skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I definitely share the same concerns. But there is a practical need to rank risks and identify what are immediate, first order ones versus second order and broader concerns. In the absence of independent and minimally competent bodies we are in dire straits, effectively in snake-oil-salesmen territory regarding a technology that is considered as central to our future.

I don't think there is or there will ever be perfect regulation. Pick any sector (banking is a prime example) and you can identify recurring failure, capture, complacency and other pathologies on top of the intrinsic difficulty of working out the unknown-unknowns.

Ultimately the only structural mitigation available is to have as many checks-and-balances as possible and transparency about motivations and incentives of all actors involved.

But that is not the immediate problem with "tech". I put the term in quotes because even that is a conceit. The accurate term is probably "random conglomerates that were first movers in adopting digital technologies, with user-data based advertising the overwhelming business model".

The shtick has been that "heavy handed" regulation of said "tech" will stifle innovation and other such drivel. Indeed, if by innovation we mean drifting ever deeper into the black hole. For more a decade now we are trapped in an egregiously suboptimal situation.
No mention of the FSF in regards to this issue is complete without a reference to Stallman's Right to Read story:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

He wrote that 26 years ago. It's worth reading again just to see how much he got right.
Indeed, small claims are there so you and I can quickly settle the matter of you denting my car or something, possibly without either of us hiring lawyers (and in some states lawyers are forbidden), empaneling a jury, etc. because we are arguing about $250. Like "Judge Judy" but with a real judge.
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In the perjury statute, how does it differentiate between standard lies and "heavy allegations"?
> Now I always check water quality reports to find the cleanest water on vacation as well.

Where to find these reports? Say, for Israel or Greece?
I feel “require” is a bit strong. But, I think there are some interesting possibilities.

Advertising your medical practice as an “LLM-consulting” (better name needed) one in the same way there’s “Montessori” schools could be interesting.

Another option I think that would be interesting would be making the LLM patient-facing and required as one of the check-in “docs”. And then attach the results to the patient’s file for the medical professional to view.

Could also be great for pre-screening and/or suggesting a virtual visit if appropriate.
Bit harsh but I brought it up before. When the blackout started, Reddit users created a place to share blackout news and organize. It was a subreddit.

I have to imagine the CEO laughed when he saw that.
Jupyterhub can deploy multiple servers, but so far I’ve only deployed it in Kubernetes.
Love this idea! One of the biggest challenges to companies adapting to the LLM landscape is security. This abstracts the largest concern from companies looking to implement internal usage of LLMs.
Why Oppenheimer has important lessons for scientists today
I think having the cutesy landing page is designed specifically to exclude the kind of curmudgeons who consider themselves super serious developers who only do super serious work who are too good for fun. If you've ever hung out in dev communities that skew younger it's like 90% memes and mostly positivity.

They're sending all the right signals that working with them would be enjoyable which is good when you want to build a community and are just starting out.
The title has full stack very prominently. Did you expect to code the backend in css?
Even when the arch matched, macOS was a bad platform for running containers. I'm not even sure you can call them "edge cases" because it was basic things like volumes not working right.

macOS is engineered for users and desktops, not servers and development. Apple's long history of blocking virtualizing macOS is a testament to this.
Answers? What is the question? "What is this a distraction for?" I hope.
I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but I'm privy to internal industry estimates for both. The TAM for consumer transportation is vastly larger than commercial logistics, and you can address large/profitable parts of the latter market with solutions designed for the former.

Both markets could probably be made profitable, but their consumer transportation efforts are further along. If you have to cut one, trucking is the better choice.
I really used to enjoy formatting my machines about every 6 months.

Well I used to until macOS kinda went off the rails a bit. Now it’s mostly an exercise in running my arch script for my thinkpad.

Being stuck between operating systems is kinda a mess though, makes backup and file sync in general really hard. But everyone’s gotta have their own cloud, right?!

Why can’t I just put a cloud under my bed and forget about it?
The post also says this in the first paragraph:

> Popularized in England, these wavy walls actually use less bricks than a straight wall because they can be made just one brick thin, while a straight wall—without buttresses—would easily topple over.
No, it’s not: an exception unwinds the stack all the way up to where the exception is caught. By the time the enclosing Python pseudo-REPL sees the undefined function error, all the intervening stack frames have dissolved. The way it works is that a function tries code, and catches exceptions.

In Lisp (and I believe Smalltalk), it doesn’t work that way: there is an indirection. Rather than try/except, a function registers a condition handler; when that particular condition happens, the handler is called without unwinding the stack. That handler can do anything, to include reading and evaluating more code. And re-trying the failed operation.

It would be possible to implement this in Python, of course, but it doesn’t offer the affordances (e.g. macros) that Lisp has, and it’s not built into the language like it is in Lisp (e.g., every single unoptimised function call in Lisp offers an implicit ‘retry’).
COVID.
Neither blind nor the useful idiot in this chain.
So wavy walls use more bricks than straight walls
How Sinéad O'Connor recorded Nothing Compares 2 U
For folks asking what the Notebook UX offers that the Lab does not, this github thread may be enlightening: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/6210

(TLDR: some novice users in educational settings find the lab environment overwhelming.)
Honestly this popular rebuttal actually appears more inaccurate and quaint to me than the opinion it’s dismissing.

My teenage kid strongly feels that modern pop music is trash quality compared to previous decades, thinks that new “underground” music is poorly mimicking previous decades, and bemoans the lack of current scenes that she can participate in. It’s a bit sad watching her sift through 90s/00s music rather than dig into new music of her generation, but I can hear the problem when she plays me both the underground and pop stuff her friends are listening to. It’s tame.

There have been profound infrastructural changes to cultural production and distribution, lead by SV and VCs. These have served to massively boost stock valuations of centralising digital platforms. The music they produce is affected by these changes. The faux meta genre “hyperpop” even exploits this (boringly imo).
It’s reassuring to believe the kids are alright but the problem is not the kids.
On a tangent, it is weird sometimes that people not always pick the right tool for the job, even if the effort is small and the results pay off immediately. Like slicing carrots using a potato knife or even a table knife.
In other words, a serpentine wall is stronger per amount of material used than a straight one. They also allow use of a single-thickness of brick without other supports
I mean, I realise that reading the article is considered most improper on this website, but it _is_ addressed.
True, but they use less bricks than a straight wall of the same strength, because the straight wall would have to be thicker or have buttresses. So it depends what you’re doing - does the wall have to withstand that kind of loads or not?
Debugging my life as an engineering manager with ADHD
Came here to mention just that.
looks infuriating to mow around
https://nitter.net/BenKrasnow/status/1684431462643437569#m
i legit thought this was an incredibly popular setup, because i have three coworkers (+ myself) with the exact same config (alacritty + tmux + neovim).
See also: https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/15/hound_of_hounslow_wal...
You are limited by how much liquid your digestive system can absorb in any given hour. I've heard that it's somewhere around 1 liter per hour. Any excess liquid is going to slosh around in your intestines instead of entering your bloodstream.

Meanwhile, your liver can remove about 10g/12ml of alcohol per hour. In order for you to reach a meaningful BAC, you will need to absorb significantly more than that.

For example, drinking 1 liter of 1% alcohol solution per hour will not result in any significant BAC, because you can remove alcohol from your bloodstream faster than alcohol enters your bloodstream. You've got a well-optimized queue there.

5 liters of 1% alcohol is the same as above, just repeated 5 times. Your queue is still working fine.

1 liter of 5% alcohol, on the other hand, will dump 50ml of alcohol into your bloodstream within an hour. Now you have a backlog, and this backlog is what increases your BAC.

So dilution does matter, even if the absolute amount of alcohol is the same. You're basically diluting alcohol consumption over time.
You only need more guarantees regarding web browsing if you are an ad network.
Indeed. And it lasted long enough for younger workers think that was normal.
This is exciting. I was shocked to discover I could not change the OS on the Dell 3120 Chromebook I bought. Nor can I update the Chrome browser it includes to a version that understands HBO Max, which was why I bought it.
Strange, 90% of the things trapped in my flash memory are system files.
I think that reputation already died in the last 2-3 years.

It's now pretty common in my circle to hear people say they'll pay a premium to not own a Tesla. Primarily because of lots of bad experiences with build quality/repairs, but also because there are now lots of high quality alternatives. Namely Rivian and Lucid, but also the legacy automakers (two friends bought mach-es recently and there's a smattering of F-150 lightnings.)

The fact that Musk has adopted the public persona of a crazy uncle who doesn't get Thanksgiving invites -- and is heavily associated with the Tesla brand -- doesn't help either.
> Seems like it’s common across all EVs for the range to be inflated by around 20%, at least for freeway driving.

Most people speed on the freeway. Extra speed reduces range significantly.
The very first mention of Javascript on the site is a huge graphic (full width) that says "NO JAVASCRIPT REQUIRED".
As the saying goes, an enemy of an enemy is a friend.
No, because they are stronger and can therefore be thinner. But the why is important.
They were working on this as far back as 1999.
I dare say that with 12% of the population under the poverty line, it surely is representative of what life it is like for a fair portion of the Americans.

Now, once you factor in that the "poverty line" for a 2 people household is defined as 16'000 dollars a year, it is not a stretch to estimate that the population in poverty, or near poverty is around 20-25% of the population.

That makes this social experiment a lot more interesting.
Yes I hear what you're saying. I guess the real problem is we've been trying the 'slow and steady' approach for the past 50 years or so, and still we're facing a 2 degree future. And things are definitely getting worse. Much worse. So do we continue trying something which clearly doesn't work - your 'practical' things - or accelerate the pace somehow? I don't have answers, but clearly something is not working right now.
Like I said, I called it out in its tracks and gave them the chance to correct if there was a misunderstanding.
Anyone who wants to use it can visit the official store, or similar.
As a non-American I’m just curious: where does this ideology start to be pushed?

The whole idea of “I don’t like this, so I will sue” isn’t really present to nearly such an extent in the rest of the world.

I’m just wondering if it’s something they teach in school (like a civics class), or if it’s introduced in a more causal fashion (making jokes like “don’t do that or I’ll sue you”), or is it just popular on the news or TV?
They also said it's open source, which is in direct contradiction with terms they use.
Anything new since?

More discussion from last year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987840
In Enemy of the State, one of the computer techs does an "enhance", and when they notice a bulge in a carrier bag he points out that it could just be an artifact of the enhancement rather than representing something real in the photo.

Some studio hired a non-idiot consultant for once.
At the same time multiplying enough small probabilities together we can also get a really small number quite quickly.

We can think or imagine whichever option is more fun and exciting. Without a single example of at least one confirmed alien life a lot of interesting possibilities are open.
ChromeDriver release process is now integrated with that of Chrome
As of ChromeDriver "M115," i.e. v115.

Breakage of various packages that have automated retrieving ChromeDriver, and a blocker until workarounds are put in.

The convenience of release management on vendor side causing issues downstream.

Announcement in May on Google Groups: https://web.archive.org/web/20230727134741/https://groups.go...

Mac OS workarounds (July): https://groups.google.com/g/chromedriver-users/c/clpipqvOGjE...

Someone's planned demo encountering issues (yesterday): https://groups.google.com/g/chromedriver-users/c/dj6tOaqyd1c...
Even though Singapore's war on drugs is ruthless, it seems to actually work. Supposedly Singapore only has 30 opiate abusers per 100k citizens, compared to 600 per 100k in the US.
As SO contributors, _we_ have a say with regard to our future consideration of SO as a destination of our contributions.

Since SO is just a platform, it can't survive without _our_ content.

People have much more power than they think.
Charging My MacBook Air M1 with a Standard Mobile Phone USB Charger
Well, no. By length it's the same # of bricks if the wall is the same thickness.

It requires less bricks to wall off an area using a single-layer wavy wall than it does with a double-layer straight wall
Civil courts are a service. They have significant delays and backlogs in many places, to the detriment of people with legitimate reasons to use them. Probably in no small part due to frivolous and nuisance suits.
Exactly, they have made a very big claim and made it very easy to replicate / falsify. It takes a few days to produce this stuff.

Their paper is weak on data / results.

This is exactly what you would do if your team genuinely believed you had discovered something monumental.

In poker terms they are "all in" and they want to get called.

That's why it is so interesting. If they had posted lots of extreme results but it needed $10m to replicate then I would be thinking "fraud". It would look like a bluff.
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I wanted a simple way to generate custom marquee-like banners for my Github profile :)

You can check it out in usage here: https://github.com/Luanf

Rendering performance on the markdown is not the best, and will vary by browser and machine.

Thanks for checking it out!
Right I've considered that. It is however limited to like 7 snapshots.

The thing is that tarsnap deduplicates over arbitrarily long time periods, letting me make arbitrarily long staggered sequences of retained archives.

Perhaps I should really reconsider if I really need such long lived archives, but it is hard to bring myself to drop them.
Not everyone works in a field that pays as well as software does. People working in the service sector don't make a minimum wage even if they work hard. So why work hard?
"Use, more bricks that the straight wall" misses a point a bit, because a straight wall like this would easily topple.

A better description is "uses less bricks than a straight wall of equivalent resistance to horizontal forces"
It is not naively optimistic. I just finished a 2500 mile drive with a Tesla Y and its estimates are pretty much within 1-2% of my actual usage.
This looks similar to the way corrugated steel is harder to bend due to a higher "area moment of inertia".
Yeah but more space, and are therefore the wrong choice a lot of the time.
Extremely good deduplication means that for the core set of very important data I backup to Tarsnap the costs are negligible. I imagine the math is probably different if your data is changing more frequently. I for instance use other services to manage my video and photo libraries but my accounting databases, critical documents, etc are backed up to Tarsnap.

I have been using Tarsnap for a decade and not only has there been minimal availability issues there have been almost no issues of any kind that I can recall.
borgbase is another “little” service that I use and like just like tarsnap and to some extent rsync.net. And they also have an excellent gui app Vorta (it’s FOSS; borgbase dev is the maintainer).
I'm still curious to know the hype behind Llama 2
on the topic of Google Maps alternatives, does anyone use OsmAnd?
Sorry, I'm confused. :)

Are you talking about the existing B2B fees that some banks choose to waiver, or are you talking about a hypothetical future tax on pix transactions?

CPMF was (allegedly) created as a token for customs and the central bank to monitor financial transactions. With Pix they have that "out of the box" so it would be harder to justify.
> The key question is /why/ air moves faster on one side, and once you get away from the misconception of same time, I've never heard an intuitive argument.

Since the air follows a curved surface instead of straight ahead, you could perhaps apply your intuition for centrifugal force. Momentum sort of pulls the air away from the surface.

I’m not even sure this explanation is wrong.
I knew a guy who made “flag badge” that sat at his desk, smoked cigarettes, read the newspaper and drank tea for at least half of his workday. So I agree with your assessment.
The people advocating lazy jobs will be the same ones wanting to hire people to mow their lawns, clean their houses, fix their cars, serve and cook for them at restaurants, pilot their airplanes, clean their pool, collect their trash, replace their roof, fix their AC and repair their leaking pipes.

The people doing these difficult and generally back breaking jobs won't be too happy spending 10 hours a day working while the lazy girl is drinking mojitos in the swimming pool.
> I'm sorry but I disagree. When I see StackOverflow answers or random articles I rarely remember the associated name, unless they're especially notable (e.g. Eric Lippert). And I'm not sure about the vast majority, lots of Stack Overflow and Reddit answers are under pseudonyms.

That is already an unfortunate side effect of our current advanced state of technology.

> I don't think most people asking technical questions are looking for "bonding", they're just looking for an answer to the question. I talk with colleagues about things like opinions and the latest hot topic, but AI isn't going to replace these discussions.

I never said they are looking for it. I just said that it is a function of information exchange. In other words, it is an evolutionary instinct that just occurs, and has occurred whether we want it to or not. AI for the first time will be poised to remove it.

AI might indeed replace your colleagues one day, since an entire academic department may not even need that many professors or researchers to run it, once it's augmented with AI.
That's good info. However, I can clarify by saying "advertised range" I didn't mean the range touted in marketing materials, but the range remaining shown on the dashboard
Now that you write about the median user being a junior with trivial needs, i realize, i barely visit SO anymore. Not sure when that happened. I used to be a power-consumer on SO. I don‘t think i have even visited SO this year at all.

I did use GPT4 for a lot of the minor things that i am too lazy to remember and would have „relearned“ on SO every time… maybe others have a similar experience and management just sees visits dropping?
Maybe they just focus on developing a target audience for a tailored product.
How long does it take to get a replication?
I would love to follow up this kind of news, directly from a the researchers doing the work. Is there anyone to follow on twitter to keep posted on this?
The issue is that for many people, their income is already insufficient to meet their needs. So it becoming less sufficient to meet their needs may not be much of a change.
It’s a bit average. It’s not crazy optimistic like some Chinese brands or a bit pessimistic like some German brands.

Here is a Norwegian winter test in real conditions: https://nye.naf.no/elbil/bruke-elbil/test-rekkevidde-vinter-...

You can use a translator (Google, DeepL, chatGPT…) but the Arabic numbers are easy to spot.
Video shows how easy it is to find your location through a photo
You've already acknowledged that most of the issues you encountered are specific to your phone or carrier. For example, eSIM works fine with 5G on iPhones and in my experience there is no delay to activate an account. I've set up multiple phones on eSIMs and never experienced something like that.

Regarding backing up, yes it would be nice if you could backup your eSIM alongside the rest of your phone contents, however the real solution is just making it easy to provision a new eSIM.

In my experience, if I need a new eSIM I just open the carrier app and reinstall it to the phone.
This is where you separate the two classes of developers, I think. The ones that think their job is writing code, and the ones that see their job as coming up with solutions to problems.

If you think your job is just writing code, then yeah, you're about to get replaced. But if that was the case, then you would already have been replaced by an outsourced team of developers that can get things done cheaper than you.

We as developers are the conduit between what the business needs and what computers can do. We're translators, and not in the "we write code" sense. A non-developer won't be able to use GPT to write any non-trivial system because they won't have a clue what to ask for.

And if someone thinks "oh but they will one day be able to list their requirements exactly and GPT will just do it", I will ask: Well, why hasn't that taken off with offshore teams, then? The answer to that is exactly the answer to why GPT poses no risk to anyone's career: Stakeholders don't know what they need, and it's up to developers to figure it out.
All it would take is the Supreme Court to reverse another precedent. The interpretation of interstate commerce is obviously wrong.
I miss IMAP being so fucking cool. CalDav is “good enough”-ish and still beats being locked to google. This actually might be worth a real rant sometime (again?), but I’m way off on a tangent here this morning.
It's not using multiple kernels in one notebook, but being able to manage all my kernels without opening up another window.