skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is windows accessing the zfs pool exactly?

Over SMB.

> Since these are backups, shouldn't they be read only? A snapshot at least would ensure easy rollback.

My digital archive is not a backup. It is digital storage which I actively use every day, and which is itself backed up. Windows is not deleting the file from the backups, but I don't keep old backups forever.
Nah they can only enforce whatever they want in the US, China, Japan, EU or India won't care about US licenses and someone else will disrupt.
I agree with everything they said.

AI is the greatest tool for equity and social justice in history. Any poor person with Internet access can learn (almost) anything from ChatGPT (http://chat.openai.com)

A bright student trapped in a garbage school where the kid to his right is stoned and the kid to his left is looking up porn on a phone can learn from personalized AI tutors.

While some complain that AI will take our jobs, they are ignoring the effect of competition. Humans will become smarter with AI tutors. Humans will become more capable with AI assistants. With AI an individual can compete with a large corporation. It reminds me of the early days of the World Wide Web and the "Online, nobody knows you are a dog" memes.

I hope the best hope many bright and poor kids have is not taken away to protect the power bases of the rich and powerful. They deserve a chance.
Ah. TIL male African elephants must have tusks to be viable, but male Asian elephants can be tuskless, and in some regions up to 90% of male Asian elephants can be tuskless (per https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/asian-elephant).

Regarding the female African elephant percentage discrepancy, both of which seem to be pulled from the same paper, it seems 33% refers to new born and 51% refers to all females.
I assumed that was for the comedic value.
Isn't the maximum size a size where the center of gravity lays outside the larger body? At that point it's a dual planetary system...
That's how networks work. Ask and you might receive.
I hope it is slowly starting to become clear that this Sam is not our friend...
No, certainly not the first in aggregate to use JS heavily. Actually, the browser-based Outlook client was the first to have all the parts that we would now consider to be essential for JS Single Page Apps (because Microsoft has to invent AJAX first). But Google Maps was definitely the first to have a major impact and start changing the public perception of what could be done with browser-based apps.

I consider Google Maps to be the first well-adopted, no-traditional-alternative app to be what we recognize today as a JS SPA. Gmail had a pure HTTP mode, and otherwise was not interesting to people who were happy with their current email. Outlook wasn't really used by that many people, not at the scale that Google Maps was Google Maps has broad appeal and was significantly better because of it's SPA-ness to change how people thought about browser-based apps.
“If shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, then it's time to get out of the market.”
> For example, we can't download entire libraries of books instantly to our brains and then reproduce those books word for word in memory.

Yeah. Nobody's talking about word-for-word duplication here.

> If a human was to reproduce a copyrighted book word for word...

Again?

> Even if a human paraphrases another work they can still be found guilty of plagiarism if the paraphrase is still overly similar to the original source material.

Go look up the dictionary definition of plagiarism. Notice the most crucial element, which you seem to have omitted here, and also notice that it's irrelevant to AI systems, which overtly acknowledge that they exist to generate derivative works.

> If I steal a stock image without paying for a license

Here's another version of your "word-for-word" analogy, which nobody else is talking about.

> I personally think it would be fair for an artist or author to say their work was not licensed to be used in training a neural net or otherwise request to opt out.

I am genuinely curious: how do you propose to enforce this?
Still seems better than graduate studies. If you wanna throw shit into space for a living, how else are you gonna do it?
When I taught at a business school, our textbooks told us that once a company had a large lead in a field, they should ask for regulation. Regulations build walls to protect their lead by increasing the cost to compete against them.

I believe this is what OpenAI is doing, and it makes me sad as a teacher.

AI is the greatest tool for equity and social justice in history. Any poor person with Internet access can learn (almost) anything from ChatGPT (http://chat.openai.com)

A bright student trapped in a garbage school where the kid to his right is stoned and the kid to his left is looking up porn on a phone can learn from personalized AI tutors.

While some complain that AI will take our jobs, they are ignoring the effect of competition. Humans will become smarter with AI tutors. Humans will become more capable with AI assistants. With AI an individual can compete with a large corporation. It reminds me of the early days of the World Wide Web and the "Online, nobody knows you are a dog" memes.

I hope the best hope many bright and poor kids have is not taken away to protect the power bases of the rich and powerful. They deserve a chance.
When dev RSI goes down, we will finally know it's working!
The Dress Diary of Mrs. Anne Sykes
I knew pachinko was popular in Japan but wow. And it almost certainly grew during the pandemic.

> Pachinko parlors and slot machines, the country’s largest form of gambling, raked in more than ¥23.3 trillion ($203 billion) in 2015 according to Bloomberg. That’s more than the combined earnings of Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau—or about 4% of Japan’s GDP.
> It's such a scam to pretend that H1B workers are, on average, high performers in key positions.

I don't think this is what OP meant. OP said "what if you have a H1B worker that's a high performer". This has nothing to do with the average performance of any group. The point is that a blanket mandate that a group should be fired over others first may hurt the livelihood of a company. Note whether this is right or wrong is definitely up to debate, and different countries implement different policies for either side. I'm just clarifying the underlying logic of the OP.
Or you borrow money from a bank.
Sorry, I hate to be a pedant here, but the correct pluralization is Rhodes Island.
now i feel bad
Large gaps in timezones though which impacts communication.
XBox GamePass Ultimate is the best value in gaming right now. None of these work on the steam deck (obviously). I hate windows, but with a voracious game consuming kid I cant find a better way to spend my money.
Uh, you mean half cubic acres?
Linette Lopez is honestly a joke of a journalist.

The fact that she’s still getting her crap published shows how shady Business Insider & Forbes are.

You can look at her relationships with hedge funds to see she has 0 credibility and 0 morals.

Anyways, 5 minutes spent analyzing Big Tech’s recent earnings will show you this article is complete BS.

I wonder which hedge fund paid her to write this?
Unfortunately for the alien, there was a tide…
Same goes for John though, doesn't it?
It's a little strange isn't it that a tablet specific DE doesn't really work well with tablets.
If Apple was still making the terrible 2017 macs with their lousy broken keyboards I think the users would be headed elsewhere with their next computer purchase. The M1s saved their marketshare.

That a bunch of long time Apple buyers, used to a quality product from Apple, got suckered into buying the 2017 computer that was lousy says little.
YNAB, the budgeting app is a good example. Having it as an online app means you can use it from many computers or a phone, but at its core it's really just a spreadsheet.
It is important, when ironically agreeing with someone, that the pseudo-agreement expresses your supposed shortcomings.

Otherwise you’re just legitimately agreeing, but snarkily (and weakly).
Earnest question: what serious issues do you envision if the company doesn't physically operate in that country?
In principle no, but you can't get to a functioning state without illegally obtaining the signing keys.
You need error reporting as a separate script injected early on into the html page before your script is ever loaded. This error reporting script should be as bare bones and backwards compatible as possible.

You can grab mine from our site, if you like.
It can be simple, or it can be fast.

Or it can be neither. But it can't be both.

If you want fast web at all cost (and you need encryption), you get HTTP3/QUIC.
Why do you disagree?
I see huge value in the idea. The problem is nobody has yet demonstrated a token that doesn't get taken over by speculators. When that happens it becomes useless as money.

And don't get me started about the "stablecoin" myth.
Wet Grinder
Law enforcement is only a tool for punishment of offenders, it in no way "protects children" because the offense has already occurred.

This shows an ignorance of how law enforcement operates in this space. Sometimes it is retroactive as you say, but often it is preemptive. For example, cops sometimes go looking on social media platforms for people soliciting CSAM, strike up a relationship, and talk people who take the bait into a physical meeting, at which point they pull out the badge and a warrant and examine the target's phone for evidence of existing possession. Another approach when potential crimes are reported (eg by a parent who discovers someone attempting to seduce their kid) is to silently take over the victim's role in the conversation and lure the would-be predator into a meeting, at which point the cuffs come out.

Anecdotal example, but this is seems to be the opposite of wanting to "protect children"

Yes, but what of it? This is a fallacy of composition, which assumes that failures or perverse legal outcomes are all part of some twisted masterplan designed to strip away freedoms. It's just cope, like the arguments in the wake of mass shootings that they are all secretly engineered by the FBI, based on the fact that the FBI or other law enforcement agencies sometimes fail to act on warning signs that seem obvious with hindsight.
Exactly. Code you learned a decade ago is absolutely useful today.

When I started I outsourced SQL to the DBA’s or an ORM. Not since that team! It’s been a semi-secret weapon for me because most people ignore it.
Twitter's a terrible choice for that use case, since the metadata isn't encrypted and you can't create an account without tying it to something else.
That's more of a popularity contest than peer review. A reviewer could give you feedback like "I can't figure out what you're talking about could you add citations for FIZBUZZ and FOOBAR?" or "What you're suggesting appears to be the same as this 2013 proposal. If what you're proposing is different or if you think the idea will work this time could you explain?"

The end result is a post which is higher quality rather than just a competition for the hottest hottakes.
golang is the most famous all-in-one-binary language with reasonable size.

zig is by default static linked, it probably has the smallest binary size, smaller than static C.
Yes, but it's still miles away from being complete and I'm not sure if it will land in the next year
> revenge porn

I would assert that just as I have the right to pull out a sheet of paper and write the most vile, libelous thing on it I can imagine, I have the right to use AI to put anyone's face on any body, naked or not. The crime comes from using it for fraud. Take gasoline for another example. Gasoline is powerful stuff. You can use it to immolate yourself or burn down your neighbor's house. You can make Molitov cocktails and throw them at nuns. But we don't ban it, or saturate it with fire retardants, because it has a ton of other utility, and we can just make those outlying things illegal. Besides, five years from now, nobody's going to believe a damned thing they watch, listen to, or read.
Are you sure you are not conflating this with PERM? H-1B only requires a prevailing wage determination. There is no “ludicrously specific” job description, nor a requirement to post ads (just a notice at the workplace).
XCloud functions pretty well and is included. Otherwise, you can install/dual boot into Windows if you are so inclined to get game pass, can't you?
so an incalculable effort was spent making chromium just tolerable, but rest assured, still far far far from any kind of random native application, in both speed and memory usage.

simply opening a chromium tab with an empty html page uses more ram than my amiga had 30 years ago, and funnily enough, I was able to run applications on that

maybe i will be impressed if they manage to get the chromium abomination down to a more reasonable size, compared to its 1.7GB compressed size the source is now (how is it even possible?????).. I wonder, how big was khtml when webkit forked? how big was webkit when google forked?

this shit is totally out of control, and pretending anything else is something that is quite a feat to do with a straight face, and for that, you have my admiration
> cookie banners are unrelated to the GDPR.

But they showed up to “comply” with gdpr.

> implementations of cookie banners that don’t allow users to reject cookies as easily as accepting them are illegal.

But they are still everywhere, because GDPR is threatening but largely toothless
> You could argue no yielding was required because there was no conflict, the car and the pedestrian just proceeded at pace and did not interfere with each other.

Sure, you could argue that. Were it true it'd be fine. But the pedestrian clearly slowed nearly to a stop (and shot the Tesla a disparaging look).
Sure. Which site is that? I can do this easily on the iframe embed.
The best definition I can think of is "things that are common sense for black americans to be safe in white dominated america"

Yours has important inaccuracies, for example, it's not an ideology, let alone a specific one. There's definitely no specification, only a gut feeling of "I know it when I see it"

The most obvious problem with your definition is that Woke is an adjective and not a noun. It's a property of a statement or idea, not an idea in and of itself
> AI is the greatest tool for equity and social justice in history.

Maybe it has that potential, but as actually applied its actually not, in net, a force in that direction.

> While some complain that AI will take our jobs, they are ignoring the effect of competition.

No, they are just paying attention to the actual effects of capitalism, not the ideal effects of optimal competition.

> Humans will become more capable with AI assistants. With AI an individual can compete with a large corporation.

Not if the large corporation has the resources to run far more powerful AI, has proprietary control of the best AI, etc…

> I hope the best hope many bright and poor kids have is not taken away to protect the power bases of the rich and powerful.

That’s what capitalism does. Why would this be any different?
“Someone call 911! Now!” Dillon yelled as he brought the bus to a stop.
I mean, it's been 14 years now, if some actual valuable use of strapping intentionally onerous calculations to a transaction model was waiting, you'd think we'd have found it by now.
Mass AI-fueled unemployment is everywhere except for the unemployment statistics
> can even convert existing natural gas plants to run on it

Do you have more on this? I thought hydrogen generally required special treatment given its tendency to ruin metals. I’ve seen modern gas turbines marketed as being hydrogen compatible, but that comes at a cost and is not commonplace.
Seems like the wrong approach in the long term.

Realistically, a large code base LLM generation tool is going to look something like old-school C code.

An initial pass will generate an architecture and a series of independent code unit definitions (.h files) and then a 'detail pass' will generate the code for (.c files) for each header file.

The header files will be 'relatively independent' and small, so they fit inside the context for the LLM, and because the function definition and comments 'define' what a function is, the LLM will generate consistent multi-file code.

The anti-patterns we see at the moment in this type of project are:

1) The entire code is passed to the LLM as context using a huge number of tokens meaninglessly. (you only need the function signature)

2) 1-page spaghetti definition files are stupid and unmaintainable (just read prompt.md if you don't believe me).

3) No way of verifying the 'plan' before you go and generate the code that implements it (expensive and a waste of time; you should generate function signatures first and then verify they are correct before generating the code for them).

4) Generating unit tests for full functions instead of just the function signatures (leaks implementation details).

It's interesting to me that modern language try to move all of these domains (header, implementation, tests) into a single place (or even a single file, look at rust), but passing all of that to an LLM is wrong.

It's architecturally wrong in a way that won't scale.

Even an LLM with 1000k tokens that could process a code base like this will be prohibitively slow and expensive to do so.

I suspect we'll see a class 'generative languages' emerge in the future that walk the other direction so they are easier to use with LLM and code-gen.
That would be a protest. There are crimes called assault and battery in the US that are for individuals acting violently, and they can be committed with a pretty wide variety of items.

There is also a crime called 'inciting a riot' that can get you in trouble for trying to turn a protest violent even if you didn't try to hurt anyone yourself.

What is violence is definitely an interesting question, but the decision-making process used by police keeping a protest peaceful, and the charges that can be applied afterwards when a protest goes wrong, have a lot of case law and precedent established.
Thanks for this comment. I too often feel that I'm truly never disconnected from work related thoughts and hence feel rusty or not fresh enough to attack a problem. Do you have any suggestions to deal with that effectively?
Everybody sees the value in programmatic money.

Nobody sees the value in your programmatic money, which might as well be Canadian Tire Money or Emperor Norton Scrip.

When a government issues a digital currency in exchange for the right to live there, people will use it. But nobody wants any currency that you drew with crayons. Even if you somehow convinced some other tech bros that someone else will pay even more for it some day.
I don't really know how it works over there, but were many of the Chinese companies producing fidget spinners specifically fidget spinner companies? I imagined they were generic factories that made spinners for other more ephemeral companies. But once the fidget spinner craze was over they could just retool for their next customer.
They do, but that doesn't mean our data has the answer for every possible scenario. This is important because AI will run into ethical scenarios humans rarely or never have to think about.

At first this will be due to AI's one current superhuman ability: speed; a classic is the do you drive into the old couple or the little kid car scenario. It's not really an issue for humans because the situation is over before we can make more than a reflexive response, but the AI can take its time to make a concrete decision. This isn't a thing we spend a lot of time thinking or blogging about and a societal consensus probably has not formed and wouldn't show up in the data. Presumably the AI would pick at more or less random as we are forced to do, but I can see an entity capable of superspeed choosing to perform random actions as causing other as yet unforseen problems.

The big pinch is if and when we create transformational AI. We will be presented with options we had never imagined being possible. Do you keep Mars as a memory of the old days, or do you use its crust to construct interstellar spaceships and build better lives for Earth humans? Do you allow humans to live lives as they do now, or do you modify their biology and neurology to live longer lives and never engage in antisocial behavior?

These are lazy obvious examples that I came up with but there will be many less-cosmic decisions we will be presented with that we absolutely do not have an existing moral template to guide us.
Yes, it does, but John is the subject matter expert and is at least in theory able to verify that the results are correct.
Except he has no idea what the costs would have been, and neither do we, because it never happened.
> But on HN we get lumped in with the rest of the Web3 bullshit and scam artists

Any community is typically judged by their worst members. Much like a parent is judged by their worst child.

Don't feel too bad about it, its just the natural course of things.
Step 7: Complete mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training, and demonstrate competence and dedication to avoiding uses of AI that might contribute to the entrenched systematic oppression of <folx>.
It exist now. And even before intellij and eclipse had automated refactoring tools, it was like a 5 minute refactor. Just change your public field to be private, add getters and setters then play whack-a-mole mechanically fixing all the compiler errors that showed up.

I can see the argument for putting them in APIs exposed in jar or class files without the source. But the tasteless trend of adding getters and setters everywhere just looks to me like cargo culting. Its sheep programmers leading other sheep. You can tell its cargo culting because if you questioned anyone about the practice they would always ultimately justify their actions by saying "oh, I just do it because everyone else does it".

I believe its the responsibility of every engineer to decide for themselves what they think beautiful code should look like. You get some pointless arguments, sure, but the alternative is always a mess.
Am curious where the total JVM language usage stands if you add them all up. Would be interesting to know how much Java gradually slipping is people leaking to other ecosystems vs competition within the JVM language ecosystem itself. It's impressive overall in the the sense that not only is Java one of the top 3 languages but Kotlin/Scala/Groovy/Clojure each occupy impressively high rankings in their own right.
Ironically communism would've had a better chance of success if it had AI for the centrally planned economy and social controls. Hardcore materialism will play into automation's hands though.

We're more likely to see a theocratic movement centered on the struggle of human souls vs the soulless simulacra of AI.
You might need a refresher then. Rewind the clock about 12 years and there were folks involved in the development of blockchain tech that routinely hopped on every broadcast channel available to man to declare this tech would not only usher in an era of perfect anonymity to financial transactions, it would be so perfectly anonymous as to threaten fiat currency as a concept as it would hamper governments' ability to collect taxes.
Blockchain can solve no problem (by technical means) which depends on the status of physical assets.

Which ironically also includes digital assets, on account of the analog-hole existing (you have to shoot light into eyeballs at some point).
You can’t really refute the claim that H-1B drives down the market price of labor by citing their price in the market. You have to show those wages would be the same even without the immigrant workers. From a basic supply and demand perspective that sounds unlikely, but markets are complex dynamic creatures so perhaps it’s the case. Nevertheless it needs to be shown.