skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't deny the utility of Rails for building a certain class of web site. But I think there is a difference between Rails and Ruby, and a difference between use of a technology and improvements to that technology.

I think a technology must continue to change and adapt to remain relevant. I see Shopify as the main driver of current improvements to Ruby (the core features of the most recent release, and the upcoming release, were mostly due to Shopify as I understand it). I don't see smaller companies doing these improvements and I think without them Ruby will (slowly, because it's used in some big places) fade away.
You got hired at (the fictional company) Scroogle and can verify that they produced a data lake and then sell nice zip drives of that data to people?

I have no doubt that out of all the websites in existence some collect your location and sell it to any bidders. My point is that if you focus on the actual ad-platforms the behavior of selling location data is not what they do. If you have a problem with people selling location data you should be focusing on people selling location data and not some nebulous "ad-tech". Perizon does not validate if you're using the location data to catch criminals, sell shoes, or find your wife to beat her to death. Even without "ad-tech" Perizon still has a financial incentive to sell your data.
One issue with learning Ruby on Rails in VS Code is that the extensions are not updated. E.g., Ruby for Visual Studio Code[1] was last updated 1/7/2021, and has 3.3 million downloads. Yikes.

[1]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rebornix...
> What I am saying is that we emphatically know things about the physical processes that (almost certainly) generate consciousness

I'm prepared to believe that people who aren't me know such things, but last time I asked a PhD in brain research about this (a while ago now), they seemed to disagree.

At least, assuming we're talking about the same usage of the word "consciousness" here — when it's defined as "opposite of unconscious" then sure we have drugs to turn that off, and also separately with the non-overlapping definition of "opposite of autonomous or reflexive"…

…but the weird thing where I have an experience rather than just producing responses to stimuli? If anyone knows about that, my search engine bubble hides it from me.
> can't put my finger on it

It's all about repugnant materialism and self-promotion
You can start here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius

That specific quote is from letter 28 "On travel as a cure for discontent"

Seneca is always a good intro, easy to read and pretty low level, as in scenarios that you would face in your everyday life instead of more metaphysical topics.
Caches are infringement if you don’t have consent, yes.

“I wasn’t pirating those videos when I used torrent, I was just caching them for those with legal rights to them”.

You can’t have a copy of copyrighted content without permission, and you can’t distribute a copy of copyrighted content without permission.
That's probably because some status games are counter to cooperation and niceness. Because in some situations, the way to get or preserve status is to cause friction for others.
[random advice from the internet]

My intuition is that trying to find new paying users will be a better use of your time than trying to convert free tier users to paid.

And it is probably better to extend an existing service in ways that allow paying customers to pay you more money and that attract new paying customers to the solution.

At best, a free tier provides an organic path from uncertainty about the service to deciding it is worth paying money for the service to solve whatever problem it solves.

In the average case, a lot of free tier use is driven by the psychology of it's-free, and people will quit before they convert even when it is a bit disadvantageous.

Good luck.
Faberware and Ninja make some, and I'm sure if the IP IP doesn't get slurped up, Walmart and friends will make store-brand ones. They're not very complicated.
> It exposes data to user who in the first place had a right to see them

I would be surprised if it is the only scenario. I've seen systems which rely on passing requests here and there with some common account auth wrapping communication to further services in very various ways and for variety of reasons. Some of the reasons to use single authentication mechanisms on gateway levels are laughable or at least cannot be treated seriously and should end up in redesign yet too many dev teams agrees on such shortcuts as their client says they don't have money for something like proper solution.

And again, minor implementation detail is not a valid argument. It is problem of people who judge another project based on unpatched high severity lib version with bug in unused feature. Companies coming seriously to security have security teams or approvals responsible for assessing impact of severe bugs. It's the other ones in huge numbers demanding smaller severity scores. For me these are like alcohol advocacy during pregnancy.

Maybe I'm missing something, but looking at concept explanation here: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-3814/overview-77/in... I would never assume both connections can be used safely in general case, yet it can be ok if business logic ok with that and is limited to process single user requests with vulnerable libcurl version.
Just like some of your telemetry at work. Over the course of the day the amount of jitter in the signal can be very high, but at some point the mins, maxes and mean start to resolve into the fact that the previous deployment increased or decreased system load or response times.

Unlike work charts though, I suspect they’re using FFT analysis to break down periodic signals.
The author is all about "the correct answer to the problem", but is never explicit about what is meant by "the problem". In the case of software development, the problem includes performance constraints and resource usage management. It is not a a correct answer if it cannot be supplied within the time needed and using no more than the available memory and disk.
tbh I am so annoyed by people spelling lidar as LiDAR. Nobody spells radar (which stands for Radio Detection And Ranging) as RaDAR...
Exact same boat here.
I wonder how true this will be over the next decade or so when the top humans are people who have trained with machines their whole career.
I don’t necessarily think it is an obvious satire, but IIRC, at the time he wrote it he was a persona non grata at the Florentine court and was attempting to curry favour.

It was most definitely written to confirm the Medici’s biases and stroke some egos.
Maybe white collar gov't workers are less skilled than their private sector counterparts? Alternatively, they could be "true believers"?

There has to be some way to explain a pay discrepancy if it exists. How does one justify receiving a lower salary for the same amount of skill and work?
For what it’s worth I’ve had no trouble opting out. A polite but firm request to the gate agent did the trick:

“I prefer not to have my face scanned. Will you scan my boarding pass?”

I have also opted out of body scans for TSA (before I pony’d up for Pre-Check) and out of their facial recognition check at Boston Logan.
My go-to nonsensical sarcastic freedom unit is Bullet Velocities per Football Field
There's no one-size-fits-all-solution to ensuring good deliverability. Dedicated IPs are often (not always) a sign of weakness as they indicate that the shared IP pool lacks good reputation.

We run an exclusive transactional email service, meaning customers go through an approval process before they can send live emails. Transactional emails by definition are sent as a reaction to a users' action and _should_ therefore have a low spam-rate and fast time-to-open. If you can ensure that your customers are good email citizens and actually send only transactional emails, you don't even need to upsell dedicated IPs to your customers, as the deliverability of a high-quality, shared IP pool is better than that of an isolated IP address.

Email is in my bio, if you have other questions.
Difficulty to define rigorously does not preclude its existence or usefulness as model. The paper addresses how it feels humans are different from LLMs in reference to meaning.
I can't speak for the latest version, but previously versions did. If the program had debug symbols in it, it would show you pretty useful info and would even let you debug it! The debug feature rarely worked though
You might find that name already in use :-) https://www.timex.com/
Tags are great as an adjunct to a thoughtful folder hierarchy, IMHO.

Links are great as part of that too, they can provide shortcuts.

Real-world use: I am an artist, and I have found that the best way to organize my work is with a series of yearly directories. If I begin a large, multi-year project, it goes in a directory within the year I start it; I'll make a link to it that lives next to all the yearly directories.

I also use OSX's tags a ton. Files get marked as 'in progress', 'complete', 'paid for', 'commission', and 'experiment' (and a few other things). When I want to decide what to work on in any particular day it's super easy to open up the saved search for "everything in progress" that I keep on my desktop; this shows me everything in those yearly directories that's marked as 'in progress', whether it's personal work, client work, whether it's part of a large multi-file project with its own folder hierarchy or just a single file in the yearly directory. I also have a saved search for 'commission'+'in progress' for those days when I know I want to work on clearing the commission queue. And whenever I spend some time just fooling around with different effects to create interesting looks, I'll save my scribblings with the 'experiment' tag; when I decide to use it later I can easily tell Illustrator to open a file, and look through the 'experiment' tag to find the file full of some crazy procedural explorations, regardless of how long ago I did it. This habit has saved me hours of digging for that one file where I did that cool trick once.

Trying to organize all the files in my artwork directory with just tags would be a total fucking nightmare, the subdirectory for a multi-year graphic novel has its own folder hierarchy that's several levels deep, and when I know that what I want to work on today is "getting the prepress files together for book 3 of the graphic novel" it's definitely great to be able to just hit the top-level link to the graphic novel directory, then go into "books", then "3", and have its own little file hierarchy in there.

Tags by themselves are not very good for serious organization, but they can be very good for pulling things out of a hierarchical structure. They take work - I have to remember to mark a new file as 'in progress' and possibly a 'commission', though that's become routine, and changing something from 'in progress' to 'complete' is a pleasure. But it's work well worth doing to create a nice little network of shortcuts and secret passages through the terrain of your thoughtfully-laid-out tree of folders.
Funny thing that Musk asked McDonald and Burger King responded.
Worse even than this is that Microsoft Sway implements its own custom _scrolling_!
Isn't the base version of reddit, without the crappy UI and image hosting, already open sourced? Just go from there. Probably easier to install than building a counter for your email signups.

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Sounds like a perfect fit for government work!
No, but when the default video was 4:3, I did try out tiling window managers and thought it worked fine, back then I used ratpoison and ion off and on.

On "modern" resolutions I find tiling tough to use, but on small screens (1368x768) I use cwm, I feel it is tailor made for those screens. Larger screens I use fvwm or fluxbox, depending on what I need to do.
Fast CPU performance is necessary for AI workloads too. You need a fast CPU and combine that with lots of Vector or Tensor processing. Lots of applications need both. They have done both for a while.
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I honestly don’t understand the focus on text generation. LLMs are excellent at a variety of NLP tasks that are cumbersome or more error prone using other approaches. For these types of tasks, they can also be complimented with various forms of procedural validation quite easily.
So if this positive scalar factor adjusts different people's values, why can't it also adjust a single person's value from time-to-time, or mood-to-mood? I can find very few interesting conclusions to draw from this article.
I'm just saying the notion of a mall is conducive to urban life if it's designed right. I mean it in the simplest sense. Multiple businesses of many types of categories located in the same building. Parking or location isn't in my comment.
> Because that is what the SEC is alleging in their lawsuit.

And investigations obviously take time. We don’t want a securities regulator who blindly files lawsuits against public companies.

Sorry but your arguments aren’t very convincing and I really dislike crypto.
That was my thought too. Imagine someone at some desk in some drab office building with a huge pile of these to sort though. Different libraries, languages, frameworks etc. They probably have some quota to fill. How motivated are they going to be find out who the authors are, how to contact them, compose a long message, explaining, asking questions? Nah, just look at the code, google a few things, and assign as high of a score as possible. Nobody needs to have someone come and yell at them for assigning a 3 to the next log4shell.
I completely agree. Murex also includes a few machine parseable builtins for this reason:

https://murex.rocks/docs/tour.html#filesystem-wildcards-glob...

But I do think being able to work with your systems coreutils is a valuable convenience too.
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Mmm, I don't agree with your analogy. Yes, you can model things at a higher level, but surely that is for efficiency, not because the model breaks down, in terms of accuracy.

In contrast, there are phenomenon which we know standard particle physics and quantum mechanics gives the wrong answere (despite getting so much else right).
It's because of people like you we have 0 privacy today, "oh the government is gathering our data? well nothing to hide and they use it to fight terrorism", "oh assange is arrested? well he had it coming", "oh the government is asking twitter to censor certain political posts? who cares are you a racist?", etc. I'd say you get the idea but I doubt you would.

I explained the parent's comment to you, I didn't say this specific action would cause the end of civilization. And yes while we're at it the government using Microsoft Encarta or even Google to do research is also anti democratic, you'd want the government employees to use a non censored search engine instead of just seeing the snopes fact checked articles if they're going to base their life affecting decisions on it, and if Encarta had something like "the king of Gondor is a bad person" because some microsoft employee wrote it, and the CIA based their decision on that to assassinate him, then it'd be antidemocratic as well. I'll let you stare at the finger and miss the moon telling me how Gondor isn't real.
My productivity has never been significantly limited by my window manager
You'd be shocked and amazed how poorly designed and managed many gov. databases are. Many of these databases follow this pattern:

1) Some worker is fed up with having to sift through hundreds of excel spreadsheets in order to find the information need, and the nightmare of keeping such spreadsheets updated

2) Said worker deploys a small database - just for their own use. After some time the DB gets more users, who make their own views and what not. The database and tables within may or may not follow some rules. Heck, maybe the worker that created it was learning as they went on.

3) Said worker quits or gets a new job, and the database is essentially unmanaged. Some other worker might not now about that DB, and you go back to step 1)

Now multiply a database like that with 100, and span it over 20 year. You get this unimaginable spaghetti monster of multiple DBs, some written in one dialect, some in others. Some are completely unnormalized, others a high degree of normalization.

And to build a report, you may need to access tables from numerous such databases. Even seasoned analysts dread starting on the reports, because they'll spend a good day just to find the right dbs, tables, and all the errors.

So of course when the directors hear about this new fangled AI magic that just spits out the results when you ask it it plain English, they immediately order a use/benefit analysis on it.

Ok, so that may be a bit harsh - but that's the reality of many agencies. Dogshit DB management, and being 20 year behind the digitalization revolution.

But yes, a problem would of course be: How do you know that the data the LLM returns is true? Is it conjuring up fake data? Does it process/calculate data as you want it to?
How convenient to change the definition at the same time that a tectonic shift in monetary policy occurs
Do libertarians even exist? I'm being serious.
I wonder how this would change if you only looked at highly rated chess engines. For example, is a rook pair really not as good as a queen or is it just that _humans_ aren't as good at using the rooks effectively?
Why would I drive in Manhattan?

"Traffic" isn't just cars, it's also bikes, walking, and transit – it's the flow of people moving from one place to another.
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Hackaday did a story[0] on this type of proto-weather channel.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2022/10/20/retrotechtacular-the-origina...
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Checklist are what Danial is complaining about. NVD saw the vuln, thought "Oh, I think that fits in the 'authentication bypass' checklist entry", and ranked it as high severity.

Danial is saying that no, the curl developers don't need a dumb checklist because they know the vulnerability and code, they know it's not severe. Checklists are getting in the way of reality.

Checklists are a tool you use to organize a process, to organize information that exists. They're not a good tool for gaining that knowledge in the first place.

You get good estimates not by having a checklist that says "Oh, if it's in javascript, the checklist says add 3 weeks, if it's in fortran, the checklist says add 6 weeks", you get good at estimating by actually understanding the exact work that needs to be done. Unfortunately, no one ever understands the actual work that needs to be done.

You get good security ratings by understanding the vulnerability, not by having a checklist that says "if there's memory corruption, it's severe".
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/traffic-lights... has plenty examples of things more complicated, for example:

“In the past, buses always got priority. Now every bus is tagged and the computer knows all the time-tables of every line. The system knows exactly when which bus needs to arrive at a certain intersection. The installation checks whether a bus is too early, on time, or running late and sets the lights accordingly.”

“On the cycleways we always have double loops, separated by 75 centimetres. That way we can measure speed and direction by combining the data the computer receives from the two loops. It also means we don’t need to reserve green time for a cyclist riding against traffic, away from the intersection.” And the pushbutton? “For cyclists that’s not really necessary. They’re only there for reassurance. You often see in the reports that people don’t even bother to push the button.”
I felt dramatically more productive using bspwm (which is similar enough to i3) than I do on MacOS.

I couldn't tell you how much of it was the M1 being relatively new, having a better/different OS, and a different WM. I just know I liked it a lot, and I dislike using my Mac after that. Huge loss in morale, if not productivity.
My common sense doesn't have that information on hand. Sounds to me like 'common sense' is a terrible way to try to investigate complicated things, eh?
>The result is a holistic vision of the transition towards a net-negative greenhouse gas emissions economy that can limit global warming to 1.5°C

The research in question ignores the fact that we've already passed that level.

>However, a clear deficit and research gap exist, since a detailed description of the industry sector, i.e. separated major industries such as cement, iron and steel, chemicals, aluminum, pulp and paper, etc., is lacking in almost all cases. Therefore, a full defossilization of the non-energy feedstock demand of the industry sector has not been modelled in global 100% RE analysis.

The research in question conveniently says "we don't really know how much industries use, but surely it can't be that bad right ? Anyways, we're not taking it into account"

>The industry sector is described in detail in Pursiheimo et al. [145], though the authors admit that TIMES, the model used, was not capable of applying full power-to-X functionality for the industry sector, thus fossil hydrocarbon inputs to the industry sector were still required by the model. Similarly, Teske et al. [125] and Luderer et al. [146] mention that the chemical industry is still fully based on fossil fuels.

The research in question confirms that the whole industrial sector still requires massive amounts of hydrocarbons.

Overall, all these full renewable grids papers assume one critical thing: a complete change of all of our infrastructure, to add storage, better grid organisation, and overall a complete rework of... everything. While that's a lofty goal, looking at the reality where we can't even phase out simple things makes it quite unbelievable. Everything is possible if you ignore reality.
> Most of history was the time of enormous inequality, low life expectancy etc and majority of population did not enjoy a croissant and coffee at the local bakery in the morning.

Ah I understand now. You are simply so out of touch with reality that you believe that bakeries are only used to produce croissants for startup engineers.

Bakeries and village ovens were the basis for survival for a large part of our history.

Social workers on the other hand are a prime example of a wasteful administrative layer between people in need and money from social programs.
I primarily use mine to make rice, beef stews, and hummus.

All of those take less time and are just as good if not better than stovetop.

Once I made shawarma in mine, that was pretty neat.
If you find a way to share what I should watch out for, I'd appreciate it :)
> and over $100m of revenue on beast burger orders sometime last year.

Gross revenue is almost meaningless. Restaurants are known to have very low margins, so how much of that money was paid to the local restaurant, to the delivery service, _in taxes_?

Even once it reaches Mr Beast's company, the company has to pay for a lot of things before it ever reaches him.

I'm sure he's doing well, but he didn't personally pull in $54M in 2021; it's actively counter productive to discuss gross revenue without also discussing expenses, because it conflates "Mr Beast" the business with "Mr Beast" the nom de plume of an individual and likely misleads folks on how much money the individual actually earned.