skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer having a powerful development machine and install and use development environments natively. The only times I am prepared to use a (local or remote) VM is when the development environment cannot be installed on the OS of my development machine, or when I absolutely do not want to install those tools natively (because they might impact my main OS).

I am often involved with multiple projects at the same time, but if those projects are set up well (and the toolset is decent), that does not cause any issues. In practice that means that developers always have to take into account that the project itself includes references to the specific versions of the tools that the project needs. And that those tools are -as-much-as-possible- installed in the context of those projects instead of in the context of the whole machine.

A concrete example in node world is to use "nvm" and to always install tools locally in the context of a project instead of globally. In dotnet world, use global.json to specify the version of the tools you want to work with, install dotnet tools locally in the context of a project instead of globally.

I have worked on projects where this is a problem. For example, projects that depend on hardcoded paths. Or projects that depend on hardcoded connection strings for a database. Or projects that do not use something like nvm to specify the version of node/npm they are compatible with.

Each of those things is an issue with the setup of the project and is something that you will bump against when you try to setup a CI/CD pipeline for the project. Although, I agree that it can be useful to use docker containers with a correct version of the tools to create builds in a build pipeline.

The reason that I prefer to develop natively is that it is faster, snappier and more enjoyable. I also believe that it is easier to diagnose issues and investigate performance. Aside from that, renting a virtual machine with the same performance as my development machine, would be a lot more expensive, and I would still have to deal with the lag. I am aware of recent changes that allow you to for example run a JetBrains IDE locally (similar to what VSCode already had for a long time?) that is connected with a remote headless version of the IDE. I do not have any experience with that kind of setup yet, but I assume that would remove most of the lag.
I guess it depends on amount of talent as well. Lots of people are stuck in low end jobs while the demand for high skilled labor is also high. Maybe some argument is that if low skilled workers can do high skilled labor with the help of intelligence augmenting machines that demand can be met finally.
That's the problem right there: by asking the question like that you are essentially saying 'children are for the wealthy'. And that's also not how it should be. This is a super hard problem to resolve in a fair way that works in an international setting because you need everybody on board otherwise it will not work. It's the tragedy of the commons endgame.
I'd have to be very new to something to throw away the first draft of my code. My goal is to have to change the code I write as little as possible.
If other people need to read your email/doc/code, then any effort to make it more readable will save them time, regardless of how smart they are.

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
>> No problem with this, apart from convincing like 5-6 billion people to cut their standards of living to half.

> 5-6 billion people are going to have their living standards and reproductive opportunities destroyed anyway.

The problem might be that those sets of people are not the same.
Trying to understand the weather from maps that just grey out Canada is like trying to figure out what's going on in a chess game if you can only see half the board.
A RHEL subscription is a license in all but name; “A subscription key you add to your account, which you then use to log into the subscription management service on the deployed server to then make use of the privileges the subscription grants.” is effectively one or two steps abstracted away from “enter this key directly on the system to access the privileges of the fully licensed software”
In theory the more productive we are the higher "upper bound of sustainability" is. Cheap energy can be used to recycle garbages from the ocean, recapture carbon from the atmosphere,
etc. We just choose not to.
> Yes, but 99.9 percent of its users do not know these filters/features exist. Still don't.

The features you were referring to were removed a few years after they were launched.
You keep posting this but the problem with AMD isn't some luxury problem like that. The problem is that the driver crashes.
What I meant was Twitter has a bookmarking feature but it has no way to manage them. For example, no way to search, tag, and categorize bookmarks.
can somebody make some quantum AI, that's super deterministic.
>Spending lots of money, to produce lots of energy, to solve a problem we created by using too much energy...

How does this argument make sense? Why is producing energy inherently bad if it doesn't put carbon into the atmosphere?

>What people don't get is that environmentalists just want to solve the problem in the most cost effective way, and that is to stop destroying the environment we live in.

The most realistic way to stop destroying the environment is to switch to clean energy. That means spending money, and building a lot more nuclear reactors than we currently have. If the climate is truly an emergency, which I believe it is, then it's worth spending the money.
Or refactor it
....i expect tardigrades
It's amazing how more people dont see that theyre confusing whipped up shareholder FOMO with reality.

I couldn't believe it when I read the Economist gushed over Copilot replacing programmers last year.

I can see why their investor audience is into the concept of swapping programmer salaries with margin and theyve clearly watched movies like the Terminator or whatever. But, their "journalists" were clearly oblivious to the reality that copilot offers incremental gains in productivity at best.
IkEa == Intelligenter, kybernetischer Entwicklungsansatz
I’m a pretty big general purpose hyper intelligent AGI skeptic. I think for any practical foreseeable future AI will serve as an adjunct to the human mind vastly improving our abilities, but the overall agency and broad ability to synthesize goals and instruments will be still a human task for some time. To wit, a lot of discussion of AGI essentially boils down to how to keep agency in the human domain permanently by lobotomizing AIs enough, ala LLM safety finetuning today. I’m more a fan of broad general AI open models mostly because I think they’ll stay within the bounds of adjunctive tools for some time, and any threat they may serve to humanity and it’s reliance is best obviated by everyone everywhere having access all the time. Similar to how we keep order by pitting humans intelligence against human intelligence. Etc.
For that reason I tend to skip the "." or "," until we get to over 7 digits!
It actually works very well with private browsing. You just need to have the extension enabled for private browsing (in iOS 17 that's a separate switch) and tap on "get your session link" once in the extension menu in Safari. That way it knows about your subscription, even in private tabs.
For a few decades already growth of consumption/GDP has been decoupled from growth of energy and resource usage.

Roughly speaking, we consume more by consuming "better" things rather than "larger" things. A $1000 iPhone is much "more consumption" than a 1990s cell phone plus portable CD player plus a calculator, but takes less resources than those things. Even more so when consumption of digital entertainment replaces live entertainment.
Yes, although it is much more active in robotics. York still has quite active research into evolutionary algorithms and genetic programming (https://www.york.ac.uk/physics-engineering-technology/resear...).

It's been used to do things like find design parameters (https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/evolving-desi...) and attempt to evolve robots to fit an environment (https://www.york.ac.uk/robot-lab/are/)
Generative AI as a Cultural Commons
It took me awhile to go from thinking tech companies rely on their machines and algos, and the best way to change / better them is to present a good technical solutions, to the idea that organizations are made of people, and tech can only be a good argument after one establishes that your advice is welcome on an emotional level.

None of us like to admit we were wrong, the more power / responsibility we hold the harder it gets. A lot of people feel insecure deep down because their position in the org was gained roughly by accident and they can’t reliably reproduce their success in another place, so their ego / reputation becomes an incredibly touch subject.

We as devs have an incredible luxury of being able to pack up our stuff and deliver a working solution in another team / company / country / continent reliably. A lot of business people either don’t have that, or believe they don’t, same thing really.

So the way to approach it becomes understanding how vulnerable people in power feel, helping them out and building alliances that way, and when they start trusting you, then you can bring to bare even outlandish proposals and be supported.

Sadly we are all still primates, building the most elaborate tree ever, and one has to take that into account.
You switch fields or leave physics entirely.
Did humans with computer replace humans without computer?

Did programmers with google search and stack overflow replace programmers without these?

It doesn't and it won't happen in any time soon.

How could humans with probabilistic LLM which cough up hallucination replace humans without it when the answer to my previous two questions are NO.
I wonder if there is any capacity left on the esp32 for a user application..
In short: it was temporarily removed due to XSS vulnerability and the fixed version is in review.
No, he as not been "tarred and feathered".

The free software community, at long last, finally have decided humans are more important than bits and have excised people from their midst who treated bits as more important than humans. This was the right thing to do. I should know. (Sigh.)
> and usually use a three tier (presentation-service-data), DI-driven approach to development...

For web I love this approach and have moved more towards this myself.

Pydantic has it's place in my opinion, there are other packages that do a similar thing and for most use cases you can roll your own pretty effectively. For me that place is marshalling on the wire data to a typed custom data type with validation. Whether you are using JSON, or {binary format}.

You likely need to write the validation code yourself since you should be validating from the database as well.

So there we go, I am anti ORM as well.

Anything relates to the request should be handled at the "request layer" which in my case is flask(werkzeus) and maybe per request DB connection should be created at that layer.

Everything else should be in a business layer, that way which framework you use doesn't matter and can be trivially replaced with something else.
A way out of this crisis could be an Enterprise Linux Standard, a document
describing in detail a standard installation, together with a vast set of conformance
tests.

It would be a supremely boring project, but if interested orgs such as suse, oracle, ibm etc suport it, it might be feasible.

It could start from a description of rhel, but ideally could contain some extension
of the file system standard to allow compatibility with debian.

Then, you would have a reference platform that multiple distributions could provide and there would be competition, not just one major provider of a system `as is' and some more or less incompatible others.
Yes, and Asian languages would have to use transliterations. So what? Security over convenience.
FYI the stereotypical "pirate accent" is in fact a West Country accent - that is, it's from the southwestern region of England known as the West Country. And the reason this particular accent became associated with pirates is not because historical pirates actually spoke like that (although many surely did) - it's almost entirely due to a string of popular movies about pirates in the 1950s starring the actor Robert Newton:

https://people.howstuffworks.com/one-guy-responsible-for-pir...

> A British woman who I worked (from London) didn't have the 'r' sound "car park" sound to my ear like "ca pack".

Most English people don't pronounce the rhotic "r", with the main exception being the West Country. It's still widely pronounced in Scotland, Ireland, and parts of Wales.
Two fiber connections coming inside my home. One is a home connection with a router that sends ipv6 to any machine that asks for it (which i may not always want), the other one is a business connection that goes into an Ubuntu router that has to run pppoe.

The path of least resistance with ipv4 was to have static ips for every PC and change the default route where I cared about which connection the PC used. Also was using the dhcp from the home router.

Now ipv6 has addresses that are auto generated by the OS on boot, addresses that are forwarded from the router and are in a subnet assigned to home ISP #1, and ... whatever I'd need to assign manually?

It's still hobbyist level not enterprise level if you ask me. But it's a lot to read for a network that works just fine thank you.
accusations?
Medium is a garbage. Make your own blog with Jekyll or other open source CMS.
I made a 40% just to see what I would feel about it:

http://move.rupy.se/file/last_computer.png

Still haven't programmed it! XD
I'm pretty happy with Arch so I don't think I'll switch.

As far as stable diffusion I read a guide on setting it up using WSL and it never worked. No telling what's wrong because there's just very little info about these GPU's out there.
And scheme is not an event processor.
I'm unable to understand this. Since the API doesn't provide a way to force a specific atestor to be invoked, doesn't it mean it will be the browser that decides which atestor can run on a given platform?

Of course then substitute browser for Chrome and we'll get the obvious outcome - Google will decide.
I've heard that before, mostly on Ray Kurzweil talking about singularity.

But I have a problem with this usage of the "evolution" and "evolutionary system" expressions. I believe that it entails "improvement", that it is judgmental.

I think it is self-centred and presumptuous to imply that the world improved toward us.

I don't think Darwin used the expression "evolution" with a judgmental meaning. He only meant that it was an adaptation to existing environmental conditions.
Figuring out the required stem cell treatment to properly regenerate damaged nerves or creating some kind of non-degrading synthetic nerve that can be placed in the spine (or wherever) seems like a much better long term goal.
Well, what happens is, I am briefly tired for about 5 minutes immediately after taking it, but if I lie in bed I'm immediately wide awake. But about 2 hours later I'm legitimately sleepy. But it's certainly possible both effects are real.
The Q-quotient will be my legacy… what have I done.
Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)
Kermit, Zmodem, and BBS...
> Did humans with computer replace humans without computer?

Certainly for a whole host of tasks.

> Did programmers with google search and stack overflow replace programmers without these?

Also true for many tasks too, a programmer who refuses to use these resources for certain types of work will be an order of magnitude slower in many cases and will be replaced by programmers who aren't.

LLMs are just beginning to become useful, but there will be a point where they're indispensable, those who refuse to use them will eventually find themselves falling behind. It's will eventually become equivalent to a programmer who refuses to move off punch cards or refuses to use modern version control.
What? The answer is obviously "yes", especially to your first question. Your whole premise is wrong.
I expected to see snyk up there.
> what is difference between "c" and "k" in English language

They're the same sound, including when it's written "ck" as in "back". Although sometimes the "c" is pronounced like an "s", e.g. "face", "celery".

English spelling is highly inconsistent and it's often hard to tell how a word should be pronounced based on the spelling alone. Don't expect it to make sense.
Fantastic, thanks! I probably misheard my doctor on the phone or something. I'll see what I can find!
Most people act fairly mechanical at this point. Everyone is so busy out competing eachother, they might as well be sentient bots doing errands from their massive todo lists. Ai is just going to make everything more obscure and absurd.
If you have no money to bet, the example is not applicable.
Enchantments of the One and Zero Mirror – Is media now considered sacred?
Does a 'performance improvement plan' always spell the end?
As in the Beatles song A Day in the Life:

I saw-r-a film today, oh boooy
He is a king amongst men.

Incredible service to humanity.
Retro Assembly, a web app to play retro games with controller in browsers
Only if the next word starts with a vowel.
> GPT writes all our non secret documentation

Who read it? LLM may be great at coughing up seemingly good long chunk of text, but human is not capable of reading all of these verbose text because of the simple fact that GPT can generate texts faster than human reading speed.

So I bet what will happen in that case is, humans use LLM to summarize these LLM-generated verbose documentation. What a wonderful bureaucratic world will that be?
It's worth keeping in mind that the absolute market leader in consumer/household graphics isn't Nvidia, let alone AMD: It's Intel.

Every single personal computer with an Intel CPU since 2010 has an Intel GPU inside.
> Donations these days are via Liberapay, an obscure French non-profit organization, and YC-backed startup BuyMeACoffee.

I am not sure why Liberapay is qualified as 'obscure'. Their website's "legal" page [0] clearly identifies the organization and its legal representative, while providing contact details. The status of the non-profit organization can be verified in the French government's website [1].

[0]: https://en.liberapay.com/about/legal
[1]: https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-deta... - in French
V'GER 2 should seek out the creator of Nu Trek to kick his ass and make Star Trek great again.
Meta:

Maybe this submission can use a more specific title? Referencing the topic -- the math behind ugly voting districts / gerrymandering.
I don't think there's anything, besides economics, preventing current technology to achieve the same reliability.
Italy is betting big on train travel
Serious question: has anyone ever read an original/insightful thought in an HBR article?
The cloud and browsers is a truly miserable paradigm. Serfdom and a thick client with an absurd amount of chrome and a dumb multitasking interface (tabs). What on Earth is enticing about any of this? I see people using Google Docs and/or Office in the browser, and they’re contending with a UI rendered underneath a browser UI and it all looks so cramped and of course eventually somebody instinctively clicks the back button to undo something and all hell breaks loose.
They received trucks, which certainly helped, but the tanks and the artillery ammunition were certainly on the Soviets and the Soviets alone.

You win a modern a war on the Russian/Ukrainian steppe with artillery, Napoleon and Hitler and now NATO would tell you the same thing, anything else is nice to have but if you don’t have artillery you’re toast.
If you exchange the word "replace" with "Displace" then it works better i think.

Humans with AI wont cause the extinction of humans without it... but there will be a elevation of "class" for those with it.
> Maybe you enjoy half an hour cycling in rain that's going to last 6 hours, but I don't.

At some point, people are going to have to start preferring long term survival over short term enjoyment.

I don’t love getting rained on, and there are days that the last thing I feel like doing is getting on the bike or walking somewhere, but feeling like doing something is often not the primary reason to do it. And I realize that if I can’t/won’t make the harder decisions, I have no business encouraging others to do the same.

Societies collectively need to change habits and shift mindsets about the ways we live life. It certainly won’t be because it all feels good.

I’m not saying there is no place for cars, and clearly there are situations where a bike won’t work. But that does not mean our current car culture is acceptable either.
Bernie Sanders grew up in Brooklyn and has a distinctive accent (possibly influenced by his Jewish heritage?), see e.g. this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waeXBCUkuL8
Ha! You sort of slid a miracle in there like it was a checkbox. "We all have to change the way we live and quite possibly even the way we organize society ..."

Your solution to this problem involves Universal Agreement and Cooperation Among Humanity. People can't even agree not to murder each other.

Any solution which requires UAaCOAH might as well have unobtanium as its focal point. It's just not going to happen. We can't agree on metric versus imperial, on language, on such weirdly silly things like an afterlife, on oppressive things like what women should be allowed to wear (in the face of the collapse of the biosphere, right now, you can find interviews with men who have chucked acid onto the faces of their wives because their peers taunt them about said wives wearing modern and "immodest" clothing: a real top priority for civilization). We can't agree on who owns what rock and we can't agree on how to govern, and our governance can't agree with its populace on little things like not lying to them about practically everything.

We are a divisive, fiercely independent species with our own thoughts about everything, however trivial, whether or not it is good for us.

Forget three nines, ignore a couple of standard deviations, getting even four-fifths of humanity to suddenly snap on to an agenda which will be personally uncomfortable to them is too much to ask. Any plan which requires that level of agreement is absolutely doomed unless you've got some kind of high-level AGI in your pocket with just one priority: stop the oncoming several catastrophes valued over the preferences, choices, comfort, even reproductive lives of each person on the planet ... and some way of enforcing it. Lacking Forbin and his Colossus, we will not unite on much of anything besides "we all want to do what we individually want."

Once you realize this, it's going to be the small (in terms of populace) projects which do not require universal consent which might have any shot whatsoever, rather than getting the bulk of humanity together, for the first time in history, to cooperate.
There was one other Cygnus-era one... libgcj, the gcj runtime library. However, Red Hat assigned copyright to the FSF in exchange for them adopting a more permissive license for the GNU Classpath project; one that was eventually selected by Sun when they open-sourced Java.
Wrong URL.

Correct one: https://gizmodo.com/reddit-news-blackout-protest-is-finally-...