skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the rise of LLM's there is definitely a new skillset needed in the bag of engineers - one who know how to align/instruct LLM's towards an objective. This new role is essentially a mix of standard programming logic + ability to instruct LLM's using language (natural language programming). That's been the primary difference I have seen in this emergent field of designing agents.

Most agents need some form of formal instructions tied with designing prompts - which are a mix between formal programming and natural language. This needs a slightly different skill set from the traditional backend engineer or services engineer. This is not a ML or data role either.

Rather than just a prompt engineer, the case for which could be made like a specialist designer - this role maybe more akin to a full-stack developer role who knows how to align LLM's or Diffusion models towards a multi-step goal.
great work OP.
And then they got burned by Sony at E3 and the whole sharing policies got rewritten.
The window is closed right now, but this at least removed one of the risks. At the same time, it exposed the moderator risk, the revenue impact isn't clear yet, and it's drama that investors might not like.
Sure, but this is a pretty well-established model for computers; if it's more economical for the company to install the hardware on every model, but only charge consumers who want to utilize it a premium, then I don't see the problem. Price competition should keep the market price for any feature reasonable.
Optimization of code is valuable in a lot of industries where time-to-complete or time-to-react is proportional to money spent/lost.
Weird all I see is

username: solarwinds

password: *****
The impression I’ve had is that he is against broad forgiveness and does want repayments to start again. It’s been a political minefield in that he doesn’t want to piss off his base. It appears my impression is wrong but I do believe he wants repayments to start again. Note though that the $10,000 forgiveness is less than what he campaigned on.

We should not confuse, in general, new program initiatives as an indication that this is what the politician proposing the initiative wants. Sometimes proposals have to be made to appease the base.
Mind sharing this list? :)
How's USA based Facebook related to wildfires in Canada?
Check cbc.ca for the updates related to wildfires.
> But does it not make sense to stop doing that at some point?

Depends who you ask and how much control you believe the Military Industrial Complex exerts. I don’t see an end to conflict in the current system.

Also, the statement that past policy lead to a bad place unfortunately depends who is appraising the situation. To citizens; increased hostility, wasted tax payer funds, and lives lost is a massively “bad place,” but politicians would never admit to such mistakes and spin the narrative. Those same political powers can ensure their narrative is amplified by traditional media, and you know how the rest goes.
Because there is no alternative to youtube for putting ads in front of the entire internets video hosting service. Google, meta, twitter, all have such massive captive audiences: their advertisers. Why not squeeze money from their actual customers that have so much of it compared to dubiously effective penny scraping from users? Are the major shareholders of these companies overleveraged in the advertising firms or something?
He needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out (blue checks, advertising, etc.). So he's trying to make a quick buck from user-generated data now that the LLM rush is at an all time high. For that he needs to limit access to the data in the first place, otherwise nobody would be paying for publicly available data.
Twitter also continues to unblock Elon for accounts that have blocked him. It's happened 3x to me in the last month or so. Currently still blocked.
Goodbye, Reddit.
And there was a time when we used them in the not-too-distant past! In the '80s, processes were all in microns, not nanometers. In the '90s nodes were described as 'sub-micron' and 'deep sub-micron' processes. It wasn't really until around 0.13u/130nm (early 2000s) when it became common to say "one-thirty nanometer" instead of "point one three micron".

I doubt anyone will actually have a problem saying "one point five nanometers" (or whatever) for the next node.
What are they going to do, advertise on vimeo instead? There is no alternative to something like youtube.
> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(

What sucks is people flocking like sheeps to centralized platforms that have not their best interests at heart.

Decentralization has been the answer from day 1 but people dont understand shit and make the same mistake over and over again
How does this deal with web-sockets?
I am sure the militarization of police in the US has helped this a lot too. Honestly, aside from major metro areas (and even then) I see of no reason why cops need a Humvee with a mounted .50 cal turret.

My dad works in police training and talks a lot about how systemic the violence is within the culture of these departments (this observation was made by training all different departments at all different levels, over years).

And the best part is, they don’t want change and I suspect a lot of them actually enjoy this entrenched Us v. Them position. I probably would too if I had qualified immunity. And a Humvee.
Inspiration tweet since the author locked his account: https://web.archive.org/web/20190613094358/https://twitter.c... for the interested.

Just curious, what is the update frequency of `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` web pages in browser?
If every Reddit user was tagged with their age, it would be an eye-opening experience. "Why is this 16-year-old talking about divorce lawyers on r/relationship_advice?"
`instanceof Array` is a famous JavaScript footgun you should not use anyway. The same happens when sharing objects with an `iframe` (aka "cross-realm objects"). This is why `Array.isArray` exists.

That said, Jest used to be so good when it was first released, and got gradually slower and more complex. Same with Yarn.

I hope React won't face the same fate. I loved integrating the recent suspense and async rendering features. It made my app feel so much better by removing loading flickers with no architectural changes.
I deleted my Reddit account of over ten years over this. No going back.
Wow that's so refreshingly simple. Do you have any recommended / official tutorials or cookbooks for this, for web projects?
Which means it works?
Also Experts Exchange.
I will not condone the people making the decision. Zaslav is a hat full of holes and surrounds himself with yes men. I will also not condone the choice of Max. I would just have called the thing Warner Plus. But I will 100% defend the decision to drop HBO from the name.

HBO has always stood for premium entertainment for adults. There are other sides to the brand, for example children's programming. Ultimately premium programming is the biggest pull of HBO, not the other stuff. By naming the streaming service meant to convey the whole of Warner Bros. catalogue, and now on top of that Discovery as well, is a mistake. It enlarges the brand too much, too quickly. It puts under the umbrella of HBO things that people do not associate with HBO. Porky Pig cartoons don't fit under HBO. Discovery's wall of cheap reality TV even less.

A counter-argument is Disney. Disney+ includes a ton of things that are traditionally not associated with the brand. But I say that it no longer applies. Disney has successfully enlarged their branding, you just haven't fully realized it yet. That larger umbrella for the company was built over two decades, and cost billions. It was built on the back of Marvel and Lucasfilm. HBO is not there yet.
I joined Reddit almost 15 years ago, shortly before I became a freshman in high school. I mainly joined it to chat on r/programming back when that was one of the top subreddits. I was just starting out as a programmer and it was instrumental on teaching me the subject. It also taught me about life in general as a relatively sheltered introvert.

Fast forward 15 years, I now have a PhD largely due to the path that community helped set me on. You could follow a very similar journey of maturity for me through my Reddit history (and that’s the main reason I haven’t flushed my posts, even if I was an idiot at 14 that was my personal journey). The Reddit I joined changed a lot — we had characters like Bozarking and there was a strong libertarian element in contrast to today’s left leanings. I remember the Digg exodus changing Reddit fundamentally but not necessarily for the worse. The big subs declined by the niche ones blossomed and taught me much about my hobbies.

While I don’t expect to fully leave (Google will lead me there or I might have a question where I am not sure what other site has a pertinent community to ask), my use will decline 99% or more. I have long been aware a lot of Reddit has sucked but there was still a lot of value to be had. It’s also been apparent for years that Reddit, the company, has zero clue what users actually want (hint: it’s not 3 separate chat implementations, nfts, and profile pictures), however this open hostility towards the users and mods who volunteer their time (mods have had their problems but generally they are good, after all, you only notice the bad mods).

I won’t miss most of the absent scrolling I do on Reddit, but it also has been a bit like my childhood friend passing away. I am not sure what my online future will look like, but it will be strange without Reddit being there.
Hey! Cool games! I think mobile is a different beast altogether. A majority of the games I was talking about are on the PC/console market where players tend to have a lot of disposable income and rely on stores (like Steam, Nintendo Shop) to find games.

Mobile is much harder. I think that is one medium where I agree that the OP is right. Because the games tend to be simpler, the barrier of entry is reduced drastically, so it's much harder to have sucecss. Serious gamers won't play mobile game and casual gamers are fickle, so just making a "good game" on mobile doesn't apply. I think it's especially true for word games (I saw you made two).

Nonetheless, your games look cool! I don't think they're games I'd spend more than a couple of minutes on (much less spend money on), but who knows? I think you should keep making more. The last word/numbers game I spent money on was Threes, and that was only because I heard about how 2048 stole the concept from that game. Not sure if that context even helps.

Thanks for sharing and providing some concrete examples.
So you're honestly trying to tell me that a librem phone has the same feature set as say, an iphone in comparison?

Same websites, same performance, same responsiveness, same app interactions, same bluetooth/hardware compatibility support?

...without having to use the terminal, ever?

Really? Is this a joke or something?

How many _minutes_ do you wait until google maps is loaded, and are still satisfied with it?

My experience with the librem phone has been _way worse_ than yours, apparently.

[edit]

Nevermind, of course you are working for purism.

[/edit]
Nice try, evil mountain dew marketing executive.
There's something that just seems a bit unwise about downloading a PDF file hosted at cia.gov and opening it in your browser.

It looks like you can google the title and get the same thing at archive.org though
It's not for everyone and so is working from office. If you worked like this all life and suddenly you're forced to full time WFH, you may find that out yourself, no need for articles with an agenda. For me it's the opposite now, can't imagine going back to full time office. I've experienced some of the best time in my career during WFH when subjectively looking at how content I was overall. Granted, the company and the team must be awesome, but guess what, same applies to office work.

tl;dr the clickbait title illusion intensifies
Don Lancaster has died
Author of TV Typewriter Cookbook, Cheap Video Cookbook, and many other electronics books.
The person is the person buying apple phones and not turning off the feature when not needed in a situation where it's likely to produce a false positive.

People can be expected to behave responsibly.
What's harder: signing up for Twitter, or convincing the sysadmins in your medium sized government organization to let you update text on the site in real-time without change control for each edit? In a way that anyone nontechnical can do so securely and publish to RSS?

Hint: it's not the second one
People have been warned about the cognitive harm from advertisements for probably over 100 years now. Its not going anywhere unfortunately, its too profitable.
Good. I got rid of my Twitter account years ago. Not missed anything whatsoever.
Hopefully public institutions will now stop using it.
It’ll never last…
What will they do if many people do. Make the site inaccessible without signing in?
I'm going to press X to doubt.

Reddit is infuriatingly sticky. Every time I land on a post from 10+ years ago (like this one [0] for example), I go to the author's profile page. Almost inevitably, they've written a comment within the last week. This is a remarkable property for a social website to have, and it's not one that I see exhibited in other places, like StackOverflow or ancient vBulletin forums.

I'd like to think that this is finally Reddit's "Digg moment," but I am just not convinced. The boycott was over in 48 hours and everything is back to normal, but people are just complaining more. Heck, the commenter I linked to from 11 years ago also commented two hours ago, unsurprisingly, complaining about the API changes.

As offensive as Steve Huffman has been throughout this saga, he doesn't seem to be wrong. Reddit could shoot a third party app on Fifth Avenue and people would still use it...

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/rx9u9/til_gr...
Apollo had just over ONE million users. Only 540k of whom were active. And significantly less that paid the fee needed to be able to post.

And most active according to whom? People keep saying Reddit is committing suicide. Do y'all truly believe that most of Reddit useful content was created on mobile? In Apollo? The app that forced you to pay if you wanted to submit content to Reddit?

Get real.
They asked why, not what the difficulty/cost delta is.

The answer is because Twitter is easy and free. Self-publishing is neither.
Let my storage/backup harddrives finally fail so that I lose everything. OK, not the strategy, but has happened. It seems like an unwinnable war. Seeing how digital artifacts are reportedly showing up in photos on Google Photo, knowing that bitrot happens, etc, I'm not sure what a great answer is. So I'm resigned to the idea that I eventually lose it all anyway. Maybe I try to print out all the photos that matter to me this time.
Wow, that is a very clever law. It avoids the state being responsible on preventing access to certain information. Yet directly holds the site responsible if people get hurt.

Well crafted law.
Update: 2 hours later, still not loading with Safari/Desktop. (Is there any QA, at all?) FF works though and immediately goes to an otherwise blank page with a log-in dialog.
There's still a very active Ingress community in my area which is both good and bad. Good if you want to play because you can get some friends together and frack for high level gear, good because friendly competition makes the game stronger since progress relies in part on turnover. Bad, unfortunately, because some of the most hard core players are the most toxic. We're talking people who run multiple accounts, stalk players, scrape data to ensure (back when that was a thing) you could never get a guardian, location spoof, etc. Like a lot of other games (Eve Online, for example) the lack of sharding favors the trolls. And by trolls I mean the people who clearly consider the most fun part of the game to be ruining it for everyone else.
Do you REALLY think an executive order had any chance of succeeding? Think about it for a minute. You think the SC would be ok with the president having the ability to forgive loans on a whim?
I'm sure the legal case before the judge is "check page 2, subsection 4 of our indemnity clause" and the case is tossed before it even gets to the jury. I'm specifically talking about people trying risky things. And yes, billionaires who want to risk their lives on experimental deadly craft should hire engineers.
You don't control the stack directly, and can't implement custom unwinding (you can piggyback on C++ exceptions).

You don't control aliasing info beyond C's minimum. You don't get true immutability, since C's const allows its target to be mutated from elsewhere.

You don't control what happens before main(). You don't get static constructors, unless you use C++.

You have almost no control over debug information.

You have very little control over inlining.

You don't control calling conventions. You can't control alignment.

There's a bit more you can do if you use non-standard C extensions, but generally you'll always be an abstraction layer away from the code you want to generate, and have your language's semantics tainted by C's semantics.
It's where the justification for that that misleading "on average" comes from.
> So you're honestly trying to tell me that a librem phone has the same feature set as say, an iphone in comparison?

Haven't said anything close to that and I certainly wouldn't because it's not true. However, personally I'm not very interested in iPhone's feature set, while I'm very interested in things that Librem 5 can offer that iPhone can't. The terminal is a feature I cherish rather than be afraid of.

> How many _minutes_ do you wait until google maps is loaded

Zero. Five seconds, to be exact.

I also tried it inside an Android container, so pretty much having two complete operating systems running at the same time. Interestingly, it was faster by one second there:)
I’ve routinely had pallets of servers messed with while in Mexican customs lockup; RAM and drives were replaced. Badly.

Until that sort of thing is fixed, it’s not helpful for manufacturing trustworthy devices.
I mean this has been true for a while: we've all laboured under the fiction that any given screen name maps 1:1 with a human being.

On every large platform, this hasn't been the majority for a long time.
I love a good manifesto. I'm excited to read it over the weekend. The initial pitch appears to be in line with my interests. Big fan of the minimalism in the pitch.
wont help much because people are themselves walking ads, always self promoting, constantly mirroring what they are told from somewhere else or by someone else
By 'digital goods', do you mean cryptocurrency and NFTs?
I tried to make a lemmy account on my phone in between errands. Couldn't figure it out. I'll give it a shot on desktop, and I want a reddit replacement, but I wonder how many other people are gonna go to the same effort. Maybe that's a feature though, an escape from eternal September.
Use LLVM if it supports the target platform you require.

Targeting C in current year doesn't make sense when Zig and C++ are available.

Don't forget JVM or BEAM.
On every drive, I have a two top level subfolders with a one-character name. One for stuff that I back up, and one for stuff I don't (e.g. Steam Libraries usually go in the second one).

I'll just give examples of folders you might find on those drives.

- /Applications/Audio/Renoise/

- /AppsPortable/Images/Krita/

- /AppsData/SublimeText/ <-- project files go here

- /Drop/Downloads/Browser

- /Drop/HTTrack/SiteName

All "my" stuff (mostly things I made or personal documents, or things I curated for personal use) goes into a /Docs/ directory structure, which is similarly straightforward:

- /Docs/Projects/NameOfProject

- /Docs/Resources/Icons/Objects/Tech/joystick.png

- /Docs/Images/Created/ <- everything I made that's an image but not a photo

- /Docs/Images/In/Canon50D/012 <- I just increase that by one each time I dump my CF card, and then take my sweet time to sort that

- /Docs/Images/Out/Pub/2023/ <- uploaded RAW photos named [year]-[month]-[day]_[hour]_[minute]-[second] go here, in case of events or vacations I might make a subfolder for them

- /Docs/Images/Scanned

I also use synthing extensively, so there's a subset of that structure for things I want to have on my phone, too.

- SyncThings/Thang/Audio/AudioBooks/

- SyncThings/Thang/Audio/Music/

- SyncThings/Thang/Audio/Talks/

- SyncThings/Thang/keybass.dbx

etc.

Contacts I keep on a little Baïkal installation, and thanks to DAVx⁵ that means I can edit my phone contacts in Thunderbird, which is so awesome.

I don't want to make this post go on forever, but FWIW I made good exsperiences with going overboard in this way: because at this point, I know where any given thing "belongs". Sometimes I even download something, put it "where it belongs", and see it's already there. Of course I also have plenty of unsorted files here and there, but knowing I could sort them rather easily is nice.
Right but reloading a static html asset (the reply iframe consisting of just a textbox) is basically free. So long as you separate the chat history window and the reply textbox/form into two separate frames, I don’t see the problem.
Only the Canadian govt. is to blame for this.
The last two weeks I noticed an onset depression in my life and I think it was because I basically stopped using Reddit since the blackout started and I have no intent to go back. I swear it was an addiction withdrawal.

I’ve been feeling better the past 2 days but I do miss having a place that helps me keep in touch with the parts of the world I cared about.
Very influential to me and anyone around my age and demographic seeking technical knowledge and wisdom.
You are actively contributing to the hype cycle lol.
Apollo for Federated... ::drool::
Privatization is a thing beyond seemingly fundamental online services.

Local water systems in Guam are privatized, much to the chagrin of local activists.

Elsewhere, there's an article on the guardian just like yesterday about the impact of privatization on either the UK's or some locale inside the UK, for their water usage. Basically the water department is now the highest debt entity in all water departments and it's the one that's privatized.

Privatizing public data is a shortsighted thoughtless approach to public communication.

So Play stupid games went stupid prizes.
I wholly agree with what you've stated in these comments about morality but I'd like to expound on moral relativism and my thoughts a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
("moral anti-realist" == "meta-ethical relativism"?)

> This view contrasts with moral universalism, which argues that, even though well-intentioned persons disagree...there is still a meaningful sense in which an action could be more "moral" (morally preferable) than another

Absolute moral relativism sounds terrible, but I also don't like the idea of being very constrained in my beliefs and actions. I don't think we can truly consider anything other than mathematical constructs to be objective, but I think that there are a few moral values (violence bad, blah blah) that all societies should follow, and everything else is fair game. In effect, there would be a few core principles that all other enforceable moral principles (which are tantamount to laws) are derived from, and everything else is to be judged in the court of society or not at all. There would also be a provision to allow units of organization (homes, businesses) to set reasonable contracts to uphold additional moral values. I think an escape hatch along those lines is most flexible without possibly violating the core values.

I came up with some of that on the spot. Feel free to express (polite!) criticism.