skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some random observations:

* System randomly taking 5+ minutes to boot

"systemd-analyze blame" can help identify issues relating to boot time

* Daemons sometimes not starting on boot

This most often occurs for me when services don't start quickly enough (too much contention on spinning rust and aggressive default timeout settings) so I have to adjust startup timeouts. "systemctl --state=failed" along with "systemctl status X" can usually help narrow down why your services failed to start.

* Logging sometimes just stops (I confirmed this was caused by a systemd bug)

I've found journald can get forcibly restarted if there is a lot of contention for disk iops and it can't checkpoint. I frequently run into this issue on a server that is used for backups for about a dozen or so clients that relies on filesystem snapshots.

* Logging in over SSH starts taking 2 minutes and can only be fixed by reboot (I confirmed this was caused by a systemd bug)

I've sometimes had this happen and for me it seems to be related to systemd-resolved deciding to stop responding to queries and the only solution I've found so far that actually works is to restart the system.

Despite the bugs I still prefer systemd over sysv-init - being able to run something like "systemctl status" and "systemctl --state=failed" to inspect the state of all services on a system has been invaluable to me.
Thanks - it pretty much had to be something like that.
The concern is exactly copyright laundering.

I write something, which happens to be primary source / unique content. Someone asks that to LLM, it spits out what I wrote, without any credits to me.

In the process of its verbiage manufacturing it may also slightly twist what I said, which may be different meaning, or is factually incorrect etc...

A search engine does not do this, but people are increasingly turning away from search engines to LLMs.
As a consumer of these products, one central webapp / native app is extremely appealing (relative to having 8 apps open when I start my workday).

Is there a way we could prevent anti-competitive practices while _also_ encouraging service integration like MS 365 and the Google Software Suite?

Maybe a separate app that integrates various services (that you can swap in and out?) Something like Wavebox but nicer (and free-er)?
What the hell is an "object scripting language"? I'm skeptical, but if there's a natural mapping of JavaScript objects to HTML element hierarchies, and an easy way for JavaScript to parse structured information received from a server, I suppose it could be a good thing.
This matches my experience. Back right after the release, I had it write a python GUI program using several different frameworks with basically zero input. I also had it ask me for requirements, etc. etc, with absolutely no hand-holding needed.

Alas, I never saved that conversation. It's entirely impossible to do so now.
The way it works at Google is that there is no syncing necessary. I edit code in a browser IDE. I build and run code on a cloud machine that is automatically synchronized with the state of a virtual workspace I'm editing with the browser IDE. No file containing code or test input is ever stored on my laptop's filesystem.

This works great and is basically identical to working on my laptop directly except that my terminal is running over ssh rather than locally.
I like how "world-wide" is code for "northern hemisphere".
I just hope the dialogue is audible.
If you’re being pedantic, yes, but it’s a format that can be used by any number of tools that aren’t specific to systemd.
> What's their moat?

I find this question really annoying. Almost all tech companies have no moat except for maybe brand and network moat which postman also kinda has. What's Apple's moat? Or Google's?
Yes, I think you are right. Seems like quite a good plan to me. Nothing else obvious jumps to mind, as anyone using git is going to end up with git conflict markers in their files at some point.
> It's really odd seeing comments on HN upvoted like:

Not really. The HN user base has been taken over by big-corporation/big-government shills for years now.
What would you say to someone who’s only qualm is the animals humane treatment?

I typically only eat chicken but I just don’t see an issue with if the chickens are humanely treated and killed. What else would we do with all the chickens besides eat them? They’d die out if we stopped eating them and it’s not like anyone’s going to put them in a zoo.

The way I see it is we’ve bred these animals as livestock and we’re responsible for them as livestock and that’s okay. It’s how we treat them as livestock that matters. Factory farms are one of many gross byproducts of industrialization that we now have to deal with like fossil fuels.
Coupled with all the likes, reactions, red notification dots and so on to trigger you into looking at shit you'd never care about otherwise
It's useful, but it's very hard to justify the $19 per user per month to management unless you're using it constantly like an IDE instead of visiting once in a while to check the docs.
Does curl support websockets?

It might, but I think the appeal of Postman is how straightforward it is to play with APIs across basically anything in the HTTP stack, with a nice GUI. Also, I thought Postman also had the ability to export your queries to curl if you want to need to use it outside Postman.
It's actually a lot worse than that, you're mistaken. IA recently lost a lawsuit that argued that. The court ruled that when a digital copy is shared "a new copy is made" on the computer of the person shared, so you can't even do the common practice of buying 3 physical copies of a book and digitally sharing 3 copies at any given time. It's because if you have 3 physical copies of a book, once you share it digitally 3 times, you already exhausted your privilege and not entitled to those 3 copies any more. It makes absolutely no sense, and makes US Copyright law unreasonably and extremely maximalist, even though US copyright law was already relatively maximalist compared to other countries. We live in the dark ages.

More information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2aowF0jUw
That's not the title. It's just Moodle, with zero context. I'm left wondering if there is something on the page the OP wants us to see, like the upcoming conference, some new release, etc.

If its new, usually you put a Show HN: in front of it. If it's new to you, put TIL as you mentioned, nothing at all is just confusing and I feel like I'm missing something.

This is coming from someone who tried out a Moodle server at a college I worked at in 2003-5. I get new people are discovering it, but that's like me posting a link to Debian's homepage, or Apache with no context because it's new to me.

None of the responses have been the OP clarifying their intention, which is who the question was for anyway. What does OP want me to see on their page?
Small QNAP TBS-7l574TX NAS with 5x e1.s slots
Had a problem with systemd-resolved yet again the other day. Blatted resolv.conf and job done, but between systemd and related things (network manager etc) it just breaks the way things have worked for decades and gives many people no benefit.

This isn’t all systemd of course, it’s the distros that choose to use it.
postman was essentially built as a easy GUI version of curl. Once it went the VC route it kinda jumped the shark.
Ah, the age-old battle between some many designers who want their output to be “just so” and some people who have a strong preference for what they read to be “just thus”!

Perhaps there is room for new preferred-sans-serif-font, preferred-serif-font and preferred-mono-font aliases that we can shove at the top of font stacks like this and are set by the user if they wish (defaulting to nothing if they don't). That way people with a strong preference get listened to if they set this, so you can have other fonts installed for compatibility with documents written by others you collaborate with without them overriding your preference which is otherwise further down the list. Though that might be impractical: you need to convince browsers to implement the setting and designers to add it to the top of their stacks. The browser makers are not always fast to implement things until there is demand and there might not be demand because no one tries to use it while browsers don't support it. That and many designers may think “let the user pick the typeface, eeewwwwww!” & similarly browsers those packaging browsers for their OS might implement it wrong (putting something in those settings by default instead of them being blank unless specified). It could be described as an accessibility issue to get more traction, allowing users with certain vision issues to specify typefaces (and maybe other properties like minimum sizes & weights) that improve readability for those with their condition.
I've liked it from the beginning (coming from upstart), but I think my one frustration is that you can't run systemd in an unprivileged container— and this is not simply an implementation gap, it's an intentional design choice:

https://systemd.io/CONTAINER_INTERFACE/

You can argue that a process manager for an unprivileged container should be more like supervisor or systemd user services. However, it would be really convenient to be able to globally install unit files (say, using a deb package), and have them work whether it's bare metal, a VM, or a container.
In a closed system like Earth, is cold air at the geographical scale a non-renewable resource? Meaning once we warm up all the air, is there a way to make more cold air again at significant scales?
Hmm, on one hand you have an environment of collective hardship and efforts to strengthen civil unity and resolve, and on the other hand you have newspapers and courts making examples out of criminals with strict punishments and harsh public rebukes. Is it really any wonder that the rate of crime motivated by selfish greed was suppressed? Those kind of criminals are usually sane, despite their compromised morality. Modify the risk/reward equation and they respond rationally to that.

Senseless crimes, women being attacked with knives or worse, continued. Such criminals are depraved and don't respond to normal incentives and punishments.
This sounds a lot like a disagreement over product decisions that the development team has made, and not at all what people normally think when you say "a new paper has proved GPT-4 is getting worse over time."
Ask HN: If I build a product for my business, is it bound to succeed?
I had some problems at my agency and am building a tool to solve them.

Can I be assured that there will be more people like me who would like to pay for this?

The tool for reference: https://cheatsheet.framer.ai/

Thanks
"Southern sea" sounds reasonable from the viewpoint of early Nordic seafarers. Based on a quick glance of the map, all of the Atlantic is south of Sweden.
Isn't Insomnia the same? The parent company (KongHQ) is also backed by VCs @ 1.2B valuation. Whats the difference/better?
TC is value neutral so the FSF slurs don't make sense. Consider what happens when the machine in question is a cloud VM. Then you can run workloads on a rented machine without the risk of the cloud vendor spying on or tampering with your server. Likewise if the machine gets hacked. These are highly desirable properties for many people. For example Signal uses TC so the mobile apps can verify the servers before doing contact list intersection, keeping the contacts private from the Signal operators.

Another use case is multiparty computation. Three people wish to compare some values without a risk that anyone will see the combined data. TC can do this with tractable compute overhead, unlike purely cryptographic techniques.

Observe what this means for P2P applications. A major difficulty in building them is that peers can't trust each other, so you have to rely on complex and unintuitive algorithms (e.g. block chains) or duplication of work (e.g. SETI@Home) or benign dictators (e.g. Tor) to try and stop cheating. With TC peers can attest to each other and form a network with known behavior, meaning devs can add features rather than spend all their time designing around complicated attacks.

These uses require you have a computer that you do trust which can audit the remote server before uploading data to it. But you can compile and/or run that program on your laptop or smartphone, the verification process is easy.

But exactly because TC is general it doesn't distinguish based on who owns the machine. It doesn't see your PC as morally superior to a remote server, they're all just computers. So yes, in theory a remote server could demand you run something locally and then do a HW remote attestation for it. In practice though this never happens anymore outside of games consoles (as far as I'm aware), because most consumer devices don't have the right hardware for it, and even if they did you can't do much hardware interaction inside attested code.
That's false, the fact that I no longer rely on it is enough proof that it has gotten worse for me.
this is not a duplicate - it's not the announcement post, it's a deep dive into the paper from the POV of Hugging Face's RL lead.
Russians appalled by Ukraine war should spy for UK – MI6 boss Sir Richard Moore
To be fair to the above poster: probability and statistics definitely does need calculus and other math beyond an introductory level. And you see that gap when you read social sciences work applying statistics and making rudimentary, and requiring insight otherwise, mistakes.

Beyond introductory level both probability and statistics have a lot of "counterintuitive" pre-probability and statistics results, that also explain a lot of the misconceptions the public faces in not understanding the notions.

Probability and statistics are topics that our democracies would be better of if people understood them: then they would understand perhaps topics like polling, and we wouldn't perhaps have misuse of the topics in Court like Sally Clark's case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark

[But I guess we would have to drop lotteries as a taxation system also. [/s]]
Do you think one should be able to advertise Macbook on microsoft.com page or a Pixel phone on apple.com ?

how about a giant banner when you enter a Walmart store that reads "Just buy it on Amazon" ?
Google has a search index.
Apple has hardware & manufacturing IP.
Ironically enough, most of the slot machines I've seen in Vegas only have levers as an afterthought. The controls remind me of arcade games.
I got invested in "Carrie" but we never found out whether or not she got help!

As a sidenote: How does self-exclusion work for online gambling? Do you have to provide a gov't ID to signup?
It’s still $20/mo just to watch anything in 4K, even if I only need one stream.

They can shuffle all the other plans around all they want but that’s the price point that keeps me away.
There is degraded performance because GPT4 refuses to carry out certain tasks. To figure it out though, you must need to be able to switch between GPT4-0316 and GPT4-0614. The task it is reluctant to do include:

- legal advice

- psychological guidance

- complex programming tasks.

IMO OpenAI is just backtracking on what it released to resegment their product into multiple offerings.
>Zynga’s vice-president of player succcess, Gemma Doyle, referred unabashedly to internal models that identify people who are on course to spend high sums. Should they reduce their outlay, she told GamesIndustry.biz, the company would “reach out and call them to find out what’s wrong”

That is just so actively evil, it should be criminal.
A VSCode-esque web IDE for editing code running in my browser on my laptop. ssh for terminal. Works great.
What's insane is that some want to replace the irresponsible parents of those teenagers with a nanny state.
Distrowatch's Advanced Search page:

https://distrowatch.com/search.php#advanced

Note that under the "Init Software" section (scroll down on page!), the following two choices (amongst numerous others, perhaps too many!) are included:

[ ] systemd

[ ] Not systemd

In other words, here, the User, regardless of their opinion, regardless of their political ideology (or lack thereof!) -- has a happy choice!

They can choose whatever they themselves believe to be the correct choice in the matter!

Or they can choose to leave both checkmarks blank -- and let Distrowatch's Advanced Search -- decide for them, and perhaps "surprise" them! :-)

You know, like you like Coke, I like Pepsi...

You like Windows, I like Linux (or vice versa!)...

You might think that it's a floor wax, I might think that it's a dessert topping -- but we could both be right!

Ah, choice -- it's a beautiful thing! <g>
I have actual artifacts -- programs it wrote -- from immediately after the release, which I'm unable to replicate now.

Don't claim it hasn't gotten dumber. It's easy to find excuses, but none that explain my experience.
Goodreads isn’t just for fiction or popular-interest non-fiction like /lit/. You can also use it to track any book with an ISBN. I’m in academia and am constantly reading specialized literature, and I keep track of it on Goodreads because why not. I’ve had a lot of great interactions with other users who are similarly learned and perhaps working in parallel fields to my own. If you aren’t limited to the mainstream part of the website where mob behavior rules, you will be interacting with very different – and frankly much more worthwhile – people.
It would help a lot even if the focus was on one particular aspect of critical thinking: being able to tell the difference between a statement of opinion and a statement of fact.

(This comment is a statement of opinion.)
If you step back, it's really sad how much of our society is based even partially on chance and gambling.

1. College admissions: There are not enough seats for everyone who wants to go to school at a top college, so colleges filter via things like merit and race, but also random chance lotteries.

2. Applying for jobs is a form of lottery. You typically apply for many jobs and hope one or two get back to you.

3. Savings: The only place normal people have access to get decent returns is the Stock Market Roulette wheel

4. Business Success: Often boils down to right place, right time, and massively overindexes on luck.

5. Housing: Leverage up and buy a house for perpetual asset growth. But watch out for the once-a-decade collapse that will put you underwater and in foreclosure!

It's like we've permanently decided that rewarding risk is the only way for a society to function.
How did Pokemon, MTG, and Yugioh get away with it? This is not a new thing, started in the 90s with the card games
Apparently there was a state rule for the NJ senator that he could not run for president while in senate. They changed it for Cory Booker. So apparently it is possible to add rules for senators and congressman.

On a federal level, There are safeguards we can add and perplexity to trading stock for congressmen. One such rule is the disclosure rule. This makes it a slight pain to invest. A second rule I propose is committee conflict rule, declare stocks that are in conflict with a committee hearing, and offer recusal to the chair each time on a hearing with a potential conflict. A third rule is prohibition on potential stock trades after a committee hearing for 90 days or until hearing is published. And do not disclose details of the hearing with anyone until it is published.

These rules add pains and discouragement to stock trades. But outright bans are not there.
>Examples included exploiting a player’s “hot state”, an impulsive mood created by game dynamics, giving them a time-limited opportunity to spend hard currency to progress.

It only takes one whale to offset thousands of regular players. Games are ruined by these predatory tactics. They are literally abusing mentally ill people, it's pretty sick!
90% of humans live in the northern hemisphere.
Forbes can write that crap, but the problem is with people who make decisions basing on that. I wonder who are these people that care about all this nonsense.
The post itself with no further context about what the OP wants us to see about Moodle, is fodder for moderation.

It's not a new project, so if it's a TIL this is a thing, then post that, if its "Moodle releases x.0" then post that. The focus of the page seems to be mostly on an upcoming conference in Europe, is that what the OP wants us to see? I'm clicking on it wondering if there's something new to see?
? I didn't claim that.
Too high for a server (yes some of us still use servers), a reboot should be back in a couple of minutes and that’s with crazy long bios posts.
This pretty much looks like Unleash.

https://github.com/Unleash/unleash
Win10Privacy can turn off the vast majority of these data spigots.

The downside is that it’s a pretty advanced tool that can seriously screw up your system if you don’t know what you are doing. For example, several settings require Office to be already installed, otherwise it will never successfully install with those settings enabled. Plus, you need to make note of them to back them out in case you ever want to upgrade to the next version.

But otherwise, it’s an awesome product that can effectively lock down both Windows 10 and 11.
Unfortunately, writing is abysmal. Enormous amounts of meaningless, forgettable worldbuilding that feels like a DM who spent too much time reading Silmarillion.
No, I'd store the sales tax structures (%, city, etc) in the DB so we're not forgetting where the final price adjustments came from.
Mmm, the LangChain comment is interesting. We never used it, even in prototyping. Then there's so much out there about how it's a giant mess you shouldn't ever let near production. I wonder how many folks are realizing that afterwards and then feeling burned!

> It is so early, and there are so many weird things about it compared to deterministic software.

100% agreed. We have a somewhat similar approach for our product. Part of it feels like it could be abstractable into other environments, but it's so nascent that it's really hard to say for sure. The only thing I'm completely confident in is that you can't debug this stuff with traditional debuggers.
This unfortunately isn't up to them, its the publishers that are enforcing this arbitrary restriction. In fact, IA landed in some preeeety hot water recently for fudging the rules on this very thing [0]. If the IA could get away with handling out an infinite amount of e-books I'm sure they absolutely would.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/03/26/1166101459/internet-archive-l...
Using animal behavior as a blueprint to justify human behavior won't end well.
If you have an urgent problem, It does not matter in what language will be solved
Impressive, the code is dense but not too hard to follow. And you even managed to cram in history!
What is Apple’s moat? They have an integrated hardware and manufacturing supply chain with their own OS and a proprietary chip architecture that no other device manufacturer on earth competes with!
Javascript gets let for block scoped variables in ES6 (2015 - 1995 = 20).
> financial independence

I don't think I'm financially independent in the sense that most people use that phrase. I certainly don't have enough money that I can just sit around all day every day even for 6 months. I would have no food and no heat and would die.

I have to work, but it's working directly for my own survival, not working for a boss to earn money to buy my survival.
Replace jet stream with El Niño/la Niño, and you have your layman title.

Of course, this is a spectacular year since its been a while since there have been a La niña sandwiched between 2 el Niño events, contiguously. Not sure when that happened last.
Right, because this was not developed in Event 201, and we didn't borrow draconian measures from China to test them on our own citizens.
It is still ignoring an explicit requirement, which is almost always bad. The user should be able to override what the creator/application thinks is 'strictly better'. Exceptions probably exist, but this isn't one of them.