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> if this level of moral policing we see from hysterical do-gooders in tech were around when the internet was first emerging.

Speaking as someone who was there: It was around, it’s just that it was social consequences that were the method of controlling bad actors.

The designers & mentality in general then was foolishly optimistic and utopian in sensibilities.

It didn’t take long for abuse, spam, and bad actors, to ruin so much. We lost more than a decade of tech ideas & communication due to those attitudes.

You still see it today in terrible UGC moderation policy retarding participation of those who are not bad actors.

So while I have sympathy for your view, and I do think there’s something to be said about black box gatekeeping of AI, I’ve seen what happens when we do it your way: it leads to massive drains on productivity & in many cases simply failure
Had to laugh at that, as I still have a good deal of RHEL/CentOS 7 and I'm the "one guy" managing these systems.

I've been migrating to Ubuntu or retiring systems for the last two years and still not done. Hoping to be rid of RHEL 7 before updates stop.
It's rather hard to find examples of where privatization worked well. They exist, but they're the minority.
I agree with you there, but they are touting this as a competitive advantage over their competitors. We are gone be cheaper because of mass production.

Its not like their competition has a old guy with fill hand grind an aluminum block into a rocket.
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I think it’s covered by the 4th amendment based on the words as written and the intent at the time of writing it. So, yes I absolutely think the 4th amendment protects such documents.

The Supreme Court has uses a narrower definition. That’s doesn’t mean they are correct but the justice system isn’t actually based on the constitution directly it’s based on past rulings by the Supreme Court.

My bringing up HIPPA was simply pointing out that even though the legal system doesn’t protect them based on the 4th, it does protect them. Further the reason this part of HIPPA exists is the same reason the 4th was written.
Code like the above can be restructured with monads in various ways.

In general there is the pattern of building systems that do execution control such as the methods used to create control structures in Lisp, the Executor in Java, etc. One way to use monads is to accumulate a list of operations that need to be done and actually does the operations when you "unpack" the monad at the end. Such a monad could do many of the things a compiler does since it has the operation list at the outset and doesn't just blast from one statement to the next. This blends into the techniques used in Fluent DSLs.
SUSE makes money by selling enterprise support. They don't care what they support, they have sold support for RHEL for a very long time.

The SUSE distro exists so that they can sell support for it. And it will be the same for the SUSE supported RHEL clone.
Duly corrected. Yes, corresponding eigenvector!
I don't know, from 6 to 26, my tasting buds would be ruined by sugar and couldn't see difference between beef and lamb or veal vs pork.

Now my daughter, that's another matter..
Oh yeah, okay, that pretty silly that you can't do that. If you install a custom OS you're most likely the type of person that cares a lot about security, so not being able to enable secure boot seems weird.
> It seems like the same community that regularly complains about the prevailing phone ecosystem will also dismiss any attempt to improve it if it isn't perfect

You cannot fight against planned obsolescence while supporting the same companies that enable it (Qualcomm with their proprietary drivers tied to ancient Linux kernels). The real solution is GNU/Linux phones relying on FLOSS drivers, which will receive lifetime updates. More details: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
The note is interesting and in a way a time taking puzzle,

but do not forget the apparent point in the original poster's is the lacking approach below the implementations of above said techniques.

The techniques you listed in a substantial way expanded our knowledge ("oh, we can do this ... and solve more problems") while raising little more questions.

The said implementations on topic give results but raise many more unanswered questions.

(This post is unfortunately an "immature" reply - just a provisional tentative point. The matter of "ML algorithms ∩ science" requires more time and concentration and consultation of the texts of the Great Ones.)
What did you use to make the graphics? Thats very cool.
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From ealier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674930
I would say that the terminology is pretty good in this space, and BDWGC is a conservative tracing GC. A tracing GC determines reachability by following (i.e. tracing) chains of references. A precise GC will retain exactly the set of reachable objects, a conservative GC will retain potentially more.

Tracing GCs might be precise (or not), they might handle internal-pointers (or not), they might move the data (or not), they might handle variable sized allocations (or not).
I am pretty sure Europeans are not ready for the compromises that come with this approach.

It’s also easy to misunderstand the sentiments, from the comments here. We Europeans do not hate the US or American companies in general (though some are evil, of course, just like some European ones). OTOH we are seeing the privacy nightmare they are building for themselves and really don’t want that, thank you very much.

“Buy European” is limited to nationalist loonies and privacy-conscious nerds, mostly, and in the latter case it’s not because of anti-Americanism. Fix US laws and 1) Americans will live better lives and 2) these sort of issues will disappear.
Well written, but it side steps the X-risk and even the employment/ capitalism failures looming on the horizon.

2 years ago I thought we were decades away from general purpose AI, this is coming from a guy who implemented transformer models on day 5. My time estimates have been proven very wrong.

I'm equally worried about the value of white collar labour dropping to near zero in my lifetime, and the ultimate centralization of power. The movie Elysium seems less and less science fiction every day.

I am happy politicians and think-tanks are taking this seriously, you should be too.
My understanding is /etc/redhat-release needs to be there because some (dumb) blob drivers specifically check that file to see if you're running a compatible RHEL system before it'll even attempt to install.
Check out this wikipedia page and the colors it chose :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:ChartColors
Semantics.

If you 'encourage' everything that isn't news and politics, with an unaccountable algorithm, that's precisely the same effect as simply down-ranking news and politics.

> it's always possible companies will change their mind.

It is, and this particularly company has done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt. And, from what I've heard, Threads is already full of vacuous celeb and sports content (while riddled with megacorp ads).
It's covered a little bit in the Evolution section (add #evolution to the URL and hit enter).

If that doesn't answer everything (it's not a long section, granted) Fabio (captainhorst) is on HN answering questions in this thread already so feel free to ask!
you're free to not care. most don't care. but achievements are not the goal, achievements are a fraction of a second of amusement or pride about a career of work.

it's not for you, fine. why complain about it? let people enjoy something even though you see no point for crying out loud.
Yes, it works quite well. I’m using the NixOS module to configure it.
Unfortunately, yes. The Commission is playing dumb and hoping we’ll get tired before they do.
Maybe a bit of a misnomer as the description states it's more of a "collection of best practices" that designers "can consider".
Anaerobic digestion produces methane. The thinking is recently produced carbon and will be presumably immediately re-absorbed by the surrounding plants in the next growing season. This acting as carbon balanced energy source.

A smaller amount of hydrogen is also produced.
> racing cool-looking sports cars.

I like the analogy attempt but there's a lot of science behind Formula 1
When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
that's exactly what it is
They're handmade by Joy Machs! We credit him in the post. :) https://twitter.com/joymachs
Is the application architecture diagram a satire? It needs a lot more justification! Your documentation should very clearly explain why `upsert into user_rating (user_id, rating, thing_id)` doesn’t work at scale, and the limit where it breaks down.

Maybe if you’re running a “upvotes SaaS” the architecture makes sense but the given architecture diagram is more complicated than the production product I work on (https://notion.so).

Are real-time updates a feature users want here? I’ve never used a voting or rating site with real-time updates.
Someone makes a joke post with parody github achievements. Someone else then uses a public dataset to see how many people have these parody achievement.

Hacker News: "Gamifying everything is terrible"

I think getting angry about everything including parody github achievements is terrible.
I mean, there's different ways to describe this but it comes down to how you want to think about state. The more pure you get the more you can focus on operations or transformations, as functional programming is really about pipelines of transformation of code & data. By having such a constraint over state it allows one to potentially find it more easier to reason about whatever domain they are solving for. However in order to achieve that there is a certain set of hoops one has to mentally go through and maintain in order to think clearly about said problems. For some that is worthwhile for others not. I generally trend towards code that is functional regardless of the language.

Related concepts that are relevant at a high level is the comparison between declarative code and imperative. Code that is functional tends to be declarative and in a way "is what it seems to be." There is also a transitive property that allows the makeup of a thing to also be its own runnable representation which makes portability or idempotent things easier to achieve.

I dare say that original "OO" in terms of "message passing" is functional in nature, but object-oriented somehow became something it is not.

Erlang is probably the best representation of a functional language ideal in my own personal opinion when weighing in the ecosystem and capabilities of the language and tooling.
I am using GPT to write the commit message for me of my changes.

Since this is purely text, it summarises the changes / corrections.
You can seequester the methane back in the ground if you are capturing more than is consumed.
I think they mention it further down, but some fraction of methane isn't burned but turned into things like plastic and other industrial chemicals.

> And not all of it will be re-released into the atmosphere. As we saw in the Ocean Farming article, some of it will sink in the oceans13
. Even today, 3% of methane is not burned, but used in other ways like plastics production, thus leaving the carbon cycle altogether...
> something that different teams can work on without stepping on each other's foot

In other words, different teams don't want to talk to one another. That's not really a good reason for having 'micro' services.

You can also self-heal monoliths. In fact, it's much easier to do that with a monolith.
Can I ask if you were using any plugins or other tools for your SDK docs? We're coming up on a similar need in our own Docusaurus site soon and I'm curious if people use any dedicated methods to format/publish their SDK documentation. (My quest to find "an OpenAPI-esque plugin but for things that aren't REST" hasn't turned up much yet.)
Interesting, I'd like to know more. Is it home grown? Or do you use something COTS?
CEO of Neon here. We have done a lot of latency work. Feel free to ask questions.
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Doesn't methane break down in the atmosphere relatively quickly? I think the goal of this proposal is to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere. Producing hydrogen doesn't contribute to that goal (which isn't to say its a bad idea only that the hydrogen production facilities can exist independently of this proposal).
Anyone else nerd out on this kind of thing? Companies here go all the way back to 578 AD.

I bet you could create a killer Twitter account and newsletter by just researching and writing about each of these.
I'm pretty sure the Fairphone 3 lets you install other OSes. It may be that they all suck though.
Microsoft employee here, opinions my own.

I work in gaming at Microsoft and I really enjoy it. I think Microsoft gives us a ton of space to explore and make our own impact and I am a huge fan* of Phil Spencer.

> Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 10 years on parity with Xbox.

How does this make anyone feel any better? What happens after 10 years? Microsoft has been around for 4x that long.
You should consider checking your humors or mediate or something, because wanting to do violence because of some Internet text is not healthy human behavior.
The monopolization of every industry continues
Desktop operating system built from scratch for control and simplicity
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Isn't the problem with hydrogen that it's harder to store? I thought it was a big problem. Keeping it from leaking out of storage vessels and pipes because the molecule is so small.
The next big trend in AI is it dying the death of a thousand cuts in the form of copyright infringement lawsuits. Example:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-o...

Imagine companies thinking they can scrape all the world's information for free and then package it up and sell it.
> What I see everywhere, not just in Britain, is the same old story over and over again: privatizing the profits, nationalizing the losses.

But hey, they are very efficient at doing that.
For perspective, the 2018 world population was 7.6 billion people. [1]

Also, vegetarian encompasses a wide range of diets, some of which include eating animal proteins such as fish, dairy, or eggs. [2]

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...

[2] https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-exactly-is-a-vegetarian-3...
It's not that simple. Sometimes you care less about the OS than you care about the app. If your app vendor built against a specific version of an OS, you can't just upgrade the OS. You have to stick with the original OS to keep the support contract from your app vendor.
I've been saying RHEL is only relevant because it's an agreed-upon standard with an adequately slow rate of change. Entities want to be able to easily use code and documentation from elsewhere, and easily hire experts to support it (1). Some of that is inertia driven, but nothing else about it really matters. Thinking they can generate their own network effects is a really classic IBM blunder (2).

Much of RH's historical relevance was basically "RedHat exists to launder Linux for the National Labs" and that basis is not a terribly deep moat - hell the big physics centers maintained their Scientific Linux fork for 16 years before fully shifting onto CentOS then getting rug-pulled... which is not the kind of relationship maintenance you want to do with the customers whose network effects create your value proposition.

The death condition for RH is if the Alma/Rocky CentOS community successors and the Oracle type commercial clones all agreed to a different reference point for "Standard Enterprise Linux"(3), and the big producers of code people want to use (your large Physics centers and and NIH scientific compute projects, and/or the shared infrastructure like OpenHPC) tracked that other reference point, suddenly RH brand EL is mostly irrelevant.

SuSE running their own EL fork is interesting because there was not an obvious successor reference point to coordinate the non-RH ELs and/or major users if they have trouble tracking RHEL, and now there kind of is - it'll be really interesting to see what happens if there is any divergence.

(1) The support point is "why not Debian," they've never had the commercial support partners, certs, etc. Having that was a huge part Ubuntu/Canonical's proposition, but they never really got the enterprise/scientific compute/HPC penetration that RH has.

(2) Ya'll remember PS/2 and MCA (Micro Channel Architecture)? IBM was gonna take back control of the PC industry by setting an new (much more license controlled) standard and... the PC cloner industry set up outside coordination points and end-ran them with EISA/VLB and eventually PCI.

(3) It might not get called SEL for SuSE or Standard because that would be confusing/trademark problems with the adjacent-industry Schneider Electric. I half jokingly translate the "Enterprise Linux" terminology into "Srs Bsns Linux" some of the time anyway, so the name game will surely be funny.
Did you check how many of the digits were correct?
I don't think they were foolishly optimisitic. Society was just literally higher trust back then and various factors have eroded that over the decades in a way they probably wouldn't have predicted.
I remember to have read somewhere that GPT4 is not a single model but several models whose parameter counts are reported as a single sum. Perhaps quite doable but at lower speeds?
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I am failing to understand your question insert into user_rating will work.
This is what it's doing now?
> Higher end devices often have better cameras, better support, better build quality.

True with the camera. But if you're like me, that's not actually a big deal. Better support? I wouldn't know, as I've never needed support so I can't compare. Better build quality? True -- but is that a huge deal? Even the cheapest phones I've used have lasted for most of a decade.

> Each brand has value adds like platform specific apps and ecosystem integration.

I always thought that stuff added by manufacturers takes value away from the phone. And worse, you often can't remove it.

Anyway, I think the point is that a $1000 phone is not 5 times better than a $200 phone. It may be worth the expense to people anyway, of course, but the price goes up far faster than the extra benefits do.
There is no such thing as a healthy ultra-processed product (2011)
Everybody is self-soothing with the idea that OpenAI's (frankly, half hearted) push for regulation is just mundane regulatory capture and profit seeking, and not the fact that it will, at best, absolutely destroy everything about the internet and technology that we've come to love and know. Should a 4chan torrent show up like LLaMA, with weights and code for a base GPT4-level model, modern society is done. Golden age over.
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Surely you mean "IntelliJ rs", right?

Kidding aside, this is nice! Always happy to see more support for Rust, and I'm usually pretty impressed by what JetBrains brings to the table in their IDEs, so this is promising! Hopefully this will be one of those cases where the less you need an IDE, the more comfortable the features are for the ones that are built.
Usually your database connection is a function that is passed as a parameter to the functions using it.

That way you don't need to Mock, but you can input a "connection" during testing that does what you expect.

If you say "well now I have to type extra parameters everywhere", this is usually solved with partial application. I.e. you create findings from your functions that have the Db Connection already baked inside.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/low-risk-ways-to-use...

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/partial-application/
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This is actually a great way of running stuff in "foreign" distros where you can't guarantee the presence or absence of libraries.

For example DaVinci Resolve is packaged for (now quite old) CentOS but runs just fine installed on Ubuntu, with absolutely no problems at all. The only thing that might catch out the unwary is that CentOS packages a couple of libraries as default which Ubuntu doesn't but if you're savvy enough to edit video you're savvy enough to catch this.

You can also run Resolve in a Docker container so it "sees" a CentOS environment no matter what, and it's transparent across any other distro. There's no real need to do this, although it makes running more than one version easy.
> I will never use any form of AI that is explicitly being made more 'harmless' or 'offensive'

Remember what happened with "AI chatbots" before these efforts? They all got shot down in days after praising Hitler and making the companies look bad.
> A GUI program is the manipulation of state, and it is poorly suited, though many sub parts might not be.

If you're manipulating state that doesn't drive any outputs, then your program doesn't do anything useful. I think they're not all that different.
> Healthcare as a whole baffles me. They pay well enough, sometimes, but they also just treat their employees like absolute crap. Would it really break the bank to hire 25% more staff instead of having your entire workforce getting paid overtime week after week?

Them stocks gotta to up, mang.

Take a look at the Fortune 500, and look at how many healthcare companies are publicly traded and in the top 100.
Ignoring it is the correct move. They aren't serious allegations, otherwise they would have been made in a serious manner.

The guy claims that he was wrongfully terminated for antisemitism in Germany of all places. Do you really think the German government wouldn't take that seriously and investigate? But all he decided to do was blow hot air on his blog, because his allegations are nothing more than a cynical lie meant to hurt his ex-employer.
Aha! Thanks!
Yep, and "docs-as-code" is an established concept in the technical writing world. Ask almost any software tech writer[0] about docs-as-code and they'll know what you're referring to.

[0] Maybe barring the tech writers who are still stuck using FrameMaker and the like.
It’s not going to plug leaks, though. The amount of water that goes straight into London’s ground is astounding.
Why functional relational programming is (sometimes) faster than OOP 1/6
Porn could definitely be a killer app for LLMs, and I strongly hope that open source models win out for a number of reasons, but I'm not sure it will happen. Microsoft and OpenAI have quickly gone to great lengths to try and limit the amount of output they find offensive, and those efforts have been fairly well received by the general public.

Despite the size of the regular online porn industry, it still gets strangled by payment processors. There is plenty of appetite out there for restricting porn in various ways.
I don't see what ubuntu takes away from arch, alpine, or gentoo. There are many options