skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I moved from Ubuntu 20.04 to Debian 11 for the same reasons during the Christmas holidays. I'll live boot Debian 12 and check how it copes with my 2014 laptop.

The main hurdle is the NVIDIA graphic card. Sooner or later the proprietary driver for X11 will stop supporting it by and who knows if the one for Wayland will work. I remember I had problems with Wayland so I went back to X11. The card is a Quadro K1100M.
As a millennial user, wth is a file extension? What's a directory?
Assuming 20/16 is distance low-light you may be over correcting. Your eye needs to accommodate away that correction during close vision, which can cause eye strain and (EndMyopia conspiracy theorists claim) axial elongation and worsening vision.

Full disclosure: I’m an EndMyopia conspiracy theorist.
What if companies host an internal instance of ChatGPT to assist developers?
> Not sure if you are aware how small most European countries are

The thing is, are you aware that most European countries are also aware of this?
What do you think that they have done in response? Some kind of "unity" maybe ?

There's good reason why the EU is regarded as powerful, when Denmark isn't. There's good reason why Estonia joined, and Ukraine would like to.

It's not just small countries banding together though. Poland, 38m people was also keen to join.
If that were true then why don't Red Bull or Mercedes have LMH teams in the WEC series? Surely, they would want to use all that data to improve their F1 cars, right? Or is it because they all know, including Ferrari, that there is very little correlation between an F1 car and a LMH car.
It sounds like this outsourcing program was not being managed well - and beyond the general inhumanity, eventually that’s going to cost OpenAI too if it compromises their results. It sounds like the expectations communicated by OpenAI were completely unlike the reality.

> OpenAI told me it believed it was paying its Sama contractors $12.50 per hour, but Mathenge says he and his colleagues earned approximately $1 per hour, and sometimes less.

> OpenAI knew these workers were supposed to get routine counseling, but Okinyi and Mathenge found it insufficient. “At some point, the counselor reported,” Mathenge said, “but you could tell he was not professional. He was not qualified, I’m sorry to say. Asking basic questions like ‘What is your name?’ and ‘How do you find your work?’”

The final outcome when OpenAI pressed for more details about working conditions was that this outsourcing company simply exited content moderation entirely. Hopefully the folks running this program on the OpenAI side are revisiting how they choose and manage their vendors.
My first two jobs as a java programmer had multiple minute build times. It was really an incredible mess. That was 10+ years ago, however, so I have no idea if that's still normal.
> Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the
transition team,

I didn't realize lawsuit filings could have colorful language like this.
Suggesting that so-called "corporate capture" is a new or recent phenomenon is incredibly ahistorical. This sort of nonsense could only persist in a nation that knows absolutely nothing of its own history.
sure, but you can very easily and quickly flip them up

for anything glasses like, you can simply take them off
I keep looking to see if they have the credit card ones back in stock, but they never seem to.

A few weeks ago I added an "rpncalc" command to my CLI "swiss army toothpick" program ( https://github.com/linsomniac/toothpyk ): "pyk rc 86500,24/365x" (x == * == multiply).

On the one hand I love the HP calculators and have leaned on them heavily in the distant past. On the other hand I like having a clean desktop (3d printing some under desk drawers at this moment).
The root cause is that a huge portion of the US population sees prisons entirely from a punitive point of view. Want to reduce prison sentences? Improve conditions? You're soft on crime!
There's a cause and effect issue here. It requires lot of money to go from an unloved public transit system used only by the poorest individuals to a fast, reliable, clean system that the wealthier classes with options would choose to use over their personal vehicles.

But, that investment is generally decided on by that same wealthier class that is currently choosing their personal vehicle.

It's impossible to start the economic ball rolling without some evangelizing to capture hearts and minds of those that aren't currently using or interested in investing in the mass transit system.
Their WEC performances have been stellar for a rookie team.
My wife is an 8th grade social studies teacher at a public school in Texas. I spent yesterday in her classroom as the resident technology expert and answered questions about semiconductor manufacturing, neural networks and cryptocurrencies in discussions about trade-offs with technology.

For one, the kids don’t really use TikTok that much and use a handful of apps. Different cliques used different apps more than others. They understood the geopolitical issues with TikTok and very few cared enough about TikTok in particular. They would all just use Reels or some other app more often.
> If it’s hundreds, I’ll just Venmo it to you so you can mentally move on.

very classy.
Corporations being monsters is by far the easiest Occam's Razer view of this. "Abuse of power comes as no surprise."

What an evil world it is, that we have such large anti-human entities for people to contend with.
they'll send your 1099 at end of year.
This brings up an old bugbear of mine. The front seat airbag thing is a solvable problem but instead of solving it, we just choose to put kids in the back seat because that's cheaper for the auto manufacturers. This is obviously true since 2-seaters allow kids in the front seat.

I think having your kid in the back seat is a far worse experience for both the parent and the kid, and there has been an increase in "hot car deaths" since the laws requiring kids to be in the back seat passed.
Agree with you, but here are some points to consider:

- The app didn’t capitalize or monetize out of that event, it was just like any news app (in fact, that time news apps had ads too), except it’s a niche news, about covid.

- When I submitted the app, that policy didn’t exist I remember going through their policies, I guess during that month of “pending”, they were processing if they would allow such apps or not, as I am sure other submitted similar ones, keep in mind it was too early for big tech to digest the fast paced infos whether to allow or disallow it, you can notice even the app name (nCov- corona) and not (Covid19) as the name wasn’t even given to the virus by WHO yet, so immediately banning and suspending apps with no concrete policy in place gives you an idea how things works, ban first, then discuss later and even after discussing things won’t change.

Bottom line: Having too much power such app stores to a single private company is wrong, apple is worse in that department as you can’t even side load your apps yet (planned in next iOS release I believe), it’s not the case for webapps for example with all the flexibility you have as a developer.
One way to think about it is Starship is designed to be a generic space ship/lander like a 747, and SpaceX HLS contract is an agreement to build some modified 747s off the assembly line for this specific NASA purpose (along with tanker/etc that were already planned). Whereas the Blue Origin's proposal is more of a purpose-built lunar lander + tug vehicle.

So the pricing may actually make sense for all parties involved. It is interesting that BO plans to launch this on New Glenn but aren't going the Starship route of just landing New Glenn's upper stage on the Moon directly (even though with Jarvis it's intended to land on Earth?). But for NASA's purposes hedging on a more traditional lander might be preferable anyway.
For anyone thinking about applications of langchain and pinecone but who are looking for something more turn-key check out https://jiggy.ai

The core is actually open source as well, allowing you to take your data back out via sqlite and hnswlib (https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite)
I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)
Asahi Linux dev's explanation on why he would like people to use Wayland
Are there any examples of successful companies doing this? Uber and Wework only cost the IPO bag holders. Have any Venture Predation companies actually reached supracompetive pricing levels and recouped the predatory losses enough to have overall harm to consumers?

IPO bag holders, too bad, and I don't see any regulatory need to protect them.
Could you please send a link on the rumors? Big if true!
I see this comment all the time in this conversation and it strikes me as being in very bad faith. I would love to understand what you're trying to get at.

Because - first, in a legal sense, it seems wrong? You cannot memorize a book and then reproduce it from memory to disappear the copyright. The law on AI & copyright is very young (and I am not an expert), but artistic expression cases that involve copying (i.e. warhol) have rested on the idea that the copying is transformative in some way - but this seems in direct opposition to the idea that machines cannot create works themselves. I.e. the legal understanding that protects AI from needing to respect copyright also suggests it should not be understood to be traditionally transformative.

On a less legal level, an AI ingesting a huge amount of content and adjusting a neural network is very different from a student going to university in most ways. There are also similarities! But in a general way the direct comparison does not line up particularly well. So many complaints about Transformer-based AI exist on levels outside of the precise "agent doing the learning" (including this one).
The impact of blocking your site from the AI will be zero
All cars are unsafe.
This is a popular myth. Bitcoin asic's were 'shipping' in 2012/2013.

Some companies definitely played games and mined with the asic's themselves (and then shipped those used asic's)... but in general, it was always a lot more profitable to sell the shovels than it was to mine the gold.
Hi HN, author here! The GameBoy emulator written up in this post runs on axle, which is a message-passing microkernel-based OS I’ve been working on for a very long time. dang suggested that I put together a Show HN for axle, which I’d love to do once I have a bit more time to get things into a working-out-of-the-box state!

axle is a really fun project for me, and serves as the testing grounds for all kinds of technical experiments. The bore-you-with-features spiel goes something like: x86_64, SMP, UEFI bootloader, TTF rendering, compositing window manager, TCP/IP stack, AHCI driver, custom assembler/linker, and, of course, a GameBoy Emulator!

When working on axle, the level of yak shaving can get pretty extreme. For example, when I got around to writing axle’s first network card driver, I was puzzled when my driver could transmit packets fine, but failed to receive any packets. I dug around for quite a while before considering that it might be a QEMU bug, and tracked it all the way to macOS’s incomplete implementation of poll(), which QEMU was relying on! I ended up writing a patch for QEMU to work around it, and, several layers up, was finally able to progress on the network card driver and network stack. This was back in 2021, but I wrote up the journey recently here: https://axleos.com/adding-vmnet-support-to-qemu/

axle was mostly C-based for a lot of its history, which can get pretty gnarly both in kernel-space and when trying to write higher-level productivity software in userspace. Recently, I’ve been writing a lot more of in Rust, but for the past couple of years that’s been confined to userspace only. When adding SMP support to the kernel, though, I added Rust to the kernel too. It’s really nice.

One other fun thing I’ve been working on semi-recently is a homegrown IDE with an assembler/ELF-linker that runs under axle. I found the linker pretty difficult to get right, because a lot of the ELF data need to know the size and locations of other bits of data in the binary, and it’s tough to shake everything into place in a way that has serial data dependencies! It’s immensely gratifying, though, to write some assembly, generate an ELF at runtime, and execute it. I also added some process-monitoring hooks into the kernel while working on this, so the IDE application can monitor the output of the assembler/linker, and show the output of the generated program, all within the GUI. I uploaded a quick demo video of this IDE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9XyzSBUNg. This whole shebang (IDE + assembler + linker/ELF binary-packer) is written in Rust.

Thanks for reading — I hope you enjoy the post, and let me know if you have any questions!
My Ubuntu desktop was very customized to make it look as much as possible as the old Gnome 2 and drop any animation and special effect. I installed all the Gnome shell extensions I had on Ubuntu, removed some and added others to cope with the new version of the shell. I have an almost pixel perfect copy of my Ubuntu desktop now.
See also: https://github.com/ebikt/progress.pl
> Alcohol and vapes take substantially more effort for your average high schooler to get their hands on

You can order a nicotine vape online in most states and the only required ID is "confirming" that you are over 18. Doesn't detract from your main point.
Me, too. My two HP48s are finally starting to fail after 30 years of use.
I don’t understand why they can’t use, like, Word or notepad and just pass around text files or something like that.

I mean, most of the people involved in the prison system have decided to work in a place where the users aren’t there willingly or able to change service providers, so I guess they would trend toward minimal competence, right? The more they can leverage software written by anybody else, the better, I guess.
India to withdraw 2k-rupee notes from circulation
> The manual for Alli makes it clear that orlistat treatment involves aversion therapy, encouraging the user to associate eating fat with unpleasant treatment effects.

Christ. This is like Crohn's disease in pill form. One too many teaspoons of olive oil and you're in for an unpleasant evening...
> If your actual accounting information is truly and permanently gone, that's both a problem and an opportunity: you can't get it anymore, but neither can the tax authorities.

You can't get it anymore but Amazon may well have passed it on to the tax authorities. There also are the bank statements of the OP.

In no way is this an opportunity.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9bFYU
> The only issue is that companies like Uber are lying to themselves and their investors that costs will go down significantly in the future.

did you not read the article? the entire thing premise is that is not true and there are negative externalities and incentives even if the company doesn't ever make a profit.
Are we ignoring his acquisition of Twitter and why he had to buy Twitter even though he didn't want it?
Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens’ Fundamental Rights in France
I don't want to share with AI because if what proponents of AI are predicting is correct, I think it will result in very bad things. I don't want to have contributed to that, even a little.
Makefile Tricks for Python Projects
Evergreen, indeed ever greener:

Ximm's Law: every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon.

Lemma: any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to preclude some feature from future realization is false.
(Retro). Not "the next generation".
There certainly is nuance. There is nothing magical about marginal costs - if someone is pricing something at break even or 1% gross margin and never have any hope of running a profitable business at that price because of their fixed costs, it's not different from a competitive perspective - the price is unsustainable.

On top of that, there is nuance as to what goes into fixed v variable, how fixed fixed really is, how good your management accounting system is, how good you are at predicting things like product recalls, or insurance losses, or loan recoveries, or whatever other variables are part of your particular business.
1 in 5 Young Chinese Is Jobless, and Millions More Are About to Graduate
Because it's already happened in part?

We got GPT 3.5 in part by training models on RLHF data, not just to answer questions, but to rate questions like the humans were.

And in turn we've seen those models used to fine tune models like LLAMA without requiring anyone to sift through that.

Still this is a horrible injustice, OpenAI is going to take on unimaginable wealth and even if that wasn't guaranteed when these people were being paid $1 an hour, it's not too late to try and fix some of what they did.
Swissmicro is noobish but Berkeley graphics is super neat to me.

I find these light blockish ui relaxing (more than flat, whitespace recent ones ironically)
Interesting perspective, thank you for that, but the issue is not merely driving bond rates to zero. The money created by central banks also flows into VC funds and the stock markets via various indirect paths and from there into the startup ecosystem.
You draw the line SOMEWHERE, just like you always do, for every right already. We already have lines all over rights, and it's not crazy to add another line somewhere and let the judiciary move it around and change it's shape. That's their job.
On FreeBSD you can do CTRL+T to show progress, if I remember, that's a special shourtcut similar to CTRL+Z/C supported by BSD systems. There were some discussions a few years ago that Linux should introduce the same thing, but they never did.
s/lose/loose/
Convex is going open-source
Is there no link for the actual code?
i sure hope so because Siri has gotten worse in the last 2 years, commands i used to use daily now fail saying it can't do that and then i try it on a different device, same prompt and it works. I do not understand why Siri works sometimes and just fails others. The HomePod Siri is especially bad now that I actually turned Siri off so my phone or watch would handle the request because they failed so often.
That does make sense.

But I am wondering. Will we always want what we have today? Did we simply exhaust all need for travel once we developed cars? Or did we remove the need for food once we switched from hunting to farming?

My point being that new tech has always led to demand for new services and things.

Once everyone has access to ai and ai does everything for us would we not want new stuff?

And if as per your comment we have a couple of years until a possible replacement may have taken place wouldnt we have developed a demand for new services and jobs by then?

We had no clue we needed a tiktok app before we made the iphone and we had no clue we needed digital artists before we invented the computer.
This same thing happened to me when I quit smoking without assistance from a drug.
I'm not sure why "it stops working when you stop taking it" is used as an argument against these new peptides. This is the way almost every medication we encounter works.

Tylenol might get rid of your headache, but that headache can come back tomorrow. Stop taking birth control and you might get pregnant. Stop taking Claritin and your allergies return. Stop taking insulin, and, as with these new peptides, you lose control over your blood sugar. Stop taking Adderall, and not only will your ADHD symptoms come back, you'll also experience withdrawal.

Almost no medications are "one and done", and I'm not sure why Ozempic or Mounjaro are being held to needing to be a cure when it's clear that they're effective, repeatable treatments for blood sugar control and (likely related) weight gain.
I think it comes down to ecosystem fragmentation.

A lot of languages now have common tooling (cargo for rust, pip for python, etc) which makes it easier to find and incorporate the libraries you want. Apparently there are tools like https://conan.io/ but they're not as widely-adopted.

C's build system is similarly non-uniform. Many packages use Makefiles, others use different build mechanisms.

C has no universally-agreed error handling mechanism or convention. Whether exceptions or golang's error interface, you can generally assume that a random package in most languages will handle errors the way you expect. In C it's a lot more varied.

Similarly memory allocation - sometimes in a larger application you want to customize how malloc and friends work. How and whether you can do that for a C package is non-uniform.

Mind you the C standard library has a sort() function which will have sensible big-O behavior on pretty much any platform. I suspect this specific problem is more to do with this being kernel-mode code which has a lot of special conditions.
Bevy is a really cool project. Are there any AAA game studios looking at using Bevy or even Rust in general for their gamedev projects? As far as I can tell, gamedev is still heavily dominated by C++.
> A new AI bot that can assist you in managing your Teleport cluster via OpenAI GPT-4.

Teleport Assist looks pretty neat! https://goteleport.com/features/assist/
I think all of those games were offered as arcade boxes. Plus you have to figure the audience then was in that sort of mindset. Very good point. My 4-5 year old self can relax at last.
Which is good, but may not potentially scale up - if we were desalinating 5X, 10X as much seawater, it seems unlikely we could make use of that much salt, and would have to bury it or dispose of it some other way.
I don't have a lot of Java experience, but this definitely doesn't line up. For any compiled language, modern compilers for C++/Java are generally fast enough for most codebases, BUT companies need to invest in their actual build processes to keep things optimal.

If the dependency tree is such that making a 1 line change still causes a 500 file recompilation, yes, you could be seeing a multiple second wait.
Seems to be. Parole date is 2030, and he's only 38 years old: https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumb...

In for second degree murder.
I have a background in adtech and search engines. I can tell you unequivocally that any specifier to deny AI scanning is likely to be ignored (just like how robots.txt is often ignored). Not only is there value to be extracted but is very difficult to prove that AI knowledge was built using a particular resource. Some people have suggested that online resources could be given a "tracking data atom" that could be used to determine if an AI did learn from a blocked site. However, I'm skeptical if such trackers couldn't be easily worked around. Tldr: robots.txt conventions are just not going to work.
Unexamined here is the idea of, how many "rogue bees" do we need? Obviously if all bees were "rogue", then the hive starves, because when one bee finds food none of the others will learn from them. Even half of the bees going rogue probably dramatically reduces the hives fitness.

There's a problem space in statistics (later adopted by ML) called the "Multi-armed Bandit problem", which examines this tradeoff in detail. It can get rather complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
A lot of laptops with NVIDIA graphics still had integrated graphics on the CPU, and the Intel drivers are much better if all you need is to drive the display. (And if you're trying to put a load on the GPU with something so old then you're screwed anyway.) See if the BIOS has a setting to disable it.
"Modern"

"Rust"
I also live in NYC: typical vehicle traffic is background white-noise. I absolutely agree that the major disruptive noise sources from cars are sirens, horns, alarms and obviously-illegal exhaust modifications.
From a user's perspective, they haven't shown much evidence of building new, competitive capabilities for years. Sometimes it feels like Siri has actually become less useful.