skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a product (Gmail/Outlook add-on or so): have your own LLM trained over your public texts (articles, books, blog entries, READMEs, Hacker News comments, and so on), mark the emails you can't respond to with the "GPT" label which puts the mail in a queue and if you don't remove the label in 7 days or so, it sends a response with a polite intro "I didn't have the time to get to your email, but here's what I might think as a response".
>I might be in the minority here

I think for sure you're in the minority here. Swift was really a breath of fresh air for my iOS dev work -- it's just so modern and easy to read. That said -- I'm still reluctant on SwiftUI though. Seems like one of those technologies that works great for small apps and tutorials but falls apart at scale but admittedly have little experience with it so perhaps I'd be wise to reserve judgement.
It is already the case:

If you don't use a grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex (including the SDK) big tech browser (blink|geeko<-google,webkit<-apple) you are denied most of the "web", even though a noscript/basic (x)html is beyond enough for many internet services, if not nearly all of them.

And asking nicely to "just work" with a noscript/basic (x)html browser usually does not work (I tried). For critical online services, you will probably need lawyers.

It seems those people has a lot of hate against standards, simple (implementation effort is reasonable for one average developer) but able to do good enough job, and stable in time. The _real_ web was built on that (the core of the web standard is noscript/basic (x)html), not the "big tech"_ web.
like mobile
From what I’m reading in the comments here, there is a ton of progress to be made by having more and cheaper computing to replace as much physical experimentation as possible. Ideally, we would have a gold, tabula-rasa SOTA benchmark that says “any system made of up to this molecular weight is perfectly simulable in-silico. Not ifs and buts, just this many $$$$.”
This. There are also clients that with a little config will let cache the support level per-host, and even provide a list of hosts that the initial request should race TCP and QUIC to.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/cron...
Would you mind to elaborate why this is the case? I am not in Swift/Obj-c ecosystem so I'm just clueless.
I spoke to a friend that does regenerative agriculture, they said sunflowers are excellent for breaking up clay and poor quality soils. (Location depending of course as to suitability)
Netwhale: Listen to Network
"It described the likely radiation exposure as “minimal, about the equivalent to a day’s UV exposure from the sun”, provided that the radioactive samples were not removed from their containers, in compliance with the warnings in the kit instructions."
Javascript is lisp but clojure ain’t so!
Maybe salaries are crazy in Silicon Valley, but in Europe I really don't see this. I got a decent starting salary 25 years ago but having remained in a technical role I've never got more than minimal pay rises. I now earn way less than my contemporaries from University who went into other fields. And if I look around for job vacancies, they're never offering big money, certainly never close to 6 figures. Yet the perception in the wider public seems to be that CS professionals have loads of money even here.
Not just London. I've written about this on here before. Last time I was in the Peaks all I could hear were revving engines coming from somewhere miles away. It's getting really hard to get away from these bastards now.

The worst part of cars and motorbikes is they can't hear it. Motorbikes helmets are ear defenders too. The cabins of cars protect users from the engine noise. It's just everyone else that has to put up with it.
Socially engineered hacks are also a danger.

You might not care about what's contained in a certain online account, but there could be utility in taking control.
I appreciate the facetiousness.
> The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.

I am glad they included that at the start of the article so I know to completely skip reading it!
Re 2: do you know of tools that don't involve the cloud and allow you to do such analysis? Ideally FLOSS. I could only find DbSNP and SNPedia but they are datasets, not sure if there are tools built on top of that like Promethease.
I don't disagree with everything in there, The trouble with pull requests for instance is very real, but yeah, without mentioning the trouble with continuous integration nor the benefits of pull requests, it is just a pretty weak and one-sided article. Especially developers should now better than state 'B is bad because xxx and A is good because yyy so pick yyy'.
After having used both PRs and Pair programming with a strong CI setup I found the later much better for quality, design and efficiency.
I’m not sure I follow the analogy here, are you implying technical leadership is committing heinous crimes against humanity?
Pretty every Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung and apple can do that.

Everyone has a huge motivation to get this solved.

But because all of them also have their cloud storage and every customer is trusting their company I'm pretty sure most will not use local ai.

Until when suddenly in 10 years we have hardware chips like gpt-8 hardware version or something.
Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
> The professional journal IEEE Spectrum published a more-detailed review in 2020, discussing the kit in the context of the history of science education kits and safety concerns.

> It described the likely radiation exposure as “minimal, about the equivalent to a day’s UV exposure from the sun”, provided that the radioactive samples were not removed from their containers, in compliance with the warnings in the kit instructions.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fun-and-uranium-for-the-whole-fami...
There's a 13 year old open issue on the Firefox bug tracker that could address this by adding playback controls to animated GIFs[1].

I remember this every once in a while because Dan's replies are great.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560084
We work in a regulated industry and having a 2nd party who is required to review code prior to merging is essentially mandatory. We can produce high-quality logs and provide them for inspection. Every single line of code in our codebase has had at least 2 humans review it.

Pull requests are really awesome. Slowing certain things down on purpose can help you go a lot faster.
Not sure net income would tell you that much either. Many companies deliberately keep net income low by reinvesting in further growth. Think of Amazon's model. At least revenue gives you a sense of the upper limit.
Would you say the same thing considering oncall responsibilities in conventional cloud/web programming?
Changing network interfaces breaks connections and causes a new handshake. Browser session works at a different layer and doesn't prevent that.

QUIC actually lets you migrate between connections (because the packets are identified by a connection ID in each UDP packet rather than a 5-tuple). Clients will typically re-test a connection occasionally and downgrade as needed for this to work.
HTTP2 is probably first one to go or be replaced. You can live without it or update it to whatever next thing.
> Currently, if you are not traveling or doing some kind of beauty influencing, instagram

I dunno, it’s a nice little closed network for me. I see updates from friends and family, only they see my updates, Insta has gotten pretty good at surfacing the cat videos I like to watch.

I don’t want to see the opinions of the general public or the political opinions of my friends (I’d much rather get both from professional journalists), and neither show up on my Instagram
I have 454 logins in the Bitwarden
> "someone paid you for some resource/commodity you hoarded"

I don't think conversations like this can ever progress when this constant misrepresentation takes place. No one is talking about hoarding. If I get paid to write someone some software, what hoarding happened?
I absolutely love the wry, tongue-in-cheek, laconic writing style. As a fan of the SR, you almost know what's coming, and you know you're enjoying the ride till the mic drops.
Frank Lloyd Wright structures are known for their high maintenance costs, eg. the cantilevers of Falling Water House are insufficiently braced and prone to sagging and have been repaired more than once. The furniture became impractical to insure as collectors made them museum pieces etc.
There's a well established history of high(er)cost of operation attached to artistically noteworthy architecture.
>A leadership position is not one of vanity or even “self development”,

No, it is a position where you have to implement the vision of your boss. It's a position where you're a slave. If your boss is a good one (who listens, helps and defend), you'll be a happy slave. If your boss is not, you'll have to do things against your own will and convince your team that it's good for them. Many people can do that but a lot more can not.

So the first time you'll have a proposal to be a manager, be sure to be able to recognize if your boss will be good or not. That kind of information is best gathered by participating to extra-work activities where you can get "off the record" information. And that prepares you to be a boss: much of your work happens outside of your team, in informal contacts.
Can't concur. As an embedded dev turned to web, the grind of the web dev was way stressier than the tasks as an embedded dev.
Gaming is a total different field.

Hard to make any assumptions out of this.most people I know definitely sync there data onto companies cloud storage.

Alone for image backups and sharing and etc. No one minds that.

No one minds mail analysis either.

Cloud is healthy, very healthy
OK, I think you didn't understand the whole statement or are twisting it to meet your narrative. It sounds like you have an axe to grind, so I won't really go further.

For others, your answer is available at https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/10176224. I suggest people read the privacy policy themselves.
I understand that data being sent to the US is perhaps out of Europe's control. But how much do they really know about the treatment of data that stays in European data centers? I'm just surprised that the enforcement is about where the data is stored and not about whether actual (or should I say: other) privacy violations (against European laws) have occurred.
Let's see if somebody can come up with something replacing treesitter :-)

As somebody who came up with a couple of quick modes and parsers for Emacs and in Emacs Lisp I can say that for people like myself it's a blessing. I sincerely hate how there are numerous implementations of everything in dozens of editors out there, but nobody benefits from each others work in a reasonable way... Treesitter's universal community-centric approach kind of resonates with the stronger side of OSS: suddenly all of these little steps individuals do contribute to the ecosystem as a whole.

Now, admittedly, all I need is an axe. I know I need an axe, treesit gives it to me and this makes me a happy little contributor.

So let's say somebody comes up with a factory of a tool. All inside: properly incremental, smart error handling, tree editing, transformations and stuff. Something tells me it would much harder to contribute a simplified barely working grammar for that thing. And this kind of kills the point of emacsy-sh moonlight hacker tool.

It would be useful, sure, but would it work in practise?
https://archive.is/61a0o
But you'd need to keep both models in parallel, right? Using M1 to keep computing embeddings and using M2 for completions.
People sleep.

We’re completely unconscious when sedated or knocked out.
I would probably also try to add more sources than Wikipedia but I don't think your critic has any day to day consequences at all.
I really want to try a Dactyl. Time wise it's a bit out of reach as I'm a new parent. One day I'll put one together.
I wonder how Ruby performs in this benchmark
Apple's documentation was actually vastly superior before Swift. In fact, I often refer to the documentation "archive" instead of the latest docs.

The decline in the docs is due to a number of factors, but I would say mainly it's (1) the relentless annual major OS update schedule, (2) the proliferation of OS (macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, xrOS?), (3) the dual language stack, (4) Apple personnel turnover.
> We have 2 reviewers mandatory for each PR

> every line of code has to be vetted by at least 3 developers

Those are not equivalent. Reviewers typically don‘t "vet every line of code".
I'm pretty sure they started this project because they saw weakness in Elon's Twitter and wanted to pounce on the opportunity.

Then the LLMs got popular and maybe they think they can use the content for LLMs too.
Dear EU, please add one (or more) zeros to these fines. If only a single tech giant gets fined out of business for repeatedly breaking the law the others will definitely notice.
Going from nothing to some quality control is always an improvement. The point being made is that is not as good as other options.
I thought this was a feature for a while because image hosting sites like Imgur convert animated GIFs into videos because the compression is better, and you can adjust the playback. Some of them will even keep '.gif' in the URL despite serving you a video instead.
I mean trump is a gigantic clusterfuck.

Why is this not objective enough?
The article mentions a 2020 paper from IEEE that suggests the radiation exposure from playing with the kit would amount to around 1 day’s worth of UV exposure, so it appears the kit was pretty safe. Of course if a child were to break open a container and say eat the radioactive material, or inhale any dust from it, the radiation exposure would be far greater. Enough to cause cancer in older age? I’m not sure.
I suggest listening to Stuff You Should Know on this matter. Apparently dying in your sleep isn’t really a thing.
You're doing yourself no favours. Even if you disagree with her you should inform yourself of her line of reasoning.

I think the guardian article is a reasonable write up of the issues.
GeoTIFF Compression and Optimization with GDAL
You should post the name of those companies in here so we know who not to hire.

But I suspect you would be a contractor and probably would not be able to.

:-)
For us, pull requests are VERY important. They are a chance for people with domain knowledge of other areas of the product to raise concerns.
Note that originally a data transfer to the US was not a problem at all. You signed a piece of paper that said "European data privacy protections apply in the US as well" and all was good. There was even Safe Harbour and later Privacy Shield to give a sort of blanket statement that this was true.

Except courts repeatedly mentioned that US law does not provide the necessary protections for non US citizens rendering all these statements invalid. The root of the issue are the FISA courts.
So Amazon can just say "fuck the law" and get negative fines ?

It obviously doesn't work.
1.1% seems like slap on the wrist or cost of doing shady business. 20% would be more appropriate, then again this seems like political discussion between US and EU.
Yes I suspect the Advantage has ruined me for other keyboards. The only drawback for me is the price. Getting one here in NZ is just under $1000.
I’m seeing an error message:

> This Deployment has been disabled. Your connection is working correctly. Vercel is working correctly.
yes of course, I agree. but you don't need to define knowledge for that. all you have to do is see the cases where knowledge is attributed to subjects and what are the requisites for that in each context. if we are talking about scientific knowledge, yes I agree with your definition. but there are other types of knowledge. And my point was that to be a "know it all" it has more to do with one's approach to things, to a constant epistemic approach, than having an actual list of things one knows. A "know it all" is not an expert, but someone who looks for what is to be known in every situation of life
So when you're having a bad year because you over-hired, or because some upstream service you depend on too much is abusing their power to squeeze you you should be entitled to break any law?

What if your company is set up with the usual tax tweaks where all net income is zeroed out by some licencing agreement about hand-wavy IP from a sibling company in the corporate family?

Taking it a step further, will you get a fine-back as a reward for breaking the law if your accountants manage to declare negative income?
Agreed, fine on net income is meaningless it just mean it won't hurt. Should be at least 10% of revenue like antitrust tend to do, this would make anyone think twice.
It remains missing from Safari. It used to be offered as an experimental feature, but I don't seem to have it anymore on Safari 16.5.
Public / private and walled garden are not what you are saying.

I'm saying only your friends on Facebook will see your posts, so it is private, unlike twitter where the whole world will see them. And you can create groups if you want to have even more private discussions.

Twitter, LinkedIn are walled gardens, but public ones. Facebook is a private walled garden.
QUIC is enabled by default for all domains across most major browsers: https://caniuse.com/http3

For Cloudflare HTTP/3 accounts for 28% of the traffic (https://radar.cloudflare.com/)
Also as far as I can tell OP’s recommendation is to break the mainline, then tell everyone it’s broken.

> Instead, you frequently - at least once a day - put your code into a healthy state that passes tests and integrate it into the mainline

IME that’s a perfect recipe for getting a mainline which never passes tests in any organisation of a non-trivial size, as soon as broken code has been pushed “giving a fuck” goes out the window and it takes weeks to recover (unless you just lock out everyone until shit’s been fixed). It’s already hard enough when you just have flaky code, or time-sensitive tests.

If you want light reviews that’s a factor of development & review policy: let people self-review, make review scope clear, break up major changes into small tasks, …
>These things come in their own due time,

Yeah, well, sure... but also don't be shy to ask for what you want (you know... "in due time"), because many managers will maintain the status quo if they can, and definitely not volunteer to promote you out of being a great individual contributor at their own expense of having to replace you.
I actually did this before the 7th of may:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/13axnoa/tr...

Maybe OP was inspired? Seems like a big coincidence otherwise. Just wish he would've credited me.

Happy to see other people experimenting with this also though. It will be great for indie game development.
Utterly unacceptable for a nonprofit allegedly serving the greater good. Disgusting to beg for "just even a single dollar" as they do on meraphorical hands and knees, with plea after tortured, heartfelt plea from Jimmy Wales whilst doing this on the back-end. I already knew about how flush for cash the Wikimedia Foundation was, but this really is astonishing behavior.
Over the years I've experimented with getting rid of pull requests quite a few times. As a whole and solely as an abstract idea I wholeheartedly agree with the article. Code Review is not the same as a pull request.

With that said, despite advocating at points for pair programming, mobbing, incremental reviews and having worked on a variety of different systems, and having success with some of them, I keep ending up back with PR's for the majority of places I've worked.

The reason why, I think, is one of cognitive load. Pull requests are easy. I don't think they're the best approach to code review ( big PR's often don't get reviewed effectively, and being an effective PR reviewer is a hard skill ) but, it's a good fallback. Everyone knows what a pull request is, the tooling for supporting them is excellent and it requires the least upfront work to get a code review.

With that said, I would highly encourage folk to look at different ways of reviewing code. I don't think many people will fully replace Pull Requests with a solely straight to master development approach utilising non-pr code review styles, but, having the alternatives in your box of tools for specific situations is really powerful.

However, I don't see pull requests going away because, if nothing else, they're an easy, low cognitive load approach for having a second set of eyes on some code.
Ok, so I'm not sure what here _really_ benefited from a quantum computer.

I recognize that most folk on HN are concerned about QC applied to exact solutions (which realistically just means breaking crypto), but I'm more interested in QC for analog problem solving.

A real issue you have with digital computers is that they are fundamentally discrete. This means emulating or simulating analog systems (aka the real world) devolves to re-running the same simulation innumerable times and then basically averaging them. The benefit of a QC is that you _should_, in an idealized world, require many fewer runs to get an accurate final representation of the result.

If you go to YouTube you can find many examples of analog computers - often artillery and similar - and I think QC have the potential to offer some real gains in scientific computing by making it possible to create programmable analog computers which haven't really existed in the past.
I've used quite extensively Pair Programming, and at its best is better when both people tend to be senior, as you can bounce design ideas out of each other much easier, and is more likely that a bad decision (or test, or ...) gets caught earlier.

With junior devs is too easy to become something in which the senior dominates the conversation.
In Australia, corporate fines are usually so trivial that the CEO wouldn’t have the slightest interest in the amount of money.
Pretty funny the WSJ is paywalling this, here's the present content in its entirety:

> Facebook owner Meta Platforms was fined $1.3 billion by European Union privacy regulators for sending user information to the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter, a record for the bloc.

> The ruling, expected to be announced later Monday, raises pressure on the U.S government to finalize a deal that would allow Meta and thousands of multinational companies to keep sending such information stateside.

> Updates to follow as news develops.
Meta does have Workplace which is sort of like IRC + forums for corporations dressed up in the Facebook UI.
> Otherwise, introducing an extra bridge with the language, then getting rid of it isn't a performance improvement, it's getting back to the baseline.

This is a strange comment, because Swift would have been Dead On Arrival in 2014 without that Objective-C bridging, an Apple-created language that doesn't work with Apple application frameworks.
It's possible to hear cars driving 20 miles away?
hungry my ass. it just can't log into all the institutional databases universities and private chemical industry uses to protect research and IP. just because you say AI doesn't mean it can have all this very valuable information for free. if it's so hungry then let's get the grocery bill started.
There are companies who are pulling in the rein with regard to its placement of sensitive data, encrypted at rest or not. That is, going cloud-less (or more accurately, privately-owned public cloud, and more often, private cloud)

The prevailing concern isn't insecurity of using public cloud by using zero
knowledge, but the containment/confinement of potential damage when an end user lose control of their password manager app (hacked, laptop-stolen or accidentally leaked) by having this delete feature at the self-hosted server. This is something that Netwirx PasswordSafe really excels at.

SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and various military guidelines are a few reasons why.