skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time GitHub went down was less than a month ago: [0]

At this point maybe it is time to self-host rather than to continue to tolerate this since it's guaranteed to goes down every month. [1]

Even open-source projects like RedoxOS, GNOME, KDE, ReactOS, etc are doing just fine without worrying about GitHub's unreliability as predicted years ago on not centralizing everything to GitHub. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611739

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611862

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
The Greeks didn't have their own money printer though, which makes this situation quite different.
Thanks, this reminded me to cancel a subscription to service I only meant to sign up for for one month. Accidentally ended up 3 months. I had to click through 6 different screens to cancel.
My bet is on cache servers having a bad release
> Identity hashcodes and monitors are perennially tricky to implement with low space overhead and I think in hindsight that putting them at the base of the object model (i.e. every object has them) was a mistake.

I can understand the hashcode choice, but I never understood why they chose to add the ability to lock on any object. IMO it still is a bad choice now on server machines, and it certainly was in a language designed for embedded devices in the early 1990s.

Does anybody know what they were thinking? Were they afraid of having to support parallel class hierarchies with a LockableFoo alongside Foo for every class? If so, why? Or did they think most programs would have very few objects, and mostly use reference types?
I worked at a small unicorn (~150 engineers when I started, 400 when I left) several years ago; we ran our own Github Enterprise solely for this reason.

It was a pain in the ass to set-up, but mostly hand-off to keep it running. I think we had roughly one degradation event a year (something went wrong with an update), and they were brief.
Sure, but you don’t really expect to swap databases with a huge data store without any downtime, do you? I’m not aware of any technology that makes that easy.
I had an app like this in the app store. I made € 10 / month. :p
Hope you do better.
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
They can't remote wipe it if you don't connect to the internet.
Do you, then, agree that a machine that is built to work in the same manner as that single-cell organism (which I assume should be possible with the current technological level humans are at) is also conscious?

That path would lead to a conclusion that all matter is, in some way, conscious. I don't disagree, but I find that such definition of consciousness diverges from what we usually mean by it - a walking, talking being that has thoughts and can communicate them to us, or something.
Like culi, I read that as specific to the goal of expanding the "AI workforce" with new workers. I don't follow where you project the "creation of new roles far removed from core activities," from what I can see it has nothing to do with changing how individual businesses manage their hiring and staffing.

The remark about diversity comes near the end of the block, after all the discussion about inter-agency collaboration, and seems, to me, to specifically refer to the goal to "bolster America’s AI R&D infrastructure and support the development of a diverse AI workforce."

America is a very diverse country. A network of NSF institutes that is designed to expand America's AI R&D workforce will by definition create a diverse workforce if it effectively serves all Americans. I don't see why that's particularly objectionable at face.

I definitely cannot figure how to read that paragraph and project forward to this future state:

>the company's mission shifts from customer and safety focus, to pacifying employee agendas.

From what I can read, the Institutes aren't going to be directing companies to do anything.
Julia has built in support for special characters like that by typing \charname<tab>. You have to remember the name but it's not all that hard to type.
The web is chockablock with examples of sites which collect your data without consent.
Because there's no reason for anyone to take seriously this notion. It's not scientific and is just a different kind of religious nonsense.
Jettisoning the debt limit is the consequence after were no consequences for changing federal weather forecast maps on a whim.

The debt ceiling fights only started when BHO won the presidency, 15 years of this nonsense is enough.
If someone could show that 50.1% of videos viewed with VLC were pirated, would VLC be unethical to use and support?
Alternatively, "how to improve your subscription revenue retention". These dark patterns are outlawed by the card networks (visa and mastercard both have lengthy policy around this) but seems those rules are very seldom enforced, especially for the big players.
Those are certainly big factors but don't underestimate their future potential. There's some big mega projects happening in Egypt that most people in the west are not even aware of, for example. I think Mexico is the really interesting one to keep an eye on as the world bifurcates (huge near-shoring manufacturing potential).
So he is actually in the same position as a non-founder CEO at this point.
Yeah, so would a guy just breaking your legs every time you tried to make a complaint.
Forum full of people whose life blood is SaaS complain when HaaS shows up.
> currently the cheapest alternative on Mouser is ~$5 (STM32F730V8T6TR). And that will have less flash!

Yes and no: with the STM32 you don't necessarily need an external flash chip (= significantly less PCB space consumed) and you get a lot more integrated high speed peripherals than the RP2040 has, including 50MHz SDMMC, 50Mbit/s SPIs, 27Mbit/s USARTs, and proper 480Mbit/s Hi-Speed USB 2.0. The STM32 is also significantly faster (216MHz), uses a Cortex-M7 instead of a Cortex-M0+, has a memory protection unit, and so on. The RP2040 is a toy in comparison.

It really depends on what you need for your project. Sometimes that weird RP2040 can be the perfect choice for a project, sometimes an even cheaper STM32 could be an even better choice, and sometimes you need a powerful chip like e.g. that STM32F730V8T6TR.
One of my younger kids bought $7,200 worth of currency and content on a game on a Kindle. She did so in a single afternoon. I contacted Amazon support and the refund was issued on the spot. After they issued the refund, the only question that was asked was why I had it set to allow her to buy online. I replied that it was because she could not use one of Amazon's services with the family account without having payments enabled (I think it was music). I'm pretty sure they corrected that... but I was struck by how pro-consumer and how little hassle there was. I do not think that either the Play Store or App Store would have issued that refund so quickly.
Yes, the GPT's are literally trained to minimize (cross-)entropy of text. You can see the bits-per-byte of text for lots of models here: https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/v0.2.0/?group=targeted_evalua...
Neither will Java assuming the next stage of this project goes as planned. The overhead for them will only be allocated on demand for those objects that need them.
Any feedback on the “Verified Organizations” feature on Twitter?
Wrong. Google and Facebook do not generate their own content, they are absolutely nothing without the content we provide them. The fact they've muscled their way into being the gatekeepers to everything does not entitle them to any money.
Ah good to know. I personally only use the hue app itself, Home Assistant, and Alexa, and they all show up in all three by default.
I wonder what Microsoft's level of involvement is in their infrastructure/reliability engineering; and whether that's made things better or worse.
What region are you speaking of? AFAIK, any car marketed in the US to do over 115mph (of which there are many), will do over 115mph.
I predict it'll all come crashing down once people start having skin in the game. (Right now, it's a toy, the source for a million overheated news articles and opinions.)

ChatGPT can pass the Bar. Okay, have it draw up a contract and have the parties sign it—skin in the game. When an omitted comma can cost millions[1], what will an LLM's hallucinations wrought?

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=missing+comma+millions&r=us&sh=QDQ...
> I do not recall iPhone in 2007 being that huge of a hit.

I was working in mobile phone retail in 2007. It was absolutely an enormous hit, and was sold out everywhere. They couldn't ramp up production fast enough. Steve Jobs original iPhone demo was a huge, huge hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg

Apple already had a huge, established, fanatic base of iPod users by 2007. The presentation went viral, and people couldn't wait to get their hands on it.
What is it with back end developers and % $* phones?
Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
Westinghouse went bankrupt in 2017 [0] after major project mismanagement [1] that precipitated in federal felony indictments for its executives [2]. I think this is relevant background exposition that's missing from the CNBC writeup.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13987046 ("Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power", 388 comments)

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

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/top-westinghouse-nuclear-...
Is there a smog exam in California for electric cars? Honest question, as it wouldn't surprise me if there was due to complicated legislation.
FWIW, you make a good point, albeit a pessimistic one - at least if you like me dread the chicken race towards doom that is the obvious alternative. Agree that international agreements may not always have been the success stories I implied. But even the fact that some states have not signed certain treaties prove that they are effective (otherwise they could have signed and then just ignored them). Once a state has signed a treaty you won't need to rely on outside inspectors exclusively - inside whistleblowers will do just fine.
Java made a bunch of optimistic assumptions about the future of hardware when it was designed. UTF-16 strings, 64 bit pointers, enormous object headers.

While great for future-proofing, it's been hard to deny it's had overhead. Glad to see it's slowly getting undone: Compressed Oops, Compact Strings, now this.
The thing that would hold you back is the amount of productive resources the country has.

You could print millions of dollars and send it to people, but that wouldn't make houses come from nowhere, so it would just increase inflation.

On the flip side, you could print millions of dollars and use it to build housing and infrastructure and fund education in the trades and so on and then it would actually help houses get built.

And so on. The point being that the notional deficit doesn't really matter at all. What matters for increasing wealth is the ability of the country to produce material wealth, and government spending is either helping that or not.
The developer tools Network tab directly indicates the first connection as being HTTPS. No redirect shown there.

I additionally tested with my own site: http://masysma.net/31/web_main.xhtml. It is configured to not redirect to HTTPS except for the root node (http://masysma.net). It is not configured to behave any differently for user agents and hence the redirection (or no redirection) behaviour can also be checked by the commandline tools that print the course of the redirection (like curl, wget).
In EE we of course learned about the Shannon capacity of a channel, but when I read his proof using higher dimensional sphere packing I was amazed. Inspired me to attempt to look further into the math we see in engineering. I highly recommend anyone interested read his paper.
FWIW I posted Simon's summary because it's what I encountered first, but here's the leaked document itself[0].

Some snippets for folks who came just for the comments:

> While our models still hold a slight edge in terms of quality, the gap is closing astonishingly quickly. Open-source models are faster, more customizable, more private, and pound-for-pound more capable. They are doing things with $100 and 13B params that we struggle with at $10M and 540B. And they are doing so in weeks, not months.

> A tremendous outpouring of innovation followed, with just days between major developments (see The Timeline for the full breakdown). Here we are, barely a month later, and there are variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF, etc. etc. many of which build on each other.

> This recent progress has direct, immediate implications for our business strategy. Who would pay for a Google product with usage restrictions if there is a free, high quality alternative without them?

> Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet’s worth of free labor. Since most open source innovation is happening on top of their architecture, there is nothing stopping them from directly incorporating it into their products.

> And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter. They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.

[0]: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
Interesting point. What would you consider to be the seam between regions in this case?
Being able to allow custom behaviour via JS/TS in Rust is definitely something that I wanted to explore too.
If you haven’t already you should check out these two articles from the Deno blog website which go a bit further:

https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime

https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime-pt2
Found this interesting:

> Residents voted to opt out of the state restriction 122 out of 123 times, with the lone defeat coming in Longmont in 2009 after an industry lobbying campaign.
Just a note that you can usually overpay the mortgage each year up to a certain percentage of the balance (mine’s 10%) without incurring any penalty.
I didn't say that my Lambda application communicates with my monolith. Just that I have a monolith and a Lambda application.
Can we get a screenshot of the dashboard?
At the risk of offending a neo-Marxist, children have underdeveloped brains and lack life experience or wisdom. They are not equivalent to adults and the minimum voting age is not arbitrary.

Unfortunately, young adults, not unlike children, don't seem to have much awareness about the issue of this unsustainable ballooning debt, and as a group, are happier to demand more entitlements (such as UBI) than to call for austerity to get it under control. It's the opposite of what you want, unless your plan is to milk the country dry and leave it to die. Older voters are actually more likely to favor lowering spending, though of course they wouldn't vote against their own interests (e.g. cutting social security benefits).
You don't see a difference between a person doing something and a machine doing the thing in bulk? I think there's a very meaningful difference there.

But practically, I fear that you're right. That distinction will not be made. That's why the only viable defense against the likes of OpenAI that I could think of was to close my websites to public access. I'm still seeking a way to safely reopen them. I hope I can find one.
Employees have to bear the brunt of the effects because those making the macroeconomic decisions are part of the capitalist class. Jerome Powell was a partner at one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Is it any surprise that he’s trying to spin a narrative that employees are paid too much? Isn’t squeezing employees to increase profits what those in private equity typically do?
Annoying that they hyped up this live keynote, and then it was all previous / pre-recorded announcements.

I figured with all the other releases, this keynote would show something really big — maybe they should've saved the databases reveal.

Instead we get "the thing we announced months ago is out of beta".

Vercel, you've been inconsiderate with my time.
You are forgiven. It must be like pushing water up a mountain. At least we got #embed, typeof, auto, constexpr, and sensible enums this time around.

How many of you guys have half of a C compiler lying around in a directory somewhere on your machines?

(And how do you find the time for WG14 AND writing code AND doing research?
My cousin is in roughly the same field as you and you publish more than he does.)
Starry gave me a discount for 100/100 @ 30/mo after I asked them if they had anything less than their 200/200 @ 50/mo.
They are bankrupt now though
That doesn't quite work because almost all the algorithms humans and ai use are learned as data. IE Bayesian reasoning, long form multiplication and division, even the scientific method.
I don’t think Safari extensions work for Firefox. I could be wrong though.
Likely because it's remarkably naïve as though the person didn't read anything about Loop. Loop uses manned vehicles for human transportation, essentially underground taxis.
A good programmer can learn every language I suppose, but the concepts in each language don't completely overlap. Sometimes there's very little in common.

Some languages on a CV imply extensive knowledge of complex libraries that aren't technically part of the language but considered necessary. Think JavaScript.
We posted a job back in oct/nov for a senior tech position at a very large, but non-tech company - we got 3 applicants/resumes, 2 of which were out of the country and not considered. The one got hired (and was a good hire).

In Jan/Feb posted the exact same job (an additional position) and got over 300 resumes including from ex-FAANG folks who we generally don't see applying).

Something sure has changed imo, and I also personally do believe things are about to get much, much worse for many people.
I called it "sysadmin by committee" because the decisions were made for the cluster were usually made by someone else who didn't know what they were doing.
Gitlab can be self hosted
It's astonishing how complex this has become. All the server component stuff is great technologically speaking and if you're using React, it's a very welcome thing as this will lead in the long term to less bloated applications for end users.

But as a developer I just can't stand all the complexity and the magic going on. And now a React compiler is on its way too. This is just too much.
The problem is the missing reference. As an artist, you don't just copy or use a style, you make the reference obvious. As an author, you include a citation, or, if it's fiction, you openly allude to the reference. This is actually why we can form a proposition like the one on Plato and Aristotle (which probably should include Socrates). The problem with the kind of "remix" and transfer of generative AI is that the reference is lost in the process. (Which is also a serious problem for any kind of verification.)
People earning 150-250k in those areas are not driving $100k cars lol, and if they are then they should go out of their way not to park illegally.
If they're naming it after King Billy, it's sectarian, yes.
I get that monitors are inflated dynamically, but from my reading of the linked JEP, Compressed Object Headers have something like 24 bits allocated for the hashcode in the 64 bit word?
There are other parts of the country that have beaches. To each their own of course, but the salary to rent ratio seems better to me in many other places. I own a home so rent increases aren’t an issue I deal with directly, but I see your point there.
This paper's findings have no basis in reality. Perhaps because it was written by three people with a political angle and no relevant training.
> I'm skeptical of legislators legislating in domains they're not knowledgeable in

The 2A folks would like to have a word with you...

In all seriousness - everyone assumes what they hear/read is 100% accurate and factual until it's about a topic they know something about. Then... we know the truth.

Why would some average legislator be any more qualified to regulate AI than Firearms? The answer is - they aren't.
Lutke's not a hero, he's a mini-Zuckerberg: he still runs the company he founded as CEO, but he has already made more than enough money to comfortably retire. Also like Zuckerberg, his company might be better off without him at this point, since being practically unaffected by success or failure makes continuing as CEO something of a vanity project.
I feel like not hiring aggressively in a _low-interest-rate environment_ is harmful to your business.

Assuming you have some productive use for the incremental employees, the discounted returns from those employees' contributions are decreased by an uncertainty factor and by the risk-free interest rate. When that latter term is near zero, hiring is restricted by the uncertainty of their performance and projects assigned to, meaning you get a lot of hiring by sensible, data-driven management teams.
A lot of this is uncannily familiar to anyone who's read Atlas Shrugged.
Then why are you defending the ridiculous "2 minute" thing?

If the CEO asked how long a migration will take would you respond "2 minutes of engineering time"?
Electrifying Standards: U.S. Joins EV Race to Zero
Well, that's interesting to learn - thank you. I'll have to reach out to my old professor since he keeps up with the state of the art, I'm curious what the rest of the current literature looks like.

On the other hand, I still don't share the anguish over the term 'diverse' in this particular OP for the reasons I stated - if this program is designed to foster AI talent all over America, if successful it will by definition foster diverse talent.

Like if the program wasn't designed to help America build a diverse AI workforce, then it would be designed to create a demographically constrained, homogenized workforce. I wouldn't expect us to be happy about that and I wouldn't think of it as a good allocation of federal tax money.
>what are you going to do better than github?

Not add new features every week? Seriously, you cannot tell me that you cannot run a minimal version of a git repo service much more stable than that. I blame the need for new shiny stuff.
Middle-Earth isn't a place. It's a time in (English) history
Agreed. I don't think it will necessarily crash, but there will be a serious reckoning for any business owner who thinks they can replace critical roles with AI. We're a long way off from that, if ever.

In the short term, I think AI will be most useful in areas where (a) indeterminate results are acceptable, and (b) the consequences of a "mistake" are either non-existent or negligible.

As humans are imperfect, there will undoubtedly be many poorly-conceived product decisions to use AI prematurely. I do think it will be entertaining to watch.
I have emacs, terminal, and chrome bound on a hotkey so I don't need to fiddle with alt tabbing. Also have custom mappings for volume control (way easier than hitting the laptop's default fn-f2/3 combo) and three pre-determined screen brightness levels that set the brightness perfectly when my ambient lighting is dark/normal/bright.

Also I have mappings that basically clone all the keybindings from MacOS that I cannot live without, so alt-t is new tab, shift-alt-[ is prev tab, alt-q closes application etc.
I was curious, so I took a look:

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/upgrad...

Depending on the app it could be easy or difficult.