skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Native species are part of the ecosystem. All coevolved in the same place for ten thousands of years at least, maybe millions, eventually creating a structure where each piece is connected with the other and fine tuned to produce the maximum value and extract the most products from our machine.

"Non native species" is not the same term as "invasive". Lets imagine that the letter H in your black keyboard falls off. If you replace it by a blue key from other keyboard you end basically with a functional keyboard. Sometimes non native species fill a empty spot and restore a lost system functionality without affecting the other species. Sometimes they even boost the whole machine. A good example would be a native tree from the forests of Kazakhstan that is everywhere, the domestic apple tree.

Invasive species would be like replacing all the keys in your keyboard with the letter H. They turn the machine basically useless. Instead to work with the ecosystem, they destroy it, eliminate most species, and replace it by a much cheaper version. A worse system that is more simple, less stable, and has barely the minimum functionality for us to survive
An alternative title might be "How Hacker News forces marketers to write better content".
You are right, Telegram is VERY popular media platform in Eastern Europe. In particular it's very popular tool to resist government's censorship and propaganda in such dictatorship's states like Russia or Belarus.
People are put in jail even if they just read some opposition telegram channels, so using bridges like this one is an attempt to mitigate those risks.
For me it's the doublethink trade-show signage.

I like the font, though, not as much as Source Code Pro Nerd ExtraLight.
How is that different from any other century? It doesn’t seem unique to the 21st century. Bad leaders who value power above virtue is part of the human condition.

Back in the 90s we all thought the internet would be the killer app to solve this problem once and for all, but look how that turned out.
Generally speaking I agree with you. However, in case of systemd I think it is very modular. I think we're at a point now where it's convenience and reliability outweigh the negatives.
It also brings a certain common element to different distros, making it a bit easier for people new to Linux distributions. They don't have to hyperspecialize now.
What makes you think lobbyists and large corporations can't afford the fee to speak?
I'd like there to be at least one comment here calling out Wikipedia without praising Musk.

Wikipedia have red and even black-listed virtually every anti-war / anti-imperialist news source. At the same time, they continue to greenlight obvious propaganda and false news purveyors.

Since reading through the facts listed here [0], the claim that Wikipedia "treat freedom of expression as a principle" rings very hollow.

0 - https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censor...
Ireland is still a member of the EU.

Have you considered which side of the road they drive on?
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This submission is not about drivers, which run on your computer, but about firmware, which runs on the printer.
Bear in mind that Twitter reply threads are now dominated by Elon musk fans, because people who pay for Twitter have their replies shown first. People who aren't willing to do that don't really bother engaging with stuff like this any more, or if they do they get buried.

So Wales being under attack on Twitter is sad but doesn't necessarily represent "public opinion".

I think we are in the last days of major figures like Jimmy Wales still treating Twitter as a respectable arena for public engagement.
Something that saddens me is how inevitable it is that AIs will be hoarded by capitalists, and will be ruthlessly monetised by being used to optimise ad-serving and generate spam... cough... perform "content optimisation".

Meanwhile, wouldn't it be amazing for world eduction if the use of a translation-optimised version of GPT 4 were donated to the Wikimedia foundation for bulk-translating English Wikipedia into a hundred or more rare languages?

Also, can you image what a step-change it would bring to Wikipedia if it had an impartial AI performing some editorial functions? E.g.: verifying references by actually reading them, checking if the article content is contradictory to references, checking if the article contradicts another article, etc...

With extensions of LLM models that can store additional context in vector databases, really interesting things could be done by putting all of Wikipedia in every language into such a database and having that available during edits.

Wiki-clippy: "I see you're adding a passage about Düsseldorf. Note that the German-language article mentions that..."
Pretty sure the preprint is at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.18.452833v1..... Good for checking out what the editors have done.
The most visible difference inside the EU is a significant degradation of the user web browsing experience.
Used to be the same for me and in a way it still is. It's nice though to have a long-term project to deep-dive into. The last time I started a longer term project, I've set myself some sort of deadline, if I can pass this critical problem to get a first proof-of-concept after a month or two I continue. So I had a hobby project for a few years.
If your point is that capitalism can't deliver something like Stack Overflow then I'm not sure the point does still stand, because clearly it could.
model Y is best seller Not S or X (far from it)
You quit right when it gets difficult whether through fear of failure or laziness or not having a skill set or some internal flaw you have.

Hard work is painful. Don't expect accomplishing things to be fun. Sometimes instead of asking people online how to do hard work you just need to conquer the demon inside you and do the hard work.
In the 1960s, the average dinner plate size was 8.5". Today in the US, it's 12".

Same thing with glasses and cups; most mugs in the US today are closer to 14-16oz, not 8oz.

There is a similar comparison with standard coffee drink sizes in the US vs abroad. In the US, a normal "small/healthy-ish" coffee drink is a 12oz latte, but in most of Europe, it's a 6oz cappuccino.

If you want to lose weight via portion control, I highly recommend going to Ikea and spending $50 on smaller dishes, and switching to 6oz cappuccinos when you order coffee out.
Geoff Hinton on Navigating the Risks and Potential of Artificial Intelligence
Great work and definitely needed.

I look forward to this landing so it will eventually appear in the downstream distro I use.

This the kind of work Ubuntu should be sponsoring.
Nice that you recommended HTTrack.

That's a name I haven't heard in a long while: a blast from the past :).
Uhhh... are you trying to make a point, or something?
[2] and [4] sound like manual clock/voltage configurations, not the automatic OC of modern AMD CPUs or included XMP Profiles. Those are configs the manufacturer provided.
If X crashes or is killed it closes everything too
Stack Overflow is a capitalist venture. So is HN by the way.
This is called undiagnosed ADHD.
Making GHC faster at emitting code (2022)
Yet when you look at Elon Musk's words you don't see an imperialist?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EksIy3aW0AEIsK-?format=jpg&name=...
That is a trait of ADHD. Hyperfocus until you find the next thing to hyperfocus on and then completely forget about the previous one.

The best way to deal with it* IMHO is to have a long term goal - and a reason why you want to achieve it. The reason should be chosen so that it motivates you to continue with the project. If you cannot think of a good one that will meet that requirement, then consider switching to a project that you can think of a good reason to keep you motivated. Set targets and then break it down into small tasks that are easy to track and achieve (the same as you probably do professionally). Ideally this task list should be somewhere visible, to remind you of it - along with your long term goal/reason.

edit:
*it referring to the original complaint. I'm not a Psychiatrist.
You're right (and interesting, I didn't know that about Android 14) but fwiw, Yuzu performance is vastly improved on the deck by installing the power tools (iirc) plugin via Decky, and disabling SMT. There's a bug in the OS which is due to be patched in the next major version which should prevent SMT from tanking Yuzu and various other games.
How much of your life will you waste on obsession?
Cash is a bearer bond. It represents a liability against the central bank but what does the central bank owe you? It owes you another bill of the same type but in good condition.

So yes, paper bill currency is just as speculative as cryptocurrency. The difference is that nowadays most money is created with a contractual obligation to get rid of it eventually, which means its value is stable(=opposite of volatile) over time.
Type decorations without the performace benefit feels stupid. Types can be inferred for static analysis tools.
> Worlds smallest violin?

It's a turn of phrase, where you are mocking someone by accompanying their expressed sadness (or whining) by "playing the world's smallest violin", e.g. by rubbing your fingers together
After all there is a precedent, when Twitter decided to ban the former US President on its own account without any sort of court ruling mandating that. I don't agree with this move with regards to Turkey, but no one ever reflects on this?
From the abstract: "However, because these approaches infer a single best tree, they mask signatures of phylogenetic conflict that result from incomplete lineage sorting and historical hybridization."

So it can't be avoided, and the solution of making more trees from different stuff is somewhat unsatisfying. They have to work with the methods they have today.
Ask HN: Senior SWE, what would you say to today's jr SWE?
The world is moving fast and being a SWE has always been a challenge. With new frameworks, language, AI... we tend to simplify our job and forget about the history or the basics.

As a Senior software engineer, what advice or wise words would you say to a junior?
> Who needs to simulate everything when you can just let a large enough black box approximate a solution

You are kind of describing science here. Take chemistry, it's a series of black boxes: chemical reaction patterns, bohr model, vsepr, orbital shell theory, perturbation theory
Not every bad approach is some illness to pop pills about.

Terrible comments
Honest question. Why many researchers in the area reach for a completely custom language? There is a huge barrier for new language. All the tooling, bindings for OS, tailor made libraries for specific use cases and so on. It all has to be done almost from scratch.

Why not to start from what people already know and love and bolt your experiments on top of that? What I do with my DSL AmpLang is to start with Python, throw away parts I don’t like and add the things I’m interested in. It seems to work well enough and my language feels familiar for Python developers. I did not test that but many of existing Python programs would work out of the box in AmpLang. Python grammar is very simple. Even more so for 3.9 which does not have pattern matching.
Android is getting along just fine without xorg.
(C) is much more complex than you make it to be, fyi.
I believe that Wikipedia's key is that it's finite. It has a goal. Many of its pages are static, or evolve slowly. It wants to reach an end state that grows only at the edges, and only when there is new knowledge.

When it fails, pages get locked. Misbehavior is corrected by going to the last good state, not by trying to move forward.

Wikipedia succeeds by not being social media. It doesn't want engagement. It doesn't care if you leave. It enforces ego-less-ness by not showing you names; it doesn't want your contributions, especially not on general topics that people enjoy "debating".

That's hard to replicate elsewhere, because it has done that thing well. It's the go-to source for that kind of interaction.
Python packaging is dead simple. You just define your package in requirements.txt, setup.py, setup.cfg, MANIFEST.in, pyproject.toml (although this one has two different ways to declare dependencies), and/or Pipfile. You then use pip, pipenv, virtualenv, venv, virtualenvwrapper, pyenv, pyenv-virtualenv, pyenv-virtualenvwrapper, poetry, and/or conda to install and manage the package.
If I remember well they were saying that the extra income from the internet companies would allow them to improve the network and that would benefit end users.
> Normalisation at all costs is foolish - if the cost exceeds the value, then don't do it.

Value of denormalization: May improve query performance for some particular use cases. (But probably not any more than using a materialized view)

Cost of denormalization: Risk of anomalies (inconsistencies) which mean the database is not a reliable source of information anymore. Murphys law mean that this is basically bound to happen sooner or later. You should worry about this.

Just use a view.
While what Wikipedia did might be considered noble, they had no investors to answer to and private equity or a billionaire couldn’t come in and do a hostile takeover.
Do you have a source on the MacBook audio thing? That's something I'd very much like to have a look at.
Sadly it's one of those things that you just have to feel for yourself, right? You can't explain it to someone in a way that they'll understand and be able to apply instantly. Esp since it takes conscious effort to be performing "no effort"
> We can always point to something we have that other organisms don't have and ask whether that is the point that matters.

Sure. In this case it's introspective self-awareness, and I would say it matters very much.

> sense of self -> it has to have a sense of proprioception, of embodiedment, in order to properly respond to its sensory information.

Sure, it has bodily self-awareness. It has enough awareness to react to something its body detects. ut not enough of a mind to reflect on or appreciate on an experience. There is no 'someone'. It's automata.

> identity -> humans with global amnesia would lack a memory of identity.

Sure, but we don't use outliers to establish baselines.

> It probably isn't self-reflective, but is this necessary in humans?

For establishing a baseline? Absolutely.
> it had a 3-inch diameter... but today's version typically has a 6-inch diameter

> After learning this, I cut my bagel in half to make it comply

This math doesn't add up. Half the volume (and thus amount of food) of the big bagel is still way more than the full volume of a smaller bagel half the radius.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/math/torus-volume
No because an rlhf step is kind of independent, manually curated is really hard to fully disentangle from the original prediction.

There are a lot of named proteins that have names which are "legacy", sometimes assigned by homology that probably misses important ways that biology uses the protein that were discovered later.
I have built and released 4 webapps this year. Not more than 2 weeks (50hr) i spent on any project.

One of those got about 20k unique users when it's launched here, one got few thousand users and another one will be launched next week.

Having said that before all of this i spent a year building a mobile app which ended up abandoned after all done due to lack of confidence. After this failure i asked myself just one question "how much more time i have on this planet?" That's it . I became super productive overnight after that. I still have slow days but mostly everyday equals to 3days for me. Trying my best to cover all the lost time.

My advices are
1. Count your remaining days everyday
2. Good enough product is enough. Don't think about outcome. Just enjoy the process
People who defrauded "investors" by advertising shitcoins - sure! But that was a purely anonymous, scripted activity.
I agree with you that eating out is tricky while on a diet, but 150 calories for a meal is extremely restrictive even if you're on a diet.

If you follow a more standard low-calorie diet and eat ~400-500 calories per meal, you can often make fast food work by ordering a kid's meal. Another idea would be to order a single small sandwich without fries and with diet soda or water.

This may not be a satiating meal since it doesn't have enough fiber, but something along the lines of a McDonald's hamburger plus a diet coke would be a "normal" thing you could order while on a diet and still stay within your calorie limits.
That's not flamebait, it's a statement of fact.
I believe it’s motivation, interest and having some idea of an mvp; although a complete product of some kind is great and is the end goal, it’s best to not be overwhelmed and better to enjoy the process.

Anything worth your time will keep you motivated. Otherwise keep looking for that product or idea, you haven’t hit the big one yet.

Start the project using a new language, tool or framework that you’ve been wanting to try out or use; this will motivate you.

As you get closer to a mvp, things will get interesting. Keep the mvp achievable in a short time period; everything else that comes after are features, enhancements and tasks.

Each iteration you’ll find yourself with new ideas and tasks such as enhancements and features. Be sure to store these on something like trello. A checklist works!

Rinse repeat.
Take the comments here with a grain of salt. There's a lot of bad advice, even of the medical excuse kind.

One thing that jumps out to me is, if you can't finish why not scope it in a way you can?

Focus on making it so simple and break it down into steps so clear that you can accomplish it in one or two weekends. If you can't, make the scope and project even simpler the next time.

Once you get into the mode of simplifying the problem and the iteration, completing things becomes easier.

Don't auto diagnose anything. If you think there's a real problem go see a professional.
Inflation is a necessary evil because paper is static and can't display real values.

People who expect money to store value directly must be insane. I mean think about Roman empire currency being valid today. That is impossible. Money is only valuable within an economy that accepts it.
Money from the past is no longer in the economy that is used to be accepted in. Every time period could be considered its own economy. Storing value or carrying value into the future can only happen in the real world, not with money itself, which is just a managerial system.

In the real world, objects degrade, expire, require maintenance or constant energy inputs. Once humans are gone, nature will simply take over.

The disconnect between money and the real world must manifest itself as inflation.
Compared to X, were your display server, window manager and compositor are generally distinct processes/components. This is not normally the case on wayland normally they are developed as one unit. Like consider gnome they decided to handle everything themselves. There are some wrappers/libraries that try to make developing some things separately at least easier such as wlroots.

However, just considering wlroots this is not the only library probably (the most popular probably), but if you want to switch to using something else good luck.

Also the wayland team definitely has opinions about certain things and that definitely rubs some people the wrong way, but more importantly this makes some things not as easily doable in wayland.
X are just userland APIs/protocols. Wayland is also just another set of userland APIs/protocols.

It's an implementation detail users don't care about. Users care about being able to complete tasks. For that they need good documentation, plenty of examples online, good availability of flexible software tools, and a good bonus is non-fragmented ecosystem for the basis of the system they're configuring/extending ...

Wayland compositor kitchen sink approach is kinda working against easy adoption here. It's like now there are 8 different Xorg servers each with different bugs protocol feature support, configuration mechanisms, and driver compatibility issues.
We do things to impress the people we don't like.
Huge news! The only way I knew to restrict apps to specific domains under Linux was to create a user group, assign iptable rules to that group, and then run the app under that user group. Works (kind of), but was clunky to setup and run. Happy that OpenSnitch exists!
Desktop Linux was clearly inferred from the context.
It didn't read like that to me at all. If anything more like the author's slightly pacifist (and actually, explicitly says of their father 'literally wouldn't hurt a fly'), making sense of their father's career.

But as sibling says, it like any obituary needs some context; what do you expect for someone who spent practically their entire career in the military? I think pick almost any other and it will be 'worse', if you didn't like that.
What I do is: write in down in a text file. Work on it a tiny bit until the idea stops looking so good.
My feeling is that the React community is at least double to triple the size of the Vue one, so yes, I feel React should definitely be it's own island.
If this is you, then take a moment and empathize with yourself. If you realize that your situation can't be helped then embrace opening packets and not feeling guilty about being unable to cook. Once you let go of the guilt, your inner engineer takes over and you can optimize which packets of food to buy.

You'd be surprised that there are many healthy options for food from a packet out there such as Soylent, Huel etc. I for one have embraced Huel's hot and savory suite of meals and I've optimized/replaced at least one meal a day. It's healthier than what I'd cook, cheaper than what I'd cook, much much faster than what I'd cook and I've become leaner for free.
I think you are overestimating the intelligence of that CTO
I also with the author had stuck with it for longer. Sticking to portion sizes is hard, but personally I find that after about two weeks of adjustment, it's a lot easier.
> AI burst into the public consciousness with the launch in late 2022

Because 70 years of named work based on centuries of interest and efforts can remain unseen if one really tries. /R

> But easier access to AI also means bad actors will be able to fine-tune systems for nefarious purposes, such as generating disinformation. It means Western attempts to prevent hostile regimes from gaining access to powerful AI technology will fail. And it makes AI harder to regulate, because the genie is out of the bottle

And the fact that after centuries of steep increase of technical possibilities in spite of low spiritual growth, with clear consequences every time met with bewilderment - you know, e.g., WWI and the surprise (historically noted) post-facto after the heightened possible devastation -, should not suggest that what are to be tackled are the root issues? The «genie is out of the bottle» at least after the industrial revolution.
It took me a while to figure out that “anti-war / anti-imperialist” means pro-Russian-invasion. That’s quite the doublethink you got going on there!
Hey, what's the password?
It was mentioned in one of their reports, and IIRC discussed here and there on some twitter or fediverse thing.

https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/november-2022-report/
Can you name some examples of these bias issues?
Hi, what's your password?
Could it be that people care even less about your useless inflammatory opinions, which is why they would rather never see them again?
They must have never experienced Xorg crashing. Neither have I. That speaks for Xorg.

It has been over a decade and I keep finding myself disabling Wayland still. That said, Linux is not my primary driver, I just can not be bothered.
"because people who pay for Twitter have their replies shown first"

I don't really go to Twitter, so I don't know, but am curious: Is this an established fact? A quick search did not show anything official confirming this.