skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that is true for now, but it's probably not going to work long term because of soil salinity.

Some posit that the reason for the rise and fall of the various fertile crescent civilizations was due exactly to this.

If you wanna know more about it Cadillac Desert is an excellent start.
Moral progress has happened before, is it so hard to believe it could happen again? If you go back a couple of generations, approximately everyone would beat their kids and think nothing of it.
Free time is also a form of abundance. Generally this surplus is achieved by living within one's means. Producing more than one consumes is the basic form of profit. Individuals can realize this through leisure or savings. The surplus can be applied for their subjective charitable ends or reinvested into the market. Even there, I'd caution against divorcing charity from the market. Despite screeds to the contrary, charity has a market value unto itself.

Gates is a problematic figure for other reasons, but the idea that all profit is theft and therefore abundance is impossible within the market is a bit absurd. The profit motive is what creates abundance. How individuals choose to spend their profits is an individual decision.

Before you can act charitably, you need the requisite resources. Obsessing over the units of measure is completely besides the point. Time, skills or goods must be acquired in advance. Hard leftists have a penchant for misconstruing market incentives. Greed, uncharitable hoarding and immoral behavior is an option in the market. However it is not a predetermined outcome. The article speaks to this. The charitably minded auto-mechanic is free to deploy his resources in the way that best suits his ends.

Contrast this voluntary charity with state mandated coercion. Violence is implicit. Central planners have little to no incentive to create abundance. Class based subsidies often create resentment and divide communities. As you observe, inter-class and inter-caste conflicts are often used in service of the state's largess. Voluntary market systems have no issue with voluntary charity. To the contrary, they create the conditions of abundance necessary for charity.
I follow the youtube channel of a jet engine mechanic.(*1) If someone wants to learn this profession, his material will take you a long way and supplement if not supplant jet engine maintenance school.

You will need on-the-job experience. Better if you're formally trained, but if you're willing to work in subzero winter Canada and start by sweeping the shop floor, you can get in!

1. https://www.youtube.com/@AgentJayZ
The best and safe way is to save qr codes and or strings to a seperate password database (I use keepass).
A lot of people "waste time" when they are tired or under the weather. They may not realize that's why. If it's why, telling them they are "wasting time" probably won't have much effect.
Because having a Free implementation which complements the Open Source one is a great way to keep the language alive, evolve it in a saner way, and improve ways we thought it's impossible to do.

clang made gcc and g++ better compilers. gcc-rs can do the same and help making rustc a better compiler and Rust a better language.

For the record, I don't write Rust, because GCC has no Rust support yet. More specifically, I don't use LLVM-Specific languages due to LLVM's license and stance against GCC.
https://starlink.sx/ is also pretty awesome.
… yeah exactly. You just named the most valuable companies in the world, after the subject of this article. They do this too, and win way more often than not.
Maybe it's because I'm really lazy, but the wallet vs watch thing makes a huge difference for me. I hate having to pick up my phone or wallet from my pockets, being able to pay from my Apple Watch is such a game changer that it became the only reason I even have one.
It is always more easier to scale horizontally at application layer (just adding more servers) than at database layer (which involves syncing data between multiple database instances).
Someone paid $44 billion for it, that's a clear marker of what it was actually worth — do you think there's some objective universal scale that defines worth?

In any case, Twitter was worth as much as $60 billion in early 2021 [0], so we can still say it's been a service valued in the tens of billions. What is the expected timeframe for a declining service in that market cap bracket to "die"? Which examples do you have in mind? Geocities? Myspace?

[0] https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/TWTR/summary/market-cap
I second the guy above here: The problem I see most often is that when you have to modify existing installations, parts of them will have been done by people who didn't know what they were doing, and if you aren't sharp (a professionally trained electrician) you may not notice subtle signs you are working off something that was not originally done correctly. It may not originally have been a problem (ie triggered something), but when you then modify further and for example draw more power, and you don't realise part of the original wiring was done the wrong way, you suddenly have a fire hazard.
In my current home, we had a wall that would 'get hot' in a certain area, and it turned out part of the wires used in the wall were too small to carry the current now going through them. That part was clearly not done by a professional.
In turkic langs we have öküz/өгіз and likes, and they indeed mean ox.
If you have literally any credit card, bank account, loan, property, a car, a single amazon purchase, starbucks rewards, I absolutely guarantee that you have a profile that’s being sold for ransom by any number of those providers. The title companies, credit reporting agencies alone also automatically get that information and subsequently sell that as well. If you buy any real estate or own any business, there are dozens if not hundreds of companies whose sole purpose is to scrape all that public government data and subsequently sell that to third parties. Yes, there are dark patterns involved.
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The UK has for a long time "solved" this by importing healthcare workers from abroad, contributing to exacerbating the same problem and driving up the average cost per staying healthcare worker for a whole range of third world countries... Can't blame the people coming here who see significantly better opportunities in the UK, but definitely can blame the politicians not doing enough to ensure enough are educated here and/or ensure they are treated well enough to stay in the jobs longer.
What do you mean cave... taskbar with those features is essential... If the OS doesn't have that, it sucks and I need 3rd party alternatives to make it usable.
Currently literally consuming 1.4GiB memory on my machine... for a password manager?
For the second one I would love to have some kind of centralized node_modules used across my projects. I am pretty sure that a large part is duplicated, just for the fact that I use the same framework everywhere
Sundar Pichai: “Reward Effort, Not Outcomes”
Just a small note: "trust but verify" is not a reasonable statement, and it was also unreasonable in its original context, which I encourage anyone to research.

If you can verify, trust is not required.
It depends what the definition of monopoly is. What Apple does with first party vs third party apps on iOS is pretty much exactly the same as what Microsoft did to Netscape. For example Apple Music is pre-installed and enjoys special features (via Siri for example) that other music apps do not. Apple even advertises free trials for Apple Music, Apple News, etc. inside of the settings app. No other apps have the ability to do this. All browsers are just reskinned Safari since iOS doesn't allow different browser engines.

Is Apple a monopoly by the same definition that Windows was a monopoly? The answer is definitely no. Android has a larger global market share and it's far more accessible than iPhones in terms of pricing. Apple's US market share is in the 55-60% range depending on the source. Windows market share in 1988 when the suit began was about 90% so it's much clearer.

> The complaint about walled gardens from people is that of lack of open access - not that of monopoly.

100% this. People are just using the monopoly label because they're looking for some excuse why this shouldn't be allowed. But the reality is that probably >99% of Apple users do not care about any of this.
That's you being a human person. Not everything is a problem to solve. It's common place that you shouldn't think too much but let sleep advise you. Just don't even sit the first time and cope with what you are, like we all do.
It just seems so unreasonable that twitter was spending $60mm (!!) on these kinds of attacks[1]. I would assume that there surely are better ways than just rate limiting? Are there other articles I can read more about such attacks?

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626996774820024321?lang...
Awesome, thanks for the write up! Profiling would be a great addition to see.
This comes a lot from people who want to "horizontal" scaling. The camp that thinks everything should be in the middle tier (Java/C#/). Also cost on AWS is cheap for those, and expensive for RDS. In the end db will be bottle neck. Of course DevOp ppl will can also create cache layer etc to lessen the stress to the db.
UK government launches £100M Foundation Model Taskforce
Not only Windows, Aix is also COFF based and has a similar approach to dynamic libraries, including export definitions and import files.
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a11y means accessibility. Apparently this is a common enough jargon in that part of the industry.
Me too. It was WAY too cute, it needed like 50% less random associations.
> This guy ... has never heard of "trust but verify"

I think he has, and actually knows where it comes from and what it means.

"Trust but verify" is a Russian proverb that was used to describe the hoped-for and treaty-mediated relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Reagan-Gorbachev era.

So arch-enemies of a Cold War that are pointing world-ending nuclear arsenals at each other and slowly coming to realise that maybe it would be better to limit those by negotiated treaty.

If that's a good description of the relationships in your team, then I think David Farley wasn't just right, but actually being very diplomatic ;-)
Reality became a set for the virtual world
I think most superchargers have batteries to offload and balance the load
The word "literally" has long meant both "literally" and "figuratively" to the point that the latter meaning is in some dictionaries at this point, and is reasonably used in this context to imply indirect responsibility. If the person above literally meant literally in its original meaning, then I agree it was misused for dramatic effect. if the person above meant to use it in the sense of figuratively, then it was merely ambiguously written.
Wait a minute, a 24/7 voice chat with experienced team members? How is that staffed?

Are you in some sort of huge-team highly-distributed setup with offices everywhere, or does the company expect people to work 24/7? (I'm guessing somewhere in the middle, but would be curious to learn more.)
Nowadays "literally" is often used as "figuratively" in a somewhat ironic way to emphasize a point. In this case, the point being that Amazon's actions directly led to the deaths of workers.
Not sure if it's a "bias". The JVM does start up slowly. This has never been an issue for me in all the years I've been using Clojure.

If I need "scripts" with short start-up times, I'll use Babashka (GraalVM) or ClojureScript (Node). Same language, instant start-up. But then I don't expect to get good performance from those VMs for long-running services with large memory allocations.

Use the right tool for the job at hand?
As a BEV owner myself, that is a big LOL from me.
They're killing their browser extension for the world's most popular browser?
There will be a new SDK for integrate it soon.
I've been out of the trenches for some time, but when I participated in projects that relied on heavily in store procedures, we felt constrained in terms of flexibility (the language options were very restricted, and we were not able to use common libraries), the tooling (the support in the IDE was not great, neither it was straightforward to debug the code) and the scalability (vertical, instead of horizontal). Also, this approach introduced a heavy coupling.

It is true that we were much more familiar with application layer technologies, but the lack of expertise can also be considered a restriction, I think.
Relevant paragraph IMO:

> First, it includes an appeal to trust, which is a line of reasoning with which I don't agree. You can't trust your colleagues, just like you can't trust yourself. A code review serves more purposes than keeping malicious actors out of the code base. It also helps catch mistakes, security issues, or misunderstandings. It can also improve shared understanding of common goals and standards. Yes, this is also possible with other means, such as pair or ensemble programming, but from that, it doesn't follow that code reviews can't do that. They can. I've lived that dream.

I think that the other counter-argument discussed in the article can't confute Farley because, contrary to the author's stated intentions, it is in fact a straw man. The author focuses on the benefits of "asynchronous" workflows over "synchronous" ones: i.e., in his words, reviewing pull requests is easier (for an introvert like himself, at least) than dealing with the social stress involved in pair/ensemble programming.
Local codes could vary widely, but there’s a concept of “light electrical” which allows unlicensed people/handymen to do certain jobs. Replacing lights, plugs, and switches typically fall under that. Generally, if a permit is needed a licensed person has to do the work.
AI Hype Is Real
Let's assume that AI hype is real and it does end up transforming every aspect of our life in the next 5-10 years.

How do you envision life to be? Which facet of our lives will be very different? Where will it have the most impact?
In my experience few merchants limit Apple Pay to the contactless limit (Tesco being a notable exception) but many of the times I’ve used Apple Pay for larger purchases the person helping me has been surprised that it worked.
You can horizontally scale the database directly.
Driving and wasting hours every day to save $10 on your million dollar property? Yeah sounds like a deal.
To me the entire protocol seems like a slightly shittier reinvention of the fedi approach; centralize what some people would consider hard to decentralize, assume there's enough willing souls to run the centralized technology and pray that you don't end up with one big default who can exclude all the others.

The problem is that you get the Tor exit node problem with this approach - being a relay means becoming the toxic sewage plant of the network in this way. Running a Tor exit node basically means arranging for the authorities to try and bust you down because someone tried to get unencrypted CP over your exit node. (Running between nodes over Tor is marginally safer since you'll only be handling partial requests but still not recommended for much of the same reasons.)

Now, Tor is perfectly functional since some countries have relaxed laws for that sorta thing, but Tors data transfer is also transient - an exit node does not store anything long-term. Nostr's relays on the other hand need to do long-term data retention. I wonder how long that will last outside of flagship/VC-backed instances.
China breaks silence over status of stationary Martian rover
Works absolutely fine with git, you just have to take the time to keep the pre-commit checks reasonably quick
You're right

Though I'd never travel without my wallet, I like having a backup plan if something happens to my phone
This happened today: “Verified accounts are now prioritized” - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1650731557164818437?s=20

It has been kind of crazy to see people be mad that their “for you” feed was filled with promoted “blue checks” when no such change had been done yet.
If only every piece of software had a page like that.
It does not. Regular ChatGPT without plugins does not have access to any tools. Throw it a script with some weird outputs and it'll definitely fail, every time. While the script 'evaluation' stuff can be pretty decently impressive, it is not actually executing anything.
I think the article is kinda mixing two points here.

One the one hand, it is sensible to try and keep all your business logic in one place (could be the database, could be the application) as spreading it across multiple places can make it hard to maintain.

The current trend is to do your business logic in the application and treat the db as a data storage layer. The point in the article is that if you're using this model, but then stored procs and functions start creeping in to your db and it turns out they're actually doing some heavy lifting, then this can negatively impact the performance of your 'data storage layer' (which is actually not a data storage layer any more).
A trolley is hurtling down a track towards your employees, who are working on the tracks at your direction. You have time to warn them but do nothing. An employee gets hit and dies. Did you "kill" them?

We're descending into semantics. But I think many justice systems would classify the above as some type of homicide.
everybody in here who states a bank / financial institution's rates and then says 'there are better out there' without listing the name is greedy, a bot, or a wetard.
Of course they are. I'm pretty evangelical about data privacy, and pretty much every layperson to which I've explained how much data companies like Snap and Meta have on them, they tend to be surprised and disturbed by the extent of it. It's abundantly clear to me that most people just don't grasp the extent of data collection that's happening. One of the most common misconceptions is that they'll think the only data that's collected is what they do in the app itself. Which is nonsense of course.
It's not an error. The name is correct.

For an explanation see [1], which reproduces the Martin Luther King quote this way:

> “To use the words of Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher, segregation substitutes and ‘I-it’ relationship for an ‘I-thou’ relationship, and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. So segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, but it is morally wrong and sinful.”

https://iamthou.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/martin-bubers-influ...
I think either you get super integrated but restricted ecosystem (eg. you can use darke files but then darke files is all you can use) or you build on top of an established protocol and get something maximally compatible (any git server) but some software will ignore the extra bits.
The "Hawthorne effect" is a myth, but what keeps the story going?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17091208/
Go is the new java. Not great, but not so painful.
Exactly this. Depending on the size of the operation the financial impact of a single day of delay might offset savings from many years. Specially when you could've put solar somewhere else other than on top of your huge warehouse, if you own a huge warehouse.
Well yeah all fundamentalists are a bit similar, banning abortions on religious grounds in the U.S is also similar.
That is a completely different issue, though. We were not talking about the usefulness of the models' behavior, but rather of its fundamental nature. Right now I wouldn't trust an LLM for anything where the result is not either for entertainment purposes or undergoes human vetting. But I also don't trust many humans, and for reasons that are fundamentally the same - you implicitly acknowledged it by talking about "well-developed human intellect". And I would still trust a random human more than GPT-4 - but, again, this has more to do with its ability to reason being inherently limited (by model size, context size etc), not because it's originally trained to predict tokens.
Haha - your story reminded me of this sketch - might find this funny!

Gen Z's be like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYyFuHjdB0

I have kids who will be that age soon. Wondering how much more true this will be in the next 3-4 years.
In PostgreSQL, powerful Full Text Search is available out of the box
I often see complicated search solutions implemented when PostgreSQL is just sitting there with its incredible FTS powers being ignored. To help some of the teams I'm working with get an idea of the power available to them I wrote up this two part article with a github repo for spinning up a db to follow along.
The evidence on Hawthorne Effect is actually pretty poor

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-history/...
Can we have "right click on an item pinned to the Start Menu to see its recent document list" back next please?
This. I make the intro and the trade people remember me as great customer that gets priority if needed.
US cultural homogeneity is overstated by comparison to countries or regions with different languages. But Australia and Canada and the US are all English speaking—do they not warrant being separate countries? What about Australia and New Zealand? Ireland and Britain and Scotland? And language aside—are Denmark and Sweden more different from each other than New York versus Alabama?
> I am cooking and working off a recipe on my phone which (by the way I would love to be able to temporarily set "don't shut down mode") and I have to unlock it with messy hands to set the next step.

I haven't really used either of these, but maybe a solution could be created by setting up a custom Focus and then creating a Shortcut that activates with that focus and that does something to ensure the screen remains on; maybe a loop with a certain action or a change in settings. I am not sure since I haven't used shortcuts, just skimmed for a min before commenting.
I get that it's a way to find out what GPT4 is capable of, but IMHO that defeats the point of a game like CTF.

It's like playing with an aimbot. You may be beating the other players, but where's the fun?
Not to mention that he can just move over to ever more extreme and unpalatable television networks. AON offered him a job, and if he doesn't mind being paid in rubles there's always Russia Today.
Incidentally, Signal works the same way on an Apple device. No backup. Lose your phone, and your entire chat history is GONE, together with all the media.

Apparently the authors of Signal consider backup to be less important than all the idiotic "story time" features and similar doodads.
Other than the tech, one big thing that’s kept me away from Nostr is the people on it. I’d rather not have my feed spammed and have Bitcoin maxis endlessly talking about how stacking Bitcoin is great.

What makes social network work is the diverse range of people and it currently doesn’t have that at all.
Did you change your mind? I bookmarked it to take a look at it later, but now it's 404
The group used raw HTML code collected by the California nonprofit Common Crawl to locate images around the web and associate them with descriptive text. It does not use any manual or human curation.

Does the Common Crawl data already take care of the copyright issue? Or else how does the LAION crawler deal with that problem?

I mean, it's not too hard to write an image crawler. Also, scaling it up it a bit of a challenge, but it's a technical one. But the real difficulty is how to deal with all the legal strings attached...
> (As an aside, I consider it journalistic malpractice to publish a news story about a court filing without including a link to the filing itself.)

Likewise for legislation and for scientic research (when its open access). It can just be a footnote, if they're worried about sending the reader off down a rabbit hole.