skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I frequently use GPT-4's code. It is especially useful coding in a domain I'm not familiar with. I recently asked it to write a blender plugin to export certain polygons to a spreadsheet (with coordinates projected and transformed in certain ways), and it did admirably. I had never used blender before, and it would have taken me hours otherwise.
This would be somewhat like meditation, from how you describe it :-)

I’d often sit in my car at lunchtimes and do a guided meditation.

It did help during my corporate days.
I tried NixOS and dropped it after spending several hours trying to make an experimental FPGA compiler work. The instructions were reasonable, but they expected to have a classic Linux distro: Fedora or Debian-like.

I don't remember the exact set of errors (there was more than one), but NixOS+FHS failed so many times I gave up, and wrote that blog post.

This is the essence: you can't expect application developers to target your niche distro.
Well, the only affordable one.

https://smyth-research.com/ works pretty great
Moore’s law is a thing yes, but in the real world, power consumption and heat dissipation issues seem to be the actual constraints rather than transistor counts.

Vertical scaling is of course possible, but it’s not really useful for driving a higher resolution monitor in your living room because of bottlenecks being completely elsewhere.
nix rebuild does ssh on remote machines all possible ways, why colmena? if you need cloud infra, can use terranix. base image from nixos generators. reconfiguration nix remote rebuild.
Why not use -march=snark?
This is the reason its better to use a "Real Programming Language" leveraging libraries to do this job instead of a shell script. A ludicrous number of things to keep in mind for simple filenames and pathnames.
> I love how you hardcore Marxists only take the good parts of what you say while conveniently leaving out the guy that's gonna be wallowing in the ditch for you

Uhh no? I just think that the people working in ditches should be compensated a living wage, preferably through forcing the ultra rich to pay their fair share in taxes and redistributing
Back in the day, I fired up Word 2000 and used the outline mode for those type of things. Then I switched to MoinMoin, then WikidPad. These days, text files and GIT to keep backups on GitHub
I’d love to understand the relevance of this comment, but I sincerely don’t.

You describe two cases that are specially designed to anticipate needs of professionals operating a system. That’s automation, sure, but not AI. The system doesn’t even ostensibly understand yser intent, it’s still simply and obviously deterministic, granted complex.

Do you have an underlying assumption about you wishing tech to only be for solving professional problems?

The context Nielsen comes from is the field of Human-Computer Interaction, which to me is about a more varied usage context than that.

LLMs have flaws, sure.

But how does all this at all relate to the paradigm development the article discusses?
Because it doesn't actually service the needs of users

Really... Stop trying to force stuff down people's throats and make what they actually will use.

Loosely collected silos that regularly cut each other off is not remotely what people are looking for.
> Model-View-Controller-Service-Repository

Where would you put validation logic, though? I mean, some of it might need to just check whether a domain object has its fields filled out, but other validations might need to cross reference DB data to make sure that everything is valid in accordance to the business rules.

Ergo, we might have Model-View-Controller-Service-Repository-Validator

Even without being silly, it's interesting to see how different languages and frameworks handle common concerns, for example, with some you will have repositories, with other the model objects themselves will handle queries through some ORM.
> "Why would developers want to make a game that isn't fun?"

Cognitive dissonance and inertia, among other reasons. When asked if the game (which this topic is about) was fun, the author beat around the bush. Even the positive reviews on Steam make it clear people didn't often really want to play the game more than once. The top review on Steam [1] is some guy talking about, "Had a LONG night of playing this yesterday with my mates..." with less than 2 hours played, lifetime.

The developer clearly knew, deep down, that the game wasn't really fun, but he convinced himself it was. And that's really really easy to do. This is one of the few things the mega-studios get right. They're more than happy to cancel big games they've already sunk millions into if they're just not working out right. As an indie developer you either have to have some crazy degree of introspection, or a few friends who understand that absolutely tearing down what you've spent thousands of hours on is the biggest favor they could ever do for you.

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/342920/Toto_Temple_Deluxe...
Sure, I can do that.

Edit: Looks like the posts are 36377821, as well as 36378754. Those were the two posts I flagged and responded to address the false statements or false context being put forth after no action appeared to be forthcoming.

The responses were civil, and high quality as I did not attack, I easily could have as I am quite knowledge in the subject area but nothing changes when people get defensive so I generally choose to err on the side of not being antagonistic; and just correcting the lies. Although it can be hard to do that when the outcome being promoted inevitably (over time) ends in slavery, and some would argue extinction.

I even included recommendations for books that credibly address history and the subjects involved for historic support. I did this despite these people dissembling as I previously mentioned.

While, I briefly mention beliefs that are false and limiting, and that being a great evil. The statement itself is strictly constructive and indicates this specific statement as normative. Beliefs have to be taken on faith, and we were talking about systems and statements of fact and history, as I tried to make clear so any readers would not be confused. Instead you ended up warning a number of others with possible bans for breaking the rules, for what seemed to me to be sybil attack type behavior, and I also received a warning for doing the right thing. Which is why I requested clarification, I also took a 5 point drop for doing the right thing in protecting myself and others. The same structural issues as I previously mentioned in that email several months ago.
Really weak text… there was much more to it than just cultural problems.

Better articles (in German):
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/wal-marts-rueckzug-warum-d...

https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter...
Specifically RPCS3 had a huge speedup using AVX-512 [1]

1: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ps3-emulation-i9-12900k-vs...
Well, yes. I do think something that is guaranteed is better than something that is not guaranteed. You've at least somewhat accurately captured my position, though with the weird implicit assumption that "guaranteed by convention" means anything at all.

>but i'm not sure how to convince you of this truth, so (shrug)

You'd need some pretty compelling evidence to convince me that something that is not guaranteed is as good as something that is guaranteed, so I can see why you're struggling. With your admissions, all I can really say is good luck convincing me or anyone.
What could be causing your headache? OLED (and mini-LED is very similar) are just better on almost all account (looking at you gradiant banding). Color, perfect black, brightness, high refresh rate.
Somehow applications running on a single machine (classical desktop apps) cannot be the same class of patterns as a browser-webserver combo where two different machines may persist different pieces of data, respond to different types of events etc. The browser receives human user input and displays model information. For the web server the "user" is the browser.

Effectively you might want to start with an abstract stacked MVC-MVC pattern and see if anything is actually redundant.

I dont think clearing those things up is an academic pursuit. The confusion about those patterns is an important data point about the quality and accuracy of our communication about architectural designs.

If you thing of the MVC discussion as a sort of metacode, its full of metabugs.
I wish he would stick to the historical content. These days there's too much discussion of modern issues. I guess that's fine, but not what I personally want from the podcast.

Also, the guests can be pretty hit-or-miss. Some are great, some are pretty terrible.
I believe you’re mixing up two people here, since the comment you replied to here was the only one I made in this chain thus far.

What you describe in this comment is the exact same thing I’ve heard from my co-worker about this topic, however. She said it’s a relief to be able to attribute a lot of the things she has seemingly struggled with in the past to the new diagnoses she’s got.
You either put floats (ie. Gas chambers of fixed volume) or sealed tanks of a light liquid, for example kerosene.

For high depth like this, tanks of a light liquid are probably most suitable. I'd probably use liquid butane. With a vapour pressure of 40 psi, it is easy to contain, and is has a density of only half of water. If it leaks, there won't be an environmental cleanup cost either.
The TLB issue are more a hardware issue than a software/OS one. To my knowledge neither x86 nor arm provide a way to partially share TLB contents between processes/entities. Tlb entries can be tagged with a process context identifier, but that's an all or nothing thing. Either the entire address space is shared, or it's not.

> Yet rewrites are always easier and more sexy. At first.

Moving to threads would not at all be a rewrite.
Edit: Actually, DNS rebinding was brought up by the issue reporter, all that the committer presented was some handwavy "give me a reason I shouldn't block this"... How about checking the sites you blocked for a reason.
OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. To Water Down AI Regulation
You mean like Microsoft SQL Server, which basically runs a small OS on top of Windows or Linux?

This is actually part of the reason why Microsoft was able to port SQL Server to Linux fairly easily, if I recall correctly.
I too find Lenny rough around the edges. My concern is that it looks like it was built by developers for developers. Is it attractive enough to your average non technical Reddit user just looking for a few memes or whatever? I’m not so sure
There really isn't much benefit of going above 4K with either TVs or desktop displays and multiple drawbacks. I run dual 4K monitors on my desktop and the pixel size is smaller than you can resolve at reasonable viewing distances, while I've yet to find an OS that deals with HiDPI displays well (Windows and Linux are both terrible at this). If you want to game you are pushing 4X the pixels as with 1080p so you don't get good framerates unless you spend an exorbitant amount on a GPU.

For content viewing, 4K is probably the upper limit of what you want, and if you game there probably isn't much benefit for going above 1440p.
For those confused by the title: it's not "brighter than white", it's the same white but with the HDR pushing more nits.
“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)
Not sure what part of GP was a quip.

The post GP is replying to reads as satire unless you hold a Hobbesian view of the social contract. It could be a line from Silicon Valley.
Yeah, I just don't get how "sitting in a 5 foot diameter tube for 24 hours looking through a tiny window" is exploring. You didn't make the project happen in any meaningful way - you're just a passenger. Seems like a pretty terrible way to pass the time, even when everything works as expected.

I can kind of see the appeal of Everest from a mountain climbing point of view, but I think I'd go and do one of the peaks without rush hour queues. So what if it's the 2nd/3rd/4th highest.
I highly recommend‘The Cloudspotter’s Guide’[0] from Gavin Pretor-Pinney (the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society). One of the most eclectic read I’ve had, covering history, science and adventure in always a funny a didactic way.

[0]: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/shop/the-cloudspotters-...
> It's amazing that pixel density has been stagnant since 2014, when the first 5k TV (low ppi) and 5k desktop displays (>200 ppi) were released. It's 2023 now and it still takes a kidney to get 5k >200 ppi, and we only recently got the 6k >200 ppi option for 2 kidneys. Pixel density, however, is stagnant.

Maybe this is so for desktop size screens, but for larger things, the big advance in the last 18 months is real 8K 60Hz displays at 65 to 80 inch diagonal size going from "absurdly incredibly expensive" to being priced similar to where 4K displays were when they were introduced. 8K displays are absolutely viable now.

There is obviously a lack of real high bitrate 8K content unless you're shooting it yourself.
4k was the marketers cashing in a puffery token they'd been carrying for quite a long time by accurately measuring the short side of displays.

They moved to measuring the long side AND exaggerating by rounding up in the same generation, stealing the name of a slightly-better existing standard in the process.

You're right that 8k makes sense so long as you accept 4k, though.
Yes. And I get it that we all have separate accounts. The difference is they're entirely separate networks, not one. If I'm on Fediverse, and self-hosting, with my own domain, it's fairly natural to want to have a solid identity, isn't it?

Which is where it's different to email. When self-hosting mail, you can have separate identities too, but those will be created on a purpose (different addresses for different personas/purposes), rather than fragmented because of necessity.
SSH is just the transport, you use a different protocol inside it. But yeah, it's not FTP
Unleashing Hydrogen’s Potential: Baking Soda
That is why the IBM POWER ISA includes only the 8 of the 16 functions of 2 Boolean variables that cannot be obtained from the others by reversing the operand order or by using for both operands the same register (which is enough to obtain the maximum instruction count reduction in comparison with the ISAs that only include AND/OR/XOR).
IMO someone made the wrong trade-offs there. Shell scrips mainly deal with text output of different programs, so escaping and quoting should be as simple as possible.
It baffles me how many people are using ChatGPT to get answers: it's a “language model” folks, not a “knowledge model”.
Feel like the PostgreSQL Core Team should just build a new database from scratch using what they have learned from experience instead of attempting such a fundamental architectural migration. It would give them more freedom to change things also. Call it "postgendb" and provide a data migrator.
Imo unikernels are a complicated solution in search of a problem, which turns out to not exist.

There certainly are times OSs get in the way. But it's hard enough to write a good database, we don't need to maintain a third of an OS in addition.
That's why I said "behind an experimental flag". Search for "private network" in chrome://flags.

Oh I see what you mean. The default blocking behavior in Chrome 94 only applies to public non-secure contexts. We’re talking about a stricter form applied to secure contexts here.
The sign up form just gives me a blank white screen on FF mobile Android, so I didn't sign up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Could someone explain why is Go so hyped?

For me, it's:

1) channels (and goroutines, of course)

2) explicit error handling (panics are actually fatal, in contrast to exceptions which are often even used for flow control)

3) easy (cross-)compilation - just go build

And probably a few more reasons I can't remember at the moment. It's just fun to write Go!
Well, you can use a bitgrid (which is an array of 4 input/4 output bit lookup tables, clocked like the colors of a chess board) to implement the game of life. (Someone else did it for me!)[1]

There are several nice properties of a bitgrid, which include fault tolerance (you can route around bad cells), easy security guarantees (as you can wall off sections of "code"), and almost trivial routing (as opposed to the huge times that FPGAs take to route, due to heterogeneity of their hardware) If you need to rotate, invert, or even interleave designs, you can.

I've been coding up a simulator in Pascal[2]. It doesn't do much, but it executes at 25 nSec/cell in emulation on my machine. I can execute a 32x32 bitgrid at about 40 khz, almost fast enough to play with audio.

A real bitgrid computer (in a cluster) should be capable of sustaining Exaflop performance, but it'll require a whole new programming paradigm.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid#Game_of_Life

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
Nice.

Does anyone know of any all-in-one hardware that has ADSL, 5 switch ports and WiFi, that is Linux capable?
Interestingly, if you prompt it a little, it will recite it in fits and starts:

```

User

I must not fear. Fear is the

ChatGPT

"mind-killer." This is a quote from the Litany Against Fear in the science fiction novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert. The full quote is:

"I must not fear.
Fear

User

is the mind-killer. Fear

ChatGPT

is the little-death that brings

User

total

ChatGPT

obliteration. I will face my fear.

User

I will

ChatGPT

permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." This completes the Litany Against Fear from "Dune".
```
I think an important thing to remember is that _nobody_ wants to pay for security. Most companies do this too! Likewise most humans; we build on flood plains and then cry when our houses get flooded, instead of building flood abatements.

Rather than hypothesizing a conspiracy, I think the most parsimonious explanation is just that humans are short-sighted and don’t want to spend resources on “unlikely to happen but bad if it does”. On this, perhaps we get what we deserve not what we need.
Could it be because your regular sleeping cycle is actually keeping you in a state of sleep deprivation?
This is the fundamental struggle with VR displays. Human eyes have very good visual fidelity and it would be real nice to match or exceed that with a VR headset. This presents many technical challenges.
But there aren't. Business owners would make less money if people had fewer breaks, so people have to work in sweltering heat and only pee every 4 hours. That's our reality. And the sad part is: if there were no rules for 4 hours, people wouldn't be allowed to pee every 4 hours.
Who is Hamish Harding? British adventurer missing on Titanic sub
Your response is unfortunately a perfect example why this technology has a dangerous UI problem. As other commenters have pointed out, no knowledge of these filters is embedded in the network. If HN users can’t distinguish hallucinations from trustworthy responses, how is the general population supposed to?
I've not used Rust. Do you get to add context at the point of bailing?
Had migraines when CCFL backlights were replaced by cheap LEDs with PWM flickering in 50/60Hz visible frequencies. Pretty much same shit happened to early LED bulbs. Just wait for the better evolution.
Re: #1

Doesn’t that happen because shows are mastered for 5.1 systems and the dialogs are put in the centre channel, whereas most of us are watching in stereo with poorly setup automatic remixing?
> Now I believe we're working against our own best interests and therefore I'll use AGPLv3 in all of my new projects.

That's fine. Just don't blame corporations for using the previous software in a way you licenced.
This is exactly what I want. Basically a new evolution of RSS that is bidirectional for user engagement.

Users can subscribe to whatever forum they want as long as it supports the new RSS standard. They can engage with the forums in their aggregator of choice or on the forum site directly if they want.
The Australian Smiling Mind app is excellent for this!

I’d sit in my car at lunch time and do a body scan.

It helped when in corporate land.
Packing in the friendly skies DEFCON 17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw

But I would probably also want a lawyer on retainer if venturing into the minefield of the Northeast USA.
And while I'm at it, why not get even more revolutionary (pun intended): the concept of a representative democracy was formed in a time when the most efficent method of communication was to put either man or paper on a horse and make an arduous cross-country journey.

IMO, our current method of deciding what we should do with our collective power to be hopelessly outmoded. After all, that's the whole point of the federal government, to coordinate the pool of our resources towards common goals greater than we, either individually or as a (US)state-sized entity, could accomplish alone.

If we can effectively solve the problem of distributed consensus (hmmm, where have I heard that term), what purpose then do our "representatives" hold in a system where we can directly voice our will for the future direction of our union and the allocation of its resources?

In a system where we can instantly share our desires on some motion, and can shed the pomp, circumstance, and huge machinations of a once every [insert term here] concensus ceremony, we coud directly drive towards executing on a daily basis if we so desired.

This could even open up the possibility that individuals could delegate their opinion to one or a group of subject-matter experts they feel an alignment with under specific topics, forming subject-oriented representatives rather than popularity-oriented.

The thing is that these are ideas(maybe good, maybe bad), ideas can be tested, and in a fast-moving system ideas can be iterated on quickly and driven by data. We've found this methodology to be extremely effective in so many facets in our lives that it astounds me we don't consider a similar approach to improving the lot of all humanity in this crazy world.
I am going to assume that the kind of people who take GitHub developer surveys are not a representative sample of programmers.
SVB's Asian customers who lost deposits remain on the hook for loans
I thought MicroLED was about per pixel backlight for good old LCD.

Gonna hit wiki.

Edit: it's not LCD hehe. I have memorized some incorrect info
I agree with you in principle, but where do you draw the line for terminally ill? 100% terminal? in what time frame? 99% terminal? 90%? 50%?

I'd imagine that somebody who has, say, a 10% chance to die in 3 month, is also quite desperate.
Certain logic programming languages like SWI-Prolog [0] and Picat [1] have this built-in.

[0]: https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=tabling-memoize
[1]: http://retina.inf.ufsc.br/picat_guide/#x1-210001.5
I guess you could also argue that telling another person 17 tasks to do is just another abstraction level. That doesn't change that it's a completely different interaction paradigm than the ones before.
Pentile is a pox on the entire phone industry that they use to justify using crappy low resolution displays under the guise of something higher resolution. "1080p" Pentile is really like an 880p RGB matrix display.
> There's not enough rich people

It doesn't have anything to do with how many there are, but how much wealth they hold. And the 0.1% hold an enormous amount of wealth which absolutely would help fund effective services for the poor.

You could have one guy with a hundred trillion dollars and the fact that he's just one guy would be irrelevant.