently.