skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. It was so hard to get land that “land reform” was a constant political point.
Just have the professor do the same with a random sampling of his own writings. It’ll falsely claim that it wrote half of those too.

Also the professor should receive a failing grade for utterly failing to understand how any of this works.
You can see at the beginning of the article a benchmark comparison with Webpack and esbuild.
This quirk of the west should really be addressed. The feds “own” far too much of the western US.
Thermodynamically, nothing will work indefinitely.

For all practical intents and purposes, the finite resources available on this planet and in the universe are more than sufficient, though.
It’s the project I integrated Bun with as a bundler, thereby running into all these issues. I figured that others would hit the same problems so write this post about how to work around them
After who knows how many people donated the hardware they’d carefully preserved for years with the expectation it would be preserved at the museum as part of Paul Allen’s legacy.
> After a few hours of work, reading up on Bun and working my way through these issues, I now have a much simpler build system that runs in the blink of an eye. My Vercel build times have reduced from 2 minutes to just 50 seconds (that’s all React stuff & fetching node_modules). My watch script runs in a few milliseconds instead of 5 or more seconds, My code is much simpler and I’ve removed Webpack, Browserify and Uglify from my projects.

This is like when esbuild first appeared level's of excitement to me. Can't wait to try it out.
Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released with Multi-GPU Support/PipeWire/Tearing Control
And it is highly unlikely that aforementioned group of illiterates are applying for software engineering positions... so I'm not sure how relevant this statistic is.
> due to various legal convictions

Wouldn’t this have been like 100% for drug possession charges? Which most people are generally and understandably not too morally upset about, especially if it’s drugs like marijuana or cocaine?

Rock musicians are notorious for that sort of illegal behavior, certainly, but not for anything worse AFAIK? Unless you’re referring to violent gang activity, though that is normally reserved for a couple other genres…
I think the point is that this is a project with 1 person.
You opened by saying that you're not proposing economic stagnation, but then wrote several paragraphs arguing for economic stagnation. Human technology isn't a finite resource.
I disagree (and apparently her editor did too):

> My editor laughed at me when I shared these impressions, telling me (and I quote), “Amy Chozick, you got rolled!”

Obviously the editor eventually signed off on the piece, but it was as much a puff piece as I've ever seen a convicted felon get!
What does "brain signals traveling" even mean? The brain is highly interconnected with both forward and feedback connections at all levels. Both of the mentioned regions are always active and always sending signals bidirectionally. fMRI is a slow, low resolution approximation of brain activity, so I'd really like to know what they are actually measuring as opposed to some clearly reductive analogy of what they suspect might be an underlying cause for that observation.
Nothing really wrong with PHP or Matomo, which is why I mention it as something I would recommend. But, it is a requirement for hosting Matomo.

I would pick a different stack today mostly due to wanting to try other stuff out, and not so much because something was broken about it. Website still loads faster than 99% of the internet today, and I'm happy with it.
You can't measure "reduced confidence" like you can a dollars going out for not meeting an SLA, and what are you going to do in this case? Move to Microsoft Teams? Please.
I've seen a lot of performance gain when services don't cache correctly and are constantly going into small tables to get a record. Just be mindful of the write slowdowns it can cause.
The author.

I genuinely didn't expect the next phase of climate change denial to be trying to rewrite history to blame environmentalists for stopping progress.
Thanks for the ref. A few passages in the beginning chapters make me wonder what he would make of US today, specially whether he would recognize the 'conversion' regiment that he deems "as sure as a steam-roller" as having been|being applied.
That was a book that I read, thought was brilliant, and never want to read again. I can’t put into words how it made me feel.
But Google Photos & Google Docs will all self-immolate?

I just can't imagine what weird dark ages we are suddenly lurching towards.

Twittwrs another crazy example. Old accounts being deleted. Search so now dead.

Tech's bold & brilliant lightcone is suddenly cut off in 202X.
Ancient punishments were insane. Death was usually just a side effect of whatever the actual punishment was. Bothered me for weeks after reading about that stuff.
> Is the economy made for man, or man for the economy?

Pendulums swing.

Right now we're in the part of the cycle where man is being adapted to the economic system (so the latter). We're in a situation where more and more capital seems to be ending up in fewer hands - the rise of AI seems likely to accelerate that trend and lead to even more income inequality if we're not very careful. The rising tide was supposed to raise all boats, but that doesn't seem to be happening as much anymore as it did earlier.

We've sort of been here before (The Gilded Age) and we were able to get the pendulum to swing back in favor of the workers through mass labor movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - that was a move towards the economy made for man. Will we be able to do that again?
The full press conference is pretty interesting, recommend watching it... note the UN media player is janky so prepare to do the hokey pokey.

https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k1ozzjkefb
I haven't used then myself, but Postgres supports partitions. If you have large amounts of data, you could partition by a date range.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.htm...
Thanks! Is it trivial to “copy” container connection information between machines? For example, can I write a devcontainer.json, spin up a back-end on Digital Ocean, make sure it has all the necessary envs and system dependencies and is working correctly, then just copy-paste connection information to that pod and send it to my designer, where he just pastes it into his DevPod desktop app and is off to the races?
A lot of companies make you track hours to distinguish capital expenses from operational ones, I assume for a different tax treatment, which I don't think has only internal implications.
Weather forecasting is pretty amazing these days, along with modelling, has changed the equations compared to decades past. It becomes a question of how much risk are you prepared to take vs how often you want to do a prescribed burn (sometimes favourable conditions (still, humid, not raining) don't show up for months or years.
Harder, not impossible. Though there's probably data out there, and it might show I'm wrong. Maybe it's the same or worse, proportionally.
The next step is a robot police next to the self checkout that will grab shoplifters
I don't really see how this is hard to understand:

The US Federal government exerts control over things it has control over. Since it has limited control domestically (more so, consequences for exerting control domestically) it exerts control outside of the country. So foreign policy can contradict domestic policy easily. The entity has unparalleled resources but cant unilaterally do much for long domestically.

Its tried to do a lot about gun availability periodically in the states, this was always struck down which is why we have more of a free for all now.
I can hope for a mass change (reduction) in energy use, consumption, etc, driven by consumers - though I don't believe it's likely to happen until the issue is forced by something like "unavailability of resources compared to income" - as we're seeing right now in various ways.

I fully expect us as a society to hit the various walls at speed, and have to find some way to do something useful with the various pieces remaining.

But, given that, "working out the useful things one can do beforehand" is useful - because you can afford to screw up, to learn what works well locally, and have the resources to experiment. I'll point to things like "direct solar heating of homes" (solar thermal air collectors) as the sort of thing that take some learning how to build and use effectively, and it's useful to work that out while Home Depot still is tolerably well stocked. And/or to collect supplies ahead of time.

I'm aware it's a pessimistic view, but it's been working just fine for modeling reality.
With how easy investing in index funds is these days, that's no longer true.

You can build wealth more reliably and cheaply with automatic transfers to a target date fund than hoping any given real estate market takes off.
There's a comment below saying it's a 2.64GB CSV file, while gzip shows the uncompressed size of this one to be 1.97GB.
(I work on Bun)

Great writeup

We are working on the crash with the minifier + multiple entry points and hopefully will have a fix this week

> Bun inserts code that looks like this at the bottom of the built file, in this case from a file called account.ts

var account_default = {};
export {
account_default as default
};

Currently, Bun only supports esm output so for this to work you'll need `<script type="module">` instead of `<script>`. We will add support for IIFE though (which should fix this)

> Hopefully Bun will implement fs.watch soon and I can throw out this code.

Yeah we need to do this. It's not super hard and we have plenty of existing code for inotify and kqueue in place for watching files, there's no good reason why we haven't done this yet.

> There’s something unfinished with Bun’s implementation of the child_process module that breaks when run in the Vercel build environment.

Currently, Bun.spawn & Bun.spawnSync (which child_process uses internally) relies on `pidfd_open` (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pidfd_open.2.html) which Vercel, due to using AWS Lambda, does not support because it is on Linux Kernel 5.10 (3 years old). We need to add a fork() + exec() fallback for this

edit: it's not pidfd_open, but it is one of these posix_spawn related calls that is missing
Social responsibility is about more than newly mainstream DEI programs. ACM and IEEE have promulgated professional codes of ethics for a while. Social responsibility can involve questions about everything from AI concerns (which HN has no qualms talking about) to whether to add a stored payment option (credit card numbers) on a POS terminal that you know will be deployed with no protections to saying "no" when a client that's an insurance carrier says they want their self-service online claims system to refuse to accept a submission unless a checkbox is ticked that explicitly opts the submitter in to forms of correspondence that work to the submitter's disadvantage (e.g. non-written), including overriding what preferences/demands they've communicated to the carrier in the past. I think every course I took that was offered under the umbrella of the college of engineering at my school had a mandate that the instructor spend one week (2–3 classes) out of the semester on professional ethics, complete with HBS-style case studies. And this wasn't recently.

Related: this month's issue of Communications of the ACM also has an obvious focus. <https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/5>
CLI tool that calls Xcode Test Plans and creates screenshots automatically
It's worse: he didn't even know its name, thought it is called ChatGTP.
Why? It seems like something more CS students could learn about.
Ok, after trying out the emulation, I can safely say it is far below the experience on the Switch. I feel sorry for anyone solely doing emulation thinking they're getting the full Zelda experience. The controls are janky and laggy. The audio/video desyncs. Lots of frame skipping/stuttering/acceleration/deceleration. A whole mess of issues and that's just in the first 10 minutes of the prologue. You probably could beat the game if you ignored those issues but it had all the delicacy of a movie camrip. Yeah, you can watch a camrip and understand the movie, but the enjoyment just isn't the same.
> There are many nimby groups opposed to construction, but hardly ever have I seen it due to being “I want the value of my house to go up”.

The quiet part nobody wants to say out loud is that the NIMBYs aren't opposed to construction to make their house value go up, it's to keep it from going down. Nobody wants the undeveloped land in their subdivision to get turned into a landfill or chemical processing plant. Nobody wants a collection of SFHs bought up, bulldozed, and replaced by mid-rise apartments that will be part of an "affordable housing project" (which is a euphemism for rent-subsidized government housing). Nobody wants the strip mall down the street replaced with a homeless shelter.

What people don't want is a nice place to live turned into a place where they and their family get exposed to environmental toxins, crime, poverty, and violence. This also has the side-effect of lowering property values, but that's not why anyone cares for the most part, it's that they /LIVE THERE/ and don't want to live near squalor and desperation.
I'm sure it'll be available in 180 countries: the US, the United States, America, New York, Washington, Wisconsin, ...

(sorry frustrated bard-non-user in the EU speaking ...)
Amusingly, when javascripts are blocked on his site it is a black background with white text which is easier for me to read than the color scheme with javascripts allowed
The history of human progress is one of harnessing more energy per capita in a mighty struggle to leave behind the disadvantaged state of man in nature ("solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"). We've done quite well so far.

I'd like for humanity to keep going until the average Sri Lankan or Congolese can live like the average Texan or Swiss[0] does now, and hopefully until everyone can live in a true post-scarcity world a la Star Trek.

It's all well and good for an individual living in the developed world to freely choose to try and consume less energy, but degrowth as a whole I'm afraid would mean that the global poor stay globally poor.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use
Those jobs (where you create the next Redis) almost don’t exist. Instead you create something, toiling for years for no pay, and if it catches on you are set for life.

But HFT jobs might be interesting if you want to do hardcore engineering. I imagine there are a lot of interesting ML jobs.
I'm not a de-growther and I also think people are reasonably worried about structuring things in such a way that future expansion is assumed. Of course you can do it for a while, but it seems very possible we're coming up on the end of a while (or did 20 years ago, etc).

I agree that our political undercurrents suggest an inchoate inability to actually change things. Stuffs all fucked up - for lack of a better way of putting it - and we don't know how to get into a sustainable situation. We've gotten by on growth for years because we could, and now we have to actually figure it out.
My parents were landlords for almost 20 years. They owned a six family that we also lived in most of the time. It was a ton of work and they didn't make hardly anything after expenses. We had several cleanups that could be on the Hoarders TV show.

My grandparents were landlords for like 50 years. They said they wouldn't be worth it if their children weren't doing all the work for free.
RCS should work between different instances; AFAIK, Vodafone and Google are exchanging messages, for example.

Of course you could implement a full RCS client in your own app, deregister RCS in the Google Messenger app and then interface with your server of choice that way. However, this is significantly more work than just accessing the normal text messages on a phone. You'd also need to implement Google's extensions on top of RCS yourself (like E2EE encryption) and set up some kind of notification system (because you can't poll a server or listen on a socket without getting killed in the background).

It's all theoretically possible, but it's a lot of work. This is one of the reasons why Signal decided to drop SMS support all together in their app. Google could expose RCS messaging like they do text messaging, but they just... don't. Unless you're Samsung, of course; Samsung is allowed to call into the RCS APIs but other apps aren't.
When I was a consultant, I had private companies do that at a cost to them of $2200 a day.

I had one project where this went on for 5 months. This was a private company with massive ill-gotten gains, which wasn't shy in spending that money frivolously. Whatever man, I guess.
> just copyright alone wouldn't prevent you from modifying the code for personal usage.

This is correct. Copyright prevents you from distributing the protected work. It doesn't prevent you from taking it and doing whatever else you want with it.

(I'm ignoring the DMCA anti-circumvention clause here because that's a whole different issue and rarely actually comes into play)
OpenAI shut down DC company’s pitch to apply ChatGPT to politics
Company's response:
"* Editor’s Note: This announcement has been updated to reflect that the SmartCheck feature is available for use with grassroots advocacy campaigns only, and cannot be used to generate messages to elected or appointed officials."

https://fiscalnote.com/press-room/votervoice-launches-enhanc...
Do you believe that exponential growth can continue forever on a finite {planet, solar system, galaxy, universe}?

If not, then we will eventually have to deal with the problem. We can do it now, or later. Personally, I think "sooner" is better than "later" to deal with it, because I don't see us meaningfully getting off the planet, so maybe let's not trash the place worse.
magic pocket's tech lead (disclaimer: my cofounder at convex) has a whole talk on this concept of "durability theater" [1]!

the tldr is that those numbers of 9s are just table stakes. no system should ever lose data due to routine disk failures. so then, as you mention, there's another whole art to mitigating those other sources of problems.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/atscaleevents/videos/17416916227706...
Angelo Mozilo is the poster boy for this. He paid a personal fine.

He made $470 million running Countrywide into the ground and had to pay a fine of $67.5 million.

Retired to live out his old age worth about $600 million.

Who is the fool in this equation? Hard to say it is Angelo.
It would be nice if there were some sort of industry protection for engineers who do refuse unethical tasks. At present, I'd expect you'd get fired pretty quickly if you said no (at a lot of companies).
Plain Text > Screenshot -> OCR -> Plain Text can be used for avoiding some sorts of identifiers hidden in text.
For similar reasons, general future proofing, I recently started using orgmode for my todo lists, journaling and a light project management workflow. I'm a vim person, and using spacemacs with evil mode has been good for learning. I imagine I'll eventually start from scratch and only keep the pieces I like, but it's been a reasonable starting point.

This looks great for those purposes, it should interact nicely. There's a decent chance I'll pick up the watch today. (Can I make it buzz for pomodoro? Hmm.)
There’s an interview between Musk and Tucker Carlson where he says he knew Google had these powerful models internally and thought they should be out in the open, so the answer was a non-profit called Open AI, it was the whole premise of the org

I believe he disagreed with the direction the board was taking it and tried to take over, which when failed he stopped funding it, and they went to investors
I'll try to summarize to check I understand: people won't take real action until suffering is unbearable; and, you suggest becoming an ecological disaster prepper.
This reminds me of a feature I had enabled on my previous computer but hadn't enabled on my current one yet: having MacOS announce the time on the hour. Sometimes it would scare the crap out of me, but it was effective at breaking me out of the periodic trance state that's so easy to fall into. I think I'll enable that again...
Vecr gives good analogies, but for AGI, I think investing a lot into alignment research, trying to set up incentive structures to actively avoid "arms races", establishing global oversight and agreements, having a "fire alarm" or process in place that a company can trigger if they develop an AI that they think is close to becoming dangerous, or even individuals. Strong whistleblower protections may help. Tracking GPUs so we know where compute is being gathered together. Starting talks with other countries like China, right now, to build a common understanding of how to deal with a potential problem.

I think it's true that it may be very difficult to solve alignment theoretically, and solving it when we have real-world systems to look at may make it easier (but still probably not easy). But we need to be able to buy companies time so they can slow down as we approach what seems to be the "edge" of dangerous capability / consciousness / goal directedness, without feeling like they will lose out. And to be very strict about the conditions the models are trained under and what testing they undergo before release.

A lot of this is stuff that people are already suggesting, but not everyone is taking the risk seriously.
The thing that's dangerous about this line of thinking is that most depressed people feel like they have insight and are reacting to reality as it really is. But if the depression lifts, they usually no longer feel that way.

So trying to figure out whether depression is reasonable is usually a trap, and will not improve the person's life. The thing to do is to manage the feelings, treat the depression, and revisit those topics once the depression lifts.
They don't call them "beltway bandits" for nothing!
> If you're not using it, how long is Google (a for-profit company)

I vaguely remember Google promise not to delete your account in the era when they said they do no evil. That was before smartphone era and probably before their IPO.
I happen to know with several people that work in an inner-city ER, and they see a dozen or so fentanyl overdoses a day.

What is called "fentanyl" on the streets is not the same thing as the prescription drug fentanyl used in the ER. The ER Doctors are well aware of this and their protocols reflect this too. Beside a different composition of fentanyl itself, nearly everything that comes back in toxicology reports indicates it's nearly always laced with a lot of other things.
Don’t worry. Bard isn’t very good, you’re not missing out on much.
Technically speaking, the breakthrough was also the fact that it allowed for parallelization of running the computation. Instead of going word by word in a sequence, and optimizing for the next word, the approach shifted to looking at words independently and then applying the same statistical approach of finding the next word relative to that word or sequence. Then the final outcome was a weighted sum of these independent pieces.
This is awesome. Already seeing forums asking for death announcements/obituaries and connected email addresses for the person. Looks like there is going to be a lot of family and friends receiving messages that their loved ones wanted to let you know that "X" is dead and we just wanted to let you know. Feel free to send condolences to "Y address."

Seems like Hotmail all over.
I would simply not let the Pinkertons in.
This is so much nicer than the usual "List of falsehoods programmers believe about X" for one simple reason - _examples_. Having concrete counterexamples to the assumptions being considered makes it so much easier to understand what some of the possible issues might be.