skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chocolatey package manager for Windows can install old versions of software from its package repo. KDE Connect is listed as a trusted package, with the oldest available version being 1.4.422 (added in December 2020):

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/kdeconnect-kde#ver...

Would you mind filing a bug report in KDE's bug tracker for the issue you experienced, if it hasn't already been reported?

https://bugs.kde.org
this is why Software Engineering as a regulated profession is going to be a necessity as much as civil engineering or electrical engineering has been

Unfortunately the challenge with this is still the same as always: do we even know how to engineer software, in the sense that established engineering disciplines use the term, yet?

If we started permitting only “qualified” software engineers to make the big technical decisions, who would decide on the required qualifications? Would it be the few experts who really have spent whole careers successfully developing genuinely high-reliability software in industry or researching innovative techniques for improving quality in academia? Or would it be people like career consultants who write popular books on “best practices” and give keynote speeches at conferences with big name sponsors?

The dominant trend in the software industry for years has been towards short-termism and ad-hoc everything. That often makes sense as a business strategy, at least given the current financial incentives, but it’s not necessarily the best way to promote robustness, predictability and longevity. Prematurely trying to codify accepted practices for engineering software might end up entrenching the status quo, when what is really needed as software eats the world is disruption by people who have demonstrably figured out better ways to do it.

So while I strongly agree that we need to raise standards in parts of the industry where Very Bad Things can happen when software fails, I don’t think regulating software engineering in the same way as more established engineering disciplines is a viable way to do that. Not yet, at least.
You forgot to mention community
I saw it pointed out in another previous article, but eye motion is largely subconscious. Yes, you move your gaze when you want to click on something, but you also move your gaze when you _don't_ want to click on something, and consciously restricting where you look is very hard.

Maybe if it only moved the cursor and clicking was a separate input it could work. We'd need to come up with different paradigms for interactions that deal with hovering, mouse over/enter/leave, swiping, etc.
This almost defeats the whole purpose of IPFS's automatic caching of resources. Using HTTP gateways is something anyone already can do in any browser and with a little work on the side of web devs can be done automatically. At the moment what's the point of using Durin?
Honest question: if I want to apply IaC to my views, is there a better tool than dbt to take care of that for me? I have never used dbt before, only read about it.
I agree police unions are awful and cause more harm than good. Everything you say is true (to some degree) but I don't think this qualifies the country to be a police state. I'm not afraid of the police coming to my door because the police have a problem with me. I don't like them but I don't fear them and neither does anyone I know. There is still a due process and even though even one incident is too many, most times the police acts out of line they are punished even if it takes a while (again, due process). The punishment is usually far, far too lenient but at the very least, for the sake of this conversation, shows that they do not have the ultimate power.

There is a lot that can be done about the quality of policing in this country but we are really far off a police state. We are simply a state with an incompetent perpetually afraid power hungry police, likely due to the prevalence of guns. It's tragic as is.
It's still a private company collecting for profit,not a government. I'm not saying that's good either, I'm just saying "Microsoft collects advertising data so China can bug phones" is an insane comparison.
Coasting? I already know that trying to improve it by oneself is heroic but futile.
Once you’ve had a gun pointed at you from a car, taken down the license plate, then been told there’s nothing they can do because the car was stolen —- you’ll realize that car theft isn’t some individual problem. We’ve had the tech to solve this problem for decades, but car manufacturers decided to save a few bucks.
At the distances (millimeters) involved, optical is slower, more expensive, and consumes more power than electrical signaling.
People like to argue about what the proximate cause is of drug shortages. Or for that matter why we can’t build affordable housing or provide healthcare for everyone, or keep people from shooting up shopping malls.

Honestly, I don’t care about the details of each individual problem, which are complicated and ultimately unenlightening. The big picture answer is this: America is becoming a failed state.

Generally that happens because a small group of economic and political elites get too much power, and their interests begin to conflict with the interests of the general population. That’s the big picture. It’s just not in the narrow short term interests of the ruling class to actually solve these problems. And as long as that remains true, they will continue to get worse.
You should read about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

Tested and Failed. There are lot of interesting learnings and blogposts from this project and lot of them are actually landed in different products of Microsoft
For the third time this week, in relatively unrelated fields of computation science, I'm reminded of the quote: "Duplication is less expensive than the wrong abstraction".

An awful lot of the time, a table schema is a terrible abstraction of the actual series it is designed to record. Sometimes it's designed under constraints that exist only to self-sustain the abstraction. Some of them have viable reasoning, some don't. How these structures sustain themselves for . . decades . . is a mystery to me. These non-relational movements, in part represented by the OP article, are (in part) attempts to shift the computing from data to the actual programmatic area. Because the real world doesn't have schemas - although that's still, incredibly, a source of intense disagreement.

Just an interesting thing that keeps cropping up. I wonder what the formal, "scientific" name for this is?
Variants of common riddles remain the final frontier. I'm trying to cross the river in a canoe with a carrot, cabbage, and cucumber...
Could be token compaction resulting in some loss of fidelity.
Car theft is a compound problem. Some cars are stolen because their security systems are garbage. Others are stolen at gunpoint. I don’t understand why the existence of one problem means we shouldn’t try to solve the other.
MS Azure security: Embrace secure multitenancy, Confidential Compute, and Rust
I reproduced the exact same document with several different prompt injections, and the AI repeatedly makes the exact same typos, so I think that the typos are actually a strong indicator that it is not hallucinated
The transition from the Julian to Gregorian calendar also happened on vastly different dates in different countries. Most of Western Europe changed in 1582, the British Empire (and its American colonies) in 1752 as you said, and other countries switched even later like Russia in 1918.
Here’s the Github CEO:

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1409914420579344385
Yes.

My definition of hard is "I can't do it without leveling up," in whatever form leveling up may be, such as getting a PhD.

I can do it without leveling up, so it is not hard for me.

It just goes to show how much I hate C++ that I'll avoid LLVM specifically to avoid it.
pretty sure that new / updated gpl will be dealing with this sort of (ab)use.
Ceo no longer is paid. Instead their startup is acquired or scores a lucrative consulting gig.
If population control is part of the solution then maybe we can all get by with a lot less reduction in our consumption. It baffles me that this part of the solution is never mentioned in these discussions.
> And then isn't there some lore about the reason Windows Vista took so long to release was due to them trying to write the entire OS in C# or something and then having to redo everything?

It seems like you're confusing a few different things there.

The 'redo' step that you're talking about happened because in the early 2000s Microsoft was getting blasted by security breaches left and right.

Pretty much every senior developer in the Windows org was pulled to work on security patches. An in between update to the consumer version of Windows (codename Longhorn) was planned to hold customers over until the team had the time to do a proper iteration on the next OS.

As the senior devs were wrapping up their security fixes and coming back to see about shipping Longhorn they decided that it wasn't up to their standards and more importantly they didn't think it was moving in the right direction because it didn't include all the security fixes they had been doing.

Longhorn had essentially 'forked' XP pre-security fix and it was decided that it would be easier to throw out all of the Longhorn code and start fresh then to try and port all the security fixes over.

So they just that: they threw out everything that had been worked on, 'reset' the project to be based on the latest code with all the security fixes present, and then started the development of Vista fresh.
I was excited to try it but all the outputs I've gotten feel pretty similar, and it doesn't do many of the things I wanted it to do. I tried things like "make a beat using samples from a telephone ringing" and it wasn't able to generate anything like a real world sample. "trash metal played on a nylon string guitar" was a weird bongo sounding jam. "trumpet playing over a folk rock riff" offered one output with no trumpet that sounded like a harpsichord playing random notes, the second sounded like some kind of smooth flamenco inspired jazz played by a full combo.

I think that something like this could be awesome given the right training data and model but this isn't quite there yet.
I guess it says "should" instead of "must"?
Maybe. A lot of grades of steel cannot be made from scrap metal. At some point, you have to be able to turn iron rust in new steel, even if that rust comes from old steel.
> pretty sure that new / updated gpl will be dealing with this sort of (ab)use.

If Microsoft, et al., win this on fair use, there is nothing the GPL can do about it.

Using a license to constrain actions that don’t require your permission in the first place is ineffective.
The people involved should go to prison. This is no less of an offense than corruption by judges, or other public official. It may be one step removed, but if you don't make an example out of companies and the people involved, this will keep happening as a tacit agreement that its ok, and it isn't.
Hemp consumption _is_ non violent. I agree with your overall sentiment but that inclusion made me squint.
the post in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876 (they have allegedly fixed the 429s but I'd have to start over because I closed my browser so I don't know if they're fixed or not)
In almost every republican-controlled state legislature they are pushing bills to do the same thing to their major cities, trying to put large metropolitan city police forces under state control.

It's a weird move from a party that claims to be about "small" government and local control.

They're so busy trying to "own" the libs that they have forgotten, or simply don't care, that those cities are usually generating tax revenue that supports the outlying rural areas.
Btw, you can even run a executable file which has been renamed to any extension (.txt or .whatever) in command line. (See PATHEXT env)
It just recognized by the explorer (and shellexecute api’ third parameter).
So that’s mean all files have “executable” permission by default.
the game posted yesterday has that very strategy in a few levels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876
I had the same experience until I rolled back the Windows display zoom from 150% back to 100%. It does make using the app a chore and I end up using it less than I would otherwise.
My AI Girlfriend Charges $1/Minute and Only Wants to Talk About Sex
Yes, this is why YouTube should just refuse to serve you and other adblocker users. This way it can no longer steal your time, and it's the only fair solution.
I reproduced the exact same document with several different prompt injections
I haven't used Valent (since there's no stable release yet), but I can vouch for GSConnect. It's a feature-complete KDE Connect client that seamlessly integrates into GNOME Shell as an extension.
I'm actually in agreement that he should probably not see a day in prison.

But I leave that with the NYPD, DA and jury.
There is evidence few of us have seen or heard going in either direction which will be seen inside the courtroom.

However, it seems bizarre that he is ultimate charged with something, which sounds violent & scary "manslaughter in the second degree" that obviously did involve violence (choking & death) but ultimately under NYS law, it is not classified as a "violent felony".

This is what I mean between the difference of the logical & legal definition of violence, and how some bail reform supporters didn't understand what they were supporting.
I don’t know why I always have assumed bats lay eggs…
What OpenAI is doing is not alignment.

It's suppression.

Alignment works on the level of desires and intentions.

Suppression works on the level of output.

Everyone in a dictatorship sings in praise of the dear leader, but most will defect when given the chance!
Windows under the hood with the NT Kernel is actually regarded among some experts as technically superior to Linux with the driver model and personalities subsystem; it’s just that the stuff above the kernel isn’t so great…
Note: it's a paid API. I misinterpreted it as "google open-sources 3d models". Google is notorious for deprecating/gouging APIs.
Aside from the legality, what’s different between a liquor store owner and a weed dealer? You may disagree with their breaking the law, but commerce is commerce, and this is victimless except with regard to the rule of law.
the entire premise of these systems is to create a passably accurate output by using taught biases to both ascertain the request requirements, as well as create an output by applying those same taught biases in such a way that will fulfill the requirement.

a request to draw a banana will, necessarily , bias the results towards slender yellow fruits.

a lot of the taught biases are hopelessly simple , so problems arise. A lot of the problems being witnessed now seem more like problems that arise from the inexperience in dealing with these systems to me.

personally speaking, witnessing the teething issues of the current day AIs raises the question within myself as to whether or not 'thought without bias' can even exist on anything more than the must superficial levels.
Private schools and the equality of opportunity have no relation inherently. So I’m not sure what your point is.

Equality of opportunity is also an impossible thing to achieve.
Interesting numbers.

How does it fare if we compare against those that are measured by weight ?

Edit:typo
You are correct but also don't have to look that far: in Indiana USA, different counties have different daylight-saving rules, so "August 13 1pm" is a different time depending in which county you are (or live, or work).
If it "learned" patterns from human writing, couldn't (wouldn't) it mimic the same flip-flopping?
I can’t remember if this is the exact library LightSpeed uses, but this CG/SQL library that Meta made makes it easier to write complex SQL queries for SQLite:

https://cgsql.dev/
It was pretty rainy here in Seattle up until last week. So Juneuary is still on the table ;)
It was intended to be this but it was only after the name was established that the author realized that N doesn't come after L.
Right?
I can't help but think some people have settled on "putting anyone in prison is bad" and work there way backwards from there.

Some people do bad things.
Some people repeatedly do bad things.
Living consequence free leads to more bad things.

I mean what do you do with a DUI driver, already on a suspended license who causes a fatality? Take away their license?
As a BSD user I think the divergence is a good thing. it means there are substantial differences which allows you to pick an OS that's really tailored to your usecase.

In the Linux world there's mainly just userland differences. I like it the BSD way. Of course Linux sees much more commercial input which I consider a bad thing and one reason I use FreeBSD so much. But for commercial interests it's a good thing to have as much in common as possible to have more potential customers.
U.S. to make tech hubs in Middle America with $500M investment
Between the apparently-probabilistic nature of LLMs deciding which instructions ought to be followed, and the possibility of an LLM simply hallucinating a convincing-and-embarrassing prompt anyway, there will probably always be “attacks” that leak prompts.

People seem to approach this with a security mindset of finding and patching exploits, but I don’t really think it is a security issue. These prompts are for UX, after all. Maybe the right perspective is that prompt leaks are sort of like “view source” on a webpage; make sure proprietary business logic isn’t in client-side JavaScript and avoid embarrassing dark patterns like

if (mobileWebSite) {
serveAdForNativeApp();
await sleep(5000);
}
I didn’t spend that much time looking, but on https://github.com/features/copilot/ I found this FAQ:

> What data has GitHub Copilot been trained on?

> GitHub Copilot is powered by Codex, a generative pretrained AI model created by OpenAI. It has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.

From https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilo...

> GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages that appear in public repositories. For each language, the quality of suggestions you receive may depend on the volume and diversity of training data for that language. For example, JavaScript is well-represented in public repositories and is one of GitHub Copilot's best supported languages. Languages with less representation in public repositories may produce fewer or less robust suggestions.

Here they refer to “public repositories”. Almost all code on GitHub is copyrighted, except for the exceedingly rare projects that are explicitly dedicated to the public domain. If MS had only trained Copilot on public domain code, they would have said that instead of “public repositories”.

Their argument that this is fair use is implied (except as noted elsewhere, the CEO has stated on Twitter that using copyrighted material to train AI is fair use). If they had any other position, they would be openly admitting to breaking the law.
Is intent all that matters? If a person admits to having committed a crime should they be let go depending on their intent? And how do we prove intent, short of verifiable documents with a person stating their motives prior to actually doing it?

I.e. do we have evidence the DEA purposely underestimated, and that they did it to harm individuals by making it harder to fill legal prescriptioms?

> I mostly ignored the assertion it would be impossible to revise quotas promptly seemed secondary and was unsupported.

I honestly just didn't think support was needed with regards to the slow, inefficient process of our federal government. We only attempt to run the national census once every 10 years and do a piss poor job at it. The IRS, which is literally responsible for a enforcing a primary revenue driver for the government, can't manage to catch blatant (rhoguh elaborate) tax evasion by corporations and the rich. The FAA asked Boeing how safe their new plane was and was months late grounding the Max after an obvious issue.

The list can go on, but suffice it to say there are plenty of examples where entities in our federal government completely failed to regulate the very industries they were responsible for and seemed to be the last to know when things weren't working.

I'm not wvwn trying to defend the DEA here. I simply don't get what we could expect them to do if thwybare tasked with keeping supply inoine with demand without underestimating at all. That's an impossible needle to thread and seems to shows that granting that power to them is only a losing scenario.
The key is token-starving it so it can't ever write that ending.
It sounds like the author is calling a kind of materialized/persisted view "denormalized tables". The actual DB tables stay untouched and fully normalized.

It sure makes sense to love them, views are great. I don't know why they need a new name.

> Transformation tools such as dbt (Data Build Tool) have revolutionized the management and maintenance of denormalized tables. With dbt, we can establish clear relationships between table abstractions, create denormalized analytics datasets on top of them, and ensure data integrity and consistency with tests.
The prompt for Bing Chat was previously reproduced by the same person as here, using the same trick. The Bing lead disclaimed it as inaccurate, though: https://twitter.com/MParakhin/status/1627491603731423232
FYI, from what I understand the use of "dutch" in this way comes from the Anglo-Dutch wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_courage
ZFS for sure. RAID on btrfs is still not quite stable and commercial deployments such as Synology use a different software raid layer instead of the built in support.

Ps just considering reliability here. In terms of performance I don't know.
Have you seen modern video games? Take a look at The Last of Us Part II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West, etc. The difference in fidelity, animations, audio, and just overall depth and immersion is astronomical.

Zelda would make for a great game on my phone though.
I am sure that would be useful to the 3 people interested in tech. For everyone else it will just inflate the prices of everything
That's a nice solution (if it works).

Frankly I find all this fascinating. Not because of any mysterious magical black box, but the humans-v-humans approach through a machine that interprets language
I love how “load bearing” is used here!!
We built tablets based on the influence from 2001. You have it backwards.
Microsoft has very precise tools like the licensee ruby gem to determine a repo's license which I'm sure their bot is aware of while training on said repo.
Going by year doesn't help when they have more than one microarchitecture in their product line at a time. If their naming conventions were a bit cleaner and they didn't rebadge older chips to prevent the appearance of having holes in their product lineup, then we could almost go by model numbers, but that's definitely not viable. As difficult as they may be to remember, the microarchitecture codenames are the most concise way to unambiguously specify the affected chips.
That isn't the point, is not true, and is ultimately meaningless becuase if you mean the universe will carry on, then yes of course it will.
Isn't that a federal government problem in general though? When was the last time they actually responded quickly to something without drastically over or underestimating the response needed?