skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people too often jump to conclusions on hearing yes/no, imo. Not trying to defend the corporate speak though, obviously they should have put the yes/no up front and then try to explain later.
"Perhaps this is why Labor historically has been so scared of Murdoch and the power of the press."

Likely so, and likely why that bastard Ming Menzies didn't have much trouble keeping Labor out of power for decades.

Ah, Good 'ol Arthur and that other fella Doc Evatt may have made Labor's power aspirations difficult but at least politics back then was never boring like the yawn it is these days.

——

Edit: Menzies was one of the few people who would make me throw things at the TV when he appeared, but his quick wit and barbed responses also made politics interesting. Heard him at an election rally once, his response to a heckler was just milliseconds in coming and the putdown devastatingly effective.
Yes, and SO already have plentiful of sample code that appear to solve the problem, but have huge flaws.
If it is enforced as strongly as GDPR there’s not much to worry about.
its bloated chinese spyware isnt it
Had no internet access until 18 (mid-90s), No mobile phone until 22.

My physical and mental health has declined significantly since I've been 'always online'. Learning new skills in an age of endless distractions is harder too, despite the amount of educational resources online that should make it easier.

When I got hooked on WoW in my 30s, it was very obvious that there were a lot of students sacrificing their education to their gaming habits. And this was before social media really took off, with its 24/7 narcissism and tribal warfare.
> If that all sounds like a tricky balancing act, it is. Previous research has found that burning woody biomass can create more CO2 emissions than what’s captured. That’s because only capturing smokestack emissions fails to account for all the pollution that might come from cutting down the trees and transporting the wood. Plus, it can take a long time for trees or plants to grow mature enough for people to rely on them to draw down a significant amount of CO2.

Carbon removal at large scale is really a big scam through and through, isn't it?
1. Provisioning and scaling clusters is inherently difficult regardless of tools used.

Unless your cloud provider does this for you. This is one of the first challenges. The problem of providing a tool that makes this simpler is that the biggest pain of k8s provisioning is choice explosion. A problem many others have already tried solving by creating distributions, which there now are so many of that you have a choice explosion of distributions instead, with no clear understanding of compatibility or what this black box does. What need to be done is remove choices from the core and streamline installation as one standard package, not adding even more abstractions and mystery on top.

2. Once you have a cluster running, there are less excuses. Any alternative IaC is equally untestable. In fact k8s is one of the more testable options since you can run a local cluster with Kind and the yamls don’t suffer from configuration drift.

Yaml and string templated Helm is hell, anyone who can come up with a more type safe language would get a gold medal. HCL for k8s would be fantastic. Staying away from Helm entirely also reduces a lot of accidental complexity, basic manifests get you very far.

3. Same applies to other tools.
they're not users nor customers, they're the product that reddit is selling
Then she can stay at home and continue to collect her pension, and avoid breathing near small children.
> Current problem is that the responses typically range from cynical to way too enthusiastic.

...can't you tell it to make sure to never respond cynically?
Also younger. We may be looking at the baby steps of a new bellardesque figure here.
Limiting screen time for kids under ten is a bad idea?
I've book marked Tempest :)
Looks promising. Wish you luck!
you're describing a strong armed (because enforced) picket
"working your butt off"

Really?

A pound of fat is 3500 calories. To work off a thousand calories requires swimming 4000-5000 yards, biking 25-30 miles on a road bike, or running 7-10 miles.

People need to understand what working your butt off is. High school practice for major sports will burn that for every single practice.

That's working your butt off. Now go to a gym and tell me if you see most people doing that. They aren't.

Add to that you need intensity to cause physiology adaptation which forces more calories in tissue building.

People aren't working their butt off.

For the vast majority of people starting an exercise routine it will be hard to burn even 600 calories in an hour of exercise.

So that means six days of one hour of exercise a day will burn 1 pound of fat ... If you controlled calories intake. Big if.

Ten pounds of fat is:

35000 calories

140,000 yards of swimming (180 lbs person) or about 80 miles of swimming

233 miles of running (180 lb person)

875 miles of biking.

And I may be underestimating.
> You filled out a job application and now you want to control the capital and resources of the people who gave you the job?

You give people some money and now you want to control how they spend their time?
How does putting a print function inside a namespace lead to issues with Conway's Law?
Read awhile ago that another well known former Bell Labs CSRC member was the son of a Bell Labs researcher in the acoustics department.

It's fascinating to see how many modern distinguished researchers were fostered and mentored in their early lives through a familial & supportive environment which contributed in their path toward innovation; such a unique privilege shared by a diminishing cadre that were lucky enough to grow up in that vanishing analog world of black ties and a lifelong devotion to your research and work.
To me the most blatant US-ism is how feedback is biased all the way to positivity to a ridiculous degree. I've learned to understand that if someone from the US says that X is anything less than amazing, then they probably think it's shit.

What's funny about it is that in an environment where everyone is aware of this, the apparent intended effect of sugar-coating doesn't work at all. You'll just hurt people by saying their stuff is okay.
13 year old with phones? Crazy. My kids right have phones until at least 15 and that seems fairly normal in my circles
I've tried sandstorm and yunohost but those didn't make me confortable enough to use in a production setting. I've been using cloudron.io for a few years and it's great. Never had issues with data loss or updates.
Why be ethical in this instance? It's bad for the experiment.

- High chance of being outright rejected.

- potentially makes responses to your AI responses less natural
it sure forces the issue that most ppl in white-colar jobs dont put in the contracted hours, because of reasons. which was and is fine, but now there is documented lying required, which creates mistrust and vulnerabilty.
And Lua, which is Brazilian.
>as a last-resort effort to protect the Stack Exchange platform and users from a total loss in value.

The strike is not the last last-resort effort. Stack Exchange should not only open source all answers, but also open the platform with ActivityPub. Then, those moderators can create another frontend where they ban the AI users. Otherwise, the moderators will create their own platform without Stack Exchange being the main hub.

It's wild that moderator conflicts happen on Stack Exchange and Reddit at the same time.
That's a false dichotomy, consciousness doesn't imply supernatural soul or humanism.
The difference between then and now is that on smartphones all the interesting things are inseparably intertwined with the actively dangerous things. A Nintendo console would allow you to play, but if a parent set a time limit and took away the console after that, the only effect would be your inability to continue playing. By taking away a smartphone, you’re stripping children of their primary access to their community. People seem to have forgotten what it’s like if you’re the outcast child who doesn’t get what it’s all about. Self worth, status, formation of taste and creativity, social contacts, and interaction, are all happening on social media now, whether we like it or not.
Database config should be two connection strings, 1 for the admin user that creates the tables and anther for the queue user. Everything else should be stored in the database itself. Each queue should be in its own set of tables. Large blobs may or may not be referenced to an external file.

Shouldn't a message send be worst case a CAS. It really seems like all the work around garbage collection would have some use for in-memory high speed queues.

Are you familiar with the LMAX Disruptor? Is is a Java based cross thread messaging library used for day trading applications.

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
The company I work for doesn't require any employee monitoring stuff on our own PCs. The only thing they require is top have disk encryption and a anti-virus software and ad blocker installed
It’s was designed predocker and is a pretty old school setup. I remember they had issues updating Debian because the new Debian had a new php version which caused issues for some apps.
I don't think they can win, and I don't mean just the moderators here, SO in general can't win a fight against AI with bans of all kinds.

I see one possibility for them, embrace AI and generate a quick/automated first reply by AI marked as such (with a disclaimer) for every post. It should be subject to the same voting system.

The error of moderators and SO here is to discard AI generated answers because some wrong (but sounding right) answers it can generate... when often AI answers are also correct and even at times out do what a single human would have found/answered.

If you can harness the existing human knowledge and correct the "bad" ones (badly rated AI answer given less weight) to feed the models of the future it seems like a win for everyone in the long run. A ban misses this opportunity and generates even more work for moderators which will inevitably also ban some innocent users and valuable content.
This has been known for decades. It's hard to resell a weight loss program that works so the marketing budget is quite low.
Unions can go either way. They suffer from the same problems as democratic governments, ie prone to corruption and bloating and working against the people they are supposed to protect.

What do you do in that situation? Do you have a Union for you Union?

Just a few days ago, this was trending on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36188406

Police unions who are paid by tax payers so they would enforce laws written by people appointed by people, make their own buddy clubs and pick and choose the enforcement.
Algorithmic "social media" is so toxic that I think I would not be a sane parent to let my kids be there at all. It is not what it was when I grew up.
George Hotz of Tinygrad fame: AMD rant, giving up on AMD
I think they're being critical of adult screen time rates.
For people who are unaware of this case, here[1] is a writeup.

TL;DR: Andy Warhol used a photograph of Prince by Lynn Goldsmith to create a series of original silk screen artworks called "Orange Prince". The supreme court ruled (as I understand it) that Warhol's use was not sufficiently transformative to negate the right of the original copyrightholder.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/18/andy-wa...

Edit to add: Here’s a side-by-side https://www.mondaq.com/images/article_images/1324682a.jpg . I mean extreme right second from the bottom he hasn’t even changed the colours.
At the time I was a /sci/ regular and great Greg Egan fan, so that Matt Parker video that referenced both of them felt like an incredible crossover episode.
wonder if you'll get effected by the API pricing changes.

that's pretty cool though, are you willing to share the source?
> UBI in the ideal world replaces welfare, food stamps, and rental assistance.

That's never going to happen. UBI will not replace existing welfare payouts, it will augment them.

Until society is ready to let people and children die in the street because they (or their parents, in the case of children) gambled or boozed all of the UBI away, or it got stolen from them, or they simply burned it due to mental health problems, we still have to have safety nets for people who don't have money.

Which is the whole point of the current welfare assistance system.

UBI is also a no-go in terms of "universal". It's just too unfair. Why should a healthy 20yo get paid (to play video games) the same as a crippled 40yo? The latter literally needs more money just to survive, and doesn't have the same employment options as the healthy 20yo gamer.

If ever UBI is rolled out, you'll see on day two the complaints come rolling in from special groups.
Refactoring and Crochet
Unfortunately you are probably still better off using commercial hosted services. None of these projects really seemed to have the resources to properly deal with the security you need for an internet hosted service
Well there’s always Marxism which gave us the concept of the lumpenproletariat, unproductive or wasted labour. Marx described them as a parasitical group that exploits society for its own ends, and commentators have noted that he used the term as a sort of sociological profanity. Lovely.

The Soviet Union tried to solve homelessness by placing homeless people in other peoples homes by dictat. It didn’t work, so they made homelessness a crime for refusal to contribute productively to society, rounded them up and put them in detention centres. It still didn’t work and by the 80s there were hundreds of thousands of homeless people on the streets of Moscow, all criminalised and subject to arbitrary harassment and detention.
Japan's first lunar lander unveiled to media
> Automatic and/or manually-controlled activation of garden bed hoses with some kind of zigbee solenoid valve or something

A basic smart plug does this for me. I hooked one up to a cheap solenoid that opens a valve when powered up.

It was very inexpensive and had been very reliable. It’s just on a TP-Link Kasa smart plug.

It’s also in HA so that if I forget to turn it off, it turns itself off after 10 mins.
I'm not sure what you're trying to build, but by the end of the second course, you should be able to create a customer service chatbot that is equivalent to what others have built. If you're interested in building/fine-tuning an LLM, that's totally beyond my knowledge.
I'm also interested, I bought it too but haven't started to read it, I'd like to know those claimed flaws before diving into it.
One highlight from the article:

> Traits. I generally don't like traits / typeclasses. To my eyes they're too type-directed, too global, too much like programming and debugging a distributed set of invisible inference rules, and produce too much coupling between libraries in terms of what is or isn't allowed to maintain coherence.

Very much this!

> I wanted (and got part way into building) a first class module system in the ML tradition. Many team members objected because these systems are more verbose, often painfully so, and I lost the argument. But I still don't like the result, and I would probably have backed the experiment out "if I'd been BDFL".

I seen this the ML first class module system mentioned in a few different contexts and want to pick it up at some point.
This is the way to go. It’s absolutely solid and is part of my docker-compose.
>Most people learn about copyright in schools.

Yes, we first learn about it when getting photocopies of books with copyright pages
Getty has alleged that Stable Diffusion is sometimes returning some of their copyright images[1]. Even if the model seems too small to directly store the images, it seems at least plausible to me that the parameters can act as a compression such that the model could just output an almost direct copy of an original. I have certainly seen stable diffusion emit images which look like a getty watermark has just been blurred out.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/getty-images-lawsuit-says-stab...
You forgot about backwards compatibility, which is very high on the Java features priority list. Things like "Make `==` use `equals`" will NEVER happen in Java.

Many of you other points are also purely stylistic (eg. types before or after parameter/variable names), these will not change just because you don't like it.
> the proposal is to allow for main to be an instance method

An instance method of... which instance? Is some invisible, nameless class instantiated with its default constructor? How would you acquire this main method via reflection?
They didn’t make that claim.

For many people the only computer they have is their phone, I’d say well over half the people I work with have only their phone, and especially young people.

I’ve got one, two, thr… I don’t, maybe nine computers, and have read zero on any but the phones.
it was a loooong time ago when the CEO was one of the original coders
Kids are cruel and if they have a mind to it will make fun of literally anything. I was a social outcast in school, where favorite jokes of the other kids were that I was overweight, that I was inept at sports, that I wore glasses, that my shirts had collars, that my only shoes were cleats, that my socks were black instead of white, that I wore briefs instead of boxers.

Funnily enough, though I grew up in the ’90s–’00s with parents who disliked TV and popular movies and heavily restricted media consumption in the household, nobody at school ever made fun of the fact that I’d never seen Friends or The Matrix. Later when I was in college I often saw people who’d grown up with access to popular media saying they’d feel socially deprived if they didn’t watch the latest new show. Personally I didn’t feel deprived, either at the time or in retrospect, even though today I greatly enjoy catching up on movies I never watched. I think there’s something to the idea that some restriction, particularly in childhood, can be healthy.
Shirone Giant Kite Battle
At this point, no Tesla is truly your Tesla
We've been using https://github.com/cogentapps/chat-with-gpt for a while, and overall happy with it, but its development is mostly dead.
> 2. HR departments and poor managers making busywork to justify their existence.

^^^^ this so much!

Most HR departments desperately want to appear to be profit centres instead of the cost centres they actually are.

For example, the constant, continuous, process of eternally rolling out new terrible HR systems.

Or the latest set of CBT quizzes on corporate wrong think that come across like a Break Room session from Severance.

They need the constant set of campaigns to justify their place in the organisation but it's all just busy work.
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There's something beautiful in a train that fix its own tracks.
There are a lot of sheep species.
From a "journalist" i expect more precision.
I came to the same conclusion from the fact that a typical database icon looks a lot more like a disk pack, with its smooth sides, than like drum memory.
I'm not giving my eldest daughter a smartphone until she is 15.

She has an iPad, a laptop, an apple watch and a 4g Nokia, but when she gets a smartphone with a SIM in it, it's the last thing she will ever look at.

I'm just trying to get her exposed to as much real life as possible before that happens.
So it's 28MB of RAM. Now it makes sense. /s
My ham father built and uses one functionally similar to this one. It's slightly more involved than using a wrist-rocket/slingshot but it's also far more effective at reaching high branches.
So… forgive me for jumping onto that, but I found the way you phrased it interesting - is it only boys allowed to do all that stuff? What are girls supposed to be doing, knitting and cooking?
And then you try to add an MQTT broker and learn you cannot install addons because you are on docker. Now you have to tinker on your own and add more docker containers.
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> When I learned Java as a first language

You have my sympathies
> Some people don’t want to work. They’ve told me so. I think UBI would destroy these people

most ppl dont want to work some unrelateable, bullshit under time constraints for richer ppl they dont even know or like. so mostly we chug along and put in the required performances.

imo this is unesessary and counterproductive since we have gained access to automation of most physical and a lot of office work.
> It's really not that hard to run. I run mine on an Intel NUC by just running a docker container managed by systemd. It took me 2 min to set up, and 10 to configure.

Are you perhaps being sarcastic? Maybe sarcastically pointing out how much of a pain in the rear it is to run Home Assistant?

The type of homeowner who wants home automation isn't going to learn what "NUC" means, what "Docker" means, what "Container" means, what "Systemd" means.

What you said is the equivalent of telling the average car driver "It's not really that hard to replace the timing belt on a Golf 1. I just removed alternator, timing cover, lined up the marks on the camshaft's sprocket and the crank pulley, and slid the new belt on with the square-keyed-adjustment tensioner that it came with. Took me 30m".

I find, as I get older, that I get more critical of complexity. I'm even more critical when it's in a field I am proficient in, because then I can see how much of that is simply complexity for complexities sake.
You know sanitizers and static analysis tools exist, and have existed for decades, and have been the basis for the work done in Rust and other "safe" languages?

Also, a disciplined C programmer will always keep the size of the buffer near the buffer itself.

For example, using something like this is perfectly safe (though, we can see the performance hit of those if-statements if used intensively):

struct buffer {
size_t size;
char *data;
};

void buffer_alloc(struct buffer *buf, size_t size) {
if (buf != NULL) {
buf->data = calloc(size, sizeof(char));
if (buf->data != NULL) {
buf->size = size;
}
}
}

void buffer_free(struct buffer *buf) {
if (buf != NULL && buf->data != NULL) {
free(buf->data);
buf->size = 0;
}
}

bool buffer_read(struct buffer buf, size_t offset, char *dest) {
if (dest != NULL) {
if (buf.data != NULL && offset >= 0 && offset < buf.size) {
*dest = buf.data[offset];
return true;
}
}

return false;
}

int main() {
struct buffer buf = {0};
buffer_alloc(&buf, 123);
char c;
buffer_read(buf, 124, &c);
buffer_free(&buf);
return 0;
}

It is possible to write safe C code, but it takes understanding of the language, sometimes of the compiler as well.

The whole "There is no programmer who don't make mistakes" argument is fallacious at best.

C is like a chainsaw, there are certain rules on how to use it safely. Yes you can cut limbs with a chainsaw, that does not make the chainsaw useless.
it was until the pandemic. I picked that area for a very short commute, a 10 minute walk. It was great. Then the pandemic happened, everyone is working from home and the area is barren ghost town now

at the time soma was selling for as much or more than premium neighborhoods. lesson learned. Now those areas have actually appreciated
This sounded to me like the age of 8. But it's about 8th grade, which seems to be 13-14 year olds.