skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is extremely frustrating to see a post downvoted just because it is a diverging opinion, especially when it contains some of the best advice in this thread.

Indeed, for random access on screen, there is no better alternative than the mouse or trackpoint (the latter defeating the non-argument about moving your hand, since it is literally in the middle of the home row), that is what it was designed for. And if for whatever reason you don't want to use a trackpoint, install EasyMotion and map the random access motion to spacebar or another big key as I have done. It is the second best way to achieve random access on screen.

For more structured motion/editing tasks, I am perfectly happy with Vim's advanced motions on text-objects. But random access is still a very common task, and trackpoint or EasyMotion is just both faster and more "ergonomic".
Perhaps infrasound, described in Vic Tandy’s A Ghost in the Machine

Here’s a brief of it: https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunt...

The full story is a PDF that is the first google result of “Vic Tandy’s Ghost in the Machine”

e.g. failing mechanical equipment
I would suspect that if you sabotage funding to get out of a deal that you otherwise couldn’t get out of, the other party has a pretty good case to come after you for damages.

On it being a questionable deal, it’s not a consumer contract. It is assumed that both sides know what they’re doing in commercial deals; there’s little protection for incompetent participants. It might be questionable, but the participants have largely signed away the right to question it.
You can write with it.
A company I work with is building this AI and it works extremely well.
Apple decided to create a NeXT Workspace clone with PowerPlant (Carbonized). My understanding that this was due to politics with both Microsoft and Adobe.

It wasn’t done very well and was clunky. The later re-write to Obj-C was an improvement.

As for the rest of OSX, most of the inbuilt apps were just direct from NeXT. Even today, Mail and TextEdit are still similar.

ProjectBuilder was much the same as on NeXT as was InterfaceBuilder. Their merging into the blob that is now XCode was a mistake IMO.

With ViaVoice, the training app was a PowerPlant port from the older Classic version. It wasn’t hard to munge PP to get it to work.

I did the UI for the VoiceCenter (a HAL-like UI intentionally) and the Preferences given my AppKit skills. One advantage we made use of is we used a UNIX voice engine that ran as a process on its own.

The OS really was just a NeXT with skinning for Apple and a few apps using PowerPlant. I think the old Sun based network management was still present (NIS??).

Obviously, a lack of Display Postscript made a difference as Apple had to develop their own renderer using the same graphics primitives. That may be why it was so slow back then.
I can see how for some people, it might make sense to pay the higher prices if they also get value from their email services and/or DNS hosting.

I run my own name server on my VPS so I chose Gandi because they provide free secondary name servers – but then discovered that their secondary name servers don’t support NOTIFY (or IXFR). Instead they make an AXFR transfer on a fixed schedule – that’s too slow for Let’s Encrypt DNS authentication.

So far, I’ve stayed with them because I don’t have many domains registered and I appreciate their commitment to security of user accounts: the ability to lock domains, and MFA support. These are now standard but I also have my account to set up to only allow logins from various IP network ranges.

Edit: Also, their web interface for managing domains was intuitive and easy-to-use (no dark patterns). It was particularly easy to configure glue records for my primary name server.
Arguably any future problems with ML/AI/AGI won't be substantially different from social and technological problems we already have (and aren't addressing seriously enough). The "Skynet problem" is just a diversion.

Harmful AGI isn't going to "wake up" like some lazy Hollywood plot, or be some unforeseen accident. If such an AGI does manifest, people will have deliberately given it capabilities and directives that are obviously dangerous and unethical, probably in the pursuit of illicit profit or strategic military objectives.

Our industrial best practices and ethical codes don't need to waste time warning people not to create existentially dangerous AGIs any more than they need to warn against building nuclear bombs.
Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore not only admits that he was wrong about nuclear power, he is now actively pro-nuclear.

https://www.politico.com/story/2008/03/why-a-greenpeace-co-f...
I bought the recently released dusted up version, it’s still fun to play against the bot in DM4.
With async in any language of choice this should need just 1 server. 250M/40hours=1.7K requests/second.

You can probably do it on a single core in a low level language like Rust/Java.
Draw salary as long as you can, save as much as possible and buy land outright somewhere cheap. No mortgage. I saw where it was all headed back in the early 2000s. I was in my mid 30s and feeling the grind back then.

Rent? Fuck that. Your life is on the line and this is for all the marbles. You find a way to go rent free. Maybe do like the bums are doing all over the place, live in a van, etc. Nobody seems to care. Save that money and then get out.

I did this, ending my career in IT back in 2006. Best move ever. When they fired everyone on the last contract I was on, I can't tell how good it felt.

By the way, the house I lived in at the end... Remember the house in Fight Club? That would have been an improvement.
One of the core problems with nuclear is the size and scale of risk posed by cost cutting and neglect over its lifetime, especially the waste. People neither trust for-profit enterprises or present/future governments with that sort of responsibility (and with empirically justifiable reasons). I’m aware newer models are stated to be significantly safer, but assurances mean little when these institutions have repeatedly lied and failed in the past.

Either way, US carriers are probably one of the safest places for nuclear, as they’re mission critical for the life of the carrier and most likely to receive the utmost care… Plus the US has a long history of rubber stamping virtually unlimited funds to solve any military problem, whether the people approve or not. The handling of the waste is still a major concern, but what about the consequences of a torpedo compromising the reactor in warfare?
...and UPI is.

and works better than Bitcoin ever will.

Funny how the US government is one of the biggest holders of Bitcoin, even though that the whole point of Bitcoin is to get away from governments.

It's almost like Bitcoin is unregulated and fit only be used to launder money.

Not a legitimate use case at all.
Seems very doubtful that rubble catches fire that much less easily than standing houses, that you blow standing houses up?

I mean, I would guess rubble takes fire more easily than a plain wall. You got small sticks and insolation (which used to be saw dust) everywhere if you blow the house up.

Rubble probably burn somewhat slower though.
I don’t consider email to be a legal form of communication. Cutting services to a business effectively disabled their business (especially servers). You’d think they would send at least one letter.
Here's 7 points to console a programmer worried about the imminent threat ai poses to their job:

1. AI is a tool, not a replacement: AI is designed to assist, not replace, human tasks and decisions.

2. AI needs human supervision: AI technologies require expert human supervision for their creation, maintenance, and evolution.

3. AI creates jobs: AI often creates more jobs than it eliminates by automating routine tasks.

4. Continual learning: By continuously learning and adapting, you can ensure your skills remain relevant in the AI era.

5. Human creativity is irreplaceable: AI can't replicate human creativity, which is vital for problem-solving and innovation in programming.

6. AI ethics: Ethical considerations in AI deployment require human judgement, which AI lacks.

7. Emotional Intelligence: AI can't replace the emotional intelligence humans bring to their work, including empathy, understanding, and interpersonal communication.

Hope this helps.
The OP said "I don’t think there can ever be a legitimate case for banning a piece of media".

Turns out that "democratic" governments found different casses for "banning a piece of media".

> Are you trying to say that banning things is obviously done and therefore it is good, or...?

No. Banning things is very bad because it is mostly done to censor and to push alternative views.
It's one of those things where it could go either way: worst-case scenario, your fears and worries become reality and most web-stuff will be outsourced to AI handlers/managers and the actual AIs doing the work. Best-case scenario? AI ends up not replacing dev jobs but turns into a hyper-powerful toolkit for them.

Even if you take AI aside, it remains a fact that nothing will ever stay as it is, things will always move, the world around you will always change (we get older, everything gets re-evaluated constantly as we age). I thought we'd reached the ultimate end-goal with Turbo Pascal, then, Borland Delphi — why use anything else, ever? This is not a particular fault of the AI era, it's just one that hits you and your profession a bit closer. The exact same thing happened to SO MANY OTHER PROFESSIONS over the years.

There was an article a long while back about a US law firm that decided to try and outsource a huge case by shipping tons of boxes to a specifically-trained "warehouse" of workers in the Philippines, knowing that their law (and capability to speak/read/understand English) is similar enough to that of the US. And, from what I recall, it turned out that while this was a fantastic business decision which saved them a lot of money by managing to outsource the most expensive part of the those huge cases, it also became clear that "being a lawyer" may have lost its long-held prosperous perspective (at the bottom).

I say this because that article was written over a decade ago (if I remember correctly), and even today, law-schools are still packed, lawyers are still making a lot of money, everything is still... sorta fine (for them).

You will NOT live forever. So the question is only if you can sustain your career long enough to make it through and then enjoy your ACTUAL LIFE once you're reasonable safe, financially. I am very, very confident that you will be able to do that, even with the rise of AI.

I look at all the mid-to-large-scale projects I've been involved with, as a developer, and 80% of the real work is figuring out how to approach certain things, and how everything should tie together. Writing the code itself was never the problem. Never. For AI to take over completely (aside from writing certain functions or boilerplate starters), I'd argue we've still got a very long way to go.
But if each side of the pair can only have a certain number of states, is it not possible to perturb one of them until it gets into a state such that you know based on entanglement that the other must be in its corollary state?
I was all fired up and ready to defend the rights of Chupacabras to secure communications!
Let's not forget the Internet please. This has enabled populists governments and terrorists spreading their propaganda everywhere. Drug selling has been made easier while reading comments in online forum feals like earth is devoid of any intelligence
It means Crypto is in decline.
Looks promising! Do you do retries when returned json is invalid? Personally, I used io-ts for parsing, and GPT seems to be able to correct itself easily when confronted with a well-formed error message.
It relies on a cliche of the idea of what an adult should be. But the premise that adults were more mature and not showing these traits before is flawed. Many 60+ years old strongly exhibits all the traits of the described "infantile personality" when their lifestyle and world vision is challenged, be it in their private or professional life. Sure if you judge by the capacity to masquerade and give the appearance of showing the traditional adult image of the older generation by definition the younger one will score worse. But it's a facade, on the inside the majority of older adults are still children.

> characterized by immature feelings (‘childish’ reactions, lack of willpower, lack of confidence), external locus of control (other people are blamed), inflated self-concept, low demands on self (accompanied by high demands on society), and egocentrism.

So you tell me none of your older neighbours will display this and instead be models of "emotional maturity (rationality, self-control, lack of impulsivity, etc.)" when you talk to them about lawn mowing, car usage/size, energy, meat eating, land use regulation, ...?

There is no more infantilism than before, what has changed is the definition of achievement.
Thanks! I've found a way to reduce the system requirement some more by switching from ASCII to 5-bit Murray code. Qwitzatteracht is drawing less than 10 watts now at a buttery smooth 50fps!
I have plans to go full morse to get it to run on my smartwatch.
Perhaps the Living Videotex slogan can help you:

-- "We Make Shitty Software... With Bugs!"

http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/09/03/wemakeshittysoftware...

I think it is a good mindset to have. We must all assume that software is an imperfect thing done by imperfect beings. Even celebrate it.

On this particular case, I recommend concentrating not on the fact that there was a bug, but on the fact that the code written so many years ago is still relevant for someone today. Focus on that. Try to make something that someone will find a bug in 30 years from now.
sibling comment is flagged and really should not be.
Deploy Livebook (Elixir) Notebooks as Apps to Hugging Face Spaces
Scientific american has that nice section of "50, 100 and 150 years ago". They flex their history and also provide snapshots of the past. I haven't read in a long time, but I assume they still have it.
For me, the killer vim feature, apart from navigation of course, is macros
I think the question of "What should we do with people who don't want to get clean?" is a really difficult one which I've yet to hear a good answer to.

Fentanyl, meth, and alcohol are some of the most brutal drugs to detox from, and tragically, they're also some of the cheapest and most available for homeless people. I hope my previous comment didn't make it seem like I view getting clean as a simple task, it's actually one of the hardest things to ask a person to do, but after years of spending time with addicts both at all stages of recovery, I think it's the only path back to regular life.
well put. it was already a headache trying to unblock devs that went down terrible stack overflow copy/paste rabbit holes ... gpt4 only 10x that mess.
Your answer as to the "end goal" was downvoted to death: "to inject advertising/manipulation and surveillance into every remaining aspect of your life."

The thing is, although it was downvoted, nobody responded to it. Given that every trend in computing technology is to make it more seamless, more integrated, less downtime; and data was the new oil on which AI is fueled; and that only a handful of Big Tech companies control the way most laypeople do computing; and, that these trends show signs not of stopping but of accelerating, explain how that answer is wrong.

Silicon Valley does not value anything that can't be quantified, because value, by computer logic, must always be represented by a number. And since software will eat the world, therefore it must be a law of the universe (as in, might makes right) that the summation of you is a sum - a number - to be used in a greater calculation, for someone else's profit.

Did that glimpse in the mirror show you a side of yourselves you desperately wish to believe didn't exist?
The difference between entertainment and a casino game is that a casino game is designed to try and get you to put in more and more money, where most entertainment oriented games will have you pay once for the entire experience.

Of course the gap between these is closing by the introduction of lootboxes and similar mechanics. I do think these should be regulated as it aligns the incentives to get people addicted to your game, which is a fairly basic variation on preying on the vulnerable. In addition I -- and I assume most people -- do not like getting treated as a money piñata.
In some countries it really is a lot easier to force a company to pay a debt; it can proceed to winding-up/bankruptcy/whatever pretty quickly if the debtor company is uncooperative.

As I understand it, US small claims court is _not_ like this; practical enforcement powers are usually fairly limited.
It was facebook[1] stated policy to prevent all discussion, so even if there was not a user level bann they were removing all posts and discussions about it

Twitter banned lots people for it (and other COVID "misinformation") it would be hard to point to a perfect example as often people that wanted to discuss lab leak also talked about masking, masking policy, vaccine efficacy, and Vaccine mandate policies. All of which were also forbidden topics. If you dared to speak out against "The Experts" at the cdc or WHO then you were either shadow-banned (i.e posts hidden, de-ranked, etc) or outright banned

[1] https://reason.com/2021/06/04/lab-leak-misinformation-media-...
Thanks.

I'm aware of the HIGs for both GNOME and KDE, though I've not looked at them closely for years.

I was rather hoping someone with greater familiarity might know where the origins / adoption of the Dock were specifically discussed.

Searching "dock" on the Gnome HIG site turns up ... nothing.

For KDE there are a few hits, but none appear immediately relevant to this question.

So our mystery remains intact.
> …coal power plants, which is the alternative

This is a false dichotomy. Even if you ignore renewables, there is still gas and combined cycle plants.
I think he means that thoughts have an actual effect on the unfolding of the physical world.
I can't speak for the commenter you're replying to, but there is an alternative to just building more highways in the form of traffic calming measures. Small villages and towns really shouldn't have through-traffic moving through them at high speeds. Or even moderate speeds, if we're being realistic; pedestrians will usually survive the initial impact at 20mph or less, whereas at 36mph it's usually fatal.[0]

Traffic calming sends a very clear, very obvious signal to drivers: slow the f*ck down, because you don't have a choice. It can include big tree branches hanging out over the road, narrower lanes, pinchpoints, speed humps and raised pedestrian crossings, and more.[1] Many of which are relatively low-cost to implement. Certainly, it's far cheaper than building a new highway.

I doubt that those rules were implemented strictly because of pedestrian safety versus expectations of Sunday as a "rest day" versus latching onto it as a post hoc justification--or really just an extra perk--for the rule. And hey, if it does make Sunday a bit safer for kids to play, it's not like that's a bad thing. It's just that the next thought should be "well, how do we make the other six days safer as well?"

0. https://highways.dot.gov/safety/speed-management/traffic-cal...

1. https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-...
The government subsidizes all major accident insurance across all industries. Nuclear should not be different.
The thing is there is no market pressure for water/sewage, which is a monopoly and even a natural monopoly.

There are very good argument to have a working market wherever possible but obviously that does not work with natural monopolies. In those cases it makes more sense to make it a state-owned company and to drive investment while keeping costs down for the benefits of all. Nothing new as this has been a recognised issue since the 19th century.
This is obvious troll, why do people even reply seriously to this?
> when you have 24 hours of work and 16 hours to do it

We used to call this a compressed work day.

Which compression algorithm is this? I bet it is pretty lossy.
> while BEVs are 90%

Only if you ignore the cost and conversion efficiency of generating the electricity.

There aren't any electricity wells out there where it comes out of the ground for the cost of pumping it.
I'm assuming that an unused building would not be well lit.

One class of things that might be mistaken for ghosts in such a building is various animals. A family of raccoons moving farther into the darkness to hide when a human opens the door, for example. Or a lot of rats or mice.

Another would be humans who are clandestinely using the space.

A trail of moving water running down a wall from a water leak might reflect light in such a way as to appear to be some sort of shimmering ethereal thing moving around.
Not really. If a device is repairable but spare parts aren't made available, is it really practically repairable? The wiki page for right to repair says it well I think:

> end users and independent repair providers should be able to access original spare parts and necessary tools (software as well as physical tools) at fair market conditions

It doesn't necessarily have to be every subassembly. Make the schematics and chips available and repair shops can take it from there.

But stocking subassemblies is indeed my expectation from a well-behaved manufacturer, whether they provide the parts themselves or partner with someone else to. Some examples:

https://shop.fairphone.com/en/spare-parts

https://frame.work/marketplace/parts

https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/Steam_Deck

https://shop.mntre.com/

Clearly this is doable. And let's be real, manufacturers that do warranty repairs already have SKUs for each subassembly, assuming they actually repair the devices and don't just replace the whole thing. They just won't sell them to you, they'll only ship them to their own service centers.
Yes, most people lose interest for video games, cartoons, superhero movies, etc when they grow up. This happen to me as well. Some keep clinging to childish escapism.
And then supported by Russia
If you're building an app based on LLMs that expects higher than 99% correctness from it, you are bound to fail. Negative scenarios workarounds and retries are mandatory.
Has Enflo solved the invariant subspace problem in Hilber spaces?
Can you break it up into different products on each export?
Russian influence operations as well.

It is well documented
Vervis Actor Refactoring
Smash hits: How viral memes conquered piñata design
Some states have accepted that they are unable to run a trusted currency and used the US dollar instead. Bitcoin seems like a straightforwardly better choice there, since the US Fed can't print bitcoins.
It works. Just be sure to build a good error message.
But you'd think that middle management will also do the same, including hiring managers and performance monitoring etc.

But then, the ai managing those jobs would have to suck to not notice the jobs of their direct reports are being done by an ai!

So assuming the ai don't suck, they will just fire those under them and just directly use an ai, saving wages.

So in the end, the shareholders (who is in ultimate control) will just have hired an ai to manage and produce.
Think about it: Without guns and cars we could still play Qwitzatteracht, the golf game, to kill each other.
I've just tried the editor and noticed an issue: the "O" in "Open a project ⌘O" looks a lot like 0.
Yes. I used lib curl's multi interface on one $40/m server around that time. Indeed at any scale the rate limiting becomes the main bottleneck, mainly because a lot of sites are concentrated on certain hosts. Speed isn't the problem and multiple servers aren't really needed.
Same for all the "what if we add an LLM to this" comments. Worse than the unispired blockchain "problem solving".